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It is the one exercise that drastically influences the definition of the thighs at the hipline -- that mark of the champion that sets him apart from all other bodybuilders ; ;
Robert the Bruce, intending to join Wallace and commit troops to the war, sets up a meeting with him in Edinburgh where Robert's father has conspired with other nobles to capture and hand over Wallace to the English.
His parents helped nurture his growing interest in science by buying him chemistry sets and reading materials.
With this knowledge and a pair of glasses given to him as a gift by Wonder Woman, ' Clark ' regains his humanity, and sets out to become a hero again by re-fertilizing the irradiated fields of Kansas.
Eisenhower, as well as the officers and troops under him, had learned valuable lessons in their previous operations, and their skill sets had all strengthened in preparation for the next most difficult campaign against the Germans – a beach landing assault.
The same night, Lee breaks into the underground base, avoiding a booby-trap set for him, and gathers sufficient evidence to warrant Han's arrest, but sets off an alarm while using the radio transmitter to contact Braithwaite.
Frequently, the characters break the fourth wall, mostly to explain something to the readers, talk about a subject that often sets up the strip's punchline ( like Jon claiming that pets are good for exercise right before he finds Garfield in the kitchen and chases him out ), or give a mere glare when a character is belittled or not impressed.
Eventually, Hector breaks Ajax ' spear with his sword, forcing him to give ground, and he sets the ship on fire.
Hoping to force him into respectability, Mrs. Chasen replaces Harold's beloved hearse with a Jaguar ( which he then converts to a miniature hearse ), and sets up several blind dates, or more accurately, " bride interviews " with young women.
The matchmaker, in turn, sets him up with Helen, the town floozy, who runs off with him.
Pamela quickly sets him straight with a better reading of the story.
This universalising step, which Singer traces from Kant to Hare, is crucial and sets him apart from those moral theorists, from Hobbes to David Gauthier, who tie morality to prudence.
In addition, Petrarch collected his letters into two major sets of books called Epistolae familiares (" Familiar Letters ") and Seniles (" Of Old Age "), a plan suggested to him by knowledge of Cicero's letters.
This sets him apart from previous philosophers such as Plato or the Scholastics, who thought that there must be some connection between a signifier and the object it signifies.
Like many historians before him, he sets the Enlightenment within the context of the French Revolution to follow.
But because Alvin's legs and eyes are too impaired for him to receive a driving license, he hitches a trailer to his recently purchased thirty year-old John Deere 110 Lawn tractor and sets off on the 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin.
He installs him as puppet ruler and sets himself up as regent.
Antonioni lay in state at City Hall in Rome where a large screen showed black-and-white footage of him among his film sets and behind-the-scenes.
The noble savage sets a king to reign over him, to whom he submits his life and limbs without a murmur or question and whose whole life is passed chin deep in a lake of blood ; but who, after killing incessantly, is in his turn killed by his relations and friends the moment a grey hair appears on his head.
Huw's academic ability sets him apart from his elder brothers and enables him to consider a future away from this troubled industrial environment.
He sets up a plot to kill Volemak, who opposes him ; after Volemak and his sons retreat to the desert, they realize that they need the Index, which is in Gaballufix's possession.
Epic hero Väinämöinen sets out to learn these spells from him, but Vipunen is buried underground, and when Väinämöinen digs him out, he is accidentally swallowed by Vipunen.

sets and forth
The United Nations Charter sets forth standards which, if adhered to, will promote peace and justice throughout the world.
It also sets forth the redressing of socio-economic differences stemming from colonial-and apartheid-era policies as a central focus of ANC policy.
Each opinion sets forth the facts, prior decisions, and legal reasoning behind the position taken.
sets forth the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the nations branched out over the earth after the Flood.
This set of small tools would then be used by the small hands to build and operate ten sets of one-sixteenth-scale hands and tools, and so forth, culminating in perhaps a billion tiny factories to achieve massively parallel operations.
According to this view, his work sets forth the course of history's occurrences with clearness, penetration, sound judgment, and among the circumstances affecting the outcomes, lays especial emphasis on the geographical conditions.
A complaint sets forth the relevant allegations of fact that give rise to one or more legal causes of action along with a prayer for relief and sometimes a statement of damages claimed ( an ad quod damnum clause ).
The Rule opens with a hortatory preface, in which St. Benedict sets forth the main principles of the religious life, viz.
It sets forth minute details about the various types of ships, their sizes, and the materials from which they were built.
The Sixth Amendment ( Amendment VI ) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions.
* December 17 – President Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, first sets forth the outline of his plan to send aid to Great Britain that will become known as Lend-Lease.
The contrast which he sets forth is not between reason and revelation, but between rational and irrational ways of understanding revelation.
It sets forth standard US military and associated terminology to encompass the joint activity of the Armed Forces of the United States in both US joint and allied joint operations, as well as to encompass the Department of Defense ( DOD ) as a whole.
This new law sets forth that a victim is entitled to claim punitive damages from any manufacturer or seller expressly aware of the defects in products but still produces or sells them if the it results in death or heavy injuries.
After stating the assessment of the manor, the record sets forth the amount of arable land, and the number of plough teams ( each reckoned at eight oxen ) available for working it, with the additional number ( if any ) that might be employed ; then the river-meadows, woodland, pasture, fisheries ( i. e. fishing weirs ), water-mills, salt-pans ( if by the sea ) and other subsidiary sources of revenue ; the peasants are enumerated in their several classes ; and finally the annual value of the whole, past and present, is roughly estimated.
* Part IV sets forth the elements and punishments of offenses ( Punitive Articles, paragraphs 101 through 113 )
Article 65 of the Basic Law sets forth three principles that define how the executive branch functions:
At Rivendell he, using what critic Tom Shippey describes as " slightly wooden magniloquence ", sets forth Gondor's claim to primacy in the War of the Ring.
In a civil case the plaintiff sets forth its allegations in a complaint, petition or other pleading.
It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length ( called the warp ) and those parallel to the width ( called the weft ); the warp threads are set up under tension on a loom, and the weft thread is passed back and forth across part or all of the warps.
* Chapter I sets forth the purposes of the United Nations, including the important provisions of the maintenance of international peace and security.
The Board of Supervisors sets county policies, adopts ordinances, appropriates funds, approves land rezoning and special exceptions to the zoning ordinance, and carries out other responsibilities set forth by the county code.
Then Trimalchio sets forth his will and gives Habinnas instructions on how to build his monument when he is dead ( 71 ).
A few fragments of his " maxims " have survived ( chiefly in the Florilegium of Stobaeus ), in which he expresses his contempt for the pomps and vanities of rank and wealth, and sets forth in simple language his ideas of honour, justice and wisdom.

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