The passage in which the above occurs has been described as " elaborately ironical ", making it unclear which of its aspects may be taken seriously, although Diogenes Laertius later confirms that there were indeed seven such individuals who were held in high esteem for their wisdom well before Plato's time.

It is unclear how much of William's attitudes during the passage the Reform Act 1832 were due to her influence.

There were Christians who confessed to the crime, but it became known that Christians were forced to confess by means of torture, and the passage is unclear as to what the Christians confessed to — being arsonists or Christians.

If a passage is unclear or an assertion seems questionable, the copy editor may ask the writer to clarify it.

It is unclear whether the war council was aware that Caldwell had promised Castañeda safe passage to Gonzales the next morning.

In the absence of other evidence, it is unclear whether his passage regarding Chaeronea is to be accepted or rejected.

The origins of the mound are unclear, but it has been suggested that it may have been a passage grave similar to Newgrange.

In television broadcasting of sports events, instant replay is often used during live broadcast, to show a passage of play which was important or remarkable, or which was unclear on first sight.

In television broadcasting of sports events, instant replay is often used during live broadcast, to show a passage of play which was important or remarkable, or which was unclear on first sight.

While this second passage from their " apocryphal writings ," says Epiphanius, was meant to represent the menstrual cycle ( it is unclear if he is quoting ):

It is likewise unclear why Deckard would have left her, or any suspected replicant he retired, in a state from which they could be repaired.

How it works is unclear, but is likely immunotherapeutic, as the chronic inflammation could be the result of an autoimmune problem.

If evolutionary processes are blind to the difference between function F being performed by conscious organism O and non-conscious organism O *, it is unclear what adaptive advantage consciousness could provide.

Further studies are needed to find out whether there are other additives that could have a similar effect, and it is unclear whether some disturbances can also occur in mood and concentration in some adults.

The extent to which the Emperor could, for example, intervene on occasions of disputed or unclear succession was much debated on occasion – for example with the Lippe-Detmold inheritance crisis.

Whether the interest in these limited resources would diminish with the advent of virtual reality, where they could be easily substituted, is yet unclear.

Davidson says that it is unclear where the nine worlds are located in relation to the tree ; they could either exist one above the other or perhaps be grouped around the tree, but there are references to worlds existing beneath the tree, while the gods are pictured as in the sky, a rainbow bridge ( Bifröst ) connecting the tree with other worlds.

In 1906 the Burke Act ( also known as the forced patenting act ) further amended the GAA to give the Secretary of the Interior the power to issue allotees a patent in fee simple to people classified ‘ competent and capable .’ The criteria for this determination is unclear but meant that allotees deemed ‘ competent ’ by the Secretary of the Interior would have their land taken out of trust status, subject to taxation, and could be sold by the allottee.

The origin of " Halse " is unclear, though it is possible that there is some naval connection as it has been suggested that it could have been the name of someone serving alongside his uncle.

It is, however, unclear to what extent such rumours could be substantiated.

While it is clear that under the Twelfth Amendment the original constitutional qualifications of age, citizenship, and residency apply to both the President and Vice President, it is unclear whether a two-term president could later serve as Vice President.

In the Greek War of Independence, British volunteers fought with the Greek rebels, which could have been unlawful ; it was unclear whether or not the Greek rebels were a " state " per the Foreign Enlistment Act, but the law was clarified, saying that the rebels were a state.

In addition, the genus allocation of many species, e. g. the Rufous Woodpecker, has turned out to be in error, and some taxa with unclear relationships could be placed into the phylogeny.

While each state has plenary power to determine how it chooses its electors, it is unclear whether Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution requires congressional consent before this compact could take effect.

Because buttresses were forbidden by the city fathers, and clearly was impossible to obtain rafters for scaffolding long and strong enough ( and in sufficient quantity ) for the task, it was unclear how a dome of that size could be built, or just avoid collapse.

It is unclear whether such emergency measures could temporarily suspend portions of the Constitution itself.

However, some miners considered Benn's 1977 industry reforms to have caused problems during the strike ; firstly, that they led to huge wage differences and distrust between miners of different regions ; and secondly that the controversy over balloting miners for these reforms made it unclear as to whether a ballot was needed for a strike or whether it could be deemed as a " regional matter " in the same way that the 1977 reforms had been.

It is unclear whether the two referendums could legally be held at once.

Since this has never been repealed, it is unclear why it could not be reactivated instead.

It is still unclear if this happened while he was in a state of psychosis or not ( while in a psychotic state, it could be interpreted as an accident rather than suicide ).

In principle, when the President is also party general secretary, he could order the Party Central Military Commission to order the state Central Military Commission to do something ; however how this would work in a crisis is unclear.

In what could be called unclear circumstances, he was shot after allegedly pulling out a gun at the policeman.

* The cosmic rays could have local sources well within the GZK horizon ( although it is unclear what these sources could be ).

It is unclear if costly signaling can indicate a long-term cooperative personality but people have increased trust for those who help.

Though it is unclear when these groups of hunters and gatherers turned to agricultural cultivation, pollen samples from Petén and the Pacific coast indicate maize cultivation as early as 3500 BC.

However, what these results indicate is unclear.

They assert that DID cannot be accurately diagnosed because of vague and unclear diagnostic criteria in the DSM and undefined concepts such as " personality state " and " identities ", and question the evidence for childhood abuse beyond self-reports, the lack of definition of what would indicate a threshold of abuse sufficient to induce DID and the extremely small number of cases of children diagnosed with DID despite an average age of appearance of the first alter of three years.

It is unclear when de Moivre left the Prieure de Saint-Martin and moved to England, as the records of the Prieure de Saint-Martin indicate that he left the school in 1688, but de Moivre and his brother presented themselves as Huguenots admitted to the Savoy Church in London on August 28, 1687.

Although the term has recently become very fashionable in psychiatry, its use to indicate the concomitance of two or more psychiatric diagnoses is said to be incorrect because in most cases it is unclear whether the concomitant diagnoses actually reflect the presence of distinct clinical entities or refer to multiple manifestations of a single clinical entity.

In general, most research seems to indicate that the integrationist model of acculturation will lead to the most favorable psychosocial outcomes A meta-analysis of the acculturation literature, however, found these results to be unclear.

In 1951 Japan formally signed the Treaty of San Francisco but, due to the unclear situation of the Chinese civil war, the peace treaty did not clearly indicate to whom Taiwan's sovereignty belonged.

Sometimes when elohim occurs as the referent or object ( i. e. not subject ) of a sentence, and without any accompanying verb or adjective to indicate plurality, it may be grammatically unclear whether gods plural or God singular is intended.

Although its origin is unclear, it may indicate a connection with carpetbaggers or to gluttony.

In 1951, Japan formally signed the Treaty of San Francisco, but, due to the unclear situation of the Chinese civil war, the peace treaty did not clearly indicate to whom Taiwan's sovereignty belonged.

Several studies published since 1990 indicate that cooking muscle meat creates heterocyclic amines ( HCAs ) High rates of HCA can cause cancer in animals ; whether such an exposure causes cancer in humans remains unclear.

This might indicate a sexual past: he refers to a woman he knew who " had the clap "... although it is unclear whether this is the cause of his current condition or not.

Today, it is still unclear when the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara exactly emerged, but the findings in Sirkap do indicate that this art was already highly developed before the advent of the Kushans.

The origin of this story is unclear, since known records and accounts indicate that human sacrifices were not permitted within the Persian religion.

Though the word " ship " evolved from " relationship ", where and when it was first used to indicate involvement with fictional romance is unclear.

From the point of view of search data, there are drawbacks to such tag-based systems: no standard set of keywords ( i. e., a folksonomy instead of a controlled vocabulary ), no standard for the structure of such tags ( e. g., singular vs. plural, capitalization ), mistagging due to spelling errors, tags that can have more than one meaning, unclear tags due to synonym / antonym confusion, unorthodox and personalized tag schemata from some users, and no mechanism for users to indicate hierarchical relationships between tags ( e. g., a site might be labeled as both cheese and cheddar, with no mechanism that might indicate that cheddar is a refinement or sub-class of cheese ).

Engineering logs indicate 250 unit run was to be made, but it's unclear if they were all produced.

The exact nature of his connection, however, if indeed it is anything more than a literary device to indicate noble descent, is unclear.

Born in Mississippi, the specific location of his birth is unclear as some sources indicate Senatobia, while others suggest nearby Coldwater.

It has obscure and unclear origins, but is traditional in the journalism field and is still used to indicate the end of transmitted news stories and press releases and can frequently be found in formal corporate documents posted on websites and delivered electronically or via print.