Sometimes he did this three or four times a day, for this Woman was almost always with him.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

Political theoretical understanding, although almost at a standstill during this century, did develop during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and resulted in a flood of inventions which increased the possibility for man to coexist with man.

Their kind created an American culture superior to any in the world, an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

And knowing its humble place in the scale of things, why did he, at this time of life, seem almost ready to sell his soul for plumpness??

The conductor did recall having priests as passengers and this satisfied police, although the conductor also pointed out that in heavily Catholic Fall River there were priests riding on almost every trip the streetcar made, so Morse's statement really proved nothing.

Although Pearson disbelieved almost everything Lizzie said, and read a sinister purpose into almost everything she did, he happily accepted her statement about Bridget as the whole truth.

Mr. Skyros did not at all like the look on Angelo's regular-featured, almost girlishly good-looking face -- or indeed anything about Angelo.

Men blew dust on objects in a room on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel Dumont and blew it off again, and did the same in a tiny, almost airless room in a tenement in the West Forties.

One modern scholar has written " It is almost certain not only that at no time in his life did he ever see, let alone command, a Roman army, but that, throughout the twenty-three years of his reign, he never went within five hundred miles of a legion ".

For example, in 2006 more than 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies did not have a COO, and in 2007 almost 58 percent of Fortune 500 companies did not have a COO.

( Harold Wilson did manage a total of almost eight year as prime minister, but it was across two different spells between 1964 and 1976.

Citizenship became an idealized, almost abstract, concept, and did not signify a submissive relation with a lord or count, but rather indicated the bond between a person and the state in the rather abstract sense of having rights and duties.

However, this rule did not allow such suits to bind similarly situated absent parties, which rendered the rule almost entirely useless and was a direct reflection of Story's inability to understand the old English Chancery precedents.

Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.

While almost an anachronism after the early stages of that war, German dragoons did see continuing service on the Eastern Front until 1917.

The police did not telephone the coroner until almost two hours after the discovery of the floating shoe, resulting in a late appearance by the coroner.

Not only did he fight for the Protestant cause as a preacher and theologian, but he was almost the only member of Luther's party who was able to confront the Roman Catholics with the weapon of literary satire.

" What CIA officials did not realize was that the plane crashed almost fully intact, and the Soviets recovered its equipment.

In addition, the Activision plant made numerous mistakes in packaging where the Infocom one almost never did.

ISO / IEC 8859-11 did not get such a charset assigned, presumably because it was almost identical to TIS 620.

He described Gnostic groups as sexual libertines, for example, when some of their own writings advocated chastity more strongly than did orthodox texts-yet the gnostic texts cannot be taken as guides to their actual practices, about which almost nothing is reliably known today.

He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

Rothkopf's definition almost exclusively involves allowing individuals in other nations to accept or reject foreign cultural influences.

" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.

George Orwell wrote in 1944 that " the word ' Fascism ' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept ' bully ' as a synonym for ' Fascist '".

The Toronto Parking Authority estimates that at about $ 345 per machine, it will cost about $ 1 million to upgrade almost 3, 000 machines to accept the new coins.

Restoration of the monarchy was almost realized in 1873 with parliament offering the crown to Henri, comte de Chambord, but his refusal to accept the tricolor flag that had been adopted during the Revolution made the restoration of monarchy impossible for the time being.

* The Dutch East India Company sends 2000 soldiers under the command of Jan Pieterszoon Coen to the Banda Islands in order to force the local inhabitants to accept the Dutch trade monopoly on the lucrative nutmeg, grown almost exclusively on the Banda islands.

Very few in the ecology movement would accept doing bodily harm by non-legal means to achieve their goals-they have no organized presence and are rejected by almost all players in the ecology movement.

She was at first wary of them and their mother, Xquic, and ordered them out of her house when they were yet infants, but she would come to accept them almost as her own sons, raising and caring for them.

At a later period and almost universally the Newts themselves came to accept a different faith, whose origin among them is unknown ; this involved adoration of Moloch, whom they visualized as a giant Newt with a human head ; they were reported to have enormous submarine idols made of cast iron, manufactured to their orders by Armstrong or Krupp, but no further details ever leaked out of their cultic rituals since they were conducted under water ; they were, however, believed to be exceptionally cruel and secret.

The first sense of " assume " in the OED is " to take unto ( oneself ), receive, accept, adopt .” The term was originally employed in religious contexts as in “ to receive up into heaven ,” especially “ the reception of the Virgin Mary into heaven, with body preserved from corruption ,” ( 1297 CE ) but it was also simply used to refer to “ receive into association ” or “ adopt into partnership .” Moreover, other senses of assumere included ( i ) “ investing oneself with ( an attribute ), ” ( ii ) “ to undertake ” ( especially in Law ), ( iii ) “ to take to oneself in appearance only, to pretend to possess ,” and ( iv ) “ to suppose a thing to be ” ( all senses from OED entry on “ assume ”; the OED entry for “ assumption ” is almost perfectly symmetrical in senses ).

As the corporate culture may mean almost everything, firing on the base of culture means the employer does not accept and desire to be inclusive for the culture of the employee and thus the employee " does not fit in corporate culture " ( Zappos, Netflix, and many other companies hire and fire based solely on cultural fit ), athough this may fall in the ground of discrimination, there is still not law or case law resolving or addressing the question making this practice possible and available for businesses for now.

Although Prussia had begun its mobilization almost a month before France, Napoleon had kept a high state of readiness after the Russian refusal to accept the peace from the Third Coalition.

Before arriving in Georgia, Kemble had already concluded, “ It is notorious, that almost every Southern planter has a family more or less numerous of illegitimate coloured children .” It is significant that her statements about Roswell King, Sr. and Roswell King, Jr. and their alleged status as the white fathers of enslaved mulatto children are based on what she was told by slaves who themselves were in some cases inclined to accept hearsay accounts about their paternity.

Nevertheless, the convention that the head of state accept ministerial advice is so strong that in ordinary circumstances, refusal to do so would almost certainly provoke a constitutional crisis.

During Muhammad Ali's absence in Arabia his representative at Cairo had completed the confiscation, begun in 1808, of almost all the lands belonging to private individuals, who were forced to accept instead inadequate pensions.

Throughout her life, Crosby was described as having " a horror of wealth ", never set prices to speak, often refused honoraria, and " what little she did accept she gave away almost as soon as she got it ".

When, however, they are asked to consider timescales in excess of ten years they almost all seem to accept the logic of the scenario planning process, and no longer fall back on that of extrapolation.

Those who placidly accept the judgement that Boyle Roche was " the Fool of the Grattan Parliament " should reflect on the fact that for almost 25 years he served as Gentleman Usher and Master of Ceremonies to the Irish Court, " an office for which a dignified and decorous demeanor is among the chief essentials.

It is also true that Jalil Muntaquim and Herman Bell decided to accept a guilty plea due to their being already incarcerated for almost 40 years.

As the return trip progresses, the crew are at first skeptical that something has come aboard while they were on Mars, but soon they accept this as a fact: The body-count begins to rise as they discover the shriveled corpse of a colleague and another near death, both of which have been sucked almost dry of all moisture, including their bone marrow.

Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support a sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston, Miss Adclyffe's illegitimate son, whose first wife is believed to have perished in a fire ; however, their marriage is almost immediately nullified when it emerges that his first wife had left the inn before it caught fire.

In 1974, David Jones became the first major retailing organisation to accept Bankcard and by 1976 the card was accepted by almost every Australian department chain.