In a meeting with congressional leaders, the argument of " apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one " was used to convince them of the significance in supporting Greece and Turkey.

Other historicists have seen no significance in the date that Revelation was written, and have even held to an early date while Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., makes an exegetical and historical argument for the pre-AD 70 composition of Revelation.

For others it exemplifies the value of the likelihood principle and is an argument against significance tests.

The argument is that species membership has no moral significance.

The novel thus powerfully advances the argument that, had Jesus succumbed to any such temptation, especially the opportunity to save himself from the cross, his life would have held no more significance than that of any benign philosopher.

The argument includes the idea that the locations of the churches form a pentagram with ritual significance.

This argument distinguishes the relatively recent violence and warfare that followed the conquests of the Turks from the general advance of Islam, the significance of which is dismissed by Runciman and Asbridge.

Reflecting the significance of the “ international competitiveness ” argument, a separate CRS Report stated banks were “ losing historical market shares of their major activities to domestic and foreign competitors that are less restricted .”

Some researchers have presented an argument that the ruins may have housed an astronomy observatory, although the significance of the alignments upon which these claims are based is contested.

Reading Volume II is of monumental significance to understanding the theoretical construction of Marx's whole argument.

Self-deception is a process of denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, or importance of opposing evidence and logical argument.

One argument in favour of the ritual explanation is that the objects on which the symbols appear do not seem to have had much long-term significance to their owners-they are commonly found in pits and other refuse areas.

The significance of this fragment is derived from an argument made by spanish papyrologist Jose O ´ Callaghan in his work ¿ Papiros neotestamentarios en la cueva 7 de Qumrân?

Tripp's book includes an afterword by historian and Lincoln biographer Michael Burlingame titled " A Respectful Dissent ", in which he states: In a second afterword to the book titled " An Enthusiastic Endorsement ", historian Michael B. Chesson makes the argument for the historical significance of the work:

In response to the argument that homoeroticism was edited out, some traditionalists who subscribe to the Documentary Hypothesis note the significance of the lack of censoring of the descriptions at issue, in spite of the Levitical injunctions against homoerotic contact.

Richard Dawkins ( 2005 ) agreed with Edwards ' view, summarizing the argument against Lewontin as being, " However small the racial partition of the total variation may be, if such racial characteristics as there are highly correlate with other racial characteristics, they are by definition informative, and therefore of taxonomic significance.

It is therefore, ironically, too powerful an argument to have any significance in the philosophy of science, since it does not cast doubt uniquely on conjectured unobservables.

He regarded the possible inheritance of a pad on the foot of a male midwife toad as of relatively minor significance in the argument.

While many ancient historians doubt the significance of the lower part of the settlement, Korfmann presented his argument that the bronze-age city at Hisarlik was quite large, and had played a key role in trade around the Dardanelles.

Surrealism as a visual movement had found a method: to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance, in order to create a compelling image that was beyond ordinary formal organization, in order to evoke empathy from the viewer.

The Cubism of Picasso, Braque and Gris had more than a technical or formal significance, and the distinct attitudes and intentions of the Salon Cubists produced different kinds of Cubism, rather than a derivative of their work.

Decorations and orders: Military, civil, and organizational decorations are usually worn only to full dress events, generally of formal governmental or diplomatic significance.

The episode's significance is in his forced introspection about his life, and its meaning, while contemplating his impending death by formal execution ; only in formal trial and death does he acknowledge his mortality and responsibility for his own life.

As a matter of doctrinal significance, Falun Gong is intended to be " formless ", having little to no material or formal organization.

But doubtless the significance of Gödel's work to mathematics as a whole ( and not just to formal logic ) was amply and dramatically illustrated by its applicability to one of Hilbert's problems.

The significance of this maxim is that applicants to the chancellors often did so because of the formal pleading of the law courts, and the lack of flexibility they offered to litigants.

Notably, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson in their 1953 article The Imperialism of Free Trade would argue that Hobson placed too much emphasis on the role of formal empire and directly ruled colonial possessions, not taking into account the significance of trading power, political influence and informal imperialism.

" However, the formality of the scene and the importance of the event require him to deliver this message in heightened language, with the formal significance of Henry's marriage to Margaret mirrored in the formal language used by Suffolk to announce that marriage.

The cultural and psychological significance of the events listed above combined to cause celebrations to be observed one year earlier than the formal Gregorian date.

Critical thinking employs not only logic ( either formal or, much more often, informal ) but also broad intellectual criteria such as clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, significance and fairness.

Honoring the 18th century British Army regimental mess and grog's historical significance in the military, the United States Navy, United States Air Force, and United States Army carry on a tradition at its formal dining in ceremonies whereby those in attendance who are observed to violate formal etiquette are " punished " by being sent to " the grog " and publicly drink from it in front of the attendees.

The formal name of this item is U-5 / 98, but it is widely known as the " Decision on the constituency of peoples " (), referring to the Court's interpretation of the significance of the phrase " constituent peoples " used in the Preamble of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It is of historical significance because it gave U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of " conventional ' military force in Southeast Asia.

Of particular significance is the new Ismaili Centre in Toronto, Canada that is to be located in the midst of formal gardens and surrounded by a large park designed by landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic.

Due to the breakdown of periodic trends expected in this region due to the closeness of energy of the 5g, 6f, 7d and 8p orbitals and other relativistic effects, it seems likely that the properties and placement in the periodic table of these elements may be of only formal significance.

Their significance is vital not formal ; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

" Yet, there is controversy among historians as to the historic significance of the conversation and as to whether the language of the conversation constituted an actual agreement in Realpolitik ( i. e., an actual agreement was implied by the use of the language of diplomacy, although not made explicit as a formal agreement ).

Due to the breakdown of periodic trends expected in this region due to the closeness of energy of the 5g, 6f, 7d and 8p orbitals and other relativistic effects, it seems likely that the properties and placement in the periodic table of these elements may be of only formal significance.

Unlike many of the civil parishes of Lisbon, this region can be commonly explained as a loose association of neighbourhoods, with no formal local political authority but social and historical significance to the urban community of Lisbon.

The significance of these models to data interchange for manufacturing and materials flow was recognized early in the Air Force Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing ( ICAM ) Project and gave rise to the IDEF formal modeling project.

De inventione dialectica was very influential in creating a proper place for logic in rhetorical studies, and was of great significance in the education of early humanists.

* Ginzburg stresses the significance of Babylonian medicine in his discussion of the conjectural paradigm as evidenced by the methods of Giovanni Morelli, Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes in the light of Charles Sanders Peirce's logic of making good guesses or abductive reasoning.

Reflecting on the relationship between the obvious symbolic meaning of a photograph ( which he called the studium ) and that which is purely personal and dependent on the individual, that which ‘ pierces the viewer ’ ( which he called the punctum ), Barthes was troubled by the fact that such distinctions collapse when personal significance is communicated to others and can have its symbolic logic rationalized.

Critical thinking employs not only logic but broad intellectual criteria such as clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, significance, and fairness.

Until the advent of modern logic, Aristotle's Organon, especially De Interpretatione, provided the basis for understanding the significance of logic.

De Morgan himself wrote in 1860 of the significance of Indian logic: " The two races which have founded the mathematics, those of the Sanscrit and Greek languages, have been the two which have independently formed systems of logic.