Alan Cameron, however, argues that it should be interpreted as referring to Plato, and that when Proclus writes that " we must bear in mind concerning this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth ", he is treating " Crantor's view as mere personal opinion, nothing more ; in fact he first quotes and then dismisses it as representing one of the two unacceptable extremes ".

" Poll " is an archaic legal term referring to documents with straight edges ; these distinguished a deed binding only one person from one affecting more than a single person ( an " indenture ", so named during the time when such agreements would be written out repeatedly on a single sheet, then the copies separated by being irregularly torn or cut, i. e. " indented ", so that each party had a document with corresponding tears, to discourage forgery ).

It is perhaps best, then, to differentiate between the terms thermodynamically stable and kinetically stable by referring to the latter as " inert.

referring to Victor Emmanuel II, then king of Sardinia.

Since then, " Sang real " is sometimes employed to lend a medievalising air in referring to the Holy Grail.

In a flat d-dimensional space M, at any given time, the configuration of two identical particles can be specified as an element of M × M. If there is no overlap between the particles, so that they do not interact ( at the same time, we are not referring to time delayed interactions here, which are mediated at the speed of light or slower ), then we are dealing with the space

The author of the Catholic Encyclopedia article goes on to enumerate the accounts of each of these three persons ( the unnamed " sinner ", Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Bethany ) in the Gospel of Luke and concludes that based on these accounts “ there is no suggestion of an identification of the three persons, and if we had only Luke to guide us we should certainly have no grounds for so identifying them the same person .” He then explains first the Catholic position equating Mary of Bethany with the sinful woman of Luke by referring to, where Mary is identified as the woman who anointed Jesus, and noting that this reference is given before John ’ s account of the anointing in Bethany:

Eventually, Isa will slay the Dajjal, and then everyone from the People of the Book ( ahl al-kitāb, referring to Jews and Christians ) will believe in him.

The name was explained in both texts as referring to the savage inhabitants ' ability to tie the wind up in knotted cords, which they sold to sailors who could then undo a knot whenever they needed a good wind.

Eric sent official ambassadors to Edward I of England, then in Gascony, in May 1289, with papers referring to Margaret as " Queen ".

One way of talking about an algebra, then, is by referring to it as an algebra of a certain type, where is an ordered sequence of natural numbers representing the arity of the operations of the algebra.

On November 14, 1997 at a concert in Belgrade, another Peter Mlakar speech received a decidedly mixed audience reaction ( in sharp contrast to the 1989 speech ), in which he asked the audience to " eat the pig and digest it once and for all ", referring to the then president Slobodan Milošević.

Presbyter ( Greek πρεσβύτερος, presbuteros: " elder ", or " priest " in Christian usage ) in the New Testament refers to a leader in local Christian congregations, then often not clearly distinguished from episkopos, presbyter referring to ordinary priests or elders and episkopos referring exclusively to the full order or office of bishop.

" Hoc vernant lilia corde " ( granted by Louis XII, then duke of Orléans ), meaning " It is by this heart that lilies flourish " or " This heart makes lilies flourish ", referring to the fleur de lys, symbol of the French royal family.

Heraklion was formerly called Candia after the Saracen name for the place, Kandaiki, referring to the moat that was built around the then new settlement for defence.

Nasty, however, insisted that he had been misquoted by a slightly deaf journalist, and had actually said they were bigger than Rod, referring to Rod Stewart, then a relative unknown.

Instead of referring to the data as, in effect, " the data that happens to be in these cells ", each set of data in the sheet was given a name, and could then be grouped into categories.

The presiding magistrate would then begin a discussion by referring an issue to the senators, who would discuss the issue, one at a time, by order of seniority.

Dick then speaks to the man's psychologist, who complains about the terrible mental damage done to Riley by " some quack in Chicago ", referring to Newhart's previous character.

In the meeting referenced above, Mr. Jerry Gray ( Friends of Upper Fort Garry ), referring to the future park boundaries, states that the property is " bordered by Main Street on the east side, Assiniboine on the south side and Fort Street on the west side and then goes up to the back where the gate property is.

However fate took a turn when the then Minister for Defence, Paddy Donegan, launched a ferocious verbal attack on President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, calling him " a thundering disgrace " for referring anti-terrorist legislation to the courts to test its constitutionality.

Laissez-faire advocates opposed food aid for famines occurring within the British empire ; in 1847, referring to the famine then underway in Ireland, The Economist's founder James Wilson wrote that " It is no man's business to provide for another ".

Eventually, Jesus will slay the Antichrist, and then everyone from the People of the Book ( ahl al-kitāb, referring to Jews and Christians ) will believe in him.

Óskmey may be related to the Odinic name Óski ( Old Norse, roughly meaning " wish fulfiller "), referring to the fact that Odin receives slain warriors in Valhalla.

* In part four, Holy Mountain, the tea shack lady receives a letter from her daughter that says "... my daughter cleans foreigners ' apartments ", referring to Neal Bose's maid in part three, Hong Kong.

IBOs pay a registration fee and build their businesses through retail sales to customers, referring business to Quixtar. com, and by helping other IBOs build similar businesses.

According to Ronald M. Kreitner, executive director of West Side Renaissance Inc., the " Convention Center will help contribute to the success of the theatres and the retail ," referring to the development of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center / Hippodrome Theatre, as well as new retail ventures in the area.

In more recent times, especially with the introduction and growth of the Internet, High Street may also be interchangeable with the term " bricks and mortar business " in the United Kingdom ( note the spelling with the " s ", comparable to the United States term " brick and mortar "), referring to the material used in the construction of a retail shopfront operation versus an online Internet operation.

The opinion noted that Canadian regulations which ( in most cases ) prohibits the public display of tobacco products at retail locations – i. e., customers must ask for a brand by name – exacerbated the situation, as there were now two products that customers might be referring to when asking for " Marlboro ".

Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term ' Bhava ' or the state of mind and rasa referring generally to the emotional flavors / essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a ' sensitive spectator ' or sahṛdaya or one with positive taste and mind.

For this reason many people refer to any 625 / 25 type signal as " PAL " and to any 525 / 30 signal as " NTSC ", even when referring to digital signals, for example, on DVD-Video which don't contain any analog color encoding, thus no PAL or NTSC signals at all.

The-dour element, referring to the Burn, means simply ' water ' ( archaic dobur ), and is unconnected to the Scots / English ' dour '.

However, as an exception, the American shorthand " 9 / 11 " is widely understood as referring to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.

The term " frigate " ( Italian: fregata ; Spanish / Catalan / Portuguese / Sicilian: fragata ; Dutch: fregat ; French: fregate ) originated in the Mediterranean in the late 15th century, referring to a lighter galleass type ship with oars, sails and a light armament, built for speed and maneuverability.

The word is continued in German Deutsch ( meaning German ), English " Dutch ", Dutch Duits and Diets ( the latter referring to the historic name for Dutch or Middle Dutch, the former meaning German ), Italian tedesco ( meaning German ), Swedish / Danish / Norwegian tysk ( meaning German ) and Middle Low German dudesch meaning both Low German and the whole of Dutch / German / Low German, as well its descendant, modern Low German dütsch, meaning only Standard High German.

The unformatted capacity of the floppy disks was advertised as " 250KB " for SSDD and " 500KB " for DSDD (" KB " ambiguously referring to either 1000 or 1024 bytes ; essentially the same for rounded-off values ), however these " raw " 250 / 500 kB were not the same thing as the usable formatted capacity ; under DOS, the maximum capacity for SSDD and DSDD disks was 180 kB and 360 kB, respectively.

:" Santa Claus " the name / concept / fairy tale does exist because adults tell children this every Christmas season ( the distinction is highlighted by using quotation-marks when referring only to the name and not the object )

Prior to the commencement of the Roberts hearings, the chair of that committee, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, wrote an op / ed in the New York Times referring to Roe as a " super-precedent.

Writer / producer Robert Palmer defined rhythm & blues as " a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans ".

The practice of referring to ominous dates through this shorthand has continued, for example, with 7 / 7 for the 2005 London bombings.

Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).

Although the term had a meaning in physics and engineering ( similar to wideband ), the CCITT defined it as: " Qualifying a service or system requiring transmission channels capable of supporting rates greater than the primary rate " referring to the primary rate which ranged from about 1. 5 to 2 Mbit / s.

Leone also produced three comedies by actor / director Carlo Verdone, which were Fun Is Beautiful ( Un Sacco Bello, 1980 ), Bianco, Rosso e Verdone ( White, Red and Verdone – Verdone means " strong green " – a pun referring to the three colours of the Italian flag, the star and to director Verdone, 1981 ) and Troppo Forte ( Great !, 1986 ).

Because of quite different capabilities, system managers commonly considered them separate offerings, referring to them as early OS / 360, OS / MFT, OS / MVT, respectively.

Sicilian coin of Charles's, bearing the inscription Karolus Dei gracia Sicilie rex around the king's image and that of Ducatus Apulie / Pricipat Capue around: File: Image-Blason Sicile Péninsulaire. svg | his coat-of-arms, referring to the Duchy of Apulia and the Principality of Capua, the two mainland provinces of the kingdom. From the Cabinet des Médailles