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The reason for the reform was that the average length of the year in the Julian calendar was too long – it treated each year as 365 days, 6 hours in length, whereas calculations showed that the actual mean length of a year is slightly less ( 365 days, 5 hours and 49 minutes ) As a result, the date of the actual vernal equinox had slowly ( over the course of 13 centuries ) slipped to 10 March, while the computus ( calculation ) of the date of Easter still followed the traditional date of 21 March.
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reason and for
He had a legitimate reason for wearing it.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
Why, that's his main reason for making the dive ''.
Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.
In the care-free indolence of the East he sees the last reflection of the old happy existence, and for that reason he loves it.
Reactionary theories, for this reason, usually assume some form of organismic theory.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Some even say that this is the reason for the ultimate acceptance of the former.
Hence, noting the simplicity achieved in Copernicus' formulation does not provide another reason for the acceptance of De Revolutionibus, another reason beyond its systematic superiority.
The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.
`` The reason for that report was to settle the matter of the list.
`` How about your press conference three days later -- what was the reason for that??
Marshall pondered the reason for this, and pondered too the replacement of one member of the three-man group.
He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
`` The reason for this '', the orders said, `` is that the enemy may think to take advantage of the celebration of this day.
But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.
Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.
The primary reason for the abandonment of the `` shore occupied by '' thesis has been the assimilation and accumulation of archaeological evidence, the most striking feature of early English studies in this century.
Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..
( It is sort of as if our government should decide to disown Washington or Lincoln for the same reason.
reason and reform
For that reason any democratic reform and effort to bring genuine representative government to the Dominican Republic will need the greatest sympathy and help.
Its purpose was to reform society using reason ( rather than tradition, faith and revelation ) and advance knowledge through science.
Eventually, in the face of Van Leeuwenhoek's insistence, the Royal Society arranged to send an English vicar, as well as a team of respected jurists and doctors, to Delft, to determine whether it was in fact Van Leeuwenhoek's ability to observe and reason clearly, or perhaps the Royal Society's theories of life itself that might require reform.
For this reason, he has been criticized for having an imprudent " mania " for reform.
Part of the reason is that people are naturally resistant to change and reform.
She was also on intimate terms with many of the Italian Protestants, such as Pietro Carnesecchi, Juan de Valdés and Ochino, but she died before the church crisis in Italy became acute, and, although she was an advocate of religious reform, there is no reason to believe that she herself became a Protestant.
This land reform ( 1953 – 1956 ) redistributed land to more than 2 million poor peasants, but at a cost of from tens to hundreds of thousands of lives and was one of the main reason for the mass exodus of 1 million people from the North to the South in 1954.
It attacked Catholicism and orthodox Protestantism but was initially politically moderate, taking the line that Prussia was the embodiment of historical reason, which required that it evolve by peaceful reform towards a bourgeois egalitarian state with a constitutional monarchy, Protestant religion ( though without a dominating state church ) and freedom of speech.
Media reports noted that the termination came three days after Frum's strongly worded criticism of the Republican strategy on health care reform, but Frum said that the AEI had not cited his criticism as the reason for his termination.
It was at once reprinted in England, France and Germany, attracting wide praise by its remarkable simplicity and vigor, and especially by reason of its philanthropic provisions in the code of reform and prison discipline, which noticeably influenced the penal legislation of various countries.
For this reason, she argues that the process of restoring democracy is easier in formerly authoritarian than in formerly totalitarian states, and that authoritarian states are more amenable to gradual reform in a democratic direction than are totalitarian states.
Balfour had been becoming increasingly unpopular as Leader of the Conservative Party since the 1906 general election ; tariff reformers saw his leadership as the reason for their electoral losses, and the " free fooders " had been alienated by Balfour's attempts to tame the zeal of the tariff reform faction.
For this reason in the constitutional reform of 1994 included Article 36 which says:
Elected governor three times — in 1904, 1906, and 1908 — Johnson's ability to reason and work with legislators of both parties resulted in such reform legislation as reorganization of the state's insurance department to the benefit of policyholders, reduction of railroad passenger and freight rates, and removal of constitutional restraints on the legislature's power to tax.
A second reason for Quwwatli's hesitation to commit Syrian military troops was that he had failed in his early efforts to reform the army and questioned the loyalty and effectiveness of its leadership.
Examples such as Eis laufen are thought by some to be grammatically incorrect, the reason being laufen ( literally to go, to walk, to run ) is an intransitive verb and cannot take a direct object, thus engendering some harsh criticism of the spelling reform.
A man prefers to live amidst their corruption rather than plead for their reform, because he fears, and with reason, that this reform will engender infinitely more abuses than it will do away with ; things are left as they are.
Militant nationalists such as the Fenians saw that they could use the groundswell of support for land reform to recruit nationalist support, this is the reason why the New Departure-a decision by the IRB to adopt social issues-occurred in 1879.
* 19. ORG ( The site contains articles and books on code 19 and Islamic reform based on Quran alone under the light of reason )
The philosophes used reason to attack superstition, bigotry, and religious fanaticism, which they considered the chief obstacles to free thought and social reform.
A further reason why a reform of the old Regulation 17 / 62 was needed, was the looming enlargement of the EU, by which its membership was to expand to 25 by 2004 and 27 by 2007.
Ahmad's followers claim that he had categorically vowed in Anjam-e-Atham not to engage in any more debates, as he judged them ineffective at convincing the religious clergy to reform ( the reason why he had challenged Meher Ali Shah to such a decisive contest in the first place and not to a debate ); rather, he would invoke God for divine intervention by holding such contests or " prayer duels ", which he called Ejazi-Muqabala, or " miraculous contest ", between him and his opponents, primarily Christian missionaries and Muslim scholars and divines.
The reason for the reform was that the territory needed a stricter government to yield higher revenues.
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