And knowing its humble place in the scale of things, why did he, at this time of life, seem almost ready to sell his soul for plumpness??

The one way to get around them -- short of knowing exactly what one wants and sticking to it -- is to frequent a single establishment until its wine waiter is persuaded that one is at least as interested in wine as in spending money.

By knowing the coordinates of an object ( usually given in equatorial coordinates ), the telescope user can use the setting circle to align the telescope in the appropriate direction before looking through its eyepiece.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

Still, in the absence of naked singularities, the universe is deterministic — it's possible to predict the entire evolution of the universe ( possibly excluding some finite regions of space hidden inside event horizons of singularities ), knowing only its condition at a certain moment of time ( more precisely, everywhere on a spacelike 3-dimensional hypersurface, called the Cauchy surface ).

Schopenhauer claimed that “ everything that exists for knowledge, and hence the whole of this world, is only object in relation to the subject, perception of the perceiver, in a word, representation .” According to him there can be " No object without subject " because " everything objective is already conditioned as such in manifold ways by the knowing subject with the forms of its knowing, and presupposes these forms …"

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

Freenet works by storing small encrypted snippets of content distributed on the computers of its users and connecting only through intermediate computers which pass on requests for content and sending them back without knowing the contents of the full file, similar to how routers on the Internet route packets without knowing anything about files — except with caching, a layer of strong encryption, and without reliance on centralized structures.

This means that any regular Latin verb can be conjugated in any person, number, tense, mood, and voice by knowing which of the four conjugation groups it belongs to, and its principal parts.

Only the Kevalins-the omniscient beings-can comprehend the object in all its aspects and manifestations, and all others are capable of knowing only a part of it.

As Marius writes in his biography of More: " To stand before a man at an inquisition, knowing that he will rejoice when we die, knowing that he will commit us to the stake and its horrors without a moment's hesitation or remorse if we do not satisfy him, is not an experience much less cruel because our inquisitor does not whip us or rack us or shout at us.

As Holland has it: " What precise heights of oratory he attained, what stirring and memorable phrases he pronounced, we have no way of knowing ... only by the effect it had on the assembly can we gauge what surely must have been its electric and vivifying quality-for Themistocles ' audacious proposals, when put to the vote, were ratified.

The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness ; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.

* Most of the time, knowing the use of a variable implies knowing its type.

He has been accused of having engaged in torture, but he denied it, although he admitted knowing of its use.

Only the Kevalis-the omniscient beings-can comprehend the object in all its aspects and manifestations, and that all others are capable of knowing only a part of it.

This genetic defect was known as Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome ( since 1944 ) without knowing its actual cause.

Since phosphorylation of any site on a given protein can change the function or localization of that protein, understanding the " state " of a cell requires knowing the phosphorylation state of its proteins.

But the French captains, knowing its strength and that their men needed rest, prevailed on her to allow them to honor the feast-day in peace.

In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that `` a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators are ''.

But on Berkeley's view, just as it is meaningless to speak of triangularity in general aside from specific figures, so it is meaningless to speak of mass in motion without knowing the colour.

Different minerals in a given geologic setting can acquire distinctly different ratios of radiogenic strontium-87 to naturally occurring strontium-86 (< sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr ) through time ; and their age can be calculated by measuring the < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr in a mass spectrometer, knowing the amount of < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr present when the rock or mineral formed, and calculating the amount of < sup > 87 </ sup > Rb from a measurement of the Rb present and knowledge of the < sup > 85 </ sup > Rb /< sup > 87 </ sup > Rb weight ratio.

In a televised debate with Nelson on November 1, however, she repeatedly declined to say whether she would still support the Iraq War Resolution knowing that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.

knowing no better and having no choice " would attempt to deface ( by means of mass colonisation ) the galaxy, especially if virtual realities afford limitless possibilities at a small fraction of the total resource-consumption.

On the same day a separate formation of eight B-25s on its own initiative attempts to bomb Paramushiro ; they bomb an unidentified land mass through overcast without knowing if it is Japan, the Kuriles, the Kamchatka Peninsula, or an unidentified North Pacific island.

of 1999, a bill focused on phosphate prospecting and compensation due to the Menominee Indian Tribe, added making it an offence " to teach or demonstrate the making or use of an explosive, a destructive device, or a weapon of mass destruction, or to distribute by any means information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction " either intending or knowing that the learner / viewer intends " that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence.

By knowing the mass of the sample collected and the volume of air sampled a concentration for the fraction sampled can be given in milligrams ( mg ) per metre cubed ( m3 ).

Black Mask presents Zsasz with a briefcase filled with cash and advises him to finally live out his dream, knowing full well any ' dream ' of Zsasz's would culminate in mass murder.

Writing about Hayden's role in the 1960s New Left, Nicholas Lemann, national correspondent for The Atlantic, said that " Tom Hayden changed America ", calling him " father to the largest mass protests in American history ", and Richard N. Goodwin, who was a speechwriter for presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, said that Hayden, " without even knowing it, inspired the Great Society.

By measuring the proportion of oxygen in the remaining exhaust gas, and by knowing the volume and temperature of the air entering the cylinders amongst other things, an ECU can use look-up tables to determine the amount of fuel required to burn at the stoichiometric ratio ( 14. 7: 1 air: fuel by mass for gasoline ) to ensure complete combustion.

Back at work at Blandings Cosmetics, Jim Royle ( Clive Swift ), a shop steward, knowing the strong Labour tradition in the Hennessey family, asks Beryl to speak at a mass meeting calling for strike action, on Sunday ,-the same day Beryl has arranged to see Frank.

For rotating mass shakers the force can be calculated from knowing the mass and the speed of rotation ; for the electro-dynamic shaker the force can be obtained through a load cell, or an accelerometer placed on the moving mass of the shaker.

The plot is set in separated rooms: A girl selling herself as a sex slave, a man in a bunker after a nuclear war, an expedition to an alien planet, a haunted house investigator and finally, a poet not knowing he is an inspirational source for a mass murderer.

The diffusion of mass intellectuality, ( i. e. the distribution of human intelligence ) and associated changes in ways of feeling and being ( ontology ), ways of knowing ( epistemology ) and value constellations ( axiology ) have been instrumental in creating the type of cooperative individualism needed to sustain an ethos which can enable P2P projects.

But there is a fourth, transcendent state, which is " neither inward-turned nor outward-turned consciousness, nor the two together ; not an indifferentiated mass of consciousness ; neither knowing, nor unknowing ; invisible, ineffable, intangible, devoid of characteristics, inconceivable, indefinable, its sole essence being the consciousness of its own Self ; the coming to rest of all relative existence ; utterly quiet ; peaceful ; blissful: without a second: this is the Ātman, the Self ; this is to be realised.

Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;

For instance -- what about all those people Harold Rhodes went toward unhesitatingly, as if this were the one moment they would ever have together, their one chance of knowing each other??

The killer, if in our present group, would certainly be interested in knowing that much, and even though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation, there might always be some way.

But, from our reading of the Western Talmud, we Urielites believe that the Forerunner, knowing this situation would arise, made reference to and provision for divorce.

Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

Evil Dead II, according to Bruce Campbell, " was originally designed to go back into the past to 1300, but we couldn't muster it at the time, so we decided to make an interim version, not knowing if the 1300 story would ever get made ".

Pompey wanted to delay, knowing the enemy would eventually surrender from hunger and exhaustion.

To compute the temperature change in such a model, it would be necessary to know g and not just g ′, because without knowing g it is not possible to know where to evaluate f ′.

Because many outstanding problems in number theory, such as Goldbach's conjecture are equivalent to solving the halting problem for special programs ( which would basically search for counter-examples and halt if one is found ), knowing enough bits of Chaitin's constant would also imply knowing the answer to these problems.

However, doing this for a town that only has two black males in this age group would be a breach of privacy because either of those persons, knowing his own income and the reported average, could determine the other man's income.

In a passage from the Posterior Analytics, he says that we can know the meaning of a made-up name ( he gives the example ' goat stag '), without knowing what he calls the ' essential nature ' of the thing that the name would denote, if there were such a thing.

Not knowing of established definitions would be grounds for selecting or devising a working definition.

She would clearly not have entered into the contract knowing the watch was fake, and is entitled to her £ 100 back.

When he reached Kamikos, King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve the riddle, privately fetched the old man to him.

Sapir insisted that the discipline of linguistics was of integral importance for ethnographic description, arguing that just as nobody would dream of discussing the history of the Catholic Church without knowing Latin or study German folksongs without knowing German, so it made little sense to approach the study of Indigenous folklore without knowledge of the indigenous languages.

Poe tactically pled not guilty to induce dismissal, knowing he would be found guilty.

The use of tabernacle terminology in Hebrews has been used to date the epistle before the destruction of the temple, the idea being that knowing about the destruction of both Jerusalem and the temple would have influenced the development of the author's overall argument to include such evidence.

During her divorce, Blyton blackmailed Pollock into taking full blame for the failure of the marriage, knowing that exposure of her adultery would ruin her public image.

The principles underlying intra-and inter-individual differences could be educationally useful, because knowing how students differ in regard to the various dimensions of cognitive development, such as processing and representational capacity, self-understanding and self-regulation, and the various domains of understanding, such as mathematical, scientific, or verbal abilities, would enable the teacher to cater for the needs of the different students so that no one is left behind.

The good person, if able to foresee the future, would peacefully and contentedly help to bring about their own sickness, maiming, and even death, knowing that this is the right order of the universe.