He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

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.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

Professionally a lawyer, that is to say associated with dignity, reserve, discipline, with much that is essentially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed up, disguised -- that is, paradoxically, revealed -- as a child, and, worse, as a whore masquerading as a child.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.

`` I'd like to know just which it is that those guys don't understand, the liquor or automobiles ''.

The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.

Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.

Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.

For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.

It is therefore not surprising that they resist the lure of marriage and the trap of domesticity, for like cats they are determined not to tame their sexual energy.

Jazz, like sex, is a mystique.

Hieronymus, like Piepsam, makes his protest quite in vain, and his rejection, though not fatal, is ridiculous and humiliating ; ;

He is, like Phillip Marlowe, too alienated to be reliable.

A point like p gets information directly from n, but all information beyond n is indirectly relayed through n.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

But is that not like going to a chemistry laboratory and blindly pouring out liquids and powders from an array of bottles and then, after stirring, expecting a new wonder drug inevitably to result??

The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

But I insist upon believing that even when it is lost, it may, like paradise, be regained.

`` What I'd like you to comment on is the criticism leveled at your Committee ''.

I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.

Now an abiding difficulty of paragraphs like the foregoing is that they appear to preach ; ;

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

ACM is organized into over 170 local chapters and 35 Special Interest Groups ( SIGs ), through which it conducts most of its activities.

Bluetooth is managed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which has more than 16, 000 member companies in the areas of telecommunication, computing, networking, and consumer electronics.

The Bluetooth Innovation World Cup, a marketing initiative of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group ( SIG ), is an international competition encouraging the development of innovations for applications leveraging the Bluetooth low energy wireless technology in sports, fitness and health care products.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group ( SIG ) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers.

Ballochbuie is also protected as a Special Area of Conservation by the EU Habitats Directive, as " one of the largest remaining continuous areas of native Caledonian Forest ".

There is also a special 64-page book available, The Beano Special Collectors Edition: 70 Years of Fun, giving a brief history of the comic.

The Maroon beret is a symbol of the South African Special Forces Brigade and the South African 44 Parachute Regiment.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

* Ivan, one of the protagonists of the historical novel by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes, El hombre que amaba a los perros ( The Man Who Loved Dogs ), is the editor of a university journal of veterinary medicine, who manages to make a living during the Special Period in Cuba by helping people take care of their dogs.

Basic English 2000 word list and VOA Special English 1500 word list is a dictionary for Simple English Wikipedia.

; Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty: This category is a list of places affiliated with another country.

The BSA is inspired by the French Special Forces.

A Special Operation Unit is being created and is going to be attached to the marine brigade.

Outside the Fuerza Pública, there is a small Special Forces Unit, the Unidad Especial de Intervencion ( UEI ) or Special Intervention Unit, which trains with special forces of Israel, and its namesake in Spain and other democratic nations, but is not part of the main police forces.

Agriculture is dealt with separately by the Special Committee on Agriculture ( SCA ).

Special variants called aircraft catapults are used to launch planes from land bases and sea carriers when the takeoff runway is too short for a powered takeoff or simply impractical to extend.

Usually it is considered to include several sub-departments: the Art Department proper, with its Art Director, Set Designers and Draughtsmen ; Set Decoration, under the Set Decorator ; Props, under the Propmaster ; Construction, headed by the Construction Coordinator ; Scenic, headed by the Key Scenic Artist ; and Special Effects.

The Special Programme for Food Security is FAO's flagship initiative for reaching the goal of halving the number of hungry in the world by 2015 ( currently estimated at close to 1 billion people ), as part of its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.

It is also where new agents are sent for training to become FBI Special Agents.