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At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.
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At and time
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
At the prearranged time, Greg started the engine and taxied out.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
At one time she felt impelled to make dances that `` moved all over the stage '', much as Pollock's paintings move violently over the full extent of the canvas.
At the same time, he is plainly sympathetic, clearly friendly.
At the same time the multiple transvestitism involved -- the fat man as girl and as baby, as coquette pretending to be a baby -- touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby's, upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life.
At the present time, the counter-attack takes the line that there's no more of the true spirit of `` integration '' in the North than in the South.
At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.
At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.
At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.
At this time Miriam Noel appeared, urging on Constable Henry Pengally, whose name showed him to be a descendant of the Welsh settlers in the neighborhood.
At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;
At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:
At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
At the same time, a major proportion of these young men and women see religion as a means of personal adjustment, an anchor for family life, a source of emotional security.
At no time did I attempt to seek approval or commendation for the members of the Chicago board of election commissioners for the discharge of their duties.
At State College, he had no time to walk among the violets on the water's edge.
At the same time, you have to face facts and realize that a man who's been in the Marine Corps all his life doesn't understand much about politics.
At the same time, his voice betrayed uncertainty about their being here, and conveyed an appeal to whatever is reasonable, peace-loving, and dependable in everybody.
At the same time he started walking the streets, peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls, storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like, how they moved.
`` At three o'clock if it will be of convenience to you at that time ''.
At the same time, it was unlikely that any businessmen would spend a day in a Christian mission out of mere curiosity.
At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.
At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.
At and afforded
" At the end, he succeeded in obtaining from Theodosius a promise that the sentence should be completely revoked, with the very natural consequence that thereafter the prospect of immunity thus afforded occasioned spoliations of synagogues all over the Empire.
At what time the Via Latina was stretched to Casilinum is doubtful ( it is quite possible that it was done when Capua fell under Roman supremacy, i. e. before the construction of the Via Appia ); it afforded a route only 10 km ( 6 mi ) longer, and the difficulties with its construction were much less ; it also avoided the troublesome journey through the Pontine Marshes.
At abandonment of courtesy recognition in 2003, those previously afforded courtesy recognition included:
At the time of his casting, Depp was wanting to break out of the teen idol status which his performance in 21 Jump Street had afforded him.
At that council Maximus II, his successor in the see of Antioch, obtained permission to assign Domnus a pension from the revenues of the church, and on his recall from exile Domnus returned to the monastic home of his youth, ending his days in the Laura of St. Euthymius, where in 452 AD, according to Theophanes, he afforded a refuge to Juvenal of Jerusalem when he was driven from his see ( Theophanes, p. 92 ).
At the beginning of the appellate hearing at the U. S. District Court, the defendants admitted upon the record that " the educational facilities, equipment, curricula and opportunities afforded in School District No. 22 for colored pupils are not substantially equal to those afforded for white pupils.
At the age of seven, Dmitry's prodigious talent at the local church choir afforded him the opportunity to go the capital of the empire and sing with the Imperial Chapel Choir in St. Petersburg.
: At the time when many military aircraft were pushers, the engine afforded some rear protection to the pilot.
At present, most states are afforded a greater degree of autonomy than other divisions.
:" At first the command remained together, but after some minutes ' fighting, it was divided, a portion deployed circularly to the left, and the remainder similarly to the right, so that when the line was formed, it bore a rude resemblance to a circle, advantage being taken as far as possible of the protection afforded by the ground.
At the next board meeting, the board voted to retain an Executive Director " if it can be afforded ".
At the tip of the point, by the lighthouse, spectacular views are afforded of the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, the North coast of Brittany, the Chausey Islands and, when the visibility is good, Jersey.
At and me
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.
At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.
) At this late date, it is impossible for St. Michael's College to find a suitable replacement for me.
At least five years ago, Tom Robinson of Marlin made up an over/under double rifle for me in this caliber, using the now defunct Model 90 action in 20-gauge size.
At another phase in the therapy, when a pathogenic mother-introject began to emerge more and more upon the investigative scene, she muttered in a low but intense voice, to herself, `` I hate that woman inside me ''!!
At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.
At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.
At the time I was filled with self-pity at this separation, but in the years since I have come to understand that the sight of me was painful to them after that outcry.
At first, Johnnie hadn't understood -- how could he, not being a religious person like me??
At first, only Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".
At the end of the commentary Simplicius wrote: " Nor does my writing this commentary prove beneficial to others only, for I myself have already found great advantage from it, by the agreeable diversion it has given me, in a season of trouble and public calamity.
At the 2007 New York Comic Con, Coleman said, " I wish there was a lawyer on Earth that would sue them for me.
At one point Polgár reportedly confronted Kasparov in the hotel bar, asking him, " How could you do this to me?
In an interview Shoji Nishio reported: " At that time, a former Karate sensei of the Butokukai named Toyosaku Sodeyama who was running Konishi Sensei ’ s dojo and also teaching there came up to me and said: “ I met someone who is like a ‘ phantom ’.
At the outset, let me state that Buddhism is not atheistic as the term is ordinarily understood.
In the name of Mary, who has obtained for me the favour of appealing to you, help me !” At that moment he disappeared and St. Lutgarda informed her sisters of what she had seen.
“ Would you be willing ," Mann wrote, " to think through with me how the work-I mean Leverkuhn ’ s work-might look ; how you would do it if you were in league with the Devil ?” At the end of October 1949, Adorno left America for Europe just as The Authoritarian Personality was being published.
At the end of the ceremony, everyone in the park held hands and sang " Auld Lang Syne " to Williams, a moment which he later said " moved me quite a bit ".
At once he told me that he was a pure mathematician who had sunk so low that his latest paper actually contained numbers with decimal points!
During the summer I was an apprentice, they were entertaining in a Jewish summer camp ... At the end of the summer they said to me: " You may have talent for something, but it's certainly not acting.
Tracy later explained to a friend: " I couldn't say those goddamn lines over and over and over again every night ... At least every day is a new day for me in films ...
" At least as much as they've been attacked from a theological point of view ," notes Rowling, " books have been lauded and taken into pulpit, and most interesting and satisfying for me, it's been by several different faiths.
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