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To have any success in this effort, we must ourselves view it as an enterprise stretching over a considerable number of years, and we must encourage the recipients of our aid to view it in the same fashion.
The whole program must be conceived of as an effort, stretching over a considerable number of years, to alter the basic social and economic conditions in the less developed world.
An advanced student has read a considerable number of descriptions of consonantal systems, including some of the more unusual types.
Even though we did not see many of your faces, it appears now quite evident that a considerable number of your profession heard, from those whom we had the fortune to encounter, that we had been in your midst.
Venturesome traders, however, continued to come to them from Mobile, and to obtain a considerable number of pelts for the French markets.
He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.
In 385 or 386 the emperor and his mother Justina, along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially military, professed Arianism.
He wrote a considerable number of works on the Bible and religious subjects generally.
The basic needs of the fort were met by a mixture of direct production, purchase and requisition ; in one letter, a request for money to buy 5, 000 modii ( measures ) of braces ( a cereal used in brewing ) shows that the fort bought provisions for a considerable number of people.
Following their defeat, a considerable number of Uruzgani left the country, as did many Jaghori, their nearest neighbors to the northeast.
It therefore required considerable bandwidth for a large number of users.
There are a number of different categories that board games can be broken up into, although considerable overlap exists, and a game may belong in several categories.
Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.
The data is often found to contain considerable variability, or noise, and thus Hidden Markov model and change-point analysis methods are being developed to infer real copy number changes.
However, there is considerable variation on this pattern in almost every respect, including length, number of lines and rhyming scheme, making the strict definition of a ballad extremely difficult.
The increase in the number of species is expected for the genera, bringing an expected considerable increase in the total number of species of the family.
This practice can lead to the controversial question of which research group actually discovered an element, a question that has delayed naming of elements with atomic number of 104 and higher for a considerable time.
The new Constitution, brought about a considerable number of institutional and legal reforms based on principles that the delegates considered as more modern, humanist, democratic and politically open than those in the 1886 constitution.
There is also a considerable number from outside Europe, particularly China and Nigeria.
While dominatrices come from many different backgrounds, it has been noted that a considerable number are very well-educated, with a recent survey of New York dominatrices revealing that 39 % had attended graduate school / university, including well-regarded institutions such as Columbia University.
We further recognize that the number of bad films is so enormous and the competition for the very worst is so intense, that all decisions reached here are subject to considerable second-guessing.
During his marriage to Amy Catherine, whom he nicknamed Jane, he penned a considerable number of pictures, many of them being overt comments on their marriage.
The sandstone cliffs have been the subject of considerable erosion in relatively recent times: much of the Castle was lost to the sea before the present sea defences and promenade were built, and a number of cliff-top houses are in danger of disappearing around the nearby village of Fairlight.
In the aftermath, all power was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown, which began to administer most of India as a number of provinces ; the John Company's lands were controlled directly, while it had considerable indirect influence over the rest of India, which consisted of the Princely states ruled by local royal families.

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This book is also held in esteem by Jews who fall under the category of Jews-by-choice, as is evidenced by the considerable presence of Boaz in rabbinic literature.
Although until the 13th century religious minorities ( Jews and Muslims ) had enjoyed considerable tolerance in Castilla and Aragon the only Christian kingdoms where Jews were not restricted from any professional occupation the situation of the Jews collapsed over the 14th century, reaching a climax in 1391 with large scale massacres in every major city except Ávila.
The intensity of debate spurred Catholic Church interventions against " heresy " and even a general confiscation of Rabbinic texts and in reaction, the defeat of the more radical interpretations of Maimonides and at least amongst Ashkenazi Jews, a tendency not so much to repudiate as simply to ignore the specifically philosophical writings and to stress instead the Rabbinic and halachic writings ; even these writings often included considerable philosophical chapters or discussions in support of halachic observance, as David Hartman observes Maimonides made clear " the traditional support for a philosophical understanding of God both in the Aggadah of Talmud and in the behavior of the hasid pious Jew " and so Maimonidean thought continues to influence traditionally observant Jews.
Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century's most celebrated Jewish thinkers, made a dramatic accusation against the Judenräte in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: She claimed that without the Judenrätes assistance in the registration of the Jews, their concentration in ghettos and, later, their active assistance in the Jews ' deportation to extermination camps, many fewer Jews would have perished because the Germans would have encountered considerable difficulties in drawing up lists of Jews.
The philosophical teachings of Philo and Ibn Gabirol were largely ignored by fellow Jews ; the parallel may be extended by adding that Philo and Ibn Gabirol, alike, exercised considerable influence in secular circles ; Philo upon early Christianity, and Ibn Gabirol upon the scholars of medieval Christianity.
At that time and later, considerable numbers of Saxons ( a German ethnic group ), Armenians, Italians, Jews and Serbs settled in the Hungarian basin and in Transylvania.
By 1912 its circulation was 120, 000, and by the late 1920s / early 1930s, The Forward was a leading U. S. metropolitan daily with considerable influence and a nationwide circulation of more than 275, 000 though this had dropped to 170, 000 by 1939 as a result of changes in U. S. immigration policy that restricted the immigration of Jews to a trickle.
The UTJ party also had considerable influence on the Israeli Sephardi Jews ' Shas party.
He was also the first to provide privileges to the Jews who paid for it, however, they were expected to pay considerable sums of money for them.
" Avrich notes that a considerable number of Jews took part in the Makhnovist anarchist movement.
English Jews were subject to considerable religious prejudice and primarily worked from towns and cities in which there was a local royal castle that could provide them with protection in the event of attacks from the majority Christian population.
The Jewish National Committee had some 5, 600 Jews under its care, and the Bund an additional 1, 500, but the activities of the three organizations overlapped to a considerable degree.
Though pogroms were staged throughout the existence of the Pale, particularly devastating attacks occurred from 1881 1883 and from 1903 1906, targeting hundreds of communities, killing thousands of Jews, and causing considerable property damage.
Paul H. Meyer adds: " There is no question but that Voltaire, particularly in his latter years, nursed a violent hatred of the Jews and it is equally certain that his animosity ... did have a considerable impact on public opinion in France.
After the overthrow of the kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon ( see Babylonian captivity ) and the deportation of a considerable portion of its inhabitants to Mesopotamia, the Jews had two principal cultural centers: Babylonia and the land of Israel.
Nazi policies openly deported homosexuals, Jews, Poles, and Roma from their native places of residence to extermination camps or concentration camps set up at a considerable distance from their original residences.
Jews took a considerable part in developing trade in China, and several served on the municipal councils, among them being Silas Aaron Hardoon, partner in the firm of E. D. Sassoon & Co., who served on the French and English councils at the same time.
Ironically, the actions that caused Salazar to dismiss his diplomatic representative brought considerable praise to him and to Portugal, seen internationally as a haven of hospitality for refugee Jews ; for example, the magazine Life praised Salazar as " the greatest Portuguese since Henry the Navigator " ( July 29, 1940 ).
" If we look at the considerable literature available about the position of Jews in the Islamic world, we find two well-established myths.

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