To a stranger their delight in these things may seem paradoxical, for Persians chase the golden calf as much as any people.

With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.

The terms `` renewal '' and `` refreshed '', which often come up in aesthetic discussion, seem partly to derive their import from the `` renewal '' of purpose and a `` refreshed '' sense of significance a person may receive from poetry, drama, and fiction.

The glass may seem trivial but Communist official hooliganism feeds on such incidents unless they are redressed.

Against the dramatic fight being waged for preservation of 30 miles of Cape Cod shoreline, the tiny tract at Stone Harbor may seem unimportant.

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.

That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.

It may seem to some of them that success can be purchased much less dearly by fishing in the murky waters of international politics than by facing up to the intractable tasks at home.

While the particular limits of these groupings may seem artificially arbitrary, they do fairly express a corresponding grouping of more variable material, and they eventuate also in five classes, along a similar scale, containing approximately equal numbers of cases, namely 19, 14, 15, 11, 12 in Athabascan.

But the practice is likely to be misleading, since it may seem to support a conclusion that, as long as the revenues from any class of service cover the imputed operating expenses plus some return on capital investment, however low, the rates of charge for this service are compensatory.

To those raised on Marcel's Homo Viator and Heidegger's das Nichtige, this may seem a modest role for philosophy.

Just as the suburban factory may be more convenient than the downtown plant to the worker with a car, the trip to the shopping center may seem far easier than to the downtown department store, though both are the same distance from home.

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

`` Costs may seem high, but they used to be even higher '', says Dr. Brodie.

Today a battle cry may seem an anachronism, for in the modern Army, esprit de corps has been sacrificed to organizational charts and tables.

A technique by which it is proposed to enter with compulsion into the very heart of a man and determine his values may often in fact seem the more unlimited aggression.

We may now take up for consideration a hard case which seems to require either no action employing economic pressure or else action that would seem to violate the principles set forth above.

For while the past needs of the Church in this country may have been adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in temper and tone closely resembled junior colleges and finishing schools, it would seem that today's need is for the college which more closely resembles the university in its `` pursuit of excellence ''.

Yet though it may seem difficult to envision any definitive resolution of the problem of ownership and control, there are nevertheless certain suggestions which seem to be in order.

The vast, dungeon kitchens may seem hardly worth using except on occasions when one is faced with a thousand unexpected guests for lunch.

In this he is sticking with tradition, however far removed from it he may seem to be.

Recent studies imply that methylphenidate may also act on serotonergic systems ; this may be important in explaining the paradoxical calming effect of stimulants on ADHD patients.

The well-ordering theorem has consequences that may seem paradoxical, such as the Banach – Tarski paradox.

While the circulating energy flow may seem nonsensical or paradoxical, it proves to be absolutely necessary to maintain conservation of momentum.

During REM, the activity of the brain's neurons is quite similar to that during waking hours ; for this reason, the REM-sleep stage may be called paradoxical sleep.

" A paradoxical aspect of this problem is that those most burdened may not be able to participate in the studies: " It is usually those women with the heaviest work loads who choose not to participate in these studies.

All this, along with the book's ambiguity and paradoxical nature, has helped its eventual enthusiastic reception by the reading public, but has frustrated academic attempts at analysis ( as Nietzsche may have intended ).

In statistics, regression toward the mean ( also known as regression to the mean ) is the phenomenon that if a variable is extreme on its first measurement, it will tend to be closer to the average on a second measurement, and — a fact that may superficially seem paradoxical — if it is extreme on a second measurement, will tend to have been closer to the average on the first measurement.

Adverse effects, including anterograde amnesia, depression and paradoxical effects such as excitement or worsening of seizures, may occur.

There are also serious paradoxical reactions that may occur in conjunction with the use of sedatives that lead to unexpected results in some individuals.

The paradoxical reactions may consist of depression, with or without suicidal tendencies, phobias, aggressiveness, violent behavior and symptoms sometimes misdiagnosed as psychosis.

It also explains what may at first seem a paradoxical statement by John Buchan, who as a Scottish Unionist MP stated, " I believe every Scotsman should be a Scottish nationalist.

This may sound paradoxical ; how can one implement a language in that language if it doesn't yet exist?

He pointed out the paradoxical relationship between Giddens ' " dialectic of control " and his acknowledgement that constraints may leave an agent with no choice.

' But having said this, one must insist that the two concepts have a common denominator: they both emphasize the importance of a paradoxical yet inevitable shift of a ( dramatic ) movement to its exact opposite .” Szondi's grasp of the Poetics was heavily predisposed by Max Kommerell, whose explanation of peripeteia as ' change of fortune ' “ may have prevented him from realizing the dialectical significance of Aristotle's definition .”

The geometry of nonreciprocal propagation may at first appear paradoxical.

... a vital point must be made, especially given that the yab-yum image is always said to be an image in which the partners are in sexual union ... hough it may seem paradoxical and difficult to understand, this image, nevertheless, is not literally about sex, as in sexual intercourse.

It may seem paradoxical that an infinite number of prisoners each have an even chance of being killed and yet it is certain that only a finite number are killed.

The paradoxical reactions may consist of depression, with or without suicidal tendencies, phobias, aggressiveness, violent behavior and symptoms sometimes misdiagnosed as psychosis.

Chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic and antiemetic drug, which is classed as a " major " tranquilizer may cause paradoxical effects such as agitation, excitement, insomnia, bizarre dreams, aggravation of psychotic symptoms and toxic confusional states.

In many other books, Borges dealt with metaphysical questions about the meaning of life and the possible existence of higher authorities, and also presented this same paradoxical vision of a world that may be run by a good and wise deity but seems to lack any discernible meaning.

It may be accompanied by paradoxical respiration – the intercostal muscles are paralysed and the chest is drawn passively in and out by the diaphragm.

Esslin, who coined the term " Theatre of the Absurd ", may well have found compelling Hochwälder's often paradoxical plot twists.

Although it may seem paradoxical, the use of a strong flow with an efficient fire hose and an efficient strategy ( diffused sprayed, small droplets ) requires a smaller amount of water: once the temperature is lowered, only a limited amount of water is necessary to suppress the fire seat with a straight spray.