But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

There was one vote for location being the place where the property is situated for the greater portion of the twelve months preceding the assessment date.

The authority of the Secretary of the Interior under this joint resolution to construct, operate, and maintain demonstration plants shall terminate upon the expiration of twelve years after the date on which this joint resolution is approved.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

Joseph Dongell, professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, states " the most conscipuous feature of Ephesians 1: 3 – 2: 10 is the phrase ' in Christ ', which occurs twelve times in Ephesians 1: 3 – 4 alone ... this means that Jesus Christ himself is the chosen one, the predestined one.

The only engagement between the rival factions which is told at length is noteworthy, inasmuch as it was preceded by an encounter at Gibeon between twelve chosen men from each side, in which the whole twenty-four seem to have perished ( 2 Samuel 2: 12 ).

It is also representative of the evolution and direction of our team .” During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and missed the first twelve games of the season.

The constellations of the Zodiac of western Asia and Europe were not used ; instead the sky is divided into Three Enclosures ( 三垣 sān yuán ), and Twenty-eight Mansions ( 二十八宿 èrshíbā xiù ) in twelve Ci ( 十二次 ).

The Chinese zodiac of twelve animal signs is said to represent twelve different types of personality.

" For them, to be apostolic is simply to be in submission to the teachings of the original twelve apostles as recorded in Scripture.

Jonathan Tunick is the most prominent arranger, being one of only twelve people to have won Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony awards.

In syllabic verse, such as that used in French literature, an alexandrine is a line of twelve syllables.

The Arc is located on the right bank of the Seine at the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues.

On day eight of the twelve days, it is believed ` Abdu ' l-Baha was the first person Baha ' u ' llah revealed his claim to.

Megiddo is mentioned twelve times in the Old Testament, ten times in reference to the ancient city of Megiddo, and twice with reference to " the plain of Megiddo ", most probably simply meaning " the plain next to the city ".

Berlin is subdivided into twelve boroughs ( Bezirke ), down from 23 boroughs before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.

Although these two trios are sometimes numbered as " No. 5 " and " No. 6 ", the numbering of Beethoven's twelve piano trios is not standardized, and in other sources the two Op.

Although the " Archduke Trio " is sometimes numbered as " No. 7 ", the numbering of Beethoven's twelve piano trios is not standardized, and in other sources the Op.

Each province is governed by a Prior Provincial, each commissariat by a Commissary General, each of the two congregations by a Vicar General, and every monastery by a Prior ( only the Czech monastery of Alt-Brunn in Moravia is under an abbot ) and every college by a Rector.

First, it is often claimed that Roerich was a leading candidate to head a people's commissariat of culture ( the Soviet equivalent of a ministry of culture ) which the Bolsheviks considered establishing in 1917 – 1918, but that he refused to take up the post.

It appears that Roerich was a preferred choice to run its department of artistic education ; the point is rendered moot by the fact that the Soviets elected not to establish such a commissariat.

: And when I know precisely what is meant by " commissariat ",

A commissariat is the department of an army charged with the provision of supplies, both food and forage, for the troops.

The supply of military stores such as ammunition is not included in the duties of a commissariat.

An officer of a commissariat is called a Commissary.

In the " Major General's Song " in The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan, the Major-General would like to " know precisely what is meant by commissariat " ( satirizing the 19th century British officers ' lack of concrete military knowledge ).

( 15 ) The latter is only possible if there is obvious violations with existing laws, and in such cases the republic must immediately notify the Union's SNK and the relevant commissariat ( 17 ).