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He has his own system of shorthand, devised by abbreviations: `` humility '' will be `` humly '', `` with '' will be `` w '', and `` that '' will be `` tt ''.
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has and own
By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.
This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.
In our own time we have seen that the novelist's debt to psychoanalysis has increased but that the novel itself has not profited much from this marriage.
he has lost confidence in his own eyes and in the validity of his own psychological insights.
His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.
This life has its own currents and rhythms, its own multiple cycles and adaptations.
My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;
My own experience has followed simpler lines.
Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.
It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.
His own inner voice, which should tell him what not to do, has not developed.
Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??
Khrushchev himself is reported to be concerned by the surge of animosity he has aroused, yet our own nuclear statesmen seem intent on following compulsively in his footsteps.
In the very week of our war against Katanga, we make a $133 million grant to Kwame Nkrumah, who has just declared his solidarity with the Communist bloc, and is busily turning his own country into a totalitarian dictatorship.
It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends.
Rachel, observing, would say, `` He has to rediscover his own capacity.
has and system
Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.
The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.
But none of this has prevented scientists, philosophers, and even historians of science, from speaking of the Ptolemaic system, in contrast to the Copernican.
No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.
The education program for retarded children conducted by the East Greenwich school system has pupils from at least one neighboring community.
but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.
Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.
For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.
As the Juniors entered the ring, Mr. Spring, the announcer, stated over the public-address system that this was the 28th year that Westminster has held the Finals of the Junior Competition.
A still more sophisticated system has been devised for determining the effective power of the heart itself.
Westinghouse has a similar system, with two classifications representing various levels of competence on the strictly technical side: consulting engineer or scientist, as the case may be, and advisory engineer or scientist.
What does Tri-State actually want to do, now that it has the meters under franchise and certain phases of its piping system in the `` patent applied for '' stage??
It is not clear whether this system bears any resemblance to the in vivo iodinating mechanism, and a system generating peroxide has not been identified in thyroid tissue.
There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.
The population registration system still has important functions.
It does show one feature of the system that has not been previously described.
Although a somewhat technical subject, it has important political implications as the above discussion of the voting system indicated.
It has surrendered any claims of description in favor of psychological accounts of nothingness, as in Heidegger's system ( 1929 ).
The submarine has become increasingly attractive as an antisubmarine weapon system.
A water-soluble protein of quite low molecular weight ( ca. 10,000 ) has also been found in this system and partly characterized.
It has been stated previously that a minifying electrostatic system yields a lower resolution than a magnifying system or a system with unity magnification.
has and shorthand
Zhuyin developed out of a form of Chinese shorthand based on Chinese characters in the early 1900s and has elements of both an alphabet and a syllabary.
A defendant or defender ( Δ in legal shorthand ) is any party required to answer a plaintiff's complaint in a civil lawsuit, or any party that has been formally charged or accused of violating a criminal statute.
Modern distance education initially relied on the development of postal services in the 19th century and has been practised at least since Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s.
Historically, it has been variously described as " the shorthand of history " and " the floral border in the garden of history ".
For this reason, however, ' narcotic ' has come to mean any illegally used drug, but it is useful as a shorthand for referring to a controlled drug in a context where its legal status is more important than its physiological effects.
The sound of linear timecode is a jarring and distinctive noise and has been used as a sound-effects shorthand to imply ' telemetry ' or ' computers '.
The practice of referring to ominous dates through this shorthand has continued, for example, with 7 / 7 for the 2005 London bombings.
Because the river is identified with Rome, the term " swimming the Tiber " has come to be the Protestant shorthand term for converting to Roman Catholicism.
In Britain after 1832 the Tory Party was replaced by the Conservative Party, and " Tory " has become shorthand for a member of the Conservative Party or for the party in general.
Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, the term has tended to acquire acquired a negative connotation, and in much academic discourse become shorthand for Western feelings of superiority over, and overlooking of the views of, Asian and North African cultures.
This usage originated with the shorthand "* book " for this type of supplement to various World of Darkness games, such as Clanbook: Ventrue ( for Vampire: The Masquerade ) or Tribebook: Black Furies ( for Werewolf: The Apocalypse ), and this usage has spread to other games with similar character-type supplements.
Because it is easy to calculate, OPS has been used with increased frequency in recent years as a shorthand form to evaluate contributions as a batter.
McClure has become the apotheosis of the stereotype, a gut-achingly funny reinterpretation whose trademark introduction ... has become a shorthand way to describe any grossly artificial media figure.
This has led U. S. solvers to use the day of the week as a shorthand when describing how hard a puzzle is: i. e., an easy puzzle may be referred to as a Monday or Tuesday, a medium-difficulty puzzle as a Wednesday and a truly difficult puzzle as a Saturday.
The slash mark itself (/), when put between character's names, has come to mean a shorthand label for a romantic relationship, regardless of whether the pairing is heterosexual or homosexual, romantic or erotic.
Although the primary use of shorthand has been to record oral dictation or discourse, some systems are used for compact expression.
Japanese shorthand systems (' sokki ' shorthand or ' sokkidou ' stenography ) commonly use a syllabic approach, much like the common writing system for Japanese ( which has actually two syllabaries in everyday use ).
The record for fast writing with Pitman shorthand is 350 wpm during a two-minute test by Nathan Behrin in 1922, although this result has been questioned.
Pitman shorthand is still in widespread use, but in the U. S. and some other parts of the world it has been largely superseded by Gregg shorthand, which was first published in 1888 by John Robert Gregg.
Gregg's shorthand, like Pitman's, is phonetic, but has the simplicity of being " light-line.
One of the most widely used forms of shorthand is still the Pitman shorthand method described above, which has been adapted for 15 languages.
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