The natural world then, plus poetry and some kinds of art, receives from the most ordinary of Persians a great deal of attention.

It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.

`` Well, as a matter of fact, I've looked through back-issue files of New York papers for December, 1957, and haven't found a great deal '' --

It takes a great deal of sophisticated thought to get the impact of this fact ''.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

I am a great deal at the little children's Hospital.

I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

But a powerful sense of community, even with little or no machinery, means a great deal.

Trujillo knew a great deal about assassination.

The mother of a difficult child can do a great deal to help her own child and often, by sharing her experiences, she can help other mothers with the same problem.

The third choice, negotiation, presupposes, as Russian behavior demonstrates, a great deal of wishful thinking to make it appear reasonable.

Personally, it meant a great deal ; ;

The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.

These specialists, I learned, have done a great deal of work to improve the size and health of the plants and the resulting flowers.

In short, gymnastics uses every part of the body and requires a great deal of character as well.

A great deal.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

That helped a great deal.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

( 1 ) A great deal of time was spent on processes for solving marital differences.

These were often carefully written out with a great deal of thought behind them.

Although no national norms exist for the social development of children, the teacher can find a great deal of information concerning types of social behavior normally displayed by children at various age levels.

At any rate, the teacher who recognizes common causes of retardation and maladjustment can frequently do a great deal to eliminate the causes of pupil discouragement, failure, and maladjustment.

Since the validity of all subsequent planning depends on the accuracy of the basic inventory information, great care is being taken that the inventory is as complete as possible.

The extent of such interference -- which may be so slight as to be undetectable at any point where either of the stations renders a usable signal, or may be so great as to virtually destroy the service areas of both stations -- depends on many factors, among the principal ones being the distance between the stations, their respective radiated power, and, of particular significance here, the time of day.

The notion of a great Elizabethan age depends largely on the builders, dramatists, poets, and musicians who were active during Elizabeth's reign.

An objection to the study of the evolution of memes in genetic terms ( although not to the existence of memes ) involves a perceived gap in the gene / meme analogy: the cumulative evolution of genes depends on biological selection-pressures neither too great nor too small in relation to mutation-rates.

Regarding Aristotle opinion that happiness depends on the goods of fortune, Descartes does not deny that this goods contribute to happiness, but remarks that they are in great proportion outside our control, whereas our mind is under our complete control.

Because of wide use of silicon in integrated circuits, the basis of most computers, a great deal of modern technology depends on it.

At any dose, a great deal depends on the time, the place, and the persons involved.

This attempted to define a schema of artistic inspiration, arguing that great art depends upon a vivid awareness of death, connection with a nation's soil, and an acknowledgment of the limitations of reason.

The economy of Harvest depends a great deal on residential construction.

The number of his astronomical publications exceeds 150, but his reputation depends mainly on his earlier work at Greenwich and his two great star catalogues — the Cape catalogue for 1880 and the Radcliffe catalogue for 1890.

Hence the reward of congruous merit always depends in great measure on the kindness and liberality of the giver, though not purely and simply on his good will.

The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests ; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, believes that ' more than two thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England.

The sketch created great amusement, though of course, it depends entirely for its success upon the actor's powers of mimicry.

In the House of Representatives in particular, the influence of a single member individually is relatively small and therefore depends a great deal on the Representative's seniority — that is, in most cases, on the length of time he has held office ( which usually depends on how well the Representative pleases his constituents, rather than on how well he pleases the other members of his party ).

After all, 9 of its cities and 16 of its municipalities are located along the coast and a great portion of the population depends on fishing for their livelihood.

In another letter, to Governor Smith, he reiterated his view that " the salvation of Texas depends in great measure on keeping Béxar out of the hands of the enemy.

Prison activists who buttress the notion of a prison industrial complex argue that these parties have a great interest in the expansion of the prison system since their development and prosperity directly depends on the number of inmates.

Analyst Ross Douthat in The New York Times suggested that equality of opportunity depends to a great extent on a rising economy which brings new chances for upward mobility, and he suggested that greater equality of opportunity is more easily achieved during " times of plenty.

How well the theory matches reality depends a great deal on one's definition of " democracy " and " war ".

This emphasizes how MASINT depends on a great many sciences to interpret data.

In a letter to Governor Henry Smith, Bowie argued that " the salvation of Texas depends in great measure on keeping Béxar out of the hands of the enemy.

Psychologist Kenneth Kaye showed that infants ' ability to match the sounds or gestures of an adult depends on an interactive process of turn-taking over many successive trials, in which adults ' instinctive behavior plays as great a role as that of the infant.

The launching of the Sputniks indicated that " the Soviet Union is farther advanced scientifically than many had realized " and that " the weapons of the future may be a great deal closer upon us than we had thought, and therefore the ultimate survival of the Nation depends more than ever before on the speed and skill with which we can pursue the development of advanced weapons.