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matter and fact
And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.
`` Well, as a matter of fact, I've looked through back-issue files of New York papers for December, 1957, and haven't found a great deal '' --
That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.
`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.
The fact that China ( which is obsessed by Formosa -- to Khrushchev a very small matter ) should be supported by North Korea and North Vietnam is highly indicative.
As a matter of fact you could probably find a new home development in every populated county in the country with three-bedroom ranch style cottages in the $14,000 range.
As a matter of fact, this happened every four or five months.
Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.
As a matter of fact, we prize the diversity among our own people so much that we will not presume to speak for all other American artists.
One of these is the fact that the knife employed, no matter how well sharpened, will have a slightly rounded cutting edge.
The joint investigations of linguistics and psychiatry have established, in point of fact, that no matter what the subject of conversation is or what words are involved, it is impossible for people to talk at all without telling over and over again what sort of people they are and how they relate to the rest of the world.
As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.
whereas, it is a matter of fact that Smith cannot drive a car.
As a matter of fact, the incorrect classification, the result of many weeks of labor by Dr. Hilprecht, was about to be published by him the following day.
As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.
Not all, as a matter of fact, consider themselves `` mediums '' in the sense of receiving messages from the deceased.
`` All too frequently '', points out James O'Gara, managing editor of Commonweal, `` Catholics run roughshod over Protestant sensibilities in this matter, by failure to consider the reasoning behind the Protestant position and, particularly, by their jibes at the fact that Protestant opinion on birth control has changed in recent decades ''.
As a matter of fact, Albert S. Flint expressed his conviction that `` her physical strength, her mental power, her lively interest in all objects about her and her readiness to serve her fellow beings '' would have led her `` to a distinguished career amongst the noted women of this country ''.
Miss Upton and Miss Packard, as a matter of fact, had many tastes in common.
As a matter of fact, he wouldn't have cared at all if the guy had been hit.
His sense of urgency in this matter stems from the fact that court cases and juvenile arrests have more than doubled since 1948, each year showing an increase in offenders.
There is however no point in speculating about such a possibility: the fact of the matter is that our institutions of higher learning owe their existence to a spirit not unlike that which produces the `` family business ''.
As a matter of fact, this latter approach has already been tried, and with pleasing results.
::" When it is asked, What is the nature of all our reasonings concerning matter of fact?
No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?

matter and Tibetan
As a matter of convention, the Chairman has almost always been an ethnic Tibetan, while the party secretary has almost always been a non-Tibetan.
She has been instrumental in trying to reestablish full ordination for nuns in the Mulasarvastivadin order, to which all Tibetan Buddhist monastics have traditionally belonged ; various conferences have been convened to study the matter.
Therefore, the Five Pure Lights are the ' root ' ( Tibetan: gzhi ) of the Western scientific conceptions of matter and energy.
Shamarpa wrote, " Although this matter is not easily resolved, since it is connected to the politics of China and India as well, with His Holiness Dalai Lama's blessing and support I am confident that there will be an amicable solution, which will be beneficial for the Karma Kagyü lineage, as well as for Tibetan Buddhism in general.
For that matter the very name " Svātantrika " represents a back-translation into Sanskrit, coined by modern scholars, for the Tibetan term rang rgyud ba.

matter and inheritance
As citizenship was a matter of inheritance and not place of birth, a metic could be either an immigrant or the descendant of one.
The words of that celebrated disciple of the Apostles, martyred Saint Ignatius, in his letter to the Philadelphians are relevant to this matter: ' Be not deceived, my brother ; if anyone follows a schismatic, he will not attain the inheritance of the kingdom of God.
But sole inheritance remained a matter of chance, rather than intent.
When the line became extinct about 1227, their estates were the matter of an inheritance conflict between the Griffin Duke Barnim I the Good and Swantopolk II from the Samborid dynasty, who ruled over the adjacent territories of Pomerelia in the east.
During this period Joan ended up at odds with her younger sister Margaret over the latter's inheritance, a matter complicated by the questionable validity of both of Margaret's marriages.
The lands went into royal wardship while the matter of inheritance was settled.
The matter involved the inheritance standing of a young heir, Archibald James Edward Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas, and took on the form of a mystery novel of the era, with a complex web of events spanning Scotland, France and England.
The matter was eventually resolved ; Alfred came to accept his inheritance, and Victoria understood and accepted that Ernest needed to be involved in the upbringing of his heir-presumptive, with a strong German element added to his education and ( carefully chaperoned ) visits to Coburg.
* Savanah – Human into Ravena, a social climber whose main goal is to get closer to Gabriel and his inheritance, no matter who or what stands on her way. She mainly hates Alwina because Alwina has got all of Gabriel's attention.
In many cases, identification with a certain football or baseball team is a matter of family inheritance and local identity.

matter and rules
In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.
The cosmic censorship hypothesis rules out the formation of such singularities, when they are created through the gravitational collapse of realistic matter.
The extent to which different markets are free, as well as the rules defining private property, is a matter of politics and policy.
Again, the initial rules of Roman Law regarded assaults as a matter of private compensation.
Whatever the truth of the matter, Jaques certainly played an important role in popularising the game, producing editions of the rules in 1857, 1860, and 1864.
( b ) defining mathematical rules such as ( a + b ) = ( b + a ) stating that when adding two numbers, the order of numbers does not matter ( see commutativity ).
These are the norms and rules that countries follow as a matter of custom and they are so prevalent that they bind all states in the world.
Apart from the several theological discourses, Gregory was also one of the most important early Christian men of letters, a very accomplished orator, perhaps one of the greatest of his time, and also a very prolific poet, writing several poems with theological and moral matter and some with biographical content, about himself and about his friends ( one short poem, " Eis ta Emmetra ", actually lays down some rules for the composition of poetry ).
For example, the stability of bulk matter ( which consists of atoms and molecules which would quickly collapse under electric forces alone ), the rigidity of solids, and the mechanical, thermal, chemical, optical and magnetic properties of matter are all results of the interaction of electric charges under the rules of quantum mechanics.
There are no rules and it is entirely a matter for the individual collector to decide.
There is no such denial, what you call God I call Nature, the Supreme intelligence that rules matter.
Because his eminently intellectual approach to life is modelled on the attitudes and rules of the authoritative adult world, he thinks everyone should share his values and attitudes as a matter of course.
If you add rules to take flow statistics out of the router during the DoS attacks, they further slow down and complicate the matter.
In order to achieve Data Integrity, these rules should be consistently and routinely applied to all data which are entering the Data Warehouse or any Data Resource for that matter.
* Point of order, a matter raised during a debate concerning the rules of debating themselves
" t would ... be a grave lacuna in our system of public law if a pressure group ... or even a single public spirited taxpayer, were prevented by outdated technical rules of locus standi from bringing the matter to the attention of the court to vindicate the rule of law and get the unlawful conduct stopped.
The games played at Rugby were organised by the pupils and not the masters, the rules of the game played at Rugby and elsewhere were a matter of custom and were not written down.
Lippe's Parliament was blocked from voting on the matter by the German Empire's Diet, which instead created a panel of jurists selected by the King of Saxony to evaluate the evidence concerning the historical marital rules of the House of Lippe to render a decision in the matter, all parties agreeing to abide by their judgment.
The rules of civil procedure ,... are silent on the matter ..." " Rule of Civil Procedure 10 ( a ) reads, '... In the complaint, the title of the action shall include the names of all the parties.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me.
Other inductive games in which not all players know the rules include Penultima and Zendo ; however, the secret rules in those games are made up at the start of play and disclosed at the end of each round, and the scope and subject matter of Eleusis, Penultima or Zendo rules may be more explicit and closely circumscribed.

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