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Perhaps in that office he would have, for the first time, found an opportunity of showing the full extent of his powers, for those who knew him best had long recognised that he possessed to an exceptional degree the high qualities of steady judgment and sterling good sense, combined with a complete and utter selflessness and integrity of purpose.
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Perhaps his most evident trait was his massive ambition ; " In his ambition he surpassed all men "; " he hankered after public office rather as a man in delirium might crave a cure ".
Perhaps he simply ran for local office as a means of gaining support back home, and lost to some other local worthy.
Perhaps one great testament to Fox's character is that subscriptions to the old Whig club of Brooks's would decline on the rare occasions when he was called away to government office, because one of the prime entertainments would no longer be available.
Perhaps his most notable and lasting achievement was his involvement with the design of The Pentagon, the largest office building in the world.
Perhaps the most compelling story in that day's edition was a first-hand account of the Twin Towers ' collapse written by then-Foreign Editor ( and current Washington bureau chief ) John Bussey, who holed up in a ninth-floor Journal office, literally in the shadow of the towers, from where he phoned in live reports to CNBC as the towers burned.
Perhaps Chase's chief defect was an insatiable desire for high office.
Perhaps the only thing to save the Fever from folding in the near future, the owners inferred, was for the Fever to be successful on the court and at the box office.
Perhaps the most prominent advocate of the 1880s ballot reform movement, Dean Wigmore, suggested that " ten signatures " might be an appropriate requirement for nomination to the official ballot for a legislative office.
Perhaps because of these distractions Hayman seems not to have achieved any significant public office in England.
Perhaps his most notable decision in office was changing the territorial capital from Battleford to Regina in 1883 — a featureless location without water, trees or topography, but where Dewdney had secured substantial real estate for himself adjacent to the Canadian Pacific Railway line.
Perhaps this spectacle as much as any other factor led to the voters ' decision to amend the state constitution to create the office of Lieutenant Governor.
Perhaps Hoan's most important legacy was cleaning up the free-and-easy corruption that prevailed before he took office.
Perhaps her largest contribution to the design of office space was the Introduction of open plan workstations, which offered clients advantages of cost and flexibility over traditional private offices.
: Perhaps the ladies in the daytime can survive Miss McBride's effusive and interminable commercials, but for the men at home in the evening they are hard to take after a day at the office.
Perhaps and would
Perhaps Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to keep my own copy of the first edition of my first book, with all its mementos of her and the dear ones.
Perhaps the moralities of world law are not advanced by stealing American diplomatic papers and planes, but the Kennedy administration can always file a demurrer to the effect that, but for its own incompetence in protecting American interests, these things would not happen.
Perhaps it would be better to speak to him, since silence could not exorcise his form.
Perhaps the best way to indicate the versatility of design that characterizes the use of plastics in signs and displays would be to look at what is happening in only one of the areas in this complex field -- changeable signs.
Perhaps you would like to become a writer.
Perhaps this would be sufficient to justify an economic boycott of an entire national chain in order, by threatening potential injury to its entire economy, to effect an alteration of the policy of its local stores in the matter of segregation.
Perhaps she would be glad that they hadn't hurt him.
Perhaps they had a car or truck and would drive him into town.
Perhaps they would argue that morality consisted just of that ability to see a choice.
Perhaps George Rawlings would be better off dead.
Perhaps, the psychological barriers that had prevented her from conceiving Hal's child would no longer be present.
Perhaps the tragedy of his life was that he was never awarded the high official position which he desired, from which he wished to demonstrate the general well-being that would ensue if humane persons ruled and administered the state.
Perhaps the best ordinary notion that approximates moral intuition would be the idea of a conscience.
Perhaps one would express oneself quite as definitely, if one said that every such system fantastically dissipates the concept existence.
Perhaps this assumption entailed a mathematical relationship that would restore astronomical order.
Perhaps the greatest tribute that Brahms paid to Strauss was his remark that he would have given anything to have written The Blue Danube waltz.
Perhaps remembering attacks launched on Jerusalem from Damascus in previous decades, Damascus seemed to be the best target for the crusade, rather than Aleppo or another city to the north which would have allowed for the recapture of Edessa.
Perhaps the most recent example of this is point shooting which relies on muscle memory to more effectively utilize a firearm in a variety of awkward situations, much the way an iaidoka would master movements with their sword.
Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is that people worldwide would think it was the " true story " of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
Perhaps the leading cause was antipathy for the idea that Microsoft could and would establish a monopoly for Windows and DOS, widely deemed as far inferior to OS / 2.
Perhaps the most famous would be Emperor Ojin who was enshrined as Hachiman the God of War after his death.
Perhaps as a result of this disinformation, the Germans never corrected their aim, with the end result that most bombs landed in the South London suburbs or the Kent countryside, doing far less damage than they otherwise would have done.
Perhaps the most explicit reference to the Holocaust in the film series would be in the prequel film X-Men: First Class, in which a fourteen year old Magneto suffers Nazi human experimentation during his time in the camps and witnesses his mother's death by gunshot.
Perhaps assuming that the Church would not return it to England, the stone's custodians left it on the altar of Arbroath Abbey, on 11 April 1951, in the safekeeping of the Church of Scotland.
Perhaps realizing that opposition to capitalism would be poorly received by Deng and other Party elders, Li publicly supported Deng's economic reforms.
Perhaps and have
Perhaps these writers have been too deeply moved by this romanticizing ; ;
Perhaps it should have.
Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``
Perhaps the most important incentive for them will be clear evidence that where other countries have done this kind of home work we have responded with long-term commitments.
Perhaps he had better have someone help him put up the pegboard and build the workbench -- someone who knew what he was about.
Perhaps you couldn't do that but have you ever tried to see what you could do with a hunk of wood??
Perhaps if Felix had first come upon us when this boy was not cavorting so gaily up and down the hall outside the murdered woman's apartment, we might have had less trouble convincing Felix of our seriousness.
Perhaps there is only one relevant work of art, the whole performance, which many different people have contributed to, and which will exist briefly and then disappear.
Perhaps more importantly, numerous other well-known conservative Christian leaders as well as many conservative pastors have accepted Martin's definition of a cult as well as his understanding of the groups to which he gave that label.
Perhaps there were elements of both, or as we see elsewhere in the New Testament, the Jewish authorities may have stirred up the secular authorities to suppress the Christians.
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.
Perhaps as a result of the pharaoh's role in Pompey's murder, Caesar sided with Cleopatra ; he is reported to have wept at the sight of Pompey's head, which was offered to him by the pharaoh as a gift.
Perhaps I am wrong to say that ; nevertheless, we will not see him again, as we have seen him for these many years, we will not run to him for advice or seek solace from him, and that is a terrible blow, not only for me, but for millions and millions in this country.
Perhaps because the breed has descended from centuries of hardy working stock, Komondors have few genetically linked problems.
Perhaps the most prominent figures in the history of philosophy who have rejected moral rationalism are David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Perhaps in realisation of the implications of this, Richard then appears to have led an impromptu cavalry charge deep into the enemy ranks in an attempt to end the battle quickly by striking at Henry Tudor himself.
Perhaps the main argument offered against this possibility in the history of philosophy is the argument from analogy ( other things have minds if they are sufficiently similar to us ); it can be found in the works of John Stuart Mill, A. J. Ayer, and Bertrand Russell.
Perhaps related to Yggdrasil, accounts have survived of Germanic Tribes ' honouring sacred trees within their societies.
Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country.
Perhaps the main point of difference was the use of the Hebrew alphabet for the recording of the Germanic vernacular, which may have been adopted either because of the community's familiarity with the alphabet or to prevent the non-Jewish population understanding the correspondence.
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