This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.

A traditional Lao explanation is that the moon was being swallowed by a toad, and the remedy was to make all possible noise, ideally with firearms.

On the Reckoning of Time ( De temporum ratione ) included an introduction to the traditional ancient and medieval view of the cosmos, including an explanation of how the spherical earth influenced the changing length of daylight, of how the seasonal motion of the Sun and Moon influenced the changing appearance of the New Moon at evening twilight, and a quantitative relation between the changes of the Tides at a given place and the daily motion of the moon.

Plato ’ s student Aristotle did not maintain his former teacher's geometric view of the elements, but rather preferred a somewhat more naturalistic explanation for the elements based on their traditional qualities.

From this perspective, much literary critical theory, since it is focused on interpretation and explanation rather than on social transformation, would be regarded as positivistic or traditional rather than critical theory in the Kantian or Marxian sense.

A literate program is an explanation of the program logic in a natural language, such as English, interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code.

* Afghan government explanation of a traditional Loya Jirga

Another explanation is that matza has been used to replace the pesach, or the traditional Passover offering that was made before the destruction of the Temple.

The etymological explanation for the form of the qi logogram ( or chi ) in the traditional form 氣 is " steam ( 气 ) rising from rice ( 米 ) as it cooks ".

The explanation generally given for this anomaly is that, following the demise of State Shinto, modern Shinto has reverted to its more traditional position as a traditional religion which is culturally ingrained, rather than enforced.

This contains the full text in the same format as the Vilna-based editions, with a full explanation in modern Hebrew on facing pages as well as an improved version of the traditional commentaries.

In 1989 Ursula King notes thealogy's growing usage as a fundamental departure from traditional male-oriented theology, characterized by its privileging of symbols over rational explanation.

The U. S. Department of State ’ s official explanation of 21st Century Statecraft is: “ The complementing of traditional foreign policy tools with newly innovated and adapted instruments of statecraft that fully leverages the networks, technologies, and demographics of our interconnected world .”.

The physical appearance of Hellequin offers an explanation for the traditional colours of Harlequin's mask ( red and black ).

The third theoretical explanation of gentrification is political-economic and is divided into two approaches: traditional and Marxist.

An alternative explanation may be the ruling of astrological signs of the zodiac by the planets: if the signs are listed along with their ruling planets in the traditional order starting with Aries, ignoring duplication, Pluto ( then undiscovered ) and the luminaries ( the Sun and Moon ), the order of the movements corresponds.

An explanation sometimes given for the choice of Thursday as polling day is that it was, in most towns, the traditional market day, although it has also been observed that the choice has practical advantages — with the outcome of the election being known by Friday, the new or continuing administration then has the weekend to organise itself in preparation for the " government shop opening for business " on Monday, the first day of the new week following the election.

The traditional explanation for the exodus from Norway is that people were fleeing the harsh rule of the Norwegian king Haraldur Hárfagri ( Harald the Fair-haired ), whom medieval literary sources credit with the unification of some parts of modern Norway during this period.

The physical appearance of Hellequin offers an explanation for the traditional colours of Harlequin's mask ( red and black ).

Their constant chase is the traditional explanation for the movement of the sun and moon through the sky.

Philosophically, the many levels of traditional Jewish explanation for the Purpose of Creation, each require sin to be resolved and atoned for, through suffering or repentance.

The concept of Hester Panim has a history in traditional Jewish thought to refer to suffering that has no regular explanation.

* The doctrine of " Gilgul " ( Reincarnation ) has a history in traditional Jewish thought, of debate and explanation.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Rexroth is a longtime jazz buff, a name-dropper of jazz heroes, and a student of traditional as well as modern jazz.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

The paper has a certain value as a comparatively easy introduction to this approach, particularly since it treats a fairly simple and straightforward phenomenon where it is possible to compare it with a more traditional ( though not structural ) statement.

What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.

And the rebellion of these third generation Jews is not the traditional conflict of culture but, rather, a protest against a culture that they view as softly and insidiously enveloping.

This conclusion is dependent on the assumption that traditional sex mores will continue to sanction both premarital chastity as the `` ideal '', and the double standard holding females primarily responsible for preserving the ideal.

Gov. Vandiver is expected to make the traditional visit to both chambers as they work toward adjournment.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

However, even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming, at least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace.

With traditional nationalistic spirit, some Englishmen claim that English Catholicism is Catholicism at its best.

The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

However, traditional cakes made at home have a vast directory of revenue, according to the habits and customs of each family.

With capacity to produce up to 5, 000 engines a year by 100 specially trained personnel, like traditional Aston Martin engine production from Newport Pagnell, assembly of each unit is entrusted to a single technician from a pool of 30, with V8 and V12 variants assembled in under 20 hours.

One now leads to Aberdour railway station, a beautifully kept and cared for example of a traditional station, in keeping with its role of transporting at least a quarter of the village's working population to their work each day.

In this clock, each column of LEDs shows a binary-coded decimal numeral of the traditional sexagesimal time.

According to one of the principal texts of Hindu philosophy, the Tattwa Kaumudi authored by Vacaspati in the 9th century A. D., the Creator used akasha ( ether ), the most " subtle " element, to create the other four traditional elements ; each element created is in turn used to create the next element, each less subtle than the last.

In the original traditional cuisines, the precise selection of spices for each dish is a matter of national or regional cultural tradition, religious practice, and, to some extent, family preference.

The 61st Cavalry and the President's Body Guard parade in full dress uniform in New Delhi each year in what is probably the largest assembly of traditional cavalry still to be seen in the world.

D & D departs from traditional wargaming and assigns each player a specific character to play instead of a military formation.

A traditional die is an often rounded cube, with each of its six faces showing a different number ( pips ) from 1 – 6.

The traditional set of dominoes contains one unique piece for each possible combination of two ends with zero to six spots, and is known as a double-six set because the highest-value piece has six pips on each end ( the " double six ").

The College functions on a quarter system, and one weekend each term is set aside as a traditional celebratory event, known on campus as " big weekends " or " party weekends ".

( Form of Content, that Louis Hjelmslev distinguished from Form of Expression ) than how the word " house " may be tied to a certain image of a traditional house ( i. e. the relationship between signifier and signified ) with each term being established in reciprocal determination with the other terms than by an ostensive description or definition: when can we talk about a " house " or a " mansion " or a " shed "?

In the North of England, at Eastertime, a traditional game is played where hard boiled pace eggs are distributed and each player hits the other player's egg with their own.

In a traditional sporting event, athletes compete against each other under controlled circumstances.

The English term " folklore ", to describe traditional folk music and dance, entered the vocabulary of many continental European nations, each of which had its folk-song collectors and revivalists.

Field researchers in traditional song ( see below ) have encountered countless versions of this ballad throughout the English-speaking world, and these versions often differ greatly from each other.

Thus, over time we would expect each traditional song to become aesthetically ever more appealing — it would be collectively composed to perfection, as it were, by the community.

Europe, the sport's traditional base, is where about half of each year's races occur.

It is traditional to assign special names to each full moon of the year, though the rules that determine the name for a given month's full moon has changed over time ( e. g., the blue moon ).

The following table gives the traditional English names for each month's full moon, the names given by Algonquian peoples in the northern and eastern United States, other common names, and Hindu.

* Fixed stakes – a traditional system of staking the same amount on each selection.

Farmers traditionally leave some of their products at the end of each harvesting season as an offering while their women sing traditional songs.

The traditional hi-fi enthusiast, however, will build a system from separates ( or components ), often with each item from a different manufacturer specialising in a particular component.