To a stranger their delight in these things may seem paradoxical, for Persians chase the golden calf as much as any people.

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.

The terms `` renewal '' and `` refreshed '', which often come up in aesthetic discussion, seem partly to derive their import from the `` renewal '' of purpose and a `` refreshed '' sense of significance a person may receive from poetry, drama, and fiction.

The glass may seem trivial but Communist official hooliganism feeds on such incidents unless they are redressed.

Against the dramatic fight being waged for preservation of 30 miles of Cape Cod shoreline, the tiny tract at Stone Harbor may seem unimportant.

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.

That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.

It may seem to some of them that success can be purchased much less dearly by fishing in the murky waters of international politics than by facing up to the intractable tasks at home.

While the particular limits of these groupings may seem artificially arbitrary, they do fairly express a corresponding grouping of more variable material, and they eventuate also in five classes, along a similar scale, containing approximately equal numbers of cases, namely 19, 14, 15, 11, 12 in Athabascan.

But the practice is likely to be misleading, since it may seem to support a conclusion that, as long as the revenues from any class of service cover the imputed operating expenses plus some return on capital investment, however low, the rates of charge for this service are compensatory.

To those raised on Marcel's Homo Viator and Heidegger's das Nichtige, this may seem a modest role for philosophy.

Just as the suburban factory may be more convenient than the downtown plant to the worker with a car, the trip to the shopping center may seem far easier than to the downtown department store, though both are the same distance from home.

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

`` Costs may seem high, but they used to be even higher '', says Dr. Brodie.

Today a battle cry may seem an anachronism, for in the modern Army, esprit de corps has been sacrificed to organizational charts and tables.

A technique by which it is proposed to enter with compulsion into the very heart of a man and determine his values may often in fact seem the more unlimited aggression.

We may now take up for consideration a hard case which seems to require either no action employing economic pressure or else action that would seem to violate the principles set forth above.

For while the past needs of the Church in this country may have been adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in temper and tone closely resembled junior colleges and finishing schools, it would seem that today's need is for the college which more closely resembles the university in its `` pursuit of excellence ''.

Yet though it may seem difficult to envision any definitive resolution of the problem of ownership and control, there are nevertheless certain suggestions which seem to be in order.

The vast, dungeon kitchens may seem hardly worth using except on occasions when one is faced with a thousand unexpected guests for lunch.

In this he is sticking with tradition, however far removed from it he may seem to be.

I had better mistake with the rest of the world, though it be certain, that what I have related may be thought not altogether incredible.

They tend to feature a resourceful character struggling against incredible odds, which may involve life-threatening situations, an evil villain, and / or being pursued, with victory achieved at the end after difficult physical efforts and violence.

Host switching and pollinator host sharing may contribute to the incredible diversity of figs.

For example if a person is told an incredible tale or description of an event they may respond with " Motherfucker " said slowly.

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort of minute objects.

That which may perhaps make such equality incredible is but a vain conceit of one ’ s own wisdom, which almost all men think they have in a greater degree than the vulgar, that is, than all men but themselves, and a few others whom by fame or for concurring with themselves they approve.

He was notorious for spinning incredible tales of his exploits ; Clarendon wrote that through constant re-telling he may have come to believe them himself.

In the early days, incredible as it may seem, there was no reason for you to feel fear if the Russian fighter was behind you.

Good-aligned dragons, while concerned with defeating evil, are able to see a much broader scope of the world, and although certain crises arise that may seem extremely important to good-aligned humans, their dragon counterparts are able to see the event as an unimportant hiccup that will pass in mere centuries ; even those that adventure with others tend show a sense of incredible patience, even in situations where all others feel they've not a second to lose.

That one of them should be in a country so civilized and so advanced as New Zealand may seem incredible, unless one has visited the south-west corner of the South Island.

In an interview Kozhevin stated that, " We may consider it incredible, but we have ground to assert that Middle-Volga region was the original land of Ancient Rus.

Most adults possess wingspans between 1 to 6 inches ( 2. 5 to 15 cm ), but some tropical species, such as the Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), may boast quite incredible wingspans of up to 12 inches ( 30 cm ).

It may have referred to an incredible physical flexibility ; Ivar was a renowned warrior, and perhaps this limberness gave rise to the popular notion that he was " boneless ".

The phrase, first recorded in 1621, may instead be an allusion to Aesop's fables, with their incredible talking animals.

I remember a phrase by Daniel Toscan Du Plantier the day “ Les Visiteurs ” opened, which eventually sold 15 million tickets: “ Yes but there is this incredible film called " L ' arbre, le maire et la médiathèque " that sold 100, 000 tickets, which may sound ridiculous in comparison, but no, because but it was only playing in one theater for an entire year.

She or he may become romantically involved with a band member or actor, join the cast, prove to have superior acting or singing ability, and incredible beauty.

The scrolls helped them discovered a lot, and with the discovery of the Skill pillars, memory cubes and Elderling cities, they may hope one day to master the skill to a level comparable to the old skillmasters, for the Skill could truly do incredible things in the past.

Fenton wrote ' we may safely conclude that the patriarchs of such apparently incredible length of life were actually priest-chiefs of tribes, whose souls were believed to have passed from the first organizer of the tribe '.

He may be lazy, but when a fight starts, his destructive power is incredible.

The EPIC website says, " The incredible complexity of P3P, combined with the way that popular browsers are likely to implement the protocol would seem to preclude it as a privacy-protective technology ," EPIC continues on to state, " Rather, P3P may actually strengthen the monopoly position over personal information that U. S. data marketers now enjoy.

As incredible as it may seem for a champion horse, Lupton openly admitted that Kiwi was used to ‘ round up the sheep ’ when having a break from racing.

Danny Peary in Cult Movies ( 1981 ), after admitting that he had difficulties with the “ puzzling ” climax, noted “ But while the end may ask more questions than it answers, the exciting journey that brings us to this point is one of the most rewarding sequences in the history of westerns .” Leonard Maltin said it was an “… ultimately powerful film with an offbeat performance by Nicholson as a hired gun … and an incredible, unexpected finale .” David Pirie in Time Out wrote, " Probably the first Western which really deserves to be called existential .... Hellman builds remorselessly on the atmosphere and implications of the ' quest ' until it assumes a terrifying importance in itself ... What Hellman has done is to take the basic tools of the Western, and use them, without in anyway diluting or destroying their power, as the basis for a Kafkaesque drama.