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Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.
This machine, operating at speeds up to 350,000 revolutions per minute, is believed to provide one of the fastest mechanical operations in industry today.
The founder of the Junior Showmanship Competition the late Leonard Brumby, Sr. ( for whom the trophy is named after at Westminster ) was an outstanding Handler and believed a Junior should have an opportunity to exhibit in a dog show starting with the Junior Showmanship Division.
It is believed that these boards will, within the next few years, replace many of the conventional flood-lighted boards now in use.
An enemy would obviously choose an agent that is believed to be highly infectious.
It is believed that drug therapy and electroshock involve the former and psychotherapy the latter mechanism.
She later divorced Graham, who is believed to have moved to Bolivia.
Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;
Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.
It is believed that Hudson was related to other seafaring men of the Muscovy Company and was trained on company ships.
The luminosity of the water is now believed to have been caused by the stimulation of vast numbers of the luminescent organism Noctiluca miliaris by the turbulence of the sea.
It is significant, too, that the older teen-agers I interviewed believed, unlike the younger ones, that Jewish students tend to do better academically than their gentile counterparts.
The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).
As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.
The charges of the electron and proton are believed to be exactly equal and opposite, but Dr. Lyttleton is not so sure.
Even if that's all the promise he ever gave or ever will give, the giving of it once was enough and you believed it then and you will always believe it, even when it is finally the only thing in the world you have left to believe, and the whole world is telling you that one was a lie.
It is during this period in Athens from 335 to 323 BC when Aristotle is believed to have composed many of his works.
The earth deity had power over the ghostly world, and it is believed that she was the deity behind the oracle.
There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.
The first " true alphabet " in this sense is believed to be the Greek alphabet, which is a modified form of the Phoenician alphabet.
Based on letter appearances and names, it is believed to be based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.

is and Jōmon
No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life, but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 549 to 511 B. C., near the end of the Jōmon period.
A common ancestor of Japanese and Ryukyuan languages or dialects is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from either continental Asia or nearby Pacific islands ( or both ) sometime in the early-to mid-2nd century BC ( the Yayoi period ), replacing the language ( s ) of the original Jōmon inhabitants, including the ancestor of the modern Ainu language.
It was first used to refer to post-Holocene but pre-agricultural material in northwest Europe about 10, 000 to 5000 BCE but is also applied to material from the Levant ( about 20, 000 to 9500 BCE ); in Japan the Jōmon period ( about 14, 000 to 400 BCE ) is sometimes called Mesolithic and it is also applied to some cultures from the Indian sub-continent ( 100, 000 to 30, 000 BCE ).
The Jōmon is succeeded by the Yayoi period.
The Jōmon period is a similar era in prehistoric Japan, with some characteristics of both Neolithic and Mesolithic culture.
The very long Jōmon period is conventionally divided into a number of phases: Incipient, Initial, Early, Middle, Late and Final, with the phases getting progressively shorter.
The first Jōmon Pottery is characterized by the cord-marking that gives the period its name, and has now been found in large numbers of sites, and the pottery of the whole period has been classified by archaeologists into some 70 styles, with far more local varieties of the styles.
The manufacture of pottery typically implies some form of sedentary life due to the fact that pottery is highly breakable and thus generally useless to hunter-gatherers who are constantly on the move ; however this does not seem to have been the case with the first Jōmon people, who perhaps numbered some 20, 000 over the whole archipelago.
Recent archaeological surveys of Jōmon settlements from this period have yielded a large amount of data, much of which has been made openly available, and is of great value for the wider study of hunter-gatherer settlement patterns.
The Early Jōmon is the first stage in the Jomon era of Japanese pre-history.
The Jōmon is succeeded by the Yayoi period outside Hokkaido, where the Jōmon is succeeded by the Zoku-Jōmon ( post-Jōmon ) period.
The transition from the Jōmon to Yayoi, and later to the Yamato, period is likely to have been characterized by violent struggle as the natives were soon displaced by the invaders and their vastly superior military technology.
Currently, the most well-regarded theory is that present-day Japanese are descendants of both the indigenous Jōmon people and the immigrant Yayoi people.
Based on more than a dozen genetic markers on a variety of chromosomes and from archaeological data showing habitation of the Japanese archipelago dating back 30, 000 years, it is argued that the Jōmon actually came from northeastern Asia and settled on the islands far earlier than some have proposed.
It is thus surmised that the Jōmon also were physically unlike other East Asians.
The Buddhist temple of Ōya-ji is located in Utsunomiya, and it includes a museum with artifacts dating back to the Jōmon Period.
It is known from digs at Hoya that human beings have lived in this area since the Jōmon period.
Tattooing for spiritual and decorative purposes in Japan is thought to extend back to at least the Jōmon or paleolithic period ( approximately 10, 000 BC ).
Thus, as a result of this important outside cultural influence, it is impossible to know with certainty how similar the language of the original language of the Jōmon people was to that spoken by the Ainu people today.

is and had
His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.
And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.
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.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
Unfortunately, it was Muzak, which automatically is piped into the public rooms, and which nolens volens had to be endured.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.
Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
The personal quality of Samuel Beckett is similar to qualities I had found in the plays.
His peculiar gift, as had been suggested before, is his intensity.
That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.
It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
The reactionary is confused about the existential status of a decaying tradition, but he does perceive the unity tradition had when it was healthy.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

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