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With curtailment of the MCC funding, the European Union may replace the US as Armenia ’ s chief source of foreign aid for the first time since independence.
Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.
This is the chief source of knowledge of the North until the thirteenth century.
For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.
The Hydriots ' customs dues were the chief source of the municipalities ' revenue, so they refused to hand these over to Kapodistrias.
From the Muslim perspective, a chief source of information is Usamah ibn Munqidh, a soldier and frequent ambassador from Damascus to Jerusalem and Egypt, whose memoirs, Kitab al i ' tibar, include lively accounts of crusader society in the east.
Paul's chief source for Lombard origins, however, is the 7th-century Origo Gentis Langobardorum ( Origin of the Lombard People ).
In 1993, tourism supplanted banana exports as the chief source of foreign exchange.
Here is also worth noting what Tacitus stated in his work Germania about capital punishment amongst the Germanic folk ; that none could be flogged, imprisoned or executed, not even on order of the warlord, without the consent of the priest ; who was himself required to render his judgement in accordance with the will of the god they believe accompanies them to the field of battle In the same source this god is stated being the chief deity.
At that time, the chief source of information on the demography was provided by parish registration of baptisms, marriages, and burials that had occurred in the parish churches, supplemented by information on mortality in the Bills of Mortality that were published for certain large towns and by inferences drawn from various counts of taxpayers.
Mina de Ouro becomes the chief center for the gold trade and a major source of revenue for the crown.
The chief complaint against DeCSS ( and similar programs ) is that once the unencrypted source video is available in digital form, it can be copied without degradation, so DeCSS can be used for copyright infringement.
Its chief significance is perhaps that its author, Eric S. Raymond, used it as a model to discuss his theories of open source software development in a widely read and influential essay on software development methodologies, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
One theory is that the people of each territory or in each wandering clan worshipped their own Baʿal, as the chief deity of each, the source of all the gifts of nature, the mysterious god of their fathers.
The first large scale work where Platus was the chief source was Thomas Heywood's The Silver Age ( 1613 ).
Pepin's father is named Carloman by the Chronicle of Fredegar, the chief source for his life.
This work enjoyed renewed popularity starting in the sixteenth century, when there was a revival of interest in history ; Florián de Ocampo published a new edition and Lorenzo de Sepúlveda used it as the chief source of his popular romances.
In addition, the Métis and First Nations were alarmed that the American bison were being hunted to extinction, as for generations the Métis had depended on them as a chief source of food.
The name was used in the King James Version of the Bible for the Hebrew word " elah ", a word that more modern translations translate as " terebinth " or " oak – this seems to be the chief source of Web references to the name, but the linden tree does not grow in the middle east where the Bible verses were describing, so it seems unlikely that the KJV translation was correct.
The chief source for this is the encyclopedia of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus ( 912-59 ), and for Roman history the excerpts of John of Antioch ( fifth century ).
The little Reschen Lake, which forms the chief source of the Adige is only 4 metres below the Reschen Pass ( 1, 504 m ), and by it is 8 km from the Inn valley.
Although Zeus was the chief Greek god and their father, he was still subject to the decisions of the Fates, and thus the executor of destiny, rather than its source.
On the other hand, modern scholars advise that we treat Diogenes ' testimonia with care, especially when he fails to cite his sources: " Diogenes has acquired an importance out of all proportion to his merits because the loss of many primary sources and of the earlier secondary compilations has accidentally left him the chief continuous source for the history of Greek philosophy.
The chief source is a scholiast on Lucian ( Dialogue Meretricii 2. 1 ), explaining the term " Thesmophoria ".

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He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.
The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.
Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.
The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..
Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.
He saw the smug eyes of the Home Army chief, Roman, and all the Romans and the faces of the peasants who held only hatred for him.
`` Above these jobs we have chief engineer for the company and vice-president of Engrg, R & Aj.
As Loomis remarks, `` In the internal pattern the chief reason for interacting is to communicate liking, friendship, and love among those who stand in supporting relations to one another and corresponding negative sentiments to those who stand in antagonistic relations ''.
In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.
Either poet could quickly and easily select words or phrases to supply his immediate requirements as he chanted out his lines, because the kennings and the epithets made possible the construction of systems of numerous synonyms for the chief common and proper nouns.
The chief factors responsible for the spoilage of fresh foodstuffs are ( 1 ) microorganisms such as bacteria, molds, and yeasts, ( 2 ) enzymes, ( 3 ) insects, ( 4 ) sprouting, and ( 5 ) chemical reactions.
Walton, after a wartime stint with Time-Life, to become bureau chief for The New Republic.
This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.
Intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the chief Shepherd, the vicar of thy Son.
Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.
His chief motivation for enrolling at Hanford is the desire to '' --
The new Constitution provided for a much stronger national government with a chief executive ( the president ), courts, and taxing powers.
Andrew Penman, chief executive of The Cancer Council New South Wales, called for further research on the matter.
Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.
The philosopher Mencius once criticized its chief proponent Xu Xing ( 許行 ) for advocating that rulers should work in the fields with their subjects.
Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.
Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.

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