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its and chief
Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.
Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.
For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time.
The philosopher Mencius once criticized its chief proponent Xu Xing ( 許行 ) for advocating that rulers should work in the fields with their subjects.
Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.
Each separate community had its own oeconomus or steward, who was subject to a chief steward stationed at the head establishment.
In November 1972, Kolton was named as the exchange's first chief executive officer and its first salaried top executive.
The stream was temporarily turned aside from its course while the grave was dug wherein the Gothic chief and some of his most precious spoils were interred.
Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.
::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.
The chief magistracy of Aargau changed its style repeatedly:
Usually an arrondissement includes cantons and a canton includes one to several communes including the chef-lieu, " chief place ", from which the canton takes its name.
The chief resided at the town of Nowgong, at the foot of the hill-fortress of Ajaigarh, from which the state took its name.
Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Melkart and a tunny-fish ; those of Tiberius ( who seems to have made the place a colonia ) show the chief temple of the town with two tunny-fish erect in the form of columns.
The chief coin type, a griffon, is identical with that of Teos ; the rich silver coinage is noted for the beauty and variety of its reverse types.
As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a " free and autonomous city " as early as 188 BC, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance.
Since its inception Beechcraft has resided in Wichita, Kansas, also the home of chief competitor Cessna, the birthplace of Learjet and of Stearman, whose trainers were used in large numbers during WW2.
Sayed Noorullah Emad, who was then a young Muslim in the university of Kabul became General Secretary of the party and, later, its deputy chief.
The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons.
The company responded by extending its reach into the country fast-growing retail processed foods market, and though its prominence as the nation's chief exporter was partly restored by Perón's 1955 ouster and the IAPI's liquidation, its focus remained domestic over the next three decades.
As of 1935, its chief industries were shipbuilding, tanning, and pottery.
This declaration, which is always known as the Balfour Declaration, should rather be called " the Milner Declaration ," since Milner was the actual draftsman and was, apparently, its chief supporter in the War Cabinet.

its and fruits
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.
" 22: 1 Next to the river is the tree of life, which bears twelve fruits and yields its fruit every month.
It mostly ate the seeds of forest shrubs and other plants ( such as thistles ) and also ate fruits ( often from orchards by the time of its decline ).
It used gizzard stones to help digest its food, which is thought to have included fruits, and its main habitat is believed to have been the woods in the drier coastal areas of Mauritius.
*“ Be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers ... and judge of the tree by its fruits .”
In Indian Religions, Heaven is considered as Svarga loka, and soul is again subjected to rebirth in different living forms according to the fruits of its good deeds.
Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".
It is also known for its sunflower seeds, walnuts, apples, and other fruits.
Melilla is regularly connected to the Iberian peninsula by air and sea traffic and is also economically connected to Morocco: most of its fruits and vegetables are imported across the border.
These compounds, which protect the plant from its predators, are, in general, concentrated in its leaves, stems, sprouts, and fruits.
She would embody the fertility of the earth and its capacity to bear grain and fruits for the benefit of humankind.
The project's short-term objective is to have each rural family capable of producing enough milk, meat, eggs, fruits, vegetables and cereals to cover its basic needs while its medium range objective is to establish local markets and export certain products.
Each pseudostem of a plantain plant will flower only once, and all the flowers grow at the end of its shoot in a large bunch consisting of multiple hands with individual fingers ( the fruits ).
Shiraz's economic base is in its provincial products, which include grapes, citrus fruits, cotton and rice.
Typically its ingredients were a mixture of minced meat, suet, a range of fruits, and spices such as cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
The unhappy story of the conflict between the council and the pope, and its lack of immediate and obvious fruits in reconciling Chalcedonians and non-Chalcedonians, should not blind us, however, to its weighty theological contribution.
The diversity of its ecology and climate makes it possible to grow temperate crops such as apples, pears, plums, grape and citrus fruits and tropical products such as mangoes and litchi, as well as a wide variety of other crops including coffee, cloves, sisal, maize, tubers and various spices.
" When they arrived at an island in the lake, they saw an eagle which was perched on a nopal cactus full of its fruits ( nochtli ).
It is a huge voracious creature, herbivorous, feeding, to Barbara ’ s astonishment, on tender plants ; fruits, as strawberries, apples ; and even turnips and mushrooms ; appearing morning and evening, or after rain ; suffering severely in its concealment in long droughts, and remaining torpid in winter.
Bureau of Reclamation statistics show that the more than 600 of their dams on waterways throughout the West provide irrigation for 10 million acres ( 40, 000 km² ) of farmland, providing 60 % of the nation's vegetables and 25 % of its fruits and nuts.
The city, as the capital of the comarca Huerta de Murcia is called Europe ’ s orchard due to its long agricultural tradition and as a fruits, vegetables and flowers producer and exporter.

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