The working test of `` the facts '' must always be the best available description obtainable from scholars and scientists who have applied their methods of investigation to relevant situations.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.

Finally, information is retrieved from the dictionary as required by stages of the translation process -- the grammatical description for sentence-structure determination, equivalent-choice information for semantic analysis, and target-language equivalents for output construction.

The grammatical description of each occurrence in the text must be retrieved from the dictionary to permit such an analysis.

A description of this process will serve to illustrate how any type of information can be retrieved from the dictionary and attached to each text occurrence.

It is not positivism which has isolated metaphysics from reality by distinguishing between description and prescription.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

Tabari relates ( Suyuti also relates the same through Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi's report ) from Aisha her description of Abu Bakr:

Another passage from Proclus ' commentary on the Timaeus gives a description of the geography of Atlantis: That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea.

A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

In 1515, he created his woodcut of a Rhinoceros which had arrived in Lisbon from a written description and sketch by another artist, without ever seeing the animal himself.

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

The categorization of dances as " ballroom dances " has always been fluid, with new dances or folk dances being added to or removed from the ballroom repertoire from time to time, so no list of subcategories or dances is any more than a description of current practices.

However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.

Some of Bede's material came from oral traditions, including a description of the physical appearance of Paulinus of York, who had died nearly 90 years before Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica was written.

The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan.

He argues that the author of Daniel uses elements from the description of the wild man Enkidu, who roams the steppe with the animals.

It begins with an epistolary address to the reader followed by an apocalyptic description of a complex series of events derived from prophetic visions which the author claims to have seen.

George French Angus may have collected a description of a bunyip in his account of a " water spirit " from the Moorundi people of the Murray River before 1847, stating it is " much dreaded by them … It inhabits the Murray ; but … they have some difficulty describing it.

The first published description of the blue whale comes from Robert Sibbald's Phalainologia Nova ( 1694 ).

* The epistolary novel Ides of March by Thornton Wilder centers on Julius Caesar, but prominently features Catullus, his poetry, his relationship ( and correspondence ) with Clodia, correspondence from his family and a description of his death.

Capra's description: " Hitler occupies Denmark and Norway, outflanks Maginot Line, drives British Army into North Sea, forces surrender of France.

Pytheas description of Thule as a land six days sailing north of Britain, where there is no nightfall in summer, might be the first written reference to what we today know as Norway.

However, though Ohthere does not give any name for the area where his " Finnas ", or Sami people, lived, he gives a lengthy description of their lives in and around northern Norway without mentioning Kvens.

The Orkneyinga saga contains a realistic description of Nór traveling from Kvenland to Norway.

Despite this, some people choose to continue see themselves as having ethnic or cultural ties to Norway ; as such, they may include the word " Norwegian " in their description for themselves ( for example, in the United States, Norwegian-Americans ).

1992 saw the release of Svartedauen ( Norwegian for " The Black Death "), a 38-minute musical description of the ravages of the bubonic plague in Norway around 1349.

From 1920, with the exception of ( for unknown reasons ) the years 1926-27, and of course the war years 1940-44, Norwegian students were awarded the Norway Scholarship for studies of the most varied description.

His most famous work is the versified topographical description of northern Norway, Nordlands Trompet (" The Trumpet of Nordland "), and some psalms still in use, most prominently Herre Gud, ditt dyre navn og ære (" Good Lord, thy precious name and glory ").

It has surrendered any claims of description in favor of psychological accounts of nothingness, as in Heidegger's system ( 1929 ).

AES has a fairly simple algebraic description.

The first string has a short English-language description, namely " ab 32 times ", which consists of 11 characters.

The second one has no obvious simple description ( using the same character set ) other than writing down the string itself, which has 64 characters.

Any string s has at least one description, namely the program:

The description of the Uppsala temple is one of the most famous excerpts of the Gesta, however as no archaeological site has ever been found, one can wonder if Adam ’ s description is linked to reality.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

Samuel answers the description of the " prophet like Moses " predicted in Deuteronomy 18: 15-22: like Moses, he has direct contact with Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, acts as a judge, and is a perfect leader who never makes mistakes.

The Roman Lucretius's scientific poem " On the Nature of Things " ( c. 60 BC ) has a remarkable description of Brownian motion of dust particles.

This description in reference to the Act of Union 1801 which expanded the United Kingdom of Great Britain to include Ireland, has since been greatly expanded, although the primary date of UK Independence is now given as 1927.

Like other SI base units, the candela has an operational definition — it is defined by a description of a physical process that will produce one candela of luminous intensity.

Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is that " War is the continuation of Politik by other means " ( Politik being variously translated as ' policy ' or ' politics ,' terms with very different implications ), a description that has won wide acceptance.

Kant's description of the making of a concept has been paraphrased as "... to conceive is essentially to think in abstraction what is common to a plurality of possible instances ..." ( H. J.

Defoe's description of Glasgow ( Glaschu ) as a " Dear Green Place " has often been misquoted as a Gaelic translation for the town.

However the area of process description has evolved in the frameworks of workflow and business processes with supporting languages and software packages which considerably simplify the tasks.

Taken as a physical description of space, postulate 2 ( extending a line ) asserts that space does not have holes or boundaries ( in other words, space is homogeneous and unbounded ); postulate 4 ( equality of right angles ) says that space is isotropic and figures may be moved to any location while maintaining congruence ; and postulate 5 ( the parallel postulate ) that space is flat ( has no intrinsic curvature ).

Taste for fine material has since become general, and the drapery of embroidered fabrics used at feasts surpasses every description.

Then, after the synthesis engine has mapped the design to a netlist, the netlist is translated to a gate level description where simulation is repeated to confirm the synthesis proceeded without errors.