As a writer on the theater, I have paid close attention to the plays.

However, after reading the work of French sociologists Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, Radcliffe-Brown published an account of his research ( entitled simply The Andaman Islanders ) that paid close attention to the meaning and purpose of rituals and myths.

He also paid close attention to his work quickly learning to distinguish the differing sounds the incoming telegraph signals produced and learned to translate signals by ear, without having to write them down and within a year was promoted as an operator.

Ninth, the chefs paid close attention to the dietary needs of their guests through their dishes.

Still more settlers came in the late 1960s and 1970s, when the government paid handsome bonuses to workers participating in a program to relocate Soviet industry close to the extensive coal, gas, and oil deposits of Central Asia.

The Federalists strongly opposed the purchase, favoring close relations with Britain over closer ties to Napoleon, and were concerned that the United States had paid a large sum of money just to declare war on Spain.

The actor was a longtime close friend of entertainer Michael Jackson and paid regular visits to his Neverland Ranch, resting there for weeks at a time.

She paid very close attention to the details, something she had always done in her husband's life.

At the Academy, he was moved by the Neo-classical art of the Renaissance and paid close attention to the works of Michelangelo and Raphael.

In any event, the high prices paid put some European telecom operators close to bankruptcy ( most notably KPN ).

" The gold men, during the address, paid close attention and showed their appreciation for Bryan's oratory.

According to these early recorded stories, gods and kings, like the 7th century BC scholar-king Assurbanipal, paid close attention to dreams.

The cost of resettlement was close to $ 4, 000, but most refugees eventually paid this amount in federal income taxes.

In 1971, then-Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing paid a visit to Zaire ; later, after becoming President, he would develop a close personal relationship with President Mobutu, and became one of the regime's closest foreign allies.

Though Malick paid close attention to period detail, he did not want it to overwhelm the picture.

At some period ( perhaps 1381, perhaps earlier ) he paid a visit of some days ' duration to the famous mystic John Ruysbroeck, prior of the Augustinian canons at Groenendaal near Brussels ; at this visit was formed Groote's attraction for the rule and life of the Augustinian canons which was destined to bear such notable fruit, At the close of his life he was asked by some of the clerics who attached themselves to him to form them into a religious order and Groote resolved that they should be canons regular of St Augustine.

Feminist theorists have paid close attention to these mechanisms.

The Pawnee paid close attention to the universe and believed that for the universe to continue functioning, they had to perform regular ceremonies.

The original inscription indicated his correct year of birth, but individuals close to him insisted that Eubie be indulged ; and paid to have the inscription changed.

He also began traveling frequently to Kansas City, Kansas where he paid close attention to the blues shouters including Jimmy Rushing and Big Joe Turner.

Joseph's participation in the Ottoman war was reluctant, attributable not to his usual acquisitiveness, but rather to his close ties to Russia, which he saw as the necessary price to be paid for the security of his people.

After the war the town was rebuilt using money paid by Germany in reparations, with the main square, including the Cloth Hall and town hall, being rebuilt as close to the original designs as possible ( the rest of the rebuilt town is more modern in appearance ).

Writing in the New Yorker, Seymour Hersh said the Rendon Group was " paid close to a hundred million dollars by the CIA " for its work with the INC ." Journalist James Bamford reported in the Rolling Stone that Rendon came up with the name for the INC and helped install Ahmad Chalabi as its head.

Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson, who had been a close friend to Downey since both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective.

The clerk paid them no attention.

Although they were forced to maintain a sharper watch, this activity enabled them to ride in and rack their broncs without any particular attention being paid them.

In town no one paid much attention to an occasional shot ; ;

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

Somehow I think that Watson paid more attention to me than he otherwise might have because his foe, Colonel Van Hamm, wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot blue pencil.

The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.

I said sure that was what I wanted her to do but she paid no attention.

It was a cold, windy day, the day after Kitti's death, but Stanley Gilborn paid no attention to the blustery October wind.

Thirty-one minutes later, when it took off for El Paso, hardly anyone of the crew of six or the 65 other passengers paid any attention to the man and teen-age boy who had come aboard.

`` I knew all this, but I paid no attention.

I suppose I should have paid attention to that half-murmured remark, but it seemed one of those extreme statements women under stress indulge in.

He paid little attention to her because she was a redhead and because she was wearing white -- one of those bulky, turtle-neck sweaters.

This concept was emphasized by Sufi mystics like Rabia al-Adawiyya who paid attention to the difference between dedication to Allah ( i. e. God ) and dedication to people.

In many areas drivers have established alternate tracks to avoid the worst parts of the surface, although careful attention must be paid to the presence or absence of landmine warning markers by the side of the road.

Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

Its author is a renowned expert in Greek and Arabic medicine who has paid considerable attention to Avicenna in his recent studies [...].

Little attention is paid to political, diplomatic, or military history, or to biographies of famous men.

Special attention was paid to geography, climate, and demography as long-term factors.

Of particular interest to 20th-century music theorists is the attention he paid to silence as an integral part of music.

Determined not to commit the same mistakes as his brother, Afonso III paid special attention to what the middle class, composed of merchants and small land owners, had to say.

Fleming published his discovery in 1929, in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, but little attention was paid to his article.

It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.