CLEVELAND — Seeking to counter federal hate crime charges, defense lawyers for 16 Amish men and women on trial here said Tuesday that their clients had cut the beards and hair of perceived enemies out of compassion — trying, with admittedly misguided methods, to help them repent and see the true Amish way.
Yes, these were sporadic and admittedly counterintuitive methods -- organized nonviolence versus Nazis -- but Peace Studies scholarship has given us a glimmer of the possibilities of such an apparently quixotic strategy and no one who is getting solid advice from anyone in that field would make such a categorical misstatement as Obama did.
He estimated, using the admittedly unscientific method of counting the number of Red Sox jerseys onboard the plane, that at least 100 fans were on his flight.
Admittedly, this method goes on to predict that the last man out will score 539, leaving his partner stranded somewhere around 600 and the total score well north of 2000.
Admittedly, this method has its disadvantages, which include relatively high cost, problems with validation of the devices (particularly relevant in special populations such as diabetic patients), and undefined diagnostic threshold in high-risk populations.
Theft is a method — admittedly an unpleasant one — of lessening inequality.
Admittedly, the trap method can enrich evidence of leopardian flag planting.
Anyway, the use of rules is admittedly a reliable method to generate standard syllabification to Portuguese synthesis applications [29].
But her admittedly unscientific curation method yields a complex and substantial experience.
Admittedly, the latter method is based on contact angle measurements with the use of only one measuring liquid, but its theoretical justification is still an arousing controversy [ 22].
