And TSR quickly paid off the major creditors, at some cents on the dollar, to avoid the possibility that anyone else would challenge the transaction.

It may also protect the property of wealthy or risky owners against the possibility of future lawsuits or creditors, because the trust owns the property, not the individuals at risk.

It may also protect the property of wealthy or risky owners against the possibility of future lawsuits or creditors, because the trust owns the property, not the individuals at risk.

`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??

Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.

But during nighttime hours the skywave radiations are reflected from the ionosphere, thereby creating the possibility of one station's rendering service, via skywave, at a much greater distance than it can through its groundwave signal, and at the same time vastly complicating the interference problem because of the still greater distance over which these skywave signals may cause interference to the signals of stations on the same and closely adjacent frequencies.

This tendency effected the narrowing field of artistic possibility to such forms of art as Arabesque, mosaic, Islamic calligraphy, and Islamic architecture, as well as any form of abstraction that can claim the status of non-representational art.

this introduces the possibility of another kind of skepticism: since our understanding of causality is that the same effect can be produced by multiple causes, there is a lack of determinacy about what one is really perceiving.

There is a possibility that the risk of tardive dyskinesia can be reduced by combining the anti-psychotics with diphenhydramine or benzatropine, although this remains to be established.

Behaviors can be either innate or learned, however, current research in the Human Microbiome Project points towards a possibility that human behavior may be influenced by the composition of the microbe population within a human body.

* Computational studies can be used to predict the possibility of so far entirely unknown molecules or to explore reaction mechanisms that are not readily studied by experimental means.

If the possibility of adding the empty string to a language is added to the strings recognized by the noncontracting grammars ( which can never include the empty string ) then the languages in these two definitions are identical.

In practice a groveling letter of apology to the court is sufficient to ward off this possibility, and in any event the warrant is generally ' backed for bail ' i. e. bail will be granted once the arrest has been made and a location where the person can be found in future established.

Through a series of derivations, de Donder showed that if we consider a mixture of chemical species with the possibility of chemical reaction, it can be proven that the following relation holds:

* Expanding access: distance education can assist in meeting the demand for education and training demand from the general populace and businesses, especially because it offers the possibility of a flexibility to accommodate the many time-constraints imposed by personal responsibilities and commitments.

Some evidence for this last possibility may be seen in film recordings of the crash-as the nose of the boat climbs and the jet exhaust points at the water surface no disturbance or spray can be seen at all.

This argument rests on the assumption that one can have a " moral " discussion on various scales ; that is, what is " good " for: a certain part of your being ( leaving open the possibility of conflicting motives ), you as a single individual, your family, your society, your species, your type of species.

Marxist theory allows for the possibility that Labour content can serve as a common means of valuing capital goods, a position now out of favour with economists following the success of the theory of marginal utility.

The point estimators yield single-valued results, although this includes the possibility of single vector-valued results and results that can be expressed as a single function.

The study further showed that people with degrees or post-graduate qualifications can and do believe in the possibility of miraculous healing.

According to Gardner, the Surgenesons readily talked about the paranormal with him ; the patriarch of the family, Ted Surgeneson, believed that fairies were living in his garden and would say " I can often feel they're there, and sometimes I've seen them ", though he readily admitted the possibility that it was all in his imagination.

Although leverage can increase potential returns, the opportunity for larger gains is weighed against the possibility of greater losses.

This can be seen in Dean Swinford's essay Defining irrealism: scientific development and allegorical possibility.

In addition, there are a number of probabilistic algorithms that can test primality very quickly in practice if one is willing to accept the vanishingly small possibility of error.

Because the existence of these points of space as such, that is, as truly indivisible unities, has its basis in the fact that the points are one with the bodies that fill them ; because, therefore, all possible space is coincident with the physical world ( as in Wycliffe's system, in general, reality and possibility correspond ), there can as little be a vacuum as bounding surfaces that are common to different bodies.

One possible reading of her name as " Mãlin-tzin " can be translated as " Noble Prisoner / Captive "— or " Marina's Lord "— a reasonable possibility, given her noble birth and her initial relationship to the Cortés expedition.

The possibility of non-human minds is also explored in the field of artificial intelligence, which works closely in relation with cybernetics and information theory to understand the ways in which human mental phenomena can be replicated by machines.

As David Rothenburg writes, " The beautiful is the root of science and the goal of art, the highest possibility that humanity can ever hope to see ".

It is a possibility that by entering the race track she was trying to attach a flag to Anmer, the horse owned by King George V, so that when the horse crossed the finishing line, it would be flying the WSPU flag.

The negative connotations that still attach to the term " Greater East Asia " ( 大東亜 ) remain one of a number of difficulties facing the annual East Asia Summits, begun in 2005 to discuss the possibility of the establishment of a stronger, more united East Asian Community.

The shell, which served the strain so well at a relatively early stage in the evolutionary scheme, tended to cancel out the possibility of future development.

These include the use of genetic information in reproductive decision-making and the possibility of genetically altering reproductive cells that may be passed on to future generations.

There is therefore a realistic possibility that its status could decline to Threatened in the near future.

Sirius Canada in fact initially chose not to air Stern based on the possibility of a future issue with the CRTC, although the company reversed its decision and began offering Howard Stern in 2006.

Companies now consider the possibility of brand loyalty and persistence of its users to purchase updates, upgrades and future editions of software.

In traditional alethic logic, calculations are made to determine possibility or necessity of something, in temporal logic possibility and necessity is calculated either in the past, present or future.

The symbols typically used to represent alethic possibility is ◊ and alethic necessity is □, however, these are replaced in temporal logic into two categories: possibility and necessity in the past and in the future.

The symbols used to represent possibility in the past is ( P ) and necessity is ( H ), and the symbols used to represent possibiity in the future is ( F ) and necessity is ( G ).

This ability to manipulate musical data has also introduced the concept of surrogate orchestras, providing a combination of half sequenced MIDI recordings and half musicians to make up an entire orchestral arrangement ; however, scholars believe surrogate orchestras have the possibility of affecting future live musical performances in which the use of live musicians in orchestral arrangements may cease entirely because the composition of music via MIDI recordings proves to be more efficient and less expensive.

Interest in Mars has been stimulated by the planet's dramatic red color, by early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life, and by the possibility that Mars could be colonized by humans in the future.

On the other hand, humanism in Machiavelli's time meant that classical pre-Christian ideas about virtue and prudence, including the possibility of trying to control one's future, were not unique to him.

With the prospect of the Channel ports falling under Kriegsmarine ( German Navy ) control and attempting to anticipate the obvious next step that might entail, Grand Admiral ( Großadmiral ) Erich Raeder ( head of the Kriegsmarine ) instructed his operations officer, Kapitän Hans Jürgen Reinicke, to draw up a document examining " the possibility of troop landings in England should the future progress of the war make the problem arise.

It also found that around 56 % of subjects who were in fact innocent ( and privately knew it ) also plead guilty, for reasons including avoiding of formal quasi-legal processes, uncertainty, possibility of greater harm to personal future plans, or deprival of home environment due to remedial courses.

Or, put another way, the past is what God has thus far become in the process of all experience, and the future is pure possibility.

Posthumanism is sometimes used as a synonym for an ideology of technology known as " transhumanism " because it affirms the possibility and desirability of achieving a " posthuman future ", albeit in purely evolutionary terms.

Maulana Karenga argued that racism constituted the destruction of culture, language, religion and human possibility, and that the effects of racism were “ the morally monstrous destruction of human possibility involved redefining African humanity to the world, poisoning past, present and future relations with others who only know us through this stereotyping and thus damaging the truly human relations among peoples .”

Beginning at the turn of the millennium the Seychelles Petroleum Company ( SEPEC ) started to develop the first fleet of modern petroleum double-hull tankers ( five vessels ), which was completed by late 2007 / early 2008 with the possibility to build more in the near future.

Chevron said that one way to keep enjoying what they were doing was to avoid making a new album, although he did say that there still is a possibility in the future for new music, but certainly not in the near future.

In order to prevent the possibility of future schisms, only cardinals were to possess the right to elect a pope.

In the 1979 " The Changing of the Gods ," Naomi Goldenberg introduces the term as a future possibility with respect to a distinct discourse, highlighting the masculine nature of theology.