A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

`` We know Penny spent some -- and Carmer must have dropped a few dollars getting that load on ''.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

And Lilly allowed me to help so that she could have her few little hours of escape.

The few scholars who have adopted the `` shore occupied by '' interpretation, Howorth, Shore, and Wade-Evans, have all been Celtic survivalists.

and among works of dystopian science fiction, not all provide intelligent criticism and very few have much merit as literature -- but then real quality has always been scarce in science fiction.

These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.

Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.

The relatively few communities that have educational stations have found them of considerable value.

Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.

We have quite a few home-grown specimens of our own.

He seems to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock.

Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: `` The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom ''!!

Only a very few of the more advanced ones, such as India and Pakistan, have developed systematic techniques of programing.

If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.

The last few years have witnessed what have been perhaps the most rapid advances in military technology in history.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

A separate " award " was soon enacted for Night BASE jumping when Mayfield completed each category at night, becoming Night BASE # 1, with Smith qualifying a few weeks later.

See, for instance, the rabbinic category of Damages ( Jewish law ) ( note though that while a few aspects of this law are incorporated into Israeli law, tort law in Israel is technically similar to English tort law-as enacted by British Mandate of Palestine authorities in 1944 and taking effect in 1947, a year before Israel became a state ).

Meanwhile, the French Napoleonic code ( Code Civil ) was enacted in 1804 after only a few years of preparation, but it was a child of the French Revolution, which is strongly reflected by its content.

Several states had already enacted laws on the subject of electronic legal documents and signatures before the U. S. Congress had acted, including Utah, Washington, and California to name only a few of the earliest.

While the rate was one percent when the tax stop was enacted, the actual tax is much less today when the last few years ' large increase in property value (+ 20 %/ p. a.

Since this treaty was enacted before the railroads had come and before the finding of gold in the region, few whites had ventured to settle in what is now Colorado.

While a few states, such as California and New York, had enacted workplace safety as well as workplace health legislation, most states had not changed their workplace protection laws since the turn of the century.

Furthermore, many people refused to pay the few remaining methods of income on the grounds that they had been enacted by the old government and were thus invalid.

Furthermore, many refused to pay the few remaining methods of income on the grounds that they had been enacted by the old government and were thus invalid.

Similar reforms replacing CH with H, and Ō with O were enacted over the next few years.

Although Brice enacted few memorable measures as Senator, he gained a reputation as one of the most hard-working and intelligent members of Congress, serving on the Democratic Steering Committee, Committee on Appropriations, and as Chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads.

The coup d ' état of emperor Pedro II and his republican reforms brought few changes in most people's lifestyle-for example, universal enfranchisement was not enacted -, the greatest change for Brazilians really was the " godless " government.

However, few states enacted such a provision, and Congress subsequently included the ATS in the Judiciary Act of 1789.

ERISA contains an exemption specifically regarding the Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act ( Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 393 ), which was enacted by that state a few months before ERISA was signed into law.

" In the U. S., only a few states have enacted special aggressive driving laws, where road rage cases are normally prosecuted as assault and battery ( with or without a vehicle ), or " vehicular homicide " ( if someone is killed ).

Despite several efforts to modernize these laws in the 1970s, few substantive changes were enacted.

A few states have enacted labor laws similar to the NLRA covering farm workers.

The play's premiere caused scandal, but a few months later, parliament enacted a new law about separation of property.

Ireland is one of the few countries in Europe to have enacted civil Forfeiture legislation, and despite opening the case and reducing their claim of unjust enrichment on the 17 acres of lands zoned at Carrickmines from 53 million euros downwards to 2. 6 million on the first day of the hearing, CAB officers proceeded to arrest Mr Kennedy outside the court and filing criminal charges against him days later on 16 counts of Corruption.

Supposedly, only a few thousand people listen to this station and proposals to terminate Rádió Bartók have been made several times, but never enacted.

As with the above example, short titles are generally made up of just a few words that describe in broad terms the area of law being changed or the thing affected, followed by the word " Act " and then the year in which the legislation is formally enacted.

The Act was originally enacted a few years after the American Civil War, along with the 1870 Force Act.

Policies enacted supposedly for the benefit of indigenous Fijians had benefited only a few people with family or business ties to government leaders, she said.

Zacuto would be one of the few who managed to flee Portugal during the forced conversions and prohibitions of departure that Manuel I enacted, in order to keep the Jews in Portugal as nominal Christians for foreign policy reasons ( see History of the Jews in Portugal ).