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He readily accepted for himself the character of a " trimmer ," desiring, he said, to keep the boat steady, while others attempted to weigh it down perilously on one side or the other ; and he concluded his tract with these assertions: that our climate is a Trimmer between that part of the world where men are roasted and the other where they are frozen ; that our Church is a Trimmer between the frenzy of fanatic visions and the lethargic ignorance of Popish dreams ; that our laws are Trimmers between the excesses of unbounded power and the extravagance of liberty not enough restrained ; that true virtue hath ever been thought a Trimmer, and to have its dwelling in the middle between two extremes ; that even God Almighty Himself is divided between His two great attributes, His Mercy and His Justice.
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However, it was readily accepted by members of the Chinese Nationalist Party and is the name under which Chiang Kai-shek is still commonly known in Taiwan.
The western churches readily accepted the creed, but some eastern churches did not.
It is generally accepted that kites were first developed approximately 2, 800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available: silk fabric for sail material ; fine, high-tensile-strength silk for flying line ; and resilient bamboo for a strong, lightweight framework.
Gardner also returned to his old interests in the anthropology of Malaya, witnessing the magical practices performed by the locals, and he readily accepted a belief in magic.
The Tartessian language from the southwest of the Iberian peninsula, written in a version of the Phoenician script in use around 825 BC, which John T. Koch has claimed to be able to readily translate, has been accepted by a number of philologists and other linguists as the first attested Celtic language, but the linguistic mainstream continues to treat Tartessian as an unclassified ( Pre-Indo-European?
Given the opportunity to get away from the Sultan and visit new lands, he readily accepted.
While the Gaia hypothesis was readily accepted by many in the environmentalist community, it has not been widely accepted within the scientific community.
In evaluating Coleridge's poetry, it can readily be seen and accepted that for the poems of high imagination his reputation is eternally made.
They readily accepted her since they knew nothing of her past.
Faery Witch covens of gay men only have been formed and are readily accepted among the larger group of Faery Witches.
By adding a measure of credibility to their work, their ideas are more readily accepted in the public mind.
Bryan had originally been invited by Sue Hicks to become an associate of the prosecution and Bryan had readily accepted, despite the fact he had not tried a case in thirty-six years.
Both the British and American press published elaborate plans of the base which was readily accepted by the public.
These were readily accepted and easily grown in Spain's microclimates.
Goodyear goes on to describe how his discovery was not readily accepted.
Patton accepted readily, stating that he would like nothing better than for Eisenhower to be placed under his command.
Newer quantitative approaches were introduced for the study of ecology and behaviour and this was not readily accepted.
Her mother-in-law, Eleanor of Aquitaine readily accepted her as John's wife.
When he learned of this, Edward sent Gloucester to entreat Clarence to return to the House of York, an offer that Clarence readily accepted.
The delivery of babies by doctors became popular and readily accepted but midwives also continued to play a role in childbirth.
At times the foreign powers were accepted readily, as some tribes adopted foreign clothing styles and cultural practices, and engaged in cooperative trade in goods such as camphor, deer hides, sugar, tea and rice.
According to reports by the mayor and economists of the day who studied the experiment, the scrip was readily accepted by local merchants and the local population.
The AAH is thought by some anthropologists to be accepted readily by popular audiences, students and non-specialist scholars because of its simplicity.
A nutritious food readily accepted by young turtles is baby clams soaked in krill oil covered with powdered coral calcium.
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However, in recent decades, for what doubtless are multiple reasons, an unannounced but nonetheless readily observable shift has occurred in both facets of national activity.
Funds may be readily donated for some purposes but not others.
This would mean, it can readily be seen, that, again, for each new visual experience, the tracing motions would have to be repeated because of the absence of visual imagery.
Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;
Every dream, and this is true of a mental image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought, is a psychic phenomenon for which no explanation is available.
If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??
The statutory definition of " readily achievable " calls for a balancing test between the cost of the proposed " fix " and the wherewithal of the business and / or owners of the business.
Thus, what might be " readily achievable " for a sophisticated and financially capable corporation might not be readily achievable for a small or local business.
Alfred the Great is scolded by his subject, a neatherd's wife, for not turning the breads but readily eating them when they are baked in her cottage.
He offered to exchange his horse for the mule, a deal to which the surprised chief readily agreed.
New parts for PC-building are readily available from a variety of stores.
Other examples are readily found in different areas of mathematics, for example, vector addition, matrix multiplication and conjugation in groups.
However, this cipher is not a machine cipher and as such is not readily suitable for telecommunications.
This is, a. o., particularly important for solubility studies of readily hydrolysed species such as Al, Eu, Am, Cm, ... or organic matter complexing these species.
In this context, it is more readily construed as meaning " school of thought ", since it is also used to construct the names of philosophical schools contemporary with Confucianism: for example, the Chinese names for Legalism and Mohism end in jiā.
Others see the call to be sexually continent in Matthew 19 to be a caution for men who were too readily divorcing and remarrying.
Orthopedic implants coated with these materials bond readily to bone and other tissues in the body without rejection or inflammatory reactions so are of great interest for gene delivery and tissue engineering scaffolds.
If we take the congruence modulo for the right-hand-side expression, it is readily seen that
Many important forest functions have no markets, and hence, no economic value that is readily apparent to the forests ' owners or the communities that rely on forests for their well-being.
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