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was and mildest
In the Liber Pontificalis, Boniface is described as " the mildest of men ", whose chief distinction was his great love for the clergy.
In 1782 Edmund Law, otherwise the mildest of men, was most particular that Paley should add a book on political philosophy to the moral philosophy, which Paley was reluctant to write.
Specifically, the engine that was installed in the car was Ford's famed 427 FE NASCAR " Side-Oiler " V8, a power-house engine developing in its mildest street version.
The mildest consequence was the village could be slated for reduction of services, given a timely notice of demolition, or the workers were asked voluntarily to leave.
His character is vividly drawn by Carlyle in his life of John Sterling, of whose son Newman was guardian: a man of fine attainments, of the sharpest-cutting and most restlessly advancing intellect and of the mildest pious enthusiasm.
He was diagnosed as having suffered an avulsion fracture of his C5 and C6 vertebrae, in addition to herniating his C4 vertebra ( described by TNA as the " mildest form of trauma associated with a broken neck ").
In the only decisive result on a spinners ' wicket at Lord's ( due to leatherjackets having infested the wicket during England's mildest winter on record ), Cameron hit his highest Test score of 90 in the first innings, whilst in his famous innings against Yorkshire it was said that " Cameron had Verity in two minds: whether to hit him for four or six "!

was and least
It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.
This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.
Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.
Last, not least, there are some poems which K. King sent me ( addressed to herself ) when I was preparing a fresh volume, asking me to include them.
And, for the moment at least, the governor now found himself allied with the head of the Crittenden faction he had formerly opposed, and Pike was credited with a clear triumph over Woodruff.
Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.
Milton himself, uncommunicative as he is about his lesser and nonliterary activities, at least gives us some evidence that he was a great walker, under any and all conditions.
To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.
This was one place where Moonan could go for a drink in a back booth without anyone noticing him, or at least coming up and hanging around and wanting to know all the low-down.
Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.
At least one state vehicle was in existence in 1917.
The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.
Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.
With greater investments in plant facilities, with automation growing, you can't switch around, either in volume or in product design, as much as was formerly possible -- or at least not as economically.
At least the moment was postponed when he had to face the mystery of the power tools.
When it was worn in the breast, or even on the sleeve, we at least knew where it was ''.
It was then distilled at least three times from a trap at -78-degrees to a liquid air trap with only a small middle fraction being retained in each distillation.
The serum was measured volumetrically and subsequently dialyzed in the cold for at least 24 hr against three to four changes, approximately 750 ml each, of `` starting buffer ''.

was and reactionary
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
The reactionary is confused about the existential status of a decaying tradition, but he does perceive the unity tradition had when it was healthy.
Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.
He was left in the hands of reactionary boyars and priests, who encouraged him to hate his father and wish for the death of the Tsar.
According to his own statement, he was deterred from presenting himself at Rome by the warnings of Cardinal Contarini, whom he found at Bologna, dying of poison administered by the reactionary party.
It was assumed by the revolutionaries that reactionary and monarchist forces preferred regional languages in an attempt to keep the peasant masses under-informed.
This tradition was interrupted for several decades in mainland China, where the official stance of the Communist Party and the State was that Confucius and Confucianism represented reactionary feudalist beliefs which held that the subservience of the people to the aristocracy is a part of the natural order.
Latin conservatism was less pragmatic and more reactionary than the conservatism of Burke.
In the United States, liberalism took a strong root because it had little opposition to its ideals, whereas in Europe liberalism was opposed by many reactionary interests.
Tibbetts argues that such a relation between NCTE and Orwell's work is contradicting because ' the Committee's attitude towards language is liberal, even radical ' while ' Orwell's attitude was conservative, even reactionary '.
This rapid modernization though, created a backlash, and a reactionary uprising known as the Khost rebellion which was suppressed in 1924.
Fascism was praised by a number of right-wing, conservative, and reactionary political figures and movements.
Europe was racked by two decades of war revolving around France's efforts to spread its revolutionary ideals, and the opposition of reactionary royalty.
Fragmented by the war, Spain was destabilised as different political parties representing " liberal ", " reactionary " and " moderate " groups throughout the remainder of the century fought for and won short-lived control without any being sufficiently strong to bring about lasting stability.
He was overthrown as regent in 1843 by Ramón María Narváez, a moderate, who was in turn perceived as too reactionary.
This period of time is called the Bourbon Restoration and was marked by conflicts between reactionary Ultra-royalists, who wanted to restore the pre-1789 system of absolute monarchy, and liberals, who wanted to strengthen constitutional monarchy.
Unlike his father, the new tsar Alexander III ( 1881 – 1894 ) was throughout his reign a staunch reactionary who revived the maxim of " Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and National Character ".
" Many people thought I was being reactionary ," he said.
Marx returned to Paris, which was then under the grip of both a reactionary counter-revolution and a cholera epidemic, and was soon expelled by the city authorities who considered him a political threat.
The merchants were conservative and reactionary, and their Volunteer Corp leader Chen Lianbao was a prominent comprador trader.
The Oberkommando der Luftwaffe failed to construct a strategy, instead its command style was reactionary, and its measures not as effective without thorough planning.
The Chinese term ( xǐ năo, literally " wash brain ") was originally used to describe methodologies of coercive persuasion used under the Maoist regime in China, which aimed to transform individuals with a reactionary imperialist mindset into " right-thinking " members of the new Chinese social system.

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