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In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.
However, the serration vein originates from lower down the central vein of the leaflet, typically opposite to the position of, not the first notch down, but the next notch.
In a similar vein, essayist David Quint contends that " with Cleopatra the opposition between East and West is characterized in terms of gender: the otherness of the Easterner becomes the otherness of the opposite sex ".
A major tributary is the hemiazygos vein, a similar structure on the opposite side of the vertebral column.
The leaves are opposite, simple broad ovate-lanceolate, 7 – 25 cm long and 3 – 12 cm broad, usually with an undulate margin and a red-colored main vein.

opposite and Japanese
The Japanese styled Gauguin Museum, opposite the Botanical Gardens of Papeari in Papeari, Tahiti, contains some exhibits, documents, photographs, reproductions and original sketches and block prints of Gauguin and Tahitians.
The Japanese methods were nearly opposite to that of the United States: control of schools was highly centralized, rote memorization of verbatim book knowledge without much interaction described the standard student-teacher relationship and the study texts were described as boring.
It is also opposite to the situation with pronouns, which are closed classes in Western languages but open classes in Japanese and some other East Asian languages.
The novel depicted the characters ’ different approaches to assimilating themselves within the host country ’ s culture as well as symbolic meanings of locations and settings crafted in a language that combines the two opposite poles of majority and minority i. e. English and Japanese.
Vietnamese cuisine uses a variety similar to the Japanese hojiso, but with greenish bronze on the top face and purple on the opposite face.
He faced the same problems that the Japanese had faced in their failed 1944 offensive in the opposite direction.
Despite the recent trends that suggest a new level of tolerance, as well as open scenes in more cosmopolitan cities ( such as Tokyo and Osaka ), Japanese gay men and lesbian women often conceal their sexuality ; with many even marrying persons of the opposite sex.
In Japanese, addresses are written using the opposite convention from Western addresses, starting with the biggest geographical entities down to the more specific ones.
Aesculus species have stout shoots with resinous, often sticky, buds ; opposite, palmately divided leaves, often very large ( to 65 cm across in the Japanese horse chestnut Aesculus turbinata ).
Meanwhile, the four destroyers at the head of the Japanese column maintained their heading down the Guadalcanal coast, allowing Wright's cruisers to pass on the opposite course.
An opposite view, Japanese culture encourages individual to keep a self-critical view of themselves which means collectivistic society require individual to satisfy others instead of themselves.
While on the surface it would appear that the Takarazuka Revue was intended to grant Japanese women freedom from social oppression, ironically, it began as quite the opposite.
Especially after the sarin attack, he was sometimes referred to by Japanese as " Aa ieba Joyu ", which is a pun on the expression " Aa ieba koiu ", meaning someone who is excessively contrarian and argumentative ( literally " you say one thing and he says the opposite ").
Thus the word order of Japanese is in a sense the opposite of English.
This, it must be added, was the complete opposite of Cabral's stated opinion that the Japanese must be adapted to Western ideas and modes of thought.
Kouji Kabuto was not your usual hero of the time — he was a crass, arrogant, impulsive and hot-headed ne ’ er-do-well — who was the polar opposite of the virtuous Japanese males in the media.
The Japanese School, Singapore or Singapore Nihonjin gakko operates one of its two primary schools at Clementi Road, directly opposite NUS while its secondary school campus is located at West Coast Road.
He and Mutaguchi had also been on opposite sides during the split between the Toseiha and Kodoha factions within the Japanese Army during the early 1930s, and Sato believed he had reason to distrust Mutaguchi's motives.
Choi then spent the next few years overseas, shooting the Japanese drama RONDO opposite Yutaka Takenouchi and the Chinese drama 101st Proposal.
The most famous concept in Nishida's philosophy is the logic of basho ( Japanese: 場所 ; usually translated as " place " or " topos "), a non-dualistic concrete logic, meant to overcome the inadequacy of the subject-object distinction essential to the subject logic of Aristotle and the predicate logic of Kant, through the affirmation of what he calls the " absolutely contradictory self-identity ", a dynamic tension of opposites that, unlike the dialectical logic of Hegel, does not resolve in a synthesis, but rather defines its proper subject by maintaining the tension between affirmation and negation as opposite poles or perspectives.
In the Williams pit directly opposite was Nigel Mansell who had suffered a similar crash in practice for the 1987 Japanese Grand Prix.
Through his coordination with the Japanese Kempetais who turned the old Municipal Building, which was once located opposite the Fiesta Pavilion, into a Japanese garrison, many lives were saved.
However, rapid Japanese progress pushed the defending Dutch forces in the opposite direction, and Blackforce was assigned the defence of Buitenzorg and Leuwiliang.

opposite and history
His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.
She played Lady Macbeth on Broadway opposite Maurice Evans in a production directed by Margaret Webster that ran for 131 performances in 1941, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.
It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.
According to Brown, late in the 16th century the early historians George Buchanan and Bishop John Lesley from opposite ends of the religious spectrum both looked favourably on James's reign but were uneasily mindful of an enduring aggressive history regarding the king.
Raleigh hosted the 2011 NHL All-Star Game in January, and Eric Staal captained a team he selected ( opposite a team selected by the Detroit Red Wings ' Nicklas Lidstrom ) that featured Skinner ( the youngest All-Star in NHL history ), Cam Ward, and ( for the SuperSkills competition ) defenseman Jamie McBain.
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, housed in the King's House The Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum is housed in the King's House, a Grade I listed building whose history dates back to the 13th century, just opposite the west front of the cathedral.
In response to the claim that the Church's response to one heresy led to an overcorrection in the opposite direction, it can only be admitted that this is always a real danger, and history provides abundant examples.
Xenophon, who ends his history with the battle of Mantinea, says of the battle's results: When these things had taken place, the opposite of what all men believed would happen was brought to pass.
The history of Jersey Shore begins about 50 years before it was incorporated and on the opposite bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River in what is now Nippenose Township.
The structure of suspended questions is similar to the " Digression of Air " in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, but with the opposite intention — Burton to evoke the anticipation of scientific discovery ; Browne to enforce the tragic powerlessness of history.
Some historians have argued that the historians trying to correct for anti-Spanish bias in the description of Spanish colonialism went too far in the opposite direction andto the degree that they created a White Legend describing Spain's history in an exaggeratedly positive way.
* He has no history of any emotionally close, meaningful relationships of a romantic and / or sexual nature with any member of the opposite sex.
* July 29 – Bill Mueller becomes the only player in major league history to hit two grand slams in a single game from opposite sides of the plate.
Its opposite is conservative history or " Toryism.
By contrast, William Manchester, in his narrative history The Glory and the Dream, recounts a diametrically opposite response:
As concerns possible expansions of Polish territory, in history Polish politicians traditionally could be sub-divided into two opposite groups advocating contrary approaches: restoration of Poland based on its former western territories one side and, alternatively, restoration of Poland based on its previous holdings in the east on the other.
His smooth, intricate lyricism helped influence and inspire many future emcees and many emcees today see 2Pac and the Notorious BIG as being the most talented and influential emcees in the history of hip-hop despite their being on opposite ends of the spectrum in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry.
Orchestral conductors of the calibre of Franco Faccio, Luigi Mancinelli and Arturo Toscanini partnered Tamagno during his heyday, and he appeared opposite some of the most illustrious sopranos, baritones and basses in operatic history.
The purpose is to reduce contentions in the pattern history table where two branches with opposite prediction happen to share the same entry in the pattern history table.
In deaf culture, “ hearing ”, being the opposite of “ deaf ” ( which is used inclusively – without the many gradations common to mainstream culture ), is often used as a way of differentiating those who do not view the deaf community as a language minority, do not embrace deaf values, history, language, mores, and sense of personal dignity as the deaf do themselves.
At the opposite end of the hall are three items which symbolise the history of the church.
Thus Spinoza and Kant represent opposite poles in the dialectical idealism by which Brunner organizes the whole of intellectual history.
A sawmill, currently named Davies Timber Ltd., has been in operation for over 100 years and was steam powered at some point in its history, and maps from 1838 show a brickyard opposite the site.

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