Italy, it has been argued, wished to recreate the Roman empire, though its primary aim at the time seems to have been the denial of access to the Adriatic Sea to another major sea power.

Also, it is difficult to reason objectively about the question, because a denial that an animal is conscious is often taken to imply that it does not feel, its life has no value, and that harming it is not morally wrong.

Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).

Consilience has also been discussed in reference to Holocaust denial.

However, he also justified the expression he coined — " the map is not the territory " — by saying that " the denial of identification ( as in ' is not ') has opposite neuro-linguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity ( as in ' is ').

The alleged mistreatment of prisoners, the proven mistreatment of some prisoners, and their denial of protection under the Geneva Conventions, has been a source of international controversy.

According to Finkelstein, Elie Wiesel characterizes any suggestion that he has profited from the " Holocaust Industry ", or even any criticism at all, as Holocaust denial.

The group has been accused by American analysts of engaging in Holocaust denial.

He has promoted AIDS denialism, climate change denial and his belief in astrology.

In a partly updated state, the system is particularly vulnerable to " denial of service " attacks as security has been breached, and a vulnerability window will continue to exist as long as some users have not " gotten the word ".

The Council of Europe's Explanatory Report of the Protocol says that the " European Court of Human Rights has made it clear that the denial or revision of ' clearly established historical facts — such as the Holocaust —.

It is known that Pope Leo IV had the figure of the cock placed on the Old St. Peter's Basilica or old Constantinian basilica and has served as a religious icon and reminder of Peter's denial of Christ since that time, with some churches still having the rooster on the steeple today.

# The USA has been in denial of these facts.

Leo IV had the figure of the buckfutter ( rooster ) placed on the Old St. Peter's Basilica or old Constantinian basilica and has served as a religious icon and reminder of Peter's denial of Christ since that time, with some churches still having the cockerel on the steeple today.

The frequent use of barbed wire on prison walls, around concentration camps, and the like, has made it symbolic of oppression and denial of freedom in general.

The later theories of Leibniz and Kant seem inspired by this general outlook, but the denial of the objectivity of Space has not been scientifically fruitful.

* The destruction by Azerbaijan of thousands of medieval Armenian gravestones at a cemetery in Julfa, and Azerbaijan's subsequent denial that the site had ever existed, has been widely written about as being an example of cultural genocide.

Since the 1979 revolution the persecution of Bahá ' ís has increased with oppression, the denial of civil rights and liberties, and the denial of access to higher education and employment.

Less enthusiastic was Otis Ferguson, who in his review for National Board of Review Magazine observed, " This film was made with obvious care and expense, but it will be notable in the future only as the first wrong step in a career that till now has been a denial of the very tendencies in pictures which this film represents.

It has been described as the " world's leading Holocaust denial organization.

No final judgement has been passed yet by the ICJ but the denial of preliminary measures in July 2006 allowed the mills to began functioning.

In the glittery finale, he goes through the five stages of death — anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance-featured in the stand-up routine he has been editing.

:: Example: The Court has considered Sixth Amendment claims based on actual or constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, as well as claims based on state interference with the ability of counsel to render effective assistance to the accused.

Nicholas decreed that the figure of the cock ( rooster ) should be placed on every church and has served as a religious icon and reminder of Peter's denial of Christ since that time, with some churches still having the cockerel on the steeple today.

The crash of 1929 caused fear mixed with a vertiginous disorientation, but shock was quickly cauterized with denial, both official and mass-delusional.

SQL Slammer is a computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed down general Internet traffic, starting at 05: 30 UTC on January 25, 2003.

According to a CAIDA-coordinated analysis of the SQL Slammer outbreak, its growth followed an exponential curve with a doubling time of 8. 5 seconds in the early phases of the attack, which was only slowed by the collapse of many networks because of the denial of service caused by SQL Slammer's traffic.

This latter aspect led to the denial of or refusal to deal with the separate Berber identity held by as many as 30 % of Algerians, something which caused fierce opposition and led to the splintering of the movement immediately after independence, as Hocine Aït Ahmed set up the Berberist and pro-democracy Socialist Forces Front ( FFS ).

Acceptance of the Austrian explanation of what primarily caused the Great Depression is compatible with either acceptance or denial of the Monetarist explanation.

The rapid growth and accompanying pollution in Victorian cities caused great problems for architects including denial of light, overcrowding, awkward sites, noise, accessibility and visibility of buildings, and air pollution.

The delay caused by the temples from Thrissur and Kuttanellur, was one of the reasons for denial.

His resignation on 21 October was caused by further newspaper stories which confirmed that his denial had been misleading.

His vigorous denial of anything like predestination to evil has caused a difference in the honour paid to his memory, according as writers incline respectively towards the Jesuit or Jansenist views concerning divine grace.

Upon discovering that he was in the 30th century, the conflict with the post-hypnotic command caused a form of extreme denial / amnesia.

One must note that autism is one of a number of children's neurological disorders of psychogenic nature, i. e., caused by abusive and traumatic treatment of infants .… There is persistent denial by American society of the causes of damage to millions of children who are thus traumatized and brain damaged as a consequence of cruel treatment by parents who are otherwise too busy to love and care for their babies.

Criticized by historians and teachers, among them Pierre Vidal-Naquet, who refused to recognise the French Parliament's right to influence the way history is written ( despite the French Holocaust denial laws, see Loi Gayssot ).

" On the IHR website Barbara Kulaszka defends the distinction between denial and revisionism by arguing that considerable revisions have been made over the years by historians and concludes:

* Historical revisionism ( negationism ), a particular form of historical revisionism concerned with the denial of facts accepted by mainstream historians

Other historians have argued that intractable nationality issues in the denial of self-determination to minority groups were among the dominant causes of World War I.

Thus, the debate between functionalism and intentionalism, which is considered a topic of legitimate academic debate, is different from Holocaust denial, which is regarded as pseudo-history among academic historians.

in certain instances the denial to some of our citizens of equal protection of the law.

While some suppression and some denial are not only necessary but healthy, the worker's clinical knowledge must determine how these defenses are being used, what healthy shifts in defensive adaptation are indicated, and when efforts at bringing about change can be most effectively timed.

Like some of the chemical weapons, biological weapons may also be useful as area denial weapons.

For some individuals, an obsessive compulsion to believe, prove, or re-tell a conspiracy theory may indicate one or a combination of well-understood psychological conditions, and other hypothetical ones: paranoia, denial, schizophrenia, mean world syndrome.

Nevertheless, Muslim writers sometimes note those elements of the Gospel of Baranabas that stand in accord with standard Qur ' anic teaching, such as the denial of Jesus as being Son of God and the prophetic prediction by Jesus of the coming Messenger of God and, consequently, some Muslims are inclined to regard these specific elements as representing the survival of suppressed early Jesus traditions much more compatible with Islam.

The denial of the statement A is not-A presupposes some knowledge of what A is, i. e. the statement A is A.

Practical examples of negationism ( illegitimate historical revisionism ) include Holocaust denial and some Soviet historiography.

This results in a melody that seems to be avoiding some metrical beats of the accompaniment by emphasizing notes that either anticipate or follow the beat (" a rhythmic base of metric affirmation, and a melody of metric denial ").

The denial of the virgin birth is also sometimes ascribed to the Ebionites ; however, Origen ( Contra Celsum v. 61 ) and Eusebius ( HE iii. 27 ) both indicate that some Ebionites did accept the virgin birth.

A distributed reflected denial of service attack ( DRDoS ) involves sending forged requests of some type to a very large number of computers that will reply to the requests.

Stipulating that " some future case may attempt to establish that notwithstanding equal benefits and protections under Vermont law — the denial of a marriage license operates per se to deny constitutionally-protected rights ," the court decided that this was not the issue being addressed by the case at hand.

The scientist is the believer in some measure of scientific determinism – not that this, despite his own words “ dépourvus de libre arbitre ”, need always amount to a philosophical denial of free will.

" Essex also asserted that Cecil had stated that none in the world but the Infanta of Spain had right to the Crown of England, whereupon Cecil ( who had been following the trial at a doorway concealed behind some tapestry ) stepped out to make a dramatic denial, going down on his knees to give thanks to God for the opportunity.

Nevertheless, some statements of the doctrine are interpreted as a denial of the doctrine as understood by other groups.

" In it he noted that Holocaust denial had attracted little support over the years: " It ’ s gotten some support in Iran, or places like that, but as far as I know, there is no history department supporting writing by these folks.

Solipsism is not a single concept but instead refers to several worldviews whose common element is some form of denial of the existence of a universe independent from the mind of the agent.

The root of the modern-day perplexity over mortification, according to some theologians, is the " practical denial of God ," a denial of any but material realities.

The term ' collateral damage ' has also been borrowed by the computing community to refer to the denial of service to legitimate users when administrators take blanket preventative measures against some individuals who are abusing systems.