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His own practice was based on intensive personal involvement in design efforts to create prototype solutions for building types ( 860 Lake Shore Drive, the Farnsworth House, Seagram Building, S. R. Crown Hall, The New National Gallery ), then allowing his studio designers to develop derivative buildings under his supervision.
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In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.
Still, the notion of altruism is modified in such a world-view, since the belief is that such a practice promotes our own happiness: " The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes " ( Dalai Lama ).
He promulgated the fuero of tortum per tortum, facilitating taking the law into one's own hands, which among others reassumed the Muslim right to dwell in the city and their right to keep their properties and practice their religion under their own jurisdiction as long as they maintained tax payment and relocated to the suburbs.
Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various attempts by other persons and organizations ( such as Operation Foxley, though this plan was never put into practice ).
The marriage of ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá to one woman and his choice to remain monogamous, from advice of his father and his own wish, legitimised the practice of monogamy to a people whom hitherto had regarded polygamy as a righteous way of life.
Henry II developed the practice of sending judges from his own central court to hear the various disputes throughout the country.
The ancient Greeks kept cumin at the dining table in its own container ( much as pepper is frequently kept today ), and this practice continues in Morocco.
In the case of the Eastern Catholic Churches, individual churches sui juris retain, in theory, the right to glorify saints for their own jurisdictions, though this has rarely happened in practice.
Koenig produced algorithmic composition programs which were a generalisation of his own serial composition practice.
The introduction of foreign bacteria into the human GI tract via infusion of fecal enemas is, moreover, an established medical practice in cases of ulcerative colitis, especially where the patient's own intestinal flora has been significantly depleted by antibiotic therapy applied for other maladies.
The Dharma can be tested by practice and therefore he who follows it will see the result by himself through his own experience.
Each person is therefore fully responsible to engage in their own practice and commitment.
He also surveys the latest research into the relationship between the past, history, and historical practice, as well as forwarding his own challenging theories.
opened her own practice at 20 Upper Berkeley Street, London.
After six months in practice, Elizabeth wished to open an outpatients dispensary, to enable poor women to obtain medical help from a qualified practitioner of their own gender.
Most Protestant communities, including Reformed, Evangelical, Methodist, the Church of Sweden, and Anglicans practice open communion in the sense of not limiting it to members of their own Church alone, but some of them require that the communicant be a baptized person or a member of a partner church.
Most churches in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, also practice their own form of open communion, provided those who receive are baptized and believe in the Real Presence.
From the time when letters began to be forged in his name ( 2 Thess 2: 2 ; 3: 17 ) it seems to have been his practice to close with a few words in his own handwriting, as a precaution against such forgeries ...
Common practice among states at the beginning of the 20th century was that a woman was to have the nationality of her husband ; thus upon marrying a foreigner she would automatically acquire the nationality of her husband, and lose her own nationality.
It refers to the practice of a company paying a high price to buy back shares of its own stock to prevent an unfriendly takeover by another company or businessman.
After becoming a lawyer, Cleveland worked for the Rogers firm for three years, leaving in 1862 to start his own practice.
In France, while the President cannot force the Prime Minister to tender the resignation of his government, he can, in practice, request it if the Prime Minister is from his own majority.
He drew analogies between his own practice of hypnotism and various forms of Hindu yoga meditation and other ancient spiritual practices, especially those involving voluntary burial and apparent human hibernation.
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He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.
`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
Curt was too involved in his own problems to pay much attention.
The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.
Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.
It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.
He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.
what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.
This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
That world was in scale with my own smallness.
And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
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