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In analyzing this regulation, let us take the last sentence first.
With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.
: And he used to repeat that sentence from St. Paul “ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ,” and many other verses of Scripture, urging us thereby to awake from the slumber of the soul by thinking in good time of our last hour.
Cardozo continues to adhere to the original principle of Winterbottom, that " absurd and outrageous consequences " must be avoided, and he does so by drawing a new line in the last sentence quoted above: " There must be knowledge of a danger, not merely possible, but probable.
The last sentence refers to prostitution and syphilis, the former a frequent cause of the latter, and the latter a leading cause of blindness.
The historical definition differs from the length-based standard in that a minute of arc, and hence a nautical mile, is not a constant length at the surface of the Earth but gradually lengthens in the north-south direction with increasing distance from the equator, as a corollary of the Earth's oblateness, hence the need for " mean " in the last sentence of the previous paragraph.
He added the final sentence of the novel, " He never saw Molly again ", at the last minute in a deliberate attempt to prevent himself from ever writing a sequel, but ended up doing precisely that with Count Zero ( 1986 ), a character-focused work set in the Sprawl alluded to in its predecessor.
No language corresponding to the last sentence about " two stout monks " appears in the Rule, though it is a popular myth that it does, with several reputable publications ( and more than one church, and at least one Benedictine organization ) repeating and propagating the error.
Usually the last word in a sentence is emphasized.
The book ends with the narrator awakening from his dream of heaven into the unpleasant reality of wartime Britain, in conscious imitation of The Pilgrim's Progress, the last sentence of the " First Part " of which is: " So I awoke, and behold, it was a Dream.
Subjects read a number of sentences ( usually between 2 and 6 ) and try to remember the last word of each sentence.
* June 18 – In Switzerland, Anna Göldi is sentenced to death for witchcraft ( the last legal witchcraft sentence ).
Every sentence typically ends in the trademark elongated tail-off on the last word.
Richard Adams quotes a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his Watership Down ; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in Watership Down is also a General.
" The phrase is used again in the novel's last sentence: " How green was my Valley then, and the Valley of them that have gone.
Richard FitzNigel, writing around the year 1179, stated that the book was known by the English as " Domesday ", that is the Day of Judgment " for as the sentence of that strict and terrible last account cannot be evaded by any skilful subterfuge, so when this book is appealed to ... its sentence cannot be put quashed or set aside with impunity.
Because of other troubles translators might have retaining the meaning of the book, Hofstadter " painstakingly went through every last sentence of GEB, annotating a copy for translators into any language that might be targeted ".
Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single!
Rozhestvensky claimed full responsibility for the fiasco ; as he had been wounded and unconscious during the last part of the battle, the Tsar commuted his death sentence.
In the opening sentence of his 1880 article Venn declared: " Schemes of diagrammatic representation have been so familiarly introduced into logical treatises during the last century or so, that many readers, even those who have made no professional study of logic, may be supposed to be acquainted with the general nation and object of such devices.
When the poem is completed, the echo of the last phrase, line, or sentence, generally serves as the title.
For example, the last sentence of the lyrics read " raise high Chairman Mao's banner ".
* homeoptoton: in a flexive language the use the first and last words of a sentence in the same forms

last and officer
if so, he would not be the first or last commanding officer who has succumbed to bad information and dubious estimates of the future.
The older brother Tiberius was the most distinguished young officer in the Third Punic War, Rome's last campaign against Carthage.
In 1711, Ahmed Karamanli, an Ottoman cavalry officer, seized power and founded the Karamanli dynasty, which would last 124 years.
Although Andrew Jackson served as a courier in a militia unit at age thirteen, Monroe is regarded as the last U. S. President who was a Revolutionary War veteran, since he served as an officer of the Continental Army and took part in combat.
Naimatullah Khan was the first Nazim of Karachi and Shafiq-Ur-Rehman Paracha was the first district coordination officer ( DCO ) of Karachi, Paracha even served as the last Commissioner of Karachi.
The first was Hermann Göring, the second was Generaloberst Robert Ritter von Greim as the second ( and last ) commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, concomitant with his promotion to Generalfeldmarschall, the last German officer in World War II to be promoted to the highest rank.
However, during the Vietnam War, the last conflict to produce U. S. fighter aces, the one USAF pilot, the two USAF navigators / weapon systems officers ( who were later retrained as USAF pilots ), the one USN Naval Aviator and the one USN Naval Flight Officer / radar intercept officer to achieve this distinction were eventually awarded the Air Force Cross and Navy Cross, respectively, in addition to Silver Stars previously awarded for earlier aerial kills.
At this time, the last remaining vestiges of civilization are gone, and Ralph's demise is only prevented by the abrupt and unexpected arrival of a naval officer, who is disappointed by the savage nature of the British boys.
* Sir Provo Wallis ( 1791 – 1892 ) was the last Royal Navy officer.
( The last police officer to be murdered was Constable O ' Reilly ( a Catholic ), who was killed by a Loyalist bomb in September 1998 during the Drumcree conflict.
The last RUC officer to be killed as a direct result of the conflict died on the 6 October 1998, a month after he had been injured in a Red Hand Defenders pipe-bomb attack in Portadown.
The chief officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary was its Inspector-General ( the last of whom, Sir Thomas J. Smith served from 11 March 1920 until partition in 1922 ).
If an Act is made by the third method, the presiding officer of the house that last reconsidered the act promulgates it.
Miller is depicted as delivering the Captain's last orders to the ship's executive officer, and then mans a twin. 50 caliber Browning anti-aircraft machine gun.
* Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus ( 56 – 117 AD ), imperial officer, historian and in Teuffel's view " the last classic of Roman literature.
* Aaron Stafford ( 1787 – 1885 ), early settler, farmer, state legislator, last surviving American officer of the War of 1812.
His most successful book emerged from his assignment as a British intelligence officer in 1945 to discover what happened in the last days of Hitler's bunker.
The last had been sent to intercept a party of Sarmatians which had been in pursuit of a senior Roman officer named Aequitius.
This time, DCI Rachel Selway ( Nicola Redmond ) became the main detective, although her superior officer, Superintendent Peter Ross ( Mick Ford ), an ex-boyfriend of Sam's, had a stronger relationship with the pathology lab ; he and Sam resumed their romance, but it ended with the last episode of the series.
As the conflict spread to northern Japan, Tōgō participated as a third-class officer aboard the Kasuga in the last battles against the remnants of the Bakufu forces, the Naval Battle of Miyako and the Naval Battle of Hakodate ( 1869 ).
In the 2011 Series, Portlandia, season 2, episode 5, during the fashion show for the Portland Chief of Police, Fred Armisen's character shows the last female officer uniform, and exclaims, " Badges?!
DeForest Kelley plays Leonard McCoy, the chief medical officer of the Enterprise ; Kelley's appearance as the doctor in The Undiscovered Country was to be his last.
At the commencement of the novel, Karl Riemeck – his last and best double agent, a high-ranking East German political officer – is shot dead at the last moment whilst defecting to West Berlin.

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