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remarks and artificial
*" On artificial mineral waters, with some remarks on artificial light.

remarks and selection
This was much too strong ; as Sober remarks, there is nothing in the theory of natural selection which demands that selection must produce an increase in complexity or any other measure of advancement.
In 1987, Hillsdale College's dean of women initiated a lawsuit against another faculty member, alleging he had made slanderous remarks about her in the context of a controversy around her role in the selection of the editor of the student newspaper, The Hillsdale Collegian.
After some preliminary remarks on the different races of man, and of the selection of domesticated animals, he observes that:

remarks and practised
He practised as a casualty physician at his teaching hospital ( where he made a series of highly critical remarks about the Victorian medical establishment ) and subsequently as a full physician to the Great ( later Royal ) Northern Hospital.

remarks and by
It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.
Dr. A. V. Astin, NBS Director, opened the 5-day session with introductory remarks, following which a total of twenty-six papers were given throughout the week by NBS scientists, from both the Washington and Boulder Laboratories.
Woodbury's remarks were applauded by a portion of the audience several times and once there was hissing.
Davis commenced his remarks by an allusion to the general feeling of opposition which the meeting had encountered from many of the citizens and all the newspapers of the city.
In any case, Dr. Calderone remarks, such problems are a couple's own affair, and can't always be measured by a general yardstick.
Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.
People don't know how much they give away about themselves by remarks like that.
Considers the political consequences of the remarks in a 1751 pamphlet by Franklin on demographic growth and its implications for the colonies.
As I walked by, people exchanged whispered remarks, and half turned to cast curious glances.
Shippey says that Tolkien knew well the translation of Boethius that was made by King Alfred and he quotes some “ Boethian ” remarks from Frodo, Treebeard and Elrond.
Ernst Mayr remarks that the theory was hotly contested by some famous geneticists: William Bateson, Wilhelm Johannsen, Richard Goldschmidt and T. H.
These equations of state were also previously published by the Soviet physicist Yakov Frenkel in 1928, together with some other remarks on the physics of degenerate matter.
Plaintiffs introduced statements by President Barack Obama, from prepared remarks, that DADT " doesn't contribute to our national security ", " weakens our national security ", and that reversal is " essential for our national security ".
" People in the new federal states of Germany ( the former German Democratic Republic ) were offended by Stoiber's remarks.
On September 20 President Obama appeared on all major news programs except Fox News, a snub partially in response to remarks about the president by commentators Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Fox coverage of Obama's health-care proposal.
John Rodden points out the " undeniable conservative features in the Orwell physiognomy " and remarks on how " to some extent Orwell facilitated the kinds of uses and abuses by the Right that his name has been put to.
An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry: With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art, translated by Ellen Frothingham.
Union ( American Civil War ) | Union soldiers dead at Battle of Gettysburg | Gettysburg, photographed by Timothy H. O ' Sullivan, July 5 – 6, 1863Letter of David Wills ( Gettysburg ) | David Wills inviting Abraham Lincoln to make a few remarks, noting that Edward Everett would deliver the oration
The committee for the November 19 Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg invited President Lincoln: " It is the desire that, after the Oration, you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks.
Such views were influenced by an account of Telemann's music by Christoph Daniel Ebeling, a late-18th-century critic who in fact praised Telemann's music and only made passing critical remarks of his productivity.
Marlow remarks on these Company men: " I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire ; but, by all the stars!
The SEC is focusing resources on investigating insider trading by hedge funds, though a statement by SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami put some of its impact in question and Senator Chuck Grassley has asked for an explanation of Khuzami's remarks.
An example of such intellectual catholicity was set by Anatoli himself ; for, in the course of his " Malmad ," he not only cites incidentally allegoric suggestions made to him by Frederick II., but several times — Güdemann has counted seventeen — he offers the exegetic remarks of a certain Christian savant of whose association he speaks most reverently, and whom, furthermore, he names as his second master besides Samuel ibn Tibbon.

remarks and animal
She remarks sarcastically to Jerry ( after he expresses surprise that she would date Puddy, who is a mechanic ) that it's " such a huge turn off " for her when Puddy comes home " dripping with animal sexuality like Stanley Kowalski ".
They take advantage of Jeremy's absence to don animal masks and assault both women, making cruel and sexually suggestive remarks ; Augusta treats this attack as a game.
Instead of eliminating an opponent of the same sex, it can attack him without eliminating him, as in business competition, athletic competition, or making sarcastic remarks ... or it can eliminate an animal instead of a person, as in hunting '.
Mr R I Pocock's remarks on this interesting animal which appeared in last week's " Field " leave little more to be said at present.
My conviction that the animal recently exhibited in the Zoological Gardens is one of those hybrids with jaguar-like spots is a conclusion deduced from a combination of circumstances, partly from a knowledge of the recent importation by Mr Bostock from America of a number of animals for the exhibition at Earl's Court, partly from a clue supplied to me by Mr Carl Hagenbeck, who predicted almost to the letter the outcome of the sale, partly from overheard remarks let drop at the auction at Aldridge's, and finally from the fact that the animal was knocked down to Mr Bostock for a sum representing ten times its market value.

remarks and frequently
Throughout the book, Paul frequently remarks on how much of an eater he is, yet somehow manages to stay as " thin as a rake.
After interviewing a number of women who alleged that Thomas had frequently subjected them to sexually explicit remarks, Wall Street Journal reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson wrote a book which concluded that Thomas had lied during his confirmation process.
“ And that Christ being Lord, and God the Son of God, and appearing formerly in power as Man, and Angel, and in the glory of fire as at the bush, so also was manifested at the judgment executed on Sodom, has been demonstrated fully by what has been said .” Then I repeated once more all that I had previously quoted from Exodus, about the vision in the bush, and the naming of Joshua ( Jesus ), and continued: “ And do not suppose, sirs, that I am speaking superfluously when I repeat these words frequently: but it is because I know that some wish to anticipate these remarks, and to say that the power sent from the Father of all which appeared to Moses, or to Abraham, or to Jacob, is called an Angel because He came to men ( for by Him the commands of the Father have been proclaimed to men ); is called Glory, because He appears in a vision sometimes that cannot be borne ; is called a Man, and a human being, because He appears arrayed in such forms as the Father pleases ; and they call Him the Word, because He carries tidings from the Father to men: but maintain that this power is indivisible and inseparable from the Father, just as they say that the light of the sun on earth is indivisible and inseparable from the sun in the heavens ; as when it sinks, the light sinks along with it ; so the Father, when He chooses, say they, causes His power to spring forth, and when He chooses, He makes it return to Himself.
He frequently remarks on his own ignorance, however, claiming that he does not know what courage is, for example ; Plato presents him as distinguishing himself from the common run of mankind by the fact that, while they know nothing noble and good, they do not know that they do not know, whereas he knows that he knows nothing noble and good.
He is well-intentioned, friendly, childlike, good-natured, high-spirited, frequently obtuse, and prone to quipping odd, dim remarks and " inspirational " speeches filled with bizarre metaphors.
Mildred takes out her frustrations with George's lack of class and sexual inadequacy by making suggestive remarks to Robin and frequently siding with the tenants against George.
However this association never sat well with Haines who frequently made derogatory remarks about his peers.
The critics frequently qualify their recommendations ( e. g., " a mild thumbs up " or " two thumbs way down ") in their remarks, but the official rating remains simply positive or negative.
As most crime-fighting heroes do, Ozzy has a nearly unlimited amount of smart remarks that he uses frequently when fighting viruses, as well as sarcasm for anyone else.
The author criticizes the wastefulness of western society and frequently remarks on the ethics of work and industrial capitalism.
While Herr Wagner might be writing, reading, or drawing, Mind, grumbled to himself half-aloud, made his remarks on each sheet, and frequently gave a true, stubborn, rugged judgment even on the most celebrated masters, especially on pictures of animals.
In his earlier Carry On appearances, Connor frequently played the romantic lead or other sympathetic straight roles, while later appearances saw him play pompous unsympathetic characters such as married men with wandering eyes and lascivious remarks.
Deadpool is commissioned as a " hero hunter " in the war and frequently remarks how he'd like to capture " those nubile Young Avengers ".
He has been a professor ( and, more recently, a professor emeritus ) at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and he frequently remarks that he finds that city to be tremendously supportive of his work and that he thinks his musical development would have been impeded had he stayed in the high-pressure world of East Coast music.
Bea frequently takes Miles ' side rather than Janine's, and often makes rather pointed remarks about Janine's behavior.
It has also featured frequently in Frasier as a piece of furniture in the title character's apartment about which in the final series Martin Crane remarks that he finds it comfortable and hints that he may not have needed his recliner after all.
He frequently infuriates others with his sarcastic remarks.

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