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His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.
Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??
some Jews have in fact been all things to all men.
Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.
In fact, modern scholarly opinion in the main has not retreated all the way back to the destructive scepticism of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Wade-Evans, in fact, denies that there were any Anglo-Saxon invasions at all other than a minor Jutish foray in A.D. 514.
But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.
He has shown considerable ingenuity in adapting his earliest symbols and devices to the new work, and the fact that he has kept a body of constant symbols through all of his experiments gives an unexpected continuity to his poetry.
It is a fact of life that magazines are edited by groups: they have to be or they wouldn't be published at all.
The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.
in fact, with having been against all the more popular features of the Khrushchev `` welfare state ''.
As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.
The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this title shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.
However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.
This is true because of savings in utility lines and the fact that your buildings have a useful radius equal in all directions.
Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.
Above all, we should seek to encourage the leaders of these societies to accept the unpleasant fact that they are responsible for their fates.
Perhaps this was related to the fact that all were in on it to some extent.
These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.
And the few must win what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement would not support markets as we know them at all, and is, in fact, unimaginable.

fact and persons
This view is based partly on Old English and Danish traditions regarding persons and events of the 4th century, and partly on the fact that striking affinities to the cult of Nerthus as described by Tacitus are to be found in pre-Christian Scandinavian, especially Swedish and Danish, religion.
The Board ( occasionally CSBD or the BoD for short ) also includes functions defined by a Deed of Trust written by Eddy ( one of several, in fact ) under which it consisted of four persons, though she later expanded the Board to five persons, thus in effect leaving one of its members out of Deed functions.
Married persons who are known to commit such acts may in fact lose privileges in the congregation as they are supposed to be setting a good example to the congregation.
:" The common law divided participants in a felony into four basic categories: ( 1 ) first-degree principals, those who actually committed the crime in question ; ( 2 ) second-degree principals, aiders and abettors present at the scene of the crime ; ( 3 ) accessories before the fact, aiders and abettors who helped the principal before the basic criminal event took place ; and ( 4 ) accessories after the fact, persons who helped the principal after the basic criminal event took place.
If a lock, let it have been made in whatever country, or by whatever maker, is not so inviolable as it has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is to the interest of honest persons to know this fact, because the dishonest are tolerably certain to apply the knowledge practically ; and the spread of the knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance.
If a lock, let it have been made in whatever country, or by whatever maker, is not so inviolable as it has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is to the interest of honest persons to know this fact, because the dishonest are tolerably certain to apply the knowledge practically ; and the spread of the knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance.
This condemnation was subsequently confirmed by Leo II ( a fact disputed by such persons as Cesare Baronio and Bellarmine, but which has since become commonly accepted ) in the form, " and also Honorius, who did not attempt to sanctify this Apostolic Church with the teaching of Apostolic tradition, but by profane treachery permitted its purity to be polluted ".
They state that lack of definition of obscenity in the statutes, coupled with the existence of hypothetical entities and standards as ultimate arbiters within the Miller Test ( hypothetical " reasonable persons " and " contemporary community standards ") proves that federal obscenity laws are in fact not defined, do not satisfy the vagueness doctrine, and thus are unenforceable and legally dubious.
There is therefore no positive source of evil, corresponding to the greater good, which is God ; evil being not real but rational — i. e. it exists not as an objective fact, but as a subjective conception ; things are evil not in themselves, but by reason of their relation to other things or persons.
This view is consistent with the fact that the Bible teaches that angels, who are spirits but not Divine persons, are numerous ( e. g., Genesis 28: 12 ).
He is accused of committing the naturalistic fallacy, because he is trying to deduce what people ought to do from what they do in fact do ; the fallacy of equivocation, because he moves from the fact that something is desirable ( 1 ), i. e. is capable of being desired, to the claim that it is desirable ( 2 ), i. e. that it ought to be desired ; and the fallacy of composition, because the fact that people desire their own happiness does not imply that the aggregate of all persons will desire the general happiness.
The fact that nuclear proliferation has led to an increase in the number of nations in the " nuclear club ", including nations of questionable stability ( e. g., Pakistan and North Korea ), and that a nuclear nation might be hijacked by a despot or other person or persons who might use nuclear weapons without sane regard for the consequences, presents a strong case for proponents of BMD who seek a policy which both protects against attack, but also does not require an escalation into what might become global nuclear war.
The fact that no persons come forward to claim injury has essentially made the two terms interchangeable in common use.
is of no use to shut our eyes to the fact that there is a great feeling all over Australia against the introduction of coloured persons.
Of these, however, 1. 65 million were said to be farm operators or persons who had some non-relief employment, while another 350, 000 were, despite the fact that they were already employed or seeking work, considered incapacitated.
The equation expresses the fact that for no persons to share a birthday, a second person cannot have the same birthday as the first ( 364 / 365 ), the third cannot have the same birthday as the first two ( 363 / 365 ), and in general the n < sup > th </ sup > birthday cannot be the same as any of the n − 1 preceding birthdays.
Ken Dowden observes that once the idea is dismissed that myth is directly narrating the movements of historical persons, that the loci of Danaian institutions at Lindos in Rhodes as well as at Argos suggests a Mycenaean colony sent to Rhodes from the Argolid, a tradition, in fact, that Strabo reports.
In the absence of a nobiliary or heraldic authority in Italy there are, in fact, numerous persons who claim to be barons or counts without any basis for such claims.
Unlike the earlier 2D LucasArts games, the player is informed of objects or persons of interest not by text floating on the screen when the player passes a cursor over them, but instead by the fact that Manny will turn his head towards that object or person as he walks by.
Also due to the fact that they are usually held in major centres of world population, Universal Expositions have been known to average 200, 000 persons per day of visitors-or more-and some 50 to 70 million visitors during their six month duration.

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