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It cannot be said, however, that Solar Pons is merely Sherlock Holmes with the name changed, for the important reason that Sherlock Holmes also exists in Pons ' world: Pons and Parker are aware of the famous detective and hold him in high regard, but whereas Holmes ' adventures took place primarily in the 1880s and 1890s, Pons and Parker live in the 1920s and 1930s ( when Derleth began writing the Pons stories.
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In a society where everything is for sale, Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought.
We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.
they are priceless even though they cannot be recorded on a ledger page ; ;
For the answer cannot be derived from any socially cohesive element in the disrupting community.
This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.
He borrows the insights of psychology to improve his impaired vision but cannot bring to his work the distinctive vision that should be a novelist's own.
the future weight of informal factors cannot be so easily assessed.
Most now admit that Bede, Gildas, Nennius and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cannot be the infallible guides to early English history that Guest, Freeman and Green thought them to be.
Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.
But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.
State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.
I submit that it cannot be dismissed simply by saying we are not facing the facts of life.
According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.
A more dangerous formula for national frustration cannot be imagined.
This is an ethical demand which cannot be evaded or glossed over by talking exclusively of weapon superiority or even of the evil of Communism.
This prime element of the truth may be stated as follows: Under prevailing policy, the U.S. can take the initiative against the Right, but cannot take the initiative against the Left.
But one cannot escape the suspicion that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated `` anti-party '' group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the `` transition to communism '' and, last but not least, on foreign policy.
Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.
Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.
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It cannot be said that our very first day in the Soviet Union turned out to be an ordinary one.
The President said the nation's 92 medical and 47 dental schools cannot now handle the student load needed to meet the rising need for health care.
Since the railroad cannot reduce the salary of individual union members under contract, it must accomplish its payroll reduction by placing some of the men on furlough, a B. & O. spokesman said.
The spokesman said the number to be furloughed cannot be estimated since the lay-offs must be carried out in each area depending on what men are most needed on the job.
Hayes said that if a way can be found to deal effectively with short-term capital movements between nations, `` there is no reason, in my judgment why the international financial system cannot work satisfactorily for at least the foreseeable future ''.
Jesus answered and said to him ( Nicodemus ) `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God ''.
Our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, who could not lie, said, `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God '' ( St. John 3: 3 ).
`` No, you cannot '', I said, pushing aside the water jar he offered to me.
On the other hand the empire was, more or less, defunct in the 4th century BC so it cannot be said that democracy was not viable without it.
Though, theoretically, all life forms are said to deserve full protection from all kinds of injury, Jains admit that this ideal cannot be completely implemented in practice.
To add to the confusion, some lines Macbeth directs to the ghost, such as " Thy bones are marrowless ", cannot rightly be said of Banquo, who has only recently died.
In retrospect of those tours, Love said: " I was completely high on dope, I cannot remember much about it.
In 1916, chemist Gilbert N. Lewis developed the concept of the electron-pair bond, in which two atoms may share one to six electrons, thus forming the single electron bond, a single bond, a double bond, or a triple bond ; in Lewis's own words, " An electron may form a part of the shell of two different atoms and cannot be said to belong to either one exclusively.
( One cannot critique promoting Western values if one believes that said values are absolutely correct.
Although the Ann McKim was the first large clipper ship ever constructed, it cannot be said that she founded the clipper ship era, or even that she directly influenced shipbuilders, since no other ship was built like her ; but she may have suggested the clipper design in vessels of ship rig.
Appropriate use of the diagnostic criteria is said to require extensive clinical training, and its contents " cannot simply be applied in a cookbook fashion ".
When data is replicated between database servers, so that the information remains consistent throughout the database system and users cannot tell or even know which server in the DBMS they are using, the system is said to exhibit replication transparency.
It cannot be said with certainty from where the megalithic culture of Korea originated, and therefore it is difficult to define its true cultural character.
" He added: " The assumption that heterosexuals cannot overcome their prejudices toward gay people is a mistaken one ," said Herek.
Frege's attack seems to be directed at certain foundational doctrines then current in Weierstrass's Berlin School, of which Husserl and Cantor cannot be said to be orthodox representatives.
If a person's epilepsy cannot be brought under control after adequate trials of two or three ( experts vary here ) different drugs, that person's epilepsy is generally said to be medically refractory.
" We simply cannot do without auxiliary constructions ", as Theodor Fontane once said ... dwelling on imaginary wish fulfillments '.
For a useful interpretation of human reality, to share faith experience he said that we must each make certain " over-beliefs " in things which, while they cannot be proven on the basis of experience, help us to live fuller and better lives.
Hayek stated that if the Conservative leader had said " that free choice is to be exercised more in the market place than in the ballot box, she has merely uttered the truism that the first is indispensable for individual freedom while the second is not: free choice can at least exist under a dictatorship that can limit itself but not under the government of an unlimited democracy which cannot ".
Employers and business leaders in Guadeloupe have said that they cannot afford the salary increase.
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