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More a publicity stunt than a serious military contribution, in view of the main financier of the expedition, William Mackinnon, " merely exhibiting " the gun was likely to " prove a great peace-preserver ".
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More recently, the critically acclaimed film Of Gods and Men and the popularity of Trappist beers, such as Chimay, Westmalle, and a few others, has brought additional publicity to the order.
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More than 30 human cannonballs have died during the performance of this stunt.
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More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.
More temperately than in the study of Grey and despite his Liberal bias, Trevelyan vividly sketches the England of pre-French Revolution days, portrays the stresses and strains of the revolutionary period in rich colors, and brings developments leading to the Reform Bill into sharp and clear focus.
More than twenty-four hundred years old, bruised, battered, worn and partially destroyed, combining to an astounding degree solidity and grace, it still stands, incomparable testimony to man's aspiration.
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More industrial acreage lies vacant in St. Clair county than in any other jurisdiction in the St. Louis area.
More often than not, as the Old Grad wanders along the old paths, his memory of happy days when he strolled one of the paths with a coed beside him becomes an ache and a pain.
More importantly, several of the more advanced of the less developed countries have found through experience that they must plan their own complex investment programs for at least 5 years forward and tentatively for considerably more than that if they are to be sure that the various interdependent activities involved are all to take place in the proper sequence.
More than that, Sam Rayburn is the very living symbol of an iron-clad integrity so powerful in his nature and so constantly demonstrated that he can count some of his best friends in the opposition.
More than 25 carefully selected cities were visited, including New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Newark, Elizabeth, Stamford, Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and Waltham.
More than 2000 copies have been sent out to prospective clients.
More than 36 other big Navy ships are no less than a day's sailing time away.
More than one president has found that a long-range plan helps him to attract major gifts.
More often than not I have found easy excuse to leave my own work and stand at a respectable distance where I could watch this man transform raw nature into a composed, not imitative, painting.
More campers than campsites
More than 50% of all lumber is unitized ; ;
More than once I was confronted by professional gamblers, `` bookies '', loan `` sharks '', gangsters, `` thugs '' and `` finger men '' -- people of a class I did not even know existed -- to repay my husband's staggering losses, `` or else '' I shuddered to think that someone so dear to me could even associate with such a sinister milieu.
More than anything, it is the therapist's intuitive sensing of these latent meanings in the stereotype which helps these meanings to become revealed, something like a spread-out deck of cards, on sporadic occasions over the passage of the patient's and his months of work together.
More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.
More than that, Allied air had complete superiority in the Eighth Army's sector.
More often than not he would bow to the inevitable.
More than half of the sorghum and barley seeds we produce and most of the byproducts of the milling of cereals and the crushing of oilseeds are fed to livestock.
More than 200 million tons of seeds and seed products are fed to livestock annually in the United States.
More than 11 thousand business establishments in the United States were based on cereals and oilseeds in 1954.
More than creatures of metropolitan forces, the churches have taken the lead in counteracting the interdependence of metropolitan life, crystallizing and perpetuating the stratification of peoples, giving form to the struggle for social homogeneity in a world of heterogeneous peoples.
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More believed that a man could be both serious and gay.
" More serious than the destruction of the Gothic army ," writes Herwig Wolfram, " than the loss of both Aquitanian provinces and the capital of Toulose, was the death of the king.
More serious toxicity occurs with intentional ingestions by adolescents and adults.
More serious was a 1996 attempted coup that originated as a military mutiny caused by the armed forces ’ poor living conditions.
More importantly, the incontrovertible discovery of celestial bodies orbiting something other than the Earth dealt a serious blow to the then-accepted Ptolemaic world system, or the geocentric theory in which everything orbits around the Earth.
Henry More, in his Enchiridion ethicum, attempts to enumerate the " noemata moralia "; but, so far from being self-evident, most of his moral axioms are open to serious controversy.
In Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know, Giles Poitras wrote " More humorous and less serious looking than the characters in the Lodoss War series, the stars of Slayers provide action and laughs ".
More took a serious interest in the education of women, an attitude that was highly unusual at the time.
More serious was the retirement of Simon de Crépy, the Count of Amiens, to a monastery.
More serious bugs may cause the program to crash or freeze.
More advanced and serious symptoms include seizures or convulsions, tremors, hallucinations, and memory problems.
Fenocchio: More prone to playing pranks than committing serious intrigues, he otherwise shared Brighella's fondness for malice.
More serious departures from social norms carry labels such as misbehavior and labels from the legal system, such as misdemeanor and crime.
More importantly, the Goths were soon driven back across the Danube River by Aurelian, and nearly a century passed before they again posed a serious threat to the empire.
More serious sketch comedians differentiate their art from that of the skit, maintaining that skits tend to be a ( single ) dramatized joke, while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character, or situation.
More than that, Korea is going through a serious stage of low birthrate, leading to an aging society in shortage of labor forces.
More than 20 works-backed entries of Opel Astra, Audi TT and Mercedes-Benz CLK contested the revived 2000 DTM series but a serious issue developed for the series when Opel pulled out ahead of the 2006 season.
More elaborate operating systems were not needed in part because most such machines were used for entertainment and education, and seldom used for more serious business or science purposes.
More serious speculation about the origins of the word chad suggests derivation from the Scottish name for river gravel, chad, or the British slang for louse, chat.
More serious cases start in the Magistrates Court and may then be transferred to a higher court.
More serious symptoms of the illness can include paralysis or aphasia.
More serious complications include laryngospasm, perforation of the trachea or esophagus, pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents or other foreign bodies, fracture or dislocation of the cervical spine, temporomandibular joint or arytenoid cartilages, decreased oxygen content, elevated arterial carbon dioxide, and vocal cord weakness.
More serious consequences followed his attachment to the Royalist cause.
More serious highlights include a service in the Cathedral and musical performances in the Quad.
More serious was the demand for a huge payment to cover the damages caused, on the notion that British involvement had lengthened the war.
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