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never and worked
The doctrine has never worked ; ;
The trouble with them was that they almost never worked, and in fact an agreement `` in principle '' historically turned out to be a sure sign that neither party really wanted the quarrel settled.
Miss Marple has never worked for her living and is of independent means, although she benefits in her old age from the financial support of Raymond West, her nephew ( A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 ).
Three more, to contain the Chorale Preludes with Schweitzer's analyses, were to be worked on in Africa: but these were never completed, perhaps because for him they were inseparable from his evolving theological thought.
Throughout his life, Hopwood worked on a novel that he hoped would " expose " the strictures the commercial theater machine imposed on playwrights, but the manuscript was never published.
In general, the larger the ensemble, the greater the need for a formal arrangement, although the early Count Basie big band was famous for its head arrangements, so called because they were worked out by the players themselves, memorized immediately and never written down.
However, he never worked in baseball after that.
Mary's closest confidant, Charles V's ambassador Simon Renard, argued that her throne would never be safe while Elizabeth lived ; and the Chancellor, Stephen Gardiner, worked to have Elizabeth put on trial.
He took vows as a canon regular at the canonry of Stein, in South Holland, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at about the age of 25, but he never seemed to have actively worked as a priest for a longer time, and certain tenets of life in Religious Orders were among the chief objects of his attack in his lifelong assault upon Church excesses.
He never worked for any of the major manufacturers but maintained a productive relationship with BSA in its heyday.
English scholar Russell Martineau, who had studied under Bopp, gave the following tribute: “ Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but language itself — study it either as a universal function of man, subjected, like his other mental or physical functions, to law and order, or else as an historical development, worked out by a never ceasing course of education from one form into another .”
" For the next several decades, Davis claimed she was fired, and although Cukor never understood why she placed so much importance on an incident he considered so minor, he never worked with her again.
Many were middle-and upper class women who had never worked for wages or seen the inside of a hospital.
Zuse's purely mechanical, but already binary Z1, finished in 1938, never worked reliably due to problems with the precision of parts.
He never took acting lessons, but was persistent and worked steadily at his craft.
" During World War II, Jewish chaplains worked with Catholic priests and Protestant ministers to promote goodwill, addressing servicemen who, " in many cases had never seen, much less heard a Rabbi speak before.
He was never seriously ill, and worked all day without haste and without pause.
The Z1 contained some 30, 000 metal parts and never worked well due to insufficient mechanical precision.
At that time, it was the only working computer in continental Europe, and the second computer in the world to be sold, only beaten by the BINAC, which never worked properly after it was delivered.
Eisenstein's solution was to shun narrative structure by eliminating the individual protagonist and tell stories where the action is moved by the group and the story is told through a clash of one image against the next ( whether in composition, motion, or idea ) so that the audience is never lulled into believing that they are watching something that has not been worked over.
For his part, Falk says that he " never worked with a director who showed greater enjoyment of actors and the acting craft.
The park had a built-in radiant heating system, but it never worked.
Between 1512 and 1519, Thomas More worked on a History of King Richard III, which was never finished, but which greatly influenced William Shakespeare's play Richard III.

never and naturally
and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.
He adds that as many as 300 billion humans may never have reached birth, instead dying naturally but prenatally ( the prenatal death rate being about 3 / 4 historically ).
It is never entirely clear whether these events actually occurred or were merely a dream — the narrator says that when he initially found a comfortable-looking spot in the roots of the tree, he sat down, " and as my sceptical In Piers Anthony's Bearing an Hourglass, the potent Hourglass of the Incarnation of Time naturally moves the Incarnation in space according to the numerous movements of the globe through the solar system, the solar system through the galaxy, etc.
the explanations are never dragged in for their own sake, and the plot grows naturally out of the setting.
Since the research by Eleanor Rosch and George Lakoff in the 1970s, categorization can also be viewed as the process of grouping things based on prototypes-the idea of necessary and sufficient conditions is almost never met in categories of naturally occurring things.
From Chinese cultural influence, the Zen motif of the " gibbon grasping at the reflection of the moon in the water " became popular in Japanese art, as well, though gibbons have never occurred naturally in Japan.
Lee was, naturally, identified as the " spiritual leader " ( though he personally never joined the party ); the TSU hoped that Lee's popularity would help the TSU make the 5 % support mark.
It ’ s taken a toll, naturally, but the strange thing is that I've never felt seriously ill. I ’ ve mostly felt great.
In so long and so laborious a life Pasquier's work was naturally considerable, and it has never been fully collected or indeed printed.
Ochs and Taylor uncovered how, through naturally occurring stories told during dinners in white middle class households in southern California, both mothers and fathers participated in replicating male dominance ( the " father knows best " syndrome ) by the distribution of participant roles such as protagonist ( often a child but sometimes mother and almost never the father ) and " problematizer " ( often the father, who raised uncomfortable questions or challenged the competence of the protagonist ).
In practice such a representation almost never tries to represent every possible allophone — especially those that occur naturally due to coarticulation effects — and instead limits itself to the most significant allophonic distinctions.
It remains unclear whether Laura Ingalls Wilder was a naturally skilled novelist who never discovered her talents until her sixties, with Lane's only contribution to her mother's success her encouragement and her established connections in the publishing world, or if Lane essentially took her mother's unpublishable raw manuscripts in hand and completely ( and silently ) ghostwrote the series of books we know today.
This move was controversial during Jim Furyk's early career ; however, his father never forced him to change what came naturally to him.
This he can never be, unless the tones of voice in which you speak come from the heart, accompanied by corresponding looks, and gestures, which naturally result from a man who speaks in earnest.
The decorative elements in the script never interfere with the basic structure of the letter-forms ; they arise naturally from the slanted angle at which the pen was held ".
In the biography, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, historian Gerda Lerner writes that “ It never occurred to that she should abide by the superior judgment of her male relatives or that anyone might consider her inferior, simply for being a girl .” More so than her elder sister ( and later, fellow abolitionist ), Sarah, Angelina seemed to be naturally inquisitive and outspoken, a trait which often offended her rather traditional family and friends.
* Synthetic elements, chemical elements that naturally occur rarely or never on Earth and therefore have to be created in experiments
The situation is one where partnered sexual activity almost never happens " naturally ", i. e. as a result of any courtship process or friend with benefits situation.
The Emperor was naturally very pleased and forgot all his enemity with the Guru, and vowed that he would never again cause him annoyance.
Current theories of stellar dynamics also suggest that there is very little mixing between the bulk of a star's atmosphere and the material of its core, where fusion takes place, so most of a large star's fuel will never be used naturally.
Transuranium elements ( those above uranium, which are all unstable and not found naturally on earth ) and technetium are never considered to be part of the refractory metals.
An antenna plus matcher is never as efficient as a naturally resonant antenna due to additional induced losses on the feed line due to the SWR ( multiple reflections ), and losses in the ATU itself, although issues of pattern and capture area may outweigh this in practice.
One example is a left shoe and a right ; shoes are naturally sold in pairs, and the ratio between sales of left and right shoes will never shift noticeably from 1: 1-even if, for example, someone is missing a leg and buys just one shoe.
The cause of their deaths has never been established ; but there is a strong theory that the two deaths may have been caused by accidental hydrogen sulphide poisoning, due to the build-up of the poisonous gas beneath the river bed that formed both naturally and by pollutants from nearby factories along the river.

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