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disposition and Alexander
Tsar Alexander II, who succeeded Nicholas I in 1855, was a man of a liberal disposition, who saw no alternative but to implement change in the aftermath of the Crimean War.

disposition and bore
According to Cespedes's son, his father " imagined a new flag that bore the same colors as that of the Carreras and O ' Higgins and that would differentiate itself from the disposition of those colors.
" Furthermore, Bede tells us that Cadwallon, " though he bore the name and professed himself a Christian, was so barbarous in his disposition and behaviour, that he neither spared the female sex, nor the innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put them to tormenting deaths, ravaging all their country for a long time, and resolving to cut off all the race of the English within the borders of Britain.
He is as cunning as a first class female diplomatist … ( but has not ) real sound judgement …… intrigues with newspaper correspondents … he has not the brains nor the disposition nor the coolness nor the firmness of purpose to enable him to take command in any war … a very second rate general … whose two most remarkable traits ( a ) re extreme vanity & unbounded self-seeking " although a letter to his wife ( complaining that Wood was “ a very puzzle-headed fellow ”, wanting in method and vain ) suggests that Wolseley still bore Wood a grudge about the peace after Majuba Hill.

disposition and little
Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was invading Pennsylvania and, as a former corps commander, Meade had little knowledge of the disposition of the rest of his new army.
His Calvinist faith and quiet, serious disposition meant he had little desire for the fashionable endeavours of an English aristocratic lifestyle.
He found, however, that there was little disposition to join the rebellion, and he then apparently made up his mind to secure his own safety by revealing all that he knew to the government of Queen Anne.
The liberalism of the early 1960s contained no hint of radicalism, little disposition to revive new deal era crusades against concentrated economic power, and no intention to fast and class passions or redistribute wealth or restructure existing institutions.
Though intelligent, LeChuck displays a ruthless and sadistic disposition, with little regard for human life.
Little is known of Coke's father ; Wenman is described as a shy person who " saw little company and lived much out of the world ; his habits were those of a country gentleman, bending his mind to agriculture, moderately addicted to field sports and more than either, to reading in which he passed many hours ; firm in his principles which were those of the old Whig ; amiable in his disposition mild in his manners, he was beloved of his friends ".
This attention softened a little the generally sour disposition of the old pianist, who did not forgive the new school for knowing something ; he took my hand and said with the air of majestic condescension: The style is good, as for the rest there is nothing astonishing ; you are my grandchild ( alluding to Stamaty, who was his pupil ), but for god's sake, who advised you to play such music.
The tsar, however, offended by her indiscretions and sensible of the ridicule which his relations with her had brought upon him, showed little disposition to hurry her arrival.
Previously, before the introduction of Dialogue Mass, except at Sung Masses, the people had little active participation in the Mass other than interior disposition.
Often confused with the Old English Bulldog, the Bulldog is noted for its sweet disposition ; however, it has maintained little of the speed and agility that were the definitive characteristics of the Old English Bulldog.
There he effected little beyond gaining for himself the reputation of a conciliatory disposition.

disposition and resemblance
The disposition of the minister ( Darlan ) was not unfavorable to the adoption of this course ; and it is worthy of note that the new facts which were allowed later by the court were at that moment easy to establish ; namely, the resemblance between Esterhazy's writing and that of the bordereau and the communication of the secret dossier to the judges.
Seeing-in is a psychological disposition to detect a resemblance between certain surfaces, such as inkblots or accidental stains, etc.

disposition and liberal
However, his family was of a more cultured, liberal disposition than many of their contemporaries.
Supporters of designer baby technology include liberal technophiles, libertarians, and transhumanists, who variously believe in a moral imperative to improve society by improving the health, intelligence or physical capability of individuals, or in the right of individuals over the disposition of their own bodies and those of their unborn children.

disposition and father
One of the virtues of the mule is that a mule has the size and ground-covering ability of a horse, but is comparatively stronger than a horse of similar size and inherits the endurance and disposition of the donkey father.
* The leader of the Jewish revolt against Syria rule, Mattathias, dies and his third son, Judas, assumes leadership of the revolt in accordance with the deathbed disposition of his father.
After Mattathias's death in 166 BCE, Judah assumed leadership of the revolt in accordance with the deathbed disposition of his father.
:[...]-" My father, after a Greek education, brought me to the sages at an age somewhat too early perhaps, for I was only twelve at the time, but they brought me up like their own son ; for any that they admit knowing the Greek tongue they are especially fond of, because they consider that in virtue of the similarity of his disposition he already belongs to themselves.
Born in Vienna, from an early age he had a military disposition, which his father encouraged.
The unexpectedly large estate, its contents, and its disposition proved to Forester that his father, whom he had loved and admired, had consistently lied to him for years, and strongly suggested evidence of another secret life.
The trip turns out to ultimately cure Victor's brooding disposition toward life and shows him why his father became an alcoholic, was abusive, and eventually left their family.
Ironically, Fairfax's father had hired George Washington to survey this land ( giving the general a familiarity with the area that must have proven useful during the war if not in the disposition of the spoils after the war ).
Born in the summer of 1887, named for his father ’ s younger brother, he received the nickname " Ramses " from his father, who said of his baby, " in its belligerent appearance and imperious disposition it strongly resembled the Egyptian pharaoh, the second of that name, who had scattered enormous statues of himself all along the Nile.
After her father's death, evidence presented by the daughter showed that she was well known for her good disposition and that her father had falsely told others that he lavished his daughter with praise and wealth.
He began to draw the buildings his father used to work on and developed an artistic disposition.

disposition and still
By late 1617, Anne's bouts of illness had become debilitating ; the letter writer John Chamberlain recorded: " The Queen continues still ill disposed and though she would fain lay all her infirmities upon the gout yet most of her physicians fear a further inconvenience of an ill habit or disposition through her whole body ".
The corpse's final disposition was in a deep and lonely mountain tarn, which, according to later tradition, was on a mountain, still called Pilatus ( actually pileatus or " cloud capped "), overlooking Lucerne.
This eccentric lady was of an artistic disposition, and a painting of her eyes still remains on the ceiling of the great north portico ( see secondary lead image ).
The entirety of Napoleon's Imperial Guard, however, was still available to his disposition and in refusing to implement it he lost his singular chance to destroy the Russian army.
Consequentialist and deontological theories often still employ the term ' virtue ', but in a restricted sense, namely as a tendency or disposition to adhere to the system's principles or rules.
Leno appeared at Drury Lane as Sister Anne in Bluebeard, a character described by Wood as " a sprightly, somewhat below middle aged person who was of a coming on disposition and who had not yet abandoned hope " The Times drama critic noted: " It is a quite peculiar and original Sister Anne, who dances breakdowns and sings strange ballads to a still stranger harp and plays ping-pong with a frying-pan and potatoes and burlesques Sherlock Holmes and wears the oddest of garments and dresses her hair like Miss Morleena Kenwigs, and speaks in a piping voice – in short it is none other than Dan Leno whom we all know ".
This disposition followed the order of a tonary, but William of Volpiano wrote not only the incipits of the classified chant, he wrote the whole chant text with the music in central French neumes which were still written in campo aperto, and added a second alphabetic notation of his own invention for the melodic structure of the codified chant.
While Elaine is the dominant partner in their relationship, she still has faith in his abilities regardless of Guybrush's hapless disposition.
Much like its previous forms, Dragonite still has a gentle and somewhat innocent appearance and a kindhearted disposition.
Features included the " spread ", or disposition on the table, and strictly assigned meanings to each card both in regular and in reversed positions, characteristics that are still central to Tarot divination today.
However, through generations of selective breeding, the modern Netherland Dwarf has become a gentle, friendly pet rabbit, though it still retains a more energetic disposition than larger breeds.
He died on 22 December 1572, shortly after the massacre of St Bartholomew, and his will, mentioning his sister and his two illegitimate daughters, and dealing with the disposition of a considerable amount of property, is still in existence.
A sunny disposition along with a willingness to eschew the stereotypical professional relationship with her customers are among Kokoro's best assets ; still, the road to being the consummate librarian is neither straight nor smooth in fair weather.
His funeral orations over Eustathius ( 1195 ) and his brother Nicetas, though wordier and rhetorical, still evinced a noble disposition and deep feeling.

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