Like the other Passeroidea families, the true finches seem to be of roughly Middle Miocene origin, around 20-10 million years ago ( Ma ).

Kenichiro Terasawa ( Kosuke Toyohara ), an author of books on psychic phenomena, believes he's discovered Godzilla's true origin.

If true, this would also support an Italian origin.

However, BBC books such as The Infinity Doctors and Unnatural History imply that the Doctor's origin is complex and that every version is somehow " true " ( such as Susan's claim in the original version of An Unearthly Child that she was born in the 49th century ).

It had great authority because of its supposed Aristotelian origin, and it was only when Proclus ' Elements were translated into Latin that Thomas Aquinas realised its true origin.

Kid tells Serge that she is aware of her true origin, and knowing that is a treasure which cannot be stolen.

::: A person manifests his true nature when surrounded by family or close friends, when in his own ambience and in his place of origin.

Any symmetry group whose elements have a common fixed point, which is true for all finite symmetry groups and also for the symmetry groups of bounded figures, can be represented as a subgroup of orthogonal group O ( n ) by choosing the origin to be a fixed point.

An enthusiast of Tangram puzzles, Loyd published a book of seven hundred unique Tangram designs and a fanciful history of the origin of the Tangram, which was, however, presented as true, and has been described as " Sam Loyd's Most Successful Hoax ".

This volume can be considered the true origin of Katchoo, Francine and the SiP universe.

Folk etymology has attributed its origin to the words for true () and image ().

The Zohar contains a discussion of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, redemption, the relationship of Ego to Darkness and " true self " to " The Light of God ," and the relationship between the " universal energy " and man.

Because these characteristics are very insignificant and show a high individual variability, most of these forms were probably not true subspecies, especially as they were often based upon zoo material of unknown origin that may have had " striking, but abnormal " morphological characteristics.

The true origin of the blancmange is obscure, but it is believed that it was a result of the Arab introduction of rice and almonds in early medieval Europe.

Doucha is nothing but an effort to prove the " true Czech folk " origin of Polka.

( This, if true, would be similar to the origin of casserole, a generic name for a set of main courses originally prepared in a dish called a casserole.

Precapillary sphincters are rings of smooth muscles at the origin of true capillaries that regulate blood flow into true capillaries and thus control blood flow through a tissue.

" The true origin of the name is still debatable.

Moore reconfigured Swamp Thing's origin to make him a true monster as opposed to a human transformed into a monster.

Regardless of its true origin, McCrae worked on the poem for months before considering it ready for publication.

This shameless and scandalous boy died in Egypt when the court was there ; and forthwith his Imperial Majesty issued out an order or edict strictly requiring and commanding his loving subjects to acknowledge his departed page a deity and to pay him his quota of divine reverences and honours as such: a resolution and act which did more effectually publish and testify to the world how entirely the Emperor's unnatural passion survived the foul object of it ; and how much his master was devoted to his memory, than it recorded his own crime and condemnation, immortalised his infamy and shame, and bequeathed to mankind a lasting and notorious specimen of the true origin and extraction of all idolatry.

Here it is no longer true that every meromorphic function can be regarded as holomorphic function with values in the Riemann sphere: There is a set of " indeterminacy " of codimension two ( in the given example this set consists of the origin ).

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

The resulting picture might appear a maze of restless confusions and contradictions, but it is more true to life than a portrait of an artificially contrived order.

`` What is more true than anything else??

To swim is true, and to sink is true.

One is not more true than the other.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.

It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.

`` The man's true reputation is his work ''.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

Of few authors is this more true than of Heidenstam.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

* ( b ) the doctrine that true knowledge or knowledge in a particular area is uncertain ; or

The true Egyptian pronunciation remains uncertain, however, because hieroglyphs do not indicate vowels.

The true attribution of these works is uncertain, however ; some scholars believe they were written solely by Vivien.

The origin of the name Trowbridge is uncertain ; one source claims derivation from treow-brycg, meaning " Tree Bridge ", referring to the first bridge over the Biss, while another states that the true meaning is the bridge by Trowle, the name of a hamlet and a common to the west of the town.

( 19 August 2009: " United Church is blind to true suffering "; 14 August 2009: " United Church's uncertain future ") An article by Charles Lewis published May 14, 2011, set out what Lewis sees as the issues that beset the United Church: the United Church's " big tent " approach to believers, accepting even atheists as members ; and lack of doctrinal orthodoxy.

As Command has nine different outcomes, it is uncertain which is the true path Fox and crew take, or wherever Command is even canon to the series or not ; but the developers have suggested that any sequel might ignore the endings and pick up the story from the middle.

Many experts believe that fox predation is a prime factor in their decline, however there are areas where foxes are common yet the Bush Stone-curlew population remains healthy, so the true causes remain uncertain.

Although Hud, at times, is identified with Eber of the Old Testament, his true Biblical identity remains uncertain.

If true, this interpretation is an important insight into attentional processing, but this conclusion remains uncertain because blocking and several related phenomena can be explained by models of conditioning that do not invoke attention.

Since the true geese are hardly distinguishable by anatomical features, the allocation of these to this genus is somewhat uncertain.

For many years he was uncertain whether he discovered a true physical phenomenon or whether his measurements suffered from a systematic bias ( indeed, the first measurements did have a positive temperature bias as the instruments were liable to radiative heating by solar radiation ).

Thus, false answers from the algorithm are certain to be correct, whereas the true answers remain uncertain ; this is said to be a ( 1 / 2 )- correct false-biased algorithm.

The true source of the Sun's energy remained uncertain until the 1930s in which it was shown by Hans Bethe to be nuclear fusion.

The module's plot features an artifact known as The Apparatus that switches a monster's personality with that of an ordinary townsperson ; player characters, therefore, are uncertain about the true identity of the people they meet.

Although many episodes of the series have presented speculation about his origin, such episodes always cast doubt on their own theories as well — leaving the readers uncertain whether the information was even true.

However the true cause remains uncertain.

She agrees to help, but her true intentions remain uncertain, leaving Kirk and the others to speculate that the fate of the entire crew rests on her actions.

Whether this is true is uncertain, but the ditch does date from between the 7th and 9th centuries.

It is uncertain historically whether either of these charges are true, or whether they were created by Wu Qi's political enemies to slander him.

This is true both for established titles where sequels are almost certain to be made, and for newly developed game series where the possibility of a sequel is still uncertain.

The prosecutors, uncertain whether the story was true – or whether a crime had even been committed – kept him in custody until they had recovered Kammerer's body.

Though the series is written in such a way as to leave the reader uncertain about Thor's true divinity, it is finally confirmed in Ultimates Vol.

The viewer is left uncertain whether Frankenstein's story is true or simply the ravings of a homicidal lunatic.

He claims that John is wanted for rape ( whether this is true or not is uncertain ) and that he ’ ll come back “ when he ’ s tired of the hens .” Like Ben, Anna treats Henry ’ s father coldly and pays more attention to Katherine, who brings her food for her children.