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Their kind created an American culture superior to any in the world, an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies.
Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.
In the great one's personal quarters, a portable house, almost every evening saw an elegant banquet or reception.
To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.
Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.
In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.
It would present a forum for them in almost every community.
Four of us here in the United States attended, first as students, then as instructors, almost every one of these schools, in England, Canada, and the United States.
The exchange was almost invariable, and Scotty, in his bed, could hear every word of it.
Charity as she knew it was complex and reciprocal, and almost every roof she saw signified charity.
This isn't surprising when we consider that over 29 percent of the 11-year-old boys in America cannot chin themselves once, and that English school girls outdo them in almost every test ( even dashes and endurance ).
Truck and materials-handling equipment makers now offer specialized units to meet almost every homebuilding need.
There was a particularly marvelous opportunity for study in this area since almost every stage of pregnancy was represented, from a childless couple to and including every trimester.
In the primary grades, reading permeates almost every aspect of school progress, and the children's early experiences of success or failure in learning to read often set a pattern of total achievement that is relatively enduring throughout the following years.
In later collages of both masters, a variety of extraneous materials are used, sometimes in the same work, and almost always in conjunction with every other eye-deceiving and eye-undeceiving device they can think of.
Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.
in almost every particular follow the Kremlin's foreign policy line.
The conductor did recall having priests as passengers and this satisfied police, although the conductor also pointed out that in heavily Catholic Fall River there were priests riding on almost every trip the streetcar made, so Morse's statement really proved nothing.
Several photographs and charts of galaxies help the non-scientist keep up with the discussion, and the smooth language indicates the contributors were determined to avoid the jargon that seems to work its way into almost every field.
Aristotle not only studied almost every subject possible at the time, but made significant contributions to most of them.
Bertrand Russell notes that " almost every serious intellectual advance has had to begin with an attack on some Aristotelian doctrine ".
In addition to mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean is used frequently in fields such as economics, sociology, and history, though it is used in almost every academic field to some extent.
The mercy that Christ infused into Mosaic Law underlies the injury tariffs that figure so prominently in barbarian law codes, since Christian synods " established, through that mercy which Christ taught, that for almost every misdeed at the first offence secular lords might with their permission receive without sin the monetary compensation, which they then fixed.
Because Augustine cites part of the commentary on Romans as by " Sanctus Hilarius " it has been ascribed by various critics at different times to almost every known Hilary.

almost and report
`` Don't forget, here was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for almost a year of willfully attempting to present an incorrect report.
The army report that day contains only one phrase: “ All quiet on the Western Front .” As Paul dies, his face is calm, “ as though almost glad the end had come .”
Tacitus reports that " according to one report almost eighty thousand Britons fell " compared with only four hundred Romans.
The report by McClatchy reporter Jonathan S. Landay stated that the conditions at the mine resembled as prison labor camp and that the workers, some of whom appeared to be near starvation, had almost no equipment, shoes or clothes and lived in dilapidated homes.
" Hoover's report led to a realization in Washington that a new policy was needed ; " almost any action would be an improvement " on current policy.
These problems were later rectified, by Sinclair engineers, especially on Samsung produced models, as well as by aftermarket firms such as Adman Services and TF Services — to the point where several QL users report their Microdrives working perfectly even after almost 17 years of service ( for Samsung QLs ) — but in any case much too late to redeem the negative image they had already created.
A BBC News report described it as follows: " The first thing that hits you here is this rich stench of almost 1 million people living in this ditch-in mud huts, with no sewage pipes, no roads, no water, no toilet, in fact, with no services of any kind.
By one report, almost all of the 92 candidates who ran on the NLP slate in California in 1996 were TM practitioners.
He was given the promotion to serve on a committee of generals and brigadiers to plan the postwar defence of India: the resulting 470-page report was almost entirely written by Powell.
A 1839 report cites the travel time as three months and ten days — almost 26 miles ( 40 km ) per day on average.
Unemployment in Ireland was forecasted to rise almost 17 percent in 2010, the Economic and Social Research Institute ( ESRI ) stated in a report published on 2009-04-28, however the unemployment rate in 2010 steadied at a rate of 14 %.
Sufferers of panic attacks often report a fear or sense of dying, " going crazy ," or experiencing a heart attack or " flashing vision ," feeling faint or nauseated, a numb sensation throughout the body, heavy breathing ( and almost always, hyperventilation ), or losing control of themselves.
A SAX parser only needs to report each parsing event as it happens, and normally discards almost all of that information once reported ( it does, however, keep some things, for example a list of all elements that have not been closed yet, in order to catch later errors such as end-tags in the wrong order ).
His fund achieved positive returns in almost every year, averaging 13 % p. a., even during the Great Depression, thanks to very modern investment strategies, which included inter-market diversification ( i. e., invested not only in stocks but also commodities and currencies ) as well as shorting, i. e., selling borrowed stocks or futures to make money on falling prices, which Keynes advocated among the principles of successful investment in his 1933 report (" a balanced investment position [...] and if possible, opposed risks.
Its March 2006 report, " Getting It Wrong the First Time ," shows 1, 295 restatements of financial earnings in 2005 for companies listed on U. S. securities markets, almost twice the number for 2004.
" According to the report, almost none of the aircraft produced in 1944 were used in combat and some may have been imaginary.
Allen and Seaman ( 2009 ) claim that almost a quarter of all students in post-secondary education were taking fully online courses in 2008, and a report by Ambient Insight Research suggests that in 2009, 44 percent of post-secondary students in the USA were taking some or all of their courses online, and projected that this figure would rise to 81 percent by 2014.
The subsequent report on Gardner read: " Here signs of recent habitation were clearly visible but repeated circling and zooming failed to elicit any answering wave from possible inhabitants and it was finally taken for granted that none were there ... At the western end of the island a tramp steamer ( of about 4000 tons )... lay high and almost dry head onto the coral beach with her back broken in two places.
His first take off ended badly, but according to a modern newspaper report ' He flew a distance of almost three miles along the foreshore at a low altitude varying between fifty and five hundred feet '.
Værløse is mentioned in the weather report but sounds almost like " vejrløse ", which means " weatherless ".
" The report also documented that there had been an almost 100 % reduction in EPA enforcement resources since the earlier assessment.
Compared to other travellers of the time, they travelled quickly — an 1839 report cites the travel time as three months and ten days — almost 26 miles ( 40 km ) per day on average.
The report also revealed that the college earns almost half a million pounds a year from conference accommodation and another £ 17 000 from its laundry service.
This report was the basis for the Uniform Determination of Death Act, which is now the law in almost all fifty states.
The heavily footnoted report concluded that peace was not in the interest of a stable society, that even if lasting peace " could be achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of society to achieve it.

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