actual total loss Reference library
The Handbook of International Financial Terms
... total loss . An insurance write-off in respect of a...
actual total loss Quick reference
A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
... total loss The complete destruction or loss of an insured item or one that has suffered an amount of damage that makes it cease to be the thing it originally was. For example, a motor car would be an actual total loss if it was destroyed, stolen and not recovered, or damaged so badly that the repair cost exceeded its insured value. See also constructive total loss...
actual total loss (in marine insurance) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
... total loss ( in marine insurance ) A loss of a ship or cargo in which the subject matter is destroyed or damaged to such an extent that it can no longer be used for its purpose, or when the insured is irretrievably deprived of it. If the ship or cargo is the subject of a valued policy , the measure of indemnity is the sum fixed by the policy; if the policy is unvalued, the measure of indemnity is the insurable value of the subject insured. Compare constructive total loss...
actual total loss
War Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...‘Limited’ and ‘total’ war have been terms used to indicate the massive escalation of European war that occurred between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. As descriptive categories ‘limited’ and ‘total’ war may serve well enough, but to conceptualize them is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. One problem is that there is no absolute against which to measure ‘totality’. What is a ‘total’ threat to a society? What is ‘total’ mobilization? What is ‘total’ victory or defeat? Another problem is that war and preparation for war, modern war at least, is...
14 Printed Ephemera Reference library
Michael Harris
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...its analysis; however, they also create a tendency to push the development of forms of ephemeral material into the 19 th and 20 th centuries, which become, by implication, an age of ephemera. Nobody suggests that such material was not produced before 1800 ; but the almost total loss of many or most of the early forms—whose rarity is marked by the high commercial value of such items as advertisements for night soil removal—has created some distortion. Similarly, a historical focus on the business organization of printers engaged in the mixed production of...
Reflections on Islam and the West: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Reference library
Hossein Nasr Seyyed
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...Rarely is this great difference of actual practice of religion taken into account in current inter-religious dialogue, and the agenda is carried out in which many Christians simply identify themselves with the West, as if the case of religion in the two worlds were the same. It is as if a country in Africa or Asia were to carry out trade talks with the United States without paying any attention to the present disparity in economic activities in the two countries. As in the case of trade, so in the case of religion. The actual religious situation must be...
The Evolution and Devolution of Religious Knowledge Reference library
Abdul-Karim Soroush
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...of his method, namely, that the language of the Qur'an is not to be taken too materialistically, because neither the materiality nor the actual structure of things are included in the meanings of words, only their functions are intended. Take the word “scale” ( mizan ), for instance, whose meaning does not include “having pans.” Digital scales are scales too. Perhaps future generations will witness totally different kinds of scales that we cannot dream of today. But one thing is certain: so long as something functions as a scale, it can be called a...
Lamentations Reference library
P. M. Joyce and P. M. Joyce
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...foe looked on mocking’ ( v. 7; cf. v. 21 ; the historical circumstances described in 2 Kings 24:2 may be in mind); and ‘all you who pass by’ ( v. 12; cf. 2:15 , where passers-by mock). v. 3 provides the first mention of exile. Some have noted that explicit reference to the actual destruction of the temple (in 587) seems to be lacking in this chapter; indeed Rudolph argued that ch. 1 was written shortly after the first capture of Jerusalem in 597 ( Rudolph 1962 : 209–11 ). Provan ( 1990 ) contends that the precise historical background to ch. 1 is...
Zechariah Reference library
Katrina J. A. Larkin and Katrina J. A. Larkin
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the prophet is not asked to perform the role assigned to him. v. 17 counteracts vv. 15–16 with an oracle of woe against the worthless shepherd. Zechariah's favourite ‘eye’ motif reappears. Blindness ( OCB s.v.) symbolizes loss of spiritual sight and spiritual potency ( cf. 12:4 ). The withered right arm symbolizes loss of might, and would render the person unable to hold sacred office. The verse is another one of the link passages, and rounds off the little anthology of passages with a theme of shepherding that now forms Zech 11 . ( 12:1–13:9 )...
Ezra–Nehemiah Reference library
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher and Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...of depending on actual armaments ( see Smith-Christopher 1993 : 269–92 ). vv. 23–30 , the actual amounts given in vv. 26–7 are dramatically higher than the amounts of silver and gold in the Golah List: 650 talents of silver and 100 talents of gold. The reality of these figures can be questioned when they are translated into contemporary weights and measures—the amount of gold mentioned in the Golah List was already nearly a ton—1⅔ of a cubic metre of metal. Either there is corruption in the amounts given here, or they are totally fanciful. In any case,...
40 The History of the Book in China Reference library
J. S. Edgren
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...period. Seal books contain collections of seal impressions printed in red, either impressed from actual seals using cinnabar paste or printed in red xylographically, accompanied by seal texts and minimal explanations printed in black. Such books containing the seals of one person or family may be compared with Western books of *heraldry . Collections of ancient seal inscriptions suited the growth of epigraphical studies in the Qing. All editions with actual seal impressions were extremely limited. The best-known of the pictorial books is the Shizhuzhai...
Enlightenment Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...of revolutions. Thus despite the loss of its old leaders, the very moderate nature of the Scottish Enlightenment had indeed enabled its perpetuation and metamorphosis. Even the most devastating Victorian attack upon Enlightenment assumptions, from a Scot educated at the University of Edinburgh, Thomas *Carlyle , was testimony to the continuing vitality of the Scottish Enlightenment. In England the loss of leadership was more critical. During the 1790s the leaders of Rational Dissent were aged if not already dead. The loss of people of such energy, talent,...
Philippians Reference library
Robert Murray, SJ and Robert Murray, SJ
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...on Christ. His righteousness was once based on the law ( v. 6 ); now, solely on his faith in Christ ( v. 9 ). In vv. 7–8 Paul plays on an accounting metaphor of gain ( kerdos and verb kerdainō, cf. 1:21 ) and loss ( zēmia and verb zēmioumai ); his assets have changed places by his new reckoning. Indeed, the metaphor of gain and loss, though quite different from that implicit in 2:6–8 , corresponds in effect to Christ's regarding his divine status as ‘no prize to be clung to’ ( oukh harpagmon ) and, instead, ‘emptying himself’ ( cf. Fee 1995 :...
Domesticity Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...were also subject to ideological strictures in terms of which they were accused of idleness if they did not engage in the production of wealth for the family. The writer and feminist Mary *Robinson highlighted this contradiction between the ideal of passive femininity and the actual lives of the vast majority of British working women in her Letter to the Women of England ( 1799 ): If woman be the weaker creature, why is she employed in laborious avocations? why compelled to endure the fatigue of household drudgery; to scrub, to scower, to labour, both late...
Job Reference library
James L. Crenshaw and James L. Crenshaw
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...(whatever its object, whether a foreign goddess or an ordinary virgin), marks this code of ethics as special, going as it does beyond the actual act to the prior intent as in Jesus' later formulation of the issue. The second and third oaths concern ethics generally—deceit and greed—while the fourth returns to sexual ethics (adultery). The oath in v. 7 refers to hands, feet, heart, and eyes, indicating that Job's total being is devoid of fault ( Habel 1985 : 433 ). The first stated punishment in v. 8 resembles a futility curse (‘let me sow and another...
1 & 2 Samuel Reference library
Gwilym H. Jones, Gwilym H. Jones, and Gwilym H. Jones
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...( 10:24; 16:8, 9, 10 ) and thus emphasizing that David, like Saul before him, did not come to the throne by chance or force. A miraculous and unexpected feature belongs to the actual choice; as Saul belonged to the smallest clan of the smallest tribe, David was the youngest of seven or eight sons, which may be a folkloric motif ( McCarter 1980 ). It is also possible that the actual process of election was similar; Saul was chosen by elimination by means of lots ( 10:17–27 a ), and it is possible that the elimination of all Jesse's sons, from Eliab the eldest...
Judges Reference library
Susan Niditch and Susan Niditch
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the ideology of the ban as a means of procuring women for Benjamin. If not answering the call of the confederation is to be considered an act worthy of total destruction (such an act warrants a curse in Judg 5:23 , but no call for total destruction), then all associated with the miscreants, including young women, are to be destroyed, guilty by contagion ( see judg 20:8–11 ). The notion of wreaking near total destruction upon the one ‘of all the tribes’ who did not heed the call against Benjamin appears more an excuse to obtain women than a means of imposing...
Joshua Reference library
Gordon McConville and Gordon McConville
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...and the city burned. The other towns are also destroyed, but not burned, an authentic note in an account that otherwise stresses the total extirpation of the enemy. As at Ai the booty is excepted from the ban ( v. 14 ), a further exception to the law of Deut 20:16 , though the terms of that law are borrowed here (as elsewhere in our account) in the phrase ‘all who breathed’. Here as in the case of Jericho the report of the total destruction of human life reflects the ‘ideal’ perspective of a pure Israel in the land (see josh c .1–3). Even so, it is hard to...
Isaiah Reference library
R. Coggins and R. Coggins
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...has induced total bewilderment. ( 24:7–13 ) v. 7 is also found with slight modification in Joel 1:10, 12 . This provides an example of that reuse of biblical material in a new context which characterizes these chapters. Unfortunately since the dates both of Joel and of the final form of Isaiah are unclear it is not certain which text made use of the other. The theme of lack of wine is then linked with one of the recurring motifs of chs. 24–7 : that of a city, usually in terms of its destruction. Historical critics have assumed that the actual ravaging of a...
