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our and present
There are certainly large areas of understanding in the human sciences which in themselves and even without political invention can help to dispel our present fears.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.
So an objective look at our present procedures may move us to consider seriously this possibly analogous situation.
So we must first analyze our present institutions with respect to the effect of each on man's major needs.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Second, our military missile program, going forward so successfully, does not suffer from our present lack of very large rocket engines, which are necessary in distant space exploration.
I am assured by experts that the thrust of our present missiles is fully adequate for defense requirements.
By an effort of historical sympathy we can cast our minds back into the art of a remote past or an alien present, and enjoy the carvings of cavemen and Japanese colour-prints ; ;
Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.
Unless we keep our eyes on the horizon ahead, we shall fail to bring ourselves on target with the present.
-- This budget will provide in the fiscal year 1961 for the continued support of our forces at approximately the present level -- a year-end strength of 2,489,000 men and women in the active forces.
Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.
The building will contain 430,000 square feet, approximately the same as our present plant.
A major consideration in the choice of the Warwick site, four miles from Cranston, was the fact that it permits retention of our present trained and highly skilled work force.
We have entered into an agreement for the sale of the present Cranston properties, effective as soon as we have completed removal to our new plant.
It is interesting to note that the present level of military electronics procurement is greater than the industry's total sales to all markets in 1950-1953, which were good years for our industry with television enjoying its initial period of rapid consumer acceptance.
`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.
Since our viewpoints in this respect coincided precisely, we present the fruits of our efforts herewith as a single social code for pool owners.
In our present era of Science and Angst, the heart has been downgraded, to use one of our popular retrogressive verbs ''.

our and interest
It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.
I cannot express to you the depth of my conviction that, in our own and free world interest, we must co-operate with others to help these people achieve their legitimate ambitions, as expressed in their different multi-year plans.
When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.
Moreover, tolerance by us of such practices results in serious waste and diversion of aid resources and in the long run generates anti-American sentiment of a kind peculiarly damaging to our political interest.
It is also the concern of the Department of State that our trading relationships with the rest of the world are vigorous, profitable, and active -- this is not just a passing interest or a matter of concern only to the Department of Commerce.
This broad delegation leaves within our discretion ( subject to the always-present criterion of the public interest ) both the determination of what degree of interference shall be considered excessive, and the methods by which such excessive interference shall be avoided.
For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.
If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.
But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.
" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.
The Nigerian government did not, however, openly reject the judgment but instead called for an agreement that would provide " peace with honour, with the interest and welfare of our people.
Nevertheless the strategic interest of the United States in the Red Sea basin and the considerations of security and world peace make it necessary that the country has to be linked with our ally Ethiopia.
Defense Minister Wardak explained that " what we are asking to acquire is just the ability to defend ourselves, and also to be relevant in the future so that our friends and allies can count on us to participate in peacekeeping and other operations of mutual interest.
" As we must overcome levelling, Hubert Dreyfus and Jane Rubin argue that Kierkegaard's interest, " in an increasingly nihilistic age, is in how we can recover the sense that our lives are meaningful ".
But this ruling did not end our interest in, or responsibility for, the Opel property.
‘ We made a peaceful entry into this new country, establishing a reputation for fair trade and decent behaviour ... but gold was our interest and we had traced the rivers and tributaries as far as practicable where conditions and results justified the effort and found nothing worthwhile.
The critic Elizabeth Anne Hull, for her part, has praised Heinlein for his interest in exploring fundamental life questions especially questions about “ political power – our responsibilities to one another ” and about “ personal freedom, particularly sexual freedom .”
For example, if we randomly sample 100 people and ask them which candidate they intend to vote for in an election, our main interest is in the voting behavior of all eligible voters, not exclusively on the 100 observed units.

our and lies
If a broader Atlantic community is to be formed -- and my own judgment is that it lies within the realm of both our needs and our capacity -- a ready nucleus of machinery is at hand in the NATO alliance.
These qualities are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being " ( Dalai Lama ).
But we must still seek to do what good lies in our power ( as Paneloux himself does as one of the volunteers who fights the plague ).
For example, if I say “ Star Wars is a shitty movie ,” and my friend says, “ Star Wars is not a shitty movie !” We have no shared reality, for in our language, truth lies in only one of our statements and we can forever argue these truths until one of us writes a book and has more authority than the other.
Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Instead of saying that humans live on the outside surface of a hollow planet, sometimes called a " convex " hollow-Earth hypothesis, some have claimed that our universe itself lies in the interior of a hollow world, calling this a " concave " hollow-Earth hypothesis.
They organized the Women in Peacebuilding Network ( WIPNET ), and issued a statement of intent: " In the past we were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized, and infected with diseases, and watching our children and families destroyed, war has taught us that the future lies in saying NO to violence and YES to peace!
In this lies safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands.
AX Microscopii, better known as Lacaille 8760, is a red dwarf which lies only 12. 9 light years from our solar system.
The key to our method is provided by the detailed analysis of the relation between mathematical languages and mathematical structures which lies at the bottom of contemporary model theory.
The servus callidus is a character that, as McCarthy says, " draws the complete attention of the audience, and, according to C. Stace, ' despite his lies and abuse, claims our complete sympathy.
For example, Paul Krugman wrote in December 2010 that significant, sustained government spending was necessary because indebted households were paying down debts and unable to carry the U. S. economy as they had previously: " The root of our current troubles lies in the debt American families ran up during the Bush-era housing bubble ... highly indebted Americans not only can ’ t spend the way they used to, they ’ re having to pay down the debts they ran up in the bubble years.
Readily identified by its orange hue, Alpha Trianguli Australis is a bright giant star of spectral class K2 IIb-IIIa with an apparent magnitude of + 1. 91, which lies away and has an absolute magnitude of-3. 68 and is 5500 times more luminous than our sun.
The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging " to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces.
If, for a destination, a neighbor router advertises a distance that is strictly lower than our feasible distance, then this neighbor lies on a loop-free route to this destination.
The play's line " the fault dear Brutus lies not in our stars but in ourselves " gave its name to the J. M.
According to a customary Inuit saying " The great peril of our existence lies in the fact that our diet consists entirely of souls.
It was all lies, what they promised us " ( unemployed person ); " I thought it was going to be just like 1984, when the vote was not secret and there was not all these observers around " ( market vendor ); " Don ’ t you believe those lies fraud, I voted my conscience and my principles, and so did everyone else I know " ( young mother ); " the Sandinistas have mocked and abused the people, and now we have given our vote to opposition UNO " ( ex-Sandinista officer ).
But the true measure of our interests lies not in how small or distant these places are, or in whether we have trouble pronouncing their names.

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