Ogden's Basic, and the concept of a simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the Allied victory in the Second World War as a means for world peace.

For all positive data sets containing at least one pair of unequal values, the harmonic mean is always the least of the three means, while the arithmetic mean is always the greatest of the three and the geometric mean is always in between ( see Inequality of arithmetic and geometric means.

Under the terms of article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights, governments are required to " establish a framework of laws, precautions, procedures and means of enforcement which will, to the greatest extent reasonably practicable, protect life.

; Pelargir: The greatest port of Gondor, situated just above the delta of Anduin in Lebennin ; its name means " garth of royal ships " in Sindarin.

According to the usual interpretation, the term pontifex literally means " bridge-builder " ( pons + facere ); " maximus " literally means " greatest ".

In the French edition of " Lutetia " Heine wrote, one year before he died: " This confession, that the future belongs to the Communists, I made with an undertone of the greatest fear and sorrow and, oh !, this undertone by no means is a mask!

Although it is not the only means to maintain a patent airway during general anesthesia, intubation of the trachea provides the most reliable means of oxygenation and ventilation and the greatest degree of protection against regurgitation and pulmonary aspiration.

Tracheal intubation is generally considered the best method for airway management under a wide variety of circumstances, as it provides the most reliable means of oxygenation and ventilation and the greatest degree of protection against regurgitation and pulmonary aspiration.

Although it offers the greatest degree of protection against regurgitation and pulmonary aspiration, tracheal intubation is not the only means to maintain a patent airway.

In its obituary of the scholar, The Independent stated that " Isaiah Berlin was often described, especially in his old age, by means of superlatives: the world's greatest talker, the century's most inspired reader, one of the finest minds of our time ... there is no doubt that he showed in more than one direction the unexpectedly large possibilities open to us at the top end of the range of human potential ".

Arlington was a typical statesman of the Restoration, possessed outwardly an attractive personality, and according to ( Sir William ) Temple " the greatest skill of court and the best turns of art of particular conversation ," but thoroughly unscrupulous and self-seeking, without a spark of patriotism, faithless even to a good cause, and regarding public office solely as a means of procuring pleasure and profit.

It was even the greatest part of the mission and Christ ’ s intention while incarnated as Jesus to pray for Ardor ( Satan, Christ's spiritual brother formerly known as Lucifer, which means bearer of the Light-Ardor has similar meaning but with more of the connotation of what not to do ), for his repentance in love even up to the time of Satan ’ s great torture upon him in the desert, known in a distorted version from the Bible as the temptation in the wilderness.

The phrase " the greatest thing since sliced bread " is a commonly used hyperbolic means of praising an invention or development.

He saw technology as a means of progress, and wanted to make the shoes as cheaply as possible so that the greatest number of people could buy them.

I can only look out like Mr Micawber for something to turn up, but starvation on nardoo is by no means unpleasant, but for the weakness one feels, and the utter inability to move oneself, for as the appetite is concerned, it gives me the greatest satisfaction.

While he cannot be placed in the first rank of Elizabethan poets, his poems are by no means negligible and of the greatest interest for the working methods and intellectual interests of the period.

To move away from home and find a way in the world is in most cases all to the good, but the real problem for Eriskay is the lack of opportunity and means to return to the islands whilst still young enough to make the greatest possible contribution to their native land.

In song, Adagio means " slowly ", and in ballet it means slow, enfolding movements, performed with the greatest amount of fluidity and grace as possible.

There are marginal and submarginal lamellae and James's flamingo has the greatest number of both which also means there is a smaller intermarginal distance between them.

An eagle from the Misty Mountains that helped Gandalf before and during the War of the Ring ; his name means Windlord in Sindarin, and he is said to have been a descendant of Thorondor and the greatest and the swiftest of the Eagles of the North by the end of the Third Age.

" Indeed, Osborn's greatest contributions to science ultimately lay in his efforts to popularize it through visual means.

His poetry departs from his more serious sociological works, though it too harnesses nationalist sentiment: " Run, take the standard and let it be planted once again in Plevna / Night and day, let the waters of the Danube run red with blood ...." Perhaps his most famous poem was his 1911 Turan, which served to compliment his Turanist intellectual output: " For the Turks, Fatherland means neither Turkey, nor Turkestan ; Fatherland is a large and eternal country -- Turan!

Camp flags are not saluted, dipped or lowered as a means of paying salute or compliment and a camp flag is never:

Much of the humor in the film is derived from his being unaccustomed to the lifestyle of the present ( such as using the term negro, and believing " shit " is a French compliment ), believing " gay " means happy, and finding awe in simple things of the present.

And not only does she never stop, but she drops the ball into the cup nearly every time ; and if one is sometimes reminded of those automatic machines where one pulls a handle and out pops the finished product, that is a compliment to the automatic machine and not by any means a reflection on Mrs Christie.

As a means of silencing a discussion which ought to have taken place, the statement is an effective one: we sympathize with the universal confusion which gives rise to such convictions.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

One means to help the birds occurs to me: Let the chimes that ring over Washington Square twice daily, discontinue any piece of music but one.

For discouragement, or the temptation to abandon our efforts, `` would show that one placed excessive trust in purely human means without thinking of the omnipotence of God, the irresistible efficacy of prayer, the action of Christ or the power of the Divine Spirit ''.

It now means ominous, as when one speaks of a funny sound in the motor ; ;

It is conceived that one of the means to attain this social distance is that of physical and social isolation.

It was, too, an optimistic philosophy, and, though it separated law from morality, it was by no means an immoral or amoral one.

Moreover, whereas in Interstate Commerce Commission parlance `` variable cost '' means a cost deemed to vary in direct proportion to changes in rate of output, in the type of analysis now under review `` variable cost '' has been used more broadly, so as to cover costs which, while a function of some one variable ( such as output of energy, or number of customers ), are not necessarily a linear function.

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 ).

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

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.

It means to do it and to know one is doing it, but as only a secondary if certain effect of the good one primarily does and intends.

Compound comparisons typically compare two sets of groups means where one set has two or more groups ( e. g., compare average group means of group A, B and C with group D ).

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

Emigration to an uncivilized country leaves British nationality unaffected: indeed the right claimed by all states to follow with their authority their subjects so emigrating is one of the usual and recognized means of colonial expansion.

Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world, and speech is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture.

Joseph Dongell, professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, states " the most conscipuous feature of Ephesians 1: 3 – 2: 10 is the phrase ' in Christ ', which occurs twelve times in Ephesians 1: 3 – 4 alone ... this means that Jesus Christ himself is the chosen one, the predestined one.