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has and been
Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.
Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;
The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.
The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.
In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.
The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.
There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.
Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.
But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
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.
Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.
The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.
But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.
In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.

has and alternately
A decision problem has only two possible outputs, yes or no ( or alternately 1 or 0 ) on any input.
Jonze has many alter egos, including Richard Koufey ( alternately spelled Coufey or Couffe ), the leader of the Torrance Community Dance Group, an urban troupe that performs in public spaces.
A closely related term is interface flapping where an interface on a router has a hardware failure that will cause the router to announce it alternately as " up " and " down ".
There has also been noted a correspondence between higher triglyceride levels and higher levels of smaller, denser LDL particles and alternately lower triglyceride levels and higher levels of the larger, less dense LDL.
Sætere has been identified as either a god associated with the harvest of possible Slav origin, or alternately Sætere could be another name for Loki a complex deity associated with both good and evil.
Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and " warrior priest " who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782 ; known alternately as " Serra's Chapel " and " Father Serra's Church ," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that the padre Junipero Serra celebrated mass.
His original or birth name was Cuauhtlatoatzin ( alternately rendered as Quauhtatoatzin, Guauhtlatoatzin, or Cuatliztactzin ), which has been translated as " Talking Eagle " in the Nahuatl language.
Reporters and fans were alternately confused and enraged by the moves, which Milbury acknowledged, saying, " As dangerous as this may be, we think Mad Mike maybe has something going for him.
Despite the fact that he has throughout his life compulsively sought out aristocratic society, none of his titled friends come to see him, which makes him alternately morose and irate.
The verb to sandwich has the meaning to position anything between two other things of a different character, or to place different elements alternately, and the noun sandwich has related meanings derived from this more general definition.
It has been identified alternately as an abbreviation of " Parliament-Funkadelic ", " pure funk " or " Plainfield Funk ", referring to Plainfield, New Jersey, the hometown of the band's original line-up.
It has been alternately shown as Morrall ’ s Inlet and Murrays Inlet on later maps.
Early Knoxville has been described as an " alternately quiet and rowdy river town.
In its present location, the building has served alternately as a library, senior-citizen center, the city's current town hall with a satellite office for the Skagit County Sheriff's Department.
His final win – loss record has been given alternately as 55 – 10 – 1 and 56 – 10 with one no contest.
The house has its stairs designed in a curious way, each tread alternately hollowed in the right and left, like an alternating tread stair: it allows that the stairs be steep enough to fit the little room available in the house, but still enable people to climb it comfortably.
But the players have to alternately take turnes, in other words who ever has the most points at the end of the game / level wins!
The rotation has often followed the pattern of being played in Scotland and England alternately, being in Scotland somewhat more often than in England.
Its call has been alternately called " haunting ," " beautiful ," " thrilling ," " mystical " and " enchanting.
The two players, red and blue, alternately place pieces on the intersections of the board until each has placed fifteen.
The clearest evidence of the connection of the two masters is that afforded by pictures, particularly an altarpiece, which has alternately been assigned to each of them, and which may be due to their joint labours.
For popularizing pan-Turkism and Turanism, Gökalp has been viewed alternately as being racist and expansionist, and anti-racist and anti-expansionist.

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