As in choosing a wife, it is only sensible to consider also how appealing a pool is likely to be in bad weather as well as in good.

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

:" It is sensible to avoid drinking alcohol when taking medication.

Specifically, after acknowledging the various popular theories in vogue at the time, of how atoms were reasoned to attach to each other, i. e. " hooked atoms ", " glued together by rest ", or " stuck together by conspiring motions ", Newton states that he would rather infer from their cohesion, that " particles attract one another by some force, which in immediate contact is exceedingly strong, at small distances performs the chemical operations, and reaches not far from the particles with any sensible effect.

North American wolves are generally the same size as European wolves, but have shorter legs, larger, rounder heads, broader, more obtuse muzzles, and a sensible depression at the union of nose and forehead, which is more arched and broad.

), or one of the two terms is dominant ( signified over signifier ; intelligible over sensible ; speech over writing ; activity over passivity ; male over female ; man over animal, etc ).

It is expensive to produce a completely new edition of the Britannica, and its editors delay for as long as fiscally sensible ( usually about 25 years ).

The way we know sensible objects is called " sensible intuition ".

The reason why we do not deal with sensible objects in mathematics is because of another faculty of understanding called " categorial abstraction.

The belief that the universe is a sensible place and that our minds allow us to arrive at correct conclusions about it, is a belief we hold through faith.

Rationalists contend that this is arrived at because they have observed the world being consistent and sensible, not because they have faith that it is.

The latter, guided solely by the light of nature, advances slowly by reasoning on sensible objects and effects, and only after long and laborious investigation is it able at length to contemplate with difficulty the invisible things of God, to discover and understand a First Cause and Author of all things.

The reality is more complex: the atmosphere near the surface is largely opaque to thermal radiation ( with important exceptions for " window " bands ), and most heat loss from the surface is by sensible heat and latent heat transport.

In practice, choosing sensible timeout values is difficult, and systems almost inevitably use infinite timeouts for clients and zero timeouts for servers.

Most people would probably agree that at some 7 500 strong the Army is unnecessarily large, but sensible plans will need to be made for the employment of any surplus soldiers before they are discharged.

A combination of these stories is given by the French traveler Pouqueville, who writes that when the cord was thrown over his neck, Osman ' had the presence of mind to slip it with his hand, and knock down the principal executioner ; on which his grand vizier seized him by the most sensible part of his body, when Osman fainted with pain, and was strangled.

So, the statement " a deity can do anything " is only sensible with an assumed suppressed clause, " that implies the perfection of true power.

A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.

More than anything, it is the therapist's intuitive sensing of these latent meanings in the stereotype which helps these meanings to become revealed, something like a spread-out deck of cards, on sporadic occasions over the passage of the patient's and his months of work together.

The threadbare notion that belief, unlike behaviour, is not subject to objective analysis, has placed intuitive metaphysics squarely against the sociology of knowledge, since it is precisely the job of the sociology of knowledge to treat beliefs as social facts no less viable than social behaviour.

It is very important indeed, in the field of extra-sensory perception and its relation to the survival hypothesis, to know whether the statements are actually only those which any intuitive person might venture and an eager sitter attach to himself.

Although gold has an atomic number of 79, immediately after Rutherford's paper appeared in 1911 Antonius Van den Broek made the intuitive suggestion that atomic number is nuclear charge.

CyKey ( pronounced sai-ki or " psyche ") is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield, who died in 1995 but the name also reflects its intuitive nature.

Even though the three processes mentioned above proved to be equivalent, the fundamental premise behind the thesis — the notion of what it means for a function to be effectively calculable — is " a somewhat vague intuitive one ".

Customers are likely not as patient to work through malfunctions or gaps in user safety, and there is an expectation that the usability of systems should be somewhat intuitive: “ it helps make the machine an extension of the way I think — not how it wants me to think .”

A larger theme is found in that the responsiveness, intuitive design and overall usability of a system can influence the users ’ opinions and preferences of systems.

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer argued that concepts are " mere abstractions from what is known through intuitive perception, and they have arisen from our arbitrarily thinking away or dropping of some qualities and our retention of others.

Sometimes the calculations are simpler ( an example is inertial circles ), and sometimes the intuitive picture coincides more closely with the rotational frame ( an example is sedimentation in a centrifuge ).

In stories such as these, the primary concern of the plot is ascertaining truth, and the usual means of obtaining the truth is a complex and mysterious process combining intuitive logic, astute observation, and perspicacious inference.

For effective utilization and handling it is desired that a data model is relatively simple and intuitive.

A common way to carry out conceptual level design is to use the entity-relationship model ( ERM ) ( both the basic one, and with possible enhancement that it has gone over ), since it provides a straightforward, intuitive perception of an application's elements and semantics.

Though a large body of research exists for this method it is more complex, less intuitive, and not more effective than the ERM method.

Another example is a strong operationalist viewpoint, which contends that reliance on operational definitions, as purported by the DSM, necessitates that intuitive concepts such as depression be replaced by specific measurable concepts before they are scientifically meaningful.

One possible criticism is that it is less intuitive than The Rational Model.

This is intuitive: the expected value of a random variable is the average of all values it can take ; thus the expected value is what you expect to happen on average.

`` All I have to do to set the record is to go on down.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.

To say this is to set aside the realness of time.

I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

I believe it is an area in which professional planners have failed to set adequate guide posts ; ;

It is high time the United States began to realize that the God-given rights of men set forth in that document are applicable today to Katanga.

One of the inescapable realities of the Cold War is that it has thrust upon the West a wholly new and historically unique set of moral dilemmas.

The day is now appropriately set aside to honor the American men and women who have contributed to the success of our merchant marine fleet in peace and war.

The Act further provides for a `` floor '' or minimum allotment, set at the 1954 level, which is called the `` base '' allotment, and a `` ceiling '' or maximum allotment, for each State.

The method used in computing the allotments is specifically set forth in the Act.

The method used for computing the respective Federal and State shares in total program costs is specifically set forth in the Act.

It is equipped with electronic controls that can be set to hold precise tension and speed.

the purpose of producing plays at the College is three-fold: to provide the Carleton students with the best possible opportunity for theater-going within the limits set by the maturity and experience of the performers and the theatrical facilities available ; ;

The first substantially complete stereo Giselle ( and the only one of its scope since Feyer's four-sided LP edition of 1958 for Angel ), this set is, I'm afraid, likely to provide more horrid fascination than enjoyment.

The Rio Grande KC is also considering having their Junior Classes set up so that Juniors can qualify with points for Westminster.

There is no limit to what you can spend, yet it is easily possible to keep within a set budget.

The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.

He is a fine-looking colt with a good body, good set of legs and nice way of going.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

There is even one set that has `` barbecue '' written on it.