With the arrival of the year 2012, Nostradamus's prophecies started to be co-opted ( especially by the History Channel ) as evidence suggesting that the end of the world is imminent, notwithstanding the fact that his book never mentions the end of the world, let alone the year 2012.

For example, in " Anyone who thinks they have been affected should contact their doctor ", they and their are within the scope of the universal, distributive quantifier anyone, and can be interpreted as referring to an unspecified individual or to people in general ( notwithstanding the fact that " anyone " is strictly grammatically singular ).

The chair of the department asked Fish to teach the Milton course, notwithstanding the fact that the young professor " had never — either as an undergraduate or in graduate school — taken a Milton course " ( 269 ).

His death, while in the full vigor of his years, was deeply lamented by his people, notwithstanding the fact that he had made many considerable concessions to heathen manners and customs.

When Michael Harris throws them out, one member protests that he wants to see how it ends ( notwithstanding the fact that Gilligan episodes always ended with the castaways still stuck on the island ).

Second, because Abraham acted on a prophetic vision of what God had asked him to do, the story exemplifies how prophetic revelation has the same truth value as philosophical argument and thus carries equal certainty, notwithstanding the fact that it comes in a dream or vision.

In fact, a judgment notwithstanding the verdict is occasionally made when a jury refuses to follow a judge's instruction to arrive at a certain verdict.

This is a position which is very appealing to common-sense intuitions, notwithstanding the fact that it is very difficult to establish its validity or correctness by way of logical argumentation or empirical proof.

This may be the case notwithstanding the fact that a special procedure is required to bring an amendment into force.

In the UK, the task of elaborating a new Pharmacopoeia is entrusted to a body of a purely medical character, and legally the pharmacist does not, contrary to the practice in other countries, have a voice in the matter, notwithstanding the fact that, although the medical practitioner is naturally the best judge of the drug or preparations that will afford the best therapeutic result, he is not so competent as the pharmacist to say how that preparation can be produced in the most effective and satisfactory manner, nor how the purity of drugs can be tested.

Being a thought proposition is not a part of the concept of a truth in itself, notwithstanding the fact that, given God ’ s omniscience, all truths in themselves are also thought truths.

Journalist David E. Davis, in a 2009 article in Automobile Magazine, criticized Nader for purportedly focusing on the Corvair while ignoring other contemporary vehicles with swing-axle rear suspensions, including cars from Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, notwithstanding the fact that Nader's Center for Auto Safety had published a book critical of the Beetle.

And in fact, notwithstanding substantial controversy regarding several key components of the Common Sense Revolution platform, Harris went on to implement the platform almost in its entirety.

It should be noted that the Supreme Court in their ruling regarding the signs case which led to the use of the notwithstanding clause, ruled that in fact any sign law was a violation of the freedom of expression right.

" However it should be noted that such normative comments notwithstanding, these types of flows and any destructive results are rooted in and properly attributed to the extra market activities of central bank market manipulations that in fact cause such persistent conditions of disequilibrium and insulates them against free market forces that otherwise would quickly eliminate the incentive for such flows.

The latter is argued for by the Post Office, who refuse to recognise Linslade in official postal addresses, notwithstanding the fact that on every road into Linslade, including the bridge over the river, there are prominent signs marking ' Linslade '.

Moutet, speaking for the defense, attributed political motives to the accusers, and said that notwithstanding the fact that the world had been ransacked for evidence for many months, the evidence produced was of a ridiculous and trumpery character.

Palapa Oath ( where the term Nusantara was first used ) is in reality the embryo of the modern unitary state of the Republic of Indonesia, notwithstanding the fact that the territory of Majapahit was then even much wider than the current territory of Indonesia.

He agrees to help but demands to see proof that Lauren ( whom, Allison notwithstanding, Sark also claims is " the woman loved ") is in fact dead.

Whilst the Commission agreed that the cures claimed by Mesmer were indeed cures, the commission also concluded there was no evidence of the existence of his magnetic fluid, and that its effects derived from either the imaginations of its subjects or through charlatanry .. Due to the fact that some of the phenomena produced were so strong de Jussieu refused to sign the report, notwithstanding the solicitations of his colleagues, and the threats of the Minister.

Woven into the text about the battles in Belgium are threads of fact which allied governments would employ in the formation of the west's eventual opinion that Germany had been the aggressor nation, notwithstanding the intial attack on Austria by Serbian terrorists.

As an etcher he has also to be reckoned with, notwithstanding the fact that his plates numbered not more than fifty at the outside.

This notwithstanding the fact that previously it took to him three years to pass his high school maturity exam.

Third, the fact that the basic function of the credit is to provide a seller with the certainty of payment for documentary duties suggests that banks should honor their obligation notwithstanding allegations of misfeasance by the buyer.

By considering the propagation of the negative energy modes of the electron field backward in time, Ernst Stueckelberg reached a pictorial understanding of the fact that the particle and antiparticle have equal mass m and spin J but opposite charges q.

: which is of the form suggested the previous year by M. J. Buckingham in Very High Frequency Absorption in Superconductors based on the fact that the superconducting phase transition is second order, that the superconducting phase has a mass gap and on Blevins, Gordy and Fairbank's experimental results the previous year on the absorption of millimeter waves by superconducting tin.

Others noted that almost all traits claimed to be uniquely cyberpunk could in fact be found in older writers ' works — often citing J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Stanisław Lem, Samuel R. Delany, and even William S. Burroughs.

The fact that genes were split or interrupted by introns was discovered independently in 1977 by Phillip Allen Sharp and Richard J. Roberts, for which they shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993.

In fact, the theoretical physicist, J. M. Ziman, proposed that science is public knowledge and thus includes mathematics.

In fact, L. E. J.

It is supported by the experimental fact that the lowest energy state of the nickel atom is a 4s < sup > 2 </ sup > 3d < sup > 8 </ sup > energy level, specifically the 3d < sup > 8 </ sup >(< sup > 3 </ sup > F ) 4s < sup > 2 </ sup > < sup > 3 </ sup > F, J = 4 level.

For positive J < sub > 0 </ sub > the thermodynamics of the Mattis spin glass corresponds in fact simply to a ferromagnet, just because these systems have no " frustration “ at all.

The Australian letter to number mapping was: A = 1, B = 2, F = 3, J = 4, L = 5, M = 6, U = 7, W = 8, X = 9, Y = 0, so the phone number BX 3701 was in fact 29 3701.

However, in the 1998 History Channel documentary entitled Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History, the speculation that Harding may have joined the group is highlighted by the fact that William J. Simmons, the founder of the modern Klan, once visited the President at the White House.

In fact the " J " operator could jump back into the middle of a procedure invocation even after it had already returned.

Since a one sided maximal ideal A is not necessarily two-sided, the quotient R / A is not necessarily a ring, but it is a simple module over R. If R has a unique maximal right ideal, then R is known as a local ring, and the maximal right ideal is also the unique maximal left and unique maximal two-sided ideal of the ring, and is in fact the Jacobson radical J ( R ).

This fact is corroborated, by J. Sturrock in his South Kanara and Madras Districts Manuals, and also by Haridas Bhattacharya in Cultural Heritage of India Vol.

In fact, Grohl has appeared in most countdowns run by Triple J, only excluding those in 1989, 1990, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2010.

A tourist attraction of a completely different kind, the Lovelock Correctional Center was opened in 1995 and is best known for the fact that in 2008 O. J.

D. J. Taylor argues that these factors, and the fact that Gollancz was not a person to part with such a sum on speculation, suggest that Gorer was confusing Orwell's eventual earnings from the book with a small contribution for out of pocket expenses that Gollancz might have given him.

Notable was the fact that J McLandsborough, the original proposer of the line ( who dealt predominantly with water and sewerage engineering, but had experience of building the Otley and Ilkley Railway ) was appointed acting engineer ; whilst J. S. Crossley of the Midland Railway was appointed consultant engineer.

The elements of the story were reprinted in early historian Benson J. Lossing's The Pictorial Field Guide to the Revolution ( published in 1850 ) as historical fact, and the tale was widely repeated for generations after in school primers.

" He went on to note, " This version of the origin of the name is disputed by the editor of the Springfield Express, Mr. J. G. Newbill, who, in the issue of his paper, November 11, 1881, says: ' It has been stated that this city got its name from the fact of a spring and field being near by just west of town.

This not only explains why the Guidebook facilitated them to follow the trail of the Lost Library all over the world with its enormous knowledge base, but also the fact the Junior Woodchuck's logo, based on the letters J and two Ws, looks uncannily like the Ibis Emblem of the Guardians of the Lost Library.

In the Brian Herbert / Kevin J. Anderson Legends of Dune prequel series ( 2002 – 2004 ), however, it is confirmed that his lover Norma Cenva, a mathematical genius with great psychic power, had in fact invented the space-folding ships which would eventually be called heighliners.

That J and Ω usually have the same coordinate expression ( up to an overall sign ) is simply a consequence of the fact that the metric g is usually the identity matrix.

He attracted statewide attention in 1908 when he assisted Francis J. Heney in the graft prosecution of Abe Ruef and Mayor Eugene Schmitz, his success due in large measure to the fact that after Heney had been gunned down in the courtroom, he took the lead for the prosecution and won the case.

For example, noted philosopher Mortimer J. Adler wrote, " Those who oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground that all human beings, being equal in their humanity, should be treated equally in all those respects that concern their common humanity, would have no solid basis in fact to support their normative principle.