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On 4 August Orwell gave a talk at the Adelphi Summer School held at Langham, entitled An Outsider Sees the Distressed Areas ; others who spoke at the School included John Strachey, Max Plowman, Karl Polanyi and Reinhold Niebuhr.
He was Pylades to William Charles Macready's Orestes in Ambrose Philips's Distressed Mother when Macready made his first appearance at that theatre ( 1816 ).
Distressed at their threats, and following the advice of Sir William Knollys and the Duchess of Teck, Alexandra informed the Queen, who then wrote to the Prince of Wales.
Distressed by the conditions of workers at the Mills he set about giving them fairer conditions first at Manchester and afterwards at New Lanark, in Scotland, where he operated a large cotton mill from 1820 to 1829.
On 16 September 1816, Macready made his first London appearance at Covent Garden as Orestes in The Distressed Mother, a translation of Racine's Andromaque by Ambrose Philips.
Distressed, at the last skirmish at Markuszew on July 26 was supposedly seeking death, but was saved.
Pagels began attending an evangelical church as a teenager, attracted by the certainty and emotional power of the group, but ceased attending church after the death of a Jewish friend in a car wreck when her brethren said, unfortunately the friend hadn't been saved and so was in Hell: " Distressed and disagreeing with their interpretation — and finding no room for discussion — I realized that I was no longer at home in their world and left that church.
" Pagels remained fascinated by the power of Christianity, both for fostering love and for the divisiveness that can shadow the belief that one has received a divinely revealed truth .< ref > Beyond belief: the secret Gospel of Thomas Elaine H. Pagels-2003 " Distressed and disagreeing with their interpretation — and finding no room for discussion — I realized that I was no longer at home in their world and left that church.
Distressed at the prospect of spending her life as a bloated producer of babies, expected to be unable to read, write or reason, the narratrix requests that she be administered an identical dose of the same drug in the hope that she might return to her own time.
" Following comparable honors in 2008 and 2009, the firm was honored as " Law Firm of the Year " and for " Distressed Financing Deal of the Year " and " Consumer and Retail Products Deal of the Year " by The M & A Advisor at that publication's Middle-Market Financing Awards.
The practice of buying real estate at substantially below market value is called Distressed Real Estate Investing or Wholesale Real Estate Investing hence the term " wholesaler ".

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Distressed, Zoë returns to Casablanca, where she is discovered by Helena Chang, one of Reza's contacts who originally " created " Faith, and who asks Zoë to meet Faith and persuade her to die, so as to dissipate her influence.

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Distressed by the rumors, he wrote to Cardinal Karl von Reisach of the Congregation for the Propaganda of the Faith, objecting, " I possess neither the learning, nor prudence, nor energy, nor firmness, nor bodily health or strength.

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Other investors focus on the lowest quality debt rated CCC or Distressed securities, commonly defined as those yielding 1500 basis points over equivalent government bonds.
An expert on public housing and urban issues, Jackson has been asked to serve on a number of national and state commissions, most notably the General Services Commission of the State of Texas, where he served as Chairman ; the National Commission on America's Urban Families, and the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing.
In the mid-1990s, Green also played with the bands Satisfact on K Records, Red Stars Theory on Touch and Go Records, and Peeved on Distressed Records.
In general, equity may be viewed as a call option on the firm, and this allows for the valuation of troubled firms which may otherwise be difficult to analyse ; see Distressed securities.
In 1893 Mary attend the Trades and Labor Council meetings, served on the sub-committee which examined conditions in the clothing industry, and on the Distressed Women and Children's Committee which distributed clothes and food to the families hit by the economic depression of the ' 90s.
Distressed by the villager's greed, Maria runs away up the mountain, her pristine white clothing soon becoming indistinguishable from the white clouds that play amongst the trees on the upper parts of the mountains.

Distressed and I
Disgusted by the spectacle, Yasa realised the vanity of worldly life, and left the family home muttering “ Distressed am I, oppressed am Iand journeyed in the direction of Isipatana where the Buddha was temporarily residing after his first five bhikkhus had attained arahantship.
The Buddha was pacing up and down in an open space near where Yasa was muttering “ Distressed am I, oppressed am I ”, and called Yasa over to him, inviting him to sit down.

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* The Distressed Orphan ; or, Love in a Madhouse ( 1726 )
His sculptures of poetical subjects were in a style similar to those of the contemporary Italian school: his works of this type included Psyche and Cupid for the Duke of Bedford ; Euphrosyne for the Duke of Newcastle ; A Nymph Unclasping her Zone ; The Distressed Mother and The Houseless Traveller.
*-August, 2003, Manmohan Singh, IMF Working Paper WP / 03 / 161 ; " Recovery Rates from Distressed Debt-Empirical Evidence from Chapter 11 Filings, International Litigation and Recent Sovereign Debt Restructurings "

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This is a jumble of verses from other lyrics including Arthur's Seat shall be my Bed ( 1701 ), The Distressed Virgin ( 1633 ) and the Scottish scandal ballad

Distressed and .
Distressed by the increasing number of closed theatres, studios and companies would find new and innovative ways to bring audiences back.
Distressed securities include such events as restructurings, recapitalizations, and bankruptcies.
Distressed, the son called out to all of Heaven and Earth.
Pursuant to Act 47 of 1987 ( the Financially Distressed Municipalities Act ), DCA commissioned the development of a recovery plan for Clairton.
* Distressed Children & Infants International, a nonprofit organization serving disadvantaged children in South Asia.
* Bohl, Charles C. " New Urbanism in the City: Potential Applications and Implications for Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods.
Distressed or Special Situations is a broad category referring to investments in equity or debt securities of financially stressed companies.
* Procession of Distressed ( Rite of Holy Week, Holy Saturday )-Probably the most impressive procession of Holy Week.
Below the Distressed statue followed by a large choir of some 250 girls with their faces covered and dressed in black, some still barefoot, screaming ( in harrowing ways ) a typical song, the Stabat Mater.
More recent poetry collections include God Never Dies ( Blue Press ), The Distressed Look ( Coyote Books ), Again ( La Alameda Press ), and As Ever: Selected Poems published by Penguin Books.
He was also active in the Society for the Relief of Poor and Distressed Masters of Ships, Their Wives and Children ( est.

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First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.
His assumption seems to be that any such friends, being tolerable humans, must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at least partly in sympathy with his views.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.
All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.
We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.
Earth, being at the center of the universe, would have the same shape as the latter ; ;
Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.
These performances were being staged at historical monuments throughout Europe.
I became disgusted at being so preoccupied with the state of my own miserable soul.
In all fairness it must be admitted that Adams made no pretense at being an impartial historian.
To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.
For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.
Against the dramatic fight being waged for preservation of 30 miles of Cape Cod shoreline, the tiny tract at Stone Harbor may seem unimportant.
Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.
There were no `` casualties '', but the `` guerrillas '' admitted to being `` a little tired '' when the leaders called a halt at 9 A.M. to enable out-of-town members to catch a plane.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
A study at the Pentagon and at the service academies revealed that nothing was being done there.

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