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`` The accommodations may not be the poshest, but man!!
The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.
Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.
Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.
A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959.
Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.
What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.
or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.
The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.

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He may also have taught Cleanthes, Zeno's successor as head of the Stoic school.
An alternative is to keep adding constructed points to the cissoid which get closer and closer to the intersection with line PC, but the number of steps may very well be infinite, and the Greeks did not recognize approximations as limits of infinite steps ( so they were very puzzled by Zeno's paradoxes ).
In reference to Zeno's paradox of the arrow in flight, Alfred North Whitehead writes that " an infinite number of acts of becoming may take place in a finite time if each subsequent act is smaller in a convergent series ":
Ambrose speaks of Zeno's " happy death ", although as a confessor, Zeno may have suffered persecution ( but not execution ) during the reigns of Constantius II and Julian the Apostate.

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Although this may seem extreme, the arguments.
After Ackermann's publication of his function ( which had three nonnegative integer arguments ), many authors modified it to suit various purposes, so that today " the Ackermann function " may refer to any of numerous variants of the original function.
It is difficult to determine quantitatively what is considered to be a " good " value in a certain statistical category, and qualitative assessments may lead to arguments.
In this case the data loaded from memory is stored in registers, and a mathematical operation takes no arguments but simply performs the math on the data in the registers and writes it to a new register, whose value a separate operation may then write to memory.
Tacitus uses Claudius ' own arguments for the orthographical innovations mentioned above, and may have used him for some of the more antiquarian passages in his annals.
More generally, a function may map equivalent arguments ( under an equivalence relation ~< sub > A </ sub >) to equivalent values ( under an equivalence relation ~< sub > B </ sub >).
More generally, a function may map equivalent arguments ( under an equivalence relation on ) to equivalent values ( under an equivalence relation on ).
This may be the philosophical equivalent of the more pragmatic arguments made by some scientists.
In the United States Tax Court, frivolous arguments may result in a penalty of up to $ 25, 000 under.
It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun ; however, it can also indicate various other relationships than possession: certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case, and it may have adverbial uses ( see Adverbial genitive ).
He presented his rational and scientific arguments in the form of Arabic fiction, hence his Theologus Autodidactus may be considered amongst the earliest science fiction work.
Although Origen makes no direct reference to the Testimonium, scholars such as Louis Feldman and Zvi Baras have presented arguments that Origen may have seen a copy of the Testimonium and not commented on it for there was no need to complain about its tone.
However, Louis Feldman has presented arguments that Origen may have seen a copy of the Testimonium ( in a different form than quoted by Esebeius ) and not commented on it for there was no need to complain about its tone.
" One may introduce arguments for and against this proposition, based upon such things as standards of statistical analysis, the definition of " overweight ," etc.
Note that these arguments may indeed have validity, but they require some independent justification of the connection between their terms: otherwise the argument ( as a logical tool ) remains fallacious.
Each predicate has its argument structure with places for arguments, which may be variables.
In manic and hypomanic cases, the afflicted person may engage in out-of-character behavior, such as questionable business transactions, wasteful expenditures of money, risky sexual activity, recreational drug abuse, abnormal social interaction, or highly vocal arguments uncharacteristic of previous behaviors.
Moore's arguments may rule out attempts to define ' goodness ' in such obviously naturalistic terms as ' happiness ' while at the same time do not preclude similar attempts to define the good in terms of God's will — in other words, divine command theory.
His arguments may have been deeply influential to the formation of the United States Constitution.
Derrida's deconstructions attempt to give opposing interpretations of the same text by rhetoric arguments, similar to how lawyers in a court case may argue from the same text, the same set of laws that is, to reach opposite conclusions.
Furthermore, arguments may be presented regarding the concept of civil religion and new world belief systems.
In much the same way arguments and explanations may be confused with each other, as may explanations and justifications.
They agree that only the boy holding the conch may speak at meetings to forestall arguments and chaos, and that it should be passed around to those who wish to voice their opinion.

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`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.
Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.
The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.
With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.
`` 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 best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
Something occurred on the morning of the children's party which may illustrate the kind of trouble our restricted toilet facilities caused us.
Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.
There is a second feature of the influences of literature, good literature, on emotional life which may have some special value for our time.
One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.
Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.
These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
Those who walk on it may encounter at any turn ministers of grace or damnation.
A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.
A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.

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