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The secretary's greatest achievement is perhaps the rekindling of NATO realization that East-West friction, wherever it take place around the globe, is in essence the general conflict between two entirely different societies, and must be treated as such without regard to geographical distance or lack of apparent connection.
Louis Pasteur observed, " if we could intervene in the antagonism observed between some bacteria, it would offer perhaps the greatest hopes for therapeutics ".
... A rare exception to this tradition is the prophetess and judge Deborah, perhaps the Bible's greatest woman figure.
* Classical or Angkor Wat Style ( 1080 – 1175 ): Angkor Wat, the temple and perhaps the mausoleum of King Suryavarman II, is the greatest of the Angkorian temples and defines what has come to be known as the classical style of Angkorian architecture.
His greatest achievement, surpassing many of these, was, perhaps, the establishment of a political and economic consensus about the governance of Britain that all parties, whether Labour, Conservative or Liberal subscribed to for three decades, fixing the arena of political discourse until the later 1970s.
** Note: Marker helped produce and contributed to the screenplay for this, perhaps the greatest of all documentary films ( Film Comment ).
In less than a decade, the kingdom of the English had become by far the greatest power in Britain and Ireland, perhaps stretching as far north as the Firth of Forth.
Jones observed that " It is perhaps Diocletian's greatest achievement that he reigned twenty-one years and then abdicated voluntarily, and spent the remaining years of his life in peaceful retirement.
* Hans Holbein is considered to be the greatest portraitist of Erasmus, having painted him at least three times, and perhaps as many as seven ; some only survive in versions by other artists.
* " The greatest poet of the patristic age and, perhaps, the only theologian-poet to rank beside Dante.
Historians have recognized La Guardia as among the best mayors in New York City history and perhaps among the greatest in modern U. S. history.
Geelong's most notable recruitment coup ever was the transfer of perhaps the greatest ruckman of all time, Graham " Polly " Farmer from East Perth.
Apart from the several theological discourses, Gregory was also one of the most important early Christian men of letters, a very accomplished orator, perhaps one of the greatest of his time, and also a very prolific poet, writing several poems with theological and moral matter and some with biographical content, about himself and about his friends ( one short poem, " Eis ta Emmetra ", actually lays down some rules for the composition of poetry ).
Josiah Russell calculates that all of Syria had about 2. 3 million people at the time of the crusades, with perhaps eleven thousand villages ; most of these, of course, were outside of crusader rule even at the greatest extent of all four crusader states.
Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, written in fourteen line terza rima stanzas, is a major poem in the form, but perhaps the greatest odes of the 19th century were Keats's Five Great Odes of 1819 which included Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, and To Autumn.
But he continued to develop his style, composing perhaps the greatest French Grand Opera, Don Carlos, and ending his career with two Shakespeare-inspired works, Otello and Falstaff, which reveal how far Italian opera had grown in sophistication since the early 19th century.
The carnage of World War I was perhaps the greatest vindication and vilification of the rifle as a military weapon.
The most common and perhaps most absolute type of estate, under which the tenant enjoys the greatest discretion over the disposition of the property.
The rising strength of the Sassanid Persian Empire ( 226 – 651 ) heralded perhaps the greatest external challenge that Rome faced in the 3rd century.
Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.
The Battle of Stalingrad saw perhaps the greatest casualty figures of any single battle in the history of warfare ( estimates are between 1, 250, 000 and 1, 798, 619 ).
Morris himself was perhaps the greatest British representative of what has come to be called libertarian socialism.
The album featured the US and UK hit tunes " Dear Madam Barnum " and " The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead ", the latter bringing the band perhaps its greatest success after the early 1980s.
Powell's biographer, Simon Heffer, described the defeat of Lords reform as " perhaps the greatest triumph of Powell's political career ".

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Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.
For example, if we abbreviate by BP the claim that every set of real numbers has the property of Baire, then BP is stronger than ¬ AC, which asserts the nonexistence of any choice function on perhaps only a single set of nonempty sets.
In the 880s, at the same time that he was " cajoling and threatening " his nobles to build and man the burhs, Alfred, perhaps inspired by the example of Charlemagne almost a century before, undertook an equally ambitious effort to revive learning.
Despite this limited franchise, Athenian democracy was certainly the first — and perhaps the best — example of a working direct democracy.
For example, he almost always uses the terms " Australes " and " Occidentales " for the South and West Saxons respectively, but in a passage in the first book he uses " Meridiani " and " Occidui " instead, as perhaps his informant had done.
William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.
For example, many commercial contracts are more economically efficient, and create greater wealth, because the parties know ahead of time that the proposed arrangement, though perhaps close to the line, is almost certainly legal.
References to cannibalizing the enemy has also been seen in poetry written in the Song Dynasty, ( for example, in Man Jiang Hong ) although the cannibalizing is perhaps poetic symbolism, expressing hatred towards the enemy.
For example, a perfect crystal of diamond would only contain carbon atoms, but a real crystal might perhaps contain a few boron atoms as well.
Meteor Crater is perhaps the best-known example of a small impact crater on the Earth.
* It is not difficult to construct spacetimes which have naked singularities, but which are not " physically reasonable ;" the canonical example of such a spacetime is perhaps the " superextremal " < math > M <| Q |</ math > Reissner-Nordstrom solution, which contains a singularity at that is not surrounded by a horizon.
Martin Hewitt, created by British author Arthur Morrison in 1894, is perhaps the first example of the modern style of fictional private detective.
There is an early example of the 12th century in Lincoln ; in France the metal work of the doors of Notre Dame at Paris is perhaps the most beautiful in execution, but examples are endless throughout France and England.
The most famous example of classical epyllion is perhaps Catullus 64.
To understand the application of the organic principle to questions of value, it is perhaps best to consider Moore ’ s primary example, that of a consciousness experiencing a beautiful object.
* " It may, perhaps, be embarrassing for a solitary man to walk across a wide quadrangle under a fire of glances from a collection of collegiate females ; but it is child's play compared, for example, with the long trek from the pavilion at Lord's to the far end of the pitch, with five wickets down and ninety needed to save the follow-on.
Genesis is perhaps best seen as an example of " antiquarian history ", a type of literature telling of the first appearance of humans, the stories of ancestors and heroes, and the origins of culture, cities and so forth.
One often cited example, though perhaps not Luther's chief concern, is a condemnation of the selling of indulgences ; another prominent point within the 95 Theses is Luther's disagreement both with the way in which the higher clergy, especially the pope, used and abused power, and with the very idea of the pope.
The dates of very few of these sacred compositions are known ; perhaps the most notable example is the anthem They that go down to the sea in ships.
In Norse mythology there are themes of brother-sister marriage, a prominent example being between Njörðr and his unnamed sister ( perhaps Nerthus ), parents of Freyja and Freyr.
Referring to the death of Lani Morris, for example, she said that perhaps Morris was " not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation.
The foremost example of crusader art are perhaps the Melisende Psalter, an illuminated manuscript commissioned between 1135 and 1143 and now located in the British Library, and the sculpted Nazareth Capitals.
For example, he said " I cannot get over the difficulty of the wine which is kept in the cellar for three or four years while constantly increasing in exchange value, or that of the oak tree, which perhaps originally had not 2 s. expended on it in the way of labour, and yet comes to be worth £ 100.
For example, it is likely that even if the Library of Alexandria had hundreds of thousands of scrolls ( and thus perhaps tens of thousands of individual works ), some of these would have been duplicate copies or alternate versions of the same texts.

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