How To Use Simony In A Sentence

  • Simply put, parsimony is in vogue in boardrooms right now. Football's Level Playing Field
  • The DNA alignment was analyzed with both parsimony and distance matrix methods.
  • With encouragement, a competent amateur can diagnose species and varieties without resort to parsimony analysis.
  • So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.
  • It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Dubliners
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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
  • But perhaps the owners' parsimony is part of the reason for the bank's longevity.
  • But others point to parsimony, quoting examples of penny-pinching and bare-bones operations.
  • 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.
  • Due to official parsimony only the one machine was built.
  • The term simony comes from a sorcerer named Simon Magus, who tried to bribe the Apostles into selling him their power (Acts 8: 18-20). Orrologion
  • The principle of parsimony is a centuries-old aspect of the scientific method. Beckwith on ID
  • 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.
  • The railways, too, were once a public utility, but were always treated with a degree of parsimony where funding was concerned.
  • Parsimony analyses recover a paraphyletic Rotifera, where a bdelloid rotifer and acanthocephalans form a monophyletic clade.
  • In the phylogenetic analysis, 42 sites were parsimony informative, 47 were uninformative and 380 were constant.
  • 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
  • For this kind of simony places on a par things supernatural and things natural, things eternal and things temporal, and constitutes a sacrilegious depreciation of Divine treasures. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • We find Giacomo Trotti, the French ambassador in Milan, writing to the Duke of Ferrara a fortnight after Roderigo's election that "the Papacy has been sold by simony and a thousand rascalities, which is a thing ignominious and detestable. The Life of Cesare Borgia
  • Relations had otherwise, it seems, become somewhat strained because of the husband's unreasonable parsimony.
  • Here, it was a question of uniformity of liturgical observance, of conformity to what Turgot called ‘the universal custom of holy church’ rather than of Gregorian reform in the sense of attacks on simony and clerical marriage.
  • 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
  • (Acts 8: 9-24) The memory of his peculiar guilt has been perpetuated in the word simony, as applied to all traffic in spiritual offices. Smith's Bible Dictionary
  • 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
  • It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. Dubliners
  • Hence the stern enforcement of the celibacy of the clergy; hence the struggle against the secularisation of the spiritualty, and specially against simony; hence the monastic discipline of the priests. Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
  • 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.
  • Divine laws the term simony is applicable only to the exchange of supernatural treasures for temporal advantages, its meaning has been further extended through ecclesiastical legislation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Maximum-parsimony and maximum-likelihood inferred trees differ significantly with regard to relationships among acanthocephalans and rotifers.
  • 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
  • Contrary to some critics of parsimony methods, cladists neither deny the possibility that true ancestors are being sampled nor reject the reality of anagenesis.
  • If it seems that way, it is only because of the puritanism, the pious emotional parsimony, of our American era.
  • Reply Obj. 6: In God's sight the mere will makes a man guilty of simony; but as regards the external ecclesiastical punishment he is not punished as a simoniac, by being obliged to resign, but is bound to repent of his evil intention. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • One such sin, so subtle, so dangerous, and so constantly recurring in Christian history, having taken the name of its first author and being called "simony," has been handed down from generation to generation. The Ministry of the Spirit
  • 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
  • A parsimony of spirit haunts education policy, exacerbated by fear of the extremes.
  • They followed no definite ecclesiastico-political programme, but directed their attacks principally against individual offences such as simony, marriage of the clergy, and the uncanonical marriage of the laity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • It is especially convenient for rooting the unrooted trees obtained from parsimony, distance or maximum likelihood tree-building methods.
  • His policy was a return to the Ottonian habit of using the Church as a major source of revenue; simony was open, and the reforming party appealed to Rome against Henry. D. Germany
  • They have all blamed Government parsimony and bureaucratic obstruction.
  • 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
  • He argues that a ruler who wishes to avoid a reputation for parsimony will find that he needs to spend lavishly and ostentatiously.
  • Inferred relationships are based on maximum parsimony, with this tree being one of eight identified topologies with the smallest number of steps.
  • Christian will be so irreligious, to bring up his son in that course of life, which by all probability and necessity, cogit ad turpia, enforcing to sin, will entangle him in simony and perjury, when as the poet said, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • He also outlawed simony, the practice of buying and selling church posts.
  • 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.
  • There is parsimony and a restraint in what they say, which is very remarkable.
  • 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.
  • It's a fairly local call, sir," he said, conditioned by years of parsimony in the Royal Navy. NIMITZ CLASS
  • All this was true in 1997, even after the years of Conservative parsimony.
  • Roderigo's election that "the Papacy has been sold by simony and a thousand rascalities, which is a thing ignominious and detestable. The Life of Cesare Borgia
  • Distances were used in MEGA to construct a neighbor-joining tree with a topology identical to that of Lanyon's maximum parsimony tree.
  • 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.
  • Preeminent among Luther's complaints were the practice of selling of indulgences (essentially, the selling of forgiveness for sin), the practice of "simony" (selling church positions), and the Church's policy on purgatory. The Vail Trail - All Sections
  • What connects the two sets of images - the woodcuts and the paintings - is a kind of parsimony.
  • 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
  • A classic example comes from comedian Jack Benny , famous for his parsimony.
  • 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.
  • The frantic denouncer of simony had himself become a simonist; the indignant opponent of Antoninus had become his secret accomplice; the accuser of misprision had accepted an enormous bribe as the guerdon of misprision. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • 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
  • Until recently, the mean generally went undetected, their parsimony hidden from everyone but its recipients.
  • Yet the decorations were always meager, and their gifts chosen with his usual parsimony.
  • It's particularly galling that German-speakers, not noted for syllabic parsimony, have no problem with it.
  • V with regard to episcopal elections, and passed several disciplinary decrees directed against existing abuses, such as simony and concubinage among the clergy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • The Council passed reforming decrees in keeping with the Cluniac reform movement, including ones concerning simony and clerical marriage.
  • In fact, impartiality is far less important in analysing data than parsimony and rigorous self discipline.
  • simony’; Mahomet a ‘mammet’ or ‘maumet’, meaning an idol {95}, and English Past and Present
  • As in parsimony, Darwinism seems the simplest solution to satisfy the non-telic, power hungry palettes. Darwinism, What's the Appeal?
  • 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
  • In the first place it would be simony; and then it would be simony beyond all description mean and simoniacal. Framley Parsonage
  • Selling something that belonged to God constituted the sin of simony.
  • The fact that these theories seek to extend the formalism is considered as violation of the principle of parsimony by some. A Useless Critic
  • I finished the meal, strolled down the Avenue Wagram, looking at my watch; parsimony got the better of me. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • It's a result of empirical observations coupled with parsimony aka "Occam's Razor". Science as a form of "faith"??
  • Maximum parsimony analysis of this latter data set also recovered monophyly of living amphibians and favored a frog + salamander (Batrachia) relationship.
  • An identical topology was obtained with the parsimony method.
  • To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.
  • 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.
  • A classic example comes from comedian Jack Benny , famous for his parsimony.
  • 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
  • Three celebrated jurisconsults, Dumoulin, Lannoy, and Duaren, have written strongly against annats, which they call a real simony. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • The parsimony of the process explains how he was able to release two albums full of his material within a year.
  • 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.
  • She supported synods that reformed abuses that were so prevalent at the time, such as simony and usury. Catholic Exchange
  • simony’; Mahomet a ‘mammet’ or ‘maumet’, meaning an idol {95}, and English Past and Present
  • It had been told him that his admission into the Order had been connected with the bestowal of temporal goods, and from this comes the sin called simony, which consists in the purchase of something spiritual with something temporal. The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself.

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