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is and possible
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
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.
Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.
Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.
In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.
It is possible that the study of literature affects the conscience, the morality, the sensitivity to some code of `` right '' and `` wrong ''.
It is possible that the idea of enrichment of emotion is a fifth idea.
It is at least possible that the capacity to postpone gratification is developed as well as expressed in a continuous and guided exposure to great literature.
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.
In looking back over the volumes, it is possible to find errors of interpretation, some of which were not so evident at the time of writing.
Says he, `` I may never imagine that in the struggle between personal and supra-personal responsibility it is possible to make a compromise between the ethical and the purposive in the shape of a relative ethic ; ;
Fortunately, it is possible to be somewhat more concrete and factual in diagnosing the involvement of values in education.
But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.
It is no longer possible to say that a sceptical attitude towards the received accounts of the invasions almost automatically produces a `` shore occupied by '' interpretation.

is and Maccabean
Though many evangelical commentators still defend the traditional sixth century date for the book's composition, the scholarly consensus is that it is a product of Maccabean times.
Rather, the critical focus is on the witness to the religiosity of the Maccabean time period.
Hanukkah (, Tiberian:, usually spelled, pronounced in Modern Hebrew ; also romanized as Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanuka, or Khanukah ), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple ( the Second Temple ) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.
This provoked the 174 – 135 BCE Maccabean Revolt led by Judas Maccabeus ( whose victory is celebrated in the Jewish festival of Hanukkah ).
According to Joseph P. Schultz, modern scholarship " considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppression than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish camp ", while John J. Collins writes that while the civil war between Jewish leaders led to the king's new policies, it is wrong to see the revolt as simply a conflict between Hellenism and Judaism, since " The revolt was not provoked by the introduction of Greek customs ( typified by the building of a gymnasium ) but by the persecution of people who observed the Torah by having their children circumcised and refusing to eat pork.
RH Charles in 1913 wrote: " This kingdom was to be ruled over by a Messiah sprung, not from Levi — that is, from the Maccabean family — as some of his contemporaries expected — but from Judah.
The second vision portrays seven angels bringing Levi seven insignia signifying priesthood, prophecy, and judgement ; in the vision, after the angels anoint Levi, and initiate him as a priest, they tell him of the future of his descendants, mentioning Moses, the Aaronid priesthood, and a time when there would be priest-kings ; this latter point was of particular interest to the Maccabean period of John Hyrcanus, who was both a high priest, and warrior-king, though according to textual scholars this is to be expected, since the Testament of Levi was written during Maccabean rule, between 153BC and 107BC, and closer to the latter date.
The Book of Jubilees similarly has Isaac telling Levi of the future of his descendants, again predicting priesthood, prophets, and political power, and additionally describes Jacob as entrusting Levi with the secrets of the ancients, so that they would be known only to the Levites ; however, like the Testament of Levi, the Book of Jubilees is regarded as a Maccabean document by scholars.
* 160 BCE: The Seleucids retake control of the whole of Jerusalem after Judas Maccabeus is killed at the Battle of Elasa, marking the end of the Maccabean revolt.
" Other evangelical writers have been more positive towards the book: James B. Jordan, for example, argues that while 1 Maccabees " was written to try and show the Maccabean usurpers as true heirs of David and as true High Priests " and is a " wicked book ," a " far more accurate picture of the situation is given in 2 Maccabees.
He led the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire ( 167 – 160 BCE ) and is acclaimed as one of the greatest warriors in Jewish history alongside Joshua, Gideon and David.
Jeremiah 33: 14-26 is assigned by Marti to Maccabean times, but this is disputed.
The origin of haftarah reading is lost to history, and several theories have been proposed to explain its role in Jewish practice, suggesting it arose in response to the persecution of the Jews under Antiochus Epiphanes which preceded the Maccabean revolt, wherein Torah reading was prohibited, or that it was " instituted against the Samaritans, who denied the canonicity of the Prophets ( except for Joshua ), and later against the Sadducees.

is and Martyrs
The English saints are widely venerated, quite naturally, and now there is great hope that the Forty Martyrs and Cardinal Newman will soon be canonized.
* " Monib Shahid, grandson of both ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and the King of Martyrs, married according to the Moslem rites the daughter of a political exile who is nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
The Foundation of Martyrs is attached to the Council of Ministers.
30 January is observed as Martyrs ' Day in India.
Saint Gavinus () is a Roman Catholic saint who is greatly celebrated in Sardinia, Italy, as one of the Martiri turritani (" Martyrs of Turris "), along with his companions Saints Protus and Januarius.
When some other important feast occurs on a weekday, such as the First and Second Finding of the Head of John the Baptist ( February 24 ), the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste ( March 9 ), etc., it is usually combined with the Lenten service, and wine and oil are allowed at the meal.
" Antonio Santosuosso points that “ they ( the Muslims ) called the battle's location, the road between Poitiers and Tours, " the pavement of Martyrs ".” However, as Henry Coppée pointed out, " The same name was given to the battle of Toulouse and is applied to many other fields on which the Moslemah were defeated: they were always martyrs for the faith.
Ælfthryth looks on as Edward is stabbed to death: from a Victorian edition of John Foxe | Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Along with his other books, notably the Glory of the Confessors, the Glory of the Martyrs and the Life of St. Martin, meticulous attention is paid to the local as opposed to the universal Christian experience.
It is not a replica, being of an ornate Victorian Gothic design based on George Gilbert Scott's Oxford Martyrs ' Memorial ( 1838 ).
His other novel, Martyrs ' Shrine: The Story of the Reform Movement of 1898 in China ( 北京法源寺 ), is about the beginning and the failure of the Hundred Days ' Reform.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades ( Katā ' ib Shuhadā ' al -' Aqṣā ) is a coalition of Palestinian nationalist militias in the West Bank.
Hence, the Coptic year is identified by the abbreviation A. M. ( for Anno Martyrum or " Year of the Martyrs ").
Saint Vitus is invoked primarily against chorea, which is called " St. Vitus Dance ", and he is one of the Fourteen Martyrs who give aid in times of trouble.
Within the churchyard of St John's is a memorial to the Stratford Martyrs, who were burned at the stake in 1556 during the reign of Queen Mary.
Thieleman J. van Braght's Martyrs Mirror is considered by modern Mennonites as second only in importance to the Bible in perpetuating their faith.
The mission has since been reconstructed as Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, a living museum which is adjacent to the Martyrs ' Shrine, a Roman Catholic shrine consecrated to the North American martyrs.
* The Festival of the Martyrs ( La Fiesta de los mártires ) is held in January.
Next, Mary ever Virgin, Saint Joseph, the Apostles, and some Popes and other Martyrs are mentioned by name, as well as a generic " and all your Saints ", in communion with whom prayer is offered.
His ancestry is alleged to include eight saints: Vladimir the Great, Saint Anna of Russia, the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb, Saint Stephen of Hungary, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Saint Mathilde together with Saint Thomas More, Humbert III of Savoy and several European royal families.
The quotation that follows is from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Chapter 16.

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