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Just and no
Just as now anyone may hurl insults at a citizen of Mars, or even of Tikopia, and no senatorial investigation will result.
Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.
Just because a tree or other object appears in a certain spot is absolutely no reason to place it in the same position in the painting, unless the position serves the design of the whole composition.
When no one smiled, he felt constrained to add, `` Just kidding, natch ''.
Just because he was honorable enough to want to continue supporting his two children, as any decent man would, that was no reason he should be denied his own small share of happiness too.
Just as important was the influence of the 19th century English designer William Morris, who had argued that art should meet the needs of society and that there should be no distinction between form and function.
" Just as no misconduct on the part of a father can free his children from obedience to the fifth commandment, so no misgovernment on the part of a king can release his subjects from their allegiance.
Just as a thousand years ago, the Huns under Attila won a reputation of might that lives on in legends, so may the name of Germany in China, such that no Chinese will even again dare so much as to look askance at a German.
Just as man does not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, and with more particular reason, he has no such dominion over his specifically sexual faculties, for these are concerned by their very nature with the generation of life, of which God is the source.
Just downriver from this, the mountains close in on either side of the Marañón, forming narrow gorges or pongos for a length of, where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than 35 rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which Charles Marie de La Condamine embarked in the 18th century to descend the Amazon.
Just as he argues that there is no particular reason why particular macroscopic physical features in the brain should give rise to consciousness, he also thinks that there is no particular reason why a particular quantum feature, such as the electromagnetic field in the brain, should give rise to consciousness, either.
In 1982, Nancy Reagan was asked by a schoolgirl what to do when offered drugs ; Nancy responded " Just say no ".
During the interview, Lee was quoted as saying "... Just about a month and a half ago we had no songs.
Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas .” A consistent thread that runs from his earliest philosophical phase through his later spiritual orientation is the goal of demonstrating that there are no essential limits to human knowledge.
Just as the ship's complement prepare to go into battle the next morning to stop the Japanese attack, the ship returns to 1980 – their minor involvement having had no net effect on history.
Just like the state of nature, states were thus bound to be in conflict because there was no sovereign over and above the state ( i. e. more powerful ) capable of imposing social-contract laws.
In childhood, Vātsyāyana says, a person should learn how to make a living ; youth is the time for pleasure, and as years pass one should concentrate on living virtuously and hope to escape the cycle of rebirth. The Kama Sutra acknowledges that the senses can be dangerous: ' Just as a horse in full gallop, blinded by the energy of his own speed, pays no attention to any post or hole or ditch on the path, so two lovers, blinded by passion, in the friction of sexual battle, are caught up in their fierce energy and pay no attention to danger '( 2. 7. 33 ).
When challenged by Wyoh, Professor de la Paz replies " In terms of morals there is no such thing as a ‘ state .’ Just men.
" Indeed, the song " Do You Believe In Magic ," a Top Ten hit, mentioned the genre in its lyrics: " If you believe in magic, don't bother to choose / If it's jug band music or rhythm and blues / Just go and listen, it'll start with a smile / That won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try.
Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.
Just as with the rest of Tolkien's characters, the natures and names of these worldly Ainur are by no means incidental ; they are intimately connected with important elements of plot and action in the later tales.

Just and spot
Just inside the entrance is The Stone of Anointing, also known as The Stone of Unction, which tradition claims to be the spot where Jesus ' body was prepared for burial by Joseph of Arimathea.
Just like a light gun, a light pen works by sensing the sudden small change in brightness of a point on the screen when the electron gun refreshes that spot.
A stone bench, ' Wilberforce seat ', commemorating the event, now marks the spot and bears the inscription from his diary " Just above a steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice ... in the House of Commons of my intention to bring forward the abolition of the Slave Trade.
Just as he fully recovers, Caesonia bears him a daughter, Julia Drusilla, and Caligula marries her on the spot.
Paris DJon, Montell Jordan's manager, was present during the impromptu broadcast and liked what he heard ; he took the group under his wing, changed the group's name to 98 Degrees from its original Just Us and gave them the opening act spot on Montell Jordan's National tour.
Her radio appearances included a guest spot on the BBC Radio 4 comedy programme Just a Minute.
" Just My Imagination " also held the number-one spot on the Billboard R & B Singles chart for three weeks, from February 27 to March 20 of that year.
On February 7, 1971, " Just My Imagination " entered the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart at the 71st spot and later number one on both the Hot 100 and the U. S. Billboard R & B Singles charts.
Just before reaching the spot there is a police aid post and your vehicle will be searched for liquor or substances of hazardous nature to the environment.
Just north of Lillooet, narrow rock ledges choke the river just at the confluence of the lower canyon of the Bridge River, forming an obstacle to migrating fish that has made this spot the busiest aboriginal fishing site on the river, from ancient times to the present.
In December 2010, Just Charlie, was released and spawned the hit single “ You Are " which held the # 1 spot on the Billboard Urban Adult Contemporary chart for 13 weeks as well as 15 weeks consecutively on the Mediabase chart.
* Just four songs – five, if one counts " El Paso " by Marty Robbins, which spent five of its seven weeks at No. 1 in 1960 – ascend to the No. 1 spot on Billboards Hot C & W Sides chart.
Just made up on the spot.
Just below each tail is a red eye spot.
After George Michael scored another number 1 with " Fastlove " in April, Gina G reached the top spot with " Ooh Aah ... Just a Little Bit " in May.
* Laguna de Chiligatoro ( Lagoon of Chiligatoro ) – Just 30 minutes by bus from La Esperanza, this lagoon is an ideal spot to relax and swim for the day or rent a rowboat.
Just before his death, a television spot was filmed showing images of him appearing as the cowboy juxtaposed with those of him on his hospital bed ; his brother, Charles McLaren, gave a voiceover about the dangers of smoking, and noted that the tobacco industry promoted an ' independent lifestyle ', before finally summarizing ' Lying there with all those tubes in you, how independent can you really be?

Just and even
Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.
Just the opposite is the case: abilities such as these have experienced relatively small gains and even occasional decreases over the years.
Just over 10 % of its land is arable, and even that is subject to the vagaries of a limited water supply.
Just as it had been in Coornhert's time, supporting the Coster legend became a publicity stunt for one of Haarlem's most important businesses, and the Enschedé company complied by offering tours of the printing presses, and even opened the Museum Enschedé in 1904 on the Klokhuisplein ( now the location of a memorial plaque ).
* 1877 – U. S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U. S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
In fact, the modern explanation of the uncertainty principle, extending the Copenhagen interpretation first put forward by Bohr and Heisenberg, depends even more centrally on the wave nature of a particle: Just as it is nonsensical to discuss the precise location of a wave on a string, particles do not have perfectly precise positions ; likewise, just as it is nonsensical to discuss the wavelength of a " pulse " wave traveling down a string, particles do not have perfectly precise momenta ( which corresponds to the inverse of wavelength ).
Just as in the case of electrons, which have the lowest energy state when they occur in pairs in a given orbital, nucleons ( both protons and neutrons ) exhibit a lower energy state when their number is even, rather than odd.
According to R. J. Rummel, " Just consider the Grand Custom in Dahomey: When a ruler died, hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of prisoners would be slain.
Still, the McGees remained a favorite presence on radio, even after the quarter-hour edition ended in 1956, appearing in short segments on the NBC radio show Monitor — under the rubric Just Molly and Me — from 1957 to 1959.
Just as some children learn to walk during a normal range of eight to fifteen months, and begin to talk across an even larger range, unschoolers assert that they are also ready and able to read, for example, at different ages.
Released in December 1964, " Laugh, Laugh " peaked at # 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1965, while its similarly folk-flavored follow up, " Just a Little ", did even better, reaching # 8 on the U. S. singles chart.
Just as Count always remained reserved for continental territories, even though the equivalence of earl became clear by rendering it in Latin also as Comes, earl palatine was the exclusively British title for the incumbent of a British county palatine.
An even earlier incarnation of the Romy and Michele characters appeared in a sitcom pilot entitled Just Temporary.
Just a day later Flack tried for a treble, in the marathon, even though he had never run a race more than 10 miles, less than half the marathon distance.
Just as well, even women who do make it to the hospital often do not get proper treatment.
Just before the seed germinates, ABA levels decrease ; during germination and early growth of the seedling, ABA levels decrease even more.
" No ," was the reply, " and I do not even know him, but it irritates me to hear him everywhere called ' the Just '.
Just prior to the start of the season, a frustrated Hoffman walked away from the Blitz, leaving the team to the minority owners --- walking away before his new team even played a down.
* A second back door pilot was made for a series that would have featured Greg Antonacci and Gene Davis as Eugene Conigliaro and Mickey Long, two humorously incompetent characters who were introduced in the Rockford episode " The Jersey Bounce " ( the same character names are used in both episodes but they are clearly different characters as both of them and Rockford do not even know each other in the second episode, " Just A Coupla Guys ").
Just as in the downward direction, the switch is designed so that the curved spring is strong enough to move the contacts, even if the flat spring must flex, because the actuator does not move during the changeover.

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