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Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.
There was, of course, no way for the other planes to get by them.
The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.
of course, I was willing.
Of course it was water he really craved ; ;
The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation.
The biggest loss, of course, was the individual's lessened desire and ability to give his services to the growth of his company and our economy.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.
There was, of course, more to the portrait of a lady you carried in your mind's eye than the sine qua non of her virtue.
It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.
Thompson, of course, was persuaded not to take the `` terrible step '' ; ;
It was, of course, in this drawing of the balance sheet of judgment that he most clearly displayed his desire to do full justice to an author.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.
He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.
Of course the principal factor in the whole experience was the kind of education he received.
A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.
As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;
And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.
He was, of course, in the House for a very long time.
The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.
Actually, of course, that label `` controversial '' applied only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet Union.

course and meant
In one paragraph he wrote: " The laws of this country will of course, be introduced in South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take place from the moment his Majesty's forces take possession of the country: That there can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves ", and he meant what he said.
Dylan meant that title, of course, and he means this one too, which doesn't make " Love and Theft " his minstrelsy album any more than Self Portraits dire " Minstrel Boy " was his minstrelsy song.
Automatic and semi-automatic firing mechanisms meant that a single soldier could fire many more rounds in a minute than a vintage weapon could fire over the course of a battle.
However, their very poor rate of fire ( which often meant that only one shot was fired in the course of an entire battle ) and their inaccuracy made them more of a psychological force multiplier than an effective anti-personnel weapon.
Beginning in 1990 the course was re-routed into part of East Berlin, and in 2001 a further adjustment meant that the course has since run through Potsdamer Platz.
The nod to retroactive continuity is a joke meant to be shared between the writers and the viewers as a way of pointing out that anything done throughout the course of the series can easily be undone with a simple plot device ; it also points to parent show Doctor Whos frequent use of the device in its several-decade run.
An alliance could have meant the loss of its liberty so a prudent course of action was taken: not to take sides until it became inevitable.
And, of course, what that meant to me was: Well, I can do that.
Throughout the course of Canadian history, the Conservative Party was generally controlled by MacDonaldian Tory elements, which in Canada meant an adherence to the English-Canadian traditions of Monarchy, Empire-Commonwealth, parliamentary government, nationalism, protectionism, social reform, and eventually, acceptance of the necessity of the welfare state.
That is, the observation is framed in terms of the theory that also contains the hypothesis it is meant to verify or falsify ( though of course the observation should not be based on an assumption of the truth or falsity of the hypothesis being tested ).
Dividing the work, of course, meant dividing the income ; but the arrangement seems to have functioned well enough to have made it worthwhile.
" There is no early evidence that it was meant to take place over British soil, but of course we cannot rule it out.
The exact pathology of the human form, variant Creutzfeldt – Jakob disease ( vCJD ) has meant that patients donating their body who suffered from Alzheimer ’ s or dementia and of course vCJD means their brains cannot be handled.
It was meant to encourage technical advances in civil aviation but became a contest for pure speed with laps over a triangular course ( initially 280 km, later 350 km ).
A false start was declared, but lack of communication between course officials meant that 30 out of the 39 jockeys did not realise and began to race.
This, however, is of course an example of interpretatio romana: what Caesar meant was that the Gauls all claimed descent from a Gaulish god similar to the Roman Dis Pater, that is, a chthonic deity associated with prosperity and fertility.
TW3 also flouted conventions by adopting " a relaxed attitude to its running time: loosely structured and open-ended, it seemed to last just as long as it wanted and needed to last, even if that meant going beyond the advertised time for the ending [...] the real controversy of course, was caused by the content.
This meant that script editor Douglas Adams, aided by Graham Williams, had to perform a complete rewrite of the story over the course of a weekend.
The course of the previous operations meant that both armies still had large detachments out towards Königsberg.
" For Cleanthes, this meant, in the first place, living conformably to the course of the universe ; for the universe is under the governance of reason, and everyone has it as their privilege to know or become acquainted with the world-course, to recognize it as rational and cheerfully to conform to it.
Katina said, " Of course, we meant moral invalids, people who do not have soul and human feelings.
The levels of specialisation at A Levels meant that many students had not studied particular subjects for some years and this made it impossible to devise a course that both covered areas unstudied by some and did not bore others.
The cross-disciplinary requirement was reinforced by the Foundation Year, an innovation which meant that for the first year of the four-year programmes, all students would study a common course of interdisciplinary " foundation studies ".

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