To close off loopholes pointed out by some critics, he became a Director of the Africa Institution for the Registration of Slaves through which he advocated a centralized registry, administered by the British government, which would furnish precise statistics on all slave births, deaths, and sale, so that " any unregistered black would be presumed free ".

Personal identification of " rulers " should be used by adding biographical details including full names, titles, precise dates and geographic locations of births and deaths.

Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor is highly disputed.

The precise number of dead may never be known, but the decrease of the Jewish population during that period is estimated at 100, 000 to 200, 000, which also includes emigration, deaths from diseases and jasyr ( captivity in the Ottoman Empire ).

These frequencies are amplified and detected by the FM receiver after each burst of transmitted energy and, after the `` pill '' has been calibrated, precise internal pressure indications can be obtained.

Even though the registers may have an incomplete record of persons present in a particular area or include persons no longer living there, they contain precise information on ages, by date of birth, for some of the persons present ( especially children in relatively stable communities ) and supplementary information ( such as records of marital status ) for many others.

A consequence of using waveforms to describe particles is that it is mathematically impossible to obtain precise values for both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time ; this became known as the uncertainty principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg in 1926.

The precise size of the heterogeneous group gathered by Alboin is impossible to know, and many different estimates have been made.

While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a ( Koine ) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians.

The arrangement of the spines is very precise, and is described by what is called the Müllerian law.

Wedge-shaped polycrystals were identified by transmission electron microscopy to grow out of the amorphous phase only after the latter has exceeded a certain thickness, the precise value of which depends on deposition temperature, background pressure and various other process parameters.

The backhand clear is considered by most players and coaches to be the most difficult basic stroke in the game, since precise technique is needed in order to muster enough power for the shuttlecock to travel the full length of the court.

To find out what the precise law is that applies to a particular set of facts, one has to locate precedential decisions on the topic, and reason from those decisions by analogy.

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965 lent strong support to the Big Bang model, and since the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Cosmic Background Explorer in the early 1990s, few cosmologists have seriously proposed other theories of the origin and evolution of the cosmos.

A context-free grammar provides a simple and mathematically precise mechanism for describing the methods by which phrases in some natural language are built from smaller blocks, capturing the " block structure " of sentences in a natural way.

The standards do require discs to meet precise requirements in order to be called Compact Discs, but the other discs may be called by other names ; if this were not true, no DVD drive could legally bear the Compact Disc logo.

With the increasingly precise data provided by WMAP, there have been a number of claims that the CMB suffers from anomalies, such as very large scale anisotropies, anomalous alignments, and non-Gaussian distributions.

Orchestral timpani can be quickly tuned to precise pitches by using a foot pedal.

These terms by themselves are not very precise, and many subtle intermediate cases exist.

The intuition that the sum of all sources minus the sum of all sinks should give the net flow outwards of a region is made precise by the divergence theorem.

The language of the DSM was described as " simultaneously precise and vague " in order to provide an aura of scientific objectivity yet not limit psychiatrists in a semantic or financial sense, and the manual itself compared to " a militia's Web page, insofar as it constitutes an alternative reality under siege " by critics.

The precise facts have been obscured by history, but modern historians believe Nerva was proclaimed Emperor solely on the initiative of the Senate, within hours after the news of the assassination broke.

A precise search area was difficult to define, as even small differences in estimates of the aircraft's speed, or the environmental conditions along the flight path ( which varied significantly by location and altitude ), changed Cooper's projected landing point considerably.

It is argued that Tryon had attempted to introduce greater independence and initiative amongst his captains, which he believed would be essential in the confusion of a real war situation, but had ironically been killed in an accident caused by captains rigorously obeying incorrect but precise orders issued by Tryon himself.

His theory of peripatric speciation ( a more precise form of allopatric speciation which he advanced ), based on his work on birds, is still considered a leading mode of speciation, and was the theoretical underpinning for the theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould.

Some were Bs in the most precise sense, produced to run on the bottom of double bills by a low-budget unit of one of the major studios or by one of the smaller, so-called Poverty Row outfits, from the relatively well-off Monogram to shakier ventures such as Producers Releasing Corporation ( PRC ).

As well as helping determine the parallax of 61 Cygni, Bessel's precise measurements allowed him to notice deviations in the motions of Sirius and Procyon, which he deduced must be caused by the gravitational attraction of unseen companions.

The precise archaeological site of the city of Akkad has not yet been found.

There is no precise definition for the term " Chicagoland ," but it generally means the city and its suburbs combined together.

The precise time at which it was written is not mentioned in the epistle, but it was obviously written when the collection for Jerusalem had been assembled and Paul was about to " go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints ", that is, at the close of his second visit to Greece, during the winter preceding his last visit to that city.

" Vienna " and the official German name Wien, and the names of the city in most languages, are thought to be derived from the Celtic word " windo -", meaning bright or fair – as in the Irish " fionn " and the Welsh " gwyn " – but opinions vary on the precise origin.

The name of the city shares the name of the county and probably has its origin from the Cheboygan River, although the precise meaning is no longer known.

In the city of Bluefields, overlooking the squadron, there was a State Department representative with precise orders about the situation: Consul Thomas Moffat.

To be more precise, there were tools and other objects belonging to goldsmiths, blade-smiths, cobblers, glassmakers and tilers, coins and a model of the city of Thessaloniki market place.

This city wall, which ran in excess of 2000 yards, 2123 to be precise, was guarded by 4 gates and 11 towers.

The precise reason why the city received this name is as yet unknown.

The site which is in the vicinity of the oasis of Fayyum, midway between Dahshur and Meidum, and about 100 kilometres south of Cairo, is believed to be in the vicinity of the ancient city of Itjtawy ( the precise location of which remains unknown ), which served as the capital of Egypt during the 12th Dynasty.

She was one of the goddesses worshiped in Myrtilis ( today's Mértola, Portugal ), Pax Julia ( Beja, Portugal ) and especially the city of Turobriga, whose precise location is unknown.

The hills in the City of London, from west to east, Ludgate Hill, Corn Hill and Tower Hill, are presumed to have influenced the precise siting of the early city, but they are very minor, and most of central London is almost flat.

Visitors can now get precise up to date information about the city on their mobile telephones and in 10 different languages

The suppression of Isle of Dogs has long been understood as a significant episode in the complex relations of city, court, and theatre-worlds ; its precise significance, however, is difficult to determine.

The necropolis of this settlement was probably the extensive one situated at Caracupa ( 8th-7th century BC ), near the railway station of Sermoneta, which belongs also to the 8th-6th century BC, terminating thus at the precise date at which the Roman city of Norba began to exist.

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