True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

Yet he did drop his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much in deference to the Grafin as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something special.

In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.

The Negro faces as much, if not more, difficulty in fitting himself into an urban economy as he did in an agrarian one.

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

It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

Debate rid us of McCarthy but did not give us much that is positive.

Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

Mr. Watson did not have much humor in his make-up, but he managed a mirthless smile.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

And while he had headed Batista's anti-Communist section, the Batista regime did not disturb the Communists so much as more open opponents who were alleged to be Communists.

He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.

They did not speak much.

She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.

The audience did not think much of the new pastor, and what the new pastor thought of the audience he did not dare at the time to say.

Well, one did not expect much of people like Herold.

Yet even that explosion did not mean much.

he did not have to hurry it by thinking too much.

Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference.

It has identified itself with the very tension and terror it once did so much to alleviate.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

The packing efficiency, F.R., of fiber plates did not receive much attention in the literature, probably as it is high for the larger fibers generally used, until rather recently.

Muscle weakness did not improve, and the patient needed first a cane, then crutches.

Two absorptions of Af with ethyl acetate or two absorptions of Af ( which had been passed through Dowex-2-chloride ), NS and Af with crown gall tissue powder, or mouse liver powder did not further improve the specificity of staining.

Rinsing the sections with PBS before layering the intermediate sera did not improve the staining reaction.

Under the influence of his mother, he did much to improve the morals and condition of the people, and to enhance the dignity of the state.

Within a few years of nationalisation, a number of progressive measures had been carried out which did much to improve conditions in the mines, including better pay, a five-day workweek, a national safety scheme ( with proper standards at all the collieries ), a ban on boys under the age of 16 going underground, the introduction of training for newcomers before going down to the coalface, and the making of pithead baths into a standard facility.

Although results did improve, Pardew was unable to keep Charlton up and relegation was confirmed in the penultimate match of the season.

Matters did not improve under caretaker manager Phil Parkinson, and a 3 – 1 defeat at Sheffield United saw the Addicks four points adrift at the bottom of the Championship as 2009 dawned, under threat of their first relegation to English football's third tier for 29 years.

The clipper bow on carriers was an American peculiarity, Japanese ships did not feature it and British ships had the similar but differently-shaped " hurricane bow ," whose purpose was, like the clipper bow, to improve hydrodynamic efficiency and, unlike the clipper bow, protect the hangar deck from spray.

In defense of vouchers, it cites empirical research showing that students who were randomly assigned to receive vouchers had higher academic outcomes than students who applied for vouchers but lost a random lottery and did not receive them ; and that vouchers improve academic outcomes at public schools, reduce racial segregation, deliver better services to special education students, and do not drain money from public schools.

Nathaniel Gage is important in educational psychology because he did research to improve teaching and understand the processes involved in teaching.

The next couple of years saw Lola improve slightly — their car was arguably marginally superior to the Reynard in 1990 — and March slip, but both were crushed by the Reynard teams and by the mid-90s, F3000 was a virtual Reynard monopoly, although Lola did eventually return with a promising car and the Japanese Footwork and Dome chassis were seen in Europe.

During his own reign, Frederick William I did much to centralize and improve Prussia.

Lawrence's health did not improve ; he returned to Mount Vernon, where he died in 1752.

The Constitution of 1867 saw peaceful and progressive transitions in government that did much to improve the economy and stability of the Haitian nation and the condition of its people.

In reality, Italy had suffered from a terrible famine in 451 and her crops were faring little better in 452 ; Attila's devastating invasion of the plains of northern Italy this year did not improve the harvest.

He later involved the Kingdom of France in the Second Crusade but his relationship with Eleanor did not improve.

However, Houston's position in the standings did not improve.

They believed that everyone in society could benefit from experiencing such power and that if everyone could interact with computers in the way that hackers did, then the hacker ethic might spread through society and computers would improve the world.

The Industrial Revolution led to a population increase, but the chances of surviving childhood did not improve throughout the Industrial Revolution ( although infant mortality rates were reduced markedly ).

Conditions did improve during the 19th century as public health acts were introduced covering things such as sewage, hygiene and making some boundaries upon the construction of homes.

Matters did not improve as first Geoff Boycott and then Bob Taylor were quickly dismissed.

Nor did he improve his dignity with his own participation in the ceremonial of bloody sacrifices.

The veterans ' visits and attendant promises of " never again " did much to improve the " New Germany's " image in Britain and France.

However immediately after his discovery he did not improve it, allegedly because of an agreement to spend the next five years developing the New York City electric light and power system.

A series of difficult budgets by long-time loyalist Allan MacEachen in the early 1980s did not improve Trudeau's economic reputation.