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for such programs raise hopes of assistance toward achieving excellence in scholarship and the arts which are dashed when the programs are discontinued ; ;
and they are dashed, no less, by lack of skill in making selections of men and women for development toward the highest reaches of the mind and spirit.
Hopes for the Enlightenment, human rights, republican government, democracy, and freedom after Napoleon I's defeat in 1815 were dashed, however, when the Congress of Vienna reinstated many monarchies.
" As described by biographer Christopher Sandford, " The record dashed such high hopes with dubious choices, and production that spelt the end — for fifteen years — of Bowie's partnership with Eno.
" Universal Resonance Curve ", a symmetric approximation to the normalized response of a resonant circuit ; abscissa values are deviation from center frequency, in units of center frequency divided by 2Q ; ordinate is relative amplitude, and phase in cycles ; dashed curves compare the range of responses of real two-pole circuits for a Q value of 5 ; for higher Q values, there is less deviation from the universal curve.
Simpson's paradox for continuous data: a positive trend appears for two separate groups ( blue and red ), a negative trend ( black, dashed ) appears when the data are combined.
The first pictures of Mars returned by space probes dashed hopes of contacting Martians, although claims of past Martian civilizations have continued into the 21st century ( see Cydonia for one such claim ).
Hutchinson was suitably proud of his creation, and it is said that he once dashed up a staircase to reprimand an undergraduate for spoiling its symmetry by sitting too near one of its windows.
According to legend ( recounted in Edward Hall's chronicle, written several years afterwards though from first-hand accounts ), he did not wait for an answer but dashed out Wenlock's brains with a battleaxe before seeking sanctuary in the Abbey.
Stevenson's hopes for victory were dashed when, in October, President Eisenhower's doctors gave him a clean bill of health and the Suez and Hungary crises erupted simultaneously.
The vertical dashed lines are asymptote s for the harmonic means.
If you need to control the points in order of appearance ( for example to print several consecutive dashed lines ) you will have to simplify this code by skipping the 2nd swap:
It did not, however, significantly improve the economic or political fortune of the population ’ s poverty-stricken peasant majority ; only a few Indonesians were able to gain a larger role in commerce, and hopes for democracy were dashed within a decade.
The dashed black curve behind the red curve is a standard power-law curve, for comparison.
His first stage appearance was at age 13 but his early hopes of becoming a serious actor were dashed when he failed an audition for RADA.
Quickly regaining his feet, and very annoyed, Johnson immediately dashed straight at Ketchell and threw a single punch, an uppercut, a punch for which he was famous, to Ketchel's jaw, knocking him out.
Whistler's grand hope that the publicity of the trial would rescue his career was dashed as patrons avoided him for years to come.
They tore the curtains, dashed in pieces the carved work of brass and stone, brake the altars, spoilt the clothes and corporesses, wrested the irons, conveyed away or brake the chalices and vestiments, pulled up the brass of the gravestones, not sparing the glass and seats which were made about the pillars of the church for men to sit in.
McElwee becomes enamored with various women, eventually developing feelings for each of his subjects, only to have his romantic hopes dashed.
However, unlike most such places, for example, Lexington and LeRoy, the plat used at Concord showed with dashed lines how the streets which entered the Public Square midway along each side could be extended to meet at the center the square.
His hopes were again dashed by his affiliation with the perceived radical Liszt, the appointing committee choosing the conservative patriot Josef Krejčí for the post.
While progress toward union in the East continued to be made in the following decades, all hopes for a proximate reconciliation were dashed with the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

dashed and next
Roman would die in a car crash the next year, and all chances of a fourth bout between the two, which was a possibility that was being talked about, were dashed with Roman's death.
In compounds such as chlorophyll and phenol, some diagrams show a dotted or dashed line to represent the de-localization of areas where the electron density is higher next to the single bonds.
However, after the Zhang's force met with Mao Zedong's force during the Long March, Comintern's plan of letting him help Zhang Guotao was dashed when Mao Zedong and Zhang Guotao disagreed on the next move of the Chinese Red Army.
Anna's sailor leaves on the next ship, and her hopes of leading a normal life seem dashed.

dashed and turn
The majority report of the court found that Commodore Schley failed to proceed to Santiago with due despatch, that the squadron should not have been delayed by the Eagle, that he should not have turned westward, that he should have obeyed the Navy Department's order of May 25, 1898, that he did not do his utmost to capture the Colon, that the turn of the Brooklyn caused the Texas to stop, for carelessness in endangering Texas, for blanketing the fire of other American vessels ( the Texas's fire was blanketed when stopped as the USS Olympia dashed past her ), that he did injustice to lieutenant-commander Hodgson ( Navigation officer of the Brooklyn at the time of the incident ), that his conduct in the Santiago campaign was characterized by vacillation, dilatoriness, and " lack of enterprise ," and that his coal reports were inaccurate and misleading.
At junctions and sliproads, the yellow line peels away into the turn, with a dashed white line ( with green cats ' eyes ) denoting a lane division following the main route ( i. e. in most cases the road remains the same width, and a turn lane takes the place of the hard shoulder ).
Hua Xiong dashed out of the pass and charged towards the frightened Bao Zhong, who attempted to turn around but was slashed by Hua Xiong.
Henry's hopes of a quiet Christmas are dashed when his kids turn up

dashed and draw
However the English clergy and Anglican faithful, whose hopes for a Protestant royal succession had been dashed by Mary's imprisonment and execution of Lady Jane Grey, saw it as a matter of English Christian duty to resist this backlash, not least to resist the political ambitions of the King of Spain ( Philip II, whom Mary married ) to draw England within the sphere of the Holy Roman Empire and its Roman Catholic satellites.
Needing only a draw to qualify in their final home game against the United States, Trinidad and Tobago's hopes were dashed by Paul Caligiuri who scored the only goal in the 38th minute to give the United States the last qualification spot for the World Cup.

dashed and made
Nolan was the first to be killed when he dashed forward ahead of Cardigan, either in an effort to force the pace, or, suddenly realizing the terrible mistake that was being made ( and his part in it ), in an attempt to change the direction of the brigade towards Raglan's intended objective.
#: Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera-a body so badly beaten that the face is completely unrecognizable.
He made TandavNrutya ( dance ) on the peak of Brahmagiri and dashed his jata there.
On 12 March 1915 at Neuve Chapelle, France, after the enemy had captured a part of one of the British trenches and a counter-attack made with one officer and 20 men had failed ( all but two of the party having been killed or wounded in the attempt ) Captain Foss on his own initiative dashed forward with only eight men under heavy fire and attacked the enemy with bombs and captured the position and the 52 Germans occupying it.
The Macedonian conqueror made short shrifts of the arrangements of Darius and after over-running the Achaemenid Empire he dashed into Afghanistan.
In 1903 a scandal involving school pupils made him persona non grata in the salons of Paris, and dashed his marriage plans ; after which he took up residence in Capri with his long-time lover, Nino Cesarini.
He was in such pain and fury that he killed Lichas, the deliverer of the gift: " he made the white brain to ooze from the hair, as the skull was dashed to splinters, and blood scattered therewith " ( as translated by Sir Richard C. Jebb ).
Dr Buddha Parkash notes: " The Macedonian conqueror made short shrifts of the arrangements of Darius and over-running Achaemenian empire, dashed into modern Pakistan ( achemenid satrapen ) and encountered stiff residstence of the Kamboja tribes called Aspasioi and Assakenoi known in the Indian texts as Aśvayana and Aśvakayana ".
He retained to the end an intense love of country, which made him wish to die in Portugal, and in 1796 a royal decree permitting his return there and ordering the restoration of his goods was issued, but delays occurred in its execution, and the flight of the court to the Brazil as a result of the French invasion finally dashed his hopes.

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