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fact and Orwell
Orwell seeks the freedom to say that two plus two equals four, as an objective fact which the Party cannot touch.
Some have attributed Jacob's problems to the fact that his name was on Orwell's list, a list of people with pro-communist leanings prepared in March 1949 by George Orwell for his friend Celia Kirwan at the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government.

fact and heard
In fact, the world heard nothing but sabre-rattling, the same exercises which proved futile for the predecessors of the current President.
I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.
Yet, given that Pliny had not heard the word directly from a Cimbric informant, it cannot be ruled out that the word is in fact Gaulish instead.
This anomaly can be explained by the fact that Hesiod made a conscious effort to compose like an Ionian epic poet at a time when digamma was not heard in Ionian speech, while Homer tried to compose like an older generation of Ionian bards, when it was heard in Ionian speech.
This fact is summarized in the commonly heard phrase " In Smalltalk everything is an object ", which may be more accurately expressed as " all values are objects ", as variables are not.
Some of the tracks feature relatively long titles, representative of the fact that similar reprises are heard in many scenes.
Unfortunately as soon as Anderson's boss Lew Grade heard Unwin's character speaking gobbledegook he cancelled the show on the grounds that people would not understand it-despite the fact that they were not meant to.
As Bennet writes,the fact of language itself can also play a crucial role in informing the way in which song lyrics are heard and the forms of significance which are read into them ”.
The tarpaulin can occasionally be seen and / or heard underneath the actors in these scenes, and in fact the loud splatter sound usually heard during a watering or sliming is due to this tarpaulin.
Vliet was forced to quickly form a new Magic Band to complete support-tour dates, with musicians who had no experience with his music and in fact had never heard it.
It is possible that Hereward received no such pardon and went into exile never to be heard from again ; this was in fact the fate of many prominent Englishmen after the Conquest.
Over the next twenty years, the Court heard several more cases and in all of them ruled that, in fact, a lawyer was required.
When Hitler heard of this the next day, he ordered that Rostov should be held, although it had in fact already been evacuated.
Meanwhile Clodius was supposed to be returning to Rome, after he had heard that Cyrus the architect had died, though Cicero, defending Milo, claimed that Clodius had, in fact, arranged an ambush.
The Bishop of Winchester, Stephen Gardiner, who had been imprisoned in the Tower for five years, took great offence at this fact as he heard of it.
The young Nichols heard the early recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band ( which was not in fact “ original ,” but was the first “ jazz ” band to record ), and later those of Bix Beiderbecke, and these had a strong influence on the young cornet player.
In fact, Mrs Fitzpatrick had heard the voice of her husband and paid the landlady for horses to make her escape at the same time as Sophia's departure.
This assumption tends to dilute the essence of both Judaism and Christianity ; recognition of this fact, and the increasing religious diversity of the United States, make this phrase less heard now than it once was, though it is far from extinct.
In fact Conny van den Bos who sang for the Netherlands in 1965 said that she had gone to the contest many years ago ; unfortunately for both Conny and Ulrika this wasn't heard above the noise of the audience.
This hardware solution is based on the fact that unlike music, video, and text that must eventually be revealed to users to be heard, viewed, or read, program instructions are needed only by the cryptoprocessor that decrypts and executes them.
In fact, Tiberius was still alive, and shortly thereafter was heard calling for food.
1 was a case heard in the House of Lords, which held that it was impossible to commit the crime of handling stolen goods where the goods in question were not in fact stolen ; nor could an offence of attempting to handle stolen goods be committed in the same circumstances.

fact and April
In April 871, King Æthelred died, and Alfred succeeded to the throne of Wessex and the burden of its defence, despite the fact that Æthelred left two under-age sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold.
* UK Copyright Law fact sheet ( April 2000 ) a concise introduction to UK Copyright legislation
In fact, in tropical regions both Crux ( low in the south ) and Ursa Major ( low in the north ) can be seen in the sky from April to June.
In April 2009 it was revealed that Eileen Grimshaw's father, Colin had slept with Eileen's old classmate, Paula Carp while she was still at school, and that Paula's daughter, Julie was in fact also Colin's daughter.
When Virginia declared its secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his personal desire for the Union to stay intact and despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln had offered Lee command of the Union Army.
In both schemes, account has been taken of the fact thatin spite of the many difficulties in establishing the dates of the historical events involved — many scholars attribute a high degree of probability to Friday April 7, 30, as the date of the crucifixion of Jesus, which would make April 9 the date of the Resurrection.
* April 8 – Buddhists in South Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for free elections.
However, because April 21 is the only date for Rome's foundation upon which all the legends agree, it has been recently argued that Septimontium celebrated the first federations among Roman hills: a similar federation was, in fact, celebrated by the Latins at Cave, Italy, or at Monte Cavo ( in Castelli ).
In April 1791, Mozart did apply to become the Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral, and was in fact designated by the City Council to take over this job following the death of the then-ailing incumbent, Leopold Hofmann.
The extraordinary circumstances of the April parliament had forced the king into submission, but under normal circumstances the powers of the king in medieval England were virtually unlimited, a fact that Edward was able to exploit.
The deaths were greatly exacerbated by the fact that the East India Company raised land taxes by 10 % at the height of the famine, in April 1770.
In April 1959, despite the fact that Glenn had not earned the required college degree, he was assigned to NASA as one of the original group of seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury.
At the same time, Bellini composed an alternative version intended for the famous Maria Malibran, who was to sing it in Naples ; in fact, this version was not performed on stage until April 10, 1986 at the Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari.
A Tripartite Commission – made up of representatives of the co-princes, the General Council, and the Executive Council – was formed in 1990 and finalized the draft constitution in April 1991, making the new Constitution of Andorra a fact.
Baird Searles, in Asimov's Science Fiction ( April 1984 ), says " the book lies in the uneasy boundary between surrealism and fantasy, given an odd literary status by its masquerade as a book of fact ".
However, on the day following the meeting with Brown, five Gurkha veterans who had applied for residency in the United Kingdom received letters telling them that their appeals had been rejected-many saw this as a betrayal, despite the fact that for the letters to have been received the day after the meeting they might have been sent before it ( and certainly after the 29 April Commons vote ).
It is, in fact, the second continuator ( covering the period 1459 – 1486 ) who claims to be writing in April 1486, and, sure enough, this section ends with the marriage of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York and the rebellion that followed.
In fact, the first community comprised impoverished families from west Galway that first arrived in April 1935, who had no known ancestral links to County Meath, and were described as " colonists ".
On April 23, 2009, Lindsey Graham ( R-South Carolina ) and eight other senators introduced legislation to provide " rebates " from a $ 30 billion federally managed fund into which nuclear power plants had been paying, so as to refund all collected funds if the project was in fact cancelled by Congress.
On April 26, 1941 an article was published in The Saturday Evening Post by journalist Boyden Sparks, attacking the authenticity of the stones, pointing to improbabilities in their story and producing evidence that those who had claimed to discover them were in fact hoaxers.
In April 1994 the Economist, in an article entitled " Perrypatetic ," observed: " The man who has started to sound like a secretary of state is in fact the defense secretary, William Perry.
In April 2008 a referendum was announced for Disley residents due to the fact that the Borough of Macclesfield was to become part of the new Cheshire East unitary authority as a result of major local government changes in Cheshire in April 2009.

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