All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

Our inability to explain why certain people are fond of us frequently induces the same kind of ritual and malaise.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

The wife, Amra, and her lover are both savagely portrayed, she as incarnate sensuality, `` voluptuous '' and `` indolent '', possibly `` a mischief maker '', with `` a kind of luxurious cunning '' to set against her apparent simplicity, her `` birdlike brain ''.

Somewhat uneven in interest for an average reader, eight or ten of these are among the finest of their kind in literature.

( C ) Decisions of a general kind are made by the central command.

But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;

Sizzling temperatures and hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet.

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

It would seem, then, that movable property and equipment is not taxed as a whole but that certain types are taxed in towns where this is bound to be expedient for that particular kind of personal property.

To all, the Foundation gives the kind of thanks which are more than thanks: to them we are grateful beyond the possibility of conveying in words how grateful we are.

It is a simple task to haul a boat fifty or one hundred miles to a lake or reservoir on the new, light, strong, easy-to-operate trailers which are built to accommodate almost any kind of small boat and retail from $100 to $2,000.

Questions like this, framed in verbal fog, are perhaps the only kind that have ever stumped an experienced politician.

that is, they are likely to favor a kind of education that has vocational-advancement value.

This does not necessarily mean that such teachers will favor vocational education, as contrasted with liberal education, but they are likely to favor an approach to liberal education which has a maximal vocational-advancement value, as against a kind of `` pure '' liberal education that is not designed to help people get better jobs.

Since the company under review is supplying what we are here regarding as only one kind of service, we might suppose that the problem of total cost apportionment would be very simple ; ;

It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

`` The countries are trying to build in a decade the kind of society we took a century to build '', he said.

Bede wrote in Latin and never used the term and his list of kings holding imperium should be treated with caution, not least in that he overlooks kings such as Penda of Mercia, who clearly held some kind of dominance during his reign.

Later on, Fascist Italy could also be considered as a " constitutional monarchy " of a kind, in the sense that there was a king as the titular head of state while actual power was held by Benito Mussolini under a constitution.

: Plainly, the world held wonders of a kind I had never guessed.

The kind dealt with is when " to believe something " simply means any cognitive content held as true in spite of the absence of proof or even evidence.

Mill's empiricism thus held that knowledge of any kind is not from direct experience but an inductive inference from direct experience.

The romance, usually held in contempt by the educated as a tawdry and debased kind of writing, had only recently been made respectable by the works of Richardson and Fielding.

Meccans held that a kind of kinship existed between Allah and the jinn.

Fichte denied Kant's noumenon and held that consciousness constitutes its own foundation, that the mental life of the Ego, of pure selfhood, relies upon nothing wholly external to itself and that the hypothesis of an outer world of any kind is the same thing as admitting a Kantian realm.

They kind of always held that against us.

This obviously refutes historical materialism which held that the only things that exist are things composed of the kind of matter with which we are broadly familiar (" traditional matter ")-which was anyway under great strain as noted above from relativity and quantum field theory.

Although ten years of exile would have been difficult for an Athenian to face, it was relatively mild in comparison to the kind of sentences inflicted by courts ; when dealing with politicians held to be acting against the interests of the people, Athenian juries could inflict very severe penalties such as death, unpayably large fines, confiscation of property, permanent exile and loss of citizens ' rights through atimia.

A party of this kind may also be held following the end of shooting for a motion picture ( called a “ wrap party ”) or after the season ’ s final episode of a television series.

In August a council or synod of some importance was held at Benevento, which renewed the excommunication of the antipope Clement III and the condemnation of lay investiture, proclaimed a kind of crusade against the Saracens in northern Africa and anathematised Hugh of Lyons and Richard, Abbot of Marseilles.

Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually celebrations of some kind.

A public limited company ( legally abbreviated to PLC or plc ) is a kind of public company ( publicly held company ) in the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the Republic of Ireland.

" He described Rhea County as priding itself on a kind of tolerance or what he called " lack of Christian heat ," opposed to outside ideas but without hating those who held them.

An " escrow agent " is one kind of trustee who is a stakeholder, usually in a situation where part of the purchase price of property is being held until some condition is satisfied.

The Turku Music Festival and the rock festival Ruisrock ( held on the island of Ruissalo ) are among the oldest of its kind in Scandinavia.

Rather, morality can be seen as a subset of mores, held to be of central importance in view of their content, and often formalized in some kind of moral code.

Derrida seems to have viewed Bennington in particular as a kind of rabbinical explicator, noting at the end of the " Applied Derrida " conference, held at the University of Luton in 1995 that: " everything has been said and, as usual, Geoff Bennington has said everything before I have even opened my mouth.

The National Reformer reported that the convention " forms an era in the progress of the age ; it being the first convention of the kind ever held, and one whose influence shall not cease until woman is guaranteed all the rights now enjoyed by the other half of creation — Social, Civil and.

Nyarlathotep was a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in public halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions.

One such facility, ( the only one of its kind currently operating ) the Annapolis Royal Generating Station consists of a dam and 18-MW power house on the Annapolis River at Annapolis Royal, but larger proposals have been held back by a number of factors, including environmental concerns.

Hustlaball, the huge gay porn festival is held every year since 2003 and is today the leading event of it's kind in Europe.