Instead, he constantly became lost in parts and components of them, confused some of their details with those of neighboring objects, and so on, unless he allowed time to `` trace '' the object in question through minute movements of the head and hands and in this way to discover its contours.

When Angelo Cardinal Roncalli was elected and became Pope John, there was some confusion as to whether he would be John XXIII or John XXIV ; he then declared that he was John XXIII to put this question to rest.

Abd al-Rahman must have sensed that time was against him as food and water became scarce, and his troops morale likely came into question.

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

In this connection, the question whether Barnabas was an apostle became important, and was often discussed during the Middle Ages.

This raises the question of why four space-time dimensions became large and the rest became unobservably small.

Whether or not Eadbald became a joint king with Æthelberht, there is no question that Æthelberht had authority throughout the kingdom.

: The job operating or using a computer was actually beyond the electronic technology of the day, and, as a result, the question of how to get and keep the physical equipment more or less in working condition became in the early days the all-overriding concern.

Later in the year, following Elizabeth's illness with smallpox, the succession question became a heated issue in Parliament.

In 1922, Himmler became more interested in the ' Jewish question ', with his diary entries containing an increasing number of antisemitic remarks and recording a number of discussions about Jews with his classmates.

In 1777 the question became moot when the Elector Palatine inherited Bavaria.

The question as to why this area did not remain at the forefront of technological and social development lies in the subsequent history of its geographical location – at the end of the mostly peaceful Neolithic period, this area became a highway for invaders from the east moving into Europe.

The Zinj question ultimately became part of the Australopithecus / Paranthropus question ( which only applied to the robust Australopithecines ).

In psychology, the subject of imagination was again explored more extensively since Whitehead, and the question of feasibility or " eternal objects " of thought became central to the impaired theory of mind explorations that framed postmodern cognitive science.

This question of the professionalism of ancient Olympic athletes is a subject of debate amongst scholars, with Young and others arguing that the athletes were professional throughout the history of the ancient Games, while other scholars led by Pleket argue that the earliest Olympic athletes were in fact amateur, and that the Games only became professionalised after about 480 BCE.

The question of Az Zubarah became moot in 1878, however, when Jassim bin Mohammed and his brother Ahmed bin Muhammed destroyed the town as punishment for the piracy of the Naim, a tribe that resided in the north of Qatar but was loyal to the sheikh of Bahrain.

The concept of an inherited cultural patrimony from a common origin rapidly became central to a divisive question within romantic nationalism: specifically, is a nation unified because it comes from the same genetic source, that is because of race, or is the participation in the organic nature of the " folk " culture self-fulfilling?

Whorf's writings became the focus of empirical studies in psychology in the mid 20th century, and this strand of research often referred to the question as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, or sometimes the Whorfian hypothesis.

In contrast, the second question turned out to be much more difficult, and the question became a famous open problem in formal language theory for over two decades.

As of 2010, Skype became unblocked, but the call connection time is unusually long and the call quality remains irregular, raising the question of whether the related IP traffic is being filtered or monitored.

The genuinely interesting question, then, becomes: What factors determine the degree of realism or distortion in conventional images of Jews??

The major question in this chapter is: What is the probability of exactly X successes in N trials??

Having outlined an approach to the theory and practice of preventive casework, we now address ourselves to our final question: What place should brief, crisis-oriented preventive casework occupy in our total spectrum of services??

Perhaps the very important question -- What is, then, exactly the role of kinesthetic sensations in the patient's ability to recognize forms and shapes by means of the tracing movements when he is actually looking at things??

Its scope is as broad as the question: What does it mean to live in modern society??

The question becomes, `` What is a dream ''??

What a discussion can ensue when the title of this type of song is in question.

Another question of the same character: " Why the boastful claim: ' What nation on earth is like Thy people Israel ' ( II Sam.

The elderly woman then asks Fredrika a surprising question: " What is it all for?

The fundamental question underlying all computing is " What can be ( efficiently ) automated?

Then, the question " What was there before the Universe?

An example of an inflammatory way a question will be asked by a cross-examiner to a witness he was trying to undermine would be " What is your recollection toDAY?

The main issue that prompted this dispute between Cyril and Nestorius was the question which arose at the Council of Constantinople: What exactly was the being to which Mary gave birth?

In answering the question " What do Jews think of Jesus ", philosopher Milton Steinberg claims, for Jews, Jesus cannot be accepted as anything more than a teacher.

A definition of cocktail appeared in the May 13, 1806, edition of The Balance and Columbian Repository, a publication in Hudson, New York, in which an answer was provided to the question, " What is a cocktail ?".

The question he was left with was ' What, then, does he who has passed through the experience ... who has traversed the radical phantasy ... become?

Flynn gives, as an example, the question ' What do a dog and a rabbit have in common?

What constitutes history is a philosophical question ( see philosophy of history ).

What is intended by the question is the sense of the word, " same ", in which an old woman is the same person at the end of her life as she is, at the beginning of her life.

In addition to the question, " What is law?

A BBC history series What the Romans Did for Us, written and presented by Adam Hart-Davis and first broadcast in 2000, takes its title from John Cleese's rhetorical question " What have the Romans ever done for us?

This was in response to a question from the MP David Clelland, asking " What has the Labour government ever done for us?

A question of the first type might be, " What do the words ' good ', ' bad ', ' right ' and ' wrong ' mean?

An alternative, humanistic approach poses the question " What is the meaning of my life?