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is and so
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.
And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??
The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.
The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
The smell is sexual, but so powerfully so that a civilized nose must deny it.
Nowhere in Isfahan is this rich aesthetic life of the Persians shown so well as during the promenade at the Khaju bridge.
Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.
In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.
He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.
Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.
Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.
Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.
it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.

is and many
Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;
I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.
Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.
After how many generations is such wealth ( mounting all the while through the manipulations of high finance ) purified of taint??
The same command is repeated as many times as there are levels in rank from general to corporal.
Of course, there must be clarity: a single distinct impression is more valuable than many fuzzy ones.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.
Each man, that is, is both one and many.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
Third, the United States is pressing forward in the development of large rocket engines to place vehicles of many tons into space for exploration purposes.
Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

is and affairs
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
Certainly it is not necessary to repeat that the United States has no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of any nation ; ;
This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.
but if he is up against China's crusading spirit in world affairs, he is going to be faced with the most agonizing choice in his life.
It is this loss of initiative in how we conduct our economy which may lead to the loss of initiative in how we conduct our political affairs.
There is no such thing as being diligent about national affairs but indifferent about home needs.
If there is anything which we can do in the executive branch of the Government to speed up the processes by which we come to decisions on matters on which we must act promptly, that in itself would be a major contribution to the conduct of our affairs.
There is a marked tendency for religions, once firmly established, to resist change, not only in their own doctrines and policies and practices, but also in secular affairs having religious relevance.
Apparently the feeling is that anything more would be involvement in technical abstrusenesses of possible pedantic interest but of no visible significance in practical affairs.
He is a target of ridicule to his wife, and often -- since private affairs rarely remain private -- to the outside world as well.
Helping foreign countries to build a sound political structure is more important than aiding them economically, E. M. Martin, assistant secretary of state for economic affairs told members of the World Affairs Council Monday night.
The only way out of this state of affairs is agreement to abolish nuclear weapons ; ;
One definition of paternalism is `` The principle or practice, on the part of a government, of managing the affairs of a country in the manner of a father dealing with his children ''.
It is worth noting Ian Woods advice that although Gregory provides the fullest information for this period, where it touches Merovingian affairs, he often " allowed his religious bias to determine his interpretation of the events.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.
From a baroque standpoint it is a moment of divine intervention in the affairs of man.
Today its focus is on ethics and it is known as the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, whose mission is to be the voice for ethics in international affairs.
Her husband Casimir is known for his romantic affairs: after Aldona's death he married three more times.
Germany is one of the most important partners of Bosnia and Herzegovina in foreign affairs.
The poem also begins in medias res (" into the middle of affairs ") or simply, " in the middle ", which is a characteristic of the epics of antiquity.
BOEN is a vehicle for governments and heads of state to invest in UK companies ( subject to approval from the Secretary of State ), providing they undertake " not to influence the affairs of the company ".

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