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their and pursuit
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But whereas civilized men no longer pursue the fountain, they never abandoned their pursuit of the enchanting index.
Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.
For this reason, the two gods withdrew their pursuit, and had her wed Peleus.
At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.
Business ethics concerns questions such as the limits on managers in the pursuit of profit, or the duty of ' whistleblowers ' to the general public as opposed to their employers.
Individual Allied commanders drove their troops forward in pursuit, allowing their beaten enemy no chance to recover.
As news spread of the Allies ’ triumph, the Prussians, Hessians and Hanoverian contingents, long delayed by their respective rulers, eagerly joined the pursuit of the broken French and Bavarian forces.
Numismatics as an academic discipline emerged in these centuries at the same time as coin collecting became a leisure pursuit of a growing middle class, eager to prove their wealth and sophistication.
Structuralist or institutional analysis shows that the term is misused when it is applied to institutions acting in pursuit of their acknowledged goals, for example, when a group of corporations engage in price-fixing to increase profits.
If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less.
In the semi-final, Sri Lanka, heading towards a crushing victory over India at Eden Gardens ( Calcutta ) after their hosts lost eight wickets while scoring 120 runs in pursuit of 254, were awarded victory by default after crowd unrest broke out in protest against the Indian performance.
Incongruent individuals, in their pursuit of positive regard, lead lives that include falseness and do not realize their potential.
* Outstanding program managers: The best DARPA program managers have always been freewheeling zealots in pursuit of their goals.
In their consideration of consequences, they range from those advocating self-gratification regardless of the pain and expense to others, to those stating that the most ethical pursuit maximizes pleasure and happiness for the most people.
For others, psychological inconsistency is not a stumbling block to good drama: " Euripides is in pursuit of a larger insight: he aims to set forth the two modes, emotional and rational, with which human beings confront their own mortality.
The U. S. Army called their fighters " pursuit " aircraft from 1916 until the late 1940s.
Though consistent in their pursuit of happiness, Bentham and Mill ’ s versions of hedonism differ.
Many handloaders customize their cartridges to their specific firearms, usually in pursuit of accuracy: they can assemble precision ammunition using cartridge cases that have been fire formed in the chamber of a specific firearm.
“ Rational behavior, in economics, means that individuals maximize thier utility function under the constraints they face ( e. g., their budget constraint, limited choices, ...) in pursuit of their self-interest.

their and order
Rather than putting their trust in ephemeral sensations they seek form in the stable relationships of pure design, which symbolize an order more real than the disorder of the perceptual world.
The fact that the Americans who upheld the sovereignty of their states did this in order to keep many of their people more securely in slavery -- the antithesis of individual liberty -- made the conflict grimmer, and the greater.
How embarrassing it would be if the newly appointed Congregationalist missionaries should suddenly switch their own beliefs in order to embrace Baptist teachings!!
Arriving just in time to stop men from turning their planet into a radioactive wasteland, the Overlords unite earth into one world in which justice, order, and benevolence prevail and ignorance, poverty, and fear have ceased to exist.
their example caused Krim and his friends to put on `` Englishy airs, affect all sorts of impressive scholarship and social-register unnaturalness in order to slip through their narrow transoms and get into their pages ''.
They are putting strong pressure on their police departments to keep order.
Either lay the components aside in proper order or code them with numbers and letters so they may be replaced in their proper positions.
It places the various factors involved in the problem in their correct order in relation to each other so that the influence of factors on each other can be computed.
However, it is essential that the various mathematical symbols used in the equations be understood so that the mathematical processes can be done properly and in their correct order.
We'll take them in the general order of their popularity.
In this sequence I shall write about them in the order of their erection.
I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.
We shall consider these in the inverse order of their presentation.
J. Wheaton Smith, editor of the Warren Telegraph stated that `` the ends of justice must be satisfied, a solitary example must be set, in order that all those misnamed philantropists, who, actuated by a blind zeal, dare to instigate riot, treason, and murder, may heed it and shape their future course accordingly ''.
In the Analytical phase of their Cubism, Braque and Picasso had not only had to minimize three-dimensionality simply in order to preserve it ; ;
Whatever learning they may have had in their order doesn't disturb them now.
These are arranged approximately in the order of the vociferousness of their proponents but will be discussed in the reverse order in the hope that the true order of importance will result.
What do parents need to know about those `` years of the braces '' in order not to waste a child's time and their money??
moreover, residential mobility is so high in metropolitan areas that churches have to recruit constantly in their core stratum in order to survive ; ;
Then will come nine other states in the order of their admission to the union.

their and proportion
The carved statues of the frieze against the low wall are for the most part headless, but their exquisitely graceful nude and draped torsos and the kneeling Atlantes are well preserved in their perfect proportion.
For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.
In proportion as meanings are concrete, we can better rely on their being insulated and distinctive.
White wines should be opened when served, having been previously chilled in proportion to their sweetness.
A similar proportion, when moved experimentally a distance of, found their way back to their home base.
He felt that beautiful objects incorporated proportion, harmony, and unity among their parts.
However, the Western Allies ' air-to-ground aircraft were so greatly feared out of proportion to their actual tactical success, that following the lead up to Operation Overlord German vehicle crews showed reluctance to move en masse during daylight.
Various fictional stories have also adopted " chronicle " as part of their title, to give an impression of epic proportion to their stories.
* their canopies intercept a proportion of precipitation, which is then evaporated back to the atmosphere ( canopy interception );
The investments were far out of proportion to both their current and projected cash flow, but this was not publicly acknowledged until as late as 2001 and 2002.
In most developed countries a high proportion of the population ( up to 50 %) now enter higher education at some time in their lives.
The return of Soviet immigrants to their countries of origin has brought the proportion of Estonians in Estonia back above 70 %.
Another may the rising proportion of immigrants or their immediate descendants in Denmark.
A substantial proportion of the plebeians, jealous of their privileged Roman citizenship, turned against Gaius.
Greek Revival was added to the design repertory the main exponents being William Wilkins and Robert Smirke, their work dominates late Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance ; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.
Scottish urban centres, with their poverty and unemployment were favourite recruiting grounds of the regular British army, and Dundee, where the female dominated jute industry limited male employment had one of the highest proportion of reservists and serving soldiers than almost any other British city.
, epidemics, civil war, slave raids and colonialism ; have seen their population crash on more than one occasion, and created a cultural legacy that has brought them fame out of all proportion to their numbers.
In many developed countries, a high proportion of the population ( up to 50 %), now enter higher education at some time in their lives.
: Earls and barons shall be fined only by their equals, and in proportion to the gravity of their offence.
Again, on average the worker can transfer no more than the value of these means of labor previously possessed to the finished cup of coffee So the value of coffee produced in a day equals the sum of both the value of the means of labor — this constant capital — and the value newly added by the worker in proportion to the duration and intensity of their work.

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