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His attention was directed to the question of the flow of glaciers in 1840 when he met Louis Agassiz at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association, and in subsequent years he made several visits to Switzerland, where he was particularly impressed by Bernhard Studer's theories, and also to Norway for the purpose of obtaining accurate data.
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The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
Curt was too involved in his own problems to pay much attention.
`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.
His revolutionary pamphlets, published when he was only 19, quickly brought him to the attention of the patriot leaders.
I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.
The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.
At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.
One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;
I said sure that was what I wanted her to do but she paid no attention.
In 1861, Mr. Brown's attention was called to yet another basic production problem -- the manufacture of twist drills.
Yet no detail was too small to receive attention from this master, and as a result the playing here has humor, delicacy, and radiant humanity.
Louise climbed onto a stool and clutched the hand with which I was trying to hold the phone, claiming my immediate attention on grounds of extreme emergency.
Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story.
A goal was fixed, as given in Table 2, and attention focused on its fulfillment.
While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.
the granular texture thus created likewise called attention to the reality of the surface and was effective over much larger areas.
One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.
What was called an `` accidental meeting '' with Miss Packard in Washington turned her attention to Spelman.
) She snarled terribly but intuition told him, again, that she was bluffing, and he could see that half her attention was distracted by the dogs.
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As the South begins another school year, national and even world attention is directed at the region's slow progress toward racial equality in the public schools.
It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.
During the 1960s the political atmosphere began to gradually change, and attention was once again directed to Chaplin's films instead of his political views.
He directed much of his attention to ambitious construction projects and notoriously luxurious dwellings for himself.
Afterward, the persecutions under Diocletian and Galerius directed his attention to the martyrs of his own time and the past, and this led him to the history of the whole Church and finally to the history of the world, which, to him, was only a preparation for ecclesiastical history.
When the problem is assigned to the wrong schema, the student's attention is subsequently directed away from features of the problem that are inconsistent with the assigned schema.
It was not merely the earth to which Hutton directed his attention.
So that dependence upon earlier schismatic parties in the Church, which he never mentions in his writings ( as though he had never derived anything from them ), is counterindicated, and attention is directed to the true sources in Scripture, to which he added the collections of canons of the Church.
Thus it directed its attention to pseudo-heretic movements.
The situation was fueled through several public insults Nobunaga had directed at Mitsuhide that even drew the attention of some Western observers.
Inversely, the cropping of a film originally shown in the standard ratio to fit widescreen televisions may cut off foreground or background, such as a tap-dance scene in which much attention is directed appropriately at a dancer's feet.
Parapsychologists have interpreted the cumulative data on this and similar DMILS experiments to suggest that one person's attention directed towards a remote, isolated person can significantly activate or calm that person's nervous system.
He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.
Particular attention should be directed in identifying perverse jaw habits, such as clenching or teeth grinding, lip or cheek biting, or positioning of the lower jaw in an edge-to-edge bite.
As Wilson put it, " public attention must be easily directed, in each case of good or bad administration, to just the man deserving of praise or blame.
His attention had been directed to the growing importance of the affairs of India, and there is evidence in his correspondence that he was meditating a comprehensive scheme for transferring much of the power of the East India Company to the crown, when he was withdrawn from public business in a manner that has always been regarded as somewhat mysterious.
His defiance of the " idiot card ", a sheet of paper that directed legislators ' votes on every issue, attracted the attention of party leaders, who moved to remove Washington from his legislative position.
After the war, he re-entered the University of Florence to continue his studies, but when he saw Henry V in 1945, he directed his attention toward theatre instead.
Cognitively speaking, certain cognitive processes, such as fast reactions or quick visual identification, are considered bottom-up processes because they rely primarily on sensory information, whereas processes such as motor control and directed attention are considered top-down because they are goal directed.
However, the next year, Uthman rebelled against the governor of al-Andalus, ‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân, who quickly crushed the revolt and directed his attention against Odo.
for the Grand prix des sciences mathématiques was the theory of the decomposition of integer numbers into a sum of five squares ; and that the attention of competitors was directed to the results announced without demonstration by Eisenstein, whereas nothing was said about his papers dealing with the same subject in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
After the death of Charles II in 1685, Wren's attention was directed mainly to Whitehall ( 1685 – 87 ).
Researchers ' attention was directed mainly towards pregnant and postpartum women and their emotional states.
Immediately after the public adoption of the present system of land-telegraphy, Mr. Lindsay directed his attention to the sending of messages across water by means of insulated wires, and succeeded-after several trials on ponds and sheets of water in the neighborhood-in establishing on a sure basis the principles of electric communication by means of insulated submerged wires.
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