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Hoyle later gave Lemaître's model the derisive term of Big Bang, not realizing that Lemaître's model was needed to explain the existence of deuterium and nuclides between helium and carbon, as well as the fundamentally high amount of helium present, not only in stars but also in interstellar gas.
* 1950 — Fred Hoyle coins the term " Big Bang ", saying that it was not derisive ; it was just a striking image meant to highlight the difference between that and the Steady-State model.
However, when the band took the stage the audience's response was immediately hostile, resulting in derisive heckling, booing and mocking calls of " tweet, tweet.
The other witnesses for him were unconvincing and the jury's own reaction to the work was derisive.
This incident was chronicled in a derisive poem, based on the Longfellow poem " Paul Revere's Ride ;" it began with the line, " Come gather round children and hold your applause for the afternoon ride of Charlie Dawes.
The situation was especially acute in Jones County, which became so depopulated that it acquired the derisive nickname " The Free State of Jones ".
During the Civil War, Custer was frequently termed " The Boy General " in the press, reflecting his promotion to brigadier general at the age of 23 ; during his years on the Plains in the Indian Wars, his troopers often referred to him with grudging admiration as " Iron Butt " and " Hard Ass " for his physical stamina in the saddle and his strict discipline, as well as with the more derisive " Ringlets " for his vanity about his appearance in general and his long, curling blond hair in particular.
The somewhat derisive term lounge lizard was coined then, and less well known lounge singers have often been ridiculed as dinosaurs of past eras and parodied for their smarmy delivery of standards.
He was met with derisive booing and jeering from the festival's purist folk music crowd, but in the years since the incident, Dylan's 1965 Newport Folk Festival appearance has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in the synthesis of folk and rock.
* Yuppie flu was a sometimes derisive, and inaccurate, term applied to chronic fatigue syndrome.
He made his debut in the 1968 / 69 season against Karnataka, but made a duck and was the subject of derisive claims that his selection was due to the presence of his uncle Madhav Mantri, a former Indian Test wicketkeeper on Bombay's selection committee.
Originally, from 1776 to 1783, " Brother Jonathan " was a mildly derisive term used by the Loyalists to describe the Patriots.
Regardless, the name and logo were roundly criticized by advocates for the rights of the mentally ill, believing that they were derived from a derisive term for a person suffering from mental illness, " maniac ", and / or a depiction of a deranged axe-wielding murderer, despite that there was no picture of an axe in the logo.
" Teague " or Taig was ( and is ) a derisive term for the Irish Catholics-derived from the Irish first name " Tadhg ".
The jury — except Bruckner — was very derisive of the work.
states that " although many modern therapies can be construed to conform to an allopathic rationale ( e. g., using a laxative to relieve constipation ), standard medicine has never paid allegiance to an allopathic principle " and that the label " allopath " was " considered highly derisive by regular medicine.
The somewhat derisive term lounge lizard was coined then, and less well known lounge singers have often been ridiculed as dinosaurs of past eras and parodied for their smarmy delivery of standards.
The small engine policy was, perhaps, carried on too long, giving rise to the derisive poem:
( It was his abandonment of Jackson and the Democrats to join the Whigs that earned Bell the derisive nickname " The Great Apostate " from Jackson and other Democrats.
Friedrich IV ’ s son, Friedrich V was elected King of Bohemia – Bohemia was an elective monarchy – but soon ran afoul of the forces arrayed against him, notably the Catholic League and the Holy Roman Emperor himself, and not only was he forced to flee Bohemia in the face of these forces after only a year on the Bohemian throne ( earning himself the derisive nickname “ Winter King ”), but he also saw to it that the Electorate of the Palatinate, too, was gripped in the throes of the Thirty Years ' War.

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Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.
My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.
There was no reference to the incident on the stairs, his powers being absorbed by this more immediate business.
An exhaustive survey was made of the literature, and a primary reference file of approximately 600 references was catalogued.
With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.
The deep concave gradient employed ( fig. 2 ) was obtained with a nine-chambered gradient elution device ( `` Varigrad '', reference ( 8 ) ) and has been described elsewhere.
The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.
In reference to Brown's raid she wrote, `` though we are non-resistants and religiously believe it better to reform by moral and not by carnal weapons, we know thee was anemated by the most generous and philanthropic motives ''.
This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.
The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.
`` On the hoof '' was a reference to live cattle and was also used in referrin' to cattle travelin' by trail under their own power as against goin' by rail.
His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.
In the Notre Dame report, reference was made to the fact that faculty members were reduced to `` luncheon-table communication ''.
Though the reference to race was stricken by the association in 1950, being an agent of such `` detrimental '' influences still appears as the cardinal sin realtors see themselves committed to avoid.
Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.
The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.
The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).
Another early reference to Amber was Pytheas ( 330 BC ) whose work " On the Ocean " is lost, but was referenced by Pliny.
This was a reference to a boating outing Carroll had with the three girls and their family.

was and increasing
She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.
The talk of a Hearst `` barrel '' was increasing.
For in almost less time than it takes to tell it, Henri's bodyweight was increasing rapidly.
These dosages could have been increased by increasing the source strength which was small in this case.
Because of increasing anemia, triamcinolone, 8 mg. daily, was started on Feb. 23, 1958, and was continued until July, 1958.
The Summary Report, which was prepared for this Conference, indicates, first, that actual or pending school desegregation is increasing ; ;
In practice, power was more and more concentrated in the hands of the President who, supported by an ever increasing staff, largely controlled parliament, government, and the judiciary.
Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.
According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.
This was due largely to increasing popularity of textual communication services such as instant-and text messaging.
See also note 43 at p. 163, with references to Palanque ( 1933 ), Gaudemet ( 1972 ), Matthews ( 1975 ) and King ( 1961 )</ ref > Under Ambrose's influence, Theodosius issued the 391 " Theodosian decrees ," which with increasing intensity outlawed Pagan practises, and the Altar of Victory was removed by Gratian.
It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.
Thus while Athens was increasing her navy with the funds they contributed, a revolt always found itself without enough resources or experienced leaders for war.
The program was successful in terms of increasing the population of blue foxes, but their predation of Aleutian Canadian geese conflicted with the goal of preserving that species.
By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.
The end of the 19th century witnessed a sharp recovery of the local economy with increasing international trade and the growth of the city harbour leading to increased exports of several products ( particularly during World War I when Spain was a neutral country ).
A significant portion of ANC leadership agreed that this violence was needed to combat increasing backlash from the government.
In 1970 he, along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Tverdokhlebov, was one of the founders of the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR and came under increasing pressure from the government.
This also evolved as a method of increasing rate of fire, more in order to force the enemy to take cover than to try to accurately hit them, and was generally practiced by NKVD officers issued a pair of revolvers.
Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.
Even so, its kill rate was only 13 % in combat in 1972, leading to a practice of ripple-firing all four at once in hopes of increasing kill probability.
While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals (" belongers ") in the insurance industry.
Although a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the merchants and new industrialists in the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the landed interests should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen.

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