Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

It occurred to me that you might be interested in some thoughts which I expressed privately in recent years, in the hope of clearing up a certain confusion in the public mind about what foreign policy is all about and what it means, and of developing a certain compassion for those who are carrying such responsibilities inside Government.

Continuing technical problems involved in the use of this fuel, coupled with significant improvements in aircraft range through other means, have now raised serious questions about the value of the high-energy fuel program.

Providing these means are about ninety companies which manufactured the estimated 1,800,000 boat trailers now in use.

Practically all the people of Laos, he explained -- about two million of them -- are rice farmers, and the means and motives of modern war are as strange to them as clocks and steel plows.

But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.

When speaking about the reals, sometimes it means " all reals but a set of Lebesgue measure zero " ( formally, almost everywhere ).

For him, " probability " means a higher chance of occurring, and brings about a higher degree of subjective expectation in the viewer.

Salieri is characterized as both in awe of and insanely jealous of Mozart, going so far as to renounce God for blessing his adversary ; " Amadeus " means love of God, or God's love, and the play can be said to be about God-given talent, or the lack thereof: Salieri is hospitalized in a mental institution, where he announces himself as " the Patron Saint of mediocrity ".

A deeper criticism of Green archaeoastronomy is that while it can answer whether there was likely to be an interest in astronomy in past times, its lack of a social element means that it struggles to answer why people would be interested, which makes it of limited use to people asking questions about the society of the past.

In economics, adaptive expectations means that people form their expectations about what will happen in the future based on what has happened in the past.

In simpler term, Biotechnology is the research and development in the laboratory that involves bioinformatics for exploration, extraction, exploitation and production from any living organisms and any source of biomass by means of biochemical engineering where high value-added products could be planned ( reproduced by Biosynthesis, for example ), fore-casted, formulated, developed, manufactured and marketed for the purpose of sustainable operations ( for the return from bottomless initial investment on R & D ) and gaining durable patents rights ( for exclusives rights for sales, and prior to this to receive national and international approval from the results on animal experiment and human experiment, especially on the pharmaceutical branch of biotechnology to prevent any undetected side-effects on safety concerns by using the products ), for more about the biotechnology industry, see.

According to the 802. 16-2004 standard, broadband means " having instantaneous bandwidths greater than 1 MHz and supporting data rates greater than about 1. 5 Mbit / s.

Others, though, have argued that the level of disagreement about the meaning of the word indicates that it either means different things to different people, or else is an umbrella term encompassing a variety of distinct meanings with no simple element in common.

Daniel Dennett has argued for an approach he calls heterophenomenology, which means treating verbal reports as stories that may or may not be true, but his ideas about how to do this have not been widely adopted.

As concern about landfill space increases, worldwide interest in recycling by means of composting is growing, since composting is a process for converting decomposable organic materials into useful stable products.

" ( ( i. e., a role model ) over the course of history, and a part of the divine intent of bringing about an age of peace and sanctity where ideally a faithful life and good deeds should be ends in themselves, not means.

The average GPA for admission is typically about 3. 25, which means that a large portion of students enter with GPAs of 3. 8 and higher.

The term clairvoyance ( from French clair meaning " clear " and voyance meaning " vision ") is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception.

Conservation of angular momentum in the Earth-Moon system requires that the angular momentum lost by the Earth due to tidal friction be transferred to the Moon, increasing its angular momentum, which means that its moment arm ( its distance from the Earth ) is increased ( for the time being about + 3. 8 cm / year ), which via Kepler's laws of planetary motion causes the Moon to revolve around the Earth at a slower rate.

In the first case, a theory means a postulation about what ought to be.

* Normative ethics, about the practical means of determining a moral course of action ;

The lack of a decipherment means there is no definite evidence for this view, though there is support based on onomatopoeia ( for example: AB 23 ' mu ' from Hieroglyphic 12, a bull-head ; AB 80 ' ma ' from H cat-head ; AB 67 ' ki ' from H 57 a sistrum ( a type of rattle ); AB 60 ' ra ' from H 18 dog-head ; AB 50 ' pu ' from H 58 harp ).

Its name comes from the Greek words (, “ less ”) and (, “ new ”) and means " less recent " because it has 18 % fewer modern sea invertebrates than the Pliocene.

Also, 18 consecutive days of elevated temperatures means a woman is almost certainly pregnant.

According to Title 18 of the United States Code, "... the term " toxin " means the toxic material or product of plants, animals, microorganisms ( including, but not limited to, bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiae or protozoa ), or infectious substances, or a recombinant or synthesized molecule, whatever their origin and method of production ..."

According to Rebbenu Bachya, the word Yahalom in the verse Exodus 28: 18 means " pearl " and was the stone on the Hoshen representing the tribe of Zebulun.

This means that if someone has the DNA type of ABC, where the three loci were independent, we can say that the probability of having that DNA type is the probability of having type A times the probability of having type B times the probability of having type C. This has resulted in the ability to generate match probabilities of 1 in a quintillion ( 1x10 < sup > 18 </ sup >) or more.

The number 18 has special meaning in Judaism ( it means Alive in Gematria ) and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis.

According to Young's Literal Translation, Nehushtan means " piece of brass " ( 2 Kings 18: 4 ).

As each Venetian galley was manned by 140 oarsmen, that means there were about 18, 000 Venetians still in the Empire even after Manuel I's arrests.

That means 54 were over 18.

All told the array can supply the company with 15 – 18 percent of its total energy requirements, reducing the amount of greenhouse gases that would be produced to create that energy by other means.

This means that 63. 6 % of the catchment is grassland, with a further 18. 3 % woodland and 10. 7 % arable land.

Due to international agreements the UK is signatory to, the cannabis warning process could not be extended to those under 18, who have to either be dealt with unofficially by confiscation and parental disclosure or by means of arrest.

* September 18: The Nimda worm is discovered and spreads through a variety of means including vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and backdoors left by Code Red II and Sadmind worm.

Monthly means at McMurdo Station range from − 28 ° C (− 18. 4 ° F ) in August to − 3 ° C ( 26. 6 ° F ) in January.

For the psychology of totemism, Thurnwald later ( 1917 – 18 ) put forth a detailed, systematic presentation ; by means of concrete examples, he also raised questions about the connections of totemism with ancestor worship, notions of souls, and beliefs in power, magic, offerings, and oracles.

The Old Norse noun óðr may be the origin of the theonym Óðinn ( Anglicized as Odin ), and it means " mind ", " soul " or " spirit " ( so used in stanza 18. 1 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá ).

The Sovereign Council was introduced on September 18, 1663, as means to lessen the Governors ’ power.

A month before the hotel's scheduled opening in August 2008, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon said that an 18 % increase in room night bookings through 2017, as of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, compared to the previous year's, confirmed the city's decision to move forward with the hotel development project as a means of bolstering Baltimore's convention business.

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon said at a July 18 news conference that an 18 % increase in room night bookings in Baltimore's hotels through 2017, as of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, compared to the previous year's, confirmed the city's decision to move forward with the hotel development project as a means of bolstering Baltimore's convention business.

The Book of Genesis 14: 18, mentions a city called Salem, which most Jewish commentators believe refers to Jerusalem, ruled by King Melchizedek, whose name means " my king is zedek ", where Zedek is believed to refer either to the Canaanite deity Sydyk or the word righteous.

Various influential friends recognised Maclise's genius and promise, and were anxious to furnish him with the means of studying in London ; but refusing all financial assistance, he saved the money himself and arrived in the capital on 18 July 1827.

In the final vote of the House of Commons on 18 March 2003, Reed abstained on an amendment declaring " that the case for war against Iraq has not yet been established, especially given the absence of specific United Nations authorisation ", but then went on to support the Government motion which declared that the United Nations authority to use force had revived and supporting " the decision of Her Majesty's Government that the United Kingdom should use all means necessary to ensure the disarmament of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction ".