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and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.
What they have objected to is the attempt of the Russians to make use of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's death to turn the entire U.N. staff from the Secretary down into political agents of the respective countries from which they come.
Bienville, who returned to succeed Perier in 1732, objected that the merchants would not accept the responsibility of managing a trade in which they could see no hope of profits.
Patriarch Fulcher objected to the marriage on grounds of consanguinity, as the two shared a great-great-grandfather, Guy I of Montlhéry, and it seems that they waited until Fulcher's death to marry.
Some delegates objected to the establishment of the Politburo, and in response, the Politburo became responsible to the Central Committee, and Central Committee members could participate in Politburo sessions with a consultative voice, but could not vote unless they were members.
In creation science, creationists accepted speciation as occurring within a " created kind " or " baramin ", but objected to what they called " third level-macroevolution " of a new genus or higher rank in taxonomy.
In creation science, creationists accepted speciation as occurring within a " created kind " or " baramin ", but objected to what they called " third level-macroevolution " of a new genus or higher rank in taxonomy.
They also objected to students being refused a high school diploma if they could not perform 36 separate mathematics skills, despite being given good grades in class.
When Richard Stallman and the GNU team were implementing POSIX for the GNU operating system, they objected to this on the grounds that most people think in terms of 1024 byte ( or 1 KiB ) blocks.
Honorius also insisted that the monks take an oath of fidelity to the papacy, but they strenuously objected.
Henry objected to the marriage of Fulk ’ s daughter Sibylla of Anjou to William Clito, the son of the duke of Normandy, on the grounds that they were too closely related by blood, being sixth cousins.
Several members of the Porsche board objected ; their official objection was because they wanted Porsche AG to maintain some separation from Volkswagen.
In 2008, the organizers of an APA panel on the relationship between religion and homosexuality canceled the event after gay activists objected that " conversion therapists and their supporters on the religious right use these appearances as a public relations event to try and legitimize what they do.
Terms such as " stolen " were used in the context of taking children from their families – the Hon P. McGarry, a member of the Parliament of New South Wales, objected to the Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915 which then enabled the Aborigines ' Protection Board to remove Aboriginal children from their parents without having to establish that they were in any way neglected or mistreated ; McGarry described the policy as " steal the child away from its parents ".
His Greek countrymen objected to this practice, as they considered these rituals only suitable to the gods.
Anti-federalists objected to the shift of power from the states to the federal government, but as adoption of the Constitution became more and more likely, they shifted their strategy to establishing a bill of rights that would put some limits on federal power.
In 1789 when James Madison proposed to insert the word " national " in the part of the Bill of Rights providing that " no religion shall be established by law ," Elbridge Gerry told Congress that the Antifederalists had objected to the injustice of that name because they favored a federal government, while the Federalists favored " a national one.
The head of the German civil administration in Belarus, Generalkomissar Wilhelm Kube, who among other crimes personally murdered Jewish children, objected to the deportation of German Jews to the Minsk ghetto " who come from our own cultural circle " where they were being casually killed by German soldiers.
These states had voted solidly Democratic in every presidential election since 1880, and Roosevelt objected that they were given one-quarter of the delegates when they would contribute nothing to a Republican victory ( as it turned out, delegates from the former Confederate states supported Taft by a 5 to 1 margin ).
The Whigs failed to unite behind the expansion of county representation ; some objected to the idea because they felt that it would give too much power to the aristocracy and gentry in rural areas.
Some have objected to what they think is a harsher political and social climate, especially towards immigrants and Muslims.
In Quebec, English-speaking immigrants from Britain and the southern colonies objected to a variety of its provisions, which they saw as a removal of certain political freedoms.

they and vigorously
In vertebrates, vigorously contracting skeletal muscles ( during weightlifting or sprinting, for example ) do not receive enough oxygen to meet the energy demand, and so they shift to anaerobic metabolism, converting glucose to lactate.
The merchants with whom they were travelling, defended themselves vigorously and for a time successfully, but eventually they were conquered and overcome by the pirates, who took from them their ships and all that they possessed, whilst they themselves barely escaped on.
Nonetheless, they constitute an important minority whose naturalization / settlement in Lebanon is vigorously opposed by most Lebanese, who see them as a threat to Lebanon's delicate confessional balance.
For differential input signals, they vigorously change their instant resistances in opposite directions but the total resistance stays constant ( like a potentiometer with quickly moving slider ).
Plea bargaining can present a dilemma to defense attorneys, in that they must choose between vigorously seeking a good deal for their present client, or maintaining a good relationship with the prosecutor for the sake of helping future clients.
When the leaders in Boston learned of this, they vigorously protested, and the offer was withdrawn.
But the defendants vigorously denied that they had killed Rathenau, because he was Jewish.
While driving vigorously on their bikes they are surrounded by police officers and make the decision to drive their bikes into each other, choosing death over captivity.
They were not welcomed and the angels of the first few heavens fought them vigorously but they could not evict them due to the potent talismans that were worn by the wizards.
His father sent him to the Japanese headquarters in Saigon, where he vigorously protested the Japanese actions, when they invaded Laos and forced them to declare independence from France.
Magpie-larks sing more vigorously in response to duet calls from other birds than they do to the call of a single rival, and more vigorously still if the callers are strangers rather than established and familiar birds from a neighbouring territory.
In March 1975, Daniel Patrick Moynihan's article " The United States in Opposition ," urged America to vigorously defend liberal democratic principles when they were attacked by Soviet-bloc and Third World dictatorships at the United Nations.
Some reports say they were found frequently as working dogs aboard barges in the canals, with three jobs onboard: security ( barking vigorously when anyone approached the barge ), keeping the barges free of vermin, and nipping at the towing horses ' heels to get them moving to tow the barge.
In one trial, he sat apparently vigorously taking notes during both sides ' lengthy closing arguments and, once they concluded, immediately delivered his judgment.
: It was acknowledged by both Pops and Speed over the years that Racer X was the superior driver of the two, and the greatest driver that they had ever seen, but Speed always vowed to defeat Racer X as the two vigorously competed.
In smaller streams, they are present in pairs or smaller groups, and they float down, twisting round and round in the rapids, or fishing vigorously in some deep pool near the foot of some waterfall or rapid.
Adult males, recognised by the modified terminal segment of the palp, will defend themselves vigorously if they feel threatened and tend to wander during the warmer months of the year looking for receptive females for mating.
Maesia's ability to present a case " methodically and vigorously " suggests that while women didn't plead regularly in open court, they had experience in private declamation and family court.

they and proposition
Because this geometrical interpretation of multiplication was limited to three dimensions, there was no direct way of interpreting the product of four or more numbers, and Euclid avoided such products, although they are implied, e. g., in the proof of book IX, proposition 20.
Since they have grown to a rather large size, generating readers and writers has become a very expensive proposition.
The basic proposition of these two categories pertains to the nature of reality, and the primary distinction between them is the way they answer two fundamental questions: " what does reality consist of and how does it originate?
Villein land could not be abandoned, at least until demographic and economic circumstances made flight a viable proposition ; nor could they be passed to a third party without the lord's permission, and the customary payment.
An axiom is a proposition that defeats its opponents by the fact that they have to accept it and use it in the process of any attempt to deny it.
Alexander VII confirmed that they were too, by the bull Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem ( 16 October 1656 ) declaring that five propositions extracted by a group of theologians from the Sorbonne out of Jansen's work, mostly concerning grace and the fallen nature of man, were heretical, including the proposition according to which to say " that Christ died, or shed His blood for all men " would be a semipelagian error.
::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.
Later that year, the French Assembly of the Bishops voted to condemn Arnauld's distinction between the pope's ability to bind the mind of believers in matters of doctrine but not in matters of fact ; they asked Pope Alexander VII to condemn Arnauld's proposition as heresy.
Mr. Boddy reminds the guests that he can reveal their secrets in police custody and offers them an alternative proposition: by using weapons that he has provided to each of them, they can kill Wadsworth and destroy the evidence, keeping their secrets safe.
In earlier texts writers have not always made it sufficiently clear whether they are using the term proposition in sense of the words or the " meaning " expressed by the words.
Two meaningful declarative sentences express the same proposition if and only if they mean the same thing.
For example, " Snow is white " ( in English ) and " Schnee ist weiß " ( in German ) are different sentences, but they say the same thing, so they express the same proposition.
Two meaningful declarative sentence-tokens express the same proposition if and only if they mean the same thing.
The allies sent a proposition to Antigonus in which they demanded that Seleucus be allowed to return to Babylon.
When the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad laid plans to construct a rail line through Adams County, two farmers, the Hilty brothers, offered a proposition: they would donate land to the railroad in exchange for the building of a rail depot in the small community.
On September 2, 1879, they voted down a proposition to give the railroad a $ 10, 000 grant.
On September 2, 1879, they voted down a proposition to give the railroad a $ 10, 000 grant.
At the meeting they passed the first proposition of the new organization: " It is the unanimous sense of this convention that the attempt to abandon entirely the use of all means of personal restraint is not sanctioned by the true interests of the insane.
This method reached its high point with Euclid's Elements ( 300 BC ), monumental treatise on geometry structured with very high standards of rigor: each proposition is justified by a demonstration in the form of chains of syllogisms ( though they do not always conform strictly to Aristotelean templates ).
The proposition was rejected when Daimler-Benz threatened to pull out of its 1957 marketing and distribution agreement, which would have cost Studebaker-Packard more in revenue than they could have made from the badge-engineered Packard.
In 1895 the Volksraad passed a resolution, in which they declared their readiness to entertain a proposition from the South African Republic in favour of some form of federal union.
The growing family soon moved to the shipbuilding burgh of Govan near Glasgow, where they made a life in a very difficult financial situation, with his father attempting to maintain continuous employment in the shipyards rather than practicing his trade at sea — never an easy proposition given the boom-and-bust cycle of the industry.
If that original show ( Broadway Open House ) had been done five years later, they may have changed their minds, because they did a lot of the same kind of humor we did later ... Any time a performer dies in the process of doing a television series or a Broadway show, it's a difficult proposition how to proceed in good taste.

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