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familiarity and with
Not a breeze exactly, but a pocket of icy air that settled with a loathsome familiarity upon the deep confines of the grove, catching Pamela in a leering embrace.
His personal familiarity with the scenes of action undoubtedly contributed much to the final result, but familiarity alone would not have been enough without other qualities.
The narrator feels himself catching a glimpse of pre-history, learning of man's `` age-old familiarity with misfortune '', as well as his `` equally age-old ingenuity, his secret faith in endurance, however crammed with catastrophes, the same faith perhaps as the cave-men used to have in the face of famine ''.
Much of his genius, of course, sprang from his familiarity with clock movements.
A more tenable explanation for the change in reactions is that the added knowledge and increased familiarity with the total situation made it possible for these subjects to be less guarded and to relax, since any reaction seemed acceptable to the examiner as `` normal ''.
This limited familiarity with the possible phenomena has severely hampered work with tone.
aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.
The conversion to magnetic tape is not yet completed, he said, and added Field's long service in state government and welfare employ gave him familiarity with the welfare program.
He left the pool and climbed the steep stone stairs to the temple, and the sense of familiarity with the place would not leave him.
"... Baeyer is an excellent experimentor, but he is only an empiricist, lacking sense and capability, and his interpretations of his experiments show particular deficiency in his familiarity with the principles of true science ..."
* The London Philosophy Study Guide offers many suggestions on what to read, depending on the student's familiarity with the subject: Aesthetics
He suggested that a combination of spiritual exercises ( for example, concentrating on an object such as a seed ), moral development ( control of thought, feelings and will combined with openness, tolerance and flexibility ) and familiarity with other spiritual researchers ' results would best further an individual's spiritual development.
Differences in style, theological content, and familiarity with Greek between the Gospel of John, the epistles of John, and the Revelation are seen by some scholars as indicating three separate authors.
Dialects of Manding are generally considered ( among native speakers ) to be mutually intelligible – dependent on exposure or familiarity with dialects between speakers – and spoken by approximately 20 million people in the countries Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Côte d ' Ivoire and The Gambia.
On the other hand, they might lack familiarity with the specific issues connected to the organization's governance.
Colonists tried to enslave Brazilian natives in the beginning, but this quickly proved too difficult for many reasons, including the familiarity natives had with the land.
As they were also epileptologists, they had some familiarity with the anti-aggression effects of this drug.
These users offer software developers an outside perspective of the project, often helping developers gain insight into potential areas of trouble that might have been overlooked or passed over because of familiarity with the system.
According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, Cyril.
Geoffrey's description of Caerleon is probably based on his personal familiarity with the town and its impressive Roman ruins ; it is less clear that Caerleon was associated with Arthur before Geoffrey.

familiarity and names
Tom Veal has noted that the early play The Two Gentlemen of Verona reveals no familiarity on the playwright's part with Italy other than " a few place names and the scarcely recondite fact that the inhabitants were Roman Catholics.
Richard Dawkins, formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, writes that the same three names of British scientists who are also sincerely religious crop up with the " likable familiarity of senior partners in a firm of Dickensian lawyers ": Arthur Peacocke, Russell Stannard, and John Polkinghorne, all of whom have either won the Templeton Prize or are on its board of trustees.
An understanding of the names of God derived from apocryphal texts and the Hebrew Torah required that the author of such rites have at least a casual familiarity with these sources.
Other themes include methods of interpretation of history, cultural familiarity with brand names, and tensions between art and commercialization.
The success of their efforts is evidenced by the familiarity of the names of their students in the literature of psychology, among them Kurt Lewin, Rudolf Arnheim, Wolfgang Metzger, Bluma Zeigarnik, Karl Duncker, Herta Kopfermann and Kurt Gottschaldt.
Such familiarity has inspired a long list of colloquial names for the Gray Jay.
Indicative of its familiarity to many people over a large geographic range, A. negundo has numerous common names.
Some names can also be modified with a-ka ending to add a further level of familiarity, but are not normally used for adults who are not family members.
The familiarity of these sounds in the American tropics is attested to by such common names as acauã ( Portuguese ), halcón macagua, guaco, halcón guaco, and guaicurú ( Spanish ), and guaycurú ( Guaraní ).
While the obvious reference is to Donald Duck's nephews, it is likely that the naming came as a familiarity with ( or homage to ) the film Silent Running, where the three robot drones are given the same names.
By the 1850s, the Valladares family, who by then had come to invest the wealth they acquired from fishing and trade in the education of their sons ( and in those times, to a lesser-extent their daughters ), encouraged their sons to exploit their familiarity with the Roman Script and Christian names and seek work in the growing city of Bombay.

familiarity and old
In his first published article, " Books We Think We Have Read " ( 1900 ), he first discusses the habit among Englishmen of pretending a familiarity with certain books — such as the works of Shakespeare or books considered " juvenile "— then proceeds to recommend that the savouring of these books should be " no tossing off of ardent spirits, but the connoisseur's deliberate rolling in the mouth of some old vintage ".
Many differences are apparent between the new immigrants and the old diaspora in these villages, but there is still a sense of familiarity between them < sup > Dubious: Discuss </ sup >, who refer to each other as Jemi të gjithë një popull, Gjaku jinë i shprishur (" We are all one people, our blood spread ").
There were three reasons likely for the situation: first, he was not a West Point graduate, and the " old boys network " was as effective in the 19th century as it is today ; second, during the formative months of the Army of the Potomac, Williams was stationed in the Shenandoah Valley, which denied him familiarity to the high command when reputations were being established ; third, Williams was never comfortable mastering the common practice of promoting himself to the public with the help of friendly newspaper correspondents.
She came into Spain at a most happy moment, before the new order had perceptibly disturbed the old, and she brought to bear not alone a fine natural gift of observation, but a freshness of vision, undulled by long familiarity.
His chief claims to mainstream familiarity were his roles as " the fiddler " in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof and the old man (" Imam ") who translates for Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
His familiarity with personalities allowed him to enliven his writing with a succession of memorable characters and Portuguese types, such as the " brasileiro " ( a returned Portuguese emigrant who had made his fortune in Brazil ), the old " Fidalgo " ( nobleman ) of the north of Portugal, and the Minho priest.
Its old local pronunciation was as " Rivers ", and changed to " Reevo " when education brought a general familiarity with the French language.

familiarity and led
This, along with the general public's increasing lack of familiarity of Greek mythology at the time led to the figure of Pan becoming generalised as a ' horned god ', and applying connotations to the character, such as benevolence that were not evident in the original Greek myths which in turn gave rise to the popular acceptance of Murray's hypothetical horned god of the witches.
Van Leeuwenhoek's interest in microscopes and a familiarity with glass processing led to one of the most significant, and simultaneously well-hidden, technical insights in the history of science.
A European medieval traditions of selecting representatives from the various estates ( classes, but not as we know them today ) to advise / control monarchs led to relatively wide familiarity with representative systems.
However, the familiarity of the longstanding " Taipei " spelling led government authorities to retain it as one of several exceptions to the general standard.
The familiarity of the ploughman's lunch has led catering companies to describe a sandwich containing Cheddar cheese, pickle and salad as a " ploughman's sandwich ".
The frequent deliveries by milkmen to homes during the day has led to a high level of familiarity with many homemakers — often female — which has made the occupation a central figure in numerous milkman jokes.
In the 16th century, exploitation of local iron ores became important, and when Elizabeth I granted the town to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, his familiarity with modern ironworking technology led to the establishment of an important iron industry, with at least two furnaces ( in which iron ore was converted to pig iron ) and two water-powered forges ( in which pig iron was converted to wrought iron ).
While in government, Constantine assisted in the development of the West Indies Federation, as a step towards the independence of the islands, and his fame and familiarity with Britain played some part in the negotiations which led to Trinidad's independence in 1962.

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