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His concern was German naval strength and resupply of any landed troops :" To a defending force, cut off and left to its own devices, the topography of the country does not afford us much protection ... without supplies and reinforcements they would soon feel the increasing pressure of British expeditionary force brought over under the protection of British naval power ; sooner or later our own troops would face a situation similar to Namsos or Dunkirk.
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But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.
There was a gentle concern in Benson's voice.
The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.
The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.
At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.
Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.
In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.
The concern they felt for me was such as I shall never forget and for which I will always be grateful.
The establishment, by the Holy Father, of a permanent Secretariat for Christian Unity in 1960 was the most dramatic mark of this concern.
And John's reply was always the same: `` Anything that affects souls is the concern of the Church!!
But there was no need, he remembered, for his hand to reach out, for his face to show concern or stoicism.
This has survived the years but there has been considerable concern among the tenants over the fact that the oil was not metered.
As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.
The dated poems suggest that while Hardy's concern with poetry may have been constant, his production was not.
Her concern for the natives of Borrioboola-Gha was so intense that she quite forgot and neglected her son Peepy!!
This was going to be it now, any second, and what he had to remember was to keep his eye on the razor, no matter what, even if Roberts should feint with a kick to the groin, the deadly hand was his exclusive concern.
Hank was beginning to feel sharp concern for Mr. Black.
And now she was feeling sick, both from concern about Stanley and hunger.
On Monday, the Hughes concern was formally declared bankrupt after its directors indicated they could not draw up a plan for reorganization.
The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.
It's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.
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Some Jewish personnel avoided flying over German lines during WWII with ID tags that indicated their religion, and some Jewish personnel avoid the religious designation today out of concern that they could be captured by extremists who are anti-semitic.
Likewise, in the context of corporations, German Konzern, Swedish koncern and Finnish konserni means " conglomerate ", not " concern ".
Controversially, this defined " persons of German ethnic origin " who had been expelled, or were to be expelled from their countries of birth into the postwar Germany, as individuals who would " not be the concern of the Organization.
Later in the century, British interest in East Africa would be stimulated by German competition, and in 1887 the Imperial British East Africa Company, a private concern, leased from Seyyid Said his mainland holdings, a 10-mile ( 16-km )- wide strip of land along the coast.
This shortened the journey for commercial ships, but specifically united the two areas principally of concern to the German navy, at a cost of 150 million GM.
* PCC Rail Szczakowa – Rail Szczakowa website – part of the German concern PCC AG
The state concordats were necessary because the German federalist Weimar constitution gave the German states authority in the area of education and culture and thus diminished the authority of the churches in these areas ; this diminution of church authority was a primary concern of the Vatican.
* France was nearly surrounded by territory controlled by the two Habsburg states ( Spain and the Holy Roman Empire ), and was eager to exert its power against the weaker German states ; this dynastic concern overtook religious ones and led to Catholic France's participation on the otherwise Protestant side of the war.
At this time, some naval officers expressed the concern that the British were reading at least some of the naval codes as the Royal Navy seemed to have a suspicious ability to know where German ships were, but Raeder dismissed these concerns.
Some early reenactors assert the word derives from German Farbe, color, because inauthentic reenactors were over-colorful compared with the dull blues, greys or browns of the real Civil War uniforms that were the principal concern of American reenactors at the time the word was coined.
In phonetic use, there is no concern to reproduce Greek orthography, and the Greeklish is a phonetic transcription ( usually with English phonetic norms, sometimes with other languages ' like German ) of Greek words --- although often there is a mixture of the two.
In April 2006, new announcements by Chinese officials planning on cutting maglev rail costs by a third have stirred some strong comments by various German officials and more diplomatic statements of concern from Transrapid officials.
The rise of Nazi Germany, with its concern about ethnic Germans in other lands and proselytizing the German volk, led to suspicions of any German within Russia.
In other words the Staff determined to make use of our information defensively and not offensively " No less than Winston Churchill replied most sharply to Admiral Jellicoe even mentioning the subject by telegraph specifically, so sharp was the concern that the breaking of the German Naval codes might be uncovered.
Continued concern over German and Italian influence in the area led to the Allies ' Syria-Lebanon Campaign.
His position may have related to his religious conviction that life on earth is imperfect, and his concern about German anti-Semitism.
Doran's documentary, which was viewed by the European and German parliaments, caused widespread concern in Europe and among human rights advocates.
* Mr. Rai was the only Indian producer with the famous German film concern U. F. A.
A project to halt the research was codenamed " Project Safehaven ", and it was not initially targeted against the Soviet Union ; rather the concern was that German scientists might emigrate and continue their research in countries such as Spain, Argentina or Egypt, all of which had sympathized with Nazi Germany.
From 1966 until 1968, UK independent Lloyd International was contracted by Neckermann und Reisen, the tour operator of West German mail-order concern Neckermann, to launch a series of inclusive tour ( IT ) flights from Tegel.
U. S. President Barack Obama, the U. S. State Department, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and British Foreign Minister William Hague condemned or expressed concern over Khodorkovsky's extended sentence.
This act did not constitute an official Nazi approval for Kuhn's organization: German Ambassador to the United States Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff expressed his disapproval and concern over the group to Berlin, causing distrust between the Bund and the Nazi regime.
The German concern system ( known as Konzerne ), being significantly concentrated, was able to make more efficient use of capital.
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