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.

There has been a great deal of debate about whether blitzkrieg existed as a coherent military strategy.

According to Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, President of the Board which recommended its formation, " The College is concerned with grand strategy and the utilization of the national resources necessary to implement that strategy ... Its graduates will exercise a great influence on the formulation of national and foreign policy in both peace and war ...."

During LeMay ’ s command, SAC was able to effect great changes in American nuclear strategy.

However, the Safavids ' strategy was in many ways too successful: the power and influence of the religious class meant that they had a great deal of autonomy, and it was the subsequent tension between Safavid state and the clergy that drove Bahrain's theological vitality.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Arachne () was a great mortal weaver who boasted that her skill was greater than that of Athena, goddess of wisdom and strategy.

This speeds the game up and adds a great deal of strategy to the late game when all of the failure cards have been removed from the deck.

Owing to the fact that the great fleet envisioned in Plan Z existed only in blue-prints or had just began to be built, Raeder like Tirpitz before him in 1914 was forced to abandon his pre-war plans for a great naval battle in the North Sea, and instead embrace the guerre de course strategy that he had previously been opposed to.

In 770, his mother Bertrada began implementing her great strategy.

Late in 1917 Lloyd George moved to set up an inter-Allied Supreme War Council to reassert political control over strategy, contrary to the wishes of the British generals, who still enjoyed a great deal of press support.

Fortification s have been of great importance to military strategy.

Frederick's " victory " led to great significance being placed on " geometric strategy " which emphasized lines of manoeuvre, awareness of terrain and possession of critical strongpoints.

A class of strategy of great biological interest is that of sexual deception, where plants, generally orchids, produce remarkably complex combinations of pheromonal attractants and physical mimicry that induce male bees or wasps to attempt to mate with them, conveying pollinia in the process.

The first great author on military tactics and strategy was Sun Tzu, whose The Art of War remains on the shelves of many modern military officers ( and its advice has been applied to the corporate world as well ).

Vergennes's strategy to prevent Britain from gaining allies from the European great powers was a success.

It is argued that the strategy was not a great success in the Cold War ; that the Soviet Union did little to try to keep up with the SDI system, and that the War in Afghanistan caused a far greater drain on Soviet resources.

Aomori's great nebuta lanterns are said to hark back to Tamuramaro's innovative strategy in that early ninth century campaign.

Reporting on the discussion at the 2004 conference, he writes that, " We cannot support, nor extend our solidarity to, them on the grounds that their strategy excludes many Iraqi citizens – above all, women – and do great harm on the civilians, and will bring the Iraqi future society under an Islamic dictatorship.

Segura refined his game, mentored him, and provided the court strategy that made Jimmy great.

The Warring States was a great period for military strategy ; of the Seven Military Classics of China, four were written during this period:

A reversal causes Antoine Christophe Saliceti ( Philippe Hériat ) to name Napoleon's strategy a great crime.

" His " lynching pledge ", as this promise became known, was never personally carried out, but it reveals a great deal about Tillman's rhetorical and political strategy.

Norway loomed large in German strategy because of the great iron ore deposits in northern Sweden and the long seacoast that would preclude a blockade of the sort that hurt Germany in the First World War.