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family and man
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.
Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.
After all, the man had no family, so no one suffered, and everybody was better off for it.
Now a family man with three children, Fiedler lives in a quiet residential area near the Lockheed plant at Sunnyvale.
A man does not make that kind of gamble if he suspects that one or more of the limited number of tenure positions is being reserved for members of the `` family ''.
A man with a baby in his arms stood there pleading for his wife who is on the other side with the rest of the family.
Was B'dikkat a crazy slave to his own duty or was he a man who had hopes of going back to his own planet some day, surrounded by a family of little cow-people resembling himself??
His poems reveal the culture and tastes of a man of the world, enjoying the closest intimacy with the imperial family.
" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.
Considerably more candid than Petrie about Alfonso the private man, and about the miseries the royal family experienced because of their hemophiliac children.
Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Falier of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron.
In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.
Lo eventually convinced Jen to return to her family, though not before telling her a legend of a man who jumped off a cliff to make his wishes come true.
Wisdom's films, in which he usually played a family man worker who outsmarts his boss, were some of the few Western films considered acceptable by the country's communist rulers, thus Albanians grew familiar and attached to Wisdom.
Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.
* In the early 1970s, Ted Patrick — a man with plenty of street smarts but, at the time, no formal training in counseling — believed that members of his family were being brainwashed by David Berg, the leader of a group called the Family International, now known as " The Family.
His father, a middle-class man from England's countryside, marries a poor woman who falsely believes she is marrying into a monied family.
The next year, when Bastiat was 24, his grandfather died, leaving the young man the family estate, thereby providing him with the means to further his theoretical inquiries.
Francis was a devoted family man, and a main point in the political testament he left for his son and heir Ferdinand was, " Preserve unity in the family and regard it as one of the highest goods.
God pronounces the world " very good ", but it becomes corrupted by the sin of man and God sends a deluge ( a great flood ) to destroy it, saving only the righteous ( Noah ) and his family, from whose seed the world is repopulated.
The Tsar referred to Rasputin as " our friend " and a " holy man ", a sign of the trust that the family had placed in him.
To a clean-shaven man who had an official manner, Marlow gave the paper entitled ' Suppression of Savage Customs ' - " with the postscriptum torn off "-To another, who claims to be Kurtz's cousin, Marlow gave family letters and memoranda of no importance.

family and deeply
Ibsen wrote A Doll's House at the point when Laura Kieler had been committed to the asylum, and the fate of this friend of the family shook him deeply, perhaps also because Laura had asked him to intervene at a crucial point in the scandal, which he did not feel able or willing to do.
It was probably in Rome that Catullus fell deeply in love with the " Lesbia " of his poems, who is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri and sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher.
He came from a family environment in which the conservatism of traditional white South African politics was deeply ingrained.
The massacre deeply disturbed his entire family, and he wrote that " China is besmirched.
An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair.
The American historian Jonathan Steinberg portrays a malign genius who was deeply vengeful, even toward his closest friends and family members.
Peckinpah, who was born to a ranching family that included judges and lawyers, was also deeply concerned by the conflict between " old-fashioned " values and the corruption and materialism of the modern world.
Though born into a wealthy slave-owning family, Jefferson had many financial problems, and died deeply in debt.
Hippopotamids are therefore deeply nested within the family Anthracotheriidae.
The Dolgorukovs, an ancient boyar family, deeply resented Menshikov.
Despite this, the family was deeply in debt and lived abroad from 1883, in order to economise.
He was born into a once-influential, deeply cultured family of Antioch that had recently lost most of its wealth and influence.
As the son of former Queen of Naboo and Republic Senator Padmé Amidala and her husband, Anakin Skywalker — a fallen Jedi also known as the Sith Lord Darth Vader — Luke is heir to a family deeply powerful in the Force.
Hippopotamids are deeply nested within the family Anthracotheriidae.
He was noble and lordly, and at the same time deeply loyal, exhibiting strong love for his people and his family.
On the contrary, a careful reading in context of the family letters reveals a father who cared deeply for his son but who was frequently frustrated in his greatest ambition: to secure for Wolfgang a worldly position appropriate to his genius.
He used to enter the houses of his friends, without being invited or otherwise called, in order to reconcile members of a family, even if it was apparent that they were deeply at odds.
The aftermath of World War II deeply marked his childhood and the life of his family.
World War II deeply affects the family.
He testified before a Congressional committee that Radner's condition had been misdiagnosed and that if doctors had inquired more deeply into her family background they would have learned that her grandmother, aunt and cousin had all died of ovarian cancer, and therefore they might have attacked the disease earlier.
Other episode plots in this season included: a prominent citizen being murdered due to sexual abuse in his family ; Virgil ’ s ex-partner and Althea ’ s ex-lover coming back to Sparta and being exposed as a murderer ; Chief Gillespie having to confront the legacy of his own bigoted past when he's duty-bound to arrest a close, lifelong friend — who is also the sheriff of the neighboring county — for committing a racially-motivated murder in his jail ; Bubba getting caught up in a love triangle ; Althea ’ s niece visiting from Philadelphia ; Virgil and Althea going to an all-White church ; Joanne being stalked by a murderous ex-con, which eventually exposes that she had been a prostitute out of necessity in a different city, long ago ; the arrest of councilwoman White ’ s son ; Chief Gillespie witnessing, and being deeply affected by, an execution ; a plant strike that leads to murder ; Bubba being accused of rape ; and, a manhunt for a drunk driver who killed three of Sparta's most popular high school cheerleaders, and crippled a fourth.
As a young girl, Dolley grew up in comfort at her parents ' plantation in rural eastern Virginia, deeply attached to her mother's Coles family.
Firmin Desloge II, who died in 1930, willed to his family the original of the hand-dug pits of the original lead mining operations and the deeply rutted wagon tracks on a property.
Even though her own family, the Spencers, and her husband's family, the Cavendishes, were immensely wealthy, she was reported to have died deeply in debt because they did not give her any money.

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