The possibility that Lorentz symmetry may be violated has been seriously considered in the last two decades, particularly after the development of a realistic effective field theory that describes this possible violation, the so-called Standard-Model Extension.

Of still greater importance, though, was the widespread American concern about the possibility of a so-called " Soviet beachhead " opening up in the Western Hemisphere.

The late-Victorian scholar Frederic William Maitland also introduced the possibility that Stephen's reign marked a turning point in English legal history — the so-called " tenurial crisis ".

The second part of this defense argues for the logical possibility of " a mighty nonhuman spirit " such as Satan who is responsible for so-called ' natural evils ', including earthquakes, tidal waves, and virulent diseases.

Pro / ENGINEER ( as well as other commercial computer-aided design ( CAD ) programs ) does however hold the possibility to create top-down design by the use of so-called skeletons.

SS6 and SS7 implement out-of-band signaling protocols, carried in a separate signaling channel, explicitly keep the end-user's audio path — the so-called speech path — separate from the signaling phase to eliminate the possibility that end users may introduce tones that would be mistaken for those used for signaling.

Despite this written requirement, the possibility exists that the filibuster could be changed by majority vote, but only on the 1st day of the session in January or March, using the so-called nuclear option, also sometimes called the constitutional option by proponents.

She states that these so-called " friendly faces " can cause the person to become more self-conscious which can lead to the possibility of further choking.

The possibility of persuading Ciampi to stand for a second term as President – the so-called Ciampi-bis – was widely discussed, despite his advancing age, but it was officially dismissed by Ciampi himself on 3 May 2006, just a few days before his mandate expired.

Like other members of the so-called Transcendental Club, she rebelled against the past and believed in the possibility of change.

Inscriptions attest to the existence of a Treveran cult to Rome and Augustus, but its temple site is uncertain ; Wightman suggests that the wholly classical and well-endowed temple Am Herrenbrünnchen would be a possibility, while Metzger argues that it can only have been a poorly-known fourth temple in the city – the so-called Asclepius Temple not far from the bridge over the Moselle.

One of the main achievements of this new branch of physics is showing that violation of Bell's inequalities leads to the possibility of a secure information transfer, which utilizes the so-called quantum cryptography ( involving entangled states of pairs of particles ).

This removes the possibility of a so-called " orphan " face card remaining and removing the possibility of further sweeps.

In the introduction he wrote, " It is a German illusion to believe in the possibility of creating an intellectual capital as long as the so-called educated people are almost proud of their inadequate understanding of urban planning.

Two days later, Delamere acknowledged that he had been exploring the possibility a new political party based around the so-called " tight five ", New Zealand First's group of Māori MPs ( not counting Peters himself ).

It was the explorer Ardito Desio who found oil in Libya and in 1939 came the so-called " Petrolibia operation ", in which Agip was linked to Fiat, with which the year before it had created an Italian company for synthetic fuels who wanted to explore the possibility of obtaining gasoline from synthetic chemistry.

In Harry Altham's history, he discusses the possibility of a so-called " popping hole " being in use in the early 18th century but disclaims it as " a local and transitory variety of the regulation game ".

Later in November, the Japanese forces having been totally defeated in Guadalcanal, ( Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Tassafaronga and Battle of Rennel ), the situation was turned around, with Japan losing all possibility to transfer with impunity its forces in the area ( the Japanese were obliged to used all disposable vessels in their retreat, " Operation KE " during the night of February 1-2 1943, the last part of the so-called " Tokyo Express ").

Refusing the possibility of his civilisation being destroyed by the Daleks, Rassilon prepared a doomsday scenario, the so-called " Ultimate Sanction ".

Under General Roca, the so-called Conquest of the Desert extended Argentine power into Patagonia and ended the possibility of Chilean expansion there.

Because the tilt of its axis of rotation relative to its orbit is so low, approximately 0. 01 degrees, there is also the possibility of so-called peaks of eternal light, similar to those of the Moon — high points located at the poles of the planet that are continuously radiated by the Sun.

White is a deep, absolute silence, full of possibility.

Sigmund Freud pursued a deep interest in psychosomatic illnesses following his correspondence with Georg Groddeck who was, at the time, researching the possibility of treating physical disorders through psychological processes.

Elihu Harrison Ropes, while visiting Galveston Island in 1887 saw the possibility of the development of a deep water port on the Texas coast, and looked to Corpus Christi as the state's first much needed deep-vessel port of call.

The pinion wheels on the locomotives had deep teeth that ensure that at least two teeth are engaged with the rack at all times-this measure helps reduce the possibility of the pinions riding up and out of the rack.

Wilson uses the term in the same sense when he suggests that biophilia describes " the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life .” He proposed the possibility that the deep affiliations humans have with nature are rooted in our biology.

One possibility is that although these animals indeed exist, so much remains to be discovered about life in the deep ocean that these animals still have yet to be seen by anyone other than him.

The deep pink or rose stripe at the top of the flag represents the possibility of same gender attraction ; the royal blue stripe at the bottom of the flag represents the possibility of opposite gender attraction and the stripes overlap in the central fifth of the flag to form a deep shade of lavender or purple, which represents the possibility of attraction anywhere along the entire gender spectrum.

Although many deep-lying playmakers have natural talent and creativity, they are expected to play short simple passes when deep in their half to avoid the possibility of a counter-attack.

The 1989 – 90 season had been a long hard struggle and, at the beginning of the year, the club were in a deep relegation battle and with attendances below 300, relegation from The Southern League Midland Division looked a distinct possibility.

This is, in a sense, the formal piece of formal pragmatics: a rational reconstruction of the deep generative structures that are the universal conditions for the possibility of a binding and compelling mutual understanding.

Kapil Dev received more cricticisms for skying a catch to deep midwicket when a win was still a possibility.

The possibility of leaving the Alliance and merging with New Zealand First was discussed, but deep divisions emerged within the party about this possibility.

" Thomas Nagel mentions the possibility of cognitive closure to the subjective character of experience and the ( deep ) implications that it has for materialist reductionist science.

Green noted that Edmonds referred to the continuity of Haig's optimism about the possibility of a deep advance on 4 August, 21 September and in early October, long after the likelihood had ended.

It may succeed in drawing a pass interference penalty on the defense ( a strong possibility with so many receivers running deep routes for the defense to cover ), which gives the offense the ability to run another play with better field position in all situations ( since the game cannot end on a defensive penalty, even if there is no time left on the clock ).

Each crawlerway is deep and covered with Alabama and Tennessee river rock for its low friction properties to reduce the possibility of sparks.

The deep pink or rose stripe at the top of the flag represents the possibility of same gender attraction ; the royal blue stripe at the bottom of the flag represents the possibility of different gender attraction and the stripes overlap in the central fifth of the flag to form a deep shade of lavender or purple, which represents the possibility of attraction anywhere along the entire gender spectrum.

The possibility of linking humans with earlier apes by descent only became clear after 1859 with the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Recently, Merseytravel have been investigating the possibility of linking up the Bidston-Wrexham line to the electrified Merseyrail system.

Suggestions for the possibility of an undersea tunnel linking Lewis and Harris to the Scottish mainland were raised in early 2007.

If she posed any kind of danger, said Dr. Hubert Van Gijseghem, a forensic psychologist for Correctional Services Canada, it lay in the ominous but not unlikely possibility of her linking up with another sexual sadist like Bernardo.

The proposal also suggests the possibility of linking the Caulfield group of lines to this tunnel.

Daytona USA offers multiplayer and introduced the possibility of linking four twin cabinets or eight deluxe cabinets to create an eight-player competition.

* Commentators such as Hans Moravec argue that humanity will eventually be supplanted and replaced by artificial intelligence or other forms of artificial life ; others such as Kevin Warwick point to the possibility of humans evolving by linking with technology ; while others have argued that humanity will inevitably experience a technological singularity, and furthermore that this outcome is desirable ( see singularitarianism ).

Another factor in the defeat of the Constitution may have been the linking of the Constitution in the minds of voters with the possibility of the accession of Turkey to the European Union, with which most of the French population disagrees.

Interest in such dithiols stems from the possibility of linking the two sulfur ends to metallic contacts and this was first used in molecular conduction measurements.

The New York Times called the report " especially critical of statements by the president and vice president linking Iraq to Al Qaeda and raising the possibility that Mr. Hussein might supply the terrorist group with unconventional weapons.

Its services started on June 25, 1976 and its operational area comprised roughly the Northeast and parts of the Southeast regions of Brazil, specifically the states of Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia and parts of Maranhão, Minas Gerais, and Espírito Santo plus the possibility of serving the cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Brasília when linking them to its area of concession.

There is no physical evidence linking Hernandez to the crime, and his history of mental health issues is thought to raise the possibility of a false confession.