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At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college -- they are even inclined to exaggerate its not inconsiderable virtues -- and they express pleasure at the cozy in-group feeling that the college generates.
In other cases, the new legislature felt it necessary to " dot i's and cross t's " by enacting an express reception statute, even if common law had been received during the colonial period.
Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.
The judicial sense of the term " homicide " includes any intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, even to relieve intractable suffering.
Alternatively, it is possible to express an even-length real-input DFT as a complex DFT of half the length ( whose real and imaginary parts are the even / odd elements of the original real data ), followed by O ( N ) post-processing operations.
The multitude of deities, or Devas, of the historical Vedic religion have a subordinate and secondary status vis-a-vis the One Supreme God, a status that some authors have even tried to express by comparing it to that of Western demigods or angels ; Prakashanand Saraswati, in " The true history and the religion of India ", prefers the term " celestial gods ".
Many episodes in the Wimsey books express a mild satire of the British class system, in particular in depicting the relationship between Wimsey and Bunter, the two of them clearly being the best and closest of friends, yet Bunter invariably punctilious in using " my lord " even when they are alone, and " his lordship " in company.
The word " not " ( negation ) and the phrases " it is false that " ( negation ) and " it is not the case that " ( negation ) also express a logical connective – even though they are applied to a single statement, and do not connect two statements.
The law of averages is a lay term used to express a belief that outcomes of a random event will " even out " within a small sample.
Prescriptivism is also supported by Imperative logic, in which there are no truth values for imperatives, and by the idea of the Naturalistic fallacy: even if someone could prove the existence of an ethical property and express it in a factual statement, he could never derive any command from this statement, so the search for ethical properties is pointless.
It can be a belief that citizenship in a state should be limited to one ethnic, cultural, religious, or identity group, or that multinationality in a single state should necessarily comprise the right to express and exercise national identity even by minorities.
This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind ; the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become stronger, even without express inculcation, from the influences of advancing civilisation.
A lower court may not rule against a binding precedent, even if it feels that it is unjust ; it may only express the hope that a higher court or the legislature will reform the rule in question.
Bayesian methods would suggest that one hypothesis was more probable than the other, but individual Bayesians might differ about which was the more probable and by how much, by virtue of having used different priors ; but that's the same thing as disagreeing on significance levels, except significance levels are just an ad hoc device which are not really a probability, while priors are not only justified by the rules of probability, but there is definitely a normative methodology to define beliefs ; so even if a Bayesian wanted to express complete ignorance ( as a frequentist claims to do but does it wrong ), they could do it with the maximum entropy principle.
There are other types of Christian or Christian-influenced belief, which exclude the personality, or the volitional aspect of the personality of God, so that even if they express some form of determinism, it is not predestination in a theistic sense.
But reducibility was required to be sure that the formal statements even properly express statements of real analysis, so that statements depending on it could not be reformulated as conditionals.
" C. S. Lewis freely called the Christ story a " true myth ", and he believed that even pagan myths express spiritual truths.
He criticized Whorf's examples from an objectivist view of language holding that languages are principally meant to represent events in the real world and that even though different languages express these ideas in different ways, the meanings of such expressions and therefore the thoughts of the speaker are equivalent.
More modern definitions express them as infinite series or as solutions of certain differential equations, allowing their extension to arbitrary positive and negative values and even to complex numbers.
A party may claim that a treaty should be terminated, even absent an express provision, if there has been a fundamental change in circumstances.
The culinary creativity even extends to naming: one tasty larva, which is also known under the name " bamboo worm " ( non mai phai,, Omphisa fuscidentalis ), is colloquially called " express train " ( rot duan ; ) due to its appearance.
: Henrietta Stackpole was struck with the fact that ancient Rome had been paved a good deal like New York, and even found an analogy between the deep chariot-ruts traceable in the antique street and the overjangled iron grooves which express the intensity of American life.
For instance, they were to express no anger, never retaliate, submit to the opponent's orders and assaults, submit to arrest by the authorities, surrender personal property when confiscated by the authorities but refuse to surrender property held in trust, refrain from swearing and insults ( which are contrary to ahimsa ), refrain from saluting the Union flag, and protect officials from insults and assaults even at the risk of the resister's own life.

express and smaller
After 1945, the number of think tanks grew, as many smaller new think tanks were formed to express various issue and policy agendas.
Glucocorticoids also suppress the humoral immunity, causing B cells to express smaller amounts of IL-2 and IL-2 receptors.
The LB & SCR appears to have invented the practice of " slipping " coaches from the rear of express trains, at intermediate junctions, for onward transmission to smaller stations.
The main food stores in Estepona are the large Carrefour complex at the edge of the town, a smaller Carrefour express store in the middle of the town and a number of Mercadona supermarkets.
They were similar to his " Jubilee " 5P express passenger loco, but with slightly smaller driving wheels to give it ability to haul freight as well as passengers.
Two lengths, 55 and 70 feet, were offered ; either could be fitted out with a large mail and express area ahead of the center doors, a smaller mail / express area, or the car could be all seats for a maximum capacity of 64 or 105 respectively.
However by the start of the 1990s the chain had grown to encompass a number of other stores, with large entertainment stores also selling movies, books, magazines and games in Birmingham and Glasgow, as well as a number of smaller stores that had been purchased from rival American retailer Sam Goody when it had left the UK marketplace ( for example of this express format — Weston-super-Mare ).
It was built for the express purpose of showing every movie currently in wide release, and features four large auditorium-style theaters for the currently popular films, surrounded by 16 smaller stadium-seating screens and an IMAX theater.
Locomotive No. 1 was given a big spark arresting diamond stack of wood-burning locomotives and a large, pointed pilot ( cowcatcher ) representing a workhorse used to construct a railroad while the flagship No. 2 was given a straight stack and smaller pilot common to East Coast coal-burning locomotives representing highball speed of express passenger service on smooth straight rails.
Haywards Heath station was the site of the first use of the practice of " slipping " coaches from the rear of express trains, at intermediate junctions, for onward transmission to smaller stations.
As nitro powders were introduced and became the standard, bores grew smaller, and velocities grew ever larger, until the term express grew to mean something different than just high velocity.
With the Southern Railway concentrating on the design of larger locomotives for the increasingly heavy express passenger traffic on the South Eastern and South Western sections, with designs such as the King Arthur, Schools and Lord Nelson classes, and later the Bulleid Pacifics, as well as the expansion of the electrified third rail system from suburban roles ( a system which had replaced the LB & SCR overhead electrification, which in turn had replaced the role of the D class tanks on suburban traffic from around 1910 ), the company was not concerned about replacing the veteran tank engines on branch line workings, especially as many of the smaller branch lines were not economically viable for electrification, or were isolated from the rest of the electrified network.
In the World Trade Center, the building was divided into three sectors, each with its own sky-lobby, where occupants changed between large express elevators and smaller local elevators.

express and angles
In 1845 the B & ER built its own station at right angles to the GWR station and an " express platform " on the curve linking the two lines so that through trains no longer had to reverse.
Engraving from Renaissance Italy showing Apollo, the Muses, the planetary spheres and musical ratios. The Music of the Spheres incorporates the metaphysical principle that mathematical relationships express qualities or ‘ tones ' of energy which manifest in numbers, visual angles, shapes and sounds – all connected within a pattern of proportion.
The experimental film made extensive use of flashbacks and extreme angles of view to express the emotions of the characters.
" In The 50 Most Influential Black Films: A Celebration of African-American Talent, Determination, and Creativity, author S. Torriano Berry writes that the film's " odd camera angles, superimpositions, reverse-key effects, box and matting effects, rack-focus shots, extreme zooms, stop-motion and step-printing, and an abundance of jittery handheld camera work all helped to express the paranoid nightmare that life had become.

express and standard
Those who identify a particular dialect as the " standard " or " proper " version of a language are in fact using these terms to express a social distinction.
Rearranging to express the relation between standard potential and equilibrium constant yields
This does not mean that library constructions should conform rigidly to a fixed standard of appearance and arrangement, but it does mean that the exterior should express as nearly as possible the purpose and functions of the interior.
The static semantics defines restrictions on the structure of valid texts that are hard or impossible to express in standard syntactic formalisms.
In industry and commerce, standard conditions for temperature and pressure are often necessary to define the standard reference conditions to express the volumes of gases and liquids and related quantities such as the rate of volumetric flow ( the volumes of gases vary significantly with temperature and pressure ).
Practitioners express their diverse beliefs through a standard language and practice, adopting a similar style in dress and ritual, dating from around the time of the Nara and Heian Periods.
After the composer's death the score was subject to significant amendment, including the introduction of recitative in place of the original dialogue ; there is no standard edition of the opera, and differences of view exist as to what versions best express Bizet's intentions.
The term " de facto standard " is used for both: to contrast obligatory standards ( also known as " de jure standards "); or to express a dominant standard, when there are more than one proposed standards.
Inman rebuilt its express fleet to the new standard, but B & NARMSPC lagged behind both of its rivals.
In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the Riemann curvature tensor, or Riemann – Christoffel tensor after Bernhard Riemann and Elwin Bruno Christoffel, is the most standard way to express curvature of Riemannian manifolds.
In some fields, for example nuclear and particle physics, it is common to express statistical significance in units of the standard deviation σ of a normal distribution.
If fact, any e-text uses some selection of control characters, spaces, tabs, and the like to express some distinctions: Spaces between words are standard in English ; and 2 returns and 5 spaces makes something that looks like a common kind of paragraph.
* SDD — Solution Deployment Descriptor, a standard XML-based schema defining a standardized way to express software installation characteristics required for lifecycle management in a multi-platform environment.
It is currently the standard unit used for speed limits, and to express speeds generally, on roads in the United Kingdom and the United States.
While Unicode typically assigns characters to code points to express the graphemes within a system of writing, the Unicode standard ( section 3. 4 D7 ) does caution:
Philologists — and the standard Finnish orthography — often prefer using it to express the sounds that in English require a digraph ( sh, ch, and zh ) because most Slavic languages use only one character to spell these sounds ( the key exceptions are Polish sz and cz ).
One can also express it as an implied percentage probability, via, where is the standard normal cumulative distribution function ; thus a moneyness of 0 yields a 50 % probability of expiring ITM, while a moneyness of 1 yields an approximately 84 % probability of expiring ITM.
The verbal section of the GMAT Exam measures the ability to read and comprehend written material, reason and evaluate arguments and correct written material to express ideas effectively in standard written English.
" For inclusion canines must have already undergone amputation, a standard regimine of chemotherapy, express the target HER2 / neu antigen, and have no evidence of metastases.
The standard directional signage is white-on-green, with collector lanes using white-on-blue to distinguish between mainline ( express ) and collector signage.
At the 20 – 21 August 1996 meeting of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ( ARB ), SGI floated the idea of a new standardized scene graph similar to Cosmo3D but with the express intent of being based on " standard " OpenGL.
Besides adopting some terms, such as that of natural agents, from Say, Senior introduced the word abstinence which, though obviously not free from objection, is for some purposes useful to express the conduct of the capitalist which is remunerated by interest ; but in defining cost of production as the sum of labor and abstinence necessary to production he does not seem to see that an amount of labor and an amount of abstinence are disparate, and do not admit of reduction to a common quantitative standard.

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