`` This is our tultul, a jumping platform, aku.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

`` Amen '', said the Reverend Doran, grabbing his rifle propped up against a tombstone, `` and now my brethren, it would seem that our presence is required elsewhere ''.

`` Dandy is to be our house guest, Louis.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

the temperature of our homes is independent of the seasons ; ;

In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.

The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

Who will say that our country is even now a homogeneous community??

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

This is, however, symptomatic of our national malaise.

Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

-- The crystallization of copolymers comprising Af units interspersed with a minor percentage of Af is limited by the inability of the crystal lattice characteristic of the former to accommodate the bulky side group of the latter.

A pronounced ideological diffusion -- i.e., inability to identify independently with given ideas and value systems -- is reflected in many ways.

This is a negative Romberg's test, or more accurately, it denotes the individual's inability to carry out the test, because the individual feels unstable even with open eyes.

Wilson's disease is an autosomal-recessive gene disorder whereby an alteration of the ATP7B gene results in an inability to properly excrete copper from the body.

However, there is an interesting contrast between the belief that exposure of signs to a hearing infant will aid them in language development, whereas a deaf infant at times must show the inability to learn an oral language before they are taught sign language.

Thus Myspace and YouTube were not liable for a dyslexic man's inability to navigate the site regardless of how impressive the " online theater " is.

Alcott is often criticized for his inability to earn a living and support his family ; he often relied on loans from his brother-in-law, Emerson, and others.

* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.

In a healthy individual, the number of CD4 + lymphocytes is in balance with the cells generated by the bone marrow ; however, in HIV-positive patients, this balance is lost due to an inability of the bone marrow to regenerate CD4 + cells.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

Its omission from the Dead Sea Scrolls is attributed to the inability of the Qumran sect to fit Habakkuk's theology with their own narrow viewpoint.

There is no regulation or statute legislated upon bankruptcy which denotes a condition of inability to meet a demand of a creditor as is common in many other jurisdictions.

In temperate or polar climates the dry season is due to the inability of the plant to absorb water available by to be in the form of ice.

Lovecraft emphasised the point by stating in the opening sentence of the story that " The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

The goal of this policy is to create a market in which Canadian networks can realize revenue through advertising sales in spite of their inability to match the rates that the much larger American networks can afford to pay for syndicated programming.

Concubinage is an interpersonal relationship in which a person engages in an ongoing relationship ( usually matrimonially oriented ) with another person to whom they are not or cannot be married ; the inability to marry is usually due to a difference in social status or economic condition.

Some patients report fatigue or non-specific neurocognitive problems, such as an inability to concentrate ; this is sometimes called post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment, referred to as " chemo brain " by patients ' groups.

An ongoing concern in the Dominican Republic is the inability of participants in the electricity sector to establish financial viability for the system.

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

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

And Zen Buddhism, though it is extremely difficult to understand how these internal contradictions are reconciled, helps them in their struggle to achieve personal salvation through sexual release.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.

This is certainly an irrational dogmatism, in which the modern mind attempts to understand the spirit of the sixteenth century on twentieth-century terms.

I understand very well about Lauro Di Bosis and how his action is symbolic.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

For him to ignore the political consequences involved in an Atlantic Union of this kind is difficult to understand.

These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.

Armed Forces Day is the annual report on this investment, a public presentation designed to give our own people, and the people of other lands who stand with us for peace with freedom and justice, the best possible opportunity to see and understand what we have and why we have it.

It is very important for parents to understand that early training is imperative.

And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

It is, I am reliably given to understand, the technical argot for those who engage in your particular branch of the boost ; ;

It is hard to understand how he concluded that most snakes do not grow appreciably after attaining maturity ; ;

Progress is impeded by psychological inhibitions to effective action among those in power and by a failure on their part to understand how local resources, human and material, can be mobilized to achieve the national goals of modernization already symbolically accepted.

Successful teaching involves getting enough information about each pupil to understand why he behaves as he does in certain situations and how his achievement in school is being influenced by various factors in his environment.

The Soviets understand, moreover, that the first step in turning a country toward Communism is to turn it against the West.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

But what is this church doing to help its members understand their roles as Christians in the world??

and it is better to be shamed and criticized by one's parents, who already consider one different and difficult to understand, than by one's peers, who are also experiencing a similar groping for and denial of adult status.