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True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.
Belief in the traditional way of life persists much more in the older states than in the new ones.
And of course religious life continues to center in the more famous mosques, and commercial life -- very much a social institution -- in the bazaar.
The Negro faces as much, if not more, difficulty in fitting himself into an urban economy as he did in an agrarian one.
We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.
Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.
That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.
Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.
Very much the political man, Helion felt himself deeply affected by the increasingly pessimistic atmosphere of France and all Europe, whose foundations seemed to him more and more shaky.
This was not simpler but much more difficult than exercises within Ptolemy's astronomy.
But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.
It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.
Even in such technical curricula as engineering, the senior is much more likely than the freshman to choose, as an ideal, liberal education over specific vocational preparation.
Although he questions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of religion and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks that `` hedonistic '' present-time orientation does not have the meaning usually attributed to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly enjoy leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of group harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aware of other cultures.
If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.
But Morgan evidently reported matters of intelligence much more important to his commanding general.
Sturley quoted Quiney as having written on November 1 that if he had `` more monei presente much might be done to obtaine our Charter enlargd, ij faires more, with tole of corne, bestes, and sheepe, and a matter of more valewe then all that ''.
Of course I hope Hal can also, but those hopes are much more faint ''.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
`` Something much more thorough is required ''.

much and comprehensive
Throughout the 1980s and ' 90s, Young promised fans a follow-up to the original Decade collection, provisionally titled Decade II ; eventually, this idea was scrapped in favor of a much more comprehensive anthology to be titled Archives, spanning his entire career and ranging in size from a box set to an entire series of audio and / or video releases.
His other reputed achievements include the discovery of Earth's precession, the compilation of the first comprehensive star catalog of the western world, and possibly the invention of the astrolabe, also of the armillary sphere, which he used during the creation of much of the star catalogue.
They have been much less used since the widespread introduction of comprehensive schools.
In general, planetary orbiters and landers return much more detailed and comprehensive information than fly-by missions.
Rabbi Yosef Qafiḥ's translation was popular in the twentieth century, but a recent translation by Machon MaOhr offers much more comprehensive footnotes.
Advocates respond that it is difficult to undertake a comprehensive design effort in the absence of significant funding for such efforts, and that despite this handicap much useful design-ahead has nevertheless been accomplished with new software tools that have been developed, e. g., at Nanorex.
Sheehy's Guide is less international in its scope than Walford: " It seems that Walford is a somewhat better balanced work than Winchell, and is certainly much more comprehensive "-- American Reference Books Annual, quoted in Walford, A. J.
However, to date the government has yet to implement an investment law or to begin privatization of any of the 110 parastatal, nor has it given much indication that it has developed a comprehensive plan to develop the economy.
The Standard Alphabet by Lepsius is a Latin alphabet developed by Karl Richard Lepsius, who initially used it to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphs and extended it to write African languages or transcribe other languages, published in 1854 and 1855, and in a revised edition ( with many languages added ) in 1863, it was comprehensive but it was not used much as it contains a lot of diacritic marks and therefore was difficult to read, write and typeset at that time.
He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect and much other work including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages.
His attention had been directed to the growing importance of the affairs of India, and there is evidence in his correspondence that he was meditating a comprehensive scheme for transferring much of the power of the East India Company to the crown, when he was withdrawn from public business in a manner that has always been regarded as somewhat mysterious.
However, The Napoleonic Code differed from Justinian's in important ways-it incorporated all kinds of earlier rules, not only legislation ; it was not a collection of edited extracts, but a comprehensive rewrite ; its structure was much more rational ; it had no religious, ( i. e. Christian ) content ; and it was written in the vernacular French.
In a series of seminars in 1961 and 1962 Prawitz gave a comprehensive summary of natural deduction calculi, and transported much of Gentzen's work with sequent calculi into the natural deduction framework.
The law itself was largely replaced by the much more comprehensive Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938.
Existing topographic survey maps, because of their comprehensive and encyclopedic coverage, form the basis for much derived topographic work.
This comprehensive scheme was for the redevelopment of much of Whitehall, Horse Guards Parade, the embankment of the River Thames on both sides of the river in the areas to the north and south of the Palace of Westminster, this would eventual be partially realised as the Victoria Embankment and Albert Embankment, three new bridges across the Thames, a vast Hotel where Charing Cross railway station was later built, the enlargement of the National Gallery ( Barry's son Edward would later extend the Gallery ) and new buildings around Trafalgar Square and along the new embankments and the recently created Victoria Street.
The emperor devoted much time to the project and instructed his ministers that the code should be comprehensive and intelligible, so as not to allow any official to exploit loopholes in the code by deliberately misinterpreting it.
Theoretically, this ought to be the easiest type of improvisation, since the rules are so few, but in fact, it takes much skill to sing a pleasing, comprehensive ( in the sense of giving a " feel for the ragam ") and, most importantly, original raga alapana.
" He argued that " the restriction of " Lamarckism " to this relatively small and non-distinctive corner of Lamarck's thought must be labelled as more than a misnomer, and truly a discredit to the memory of a man and his much more comprehensive system ".
Even traditional comprehensive schools may be effectively selective because only wealthier families can afford to live in their catchment area and it may be argued that the gap in performance between state schools is much larger than that between the better state and grammar schools and the independent sector.
With comprehensive treatment, many individuals with schizoaffective disorder may recover much, most or even all of their functionality.
Although Ward and Gumplowicz developed their theories independently they had much in common and approached conflict from a comprehensive anthropological and evolutionary point-of-view as opposed to Marx's rather exclusive focus on economic factors.
This opened the door to a much more comprehensive understanding of coherence.
While the late Ming Dynasty officials who compiled the information on the ethnic groups of Guizhou offered scanty details about them in their gazetteers ( perhaps due to their lack of contact with these peoples ), the later Qing Dynasty gazetteers often provided a much more comprehensive analysis.

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