I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.

Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;

An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

He is a widower, his three children are dead, he has no one left on earth ; ;

And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.

This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.

It will be noted that point f has seven nearest neighbors, h and e have six, and p has only one, while the remaining points have intermediate numbers.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

A perceptive journalist, Sam Lubell, has phrased it in the title of one of his books as the revolt of the moderates.

Research into several cultures has proven her position to be a mistaken one.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.

Every such subset has a smallest element, so to specify our choice function we can simply say that it maps each set to the least element of that set.

It has the thinnest soundbox and the smallest overall size of the major styles, making it very comfortable to play but also one of the quietest.

One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.

The bandy stick should be crooked and the bend of the blade is split up into 5 different dimensions, where 1 has the smallest bend and 5 has the most.

A molecule is the smallest indivisible portion of a pure chemical substance that has its unique set of chemical properties, that is, its potential to undergo a certain set of chemical reactions with other substances.

The species we see today are but the smallest part of what blind destiny has produced ...

The Comptroller General's office has a statutory responsibility to scrutinize all but the smallest contracts of the public sector and strictly enforces procedural requirements.

This last language has the smallest number of consonants in the world, with just six.

The CSU has 45 seats in the Bundestag, making it the smallest of the six parties represented.

It is the smallest of the four islands and has a central mountain chain reaching 860 meters at its highest.

The elementary reaction is the smallest division into which a chemical reaction can be decomposed to, it has no intermediate products.

Of Europe's approximately 50 states, Russia is by far the largest by both area and population, taking up 40 % of the continent ( although the country has territory in both Europe and Asia ), while the Vatican City is the smallest.

The lone exception to this pattern has been the very smallest category of bookseller, shops with between one and four employees, which appear to have withstood the trend.

Fenway Park has one of the smallest seating capacity in the major leagues.

which has a 1 as the leading digit and 0 for the remaining digits of the significand, and the smallest possible value for the exponent.

This is especially pronounced due to its location far from any sizeable landmass-Fair Isle has the smallest overall temperature range ( least continental ) of any Weather Station in the British Isles-an absolute maximum of and an absolute minimum of since 1951.

A Planck space has a volume of a Planck length cubed, which is the smallest measurable volume, at approximately 4. 222 m < sup > 3 </ sup > = 4. 222 cm < sup > 3 </ sup >.

The points on the two branches that are closest to each other are called the vertices ; they are the points where the curve has its smallest radius of curvature.

Greenland is the world's largest island with an area of over 2. 1 million km², while Australia, the world's smallest continent has an area of 7. 6 million km², but there is no standard of size which distinguishes islands from continents, or from islets.

Contributing to this decline in ticket sales is the fact that Jacksonville is one of the league's smallest markets, though its stadium is relatively large ; since 2005 the team has covered nearly 10, 000 of the stadium's 73, 000 total seats with tarp in order to lower the stadium's official capacity to a more typical size and reduce blackouts.

The Navy has always been the smallest of Libya's services and has always been dependent on foreign sources for equipment, spare parts, and training.

It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time.

The 16-person cabinet of Prime Minister Miller has been the smallest government of the Polish Republic so far.