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escape and is
As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.
The discrepancy between what we commonly profess and what we practice or tolerate is great, and it does not escape the notice of others.
It is the only method left for a man to escape from a woman's world.
We can escape from such a difficulty by ruling out the animal as not constituting a trial, but such a solution is not always satisfactory.
Although the pause in the advance of general business activity this year has thus far been quite modest, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the softening process will continue into the first quarter of 1961 and possibly somewhat longer.
This way of escape is theoretically possible, but since it has grave difficulties of its own and has not, so far as I know, been urged by positivists, it is perhaps best not to spend time over it.
Unless one takes refuge in the theory -- however disguised -- that Negroes are, somehow, different from white people, I do not see how one can escape the conclusion that the Negro's status in this country is not only a cruel injustice but a grave national liability.
A posse is formed and pursues the robbers, who, having made their escape, are whooping it up with some wild, wild women in a honky-tonk hide-out.
A reader of the Boston newspapers can hardly escape the impression that petty chicanery, or worse, is the norm in Massachusetts public life.
There is only one escape left, a tragic one, and too many people are taking it: suicide.
Additionally, fear is related to the specific behaviors of escape and avoidance, whereas anxiety is related to situations perceived as uncontrollable or unavoidable.
Fear is defined as short lived, present focused, geared towards a specific threat, and facilitating escape from threat ; while anxiety is defined as long acting, future focused, broadly focused towards a diffuse threat, and promoting caution while approaching a potential threat.
Ibn al-Haytham is said to have pretended to be mad to escape the wrath of a ruler.
* Gonzales: Gonzales is the smuggler who makes the arrangements for Rambert's escape.
* Louis: Louis is one of the sentries who takes part in the plan for Rambert to escape.
* Marcel: Marcel, Louis's brother, is also a sentry who is part of the escape plan for Rambert.
But there is a hitch in the arrangements, and by the time another escape plan is arranged, Rambert has changed his mind.
* Raoul: Raoul is the man who agrees, for a fee of ten thousand francs, to arrange for Rambert to escape.

escape and blocked
Inevitably, Catiline was forced to fight when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer with three legions in the north blocked his escape.
If the regulator becomes blocked, a safety valve provides a backup escape route for steam.
With his escape routes blocked by Hubbard and another policeman, Tony makes himself a drink.
As a result of this victory, de Grasse blocked any escape by sea for Cornwallis.
In a low head dam, the ' hole ' has a very wide, uniform structure-there's no escape point-and the sides of the hydraulic ( ends of the dam ) are often blocked by a man-made wall, making it impossible to paddle around, or slip off the side of the hydraulic, where the bypass water flow would become normal ( laminar ).
If the escape route for these fluids is blocked, the pore fluid pressure can build up, leading to overpressure.
The foam caused combustion to spread rapidly and the resulting fire led to 100 deaths, apparently because their quick escape was blocked by ineffective exit doors.
* If the king should ever have an unimpeded path ( through the neutral zone ) to the edge of the board, unless he is immediately blocked by a Muscovite, he may escape and the game is over.
Checkpoint Charlie was initially blocked only by a gate ; a citizen of the GDR ( East Germany ) smashed a car through it to escape, so a strong pole was erected.
" At Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865, Sheridan blocked Lee's escape, forcing the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia later that day.
Leading the southern American column, General Sullivan entered Trenton by the abandoned river road and blocked the only crossing over the Assunpink Creek to cut off the Hessian escape.
When the Romans attacked them, Rabbi Yehuda blocked the pass with his body allowing the others to escape and became one of Judaism's ten Rabbinic Martyrs himself by being speared 300 times.
Later, Liao Hua and Guan Xing blocked the passages of escape for the Wei army.
With its eastern and southern flanks being blocked by German troops and its northern escape route closed off by the Belgian-Dutch border, the Belgian army evacuated Antwerp via a series of pontoon bridges over the Scheldt and left the city to its own defenses.
Both armies then noticed that strange forest had suddenly sprung up ( actually the arrival of many Huorns ) which blocked the escape route for the Orcs.
Because at least two of the exits were blocked, by the chutes used to bring the show's big cats in and out of the tent, people trying to escape could not bypass them.
Commenting on the condition of the house, Jackson added " any escape or rescue route from the burning house was blocked by a refrigerator which had been pushed against the back door, requiring any person attempting escape to run through the conflagration at the front of the house.
They were among the troops that finally blocked Lee's planned escape route, precipitating the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House.
When inside the valley, Zhao Yun blocked the escape routes off and the mines were detonated, lightning the inflammable armour and destroying Wutugu and his troops.
With the railway blocked, the Seventh Army's only escape route lay to the east, along the Nablus-Beisan road that led down the Wadi Fara into the Jordan valley.
At this point, the van falls to pieces and the brothers escape that disaster only to find their way blocked by police cars.
Access to one of the docked Soyuz lifeboats was blocked, which would have prevented escape by half of the crew.
Guests could only exit through a revolving door, which became blocked during the stampede to escape the fire.

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