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If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.
I will mention two volumes of specific comment on this malaise that appeared last year.
The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
`` What I'd like you to comment on is the criticism leveled at your Committee ''.
Could you comment on that ''??
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
( Editorial comment on this letter appears elsewhere on this page ).
In this letter, Mr. Kennedy made it clear that he limited his comment only to one consideration -- what effect the legislative proposals might have on future anti-trust judgments.
Without comment he opened the closet and from its shelves constructed a highboard around the egg case which he had placed on the floor inside.
Before we comment further on these pathological conditions, we should remember that changes in the state of the hypothalamus within physiological limits distinguish sleep from wakefulness.
For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.
An Ohio soldier who, from a comrade just returned from leave, received an unfavorable comment on the conduct of his sister, took pen in hand and delivered himself thus: `` dear Sis.
Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.
Hughes would not comment on tax reforms or other issues in which the Republican candidates are involved.
Downtown and art theater managers and owners, contacted Friday night for comment on the COAHR request, said they had no knowledge of such a letter, and that it was not in the Friday mail.
Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.
A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.
Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: " I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper.
The first Greek Christians to comment extensively on Aristotle were John Philoponus, Elias, and David in the sixth century, and Stephen of Alexandria in the early seventh century.

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Ulyate made no comment but his face showed what he thought of poking ropes over lions' heads with poles, and of course these were the lions of fifty years ago, not the gentler ones of today, and this one was angry, with good reason.
The debates among these groups resulted in numerous synods, among them the Council of Sardica in 343, the Council of Sirmium in 358 and the double Council of Rimini and Seleucia in 359, and no fewer than fourteen further creed formulas between 340 and 360, leading the pagan observer Ammianus Marcellinus to comment sarcastically: " The highways were covered with galloping bishops.
Early Western travelers, whether to Persia, Turkey or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there, and observers from these other cultures comment on the unseemly pace of Western fashion, which many felt suggested an instability and lack of order in Western culture.
Justin's mention of the fire on the Jordan without comment suggests that he was relying on an intermediate source for these gospel quotations, and his literal interpretation of a pseudo-etymology of the Hebrew word Satan indicates a dependence on a testimony source with a knowledge of Hebrew, which was probably the Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus.
For instance, a shot of Bulgarian girls in ceremonial dresses was accompanied by the comment " You'd never believe that these girls were plotting the downfall of Western Civilisation as we know it!
He stated, " The vast majority of the allegations reported are untrue and unfounded " and " Beyond that, I will not dignify these private matters with any further public comment.
Mani responded to these rumours with the comment " Two old friends meeting up after 15 years to pay their respects to my mother does not constitute the reformation of The Stone Roses.
She went on to comment that reviving memories of a suit that the majority of the public had forgotten after the initial burst of publicity, commenting " when you run these ads defending, defending, defending, sometimes people think, " Well, wait a minute, why are they trying so hard to defend themselves?
The authors comment that these poor outcomes might reflect a need for additional support for some patients, in addition to the group therapy.
Writer Samuel A. Peeples told Roddenberry these attributes made Spock too alien, and suggested " he should at least be half-human and have the problems of both sides ", believing the human traits made the character more interesting and able to comment on the human condition more believably.
Following up on these ideas, physicist Peter Debye made an offhand comment that if particles behaved as waves, they should satisfy some sort of wave equation.
FIPS PUB 5-1 ( published on June 15, 1970 and superseded by FIPS PUB 5-2 on May 28, 1987 ) stated that certain numeric codes " are reserved for possible future use in identifying American Samoa ( 03 ), Canal Zone ( 07 ), Guam ( 14 ), Puerto Rico ( 43 ), and Virgin Islands ( 52 )", but these codes were omitted from FIPS PUB 5-2 without comment.
Other users may also comment on these diaries, similar to stories, however without the " Editorial " or " Topical " stipulation.
In 1946, Bebop " co-inventor " Dizzy Gillespie encouraged the young trombonist's development with the comment, " I've always known that the trombone could be played different, that somebody'd catch on one of these days.
Concrete poetry, however, is a more self-conscious form than these predecessors, using typography in part to comment on the fundamental instability of language.
At times he would comment on a serious news item giving a mock political speech ; in quite a few of these his own political views would flare up ( Agrelot was a proud member of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, and would occasionally host some of its public functions ).
We actually hear how these songs resonate with one another, comment upon and affect one another ... in a way, the music speaks for itself ".
Other characters frequently comment on Rei's beauty and elegance — in her first appearance, these traits even lead Luna to suspect that she could be the Princess they have been searching for.
In March 2005, BBC News Magazine reported the Morning Stars circulation as between 13, 000 and 14, 000, quoting John Haylett's comment " perhaps only one in 10 of these readers would label themselves as communists ", while in August 2006, The Guardian reported the print run to be " around 25, 000 ".
It should also be added, in reference to Habib Hassan Touma's comment above, that these " quarter-tones " are not used everywhere in the maqamat: in practice, Arabic music does not modulate to 12 different tonic areas like the Well-Tempered Klavier.
Specific definitions of these two measures vary, but the most common definition of physical SLOC is a count of lines in the text of the program's source code including comment lines.
" After these comments, the U. S. ambassador, Frederick Nolting, told Diệm that if he did not denounce his sister-in-law's comment in public, the Americans would have to stop supporting him, but he refused to do so, and assailed the monks.
The net effect of these wars is summed up by a retrospective comment from Beowulf Schaeffer in the short story " Grendel ": " The Kzinti aren't really a threat.

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