It is this curious blend of rugged individualism and public service which accounts for the great appeal of the mythological detective.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

Later accounts blamed defective wiring for starting the fire ; ;

A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.

This accounts for the wide variance in assessment practices of movable tangible property in the various municipalities in Rhode Island.

When painting, Mason's physical eyes are half-closed, while his mind's eye is wide open, and this circumstance accounts in part for the impression he wishes to convey.

What accounts for the rapid growth of plastics in the sign and display field??

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

However, any such suggestion accounts for only some of the difficulties in hearing tone, or in developing a realistic attitude about tone, but not for the analytic difficulties that occur even when tone is meticulously recorded.

It accounts for so many things.

It permits the state to take over bank accounts, stocks and other personal property of persons missing for seven years or more.

Field Marshal Slim has abridged it for the benefit of `` those who, finding not so great an attraction in accounts of military moves and counter-moves, are more interested in men and their reactions to stress, hardship and danger ''.

What concerns him much more is the relationship of diet to the nation's No. 1 killer: coronary artery disease, which accounts for more than half of all heart fatalities and kills 500,000 Americans a year -- twice the toll from all varieties of cancer, five times the deaths from automobile accidents.

Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.

Through Jack Hamrick, William fell into the world of automobile promotion and got several accounts for Shoals and Clay.

Polo's travels took him across such a diverse human landscape and his accounts of the peoples he met as he journeyed were so detailed that they earned for Polo the name " the father of modern anthropology.

At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.

High international oil prices and rising oil production have led to a very strong economic growth in recent years, but corruption and public-sector mismanagement remain, particularly in the oil sector, which accounts for over 50 percent of GDP, over 90 percent of export revenue, and over 80 percent of government revenue.

The family Araceae alone accounts for about a hundred genera, totaling over two thousand species.

This distinction accounts for the difference in mass and charge between the two particles.

As of early 2011, trade with China is dominated by imports of Chinese goods and accounts for about 10 percent of Armenia's foreign trade.

Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison in London for attempting to abduct an heiress, and realised that the eastern colonies suffered from a lack of available labour, due to the practice of giving land grants to all arrivals.

The phrase ' advanced composites ' in FRP construction may indicate the addition of carbon fibre, kevlar ( tm ) or other similar materials, but it may also indicate other methods designed to introduce less expensive and, by at least one yacht surveyor's eyewitness accounts, less structurally sound materials.

Farmland accounts for a little over 80 % of the Falklands land area and a sheep appears on the islands ' coat of arms, but agriculture is now less than 2 % of the economy.

The synoptics by contrast only explicitly mention the final Passover, and their accounts are commonly understood as describing a public ministry of less than a year.

Herodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts, and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts of various Mediterranean cultures.

Hypersecretion of thyroid stimulating hormone ( TSH ), which in turn is almost always caused by a pituitary adenoma, accounts for much less than 1 percent of hyperthyroidism cases.

In 1992, a study by Deirdre Barrett examined whether lucid dreams contained four " corollaries " of lucidity: knowing that one dreams, that objects will disappear after waking, that physical laws need not apply, and having clear memory of the waking world, and found less than a quarter of lucidity accounts exhibited all four.

Within our own galaxy, molecular gas accounts for less than one percent of the volume of the interstellar medium ( ISM ), yet it is also the densest part of the medium comprising roughly one-half of the total gas mass interior to the Sun's galactic orbit.

Weather and climate in the coastal area are dominated by the cold, north-flowing Benguela current of the Atlantic Ocean which accounts for very low precipitation ( 50 mm per year or less ), frequent dense fog, and overall lower temperatures than in the rest of the country.

However, in most circumstances it accounts for less than that because of its limited absorption and digestibility.

The Gran Chaco, which accounts for about 60 % of the territory, is home to less than 2 % of the population.

Industry accounts for over one-quarter of GDP while employing less than 6 % of the work force.

While some styles and themes recur more often than others in its fiction, the stories are marked less by uniformity than by variety, and they have ranged from Updike's introspective domestic narratives to the surrealism of Donald Barthelme, and from parochial accounts of the lives of neurotic New Yorkers to stories set in a wide range of locations and eras and translated from many languages.

The licensing method accounts for why the 3DO was available from no less than four separate manufacturers.

The official accounts ( which included mentions of a missing hyphen ) were the results of an inquiry conducted in less than a week.

Alan V. Murray, however, has argued that, at least for the accounts of Persia and the Turks in his chronicle, William relied on Biblical and earlier medieval legends rather than actual history, and his knowledge " may be less indicative of eastern ethnography than of western mythography.

" there is no historicity in this tale ", also according to Eunice Burr Stebbins, and Arion and the dolphins is given as an example of " a folkloristic motif especially associated with Apollo " by Irad Malkin > Yet there are many more or less reliable historical accounts from many periods of people being saved by dolphins.

According to McGuckin, several mid-twentieth century accounts have tended to " romanticise " Nestorius ; in opposition to this view, he asserts that Nestorius was no less dogmatic, uncompromising than Cyril and that he was fully just as prepared to use his political and canonical powers as Cyril or any of the other hierarchs of the period.

According to " later accounts, more or less trustworthy ", Fabian sent out the " apostles to the Gauls " to Christianize Gaul after the persecutions under Emperor Decius had all but dissolved the small Christian communities.

In the 1970s, in Sweden, deposit accounts and other very liquid assets with little risk made up almost 60 percent of households ' financial wealth, compared to less than 20 percent in the 2000s.

88 % of the land is rural, although agriculture accounts for less than three percent of the region's jobs.

Though India is the largest producer of mangoes, it accounts for less than one percent of the international mango trade ; India consumes most of its own production.

This was already a whole lot less than what the other historic accounts claimed.