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Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times -- granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside -- are correct ; ;
Though there was an occasional good-natured chuckle about Marvin Goulding, the Jewish officer from Chicago, singing tearfully about the ould sod, no one really thought it was strange.
This escape from control has led to management's evaluating the risk of occasional irrational prosecution as worth while.
The limitations are those one expects from untrained and unsettled voices -- an occasional shrillness of almost earsplitting intensity, an occasional waver and now and then a bleat.
The philosophical works, occupying the first six and the last of the twenty-one volumes, are generally divided according to the Aristotelian scheme of the sciences, and consist of interpretations and condensations of Aristotle's relative works, with supplementary discussions upon contemporary topics, and occasional divergences from the opinions of the master.
Although Ares received occasional sacrifice from armies going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few sites.
There are in the Chronicles also many quotations from the Book of Psalms and occasional references from the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.
In the " Question and Answer " section of his website, Brooks explains that the " Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese " meal from McDonald's possesses a special " base frequency " and that he thus recommends it as occasional food for beginning breatharians.
Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.
Regional relations remain good despite occasional issues with neighbors, especially regarding spillover from Colombia's armed conflict, including cross-border guerrilla crossings, the flow of refugees, and the spread of drug crops.
Most summer rainfall occurs during thunderstorms and from occasional tropical cyclones.
These early mentions show that couscous spread rapidly, but generally that couscous was common from Tripolitania to the west, while from Cyrenaica to the east the main cuisine was Egyptian, with couscous as an occasional dish.
The evidence from charters created in the Kingdom of England provides occasional insight into events in northern Britain.
Persecution, forcible conversion, and forcible displacement of Jews ( i. e. hate crimes ) occurred for many centuries, with occasional gestures to reconciliation from time to time.
Aside from The Dead Zone ( 1983 ) and The Fly, Cronenberg has not generally worked within the world of big-budget, mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, although he has had occasional near misses.
: Lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and subject to severe storms from June to October ; occasional flooding ; periodic droughts
Because this Victorian cycle differed from the Alexandrian cycle in the dates of some of the Paschal Full Moons, and because it tried to respect the Roman custom of fixing Easter to the Sunday in the week of the 16th to the 22nd of the lunar month ( rather than the 15th to the 21st as at Alexandria ), by providing alternative " Latin " and " Greek " dates in some years, occasional disagreements from the date of Easter as fixed by Alexandrian rules continued.
Summers range from mild to hot, with low humidity and occasional afternoon thunderstorms.

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The relations between Croatia and Italy have been largely cordial and friendly, although occasional incidents do arise on issues such as the Istrian exodus or the Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone.
He made occasional trips to the Harz mountains, and to Italy.
However, occasional military actions continued in Italy, Spain, and Holland throughout the spring of 1814.
After this, he went into semi-retirement, but re-appeared on TV to provide reports and occasional features for Channel 4 when they earned rights in the early 1990s to show Serie A games from Italy.
In 13th-century England, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy the term " feodum " was used to describe a dependent tenure held from a lord by a vassal in return for a specified amount of knight service and occasional financial payments ( feudal incidents ).
However, occasional military actions continued in Italy, Spain and Holland throughout the spring of 1814.
From a very early period he had been attracted to the special study of Etruscan remains, and had at various times given occasional expression to his opinions on individual points ; but it was not till 1870 that he had the opportunity of visiting Italy and completing his equipment for a formal treatment of the whole subject by personal inspection of the monuments.
After returning from Italy, Hassler incorporated polychoral techniques, textural contrasts and occasional chromaticism in his compositions.
The most famous of these is probably Luca Marenzio, whose madrigals were wildly popular in Italy and elsewhere in Europe ; some of the composers of the Roman School borrowed his expressive techniques, for instance word-painting, for occasional use in a liturgical setting.
Rush had departed to Juventus of Italy, while player-manager Kenny Dalglish had decided only to make occasional first-team appearances from then on.
In Italy, newsagents ' shops are known as edicola and are usually family-owned, free standing kiosks that only deal in periodical publications, stickers, bus tickets and the occasional book and cut-price DVD.
Having made his debut in Italy in 1857 after undertaking vocal studies in that country, he elected to base himself in England for the remainder of his life, apart from occasional trips overseas.
The series is currently being aired on Saturday mornings in Italy and on occasional weekday afternoons in North America during the " Cartoni " segment on the RAI International satellite channel.
Declining calls to Breslau, Tübingen, and thrice to Bonn, Hug continued at Freiburg for upwards of thirty years, taking an occasional literary tour to Munich, Paris or Italy.
As Sandri, known as " the Floyd Gibbons of Italy ," was stretched out in the reeds with excruciatingly painful, fatal stomach wounds, Barzini could only comfort him with an occasional cigarette and a word from time to time.

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He called his leg break a " leg-tweeker " but he put very little break on the ball, just enough to bring it across from the batsman's legs to the wicket and he invariably posted a fielder in a strategic position on the square leg boundary, a trap which brought occasional success.
The late eighties and nineties brought fewer film roles but more work for television as well as the occasional stage performance.
Despite occasional Indian attacks, Boone returned to the Clinch Valley and brought his family and other settlers to Boonesborough on September 8, 1775.
His athletic skill brought him occasional work as a stunt man, notably in The Trail of ' 98 ( 1928 ).
Except for holdovers Dawson, Owens, Buzzi, and only occasional appearances from Tomlin, a new cast was brought in.
Exceptionally heavy rains brought by occasional North Atlantic tropical cyclones also influence the overall climate and precipitation amounts.
The one charge which can ever seriously be brought and maintained against it is that of such occasional obscurity or difficulty as may arise from excessive strictness in condensation of phrase and expurgation of matter not always superfluous, and sometimes almost indispensable.
In reference to the harsh criticism, Sanders said that Peters had " brought this upon herself " and acknowledged that " patient researchers have found numerous examples of sloppiness in her scholarship and an occasional tendency not to grasp the correct meaning of a context from which she has extracted a quotation.
In January 1992, the Vance-Owen peace plan proclaimed UN controlled ( UNPA ) zones for Serbs in territory claimed by Serbian rebels as the Republic of Serbian Krajina and brought an end to major military operations, though sporadic artillery attacks on Croatian cities and occasional intrusions of Croatian forces into UNPA zones continued until 1995.
Judith Lawrence was the puppeteer who brought Casey and Finnegan, along with other occasional puppet visitors like Alligator Al and Aunt Bird, to life.
In his early life and career, by his own admission, Wardle was given to occasional bouts of aggression, brought on in part by a strict upbringing in London's East End and exacerbated by heavy drinking.
The navigation is hindered even in summer by the remaining floating ice which is also brought down to the southern shores by occasional winds.
His occasional bowling brought him 48 wickets at an average of 31. 10.
He was brought back for occasional guest appearances in the Silver Age and was awarded with an honorary membership in the Justice League in Justice League of America # 99.
Phoenician, particularly in its North African Punic form, was brought to Algeria by Carthage's influence, it was an influential language in the region ; Augustine learned it, and quotes occasional phrases.
In the mid 1980s, as Thomas's strength started to wane, Preservation Hall management brought in Wendell Brunious, at first as second trumpet ; Brunious took over most of the trumpet playing in Thomas's final year or so, though Kid Thomas continued to lead the band, keep rhythm with a slap stick, and blow the occasional chorus if he was feeling up to it.
Summertime brought the opportunity for outdoor festivities, peppered with sports and amateur shows featuring softball games, social dancing, a music appreciation hour, and the occasional visit by the city's " mobile zoo ".
Summertime brought the opportunity for outdoor festivities, peppered with sports and amateur shows featuring softball games, social dancing, a music appreciation hour, and the occasional visit by the city's " mobile zoo ".
With a drummer and sax player, The Old Swan Band brought punchiness to a very English repertoire of tunes ( and occasional songs ), drawn from recordings of traditional English country musicians such as Walter Bulwer, Scan Tester, the Copper family and Reg Hall.
Throughout history, their powers tended to lie dormant, emerging in occasional bursts that were usually brought on by stress.
Turkoman horses, aside from being occasional gifts of state, were often brought into Western Europe by various individuals, mostly connected with the military in some way.
His work for the Gazette and his occasional pieces in Saturday Night magazine during this period brought him to the attention of editors and political writers, and in 1998 Wells moved to the new National Post daily newspaper as a political columnist.
Due to falling numbers and the occasional drugs raid, the night was temporarily closed in 1998, but was soon brought back due to public demand.
An occasional complication arises when the addict becomes suspicious that he / she is being set up for an intervention, having watched the show before, or recognizes one of the featured interventionists on sight upon being brought into the final meeting place.

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