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In sports, a false start is a disallowed start, usually due to a movement by a participant before (or in some cases after) being signaled or otherwise permitted by the rules to start. Depending on the sport and the event, a false start can result in a penalty against the athlete's or team's field position, a warning that a subsequent false ...
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Conservative journalist Victor Lasky wrote in his book It Didn't Start With Watergate that, while two wrongs do not make a right, if a set of immoral things are done and left unprosecuted, this creates a legal precedent. Thus, people who do the same wrongs in the future should rationally expect to get away with them as well.
Sunflowers do not always point to the Sun. Flowering sunflowers face a fixed direction (often east) all day long, but do not necessarily face the Sun. [533] However, in an earlier developmental stage, before the appearance of flower heads, the immature buds do track the Sun (a phenomenon called heliotropism). Mature flowers face east. [534]
do not speak against the Sun: i.e., "do not argue what is obviously/manifestly incorrect." advocatus diaboli: Devil's advocate: Someone who, in the face of a specific argument, voices an argument that he does not necessarily accept, for the sake of argument and discovering the truth by testing the opponent's argument. cf. arguendo. aegri somnia
Williams, a veteran of six NFL seasons starting for Dallas and, the last two, Miami, doesn’t see what he’s trying to do in two weeks to start the Seahawks’ opener 8 1/2 months following ...
Studies have stated that myside bias is an absence of "active open-mindedness", meaning the active search for why an initial idea may be wrong. [42] Typically, myside bias is operationalized in empirical studies as the quantity of evidence used in support of their side in comparison to the opposite side.
A wrong or wrength (from Old English wrang – 'crooked') [1] is an act that is illegal or immoral. [2] Legal wrongs are usually quite clearly defined in the law of a state or jurisdiction . They can be divided into civil wrongs and crimes (or criminal offenses ) in common law countries, [ 2 ] while civil law countries tend to have some ...