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.

The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

There the matter stands with the prospect that soon Manchester may be removed from the roster of towns contributing raw sewage to its main streams.

Of all the records in peril, one stands apart, dramatic in its making, dramatic in its endurance, and now, doubly dramatic in its jeopardy.

An aardwolf is about 55 to 80 centimeters long, excluding its bushy tail about 20 to 30 cm long, and one stands about 40 to 50 cm tall at the shoulders.

Its spectral type is A0p ; the " p " stands for peculiar, as the spectrum of its light is characteristic of an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable.

As an acronym, it stands for Bourne-again shell, referring to its objective as a free replacement for the Bourne shell.

The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

The Consolation of Philosophy stands, by its note of fatalism and its affinities with the Christian doctrine of humility, midway between the pagan philosophy of Seneca the Younger and the later Christian philosophy of consolation represented by Thomas Aquinas.

Once it is built, the builder walks away, and it stands on its own accord.

For example, if function div stands for the division operation x / y, then div with the parameter x fixed at 1 ( i. e., div 1 ) is another function: the same as the function inv that returns the multiplicative inverse of its argument, defined by inv ( y )

In Italy the cuisine of the north, featuring butter and rice, stands in contrast to that of the south, with its wheat pasta and olive oil.

The Merchandise Mart, once first on the list of largest buildings in the world, and still listed as 20th, has its own ZIP code, and stands near the junction of the North and South branches of the Chicago River.

If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less.

'" While it is sometimes claimed that the Church of Scientology no longer stands by Hubbard's claims that Dianetics can treat physical conditions, it still publishes them: "... when the knee injuries of the past are located and discharged, the arthritis ceases, no other injury takes its place and the person is finished with arthritis of the knee.

Redox stands for reduction-oxidation, and are electrochemical processes involving electron transfer to or from a molecule or ion changing its oxidation state.

He never explained its meaning, leading to many different interpretations being presented, although it has been claimed that shortly before his death he said it stands for Alles Erdreich ist Österreich untertan ( English: All the world is subject to Austria.

The exhibits on show illustrate what Guernica has represented throughout its history for the Basques ( democracy, local legal system, freedom ) and what it stands for today all over the world ( human rights, peace ).

As of today, the Law Reform Commission recommendation still stands and has not as yet been acted upon ; the Firearms Act consists of the initial 1925 Act amended by approximately eighteen separate Acts and is well understood by only a handful of those directly involved in its drafting, amendment or usage.

During copulation, the male stands on its hind legs with its head held up and its front legs resting on the female's sides.

Patchen envisions a Dark Kingdom which `` stands above the waters as a sentinel warning man of danger from his own kind ''.

Deborah stands exclusively on her own merits.

The further charge that Bopp, in his Comparative Grammar, gave undue prominence to Sanskrit stands disproved by his own words ; for, as early as the year 1820, he gave it as his opinion that frequently the cognate languages serve to elucidate grammatical forms lost in Sanskrit ( Annals of Or.

Wisconsin is " America's Dairyland ," and is home to numerous frozen custard stands, particularly around Milwaukee and along the Lake Michigan corridor, as well as many cheesemakers, ranging from artisans who hand-craft their product from the milk of their own dairy herds to large factories.

# At any moment God shall permit him, Satan stands ready to fall upon the Wicked and seize them as his own.

Adjacent to the main campus stands the University's College of Education, with its own sports-fields and grounds.

Her outspoken approach stands in stark contrast to Kyoko, which helps Kyoko to come face to face with her own feelings for Godai.

The house is named after Sir Arthur Luxmoore, Lord Justice of Appeal, ( King's Scholar, 1889 ), and his own sundial stands in the back garden.

The prophet Daniel tells him God's interpretation, that it stands for the rise and fall of world powers, starting with Nebuchadnezzar's own as the golden head.

His name stands for Adrian Does Everything, which refers to the fact that he both rapped and produced his own records.

Another view is that " blackface is a form of cross-dressing in which one puts on the insignias of a sex, class, or race that stands in binary opposition to one's own.

* If the dealer expose any of his own cards the deal stands good.

It will contain its own domestic and international check-in facilities, contact stands, shops and lounges and is projected to cost R8 billion to complete.

Rio was previously home to its own elementary school, which most humbly stands in the center of town ; near the corner of Grande Avenue and North Main Street.

The first individuals to own the land upon which Basehor now stands were Thomas S. and Mary Z. Townest ( though William Henery Lewis, who surveyed for the Railroad, bought an exstensive plot on land to the northeast of Basehor around 1861 and homsteaded it right after the civil war ) The couple bought it from the railroad in 1873 and mortgaged it to Ephraim Basehor the same year.

Until 1959, Dorchester had its own school, originally built in 1902 ( a state historical marker stands at the school's old location, next to the current home of the First Baptist Church of Dorchester ).

The name a Cham king would give to such a linga would be a composite of the king's own name and suffix "- esvara ", which stands for Shiva.

The pseudonym " Matthew " is associated with Rogers, but it seems more probable that Matthew stands for Tyndale's own name, which, back then, was dangerous to employ.

Almost every football club in Podgorica has its own stadium, although these are often only fields with small stands or no stand at all.

Other markets and food stands soon created their own versions of the cemita with just about any kind of filling combination possible.

Although willing to change sides at any time in the interests of his own survival, Silver has compensating virtues: he is wise enough to pay attention to money management, in contrast to the spendthrift ways of most pirates, and is physically courageous despite his disability ; for instance, when Flint's cache is found to be empty, he coolly stands his ground against five grown men despite having only Hawkins to back him.

At the main entrance to the town market stands the Pelican Well ; it includes a design featuring a pelican that feeds its young with its own blood.

Abbott's Booby ( Papasula ) is given its own genus as it stands apart from both in these respects.