Sentences with phrase «ordinary matter which»

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The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

How far the Bible was familiar to the laity — or to the ordinary parish priest, for that matter — during the Middle Ages, is a question upon which mediaeval historians appear to differ; but it is safe to say that what knowledge of the Bible there was lay within the schema, which gave the key to its understanding.

So if Santayana is not an «event ontologist» like Whitehead, it is not because he thinks ordinary continuants or «primary substances» are ontologically more basic than events, which he does not, but because he speaks of the derivation of one event from another as the transmission of matter or substance, in the sense of ulh, from one to another.

The latter always remains a highly personal matter; the minister is fitted to exercise this authority by the personal crises through which God leads him It is conferred upon him only in the inner chamber where ordinary thanksgivings, intercessions, confessions and petitions are daily made and where the extraordinary humblings or clarifications take place.

In the words of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, the «divine deposit» includes «all those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the Word of God as founding Scripture or Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.»

Left on our own, we are, in most ordinary matters, neither heroically righteous nor heroically evil nor even heroically ambiguous; we simply drift — from at least a theoretical belief in God's overriding sovereignty in our lives, to a working pragmatism which simply assumes that the little decisions are ours to make.

It should be noted that Habermas himself has contributed to this development by identifying different types of validity claims that may be embodied in ordinary discourse — some of which can be subjected to empirical criticism, others of which remain matters of nonempirical metaphysical or philosophical reflection.

A democratic process in which political positions are seen purely as a matter of public service with a responsibility to try and meet the aspirations of the ordinary citizens is likely to engender electoral integrity and healthy participatory government.

Factoring in all the ordinary matter we can not see — contained in exoplanets, galactic gas clouds, and black holes, none of which emit light — still isn't enough to make up the difference.

In the early universe, astronomers believe, dark matter provided the gravitational scaffolding on which ordinary matter coalesced and grew into galaxies.

APRIL 1860 ELECTRIC THEORY — «The results of the experiments instituted by Sir William Grove are exceedingly curious, and must be regarded as all but proving the truth of the modern theory, which assumes that electricity is not, in any sense, a material substance but only an affection (state) or motion of the particles of ordinary matter.

Ordinary matter, which makes up the atoms of familiar objects as well as stars and the visible portions of galaxies, accounts for just 4 percent of the cosmos.

Those particles are 10 to 100 times the mass of a proton, but interact only very weakly with ordinary matter (which is why scientists can not easily detect them).

23 STRANGE MATTER Ordinary atoms contain particles called quarks, which come in two varieties: up and down.

Hydrogen is the main element of ordinary matter (5 %) in the Universe, which is primarily composed of more abundant dark matter (27 %) and dominant dark energy (68 %).

Over the past decade, evidence has mounted that only about one sixth of the matter in the universe is the ordinary baryonic matter with which we are familiar.

Reverberations in the very young universe imprinted onto that background a discernible pattern, which depends on the mix of ordinary matter to dark matter.

In those theories, the gravity from ordinary matter remains strong at greater distances than predicted by Newton and Einstein, which prevents galaxies from flying apart.

But physicists have never directly observed particles of dark matter, which are supposed to interact very weakly with ordinary matter.

The fluctuations also created variations in temperature of the CMB across the sky, from which cosmologists have determined the content of the universe in terms of ordinary matter, mysterious dark matter whose gravity binds the galaxies, and weird space - stretching dark energy.

Antimatter is essentially the opposite of matter, in which the subatomic particles (protons and electrons) of antimatter have charges opposite to those of ordinary matter.

LZ's approach posits that dark matter may be composed of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles — known as WIMPs — which pass through ordinary matter virtually undetected.

Lawrence expects that the spacecraft will significantly shrink levels of uncertainty for such cosmological parameters as the age of the universe and the relative proportions of ordinary matter (all that we can see and touch) and that mysterious stuff known as dark matter, which is believed to make up far more of the universe than its ordinary counterpart.

These numbers are corroborated by studies of the afterglow of the big bang — the so - called cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- which suggests that our universe is made of roughly 70 % dark energy, 23 % dark matter, and only 4.6 % of ordinary, or baryonic, matter.

So I start by describing how we understand the origin of mass of ordinary matter, for normal matter, the stuff you and I are made out of, really starting from constituents that have zero mass, realizing Einstein's dream of reducing mass to energy explaining how mass arises from energy, which is a more basic concept.

If it all sounds too radical, that may be a good thing: most direct detection experiments, which wait for an ordinary WIMP to collide with the nucleus of a heavy atom like germanium or xenon, have seen nothing (see «Going underground in search of dark matter strikes «-RRB-, for example.

In addition to these particles, there are heavier particles, which don't appear in ordinary matter because there's so heavy; they're unstable and they decay into the particle's I mentioned — electrons, neutrinos and the two lightest types of quarks.

Several astronomical measurements have corroborated the existence of dark matter, leading to a world - wide effort to observe directly dark matter particle interactions with ordinary matter in extremely sensitive detectors, which would confirm its existence and shed light on its properties.

And now, we have established that dark matter is about 23 percent of the universe; ordinary matter is only 4 1/2 percent; and dark energy is that other 73 percent — which is an even bigger puzzle.

The discrepancy is even worse at the cores of the universe's tiny dwarf galaxies, which have few ordinary stars but lots of dark matter.

In a paper published May 2 in Nature Physics, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) at CERN presented new results on the properties of axions — hypothetical particles with minimal interactions with ordinary matter that therefore could constitute some or all of the mysterious dark matter, which is five times more abundant than normal matter.

Rick's business model does have some flat - out illegal elements, which become important to resolving matters near the end of the film, but it's ironic how those illegal activities do far less harm to ordinary people — even providing work for some of Dennis» friends — than the legal ones.

No matter which angle you look at this Lexus IS - F from you can't help but be overwhelmed with the subtle details that set this IS apart from ordinary four door luxury cars.

As long as you're just dealing with ordinary Zombies it doesn't actually matter much which buttons you press, as long as you keep alternating the three to string them together for combos.

Avoiding overbearing subject - matter, Robert Adams» photographs are often taken from a distance and are minimalist in character, searching for the fragile beauty which is found in the ordinary.

One notes how infotainting Norm Kalmanovitch is with his nine - year long view of climate, which manages in half the length of time that signal can be separated from noise in the already questionable surface temperature record by ordinary mathematics and a demand for predictions about inherently unpredictable matters to come to an ironclad conclusion that happens to coincide with his own biased views.

The landmark decision in Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 All ER 98, [1998] 1 WLR 896, signalled the simplicity of the test that in matters of construction the courts were concerned to ascertain the «meaning which the document would convey to a reasonable person» (ie an objective test) by applying «the common sense principles by which any serious utterance would be interpreted in ordinary life».

«The term «pro bono» refers to activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of (i) the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; (ii) the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties, or public rights; and (iii) the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.»

It was argued on behalf of the landlords that the salvage principle was not restricted to sums falling due only after the date of the administrator's appointment and that the principle required that as a matter of common sense and ordinary justice, the landlords receive payment of the disputed rent and other sums due, in full, for the period in which the administrator occupied the premises for the purposes of the administration.

In an ordinary divorce case or in a «bed and board divorce,» these agreements can be used to decide any of the questions of custody, support, property division, debt and other matters which would otherwise have to be decided in a court hearing as part of the divorce.

The remedy sought is not confined to ordinary compensation, but extends to damages for breach of the Convention and to declaratory relief, which in the context of this case, and if the Claimant succeeded, would represent an important marking of unlawful behaviour: a matter in which there is a legitimate public interest.

There is nothing in Rooke's description of the philosophy of OPCA's — which seem to be detached from actually achieving any legal outcome, since they do not recognize the legitimacy of the court or the legal system — that resembles the struggles of ordinary men and women who can not afford, or who have run out of funds, to pay a lawyer to act as their agent in family or civil matters.

It involves the manifold ways in which lawyers represent and advice clients in «ordinary» public and private matters and do so zealously, but with the large aim of promoting public interest.

Rix LJ cited with approval a passage in De Smith's Judicial Review (6th edition, 2007, at paras 10 - 065ff) and headed: Policy and Bias, which noted that decision - makers are entitled «to exhibit certain kinds of bias in the exercise of their judgment or discretion on matters of public policy» and while ordinary members of legislative bodies are «entitled, and sometimes expected, to show political bias» they of course ought not to show personal bias or participate in decisions on a matter in which they have a private pecuniary or proprietary interest.

Casey v. Masullo Brothers Builders, Inc. (218 A.D. 2d 907)- Buyer sues seller for fraud, misrepresentation, mistake of fact and breach of contract where buyer purchased residence based upon representations by seller through newspaper advertisements and representations by seller's Realtor regarding the school district within which the property was located; Realtor's statement based upon own investigation, loan profile sheet from an abstract company prepared prior to the closing, and town tax rolls which confirmed placement of the property within the disclosed school district; unless the facts are matters peculiarly within one party's knowledge, the other party must make use of means available to him to ascertain, by the exercise of ordinary intelligence, the truth of such representations; question of fact exists whether a reasonable inquiry would have revealed the correct school district; order dismissing seller's motion for summary judgment affirmed.