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.

It is not unfair to add on the other side that the crude and almost vitriolic approach of certain fundamentalist sects toward the cultures and religions among which they work has contributed measurably to this heightening of anti-Christian sentiment.

Western alchemy is recognized as a protoscience that contributed to the development of modern chemistry and medicine.

Thus, a well-planned adobe wall of the appropriate thickness is very effective at controlling inside temperature through the wide daily fluctuations typical of desert climates, a factor which has contributed to its longevity as a building material.

Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

Perhaps there is only one relevant work of art, the whole performance, which many different people have contributed to, and which will exist briefly and then disappear.

The mother of a bastard may summon the putative father to petty sessions within 12 months of the birth ( or at any later time if he is proved to have contributed to the child's support within 12 months after the birth ), and the justices, as after hearing evidence on both sides, may, if the mother's evidence be corroborated in some material particular, adjudge the man to be the putative father

The Newton formula can lead one to believe that flight is more difficult than it actually is, due to this overprediction of drag and thus required thrust, and it may have contributed to a delay in human flight.

Augustus, Hadrian and the rich grammarian Herodes Atticus contributed greatly to its embellishment ; the aqueduct still preserved is due to the latter.

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

Bosnia is one of the countries where Russia has contributed troops for the NATO-led stabilization force.

Although Burundi is potentially self-sufficient in food production, the ongoing civil war, overpopulation, and soil erosion have contributed to the contraction of the subsistence economy by 25 % in recent years.

Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942 ) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.

While bone is essentially brittle, it does have a significant degree of elasticity, contributed chiefly by collagen.

This statue is the centerpiece of Lubbock's Walk of Fame, which honors notable people who contributed to Lubbock's musical history.

Whether or not this hypothesis is accurate, it is clear that several existing conditions such as war, famine, and weather contributed to the severity of the Black Death.

It is common for retiring professors to have served the university for thirty, forty, and even occasionally, fifty years, a circumstance that has contributed to the stability and conservatism of an institution of higher learning that has virtually no endowment and at which faculty salaries are " sacrificial.

In his early career he and his bands contributed to the Turkish rock movement by combining traditional Turkish music with rock influences, which is still one of the main trends of Turkish popular music.

To implement a surface of constant potential energy quantitatively, let the height of the water be: then the potential energy per unit mass contributed by gravity is and the total potential energy per unit mass on the surface is

However, to Cranmer is ' credited the overall job of editorship and the overarching structure of the book ' including the systematic amendment of his materials to remove any idea that human merit contributed to their salvation.

* In the book Faithful by Steward O ' Nan and Stephen King, describing the 2004 season of the Boston Red Sox, there is a chapter contributed by King, named " The Gloom is gone from Mudville ".

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.

The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.

The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.

That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??