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Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.
But contest definition -- that dramatic muscular separation of every muscle group that seems as though it must have been carved by a sculptor's chisel -- is something quite different.
This slip is so-called because its semi-ambiguous English always seems to refer to a person's anatomy but never quite means what it seems to say.
Since the will and word of God are for them concentrated in Christ-like love, it seems clear to them that non-violent resistance is quite another thing.
Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.
But it seems quite natural to me here.
It is quite evident in the words of this statement, which was adopted by the attendees of the 2001 youth conference held at the Unitarian Church of Montreal: " We the youth of Canada are deeply concerned about the direction the CUC seems to be taking.
Prior, whose authority is great in the origin of popular names, says " It seems probably that the name was in the first place, foxes ' glew, or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an arched support, the tintinnabulum "... we cannot quite agree with Dr.
Prior for it seems quite probable that the shape of the flowers suggested the idea of a glove, and that associated with the name of the botanist Fuchs, who first gave it a botanical name, may have been easily corrupted into foxglove.
'" Towards the end of the same essay, Vertov mentions an upcoming project which seems likely to be Man with the Movie Camera, calling it an " experimental film " made without a scenario ; just three paragraphs above, Vertov mentions a scene from " Kino Pravda " which should be quite familiar to viewers of Man with the Movie Camera: the peasant works, and so does the urban woman, and so too, the woman film editor selecting the negative ...."
Dissenting opinions included Justice Stevens's, who wrote "... the voluntary character of the private choice to prefer a parochial education over an education in the public school system seems to me quite irrelevant to the question whether the government's choice to pay for religious indoctrination is constitutionally permissible.
The novel is occasionally quite critical of King Richard, who seems to love adventure more than he loves the well-being of his subjects.
The director, Terry Jones, issued the following riposte to this criticism: " Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly ".
The internal classification seems to be still quite unsettled, with rival proposals containing between two and eight subfamilies.
The first important expansion of the mysteries in the Empire seems to have happened quite quickly, late in the reign of Antoninus Pius and under Marcus Aurelius.
Plautus, it seems, is quite open to this method of adaptation, and quite a few of his plots seem stitched together from different stories.
Cognitive behavioral therapy ( CBT ) is effective in reducing the suffering associated with chronic pain in some patients but the reduction in suffering is quite modest, and the CBT method employed seems to have no effect on outcome.
An approach which seems mathematically to be similar to IRT but also quite distinctive, in terms of its origins and features, is represented by the Rasch model for measurement.
This practice may be quite old, as the red panda seems to be depicted in a 13th-century Chinese pen-and-ink scroll showing a hunting scene.
In Argentina, Brazil's neighbor to the south, there is a dance called " Zamba ", a name which seems to share ethymological origins with the Samba, though the dance itself is quite different.
In chapter 41, Gangleri says that Odin seems to be quite a powerful lord, as he controls quite a big army, but he yet wonders how the Einherjar keep themselves busy when they are not drinking.

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That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
In there aren't many young people in the neighborhood the modifier young takes dominant stress away from its head people: the fact that the young creatures of interest are people seems rather obvious.
Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.
The influence of Chopin and Mendelssohn on Brahms is less obvious, although occasionally one can find in his works what seems to be an allusion to one of theirs ( for example, Brahms's Scherzo, Op.
' The dictionary adds: ' Like many of Friedman ’ s contributions, in retrospect it seems remarkably simple and obvious to apply basic economic ideas to quality control ; that however is a measure of his genius.
But it seems at least obvious that a divine infinite being conceived of as necessary infinitely knowledgeable would also know how, for example, a finite person dying feels like as He would have access to all knowledge including the obvious experiences of the dying human.
The reason now seems obvious.
In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer 343 U. S. 579, 644 ( 1952 ), Justice Robert H. Jackson's concurring opinion cites the Third Amendment as providing evidence of the Framers ' intent to constrain executive power even during wartime: " hat military powers of the Commander in Chief were not to supersede representative government of internal affairs seems obvious from the Constitution and from elementary American history.
: It seems obvious that one cannot both accept the hypothesis that all P's are Q and also reject the contrapositive, i. e. that all non-Q's are non-P.
The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).
This saves them the pain of rigorous training so simple and general and limited that it seems obvious when said, yet so difficult.
The New Republic adds that " Google seems to have arrived at the same link that was obvious to Andrei Sakharov: the one between science and freedom ," referring to the move as " heroism.
Its distribution throughout its breeding range seems to be very local, and for this no obvious reason can be assigned.
* Often the combustion seems to happen simultaneously at many parts of the body, usually without any obvious points of origin.
* sine dicendo: A statement that is so obvious it need not be stated, and if stated, it seems almost pointless ( e. g. ' It's always in the last place you look.
" As for the Hellenes, it seems obvious to me that ever since they came into existence they have always used the same language.
Despite Drake's obvious hatred of him and his wife, Herb seems to not notice it due to his low intellegence.
When MacFay is killed, Church seems to be the obvious suspect.
For the powerful, their culture seems obvious ; for the powerless, on the other hand, it remains out of reach, élite and expensive.
Many people have composed endgame studies, endgame positions which are solved by finding a win for White when there is no obvious way of winning, or a draw when it seems White must lose.
It seems likely that such an obvious strategic location would have been settled in some way from an early date.
It seems unlikely that ζ as used here can meaningfully be regarded as an electrochemical potential, because of obvious difficulties in giving a real-world specification of the " standard state " in which the electron existed before it was added to the body under analysis.
In such a case, while there can be no logical reason for giving preference to the copy-text, in practice, if there is no reason for altering its reading, the obvious thing seems to be to let it stand.

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