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The prevalent scholarly opinion is that Tamar died in 1213, although there are some vague indications that she might have died earlier, in 1207 or 1210.
Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, John C. Frémont, reported after the gunfight, " Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens Tombstone have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of out-lawry so largely disturbing the sense of security ... opinion is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element.
The Dictionary attempted to put forth Bayle's view that much that was considered to be truth was actually just opinion, and that gullibility and stubbornness were prevalent.
However, this was not true, but Huang suggests that perhaps the issue chosen was not directly prevalent, and therefore, they found it " unnecessary to voice their objections to the majority opinion.
This bias is especially prevalent in group settings where one thinks the collective opinion of their own group matches that of the larger population.
The Labour Party had traditionally feared the consequences of EEC membership, such as the large differentials between the high price of food under the Common Agricultural Policy and the low prices prevalent in Commonwealth markets, as well as the loss of economic sovereignty and the freedom of governments to engage in socialist industrial policies, and party leaders stated their opinion that the Conservatives had negotiated unfavourable terms for Britain.
In 1875, by nitrating benzoic acid, Erlenmeyer disproved the prevalent opinion that more than three nitrobenzoic acids exist.
The prevalent opinion among the Romanian public is that the incidents were triggered by direct attacks by ethnic Hungarians against Romanian institutions, symbols, statues and policemen.
Particracy tends to install itself as the cost of campaigning and the impact of the media increase so that it can be prevalent at the national level with large electoral districts but absent at a local level ; a few prominent politicians of renown may hold enough influence on public opinion to resist their party or dominate it.
These comments dominated in Japanese newspapers leading to the prevalent negative opinion that ' the exhibition was a failure '.
As to the Book of Isaiah, in spite of the prevalent opinion that chapters 40-66 were written after the Babylonian captivity, Luzzatto maintained that the whole book was written by Isaiah.
Kane believed that the Indian constitution made a complete break with the traditional ideas prevalent in India by engendering a false opinion among the people that they have rights, but no obligations.
Matija Petar Katančić thought the Šokci to be descendants of the original Thracian tribes, but the prevalent opinion of modern scholars, based on etymology, is that they were Catholics who moved from the south, across the Sava from Bosnia, by the end of the Ottoman wars in Europe, as the Turks were retreating.

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And as they go through college, the students tend to bring their political position in line with that prevalent in the social groups to which they belong.
Alcott's plan was to develop self-instruction on the basis of self-analysis, with an emphasis on conversation and questioning rather than lecturing and drill, which were prevalent in the U. S. classrooms of the time.
Extensive miniature woods of heaths are found in almost endless variety and covered throughout the greater part of the year with innumerable blossoms in which red is very prevalent.
James Corum states a prevalent myth about the Luftwaffe and its blitzkrieg operations is that it had a doctrine of terror bombing, in which civilians were deliberately targeted in order to break the will or aid the collapse of an enemy.
The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.
‘‘ The most prevalent conjecture was that they were some of the German peoples which extended as far as the northern ocean ,</ br >
This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.
Captain America uses several shields throughout his history, the most prevalent of which is a nigh-indestructible disc-shaped shield made from an experimental alloy of steel and the fictional vibranium.
While we now see with our own eyes that such operations were a habit which is prevalent among all civilized people of the west "
Some identify two forms of gematria: the " revealed " form, which is prevalent in many hermeneutic methods found throughout Rabbinic literature, and the " mystical " form, a largely Kabbalistic practice.
Siddh Matrika seems to have been the prevalent script for devotional writings in Punjab right up to the founding of Sikh faith, after which its successor Gurmukhi appears.
Villages had populations of up to 300 or 400, which lived by farming and herding and were largely self-sufficient ; economic interchange was prevalent.
Erinville ( which means Irishville ), Salmon River, Ogden, Bantry ( named after Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland but now abandoned and grown up in trees ) among others, where Irish last names are prevalent and the accent is reminiscent of the Irish as well as the music, traditions, religion ( Roman Catholic ), and the love of Ireland itself.
A. Hobson identifies this justification: “ It is desirable that the earth should be peopled, governed, and developed, as far as possible, by the races which can do this work best, i. e. by the races of highest ' social efficiency '.” This is clearly the racial argument, which pays heed to other ideas such as the “ White Man ’ s Burden ” prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century.
Villages had populations of up to 300 or 400, which lived by farming and herding and were largely self-sufficient ; economic interchange was prevalent.
He also criticized the prevalent view that comprehensive comparisons of two languages at a time ( which commonly take years to carry out ) could establish language families of any size.
Factors that add to risk of heart disease include obesity and smoking, both of which are more prevalent in lesbians.
In women, it is most prevalent in the upper limbs after breast cancer surgery and lymph node dissection, occurring in the arm on the side of the body in which the surgery is performed.
Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well.
This is particularly prevalent in traditional Indian martial arts which may teach bone-setting, and other aspects of traditional Indian medicine.
In the mid 1960s Baba became concerned with the increasingly prevalent drug culture in the West and began a correspondence with several Western academics, including Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, in which he strongly discouraged the use of all hallucinogenic drugs for spiritual purposes.
By far the most prevalent transmitter is glutamate, which is excitatory at well over 90 % of the synapses in the human brain.

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Another bias, which has become more prevalent with the advent of " big science " and the large rewards of new discoveries, is bias in favor of the researcher's favorite hypothesis ; we " see what we want to see ".
Metaphors are prevalent in communication and we do not just use them in language ; we actually perceive and act in accordance with metaphors.
These metaphors are prevalent in communication and we do not just use them in language ; we actually perceive and act in accordance with the metaphors.
This belief was so prevalent that Manasseh ben Israel, in his letter to Oliver Cromwell and the Rump Parliament, appealed to it as a reason to readmit Jews into England, saying, " he opinions of many Christians and mine do concur herein, that we both believe that the restoring time of our Nation into their native country is very near at hand.
[...] While we congratulate the CNMI for its recent successful prosecution of a case in which foreign women were pressured into prostitution, human trafficking remains far more prevalent in the CNMI than it is in the rest of the U. S. During the twelve-month period ending on April 30, 2007, 36 female victims of human trafficking were admitted to or otherwise served by Guma ' Esperansa, a women ’ s shelter operated by a Catholic nonprofit organization.
In his letter to the British government he said, " It is a matter of great regret that the throwing of bombs by Zeppelins on London was denounced as a most savage act and the bombardment of places of worship and sacred spots was considered a most abominable operation, while now we see with our own eyes that such operations were a habit which is prevalent amongst all civilized people of the West.
We didn't experience the headlong panic that is sometimes prevalent while finishing a game, but we certainly did experience considerable stress as we built 21 final candidates in 3 days.
A second page editorial in the Charleston Courier ( then Mississippi County, Missouri's newspaper of record ) summed up the mood prevalent in Southern-leaning border counties as the Crittenden proposals fell: " Men at Washington think there is no chance for peace, and indeed we can see but little, everything looks gloomy.
Because we disagree on what is best for which group, this leads to fragmentation of thought, which has led us to the despair and alienation so prevalent in society today.
Analogously to the probit model, we may assume that such a quantity is related linearly to a set of predictors, resulting in the logit model, the basis in particular of logistic regression model, the most prevalent form of regression analysis for binary response data.
The old name of “ Tal-Gharghar ” suggests that the region was enriched by a flourishing woodland area of juniper trees which we known were prevalent during the Arab period and were continually cut down for their wood.
Although the etymological origins of Wa remain uncertain, Chinese historical texts recorded an ancient people residing in the Japanese archipelago ( perhaps Kyūshū ), named something like * ʼWâ or * ʼWər 倭. Carr ( 1992: 9 – 10 ) surveys prevalent proposals for Wa's etymology ranging from feasible ( transcribing Japanese first-person pronouns waga 我が " my ; our " and ware 我 " I ; we ; oneself ") to shameful ( writing Japanese Wa as 倭 implying " dwarf "), and summarizes interpretations for * ʼWâ " Japanese " into variations on two etymologies: " behaviorally ' submissive ' or physically ' short '.
The song's bleak lyrics were explained by Marker as a mockery of the angsty " wearing your heart on your sleeve thing " themes prevalent in mid-1990s alternative rock songs, as well as a self-deprecating reference to Garbage's own dark lyrics, with Manson explaining that the song was " a dig at ourselves because we like records that don't make us feel very happy, and at this so-called ' alternative ' scene of ' we're so weird and more wonderful than everybody else '".

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