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either and case
In either case, they do not appreciate the private detective's zeal.
How in the world had he formerly found time to build up a business, raise a family, be on half a dozen boards, work actively on committees and either go out in the evening or plow through the contents of a bulging brief case??
For if such were the case, either the plane of the two lines would meet **zg in more than K points or, alternatively, the order of the image regulus of the pencil determined by the two lines would be too high.
Tonal morphophonemics, in a common case, can do nothing but either raise or lower the tone.
In virtually every case the transferor corporation is liquidated, and its former stockholders either own outright, or have a continuing stock interest in, the assets which gave rise to the tax.
In the only sense in which badness is involved at all, whatever was bad in the first case is still present in its entirety, since all that is expressed in either case is a state of feeling, and that feeling is still there.
But in either event he was the wrong man for the kind of case outlined by Ben Gurion and set forth in the indictment.
It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).
But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.
We may now take up for consideration a hard case which seems to require either no action employing economic pressure or else action that would seem to violate the principles set forth above.
In either case, it could call a special session of the Legislature later in 1961 to make another stab at raising additional revenues through a tax raiser.
Thus, if what is at issue is whether `` All S is P '', it is indifferent whether `` Some S is not P '' or `` No S is P '', since in either case the judgment in question is false.
The male grasps the female tightly with his forelimbs either behind her arms or in front of her back legs, or in the case of Epipedobates tricolor, around her neck.
The appellant in the new case can be either the plaintiff ( or claimant ), defendant, third-party intervenor, or respondent ( appellee ) from the lower case, depending on who was the losing party.
In tort, equity, or other civil matters either party to a previous case may file an appeal.
The pleading in the criminal case, which is entered on the record in open court, is usually either guilty or not guilty.
In other types of alphabet either the vowels are not indicated at all, as was the case in the Phoenician alphabet ( such systems are known as abjads ), or else the vowels are shown by diacritics or modification of consonants, as in the devanagari used in India and Nepal ( these systems are known as abugidas or alphasyllabaries ).
Some linguists believe the case for either interpretation is about equally strong ; they have been called the " skeptics ".
Later he lies freely in order to gain the confidences of other characters, either inventing his own reason for being interested in the case or a family excuse for pursuing a line of questioning.
It is therefore better to assume that Christie provided no authoritative chronology for Poirot's retirement, but assumed that he could either be an active detective, a consulting detective or a retired detective as the needs of the immediate case required.
In either case the earth becomes weakened by its cracks and hills collapse, causing earthquakes.
With the descendents of Charles I thus either childless ( in the case of William III and Anne ) or Catholic, consideration then fell to the descendants of Elizabeth of Bohemia, the only other child of James I to have reached adulthood.

either and frontier
On arrival at the supreme Mongol court — either that on the Imyl river ( near Lake Alakol and the present Russo-Chinese frontier in the Altay ), or more probably at or near Karakorum itself, south-west of Lake Baikal — Andrew found Güyük Khan dead, poisoned, as the envoy supposed, by Batu Khan's agents.
( Swiss neutrality obliged the Swiss to intern personnel from either side of the conflict who crossed their frontier to evade capture.
The year of active service was served either on their frontier, in a king's court or under the Minister of the Guards in the capital.
If the workers on a farm can produce either one million pounds of wheat or two million pounds of barley, then the opportunity cost of producing one pound of wheat is the two pounds of barley forgone ( assuming the production possibilities frontier is linear ).
But unlike the dispute of Somerset's southern border, there were few settlers in the frontier on either side to take issue.
Yet the situation was soon stabilised ; by 1035, on the eastern frontier, Arab pirates who had been raiding were either captured or killed, the Byzantines had taken the Muslim fortress of Perkri, while the important fortress of Edessa was relieved after a prolonged siege, and eventually ceded back to the empire in 1037.
For Titan it stands on a precipice of transition ; it can either fall into the past with the demise of hydrogen and become " decadent " like Earth or become the beginning of a new and uncertain frontier.
In the late Roman Empire, the Latin title comes, meaning ( imperial ) " companion ", denoted the high rank of various courtiers and provincial officials, either military or administrative: before Anthemius became emperor in the West in 467, he was military comes charged with strengthening defenses on the Danube frontier.
While the northern frontier became more secure, the state of the eastern frontier was deplorable, with the government either unable or unwilling to settle disputes between Xhosa and Cape farmers.
For the next several years, Maverick spent a great deal of time away from home, either surveying frontier lands or traveling to New Orleans on business.
" Making the splinters fly " along with rapid clatter and thumping was often heard at frontier parties, either as side entertainment at the dance parties, or in contests.
It remains a mystery just why Claudius did not authorise Placidianus to go to the relief of Augustodunum Haeduorum ; however, it is speculated that Claudius, who was fully engaged either in Italy against the Alamanni or in the Balkans against the Goths, did not wish to open a second theatre of operations in Gaul, which would not only have involved a major military effort, but would also have required Claudius to assume responsibility for the defense of the Rhine frontier had he been successful.
Settlers remaining on the frontier immediately sought safety, either in blockhouses or by fleeing eastward across the Monongahela River.
That evidence does not support claims of either genocide or frontier warfare in the colony.
Ghori captured a fortress, either at Sirhind or Bathinda in present-day Punjab state on the northwestern frontier of Prithvīrāj Chauhān's kingdom.
It is an open post, without either stockades or breastworks of any kind, and, barring the officers and soldiers who are seen about, it has much more the appearance of a quiet frontier village than that of a military station.
The bestowing of a new name for the area of Bidasoa-Txingudi supported efforts to create a sense of common identity among people on either side of the frontier and thus bolster acceptance of cross-frontier cooperation.
The fact that the promoters of the cooperation project chose to spell the new name in Basque rather than French ( Chingoudy ) or Spanish ( Chingudi ) was both a way of emphasizing the common Basque culture on either side of the frontier and a deliberate ploy to provide a stamp of Basque political correctness on the project.
Declining to be classed either as Christians or Jews, they were excluded from the edict of toleration promulgated by Emperor Joseph II in 1781, and deported to various parts of the country, the men being drafted into frontier regiments.
On 24 September 1817 the Regiment was reduced in size ( a previous order to completely disband having either been ignored or rescinded ) to two small units of about 200 men for the defence of the Cape Colony's eastern frontier.
Readers of the story have varyingly placed the village either near the Mexican frontier with the United States, or farther south towards Central America.
Because of its peripheral location at the frontier, Mithankot, along with the neighbouring areas, was either neglected and " left alone " or it was subjected to plundering raids, greater scrutiny and repression, as border areas are often subjected to.
Henceforth, all the Roman Cohorts were characterized as either frontier garrisons to police border provinces and keep the peace in fringe settlements or mobile field armies to confront attacking enemy forces in mass engagements.

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