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people and called
`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.
He further called upon the people of Providence to rebuke the meeting and avoid disgrace.
What is now called Christian fellowship is often little more than the social chumminess of having a gracious time with the kind of people one likes.
Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.
But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.
All these he hung in his burglarproof home called Stone's Throw, outside Pittsburgh, and only people he liked and trusted ever got to see them.
This grace ( often called prevenient or pre-regenerating grace ) acts on all people to convince them of the Gospel, draw them strongly towards salvation, and enable the possibility of sincere faith.
As a result of the new covenant, God's chosen people are now the corporate body of Christ, the church ( sometimes called spiritual Israel – see also Covenant theology ).
Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbors, the Teutones.
Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.
The, also called Aynu, Aino ( アイノ ), and in historical texts Ezo ( 蝦夷 ), are indigenous people or groups in Japan and Russia.
A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain Uru-Malik, whose name appears to indicate his Canaanite origin, was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian.
Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.
He was called ' Al-Siddiq ' ( the truthful ') by Muhammad after he believed him in the event of Isra and Mi ' raj when other people didn't, and Ali confirmed that title several times.
He spent his early childhood like other Arab children of the time among the Bedouins who called themselves Ahl-i-Ba ' eer-the people of the camel, and developed a particular fondness for camels.
One way to explain much of the confusion concerning Ammonius is to assume that there were two people called Ammonius: Ammonius Saccas who taught Plotinus, and an Ammonius the Christian who wrote biblical texts.
Upon the death of the previous king, Tullus Hostilius, the Roman Senate appointed an interrex, who in turn called a session of the assembly of the people who elected the new king.
When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").
Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.
There are some that are called " hero stories "; these are stories of people who lived at one time, and who were immortalized by these stories of them.
* 1959 – A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
: The folk here are civil, and, like the barbarians unto the holy apostle, have shown me much kindness ; and there are a sort of chosen people in the land, for they have some kirks without organs that are like ours, and are called meeting-houses, where the minister preaches without a gown.
Today, accounting is called " the language of business " because it is the vehicle for reporting financial information about a business entity to many different groups of people.
Accounting that concentrates on reporting to people inside the business entity is called management accounting and is used to provide information to employees, managers, owner-managers and auditors.

people and Akkadians
**" the Amorite ", offspring of Canaan, a people living between the Jordan and Euphrates rivers by at least 2000 BC, known as Amurru to the Akkadians and Egyptians.
The people of Mesopotamia originally consisted of two peoples, the Semitic Akkadians ( later to be known as Assyrians and Babylonians ) and the Sumerians.

people and invaded
In 1264, Nivkh people reported to the Yuan Dynasty of the Mongol Empire that Ainu invaded the land of Nivkh, resulting in battles between Ainu and the Yuan Dynasty.
Nine days later, on 7 December, Indonesia invaded East Timor, eventually annexing the tiny country of ( then ) 680, 000 people.
* January 31 – The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is invaded and set on fire, killing 36 people.
The Slavs, a migratory people from southeastern Europe, were allied by the Eurasian Avars in the 6th century, and together they invaded the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th and 7th centuries, settling in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina and the surrounding lands.
By 1943 the Italian people had lost faith in Mussolini and no longer supported the war ; Italy had lost its colonies, the allies had taken North Africa in May, and Sicily had been invaded in July.
Pirates from Arabia invaded the coasts of Gallura and people moved consequently from there to the hinterland.
When Edward invaded England in 1471, not many common people openly celebrated his return.
") that — after Agag was also killed — the people of Agag were extinct, but in a later story in the time of Hezekiah, the Simeonites annihilated some Amalekites on Mount Seir, and settled in their place: " And five hundred of these Simeonites, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, invaded the hill country of Seir.
Also during this period, a nomadic people known as Dí ( 狄 ) invaded the plains of northern China and established Zhongshan ( 中山 ) in central Hebei.
Henry II, wary of his power, stripped Strongbow of his new holdings the same year and invaded Ireland himself in 1171, putting his people in power.
They invaded Earth, forcing people to dance in the first game.
Later, the Greek army invaded Cycnus ' kingdom, but the people of Colonae implored them to spare the city.
When the Spanish people revolted against this high-handed behavior, French armies invaded the country again in the Peninsular War.
By the time the Tawantinsuyu ( Inca Confederacy ) invaded the area, the valleys of the Rímac and Lurín had a small state which the people called Ichma., They used Pachacamac primarily as a religious site for the veneration of the Pacha Kamaq, the creator god.
Frederick II ( 1754 – 1816 ), a prince who modelled himself on Frederick the Great, took part in the war against France in defiance of the wishes of his people, and when the French again invaded and devastated the country he retired to Erlangen, where he remained until after the conclusion of the peace of Lunéville on 9 February 1801.
The attackers released some 150 to 200 people, including children, pregnant women, Muslims, some foreign-born theater-goers and people requiring health treatment in the hours after they invaded.
Borrowing Boulainvilliers ' discourse on the " Nordic race " as being the French aristocracy that invaded the plebeian " Gauls ", he showed his contempt for the lowest social class, the Third Estate, calling it " this new people born of slaves ... mixture of all races and of all times ".
Clusium was reached by the Gauls, who had invaded most of Etruria already, and its people turned to Rome for help.
At times, however, imperialism did help the people of the countries being invaded because the missionaries ended up stopping some of the slavery in some areas.
Using this authority, Duke Huan intervened in a power struggle in Lu ; protected Yan from encroaching Western Rong nomads ( 664 BC ); drove off Northern Di nomads after they'd invaded Wey ( 660 BC ) and Xing ( 659 BC ), providing the people with provisions and protective garrison units ; and led an alliance of eight states to conquer Cai and thereby block the northward expansion of Chu ( 656 BC ).
On 6 April 1941 Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invaded Yugoslavia, and the Luftwaffe bombed Belgrade for 3 days killing 17, 000 people.
The Khitans were a Mongolian people of the Liao Dynasty who moved west from Northern China when the Jurchens invaded in 1125 and destroyed the Liao Dynasty.
In some cases local people welcomed Japanese troops when they invaded, driving out British, French, and other governments and military forces.

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