By subduing disparate lesser groups the nation has, to some degree at least, broadened the capacity for individual liberty.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

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 ''.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

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.

Also, since the man questioned feels a strong compulsion to answer ( and thereby avoid the consequences of being thought queer ) the question has assumed some measurable properties of a command.

From an initial investment of $1,200 in 1943, it has grown, with no additional capital investment, to a present value estimated by some as exceeding $10,000,000 ( we don't disclose financial figures to the public ).

Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.

Kluckhohn recently has summarized evidence regarding changes in values during a period of years, primarily 1935-1955, but extending much farther back in some instances.

Now omitting for a moment some recent developments we can say the Saxon Shore hypothesis of Lappenberg and Kemble has undergone virtual eclipse in this century.

While The Space Merchants indicates, as Kingsley Amis has correctly observed, some of the `` impending consequences of the growth of industrial and commercial power '' and satirizes `` existing habits in the advertising profession '', its warning and analysis penetrate much deeper.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

Now Britain has decided to seek admission to the European Economic Community and it seems certain that she will be joined by some of her partners in the loose Free Trade Area of the `` Outer Seven ''.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

Georgia has made some reforms, true.

In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other.

A nuclear pacifier of these dimensions -- roughly some six and a half times bigger than anything the United States has triggered experimentally -- would certainly produce a bigger bang, and, just for kicks, Khrushchev might use it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St. Louis to the moon, where there wouldn't even be any beer to drink.

The result has been neglect, fumbling efforts, or superficial treatment.

( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low intensity operations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low-intensity operations such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

* A bacterium, or any microorganism that causes illness and has a superficial resemblance to an insect or bug

The superficial consistency of most beetles ' morphology, in particular their possession of elytra, has long suggested that the Coleoptera are monophyletic, but there is growing evidence that this is unjustified, there being arguments for example, in favour of allocating the current suborder Adephaga their own order, or very likely even more than one.

This narrowness of definition has caused some debate over the years, and its result, the exclusion of Hebridean sites from most major syntheses, can be seen as a shortcoming which, due to superficial typologies, results in the failure to unite these sites, whose inhabitants shared the common habit of living on water.

The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.

The kissaki ( point ) is not a " chisel-like " point, nor is the Western knife interpretation of a " tanto point " found on true Japanese swords ; a straight, linearly sloped point has the advantage of being easy to grind, but it bears only a superficial similarity to traditional Japanese kissaki.

One admirer of Heinlein has said that the society depicted in the film showed only a superficial resemblance to the society that Heinlein describes in his book.

It is demonstrated that race has no biological or genetic basis: gross morphological features which traditionally has been defined as races ( e. g. skin color ) are determined by non-significant and superficial genetic alleles with no link to any characteristics, such as intelligence, talent, athletic ability, etc.

After the discovery and excavation of these monuments and associated stone slabs by Russian archaeologists in the wider area surrounding the Orkhon Valley between 1889 and 1893, it became established that the language on the inscriptions was the Old Turkic language written using the Orkhon script, which has also been referred to as " Turkic runes " or " runiform " due to a superficial similarity to the Germanic runic alphabets.

As a matter of fact, the style received harsh criticism, and was seen by some to be superficial and of poor taste, especially when compared to neoclassicism ; despite this, it has been praised for its aesthetic qualities, and since the mid-19th century, the term has been accepted by art historians.

The use of mass media campaigns, however, has sometimes resulted in high levels of " awareness " coupled with essentially superficial knowledge of HIV transmission.

French writer André Brincourt commented that Malraux's books on art have been " skimmed a lot but very little read ", and it is true that critical commentary has often given superficial and distorted accounts of their arguments.

He has disdained superficial or meretricious effects.

It has traditionally also been applied to other animals sharing a superficial resemblance, for example ctenophores ( members from another phylum of common, gelatinous and generally transparent or translucent, free-swimming planktonic carnivores now known as comb jellies ) were included as " jellyfishes ".

The spectacle, which according to Debord is the core feature of the advanced capitalist societies, has its " most glaring superficial manifestation " in the advertising-mass media-marketing complex.

In the modern age, " dime novel " has become a term to describe any quickly written, lurid potboiler and as such is generally used as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized yet superficial piece of written work.

Like One Law groups, the Two House movement has many superficial similarities to Messianic Judaism, such as their belief in the ongoing validity of the Mosaic Covenant.

Thus an illusion of understanding is generated, even though the processing involved has been merely superficial.

Henrik has said about writing poetry ( translated from Danish ): " I see poetry as an opportunity for immersion in a superficial time dominated by news and entertainment that makes us rootless and restless.

The superficial resemblance of this tongue to that of lorikeets has led some taxonomists to consider the two groups closely related, but DNA evidence shows they are not.