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:" In addition to the provisions which shall be implemented in peace-time, the present Convention shall apply to all cases of declared war or of any other armed conflict which may arise between two or more of the High Contracting Parties, even if the state of war is not recognized by one of them.

:" and seeking
:" Now will it be time for thee to go to thy men ," said Gondul ; " they will be seeking thee.
:" The possessing spirit in ' familiarization ' is seeking to ' come and live with ' the subject.
:" I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the " obsolete " hand-loom weaver, the " utopian " artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity.
:" to honour living individuals and active public or private bodies or institutions that have made a significant contribution to promoting, seeking, safeguarding or maintaining peace in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and the Constitution of UNESCO.
Hildebrand concluded that :" Independently, the National Socialist program of conquest met the equally far-reaching war-aims program which Stalin had drawn up in 1940 at the latest ".. Hildebrand ’ s critics such as the British historian Richard J. Evans accused Hildebrand of seeking to obscure German responsibility for the attack on the Soviet Union, and of not being well informed on Soviet foreign policy.
:" Of all the Gyalwa Rinpoche Lamas, we Tibetans probably respect the seventh, Kalzang Gyatso, most of all because of his saintliness, because he devoted his whole life to the Three Precious Ones, seeking refuge not for himself but for all his people.
:" Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
:" The name Mignons began, at this time, to travel by word of mouth through the people, to whom they were very odious, as much for their ways which were jesting and haughty as for their paint and effeminate and unchaste apparel ... Their occupations are gambling, blaspheming ... fornicating and following the King everywhere ... seeking to please him in everything they do and say, caring little for God or virtue, contenting themselves to be in the good graces of their master, whom they fear and honor more than God.

:" and moral
Moore argued that once arguments based on the naturalistic fallacy had been discarded, questions of intrinsic goodness could only be settled by appeal to what he ( following Sidgwick ) called " moral intuitions :" self-evident propositions which recommend themselves to moral reflection, but which are not susceptible to either direct proof or disproof ( PE § 45 ).
:" The view that God does not have foreknowledge of moral decisions which was advanced by ibn Daud and Gersonides ( Levi ben Gershom ) is not quite as isolated as Rabbi Bleich indicates, and it enjoys the support of two highly respected Achronim, Rabbi Yeshayahu Horowitz ( Shelah haKadosh ) and Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar ( Or haHayim haKadosh ).
:" We also have a moral duty, as a Special Administrative Region of the PRC, to protect the security and sovereignty of our country.
:" While Plato sprinkled the seeds of all wisdom throughout all his dialogues, yet he collected the precepts of moral philosophy in the books on the Republic, the whole of science in the Timaeus, and he comprehended the whole of theology in the Parmenides.
:" This is a feature length documentary about character and moral leadership during a time of national crisis.
:" I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation -- or, more accurately, the history of their feelings.
The killing of the children by that virus is a means by which those secret services achieve their ends " In calling for the death penalty the prosecutor said :" These people have no moral human feelings once they have killed those children.
:" The regulation of duty by the mere circumstance of sex, rather than by the fundamental principle of moral being, has led to all that multifarious train of evils flowing out of the anti-christian doctrine of masculine and feminine virtues.
:" In this profoundly important work, Mr. Huxley ... provides us with an absolute standard of faith by which we can judge both our moral depravity as individuals and the insane and often criminal behaviour of the national societies we have created.
:" Business of the Roman Curia at the service of the universal Church is officially covered by ordinary secrecy, the moral obligation of which is to be gauged in accordance with the instructions given by a superior or the nature and importance of the question.
The American historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld wrote about Broszat's call for " historization " that :" In the 1980s, the German historian Martin Broszat famously argued that overtly moral analyses of the Third Reich suffered from their embrace of a " black-and-white " perspective that drew too rigid a dichotomy between perpetrators and victims, obscured the era's gray complexity, bracketed off the Third Reich from " normal " modes of historical analysis ( such as an empathetic perspective towards the historical actors themselves ) and prevented it from being integrated into the large sweep of German history ... At the same time, an overly moralistic view runs the risk of mythologizing history and transforming it into a collection of moral ethical lessons that, over time, can easily become stale and cease to resonate within society at large.
:" As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious.

:" and high
Norman Steenrod characterized Lefschetz ' impact as editor as follows :" The importance to American mathematicians of a first-class journal is that it sets high standards for them to aim at.
:" At Pergamum there is a great marble altar, high, with colossal sculptures, representing a battle of the giants.
:" It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO, our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties [...] Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, it would be so much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than force them to move.
:" Racism is like high blood pressure — the person who has it doesn ’ t know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke.
:" There seem to be only two clearly demonstrated benefits of high self-esteem .... First, it increases initiative, probably because it lends confidence.
:" On the whole, benefits of high self-esteem accrue to the self while its costs are borne by others, who must deal with side effects like arrogance and conceit.
:" I was not surprised on my first visit to see quality play from the Australian, New Zealand, Fijian, and British players, but I was staggered at the amazingly high quality play produced by countries I never even knew played Rugby.
:" The mountains are high, the road is long and full of potholes,
:" And them will be their spouses, raised high: for, behold, We shall have brought them into being in a life renewed, having resurrected them as virgins ( Surah ) Al-Waqi ' a ( The Event )( 56 ): 34-36
" :" All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.
:" For concreteness, consider the passage of a high speed Alpha particle through an atom having a positive central charge Ne, and surrounded by a compensating charge of N electrons.
:" ... the music of Semele is so full of variety, the recitative so expressive, the orchestration so inventive, the characterization so apt, the general level of invention so high, the action so full of credible situation and incident — in a word, the piece as a whole is so suited to the operatic stage — that one can only suppose its neglect to have been due to an act of abnegation on the part of opera companies.
:" It was now after noon ; I approached a charming vale, amidst sublimely high forests, awful shades!
:" At that time Apollonia, parthénos presbytis ( dedicated virgin ; a nun ) was held in high esteem.
:" Tom W. is of high intelligence, although lacking in true creativity.
:" The chimps and orangutans are receiving a very high standard of care.
:" Providence having placed us in possession of the Grand Duchy of Finland, we have desired by the present act to confirm and ratify the religion and the fundamental laws of the land, as well as the privileges and rights which each class in the said Grand Duchy in particular, and all the inhabitants in general, be their position high or low, have hitherto enjoyed according to the constitution.
:" This is a school of high quality.
:" Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.
:" Poetry as deserved for brilliant high hosts.
:" From the 2nd to the 10th of October, 1918, near Blanc Mont, Lieutenant Colonel Ellis has shown a high sense of duty.
:" You'll tak the high road, and I'll tak the low road, and I'll be in Scotland afore ye "
:" To say a teenage student has a real choice not to attend her high school graduation is formalistic in the extreme.
:" The Republic of China and Japan will endeavor to conclude, as soon as possible, an agreement providing for the regulation or limitation of fishing and the conservation and development of fisheries on the high seas.
:" We must assume, then, that there are school districts for colored children in Bolivar county, but that no colored school is within the limits of the Rosedale consolidated high school district.

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