Variance Sentence Examples

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  • There are other sayings in the book that appear to be at variance with its fundamental thought.

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  • Model based largely to adjust variance a doctor specialist.

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  • This is equivalent to one minus the explained variance of the model.

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  • Numbers of microscopic fields assessed per section and of sections per animal has been selected to minimize variance between animals.

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  • Our idea relies on the use of adaptive methods that aim at reducing the asymptotic variance of the estimates.

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  • Paul's attitude towards nepotism was at variance with his character as a reformer.

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  • Note that the population intraclass correlation can be estimated using variance component estimation methods.

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  • The incremental average covariance and the incremental realized variance are found to be negative during the 1987 crash and the 1992 ERM crisis.

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  • The fourth option allows the user to specify a variance covariance matrix for the shocks.

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  • However, there is still a sizable, and at least partly explicable, variance in impacts across household characteristics.

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  • Clarendon had high moral views that were at variance with the moral laxity of Charles II court.

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  • He proposed simple and small convolution masks in combination with the computation of the local variance using a moving window in the image.

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  • The surfaces ' points have been corrupted with a Gaussian noise of 2 mm variance.

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  • You will be involved with a variety of tasks including balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets and variance analysis.

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  • The variance explained by Z alone is not shown by node shading.

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  • To calculate variance, the mean of a group of scores is subtracted from each score to give a group of " deviations " .

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  • The use of a variance component allows the effects of noise in bias subtraction to be properly monitored.

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  • The ` exp var BG ` is the background light curve expected variance.

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  • The ` Exp var BG ` is the background light curve expected variance.

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  • Errors in estimating this white noise variance are translated to errors in scale of the AR spectral values.

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  • This returns the potential adjusted variance for, where N is an element contained in the base.

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  • For module (i) the t-Test two sample assuming unequal variance was employed.

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  • The overall position for the first six months of the current financial year showed a favorable variance of £ 563,000.

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  • Historically, these confounding effects have been controlled using linear models assuming a constant additive error variance.

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  • That means there must always be a real possibility of an outcome at variance with parental wishes.

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  • They, having the great opportunity of initiative, organized it in all its branches, giving it an administrative machinery that in the main endures to-day; established the doctrine of national neutrality toward European conflicts (although the variance of Federalist and Republican opinion on this point was largely factitious); and fixed the practice of a liberal construction of the Constitution,) - not only by Congress, but above all by the United States Supreme Court, which, under the lead of John Marshall (who had been appointed chief-justice by Pres.

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  • In the course of his studies he discovered what he thought important variance between the teaching of the Church of England and that of the Bible, and he did not conceal his convictions.

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  • In dealing with pagans and heretics Gratian, who during his later years was greatly influenced by Ambrose, bishop of Milan, exhibited severity and injustice at variance with his usual character.

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  • Much that would otherwise be unintelligible becomes more clear when one realizes the readiness with which settlers adopt the traditional belief and custom of a land, and the psychological fact that teaching must be relevant and must satisfy the primary religious feelings and aspirations, that it must not be at entire variance with current beliefs, but must represent the older beliefs in a new form.

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  • The medicine is so simple in application and so easily available that it is served out almost automatically and indifferently, to every law-breaker; the pickpocket and the burglar are locked up next door to the clergyman at variance with his bishop; the weak-kneed and self-indulgent drunkard rubs shoulders with the political zealot who has endangered the peace of nations.

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  • Ahenobarbus was elected pontifex maximus in 103, consul in 96 and censor in 92 with Lucius Licinius Crassus the orator, with whom he was frequently at variance.

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  • The fact that, in practice, the judgments even of connoisseurs are perpetually at variance, and that the so-called criteria of one place or period are more or less opposed to those of all others, is explained away by the hypothesis that individuals are differently gifted in respect of the capacity to appreciate.

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  • An apparent trend in some measurement may signify nothing more than a change in variance, often coupled with a ceiling or floor effect.

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  • To calculate variance, the mean of a group of scores is subtracted from each score to give a group of " deviations ".

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  • We assume that the variance of the resource distribution is finite.

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  • In Figaro the variance array must not contain bad values.

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  • The noise levels are recorded in the variance component of the output NDF.

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  • A finite sample correction to the GMM variance estimate has been derived.

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  • There's just enough variance to make it worth stopping again.

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  • Setbacks and local codes may restrict the size of the addition greatly, an architect will know how to navigate these restrictions and how to petition for a variance should one be needed.

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  • Measure the length and width of the window at three or four points and determine the variance top to bottom and side to side.

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  • With wine, the variance is so little; but wineries, like the Brown-Forman have had "low carb" wines on the market for years.

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  • There is great variance in the symptoms, available treatments, and long-term consequences of these conditions.

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  • Because there is a wide variance in the severity of symptoms, signs of Bell's palsy may not be immediately noticed by parents.

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  • Because there is wide variance in the degree of lactose intolerance, treatment should be tailored for the individual.

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  • The RDW is a measure of the variance in red blood cell size.

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  • There have been many theories of what causes the wide variance of eye color throughout the world.

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  • Any name variance other than the seller's name should be a red flag.

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  • Waynflete was assigned as the principal executor of his "will" for that purpose, and if there was any variance between the executors, he was to determine it.

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  • He was required to maintain the Protestant reformed religion and to suppress " all religion at variance with the gospel."

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  • Discords must not be taken unprepared, because a singer can only find his note by a mental judgment, and in attacking a discord he has to find a note of which the harmonic meaning is at variance with that of other notes sung at the same time.

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  • It is noteworthy that in this family only among the Polychaeta, the nephridia are not restricted to a single pair in each segment; so that the older view that the gonad ducts are metamorphosed nephridia is not at variance with the anatomical facts which have been just stated.

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  • The Order was at variance within itself; some of the houses of the brethren refused to obey the marshal, and the grand master quarrelled with the German master.

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  • We do not know how far these recensions were uniform in the beginning; but a variance must have occurred shortly after, for the manuscripts in which the codes are preserved differ greatly from each other.

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  • Although the amended theory as worked out by Maxwell is in rough agreement with certain leading phenomena of magnetization, it fails to account for many others, and is in some cases at variance with observed facts.

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  • Although this measure was bound to set senators and equites at variance, it in no way improved the lot of those chiefly concerned.

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  • His object was to found a great empire; but this was a project at variance with the wishes of his employers - an association of merchants, who were dissatisfied because the wealth which they expected to see flowing into their coffers was expended in promoting the permanent interests of a distant country.

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  • Critics are still at variance as to the .extent of the Christian Sibyllines.

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  • In this case the writer recurs to the first method, already described, only when the different traditions are greatly at variance with one another.

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  • Defoe was uniformly grateful to the minister, and his language respecting him is in curious variance with that generally used.

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  • His memoir (1775) on the rotatory motion of a body contains (as the author was aware) conclusions at variance with those arrived at by Jean le Rond, d'Alembert and Leonhard Euler in their researches on the same subject.

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  • On returning to Wittenberg, he turned to the canon law, and was shocked to find it so completely at variance with his notions of Christianity.

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  • In the first part of the confession the Protestants seek to prove that there is nothing in their doctrines at variance with those of the universal Church " or even of the Roman Church so far as that appears in the writings of the Fathers."

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  • It is still more at variance with the facts in these days when a few great states predominate, and when the contact of western states with African and Asiatic states or communities gives rise to relations of dependence falling short of conquest.

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  • The variance in the strength of existing bridges is such as to be apparent to the educated eye without any calculation.

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  • By the operation of the Judicature Act one supreme court with several divisions was constituted; each division could administer the whole law; the conflict of divergent systems of law was largely overcome by declaring that when they were at variance, the principles of equity should prevail over the doctrines of the common law.

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  • This Greek word corresponds to New the idea suggested by the etymology of at-one-ment, the re-uniting in amity of those at variance, a sense which the word had in the 17th century but has since lost.

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  • In his own character it produced the somewhat blunted moral sense which led to the few incidents in his career which need moral defence, his performance of the marriage ceremony between his first patron Lord Devonshire and the latter's mistress, the divorced wife of Lord Rich, an act completely at variance with his principles; his strange intimacy with Buckingham; his love of power and place.

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  • The last two are, it is true, at variance in some even important respects.

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  • Caesar at once approached both Pompey and Crassus, who alike detested the existing system of government but were personally at variance, and succeeded in persuading them to forget their quarrel and join him in a coalition which should put an end to the rule of the oligarchy.

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  • It must be admitted that the statements of Pytheas did not accord with the theory of Strabo just in those very points where he was at variance with Eratosthenes.

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  • Being thus radically at variance with the main current of the thought of his time, the failure of the commission he had undertaken was sooner or later inevitable; and shortly after the opening of his new church in Regent Square in 1827, he found that "fashion had taken its departure," and the church, "though always well filled," was "no longer crowded."

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  • The necessity for this modification arises from the fact that such plants are subjected to conditions more or less unnatural to them, and that they are grown for special purposes which are at variance, in degree at any rate, with their natural requirements.

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  • During his pontificate the dispute was settled between Cyril of Alexandria and John of Antioch, who had been at variance since the council of Ephesus, but he himself had some difficulties with Proclus of Constantinople with regard to the vicariate of Thessalonica.

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  • Such an inference is, however, clearly at variance with the whole doctrine of sin, repentance and the atonement, as also with that of eternal reward and punishment, which postulates a real measure of human responsibility.

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  • Boleslaus of Poland, who was now a very powerful sovereign, having conquered Lusatia and Silesia, brought Bohemia also under his rule and was soon at variance with the German king.

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  • In the western country numerous posts were founded, wherein fur-trader and missionary were often at variance, the trader finding brandy his best medium of exchange, while the missionary tried in vain to stay its ravages among his flock.

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  • There is nothing in this at variance with Mahomet's idea of God.

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  • Disorder of the cerebellum sets at variance, brings discord into, the space-perceptions contributory to the movement.

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  • Hence it follows that the contents of the book are not of equal historical value; and though the claim of a passage to be considered historical is not necessarily determined by the age of the source from which it is derived, yet, in view of the known practice of Hebrew writers, greater weight naturally attaches to the earlier documents in those cases in which the sources are at variance with one another.

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  • During the middle ages the citizens were almost constantly at variance with the archbishops, and by the end of the 15th century had become nearly independent of them.

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  • He had no opinions on theological subjects at variance with the theology taught at Erfurt and elsewhere.

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  • Lord Curzon, finding himself at variance with the secretary of state, resigned before the end of the first year, and was succeeded by Lord Minto.

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  • Cloistered seclusion is an artificial condition quite at variance with human instincts and habits, and the treatment, long continued, has proved injurious to health, inducing mental breakdown.

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  • Modern Persian Literature.Persian historians are greatly at variance about the origin of their national poetry.

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  • He was also one of the first in whom we find a tendency to a view of industrial phenomena which was at variance with the then dominant mercantilist ideas, and he exhibits a statesmanlike sense of the elements in which the strength of a nation really consists.

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  • His relations to the Lombard nobles were equally at variance with his professed patriotism; and, while still a housemate of Visconti and Correggi, he kept on issuing invectives against the tyrants who divided Italy.

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  • The policy of the British government was a close alliance with France, but an alliance based on the principle that no interests were to be promoted at variance with the just rights of others, or which could give to any other nation well-founded cause of jealousy.

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  • In the first place the native policy of the Congo government was denounced as at variance with the humanitarian spirit which had been regarded by the powers as one of the chief motives inspiring the foundation of the Congo State.

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  • In the interval there had been other questions on which he found himself at variance with Gladstonian Liberalism, for instance, as regards the Sudan and the Transvaal, nor was he inclined to stomach the claims of the Caucus or the Birmingham programme.

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  • There is as yet no satisfactory classification of the Ophiurida into orders expressing lines of descent; even as regards families, leading writers are at variance.

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  • Yet such a view would be totally at variance with much that Spencer says (especially in his treatment of justice) concerning the trustworthiness and inevitable character of men's constant appeal to the intuitions of their moral consciousness.

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  • But the search of origins frequently leads them into theories of the nature of that moral conduct whose origin they are anxious to find quite at variance with current and accepted beliefs concerning its nature.

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  • He soon found himself at variance with the Prince, who inaugurated in Crete very much the same autocratic policy that his elder brother, King Constantine, subsequently adopted in Greece in '9 ' 5-7.

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  • The king of Dublin exercised overlordship over the other Viking communities in the island, and thus became the most dangerous opponent of the ardri, with whom he was constantly at variance.

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  • The senseless stories or myths about the gods are soon felt to be at variance with this hypothesis.

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  • Although the priestly source shows how the lore could be reshaped, and Jubilees represents later efforts along similar lines, it is evident that for ordinary readers the patriarchal traditions could not be presented in an entirely new form, and that to achieve their aims the writers could not be at direct variance with current thought.

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  • To check the agitation he turned for help to Austria; and an alliance of the two powers, so lately at variance, was formed.

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  • He was doubtless regarded by Pitt as the man best fitted to carry out his policy with reference to France, but in the succeeding years he and his chief were frequently at variance on important questions of foreign policy.

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  • This opinion, I know, is at variance with that of many gentlemen possessing great practical experience, as well as scientific acquirements.

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  • The output bad-pixel flag is set to indicate no bad values in the data and variance arrays.

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  • First, many engineering systems have performance requirements naturally stated in terms of the upper bounds on the steady-state variance values.

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  • Opinion is at variance regarding the patriarchal narratives as a whole.

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  • A Landtag was first called together in 1387, and the landgraves were con stantly at variance with the electors of Mainz, who had large temporal possessions in the country.

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  • On the bank question he was at first at variance with the president; in January 1832 he presented in the Senate a memorial from the bank's president, Nicholas Biddle, and its managers, praying for a recharter, and subsequently he was chairman of a committee which reported a bill re-chartering the institution for a fifteen-year period.

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  • For the promulgation of these views, which were confessedly at variance with the doctrines of the standards of the national church of Scotland, he was summoned (1726) before his presbytery, where in the course of the investigations which followed he affirmed still more explicitly his belief that "every national church established by the laws of earthly kingdoms is antichristian in its constitution and persecuting in its spirit," and further declared opinions upon the subject of church government which amounted to a repudiation of Presbyterianism and an acceptance of the puritan type of Independency.

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  • In 1680 Jean Picard, in his Voyage d'Uranibourg, stated, as a result of ten years' observations, that Polaris, or the Pole Star, exhibited variations in its position amounting to 40" annually; some astronomers endeavoured to explain this by parallax, but these attempts were futile, for the motion was at variance with that which parallax would occasion.

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  • The whole series of incidents differ from that which we find in St Matthew's Gospel, but there is no direct variance between them.

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  • The Renaissance closed the middle ages and opened the modern era, - not merely because the mental and moral ideas which then sprang into activity and owed their force in large measure to the revival of classical learning were opposed to medieval modes of thinking and feeling, but also because the political and international relations specific to it as an age were at variance with fundamental theories of the past.

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  • At the same time all ancient Welsh laws and customs, which were at variance with the recognized law of England, were now declared illegal, and Cymric land tenure by gavelkind, which had been respected by Edward I., was expressly abolished and its place taken by the ordinary practice of primogeniture.

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  • Firmly resolved, after putting his affairs in order in the regiment, to retire from the army and return and marry Sonya, Nicholas, serious, sorrowful, and at variance with his parents, but, as it seemed to him, passionately in love, left at the beginning of January to rejoin his regiment.

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  • The failure of the government in Ireland (where the only success was Mr Birrell's introduction of the Universities Bill in April 1908), their internal divisions as regards socialistic legislation, their variance from the views of the selfgoverning colonies on Imperial administration, the admission after the general election that the alleged "slavery" of the Chinese in the Transvaal was, in Mr Winston Churchill's phrase, a "terminological inexactitude," and the introduction of extreme measures such as the Licensing Bill of 1908, offered excellent opportunities of electioneering attack.

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  • But when great authorities were at variance, it ill became an average priest or penitent to decide.

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  • Further, since Socrates and the Socratics were educators, they too might be, and in general were, regarded as sophists; but, as they conceived truth - so far as it was attainable - rather than success in life, in the law court, in the assembly, or in debate, to be the right end of intellectual effort, they were at variance with their rivals, and are commonly ranked by historians, not with the sophists, who confessedly despaired of knowledge, but with the philosophers, who, however unavailingly, continued to seek it.

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  • Egyptologists are at variance on the question whether this alphabet was the original, or had any influence upon the development of the Phoenician alphabet.

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