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Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
On the one hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is almost always self-employed.
Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.
Third, the United States is pressing forward in the development of large rocket engines to place vehicles of many tons into space for exploration purposes.
In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.
This is in large part a code of behavior and a glossary of values: what is it that people do and should do and how one should regard it.
If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.
But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.
We believe that autism, like so many other conditions of defect and deviation, is to a large extent inborn.
Decca is not the only large commercial company to impart instruction.
For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.
In any event, the yearly sacrifice of 40,000 victims is a hecatomb too large to be justified by the most ardent faith.
The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn.
For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.
In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.
Our complaint is that in many crucial areas the Kennedy programs are not too large but too small, most seriously in regard to the conventional arms build-up and in aid and welfare measures.
The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.
Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.
Mr. Speaker, for several years now the commuter railroads serving our large metropolitan areas have found it increasingly difficult to render the kind of service our expanding population wants and is entitled to have.

is and quadrangular
The sacrificial fire, on the contrary, must be quadrangular as it is intended to convey the sacrificial offer to Heaven in the form of smoke.
The garden is quadrangular in shape, and each side is four plethra in length.
The impressive ruins of Roscommon castle are located on a hillside just outside the town, the castle is quadrangular in shape, it had four corner D-shaped towers, three storey ’ s high, and twin towers at its entrance gateway, one of which still retains its immensely sturdy vaulted roof.
The closest relatives of Thuja are Thujopsis dolabrata, distinct in its thicker foliage and stouter cones, and Tetraclinis articulata ( Greek θύια, θύα, formerly classed in the genus and after which Thuja is named ), distinct in its quadrangular foliage ( not flattened ) and cones with four thick, woody scales.
The city is divided into a number of concentric quadrangular streets around the temple.
A quadrangular castle, Bodiam is roughly square-shaped.
The nasal septum is composed of the quadrangular cartilage, the vomer bone ( the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone ), aspects of the premaxilla, and the palatine bones.
The septum is quadrangular ; the upper half is flanked by two ( 2 ) triangular-to-trapezoidal cartilages: the upper lateral-cartilages, which are fused to the dorsal septum in the midline, and laterally attached, with loose ligaments, to the bony margin of the pyriform ( pear-shaped ) aperture, while the inferior ends of the upper lateral-cartilages are free ( unattached ).
The piece hall was erected by the manufacturers and is a large quadrangular building of freestone occupying an area of ten thousand square yards with a rustic basement story and two upper stories fronted with two interior colonnades which are spacious walks leading to arched rooms where goods in an unfinished state were deposited and exhibited for sale to the merchants every Saturday from ten to twelve o clock.
Fort Amsterdam is the large quadrangular structure towards the tip of the island.
One watchtower is in the form of a quadrangular prism, six watchtowers are shaped as prisms with multiple corners and six others are cylindrical.
The pedestal can be either triangular, quadrangular, or octangular, and is richly ornamented with various decorations and bas-reliefs.
The translated ancient Roman and Greek accounts give a vivid description of the tomb both geometrically and aesthetically ; The tomb's geometric shape has changed little over the years, still maintaining a large stone of quadrangular form at the base, followed by a pyramidal succession of smaller rectangular stones, until after a few slabs, the structure is curtailed by an edifice, with an arched roof composed of a pyramidal shaped stone, and a small opening or window on the side, where the slenderst man could barely squeeze through.
The old churchf is quadrangular, measuring forty-five
According to Linga Puran, Bhimasankar temple in Bhimpur is around 100 km from Rayagada and around 30 km from Gunupur is one of the Jyotirling, situated at the western part of the holy Mahendragiri mountains and at the river bank of Mahendratanaya ( which is also believed as the Daakini area by many historian ), was excavated in 1974, having quadrangular Shakti around the Linga and decorated by a Upavita as per the puran.
Lumley Castle is a 14th century quadrangular castle at Chester-le-Street in the North of England, near to the city of Durham and a property of the Earl of Scarbrough.
The latter is a quadrangular watchtower which served to patrol the coast south of Port Schisò ; if any pirate boats were sighted, the observers inside the tower could alert the villagers and neighbouring watchtowers by sending out smoke signals.
The temple is a fine quadrangular structure.
It is separated from the declive by the primary fissure and is related with the anterior quadrangular lobule of the hemisphere. The pyramid is the seventh lobule of the vermis on the superoinferior axis.

is and house
`` Dandy is to be our house guest, Louis.
Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.
For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.
The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.
Across the way from the apartment building is a ruined house, shot to hell that day in 1849, and left that way as a memorial.
Like everything else in Rome, ruins and monuments alike, that house is lived in.
The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.
She's been in and out of my house for a dozen years now, although she's still a teen-ager who looks like a baby, she is getting married.
Then he thought of Aaron Blaustein standing in his rich house saying: `` God is tired of taking the blame.
It is a full scale, small, but efficient house that can become a year 'round retreat complete in every detail.
But if space and money are no problem and small children are not on hand every day, it is certainly more restful to have your pool and entertainment area removed from the immediate environs of the house.
( To avoid any possible excuse for a dripping parade through your house, it is a good idea to have a telephone extension near the pool as well as a direct outdoor route between the pool, and the parking area.
Of course, if your pool is close to the house, your wife can always add it to her housekeeping chores ( you hope ).
You can install it yourself -- this is a central system that will cool every part of your house.
If your house is to have a forced warm air system, cooling can be a part of it.
The minimum cost for an average one-story, 7-room house with basement, is likely to run $1500 above the cost of the heating alone.
A BTU is a unit of heat, and the BTU rating of a conditioner refers to how much heat your machine can pump out of your house in an hour.
A very rough rule of thumb is that, under favorable conditions, you'll need 15 BTU's of cooling for every square foot of your house.
The way a house is set on its lot can therefore influence how much cooling you're going to need.
The idea of a central tank with lines to each house is not in itself a novelty.
Last wall Bob Schmitt erects is the wall between the house and garage.
But now many of these same builders are finding they can cut their costs more by teaming up with a dealer who has volume enough to afford the most efficient specialized equipment to deliver everything just where it is needed -- drywall inside the house, siding along the sides, trusses on the walls, roofing on the roof, etc..
The puzzled saleslady inquired, `` How large is your house, Madam ''??
`` Oh, I forgot to say that if one is taken to the funny house in the funny wagon, he is removed to a mental institution in an ambulance.

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