How To Use Parsimony In A Sentence
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The principle of parsimony is a centuries-old aspect of the scientific method.
Beckwith on ID
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He held none of his curacies long, either losing them from the caprice of his principals, or being compelled to resign them from the parsimony which they practised towards him.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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In the phylogenetic analysis, 42 sites were parsimony informative, 47 were uninformative and 380 were constant.
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Parsimony analyses recover a paraphyletic Rotifera, where a bdelloid rotifer and acanthocephalans form a monophyletic clade.
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The railways, too, were once a public utility, but were always treated with a degree of parsimony where funding was concerned.
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Some cynics even dared to advance the theory that parsimony on the behalf of the home management had stayed their fingers on the on-off switch.
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Simply put, parsimony is in vogue in boardrooms right now.
Football's Level Playing Field
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Due to official parsimony only the one machine was built.
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It's not often I actually get excited by bivariate scatter plots, linear regression equations, and correlation coefficients, but the Archaeopteryx note is quite good, basically Bennett's defence of his interpretation of the nine known specimens of the taxon as a single "species," following from an awareness of interspecific variation resulting from ontogeny and, also, concerns about parsimony.
As Kyle passes by.
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But others point to parsimony, quoting examples of penny-pinching and bare-bones operations.
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But perhaps the owners' parsimony is part of the reason for the bank's longevity.
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Mort Dieu! how often did he complain of slight and insult from Elizabeth and her minions, of open affront from Edward, of parsimony to his wants as prince, -- of a life, in short, humbled and made bitter by all the indignity and the gall which scornful power can inflict on dependent pride.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.
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With encouragement, a competent amateur can diagnose species and varieties without resort to parsimony analysis.
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The DNA alignment was analyzed with both parsimony and distance matrix methods.
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Relations had otherwise, it seems, become somewhat strained because of the husband's unreasonable parsimony.
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Inferred relationships are based on maximum parsimony, with this tree being one of eight identified topologies with the smallest number of steps.
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He argues that a ruler who wishes to avoid a reputation for parsimony will find that he needs to spend lavishly and ostentatiously.
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Elizabeth and her minions, of open affront from Edward, of parsimony to his wants as prince, -- of a life, in short, humbled and made bitter by all the indignity and the gall which scornful power can inflict on dependent pride.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 09
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They have all blamed Government parsimony and bureaucratic obstruction.
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It is especially convenient for rooting the unrooted trees obtained from parsimony, distance or maximum likelihood tree-building methods.
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A parsimony of spirit haunts education policy, exacerbated by fear of the extremes.
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It is a familiar observation and a perfectly true one that we have no record of our Lord's ever having used miraculous power for the supply of His own wants, and the reason for that, I suppose, is to be found not only in that principle of economy and parsimony of miraculous energy, so that the supernatural in His life was ever pared down to the narrowest possible limits, and inosculated immediately with the natural, but it is also to be found in this -- let me put it into very plain words -- that Christ liked to be helped and served by the people that He loved, and that Christ knew that they liked it as well as He.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
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If it seems that way, it is only because of the puritanism, the pious emotional parsimony, of our American era.
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Contrary to some critics of parsimony methods, cladists neither deny the possibility that true ancestors are being sampled nor reject the reality of anagenesis.
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And your mention of parsimony is not something that is directly derived from the observation, it is your presupposition.
Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved
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Maximum-parsimony and maximum-likelihood inferred trees differ significantly with regard to relationships among acanthocephalans and rotifers.
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Indeed the poisonous partisanship of present politics present a pernicious paradigm of parsimony preventing perspicacity from penetrating the public piazza of … of …. oh, poo!
Think Progress » Fox News VP: We ‘hope’ Palin will be ‘polarizing’ as a Fox News contributor.
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England, however, as it has never been blessed with a very parsimonious government, so parsimony has at no time been the characteristical virtue of its inhabitants.
Pension Bagholders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It is only Britain's curious parsimony and warped misunderstanding of free trade ideas that has failed to establish laws and a tax regime that make export of art treasures unthinkable.
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Yet the decorations were always meager, and their gifts chosen with his usual parsimony.
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Until recently, the mean generally went undetected, their parsimony hidden from everyone but its recipients.
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You do assume (in the absence of any observation) that parsimony is more reliable guide to understanding the natural order than say an approach that is more complex.
Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved
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And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow.
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A classic example comes from comedian Jack Benny , famous for his parsimony.
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Doug: You do assume (in the absence of any observation) that parsimony is more reliable guide to understanding the natural order than say an approach that is more complex.
Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved
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Even if the display erred on the side of parsimony, the gleaming expanse of wooden flooring and the glittering space above seemed to invite one in to marvel.
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Distances were used in MEGA to construct a neighbor-joining tree with a topology identical to that of Lanyon's maximum parsimony tree.
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All this was true in 1997, even after the years of Conservative parsimony.
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It's a fairly local call, sir," he said, conditioned by years of parsimony in the Royal Navy.
NIMITZ CLASS
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The thing we are dehorted from, covetousness, 293. by which is not meant a prudent forecast and parsimony, 294. but an anxious care about worldly things, attended with a distrust of Providence, 295. a rapacity in getting, 298. by all illegal ways, 301. a tenaciousness in keeping,
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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There is parsimony and a restraint in what they say, which is very remarkable.
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We have since paid a terrible price for that parsimony, as those now attending the inquests into the deaths of their loved ones at Paddington will attest.
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What connects the two sets of images - the woodcuts and the paintings - is a kind of parsimony.
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It's particularly galling that German-speakers, not noted for syllabic parsimony, have no problem with it.
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The parsimony of the process explains how he was able to release two albums full of his material within a year.
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What right have you to ask that bright and happy girl -- any girl -- to share the uncertainties, the parsimony, the ineludible struggle of your disappointing life?
A Daughter of the Middle Border
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A classic example comes from comedian Jack Benny , famous for his parsimony.
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The argument and the language in this sentence are pretty nearly on a par; for as misery makes men acquainted with dissimilar companions, why may not parsimony conglutinate heterogeneous compositions?
Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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In fact, impartiality is far less important in analysing data than parsimony and rigorous self discipline.
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An identical topology was obtained with the parsimony method.
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Maximum parsimony analysis of this latter data set also recovered monophyly of living amphibians and favored a frog + salamander (Batrachia) relationship.
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It's a result of empirical observations coupled with parsimony aka "Occam's Razor".
Science as a form of "faith"??
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I finished the meal, strolled down the Avenue Wagram, looking at my watch; parsimony got the better of me.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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The fact that these theories seek to extend the formalism is considered as violation of the principle of parsimony by some.
A Useless Critic
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Oh, it was worth while to have/[Page 233]/spent four days in parsimony; to have been bitten with bugs; to have been irritated with fuss and humbug, and last of all to have been done out of my travelling expenses back! it was worth while to have had all this botheration to refresh my sense of all my mercies.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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As in parsimony, Darwinism seems the simplest solution to satisfy the non-telic, power hungry palettes.
Darwinism, What's the Appeal?
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Doug: And your mention of parsimony is not something that is directly derived from the observation, it is your presupposition.
Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved