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Despite popular perception that the CRTC banned Sirius Canada from broadcasting Howard Stern's program, this is not the case.
British public perception of the engagement was initially as a serious defeat, at a time when popular opinion expected great things from the Royal Navy.
[...] Koheleth's focus on individual experience, in particular the perception of pleasure, bears a significant resemblance to Hellenistic popular philosophy, whose central purpose was to find the way to individual happiness by the use of the powers of reason.
Keller and Chaplin shared anti-capitalist views ; Keller and Twain were both considered radicals at the beginning of the 20th century, and as a consequence, their political views have been forgotten or glossed over in popular perception.
The controversy has been attributed to the perception of Verdana as a symbol of homogeneity in popular typography.
In a review of 48 studies on the children parented by cousins, most of the babies born to cousins were healthy contrary to the popular perception, with birth defects being 4 % of births for consanguineous couples as opposed to 2 % for the general population.
Malaysia abolished its jury system from 1 January 1995, citing inter alia the danger of jurors untrained in the legal profession delivering verdicts coloured by emotions or popular perception.
Following the " kung fu wave " in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s, a number of mainstream films produced during the 1980s contributed significantly to the perception of martial arts in western popular culture.
In popular perception smuggling is synonymous as illegal trade.
IV, p. 164 ): " The fundamental tenet of the Vedânta school consisted not in denying the existence of matter, that is solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure ( to deny which would be lunacy ), but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that it has no essence independent of mental perception ; that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms.
Another Swedish author who had great influence on the perception of the Vikings was Esaias Tegnér, member of the Geatish Society, who wrote a modern version of Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, which became widely popular in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and Germany.
This division has largely defined the popular perception and understanding of Western Europe and its borders with Eastern Europe till this day.
Older publishers, envious of Pulitzer's success, began criticizing the World, harping on its crime stories and stunts while ignoring its more serious reporting — trends which influenced the popular perception of yellow journalism.
The tradition in New Orleans expanded to the point that it became synonymous with the city in popular perception, and embraced by residents of New Orleans beyond those of French or Catholic heritage.
Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, Kama sutra is not just an exclusive sex manual ; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life.
* Hollywood history Commentary on the novel and how it influenced the film ( s ) and popular perception of the actual events ; comparison between three of the films.
This view of Edward is reflected in the popular perception of the king, as can be seen in the 1995 movie Bravehearts portrayal of the king as a hard-hearted tyrant.
As a consequence, their perception in western popular culture in the 20th century was based more on such legend and folklore than on the historical spies of the Sengoku period.
The total is popular because it allows gamblers to bet on their overall perception of the game ( e. g., a high-scoring offensive show or a defensive battle ) without needing to pick the actual winner.
According to John Powers and Meg Y. M. Lee, because the Falun Gong was categorized in the popular perception as an " apolitical, qigong exercise club ," it was not seen as a threat to the government.
Fetish modelling is usually considered to be a part of the adult industry due to its popular perception as an " adult only " appreciation.
Due to popular perception ( in the U. S .) of prunes being used only for relief of constipation, and being the subject of related joking, many of today's distributors have stopped using the word " prune " on packaging labels.
The controversy has been attributed to the perception of Verdana as a symbol of homogeneity in popular typography.
The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, usually a cowboy or a gunfighter.
" The apparent and temporary " increase " of resource extraction with the use of new technology leads to the popular perception that resources are infinite or can be substituted without limit, but this perception fails to consider that ultimately, even lower quality resources are finite and become uneconomic to extract when the ore quality is too low.

popular and battle
The concept of the decisive battle became popular with the publication in 1851 of Edward Creasy's The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World.
Occasionally both names for the same battle entered the popular culture, such as the battle of Antietam, which is also referred to as the battle of Sharpsburg.
The battle has remained prominent in the popular consciousness, with perhaps the best-known representation being Felicia Hemans's 1826 poem Casabianca.
The later period Zulu soldier went into battle relatively simply dressed, painting his upper body and face with chalk and red ochre, despite the popular conception of elaborately panoplied warriors.
However, unlike political color schemes of other countries, the parties did not choose those colors ; they were used in news coverage of 2000 election results and ensuing legal battle and caught on in popular usage.
While the Hurricane was available in larger numbers and consequently played a larger role, the new Spitfire caught the popular imagination and became the aircraft associated with the battle.
A popular use of a tracking shot was in The Avengers when the camera follows each member of the team for a short while during the final battle in New York.
While Harding won the war of words and made the Marion Daily Star one of the most popular newspapers in the county, the battle took a toll on his health.
The monthly battle reports have arguably been White Dwarf's most popular feature for many years, as acknowledged during various White Dwarf editorials.
Dreiser was often forced to battle against censorship because his depiction of some aspects of life, such as sexual promiscuity, offended authorities and challenged popular opinion.
As Margaret was in Scotland at the time the battle had taken place, it was impossible that she issued the orders for their executions despite popular belief to the contrary.
The accounts of the two contemporary authors, though not entirely consistent, have been merged into a popular notion of Constantine seeing the Chi-Rho sign on the evening before the battle.
The ensuing leadership battle, won by Alun Michael, did much to damage Labour, and thus aided Plaid Cymru, whose leader was the more popular and higher profile Dafydd Wigley.
When in 1901, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky turned to the imagery of Subantarctic avifauna to describe Russian society's attitudes to the coming revolution, he used a storm-announcing petrel as the lead character of a poem that soon became popular in the revolutionary circles as " the battle anthem of the revolution ".
It shared the landscape with and was preyed upon by the fearsome Tyrannosaurus, though it is less certain that the two did battle in the manner often depicted in traditional museum displays and popular images.
The death of Osiris and the battle between Horus and Set is a popular theme in Egyptian mythology.
Although the popular narrative suggests that the final phase of the battle consisted of a one-sided slaughter of Chinese troops by the Japanese, some Japanese historians maintain that the remaining Chinese military posed a serious threat to the Japanese.
The outcome of the battle left many embittered at the nobility, whom popular opinion accused of betraying the King, but Charles and his brothers escaped blame, and he was received with honor upon his return to Paris.
The most popular speculation is that it is from " corb ," the old Gaelic for wheel, perhaps designating someone who fought in a cart or chariot as male names are often derived from order of battle.
The settlement was founded on 24 August 1864 and named by Colonel William Moule after Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton, the popular Scottish commander of HMS Esk, who was killed in the battle of Gate Pā, Tauranga.
His theory defied popular military thinking of the time, which was strongly in favour of victory in battle, yet World War I would soon demonstrate the flaws of a mindless " strategy of annihilation ".
Almost as popular is the equally dramatic Fifth Symphony, presenting another battle between the forces of order and chaos.

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