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means and new
It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.
The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.
In the university milieu of scholarship and research, of social diversity, of new ideas and varied and wide-ranging interests, `` socialization '' into a campus culture apparently means heightened appreciation of the idea of a liberal education in the arts and sciences.
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.
In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.
That means that, if we are to achieve a new standard of leadership, we must think in terms of the total context of our situation.
Are you following competition willy-nilly -- trying to match dollar for dollar -- or are you experimenting with new means for reaching and influencing consumers??
They were increasingly looked upon as a means of establishing the new rural communes as the focus of a new, constructive national effort.
In the new country the electoral process is considered as a means of resolving fundamental, and sometimes bitter, differences among leaders and also as a source of policy guidance.
But another cause may lie in the experience of so many new postwar faculty members with their own use of education as a means of social advancement.
-- Encouraging by every means, all existing Assemblies of God churches to start new churches.
The means of the new birth
They needed to develop new means of locomotion to replace the sideways thrusts of their tails that had been used for swimming.
By allowing a new kind of equality among citizens this opened the way to democracy, which in turn called for a new means, chattel slavery, to at least partially equalise the availability of leisure between rich and poor.
Students gradually learn to include their whole body toward their new means of initiating motion.
He also helped Schoenberg run his Society for Private Musical Performances, which sought to create the ideal environment for the exploration and appreciation of unfamiliar new music by means of open rehearsals, repeat performances, and the exclusion of professional critics.
This means that new acceptance tests must be created for each iteration or the development team will report zero progress.
Binary compatibility means that programs can work correctly with the new version of this library without requiring recompilation.
In an article addressed to critics of tank warfare, he wrote " until our critics can produce some new and better method of making a successful land attack other than self-massacre, we shall continue to maintain our beliefs that tanks — properly employed, needless to say — are today the best means available for land attack.
After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.
This is especially important when functionalization is required ( this means grafting of chemical functions at the surface of the nanotubes ) to add new properties to the CNT.
They are taking form in independent bookstores, coffeehouses, local pubs, and through new and innovative means to create the social capital needed to foster the sense and spirit of community.
The grid's regularity would provide an efficient means to develop new real estate property.

means and evidence
But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.
The last 10 cases in the investigation of the Nov. 8 election were dismissed yesterday by Acting Judge John M. Karns, who charged that the prosecution obtained evidence `` by unfair and fundamentally illegal means ''.
In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.
This also means that confidence is usually strongest when considering evidence from different fields, because the techniques are usually very different.
The kind dealt with is when " to believe something " simply means any cognitive content held as true in spite of the absence of proof or even evidence.
Another author stated that " the practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research ".
This means that a driver can be ordered " by an authorised person ... upon production of evidence of his authorisation, require him to stop the running of the engine of that vehicle " and a " person who fails to comply ... shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale ".
As counter-intuitive as this may seem to those accustomed to neoclassical price theory, some empirical evidence suggests labor values are a better predictor of empirically recorded prices than prediction by any other means.
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 ).
Transformative learners utilize discourse as a means of critically examination and reflection “ devoted to assessing reasons presented in support of competing interpretations, by critically examining evidence, arguments, and alternative points of view .” When circumstances permit, transformative learners move toward a frame of reference that is more inclusive, discriminating, self-reflective, and integrative of experience.
She defined faith as " the acceptance of allegations without evidence or proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and reason ... Mysticism is the claim to some non-sensory, non-rational, non-definable, non-identifiable means of knowledge, such as ' instinct ,' ' intuition ,' ' revelation ,' or any form of ' just knowing.
A plea of autrefois acquit ( Law French for " previously acquitted ") means the defendant claims to have been previously acquitted of the same offence, on substantially the same evidence, and that he or she therefore cannot be tried for it again.
The standardization for the means by which cases are brought, parties are informed, evidence is presented, and facts are determined is intended to maximize the fairness of any proceeding.
" This means that to plead a cause of action, the pleader has to plead each element and also allege specific facts which, if proven with evidence at trial, would constitute proof of that element.
Banded iron formations have been taken as unavoidable evidence for global ice cover, since they require dissolved iron ions and anoxic waters to form ; however, the limited extent of the Neoproterozoic banded iron deposits means that they may not have formed in frozen oceans, but instead in inland seas.
To that end, the Court ruled in Dumbra v. United States,, that the term probable cause means " less than evidence that would justify condemnation ," reiterating Carroll's assertion that it merely requires that the facts available to the officer would " warrant a man of reasonable caution " in the belief that specific items may be contraband or stolen property or useful as evidence of a crime.
In Nix v. Williams,, the Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally seized without a search warrant is admissible if the prosecution can prove the evidence would have been found and seized by legal means not based on evidence or information illegally seized.
Public Health Law Research, an independent organization, reported in 2009 that there is insufficient evidence to assess the effectiveness of requiring vaccinations as a condition for specified jobs as a means of reducing incidence of specific diseases among particularly vulnerable populations ; that there is sufficient evidence supporting the effectiveness of requiring vaccinations as a condition for attending child care facilities and schools.
Astronomers of the era expected that changes over time in the apparent separation and relative location of these stars would provide evidence for both the proper motion of stars and, by means of parallax shifts in their separation, for the distance of stars from the Earth ( a method first suggested by Galileo Galilei ).

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