As the 15th century drew to a close the state of much of Europe's coinage was quite poor because of repeated debasement induced by the costs of continual warfare, and by the incessant centuries-long loss of silver and gold in indirect one-sided trades importing spices and porcelain and silk and other fine cloths and exotic goods from India, Indonesia and the Far East.

In his new state the bishop continued to practise the virtues and austerities of his monastic life and laboured hard to diminish the evils caused by the incessant wars and the licence of the nobles.

After Bodin died in 1101, incessant struggles for power among his heirs weakened the state.

* Catatonic excitement is a state of constant purposeless agitation and excitation.

Following years of political and military agitation for ' Home Rule ' for Ireland, the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 established the Irish Free State ( now the Republic of Ireland ) as a separate state, leaving Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom.

The mixed state can put a patient at greater suicide risk-Feeling depressed on its own is a risk factor, but when coupled with increased energy, agitation, and impulsivity, the patient is more likely to engage in dangerous behavior, including self-injury or suicide.

The interpretant can be ( 1 ) immediate to the sign, all that the sign immediately expresses, such as a word's usual meaning ; or ( 2 ) dynamic, such as a state of agitation ; or ( 3 ) final or normal, the ultimate ramifications of the sign about its object, to which inquiry taken far enough would be destined and with which any actual interpretant can at most coincide.

As an organizer of a shoemaker's strike, Dzerzhinsky was arrested for " criminal agitation among the Kovno workers " and the police files from this time state that: " Felix Dzerzhinsky, considering his views, convictions and personal character, will be very dangerous in the future, capable of any crime.

After much agitation by Jay Abel Hubbell, the state legislature established the school to train mining engineers.

It is a clear-minded tranquil state of mind-not being overpowered by delusions, mental dullness or agitation.

* in ethology, provoking of the emotional state of excitement or Psychomotor agitation

* Brouhaha, a general state of social agitation

Physically, this state may include various and unexpected movements, agitation, and all types of dancing.

After a long period of agitation, U. S. women were able in 1920 to obtain the necessary votes from a majority of men to obtain the right to vote in all state and federal elections.

Anderson returns and finds his wife in a state of great agitation.

This leading group advocated that the BSP place an emphasis on electoral politics and the effort to capture the state through the ballot box rather than through labour agitation, the formation of trade unions, and pursuit of an extra-parliamentary route to power via the strike movement.

The aggressive agitation of the NPD unabashedly aims towards the abolition of parliamentary democracy and the democratic constitutional state, although the use of violence is currently still officially rejected for tactical reasons.

In 1782, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a Pittsburgh lawyer and strong supporter of the national government, convinced the Pennsylvania Assembly to declare that agitation for a separate state was treason.

In 1946, the National Conference launched an intensive agitation against the state government.

After the dice are shaken, the chance of finding these two sixes face up is small ( 1 in 36 ); thus one can say that the random motion ( the agitation ) of the dice, like the chaotic collisions of molecules because of thermal energy, causes the less probable state to change to one that is more probable.

Air is not pumped into the mix, nor is it added as an " ingredient " but gets into the frozen state by the agitation of liquid similar to whisking a meringue.

During his tenure of office the state of the navy aroused much public anxiety and led to a strong agitation in favor of an extended shipbuilding programme.

But he merged his party PRAJA RAJYAM in congress on 6 February 2011 after two weeks of back talks with Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Indian National Congress, which feared the no confidence motion in the state assembly in the wake of the emergence of Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress and the stronghold of Telangana agitation.

The troupe toured every state in the continental United States for several years, performing a mix of wrestling, musical performances, film-screenings and general audience agitation.

According to the " Pavilion of Vajra Peak and all its Yogas and Yogins Sutra " with the abbreviated name of the " Yogins Sutra ", possibly an apocryphal work attributed to the great Buddhist patriarch Vajrabodhi, Rāgarāja represents the state at which sexual excitement or agitation can be channeled towards enlightenment and passionate love can become compassion for all living things.

In 2004, in the wake of intense agitation that was launched by several civil society groups following the death of Thangjam Manorama, while in the custody of the Assam Rifles and the indefinite fast undertaken by Irom Sharmila, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil visited Manipur and reviewed the situation with the concerned state authorities.

Päts postponed the presidential elections until the end of the state of emergency for " emotions being too high because of anti-government agitation by the Vaps Movement ".

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

Does that not suggest to you an uncertain and uneasy, not to say confused, state of the public mind??

To escape from a prison camp required a very special state of mind ; ;

I explained my state of mind to artist Winsor McCay and to `` Bugs '' Baer.

The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.

he displays what outlanders call the New York mind, a state that the subject is necessarily unable to perceive in himself.

Many a sitter ( in a personal sitting ) has been amazed to realize that the medium was describing very vividly his state of mind.

Gardner Murphy wrote that a persons mind might survive death in a fragmentary state and merge itself into a collective consciousness.

He noted that learning was not about the acquisition of facts but the development of a reflective state of mind.

Once again it is important to bear in mind the lack of ' neutral ' state intervention.

Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term ' Bhava ' or the state of mind and rasa referring generally to the emotional flavors / essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a ' sensitive spectator ' or sahṛdaya or one with positive taste and mind.

Affection or fondness is a " disposition or rare state of mind or body "< ref >

Often in palaces a bridge will be built over an artificial waterway as symbolic of a passage to an important place or state of mind.

" A belligerent phone call to a business associate was taped and gives evidence of Haley's troubled state of mind.

Many, but not all, who consider themselves cognitive scientists have a functionalist view of the mind — the view that mental states are classified functionally, such that any system that performs the proper function for some mental state is considered to be in that mental state.

** Wang Yangming, most influential proponent of xinxue or " state of mind.

In 1966, several rock releases were arguably concept albums in the sense that they presented a set of thematically-linked songs-and they also instigated other rock artists to consider using the album format in a similar fashion: The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds was a musical portrayal of Brian Wilson's state of mind at the time ( and a major inspiration to Paul McCartney ).

Dianetics is a proposed method to erase these " engrams " in the " reactive mind " to achieve what is referred to in Scientology as a state of " Clear ".

Alan Watts ( 1975: xix ) explains using Wade – Giles " in spite of its defects " but writes: " No uninitiated English-speaking person could guess how to pronounce it, and I have even thought, in a jocularly malicious state of mind, that Professors Wade and Giles invented it so as to erect a barrier between profane and illiterate people and true scholars.

Only one who has faith comes to know such a state of mind.

While stylistically influenced by the Post-Impressionists, what evolved was a subject matter which was symbolist in content, depicting a state of mind rather than an external reality.

Lifestyles of communal ownership ( no individual property ) and the " vow of poverty " in many monastic traditions may also be intended to make selflessness easier to maintain ; that its practitioners may continuously remain in a meditative state of mind.

* there's got to be a nonnegligible chance of the bad state of affairs happening, to their mind