It seemed reasonable to ask: Is there anything he can't do?
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This practice seemed reasonable, so I didn't try to purge this information.
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But it seemed reasonable to assume that the internet is where it would remain.
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Our assumption that natural gas would be substituted for other fossil fuels seemed reasonable.
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" But it also seemed reasonable to say: "Dresses are for play at home only.
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That may have seemed reasonable back in 1971, but these days it's looking pretty unlikely.
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SH: The debate thresholds seemed reasonable at first, even to candidates who weren't front-runners.
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For reasons that probably seemed reasonable every time, when it came to messaging Google always blinked.
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He told me he had to talk to our finance person but that it seemed reasonable.
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A 0-0 score at halftime seemed reasonable and both sides appeared happy to accept it.
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It seemed reasonable at the time; cases of the deadly disease had been declining steeply since 2005.
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On the face of it, the trade seemed reasonable for both sides, perhaps even favoring the Reds.
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A two-minute window seemed reasonable to McRaven in terms of maintaining the all-important element of surprise.
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The plan seemed reasonable, critics said, until attention fell on the bomb's new tail section and steerable fins.
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His positions on education, Medicare, and China all seemed reasonable and his confidence in his positions never wavered.
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UBS analysts said the offer price seemed reasonable, at 1,336 euros per square metre or an 18.2 multiple.
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All this seemed reasonable enough — indeed, the changes were hailed as wins for the caucuses' transparency and accessibility.
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The request seemed reasonable enough—museums have lent presidents fine art before—but the Guggenheim couldn't make it happen.
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But the price still seemed reasonable, and they were impressed by Mr. Cheah's enthusiasm, work ethic and design instincts.
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Their expectations seemed reasonable enough: They wanted a three-bedroom in Brooklyn, with outdoor space, for about $1.5 million.
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"We'd been to the zoo, so it seemed reasonable a tiger would come," Ms. Kerr said in the interview.
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The Jets could have chosen an offensive lineman, a quarterback or a cornerback, and it would have seemed reasonable.
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I polled friends on how much they thought the glasses should cost, and all of them thought $500 seemed reasonable.
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Given the queerphobia underpinning #Pizzagate, the fear that the show might attract attention from the conspiracy's remaining believers seemed reasonable.
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That seemed reasonable, in light of the going rate for pitching at the time, and Arroyo eclipsed it long ago.
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With a sitting area and bathtub, the higher price tag still seemed reasonable compared to pricier hotels in the area.
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It seemed reasonable to me that sometimes, in a complicated human body, one or two things might be left out.
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It seemed reasonable: Containment was how the 2003 SARS outbreak — also caused by a member of the coronavirus family — ended.
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Some in the group said fears had been blown out of proportion and that the C.D.C.'s approach seemed reasonable.
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That argument seemed reasonable in Britain, where high EU immigration rates had become divisive, but found scant support on the continent.
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So he did the only thing that seemed reasonable: He tried to have as much sex, in as little time, as possible.
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A framed trio of "midcentury modern" prints seemed reasonable at about $236 and fit nicely above my streamlined sofa with tapered legs.
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I looked around the lecture hall and saw some of my classmates nodding their heads that this seemed reasonable, while others seemed disquieted.
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Securities lawyers said the revised list of things that Mr. Musk could not discuss on Twitter without seeking a lawyer's approval seemed reasonable.
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Even if it seemed reasonable for a judge to review an immigrant's detention, several justices suggested, why was six months the magic number?
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Given that relatively few international users had been exposed to the stories format before, it seemed reasonable that it could prove popular in WhatsApp.
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This seemed reasonable, but the more I think about it, the more angry I am, and the anger is starting to affect my performance.
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All the same, it seemed reasonable for New Yorkers to think that, as one of their own, he might have their interests at heart.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — This time, it seemed reasonable to think that Serena Williams had put herself in better position to change her Grand Slam fortunes.
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I made up meals that seemed reasonable and, more importantly, would let me finish quickly and get out of the clinic and back to class.
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"Finding common ground" might have seemed reasonable before Trump, although the agenda of the Republican Party has been practically the same for the past 40 years.
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Van Gundy said that he did not have any problem with the remark and that it seemed reasonable in light of all of the blowout wins.
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Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom indicated recently that getting back to the World Series, and winning it, was the Mets' goal this season — and it seemed reasonable.
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Sega's financial stumbles forced the company to abandon making hardware, and whenever Nintendo's had problems, it's seemed reasonable to wonder if Nintendo would meet the same fate.
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This situation happened long before Trump's election, in a distant past where Democratic incrementalism seemed reasonable and it was easier to handwave away these types of incidents.
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Beneath the surface, however, the same strategies that seemed reasonable enough prima facie were cover for one team giving a little too much ground to the other.
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But the Saints defense was allowing an average of 34.3 points in its first three games, so the potential for another downfield shootout seemed reasonable on Sunday.
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But if they had to pay for a flying car, most people thought $100,000 to $200,000 seemed reasonable, which is the price of many luxury and super cars.
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Opinion Columnist During George W. Bush's very bad presidency, liberals would sometimes invoke Ronald Reagan with a sort of incredulous nostalgia, astonished that he seemed reasonable in comparison.
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Given me and Chris were turning up on a lot of the same things, it seemed reasonable to assume that if people were following him, they might enjoy following me, too.
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He also screened out numerous companies that were asking for more money than seemed reasonable — yet some of those companies then went on to raise triple that amount from other investors.
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Given there are roughly 100 - 400 billion suns in our Milky Way galaxy alone, it seemed reasonable to suppose at least one of them had a planet with intelligent life on it.
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Although it should be pointed out that Suzuki is a Japanese company and I was speaking with its Australian marketing manager, it seemed reasonable that Lewis would know what he's talking about.
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Tropico packed far more punch than seemed reasonable for a 4500-person capacity festival, but when you couldn't handle the rave, you could just stumble to the beach and sleep it off.
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At that point behaviour which seemed reasonable and responsible will start to look like folly, the "crazy projects" of the world will seem unconscionably reckless, and the world will be in trouble again.
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In the end, everyone got their happily ever after, including Chuck and Blair whose "will they, won't they" attitude toward true love kept us pining well after it seemed reasonable to do so.
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It seemed reasonable to assume the series' central priests would live to exorcise another day, while season two's "family of the season" would be written out in either a bloody or heartwarming way.
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However you interpreted the conflict leading up to the removal of Henry's brain from San Diego, once that transfer happened, it seemed reasonable to want everything consolidated: all the material, all the data.
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Unlike politics, business, and psychology, football is governed by rules and statistics, and it seemed reasonable to assume that this Super Bowl, like the 50 ones preceding it, would unfold in a predictable manner.
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I, emboldened by wine the evening prior, had picked a lake north of NYC that seemed reasonable to ride to, and woke up the next day earlier than I should have and took off solo.
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Keymer Avila, a criminology professor at the Central University of Venezuela, said he had not yet verified all the deaths in Jose Felix Ribas but that 10 seemed reasonable based on his understanding of the events.
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It was a safe and acceptable moment: He was able to address the elephant in the room in a way that seemed reasonable, in a way that only the most cynical listener would push back against.
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When he first appeared in "Iron Man"—which was both released and apparently set in 2008—it seemed reasonable to assume that Mr Fury was the same age as Mr Jackson, who was 59 at the time.
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"We waited a while, despite favorable polls for Clinton, because it once seemed reasonable to imagine Trump making a play for the land of Live Free or Die," write Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley.
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For one, DatPiff marked its download as official; and since DatPiff hosts Chance's other two mixtapes, along with a host of other well known downloads from major artists, it seemed reasonable to believe that this was a proper release.
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Some of these demands seemed reasonable enough—like calls to address food and housing insecurity for poor students—while others, like the demand that "all campus laundry rooms are to supply laundry detergent and softener" seemed ripe for satirists of leftie campus culture.
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While curbing physician self-referral might have seemed reasonable in that health care environment, its prohibition on compensation models that consider and compensate for volume or value is one of the main reasons that only about five percent of physicians are participating in APMs.
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A full report is expected in a month or two, at which point we'll have more details — but considering the scope of the project and pride evinced by Facebook in the Aquila's development, it seemed reasonable to, well, clip its wings a little bit.
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Some of its teachings seemed reasonable enough: In the beginning of the course titled Raw, men and women were encouraged to talk about their gender's genuine experience of life, and sex, and how the other sex often made them feel repressed, denigrated and ashamed.
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When his début album, "All I Want Is You," was released, in 2010, after a legal dispute between his record label and production company had kept it shelved for two years, it seemed reasonable to believe that he might never find the audience that his talents merited.
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That's mostly because it seemed abstract; there seemed to be a great deal of work left to be done, and it seemed reasonable to assume that the Warriors would continue to style and grin and generally beat everyone's asses until someone figured out how to get them to stop.
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But as a non-economist staring at Congressional Budget Office projections and at examples of fiscal crisis from Greece to California, it seemed reasonable to make deficit cutting a near-term priority from 2010 onward, to offset the surge of Great Recession spending with a period of belt-tightening.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Medicare prescription drug insurance was created in 2003, the idea that beneficiaries with very high drug costs should pick up 2 percent of the tab seemed reasonable - but that was well before specialty drugs were invented that carry price tags in the tens of thousands of dollars.
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Financial markets are telling us something that we should heed: The economic trajectory that seemed reasonable even a few weeks ago is not going to be the trajectory for months—not for airlines, not for discretionary retailers, not for industrial conglomerates or small businesses, and not for the tech companies that lubricate everything.
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Elissa SlotkinElissa SlotkinOvernight Defense: Iran crisis eases as Trump says Tehran 'standing down' | Dems unconvinced on evidence behind Soleimani strike | House sets Thursday vote on Iran war powers House to vote Thursday on war powers resolution after Iran attacks Hoyer: War powers vote coming 'sooner rather than later' MORE (D-Mich.), a freshman who represents a district that Trump carried in 2016, said before the recess that holding the articles temporarily seemed reasonable.
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Pollack thereafter met a group of skullcap-wearing Jewish youth. He asked them questions related to Judaism to which they gave answers that seemed reasonable to him. Following this incident, Pollack developed an interest in Judaism and gradually became observant and adopted religious practices.
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This would be represented by one bond of around 50% covalent character resonating between the six positions and the overall effect would be to reduce the charge on Cs to about + 0.5 and fluoride to -0.5. It seemed reasonable to him that since CsF is the most ionic of ionic compounds, most, if not all substances will have atoms with even smaller charges.
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Vampyrella, Gobiella, Leptophrys, Platyreta, Theratromyxa) and was identical with the order Vampyrellida West, 1901, also known under the name "Aconchulinida". However, based on molecular sequence data it seemed reasonable to restrict the family Vampyrellidae to a subgroup (containing the genus Vampyrella) and to establish another family for the genera Leptophrys, Platyreta and Theratromyxa, namely the Leptophryidae Hess et al., 2012.
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Broadly speaking, before the Brisker method, Talmudic texts were taken at "face value" unless there was a compelling reason not to. If a contradiction between two texts was discovered, then it became necessary to reinterpret one or both texts in order to reconcile them. But there was no standard method by which to perform this reconciliation. Any explanation which one offered, which seemed reasonable, would be accepted.
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See, for example, Yuri Larin, "Economic Reconstruction in Soviet Russia at the End of February, 1919," Soviet Russia, vol. 1, no. 3 (June 21, 1919), pp. 8-9. While the publication of such fare seemed reasonable to the Soviet Bureau and its political supporters, the presence of a Bolshevik propaganda agency in the heart of New York City was a proverbial red flag to conservative opponents of the Soviet regime.
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Since films containing racy and violent content resulted in high ticket sales, it seemed reasonable to continue producing such films.LaSalle (2000), p. 77. Soon, the flouting of the code became an open secret. In 1931, The Hollywood Reporter mocked the code and quoted an anonymous screenwriter saying that "the Hays moral code is not even a joke any more; it's just a memory"; two years later Variety followed suit.
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237 but as individual who embraced Carlism out of intellectual speculation and not by heritage or intuition, he had little problem totally abandoning the legitimist thread later on.some scholars claim that because de Mella espoused Carlism rationally, not intuitively, he was ready to abandon it when seemed reasonable, immune to dynastic zeal and glorification of violent Carlist past, Andrés Martín 2000, p. 27, Martin Blinkhorn, Carlism and Crisis in Spain 1931-1939, Cambridge 2008, , p. 44.
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Public Service Commission, . as the Court did not request evidence or argument supporting the need of Puerto Rico to regulate such advertisement, but merely accepted that such regulations seemed reasonable. It also implicitly allowed for more strict regulations on commercial speech related to legal but presumably dangerous "vice" activities. Although there have been calls to overturn Posadas and it has been ignored as precedent in some, if not all, subsequent cases, the case has never been officially overruled.
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After seeing a top-rank player sign with another team, the aggrieved owner wanted a mid-rank player in return, the so-called sixteenth player (each club was allowed to protect 15 players from this rule). Under this arrangement, losing lower-rated free agents would produce correspondingly smaller compensation. While this seemed reasonable and fair to owners, players only recently freed from the bondage of the reserve clause found it unacceptable, and withdrew their labor, striking on June 12.
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By controlling archaeological goods and taxing the antiquities, the government effectively regulated European access to heritage. While most of the provisions in the 1884 Law seemed reasonable, enforcing the law was virtually impossible. The expanse of the empire was too great that the Ottoman government did not have enough officials to oversee and implement the law. Chapter I Article 8 of the 1884 Law specifically prohibited the exporting of artifacts without the permission of the Imperial Museum.
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Before the mid-1980s, it was believed that only eukaryotes had circadian systems. The conclusion that only eukaryotes have circadian oscillators seemed reasonable, because it was assumed that an endogenous timekeeper with a period close to 24 hours would not be useful to prokaryotic organisms that often divide more rapidly than once every 24 hours. The assumption might be stated as, "why have a timer for a cycle that is longer than your lifetime?" While intuitive, the conclusion was flawed.
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Only Syrian advocates of unity, including Salah al-Din Bitar and Akram El- Hourani had prior knowledge of this delegation; Quwatli and Azem were notified a day later and considered it tantamount to a "military coup". Nasser's final terms for the union were decisive and non-negotiable: "a plebiscite, the dissolution of parties, and the withdrawal of the army from politics". While the plebiscite seemed reasonable to most Syrian elites, the latter two conditions were extremely worrisome. They believed it would destroy political life in Syria.
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These were among the first rigorous demonstrations in any organism of a fitness advantage conferred by a circadian system. When researchers believed that prokaryotes were too "simple" to have circadian timekeepers, it had seemed reasonable that evolutionary selection for circadian organization would occur only if the generation time of the cells were as long or longer than a day. The data from cyanobacteria, however, suggest that the benefits of having a daily clock can potentially accrue to all organisms, even if they divide more rapidly than once a day.
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With this worldview, it seemed reasonable to assert that astrology could be used to predict the probable future of a human being. Albert argued that an understanding of the celestial influences affecting us could help us to live our lives more in accord with Christian precepts.Scott E. Hendrix, How Albert the Great's Speculum Astronomiae Was Interpreted and Used by Four Centuries of Readers (Lewiston: 2010), 44-46. The most comprehensive statement of his astrological beliefs is to be found in a work he authored around 1260, now known as the Speculum astronomiae.
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The first 7 years the city funded the museum through the budget item "Preparations for a university in Jutland" but in 1928 the museum got a funding item for itself and the state stepped in with further funding. Since the museum was created in connection with a future university it seemed reasonable to also place the museum in the university buildings so students and faculty had easy access. In May 1941 the museum opened for the first time. The building was drawn by C.F. Møller like the rest of the university.
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It seemed reasonable to combine scientific leadership and technical expertise on a local scale by jointly offering this new way to train promising scientists from around the world. The Ph.D. program provides a true interdisciplinary approach for highly motivated students to receive a Ph.D. degree and to participate in cutting edge research. Major changes and adjustments were necessary to put this idea into reality. First, because of the international character, teaching and practical training had to be offered in English to make the program attractive for foreign students.
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During the 1980s and early 1990s, a high percentage of patients with prostate cancer were diagnosed with locally advanced disease. Anecdotally, many of these patients were given the newly developed LHRH analogs as initial treatment for their disease. Since their initial responses were impressive, it seemed reasonable to give androgen deprivation prior to prostatectomy with the hope of improving progression free and overall survival.Soloway MS, Sharifi R, Wajsman Z, McLeod D, Wood DP, Jr., Puras-Baez A. Randomized prospective study comparing radical prostatectomy alone versus radical prostatectomy preceded by androgen blockade in clinical stage B2 (T2bNxM0) prostate cancer.
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Mr. Brezina notified other members of the Maryland Geological Society, and together members of the MGS began to screen stream sediments at the site for more shark teeth and other remains. It soon became apparent, from the types of teeth that were being found and from the color and texture of the sediments in the banks of the creek, that the fossils were being reworked from glauconitic ("greensand") horizons of the Lower Tertiary (Paleocene-Eocene) Pamunkey Group. Because the Pamunkey Group previously had yielded only sparse vertebrate remains, it seemed reasonable to suspect that this locality was scientifically important.
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In conflict areas, women and girls are sometimes forced to marry men on either side of the conflict. This practice has taken place recently in countries such as Syria, Sierra Leone, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Historically, this was common throughout the world, with women from the communities of the war enemy being considered "spoils of war", who could be kidnapped, raped and forced into marriage or sexual slavery. Because women were regarded as property, it seemed reasonable to see them as the chattel of the war enemy, which could now be appropriated and used by the winner.
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While social evolutionists agree that the evolution-like process leads to social progress, classical social evolutionists have developed many different theories, known as theories of unilineal evolution. Social evolutionism was the prevailing theory of early socio-cultural anthropology and social commentary, and is associated with scholars like Auguste Comte, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, and Herbert Spencer. Social evolutionism represented an attempt to formalize social thinking along scientific lines, later influenced by the biological theory of evolution. If organisms could develop over time according to discernible, deterministic laws, then it seemed reasonable that societies could as well.
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This limitation seemed reasonable when GIF was developed because few people could afford the hardware to display more colors simultaneously. Simple graphics, line drawings, cartoons, and grey-scale photographs typically need fewer than 256 colors. Each frame can designate one index as a "transparent background color": any pixel assigned this index takes on the color of the pixel in the same position from the background, which may have been determined by a previous frame of animation. Many techniques, collectively called dithering, have been developed to approximate a wider range of colors with a small color palette by using pixels of two or more colors to approximate in-between colors.
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The Muqaddimah emphasized the role of systemic bias in affecting the standard of evidence. Khaldun was quite concerned with the effect of raising the standard of evidence when confronted with uncomfortable claims, and relaxing it when given claims that seemed reasonable or comfortable. He was a jurist, and sometimes participated reluctantly in rulings that he felt were coerced, based on arguments he did not respect. Besides al-Maqrizi (1364–1442), Ibn Khaldun's focused attempt systematically to study and account for biases in the creation of history wouldn't be seen again until Georg Hegel, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche in 19th-century Germany, and Arnold J. Toynbee, a 20th-century British historian.
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A stream, the Eichmühlen Fliess, flowed in a swampy depression just to the east of the town. It could be crossed only at a single narrow point on the road east of Kay, directly opposite the Russian center; a second crossing could be made immediately south of Kay, which would permit an assault on the Russian right flank. This seemed reasonable to Wedel, but only if the Russians were not fully deployed. By 23 July, Wedel had received direct orders from the impatient Frederick to secure a "good position", by which the king meant defensible ground, and to use the preferred means of attack, by which the King meant "oblique order".
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The Second World War ended in defeat for Germany in May 1945, and with that ended the twelve Nazi years and a national policy driven by anti-Semitism. It also seemed reasonable to assume that the end of the Hitler regime meant an end to one-party dictatorship. The entire central part of what had been Germany, including Leipzig and Castle Thallwitz, now became designated as the Soviet occupation zone: this was part of a larger scheme of border changes and other territorial provisions agreed by the political leaders of the victorious powers at the Yalta Conference. Rosenthal joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1945.
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The Rainbow was MS-DOS compatible, but not completely software- or hardware-compatible with the IBM PC. At the time this seemed reasonable, with the expectation being that the interface that programs would target would be MS-DOS, not the underlying hardware. However, many significant commercial software products were written directly to the hardware, for a variety of reasons including performance. Very soon the market expectation was that all MS-DOS computers would be fully IBM PC compatible. While "Code Blue" did a good job at emulating the IBM BIOS, its inability to trap references to the video and other hardware limited what would run on the Rainbow.
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Even taking those facts into account, it didn't work out very well. It was a mistake and one we will not repeat." They also added that "after the disaster that was Postal III due to the mistake of outsourcing it, we have decided to make the next game 100% in house."POSTAL 2 COMPLETE - Steam Greenlight - Frequently asked Questions A later interview with Running with Scissors employee Jon Merchant further clarified the situation, with him stating that "Akella had vastly more resources than we had for Postal 2, so it seemed reasonable at the time they could produce a game that was at least equal to the game we made inhouse.
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Despite the many negative connotations which surround the term magic, there exist many elements that are seen in a divine or holy light. Diversified instruments or rituals used in medieval magic include, but are not limited to: various amulets, talismans, potions, as well as specific chants, dances, prayers. Along with these rituals are the adversely imbued notions of demonic participation which influence of them. The idea that magic was devised, taught, and worked by demons would have seemed reasonable to anyone who read the Greek magical papyri or the Sefer-ha-Razim and found that healing magic appeared alongside rituals for killing people, gaining wealth, or personal advantage, and coercing women into sexual submission.
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A distinctive cotton could not be developed in the sea islands, at least not by the methods of hybridization or selection, because frost killed the plants before they had a chance to produce seed. One possible explanation, the changes happened accidentally in a region with long growing season and then were introduced to the sea islands. In the 1960s and 1970s, S. G. Stephens performed an experiment where he hybridized a G. barbadense with short coarse fibers and long growing season with a wild form of G. hirsutum that had the same short fiber and long growing season, but the fibers were fine. It seemed reasonable the resulting plant produced fine fibers, but was surprised to find it also had long fiber and short growing season.
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Prior to the introduction of the world rankings, the previous year's winner and runner-up were allocated the top seedings in the World Championship, held annually. As more tournaments were added to the calendar and more players joined the circuit in the 1970s, it became increasingly necessary to seed the tournaments, precipitating the "Order of Merit" for the 1975–76 season. The system was very basic, with seedings based on the results of the last three World Championships, and rankings were formally introduced in 1976 after the World Championship for the 1976–77 season using the same criteria. By the 1982–83 season many more tournaments were being contested, and it seemed reasonable to take those results into consideration too.
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In the early 19th century few variable stars were known, so it seemed reasonable to use the letters of the Latin script. Because very few constellations contained stars with uppercase Latin-letter Bayer designation greater than Q, the letter R was chosen as a starting point so as to avoid confusion with letter spectral types or the (now rarely used) Latin-letter Bayer designations. Although Lacaille had used uppercase R to Z letters in a few cases, for example X Puppis (HR 2548), these designations were either dropped or accepted as variable star designations. The star T Puppis was accepted by Argelander as a variable star and is included in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars with that designation but is now classed as non-variable.
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As is well known, the 9192631770 figure was chosen for the SI second. L Essen in the same 1968 article (p.162) stated that this "seemed reasonable in view of the variations in UT2".) The small difference accumulates over time, which leads to an increasing difference between our clock time (Universal Time) on the one hand, and Atomic Time and Ephemeris Time on the other hand: see ΔT. This led to the introduction of the leap second in 1972 to compensate for differences in the bases for time standardization. In addition to the effect of the ocean tides, there is also a tidal acceleration due to flexing of Earth's crust, but this accounts for only about 4% of the total effect when expressed in terms of heat dissipation.
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In fact, at the end of the 1960s, the transport ministry was actually considering abolishing bus service in Paris. However, within a year of the Carte's introduction, bus usage went up 40%, and more generally, it has been estimated that during the first ten years of its existence, the Carte led to an increase of 20% in the use of Parisian public transport. Finally, the Carte was intended to make fares more equitable; before the Carte's introduction, those who lived further from the city centre paid much more than more centrally located residents. While it seemed reasonable that those who wanted to travel further should pay more, many people who lived far from downtown Paris had to make many more connections as they travelled compared to others who travelled no further, connections for which they had to pay.
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Since Taylor's law is mathematically identical to the variance-to-mean power law that characterizes the Tweedie models, it seemed reasonable to use these models and the Tweedie convergence theorem to explain the observed clustering of animals and plants associated with Taylor's law. The majority of the observed values for the power-law exponent p have fallen in the interval (1,2) and so the Tweedie compound Poisson–gamma distribution would seem applicable. Comparison of the empirical distribution function to the theoretical compound Poisson–gamma distribution has provided a means to verify consistency of this hypothesis. Whereas conventional models for Taylor's law have tended to involve ad hoc animal behavioral or population dynamic assumptions, the Tweedie convergence theorem would imply that Taylor's law results from a general mathematical convergence effect much as how the central limit theorem governs the convergence behavior of certain types of random data.
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Rae Votta of Billboard, on the other hand, said that by having "Props" and "Nationals" air back to back, "they both lose their individual potent high points and come out blander than they deserve", and characterized "Nationals" as "jarring and strange". Both Huffington Post Crystal Bell and Washington Post Jen Chaney wanted to "be honest" about Vocal Adrenaline vs. New Directions in the competition: Bell said that Vocal Adrenaline "put on the better show" and Chaney wrote that they were "better than New Directions": "their dance moves were sharper and more in sync, and Unique's Minaj-esque magnetism factor sold the whole thing". VanDerWerff wrote that he "could quibble that Vocal Adrenaline had stronger choreography overall" or that he "found Unique a more engaging performer than Rachel", but that as "New Directions also used its whole ensemble better than Vocal Adrenaline did", he felt that "either outcome seemed reasonable".
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