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  • As explained in Chapter 1, a technology has two compo nents: (1) a hardware aspect that consists of the tool that embodies the technology in the form of a material or physical object and (2) a software aspect that consists of the information base for the tool.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • As explained in Chapter 1, a technology has two compo nents: (1) a hardware aspect that consists of the tool that embodies the technology in the form of a material or physical object and (2) a software aspect that consists of the information base for the tool.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • She carried the usual assorted spell compo - nents: bat guano, butterfly wings, sulphur, rose leaves (whole and crushed), spider eggs, and so forth.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • Her voice brooked no argu | nents and finally he looked her in the face..

    two women Cole, Martina 1999

  • Its three large conti-nents were veined by many rivers which drained into oceans congenial of coast and clime.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • Outside the ship, planetside, both would have been formidable oppo - nents.

    Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986

  • The point is that, numerous as the compo - nents of storytelling may be, they are not innumer - able — even with a liberal allowance for modification and recombination.

    MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968

  • Sermon were time-resistant and Christian pacifism has not lacked for bold and uncompromising advocates in such early Church Fathers as Clement, Justin, and above all Origen, in sects such as the Quakers, Schwenk - felders, and Doukhobors, and in such modern propo - nents as Leo Tolstoy, Jacques Maritain, and A.J. Muste.

    ETHICS OF PEACE ELIZABETH FLOWER 1968

  • Regarding society as irrevocably divided into two camps, Bernstein's oppo - nents tried to demonstrate that his views were not socialist at all.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968

  • But there is, to use the term of Gilson (Gilson, 1929), definitely an “Avicen - nizing Augustinism” one of whose best known expo - nents being William of Auvergne.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968

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