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Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments :" The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours the work of many anxious years.
:" The eras that fell in this reign were: ( 1 ) the remaining seven years of Shuchō ; and ( 2 ) Taika, which was four years long.
:" The eras that fell in this reign were: ( 1 ) the remaining seven years of Shuchō ; and ( 2 ) Taika, which was four years long.
:" If a period fixed by weeks, months, and years does not commence from the beginning of a week, month, or year, it ends with the ending of the day which proceeds the day of the last week, month, or year which corresponds to that on which it began to commence.
Vincent Canby of the New York Times was similarly unimpressed :" Though special-effects experts in Japan and around the world have vastly improved their craft in the last 30 years, you wouldn't know it from this film.
An editorial in the St. Petersburg Times argued :" Reno's reputation as a state attorney, the foundation for her eight years as the nation's attorney general and her candidacy for governor of Florida, was built in significant part by her aggressive prosecution of three sensational child abuse cases in Miami-Dade County.
:" You spend the first forty years of your life trying to get in this fucking business, and the next forty years trying to get out.
:" In the absence of any new management action, that is, if boat mortality rates continue to increase at the rates observed since 1992, the situation in the Atlantic and Southwest regions is dire, with no chance of meeting recovery criteria within 100 years.
:" My Administration's position is very clear: if the Task Force and the Bush Administration stand by their 2005 conclusions, then for over 50 years the U. S Government has perpetuated a ' monumental hoax ' on the people of Puerto Rico, on the people of the United States and on the international community.
:" In recent years, the revisionist view that thuggee was a British invention, a means to tighten their hold in the country, has been given credence in India, France and the US, but this well-researched book objectively questions that assertion.
:" The assumption of spatial and temporal invariance of natural laws is by no means unique to geology since it amounts to a warrant for inductive inference which, as Bacon showed nearly four hundred years ago, is the basic mode of reasoning in empirical science.
:" Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation — and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other — Time!
:" Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow.
:" The Persians ruled for a thousand years and did not need us Arabs even for a day.
:" The Conservative belief that there is some law of nature which prevents men from being employed, that it is ' rash ' to employ men, and that it is financially ' sound ' to maintain a tenth of the population in idleness for an indefinite period, is crazily improbable-the sort of thing which no man could believe who had not had his head fuddled with nonsense for years and years.
The spirit of the paper during the first ten years of its existence was summed up in a Feb. 1, 1969 staff editorial :" We believe that people who are serious in their criticism of this society and their desire to change it must involve themselves in serious revolutionary struggle.
:" Now the sojourning of the children of Israel and of their fathers which they had dwelt in the land of Canaan and in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
:" Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
" His rationalist view of the cosmos is evinced also in Plutarch's letter of consolation to Apollonius :" according to Simonides a thousand or ten thousand years are an undeterminable point, or rather the tiniest part of a point.
:" Michigan by one device or another has over the years created black school districts and white school districts, the task of equity is to provide a unitary system for the affected area where, as here, the State washes its hands of its own creations.

:" and later
:" A little later he built a church on his own ancestral property and served God with the utmost devotion.
" Van Tassel later described the historic play to the United Press :" I was the right halfback, and on this formation played one yard back of our right tackle.
:" Apart from its other achievements, Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion influenced two famous later movie sequences.
:" Now they say that Penthesileia was the last of the Amazons to win distinction for bravery and that for the future the race diminished more and more and then lost all its strength ; consequently in later times, whenever any writers recount their prowess, men consider the ancient stories about the Amazons to be fictitious tales.
:" Some of the Naxians also have a story of their own, that there were two Minoses and two Ariadnes, one of whom, they say, was married to Dionysos in Naxos and bore him Staphylos and his brother, and the other, of a later time, having been carried off by Theseus and then abandoned by him, came to Naxos, accompanied by a nurse named Korkyne, whose tomb they show ; and that this Ariadne also died there.
:" A week later the same young men, with two other brothers and an uncle, captured in like manner another refugee wife of Sihayo, in the company of the young man with whom she had fled.
:" Soon after, relieved by the death of Theodotus uses a erroneous version of the name, Arsaces made peace and concluded an alliance with his son, also by the name of Theodotus ; some time later he fought against Seleucus who came to punish the rebels, and he prevailed: the Parthians celebrated this day as the one that marked the beginning of their freedom " ( Justin, XLI, 4 )
" After five minutes of talking to Thalberg, however, she would later write about " Universal's Boy Wonder :" " He might be a boy in looks and age, but it was no child's mind that was being asked to cope with the intricate politics of Universal City.
:" it is almost indisputable that he accepted advancement in 523 as the immediate successor of Boethius, who was then falling from grace after less than a year as magister officiorum, and who was sent to prison and later executed.
:" While he granted that David whom authorship of many of the Psalms is traditionally ascribed was unquestionably a chosen instrument of God, Watts claimed that his religious understanding could not have fully apprehended the truths later revealed through Jesus Christ.
Twenty-five years later, a police officer who had been at Oxford Street bus station described to journalist Peter Taylor the scene he came upon in the wake of the bombing :" The first thing that caught my eye was a torso of a human being lying in the middle of the street.
:" Far from ‘ inactivity ,’ by choosing to forgo insurance, Plaintiffs are making an economic decision to try to pay for health care services later, out of pocket, rather than now, through the purchase of insurance.
Valla's defense ( or adaptation ) of Epicureanism was later taken up in The Epicurean, by Erasmus, the " prince of humanists :"
Reflecting Schleicher ′ s reputation for deviousness and being untrustworthy, Hermann Göring joked in 1932 :" Any Chancellor who has Herr von Schleicher on his side must expect sooner or later to be sunk by the Schleicher torpedo, there was a joke current in political circles -" General von Schleicher ought really to have been an Admiral for his military genius lies in shooting under water at his political friends "".
A half-century later, one of them ( George MacDonald Fraser, later author of the Flashman novels, then a nineteen-year-old lance corporal ) recalled :" But the biggest boost to morale was the burly man who came to talk to the assembled battalion … it was unforgettable.
:" Bland continued to spend half of each week with his widowed mother and her paid companion, Maggie Doran, who also had a son by him, though Edith did not realize this until later that summer when Bland fell ill with smallpox.
His ideas later fermented into a concept of what he termed the " social lie :" that societies are governed by tactics of deception in order to maintain a hierarchy of exploitation and servitude.
Moran voted against authorizing the Iraq War in 2002 and did not support the troop increase for the Afghanistan War proposed by President Barack Obama in 2009, saying first that he appreciated Obama's " careful consideration regarding the U. S .' s engagement in Afghanistan ", but later defining the issues on which he and the President disagreed :" Our security concern is Al-Qaeda, not the Taliban.
That is especially true for the millions of dead of this century, from the Armenians all the way to the victims of the Gulag Archipelago or the Cambodians who were and still are being murdered before all of our eyes-but who have still been dropped from the world's memory " In his " Postscript " of 21 April 1987, Fest wrote that in his view :" In its substance, the dispute was initiated by Ernst Nolte's question whether Hitler's monstrous will to annihilate the Jews, judging from its origin, came from early Viennese impressions or, what is more likely, from later Munich experiences, that is, whether Hitler was an originator or simply being reactive.
:" Sandrocottus, when he was a stripling, saw Alexander himself, and we are told that he often said in later times that Alexander narrowly missed making himself master of the country, since its king was hated and despised on account of his baseness and low birth ".
His concern was German naval strength and resupply of any landed troops :" To a defending force, cut off and left to its own devices, the topography of the country does not afford us much protection ... without supplies and reinforcements they would soon feel the increasing pressure of British expeditionary force brought over under the protection of British naval power ; sooner or later our own troops would face a situation similar to Namsos or Dunkirk.
:" The Afridis and Khataks lumped together as Karlanris, can be held to reflect a knowledge that they represented a more aboriginal stock, which only later absorbed the characteristics of the invaders.
" The News and Observer reported Neils recollection of the column in an interview years later :" I wrote at some point about the kids getting into the Ford Expedition and commenting on the ' footprints ' on the windshield.

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