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The terms " megapolis '" and megalopolis are sometimes used synonymously with megacity, though those terms denote a semi-continuous chain of large metropolitan cities.
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'" " Also, he's obviously incredibly brave both in terms of facing external, physical danger as well as facing up to unpleasant situations and admitting his own mistakes.
Once a girl was chosen to be a Vestal, the pontifex pointed to her and led her away from her parents with the words, " I take you, Amata, to be a Vestal priestess, who will carry out sacred rites which it is the law for a Vestal priestess to perform on behalf of the Roman people, on the same terms as her who was a Vestal ' on the best terms '" ( thus, with all the entitlements of a Vestal ).
John Bayley has described Nabokov's commentary as '" by far the most erudite as well as the most fascinating commentary in English on Pushkin's poem " and the commentary as being " as scrupulously accurate, in terms of grammar, sense and phrasing, as it is idiosyncratic and Nabokovian in its vocabulary ".
It is also known under the names of " Estadea ", " Estantiga '" ( estantigua in Spanish, from Latin hostis antiquus, meaning " ancient host "), " Rolda ", " As da nuite " ( The Night Ones ), " Pantalla ", " Avisóns ", " Pantaruxada "; all of which are terms that denote the presence of the dead in the world of the living.
'" Whether they were thinking in Selznick's box office terms or in more artistic ones, Dozier and Hitchcock agreed, and Rains's performance transforms Sebastian into a classic Hitchcock villain: sympathetic, nuanced, in some ways as admirable as the protagonist.
'" Roy Carr describes soul jazz as an outgrowth of hard bop, with the terms " funk " and " soul " appearing in a jazz context as early as the mid-1950s to describe " gospel-informed, down-home, call-and-response blues.
Her celebrated and widely read 1964 essay " Notes on ' Camp '" was epoch-defining, examining an alternative sensibility to that which considers the best art in terms of its seriousness.
Although terms of the agreement were not released, the defendants did admit that " the film ' was inspired in part '" by Bowers's story.
" Instead of replacing ' metaphysical ' terms such as ' desire ' and ' purpose '" they " used it to legitimize them by giving them operational definitions.
Wilfred Bion articulates the dynamic nature of the positions, a point emphasised by Thomas Ogden, and expanded by John Steiner in terms of '" The equilibrium between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions "'.
It is believed that the Book of Revelation depicts Jesus as " the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end " (), and applies similar terms to " the Lord God ": "' I am the Alpha and the Omega ,' says the Lord God, ' who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty '" ().
As one author puts it, " they never stop changing, and terms that designate them constitute only what Wittgenstein called ' family resemblance predicates '" ( ibid, p. 169 ).
He won the Crystal Reel Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Nathan Bedford in the episode '" Sweet, Sweet Blues ", directed by Vincent McEveety and written by William James Royce, Best plays a repentant killer who has to come to terms with his crime.
His lyrics on " Ego Trippin '" also criticize the musical aesthetic of old school hip hop artists at the time: " They use the simple back and forth, the same old rhythm / That a baby can pick up and join right with them / But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copasetic / Using nursery terms, at least not poetic ".
'" Under the terms of the Glazers ' refinancing, as they were unable to repay bondholders by 16 August 2010, the overall interest rate on the loans rose from 14. 25 % to 16. 25 %, resulting in annual payments of around £ 38 million.
They would suggest however that '" disordered love "... can be understood more clearly in terms of attachment theory '.
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These responses are explicable in terms of characteristics inherent in the crisis.
When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.
But these terms are treacherous.
SBA loans, which may be made to small manufacturers, small business pools, wholesalers, retailers, service establishments and other small businesses ( when financing is not otherwise available to them on reasonable terms ), are to finance business construction, conversion, or expansion ; ;
This help is offered to applicants who ordinarily would not undertake the exploration under present conditions or circumstances at their sole expense and who are unable to obtain funds from commercial sources on reasonable terms.
Present pool quarters at two locations in Providence are crowded, antiquated and, in general, make for inefficient operation in terms of dispersement of personnel and duplication of such operational needs as stock and repair equipment.
That means that, if we are to achieve a new standard of leadership, we must think in terms of the total context of our situation.
Their friends and ours are welcome to share the pool, but on our terms and at our times.
Cooling requirements are best expressed in terms of Aj.
The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.
The information provided by the electron paramagnetic effects is then discussed, and finally the nuclear effects are interpreted in terms of various motional-modified models of the Af bond in Af.
their classes of animal and plant terms are restricted to generalizations or recurrent parts ( fish, bird, tree, grass, horn, tail, bark, root ).
What we have left as reasonably comparable are four classes: ( 1 ) body parts and products, which with a proportionally nearly even representation ( 51 terms out of 253, 25 out of 100 ) come out with nearly even ratios ; ;
Here again laboratory approaches are being evolved, for it is recognized how `` elastic '' these readings can be, how they can apply to many people, and are often stated in general terms all too easily applied to any individual's own case.
Slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts by the terms of the constitution of 1780, which declared `` all men are born free and equal ''.
The terms are generally taken for granted as though they referred to direct and axiomatic elements in the common experience of all.
Mythological concepts may by all means still be used, but they can be used responsibly only as `` symbols '' or `` ciphers '', that is, only if they are also constantly interpreted in nonmythological ( or existential ) terms.
To do this, it is sufficient to point out that if the principle in terms of which alternatives are to be conceived is such as to exclude more than two, then the question of a `` third '' possibility is a meaningless question.
Against such a termination of human life on earth by human action, he then proposes as an alternative that we `` negotiate at once with the Russians and get the best terms which are available '', that we deliberately `` negotiate from comparative weakness ''.
If we have not thought and made a decision entirely in these terms, then we need to submit ourselves to the following `` simple test '': `` Have we decided how we are to kill the other members of our household in the event of our being less injured than they are ''??
Even Professor Arnold Toynbee, agreeing with his son, does so in these terms: `` Compared to continuing to incur a constant risk of the destruction of the human race, all other evils are lesser evils.
`` I think we're agreed that he and Evans are equal in ability, so we have to look at the thing in terms of incentive.
The majority of the clocks are caesium clocks ; the definition of the SI second is written in terms of caesium.
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The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.
This usage has been regarded as Eurocentric by some, and the alternative terms Lesser Antarctica and Greater Antarctica ( respectively ) are sometimes preferred.
Many nationalist movements, such as the French National Front, Austrian Freedom Party, or the Italian Lego Nord are opposed to globalization, but argue that the alternative to globalization is the protection of the nation-state, sometimes, according to critics, in explicitly racist or fascist terms.
These are often the same person, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
Similarly, those participants who are recipients of the activities are typically known as bottoms, those who are controlled by their partners as submissives, and those who receive pain as masochists ; again, these are frequently the same person and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
Informal applications of set theory in other fields are sometimes referred to as applications of " naive set theory ", but usually are understood to be justifiable in terms of an axiomatic system ( normally the Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory ).
Many countries have extended the length of their copyright terms ( sometimes retroactively ).
In present terms, the difference between a parliamentary democracy that is a constitutional monarchy and one that is a republic is sometimes considered more one of detail than of substance.
The terms " light " and " heavy " are sometimes also used informally to indicate relative atomic numbers ( not densities!
In simple terms, co-NP is the class of problems for which efficiently verifiable proofs of no instances, sometimes called counterexamples, exist.
In view of the durability of meteoric iron, metal came to be associated with the aether, which is sometimes conflated with Stoic pneuma, as both terms originally referred to air ( the former being higher, brighter, more fiery or celestial and the latter being merely warmer, and thus vital or biogenetic ).
Again, further in terms of thermodynamics, the internal energy of the calorimetric material can sometimes, depending on the calorimetric material, be considered as the value of a function of, with partial derivatives and, and with being expressible as the value of a function of, with partial derivatives and.
This force is also sometimes written in terms of the angular velocity ω of the object about the center of the circle:
However, sometimes scientific and philosophical terms are difficult to define without obscurity.
A recursive definition, sometimes also called an inductive definition, is one that defines a word in terms of itself, so to speak, albeit in a useful way.
As it is more value-neutral than terms like disease, the term medical condition is sometimes preferred by people with health issues that they do not consider to be deleterious.
Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, there are important differences between cinéma vérité ( Jean Rouch ) and the North American " Direct Cinema " ( or more accurately " Cinéma direct "), pioneered by, among others, Canadians Allan King, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederick Wiseman and Albert and David Maysles.
The terms divinity and divine — uncapitalized, and lacking the definite article — are sometimes used as to denote ' god ( s ) or certain other beings and entities which fall short of godhood but lie outside the human realm.
The transform is sometimes denoted by the symbol, as in or or < ref group =" note "> As a linear transformation on a finite-dimensional vector space, the DFT expression can also be written in terms of a DFT matrix ; when scaled appropriately it becomes a unitary matrix and the X < sub > k </ sub > can thus be viewed as coefficients of x in an orthonormal basis .</ ref >
Quadratic equations can also be solved using factorization ( the reverse process of which is expansion, but for two linear terms is sometimes denoted foiling ).
Masses are sometimes described as gravitational charges, the important feature of them being that there is only one type ( no negative masses ), or, in more colloquial terms, ' gravity is always attractive '.
Environmentalists are sometimes referred to using informal or derogatory terms such as " greenie " and " tree-hugger ".
Although the terms colloid and emulsion are sometimes used interchangeably, emulsion should be used when both the dispersed and the continuous phase are liquids.
The terms foobar / ˈfuːbɑːr /, fubar, or foo, bar, baz and qux ( alternatively quux ) are sometimes used as placeholder names ( also referred to as metasyntactic variables ) in computer programming or computer-related documentation.
For other cultures the terms " ethnic dance " or " traditional dance " are sometimes used, although the latter terms may encompass ceremonial dances.
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