I say the late seventeenth century because Racine ( whom Lessing did not really know ) stands on the far side of the chasm.

League regularly stands on the side of right

Hoped-for legislative action on adjustment of the county unit system stands less chance than ever.

It was built by the Pasterns, and stands on the acre of ground that adjoins our property.

Initiating a program to control dwarf mistletoe on several hundred thousand acres of selected better stands of young softwood sawtimber on better growing sites.

If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.

Laguerre Hanover is outstanding in type and conformation -- good body, plenty of heart girth, stands straight on his legs on excellent feet -- and has the smoothest gait.

It still stands as a monument to the engineering skills of the last century and still serves in the gasoline age to carry heavy traffic on U.S. Route 250 -- the old Beverly and Fairmont Turnpike.

( I watched it on television late one night last week and it `` stands up '' remarkably well, even twenty years later.

More stands on the margins of modernity for one reason alone -- because he wrote Utopia.

One young man, exhilarated to the point of insanity by liquor and the excitement of the moment, performed a perfect swan dive out of the stands at the Yale Bowl during the Yale-Army football game, landed squarely on his head on the concrete ramp below, and died at once.

Women actually began to appear unaccompanied in the stands, where they still occasionally ran the risk of coming home with a tobacco-juice stain on a clean skirt or a new curse word tingling their ears.

The state is now faced with the immediate question of raising new taxes whether on utilities, real estate or motor vehicles, he said, `` and I challenge Mitchell to tell the people where he stands on the tax issue ''.

The Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, with music and dances that depict the many facets of Filipino culture, opens its 60-city U.S. tour in San Francisco ( through Sept. 24 ) then, via one-night stands, moves on to Los Angeles ( Sept. 29 thru Oct. 1 ).

Against this invincible determination to communize the whole world stands a group of nations unable to agree on fundamentals and each refusing to make any sacrifice of sovereignty for the common good of all.

John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world, movement, and other elements of Aristotelian thought.

Plutarch, in Moralia, presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet.

** This is a distinguished work which stands out from, and above, many of the books and articles which have ben written in this century on Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā ) ( A. D. 980 – 1037 ).

The house of his birth still stands in the middle of town and there is a monument to him on Front Street.

alt = Astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the Moon

The reverse represents Pallas holding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, and before her stands an eagle on a thunderbolt.

During the days of the Roman Empire, the settlement of Augusta Raurica was founded 10 or 20 kilometres upstream of present Basel, and a castle was built on the hill overlooking the river where the Basel Münster now stands.

The ballpark also contains quirks such as " Tal's Hill ", which is a hill in deep center field on which a flagpole stands, all in fair territory.

Hopewell Center stands on the slope of a hill so steep that the building has its back entrance on the 17th floor towards Kennedy Road.

Fife Airport lies a mile ( 1. 5 km ) to the north and on a hill overlooking the farm of Redwells stands Blythe's Folly, a 15. 6m ( 52 feet ) high tower built in 1812 by an eccentric Leith shipowner.

* Saint Denis, first Bishop of Paris, and two of his disciples are beheaded on the road to the Temple of Mercury that stands atop a hill outside of the city.

Pliny indeed mentions a great calamity which the city had sustained, when ( he tells us ) half of it was swallowed up by the sea, probably from an earthquake having caused the fall of part of the hill on which it stands, but we have no clue to the date of this event ; The Itineraries attest the existence of Tyndaris, apparently still as a considerable place, in the fourth century.

The Ochils meet the flat carse ( floodplain ) of the River Forth to the east of the distinctive geographical feature of Abbey Craig, a crag and tail hill upon which stands the 220 ft ( 67m ) high Wallace National Monument.

A monument to the builders of railway stands on a nearby hill.

* Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathederal, commenced in 1838, seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, stands on a hill and dominates the local countryside

According to the most widely held theory, the city was founded by the Lombards before the 8th century as a fortified camp on the slope of the hill where the castle stands.

Cumhall is reputed to be buried within the grounds of Castleknock College, ( an all-boys secondary school in Dublin 15 ), supposedly under a hill upon which an old water tower now stands.

* St Mary the Virgin church ( 14th century ) stands on the hill overlooking the old village.

At the summit of hill stands the elegant St John's church, built in 1845 in the early English style, and which formed the centrepiece of the Ladbroke Estate development.

Today, a statue of Pierre Wibaux stands on that hill.

It is believed that this tribe built an ancient hill fort on the mound where Bush Hill Park Golf club HQ now stands.

The hill on which Islington stands has long supplied the City of London with water, the first projects drawing water through wooden pipes from the many springs that lay at its foot, in Finsbury.

It takes its name from a dún ( fort ), which once stood on the hill that dominates the town and on which Down Cathedral stands.

The more magnificent of two stands upon the top of a sandy hill, and appears to have been a species of Pantheon, since, according to extant inscriptions, it was dedicated to Aroeres ( Apollo ) and the other deities of the Ombite nome by the soldiers quartered there.

The school stands on a hill off to the north of the city.

Dumfries Museum and camera obscuraLocated on top of a small hill, Dumfries Museum is centred around the 18th century windmill which stands above the town.

They endured a severe winter by living in temporary shelters dug into the south side of the hill on which the Manti Temple now stands.

Alexander Henderson built a house known as the Henderson House which still stands on a hill in Dumfries, as well as owning various land in Prince William Forest Park.

In April 1928 the site was moved to the hill east of town and now stands out as a thing of beauty for being in the country.

The hill in the town's name is taken to mean different things to different people ; many believe that the hill in question is the hill on which the train station currently stands, but there is a Burgess Farm on a hill in the south-east of the town, on Folders Lane.