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The point is that many of the most impressive developments in the arts nowadays are aberrant, idiosyncratic.
Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.
Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District of Columbia from a commercial standpoint.
There can be no doubt that the American Catholic accomplishment in the field of higher education is most impressive: our European brethren never cease to marvel at the number and the size of our colleges and universities.
And in this country Gustave Weigel's delineation of the line between the sacral and secular orders during the last presidential campaign served to provide a most impressive Roman Catholic defense of the practical autonomy of both church and state.
It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.
Alfonso, who was provided with the most impressive artillery of the time, again besieged Naples.
The equipment of the land forces is impressive in terms of numbers, but most of it is nonoperational and scheduled to be scrapped or refurbished and exported to other nations.
The Council of Trent, delayed and interrupted several times because of political or religious disagreements, was a major reform council and the most impressive embodiment of the ideals of the Counter-Reformation.
Considered to be one of his most powerful and impressive periods in the late 1950s he began working in black and white up until the mid-1960s.
The most impressive is the now-restored Athenian Treasury, built to commemorate the Athenians ' victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
In order to justify the divine nature of the Flavian rule, Domitian emphasized connections with the chief deity Jupiter, perhaps most significantly through the impressive restoration of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill.
Born into a family of relatively low status, his parents sent him to be educated by the monks of Fulda-one of the most impressive centres of learning in the Frank lands-perhaps due to his small stature ( Einhard referred to himself as a " tiny manlet ") which restricted his riding and sword-fighting ability, Einhard concentrated his energies towards scholarship and especially to the mastering of Latin.
Finland's longest and most impressive rivers are in the north.
In addition to Moore's own work on the paradox, the puzzle also inspired a great deal of work by Ludwig Wittgenstein, who described the paradox as the most impressive philosophical insight that Moore had ever introduced.
This is where the Council meets formally, and is one of the most impressive rooms in the City Chambers, featuring rich Spanish mahogany panelling.
George Frederick rebuilt the palace and fortress Plassenburg, which was destroyed after the second margravian war ( 1552 – 1554 ), as one of the most impressive residences of the renaissance in the German empire.
Opinions vary amongst historians as to the military skill shown by John during this campaign, with most recent historians arguing that his performance was passable, although not impressive.
Budget execution in 2004 was also impressive, as actual consolidated budget revenues exceeded projections by 1. 4 % for most of the year.
One of the most impressive achievements described in the Meteorology is the description of what is now known as the hydrologic cycle.
The mid-engined car appeared the most impressive, although it was known at the time that such a layout would struggle to meet the noise, vibration and harshness ( NVH ) requirements of the project.
The Great Migration is one of the most impressive natural events worldwide, involving some 1, 300, 000 wildebeest, 500, 000 Thomson's gazelles, 97, 000 Topi, 18, 000 elands, and 200, 000 zebras.
One of Magdeburg's most impressive buildings is the Lutheran Cathedral of Saints Catherine and Maurice with a height of, making it the highest church building of eastern Germany.
It has extremes of many kinds: some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach ; the impressive and famous sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy ; some of the most northerly surviving natural woodland in the British Isles ; the remote possibility that Arctic Char survive in Heldale Water and the most northerly Martello Towers, which were built to defend the area during the Napoleonic War, but were never used in combat.

most and testimony
In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.
The edition of 1849 may be regarded as historically the most important, from the mass of new critical material it used ; that of 1859 is distinguished from Tischendorf's other editions by coming nearer to the received text ; in the eighth edition, the testimony of the Sinaitic manuscript received great ( probably too great ) weight.
While most of these testimonies represent ailments neither diagnosed nor treated by medical professionals, the Church does require three other people to vouch for any testimony published in its official organ, the Christian Science Journal.
In the United States federal courts, a cross-examining attorney is typically not permitted to ask questions that do not pertain to the testimony offered during direct examination, but most state courts do permit a lawyer to cross-examine a witness on matters not raised during direct examination.
Questioning a survivor's testimony, denouncing the role of Jewish collaborators, suggesting that Germans suffered during the bombing of Dresden or that any state except Germany committed crimes in World War II are all evidence of Holocaust denial – according to Deborah Lipstadt – and the most " insidious " forms of Holocaust denial are " immoral equivalencies ", denying the uniqueness of The Holocaust.
In addition to these changes, the Pope noted that his revision considerably modified other sections of the Missal, such as the Proper of Seasons, the Proper of Saints, the Common of Saints, the Ritual Masses and the Votive Masses, adding: " In all of these changes, particular care has been taken with the prayers: not only has their number been increased, so that the new texts might better correspond to new needs, but also their text has been restored on the testimony of the most ancient evidences.
Perhaps the most important of the Rules of Evidence is that, in general, hearsay testimony is inadmissible ( although there are many exceptions to this rule ). the United Kingdom the Civil Evidence Act 1995 sec 1 specifically allows for admission of ' hearsay ' evidence, legislation also allows for ' hearsay ' evedence to be used in criminal proceedings.
In practice the new sharia courts in Nigeria have most often meant the reintroduction of harsh punishments without respecting the much tougher rules of evidence and testimony.
What's most impressive about that gift -- focused as it may be by the intensified concentration that his dyslexia demands -- is Boies ' uncanny ability to recall a key fact, legal citation or piece of contradictory testimony at moments of the most intense pressure.
Biskind describes an episode during the first week of shooting, where Beatty was angered at something Kazan said: " The star lashed out at the spot where he knew Kazan was most vulnerable, the director's friendly testimony before the HUAC.
Kazan remained controversial in some circles until his death for testimony he gave before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) in 1952, a period that many, such as journalist Michael Mills, feel was " the most controversial period in Hollywood history.
One of the most important factors in the trial was the testimony of Tommaso Buscetta, the first ever Sicilian Mafiosi boss to become an informant ( pentito ).
Besides the interest attached to these Selinuntine metopes from their important bearing on the history of Greek sculpture, the remains of these temples are of value as affording the most unequivocal testimony to the use of painting, both for the architectural decoration of the temples, and as applied to the sculptures with which they were adorned.
Offa's Dyke, most of which was probably built in his reign, is a testimony to the extensive resources Offa had at his command and his ability to organise them.
The most accurate description of Beethoven's regard for Clementi's music can be found in the testimony of his assistant, Anton Schindler, who wrote " He ( Beethoven ) had the greatest admiration for these sonatas, considering them the most beautiful, the most pianistic of works, both for their lovely, pleasing, original melodies and for the consistent, easily followed form of each movement.
Although the crew's intervention and Crusher's own testimony saved him from expulsion, all of Cadet Crusher's academic credits for the year were cancelled and he was required to repeat the year and graduate after most of the rest of his class.
One of the most often-cited parts of Anatoly Kuznetsov's documentary novel Babi Yar is the testimony of Dina Pronicheva, an actress of the Kiev Puppet Theatre, and a survivor.
He carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and chiromancy, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology ; which studies proved so advantageous to him, that, not to speak of the two first, which introduced him to all the popes of his time, and acquired him a reputation among learned men, it is certain that he was a great master in the latter, which appears not only by the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua, and the translations he made of the books of the most learned rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra, added to those he himself composed on critical days, and the improvement of astronomy, but by the testimony of the renowned mathematician Regiomontanus, who made a fine panegyric on him, in quality of an astrologer, in the oration he delivered publicly at Padua when he explained there the book of Alfraganus.
It wasn't until later, at the barracks well after completing his assigned tasks, that he " heard a story that were seen on radar, then they were gone .” His testimony, for the most past, is useless.
According to court testimony from Prof. A. Vorobiev, Director of the Russian Academic Germology Center, most, if not all, of the deaths were caused by suffocation when hostages collapsed on chairs with heads falling back or were transported and left lying on their backs by rescue workers ; in such a position, tongue prolapse causes blockage of breathing venues.

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