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A great deal of destruction was done to the tombs over the centuries by quarrying and by their conversion for use as housing, both by monks in the Byzantine period, when some were used as churches, and later by Muslim villagers: " When the Arab village was built ; tombs were destroyed, incorporated in houses or turned into water cisterns and sewage dumps.
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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.
A great deal depends on the crystallization of Mr. Kennedy's views on the world struggle.
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.
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It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.
Yet it seems clear that there can be no good sufficiently great, or evil repelled sufficiently grave, to warrant the destruction of mankind by man's own action.
* Apostasy: the great tragedy of Israel's history, meaning the destruction of the kingdom and the Temple, is due to the failure of the people, but more especially the kings, to worship Yahweh alone ( Yahweh being the god of Israel ).
The subject of Nahum's prophecy is the approaching complete and final destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the great and at that time flourishing Assyrian empire.
It comes to conclusion with a taunt song and funeral dirge of the impending destruction of Nineveh and the " sleep " or death of the Assyrian people and demise of the once great Assyrian conqueror-rulers.
In January 1204, the protovestiarius Alexius Murzuphlus provoked a riot, it is presumed, to intimidate Alexius IV, but whose only result was the destruction of the great statue of Athena, the work of Phidias, which stood in the principal forum facing west.
As with most lurid tales of native cannibalism, these stories are treated with a great deal of scrutiny, as accusations of cannibalism were often used as justifications for the subjugation or destruction of " savages ".
The First and Second Congo Wars saw great destruction of transport infrastructure from which the country has not yet recovered.
Finally, the fact that the Rising had caused a great deal of death and destruction also contributed towards antagonism toward the rebels.
A few Hittite centres remained in northern Syria, along with some Phoenician ports in Canaan that escaped destruction and developed into great commercial powers.
The shipyards and heavy engineering factories in Glasgow and Clydeside played a key part in the war effort, and suffered attacks from the Luftwaffe, enduring great destruction and loss of life.
Following the destruction of Port Royal in the great earthquake of 1692 refugees settled across the bay in Kingston which by 1716 had become the biggest town in Jamaica and became the capital city in 1872.
" There is little detail about the destruction, except to say that the Lord did visit them in great judgment because of their wickedness.
In the case of Greek manuscripts, the consumption of old codices for the sake of the material was so great that a synodal decree of the year 691 forbade the destruction of manuscripts of the Scriptures or the church fathers, except for imperfect or injured volumes.
This catalyst is used as a great representation due to the mere fact of the planned ambush and destruction of " symbols of globalization ", insinuating the World Trade Centers.
:" What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath — prepared for destruction?
This new violence also closed the economically vital Congo-Ocean Railway, caused great destruction and loss of life in southern Brazzaville and in the Pool, Bouenza, and Niari regions, and displaced hundreds of thousands of persons.
Rashi wrote several Selichot ( penitential poems ) mourning the slaughter and the destruction of the region's great yeshivot.
In this book which was first published in 1998, he predicts that the period from 2007 to 2014 would be of great turmoil and destruction in the world.
Specifically, the Avodah (" service ") in the Musaf prayer recounts in great detail the sacrificial ceremonies of the Yom Kippur Korbanot ( sacrificial offerings ) that are recited in the prayers but have not been performed for 2, 000 years, since the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
* The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports " This year happened that great destruction among the fowls.
* 1268 – May 18 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to Baibars after the Siege of Antioch ; Baibars ' destruction of the city of Antioch was so great as to permanently negate the city's importance.
The destruction which ensued during the expulsion of the Greek population has been excavated by modern archaeologists and the finds are central to the great controversy of the introduction of the Roman denarius silver coinage.
* May 18 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch ; Baibars ' destruction of the city of Antioch is so great as to permanently negate the city's importance.
" The great event which snatched him from destruction was the death of the Russian empress ( 5 January 1762 ( N. S.
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