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It should also be noted, however, that the title is sometimes, paradoxically, used in just the opposite sense: in some institutions, a lecturer especially " distinguished lecturer " may also refer to a position similar to emeritus professor.
Robert Michels found that, paradoxically, the socialist parties of Europe, despite their democratic ideology and provisions for mass participation, seemed to be dominated by their leaders, just like traditional conservative parties.

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Exactly 10 days after our departure from Mexico, during the early morning hours of December 5, following a night-long march interrupted by fainting and frequent rest periods, we reached a spot paradoxically known as Alegría de Pío ( Rejoicing of the Pious )".
But after increasing the concentration beyond a certain point, the number of bacteria that survive, paradoxically, increases.
A suspect during the Reign of Terror, he was twice arrested: the first time in September 1793, liberated after the intervention of Joseph Augustin Crassous ( representative on mission to Seine-et-Oise ); the second time in June 1794 ( paradoxically, on orders from the same Crassous )-threatened with the guillotine, he was saved by a relative of his who stole his record of prosecution, thus causing a delay long enough for Lebrun to be saved by the Thermidorian Reaction.
He also contends it caused enormous hardship to wide sections of the population ; seemingly paradoxically, a rapid general increase in prosperity was accompanied by a rapid increase in the number of paupers ( To some extent this phenomena had been under way in both Europe and Great Britain from the dawn of the Agricultural Revolution, accelerating with the Industrial Revolution in mid 18th century, but it became more accute after 1834.
The concept of " average profit " ( a general profit rate ) suggested that a process of competition and market-balancing had already established a uniform ( or ruling average, or normal ) profit rate previously ; yet, paradoxically, what profit volumes would be ( and consequently profit rates ) could be established only after sales, by deducting costs from gross revenues.

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But the initiative did have a significant effect in changing cultures, and paradoxically the spin-off Chartermark initiative may have had more impact on local organisations uncertain about what standards to aim for, than the parent Citizen's Charter programme itself.
The result, paradoxically, was a substantial increase in Post Office profits ; for, while the higher valued Columbians and Trans-Mississippis had sold only about 20, 000 copies apiece, the public bought well over five million of every Pan-American denomination.
For this purpose, the new Mozambican regime did not hesitate to use the old aldeamentos, or strategic hamlets, in which the Portuguese Army had tried to confine the rural population in order to remove it from FRELIMO's influence in the war-ridden areas of the North ( paradoxically, FRELIMO itself then denounced such aldeamentos as " concentration camps ").
This had the effect of alienating local listeners, whilst paradoxically presenters from WM, such as Ed Doolan, Malcolm Boyden and Tony Butler received high listening figures and distinctions with three Sony Radio Academy Awards, including Radio Station of the Year in 1996.
As the rebellion gained ground, the taluqdars quickly reoccupied the lands they had lost, and paradoxically, in part due to ties of kinship and feudal loyalty, did not experience significant opposition from the peasant farmers, many of whom joined the rebellion, to the great dismay of the British.
It has been argued that in the case of health benefits, the effect of all of this may paradoxically have been to leave plan participants worse off than if ERISA had not been enacted.
The aspect of passivity had already given a negative connotation to metaphorical uses of the word pabulum, and the marketing of Pablum influenced the usage to refer to something bland, mushy, unappetizing, or infantile, and thus ( paradoxically ) with little worthwhile content.
The compositional ideal which he maintained was the style of Palestrina, though curiously he maintained that the " rules " of counterpoint were made to be broken, and should be abandoned as soon as a composer had learned his craft: paradoxically, even in the 21st century, no style of composition is taught in a more rigorous, rule-based way than the polyphonic idiom of Palestrina.
The regiment first saw war service, paradoxically, at home during the 1745 Jacobite Rising against rebels who had risen in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie who claimed the thrones of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Ramses is succeeded to the throne by his arch-enemy Herhor, who paradoxically ends up raising treasure from the Labyrinth to finance the very social reforms that had been planned by Ramses, and whose implementation Herhor and his allies had blocked.

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Thus, paradoxically, the beat writers resort to `` religious '' metaphors: they are in search of mana, the spiritual, the numinous, but not anything connected with formal religion.
Professionally a lawyer, that is to say associated with dignity, reserve, discipline, with much that is essentially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed up, disguised -- that is, paradoxically, revealed -- as a child, and, worse, as a whore masquerading as a child.
In April 1917, when German U-boats were sinking many British ships with torpedoes, the marine artist Norman Wilkinson devised dazzle camouflage, which paradoxically made ships more visible but harder to target.
Moreover, with the widespread decentralization of economic activity that is being proposed by the government, and with the corresponding development of the interior regions of the country, the demand for water transport might, perhaps paradoxically, increase rather than diminish.
Thymoma is relatively rare in younger (< 40 ) patients, but especially younger patients with generalized MG without thymoma benefit, paradoxically, from thymectomy.
The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.
The exhaust is, however, relatively low in NOx emissions, as combustion temperatures are lower than in other engines, and also because of some inherent Exhaust Gas Recirculation-EGR-in early engines ; the higher the combustion temperature is, the higher the NOx emissions are ( sir Harry Ricardo proved in the 20's that for every 1 % increase of the proportion of exhaust gas in the admission mix, there's a 45º F reduction in flame temperature ); this allowed Mazda to meet the United States Clean Air Act of 1970 in 1973 with a simple and inexpensive ' thermal reactor ' ( an enlarged open chamber in the exhaust manifold ) by paradoxically enriching the air-fuel ratio to the point where the unburned hydrocarbons ( HC ) in the exhaust would support complete combustion in the thermal reactor ; while piston-engine cars required expensive catalytic converters to deal with both unburned hydrocarbons and NOx emissions.
It has only a plural, which is, paradoxically, used to denote both the singular and the plural, e. g. tyttö koirineen " girl with her dog ( s )".
Speakers using such techniques can reproduce sound with a wide directivity pattern ( paradoxically somewhat like a point source ) and have been used in some computer speaker designs and bookshelf loudspeakers.
In a similarly ( and paradoxically ) revealing spirit, the painter Paul Hoecker put cheeky young men into Pierrot costumes to ape their complacent burgher elders, smoking their pipes ( Pierrots with Pipes 1900 ) and swilling their champagne ( Waiting Woman 1895 ).
The mid-20th century Dutch philosopher, Herman Dooyeweerd, who is often associated with a neo-Calvinistic tradition, provides a philosophical foundation for understanding why we can never absolutely know God, and yet, paradoxically, truly know something of God.
The healing nature of artistic experience, Rank believed, affirms difference but, paradoxically, also " leads to the release from difference, to the feeling of unity with the self, with the other, with the cosmos " ( Rank, 1929 – 31, p. 58 ).
This need not imply that one's mind is all that exists, as with solipsism, but rather that the distinction between " I am " and " it is " is ultimately unnecessary, and a burden that, paradoxically, gives rise to an illusory sense of permanence and independence — that " separate " self which suffers and dies.
The champions of this reaction fought under the banner of Augustine of Hippo though paradoxically undermined Augustine's doctrine of grace ; as a result, Baius ' heterodox-Augustinian predilections brought him into conflict with Rome on questions of grace, free-will and the like.
Although the rugged American patriotism of his works of the 1930s and 1940s is reflected in his research into and use of folk music ( and to a lesser extent of jazz rhythms ), Harris was paradoxically obsessed with the great European pre-classical forms, especially the fugue ( which we hear in the Third Symphony ) and passacaglia ( as featured in the Seventh ).
Pursuing Te Kooti as an officer and commander in the colonial militia, while perfecting his ability to destroy Te Kooti ’ s rebellious “ Jews ” Fairweather paradoxically finds his feelings of humanity expanding to include Englishmen, colonials and Māoris, coupled with a growing resentment of racism and injustice.
It has a lower visual magnitude than Rigel because, although it is a much hotter star with a surface temperature of 26, 500 K, it emits most of its energy in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum, invisible to the human eye, paradoxically making it appear relatively dimmer.
They found baldness associated with genetics, age, smoking, sun exposure, dandruff, a history of cancer, hypertension, sedentariness, and paradoxically, low testosterone.

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And Keith's record of kills made him a man to listen to -- a man paradoxically, who might even survive.
Though Alexandre Dumas writes in paradoxically positive terms about him in The Three Musketeers, on the other hand, the English novelist and historian Charles Dickens makes no effort to hide his total rejection of the Duke in his book A Child ’ s History of England.
Orage arrives in New York and requests a meeting with Gurdjieff, who agrees to meet with him on the condition that he signs the same contract given to the members of his group ( which paradoxically includes himself ).
As Hugh Ruppersburg, among others, has argued, Warren's support for the civil rights movement paradoxically stemmed from Agrarianism, which by the 1950s meant something very different to him from the Agrarianism of I'll Take My Stand.
Unlike Hägar, Eddie is educated enough to be able to read and speak in other languages — though paradoxically this does not make him any more intelligent.
Nicole ends things with David, leaving him crushed, but her father's now-intense opposition to David paradoxically encourages her to accept David's apologies.
: His power seems to have paradoxically decreased and ( somewhat ) increased since the beginning of Tekkaman Blade-he could not leave the earth's atmosphere initially unless assisted by another crystal, and a Voltekka attack would leave him drained and exhausted.
His brilliant performance in the role of a demotivated and doubtful actor in Juan Antonio Bardem's Cómicos ( 1954 ), while showing him for the first time in a successful lead part, paradoxically, as he saw himself as the real incarnation of the role, plunged him in a professional depression, of which he did not emerge until his collaboration with Luis Buñuel several years later.
After being amnestied ( 19 November 1903 ), he served on the government of Juan Vicente Gómez, who paradoxically was part of the revolutionary movement that expelled him from power, promoting him las minister of Foreign Affairs ( 1914 – 1917 ) and Home Affairs ( 1917 – 1922 ), in the cabinet of Victorino Márquez.

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