The realist knows that a single individual enabled by complacency or negligence can alter the path of history.
The optimism of this dream is of a piece with the optimism of Adler's scholarly and literary project: the belief that one's words will be received and understood, and that they might go so far as to alter the path of the world.
All this will be weighing on Mr Chidambaram on February 28th when he presents his budget, the last major one before he and his colleagues in the ruling Congress Party face elections, which are due by mid-2014.The mid-2014.Theeory of economicsOf course, the idea that one man armed with a budget speech can alter the path of a $2 trillion economy is ridiculous.
In addition to conduction electrons being scattered by the surface of the material, several other scattering mechanisms exist in the material to alter the path of these electrons.
Teachers at the largest charter school organization in Los Angeles have launched a drive to unionize, a move that could alter the path of school reform in the city.
This can also alter the path of powerful jet stream currents high above the Earth, disrupting seasonal weather patterns in profound ways.
If a participant experienced incidence of joint pain or the like during a specific exercise, we asked them to adjust the exercise as follows: First, the instructor asked the participant to externally rotate the arms, slightly alter the path of the arms or reduce the range of movement during the exercise.
Far be it for him to cast his interception of Brett Favre in overtime four years ago in the N.F.C. championship game as the play that altered the paths of the Packers and the Giants and helped route both teams to Sunday's Lambeau Field playoff rematch.
While Mr. Asgharzadeh acknowledged that the attack on the embassy probably altered the path of history, he said that was never his intention.
At about the same time, scientists at Yale, led by Dr. Moghaddam, were demonstrating that activating metabotropic glutamate receptors in rats could reverse the effects of PCP — a seminal finding, providing the first proof that altering the path of glutamate transmission in the brain might help relieve the symptoms of psychosis.
