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Fortunately, although only a few years ago they held the student at arms length, today the business houses welcome the opportunity to aid the student, not only from an increased sense of community responsibility but also from the realization that the student of today is the interior designer of tomorrow -- that the student already is `` in the trade ''.
Witnesses stated that McKinney had been running behind Donaghy, and he stopped and held up his arms, shouting " Don't shoot!
For example, semaphore, where the configuration of flags held by a signaller or the arms of a semaphore tower encodes parts of the message, typically individual letters and numbers.
She tried to flee, but he coiled around her legs and held her arms tightly against her sides as he raped her.
The outstretched arms which are prominent in both works betray David's deeply held belief that acts of republican virtue akin to those of the Romans were being played out in France.
Over the centuries, Europe continued to have two distinct types of fiddles: one, relatively square-shaped, held in the arms, became known as the lira da braccio ( arm viol ) family and evolved into the violin ; the other, with sloping shoulders and held between the knees, was the lira da gamba ( leg viol ) group.
Members of a second Albanian National Assembly held at Lushnjë in January 1920 rejected the partition plan and warned that Albanians would take up arms to defend their country's independence and territorial integrity.
Salzedo's technique generally calls for the arms to be held horizontally and emphasises the role of aesthetic hand and arm gestures after the string has been plucked: " Each of the thirty-seven tone colors and effects of the harp calls for a gesture corresponding to its sonorous meaning.
When on the ground, they stand upright and move with short hops forward, with their arms held high.
Within Leonardo's own lifetime his fame was such that the King of France carried him away like a trophy and was claimed to have supported him in his old age and held him in his arms as he died.
Russia is the world's top supplier of arms, a spot it has held since 2001, accounting for around 30 % of worldwide weapons sales and exporting weapons to about 80 countries.
In the " order arms salute ," the rifle rests on its butt by the sentry's right foot, held near the muzzle by the sentry's right hand, and does not move.
As Bryan spoke his final sentence, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus, he placed his hands to his temples, fingers extended ; with the final words, he extended his arms to his sides straight out to his body and held that pose for about five seconds as if offering himself as sacrifice for the cause, as the audience watched in dead silence.
* A cannonball spin is a difficulty variation similar to the pancake in which the free skate touches the thigh of the skating leg and arms are held down and touching the skating leg, giving the illusion of a cannonball.
On June 28, 2010, the US Supreme Court held, in a 5 – 4 decision in McDonald v. Chicago, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus protecting the right of an individual to " keep and bear arms " from local governments, and all but declared Mayor Jane Byrne's 1982 handgun ban unconstitutional.
Morton's parachute was of the ' throw-out ' type where he held the chute in his arms as he left the aircraft.
Against the anti-secession law proposed by the People's Republic of China, President Chen held a video conference with the European Parliament in Brussels urging the European Union not to lift the arms embargo on the People's Republic of China.
In February 2005, Li held a press conference, accusing PFP leader, James Soong of having changed his opposition towards military weapons purchase from the United States under the influence of people of Pro-American inclination, people with CIA backgrounds and arms traders who would receive kick-backs.
The room in which the meeting was held is called de Statenzaal (" The Hall of States ") and features a stained glass window in which the coats of arms of the twelve cities that were present at the meeting can be seen.
They perform this service by standing and facing the crowd in the front of the congregation, with their arms held outwards and their hands and fingers in a specific formation.
Henri Le Caron, who, while acting as a secret agent of the British government, held the position of " Inspector-General of the Irish Republican Army ," asserts that he distributed fifteen thousand stands of arms and almost three million rounds of ammunition in the care of the many trusted men stationed between Ogdensburg, New York and St. Albans, Vermont, in preparation for the intended raid.
Shortly before independence was granted in 1979, a local competition was held to choose a new national flag, and a design based on the colonial coat of arms was submitted to the College of Arms.
Like Dionysus, Cybele remained an essentially wild, foreign deity of distinctly un-Hellenic temperament, simultaneously embraced and " held at arms length " by the Greeks.

held and close
After a while, Kitty murmured something to Cappy, and he held her close, answering, `` We'll just have to wait till we pull into Philly, honey ''.
At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness.
# Civil aviation, held by Armavia national airline ( owned by Mikhail Baghdasarov, who is thought to be close to President Serge Sarkisian )
York and Worcester had long had close ties, and the two sees had often been held in plurality, or at the same time.
In Saudi Arabia, all businesses except hospitals are made to close during Islamic prayers, held five times daily.
The comet had apparently passed extremely close to Jupiter on July 7, 1992, just over above the planet's cloud topsa smaller distance than Jupiter's radius of, and well within the orbit of Jupiter's innermost moon Metis and the planet's Roche limit, inside which tidal forces are strong enough to disrupt a body held together only by gravity.
But the courts held that the pool " was close enough " to the standards to hold NSPI liable.
Because the margin of victory was so close a third election in the summer of 1840 was held.
Those limits are expressed in Article XXI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, ratified in 1571 ( significantly, just as the Council of Trent was drawing to a close ), which held that " General Councils ... may err, and sometimes have erred ... wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
These attract around 1500-3000 speakers, and the best-attended conferences are regularly those held in Central or Eastern Europe, close to the birthplace of Esperanto ( see statistics at World Congress of Esperanto ).
Following the October 2001 American invasion and the Bonn Agreement the new government under the leadership of Hamid Karzai started to re-establish diplomatic relationships with many countries who had held close diplomatic relations before the communist coup d ' état and the subsequent civil war.
Following the Saarland state election of August 2009, The Greens held the balance of power after a close election where no two-party coalitions could create a stable majority government.
After the close of the council a fifth and final meeting of the commission was held, again enlarged to include sixteen bishops as an executive committee, in Rome in the spring of 1966.
His close friend, President Ronald Reagan, gave the eulogy at the funeral, which was held at Manhattan's St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church.
As Digweed's international schedule increased, these events drew to a close, although occasional reunions are still held at Heaven.
The major qualifications of all these men, none of whom had previously held a diplomatic position before, were that they were close friends of Luther, and as a way of splitting the SS ( the traditional rivalry between the SS and SA was still running strong ).
During this time he began using the Harmon mute, held close to the microphone, in a way that grew to be his signature, and his phrasing, especially in ballads, became spacious, melodic, and relaxed.
The language variant used was different from the ones used in Navarre, i. e. a Béarnese Gascon, with Gascon being in use far longer than in Navarre and Aragon till the 19th century, thanks mainly to the close ties held by San Sebastian and Pasajes with Bayonne.
The Japanese also held close alliance and trade with the Korean Gaya confederacy.
Hearst later alleged that she had been held in close confinement, sexually assaulted and brainwashed.
The hierarchy that held this system of government together was reinforced by close ties of loyalty between samurai and their subordinates.
Over the centuries, the family acquired huge landed estates, mostly in Moravia, Lower Austria and Styria, but all of these rich territories were held in fief under other more senior feudal lords, particularly under various lines of the Habsburg family, to which many Liechtensteins were close advisors.
Unhappy at Besson's departure, Gaumont Film Company " has held The Professional rights close to the vest — and will not budge ".
However, the Germans never came close to their objective, held up by the 1st, 2nd, 9th, and 99th Infantry Divisions who refused to yield ground in the battle for Elsenborn Ridge.

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