His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

Popper even uses the term " conspiracy " to describe ordinary political activity in the classical Athens of Plato ( who was the principal target of his attack in The Open Society and Its Enemies ).

The term cardinal at one time applied to any priest permanently assigned or incardinated to a church, or specifically to the senior priest of an important church, based on the Latin cardo ( hinge ), meaning " principal " or " chief ".

His Tàichū (, " Grand Inception ") calendar of 104 BC had a year with the winter solstice in the 11th month and designated as intercalary any calendar month ( a month of 29 or 30 whole days ) during which the sun does not pass a principal term ( that is, remained within the same sign of the zodiac throughout ).

But the principal effect is over the long term: over many centuries tidal friction inexorably slows Earth's rate of rotation by about + 2. 3 ms / day / cy.

The term " frigate " was used because such ships still mounted their principal armament on a single continuous upper deck.

In a ring all of whose ideals are principal ( a principal ideal domain or PID ), this ideal will be identical with the set of multiples of some ring element d ; then this d is a greatest common divisor of a and b. But the ideal ( a, b ) can be useful even when there is no greatest common divisor of a and b. ( Indeed, Ernst Kummer used this ideal as a replacement for a gcd in his treatment of Fermat's Last Theorem, although he envisioned it as the set of multiples of some hypothetical, or ideal, ring element d, whence the ring-theoretic term.

They restricted themselves to a compilation of the principal methods of logical deduction, which they called " middot " ( measures ), although the other rules also were known by that term ( comp.

The term " pontiff " is derived from the Latin word pontifex, which literally means " bridge builder " ( pons + facere ), and which designated a member of the principal college of priests in ancient Rome.

" Plutocracy " replaced " democracy " and " capitalism " as the principal fascist term for the United States and Great Britain during the Second World War.

Certainly its long term success and viability have become much harder to judge since the recent worldwide economic downturn, a situation compounded by the actions of its two principal owner-occupiers.

In Old Norse, ( or, plural ; feminine, plural ) is the term denoting a member of the principal pantheon in the indigenous European religion known as Norse paganism.

The term " principal clock " should not be confused with, or used as a synonym for, the term " primary frequency standard.

Sometimes the term also includes the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan's two principal allied city-states, the Acolhuas of Texcoco and the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, who together with the Mexica formed the Aztec Triple Alliance which controlled what is often known as " the Aztec Empire ".

The term is used to refer to any person who holds a general power of attorney to represent a principal in all matters.

Nominal, principal, par or face amount — the amount on which the issuer pays interest, and which, most commonly, has to be repaid at the end of the term.

Within a cluster of thunderstorms, the term " cell " refers to each separate principal updraft.

The term Japhetic was also applied by the early linguists ( brothers Grimm, William Jones, Rasmus C. Rask and others ) to what later became known as the Indo-European language group, on the assumption that, if descended from Japheth, the principal languages of Europe would have a common origin, which apart from Uralic, Kartvelian, Pontic, Dagestanian, and Basque, appears to be the case.

The college prayer is read by the principal or a fellow at evensong on Sundays during term and at gaudies.

Charitable lead trusts make payments, either of a fixed amount ( charitable lead annuity trust ) or a percentage of trust principal ( charitable lead unitrust ), to charity during its term.

The term parkway has several distinct principal meanings and numerous synonyms around the world, for either a type of landscaped area or a type of road.

Shorter term bonds generally pay interest only until maturity ; longer term bonds generally are amortized through annual principal payments.

In the case of the Earth, the principal sources of tidal force are the Sun and Moon, which continuously change location relative to each other and thus cause nutation in Earth's axis.

The principal defender of this view of primary experience as `` causal efficacy '' is Alfred North Whitehead.

but his principal theme is that the intrigues of the Tories, `` our Popish or Jacobite Party '', pose an immediate threat to Church and State.

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

We submit that this is a most desirable effect of the law -- and one of its principal aims.

A primary function is the operation of a Government Bid Center, which receives bids daily from the Federal Government's principal purchasing agencies.

Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, as prescribed by Section 8 of this Title, an amount not exceeding the principal of each award, plus accrued interests on such awards as bear interest, certified pursuant to Section 5 of this Title, in accordance with the award.

The Strategic Air Command is the principal element of our long-range nuclear capability.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

But in such an important question, we would be satisfied if the judgment were that the principal objection to the identity of forces which produce electricity and magnetism were only a difficulty, and not a thing which is contrary to it.

There are three principal feed bunk types for dairy and beef cattle: ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks -- cattle eat from one side while feed is put in from the opposite side of the fence by self-unloading wagons ; ;

This is a pilot operation sponsored by a new entity chartered in Delaware as the Tri-State Pipeline Corporation, with principal offices in New York State.

Miller ( '50 ) is the principal antagonist of this viewpoint.

Emotional maturity is the result of many factors, the principal ones being the experiences of the first few years of the child's life.

Perhaps one way to sharpen our sense of the modernity of Utopian communism is to contrast it with the principal earlier types of communistic theory.

-- One of the principal aims of anionic polymerization techniques is the synthesis of polymers of extremely narrow molecular weight distribution.

If it is owned, taxes must be paid, and if the place is not free of mortgage, there will be interest and payments on the principal to take care of.

The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.

In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

The principal of the school announced that -- despite the help of private tutors in Hollywood and Philadelphia -- Fabian is a 10-o'clock scholar in English and mathematics.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

However, my principal objection in this sort of novel is to the hackneyed treatment of race-drivers, pilots, submariners, atomic researchers, and all the machine-masters of our age as brooding mystics or hysterical fatalists.