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But before I try to diagnose it, I would offer other evidence.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
If she wanted to borrow any sum of money in expecting the arrangements of Congress, it would not become a stranger, unknown to her, to offer himself for that purpose.
The good ones are not motivated to seek vainly, nor are they disposed to covet comfort, or they would have been led to fields that offer comfort and feed vanity.
Because of the simplicity of the molecules, isotopic exchange reactions between elemental halogens and the corresponding carbon tetrahalides would appear to offer particularly fruitful possibilities for obtaining unambiguous basic kinetic data.
It was hoped that the facts concerning the characteristics and practices of the respondents would offer clues to the reasons why they took the positions and made the recommendations which they did.
He would offer no theory to account for her murder.
Sheets said that his proposed law would offer state financing aid for the purchase of voting machines, enabling counties to repay the loan over a 10-year period without interest or charge.
`` Is there any word you would like to offer in your own defense ''??
Louis Pasteur observed, " if we could intervene in the antagonism observed between some bacteria, it would offer perhaps the greatest hopes for therapeutics ".
:" Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?
The majority of colleges by the late 20th century had also become Registered Training Organisations ; recognising the need to offer individuals a nurturing, non-traditional education venue to gain skills that would better prepare them for the workplace and potential job openings.
Everyday life in a quilombo would offer freedom and the opportunity to rescue traditional cultures lost due to colonial oppression.
The CRTC also added that Bell would be required to offer to wholesale ISPs the same usage insurance plan it sells to retail customers.
Reportedly, Chiang seriously considered accepting this offer, but declined only in the knowledge that the United States would certainly be outraged by the gesture.
Star Trek would later offer other corporeal life-forms with an alternative biochemistry.
This would offer immigrants an opportunity to learn to read and write English, he said, the orthography of which is often less phonetically consistent than those of many other languages.
She encountered some difficulty in publishing the first book, since most publishers would only offer her a deal if she agreed to remove the stories from the internet.
It added that the new website would offer " new protective gear " and " unreleased material from the archives in vinyl disc format ," as well as feature " WORLD-WIDE shipping to anywhere on Planet Earth.
Because a high-level language is a practical requirement for developing the most complex programs, functionalism implies that a non-reductive physicalism would offer a similar advantage over a strictly eliminative materialism.
The hope that multiple Central and European parties would join ED also proved to be dubious, as only the Czech Civic Democratic Party took up the offer, with the remainder joining EPP proper or other groups such as Union for Europe of the Nations or Independence and Democracy.
Accordingly, Dollfuss refused to reply, instead spending the night in his favorite church praying, returning in the morning for a bath and a spartan meal before replying to the President he would accept the offer.
After Crimewave was released to little audience or critical acclaim, Raimi and Tapert, knowing that another flop would further stall their already lagging careers, took Shapiro up on his offer.
The interlocutors would offer objections to the proposals put forward by Friedman, who would in turn respond.

would and sacrifices
In the passage quoted above, the narrator asserts that his sacrifices are not to curry favor or gain an inheritance, common reasons for making vows among those who would not hesitate to sacrifice their slaves or even children if it would bring them an inheritance.
Some Scholars suggest that the command to abstain from leavened food or yeast suggests that sacrifices offered to God involve the offering of objects in " their least altered state ", that would be nearest to the way in which they were initially made by God.
Menelaus had to catch Proteus, a shape-shifting sea god, to find out what sacrifices to which gods he would have to make to guarantee safe passage.
In a stirring summation, Anderson invoked his father's emigration to the United States and said that we would have to make sacrifices today for a better tomorrow.
6th century BCE ) was a holy prophet who would offer salvation and good health if his devout followers would confess their sins, ban the worship of unclean gods who accepted meat sacrifices and chant sections of the Daodejing.
Firms would make rational decisions by weighing the sacrifices involved.
In addition to overseeing the oracle, priests would also conduct sacrifices at other festivals of Apollo, and had charge of the Pythian games.
At the same time, the " kominka " imperialization project was put under way to instill the " Japanese Spirit " in Taiwanese residents, and ensure the Taiwanese would remain loyal subjects of the Japanese Emperor ready to make sacrifices during wartime.
Due to conflicting genetic similarity in the rest of the genome, there would be selection pressure for green-beard altruistic sacrifices to be suppressed, thus making common ancestry the only likely form of inclusive fitness ( see Hamilton, below ).
On the other hand, Nigel Lawson claimed that people in a hundred years ' time would be " seven times as well off as we are today ", therefore it is not reasonable to impose sacrifices on the " much poorer present generation ".
In Hitler's view, the idea of restoring the 1914 borders of the Reich was absurd as those borders did not provide sufficient Lebensraum ; only a foreign policy that aimed at the conquest of the proper quantity of Lebensraum would justify the necessary sacrifices that war entailed.
This play sacrifices the profit that might have been made from opponents who would have overcalled a raise.
' Whereas Christians ( who have learned that their eternal life consists in knowing the only true God, who is over all, and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent ; and who have learned also that all the gods of the heathen are greedy demons, which flit around sacrifices and blood, and other sacrificial accompaniments, in order to deceive those who have not taken refuge with the God who is over all, but that the divine and holy angels of God are of a different nature and will from all the demons on earth, and that they are known to those exceedingly few persons who have carefully and intelligently investigated these matters ) will not endure a comparison to be made between them and Apollo or Zeus, or any being worshipped with odour and blood and sacrifices ; some of them, so acting from their extreme simplicity, not being able to give a reason for their conduct, but sincerely observing the precepts which they have received ; others, again, for reasons not to be lightly regarded, nay, even of a profound description, and ( as a Greek would say ) drawn from the inner nature of things ; and amongst the latter of these God is a frequent subject of conversation, and those who are honoured by God, through His only-begotten Word, with participation in His divinity, and therefore also in His name.
That Poseidon and Erechtheus were two names at Athens for the same figure ( see below ) was demonstrated in the cult at the Erechtheum, where there was a single altar, a single priest and sacrifices were dedicated to Poseidon erechtheus, Walter Burkert observed, adding " An historian would say that a Homeric, pan-Hellenic name has been superimposed on an autochthonous, non-Greek name.
Ritual purification would be followed by offerings or sacrifices to the god ( according to means ), and the supplicant would then spend the night in the holiest part of the sanctuary-the abaton ( or adyton ).
Human sacrifices would prevent the end of the world that could happen on each cycle of 52 years.
Her father put her in charge of the labyrinth where sacrifices were made as part of reparations ( either to Poseidon or to Athena, depending on the version of the myth ); however, she would later help Theseus in overcoming the Minotaur and saving the would-be sacrificial victims.
There, the ancient Romans would rest on their travels and pay homage to the goddess by performing animal sacrifices using the fissure's deadly gases.
There are several significant developments in the series: villainesses Titania and Volcana are created ; the second Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter, is introduced ; Spider-Man finds and wears the black costume for the first time, initially unaware that it is actually an alien symbiote ( the symbiote would subsequently bond with journalist Eddie Brock, giving birth to the villain known as Venom ); Doctor Doom temporarily steals the Beyonder's power ; having fallen in love with the alien healer Zsaji ( who sacrifices her life on Battleworld to save the heroes ), mutant Colossus ends his romantic relationship with a heartbroken Kitty Pryde ; and the Thing chooses to remain behind on Battleworld and explores the galaxy for a year, with She-Hulk temporarily joining the Fantastic Four as his replacement.
Writing at the end of the 17th century, Francisco Ximénez described the tradition that upon the temple human sacrifices were tied before the representation of Tohil, where the priest would open the victim's chest and cut out his heart.

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