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`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.
The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.
Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
The American liberal may, in the world of to-day, have a strong case ; ;
Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.
Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.
Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
Looking back, Miss Marsicano feels that her ideas may have been influenced by those of Jackson Pollock.
The conversation that ensued may have been engrossing but it could hardly be called world-shattering.
The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.
The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;
It may, however, be noted that his gift for color and imagery must have been greatly stimulated by his stay in Paris.
Does our society have a runaway, uncontrollable growth of technology which may end our civilization, or a normal, healthy growth??
In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.
Any abilities I may have were achieved in their present shape from experience in sharing in the growth and control of my business, coupled with raising my family.
The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.
He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.
Such activity may or may not have irritated the Kremlin, but it has frequently condemned America to an unnatural defensiveness that has undermined our effort to give leadership to the free world.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

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The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.
The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.
General Grant may have been the victim of false information in the instance reported in this book ; ;
But General Grant may have been self-victimized.
Again, he may discover embodied within its texture a theme or idea that has been presented elsewhere and at other times in various ways.
Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.
A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.
I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.
`` It might well start a craze like swallowing goldfish or pee-wee golf '', wrote Kenneth Rexroth in an explanatory note in the Evergreen Review, and he may have been right.
Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``
much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

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" A prisoner interviewed by Moyers explained his literal interpretation of the second verse: "' Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved " by saying that the fear became immediately real to him when he realized he may never get his life in order, compounded by the loneliness and restriction in prison.
The Alexander Technique is most commonly taught privately in a series of 10 to 40 private lessons which may last from 30 minutes to an hour.
The same fundamental principles are taught in all programs, though emphasis may vary according to title.
Courses typically taught only in college are being reformatted so that they can be taught to any level of student, whereby elementary school students may learn the foundations of any topic they desire.
Another example from computer science is that an expert system may be taught by a human and thereafter considered an expert, often outperforming human beings at particular tasks.
This developed the progressive education notion that students were to be engaged and taught so that their knowledge may be directed to society for a socially useful need.
A standard language is a particular dialect of a language that is promoted above other dialects in writing, education, and broadly speaking in the public sphere ; it contrasts with vernacular dialects, which may be the objects of study in descriptive grammar but which are rarely taught prescriptively.
The standardized " first language " taught in primary education may be subject to political controversy, since it establishes a standard defining nationality or ethnicity.
In England, he may have taught in two small schools in the South of the country ( Gorfein, 1885 ).
Volmar, a frequent visitor, may have taught Hildegard simple psalm notation.
In particular, students who may have learning disabilities will be taught with strategies that engage their brain and makes the connections needed.
In his early life, he taught rhetoric in his native place, which may have been Cirta in Numidia, where an inscription mentions a certain ' L.
The circulating schools may have taught half the country's population to read.
Another tactic commonly taught is never to ask a question ; the officer may simply sit the suspect down in an interrogation room, sit across from him and do paperwork, and wait for the suspect to begin talking.
The two professions can be complementary, but may be at odds in some countries, where obstetricians are taught to " actively manage " labor, while midwives are taught not to intervene unless necessary.
Slave girls may have been apprenticed, and it is most likely that mothers taught their daughters.
If one has knowledge that a particular Mishnayot student is definitely bad then he may not be taught.
The important consequence of this is that each person may receive confirmation that particular doctrines taught by a prophet are true, as well as gain divine insight in using those truths for their own benefit and eternal progress.
Later, he taught that Mormons were Israelites, and that they may learn of their tribal affiliation within the twelve Israelite tribes through prophecy.
Systems of fertility awareness may be referred to as fertility awareness-based methods ( FAB methods ); the term Fertility Awareness Method ( FAM ) refers specifically to the system taught by Toni Weschler.
48 ) shall be taught, so that by persevering in the monastery till death his disciples may " through patience share in the passion of Christ that may deserve also to share in his Kingdom " ( Prol.
Fluency shaping approaches are often taught in intensive group therapy programs, which may take two to three weeks to complete, but more recently the Camperdown program, using a much shorter schedule, has been shown to be effective.

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