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Almost alone among Western scientists, John Desmond Bernal, Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, made an aggressive public defense of Lysenko and some years later gave an obituary of ‘ Stalin as a Scientist .’ However, despite Bernal's endorsement, other members of Britain's scientific community retreated from open support of the Soviet Union, and may have been one of the chief reasons for a retreat from Marxism in that country.
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Almost alone in his radicalism on the left was the Arras lawyer Maximilien Robespierre.
Almost 80 % of all traffic fatalities in the city of Dhaka alone involve pedestrians being hit by a fuel based vehicle.
Almost as impressive was the challenge of delivering the enormous quantities of water by gravity alone, across very hilly country and over many river valleys, to the new Frankley Reservoir on the outskirts of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England.
Alasdair MacIntyre has written that " Almost alone among his contemporaries Fletcher understood the dilemma confronting Scotland as involving more radical alternatives than they were prepared to entertain ".
Almost uniquely for predatory birds, the female rears the young alone.
" Almost all major problems involve human behavior, and they cannot be solved by physical and biological technology alone.
Almost alone among the fellows he was not driven out in November 1687, and he became dean and then vice-president of the college under the new regime, but was expelled in October 1688.
Almost any digital camera can be coupled with a stand alone GPS and post processed with photo mapping software, to write the location information to the image's exif header.
Almost alone, he kept the Committee to Defend America from focusing its entire campaign on the war in Europe.
Almost and among
Almost at once, therefore, Phillip had to appoint overseers from among the ranks of the convicts to get the others working.
Almost as soon as Jerusalem had been captured, and continuing throughout the 12th century, many pilgrims arrived and left accounts of the new kingdom ; among them are the English Saewulf, the Russian Abbot Daniel, the Frank Fretellus, the Byzantine Johannes Phocas, and the Germans John of Würzburg and Theoderich.
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Almost all ambassadorial appointments since the 1950s have been made from among veteran diplomats.
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Almost immediately, this plan was met with opposition among local residents in the area.
Almost all of its buildings are historically significant structures bought by Hara himself in locations all over the country, among them Tokyo, Kyoto, Kamakura, Gifu Prefecture, and Wakayama prefecture.
In the words of the ethnologist Dru Gladney, " Almost every major Islamic movement in China finds its origin among Muslims who came to Linxia disseminating new doctrines after pilgrimage to Middle Eastern Islamic centers ".
Almost forgotten after his death but " re-detected " during the romantic period Brorson is now ranked among the four greatest Danish hymn writers.
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Almost and Western
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Almost all GDR brands of products disappeared from the stores and were replaced by Western products.
Almost forty years after merger and piecemeal abandonment, some Chicago Great Western trackage and infrastructure remains in service.
Almost all North American railroads rostered the type, notable exceptions being the Boston and Maine, the Delaware and Hudson, the Cotton Belt and the Norfolk and Western.
Almost without any interference from Soviet fighters, Fliegerkorps VIII's close support aircraft were able to break the backbone of Western Front's counter-attack at Grodno.
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Almost all outstation trains on the Western Railway halt at Borivali.
Almost and scientists
Entitled, " Deep River: Almost the Perfect Place to Live ," the article took a sardonic take on the town as a very odd and isolated place populated by mostly young, male, highly educated and bored scientists and technicians struggling to find things to do with their time: " The Utopian town where our atomic scientists live and play has no crime, no slums, no unemployment and few mothers-in-law.
Almost too late, the head of the Bureau of Robotics realises that Their plan exactly anticipates this: the infiltrator robots have replaced scientists invited to this conference, and while the explosion would kill a relatively small number of people, it would precisely include America's top robotics experts, and therefore the conference must be called off, even though people are already travelling to it.
Almost and John
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Almost immediately his grandfather, Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, resigned his Lordship of Annandale to Robert's father, possibly to avoid having to swear fealty to John as a vassal lord.
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Almost every case has a locked room mystery or other type of impossible crime ( episodes 33 and 34 are an homage to John Dickson Carr, and two of his Carter Dickson novels are mentioned ).
Almost a century later in 1649, in the first known attempt to argue for jury nullification, a jury likewise acquitted John Lilburne for his part in inciting a rebellion against the Cromwell regime.
Almost all of the tracks were John Barry compositions, and the revision of his work met with his approval – he contacted Barbara Broccoli, producer of the then upcoming Tomorrow Never Dies, to recommend Arnold as the film's composer.
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Makeout songs of 1984: Mike Reno & Ann Wilson-" Almost Paradise ", Phil Collins-" Against All Odds ", and John Waite-" Missing You "
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( Almost all her books were first published by John Murray in London.
Almost all modern translations now include the Pericope de Adultera at John 7: 53-8: 11 ; but some enclose it in brackets, and / or add a note concerning the oldest and most reliable witnesses.
Almost all of these characters had picturesque names, as in one sketch where Bob introduced Ray as one Maitland W. Mottmorency, who then replied, " My name is John W. Norvis.
Almost the entire show was sold out, Among her collectors, Elton John, Lynda Resnick, Michael Chow, Margaret Perenchio, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, David Geffen, Steve Martin,
In the play " Almost, Maine " by John Cariani, the vignette " This Hurts " is about a man with Congenital Analgesia, or " Hereditary Sensory Neuropathy Type 4 ", who is clocked in the head with an ironing board, and in the end feels the pain of love.
Almost half of these are said to have been written by Leucius Charinus ( known as the Leucian Acts ), a companion of John the apostle.
Almost immediately, John Milnor observed that a theorem due to Ernst Witt implied the existence of a pair of 16-dimensional tori that have the same eigenvalues but different shapes.
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