by this term he means to ridicule their professions of acting in the interest of the Church despite their own education and manner of life -- a gibe, in other words, at the `` Presbyterianism '' in Harley's family and at Bolingbroke's reputed impiety.

For the study of the mechanical behavior of solids and fluids these are assumed to be continuous bodies, which means that the matter fills the entire region of space it occupies, despite the fact that matter is made of atoms, has voids, and is discrete.

In Swedish, the word " rolig " means " fun " ( as in " It was a fun party "), while in the closely related languages Danish and Norwegian it means " calm " ( as in " he was calm despite all the furor around him ").

Under this view, a government is composed of individuals ; despite that democratic governments are elected by popular vote, the fact remains that all of the activities of government are carried out by means of the intentions and actions of individuals.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

Significantly, despite popular belief to the contrary, a system's being " fail-safe " means not that failure is impossible / improbable, but rather that the system's design prevents or mitigates unsafe consequences of the system's failure ; that is, if and when a " fail-safe " system " fails ", it is " safe " or at least no less safe than when it is operating correctly.

Proponents of these amendments, both of which passed with greater than 60 % voter approval, are accusing Scott's administration of attempting to " thwart the will of the voters ", by " abusing their power ", and the VRA's preclearance clause, as a means to defeat these amendments despite overwhelming voter support.

This means that runners can keep running despite pain, continuously surpassing what they otherwise would consider to be their limit.

Regardless of the importance they gave to the Temple, and despite their support of Bar Koseba ’ s revolt, the Pharisees ’ vision of Jewish law as a means by which ordinary people could engage with the sacred in their daily lives provided them with a position from which to respond to all four challenges in a way meaningful to the vast majority of Jews.

The absence of large-bodied water means that Hamilton is colder during the night than places like Auckland and Tauranga, despite its low elevation.

The book's title is a reference to the means by which farm-based societies conquered populations of other areas and maintained dominance, despite sometimes being vastly out-numbered – superior weapons provided immediate military superiority ( guns ); Eurasian diseases weakened and reduced local populations, who had no immunity, making it easier to maintain control over them ( germs ), and centralized government promoted nationalism and powerful military organizations ( steel ).

This means that in the winter, Mount Shasta gets of snowfall despite its low 3, 600 ft ( 1, 097 m ) elevation ().

However, his consulate sine collega ( without a second Consul ) was not recognised by the Eastern court, which nominated two consuls, Iohannes and Varanes: the fact that the two courts did not agree on a couple of consuls but each nominated its own means that, despite Avitus ' actions to receive the recognition of the Eastern Emperor the relationship between the two halves was not optimal.

When Belsize arrives at the murder scene Olivia means to cover up for him ( despite the fact that he openly intended to kill her ).

After a long affair with the romance novelist Elinor Glyn, Curzon married in 1917 the former Grace Elvina Hinds, the wealthy Alabama-born widow of Alfred Hubert Duggan ; in later years wags joked that despite his political disappointments Curzon still enjoyed " the means of Grace ".

This section, despite how harsh it may appear to us, was originally developed as a means to protect debtors from the excessive abuses of creditors.

This means that it is now possible for a player to be ineligible for the Brownlow Medal, despite not having served a suspension that season ; or, to be eligible for the Brownlow despite receiving a suspension.

The Ehrenreichs developed their definition from studies by André Gorz, Serge Mallet, and others, of a " new working class ", which, despite education and a perception of themselves as being middle class, were part of the working class because they did not own the means of production, and were wage earners paid to produce a piece of capital.

Stoddard taught that people who had grown up in the church and were not scandalous in behavior could receive communion as a means of grace and have their children baptized, despite the fact that the Puritan tradition had previously required prospective members of the church to proclaim a spiritual " conversion ".

... despite the requisite quota of scales and shakes in such half-hearted virtuoso vehicles as the Salisbury Galliard, one is never quite able to counter the impression of music of supreme beauty that lacks its ideal means of reproduction.

Furthermore, Morris states ' the report makes no mention of any blanket order issued over Arab radio stations or through other means, to the Palestinians to evacuate their homes and villages ' despite as Morris states the IDF ' monitoring Arab radio transmissions '.

With few options, Terry is employed as Arthur's minder on vague and ungenerous terms, with it often being hinted that Arthur has manipulated him into this job, and indeed is seen to continue to manipulate Terry throughout the character's run in the series, despite often attempting to find other means of employment and break free from Arthur's control.

In contrast to the more linear styles of karate based on Okinawan Shuri-te or Tomari-te, Uechi Ryū's connection with Chinese Nanpa Shorin-ken means the former shares a similar foundation with Naha-Te ( and thus with Goju-ryu ) despite their separate development.

The current was regulated by means of a variable resistor and measured with a 50 mV shunt and millivoltmeter.

In the absence of a truly adequate conceptuality in which the gospel can be expressed, the unavoidable need to demythologize it makes use of whatever resources are at hand -- and this usually means one or another of the various forms of `` folk religion '' current in the situation.

The practical definition may lead to confusion with the definition of a coulomb ( i. e., 1 amp-second ), but in practical terms this means that measures of a constant current ( e. g., the nominal flow of charge per second through a simple circuit ) will be defined in amperes ( e. g., " a 20 mA circuit ") and the flow of charge through a circuit over a period of time will be defined in coulombs ( e. g., " a variable-current circuit that flows a total of 10 coulombs over 5 seconds ").

* Knowledge ark, a collection of knowledge preserved in such a way that future generations would have access to said knowledge if current means of access were lost

According to encyclopaedia Iranica, AFGHAN ( afḡān ) in current political usage means any citizen of Afghanistan, whatever their ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation is.

Analog signal processing ( ASP ) then involves physically altering the continuous signal by changing the voltage or current or charge via various electrical means.

A negative value means that the actual direction of current through that circuit element is opposite that of the chosen reference direction.

The current classification is nomen conservandum, which means the name is authorized for use by the International Botanical Congress ( IBC ).

This means that the value of individual social assets that Bourdieu points to depend on the current " social capital " as defined above.

Enlightenment authors generally mocked and ridiculed anything from the " Dark Ages " including feudalism, projecting its negative characteristics on the current French monarchy as a means of political gain.

Actual, which in English is usually a synonym of " real ", has a different meaning in other European languages, in which it means " current " or " up-to-date ", and has the logical derivative as a verb, meaning " to make current " or " to update ".

# A certain means of wiring an alternating current electrical generator, and AC electric motors, so that when the generator is made to turn at a given speed, or even turned to a certain angle, each motor connected to it will also turn at that speed, or at the same angle.

The tube has the property of being able to amplify each ionisation event by means of the avalanche effect and produces an easily measured current pulse which is passed to the processing electronics.

As to the source of this ethnonym in the Slavic languages, current literature favors the hypothesis that it comes from the name of the Turkic tribe Onogur ( which means " ten arrows " or " ten tribes ").

In support of Iowa Department of Natural Resources efforts to re-establish the trumpeter swans in Iowa, university officials avoided bringing breeding pairs of male and female mute swans to Iowa State which means the current Sir Lancelot and Elaine are both female.

* Network number 00: 00: 00: 00 means current network

" Unusually " means more than typically required for the execution of the current step ( by these partners ).

There is a widespread use of the term in current popular literature, which replicates this error, i. e. that metaphysical means spiritual non-physical: thus, " metaphysical healing " means healing by means of remedies that are not physical.

The natural genetic variation within a population of organisms means that some individuals will survive more successfully than others in their current environment.

: Measures the displacement of a diaphragm by means of changes in inductance ( reluctance ), LVDT, Hall Effect, or by eddy current principal.

If a bull moose is castrated, either by accidental or chemical means, he will quickly shed his current set of antlers and then immediately begin to grow a new set of misshapen and deformed antlers that he will wear the rest of his life without ever shedding again.

Speeds measured with a GPS differ from those measured by other means in that they are Speed Over Ground ( accounting for the effect of current ) while the others are Speed Through the Water, which does not account for current.