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A little candour and common sense properly applied would make the Post Office authorities understand that nothing short of confusion can be expected from a Department which as the Post Office to the Forces, is sent out in a pitiful state of hopelessness, with a heavy load of responsibility and with no adequate means of labour resources and powers ..." The article then went on to mention the use of soldiers to assist at the Army Post Office " A close and patient enquiry into the details of the Army Post Office has convinced me that not the slightest blame attaches to the two Postmasters Smith and Angell, who are merely victims of circumstances.
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The troops must have more than the common quantity of liquor, and perhaps there will be some little drunkenness among them ''.
By comparison, Stone Harbor bird sanctuary's allies seem less formidable, for aside from the Audubon Society, they are mostly the snowy, common and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little blue and black-crowned herons who nest and feed there.
To be sure, when this is pointed out, a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First Corinthians.
In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based detective, depending on logic, which is represented in his vocabulary by two common phrases: his use of " the little grey cells " and " order and method ".
They supported the tenets of Origenist thought and theology, but had little else in common.
There is little evidence that he had access to any other of the pagan Latin writers – he quotes many of these writers but the quotes are almost all to be found in the Latin grammars that were common in his day, one or more of which would certainly have been at the monastery.
However, Robert Watt states that blitzkrieg holds little in common with Soviet deep battle.
The name of Charlie Chaplin was said to be " a part of the common language of almost every country ", and according to Harper's Weekly his " little, baggy-trousered figure " was " universally familiar ".
Capoeira presentations, normally theatrical, acrobatic and with little martiality, are common sights in the whole world.
The meaning of " conservatism " in America has little in common with the way the word is used elsewhere.
In its most broad term, it refers to the world's Christian majority countries, which, share little in common aside from the predominance of the faith.
Chardin's work had little in common with the Rococo painting that dominated French art in the 18th century.
A survey of papers on Chinese history in the early 21st century would reveal relatively little attempt to fit Chinese history into a master paradigm of history as was common in the 1950s.
There he remembered not having anybody to talk to, as his parents were busy and he had little in common with his brother.
This is because each congregation ( commonly styled ' ecclesias ') is organised autonomously, typically following common practices which have altered little since the 19th century.
Other than at such moments of extremis, little evidence exists to suggest this was a common Cathar practice.
A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.
As a career military man, he naturally had little in common with the academics.
The most common is the circumflex ( which it calls to bach, meaning " little roof ", or acen grom " crooked accent ", or hirnod " long sign ") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel.
Reviewers note, however, that this approach is undermining research, including in genetics, because it results in the grouping of individuals who have very little in common except superficial criteria as per DSM or ICD diagnosis.
A tendency developed to use European and, to a lesser extent, Asian, stage names for the same time period world wide, even though the faunas in other regions often had little in common with the stage as originally defined.
While supporters of trigger locks argue that they will save children from dying in gun accidents, critics point to demonstrations that some models can be removed by children with very little force and common household tools.
Guilds were, in other words, small business associations and thus had very little in common with trade unions.
It is common to keep old fleets since they have little wear.
Some common operational problems are intrusion of air into the drive pipe, blockage of the intake or valves with debris, knocking due to having too little air in the pressure vessel, freezing in winter and bursting of the delivery pipe if output is blocked or pressure not relieved.
little and sense
But a powerful sense of community, even with little or no machinery, means a great deal.
On the other hand, many a pastor is so absorbed in ministering to the intimate, personal needs of individuals in his congregation that he does little or nothing to lead them into a sense of social responsibility and world mission.
The musical cleverness and spirit plus a strong sense of taste and measure save a wry little joke from becoming either bawdy or mawkish.
Thus, although some things may be certain, they have little to do with Dasein's sense of care and existential anxiety, e. g., in the face of death.
Men such as Benjamin Thorpe saw many errors in rhetoric and diction, implying that the transcribing made little to no sense.
John's theology of chastity has been replaced by the editor's theology of outright celibacy, which makes little sense when John's true church is symbolised as a bride of the Lamb.
Since the Persian force obviously contained a high proportion of missile troops, a static defensive position would have made little sense for the Athenians ; the strength of the hoplite was in the melee, and the sooner that could be brought about, the better, from the Athenian point of view.
A little economy today has no sense as usual for future.
Sapir insisted that the discipline of linguistics was of integral importance for ethnographic description, arguing that just as nobody would dream of discussing the history of the Catholic Church without knowing Latin or study German folksongs without knowing German, so it made little sense to approach the study of Indigenous folklore without knowledge of the indigenous languages.
Indeed, there was little sense in which the Bahr Negash could be said to " control " the area.
* Samuel B. Sternwheeler: Gordie Tapp in a spoof of author Mark Twain giving off some homilies which undoubtedly made little or no sense whatsoever.
Edwards, for example, concludes that the " sense of time is so confused in Harvey's note that it is really of little use in trying to date Hamlet ".
Broad toleration for other religions made little sense to Europeans forged in the heat of religious conflict, while the lifestyle and pretensions Jahangir afforded himself meant that it was difficult to see him as a devout Muslim.
The theory is complicated by the etymology of the name Svafrþorinn ( þorinn meaning " brave " and svafr means " gossip ") ( or possibly connects to sofa " sleep "), which Rudolf Simek says makes little sense when attempting to connect it to Njörðr.
The term changed little with the Latin philologia, and later entered the English language in the 16th century, from the Middle French philologie, in the sense of " love of literature ".
It makes little sense to say that a shot is " inherently " POV ; it is the editing of the POV shot within a sequence of shots that determines POV.
With friction, the route taken does affect the amount of work done, and it makes little sense to define a potential associated with friction.
His speech met general applause, but little commitment to the Olympic ideal he was advocating for, perhaps because sporting associations and their members tended to focus on their own area of expertise and had little identity as sportspeople in a general sense.
Satire in their work is much wider than in the modern sense of the word, including fantastic and highly coloured humorous writing with little or no real mocking intent.
Moreover, as metropolitan areas expanded and enveloped smaller but well-established nearby cities, it made little sense to call those old cities " suburbs " merely because they were smaller and less renowned than the central city.
For many Togolese, there was little optimism for the future and a prevailing sense of déjà vu as Eyadéma extended his record as Africa's longest-serving ruler.
As Marshall made little news and was viewed as a somewhat comic figure in Washington because of his sense of humor, a number of Democratic party leaders wanted him removed from the 1916 reelection ticket.
Act utilitarians, on the other hand, do not accept human rights as moral principles in and of themselves, but that does not mean that they reject them altogether: first, most act utilitarians, as explained above, would agree that acts such as enslavement and genocide always cause great unhappiness and very little happiness ; second, human rights could be considered rules of thumb so that, although torture might be acceptable under some circumstances, as a rule it is immoral ; and, finally, act utilitarians often support human rights in a legal sense because utilitarians support laws that cause more good than harm.
He expressed his misgivings in a letter to his wife: " There is too little drama here, and no movement ... To me, opera without drama, in the strict sense, is unnatural.
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