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It was a high mark for Mama.
A century ago, Newman saw that liberalism ( what we now might call secularism ) would gradually but definitely make its mark on English Protestantism, and that even high Anglicanism would someday no longer be a `` serviceable breakwater against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own ''.
Emergent coastlines are identifiable by the coastal landforms, which are above the high tide mark, such as raised beaches.
This can lead to very high prices as dedicated collectors compete for the very best specimens of, for example, each date and mint mark combination.
Marks the high water mark of the Conciliar movement of reform.
This assembly, which met from July until December 1653, was the high water mark of Fifth Monarchist influence on national politics.
This was the high water mark of Roman territory in Britain: shortly after his victory, Agricola was recalled from Britain back to Rome, and the Romans retired to a more defensible line along the Forth-Clyde isthmus, freeing soldiers badly needed along other frontiers.
Indeed, the importance of the concepts of good and evil can be regarded as distinguishing mark between high fantasy and sword and sorcery.
Almost all hedge fund performance fees include a " high water mark " ( or " loss carryforward provision "), which means that the performance fee only applies to net profits ( i. e., profits after losses in previous years have been recovered ).
Nehru considered the salt satyagraha the high water mark of his association with Gandhi, and felt that its lasting importance was in changing the attitudes of Indians:
Not a lighthouse but simply a day mark for maritime navigation, a white brick pyramid, 35 feet high and built in 1810, stands at Emmanuel Head, the north eastern point of Lindisfarne.
The distinguishing mark of a traditional top-40 station was the use of a hyperexcited disc-jockey, and high tempo jingles.
But Europeans defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732 ; this proved to be the high water mark of the Islamic conquests in western Europe and of the expansion of Al-Andalus.
A Surrealist group developed in Britain and, according to Breton, their 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition was a high water mark of the period and became the model for international exhibitions.
November and December mark the onset of the dry season and night temperatures on high ground can occasionally drop to a light frost.
The share price hovered consistently around the 400 mark from the mid-1680s ( excepting a hiccup around the Glorious Revolution in 1688 ), and they reached an all-time high of around 642 in the 1720s.
Seals with such a design are thought to be a mark of high social rank.
The success of Zorba the Greek in 1964 was the high water mark of his career and resulted in another Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
A trial fit will leave a chalk mark on the high spots of the corresponding surface.
A score of 9 is very good and is a high mark, while a competitor achieving all 6s ( or 60 % overall ) should be considering moving on to the next level.
The normal high water mark is above datum ( 577. 5 ft or 176. 0 m ).
Thus, Fort Souville, on the morning of 12 July 1916, became the high mark of the unsuccessful German offensive against Verdun.
Average daily high temperatures range from 28 ° C to 32 ° C depending on time of year, while the average low temperature shows very little seasonal variation, hovering around the 24 ° C mark.
In the UK, on-track bookies still mark up the odds on boards beside the race course and use tic-tac or mobile telephones to communicate the odds between their staff and to other bookies, but, with the modernisation of United Kingdom Bookmaking laws, online and high street gambling are at an all-time high, with a so-called Super Casino having been planned for construction in Manchester prior to the government announcing that this plan had been scrapped on 26 February 2008.

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Houses of settlers who'd treated the company herds as a natural resource, free for the taking, were sitting empty, with weeds growing high in their yards.
Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.
His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.
Curly hair, high cheekbones, wide gnomelike mouth, a pair of drummer's blocky hands, and a body that said well, maybe I can wrestle you for ten minutes -- but then I'm finished.
A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.
Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.
It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.
If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.
No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.
Thomas thanked his men for their tenacity of purpose, unmurmuring endurance, cheerful obedience, brilliant heroism and high qualities in battle.
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.
These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.
He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.
It is not in business for the purpose of absorbing increased municipal costs no matter how high a purpose that may be ''.
It has already been reported in your newspapers that the East Greenwich School Committee is considering additions to at least one elementary school and to the high school to insure future accommodations for a school population that we know will increase.
There are lots of jobs available for trained high school graduates, but not for the dropouts.
If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

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