The definition of what was required varied, but may have included an animal sacrifice and involved torture or cruelty to animals and humans.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

Under the strictest definition, an argot is a proper language, with its own grammar and style.

In both countries, a so-called standard drink contains one unit of alcohol ( according to the country ’ s own definition ).

His own definition of the new figure serving as the basis for his study is:

By his own admission, Hubbard made what he considered was one of the greatest mistakes of his life when he used the biological definition of engram as a " trace on a cell ", which was not in line with the proper biological definition.

Similarities can be observed in Orwell ’ s own definition of doublethink, from Nineteen Eighty-Four ;

His work, as important as it was in its own right, was a part of a continuum of progress in communications and electronics that since his time has brought forward color television, the personal computer, the Internet, cable and satellite radio and TV, personal mobile phones, audio, video and computing, digital stereo radio on both the medium wave and VHF-FM bands, and digital high definition television on VHF, UHF, cable and satellite.

Hawks's own functional definition of what constitutes a " good movie " is revealing of his no-nonsense style: " Three great scenes, no bad ones.

Hence Plato's definition of justice is that justice is the having and doing of what is one's own.

Plato refined his own definition.

Several years earlier, DOB founders Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon similarly relegated sexual acts as unnecessary in determining what a lesbian is, by providing their definition: " a woman whose primary erotic, psychological, emotional and social interest is in a member of her own sex, even though that interest may not be overtly expressed ".

An offender's possession of the proceeds of his own crime falls within the UK definition of money laundering.

The modern legal definition of " assault rifle " is of significance in states like California, where according to state law, certain weapons that cosmetically resemble true assault rifles, but are only capable of semi-automatic ( or autoloading ), are categorized as " assault weapons " and are illegal to purchase or own by civilian residents of the state, even after a less restrictive ban by the federal government was allowed to lapse after having no impact on these weapons ' use in crime.

Under this definition, there would only be two broad classes of organelles ( i. e. those that contain their own DNA, and have originated from endosymbiotic bacteria ):

This argument has been expressed by Daniel Dennett who argues that, " when philosophers claim that zombies are conceivable, they invariably underestimate the task of conception ( or imagination ), and end up imagining something that violates their own definition ".

The term itself does not allow it to own one specific definition, rather it contains specific attributes and characteristics that can be agreed upon.

Definitions and licensing requirements in the United States vary among jurisdictions, as each state has enacted its own physical therapy practice act defining the profession within its jurisdiction, but the American Physical Therapy Association ( APTA ) has also drafted a model definition in order to limit this variation, and the APTA is also responsible for accrediting physical therapy education curricula throughout the United States of America.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of the word privy in Privy Council is an obsolete one meaning " of or pertaining exclusively to a particular person or persons, one's own ;" hence the council is personal to the sovereign.

The term " classical education " has been used in English for several centuries, with each era modifying the definition and adding its own selection of topics.

By definition, autologous cells are obtained from one's own body, just as one may bank his or her own blood for elective surgical procedures.

The term ' sustainable development ' was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as development that " meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

# boroughs in which male householders were electors ( these were usually known as " potwalloper boroughs ," as the usual definition of a householder was a person able to boil a pot on their own hearth );

If R qualifies as a member of itself, it would contradict its own definition as a set containing all sets that are not members of themselves.

Sensing danger to Boyd's broad definition of individual rights, Justice McKenna dissented in Wilson, declaring that Hughes's distinction between personal and corporate papers was " a limitation by construction " on an important " constitutional security for personal liberty.

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

" A similar slight modification to the definition of " autological " ( such as declaring it false of " nonautological " and its synonyms ) might seem to fix that, but the paradox still obtains for synonyms of " autological " and " heterological " such as " selfdescriptive " and " nonselfdescriptive ," whose meanings also would need adjusting, and the consequences of those adjustments would then need to be pursued, and so on.

Many languages ( e. g. C ) make a distinction between statements and definitions, with a statement only containing executable code and a definition declaring an identifier.

* Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another ( 1 December 2005 ): declaring the common-law definition of marriage and the Marriage Act to be unconstitutional to the extent that they allowed opposite-sex couples to marry but did not allow same-sex couples to do so.

Now good definition is one thing that all of us can acquire with occasional high-set, high-rep, light-weight workouts.

It is the one exercise that drastically influences the definition of the thighs at the hipline -- that mark of the champion that sets him apart from all other bodybuilders ; ;

) Then X < sub > i </ sub > is the value ( or realization ) produced by a given run of the process at time i. Suppose that the process is further known to have defined values for mean μ < sub > i </ sub > and variance σ < sub > i </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > for all times i. Then the definition of the autocorrelation between times s and t is

Every Hilbert space X is a Banach space because, by definition, a Hilbert space is complete with respect to the norm associated with its inner product, where a norm and an inner product are said to be associated if for all x ∈ X.

This approach also allows preserving the curve definition under all linear or perspective 2D and 3D transforms and projections.

That is, by obvious dramatizing, the media reinforces the idea that all things are contrived for someone's gain which could be another definition of, at least, political conspiracies theories.

By legal definition, all semi-highways are expressways.

This view entails the problem that it makes any moral criticism of the law impossible: if conformity with natural law forms a necessary condition for legal validity, all valid law must, by definition, count as morally just.

* Duality: Every statement, theorem, or definition in category theory has a dual which is essentially obtained by " reversing all the arrows ".

Red Skelton, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin would all fit the definition of a character clown.

Most or all philosophical dictionaries list the neutral sense as the first or only definition.

In practice, the above definition is rarely used because in virtually all cases, the curl operator can be applied using some set of curvilinear coordinates, for which simpler representations have been derived.

Noting another proof that self-replicating machines are possible is the simple fact that all living organisms are self replicating by definition.

An alternate form of ( 2 ) – the machine successively prints all n of the digits on its tape, halting after printing the n < sup > th </ sup > – emphasizes Minsky's observation: ( 3 ) That by use of a Turing machine, a finite definition – in the form of the machine's table – is being used to define what is a potentially-infinite string of decimal digits.

In his work, Meinhof looked at noun classes with all Bantu languages having at least 10 classes and with 22 classes of nouns existing throughout the Bantu languages, though his definition of noun class differs slightly from the accepted one, considering the plural form of a word as belonging to a different class from the singular form ( thus leading, for example, to consider a language like French as having four classes instead of two ).

While many Carnivora meet the definition of being meat eaters, not all do, and even fewer are obligate carnivores ( see below ).

A clade is by definition monophyletic, meaning it contains one ancestor ( which can be an organism, a population, or a species ) and all its descendants.

The authority of all of the people, including the officers, is limited in the local congregation by a definition of union, or a covenant, by which the terms of their cooperation together are spelled out and agreed to.

Turing adds another definition, Rosser equates all three: Within just a short time, Turing's 1936 – 37 paper " On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem " appeared.

Formally, this definition includes as classical all objects with the current orbits that

An extensional definition would be a list of all past, present and future prime ministers.

An enumerative definition of a concept or term is an extensional definition that gives an explicit and exhaustive listing of all the objects that fall under the concept or term in question.

# a genus ( or family ): An existing definition that serves as a portion of the new definition ; all definitions with the same genus are considered members of that genus.