Further, the IAT adopt an internally inconsistent and irrational approach to the said issues. |
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Parenting is possibly an irrational vocation, but humanity keeps breeding and procreating. |
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Of the irrational, transcendental numbers, pi seems to get all the attention. |
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His thoughts were irrational but even so the hairs on the back of his neck had again begun to tingle and prickle with cool fear. |
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Is it wise or even just, he asks, to expose our children to cultural viruses that are irrational and dangerous? |
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Benumbed fear often turns into panic, phobias, irrational prejudice, and violence. |
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Does a pound sign, followed by the numeral 1 and nine consecutive noughts give rational human beings the right to turn into irrational moaners? |
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Part of this irrational anxiety has come about because A is not a very cuddly kid right now. |
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Crowds and mobs are not completely irrational, but they have their own logic. |
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Such an irrational move by the Free Staters would have inevitably dragged Britain back into Southern Ireland militarily. |
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I do not think true religion can be irrational, but it certainly can be more than rational. |
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At the root of the problem, these critics argue, was an increasingly irrational devotion to the capital ship. |
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The irrational fanatics might not heed to reason, but humanitarians must not become fatalistic and drop the guard of eternal vigilance. |
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A phobia is an irrational, uncontrollable fear of a specific object or situation. |
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It was held that the conduct of the Secretary of State was so unreasonable as to verge on the irrational and absurd. |
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It excused irrational and unreasonable behaviour, allowed people to shirk their duties. |
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The second issue is whether the decision was irrational or Wednesbury unreasonable. |
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The white slave panic of 1909-10 provoked an even more irrational and nativistic wave of government intrusiveness. |
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His analysis reveals numerous unscientific, irrational, and often emotional factors affecting the conduct of war and its termination. |
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The reality is that many people are driven by an irrational need for speed. |
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But if they are needy as a consequence of their criminal, irrational, or imprudent behavior, then it is not a fine thing. |
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This irrational emotional economy has short-circuited itself through the excess of a unidirectional flow of desire. |
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Bulimics often acknowledge their thoughts as unreasonable, irrational, and uncontrollable. |
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He observed her without emotion once again, seeing the irrational fear in her eyes. |
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The communities around these people are not irrational vigilantes but more likely incoherent with grief. |
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In a fit of fury Calvert who was known to be a violent and irrational person burst into Smedleys home and hurled a heavy stone ornament at him. |
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Isn't the real problem indeed that such people lack the ability to control their irrational desires and impulses? |
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Banks are less eager to lend money to an industry with irrational volatility. |
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Ned is a meteorologist devoted to science and logic, the counterpoint to his sister and her belief in curses and irrational fate. |
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The square root of 2 is an irrational number because it can't be written as a ratio of two integers. |
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He considered computation with irrational numbers and polynomials to be part of algebra. |
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Book 3 contains a description of how to carry out arithmetic with irrational numbers. |
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The refusal by the government to accept the best science is irrational and perverse. |
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Similarly, it is irrational to consider undeveloped human bodies as if they were fully developed ones. |
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I had a job as a technician, but I began to hallucinate more and have irrational thoughts. |
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Any finite segment can be continued to produce a rational and any finite segment can be continued to produce an irrational. |
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If we chop off an infinite cfe after a finite number of steps then we will create a rational approximation to the original irrational. |
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The view that emotions are irrational was eloquently defended by the Epicureans and Stoics. |
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Her concerns about contact do not appear to be irrational and relating to poor mental health. |
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To argue that we are powerless to change the political environment in the face of irrational fanaticism is a perverse form of defeatism. |
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If we perturb a system that has a rational frequency ratio, then it can easily be shifted into a chaotic situation with irrational frequencies. |
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He went through periods of despair over his illness when he was capable of irrational, ill-thought-out, impulsive acts which he then regretted. |
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Why are we so inconsistent, so irrational, so illogical and so selfishly shortsighted? |
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A completely irrational white translucent roof undulates over the space like a gentle cloud, or the sky seen from under water on a pellucid day. |
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There's a stage of rabies where people develop hydrophobia, a bizarre and irrational fear of water. |
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The atmosphere of universal suspicion and vigilance of the Terror years was not irrational paranoia. |
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How can mathematical concepts like points, infinitesimally small quantities, or irrational numbers be anything but products of our minds? |
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To subjugate all paths to the proofs of Science is to neglect the irrational and inexplicable mysteries of Creation. |
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On the other hand, that overactive imagination can also cause irrational fears, superstitions, and even paranoia. |
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Whenever you encounter a system that seems so irrational, you should ponder what's going on beneath the surface. |
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What are you doing because of some irrational superstitious belief that may have been affecting your life for years? |
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Their hostility towards each other, however, was tangible and frequently led to quite irrational behaviour. |
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The more irrational and illogical someone becomes, the more logical and incisive I become. |
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Without that insight, a supplier can encounter fewer surprises by evaluating even seemingly irrational scenarios. |
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Identify and uproot irrational beliefs that lead you to place unrealistic demands on yourself. |
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By absurd, I do not mean silly, but absurd as is in the illogical or irrational. |
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They have as a result imposed upon Daoism an irrational mysticism focused on a metaphysically absolute Dao. |
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Booze and cocaine corroded his sanity and left him with a legacy of irrational behaviour. |
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They tend to regard opposition to multiculturalism and attempts at assimilation as irrational prejudice or unjustifiable ethnocentrism. |
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I believe that the seemingly irrational logic of the national can still promote everyday alliances and popular mobilizations. |
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Power sets the guidelines by which we measure what is reasonable and what is irrational. |
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The term carries negative connotations, especially the insinuation that any mistrust or fear of others is unjustified and irrational. |
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This irrational fear of something unnameable was affecting, not only her, but her family as well. |
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Whatever the cause, I discovered that I was terrorised and was behaving in ways that were both irrational and abhorrent. |
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But the principle is absurd and irrational as far as the international community is concerned. |
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It's this rupture of the irrational, captured in the very term prose poem, that is the source of energy in the prose poem. |
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In our age, the term has become almost synonymous with an irrational acceptance of beliefs for which we lack evidence. |
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The intoxicating obscurity of ancient Japanese culture is shown to be irrational and confusing. |
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Similar examples of irrational and wasteful uses of water can be found elsewhere. |
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Good substantive arguments, which are only delegitimized by the overheated and irrational introduction. |
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This position does not make critical theorists moral skeptics, at least insofar as that term connotes a negative or irrational quality. |
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Maria is a total fireball, completely irrational, and speaks a mile a minute. |
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Reasonable discussion is important but irrational rantings will achieve nothing. |
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But for many people, their faith isn't based around an irrational fervour, and it isn't based around rational logic. |
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The need for rationalization arises when there are irrational numbers, surds or roots or complex numbers in the denominator of a fraction. |
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Mathews brilliantly traces the precise contours of her mood swings, their pace and imagery, their irrational, irresistible force. |
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On the contrary, it is only by virtue of the irrational and anarchic nature of the profit system that such a development could take place. |
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I don't blame the absent landlady either, obviously, because that would be irrational in the extreme. |
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In addition, the person may develop irrational fears called phobias, such as agoraphobia, about situations where a panic attack has occurred. |
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This argument is irrefutable by reasoned argument, because it is irrational. |
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However each disorder is bonded to the other disorders by the common theme of excessive, irrational fear and dread. |
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The Anganen rawa man emerges in the image of the cassowary as the solitary, kinless, irrational, violent being of masculine excess. |
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Surely nothing to do with that absurd cultural stereotype that redheads are prone to bouts of irrational anger? |
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I become irrational, cannot think straight and interact with the world in an entirely strange way. |
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The current scare over migrants and refugees is just as racist and irrational. |
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The tendency of rational progress to become irrational regress arises much earlier. |
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The author of the piece argues that our attitude towards it is mostly irrational prejudice. |
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If there are further terrorist acts then irrational xenophobia will be the only means of expression available. |
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Solutions that would seem logical to us would seem totally irrational to them. |
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Since every kairotic moment is unprecedented and irrational, any attempt to describe it in language is misguided. |
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This is because of their reluctance, over a period of time, to combat irrational trends in science generally. |
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The hope that irrational people will act rationally is a perpetual delusion of the level-headed. |
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I don't know why, but the thought of him helping her riled me up a little, but I tried to ignore my irrational feelings of jealousy. |
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It was what had pushed him over the edge, and he was missing now because of her dumb, stupid, irrational comment. |
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Evaluating irrational and arational decisions based on our emotions with mathematics may be impossible. |
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This system was so arbitrary and irrational that it resulted in large numbers of poor persons being excluded. |
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It's a sharp economic slowdown caused by a mood of irrational despair fed by press and political hype about what's rotten in American capitalism. |
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Australians aren't at all used to visceral and irrational hatred directed at them. |
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Catastrophizing and awfulizing are common irrational beliefs that cause anxiety. |
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They see barbaric, irrational isolationist Luddites bent on plunging an entire nation into darkness. |
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If she can extricate them both from this strong hold of irrational machismo, then time's death grip may perhaps weaken. |
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Home values have soared to high levels in many countries as irrational exuberance grips the markets. |
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But Hesselius' fear of all of the religions in Pennsylvania save his own appears a little irrational even by the standards of the day. |
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Here is a woman so deep in denial that pathological is the only serviceable adjective appropriate for such an irrational rant. |
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I have also heard a lot of groundless and irrational fears that have stemmed from scaremongers. |
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Underneath his carping about provocative dress is a jealous and irrational partner. |
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A transcendental number is an irrational number that is not a root of any polynomial equation with integer coefficients. |
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And we know to a certainty that this is the regime that will stop at nothing to accomplish its irrational goals. |
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Materialism traps us, unawares, in a world of possessions hag-ridden by irrational fears of likely loss and lurking dangers. |
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In particular he strongly criticised Cantor's and Dedekind's theories of irrational numbers. |
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By failing to provide a context for terrorism, the media portrayed terrorists as irrational and barbarous. |
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As destructive and dissatisfying as people-pleasing can be, atychiphobia is more than an irrational drive to be a people pleaser. |
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For example, the Pythagoreans did not expect to uncover irrational numbers in the diagonal of a square. |
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The classification of action, for instance, into rational, impulsive, akratic, irrational and insane modes is a model of conceptual precision. |
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The therapy also teaches patients to use positive thought patterns rather than irrational negative patterns. |
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She felt an irrational anger seize her at this small disturbance in the palace routine. |
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Whether or not you agree with Blair's often irrational diatribes, he's arguably the most widely-read Australian blogger. |
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What about a seed angle derived from the golden ratio, an irrational number? |
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Under the conventional interpretation, what he considers conditionally rational is actually irrational or euphoric. |
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He was infantile, narcissistic, driven, unreasonable and, at times, brilliantly irrational. |
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It illustrates how our society is unravelling, through the substitution of irrational feelings for demonstrable facts. |
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Unfortunately, though, humans have a tendency to bear grudges and nurse grievances, even when the reasons for doing so are irrational. |
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In case one hasn't noticed, these remarks are tantamount to irrational fear-mongering. |
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Is it any surprise that so many people can be sold irrational ideas, systems, devices, and philosophies? |
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Its very existence is kept menacingly vague except when it is called in to reduce dangerously irrational cities to melted glass. |
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They still have an irrational fear of the newspaper accusing them of being socialist commissars, but we are living in a different century. |
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Arguments framed in terms of fear may easily be represented as irrational and therefore illegitimate in terms of political debate. |
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He also identifies irrational beliefs and faulty reasoning that may lead to poor marriage decisions. |
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I suspect they will be even more shrill and irrational while questioning Miers. |
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But he harbours an irrational and groundless suspicion that his newly-wed wife will have an affair. |
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The left part of the picture seems to symbolize the realm of desire and irrational emotions. |
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There was no rational way of knowing whereabouts or whenabouts on Earth they were, yet an irrational part of the undermind knew, and would gradually come through with the information. |
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In his book, he suggests there was such an irrational animus. |
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It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death. |
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In the market-relations approach deemed to be egalitarian, racial inequality results from irrational prejudice or discriminative monopolistic practices. |
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The standards of rigour that he set, defining, for example, irrational numbers as limits of convergent series, strongly affected the future of mathematics. |
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But Delta's seemingly irrational behavior has a very logical explanation. |
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She had never known for her daughter to be so irrational, so crazy. |
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Chris smiled, sure that Seth's fears were completely irrational. |
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Combining with his proof of the denumerability of rational numbers, it proves the existence of irrational numbers without actually constructing any irrational number. |
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As anticipated, the ruling Uri Party denounced the GNP's resolve, saying its struggle is irrational and aimed at destructing constitutional political order. |
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I use irrational here to mean something which human reason is ill-equipped to grasp or comprehend, but which may nonetheless play an important role in human affairs. |
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But alas, I admit to suffering from the irrational FOMO syndrome. |
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The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness. |
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The fact that the virus is still alive has sustained many safety concerns, both rational and irrational, about its use. |
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This was a victory that could only have been won by a political movement with a brashly irrational self-confidence. |
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The writing team behind these videos are some seriously mad comedy crackheads, and they manage some brilliantly irrational bits. |
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They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills. |
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Arachnophobia is an irrational fear of spiders and claustrophobia is an irrational fear of small places. |
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She is racked by irrational guilt that she survived and Hassan did not. |
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It has grown a classic literary and graphic work over the last thirty years, due to the childishly naive, yet adultly irrational outlook of the writer and the illustrator. |
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He knew that when some irrational number produced a very large quotient then it could be rationalised to produce an extremely accurate approximation to some irrational. |
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On the other, it encourages an irrational climate in which any old conspiratorial tosh can be taken seriously, providing it touches the correct raw nerve. |
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At its most complex, it is an irrational number that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two whole numbers and has an apparently random decimal string of infinite length. |
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Second, you can't win with an irrational critic like Bowers. |
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Ideologically, they turn in on themselves, becoming more regressive and irrational in their justifications and often more cruel in their political actions. |
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Nor was Oswald an irrational, discontented Dostoyevskian loner, as some depicted him. |
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It was a self-fulfilling prophecy, a feedback loop of rational and irrational fears. |
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On the other hand, if after being shot our self-talk is irrational, awfulized or way out of proportion to the pain of that shot, the effect is to twist the arrow! |
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The utopians ' mistake of hyperrationalism is also one of the errors of the post-modernists, who hold that irrational prejudices may be overcome by multiculturalist homilies. |
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It has often been seen that the people when they are economically backward, tend to lean on irrational habits and rituals to find some relief or an easy way out. |
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And who knows, if we have another extended bout of irrational exuberance, how high the shares might climb before coming back to earth with a bang? |
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But with no sign of an epidemic in the U.S. it seems, at the very least, irrational. |
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One of the reasons the Vikings are viewed so negatively is that their violence could seem wanton or irrational. |
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I must confess to a fugitive and irrational wish that he might find some small mercies there. |
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Science, Gray suggests, reveals that 'humans cannot be other than irrational', but science itself is a product of our poor, irrational, mechanistic minds. |
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Moreover, if blame in general is irrational, so must be self-blame or self-reproach, unless this comes simply to resolving to do better next time. |
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Cantor published a paper on trigonometric series in 1872 in which he defined irrational numbers in terms of convergent sequences of rational numbers. |
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I became irrational and flunked the tough-guy test, the show-me-the-evidence test, the taciturn Gary Cooper test. |
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The book goes a long way to justify our irrational feelings of irritation towards the earnest besuited men who call to our door, always at a bad moment. |
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The very names negative numbers, irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, imaginary numbers, and ideal points at infinity indicate ambivalence. |
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Miette felt a sudden burst of irrational anger rise up in her like bile. |
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For those of us living in large urban centers, irrational nostalgia is unavoidable. |
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It was not so much the price-support system in itself that was irrational, but the level at which prices were set in a context of mixed farming sizes. |
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Never have I seen such a show of irrational and unprovoked verbal abuse. |
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But to misquote an old financial adage, the property market can remain irrational longer than you are prepared to remain homeless. |
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The Stoics adapted and made their own the Socratic hypothesis that virtue is nothing else than knowledge, adding the idea that emotions are essentially irrational beliefs. |
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It will be an old-fashioned, irrational, and one-sided opinion based very loosely on what I've studied on my spare time over the years as a non-professional historian. |
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In that event the basis for the exercise of power is absent, just as if it were shown that the opinion was arbitrary, capricious, irrational, or not bona fide. |
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That hardly qualifies as an irrational act of an immoderate president. |
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It subdues their emotional force by assigning rational meaning to them, however irrational or incomprehensible the impressions might originally have been. |
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A significant subpopulation of participants in the study showed a strong disposition to engage in antisocial behavior, including irrational and self-destructive violence. |
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Kate found the training school alienating, and her claims that her housemother disliked her were dismissed as irrational, possibly adding to her sense of injustice. |
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However irrational it may be to burden innocent children because their parents did not marry, illegitimates are nonetheless a traditionally disfavored class in our society. |
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White announces himself in favor of irrational and incoherent opinions. |
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A major step forward in proving that the circle could not be squared using ruler and compasses occurred in 1761 when Lambert proved that p was irrational. |
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These critics imply that he harbored excessive and even irrational fears about government infringement on American civil liberties and about encroachments on personal privacy. |
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The communities that play can display fierce and irrational rivalries. |
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In a series of confessional encounters with his Dublin therapist, Ian, he reveals the hoarded guilt that rationally explains an irrational phenomenon. |
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He had a very short fuse and he could be totally irrational at times. |
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If it hadn't seemed so irrational, she would have begged him not to go. |
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Postmodernists prefer local traditions which are not entirely led by rational and instrumental criteria, but make room for the sacred and even the irrational. |
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Now that the fool's paradise of irrational exuberance has come to an end, an abrupt adjustment has been made and many of the schemes have been closed. |
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But can the governments really have been to blame for inducing irrational exuberance in the bidders through the fiendishly cunning auction processes they devised? |
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Gittens here faults economists for dismissing the public's demands for price control as irrational, or as merely the expression of a vested interest. |
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Human responsibility has a tendency to become inverted when we dismiss our opponents as irrational and illogical because they are standing in the way of our projects. |
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The example of water divining in southern Africa, however, suggests that the irrational was as much a feature of western as indigenous knowledge systems. |
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There certainly are some cases in which a person's failure to give weight to his or her future interests is irrational. |
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It is the function of free speech to free men from bondage of irrational fears. |
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From some perspectives, the walkout borders on the irrational. |
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And, what irrational number is equal to a circle's circumference divided by its diameter? |
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Mathematicians, for instance, provedlong ago that pi is an irrational number. |
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Alektorophobia, like metrophobia or the disorder nomophobia, is completely irrational. |
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Upon a question on the concerns claiming that Turkey's membership would Islamize the EU, Bagis said such concerns were irrational. |
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It then explores the use of symbols and algebra, the concepts of rational and irrational numbers, and how numbers are represented geometrically. |
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As one pupil explained irrational numbers at the front of the class, the prince was seen to grimace as he battled with the concept. |
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Since ancient times, the concept of irrational numbers has fascinated mathematicians and students alike. |
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Cumming's shaping of the irrational into the rational was evident in the carefully stenciled quote that circled the walls. |
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Tamburlaine's problems start when he marries Zenocrate and bureaucratizes the egalitarian and irrational grounds of group dependence. |
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To a certain degree, there is an irrational sense of betrayal. |
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Although everyone was aware of this irrational practice which demotivated actors and cultivated complacency, nobody dared touch it. |
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The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism. |
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A pendant has been manufactured based on the irrational number of Phi, also referred to as the Golden Ratio. |
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They rejected doctrines such as the Trinity and original sin, arguing that they were irrational. |
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This is not to say it is irrational but, perhaps, transrational or beyond reason alone. |
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Then came the great masters of Modernism, who reasserted the subjective and irrational with such devices as stream of consciousness. |
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Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence. |
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It is an irrational and transcendental number, continuing infinitely without repeating. |
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He was obviously intoxicated much of the time and could be expected to commit irrational acts. |
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The general consensus is that Epicurus believed the fear of death to be wholly irrational and eliminable. |
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The lovers in the woods conquer irrational passion and find their way back. |
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They are quite aware of this situation, but their triumphalism is fuelled by our irrational unfair electoral system. |
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As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. |
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However, in all of these contexts he is emphatic that gods are never bad or irrational, so whatever the psychic source of disorderly motion, it must be subdivine. |
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Mathematicians have long known that pi is an irrational number. |
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Phobias, obsessions, panic attacks and social anxiety can be paralyzing, irrational, profoundly debilitating and not particularly amusing for those afflicted. |
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Four categories of irrational beliefs are defined, representing thinking modes which are nonempirical and reflect an absolutistic view of reality. |
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However, in New York Convention states, arbitral decisions are generally immune unless there is a showing that the arbitrator's decision was irrational or tainted by fraud. |
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In the 20th century, the notion that human beings are rationally autonomous was challenged by the concept that humans were driven by unconscious irrational desires. |
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Public affairs professor Allan Mazur here offers rationale, examining the nature of irrational belief systems and their cultural and political ramifications. |
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There was nothing to be afraid of that Ronny could see. And yet he was himself thrilled to an irrational memory-ridden fear of some cowardice somewhere afoot. |
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The square root of a positive integer is an irrational number unless the positive integer is a perfect square, in which case the square root will also be a positive integer. |
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On the data and information front, he believes we are suffering from infobesity. Too much information causes stress and confusion and makes us do irrational things. |
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Pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is known as an irrational number because it can't be exactly expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers. |
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This darkness troubles the poet, whose arguments reveal incongruence and potential chaos due to the irrational panic, as can be appreciated in the ongoing hyperbaton. |
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Some panelists clearly had a case of irrational exuberance, an overenthusiasm no different from what we saw at the end of the dotcom and the housing crises. |
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One answer is that unreciprocated transfers raise the spectre of economically irrational social transactions, which the legal vision of the market denied. |
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Irrational and illogical as that reaction may be, it's one I can't help but feel. |
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Irrational fear of the mob was the reason the Red Cross didn't enter the city. |
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Irrational and meaningless as it is, this exercise will nonetheless soothe your irritation. |
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Irrational numbers are numbers that can be written as decimals but not as fractions. |
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Irrational fears and phobias, for example, are essentially habits of mind that we acquire, not feelings we were born with. |
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Irrational or disturbed emotional reactions, however, are often maladaptive. |
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