While I fully agree with Sir Anthony's contention, I think that we must carry the analysis farther, bearing in mind that while common peril may be the measure of our need, the existence or absence of a positive sense of community must be the measure of our capacity.

It should be noted that the term " lifestyle " to signify BDSM is occasionally a contention topic in the BDSM community and that some dominatrices may dislike the term.

MIMD does raise issues of deadlock and resource contention, however, since threads may collide in their access to resources in an unpredictable way that is difficult to manage efficiently.

There is some speculation that it may have operated in 1945 as well, but for now there is not enough documented evidence to support this contention.

Another point of contention is that those countries who currently receive preferential treatment from EU member states – often due to colonial ties – as part of the ACP group may stand to lose out.

Beware most strictly of any outbursts of emotion which may engender needless complications, or any fraternal contention and strike which may create confusion, lead you astray and cause you to lose the confidence of the world.

Which images, ideas, and objects constitute idolatry is often a matter of considerable contention, and within all the Abrahamic religions the term may be used in a very wide sense, with no implication that the behaviour objected to actually consists of the religious worship of a physical object.

A DSLAM may also support quality of service ( QoS ) features like contention, differentiated services (" DiffServ ") and priority queues.

What may become a matter of contention, however, is a situation where one successor state seeks either to continue to be recognised under the same federal name of that of its predecessor or to assume the privileged position in international organisations held by the preceding federation.

While there is no single point of contention within the software / hardware components of SN systems, it should be noted that information from disparate nodes may still need to be reintegrated at some point.

No evidence that such a firearm was " ordinary military equipment " had been presented at the trial court ( apparently because the case had been thrown out — at the defendants ' request — before evidence could be presented ), although two Supreme Court justices at the time had been United States Army officers during World War I and may have had personal knowledge of the use of such weapons in combat, and the Supreme Court indicated it could not take judicial notice of such a contention.

A load may be satisfied from RAM or from a cache, and may be slowed by resource contention.

However, when devices on the bus have logic errors, manufacturing defects or are driven beyond their design speeds, arbitration may break down and contention may result.

:: I have no difficulty accepting the appellants ' contention that whether or not sexual orientation is based on biological or physiological factors, which may be a matter of some controversy, it is a deeply personal characteristic that is either unchangeable or changeable only at unacceptable personal costs, and so falls within the ambit of s. 15 protection as being analogous to the enumerated grounds.

Religion in the circumstances may be more a marker of the groups than an actual point of contention between them.

Such a distinction, if empirically borne out, would support the contention of evolutionary psychologists that certain features of human psychology may be mechanisms that have evolved, through natural selection, to solve specific problems of social interaction, rather than expressions of general intelligence.

In the above table, an " x " placed before a team's name shows that the team has qualified for playoff position ; other letters may be used to show that a team is guaranteed first place, has been eliminated from contention and so forth.

One example of Fell's claims is his contention in Saga America that Brendan of Clonfert may have reached North America centuries before Columbus.

In leagues like the National Hockey League where regular season standings are based on a point system ( i. e. two points are awarded for a win, one point for losing in overtime or a shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation ), a team may be forced to use an extra attacker even when the scored is tied near the end of regulation of its last regular season game to avoid being eliminated from playoff contention.

After the departure of Kimi Räikkönen to Ferrari, it was speculated that he may have been in contention for a 2007 race seat in the team alongside World Champion Fernando Alonso.

While low-income groups may be more sensitive to increased cost sharing, there is little evidence to support this contention.

Since the general rule is that " a litigant may only assert his own constitutional rights or immunities ," ( United States v. Raines, 362 U. S. 17, 22 ) we hold that appellants have no standing to raise this contention.

Awdry complained that Percy did not look like a real locomotive, an issue that had caused contention between the two men on several occasions and concerning several characters.

The younger Fielder also saw his contention in the 2007 NL MVP race as a way of proving his father wrong, but gets little else from the rift but motivation saying, " You've got to look at who's saying it.

England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7 / 92 by Percy Hornibrook in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2 – 1.

The precise date of Easter has at times been a matter for contention.

The map of Europe was redrawn at the Yalta Conference and divided as it became the principal zone of contention in the Cold War between the two power blocs, the Western countries and the Communist bloc.

Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.

Heading into December, Jacksonville was at the top of the AFC South and in playoff contention.

The rivalry was relatively docile in its early years until 1966 when the Jets removed the Patriots, who had hopes of appearing in Super Bowl I, from playoff contention with a 38 – 28 defeat at Shea Stadium.

Thomas Hobbes instead founded a contractualist theory of legal positivism on what all men could agree upon: what they sought ( happiness ) was subject to contention, but a broad consensus could form around what they feared ( violent death at the hands of another ).

Charles was willing to recognize the Pope as his feudal overlord ( a bone of contention with the Hohenstaufens ) and was crowned by cardinals in Rome, where Clement IV, permanently established at Viterbo, dared not venture, since the anti-papal Ghibelline party was so firmly in control there.

He had no sooner left the Transvaal than the-old Lydenburg party, headed by Cornelis Potgieter, landdrost of Lydenburg, protested that the union would be much more beneficial to the Free State than to the people of Lydenburg, and followed this up with the contention that it was illegal for any one to be president of the South African Republic and the Free State at the same time.

# The contention that occurs when a terminal and data circuit-terminating equipment ( DCE ) specify the same channel at the same time to transfer a call request and handle an incoming call.

* Resource contention, a general concept in communications and computing, is competition by users of a system for the facility at the same time:

** Bus contention, in computer design, where multiple devices on a computer bus attempt to use it at the same time

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

Foreign policy was the primary issue of contention, for Walpole and Townshend believed that George I was conducting foreign affairs with the interests of his German territories — rather than those of Great Britain — at heart.

At age 62, it was Snead's third consecutive top ten finish at the PGA Championship, but his last time in contention at a major.

This contention has been partly corroborated by some modern studies that indicate slaves ' material conditions in the 19th century were " better than what was typically available to free urban laborers at the time.

One possible theory speculates that Houston traveled to Texas at the behest of President Jackson in order to facilitate a U. S. annexation of the territory, yet this contention has not been verified with supporting evidence.

A point of contention is whether it is better to use proud probes, where the angle between the magnetic field and the surface is at least 15 °, or flush-mounted probes, which are embedded in the plasma-facing components and generally have an angle of 1 to 5 °.

Similar conflicts can arise at the hardware level between processors ( cache contention and corruption, for example ), and must usually be resolved in hardware, or with a combination of software and hardware ( e. g., cache-clear instructions ).

However, in the continuum of tourism activities that stretch from conventional tourism to ecotourism proper, there has been a lot of contention to the limit at which biodiversity preservation, local social-economic benefits, and environmental impact can be considered " ecotourism ".

It was the military prosecution's contention that Calley, in defiance of the rules of engagement, ordered his men to deliberately murder unarmed Vietnamese civilians despite the fact that his men were not under enemy fire at all.

Shepard's murder brought national and international attention to the contention of hate crime legislation at the state and federal levels.

The Gordon Heights Fire District has been at the center of contention in recent years, with some residents complaining that the district has the highest tax rates on Long Island.

For the next 10 years, all the land at the forks of the Ohio River was the subject of contention between French and English.