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The primary quality of that view seems, now, to have been its quietness, but that cannot at the time have impressed us.
It seems that open season upon veterans' hospitalization is once more upon us.
It seems to me that N.C., in his editorial `` Confrontation '' ( SR, Mar. 25 ), has hit upon the real problem that bothers all of us in a complex world: how do we retain our personal relationship with those who suffer??
It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.
It seems reasonable that if general nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us.
As the law of corporations was articulated by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Marshall, over the first several decades of the new American state, emphasis fell, in a way which seems natural to us today, upon commercial corporations.
He made a few mistakes ; he may well have made others that we cannot detect because he is our sole authority ; when he tried to describe buildings his command of language was usually inadequate ; he is often confused and obscure, though this may be as much his printer's fault as his own ; his prose is frequently difficult to read and painful to translate ; but he seems to us to be free from the dishonesty of the traveller who tries to exaggerate his own knowledge, importance, or courage.
" The point seems to be that Godzilla, being a " living nuclear bomb ", something that cannot be destroyed, must rise up from time to time to remind us of the precariousness of our existence.
: In our judgment, stress, anxiety and depression can no doubt be the result of the operation of external factors, but they are not, it seems to us, in themselves separately or together external factors of the kind capable in law of causing or contributing to a state of automatism.
This second inequality appears to be due to light taking some time to reach us from the satellite ; light seems to take about ten to eleven minutes cross a distance equal to the half-diameter of the terrestrial orbit.
Walter Burkert detects in the Polyphemus episode a subtext that " seems to offer us something more ancient: threatened by the man-eater, men conceal themselves in the skins of slaughtered animals, and thus, disguised as animals, escape the groping hands of the blinded monster.
Anthropologists John Monoghan and Peter Just state that, " it seems apparent that one thing religion or belief helps us do is deal with problems of human life that are significant, persistent, and intolerable.
They wrote in chapter 13: " It seems highly likely to us that both genes and the environment have something to do with racial differences.
Yellow has an eccentric movement and blue a concentric movement ; a yellow surface seems to move closer to us, while a blue surface seems to move away.
Yet it seems likely on some accounts, either that a part of the work has been lost or, what is more likely, that Zosimus did not live to finish it ; for as we now have it, it does not embrace all that Zosimus himself tells us he intended to take up ( iv.
Mathematically speaking, however, there seems to be no reason for us to reject the negative-energy solutions.
Quine suggests that mathematics seems completely certain because the role it plays in our web of belief is incredibly central, and that it would be extremely difficult for us to revise it, though not impossible.
Moreover, she is of brown skin all over like her father ; and in all things she is pleasant enough, as it seems to us.
It seems counter-intuitive that a sentence such as “ some people admire only each other ” commits us to the existence of anything but people.
The world around us seems to be in a specific state, but quantum mechanics describes it by wave functions that govern the probability of all values.
Notice how such a comparison of these two standpoints is neither exclusively religious nor secular, a factor which perhaps offers some small insight as to how Boyle managed to achieve what seems to us now the extraordinary feat of gaining strong favour at various times with the leaders on either side of the English Civil war.
De Staercke replied that Churchill was right: " The Prince, Monsieur Spaak and I read your text which is saying the precise truth, which seems perfect to us.
Mosiah II seems to be referring to the civil aspect of this legal system when he refers to " the law which has been given to us by our fathers " ( Mosiah 29: 15, 25 ).

seems and choices
However, a recent result seems to rule out such an explanation by showing revaluation of items following a choice even when people have forgotten their choices.
From a young age, Kathy seems to have resigned herself to being a rather passive observer of other people and the choices they make, instead of making her own.
She also seems to have disapproved of his political choices, reportedly saying that she, " would not go begging in Ulster or Spain ".
The research concludes that even though the launch of free newspapers seems to have a negative causal effect on single copy sales of paid newspapers, the overall effect on readership and choices of newspapers might not be detrimental.
Yet this balance of interests seems to currently be leading toward more user choices and a narrowing of the differences between personal web sites and other personal web presence providers.

seems and exercised
Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II.
Valentinian himself seems to have exercised no real authority, and was a figurehead for various powerful interests: his mother, his co-emperors, and powerful generals.
These include Utug or Uhub, said to have defeated Hamazi in the earliest days, and Mesilim, who built temples in Adab and Lagash, where he seems to have exercised some control.
Meanwhile, Anne, Duchess of Montpensier ( La Grande Mademoiselle ) had fallen in love with the little man, whose ugliness seems to have exercised a certain fascination over many women.
From Lanhydrock he exercised influence in Cornwall, though he seems to have dedicated most of his time to study and to his growing family.
Sport seems to involve basic human skills being developed and exercised for their own sake, in parallel with being exercised for their usefulness.
Nevertheless, in virtue of a certain substratum of truth which seems to have underlain his new theories, Vogler undoubtedly exercised a powerful influence over the progress of musical science, and numbered among his disciples some of the greatest geniuses of the period.
After his proconsulship in Asia, Silius seems to have left politics in favor of a leisurely life ; despite his wealth and importance in the state, he seems to have exercised little power and avoided offense.
Among the Aedui, it seems like the vergobret also exercised a judiciary role, since Caesar reports that he had " the right to life and death over his fellow citizens ".
Dr. Martyn Percy of the Lincoln Theological Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, an authority on new religious movements, commented on the organization's nature of control: " It seems to me to be a fascinating form of religious control exercised on people.

seems and by
He seems, by some unconscious division of labor, to have given them that one function and no other, leaving communication to the rest of the face.
The young writer seems intimidated by psychological knowledge ; ;
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.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
Schweitzer seems, in fact, to acquire for himself a burden of sin, not bequeathed by Adam, but accumulated in the inevitable judgments which life requires of him as between greater and lesser responsibilities.
Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Now Britain has decided to seek admission to the European Economic Community and it seems certain that she will be joined by some of her partners in the loose Free Trade Area of the `` Outer Seven ''.
It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends.
Of those who have an opinion, it seems that assessment by location is preferred.
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.
There it seems that the goitrogen ingested by dairy animals is itself inactive but is converted in the animal to an active goitrogen, which is then secreted in the milk.
It seems to follow that by and large an antagonism exists between the paleo- and the neocortex as far as emotional reactivity is concerned, and that the balance between the two systems determines the emotional responsiveness of the organism.
Examples from this population indicate that deviance seems to be sanctioned by ostracism from the group.
Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).
The rate of plant and equipment spending by business and industry now seems to be topping out and facing some decline.
The principle of `` bills only '', or `` bills preferably '', seems so strongly accepted by the Federal Reserve that it is difficult to envision conditions which would persuade the authorities to depart radically from it by extending their open market purchases regularly into long-term Government securities.
With the expansion of family formation in the Sixties, a continued substantial rise in expenditures by state and local government units seems to be indicated.
To the extent that the jurisdictional principle of 1875 stands unmodified by subsequent legislation, federal equitable relief against state action must be available -- or so it seems to Mr. Justice Frankfurter.
Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.
For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief, which gives way in turn, and with equal immediacy, to an illusion that seems to contain both -- or neither.
Instead of isolating the literal flatness by specifying and circumscribing it, the pasted paper or cloth releases and spreads it, and the artist seems to have nothing left but this undepicted flatness with which to finish as well as start his picture.
If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

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