This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.

in Medfield, perhaps twenty-five less, not all of it paid by Thayer, who could charge off one room on his expense account.

Since P was never asserted as the only sufficient condition for Q, other factors could account for Q ( while P was false ).

But any stepping forward into the democratic limelight was risky and if someone chose ( another citizen initiator ) they could be called to account for their actions and punished.

The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium ( account ) which listed public revenues, the amounts of cash in the aerarium ( treasury ), in the provincial fisci ( tax officials ), and in the hands of the publicani ( public contractors ); and that it included the names of the freedmen and slaves from whom a detailed account could be obtained.

An account of small cash sums received over a few days at the fort of Vindolanda circa 110 AD shows that the fort could compute revenues in cash on a daily basis, perhaps from sales of surplus supplies or goods manufactured in the camp, items dispensed to slaves such as cervesa ( beer ) and clavi caligares ( nails for boots ), as well as commodities bought by individual soldiers.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.

Previously in the United Kingdom, under the Companies Act 1985, protections for non-member stakeholders were considerably more limited ( see for example, s. 309 which permitted directors to take into account the interests of employees but which could only be enforced by the shareholders and not by the employees themselves ).

Jacobs does not lend her theory to any reasonably strict definition of a city, but her account suggestively or vaguely contrasts what could be thought of as primitive city-like activity to the activity occurring in neighboring hunter-gatherer settlements.

Coins could be counterfeited, but they also created a new unit of account, which helped lead to banking.

All other forms of intrastate conflict, such as rebellion, are not accounted for because, in theoretical terms, Clausewitz could not account for warfare before the state ( However, near the end of his life, Clausewitz grew increasingly aware of the importance of non-state military actors.

Because this theory could account for the presence of diluvium, the word drift became the preferred term for the loose, unsorted material, today called till.

Moreover, according to this thesis, a major motivational factor for Gorbachev was his realization that the Soviet Union could not compete economically with the USA However, if economic premises are taken into account, it is not clear why the Soviet leaders did not adopt the Chinese option — economic liberalization with preservation of political system.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deforestation, mainly in tropical areas, could account for up to one-third of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

They discovered a greater amount of cultural diversity than they had ever imagined, and the question arose of how this vast amount of human cultural diversity could be compatible with the biblical account of Noah's descendants.

In this account, the act could not be performed except by " the true king ," meaning the divinely appointed king or true heir of Uther Pendragon.

Kraepelin proposed that by studying case histories and identifying specific disorders, the progression of mental illness could be predicted, after taking into account individual differences in personality and patient age at the onset of disease.

The three priests answer to Bishop Len Brennan, who has banished them to Craggy Island as punishment for different incidents in their past: Ted for alleged financial impropriety ( apparently involving some money ' resting ' in his account and a child being deprived a visit to Lourdes so that Ted could go to Las Vegas ), Dougal for something only referred to as the " Blackrock Incident " ( resulting in many " lives irreparably damaged "), and Jack for his alcoholism and womanising.

Since Galen states that he is using observations of monkeys ( human dissection was prohibited ) to give an account of what the body looks like, Vesalius could portray himself as using Galen's approach of description of direct observation to create a record of the exact details of the human body, since he worked in a time when human dissection was allowed.

Blackhirst has suggested, by contrast, that Galatian's account of this argument could be the reason the gospel's writer attributed it to Barnabas.

For example, it is quite common for works of moral instruction to have an imaginative setting, as a means of getting the audience's attention, but it is difficult to see how Hesiod could have travelled the countryside entertaining people with a narrative about himself if the account was known to be fictitious.

In his book Sketches on the History of Man in 1734 Home claimed that the environment, climate, or state of society could not account for racial differences, so that the races must have come from distinct, separate stocks.

For the past hundred years there has been an abundance of evidence that psychological and physiological changes could be produced by hypnotism which were worth study on their own account, and also that such changes might be of great service in the treatment of patients.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.

The presence of the two exhaust fans seemed to indicate that the hall could become crowded for air.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

Their roar, like the swelling volume of a hundred tornadoes could be heard for miles.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

Then, helpfully, as she merely stared at him in weary silence, `` Maybe you could write it down for me, huh??

An' that could mean trouble with a fella that's workin' for crooks.

Dan could hear Clayton Burnside and Eben Jackson summing up their final reckoning for rental on the oxen.

there he could shave and scrub himself up for the evening.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

By then Hez could see for himself, and so could the others.

A hell of an altitude for a barrel roll, but it could be done.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

He could use your clothes for a costume and a heavy veil for a mask.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` Karipo's women then named this place ' Eromonga ' -- manhood -- for just the strongest men could stay here.

Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.