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sense and urgency
Despite three warnings, no sense of moral urgency impelled him to distinguish his situation, and thus his responsibilities, from Wilson's.
If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.
Experience of this time diffusion ranges from a sense of utter apathy to a feeling of desperate urgency to act immediately.
He felt I didn't have a strong sense of urgency ".
# Insistence on a note and its contiguous chromatic notes ( also frequent in the guitar ), producing a sense of urgency.
Lewy's conclusion was that " the Pope and his advisers – influenced by the long tradition of moderate anti-Semitism so widely accepted in Vatican circles – did not view the plight of the Jews with a real sense of urgency and moral outrage.
As in his painting of the apocalypse by water ( Composition VI ), Kandinsky puts the viewer in the situation of experiencing these epic myths by translating them into contemporary terms ( with a sense of desperation, flurry, urgency, and confusion ).
They play with a sense of urgency because the firemen, men whose job is to clean up the ruins of Martian cities, will presently come and clean everything up, eliminating this source of fun.
The existence of AIDS has given a new sense of urgency to the topic of sex education.
There was a sense of urgency in preserving the scientific work which they perceived as being threatened by the Protectorate.
The foreign threat exacerbated France's political turmoil amid the French Revolution and deepened the passion and sense of urgency among the various factions.
" Not surprisingly ," said historian Barbara Tuchman, " the King lived under a sense of urgency.
Sociologist Ronald Lawson has suggested that it is the religion's intellectual and organizational isolation — coupled with the intense indoctrination of adherents, rigid internal discipline and considerable persecution — that has contributed to the consistency of its sense of urgency in its apocalyptic message.
The reason for Vergennes ' original lesser rank was because sending a new ambassador was a time-consuming elaborate ceremony and there was a sense of urgency because of the death of the previous ambassador.
Winchell opened his radio broadcasts by pressing randomly on a telegraph key, a sound which created a sense of urgency and importance and the catchphrase " Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea.
I say to you that except this there is no other way ", increased the sense of urgency in building the Oregon commune.
That his suppression of modernizing elements in Quebec produced a sense of urgency among the non-traditional populace and political elites which amplified the speed and scope of the social, political and economic transformation of Quebec under subsequent governments.
One of the best reviews came from Manohla Dargis in The New York Times, who called the film, " An unqualified triumph ," and praised Zhang Ziyi's performance, states: " Ms. Zhang's shockingly intense performance burns a hole in the film that gives everything, including all the other relationships, a sense of terrific urgency.
Yet, there was still a lack of a sense of urgency on the part of the allies.
The allies, however, still responded without any real sense of urgency.
Westmoreland insisted that he only needed those forces either in-country or already scheduled for deployment and he was puzzled by the sense of unwarranted urgency in Wheeler's queries.
Despite a sense of urgency ( the colonists were still working on the fortifications at the time of the council ), the attack, now known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, did not begin until that afternoon.
The account is marked by a sense of urgency in doing this before the coming festival of the Sabbath, during which rest would be observed and no work could occur.
His sense of urgency inspired the efforts in several states.

sense and matter
Neither the engineer nor the ordinary citizen feels any self-consciousness in obeying the laws of matter and energy, nor can he achieve a sense of self-righteousness in such obedience.
There is no longer any sense of continuing development of the sort that can be traced from Baudelaire to Eluard, or for that matter, from Hawthorne through Henry James to Gertrude Stein.
Not all, as a matter of fact, consider themselves `` mediums '' in the sense of receiving messages from the deceased.
But dominant in the sense that every other objective, no matter how worthy intrinsically, must defer to it.
certainly not in the same sense that the establishment of a parochial school system has been a matter of official policy.
`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.
At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).
I pointed out that a kid could enjoy Sesame Street without learning how to read, but he couldn't enjoy comic strips unless he could read ; and that a smaller investment in getting kids to read by supplying them with educational matter in such reading form might make better sense.
" is relative in a sense, but the moral realist would argue that an individual can be incorrect in this matter.
Anglicans adhere to a range of views although the teaching on the matter in the Articles of Religion holds that the presence is real only in a heavenly and spiritual sense.
The cardinal qualities of the style of Homer are well articulated by Matthew Arnold: he translator of Homer should above all be penetrated by a sense of four qualities of his author :— that he is eminently rapid ; that he is eminently plain and direct, both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words ; that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas ; and finally, that he is eminently noble.
As a practical matter, the Kellogg – Briand Pact did not live up to its aim of ending war, and in this sense it made no immediate contribution to international peace and proved to be ineffective in the years to come.
However, materialists have historically held that everything is made of matter, but physics has shown that gravity, for example, is not made of matter in the traditional sense of "' an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist '… So it is tempting to use ' physicalism ' to distance oneself from what seems a historically important but no longer scientifically relevant thesis of materialism, and related to this, to emphasize a connection to physics and the physical sciences.
In a sense, metallic bonding is not a ' new ' type of bonding at all, therefore, and it describes the bonding only as present in a chunk of condensed matter, be it crystalline solid, liquid, or even glass.
The validity of sense perception, therefore, is not susceptible to proof ( because it is presupposed by all proof as proof is only a matter of adducing sensory evidence ) nor should its validity be denied ( since the conceptual tools one would have to use to do this are derived from sensory data ).
where E is the total energy of the particle ( i. e. rest energy plus kinetic energy in kinematic sense ), p the momentum, the Lorentz factor, c the speed of light, and β the speed as a fraction of c. The variable v can either be taken to be the speed of the particle or the group velocity of the corresponding matter wave.
The term codified law refers to statutes that have been organized (" codified ") by subject matter ; in this narrower sense, some but not all statutes are considered " codified.
In Isaac Newton's view, space was absolute — in the sense that it existed permanently and independently of whether there were any matter in the space.
Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics ' " tendency to fall " had been .... By the mid eighteenth century that interpretation had been almost universally accepted, and the result was a genuine reversion ( which is not the same as a retrogression ) to a scholastic standard.
His use of ' composite ' in 2. 021 can be taken to mean a combination of form and matter, in the Platonic sense.
The former ( narrow sense ) generally come from condensed matter systems in quasi-equilibrium, as discussed below.
As a result, they are the only realms where knowledge may arise ( since truth and knowledge only make sense in relation to matter, according to Marxist epistemology ).
Thus it is not truly objective in the sense that matter is objective.

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