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One of our foremost jurists, David Dudley Field, has gone so far as to call this provision `` the greatest achievement ever made in the course of human history ''.
David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.
It is still not clear how far Orkney ’ s advance was planned only as a feint ; according to historian David Chandler it is probably more accurate to surmise that Marlborough launched Orkney in a serious probe with a view to sounding out the possibilities of the sector.
The USSR saw Cuba as having far more appeal with new revolutionary movements, western intellectuals, and members of the New Left, given Cuba's perceived David and Goliath struggle against US " imperialism ".
In contrast to the figures discussed in this section thus far, David Hume lived a relatively quiet life that had settled down to a relatively stable social and political structure.
It is not known whether pterosaurs practiced any form of parental care, but their ability to fly as soon as they emerged from the egg and the numerous flaplings found in environments far from nests and alongside adults has led most researchers, including Christopher Bennett and David Unwin, to conclude that the young were dependent on their parents for a relatively short period of time, during a period of rapid growth while the wings grew long enough to fly, and then left the nest to fend for themselves, possibly within days of hatching.
In his book Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film, David Hogan called it " the most affecting gore thriller of all and, in a broader view, among the most effective horror films ever made ... the driving force of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something far more horrible than aberrant sexuality: total insanity.
While the idea of laws and markets as emergent phenomena comes fairly naturally to an economist, and was indeed present in the works of early economists such as Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Hayek traces the development of ideas based on spontaneous-order throughout the history of Western thought, occasionally going as far back as the presocratics.
Tamar outlived her consort, David Soslan, and died of a " devastating disease " not far from her capital Tbilisi, having previously crowned her son, George-Lasha, coregent.
When it comes to a lawyer-lawyer, David Boies is far and away ( the best ).
"(...) Without taking the argument that far, it is evident that in a market system with uneven distribution of empowering work, such as Economic Democracy ( the model of market socialism David Schweickart has developed and refers to as " economic democracy "), some workers will be more able than others to capture the benefits of economic gain.
The following account of the origin of the name Allegheny was given in 1780 by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger: " All this land and region, stretching as far as the creeks and waters that flow into the Alleghene the Delawares called Alligewinenk, which means ' a land into which they came from distant parts '.
David Dumville goes so far as to dismiss William's account entirely, regarding him as a " treacherous witness " whose account is unfortunately influential.
The German victory at Tannenberg was, according to David Stevenson, " a major victory but far from decisive ".
:" 8 Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.
Author on topics in alternative history David Hatcher Childress goes so far as to suggest that Ophir was located in Australia ; proposing that the cargoes of gold, silver and precious stones were obtained from mines in the continent's north-west, and that ivory, sandalwood and peacocks were obtained in South Asia on the voyage back to Canaan.
According to David A. Rausch, " The name change, however, signified far more than a semantical expression — it represented an evolution in the thought processes and religious and philosophical outlook toward a more fervent expression of Jewish identity ".
The famous British explorer and missionary David Livingstone failed in his attempt to verify Speke's discovery, instead pushing too far west and entering the River Congo system instead.
Temperance drama would even reach as far as the West Coast, as David Belasco's adaptation of Émile Zola's novel " Drink " premiered at the Baldwin Theatre in San Francisco in 1879.
David King, in his biography of Rudbeck, notes that he developed a system for measuring the age of old monuments and graves by the thickness of the humus accumulated over them-which, though many of his conclusions were erroneous, anticipated the methods of modern archaeology and was far in advance of most historians and antiquarians of his time.
The Stewarts greatly increased their holdings in the west, in Atholl and in the far north: the earldoms of Fife and Menteith went to Robert II's second surviving son Robert, the earldoms of Buchan and Ross ( along with the lordship of Badenoch ) to his fourth son Alexander and the earldoms of Strathearn and Caithness to the eldest son of his second marriage, David.
As far as William, Earl of Douglas's reaction was concerned when he staged an armed demonstration before Robert's coronation, Grant does not hold to the view that Douglas was in some way demonstrating against Robert's legitimate right to the throne but more an assertion that royal patronage should not continue as in the time of David II.
However, some archaeologists, such as David Webster, believe these figures to be far too high.
David Stahel, a recent historian of the Kiev campaign, wrote: " Germany had been handed a triumph far in excess of what its exhausted armoured forces could have achieved without Stalin's obduracy and incompetence.

far and narrative
These critics said that the SF New Wave of the 1960s was much more innovative as far as narrative techniques and styles were concerned.
The introduction of dialogue titles was far from being a trivial matter, for they entirely transformed the nature of film narrative.
Madelung said of hadith: " Work with the narrative sources, both those that have been available to historians for a long time and others which have been published recently, made it plain that their wholesale rejection as late fiction is unjustified and that with without a judicious use of them, a much more reliable and accurate portrait of the period can be drawn than has been realized so far.
The sprawling narrative deals with a far future where humanity struggles and wages war against past souls flooding back into the land of the living via possession ( Al Capone and Fletcher Christian are among the returnees ).
These critics were concerned with a formal analysis of narrative forms which would resemble a literary mathematics, or at least a literary syntax, as far as possible.
One difficulty is that the narrative of Joshua appears to place the valley of Achor to the north of Jericho, between Jericho and Ai ; but Joshua makes the valley part of the boundary between the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, to the south of Jericho, but not as far south as El-Buqei ' a.
He modelled his work on the " choral " lyrics of Stesichorus at least in so far as he wrote narratives on mythical themes ( often with original variations from the traditional stories ) and structured his verses in triads ( units of three stanzas each, called " strophe ", " antistrophe " and " epode "), so closely in fact that even the ancients sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between the two poets Whereas however ancient scholars collected the work of Stesichorus into twenty-six books, each probably a self-contained narrative that gave its title to the whole book, they compiled only seven books for Ibycus, which were numbered rather than titled and whose selection criteria are unknown.
In this story of New Zealand and Te Kooti's War during the year beginning November 10, 1868, the narrative coalesces around the development of its protagonist, George Fairweather, who in Shadbolt ’ s historical epilogue is described as “ A composite character ... yet still far from fictional .” Fairweather is a competent but cynical former British officer in his early forties, who leaves the service under a cloud, turns landscape painter and cultivates an air of worldly detachment.
The main narrative is dedicated to Tobit's son, Tobiah or Tobiyah ( Greek: Τωβίας / Tobias ), who is sent by his father to collect a sum of money that the latter had deposited some time previously in the far off land of Media.
# Critics have also argued that, in so far as one of Lyotard's targets was Science, he was mistaken in thinking science relies on a grand narrative for social and epistemic validation, rather than upon the accumulation of many lesser narrative successes.
This rather confused narrative owes its popularity to the delightful tune, which is that of a Spring carol ... Unfortunately Neale in 1853 substituted for the Spring carol this Good King Wenceslas, one of his less happy pieces, which E. Duncan goes so far as to call " doggerel ", and Bullen condemns as " poor and commonplace to the last degree ".
Robert Matthews called it " the most sophisticated attempt yet " to prove psychokinesis existed, but cited the unreliability of significant events to cause statistically significant spikes, concluding " the only conclusion to emerge from the Global Consciousness Project so far is that data without a theory is as meaningless as words without a narrative ".
An unusual character is Jelaza Kazone ( a term that has been translated as " Jela's Promise ," " Jela's Contract ," or " Jela's Dream ," among other variants ) and the seedlings thereof ( of which only two have thus far appeared in narrative ).
While these writers were all more or less academic, and appealed to the cultured few, four poets of the people addressed a far wider public: Verdi ( 1779 – 1820 ), of Bordeaux, who wrote comic and satirical pieces ; Jean Reboul ( 1796 – 1864 ), the baker of Nîmes, who never surpassed his first effort, L ' Ange à l ' enfant ( 1828 ); Victor Gelu ( 1806-188 ~), relentless and brutal, but undeniably powerful of his kind ( Fenian ci Grouman ; dix chansons provençales, 1840 ); and, greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the felibres, Jacques Jasmin, whose poems, both lyrical and narrative, continue to find favour with men of the highest culture and literary attainments, as with the villagers for whom they were primarily intended.
The third narrative, and by far the most graphic, is the narrator's account of her work in a national park called Grosso Arvore ( Big Tree ), where she tracks the movements of a small band of chimpanzees that have split off from a larger group in the north.
The present position of these explicit blessings and curses, within a larger narrative of promise, and a far larger narrative of threat ( respectively ), is considered to have been an editorial decision for the post-exilic second version of Deuteronomy ( Dtr2 ), to reflect the deuteronomist's worldview after the Babylonian exile had occurred.
In the Main Building, designed by Walter Foerderer and regarded as a significant exemplar of 1960s architecture far beyond Switzerland's borders, art tends to play the role of a counterpart to the architecture, whereas in the Library Building of 1989, the works of art complement the diversity of architectural forms in a narrative fashion.
The narrative immediately switches to Macey in the grip of a berserker rage, after which he tells Logan of seeing hands pressing towards him from far away.
In the Introduction of Unfinished Tales he observes that such selection was necessary to publishing a unified narrative ; but in some cases he later came to feel that he went too far, for example in the ruin of Doriath:
analyzes how the players fared in the game so far, and tries to add subsequent events that would give them a sense of narrative.
Understandably, given the Elohist's narrative so far, the next tale the Elohist offers brings the chance for Abram to have other children.
Jak is far more likeable now that he speaks, and that fact that he's pissed off and owns honking big guns weaves in an unmistakable new level of emotion into the narrative.

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