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 ''.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

This strange person quarrels with a cyclist because the latter is using the path rather than the highroad.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself, reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else.

Clearly what the person brings to the reading is important.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.

Forgiveness is the door through which a person must pass to enter the Kingdom of God.

When a person meets God's requirements for the experience of forgiveness he is forgiven.

Please do put more pictures and articles in about Liberace, as he is truly one of our greatest entertainers and a really wonderful person.

Our only obligation for this day is to vote, free of persuasion, for the person we feel is capable in directing the public.

It was the kind of frame that is only put around the photograph of a dead person.

Above all, he is a person to whom a fledgling Representative can go to discuss the personal and professional problems which inevitably confront a new Congressman.

The Smithfield tax assessor, in turn, claims the tax under the provision of law `` and all other tangible personal property situated or being in any town, in or upon any place of storage shall be taxed to such person in the town where said property is situated ''.

Payments made pursuant to this Title shall be made only to the person or persons on behalf of whom the award is made, except that -- ( 1 )

if such person is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative: Provided, That if the total award is not over $500 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates ; ;

The Michigan Mental Health Code provides that a person " whose judgment is so impaired that he or she is unable to understand his or her need for treatment and whose continued behavior as the result of this mental illness can reasonably be expected, on the basis of competent clinical opinion, to result in significant physical harm to himself or herself or others " may be subjected to involuntary commitment, a provision paralleled in the laws of many other jurisdictions.

The Dilbert Principle attempts to explain how a person who has never been competent at anything at any point in time can still be promoted into management.

** Another competent person is available and able to meet the patient's needs following discharge.

Despite this, Clouseau does appear to show some awareness that he is not the most competent or intelligent person, as he is notably embarrassed by and quick to brush aside his more extreme acts of clumsiness with phrases such as " I know that ", and attempts to appear elegant and refined regardless of what calamity he has just caused.

If there is a question of whether a person is a lawful combatant, he ( or she ) must be treated as a POW " until their status has been determined by a competent tribunal " ( GCIII Article 5 ).

The only person competent to commission an Australian Prime Minister is the Governor-General, and The Queen has no part in the decisions which the Governor-General must take in accordance with the Constitution.

He goes on to say that Heinlein celebrates the " competent person ".

The subword "< i > wushi </ i >," ( 武士 ) when bifurcated into two parts, the first term "< i > wu </ i >" ( 武 ) describes a person competent in martial arts such as King Wu, with the second term "< i > shi </ i >," ( 士 ) meaning army .< ref > 易經道 Yijing Dao, 鳴鶴在陰, Calling crane in the shade, Biroco-The Art of Doing Nothing, 2003-2012, 馬夏 ( Ma, Xia ) < i > et </ i >.

According to the GC III, a captured soldier must be treated as a lawful combatant and, therefore, as a protected person with prisoner-of-war status until facing a competent tribunal ( GC III Art 5 ).

It is likely that if they are found to be an " unlawful combatant " by " a competent tribunal " under GCIII Article 5, and if they are a protected person under GCIV, that the Party to the conflict will invoke GCIV Article 5.

While the phrase " age of consent " typically does not appear in legal statutes, when used in relation to sexual activity, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent of consenting to sexual acts.

If there is any doubt as to whether the person benefits from " combatant " status, they must be held as a POW until they have faced a " competent tribunal " ( GCIII Art 5 ) to decide the issue.

The local Ordinary consults someone whom he considers competent to give a judgment and, if that person gives the nihil obstat (" nothing forbids ") the local Ordinary grants the imprimatur (" let it be printed ").

Thus, each person who wishes to grow more than four plants has an obligation to announce it to the competent authorities in order to receive authorization.

Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person.

Most often, the term warrant refers to a specific type of authorization ; a writ issued by a competent officer, usually a judge or magistrate, which permits an otherwise illegal act that would violate individual rights and affords the person executing the writ protection from damages if the act is performed.

However, such a chain is not necessarily useful: the person encrypting an email or verifying a signature not only has to find a chain of signatures from his private key to his correspondent's, but also to trust each person of the chain to be honest and competent about signing keys ( that is, he has to judge whether these people are likely to honestly follow the guidelines about verifying the identity of people before signing keys ).

I saw myself as a professional, as a competent person doing her job.

They also deal with issues of whether a person is legally competent enough to stand trial.

Every person ( whether a Fiji citizen or not ) is granted the right to communicate with any organ of government, at both the national and local level, in any of the three official languages, " either directly or through a competent interpreter.

Hochschild finds that in about a fifth of families, it was at work and not at home that the person felt most competent, most appreciated, most supported ( i. e. could get help with mistakes ) and even most secure.

By definition, Canon Law states that " A catholic school is understood to be one which is under control of the competent ecclesiastical authority or of a public ecclesiastical juridical person, or one which in a written document is acknowledged as catholic by the ecclesiastical authority " ( Can.

In both cases there is a successful detection team composed of a nobleman and a commoner, with a built-in social hierarchy tempered by a strong and long-lasting personal friendship ; in both cases, the commoner partner is an extremely capable and competent person, highly appreciated by his socially-superior noble partner ; and in both cases, the partnership started as a wartime relationship between an officer and an NCO, and carried over into civilian life.