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While Plato finally allows a few acceptable hymns to the gods and famous men, still he clearly leaves the way open for further discussion of the issue.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
After a moment's thought he replied, `` That still leaves you a lot of latitude ''.
During the summer he had tried to repair some of his losses at the track, and the bare trees reminded him that his pari-mutuel tickets would still be lying, like leaves, in the gutters near Belmont and Saratoga.
This still leaves the point location time to improve.
He leaves Sally still dreaming of a marriage that will never happen.
However, while this may suggest that perceived OBEs are a type of lucid dream which takes place in a dream environment that mimics the actual environment of the dreamer, this falls short of supporting the idea that some conscious form of the dreamer actually leaves the body and perceives their external environment while still in a sleeping state.
In Germany, hearts ( Herz / Rot ), bells ( Schellen ), leaves ( Grün ), and acorns ( Eichel ) became the standard suits and are still used in Eastern and Southeastern German decks today for Skat, Schafkopf, Doppelkopf, and other games.
Generally speaking, a player should try to set the highest two-card hand that he can legally set: the best two-card hand that still leaves a higher five-card hand behind.
Because one operator and two operands are removed and one operand is added, there is a net loss of one operator and one operand, which still leaves an expression with N operators and N + 1 operands, thus allowing the iterative process to continue.
The concept can be broken down still further, with the Manifestation as the roots and trunk of the tree and his followers as the branches and leaves.
Pine, spruce and fir do not lose their leaves seasonally and are able to photosynthesize with their older leaves in late winter and spring when light is good but temperatures are still too low for new growth to commence.
And autumn leaves lie thick and still
This still leaves an unbalanced primary couple, which is offset by counterweights on the crankshaft and flywheel to leave a small secondary couple, which can be absorbed by carefully designed engine mounts.
* Italy: Death of Cunipert, King of the Lombards, leaves his son Liutpert, still a child, as king.
The Grove Dictionary of Art will have none of this confusion, and says flatly: " Over the centuries the word has been applied to a wide variety of winding and twining vegetal decoration in art and meandering themes in music, but it properly applies only to Islamic art ", so contradicting the definition of 1888 still found in the Oxford English Dictionary: " A species of mural or surface decoration in colour or low relief, composed in flowing lines of branches, leaves, and scroll-work fancifully intertwined.
Whether a person " leaves " a society does not change anything to the fact that this society will still contain suicides.
Coca is still chewed in the traditional way, with a tiny quantity of ilucta ( a preparation of the ashes of the quinoa plant ) added to the coca leaves ; it softens their astringent flavor and activates the alkaloids.
Later still, a worker takes her first orientation flights and finally leaves the hive and typically spends the remainder of her life as a forager.
* That just leaves one fundamental dimension and one fundamental unit, but we still have plenty of fundamental constants left to eliminate that too-for instance one could use G, the gravitational constant, or m ( e ), the electron rest mass.
If it is Cornish then ' Dun ' would = Fort ( Oliver Padel proposes ' Dun ' '- tagell ' ( narrow place ) in his book on place name elements and may be right ); there is a possible cognate form in the Channel Islands: Tente d ' Agel, but that still leaves the question subject to doubt.
But 3 − 4 is still invalid since it again leaves the line.
In the other version, it is Caunus who instigates the incest, but Byblis still seems to return his affection ; Caunus then leaves home before he can lose control over his desires, and Byblis, after a long search for him, makes a noose of her garment and hangs herself.

still and open
Mercifully, it was still open.
The bitterness of their wedding night still ripped within him like an open wound.
When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.
We take the position, however, that the third choice still remains the only sane one open to us.
Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.
It is still used in making current population estimates in post-census years, though the value of these estimates is open to question.
Hoag pushed open the door: at the far end of the long dark room Muller was faintly silhouetted against the window, the rifle still raised ; ;
He stopped in front of a door, placed a finger on his lips, and, still peering down into his beard, pushed open the door to a classroom.
There is still the position, based on the philosophical question of personal identity, termed open individualism, and in some ways similar to the old belief of monopsychism, that concludes that individual existence is illusory, and our consciousness continues existing after death in other conscious beings.
The place of composition is still an open question.
In some cases these laws were created or retained with the support of those whom they affected, to allow them a day off each week without fear of their competitors still being open.
Note that the continuous crossover between the dilute and dense regimes of attracting pairs of fermions is still an open problem, which now attracts a lot of attention within the field of ultracold gases.
At this time Yugoslavia was still a one-party state and open manifestations of Croatian nationalism were dangerous so new party was founded in an almost conspiratorial manner.
Paris – Brest – Paris ( PBP ), which began in 1891, is the oldest bicycling event still run on a regular basis on the open road, covers over and imposes a 90-hour time limit.
It still stands at the original site, within the grounds of what is now the Psychiatric Hospital and is open to the public.
The revised bet is still open, the prize being " clothing to cover the winner's nakedness ".
) 1482 ) to open up the African coast still further beyond the equator.
The Open University of the United Kingdom ( UKOU ), established in 1969 as the first educational institution in the world wholly dedicated to open and distance learning, still relies heavily on print-based materials supplemented by radio, television and, in recent years, online programming.
Brazil still won the game 1 – 0 – Jairzinho guided a shot past Banks in the second half – but England missed chances to get something, with Jeff Astle putting the ball wide of an open goal and Alan Ball striking the crossbar.
Whether this sort of system is present on Earth is still open to debate.
Since it is no longer maintained ( essentially replaced by the open source freeglut ) the above design issues are still not resolved in the original GLUT.
In response to this, the Clean Air Act 1956 was passed, mandating the creating of " smokeless zones " where the use of " smokeless " fuels was required ( this was at a time when most households still used open fires ); the Act was effective.
An alternate explanation is in the process of uncuffing an inmate, Bogart was struck in the mouth when the inmate wielded one open, uncuffed bracelet while the other side was still on his wrist.
On the other hand, if the player manually lowers the top cymbal of a standard hi-hat stand before playing, this allows any desired tension to be set, and the pedal can still be used to increase the tension while playing, but not to open the hats or to reduce the tension.

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