Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

One cannot read the records of scientists, officials and travelers who have penetrated to the minds of the most savage races without realizing that each individual met with is a person.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

Any person who makes application for any such payment shall be held to have consented to all the provisions of this Title.

If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.

To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.

Of course, her benevolence was limited to those who could afford it, but then there is a limit to what one person can do.

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

The person who left the buggy there has never been identified.

If Bridget did get any bundles of cash, the last person who would have rewarded her for services rendered would have been Lizzie Borden.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

Lucien is not the only person in this house who could have put opium in that coffee.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

`` A person with a master's degree in physics, chemistry, math or English, yet who has not taken Education courses, is not permitted to teach in the public schools '', said Grover.

Indicating the way in which he has turned his back on his 1910 philosophy, Mr. Reama said: `` A Socialist is a person who believes in dividing everything he does not own ''.

In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that `` a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators are ''.

Augustine of Hippo marks the beginning of a system of thought that denies free will ( with respect to salvation ) and affirms that salvation needs an initial input by God in the life of every person.

The term existed shortly before it became the name of a religious movement, and thus occasionally it is used as a common noun and would describe any Christology ( i. e. understanding of Jesus Christ ) that denies the Trinity or believes that God is only one person.

In early 2009, Mulroney " called a high-ranking person in the party and asked that his name be removed from all party lists " due to his anger at the continued inquiry into his financial affairs, although he denies this claim.

But this would violate the categorical imperative because it denies the basis for there to be free rational action at all ; it denies the status of a person as an end in themselves.

He claimed that because lying to the murderer would treat him as a mere means to another end, the lie denies the rationality of another person, and therefore denies the possibility of there being free rational action at all.

" The term refers to a person who rejects God or who hides, denies, or covers the " truth.

Identification mode can be used either for ' positive recognition ' ( so that the user does not have to provide any information about the template to be used ) or for ' negative recognition ' of the person " where the system establishes whether the person is who she ( implicitly or explicitly ) denies to be ".

** Formula R: sentencing a convicted accused person who denies guilt

Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people.

Haiti also denies them nationality ( Haiti's Constitution states in Title II, Article 11 that " Any person born of a Haitian father or Haitian mother who are themselves native-born Haitians and have never renounced their nationality possesses Haitian nationality at the time of birth.

*# The young person denies being involved in the offence ;

He has admitted that he is the only person with the skill to have done it, although he denies doing it.

... I was asked whether the fact that a person denies the existence of gas chambers does not prove that he is an anti-Semite.

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When the government bureaucracy, in the person of bureaucrat Thaddeus Araman, denies Potterley's request that he be granted chronoscope access, Potterley sets in train a clandestine research project to build a chronoscope of his own.

on the grounds that it denies the " basic human right to marry a person of one's choice.

The section on surety lays down the rules if a person acts as mach or surety, for example for a debt, and gives the provisions for various cases, such as where the debtor refuses to pay or denies the debt and where the surety denies the suretyship or contests the sum involved.

Some intellectuals such as Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao, the Nobel-Prize winners, criticized the film by pointing out that “ a person denies its own culture does not have a future .” In addition, criticism against Heshang stressed that the film was biased and it only represented the “ elitist grumblings ” ( gaoji laosao ).

Section one, titled " Atheists disqualified from holding office or testifying as witness ", states: " No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any court.

* Article IV, Section 2 ( Qualifications of Governor ) states: " No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor who denies the existence of the Supreme Being.