* Lack of security of tenure also acts as a preventive for farming due to the uncertainty in the use length of the land.

Note: For some exarchs there exists some uncertainty over their exact tenure dates.

During his tenure on Excalibur, Warren Ellis left no uncertainty about Lockheed's intelligence: he is capable of conversant speech ( although for some reason he speaks in a Cockney accent, despite spending most of his life in America and Scotland ), however, the only member of Excalibur who ever hears him is Kitty's boyfriend Peter Wisdom, whom Lockheed dislikes.

While this would still have resulted in Millikan's having measured the charge of e < sup >−</ sup > better than anyone else at the time, the slightly larger uncertainty might have allowed more disagreement with his results within the physics community, which Millikan likely tried to avoid.

A second way to generate unpolarized light is to introduce uncertainty in the preparation of the system, for example, passing it through a birefringent crystal with a rough surface, so that slightly different parts of the beam acquire different polarizations.

More generally, mixed states commonly arise from a statistical mixture of the starting state ( such as in thermal equilibrium ), from uncertainty in the preparation procedure ( such as slightly different paths that a photon can travel ), or from looking at a subsystem entangled with something else.

While this would still have resulted in Millikan having measured e better than anyone else at the time, the slightly larger uncertainty might have allowed more disagreement with his results within the physics community.

* Official encouragement: As the Stanford prison experiment and Milgram experiment show, many people will follow the direction of an authority figure ( such as a superior officer ) in an official setting ( especially if presented as mandatory ), even if they have personal uncertainty.

One French official in 1939 expressed the belief that the uncertainty was sure to cause trouble in the future.

A note of uncertainty about the company's future emerged in November 2008, when Gérard Mortier, who was scheduled to begin his first official season as General and Artistic Director of the company in 2009, abruptly resigned.

The " Winds Code " announcing the direction of new hostilities via a broadcast weather ' forecast ', remains a curious and confusing episode, demonstrating the uncertain meaning inherent in most raw intelligence information, and its handling / mis-handling-and in this case, even uncertainty about the existence of some intelligence information, or of its active removal from official records, especially some years after the event.

RDDL ( Relational Dynamic influence Diagram Language ) was the official language of the uncertainty track of the 7th IPC in 2011.

When Emperor Ai died, his male favorite ( commonly believed to be homosexual lover ) Dong Xian was in command of the armed forces and was the most powerful official in government, and there was great uncertainty what was going to happen next.

In 1973, British psychologist Glenn Wilson published an influential book providing evidence that a general factor underlying conservative beliefs is " fear of uncertainty ".

According to British Standards, correctly calibrated, used and maintained liquid-in-glass thermometers can achieve a measurement uncertainty of ± 0. 01 ° C in the range 0 to 100 ° C, and a larger uncertainty outside this range: ± 0. 05 ° C up to 200 or down to − 40 ° C, ± 0. 2 ° C up to 450 or down to − 80 ° C.

Systematic defensive artillery support was forfeited by the Germans, due to uncertainty over the position of their infantry, just when the British infantry benefitted from the opposite.

However, it was also an era of uncertainty caused by several factors including the Napoleonic wars, periodic riots, and the concern ( threat to some, hope to others ) that the British people might imitate the upheavals of the French Revolution.

At this time the Greek junta was imploding, and the British government was facing the constitutional uncertainty of a hung parliament ; moreover, according to the Greek diplomat Ange Vlachos, whilst in London Makarios lobbied for the British military not to intervene as a guarantor power.

In the run-up to 1997, with widespread sentiment of uncertainty then towards the future of Hong Kong under Chinese rule, the party supported the controversial package of political reform bought about by the last British colonial Hong Kong Governor, Chris Patten.

Sky was not an instant success ; the uncertainty caused by the competition provided by British Satellite Broadcasting ( BSB ) and the initial shortage of satellite dishes were early problems.

These were mostly nomads, hunter gatherer tribes, refugees, anti-social / dacoit tribes and socially and lawfully ostracised peoples during a certain age or time but eventually never were given a chance to assimilate back into the mainstream after adopting a more mainstream lifestyle perhaps due to continuous strife, conquests and uncertainty over a 1000 years, until recently during the modern age under the British and free Indian Governments, that they are being attempted to assimilate again into the mainstream.

This uncertainty over what Hitler ’ s ultimate intentions in foreign policy were was to colour much of British policy towards Germany until 1939.

The political uncertainty over the future of the treaty ports meant that the British government was not inclined to invest in their upgrade.

There was, however considerable uncertainty about the borders which Britain could assert and the trade rights other Europeans might have, and as a result British involvement in Northern Nigeria was initially considered a political priority in Africa due to the threat of German and French rivals.

British academics Gabe Mythen and Sandra Walklate, argue that following terrorist attacks in New York, the Pentagon, Madrid, and London, government agencies developed a discourse of " new terrorism " in a cultural climate of fear and uncertainty.

Mackenzie King, the Canadian prime minister, quickly agreed " in the hope that such a visit would aid in some measure in throwing light on the present uncertainty and in establishing more friendly relations between the Government of France and the British Commonwealth ".

There have been claims that scrutiny of the specific photographs taken on the Eddington expedition showed the experimental uncertainty to be comparable to the same magnitude as the effect Eddington claimed to have demonstrated, and that a 1962 British expedition concluded that the method was inherently unreliable.

Weiss details these problems: “ The British … were complaining of difficulty in dealing with ‘ conflicting jurisdictions ’ in North Africa ; and the New York Times was emphasizing ‘ uncertainty regarding the representative spheres of OEW ( Office of Economic Warfare ), Lend-Lease, and OFRRO ( Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations ) … friction between OEW and the War Food Administration as regards foreign food purchases ” ( p. 161 ).

This sympathetic attitude released within me a vague constraint of doubt, uncertainty and puzzlement which,

That sporadic genuius ... ' Flipper ' was always upbeat and great fun to be around-except when he was driving the team bus, in a style that on occasions bordered on maniacal and broke most of the known road rules-but I could never quite work out whether his casual, laid-back attitude was genuine or a disguise for uncertainty and self-doubt.

The fate of the Galatian people is a subject of some uncertainty, but they seem ultimately to have been absorbed into the Greek-speaking populations of west-central Anatolia thereby giving a fresh transmission of light skin, blue eyed, and fair haired ethno-types into the Greek population which by then had highly intermarried with darker ethnotypes and lost their earlier appearances.

Following the death of President Saparmurat Niyazov in December 2006, there has been much speculation and uncertainty regarding the fate of Turkmenistan's natural resources.

Such was the case with the second season of Twin Peaks, which ended in a cliffhanger similar to the first season with a high degree of uncertainty about the fate of the protagonist, but the cliffhanger could not save the show from being canceled, resulting in the unresolved ending.

The most famous part of the work, though, is the fifth chapter, where Browne quite explicitly turns to discuss man's struggles with mortality, and the uncertainty of his fate and fame in this world and the next, to produce an extended funerary meditation tinged with melancholia.

The Trenchcoat Brigade see it as their duty to resolve the uncertainty around Tim's fate one way or another.

The uncertainty over the airline's fate has caused its share of the domestic Indian air transport market go down from approximately 11 % in January 2006 to a reported 8. 5 % in April.

Frankl suggested that it is important for the patient to recognize his inclinations toward perfection as fate, and therefore, must learn to accept some degrees of uncertainty.

There was great uncertainty of the fate of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet ; disintegration could lead to sea-level rise of 5 to 6m over several hundred years ( page 42 )

At this point in the ode he covers the philosophy of the uncertainty of life and fate.

Mary Douglas's classic Purity and Danger on pollutions and uncertainty — what we often denote as ' risk ' — was fundamentally influenced by Evans-Pritchard's views on how accusations, blame and responsibility are deployed though culturally-specific conceptions of misfortune and harm.

Since corporate valuation is often subject to considerable uncertainty and ambiguity, and since it can be heavily influenced by asymmetric or inside information, some question the validity of MBOs and consider them to potentially represent a form of insider trading.

:# The belief, due largely to a feeling of uncertainty as to policy, that the decisions of the Palestine Government could be influenced by political considerations.