A special demurrer refers to an attack on the form, rather than the substance, of the charge: if the defendant correctly identifies some defect " on the face " of the indictment, then the charges are subject to being dismissed, although usually the indictment can be re-drawn ( re-written ) and re-presented to the grand jury or other charging authority.

In accordance with legal requirements, the indictment was in substance the same as at the previous trial ; the only question put to the court was whether Dreyfus had delivered up the documents enumerated in the bordereau.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

The rough-skinned newt ( Taricha granulosa ) from North America and other members of its genus contain the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin ( TTX ), the most toxic non-protein substance known and almost identical to that produced by pufferfish.

While his predecessors Thales and Anaximander proposed that the arche, the underlying material of the world, were water and the ambiguous substance apeiron, respectively, Anaximenes asserted that air was this primary substance of which all other things are made.

The term antibiotic was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution.

On the other hand, several different brands share the same code if they have the same active substance and indications.

In September 2010 the US Veterans Administration proposed construction of a $ 209 million state-of-the-art facility at Alameda Point that would provide primary care, specialty care, and mental health, substance abuse and other services.

He has found a " half-being " or a " pre-being ", the potency, which is fully being as part of some other substance.

The inability to comprehend any aspect of the thing other than its properties implies, this argument maintains, that one cannot conceive of a bare particular ( a substance without properties ), an implication that directly opposes substance theory.

They may indulge in substance abuse, particularly alcohol or other depressants, cocaine or other stimulants, or sleeping pills.

Mixed states are often the most dangerous period of mood disorders, during which substance abuse, panic disorder, suicide attempts, and other complications increase greatly.

A molecule is the smallest indivisible portion of a pure chemical substance that has its unique set of chemical properties, that is, its potential to undergo a certain set of chemical reactions with other substances.

Chemists carefully measure substance proportions, reaction rates, and other chemical properties.

Chemical energy is the potential of a chemical substance to undergo a transformation through a chemical reaction or to transform other chemical substances.

A similar belief was attributed by some ancient sources to Diogenes Apolloniates ( late 5th century BCE ), who also linked air with intelligence and soul ( psyche ), but other sources claim that his arche was a substance between air and fire.

In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together.

Mind-body dualism can exist as substance dualism which claims that the mind and the body are composed of a distinct substance, and as property dualism which claims that there may not be a distinction in substance, but that mental and physical properties are still categorically distinct, and not reducible to each other.

No other psychoactive substance has received as many severely negative recreational experience reports as has Datura.

The idea or phonic substance that a sign contains is of less importance than the other signs that surround it.

In other words, the amount of a substance deposited on each electrode of an electrolytic cell is directly proportional to the quantity of electricity passed through the cell.

Harlan alone dissented, vigorously, charging that the majority had subverted the Reconstruction Amendments: " The substance and spirit of the recent amendments of the constitution have been sacrificed by a subtle and ingenious verbal criticism.

In 1848, he began packaging the substance as a patent medicine charging $ 0. 50 per bottle.

The ejectable offense may be an excessively heated or offensive argument with an umpire, malicious game play ( especially pitchers attempting to strike batters with the ball or a manager caught ordering his pitcher to do so ), illegally applying a foreign substance to or otherwise tampering with a ball, using a corked bat, charging the mound, or otherwise fighting.

That perception might be either with the unaided human sense or with the aid of an instrument, e. g., microscope or stethoscope, or by other scientific means, e. g., a chemical reagent which changes color in the presence of a particular substance.

** 121. 21 Idioglot guimbardes – The lamella is of one substance with the frame of the instrument.

The primary goal of instrument analysis is to quantify an amount of substance.

This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.

An existentialist is a man who perceives himself only as `` esse '', as existence without substance.

The detergent active is that substance which primarily acts to remove greasy soils.

Obviously, a substance which is permanently or temporarily sorbed on the surface in place of the soil will tend to accelerate this process and effectively push off the greasy soil.

The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.

The first is that enforcement of national law in state litigation raises in reverse the old diversity puzzle of the relation of procedure to substance.

Cholesterol, the cornerstone of Dr. Keys's theory, is a mysterious yellowish, waxy substance, chemically a crystalline alcohol.

An acid ( from the Latin acidus / acēre meaning sour ) is a substance which reacts with a base.

The Brønsted-Lowry definition is an expansion: an acid is a substance which can act as a proton donor.

An Arrhenius acid is a substance that increases the concentration of the hydronium ion, H < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sup >+</ sup >, when dissolved in water.

Asphalt or or, also known as bitumen, is the sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits ; it is a substance classed as a pitch.

A less confrontational vision of scientific discovery is proposed by Adloff He suggests that hindsight criticism of the early publications should be mitigated by the nascent state of radiochemistry, highlights the prudence of Debierne's claims in the original papers, and notes that nobody can contend that Debierne's substance did not contain actinium.

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it.

In the panentheistic model of process philosophy and theology the writers Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne rejected that the universe was made of substance, instead reality is composed of living experiences ( occasions of experience ).

When a molten metal is mixed with another substance, there are two mechanisms that can cause an alloy to form, called atom exchange and the interstitial mechanism.

The Nicene Creed's central term, used to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son, is Homoousios (), or Consubstantiality, meaning " of the same substance " or " of one being ".

Between the layers of tiles is a clingy protein substance.

Certain specific conditions are excluded as disabilities, such as current substance abuse and visual impairment that is correctable by prescription lenses.

Ambergris is the waxy aromatic substance created in the intestines of sperm whales and was used in making perfumes both in ancient times as well as modern.

Adiabatic cooling occurs when the pressure of a substance is decreased as it does work on its surroundings.

The first deposit on the wall of a cavity, forming the " skin " of the agate, is generally a dark greenish mineral substance, like celadonite, delessite or " green earth ", which are rich in iron probably derived from the decomposition of the augite in the enclosing volcanic rock.

The latter is in substance a more didactic repetition of the former.