Lincoln ’ s assessment of the political issue for the 1860 elections was that, " This question of Slavery was more important than any other ; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present.

One clade, formed by B. anthracis, B. cereus, B. mycoides, B. pseudomycoides, B. thuringiensis and B. weihenstephanensis under current classification standards, should be a single species ( within 97 % 16S identity ), but due to medical reasons, they are considered separate species, an issue also present for four species of Shigella and Escherichia coli.

The present Dukes are descended from his fourth son, Sir George, the issue of the three elder being extinct.

Bayesians would argue that this is right and proper — if the issue is such that reasonable people can put forward different, but plausible, priors and the data are such that the likelihood does not swamp the prior, then the issue is not resolved unambiguously at the present stage of knowledge and Bayesian statistics highlights this fact.

The delegation ' considers this issue to be a device being used to justify aggressive opposition to the present Nicaraguan government.

The full meeting of the Commonwealth had failed in a consensus to decide on the issue, and they tasked the previous, present ( at the time ), and future leaders of Commonwealth ( respectively President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, John Howard of Australia, and Mbeki of South Africa ) to come to a consensus between them over the issue.

While Nansen passports are no longer issued, present national authorities, including the United Nations, issue documents for stateless people and refugees.

Whilst these impacts can be included in a detailed environmental impact assessment, a key issue has been how to present these assessments alongside estimates of those costs and benefits that can be expressed in monetary terms.

In the political sphere, a place in which rights have historically been an important issue, at present the question of who has what legal rights is sometimes addressed by the constitutions of the respective nations.

Among the more challenging political dilemmas Wilson faced during his two terms in government and his two spells in Opposition before 1964 and between 1970 and 1974 was the issue of British membership of the European Community, the forerunner of the present European Union.

Rogers also discusses this issue in her book " Anselm on Freedom ", using the term " four-dimensionalism " rather than " eternalism " for the view that " the present moment is not ontologically privileged ", and commenting that " Boethius and Augustine do sometimes sound rather four-dimensionalist, but Anselm is apparently the first consistently and explicitly to embrace the position.

( This is not at issue in the present example.

In 1938 a bond issue to build the present municipal building was approved, and the following year citizens agreed to the purchase of the Landis municipal park property.

Therefore, it is important for people whose procrastination has become chronic and is perceived to be debilitating, to seek out a trained therapist or psychiatrist to see if an underlying mental health issue may be present.

It seems to me at present most probable, that there is no such thing ; but that even all insects are the natural issue of parents of the same species with themselves.

Genetic accounts of an issue may be true, and they may help illuminate the reasons why the issue has assumed its present form, but they are irrelevant to its merits.

As the fort began to take shape, an issue soon to dominate the national scene was debated during the brief territorial legislative session which met at Pawnee in the present area of Camp Whitside, named for Col. Warren Whitside.

The present issue concerns the future of fab 7 and the previously negotiated redundancy plans in March 2009 both which according to workers and unions will no longer be honored.

The Commander's Degree of the Legion of Merit is a neck order of the US, but it is only authorized for issue to foreign dignitaries. The present Medal of Honor neck ribbon was adopted in 1944.

In the June 1983 issue of Electronic Games, Wizardry was described as, " without a doubt, the most popular fantasy adventure game for the Apple II at the present time.

Video is another issue which continues to present most problems.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.

No effort is made in the same studies to present information on regional or national demand trends in these skills or to consider whether regional or national demands for other skills might provide much better opportunities for the youth to be trained.

She may well be incapacitated by it when she is confronted with present and future alternatives -- e.g., whether to prepare primarily for a career or for the role of a homemaker ; ;

The question of whether Beowulf was passed down through oral tradition prior to its present manuscript form has been the subject of much debate, and involves more than the mere matter of how it was composed.

There is debate as to whether time exists only in the present or whether far away times are just as real as far away spaces, and there is debate as to whether space is curved.

In general usage, design of experiments ( DOE ) or experimental design is the design of any information-gathering exercises where variation is present, whether under the full control of the experimenter or not.

The lost Spanish manuscript claimed to have been written in Istanbul, and the surviving Italian manuscript has several Turkish features ; so, whether the language of origin was Spanish or Italian, Istanbul is regarded by most students as the place of origin of the present text.

Much of the controversy and dispute concerning the authenticity of the Gospel of Barnabas can be re-expressed as debating whether specific highly transgressive themes ( from an orthodox Christian perspective ) might already have been present in the source materials utilised by a 14th – 16th century vernacular author, whether they might be due to that author himself, or whether they might even have been interpolated by the subsequent editor.

From 1347, Boccaccio spent much time in Ravenna, seeking new patronage, and despite his claims, it is not certain whether he was present in plague-ravaged Florence.

A writ of habeas corpus, also known as the Great Writ, is a summons with the force of a court order ; it is addressed to the custodian ( a prison official for example ) and demands that a prisoner be taken before the court, and that the custodian present proof of authority, allowing the court to determine whether the custodian has lawful authority to detain the person.

When this particle is absent, the infinitive is said to be a bare infinitive ; when it is present, it is generally considered to be a part of the infinitive, then known as the full infinitive ( or to-infinitive ), and there is a controversy about whether it should be separated from the main word of the infinitive ( see Split infinitive ).

I much question, whether any of the absolute monarchies in Europe contain, at present, so illegal and despotic a tribunal.

Although the FBI asked Jesselyn Radack, a Justice Department ethics advisor, whether Lindh could be questioned without a lawyer present, her advice that this should not be done was not followed.

Urea can then re-enter the nephron and be excreted or recycled again depending on whether ADH is still present or not.

' Having said this, he and most of the members who had a right to sit in Parliament, withdrew from the House ; so that there was not the fourth part of a quorum of lawful members present in the House when the Secluded Members, who had been voted out of the Parliament by those that had an undisputed authority over their own members, undertook to dissolve the Parliament, which was not to be done, unless by their own consent ; and whether that consent was ever given, is submitted to the judgment of all impartial men.

There is often debate of whether market restrictions are in the best long-term interest of present and future consumers.

The science team is trying to determine whether the water ice ever thaws enough to be available for microscopic life, and if carbon-containing chemicals and other raw materials for life are present.

There are significant differences in the survival of archaeological material depending on whether a site is wet or dry, on the nature of the chemical environment, on the presence of biological organisms and on the dynamic forces present.

The mathematical counterpart of physical diffraction is the Fourier transform and the qualitative description of a diffraction picture as ' clear cut ' or ' sharp ' means that singularities are present in the Fourier spectrum.

Therefore, to obtain a full set of Fourier transform data, it is necessary to rotate the crystal through slightly more than 180 °, or sometimes less if sufficient symmetry is present.

Similarly, as seen above, the Fourier transform can be thought of as a function that measures how much of each individual frequency is present in our function ƒ, and we can recombine these waves by using an integral ( or " continuous sum ") to reproduce the original function.

The following images provide a visual illustration of how the Fourier transform measures whether a frequency is present in a particular function.

The general situation may be a bit more complicated than this, but this in spirit is how the Fourier transform measures how much of an individual frequency is present in a function ƒ ( t ).

In fact, the present value of a cashflow at a constant interest rate is mathematically one point in the Laplace transform of that cashflow, evaluated with the transform variable ( usually denoted " s ") equal to the interest rate.

The full Laplace transform is the curve of all present values, plotted as a function of interest rate.

Legislation has been suggested in state committee to transform the nearby Eastern Arizona College from its present status as a two year community college into a full four-year educational institution.

At present, there is a growing movement to transform the existing federal state into a looser confederation with two or three constitutive states and / or two special regions.

If equality of outcomes is seen as beneficial for society, and if people have differing levels of material wealth in the present, then methods to transform a society towards one with greater equality of outcomes is problematic.

Although the same amount of energy is transmitted with or without the board present, the sound board, due to its greater surface area, is more readily able to transform this energy into sound.

The trailer introduced the film to audiences by briefly explaining that Billy receives a strange creature as a Christmas present, by going over the three rules, and then coming out with the fact that the creatures transform into terrible monsters.

Technology, in all of its various forms, offers users the tools to access, manipulate, transform, evaluate, use, and present information.

However, because of the extensibility of the canonicalization and transform methods, the verifying party must also make sure that what was actually signed or digested is really what was present in the original data, in other words, that the algorithms used there can be trusted not to change the meaning of the signed data.

He then employed the architect James Wyatt to transform Loakes House into the present Wycombe Abbey as we see it today.

The Hough transform is an alternative robust estimation technique that may be useful when more than one model instance is present.

The group is notable for possessing an extra ability not present in the other combiners – each " limb " can also transform into a weapons emplacement, which can be wielded as a gun by Piranacon ( hence the need for a sixth member in the team ).

These young intellectuals were interested in finding alternatives to their present circumstances ; their solution was to transform them.

As the definitive host ( rats ) eats an infected arthropod, cysticercoids present in the body cavity transform into the adult worm.

The present bridge, built 1907-1909, helped to transform the citrus colony into one of the leading bedroom communities of Sacramento by the 1940s.