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While the classical writers had been the primary ideological source for the republics of Italy, in Northern Europe, the Protestant Reformation would be used as justification for establishing new republics.
The justification of the state is a term that refers to the source of legitimate authority for the state or government.
Despite the justification of Venetian embroilment in the terraferma that was offered in Foscari's funeral oration, delivered by the humanist senator and historian Bernardo Giustiniani, and some encouraging notable victories, the war was extremely costly to Venice, whose real source of wealth and power was at sea, and to her ally Florence ; they were eventually overcome by the forces of Milan under the leadership of Francesco Sforza.
In epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is " any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification ".
The source or justification of a universal ethic may be thought to be, for instance, human nature, shared vulnerability to suffering, the demands of universal reason, what is common among existing moral codes, or the common mandates of religion ( although it can be said that the latter is not in fact moral universalism because it may distinguish between gods and mortals ).
The justification of the state is a term that refers to the source of legitimate authority for the state or government.
Classical Greece ( 6th – 4th century BC ) provides an original and powerful source of obscurantism in The Republic ( c. 380 BC ), wherein Plato proposes government via the Noble Lie — the necessary mythical justification for the status quo that guides the philosopher king in ruling society.
He quoted one source for the statement,The Federal Circuit ’ s recent endorsement of patent protection for methods of doing business marks so sweeping a departure from precedent as to invite a search for its justificationand another for this: “ To call situation following State Street distressing is an understatement.

source and system
As a source of investment capital, the system is beneficial to local communities and encourages the development of industries in rural areas.
Another possible source of the suanpan is Chinese counting rods, which operated with a decimal system but lacked the concept of zero as a place holder.
* Advanced Sound-ranging Programme, a portable, passive, acoustic sensing system for detecting and locating the source of artillery fire and loud detonations, operated by the Royal Artillery
The source code for 13 games, as well as the OS and development tools ( for the Atari ST computer system ) were discovered in a dumpster behind the Atari building in Sunnyvale, California.
Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).
Berkeley DB provides the underlying storage and retrieval system of several LDAP servers, database systems, and many other proprietary and free / open source applications.
* Sun Grid Engine – A free and open source distributed resource management system.
Chile's private pension system, with assets worth roughly $ 70 billion at the end of 2006, has been an important source of investment capital for the capital market.
Many ciphers are based on publicly known algorithms or are open source, and so it is only the difficulty of obtaining the key that determines security of the system, provided that there is no analytic attack ( i. e., a ' structural weakness ' in the algorithms or protocols used ), and assuming that the key is not otherwise available ( such as via theft, extortion, or compromise of computer systems ).
Cayuga Lake is the source of drinking water for several communities, including Lansing near the southern end of the lake along the east side, which draws water through the Bolton Point Municipal Water system.
There are also several lake source cooling systems that are in operation on the lake, whereby cooler water is pumped from the depths of the lake, warmed, and circulated in a closed system back to the surface.
All the environmental impact reports and scientific studies have shown that the Cornell lake source cooling system has not yet had and will not likely have any measurably significant environmental impact.
CPAN has no revision control system, although the source for the modules is often stored on GitHub.
Raw cranberries are a source of polyphenol antioxidants, phytochemicals under active research for possible benefits to the cardiovascular system and immune system, and as anti-cancer agents, such as in isolated prostate cancer cells.
Over time, tuition for limited-matriculated students became an important source of system revenues.
Other MFM formats were possible if their characteristics were added to the CP / M C128-specific source code ( available from Commodore ) and the CP / M operating system were re-assembled.
Debian () is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses.
In continuous distillation, the source materials, vapors, and distillate are kept at a constant composition by carefully replenishing the source material and removing fractions from both vapor and liquid in the system.
He wrote CML2, a source code configuration system ; while originally intended for the Linux kernel, it was rejected by kernel developers.
However, none of these restrictions make a source program written for FOR TRANSIT incompatible with the FORTRAN system for the 704.
* GRASS GIS, an open source geographic information system
GnuCash is a free and open source accounting software program that implements a double-entry bookkeeping system.
Contarini remains the most important source for the study of sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice's unique system of government.

source and may
Yet he presents a realm of source material which may well serve other writers if not himself: the problems with which a New South must grapple in groping through a blind adolescence into the maturity of urbanization.
Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.
Also, it has been suggested that the source of all or part of the dust may not be the same as that for visual or radar meteorites ( Best, 1960 ), and the same distribution would not be expected.
With curtailment of the MCC funding, the European Union may replace the US as Armenia ’ s chief source of foreign aid for the first time since independence.
He went on to remain there in a mansion which he may have extended, although there is no source attesting to any significant building activity at Aachen in his time, apart from the building of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen ( since 1929, cathedral ) and the palatial presentation halls.
Electric heaters and electric stoves may provide pollution-free heat ( depending on the power source ), but use large amounts of electricity.
From knowledge of books held in the library at Malmesbury Abbey and available as source works, and from the identification of certain words particular to the local dialect found in the text, the transcription may have been made there.
While some recent scholars have questioned the existence of a large-scale Domitian persecution, others believe that Domitian's insistence on being treated as a god may have been a source of friction between the Church and Rome.
A secondary starch source ( an adjunct ) may be used, such as maize ( corn ), rice or sugar.
A mixture of starch sources may be used, with a secondary starch source, such as maize ( corn ), rice, or sugar, often being termed an adjunct, especially when used as a lower-cost substitute for malted barley.
The main difficulty with this interpretation continues to be the potential source of structural timber, though bog and driftwood may have been plentiful sources.
But the term programmer may apply to a range of program quality, from hacker to open source contributor to professional.
In information theory and computer science, a code is usually considered as an algorithm which uniquely represents symbols from some source alphabet, by encoded strings, which may be in some other target alphabet.
Anthropologist Dean Snow stated that though Franklin's Albany Plan may have drawn some inspiration from the Iroquois League, there is little evidence that either the Plan or the Constitution drew substantially from this source and argues that "... such claims muddle and denigrate the subtle and remarkable features of Iroquois government.
The believer may then feel excused of any moral or political responsibility for remedying whatever institutional or societal flaw might be the actual source of the dissonance.
The usual source for tungsten is tungsten hexafluoride, which may be deposited in two ways:
Universal Serial Bus devices may use the bus supplied power, but often use a separate power source.
Copper smelting may have been invented in separate parts of Asia and Europe at that time or spread from an initial source by long-distance trade.
The find in June 2010 extends the known record of copper smelting by about 500 years, and suggests that copper smelting may have been invented in separate parts of Asia and Europe at that time rather than spreading from a single source.
The word cola as part of the Coca-Cola trademark may have originated from the kola nuts that were originally used as the source of caffeine.
The E-corona ( E for emission ) is due to spectral emission lines produced by ions that are present in the coronal plasma ; it may be observed in broad or forbidden or hot spectral emission lines and is the main source of information about the corona's composition.
The integrated data source systems may be considered to be a part of a distributed operational data store layer.
Data federation methods or data virtualization methods may be used to access the distributed integrated source data systems to consolidate and aggregate data directly into the data warehouse database tables.
Like many powders, dysprosium powder may present an explosion hazard when mixed with air and when an ignition source is present.
The warehouse becomes the central source of data for use by managers and other end-users who may not have access to operational data.

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