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::" and value
::" There is no true value of any characteristic, state, or condition that is defined in terms of measurement or observation.
::" An act or forebearance of one party, or the promise thereof, is the price for which the promise of the other is bought, and the promise thus given for value is enforceable.

::" and decision
::" The People are in no disagreement that a fundamental right of personal decision exists ; the divergence of the parties focuses on what subjects fall within its protection, the People contending that it extends to only two aspects of sexual behavior-marital intimacy ( by virtue of the Supreme Court's decision in Griswold ) and procreative choice ( by reason of Eisenstadt and Roe v.

::" and with
::" If anyone imagines that we are stating the case too strongly, let him try an experiment with the first bright boy he meets by asking,
::" We loved the time we spent with you,
::" In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view ; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the question cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind.
::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
::" As the novel focuses on Han, it could have ended with the fall of Han.
::" In a classical philosophical opposition we are not dealing with the peaceful coexistence of a vis-à-vis, but rather with a violent hierarchy.
::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.
::" I was reading a magazine as I waited my turn at a barber shop one day when, triggered by a particular article and the photographs that went with it, there floated up out of some hitherto unexplored subcellar of me a character who was to dominate my life as a writer for the next six years and more.
::" Godric came as mysteriously alive for me as Bebb had and, with him, all the people he knew and the whole medieval world he lived in.
::" Buechner's theological efforts are never systematic treatises but instead short, highly literary productions in most of which he draws explicit links with fiction-writing generally and his own fiction in particular ... Buechner's 1969 Noble Lectures at Harvard, published in 1970 as The Alphabet of Grace, comprise a slender volume which is one of his most important and revealing works.
::" What could be code-breaking evidence of the latter explanation is to be found in the newly-disclosed redesign of the Missile Defense Agency logo .... As Logan helpfully shows, the new MDA shield appears ominously to reflect a morphing of the Islamic crescent and star with the Obama campaign logo.
::" On the 14th day of Kārttika, in the reign of Mahārāja Minadra, ( in the year ...), ( the corporeal relic ) of Sakyamuni, which is endowed with life ... has been established "
::" The Duplessis regime may well have endured for too long, the Union Nationale leader's traditionalist policies may well have been anachronistic when compared with the relatively modern society that, in many respects, the Quebec of the 1950s had already become.
" A later campaign used the well-known song tune of " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes " cleverly reworded as ::" They asked me how I knew, it was Esso Blue, I of course replied, with lower grades one buys, smoke gets in your eyes.
::" Perhaps driven by the exhilarating mixture of relief, freedom and despair that followed the end of World War II, artists around the world had been experimenting with newly physical, sometimes violent, cathartic ways of making paintings and sculptures.
::" Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience — those too may achieve eternal salvation " ( Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium, 16 ).
::" The continuance of this Campos incarceration is repugnant to our democratic form of government ; it is repugnant to our Bill of Rights and out of harmony with our good neighbor policy.
::" The bitter example of their own family history would sooner or later have driven Dara and Shuja and Aurangzeb and Murad to contend for the Peacock Throne with desperate fury.
::" Of this Phlegon, as Philostorgius says, to relate fully in detail what befell with the Jews, while Phlegon and Dio mentioned events briefly and made them an appendix to their own narrative.
::" The closing session of the conference also adopted a resolution recommending that the Congress establish a Department of Community Service which would be charged with aiding in the reconstruction of the spiritual and cultural life of Jews in liberated countries.
::" if the day were bright, you observed upon the house – tops, stretching far away, a long dark path ; the shadow of the Monument ; and turning round, the tall original was close beside you, with every hair erect upon his golden head, as if the doings of the city frightened him.

::" and perfect
::" An official perfect game occurs when a pitcher ( or pitchers ) retires each batter on the opposing team during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings.

::" and while
::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.
::" The Athenian once hailed me as a favourable omen, while the pious Roman cursed me with raised fists, and the pontiff of Egypt, abstinent from beans, trembled at my voice and paled at my odour.

::" and =
::" Senate people-and Roman " = " The Senate and Roman people "

::" and ".
::" The Flowers of the Forest are a ' wede away ".
::" M. Rodzianko was an exceptionally tall and powerful man ".
::" Baby-shmaby ".
::" Sale, schmale ".
Image ::" Павильон Механизации сельского хозяйства на ВСХВ 1939 года ". jpg | Pavilion of Agricultural machinery-today the space pavilion
::" Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both ".

value and decision
Next to the old problem of the slowness of decision making, network structure seems to be paramount, and without monitoring no network has value.
The cost of land and the prospects for appreciation in value may influence your decision.
If she chose, and in that final decision discarded, what, above all, all of us value, life itself, must she not have risen to her fullest height, and transcending her murky self, felt at last the passion of a great moral decision??
* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.
To solve this instance of the decision problem we must determine whether there is a truth value ( TRUE or FALSE ) we can assign to each of the variables ( x < sub > 1 </ sub > through x < sub > 4 </ sub >) such that the entire expression is TRUE.
The Supreme Court decision made it possible to value software, and also purchase Software patents.
* Granularity: When a continuously variable analog value is represented in digital form there is always a decision as to the number of symbols to be assigned to that value.
When investors and managers perform DCF analysis, the important thing is that the net present value of the decision after discounting all future cash flows at least be positive ( more than zero ).
For a decision which generates multiple cash flows in multiple time periods, all the cash flows must be discounted and then summed into a single net present value.
Fundamental analysis allows you to make your own decision on value, and ignore the market.
* The decision problem form of the knapsack problem (" Can a value of at least V be achieved without exceeding the weight W?
There is a link between the " decision " and " optimization " problems in that if there exists a polynomial algorithm that solves the " decision " problem, then one can find the maximum value for the optimization problem in polynomial time by applying this algorithm iteratively while increasing the value of k.
On the other hand, if an algorithm finds the optimal value of optimization problem in polynomial time, then the decision problem can be solved in polynomial time by comparing the value of the solution output by this algorithm with the value of k.
Amid disagreement within the IWC Scientific Committee about the value of the research and its relevance to IWC objectives, no decision on the proposal was reached.
There may be cases where the match probability in relation to all the samples tested is so great that the judge would consider its probative value to be minimal and decide to exclude the evidence in the exercise of his discretion, but this gives rise to no new question of principle and can be left for decision on a case by case basis.
A likelihood-ratio test is a statistical test for making a decision between two hypotheses based on the value of this ratio.
Nonetheless, corruption clearly has a cash value, involves some creativity to arrange, and is a decision factor.
Opponents also state categorizing patients based on factors such as social value to the community or age will not work in a heterogeneous society without a common ethical consensus such as the U. S. Doug Bandow of the CATO Institute wrote government decision making would " override the differences in preferences and circumstances " for individuals and that it is a matter of personal liberty to be able to buy as much or as little care as one wants.

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