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.

Dickens lays great emphasis on the hands in this scene.

The Belgians also placed great emphasis on education.

Cyprian also laid great emphasis on the fact that any minister who broke with the Church lost ipso facto the gift of the Spirit which had validated his orders.

Blitzkrieg is very vulnerable to an enemy that puts a great emphasis on anti-tank warfare and on anti-aircraft weaponry, especially if the side employing blitzkrieg is unprepared.

Distributism puts great emphasis on the principle of subsidiarity.

The EBU places great emphasis on the use of open standards.

Tourism has become one of Ghana's largest foreign income earners ( ranking third in 1997 ), and the Ghanaian Government has placed great emphasis upon further tourism support and development.

The tradition has a focus on community, placing great emphasis on ethical conduct and reverence towards all sentient beings as central to spiritual maturity.

Hitler's emphasis on maintaining high living standards postponed the full mobilization of the national economy until 1942, years after the great rivals Britain, Russia, and the U. S. had fully mobilized.

There is a very great emphasis on humility in the practice of the Jesus Prayer, great cautions being given in the texts about the disaster that will befall the would-be Hesychast if he proceeds in pride, arrogance or conceit.

Sobriety contributes to this mental askesis described above that rejects tempting thoughts ; it puts a great emphasis on focus and attention.

A 1949 report noted the lack of " any great slackening in the pace of life at the Institute " to match the return to peacetime, remembering the " academic tranquillity of the prewar years ", though acknowledging the significant contributions of military research to the increased emphasis on graduate education and rapid growth of personnel and facilities.

Robert de Boron lays great emphasis on Merlin's power to shapeshift, on his joking personality, and on his connection to the Holy Grail.

In recent years, there has been great emphasis on the Songun or " military-first " philosophy.

Theories that place a great deal of emphasis on learning are often, but not always, more optimistic than theories that do not emphasize learning.

Sophists like Protagoras put great emphasis on speech as a means that could help in making these decisions for the community.

This is a result of great emphasis by the Government of Singapore in order to promote its use over private transport.

The Turkmen Government claims to have placed great emphasis on foreign economic relations and foreign trade and an " open door " trade policy, as declared by the President.

Norse society was based on agriculture and trade with other peoples and placed great emphasis on the concept of honour, both in combat and in the criminal justice system.

Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism laid great emphasis on goodness and peace of mind gained from living a life of virtue in accordance with nature.

A revolt against Aristotelian logic, it placed great emphasis on reforming individuals through eloquence as opposed to reason.

The Hindu tradition of Brahmacharya places great emphasis on abstinence as a way of harnessing the energy of body and mind towards the goal of spiritual realization.

Epicurus laid great emphasis on developing friendships as the basis of a satisfying life.