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What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.
One should not, of course, pluck the head off a flower and expect its perfume to linger on.
A rich nation can for a time, without noticeable damage to itself, pursue a course of self-indulgence, making its single goal the material ease and comfort of its own citizens -- thus repudiating its own spiritual and material stake in a peaceful and prosperous society of nations.
It wished to pursue, in the course of this review, questions arising from the body of material already in its possession.
This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.
The consequences, of course, have been dreadful: reckless expansion has led to overpopulation, pollution of the earth and depletion of its natural resources.
And this, of course, is exactly what Madison Avenue has been accused of doing albeit in a primitive way, with its `` hidden persuaders '' and what the space merchants accomplish with much greater sophistication and precision.
Time, of course will testify whether the new version will have achieved its purpose.
The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.
The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.
Since faculty see themselves as self-employed professionals rather than as employees, enthusiasm in a common enterprise is proportionate to the sense of ownership they have in it by virtue of sharing in the decisions that govern its course.
To hope to cover just one region of this land and to enjoy all of its sights and events and, of course, to bring back pictures of your experiences, requires advance planning.
The bronchial artery in its course and distribution differs somewhat from that found in other mammals.
The intimal surface of the aorta was covered with confluent, yellow-brown, hard, friable plaques along its entire course, and there was a marked narrowing of the orifices of the large major visceral arteries.
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.
On the other hand, in a more favorable vein, general business activity should receive some stimulus from rising Federal spending, and the reduction in business inventories has probably run a good part of its course.
It is pertinent to ask the question: Has the long upswing of interest rates during the past 15 years just about run its course, and are we now entering a period in which both capital market forces and Federal policies will produce a prolonged decline of interest rates??
Of course, nationalism has really outlived its usefulness in a country as world-oriented as ours, and its continued existence reflects one of the major culture lags of the twentieth-century United States.
In this way, red wine warms of itself quite rapidly -- and though it is true that it may not attain its potential of taste and fragrance until after the middle of the meal ( or the course ), in the meantime it will have run the gamut of many beguiling and interesting stages.

course and inquiry
Perjury operates in American law as an inherited principle of the common law of England, which defined the act as the " willful and corrupt giving, upon a lawful oath, or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, in a judicial proceeding or course of justice, of a false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry.
It is also " an explicit formal inquiry carried out to help someone ( referred to as the decision maker ) identify a better course of action and make a better decision than he might otherwise have made.
In 2011 an inquiry by the Quality Assurance Agency into restructuring at the LCC, found standards were so badly affected by course closures that some students ’ marks were raised to compensate.
This changed with Todd v Gee in 1810, where Lord Eldon held that " except in very special cases, it was not the course of proceeding in Equity to file a Bill for specific performance of an agreement ; praying in the alternative, if it cannot be performed, an issue, or an inquiry before the Master, with a view to damages.
To attempt at this stage a psychological inquiry into the origin of these conceptions would be doubly a mistake ; for we should have to use these unlegitimated conceptions in the course of it, and the task of clearing up their contradictions would still remain, whether we succeeded in our enquiry or not.
The committee of inquiry had to be satisfied of the previous good character and present necessity of the mother, and that the father of the child had deserted both mother and child, and that the reception of the child would probably replace the mother in the course of virtue and in the way of an honest livelihood.
The course of study, ending in a New York State Regents endorsed diploma, is centered around an interdisciplinary, multicultural, inquiry based approach to learning which prepares students for college and / or a professional career in the arts.
As these poor people wrought by my orders, it will be a great ease to my heart to think they are not to lose by me, as too many have done in the course of that year, but had I lived I might have made some inquiry after: but now it is impossible, as their hardships in loss of horses and such things, which happeened through my soldiers, are so interwoven with what was done by other people, that it would be very hard, if not impossible, to separate them.
On 17 December 2009, Independent Police Complaints Commission investigators and officers from the Metropolitan Police's directorate of professional standards arrested a former police constable and a serving member of Metropolitan Police staff on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice by allegedly withholding evidence from the original murder inquiry, the Kent investigation and the Macpherson inquiry.
* Biblical theology ( inquiry into how divine revelation progressed over the course of the Bible ).
Nor, of course, does accepting the instrumental value of philosophy for other fields require one to abandon the view that philosophy also has intrinsic worth, nor the view that its intrinsic worth should be the primary reason to pursue philosophical inquiry.
In the course of that inquiry, the Commission may request the undertakings or associations of undertakings concerned to supply information necessary for giving effect to Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty ( now Art.
In the course of the inquiry, the Commission may request that firms-undertakings or associations of undertakings-concerned supply information ( for example, price information ).
Although Bo initially agreed to allow an inquiry, he then changed course and sought to obstruct investigations.
A parliamentary commission of inquiry discovered only that Crispi, on assuming office in 1893, had found the secret service coffers empty, and had borrowed money from a state bank to fund it, repaying it with the monthly installments granted in regular course by the treasury.
Because little is known about the symptoms, course, and outcome of this heterogeneous category, the preponderance of EDNOS in clinical practice impedes clinical communication, treatment planning, epidemiological inquiry, primary prevention, and basic research.
In recent years, in New South Wales we have seen: a Minister of the Crown gaoled for bribery ; an inquiry into a second, and indeed a third, former Minister for alleged corruption ; the former Chief Stipendiary Magistrate gaoled for perverting the course of justice ; a former Commissioner of Police in the courts on a criminal charge ; the former Deputy Commissioner of Police charged with bribery ; a series of investigations and court cases involving judicial figures including a High Court Judge ; and a disturbing number of dismissals, retirements and convictions of senior police officers for offences involving corrupt conduct .... No government can maintain its claim to legitimacy while there remains the cloud of suspicion and doubt that has hung over government in New South Wales.
Lydon was examined in the course of several modules of inquiry.
But in the course of a very extensive tour through the northern parts of Europe, which I happened to take in 1786, I found that in Germany they were engaged in a species of political enquiry to which they had given the name " statistics ," and though I apply a different meaning to that word — for by " statistical " is meant in Germany an inquiry for the purposes of ascertaining the political strength of a country or questions respecting matters of state — whereas the idea I annex to the term is an inquiry into the state of a country, for the purpose of ascertaining the quantum of happiness enjoyed by its inhabitants, and the means of its future improvement ; but as I thought that a new word might attract more public attention, I resolved on adopting it, and I hope it is now completely naturalised and incorporated with our language.
As these poor people wrought by my orders, it will be a great ease to my heart to think they are not to lose by me, as too many have done in the course of that year, but had I lived I might have made some inquiry after: but now it is impossible, as their hardships in loss of horses and such things, which happeened through my soldiers, are so interwoven with what was done by other people, that it would be very hard, if not impossible, to separate them.
In addition, IB students are required to participate actively in creative activities and community service, as well as completing an individual research project ( extended essay ) and an inquiry course that delves into the nature of knowledge ( Theory of Knowledge course ).

course and took
To exonerate the legislature and thereby extricate himself from a sticky situation, Pike took another course and made it appear that the legislature had been bilked.
In the main, this course took the following directional high roads.
This is the course the positivists took.
But he didn't play golf, didn't seem to belong to any local clubs -- his work took him away a lot, of course -- which probably accounted for his tendency to keep to himself.
He didn't tell Miss Jen, but she must have got word from the cook or nurse, who of course knew those Quinzaine nigs, and she really took a fit.
VI, c. 16 ), and South Africa took a similar course of action.
United States Air Force records show that at least 6, 542 spraying missions took place over the course of Operation Ranch Hand.
Air Force records show at least 6, 542 spraying missions took place over the course of Operation Ranch Hand.
The observations were continued, and the star was seen to continue its southerly course until March, when it took up a position some 20 ″ more southerly than its December position.
Whorf took Sapir's first course at Yale on " American Indian Linguistics ".
Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, Charles VII, took the city at the end of the Hundred Years ' War and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea.
The Cuban government supported and still supports the Republican cause, but opposed the attacks which took place on civilian targets by Sinn Féin's military ally, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of course attacks on civilians by their loyalist enemies such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association.
In the course of this conflict, forced removal of at least 10, 000 Indians to relocation centers in the interior of the country and subsequent burning of some villages took place.
" In that interview he also mentioned a course he has twice given at Indiana University, in which he took a " skeptical look at a number of highly-touted AI projects and overall approaches.
During the course of the war, he took part in actions at Heligoland Bight ( 1914 ), Dogger Bank ( 1915 ) and Jutland ( 1916 ).
In her interview with Howard Stern, Plato mentioned that the traumatic events of her mother ’ s death and her husband ’ s leaving her took place during the course of only a week.
In 2009, over 3 million K-12 students took an online course, compared to 2000 when 45, 000 took an online course.
One study found that university students who took a child development course and attained high grades showed, when tested ten years later, average retention scores of about 30 %, whereas those who obtained moderate or lower grades showed average retention scores of about 20 %.
Due to Genocchi's poor health, Peano took over the teaching of the infinitesimal calculus course within 2 years.
In Benghazi, during the course of four separate protests that took place on 20 February, more than 200 people have died.
The Young Hegelians, by contrast, took Hegel's thoughts on societies shaped by the forces of social conflict for a doctrine of progress, and attempted to chart a course that would manipulate these forces to lead to various improved outcomes.

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