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thought and how
First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.
My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.
He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.
Given the conceptual context within which ancient thought thrived, how could anyone have questioned this principle??
When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.
My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.
How far could it be, Watson thought bleakly, how far can a blind man crawl??
If private brand competition hasn't been felt in your product field as yet, have you thought how you will cope with it if and when it does appear??
She thought she had great possibilities in the ballet and wanted to show the eminent producer how well she could dance.
`` Purely from the business man's standpoint and without regard to the lawyer's view '', commented a trade journal, `` the matter of patents in the automobile and accessory trade is developing some phases and results that challenge thought as to how far patents are to become weapons of warfare in business, instead of simple beneficient protection devices for encouraging inventive creation ''.
For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.
If we have not thought and made a decision entirely in these terms, then we need to submit ourselves to the following `` simple test '': `` Have we decided how we are to kill the other members of our household in the event of our being less injured than they are ''??
Henrietta thought, It's extraordinary how much she always knew about both of us.
I had also thought a lot about how God must look on true love, and so in a way I was keeping my promise to God, my promise to remain pure until I was married.
In this chapter, Hume discusses how thoughts tend to come in sequences, as in trains of thought.
This was the only part of AppleTalk that required periodic unsolicited broadcasts: every 10 seconds, each router had to send out a list of all the network numbers it knew about and how far away it thought they were.
In this book Heschel discusses the nature of religious thought, how thought becomes faith, and how faith creates responses in the believer.
Even for present-day neuroscience, the mechanisms by which brain activity gives rise to consciousness and thought remain very challenging to understand: despite rapid scientific progress, much about how the brain works remains a mystery.
The Tibetan tantra entitled the " All-Creating King " ( Kunjed Gyalpo Tantra ) also emphasizes how Buddhist realization lies beyond the range of discursive / verbal thought and is ultimately mysterious.
The ( n, m ) nanotube naming scheme can be thought of as a vector ( C < sub > h </ sub >) in an infinite graphene sheet that describes how to " roll up " the graphene sheet to make the nanotube.
Young was once quoted as saying, " Some may have thought it was essential to know how to curve a ball before anything else.

thought and fragile
" Even though at first they were thought to be too weak or fragile to do this type of work, after the first few days on which Chinese were on the line, the decision was made to hire as many as could be found in California ( where most were independent gold miners or in service industries such as laundries and kitchens ).
Prolonged use of topical corticosteroids is thought to increase the risk of side effects, the most common of which is the skin becoming thin and fragile ( atrophy ).
The ports were left uncovered along the left side: a cover was thought to be fragile and unnecessary with the iBook's new interfaces, which lacked the exposed pins of earlier connectors.
The ( topologically ) wild sets that had been observed were thought to be fragile anomalies.
Initially thought of as some form of armor, they appear to have been too fragile and ill-placed for defensive purposes, leaving the animal's sides unprotected.
" In contrast to earlier reviews, the Guide thought the interiors were " fragile.
The vervet monkey has a complex and fragile social system, its persecution is thought to have affected troop structures and diminishing numbers.
Officials at the Reina Sofía claim that the huge canvas is now thought to be too fragile to move.
In a 1995 interview, Randy Bachman indicated that he thought that using the word " fragile " as a title for a rock album was " strange.
In the case of Fragile X syndrome it is thought that the symptoms result from the increased methylation and accompanying reduced expression of the fragile X mental retardation gene in individuals with a sufficient number of repeats.
All of this is thought to improve integrity of the instructional capital conveyed, which may be quite fragile, and easy to misinterpret or to misapply.
Possessed of no true intelligent thought and only very rarely transforming into robot mode, the Battle Ravage legions are sufficiently fragile, exploding under minimal artillery fire, but will swarm over their objective like insects, usually managing to tear down opposition through sheer numbers.

thought and older
I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.
I thought: Who is older now??
Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.
I wish I were older or younger, Julia Bentley thought.
They are also thought to have pioneered the modern alto format of viola, in contrast to older tenor violas, but this stating is not correct since Gasparo made violas from altos of 39 to tenors of 44, 7 cm.
The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.
Himmerland ( Old Danish Himbersysel ) is generally thought to preserve their name, in an older form without Grimm's law ( PIE k > Germ.
Piaget hypothesized that children are not capable of abstract logical thought until they are older than about 11 years, and therefore younger children need to be taught using concrete objects and examples.
The oldest preserved parts of the text are not thought to be appreciably older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the story probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE.
In the period since then this style was thought to be too sterile, so attempts were made to emulate older, rougher work.
This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer.
The dopamine hypothesis is now thought to be simplistic, partly because newer antipsychotic medication ( atypical antipsychotic medication ) can be just as effective as older medication ( typical antipsychotic medication ), but also affects serotonin function and may have slightly less of a dopamine blocking effect.
In a wider historical context, Stockholm can be thought of as the capital of the Lake Mälaren Region, and as such can trace its origin back to at least two much older cities: Birka ( c. 790 – 975 ) and Sigtuna, which still exists but dominated the region c. 1000 – 1240 — a capital which has simply been relocated at a number of occasions.
* James Spader as Dr. Daniel Jackson, a professor who finds little acceptance of his theory that the Pyramids of Giza were much older than they were thought to be.
He is thought to have performed Mozart's operas while playing in the court orchestra at Bonn, and he traveled to Vienna in 1787 hoping to study with the older composer.
However, since no white dwarf can be older than the age of the Universe ( approximately 13. 7 billion years ), even the oldest white dwarfs still radiate at temperatures of a few thousand kelvins, and no black dwarfs are thought to exist yet.
The most complete is the York cycle of forty-eight pageants ; there are also the Towneley plays of thirty-two pageants, once thought to have been a true ' cycle ' of plays acted at Wakefield ; the Ludus Coventriae ( also called the N Town plays " or Hegge cycle ), now generally agreed to be a redacted compilation of at least three older, unrelated plays, and the Chester cycle of twenty-four pageants, now generally agreed to be an Elizabethan reconstruction of older medieval traditions.
Printed versions date back to the 1840s, but the story itself is thought to be much older.
As he got older, Robertson thought about which first name he would like people to use.
While Western philosophy traces dialectics to ancient Greek thought of Socrates and Plato, the idea of tension between two opposing forces leading to synthesis is much older and present in Hindu Philosophy.
* Africa: Wall paintings found in Ethiopia and Eritrea depicting human activity ; some of the older paintings are thought to date back to around 10, 000 BC.
However, around this time Entertainment Tonight allegedly reported that Rayburn was 70 years old ; he was in fact only 69, however this was still several years older than most producers thought he was.

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