Mussorgsky makes this quite clear by the extent to which choral scenes propel the action.

Whatever projection one makes, the striking fact about congregational and parochial life is the extent to which it is a vehicle of the social identity of middle-class people.

The Biblia pauperum (" Paupers ' Bible "), a tradition of picture Bibles beginning in the later Middle Ages, sometimes depicted Biblical events with words spoken by the figures in the miniatures written on scrolls coming out of their mouths — which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.

Researchers in experimental finance can study to what extent existing financial economics theory makes valid predictions, and attempt to discover new principles on which such theory can be extended.

It is noteworthy that in the " Dialogue " he no longer speaks of a " seed of the Word " in every man, and in his non-apologetic works the emphasis is laid upon the redeeming acts of the life of Christ rather than upon the demonstration of the reasonableness and moral value of Christianity, though the fragmentary character of the latter works makes it difficult to determine exactly to what extent this is true and how far the teaching of Irenaeus on redemption is derived from him.

Lack of information makes it difficult to assess the extent to which industrialization and urbanization have damaged North Korea's natural environment.

Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs.

Since the Hebrew Bible makes a point of marking the Canaanites as peoples set apart from the Israelites, the extent of the distinction between the culture of the Canaanites and the Israelites is a matter of debate.

There is some little difference in authors as to the extent of the country westward: thus Strabo makes Colchis begin at Trabzon, while Ptolemy, on the other hand, extends Pontus to the Rioni River.

In terms of spatial extent ( although not in terms of population ), this makes it the largest urban agglomeration in human history prior to the Industrial Revolution, easily surpassing the nearest claim, that of the Mayan city of Tikal.

Stigler argues that Bayes intended his results in a more limited way than modern Bayesians ; given Bayes ' definition of probability, his result concerning the parameter of a binomial distribution makes sense only to the extent that one can bet on its observable consequences.

Wabi sabi can change our perception of the world to the extent that a chip or crack in a vase makes it more interesting and gives the object greater meditative value.

This average makes the city slightly wetter than Rio at yet, to a considerable extent, drier than both São Paulo at and Brasilia at.

* Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, minister of industry and military industrialisation, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of his biological and nuclear arms programs.

The lack of consistently recorded price data from the 1630s makes the extent of the tulip mania difficult to estimate.

The complex geography of western Scotland and the lack of written records makes certainty about the extent and nature of these kingdoms hard to fathom.

Krill are considered an important trophic level connection – near the bottom of the food chain – because they feed on phytoplankton and to a lesser extent zooplankton, converting these into a form suitable for many larger animals for whom krill makes up the largest part of their diet.

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Military use makes some areas of the plain inaccessible to the public. The exact area of Salisbury Plain is sometimes confused with the extent of the military training area that it is home to.

The species feeds primarily on squid but to some extent on fish, diving as deep as, which makes it the deepest diving mammal.

To the extent that the issuing of medallions constrains overall supply of taxi services ( rather than ensuring competence or quality ), forbidding competition by non-medallion taxis makes the otherwise consensual transaction of taxi service a forced transfer of wealth from the passenger to the medallion holder.

As the examples suggest, free objects look like constructions from syntax ; one may reverse that to some extent by saying that major uses of syntax can be explained and characterised as free objects, in a way that makes apparently heavy ' punctuation ' explicable ( and more memorable ).

The extent of the restriction remains unclear, as the character of the Ninth Doctor makes a silent " off-screen " appearance that affects the plot of 2006's The Kingmaker.

It is a collection of literary, historical, theological, and antiquarian miscellanies, whose chief value consists in the fact that it to some extent makes up for the loss of works which were accessible to Tzetzes.

In a sense almost all high school and college courses could be considered as vocational to the extent that later in life the student in his vocation ( which may be a profession ) will be called upon to use some of the skills developed and the competence obtained.

To what extent do participants in joint activities experience a sense of community?

According to political scientist Arthur Stinchcombe, citizenship is based on the extent that a person can control one's own destiny within the group in the sense of being able to influence the government of the group.

Godwin took individualism to the radical extent of opposing individuals performing together in orchestras, writing in Political Justice that " everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

Descriptive epithets are a common literary device in many parts of the world, whereas kennings in this restricted sense are a distinctive feature of Old Norse and, to a lesser extent, Old English poetry.

The Philistine pentapolis were ruled by seranim ( ס ְ ר ָ נ ִ ים, " lords "), who acted together for the common good, though to what extent they had a sense of a " nation " is not clear without literary sources.

Like monogamy, the term is often used in a de facto sense, applying regardless of whether the relationships are recognized by the state ( see marriage for a discussion on the extent to which states can and do recognize potentially and actually polygamous forms as valid ).

Economist Robert J. Shiller wrote that the term "... refers also to the sense of trust we have in each other, our sense of fairness in economic dealings, and our sense of the extent of corruption and bad faith.

In that sense, Tocharian ( to some extent like the Greek and the Anatolian languages ) seems to have been an isolate in the " satem " ( i. e. palatovelar to sibilant ) phonetic regions of Indo-European-speaking populations.

This includes cognitive or neurocognitive factors, such as the way a person perceives, thinks or feels about certain things ; or an individual's overall personality, temperament or coping style or the extent of protective factors or " positive illusions " such as optimism, personal control and a sense of meaning.

Historically, Monophysitism ( usually capitalized in this sense ) refers primarily to the position of those ( especially in Egypt and to a lesser extent Syria ) who rejected the Council of Chalcedon in 451 ( the Fourth Ecumenical Council ).

She once indicated, " I am to some extent influenced by them — not in any technical sense, but in the choice of subject matter and the feeling and atmosphere they could achieve.

Exactly in what sense the Eric of the sagas may have been based on the historical Eric of Northumbria, and conversely, to what extent later evidence might or might not be called upon to shed light on the historical figure, are matters which have inspired a variety of approaches and suggestions among generations of historians.

In discussion of science fiction, a Big Dumb Object ( BDO ) is any mysterious object ( usually of extraterrestrial or unknown origin and immense power ) in a story which generates an intense sense of wonder just by being there ; to a certain extent, the term deliberately deflates this.

If the wave function is physically real, in some sense and to some extent, then the collapse of the wave function is also seen as a real process, to the same extent.

" ( p. 128 ) Rice believes that " the Precession is fundamental to an understanding of what powered the development of Egypt " ( p. 10 ), to the extent that " in a sense Egypt as a nation-state and the king of Egypt as a living god are the products of the realisation by the Egyptians of the astronomical changes effected by the immense apparent movement of the heavenly bodies which the Precession implies.

Protestant groups differ slightly in their perception of the types and the extent of errors evident in Catholic-Anglican-Orthodox traditions, and therefore their proposed corrections also differ, but all agree that the Catholic-Anglican-Orthodox tradition is to some important degree counter-biblical in the sense that it moves away from Scripture to reconcile many of its teachings and doctrine.

Arguably this is no longer marquetry in the pure sense of the term, since it spills over into textured painting, even collage ( to a limited extent ) but, as a byproduct of modern marquetry making, we decided to include it in this thread.

Beyond a mere symptom of chaos in the third century crisis, the Gallic Empire can be interpreted as a measure of provincial identification competing with the traditional sense of romanitas, of the cohesive loyalties of individual legions, and of the power accumulated by entrenched Romanized aristocratic kinship networks whose local power bases ranged from the Rhine to Baetica, although the extent of " Gaulish " self-identification that nationalist historians have inferred is probably inflated.

More study may help determine to what extent, if at all, it can improve a patient's sense of well-being.