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In a lawsuit, you are relying on established rights that the king had laid down; the jurors used to be 12 men from the community who were "familiar" with the subject and who, when shown or told what the statute said, could make a fair decision and resolve the controversy.
The papers don't really get into it, but it's hard to see how this use of an international body with special privileges is any different than say Saddam's use of hospitals to house bioweapons production, or the already widely accepted practice of the U.S. military relying on the information provided by Baghdad-based TV crews to monitor its air offensives.
It must be said—and I believe I shall be borne out on this—that relying on citations appearing in the OED or in works written long ago is a precarious business: the only accurate, safe statement that can be made about such information is that it provides evidence for the existence of a word in a given context at the time of publication of the work: it cannot and must not be construed as the first time the word appeared on the face of the earth, merely as the first written evidence we have of its appearance.
She coached each to emphasize his manly strengths, relying on hoary, tired gender stereotypes.
These environmental conditions are the least likely to reveal deficits in the pattern of clock gene expression because the light-dark cycle provides a dominant stimulus to the clock (clock time is normally synchronized to this environmental cue) and is thought to increase the amplitude of clock gene cycling [ 20 28 29 ] . Rhythmicity was assessed for each specimen by autocorrelation analysis [ 30 27 ] . This analysis provides a quantitative estimate of rhythmicity with statistical confidence; whereas the confidence interval is based solely on the number of data points used in the analysis without relying on the variability in the data set or any other feature of the measured values, the criterion for statistical confidence is the same for all individual or group analyses within an experiment (see [ 27 ] for more detail).
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