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.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

Amphibians breathe by means of a pump action in which air is first drawn into the buccopharyngeal region through the nostrils.

A more numerically stable two-pass algorithm first computes the sample means, and then the covariance:

Even greater accuracy can be achieved by first computing the means, then using the stable one-pass algorithm on the residuals.

Chinese has in which the first element sounds like the accented second syllable in " America " ( and the second element means " nation ").

The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $ 500.

The declaration is notable since, according to Livy, it was the first time that the Romans had declared war by means of the rites of the fetials.

In the words " monarchy " and " oligarchy ", the second element arche ( ἀρχή ) means " rule ", " leading " or " being first ".

There are only two specific exercises practiced separately ; the first is lying semi-supine ; resting in this way uses " mechanical advantage " as a means of releasing cumulative muscular tension.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Falier of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron.

In a vision in the New Testament Book of Revelation, an angel called Abbadon is shown as the king of an army of locusts ; his name is first transcribed in Greek as " whose name in Hebrew Abaddon " ( Ἀβαδδὼν ), and then translated as, " which in Greek means the Destroyer " ( Apollyon, Ἀπολλύων ).

This means that the building's alignment towards the place on the horizon where Venus first appears in the evening sky ( when it coincides with the rainy season ) may be meaningful.

This bodyguard function was often executed by the leader's most loyal warriors, and was extremely effective throughout most of early human history, leading assassins to attempt stealthy means, such as poison ( which risk was answered by having another person taste the leader's food first ).

Nkurunziza was the first president chosen through democratic means since the start of the civil war in 1993 and was sworn in on 26 August, replacing transitional president Domitien Ndayizeye.

* A batter reaches first base on a passed ball ( but not a wild pitch ) and subsequently scores by any means.

The dandy horse, also called Draisienne or laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais.

BCPL was the first brace programming language, and the braces survived the syntactical changes and have become a common means of denoting program source code statements.

Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.

According to Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, the term Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin means " first half ", which he links to the Gaulish word samonios ( which he suggests means " half a year ") as in the end of the " first half " of the year that begins at Samhain.

Dark matter's existence is inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter and gravitational lensing of background radiation, and was originally hypothesized to account for discrepancies between calculations of the mass of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the entire universe made through dynamical and general relativistic means, and calculations based on the mass of the visible " luminous " matter these objects contain: stars and the gas and dust of the interstellar and intergalactic medium.

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.

Among the other Broadway plays he directed were " Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ", " Sweet Bird of Youth ", " The Dark at the Top of the Stairs " and " Tea and Sympathy ", This led some, such as theater critic Eric Bentley, to write that " the work of Elia Kazan means more to the American theater than that of any current writer.

Indeed, in the Elvish Sindarin language, Mor-Dor means Dark ( or Black ) Land, and is sometimes even referred to within the novel as " The Black Country ".

A more well-known polymorphic virus was created in 1992 by the hacker Dark Avenger ( a pseudonym ) as a means of avoiding pattern recognition from antivirus software.

The word renaissance ( Rinascimento in Italian ) means " rebirth ", and the era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labeled the Dark Ages.

Dark Age of Camelot promotes economic activity by means of a player market, for the sale and acquisition of items such as weapons and armor, and a system of Tradeskills which enable a character to create player-usable items, such as weapons and armor.

As a major means for spreading the source code of his viruses, Dark Avenger used the then popular bulletin board systems.

Somehow by unknown means Stryfe was revived and together with the Dark Riders began to subjugate Latveria.

Franklin briefly appears in Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Utopia # 1, asking his mother and father why people hate mutants and if that means they hate him, but they ’ re too busy working in the lab.

She first returned to Earth under the guise of " Madam MacEvil " for the purpose of developing means to combat Thanos ; this led to the creation of villains like Angar the Screamer, Ramrod, and the Dark Messiah.

In this lord city of the Dark Queen, Raistlin discovers that Takhisis means to take control of all magic, and must stop her from doing so.

Wracked with doubt after learning his demonic mission means little, Badilino is frozen with indecision as Lilith's forces, Blackout, Dark Legion and Meatmarket attack his precinct.

The first story revolves around two girls, Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro, who encounter the Garden of Light's Mipple and Mepple, who give them the means to the fight the forces of the Dark Zone: a dimension of evil that has encroached on the Garden of Light and is now about to do the same to the Garden of Rainbows, Earth.

Singer had never been a filmmaker before, and saw the production of Dark Days as a means of gaining better accommodation for the residents of the tunnel.

" He reviews horror anthology programs such as The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Dark Shadows, and Night Gallery, ultimately concluding that television is severely limited in its ability to illustrate horror because it is enslaved to the demands of network Standards and Practices censorship and the appeasement of advertising executives that provide the financial means necessary for television to continue its free access.

In the Japanese version, it means that Dark Force is still present, despite the sealing away of the Profound Darkness in Phantasy Star IV.

As it is a singleton across all universes, the reality-hopping Exiles have recently figured out how to use the Crystal to visit selected realities ; on the Age of Apocalypse, Dark Beast discovered a means to travel through the Crystal to alternate Earths.

But for these four — Renegades on the run from the sinister world of Nefandus — survival means learning how to control their powers and fulfill their destiny as Sons of the Dark.

Even if it means turning his back on the Sons of the Dark?

Shortly afterwards he is killed yet again inside the royal palace by an unknown assailant, just as he has an apparent change of heart by mentally resigning himself to choosing to now side with Rand against the Dark One, even if it means the loss of his immortality.

Moridin means " death " in the Old Tongue ; he was given the title of Nae ' blis by the Dark One, effectively naming him his regent on the Day of the Return, the coveted position that sets him above the other Forsaken.

She is currently being controlled by Moridin by means of a mindtrap, which may be preventing her from acting on her previous notions of confronting the Dark One and the other Forsaken by acting in concert with al ' Thor.