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") He was determined not to fight until he thought there had been sufficient preparation for a decisive victory, and put into action his beliefs with the gathering of resources, detailed planning, the training of troops — especially in clearing minefields and fighting at night — and in the use of 252 of the latest American-built Sherman tanks, 90 M7 Priest self-propelled howitzers, and making a personal visit to every unit involved in the offensive.
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The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union:
The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").
He was worshipped as Acraephius ( ; Ἀκραιφιος, Akraiphios, literally " Acraephian ") or Acraephiaeus ( ; Ἀκραιφιαίος, Akraiphiaios, literally " Acraephian ") in the Boeotian town of Acraephia ( Ἀκραιφία ), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus ; and as Smintheus ( ; Σμινθεύς, Smintheus, " Sminthian "— that is, " of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe ") near the Troad town of Hamaxitus.
For this he was also known as Parnopius ( ; Παρνόπιος, Parnopios, from πάρνοψ, " locust ") and to the Romans as Culicarius ( ; from Latin culicārius, " of midges ").
He was also called Agyieus ( ; Ἀγυιεύς, Aguīeus, from ἄγυια, " street ") for his role in protecting roads and homes ; and as Nomius ( ; Νόμιος, Nomios, literally " pastoral ") and Nymphegetes ( ; Νυμφηγέτης, Numphēgetēs, from Νύμφη, " Nymph ", and ἡγέτης, " leader ") in his role as a protector of shepherds and pastoral life.
As a god of archery, Apollo was known as Aphetor ( ; Ἀφήτωρ, Aphētōr, from ὰφίημι, " to let loose ") or Aphetorus ( ; Ἀφητόρος, Aphētoros, of the same origin ), Argyrotoxus ( ; Ἀργυρότοξος, Argurotoxos, literally " with silver bow "), Hecaërgus ( ; Ἑκάεργος, Hekaergos, literally " far-shooting "), and Hecebolus ( ; Ἑκηβόλος, Hekēbolos, literally " far-shooting ").
Apollo was called Ismenius ( ; Ἰσμηνιός, Ismēnios, literally " of Ismenus ") after Ismenus, the son of Amphion and Niobe, whom he struck with an arrow.
The term " Afroasiatic " ( often now spelled as " Afro-Asiatic ") was later coined by Maurice Delafosse ( 1914 ).
In the past, a defendant who refused to plead ( or " stood mute ") was subject to peine forte et dure ( Law French for " strong and hard punishment ").
" This was borrowed into Arabic as al-tub ( الط ّ وب al " the " + tub " brick ") " brick ," which was assimilated into Old Spanish as adobe, still with the meaning " mud brick.
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.
The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.
The hills just east of downtown showcase the eroded remains of the five mile ( 8 km ) wide impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the Wetumpka crater or astrobleme (" star-wound ") for the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock can be found beneath the surface.
Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.
The book was highly influential in introducing comparative studies ( in this case France and England ), as well as long durations (" longue durée ") studies spanning several centuries, even up to a thousand years, downplaying short-term events.
A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut ( only recently renamed from " Farmingbury ") on November 29, 1799.
Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).
Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.
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Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.
An orientation chooses which of the two half-lines determined by O is the positive, and which is negative ; we then say that the line " is oriented " ( or " points ") from the negative half towards the positive half.
However, who ultimately pays the tax ( the tax " burden ") is determined by the marketplace as taxes become embedded into production costs.
Early ideas of eugenics posited that human intelligence correlated strongly with social class, but these ideas were rejected, and the idea that genes ( or simply " blood ") determined a person's character became regarded as racist.
A character's performance in battle is determined by numerical values (" statistics ") for categories like speed, strength and magical power.
This was a more participatory ( or " democratic ") form of Judaism, in which rituals were not monopolized by an inherited priesthood but rather could be performed by all adult Jews individually or collectively ; whose leaders were not determined by birth but by scholarly achievement.
Ordered by Mr. Macy ( who is determined to stand behind Kris " even if he failed twenty examinations ") to get the matter dropped, Sawyer pleads with Fred not to seek publicity.
The current system by which most of the team is determined by performances with a small number of players selected by the captain ( known as " wild cards " or " captain's picks ") gradually evolved and has been used by both sides since 1989.
The particular angle of tilt (" superelevation ") is determined by the intended vehicle speed — faster speeds require more banking.
The data from the framebuffer in this scheme determined which of the colors in the palette was for the current pixel, and the data stored in the lookup table ( sometimes called the " LUT ") went to three digital-to-analog converters to create the video signal for the display.
The talent system ( called " Skillscape ") uses a percentile die and a 10-sided die ( D10 ) for all actions determined by talent, the D10 determining if the success ( or failure ) of talent is " critical " or not.
* Eigenschaften einiger merkwürdigen Punkte des geradlinigen Dreiecks und mehrerer durch sie bestimmten Linien und Figuren: Eine analytisch-trigonometrische Abhandlung (" Properties of some special points in the plane of a triangle, and various lines and figures determined by these points: an analytic-trigonometric treatment ")
* section – are thin lines in a pattern ( pattern determined by the material being " cut " or " sectioned ") used to indicate surfaces in section views resulting from " cutting.
Where is the Laplace operator, λ is a constant, f is an arbitrary function of position ( known as the " source function ") and u is the function to be determined.
Pippi retired to the Villa Villekulla after her father was believed lost at sea, determined in her belief that her father was still alive, had been made the king ( negerkung or " negro king " in the original ) of en massa negrer (" a large group of negroes ") and would come to look for her there.
The supposed " Leguat's Starling " (" Necropsar leguati ") was eventually determined to be a mislabeled albino specimen of the Martinique Trembler ( Cinclocerthia gutturalis ), a mimid.
Burpee (" S for Sugar ") never arrived, and it was later determined that the plane had been shot down while skirting the Gilze-Rijen airfield.
The bones were later described as a new ( sub ) species, Pelecanus ( conspicillatus ) novaezealandiae ( Scarlett, 1966: " New Zealand Pelican ") as they appeared to be larger, but Worthy ( 1998 ), reviewing new material, determined that they were not separable from the Australian population.
In July 2010, federal regulators clarified the issue when they determined it was lawful to hack ( or in other terms, " jail break ") the iPhone, declaring that there was no basis for copyright law to assist Apple in protecting its restrictive business model.
To influence the territorial decision, anti-slavery elements ( also called " Jayhawkers " or " Free-soilers ") financed the migration of politically determined settlers.
Ignoring blurring of the image by turbulence in the atmosphere ( atmospheric seeing ) and optical imperfections of the telescope, the angular resolution of an optical telescope is determined by the diameter of the primary mirror or lens gathering the light ( also termed its " aperture ")
Gauss's Theorema Egregium ( Latin: " remarkable theorem ") states that Gaussian curvature of a surface can be determined from the measurements of length on the surface itself.
The 2008 US Guideline determined that " person-to-person psychosocial interventions " ( typically including " intensive counseling ") increased abstinence rates in pregnant women who smoke to 13. 3 %, compared with 7. 6 % in usual care.
( TNG: " Rightful Heir ") When the Shroud of the Sword of Kahless was discovered, it was determined that the Sword of Kahless dated back at least 1, 400 years.
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