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Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.
Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.
The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.
Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.
There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.
But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.
The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.
If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.
and, although he later explained that he was talking French, it seems rather more likely that he had succumbed to the joys of the evening.
On the other hand, the women class members appeared to reach a far greater understanding than have women members in other sections that it is more natural for males as a group to view sex as sex rather than always associating it with love as most women seem to do.
In considering roleplaying for analysis we enter a more complex area, since we are now no longer dealing with a simple over-all decision but rather with the examination and evaluation of many elements seen in dynamic functioning.
Two very useful ways for modifying a form-dictionary are the addition to the dictionary of complete paradigms rather than single forms and the application of a single change to more than one dictionary form.
Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.
His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.
Variations in sound velocity should be measured rather than temperature, because more of the variables would be encompassed.
With Skorich at the helm, the Eagles are expected to put more emphasis on running, rather than passing.
Tenderly and rather tediously, the camera rivets on the abrupt, deep love of a pretty nurse and a uniformed teacher, complicated by nothing more than a friend they don't want to hurt.
In particular, social sciences often develop statistical descriptions rather than the general laws derived in physics or chemistry, or they may explain individual cases through more general principles, as in many fields of psychology.
There was some debate at the time whether there should be more control characters rather than the lower case alphabet.
The forelimbs may be partially developed and the hind limbs are rudimentary in pond-living species but may be rather more developed in species that reproduce in moving water.
Other researchers see these motifs as part of a more generalized Puebloan style and / or spiritual significance, rather than evidence of a continuing specific elite socioeconomic system.
When looking at variations it needs to be kept in mind that different groups of people do not always sign one way and not the other, rather they prefer and use a particular form of a sign more often.
Her second husband, Pere Milà, was a developer who was criticized for his flamboyant lifestyle and ridiculed by the contemporary residents of Barcelona, when they joked about his love of money and opulence, wondering if he was not rather more interested in " the widow ’ s guardiola " ( piggy bank ), than in " Guardiola ’ s widow ".
He later spoke out for black suffrage, though not based solely on race, but rather merit oriented, arguing, " The better class of them will go to work and sustain themselves, and that class ought to be allowed to vote, on the ground that a loyal Negro is more worthy than a disloyal white man.

rather and impoverished
George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel about a coercive and impoverished totalitarian society, conditioning its population through propaganda rather than drugs.
The New Chronology places King Solomon at the end of the wealthy Late Bronze Age, rather than in the relatively impoverished Early Iron Age, as in the conventional chronology.
Years later Dan Enright stated in the WGBH documentary American Experience: The Quiz Show Scandal interview: This man was taken from obscurity-he came from rather impoverished circumstances-taken from obscurity and then exposed to the light of celebrity, became for some six weeks a celebrity and then just as quickly was cast back into obscurity.
In the interim, Hassan used what little money he has to set up a bakery, but rather than selling any bread, he gives all of it away to beggars and thus becomes impoverished.
Mala gave a memorable performance as the relatively unsympa ­ thetic part of an ambitious woman who chooses to marry a rich man ( played by actor Rehman ) and have a loveless marriage rather than a poor, unsuccessful poet and her impoverished lover ( played by Guru Dutt ) whom she ditches.
While advancements in agriculture will bring some improvements in infrastructure and employment for this traditionally rather neglected and impoverished region, loss of habitat / virgin forest is substantial.
The impoverished community, lacking in political clout or a cohesive PTA, was provided 10 truancy officers, rather than improved education strategies.
The moral of the episode, explained by Stan in the final scene, encourages viewers to see suffering citizens of impoverished countries as real people, rather than images on television screens, which tend to make the viewers feel detached and alienated from them.
The Guardian reported that Libyans " expressed relief rather than sadness " at news of al-Megrahi's death, as he was a reminder of the international sanctions that had impoverished the country following the bombing.
By 2002, most of the funds from Hodges ' " South Carolina Education Lottery " were used to pay for college scholarships, rather than to improve impoverished rural and inner-city schools.
The working class in western Europe had not become impoverished ; rather, its prosperity had risen.
Pape also notably provides further evidence to a growing body of literature that finds that the majority of suicide terrorists do not come from impoverished or uneducated background, but rather have middle class origins and a significant level of education.

rather and circumstances
Moreover, they have done so in rather special circumstances.
In most circumstances the string section is treated by the arranger as one homogenous unit and its members are required to play preconceived material rather than improvise.
: Normally we think our happiness is contingent upon external circumstances and situations, rather than upon our own inner attitude toward things, or toward life in general.
Stone defined narrative as follows: it is organized chronologically ; it is focused on a single coherent story ; it is descriptive rather than analytical ; it is concerned with people not abstract circumstances ; and it deals with the particular and specific rather than the collective and statistical.
According to Jody Joy, curator of the Iron Age collection at the British Museum, the importance of Lindow Man lies more in how he lived rather than how he died, as the circumstances surrounding his demise may never be fully established.
Example of a 3-valued logic applied to vague ( undetermined ) cases: Kleene 1952 (§ 64, pp. 332 – 340 ) offers a 3-valued logic for the cases when algorithms involving partial recursive functions may not return values, but rather end up with circumstances " u "
If the number of participants is large, and some of their physical or network distancee are great, then the probability of complete success ( which is, in ideal circumstances, required for system security ) will be rather low.
According Steve White, during the Putin presidency Russia made clear that it had no intention of establishing a " second edition " of the American or British political system, but rather a system that was closer to Russia's own traditions and circumstances.
Cobb agrees with Mathiez that the Terror was simply a response to circumstances, a necessary evil and natural defence, rather than a manifestation of violent temperaments or excessive fervour.
The implication is that one would really rather still be involved in fandom, but circumstances make it impossible.
Zero-based numbering is numbering in which the initial element of a sequence is assigned the index 0, rather than the index 1 as is typical in everyday circumstances.
A cognitive bias is the human tendency to make systematic decisions in certain circumstances based on cognitive factors rather than evidence.
In response to public suggestions by some advocates of firearms for home defense, that homeowners were at high risk of injury from home invasions and would be wise to acquire a firearm for purposes of protection, Kellermann investigated the circumstances surrounding all in-home homicides in three cities of about half a million population each over five years, and found that the risk of a homicide was in fact slightly higher in homes where a handgun was present, rather than lower.
( Academic theorist, artist, and performer Allucquere Rosanne Stone ( born Zelig Ben-Natan ) lived near the Heinleins at some point in the late 1960s and took the unusual name, but is rather evasive about the exact circumstances.
The tone of the song is dark and angry, in marked contrast with the generally genial tone of Iolanthe, and the lyrics make the case that bad behavior by the underclasses is caused by their unfortunate circumstances: " I might be as bad – as unlucky, rather – if I only had Fagin for a father.
But no ancient source accords him or his father the Dives cognomen, while we are explicitly informed that his great wealth was acquired rather than inherited, and that he was raised in modest circumstances.
Under these circumstances, a case where the affidavit was proved ineffective emerged in 1961 and in spite of — rather than because of — protest prior to 1961, the disclaimer requirement was excised.
" Special circumstances " does not confer judicial discretion ; rather, it gives a debtor an opportunity to adjust income by documenting additional expenses or loss of income in situations caused by a medical condition or being called or order to active military service.
It is more a methodological approach to the question than a theory ; it asks not from where the content or form of the lyric came but rather in what situation / circumstances did it arise.
His lechery was so strong that it broke out even in the midst of rather hectic circumstances.
The Greeks, moreover, will admit that even amongst those who are considered to be most largely endowed with wisdom, good fortune has had much to do, as in the choice of teachers of one kind rather than another, and in meeting with a better class of instructors ( there being teachers who taught the most opposite doctrines ), and in being brought up in better circumstances ; for the bringing up of many has been amid surroundings of such a kind, that they were prevented from ever receiving any idea of better things, but constantly passed their life, from their earliest youth, either as the favourites of licentious men or of tyrants, or in some other wretched condition which forbade the soul to look upwards.
Cadfael likes to speak in Welsh, is exuberant when getting an opportunity to go back into Wales, and feels closer to many Welsh ways of doing things than Anglo-Norman ways: for example, letting all of a man's acknowledged children, whether born in or out of wedlock, share in his inheritance ; and recognizing degrees of crime, including homicide, which allows leniency to killers in certain circumstances, rather than the inflexibly mandatory capital punishment of Norman Law, administered reluctantly by Hugh Beringar and rigidly by his superior, Sheriff Gilbert Prestcote.
Historians Victor Davis Hanson and Donald Kagan have argued that Epaminondas's so-called " oblique formation " was not an intentional and preconceived innovation in infantry tactics, but was rather a clever response to circumstances.
They stress uncertainty and bounded rationality in the making of economic decisions, rather than relying on the rational man who is fully informed of all circumstances impinging on his decisions.

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