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Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.
Sturley wrote to Quiney that Sir Edward `` gave his allowance and liking thereof, and affied unto us his best endeavour, so that his rights be preserved '', and that `` Sir Edward saith we shall not be at any fault for money for prosecuting the cause, for himself will procure it and lay it down for us for the time ''.
Jesus not only taught forgiveness, He gave us an example of it on the cross.
And so, let us remember on this day not only to thank the Almighty Who gave hope and courage to the Pilgrims, but also to place our trust in Him that He will continue to protect us in the future as He has in the past.
We waited till he had finished laughing, and that gave us a few moments for taking stock of him.
It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.
The Lord Jesus Christ gave His Spirit to His Apostles ; they in turn laid their hands on those who should succeed them ; and these again on others ; and so the sacred gift has been handed down to our present bishops, who have appointed us as their assistants, and in some sense representatives.
Two centuries later, Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi gave us a list of the groups which were deported in the city with the respective provenience.
The gods too gave us the soul and reason, which is not measured by breadth or depth, but by knowledge and sentiments, and by which we attain to greatness, and may equal even with the gods.
* 17th century – Early Quakers, such as Edward Burrough, make mention of tongues speaking in their meetings: " We spoke with new tongues, as the Lord gave us utterance, and His Spirit led us ".
* The dative case indicates the indirect object of a verb: The clerk gave us a discount.
or The clerk gave a discount to us.
It was then perceived that the psalterium in which the strings were plucked, and the dulcimer in which they were struck, when provided with keyboards, gave rise to two distinct families of instruments, differing essentially in tone quality, in technique and in capabilities: the evolution of the psalterium stopped at the harpsichord, that of the dulcimer gave us the pianoforte.
This gives us a way to save Leibniz's Law from the objection we gave, but at the same time, brings up the issue of whether change really occurs.
:" You have so much, but you gave us so little ," the children whined.
In 2004, Foster designed the tallest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct in southern France, with the Millau Mayor Jacques Godfrain stating ; " The architect, Norman Foster, gave us a model of art.
" Bassist Jeff Jensen of Boston's Real Kids reports of a show that year, " A reviewer for one of the free entertainment magazines of the time caught the act and gave us a great review, calling us a ' punk band.
Examples in which the punned words typically exist in two different parts of speech often rely on unusual sentence construction, as in the anecdote: " When asked to explain his large number of children, the pig answered simply: ' The wild oats of my sow gave us many piglets.
John Locke, on the other hand, who gave us Two Treatises of Government and who did not believe in the divine right of kings either, sided with Aquinas and stood against both Machiavelli and Hobbes by accepting Aristotle's dictum that man seeks to be happy in a state of social harmony as a social animal.

gave and simile
From which simile he also gave that state a new name, calling it katalepsis.

gave and explain
" He goes on to explain his pimping experience gave him the ability to get into new businesses.
On this slender foundation he constructed his circum-Antarctic continent to which, for reasons that he does not explain he gave an annular, or ring shape.
Hoyle later gave Lemaître's model the derisive term of Big Bang, not realizing that Lemaître's model was needed to explain the existence of deuterium and nuclides between helium and carbon, as well as the fundamentally high amount of helium present, not only in stars but also in interstellar gas.
Furthermore, his submission of several nocturnes to art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel after the Franco-Prussian War gave Whistler the opportunity to explain his evolving " theory in art " to artists, buyers, and critics in France.
" Every citizen of Rome gave him one day's ration of food, although Dionysius of Halicarnassus does not explain what logistically such a contribution should mean and how and when it was delivered.
It also is suggested by some historians that this gave rise to the expression " Poena Infinita ", used during the second World War to explain some of the issues created by the Blitzkrieg forces, specifically caused by raids of Sd. Kfz 221 Scout Cars, which came to become known as " Poena Infinita " themselves.
The free electron model gave improved predictions for the heat capacity of metals, however, it was unable to explain the existence of insulators.
On July 31, 1945, he gave a speech to the Agape Lodge in which he attempted to explain how he felt that The Book of the Law could be made relevant to " modern life.
Soon after he returned, Thalberg gave him his recommendations and Laemmle was impressed by his ability to understand and explain ongoing problems.
In between speeches by Snowe and Dorgan, Stevens gave a vehement 11-minute speech using colorful language to explain his opposition to the amendment.
" They explain, " It is a tale of conquest, but also one of survival, persistence, and the merging of peoples and cultures that gave birth and continuing life to America.
As Mabel Lang notes, one of the problems with uncovering historical veracity in Herodotus ' account is " that the failure of the revolt not only gave prominence to every aspect and event which would explain, justify or anticipate the disastrous results but also cast into the shade any intentions which deserved a better fate and any temporary successes during the course of the war.
This gave Superman the idea to explain Clark Kent's long absence by staging a faked rescue from a similar predicament.
Fred Emery a former presenter of Panorama, said Birt's mission to explain " philosophy gave rise to " a certain blandness ", while the news correspondent Kate Adie considered such methods were at odds with the " obligation to report ".
In June 14, 2011, Judge Roger L. Hunt ruled that Righthaven be dismissed from the case because Righthaven had never owned the copyright of the article and gave Righthaven two weeks to explain in writing why it should not be sanctioned.
It also gave Māori experience in fighting with and defending against muskets, and may help explain why rebel Māori felt so confident in taking on the combined British and New Zealand forces in the New Zealand Land Wars in the 1860s.
What is curious is that Luke does not here mention the apostle James the Just as taking nazirite vows, although later Christian historians ( e. g. Epiphanius Panarion 29. 4 ) believed he had, and the vow of a nazirite would explain the asceticism Eusebius of Caesarea ascribed to James ( something the Jewish Nazarite Vow was never intended to do ), a claim that gave James the title " James the Just ".
Goldsmith gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry on January 27, 2010, in which he was asked to explain his position on the legality of the invasion of Iraq.
The perception of time was a very hotly contested field in the psychology of James ' day, and gave him an opportunity to explain the difficulty with innatism, which posits time as an infinite necessary continuum.
To explain child actress Tiffany Brissette's aging during the show, Ted gave V. I. C. I.
The samples gave further evidence to support the plate tectonics theory, which at the time attempted to explain the formation of mountain ranges, earthquakes, and oceanic trenches.
The Cordelia plot line additionally gave writers opportunity to explain Connor's birth via Jasmine, a character brought in to replace Carpenter as final villain.
** In the 1980s, DC Comics writer Roy Thomas invented a retcon to explain why Superman, the Spectre, and the Justice Society of America had been unable to defeat the Nazis: Hitler possessed the Spear of Destiny ( Spear of Longinus ) which gave him magical control over any superheroes who ventured into his territory.

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