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It was so cold and so wretched that a sort of desperate gaiety infected all of them, like people stormbound or shipwrecked or caught in some other freak of circumstance so that time stood still and minor anxieties fell away and the only important thing was to cling together and survive.
Because Judaism focuses on this life, many questions to do with survival and conflict ( such as the classic moral dilemma of two people in a desert with only enough water for one to survive ) were analysed in great depth by the rabbis within the Talmud, in the attempt to understand the principles a godly person should draw upon in such a circumstance.
Goalkeepers are permitted to play the ball outside their defensive circle ( scoring area or " D "), but may only use their field hockey-stick in this circumstance, not their kickers ; leg-guards ; gloves / hand protectors or any part of the body.
Thus, union density provides a rough picture of union membership only ; it does not account for the circumstance that in some countries, also many persons under education, many unemployed persons, many retired persons and / or many persons who had to leave work due to occupational injuries may also be union members.
Article 16, allowing the president a limited form of rule by decree for a limited period of time in exceptional circumstance, has been used only once, by Charles de Gaulle during the Algerian War, from 23 April to 29 September 1961.
This indirect election subordinates the president to the parliament, and also gives the president limited legitimacy and turns most presidential powers into reserve powers that can only be exercised under rare circumstance.
Under any circumstance, during the end of the 13th century, Stockholm quickly grew to become not only the largest city in Sweden, but also the de facto Swedish political centre and royal residence.
The phrase " Catch-22 ", " a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule ," has entered the English language.
Plutarch is the only ancient source for this account and yet it is considered credible on the basis of some literary evidence ( Pindar wrote a paean celebrating Ceos, in which he says on behalf of the island " I am renowned for my athletic achievements among Greeks " 4, epode 1, a circumstance that suggests that Bacchylides himself was unavailable at the time.
The Doctor in this circumstance appears to only be referring to recognition of the individual as a Time Lord, not necessarily the specific identity.
The name of the code comes from the circumstance that Clovis was a Merovingian king ruling only the Salian Franks before his unification of Frankia.
it is only when there is some important circumstance disregarded by the common law rules that equity interferes.
In some U. S. states and other jurisdictions it is possible to grant a springing power of attorney ; i. e., a power that takes effect only after the incapacity of the grantor or some other definite future act or circumstance.
Thus he argued that the soul was a material substance, and that this was proved ( a ) by the circumstance that not only bodily qualities, but also mental capacity, are transmitted by ordinary generation from parent to child ; and ( b ) by the sympathy of the soul with the body seen in the fact that, when the body is struck or cut, the soul is pained ; and when the soul is torn by anxiety or depressed by care, the body is correspondingly affected.
In the most specific circumstance ( actual events ), he suggests there is only one option left to us.
The rating agencies respond that their advice constitutes only a " point in time " analysis, that they make clear that they never promise or guarantee a certain rating to a tranche, and that they also make clear that any change in circumstance regarding the risk factors of a particular tranche will invalidate their analysis and result in a different credit rating.
Army regulations and policy have always been clear, the torture or coercion of an enemy prisoner of war during interrogation, or in any other circumstance, is not only unlawful but also an unproductive and unreliable method for gaining information.
) Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an " extraordinary circumstance.
In fact, any given Ventrue can only drink blood from a specific kind of mortal, or from mortals under a specific sort of circumstance.
On the contrary, when you see the ship under any normal circumstance, you only see one small portion of the shape and parts of the ship: the outermost layer of the wood, cloth, etc that are not obstructed by human bodies, water, dirt, the particular angle from which the object is viewed, etc.
He was also famous as a teetotaller, saying that the only circumstance where he would countenance downing a toast would be if Karelia was ceded back to Finland.
In an interview granted in 2002 to the well-known Mexican writer and ( the then ) editor-in-chief of the monthly Letras Libres, Ricardo Cayuela Gally ( b. 1969 ), Kapuściński opined that the war on terror, owing to the asymmetrical character of the combatants engaged in it, could only be wonand indeed easily, within a monththrough a ( re ) introduction of " Stalinism ", a method undesirable for the sole reason that it would leave the world under the permanent " hegemony " of the United States, a circumstance that would spell the end of " the free society ".
Since some human actors have limitations, the standard only requires that people act similarly to how " a reasonable person under the circumstance " would, as if their limitations were themselves circumstances.
While Article 4 of the American Convention had already placed severe restrictions on the states ' ability to impose the death penalty – only applicable for the most serious crimes ; no reinstatement once abolished ; not to be used for political offenses or common crimes ; not to be used against those aged under 18 or over 70, or against pregnant women – signing this protocol formalizes a state's solemn commitment to refrain from using capital punishment in any peacetime circumstance.
Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an " extraordinary circumstance ", and three Bush appellate court nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor ) would receive a vote by the full Senate.

only and suggests
Academic elitism suggests that in highly competitive academic environments only those individuals who have engaged in scholarship are deemed to have anything worthwhile to say, or do.
Apollos only knew of the baptism of John which suggests, as is reflected in Acts, that consistent baptismal practice was still developing in the nascent church.
Some argue that, overall, the evidence suggests that antipsychotics only help if they are used selectively and are gradually withdrawn as soon as possible and have referred to the " Myth of the antipsychotic ".
Most other anthropologists, however, oppose Wrangham, stating that archeological evidence suggests that cooking fires began in earnest only c. 250, 000 years ago, when ancient hearths, earth ovens, burnt animal bones, and flint appear across Europe and the Middle East.
Evidence from Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background and structure formation suggests that about 23 % of the mass of the universe consists of non-baryonic dark matter, whereas only 4 % consists of visible, baryonic matter.
The turnover in this group is clearly marked at the species level .< ref > Statistical analysis of marine losses at this time suggests that the decrease in diversity was caused more by a sharp increase in extinctions than by a decrease in speciation .< ref > The K – T boundary record of dinoflagellates is not as well-understood, mainly because only microbial cysts provide a fossil record, and not all dinoflagellate species have cyst-forming stages, thereby likely causing diversity to be underestimated.
Modeling that compares the effects of albedo differences between forests and grasslands suggests that expanding the land area of forests in temperate zones offers only a temporary cooling benefit.
Scramuzza, in his biography, suggests that Silius may have convinced Messalina that Claudius was doomed, and the union was her only hope of retaining rank and protecting her children.
His review of the literature on gay Christians suggests that these organizations not only represent the interests of Christians who attend their churches, but ( like gay-friendly and gay-affirming churches ) also give these members useful responses to homophobic and heterosexist rhetoric.
The Passenger Ferry, as its name suggests, carries only passengers, principally to connect with the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway at Kingswear station.
But the form of the OHG and Gothic words suggests it is also a borrowing, perhaps indeed directly or indirectly from Greek " ἐλέφας " ( elephas ), which in Homer only meant " ivory ", but from Herodotus on the word also referred to the animal.
This early date, only a few decades after the departure of the Romans, also suggests that more of Roman civilization may have survived into Anglo-Saxon rule in Kent, than in other areas.
This result suggests that, if a massless spin-2 particle is discovered, it must be the graviton, so that the only experimental verification needed for the graviton may simply be the discovery of a massless spin-2 particle.
Sampson ( 1985 ) suggests that: " Evidently the order of the alphabet was felt to be such a concrete thing that a new letter could be added in the middle only if a ' space ' was created by the dropping of an old letter.
The content of " M " suggests that this community was stricter than the others in its attitude to keeping the Jewish law, holding that they must exceed the scribes and the Pharisees in " righteousness " ( adherence to Jewish law ); and of the three only " M " refers to a " church " ( ecclesia ), an organised group with rules for keeping order.
The overall picture of continuity suggests this was not accompanied by any substantial movement of population ; crucially, only a single Hallstatt burial is known from Britain, and even here the evidence is inconclusive.
" It was only after the establishment of " the Holocaust industry ", he suggests, that outpourings of anguish over the plight of the Jews in World War II began.
However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.
The presence of this adaptation in three distinct evolutionary lineages suggests convergent evolution of this strategy, it being unlikely to be an ancient characteristic retained in only scattered groups or through massive lateral gene transfer.
In a larger and more speculative sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as a two-dimensional information structure " painted " on the cosmological horizon, such that the three dimensions we observe are only an effective description at macroscopic scales and at low energies.
The historicist position by Hegel suggests that any human society and all human activities such as science, art, or philosophy, are defined by their history, so that their essence can be sought only through understanding that.
If we examine only funds that have survived to the present, we will overestimate past returns because many of the worst-performing funds have not survived, and the observed association between fund youth and fund performance suggests that this bias may be substantial.
The context of this remark, however, suggests only that Aristotle advised that it could be rhetorically advantageous to appeal to such a law, especially when the " particular " law of ones ' own city was adverse to the case being made, not that there actually was such a law ; Aristotle, moreover, considered two of the three candidates for a universally valid, natural law suggested in this passage to be wrong.
Recent evidence suggests that Beria not only abducted and raped women but that he also murdered those who resisted.
Ricardo Salles suggests the general stoic view was that, " A man may not only alternate between philogyny and misogyny, philanthropy and misanthropy, but be prompted to each by the other.

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