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The serious errors which he found in previous Arabian star catalogues ( many of which had simply updated Ptolemy's work, adding the effect of precession to the longitudes ) induced him to redetermine the positions of 992 fixed stars, to which he added 27 stars from Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's catalogue Book of Fixed Stars from the year 964, which were too far south for observation from Samarkand.
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`` This was not merely alleging errors, but was carried out by day-after-day allegations in memos, written charges of serious consequence.
There have even been serious errors in the U. S. Forest Service, whose officials pride themselves in their scientific training, he added.
A number of serious errors have been identified in Beatty's handling of this squadron.
The errors were serious enough that TSR published a Gamma World Rules Supplement containing the " missing " rules.
In the early 18th century there were several maritime disasters attributable to serious errors in reckoning position at sea, such as the loss of four ships of the fleet of Sir Cloudesley Shovell in the Scilly naval disaster of 1707.
However, the claims are disputed since the interpretation of the aggregate data is unclear ; additionally, early Ganzfeld experiments were found to be affected by serious methodological errors.
He makes no serious errors in life and strives to do nothing wrong ; as a result he is very successful.
An elderly and longtime Portuguese employee who worked as a bookkeeper and clerk for the firm, in his latter years with the firm, had frequently been committing serious errors in the firm's books and his mental capacity was deteriorating.
Much of this reliability came from maturity in the source code, extensive stress testing of the system, and automatic detection of many serious errors in drivers.
The NGC had many errors, but a serious if not complete attempt to eliminate them has been initiated by the NGC / IC Project, after partial attempts with the Revised New General Catalogue ( RNGC ) by Sulentic and Tifft in 1973, and NGC2000. 0 by Sinnott in 1988.
Despite undoubted successes, Boleslaus III Wrymouth committed serious political errors, even against Zbigniew of Poland, his half-brother.
Notably, some episodes in Seasons Three through Five had serious technical errors with either their sketch-of-the-day teaser segments or their next-show teaser segments, which was probably because of the failure of the linear analog video-editing equipment.
Zola also pointed out judicial errors and the lack of serious evidence.
This is the case, for example, in critical applications where any errors in the algorithm would have very serious consequences ; or when using a computer to prove a mathematical theorem.
Because serious errors of this kind are habitually committed when the term ' race ' is used in popular parlance, it would be better when speaking of human races to drop the term ' race ' altogether and speak of ' ethnic groups '.
A measure a few minutes before or after the same measure the day before creates serious navigation errors.
The use of abbreviations such as " gm ", " Gm ", or " GM " for grams could potentially lead to serious errors in healthcare settings where accidentally transposing " gm " to " mg " ( milligrams ) would result in a 1000 times dosage difference.
The result was that Arbuthnot used his leverage as friend and physician to Prince George, whose money was paying for the publication, to force Flamsteed to allow it out, albeit with serious errors, in 1712.
While overclocking which causes no instability is not a problem, occasional undetected errors are a serious risk for applications which must be error-free, for example scientific or financial applications.
The term " moral sense " ( which, it may be noticed, had already been employed by Shaftesbury, not only, as William Whewell suggests, in the margin, but also in the text of his Inquiry ), if invariably coupled with the term " moral judgement ," would be open to little objection ; but, taken alone, as designating the complex process of moral approbation, it is liable to lead not only to serious misapprehension but to grave practical errors.
He fell, however, into some of the most serious errors of the mercantilists — holding, as indeed did also Voltaire and even Pietro Verri, that one country cannot gain without another losing, and in his earlier treatise going so far as to defend the action of governments in debasing the currency.
Victorius of Aquitaine tried to adapt the Alexandrian method to Roman rules in 457 in the form of a 532-year table, but he introduced serious errors.
According to a letter later signed by 30 staffers, Blair made four serious errors as a reporter and editor that brought his integrity into question.
The Maoist interpretation, while taking note of Yuan Shao's serious errors of judgement, advocates that the strong enemy will make fateful errors, while the weaker opponent need only to await their appearance.
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In Houston, there were a few incidents of friction between whites and Negroes, none of which were serious.
We should spread the view that planning and national development are serious matters which call for effort as well as enthusiasm.
There are serious dangers involved in this trend toward rising Federal expenditures, of which I take a dim view, but it seems very likely to occur.
That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.
And if the affection for the suburban branch reflects a desire to shop with `` nice people '', rather than with the indiscriminate urban mass which supports the downtown department store, the central location may be in serious trouble.
Interruptions came largely from the bench, which numerous times rebuked the Attorney General for letting his witnesses run on, though it, too, made no serious effort to choke off the flow.
The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.
In October 2010, John Graham-Cumming started a campaign to raise funds by " public subscription " to enable serious historical and academic study of Babbage's plans, with a view to then build and test a fully working virtual design which will then in turn enable construction of the physical Analytical Engine.
While anagramming is certainly a recreation first, there are ways in which anagrams are put to use, and these can be more serious, or at least not quite frivolous and formless.
A common assault is an assault that lacks any of the aggravating features which Parliament has deemed serious enough to deserve a higher penalty.
Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).
In his sermons on capital sins, Alain argued that sodomy and homicide are the most serious sins, since they call forth the wrath of God, which led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Due to the enormous amount of traffic at the Aachen road interchange, there is often serious traffic accumulation, which is why there are plans to expand the interchange in the coming years.
In 1857, on a return trip from Washington, his train derailed causing serious damage to his right arm which would plague him in the future.
However, there are specific types of antibiotics with which alcohol should be avoided completely, because of serious side-effects.
This is a work that bridges the gap between serious symbolic meaning and the type of critical absurdity with which Jarry would soon become associated.
Phase II also included changes to the underlying inter-networking protocols to make them less " chatty ", which had previously been a serious problem on networks that bridged over wide-area networks.
Excess calcium from supplements, fortified food and high-calcium diets, can cause milk-alkali syndrome, which has serious toxicity and can be fatal.
When Nintendo revived the industry, they signed up software development companies to create NES games under a strict license agreement which imposed serious restrictions on what they were allowed to do.
* One of the more serious of these side effects is tardive dyskinesia, in which the sufferer may show repetitive, involuntary, purposeless movements ( that are permanent and have no cure ) often of the lips, face, legs, or torso.
A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.
Shortly after taking office, Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 on February 5, which required large employers to allow employees to take unpaid leave for pregnancy or a serious medical condition.
Sections of the Una river and villages at the base of Mount Plješevica are in Croatia, while some are in Bosnia, which causes an excessive number of border crossings on a single route and impedes any serious development in the region.
* Paraguayan War ( 1864 – 1870 ): Over 200, 000 Brazilians fought on this conflict, which is considered as the most serious in Brazilian history.
He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.
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