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.

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.

The true origin of the Mexicas is uncertain.

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.

The true motives behind the duel will most likely remain forever obscure.

Inflation can obscure quantitative assessments of the true cost of living, as published price indices only look at data in retrospect, so may increase only months or years later.

Social Text, as an academic journal, published the article not because it was faithful, true, and accurate to its quantum gravity subject, but because an " Academic Authority " had written it and because of the appearance of the obscure writing.

There are numerous obscure lines that soon went extinct, as well as the forerunners of the future true amphibians and proto-reptiles.

Malvasia Corada is a synonym used in the Douro for an obscure white wine grape variety known as Vital that may or may not be related to true Malvasia.

(' Brocs ' is, perhaps, the only obscure suit title ; the true suit image is that of a tree, but it has an uncanny resemblance to broccoli.

The value of these works is impaired somewhat by Baur's habit of making the history of dogma conform to the formulae of Hegel's philosophy, a procedure " which only served to obscure the truth and profundity of his conception of history as a true development of the human mind " ( Pfleiderer ).

Marx ( and Engels ) considered religion as a component of the ideological superstructure of societies, and a pre-rational mode of thought, which nonetheless was wielded by ruling elites to obscure social relationships including the true basis of political power.

Hegel's obscure and mystical Philosophy of Mind held that the absolute right of freedom of conscience facilitates human understanding of an all-embracing unity, an absolute which was rational, real and true.

During the column's heyday, the trophy mugs were occasionally sent randomly to Apple employees in order to obscure the true leakers.

In the course of business competition among themselves, buyers, sellers, and producers cannot do business ( compete ) without obscurity — confidentiality and secrecy — thus the necessity of the character masks that obscure true economic motive.

On rare occasions rounds 2 and 4 are replaced with segments where three panelists present one true and two fictional stories explaining why some obscure person is notable, and the other team has to guess which story is correct.

As recently as 2006, folk traditionalist and influential banjo master Billy Faier remarked " I hear and see very little respect for the folk genre " in their music and described the Trio's repertoire as " a mishmash of twisted arrangements that not only obscure the true beauty of the folk songs from which they derive, but give them a meaning they never had.

Or again, the true meaning and purpose of a book often became obscure in the lapse of centuries, and led to false interpretations.

Capillary action can obscure the true water contact in permeable media like sandstone.

Some fast and meditate for years, others study obscure and arcane tomes, but for a few their true path lies in martial prowess.

Doubts about Aslan Norval still remain and make the problem of the writer's identity and the true authorship of his books even more obscure.

The name of the device was deliberately inaccurate in order to help keep it secret-its true purpose was to blind the defenders during a night attack and so help obscure attacking forces.

Here at least explains, from the Classical viewpoint, its approximate method with a large amount of traditional rationality for its oeuvre heavily reliant on tradition to make conclusions ' as final decisions ' towards conclusions. Foucault uses a rather unusual method involving oeuvre de la obscure meaning the ' obscure ' is seen as the building block for human rationality functioning as norms which become familiar to people, giving the uninformed their ' view ' and ' truth ' of the world. The uninformed means the uninformed who have no direct access to policy decision making therefore condemning those who work into a continuous comatose ignorance producing this network of power systems creating what Marx called ' labour power ' which recreate and recycle a functioning society ( comparable to a living breathing organism ) and the population of producers who have no monetary resources and ownership of capital wealth ; ownership of mines, banks, transportation equipment and machinery, such as aeroplanes car manufacturers and industry and therefore are confined to the bottom of the hiercharchical pyramid, producing the problematization of a society comparable to Ants or Bees which inform evolutionary biology, for example of human nature. While inaccurate and now known to be scientifically flawed, nevertheless it remains ' true ' from the classical perspective as opposed to the working population who are not uneducated or illiterate a wall which can be pieced.

Karl Marx, although initially favourable to Proudhon's work, later criticised, among other things, the expression " property is theft " as self-refuting and unnecessarily confusing, writing that "... ' theft ' as a forcible violation of property presupposes the existence of property ..." and condemning Proudhon for entangling himself in " all sorts of fantasies, obscure even to himself, about true bourgeois property.

The 2. 0 format generalized the data representation using perceptually additive real world units, redefined some of the instrument layering features within the format, added true stereo sample support and removed some obscure features of the 1. 0 version whose behavior was difficult to specify.

* routes to the more obscure parts of the Internet can assert themselves across most of the Internet — this is especially true for dial-up users

In a partially sympathetic review, Ginette Castro wrote, " For this obscure librarian from Florida, myth is historically true ".