`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

Confidence in the state's economic future is reflected in the Georgia Power Company's record construction budget for this year.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

But the most impressive testimony to Schnabel's distinction as a teacher is reflected by the individuality which marks each student's approach as distinctly his own.

With the source of light behind the copy, there is no loss of lumen output, as with conventional boards illuminated by means of reflected light.

The radio radiation of the sun which is reflected from the moon and planets should be negligible compared with their thermal emission at centimeter wave lengths, except possibly at times of exceptional outbursts of solar radio noise.

Therefore, neglecting the extreme outbursts, reflected solar radiation is not expected to cause sizable errors in the measurements of planetary radiation in the centimeter- and decimeter-wave-length range.

Limitations on the lengths of these sequences diminish the stability of the comparatively short crystallites which can be formed, and this is reflected in a broadening of the melting range.

When the platform is aligned, the reflected image of the crossed hairs can be seen exactly superimposed upon the original crossed hairs.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

A pronounced ideological diffusion -- i.e., inability to identify independently with given ideas and value systems -- is reflected in many ways.

Albedo (), or reflection coefficient, derived from Latin albedo " whiteness " ( or reflected sunlight ), in turn from albus " white ", is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface.

It is defined as the ratio of reflected radiation from the surface to incident radiation upon it.

The contrast between the roles of these gods is reflected in the adjectives Apollonian and Dionysian.

This process is well reflected in contemporary Angolan literature, especially in the works of Pepetela and Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares.

The travelling involved in the archaeology had a large influence on Christie's writing, which is often reflected as some type of transportation playing a part in her murderer ’ s schemes.

The area's industrial history is reflected in dozens of 19th-and early 20th-century manufacturing sites in the city.

It reflected Alfred's own belief in a doctrine of divine rewards and punishments rooted in a vision of a hierarchical Christian world order in which God is the Lord to whom kings owe obedience and through whom they derive their authority over their followers.

is the phase integral ( integration of reflected light ; a number in the 0 to 1 range ).

Eugene Cernan is visible reflected in Schmitt's helmet visor.

The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.

The pulsatile nature of blood flow creates a pulse wave that is propagated down the arterial tree, and at bifurcations reflected waves rebound to return to semilunar valves and the origin of the aorta.

With age, the aorta stiffens such that the pulse wave is propagated faster and reflected waves return to the heart faster before the semilunar valve closes, which raises the blood pressure.

Caution is required when benzodiazepines are used in people with personality disorders or mental retardation because of frequent paradoxical reactions.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

The position of distributists when compared to other political philosophies is somewhat paradoxical and complicated ( see Triangulation ).

Baiers is also part of a team of philosophers who hold that ethical egoism is paradoxical, implying that to do what is in one's best interests can be both wrong and right in ethical terms.

For example, the statement " A society is free if and only if liberty is maximized and people are required to take responsibility for their actions " is true or paradoxical, depending on the individual's definition of liberty.

Thus his teaching methods often seem paradoxical – Johnstone is often famous for asking his students to ‘ be boring ’, ‘ be obvious ’.

In this way, the law of excluded middle is true, but because truth itself, and therefore disjunction, is not exclusive, it says next to nothing if one of the disjuncts is paradoxical, or both true and false.

Arthur Prior asserts that there is nothing paradoxical about the liar paradox.

Saul Kripke argued that whether a sentence is paradoxical or not can depend upon contingent facts.

If Smith really is a big spender but is " not " soft on crime, then both Smith's remark about Jones and Jones's last remark about Smith are paradoxical.

This is essentially part of the differentiation between " procedural " games, where the aim ( acknowledged or otherwise ) is to tie the entire ruleset into a paradoxical condition during each turn ( a player who has no legal move available wins ), and " substantive " games, which try to avoid paradox and reward winning by achieving certain goals, such as attaining a given number of points.

Post-structuralists countered that, when closely examined, all formalized claims describing phenomena, reality, or truth, rely on some form or circular reasoning and self-referential logic that is often paradoxical in nature.

The paradoxical effect is that, the harder policing agencies work to produce security, the greater are feelings of insecurity.

In psychotherapy, paradoxical intention is the deliberate practice of a neurotic habit or thought, undertaken in order to identify and remove it.

" Cohen therefore considers it paradoxical " that the rise of early modern science was due at least in part to developments in Christian thought — in particular, to certain aspects of Protestantism " ( a thesis first developed as what is now sometimes called the Merton thesis ).

More recently, sociologist and historian of science Steven Shapin opened his book, The Scientific Revolution, with the paradoxical statement: " There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.

Critics of obscenity law argue that defining what is obscene is paradoxical, arbitrary, and subjective.