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He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.
William Beebe reports 26 inches and 2.4 ounces ( this snake must have been emaciated ) for the length and the weight of a young anaconda from British Guiana.
Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.
She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.
Cerdic, who is of both Germanic and British descent and raised as a Roman citizen, served in his army as a young man.
Influenced by his " favorite living hero in public life ", the British liberal, John Bright, Carnegie started his efforts in pursuit of world peace at a young age.
At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.
* Kostal Cone, a young cinder cone in southeastern British Columbia, Canada at the eastern end of Kostal Lake in the Shuswap Highland
Following the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of the war, a large number of Ustaše, and civilians supporting them ( ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were allegedly motivated by Partisan crimes ) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge.
His brothers would later join the British Army, but early on young David developed an interest in ships and the sea and expressed a desire to join the Royal Navy.
Although Washington never gained the commission in the British army he yearned for, in these years the young man gained valuable military, political, and leadership skills.
A study published on the British Medical Journal concluded that " identification as belonging to the Goth subculture some point in their lives was the best predictor of self harm and attempted suicide young teens ", and that it was most possibly due to a selection mechanism ( persons that wanted to harm themselves later identified as goths, thus raising the percentage of those persons who identify as goths ).
In 1982, British courts recognised prior art by Peter Chilvers, who as a young boy on Hayling Island assembled his first board combined with a sail, in 1958.
Williamson extended his influence on the young British blues rockers in the 1960s, recording with Eric Clapton and The Yardbirds and appearing on live British television.
A 2007 survey of British Muslims showed that 61 % believe homosexuality should be illegal, with up to 71 % young British Muslims holding this belief.
At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the governors of British East Africa ( as the Protectorate was generally known ) and German East Africa agreed a truce in an attempt to keep the young colonies out of direct hostilities.
Kenya became a focus of resettlement of young, upper-class British officers after the war, giving a strong aristocratic tone to the white settlers.
Byron, commanding the British warship HMS Blonde, was returning to London from a special mission to Honolulu to repatriate the remains of the young king and queen of Hawaii, who had died of measles during a visit to Britain.
A Friedman Prize was given to the late British economist Peter Bauer during 2002, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto during 2004, Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister during 2006 and a young Venezuelan student Yon Goicoechea during 2008.
In 1847 the young British adventurer Sir Austen Henry Layard explored the ruins.
" Though it had little impact on the American charts, The Who's mod anthem presaged a more cerebral mix of musical ferocity and rebellious posture that characterized much early British punk rock: John Reed describes The Clash's emergence as a " tight ball of energy with both an image and rhetoric reminiscent of a young Pete Townshend — speed obsession, pop-art clothing, art school ambition ".
In 1841, Prime Minister Lord Melbourne explained this feature of the British constitution in a letter to young Queen Victoria:
There has been controversy over a set of " black " diaries, copies of which were circulated selectively by the British authorities following Casement's conviction, which, if accepted as genuine, would portray Casement as a promiscuous homosexual with a fondness for young men.

young and traveller
As Calvino concludes the alleged, fictional encyclopedia entry concerning Cimmeria: " In successive territorial divisions between her powerful neighbors the young nation was soon erased from the map ; the autochthonous population was dispersed ; Cimmerian language and culture had no development " ( If on a winter's night a traveller, pp. 44 – 45 ).
In a cheap hostel on Khao San Road in Bangkok, Richard, a young English traveller, meets a strange Scotsman going by the pseudonym of Daffy Duck who leaves him a hand-drawn map of a supposed hidden beach located in the Gulf of Thailand that is inaccessible to tourists.
Soon, the other four guests join them: Dr. Roberts, a hearty, florid man ; Mrs. Lorrimer, a perfectly poised gentlewoman of late middle age ; Major John Despard, a dashing Army man and world traveller, recently returned from Africa ; and Anne Meredith, a shy, quiet, very pretty young woman.
Within the ' traveller ' category, another distinction can be drawn between hostels which are members of Hostelling International ( HI ), a UK-based, non-profit organization encouraging outdoor activities and cultural exchange for the young ( formerly the IYHA ), and independently operated hostels.
He was replaced by the more understated Kenji " Damo " Suzuki, a young Japanese traveller found busking outside a Munich cafe by Czukay and Liebezeit.
The western traveller Ami Boué, who visited Chiprovtsi in 1836 – 1838, reported that " mainly young girls, under shelters or in corridors, engage in carpet weaving.
Another test of the reality of the Land is the fact that Covenant enters the Land after sustaining damage ( e. g. collapsing on asphalt as he is about to be hit by a car in the first book, bashing his head on a coffee table corner in the second and a series of incidents at the start of the third including cutting his gums on razor blades hidden in bread buns, falling down a stony hill, and sucking snake poison from the wound of a young girl ) but he is always returned to the same state that he entered shortly before leaving, such as the wound on his forehead that he sustains bashing it on a coffee table before entering the Land is healed, only to be wounded again after being attacked with a staff by Hile Troy ( who claims to be another traveller from the " real " world to the Land.
During his quest, he encounters several people: Julia Laforeze, a young witch in exile who turns out to be Isaac's sister, Trevor Belmont, who distrusts him for being a Devil Forgemaster, Zead, a kindly holyman who provides him with reliable information about Isaac's whereabouts, and St. Germain, a mysterious time traveller who presses him to abandon his quest, but eventually leaves him alone with some cryptic comments about a " new destiny " having emerged for him.
" Another French traveller that year, Joseph-Thomas, comte d ' Espinchal, asked himself: " What impression can one have of ballet in which the prima ballerina is a young man in disguise with artificial feminine curves?
Slatin, however, was obliged to return to Austria without accomplishing his desire, though Emin did go to Lado and at Slatin's request recommended the young traveller to Gordon for employment in the Sudan.

young and main
The young will form a group within the main group.
However, her main work is the genre of young readers ' novels in which children have their own adventures with minimal adult help.
In that year Smith made Seen Through the Telescope, in which the main shot shows street scene with a young man tying the shoelace and then caressing the foot of his girlfriend, while an old man observes this through a telescope.
In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.
Academic Laurie Osborne identifies the direct influence of Hamlet in numerous modern narratives, and divides them into four main categories: fictional accounts of the play's composition, simplifications of the story for young readers, stories expanding the role of one or more characters, and narratives featuring performances of the play.
The main purpose of the museum will be to fund scholarships for " young people who live by and embody Jackie's ideals.
The main character was a young man from a middle-class background who converted to militant Islam allegedly due to his fear of women.
" The main characters are seven young Americans from different social and ethnic backgrounds, all living in Los Angeles.
The main influences on the early logical positivists were the positivist Ernst Mach, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and the young Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Freud ‘ s main discussion of female homosexuality was the 1920 paper “ The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman “, which described his analysis of a young woman who had entered therapy because her parents were concerned that she was a lesbian.
( Estes 1992 ) The main reason for this being that very young calves are more noticeable to predators when mixed with older calves from earlier in the previous year, and so are easier prey.
* In the book ( and later the film ) The Time Traveler's Wife, the main character's mother is killed in a car crash while he is young.
The capital's two main state-funded opera houses — the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique — followed conservative repertoires which restricted opportunities for young native talent.
Jung went on to say " the main point is to get a young and insecure science into a place of safety during an earthquake ".
The other main players of the show are Cooter Davenport, who in very early episodes was seen to be a wild, unshaven rebel, often breaking or treading on the edge of the law, before settling down and becoming much more laid-back, and who owns the local garage and is the Duke family's best friend ( he is often referred to as an " honorary Duke "), and Enos Strate, an honest but naive young Deputy who often finds his morals conflicted as he is reluctantly forced to take part in Hogg and Rosco's crooked schemes.
In addition to directing, Polanski also played one of the main characters, a guileless young man who is intrigued by Tate's character and begins a romance with her.
The distinctive appearance of Triceratops has led to them being frequently depicted in films, computer games and documentaries, including the Don Bluth film The Land Before Time, which featured a young Triceratops as a main character, the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1999 BBC television documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.
In New Zealand culture, the use of " eh " is frequently linked with two main groups of people, the first being young, working-class, suburban Pākehā women and the second being working class Māori men.
Ortolan are served as the main course, and the young girl struggles to eat the meal and answer a series of questions put to her by her demanding instructor.
* Emily Webb – arguably the main character ; we follow her from a precocious young girl through her wedding to George Gibbs and her early death.
Orion variables are young, hot pre – main sequence stars usually embedded in nebulosity.
* Uriah Heep – The main antagonist of the novel's second half, Heep is a wicked young man who serves first as secretary, and then as partner to Mr. Wickfield.
Pasko's main arc depicted Swamp Thing roaming the globe, trying to stop a young girl ( and possible Anti-Christ ) named Karen Clancy from destroying the world.

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