A unanimous decision, written by Justice Harlan, ruled on the matter of fences, holding that the state of California illegally included the fences running beside the tracks in its assessment of the total value of the railroad's property.

Other approaches to fences involve attributes that create substantial value to the consumer at little or no cost to the seller.

The ranchers had installed three-fifths of the fences, dikes, diversion dams, cattleguards, and other improvements, but the new rules reduced the value of that investment.

In Hermetic thought, it is likely that the movements of the planets have meaning beyond the laws of physics and actually hold metaphorical value as symbols in the mind of The All, or God.

Boogiepop Phantom is also highly metaphorical, with a character or an image representing much more than face value.

According to Andrew McCrum, now of Appella brand name consultants, who was brought in to find a name by Saatchi and Saatchi Design ( contracted by TranSys ), Oyster was conceived and promoted because of the metaphorical implications of security and value in the component meanings of the hard bivalve shell and the concealed pearl, the association of London and the River Thames with oysters, and the well-known travel-related idiom " the world is your oyster ".

The suggestion that a square ( four-ribbed ) plant is " more powerful " might be entirely metaphorical and relate to a native cultural value rather than actual alkaloid content.

to a handbook value to determine statistical significance.

In terms of its value as a collector's item, a coin is generally made more or less valuable by its condition, specific historical significance, rarity, quality / beauty of the design and general popularity with collectors.

For others it exemplifies the value of the likelihood principle and is an argument against significance tests.

The move to value added taxes, under which almost all transactions are taxable, has diminished the significance of the distinction.

But both emphasise the social significance of knowledge and therefore the cultural value of social epistemology itself.

The Soviet response demonstrated the deterrent value and significance of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile submarines to Indira Gandhi.

The site also has major additional significance, because of the presence of Lake Natron and the volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, which have immense ecological, geological and cultural value.

Each sub-component in the representation has a unique degree of significance, like the place value of digits in a decimal number.

It occurs in problems of physics and has number theoretic significance, occurring in the prime number theorem as an estimate of the number of prime numbers less than a given value.

Parfit explains that from this so-called " Argument from Below " we can arbitrate the value of the heart and other organs still working without having to assign them derived significance, as Johnston's perspective would dictate.

In addition to their scientific importance, archaeological remains sometimes have political or cultural significance to descendants of the people who produced them, monetary value to collectors, or simply strong aesthetic appeal.

In nontechnical uses, nothing denotes things lacking importance, interest, value, relevance, or significance.

With the monetary value of the scrolls rising as their historical significance was made more public, the Bedouins and the ASOR archaeologists accelerated their search for the scrolls separately in the same general area of Qumran, which was over 1 kilometer in length.

There are cultural and religious traditions which place special value and significance on this state, especially in the case of unmarried females, associated with notions of personal purity, honor and worth.

The significance of these works lies not only in their inherent art historical value, but in the maintenance of a link of literacy offered by non-illuminated texts as well.

A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, or amusement opportunities.

" I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science.

) The park, which closed in 1984, held sentimental value for many local residents and enjoyed a degree of historical significance.

Aside from its symbolic significance as the largest eucalypt of all, Eucalyptus regnans has value to conservationists in providing essential habitat to important birds and mammals ( notably the Wedge tailed eagle, the Lyrebird and the endangered Victorian state animal emblem Leadbeater's Possum ).

A statistical significance of "" can be converted into a value of α by use of the cumulative distribution function Φ of the standard normal distribution, through the relation:

The formula game that Brouwer so deprecates has, besides its mathematical value, an important general philosophical significance.

His views are presented scientifically in his Evangelisch-protestantische Dogmatik ( 1826 ; 6th ed., 1870 ), the value of which " lies partly in the full and judiciously chosen historical materials prefixed to each dogma, and partly in the skill, caution and tact with which the permanent religious significance of various dogmas is discussed " ( Otto Pfleiderer ).

The word gentleman as an index of rank had already become of doubtful value before the great political and social changes of the 19th century gave to it a wider and essentially higher significance.

Griffor emphasizes that in conventional discussion “ the self-defensive activity of each participant's idiosyncracy prevents listening ” and that, in contrast, giving full attention to what the other participants mean can free the mind from socio-cultural accumulation, allow a free flow of meaning between people in a dialogue and give rise to shared perception and the creation of shared meaning in the sense of shared significance, intention, purpose and value.

Included in the purchase was " a good dwelling-house ," but there were " no other buildings of value, and little or no fence.

Banks, or multiples of them, would not appear to offer the best return to their builders for their defensive value in comparison to a fence or a hedge.

To avoid confusion, the efficiency of heat engines and power stations should be stated HHV ( aka Gross Heating Value ) or LCV ( aka Net Heating value ), and whether Gross output at the generator terminals or Net Output at the power station fence are being considered.

This sum was roughly the value of the fence surrounding the property.

This group also administers the " ring fence " corporation tax and supplementary charge paid by companies on profits from oil and gas production, and previously administered the royalty charged on the gross value of oil and gas won.

It takes place after a theft or other dishonest acquisition is completed and may be committed by a fence or other person who helps the thief to realise the value of the stolen goods.

The most primitive feelings are rudimentary value feelings, both positive and negative: a desire to appropriate this or that part of the environment into oneself ; ;

It argued, inter alia, that a divestiture order would severely depress the market value of the stock of both General Motors and Du Pont, with consequent serious loss and hardship to hundreds of thousands of innocent investors, among them thousands of small trusts and charitable institutions ; ;

The value of the elections was lost, both as an experiment in increased political participation and as a reliable indicator of commercial interest, as shown in Table 1.

While both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

Generally, managers seek relative value opportunities by being both long and short municipal bonds with a duration-neutral book.

Both currencies have same value and are legal tender in both countries.

According to the IRS, " The fair market value of goods and services exchanged must be included in the income of both parties.

The beauty and value of many of the Latin Breviaries were brought to the notice of English churchmen by one of the numbers of the Oxford Tracts for the Times, since which time they have been much more studied, both for their own sake and for the light they throw upon the English Prayer-Book.

For given nonzero integers a and b there is a nonzero integer of minimal absolute value among all those of the form ax + by with x and y integers ; one can assume d > 0 by changing the signs of both s and t if necessary.

Chives are cultivated both for their culinary uses and their ornamental value ; the violet flowers are often used in ornamental dry bouquets.

These factors led to the shift of the store of value being the metal itself: at first silver, then both silver and gold, at one point there was bronze as well.

However, promises to pay were widely circulated and accepted as value at least five hundred years earlier in both Europe and Asia.

Under the latest such decree, president Turbay had implemented security policies that, though of some military value against the M-19 in particular, were considered highly questionable both inside and outside Colombian circles due to numerous accusations of military human rights abuses against suspects and captured guerrillas.

The second, larger inventory is the Regional Inventory ( RI ), which is broken down by county and contains both those pubs listed in the NI and other pubs that are not eligible for the NI, due to reasons such as having been overly modified, but are still considered historically important, or have particular architectural value.

These conventions allow some operators in both languages to serve both as predicates ( answering a boolean-valued question ) and as returning a useful value for further computation, but in Scheme the value '() which is equivalent to NIL in Common Lisp evaluates to true in a boolean expression.

Because some materials have both useful mineral content and recoverable calorific value, the distinction between alternative fuels and raw materials is not always clear.

Thessaly was widely known for producing competent cavalrymen, and later experiences in wars both with and against the Persians taught the Greeks the value of cavalry in skirmishing and pursuit.

The government and the railroads both shared in the increased value of the land grants, which the railroads developed.

Logical disjunction is an operation on two logical values, typically the values of two propositions, that produces a value of false if and only if both of its operands are false.

Tiles that have the same value on both ends are called doubles, and are typically referred to as double-zero, double-one etc.

All future cash flows are estimated and discounted to give their present values ( PVs ) — the sum of all future cash flows, both incoming and outgoing, is the net present value ( NPV ), which is taken as the value or price of the cash flows in question.