Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

Voting was usually by show of hands ( χειροτονία, kheirotonia, " arm stretching ") with officials judging the outcome by sight.

Another interesting insight into Athenian democracy comes from the law that excluded from decisions of war those citizens who had property close to the city walls-on the basis that they had a personal interest in the outcome of such debates because the practice of an invading army at the time was to destroy the land outside the walls.

Surprisingly, Acts does not record the outcome of Paul's legal troubles — some traditions hold that Paul was ultimately executed in Rome, while other traditions have him surviving the encounter and later traveling to Spain — see Paul-Imprisonment & Death.

Olanzapine was again the only medication to stand out in the outcome measures, although the results did not always reach statistical significance ( which means they were not reliable findings ) due in part to the decrease of power.

The outcome of the trip to Mexico was Whorf's sketch of Milpa Alta Nahuatl, published only after his death, and an article on a series of Aztec pictograms found at the Tepozteco monument at Tepoztlán, Morelos in which he noted similarities in form and meaning between Aztec and Maya day signs.

Selig later said that this call was " embarrassing " and that he was " tremendously saddened " by the outcome of the game.

The outcome of the controversy was a de facto Nigerian refusal to withdraw its troops from Bakassi and transfer sovereignty.

In his view, the " worst case scenario " of the currency never returning to the country of origin was actually the best possible outcome: the country actually purchased its goods by exchanging them for pieces of cheaply made paper.

Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

One who moved out, but played a big role in the outcome of the War was U. C.

The outcome was closely fought, with the Communists finally prevailing with superior military tactics.

Next came a North Vietnamese attempt to overrun the entire country in March – April 1970, to which U. S. and South Vietnamese forces responded by a limited ground incursion at the end of April ... The outcome in Indochina was not foreordained.

A significant outcome of this case was that necessity was determined to be no defence against a charge of murder.

The main outcome of the US Navy submarine missile project was the SSM-N-8 Regulus missile, based upon the V-1.

For a twentieth century thinker committed to the same ideal, government was an essential tool to the same end ... odern liberalism is instead the logical and sociological outcome of classical liberalism.

The game was won by Tufts 1-0 and a report of the outcome of this game appeared in the Boston Daily Globe of June 5, 1875.

It is important to understand that the outcome of empirical research using statistical hypothesis testing is never proof.

Although he frequently revisits the scene and time of the accident throughout his life, he can never alter the outcome as to do so would remove his desire to be there.

In spite of the good outcome, Fonda vowed that he would never produce a movie again, fearing that failing as a producer might derail his acting career.

In 1994, Robinson began presenting Time Team, a TV programme devoted to archaeological investigations limited to three days ( the outcome is never guaranteed, varying from spectacular to disappointing ).

The disadvantage in this example is that this strategy will never exploit non-optimal strategies of the opponent, so the expected outcome of this strategy versus any strategy will always be equal to the minimal expected outcome.

The defense employed a three-pronged strategy: First, portraying the CPUSA as a conventional political party, which promoted socialism by peaceful means ; second, employing the " labor defense " tactic to attack the trial as a capitalist venture which could never provide a fair outcome to proletarian defendants ; and third, using the trial as an opportunity to publicize CPUSA policies.

Kant expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the popular moral philosophy of his day, believing that it could never surpass the level of hypothetical imperatives: a utilitarian says that murder is wrong because it does not maximize good for those involved, but this is irrelevant to people who are concerned only with maximizing the positive outcome for themselves.

The gladiator munus was never explicitly acknowledged as a human sacrifice, probably because death was not its inevitable outcome or purpose.

George's family and supporters were jubilant at the outcome, claiming that there had never been any worthwhile evidence against him.

Sometimes, a specific subset of situations is specified and the physical outcome of such situations are stored in a record of some sort and are never computed at runtime at all.

It can be difficult to foresee what the future holds ( e. g. the actual future outcome may be entirely unexpected ), i. e. to foresee what the scenarios are, and to assign probabilities to them ; and this is true of the general forecasts never mind the implied financial market returns.

The subsequent settlements ending the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador stiffened the elites ' resolve " never " to permit such an outcome in Guatemala.

Davis never rejected Bradley ’ s endorsement during the campaign and after winning the primary claimed that Bradley ’ s endorsement played no role in the outcome, though Bradley asserted the contrary.

" Krylenko acted as prosecutor, and the outcome was never in doubt.

In any case where some factor affects the probability of an outcome, rather than uniquely determining it, selected individual cases prove nothing ; e. g. " my grandfather smoked 40 a day until he died at 90 " and " my sister never went near anyone who smoked but died of lung cancer ".

Unhappy with this outcome, pro-Bolívar delegates left the convention and the constitution was never ratified.

However, an actual overpayment will generally occur only if the winner fails to account for the winner's curse when bidding ( an outcome that, according to the revenue equivalence theorem, need never occur ).

The female actor is never meant to represent a character that directly effects the outcome of a plot or keep the story line going, but is inserted into the film as a way of supporting the male role and " bearing the burden of sexual objectification " that he cannot.

I have never thought Mr. Will took my book, that the outcome of the debate was damaging to my campaign or that Mr. Will apologized to me.

Nevertheless, the outcome was never in doubt, as Beattie had a majority in the Legislative Assembly and had " cleared the vote with the National and Liberal leaders " prior to the debate.