[permalink] [id link]
There was ambiguity in their ideas as to where to draw a line on " species ", " created kinds ", and what events and lineages fall within the rubric of microevolution or macroevolution.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
There and was
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.
There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
There and ambiguity
There are many types of ambiguity and many of them have been described by rhetoricians under such names as amphibology, parisology, and other ologies.
There are, however, some fully automatic handguns ( often referred to as machine pistols ) so, to avoid such ambiguity and confusion, " semi-automatic ", " autoloader " or " self-loading " are preferred when referring to a firearm that fires only one shot per trigger pull.
There is debate as to whether Samoa is / was an elective monarchy or an aristocratic republic, given the comparative ambiguity of the title O le Ao o le Malo and the nature of the head of state's office.
There is a great deal of ambiguity in the ways " secular " and " traditional " are used in Israel: they often overlap, and they cover an extremely wide range in terms of ideology and religious observance.
There is some ambiguity to the term because some authors use the terms " Vernam cipher " and " one-time pad " synonymously, while others refer to any additive stream cipher as a " Vernam cipher ", including those based on a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator ( CSPRNG ).
There is not wide agreement regarding the correctness of using zero as an ordinal ( nor regarding use of the term zeroth ) as it creates ambiguity for all subsequent elements of the sequence when lacking context.
There is, however, an ambiguity in Kluckhohn's formulation that would haunt anthropologists in the years to come.
There is some ambiguity in the use of the term " linear combination " as to whether it refers to the expression or to its value.
There is little to no " middle ground of ambiguity " that exists where this conflict asserts itself.
There are about 30 to 40 species of Ulmus ( elm ); the ambiguity in number results from difficulty in delineating species, owing to the ease of hybridization between them and the development of local seed-sterile vegetatively propagated microspecies in some areas, mainly in the field elm ( Ulmus minor ) group.
There is some ambiguity of if the name actually derived from William Byrne since there were people with the surname " Burns " living in the area ( a Scottish variant ).
There remains a great deal of ambiguity in terminology regarding mottled dogs, which are called roan, ticked, mottled and belton depending on the context.
There are several modulation types ( such as PSK and QAM ) that have a phase ambiguity, that is, a carrier can be restored in different ways.
There are two zeroes, + 0 ( positive zero ) and − 0 ( negative zero ) and this removes any ambiguity when dividing.
There is considerable ambiguity in the film in which the mother figure acts as a provider, sacrificing aspects of her own life while also as a destroyer, annihilating her own son, something extremely rare in Hindi cinema.
There are several related concepts that make use of similar words, and the ambiguity can create considerable confusion.
There has been great ambiguity regarding the exact date of Kālidāsa but in 1986, Sanskrit scholar Ramchandra Tiwari of Bhopal claims to have conducted a thorough research on Kalidasa and after analysing 627 archaeological evidences which included 104 sculptures, 30 pictures and 493 scriptural words determined that Kalidasa lived in the period 370-450AD
There is ambiguity as to whether he became a double agent for the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ), or was working under British instructions.
0.101 seconds.