Word: methodizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...used to cut onions, which entails using the knuckle to protect the fingers and support the knife. McDowell said that she would not soon forget “getting scolded for my onion cutting.” She added, “I did not like the claw method.” —Staff writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...with other men.Only one passage in the Qu’ran explicitly acknowledge homosexuality: “If two men commit unchastity with each other, punish them both. And if they repent and improve, then let them be. Lo! Allah is Relenting, Mericful. (4.16)” Since no method of punishment is indicated, Shar’ia law leaves punishment to the judiciary. In the case of Senegal, Penal Article 319.3 provides that “whoever commits an improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex will be punished by imprisonment of between...
...number of rows, Paulos came up with a section of the stadium that he figured contained about 10,000 seats - an image he can now think back to whenever a person starts talking about tens of thousands of a particular thing. When numbers get too large, though, that method breaks down. A stack of one trillion $1 bills would reach more than a quarter of the way to the moon - replacing one incomprehensible thought with another doesn't do much good...
...There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it wasn’t obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. This is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...These measurements use the traditional surveyor’s method of triangulation and do not depend on any assumptions based on other properties, such as brightness, unlike earlier studies,” said Karl M. Menten of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, a member of Reid’s team...