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Much later, he suggested that in modern times, the best scientists and engineers usually have to choose between either doing their work for more or less questionable business and military interests in a Faustian bargain, or not pursuing their line of work at all.
Much of the burden of educating the aborigines was undertaken by unqualified teachers, who could, at best, speak Mandarin and teach basic ideology.
Much of the best work in ceramics, textiles and other techniques was produced over a long period by the various Imperial factories or workshops, which as well as being used by the court was distributed internally and abroad on a huge scale to demonstrate the wealth and power of the Emperors.
He is best known for directing and / or starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V ( 1989 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ), Othello ( 1995 ), Hamlet ( 1996 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ), Love's Labour's Lost ( 2000 ), and As You Like It ( 2006 ).
The band is best known for the hit songs " Lady " (# 6, 1975 ), " Come Sail Away " (# 8, 1977 ), " Babe " (# 1, 1979 ), " The Best of Times " (# 3, 1981 ), " Too Much Time on My Hands " (# 9, 1981 ), and " Mr. Roboto " (# 3, 1983 ).
Much of the interior is in Norman style and this is considered to be the best example of 11th – 12th century church architecture in Cheshire.
Much of the marketing of pills and potions appears based on the unproven premise that women require men to have large penises and that the size of one's penis may be ( in extreme cases ) a psychological / psychiatric condition best dealt with by qualified medical practitioners.
Much is made of the traits of individual characters, such as Del's lack of cultural refinement, despite his pretensions, best seen in his misuse of French phrases or his claims to be a yuppy ; Rodney's gormless nature, resulting in him being labelled a " plonker " or a " dipstick " by Del ; the general daftness of Grandad and Trigger, and the rampant snobbery of Boycie.
Much of de Crevecoeur's best work has been published posthumously, most recently as More Letters from the American Farmer: An edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crèvecœur, edited by Dennis D. Moore ( Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1995 ).
Much the same way that the influential Duke Ellington matched his scores to the unique abilities of his performers, Hefti was able to take advantage of the same kind of ' fine-tuning ' to bring out the best of the talents of the Basie band.
) Much of the oratorio repertoire, from Handel's Messiah to Mendelssohn's Elijah, is best suited to a bass-baritone with the ability to combine a rich, dark tone with a smooth, high-lying cantabile line.
Much of the rest of the hacienda land is leased to a recreational park which is best known for its petting zoo which contains tame deer.
Much of Houllier's youth policy was based on bringing in what he regarded as the best that France had to offer.
Much of the best evidence of Roman occupation in Scotland has been found in Falkirk, including a large hoard of Roman coins and a cloth of tartan, thought to be the oldest ever recorded.
Much of the writing produced in this period was conventional in character, in praise of patrons and their families, but the best of it was of exceptionally high quality and included poetry of a personal nature.
Much of the best grazing land-the machair of the north west of the island-is has been compromised by house-building and the increasing opposition to the free-range grazing of cattle and sheep during the winter.
Much like corporations, until the Combination Act 1825 trade unions were regarded as criminal, or at best as quasi-legal organisations, subjected to the restraint of trade doctrine, until the Trade Union Act 1871.
Much of the music produced on the West Coast in those years, as Robert Gordon concedes, was in fact imitative and " lacked the fire and intensity associated with the best jazz performances ".
Critics observed that Mackenzie's operatic and choral music was generally ill-served by his librettists: " Much of his best work ... is neglected, partly because unlike his contemporaries, Parry and Stanford, Mackenzie went for the texts of his larger vocal works to such librettists as Joseph Bennett and Hueffer, instead of to the vital things of English poetry and literature.
Much experimentation has been devoted to determining the exact shape that will give the best tone.
So Much for the Afterglow remains Everclear's best selling album with 2 million copies sold.
Much of the area is forested, with the best conifer woods in Bulgaria, holding important populations of the Balkan endemic species Macedonian Pine, Bosnian Pine and Bulgarian Fir.
Much of its best food was smuggled out to feed lucrative black markets elsewhere.
Nalder is perhaps best remembered for his roles as an assassin in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, the vampire Barlow in the 1979 filmed version of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, and the Andorian ambassador Shras in the Star Trek episode " Journey to Babel.

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Much of the region then fell to the short lived Iran based Median Empire, with the Babylonians and Scythians also briefly appropriating some territory.
Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement an aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillette's 1890 play.
* Too Much Johnson ( 1938 ) ( short subject )
Much of Clausewitz's thinking was based on his experience as a Prussian war planner concerned with how to use popular forces in an insurrectionary struggle against the much-superior French forces which occupied Prussia after 1806 — how, in short, to wage a " Spanish War in Germany.
Leo Tolstoy handled ethical questions in his short stories, for example in " Ivan the Fool " ( 1885 ), " How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In effect it is Much the same, for it was by the four Fingers of the Left hand that all their Time was measurd & regulated E. G An Adagio in Common Time of Such a Style must not exceed or fall short Such a number of Fingers, otherwise it was not regular.
Much of the Wackyland sequence was adapted and reused by Clampett for inclusion in his 1943 short Tin Pan Alley Cats.
Much of what is known about Asser comes from his biography of Alfred, in particular a short section in which Asser recounts how Alfred recruited him as a scholar for his court.
* " Too Much Happiness " ( 2009 ), short story by Alice Munro, published in the August 2009 issue of Harper's Magazine features Sofia as a main character.
The woman with the longest posthumous name is Empress Cixi, who is " The Empress who is Admirably Filial, Initiates Kindness, with Blessed Health, Manifests Much Contentment, Solemn Sincerity, with Longevity, Provides Admiration Prosperously, Reveal Adoration, Prosperous with a Merry Heaven, with a Holy Appearance " ( 孝欽慈禧端佑康頤昭豫莊誠壽恭欽獻崇熙配天興聖顯皇后 xiào qīn cí xǐ duān yòu kāng yí zhāo yù zhuāng chéng shòu gōng qīn xiàn chóng xī pèi tiān xīng shèng xiǎn huáng hòu ), or 孝欽顯皇后 for short.
Much to his amazement while hunting a short time later, he again came to the river on the same side as before he crossed.
Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).
*" Too Much to Watch ," short radio segment from We Lived as Children at California Legacy Project.
Much of the material dealing with the unit's deployment in the jungle was completed in a few short weeks and both Silver and Gordon were pleased by the dailies provided by McTiernan.
Much like the rest of the units in the division, the battalion was scattered throughout the operational area, with one stick of paratroopers landing ten miles ( 16 km ) away from their drop-zone, and another group landing only a short distance from the invasion beaches.
Much later, in France and in the USA, a different system, the short scale, became established where the term billion signifies 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >.
Much of early modernist poetry took the form of short, compact lyrics.
While Houseman was teaching at Vassar College, he produced Welles ’ never-completed second short film, Too Much Johnson ( 1938 ).
Much of this text appears in: Robert Elsie, Albanian literature: a short history, Centre for Albanian Studies, London 2005, p. 157.
Much of the destroyed area was rebuilt in relatively short order, and the city adopted a building code, stressing fireproof materials.
Much of the Wrexham town centre is pedestrianised and there are short stay car parks adjacent to the town centre.
* Much Ado About Murder ( 2002, short stories by various authors )
Several have fireplaces aligned with windows and it is not unusual to find a double flue exiting out of the wall, generally with the exits aligned parallel to the prevailing wind to improve the updraft on a relatively short flue ( e. g. Upholland Windmill, Lancashire, where the fireplace is at second floor level ( First floor in British English ), and the doors and windows are aligned to the cardinal points of the compass ; or Much Wenlock windmill, Shropshire, which has double flues of uncertain purpose rising from the middle floor level.
Questions can also be titles of works of art and literature ( e. g. Leo Tolstoy's short story How Much Land Does a Man Need?
It is just outside the town of Much Benham and is close to Market Basing ( which appears as a name of a town in many of Agatha Christie's novels and short stories ), 12 miles from the fashionable seaside resort of Danemouth, and also 12 miles from the coastal town of Loomouth.

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