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powerful and yet
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.
Men women were members yet who had proven over and over again, by extremely painful experience, that they could not get sober on their own had somehow become more powerful when two or three of them worked on their common problem.
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers.
The story of the secretive yet powerful medieval Templars, especially their persecution and sudden dissolution, has been a tempting source for many other groups which have used alleged connections with the Templars as a way of enhancing their own image and mystery.
The third male character is the rich, powerful yet villainous " Juan Mardo ".
James Richardson observes that if the NRMs had access to powerful brainwashing techniques, one would expect that NRMs would have high growth rates, yet in fact most have not had notable success in recruitment.
* North had not won a premiership yet, and thus was not considered a powerful club " The Inaugurals ".
The rise of cheap yet powerful commodity workstations running Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, and the availability of diverse professional software for them, effectively pushed SGI out of the visual effects industry in all but the most niche markets, as studios adopted newer, cheaper technology.
Henry became a powerful patron to Stephen ; Henry probably chose to support him because Stephen was part of his extended family and a regional ally, yet not sufficiently wealthy or powerful in his own right to represent a threat to either the king or his heir, William Adelin.
Located outside the triangle near Beta, Delta Trianguli Australis is the fourth brightest star at apparent magnitude + 3. 8, yet in reality is a much more powerful star that lies further away.
He stated that the Klickitat tribe was formerly " powerful ", yet had been inundated by white civilization's " whiskey and Small pox.
In chapter 41, Gangleri says that Odin seems to be quite a powerful lord, as he controls quite a big army, but he yet wonders how the Einherjar keep themselves busy when they are not drinking.
The intent lies in developing powerful yet generic " item invention " algorithms capable of bringing a new dimension of dynamic content to interactive gaming, creating, in effect, a working physics model that enables
Emperor Wu even enacted laws which banned registered merchants from owning land, yet powerful merchants were able to avoid registration and own large tracts of land.
Mao often offered vague, yet powerful directives that led to the factionalization of the Red Guards.
Not surprisingly for animals with long, slender yet powerful legs, many antelopes have long strides and can run fast.
In a special report on ALEC, Bill Moyers summarized it as " an organization hiding in plain sight, yet one of the most influential and powerful in American politics.
The 1978 video game Space Invaders, however, dealt a yet more powerful blow to the popularity of electro-mechanical games.
Portraying an incomplete yet powerful space station posed a problem for Industrial Light & Magic's modelmakers for Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerful effect of cultural identity and historical continuity —" the Greeks and the Elizabethans, in one cultural form ; Hellenes and Christians, in a common activity ," as Raymond Williams puts it.
This notion of " powerful " does not relate to continuous power dissipation, and may be confusing in that a brake may be " powerful " and brake strongly with a gentle brake application, yet have lower ( worse ) peak force than a less " powerful " brake.

powerful and unstable
The Duke of York was powerful ; Henry's advisors corrupt ; Henry himself trusting, pliable, and increasingly unstable ; Margaret defiantly unpopular, grimly and gallantly determined to maintain the English crown for her progeny.
Ozone is an unstable molecule which readily gives up one atom of oxygen providing a powerful oxidizing agent which is toxic to most waterborne organisms.
More powerful members of Skaven society such as the dreaded Council of Thirteen tend to live far longer, even hundreds of years, due to the use of drugs, of magic, or frequent use / exposure to the unstable magical substance, warpstone.
When powerful this front creates cumulus clouds, and if the air is humid and unstable, cumulonimbus clouds, the front can sometimes trigger thunderstorms.
This expansion strengthened the Yousafzai and gave a little stability to their unstable and unpredictable lives, where rival powerful forces were a threat to their very existence.
It was more powerful than energon and capable of bringing dead Transformers back to life, but it was unstable and could have unforeseen consequences.
The unstable feudal society that had evolved on Earth had been held together only by the powerful authority and capabilities of the United Earth Government ( UEG ) and the Global Military Police ( GMP )-but with both of these organizations crippled by the war, Earth began to slide into lawlessness as surviving cities became city-states and warred with one another and men and women rose quickly to positions of power only to fall just as swiftly.
Acting on orders from the Tal Shiar, Admiral Sela's mission over the course of the campaign is to acquire the highly unstable but extremely powerful Omega particle and bring it to Romulus.
Infused with the power of the Savage Land's terraformer ( commissioned by the Beyonders ), she had become much like the Evolutionary herself: powerful, well-meaning, and mentally unstable.
Guncotton was more powerful than gunpowder, but at the same time was somewhat more unstable.
The loss of Antiguan traditions can be ascribed to the lack of a French colonial past ( French islands of the Lesser Antilles retain much African-derived music and dance ), the influence of the powerful Codrington family, a relatively unified African ethnic identity, the lack of African immigration after the peak of slavery importation, the British military presence at Shirley Heights and a modern history of unstable economy and government.
The Kelownans are experimenting with naqahdriah ( an unstable but extremely powerful native element related to naqahdah ) to build a bomb against their two rival nations, Terrania and the Andari Federation.
The Vega homeworld has become unstable due to the exploiting of Vegatron, a powerful radioactive ore. Seeking to expand his militaristic empire and find a substitute planet to settle upon, the ruthless King Vega unleashes his armies — composed of flying saucers and giant robotic monsters — and turns first against neighbors such as Fleed, a highly advanced but peaceful world.
He is a dangerous and powerful man, nonetheless, and Nadir worries very much for his and Erik's safety under the unstable favour of the shah.
Lightmaster was later released into the custody of Genetech, who conducted experiments on him that made him more powerful, yet unstable.

powerful and social
Religion usually acts as a powerful aid in social control, enforcing what men should or should not do.
Micah reproaches unjust leaders, defends the rights of the poor against the rich and powerful, and preaches social justice ; while looking forward to a world at peace centered on Zion under the leadership of a new Davidic monarch.
Latour notes that such social criticism has been appropriated by those he describes as conspiracy theorists, including global warming skeptics and the 9 / 11 Truth movement: Maybe I am taking conspiracy theories too seriously, but I am worried to detect, in those mad mixtures of knee-jerk disbelief, punctilious demands for proofs, and free use of powerful explanation from the social neverland, many of the weapons of social critique .” ( p. 230 )
The monarchy under this system of government is a powerful political ( and social ) institution.
These distinctions created divisions among workers and color proved a singularly powerful and enduring symbol of social and economic mobility, or lack thereof.
Unlike the Progressive Era's conservation movement ( 1890s-1920s ), which was largely elitist consisting of largely of wealthy, political powerful men the modern environmental movement was a social movement with more popular support.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is often compared to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ; both are powerful dystopian novels warning of a future world where the state machine exerts complete control over social life.
The 1880s saw the revival of the Gothic as a powerful literary form allied to fin de siecle, which fictionalized contemporary fears like ethical degeneration and questioned the social structures of the time.
For example, Eran Vigoda-Gadot suggests that some, but not all, OCBs may be performed voluntarily out of goodwill, but many may be more involuntary in nature and " may arise from coercive managerial strategies or coercive social pressure by powerful peers.
Tenniel became not only one of Victorian England ’ s most published illustrators, but as a Punch cartoonist he became one of the supreme social observers of British society, and an integral component of a powerful journalistic force.
His talents of every kind powerful from Nature, and not meanly cultivated by Letters, his social Virtues in all the relations, and all the habitudes of Life renderd him the center of a very great and unparalleled Variety of agreeable Societies, which will be dissipated by his Death.
Early in the twentieth century, libertarian socialism was as powerful a force as social democracy and communism.
Historians have found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups.
This coincided with the rise of journalism as a powerful social force.
This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind ; the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become stronger, even without express inculcation, from the influences of advancing civilisation.
Education is by some included in social media, and in this sense it could eventually be used as a powerful mean to introduce in individuals some " politically useful " concepts: what a man learns in his youth, in the phasis in which the fundaments of character are created ( which many believe will seldom greatly vary after ), is brought to him by family, schools and other clubs, and mass media.
He concluded that, since " physical reality " is, at bottom, a social and linguistic construct, a " liberatory science " and an " emancipatory mathematics ", spurning " the elite caste canon of ' high science '", must be established for a " postmodern science provide powerful intellectual support for the progressive political project ".
Today, concepts of social class often assume three general categories: a very wealthy and powerful upper class that owns and controls the means of production ; a middle class of professional workers, small business owners, and low-level managers ; and a lower class, who rely on low-paying wage jobs for their livelihood and often experience poverty.
His mixture of strong social reforms and steady government proved a powerful election combination, with the result that the Conservatives governed Britain either by themselves or as the leading component of the National Government.
The Bronze Age civilization at its final period of time, displayed all its characteristic social traits: low level of urbanization, small cities centered around temples or royal palaces, strict separation of classes between an illiterate mass of peasants and craftsmen, and a powerful military elite, knowledge of writing and education reserved to a tiny minority of scribes, and pronounced aristocratic life.
Historians have found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups.
He faced huge social problems, but succeeded in carrying out many reforms, although opposition from the middle and upper classes, the landlords and officers of the army remained powerful.
Todd McCarthy of Variety described it as " emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed " and that the film ’ s characters and social commentary were brought into the story with an " almost breathtaking deliberation ".

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