The statement begins with a fairly straightforward explanation of the relevance of cultural relativism:

A talented and charismatic reader can sometimes even bully a subject into admitting a connection, demanding over and over that they acknowledge a particular statement as having some relevance and maintaining that they just aren't thinking hard enough, or are repressing some important memory.

Lastly, if a statement is being offered for its truth — meaning that its relevance depends upon the jury believing the substance of the statement — then it is being offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted therein.

MEMRI's original mission statement read: " In its research, the institute puts emphasis on the continuing relevance of Zionism to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel.

The House committee's statement was " that economic considerations have no relevance to determinations regarding the status of species.

In some exceptional cases, the statement of a conjecture, or the introduction of some new method or definition might assume relevance.

The importance and relevance of biomonitors, rather than man-made equipment, is justified by the statement: " There is no better indicator of the status of a species or a system than a species or system itself.

A force field parameterized against a specific class of molecules, for instance proteins, would be expected to only have any relevance when describing other molecules of the same class.

Though the team would bounce back with winning records during the next several years, the disastrous season would symbolically come to mark the beginning of the end of Kansas City's relevance in professional baseball.

The example of conglomerate M & A with relevance to above scenario would be if health care system buys a restaurant chain.

Moreover, new states were recognized by the legal doctrine of uti possidetis juris, meaning that old administrative boundaries would become international boundaries upon independence even if they had little relevance to linguistic, ethnic, and cultural boundaries.

* The intelligibility of the universe: One would anticipate that evolutionary selection would produce hominid minds apt for coping with everyday experience, but that these minds should also be able to understand the subatomic world and general relativity goes far beyond anything of relevance to survival fitness.

Little Women also repeatedly reinforced the importance of “ individuality ” and “ female vocation .” “ Little Women had “ continued relevance of its subject ” and “ its longevity points as well to surprising continuities in gender norms from the 1860s at least through the 1960s .” Those interested in domestic reform could look to the pages of Little Women to see how a “ democratic household ” would operate.

Although Picasso was concerned that his reinterpretations of Velázquez's painting would be seen merely as copies rather than unique representations, the enormous works — including the largest he had produced since Guernica in 1937 — earned a position of relevance in the Spanish canon of art.

To retain its relevance as a propaganda film for each new generation, Eisenstein hoped the score would be rewritten every 20 years.

In reality, while Massachusetts ( where the fictional crime was committed ) does have a law requiring passersby to report a crime in progress, the most stringent punishment the characters could have suffered under those circumstances would have been a $ 500 – 2, 500 fine ( assuming they were prosecuted under state law ); in addition, the phrase " good Samaritan law ," when used in Massachusetts, refers only to the civil law definition and does not have any actual relevance to the law under which Jerry Seinfeld and his friends were prosecuted ( which would be considered a duty to rescue ).

Also, the party being subpoenaed has the right to object to the issuance of the subpoena, if it is for an improper purpose, such as subpoenaing records that have no relevance to the proceedings or of persons who would have no evidence to present.

These “ signatures ” are of great relevance to LIGO ( Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory ), a multi-institution gravity-wave experiment for which Thorne has been a leading proponent — in 1984, he cofounded the LIGO Project ( the largest project ever funded by the NSF ) to discern and measure any fluctuations between two or more ' static ' points ; such fluctuations would be evidence of gravitational waves, as calculations describe.

In making a judgement one would need to take into account the complexity and social relevance of the design, in relation to its era and the artistic interpretation of the mould maker.

John D. III would be the next Rockefeller manager for all family undertakings of social relevance.

The formal study of relevance began in the 20th Century with the study of what would later be called bibliometrics.

An alternative strategy would be to use journal impact factor to rank output and thus base relevance on expert evaluations.

That rule defines relevance as " having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.

Proponents claimed that the extension would save " the equivalent of " of oil per day, but this figure was based on U. S. Department of Energy information from the 1970s, the accuracy and relevance of which the DoE no longer stands by.

He maintained, with longtime friend and philosophical colleague A. C. Ewing, that the doctrine would have caught on far better had it been more accurately described in terms of " relevance " rather than of " internality ".

Of the ten soldiers that returned, one would find relevance in home country reporting.

One could argue that this ( or any ) positioning of the zàng is irrelevant for the TCM system ; there is some relevance, however, in whether a certain zàng would be attributed to the upper, middle or lower jiaō.

The study, when it was published in 1956, would herald a new type of scientific research, showed to relevance of epidemiology and medical statistics in questions of public health, and vitally linked tobacco smoking to a number of serious diseases.

While ceremonial, these offices no doubt gained Domitian valuable experience in the Roman Senate, and may have contributed to his later reservations about its relevance.

Within the imperfective aspect, further common aspectual distinctions include whether the situation is repetitive or habitual (" I used to eat "), is continuous in a particular time frame (" I was eating "), or has continuing relevance in a later time frame (" I have eaten ").

Spanish and Ancient Greek, for example, have a perfect ( not the same as the perfective ), which refers to a state resulting from a previous action ( also described as a previous action with relevance to a particular time, or a previous action viewed from the perspective of a later time ).

Under this system, there is a tension between the relevance of earlier and later authorities in constraining halakhic interpretation and innovation.

This view may well reflect a later development but is not the original interpretation since Dius Fidius was not confined to the private fides in early times, when matters of public relevance ( such as the first international treaty of Rome, the one with Gabii ) were preserved in his shrine, i. e. put under his jurisdiction.

Duchamp's relevance and theoretical importance for future " conceptualists " was later acknowledged by US artist Joseph Kosuth in his 1969 essay, " Art after Philosophy ," when he wrote: " All art ( after Duchamp ) is conceptual ( in nature ) because art only exists conceptually.

Also the concepts of passive and active resistance have relevance as they were developed later by Mohandas Gandhi.

Horizontal gene transfer was first described in Seattle in 1951 in a publication which demonstrated that the transfer of a viral gene into Corynebacterium diphtheria created a virulent from a non-virulent strain, also simultaneously solving the riddle of diphtheria ( that patients could be infected with the bacteria but not have any symptoms, and then suddenly convert later or never ), and giving the first example for the relevance of the lysogenic cycle.

Even apart from disputes about the significance of the word translated as " wives ", this passage is of doubtful relevance to the rule of celibacy for priests of the Latin Church, which was introduced much later and is seen only as a discipline within that particular Church alone, not a doctrine binding all: in other words, a church regulation, but not an integral part of Church teaching.

In his later years, Brooks criticized the poststructuralists for inviting subjectivity and relativism into their analysis, asserting " each critic played with the text ’ s language unmindful of aesthetic relevance and formal design " ( Leitch 2001 ).

These games often feature a day-night cycle with a time scheduling system that provides context and relevance to character interactions, allowing players to choose when and if to interact with certain characters, which in turn influences their responses during later conversations.

These games often feature a day-night cycle with a time scheduling system that provides context and relevance to character interactions, allowing players to choose when and if to interact with certain characters, which in turn influences their responses during later conversations.

In Mark Waid's " Silver Age " mini-series, it is revealed that the symbols on the dial are Interlac, suggesting at least some relevance between the later 31st Century of the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Dial's construction.

* The character Static was later developed into the lead of the animated series Static Shock with some changes in the material, generally to make the character more suitable for a younger and wider audience, but still with a focus on contemporary relevance.

Jean has also cited the episode in defense to critics who say The Simpsons has lost its relevance and edginess in later years.

However, recent studies have pointed out that later descriptions of the whole event were somewhat hagiographic, and that its effective relevance, in particular the extent of the military campaign, was overesteemed by traditional historiography.

Castle Swifts would have great relevance in the early history of Thames Ironworks, the team who would later become West Ham.