It is more difficult with Faulkner than with most authors to say what is the extent and what is the source of his knowledge.

No doubt there are historians who can explain to a great extent what happened to the plans and projects of the eighteenth century.

To what extent such low density applies to micrometeorites is unknown.

The answers to questions such as these certainly depend to some extent upon the educator's own social-class position and also upon his social history, as well as upon his personality and what he conceives his mission to be as an educator.

When the words are used, we are never sure which of the traditional meanings the user may have in mind, or to what extent his revisions and rejections of former understandings correspond to ours.

To what extent and in what ways did Christianity affect the United States of America in the nineteenth century??

To what extent did it mould the morals and the social, economic, and political life and institutions of the country??

Yet to determine precisely to what extent and exactly in what ways any individual showed the effects of Christianity would be impossible.

To what extent Snorri's presentation is poetic creation only remains unclear.

It is not clear to what extent the effect is due to cyanide released by the crushed leaves, and to what extent other volatile products are responsible.

The first option ( although it is debatable to what extent the Duke was committed to such an enterprise ) was a plan to transfer his forces from the Spanish Netherlands to northern Italy ; once there, he intended linking up with Prince Eugene in order to defeat the French and safeguard Savoy from being overrun.

It is not known to what extent escaping German sailors attempted to surrender as they were not asked before shooting them.

Some of the driving research questions in studying how the brain itself processes language include: ( 1 ) To what extent is linguistic knowledge innate or learned ?, ( 2 ) Why is it more difficult for adults to acquire a second-language than it is for infants to acquire their first-language ?, and ( 3 ) How are humans able to understand novel sentences?

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

Specifically for fluids, the Knudsen number is used to assess to what extent the approximation of continuity can be made.

To what extent armies will adopt even lighter carbines, and to what extent they will be avoided, has yet to be seen entirely.

Some years ago this Class was judged by celebrities who knew nothing of what was required of a Junior's ability to show a dog.

Some have serenity of mind, the ability to accept what they have, and make the most of it ( a wonderful gift to have, believe me ) -- some see only darkness, the bitter side of everything.

* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.

According to this view, Hume's empiricism consisted in the idea that it is our knowledge, and not our ability to conceive, that is restricted to what can be experienced.

Although the Fortune Deck works as a randomizer, the results obtained by it are entirely arbitrary and subjective, and the GM's absolute power over the game is further emphasized by the three resolution systems: Karma ( the higher character ability wins, modified by situation ), Drama ( the GM decides what happens, by what they think most appropriate ), and Fortune ( more or less the same as the above, with interpretation flavored by a card draw ).

The fundamental research endeavor is to describe what it is that experts know and how they use their knowledge to achieve performance that most people assume requires extreme or extraordinary ability.

In practice it is defined as the explosive's ability to accomplish what is intended in the way of energy delivery ( i. e., fragment projection, air blast, high-velocity jet, underwater shock and bubble energy, etc .).

he use of " liberty " to describe the physical " ability to do what I want ", the power to satisfy our wishes, or the extent of the choice of alternatives open to us ... has been deliberately fostered as part of the socialist argument ... the notion of collective power over circumstances has been substituted for that of individual liberty.

Age, understanding ( of the game ), ability, intelligence level, and personality are factors that determine what games a person enjoys.

All these properties may contribute to the ability of HDL to protect from atherosclerosis, and it is not yet known what are the most important.

They determined that a protective protein coat was formed around the bacteriophage, but that the internal DNA is what conferred its ability to produce progeny inside a bacteria.

The rules only define the ability's effects in combat — the player defines what the ability looks like when used.

Heavily influenced by the teaching methods of Anthony Stirling, Johnstone set out to rediscover the imaginative world of childhood, the origins of creativity and spontaneity, and the ability to tell stories in an attempt to shift what he saw as the ‘ pretentiousness ’ of theatre to something much less dependent on intellect.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States did not diminish its global ability to project force, remaining " the sole superpower " and what has been called a " unipolar " situation of domination by it globally came into force.

However, he adds that this also touches on some issues of human psychology, and the ability of the eye to see what it wants to see.

Most of these issues tend to be located in what is generally considered family law, especially the issue of marriage, as well as the ability of a transsexual person to benefit from a partner's insurance or social security.

Among the many practical functions of imagination are the ability to project possible futures ( or histories ), to " see " things from another's perspective, and to change the way something is perceived, including to make decisions to respond to, or enact, what is imagined.

Quoting Gérard de Nerval Art Historian Jean-Yves Heurtebise has further proposed that Dutch mannerism would typically use an otherwise general principle of Art History consisting of " the ability to capture what is different and to become different itself in this process "

Defense Minister Wardak explained that " what we are asking to acquire is just the ability to defend ourselves, and also to be relevant in the future so that our friends and allies can count on us to participate in peacekeeping and other operations of mutual interest.

Mania is always relative to the normal rate of intensity of the person being diagnosed with it ; therefore, an easily-angered person may exhibit mania by getting even angrier even more quickly, and an intelligent person may adopt seemingly " genius " characteristics and an ability to perform and to articulate thought beyond what they can do in a normal mood.

While grammarians, writers of dictionaries, and language policy-makers all have a certain influence on the evolution of language, their ability to influence what people think they ought to say is distinct from what people actually say.

God would allow for the ability to choose, and to not have full power over all in what was chosen by a human being each step of the way.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

I could show what I can do ''.

`` I know what we can do '', I said.

One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

If Mrs. Wright doesn't accept the terms in the morning, I'll go either to Tokyo or to Holland, to do what I can.

`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.

I can hardly think of this simple fare without exclaiming, oh, what a luxury.

The publication of Father Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the group available in print so that a general picture of what it contained can now be had without difficulty.

The jug stayed at the hospital and the water -- what can happen to water??

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.

It recognizes the fact that what helps one county helps its neighbors and that by banding together in an area-wide effort better results can be accomplished than through the go-it-alone approach.

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

There remains, of course, the question of what the West can do beyond diplomatic protest to prevent the illegal efforts from becoming accomplished facts.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

`` Now, if I can just figure out what he's talking about, I'll use it ''.