In the strongest sense, " directly in point " means that: ( 1 ) the question resolved in the precedent case is the same as the question to be resolved in the pending case, ( 2 ) resolution of that question was necessary to the disposition of the precedent case ; ( 3 ) the significant facts of the precedent case are also presented in the pending case, and ( 4 ) no additional facts appear in the pending case that might be treated as significant.

It was the religion that gave humanity the strongest sense of collective consciousness.

Neighborhoods on and near the eastern part of the isthmus, some of the city's oldest, have the strongest sense of identity and are the most politically liberal.

Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus had a combined full page review in Rolling Stone, stating that Morrison now had " the striking imagination of a consciousness that is visionary in the strongest sense of the word.

It has been argued that psychologically " The strongest sense of home commonly coincides geographically with a dwelling.

The longstanding Christian institutions described above consider developments in Christianity since the nineteenth century to be unorthodox in the strongest possible sense ( or cults ).

Many commentators see the consensus, especially if interpreted in the broader sense of the term, as having been at its strongest during the 1990s.

In the study on ancient sense characters during the Third Reich the sun in general was interpreted as " the strongest and most visible expression of god ", the number twelve as documented for " the things of the target and the completion ".

In women, the sense of olfaction is strongest around the time of ovulation, significantly stronger than during other phases of the menstrual cycle and also stronger than the sense in males.

More importantly, every German government of the Weimar Republic was implacably opposed to the terms of Versailles, and given that Germany was potentially Europe ’ s strongest power, from the British perspective it made sense to revise Versailles in Germany ’ s favor as the best way of preserving the peace.

Masaru Takahara ( 高原 日勝 Takahara Masaru ) is a wrestler with the dream of being the strongest fighter in the world who possesses a strong sense of justice.

The strongest sense of patriotism towards Moravia is forming around Brno, the former capital of Moravia.

In that sense, he became one of the strongest defenders of the systems view against reductionism.

" PC Gamer UKs James Flynn praised the game's graphics, sense of realism, and free-form missions ; about the latter, he wrote, " There's no right or wrong way to complete any of the missions in Terra Nova, and this is one of its strongest assets.

Wisconsin is a swing state in the strongest sense, with George W. Bush losing the state by some 5, 700 votes in 2000 and around 12, 400 votes in 2004, although they haven't voted for a Republican for president since 1984, and they haven't had a Republican senator since 1993.

Pathos is a proof that “ is an appeal to an audience ’ s sense of identity, their self-interest, their emotions ” and because pathos appeals to the deepest parts of the audience ’ s being “ many rhetoricians over the centuries have considered pathos the strongest of the appeals ” because the pathos proof involves “ the power of emotion to sway the mind ” ( Fahnestock 14 ).

In this sense, it is the strongest way to measure the information content of a discrete random variable.

Jason Crock of Pitchfork Media noted that the release " aims to be a retrospective in the true sense of the word ", ignoring some of the band's strongest songs and singles such as " Invalid Litter Dept.

Regarded by Amis's readership as possibly his strongest novel, the tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections, to a dark sense of foreboding and eventually panic at the approach of the deadline, or " horrorday ", the climactic scene alluded to on the very first page.

Of the four candidates, she appears the most steady and has the strongest sense of humor.

One of the strongest elements in Nuno's playing is his sense of rhythm, often using a very loose wrist technique to execute fast triplet picking licks to create a funky sound to his rhythm playing and also his use of poly-rhythms to blur bar lines and create a unique sound.

In their studies on sense characters, the sun apart was interpreted as " the strongest and most visible expression of god ", the number twelve as significant for " the things of the target and the completion ".

; it is indeed the strongest Arrhenius base, but a number of compounds that cannot exist in aqueous solution, such as n-butyllithium and sodium amide, are more basic.

This is a trivial solution because, for example, an omnipotent being could create a boulder that the strongest human could not lift ( it needn't do that anyway since such boulders exist ) and then give itself the potency of an average human ; it would then not be able to lift the stone.

With a pK < sub > a </ sub > of 12. 1 for its conjugate acid in aqueous solution, 1, 8-bis ( dimethylamino ) naphthalene is one of the strongest amine bases known, although it only absorbs protons slowly — hence the trade name.

In philosophy and rhetoric, the principle of charity requires interpreting a speaker's statements to be rational and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation.

It is the strongest warning that the FDA requires, and signifies that medical studies indicate that the drug carries a significant risk of serious or even life-threatening adverse effects.

The rebuttal criterion requires that one who presents an argument for or against a position should attempt to provide an effective rebuttal to all serious challenges to the argument or the position it supports and to the strongest arguments for viable alternative positions.

Its strongest strategy, history matching, searches for a sequence in the past that matches the last few moves in order to predict the next move of the algorithm.

The algorithm chooses a number of the strongest outputs from the filters, the exact number depending on the number of implanted electrodes and other factors.

The algorithm will move from an unstable state in which no edge is stronger than another, to a stable state where the route is composed of the strongest edges.

The tenacity with which present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition offers the strongest evidence that the gulf between scientific and delphic ways of philosophizing is built into the present conflict over the limits and purpose of science, religion and ideology.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Undoubtedly helpful was that some of the university ’ s strongest programs were in the areas of music, speech, and art, disciplines in which ability could be measured by audition or portfolio rather than through paper qualifications.

The poem is referenced in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game EarthBound, where a weapon is named the Casey Bat, which is the strongest weapon in the game, but will only hit 25 % of the time.

The strongest act is a regulation, an act or law which is directly applicable in its entirety.

Regarding his attitude towards the Holy See, although with Celtic warmth and flow of words he could defend mere custom, there is nothing in his strongest expressions which implies that he for a moment doubted Rome's supreme authority.

Often referred to simply as " contempt ," such as a person " held in contempt ," it is the judge's strongest power to impose sanctions for acts which disrupt the court's normal process.

From June 2007 on, data indicated a moderate La Niña event, which strengthened in early 2008 and weakened before the start of 2009 ; the 2007 – 2008 La Niña event was the strongest since the 1988 – 1989 event.

Originally, the event was for amateurs only, however, since the 1984 Summer Olympics professional players have been permitted, albeit with certain restrictions which prevent countries from fielding their strongest sides.

The ANI claimed that liberal democracy was no longer compatible with the modern world, and advocated a strong state and imperialism, claiming that humans are naturally predatory and that nations were in a constant struggle, in which only the strongest could survive.

Competition arose among the old dynasty's princes and supporters, as historians and jurists debated which Bagrationi has the strongest hereditary right to a throne that has been vacant for two centuries.

To prevent civil war the Scottish magnates asked Edward I of England to arbitrate, for which he extracted legal recognition that the realm of Scotland was held as a feudal dependency to the throne of England before choosing John Balliol, the man with the strongest claim, who became king in 1292.

The strongest remaining Irish influence can be seen in the presence of bagpipes in the music of Bermuda, which stemmed from the presence of Scottish and Irish soldiers from the 18th through 20th centuries.

However, the flashover voltage of a string is less than the sum of its component discs, because the electric field is not distributed evenly across the string but is strongest at the disc nearest to the conductor, which will flash over first.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

In a quarterfinal playoff blitz game, she forced Joël Lautier, France's strongest player, to resign in 12 moves when she won his queen which resulted in the audience of several hundred bursting into applause.

Graham Priest advances the strongest thesis of this sort, which he calls " dialetheism ".

The IMF forecast a growth of 7 % for Lebanon's real GDP in 2010 and 2011 following 9 % growth in 2009 and 8. 5 % in 2008 it has 54th richest GDP per capita in the world it is forecasted that Lebanon per capita will be 19, 100 by 2015 which makes it one of the strongest in the region.

Luxembourg's fortress, located on a rocky outcrop known as the Bock, was steadily enlarged and strengthened over the years by successive owners, among others the Bourbons, Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, which made it one of the strongest fortresses on the European continent.

The strongest opposition came from the French delegate, Gabriel Hanotaux, partially in order to protect French, which he argued was already the international language.

Perhaps the strongest evidence in favor of Gutenberg is therefore that Mainz has in its possession today a first-edition of Erasmus ' Lof der Zotheid ( English translation: The Praise of Folly ), which was written in Gouda, but printed in Mainz in 1511.

In 2007, on 22 and 23 June, numerous tornadoes touched down, the largest of which was an F5 Tornado that devastated parts of Elie ( the strongest officially recorded tornado in Canada ).

Also significant was Bomhard's partly critical review of Dolgopolsky's dictionary, in which he argued that only those Nostratic etymologies that are strongest should be included, in contrast to Dolgopolsky's more expansive approach, which includes many etymologies that are possible but not secure.

One of the strongest points of the system was its speech synthesis unit, which was released as an add-on for speech, music, and sound effects enhancement.