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** To give charity to someone is to degrade him, implying as it does that he is reliant on such munificence and quite unable to look out for himself.
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** Matilda in The Castle of Otranto – She is determined to give up Theodore, the love of her life, for her cousin ’ s sake.
** Hippolita in The Castle of Otranto-Hippolita is depicted as the obedient wife of her tyrant husband who “ would not only acquiesce with patience to divorce, but would obey, if it was his pleasure, in endeavouring to persuade Isabelle to give him her hand ”.
** Body changed compared to earlier models to accommodate larger rear lamps, rear seat area modified to give room for new torque converter.
** Insulated gate bipolar transistors ( IGBTs ) use a medium power IGFET, similarly connected to a power BJT, to give a high input impedance.
** Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address, stating its intentions to declare war against Nazi Germany.
** A judge in Australia orders the arrest of media tycoon Christopher Skase, former owner of the Seven Network, after he fails to give evidence in a liquidator's examination of failed shipbuilding company Lloyds Ships Holdings, an associate of Skase's Qintex Australia Ltd.
** Britain, France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory ( the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik Revolution ).
** Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
** University of California Regents v. Bakke: The Supreme Court of the United States bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of programs which give advantages to minorities.
** In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.
** The Asgard dislike sharing most of their technology, but nevertheless were willing to give technology in gratitude to an inferior race ; this is how Earth got its hyperdrive and power source for that hyperdrive.
** Christmas ( People give one another gifts, often supposedly receiving them from Santa Claus, the Christ child or Saint Nicholas.
** Feast of Saint Nicholas ( People give each other gifts, often supposedly receiving them from Saint Nicholas.
** A funeral ( visitors bring flowers, the relatives of the deceased give food and / or drinks after the ceremonial part.
** Executive education, term used for programs at graduate-level business schools that aim to give classes for managers or entrepreneurs
** Megaspores ( or macrospores ): meiospores that give rise to a female gametophyte, ( in seed plants the gametophyte forms within the ovule ).
** Callability — Some bonds give the issuer the right to repay the bond before the maturity date on the call dates ; see call option.
** Putability — Some bonds give the holder the right to force the issuer to repay the bond before the maturity date on the put dates ; see put option.
** and charity
** Vand Chakna-Sikhs are asked to share their wealth within the community and outside by giving Dasvand and practising charity ( Daan ).
** Bart Giamatti Award: given to the “ individual associated with baseball who best exemplifies the compassion demonstrated by the late commissioner .” Generally, it is given to a player involved in a wide range of charity work, benefitting both those involved with the game of baseball and those in the community at large.
** The Commercial Travellers ' Benevolent Institution – a charity that Lord Leverhulme named in his will.
** The Wall – Live in Berlin, a 1990 charity concert held by Roger Waters ( after his departure from Pink Floyd ), released as an album and video in 1990, and DVD edition in 2003
** Chuck Philips and Michael A. Hiltzik, the Los Angeles Times, for their stories on corruption in the entertainment industry, including a charity sham sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, illegal detoxification programs for wealthy celebrities, and a resurgence of radio payola.
** May 20 – 24: Golden Maid lounge at Burmah Road organized a 5-night charity show to raise funds for Chan ’ s medical expenses.
** and someone
** Telepathic Camouflage: Xavier can make others see him as someone else by manipulating and controlling the minds of others to make them see him with another appearance.
** once Charles de Gaulle named someone else as High Commissioner for the French Territory of the Pacific and the Far East, January 1941 – 1945: Georges Thierry d ' Argenlieu ( b. 1889 – d. 1964 ), while in December 1941 the Vichy ( pro-German ) government named Jean Decoux ( b. 1884 – d. 1963 ) to the post ( who in fact was only responsible for Wallis and Futuna, which was the only Pacific territory not to have rallied to the Free French at that time ).
** Primary source, firsthand written evidence of history made at the time of the event by someone who was present
** Capital expenditures that are advised by a physician, where the facility is used primarily by the patient alone and the expense is reasonable ( e. g. a swimming pool for someone with degenerative spinal disorder, an elevator for someone with heart disease )
** The occurrence of Addison's disease in someone who also has Hashimoto's thyroiditis is called Schmidt syndrome.
** “ I cannot help being amazed that Justinus Kerner ( in his Dichtungen ) is able to interpret so conciliatingly the phenomenon which has always shocked me since my very first experience of it — that someone says just exactly what I say.
** If a player cannot use a turn to reach the card in their goal pile he / she may choose to attempt to block the ability of someone else to make theirs instead
** The Daily Mirror publishes the blacked out portion of a letter wherein Diana, Princess of Wales alleged that someone was trying to kill her.
** Good old gammel nok ( Arve Opsahl ) – literally good old old enough, the oldest and wisest nisse, who will die unless someone finds the winding key to the play dåse, a music box.
** Der Doppelgänger (" The double ": the singer looks at the house where his beloved once lived, and is horrified to see someone standing outside it in torment — it is, or appears to be, none other than himself, aping his misery of long ago )
** Even his last words " tell them I've had a wonderful life " bespeak someone who was evaluating the sense of his life ( and must have been so doing in the other examples just stated ).
** A seamstress is someone who sews seams, or in other words, a machine operator in a factory who may not have the skills to make garments from scratch or to fit them on a real body.
** Sewist is a relatively new term, combining the words " sew " and " artist ", to describe someone who creates sewn works of art, which can include clothing or other items made with sewn elements.
** Foreword, a beginning section of a book, before the introduction, usually written by someone other than the author
** Mandarin ( Simplified ): 万金油 - The " 10, 000 gold oil ", also the name of Tiger Balm, can be used to refer to someone who meets this description
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