`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

So far these remarks, like most criticisms of Hardy, have tacitly assumed that his poetry is all of a piece, one solid mass of verse expressing a sensibility at a single stage of development.

Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.

An abstraction can be seen as a process of mapping multiple different pieces of constituent data to a single piece of abstract data based on similarities in the constituent data, for example many different physical cats map to the abstraction " CAT ".

A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.

For example, he or she cannot veto the legislative budget, and thus Congress is sovereign over the year's single most important piece of legislation.

* Cut-up is performed by taking a finished and fully linear text and cutting it in pieces with a few or single words on each piece.

It is a single piece of coiled DNA containing many genes, regulatory elements and other nucleotide sequences.

A single move can consist of multiple hops ; each piece hopped must be directly adjacent, and hops can be in any direction.

Players take turns moving a single piece, either by moving one step to an adjacent unoccupied space in any direction, or by jumping in one or any number of available consecutive hops over other single pieces.

A hop consists of jumping over a single adjacent piece, either one's own or an opponent's, to the unoccupied space directly beyond in the same line of direction.

Red might advance the indicated piece by a chain of three hops in a single move.

Early columns were constructed of stone, some out of a single piece of stone.

The bow ( called the " prod " or " lath " on a crossbow ) of early crossbows was made of a single piece of wood, usually ash or yew.

Crankshafts can be monolithic ( made in a single piece ) or assembled from several pieces.

The earliest records are those represented in the paintings of the Egyptian tombs, in which they are shown as single or double doors, each in a single piece of wood.

Byō-uchi-daiko are typically hollowed out of a single piece of wood.

This style of drum also signifies the family of drums that are made from a single piece of wood.

Made out of a single piece of wood from a 1200-year-old treeOne of the most memorable drums of many taiko ensembles is the ō-daiko ( 大太鼓 ).

Made from a single piece of wood, some ō-daiko come from trees that are hundreds of years old.

The band's debut single, " Smalltown Boy ", the tale of a boy who was cast away by his family for being homosexual, was a hit, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

Anvils are made of cast or wrought iron with a tool steel face welded on or of a single piece of cast or forged tool steel.

There are two types of incunabula in printing: the Block book printed from a single carved or sculpted wooden block for each page, by the same process as the woodcut in art ( these may be called xylographic ), and the typographic book, made with individual pieces of cast metal movable type on a printing press.

A single elector from New Hampshire cast a vote for John Quincy Adams, preventing a unanimous vote in the electoral college.

Using mathematical methods he experimented with various designs until he arrived at a shape cast from a single piece of iron, the Scots plough.

Pileggi later realized he had been lucky that he had not been cast in one of the earlier roles, as he believed he would have appeared in only a single episode and would have missed the opportunity to play Walter Skinner's recurring role.

Each voter can cast a single vote for any candidate within any given legislative district, but the candidate with the most votes wins the seat, although variants, such as requiring a majority, are sometimes used.

As always, each colony cast a single vote ; the delegation for each colony — numbering two to seven members — voted amongst themselves to determine the colony's vote.

More than any other single event, the attack on Lindisfarne cast a shadow on the perception of the Vikings for the next twelve centuries.

In order to get into the lonely mindset of Harry when he was divorced and single, Crystal stayed by himself in a separate room from the cast and crew while they were shooting in Manhattan.

In this system, voters have a single vote, which they can cast for a single candidate in their district, in which only one legislative seat is available.

That same year, Hunt was cast on the ABC sitcom It Takes Two, which lasted a single season.

Sherman offered Grant an example from his own life, " Before the battle of Shiloh, I was cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of ' crazy ', but that single battle gave me new life, and I'm now in high feather.

Once, after the 1692 re-conquest, the Spanish were prevented from entering a town when they were met by a handful of men who uttered imprecations and cast a single pinch of a sacred substance.

A screw could be sealed with pitch resin or some other adhesive to its casing, or cast as a single piece in bronze.

At the same time, the supporting cast of the show was replaced with a new, single character, Dominick, a somewhat comical sidekick played by Joseph Sirola.

If, after two votes, no single candidate has received this level of support, in the third and final vote the candidate endorsed by a plurality of votes cast is elected.

Since National had applied for a patent on the single cone ( US patent # 1, 808, 756 ), Dopyera had to develop an alternative design, which he did by inverting the cone so that rather than having the strings rest on the apex of the cone as the National method did, they rested on a cast aluminum spider that had eight legs sitting on the perimeter of the downward-pointing cone ( US patent # 1, 896, 484 ).

A year later, in 1924, they filed a patent for a ball that was cast in a single piece -- La Boule intégrale.

Great legal wranglings ensued, including the examination of every single vote cast, which dragged on for more than a year.

They were fighting in a ford, and Ferdiad had the upper hand ; Cúchulainn's charioteer, Láeg, floated the Gáe Bulg down the stream to his master, who cast it into Ferdiad's body, piercing the warrior's armor and " coursing through the highways and byways of his body so that every single joint filled with barbs.

In 1403, Ghiberti was announced the victor, largely because of his superior technical skill: his panel showed a more sophisticated knowledge of bronze-casting being cast as a single piece.