It reflected Alfred's own belief in a doctrine of divine rewards and punishments rooted in a vision of a hierarchical Christian world order in which God is the Lord to whom kings owe obedience and through whom they derive their authority over their followers.

J. N. L. Myres built upon this suspicion and speculated that belief in Pelagianism reflected an actively provincial outlook in Britain and that Vortigern represented the Pelagian party, while Ambrosius led the Catholic one.

Successive legal codes in Babylon, including the code of Hammurabi ( c. 1790 BC ), reflected Mesopotamian society's belief that law derived from the will of the gods ( see Babylonian law ).

The appointment of a general as Ambassador to Japan reflected Ribbentrop's belief that German – Japanese relations were in the future to be of a mainly military nature.

The plant's common name and Latin name originate from the belief in the Doctrine of Signatures which suggested that a plant's appearance reflected its possible uses.

This consideration of whether to keep Sleeping Beauty reflected a belief common among folklorists of the 19th century: that the folk tradition preserved fairy tales in forms from pre-history except when " contaminated " by such literary forms, leading people to tell inauthentic tales.

Some of his beliefs were well wide of the truth, such as his belief that the Milky Way was on the sphere of the fixed stars and shines by the reflected light of the Sun.

Through the teaching, Daniel learns not only karate but also important life lessons such as the importance of balance, reflected by the belief that martial arts training is as much about training the spirit as the body.

The Mau Mau rebellion was just winding down, the settlers believing they had won a victory, and the mood reflected that struggle and that belief.

Ultimately, martyrdom symbolized obedience to the values represented by the church and reflected the belief that the church can fulfill and commend itself by self-sacrifice and death.

Humans are required to have belief, iman, faith and conviction in and about God, and do good works, amal saleh, to have iman reflected in their moral choices, deeds, and relationship with God, fellow humans, and all creatures in this world.

This belief is reflected in traditional Wicca, where the names of the Goddess and the Horned God-the two supreme deities in Wicca-are usually held as a secret to be revealed only to initiates.

This belief is also reflected in ancient Judaism, which used the Tetragrammaton ( YHWH, usually translated as "< span style =" font-variant: small-caps ;"> Lord </ span >" in small caps ) to refer to God " safely " in the Tanakh.

He notes that in 1870 the Supreme Court of Queensland held that pastoral leases did confer a right of exclusive possession which reflected a common belief at that time that leases did extinguish native title.

In Europe, principally around the early Middle Ages, it was believed that one's life was in fact tied to one's breath-a belief reflected in the word " expire " ( originally meaning " to exhale ") gaining the additional meaning of " to come to an end " or " to die ".

Asian values was a concept that came into vogue briefly in the 1990s to justify authoritarian regimes in Asia, predicated on the belief in the existence within Asian countries of a unique set of institutions and political ideologies which reflected the region's culture and history.

This process reflected Monnet's belief in a gradualist approach for constructing European unity.

The Directoire style reflected the Revolutionary belief in the values of republican Rome: " The stoic virtues of Republican Rome were upheld as standards not merely for the arts but also for political behaviour and private morality.

Such belief is reflected by the past and current Motto of R. C. Lee Hall, respectively Hall with a Mission and Liberty with Responsibility, Unity in Diversity.

The Project of this alliance also clearly reflected his belief in necessity of democratic development for Czechoslovakia and other European states as well.

This form of techno-utopianism reflected a belief that technological change revolutionizes human affairs, and that digital technology in particular-of which the Internet was but a modest harbinger-would increase personal freedom by freeing the individual from the rigid embrace of bureaucratic big government.

It had no connection with the bearer's míng or zì ; rather it was often a personal choice and may have reflected a personal belief or philosophy.

" In part, this failure reflected the belief of many in Washington ," writes historian John Lewis Gaddis, " that only the prospect of an undifferentiated global threat could shake Americans out of their isolationist tendencies that remained latent among them.

Two 19th century cases reflected the belief in changelings.

In these final pieces he offered a critique of Western science in which he suggested that non-European languages often referred to physical phenomena in ways that more directly reflected aspects of reality than many European languages, and that science ought to pay attention to the effects of linguistic categorization in its efforts to describe the physical world.

Their standard of living is reflected in the country's " very high " Human Development Index, and Cyprus is ranked 23rd in the world in terms of the Quality-of-life Index.

If Greek citizenship was an " emancipation from the world of things ", the Roman sense increasingly reflected the fact that citizens could act upon material things as well as other citizens, in the sense of buying or selling property, possessions, titles, goods.

This war paradigm reflected the view of most of the modernized world at the beginning of the 21st century, as verified by examination of the conventional armies of the time: large, high maintenance, technologically advanced armies designed to compete against similarly designed forces.

" The ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

The fact that Ribbentrop did not recall Churchill's given name reflected either his general ignorance about the world beyond Germany, or his distracted mental state at war's end.

The inability for Christianity to serve as a source of valuating the world is reflected in Nietzsche's famous aphorism of the madman in The Gay Science.

For in these was reflected that which a personality must feel concerning the evolution and essential being of humanity when this personality is kept back from grasping the spiritual world by the restricted thought in the philosophy of nature characterizing the end of the 19th century .... What attracted me particularly was that one could read Nietzsche without coming upon anything which strove to make the reader a ' dependent ' of Nietzsche's.

This view was part of a larger picture in which the world view of an ethnic nation, their " Weltanschauung ", was seen as being faithfully reflected in the grammar of their language.

The ideology was Marxism-Leninism ; this reflected the fact that Stalin himself was not a Communist theoretician, in contrast to Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and that he prided himself on maintaining the legacy of Lenin as a founding father for the Soviet Union and the future Communist world.

If the world is reflected in a mirror which switches the left and right side of the car, the reflection of this angular velocity vector points to the right, but the actual angular velocity vector of the wheel still points to the left, corresponding to the minus sign.

Western world fashions reflected this by often turning highly individualistic and / or counter-cultural, which was influenced by Generation X: tattoos and body piercing gained popularity, and " retro " styles inspired by fashions of the 1960s and 1970s were also prevalent.

One of Judaism ’ s most distinctive and challenging ideas is its ethics of responsibility reflected in the concepts of simcha (" gladness " or " joy "), tzedakah (" the religious obligation to perform charity and philanthropic acts "), chesed (" deeds of kindness "), and tikkun olam (" repairing the world ").

This is reflected in the show with a worldview that more reflects the modern world, and the presence of real-life conflicts and rebel groups such as the Real Irish Republican Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The Renaissance saw the return to valuation of the material world, and this shift is reflected in art forms, which show the corporeality of the human body, and the three-dimensional reality of landscape.

Norway is among the most expensive countries in the world, as reflected in the Big Mac Index and other indices.

A3D uses a subset of the actual in-game 3D world data to accurately model the location of both direct ( A3Dspace ) and reflected ( A3Dverb ) sound streams ( A3D 2. 0 can perform up to 60 first-order reflections ).

In Neusner's view, the rabbinic project, as acted out in the Talmud, reflected not the world as it was but the world as rabbis dreamed it should be.

However, the extent to which the prehistory of the Aegean world is reflected in literary accounts of legendary peoples, and the degree to which material culture can be securely linked to language-based ethnicity have been subjected to repeated revision.

The Great Spirit, Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka, reflected upon himself and created the four Superior Spirits, Wi ( the first to be created, bringing light to the world ), Skan, Maka ( Mother Earth ) and Íŋyaŋ ( the solid support of the Earth or the rock associated with the natural forces of the Earth ).

It is also unofficially known as the " turkey capital of the world " ( this is reflected in the Cuero High School mascot, the Gobblers ).