75 Metaphors for factor

In 1909 this country discovered that in capital shipswhich now began to be considered the decisive factor in naval warfareGermany would actually be the superior by 1914 unless special measures were taken.

The determining factor in the application of the term should be the inability of the individual concerned to extract sufficient nutriment from the normal ration, owing to imperfect mastication.

The personal factors in this perhaps insoluble problem were still more refractory than the constitutional.

This is the more probable, as the fact remains that the chief factor in the resuscitation of the Irish Wolfhound has been the Scottish Deerhound.

Another factor which has had a bad effect is the belief, which has become much too prevalent, that a great deal of "faking" has been practised in the past, and that it has been so cleverly performed as to deceive the most observant judge, whereby a very artificial standard of quality has been obtained.

The most common factor in the causation of this defect is undoubtedly disease of the sensitive laminæ.

The governing factor is the Treaty of 1839, but this is a treaty with a historya history accumulated since.

Another factor in the growth of the place was the frequent visits which the Emperors began to pay to it.

"The factor of Kenogami is a great friend of ours and we have visited back and forth often, but I've been over the Kenogami trail only once.

But one permanent factor has been the sympathy between the governing elements in the two countries.

The only factor that could possibly have astonished him, just now, would have been the nonappearance of that slight, luminous cloudlet at the precise spot and moment designated.

The most important factor in philosophical progress is, of course, the state of inquiry at the time, the achievements of the thinkers of the immediately preceding age; and in this relation of a philosopher to his predecessors, again, a distinction must be made between a logical and a psychological element.

The most interesting factor in the instinct equation is the endocrine, because that is the one that is most purely chemical.

Although the law of progress holds good for all sides of mental life, for art, politics, and morals, as well as for science, nevertheless the most important factor in the evolution of the human race is the development of the intellect as the guiding power in us (though not in itself the strongest).

A further factor in her temporary feeling of alienation from him was the mere physical fact that she saw him much less frequently and that he had nothing like his usual intimate knowledge of her comings and goings.

A further factor which has important bearing upon the productiveness of the observer is the degree of isolation from civilization and from other scientific work.

Parkson was a man from Lancashire, and a devout Quaker; his third and completing factor was Ruskin, with whose work and phraseology he was saturated.

The strongest conservative factor of a literature is the language.

One factor which contributed to Germany's shortage of meat was the indiscriminate killing of the livestock, especially pigs, when the price of fodder first rose in the last months of 1914.

The other disturbing factor in this situation was the boll weevil, an interloper from Mexico in 1892.

Another factor which tends to make the teaching profession unattractive, is the very strenuous life which it entails under modern conditions.

Nearly all the old factors were Secessionists, who religiously believed no government could exist unless founded on raw cotton and slavery.

The most powerful factor in achieving any result is the wish to bring it about.

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

The audience listened with keen attention to the replies, the only disturbing factor being a cough of Mr. Wright's, which became more and more troublesome as the evening wore on.

75 Metaphors for  factor