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Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.
Reviewing Davidson's The Testament Of An Empire Builder, for example, Thompson found that there was `` too much metrical dialectic ''.
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
One example of this was his assertion that `` all servile revolts must be dealt with by physical force ''.
In Newark, for example, this gain was put at 26 per cent above the year-earlier level.
One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;
For example, the importance of the Regulus 2, a very promising aerodynamic ship-to-surface missile designed to be launched by surfaced submarines, was greatly diminished by the successful acceleration of the much more advanced Polaris ballistic missile launched by submerged submarines.
Another example is the recent cancellation of the F-108, a long-range interceptor with a speed three times as great as the speed of sound, which was designed for use against manned bombers in the period of the mid-1960's.
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
One growth center in a short bone -- distal phalanx of the second finger -- was chosen as an example for discussion here, primarily because epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion, the maturity indicator for Completion in long and short bones, occurs in this center for girls near the menarche and for boys near their comparable pubescent stage.
For example, the steering committee might announce that the group felt a topic under study should not be dropped for an additional week as there was still too much of it untouched.
He was told he displayed, for example, a sense of superiority -- and he answered: `` Well, I am supposed to know all the answers, aren't I ''??
Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.
Hall, for example, was quite explicit on this point when he said states outside European civilization must formally enter into the circle of law-governed countries.
Fifty years ago the general raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen was an example of this movement.
Eric Hoffer, for example, once said that America was a paradise -- the only one in the history of the world -- for workingmen and small children.
The `` Poems of 1912 - 13 '' offer a good example of Hardy's style as it was manifested in the later productive decade.
Urethane foam, as only one example, was only introduced commercially in this country in 1955.
Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.
When someone says, for example, `` They took x-rays to see that there was nothing wrong with me '', it pays to consider how this statement would normally be made.
For example, the BBB has reported it was receiving four times as many inquiries about quack devices and 10 times as many complaints compared with two years ago.
A further example of the incompatible difference in personalities was when two policemen held up a Torrio beer convoy on a West Side street and demanded $300 to let it through.

example and Something
* Something associated with the country Austria, for example:
Guidebooks can indicate locations by verbal descriptions ( for example " start in the third left-facing corner below the large, orange roof, left of the route " Something Interesting ").
Something offered to customers for no additional charge may be designated as a " frill "-for example, free drinks on airline journeys, or a radio installed in a rental car.
One song, for example, was a medley of psychedelic styled " Something in the Air ", a mixture of a Townshend inspired album of songs written by a roadie, John Keen, who had written a track on his band's album, The Who Sell Out, and " The Revolution Will Not Be Televised " by African-American activist, Gil Scott-Heron.
For example, Tell Me Something is inspired by Buster Keaton's movies, Frankenstein's Monster and related characters appear in You Can't Get There From Here, and fictionalized versions of Ernest Hemingway and other writers are the protagonists of The Left Bank Gang.

example and Against
Yet another example of hubris appears in Aeschines " Against Timarchus ," where the defendant, Timarchus, is accused of breaking the law of hubris by submitting himself to prostitution and anal intercourse.
Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.
As an example of how the word natio was employed in classical Latin, the following quote from Cicero's Philippics Against Mark Antony in 44 BC contrasts the external, inferior nationes (" races of people ") with the Roman civitas (" community "):
Pius X's papacy featured vigorous condemnation of what he termed ' modernists ' and ' relativists ' whom he regarded as dangers to the Catholic faith ( see for example his Oath Against Modernism ).
For example, Irenaeus dedicates an entire chapter in Against Heresies to the defense of Isaiah 7: 14, one of the chief prophecies used to validate Jesus as the Messiah.
For example, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in the United States and Stonewall in the UK work with the media to help portray fair and accurate images of the gay community.
Against these improved features, the Jubilee Line Extension stations have been heavily criticised for very longwinded and poorly planned ( although expensive to build ) connection facilities with other Underground lines, compared for example to the Victoria line, the previous cross-London line built.
An example of the sort of attack this portrayal was intended to defend against can be found in two orations of Lysias, Against Eratosthenes and Against Agoratus ; there, Theramenes is portrayed as treasonous and self-interested, doing tremendous harm to the Athenian cause through his machinations.
Many of the musicians featured, for example Rob Zombie, Rage Against the Machine and Marilyn Manson, had also appeared on the soundtrack for The Matrix.
The song " My Old School " is a well-known example, referring to Annandale ( Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is the location of Bard College, which both attended and where they met ), and the Two Against Nature album ( 2000 ) contains numerous references to the duo's original home region, the New York metro area, including the district of Gramercy Park, The Strand Bookstore and well-known upmarket food business Dean & DeLuca.
A good example is the June 1966 March Against Fear, which went from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi.
For example, Martin Luther preached justification by faith alone but was also an outspoken critic of antinomianism, perhaps most notably in his Against the Antinomians ( 1539 ).
Martin Luther had had controversy with " Sacramentarians ", and he published against them, for example, in his The Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ — Against the Fanatics and Confession Concerning Christ's Supper.
The term trade justice has been widely adopted internationally by campaign groups, for example by the over 100 national platforms of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty where it is one of the four main demands.
An example is bin Laden's al-Qaeda, which is also known as " International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders ".
Opponents of Student Broad Left claim that many of the founders of the group, including all SBL candidates to the NUS National Executive Committee, have been closely linked to Socialist Action, pointing out that the Student Broad Left supports the same campaigns as Socialist Action, for example the Student Assembly Against Racism, Unite Against Fascism, Student CND and Cuban solidarity.
Godzilla: Tokyo SOS is a direct sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, but otherwise the films are unrelated with one another and include only Shōwa era daikaiju eiga in their individual chronologies, often only the original 1954 Godzilla ; and not all Millennium era movies even acknowledge the full course of events of that movie — for example, according to Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, Godzilla was not destroyed by the Oxygen Destroyer, but instead attacked Tokyo and retreated to the ocean, never to be seen again until 1966.
Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, Victor Smolski of Rage, Josh Elmore of Cattle Decapitation ( most notably on " The Ripe Beneath the Rind "), Buckethead ( for example, " Jordan " and " Circarama "), Ace Frehley of Kiss ( such as in the intro to the song " Cold Gin " from the Kiss Alive!
Holocaust denial is generally viewed as antisemitic: the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, for example, defines Holocaust denial as " a new form of anti-Semitism, but one that hinges on age-old motifs ", the Anti-Defamation League has stated that " Holocaust denial is a contemporary form of the classic anti-Semitic doctrine of the evil, manipulative and threatening world Jewish conspiracy " and French historian Valérie Igounet has written that " Holocaust denial is a convenient polemical substitute for anti-semitism.
At Against All Odds Tomko cost Christian the world title, then reluctantly aligned with Kurt Angle, following Styles ' example so they could stay partners-with no intention of being a team player to the point of becoming a lapdog again.
* Strong relationship ( especially in America ) to Social Movement Unionism and Community Unionism which ( respectively ) seek to ally the labour movement to broader social movements and to local community organisations-including for example, campaigns such as United Students Against Sweatshops and ACORN.
Its members have maintained leading positions in many campaigns-the National Abortion Campaign, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, National Assembly Against Racism and various coalitions against the wars against Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, for example.

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