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Ankusha and .
Ritual Ankusha were often finely wrought of precious metals and even fabricated from ivory, often encrusted with jewels.

is and symbolic
It appears that the dominant tendency of Mann's early tales, however pictorial or even picturesque the surface, is already toward the symbolic, the emblematic, the expressionistic.
Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.
I understand very well about Lauro Di Bosis and how his action is symbolic.
It is a matter of some disappointment to me that still many of my own countrymen are too shortsighted to ascribe any symbolic significance to the plight of a minority, such as artists, in any social order.
It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.
The declarative operation EQU is used to equate symbolic names to item numbers ( see page 85 ).
The one- or two-digit number of the index word or electronic switch was used in the operand of a symbolic machine instruction to specify indexing or as a parameter which is always an index word or electronic switch, e.g., 3.
During the assignment pass, each instruction is examined for reference to the symbolic name of an index word or electronic switch.
If the symbolic name or actual address of an index word or electronic switch appears or is included in the operand of an XRELEASE or SRELEASE statement ( see page 101 ), the specified index word or electronic switch will again be made available, regardless of the method by which it was reserved.
The basic format of the DIOCS statement is as follows: anylabel is any symbolic label ; ;
If the first item in the operand is omitted, the symbolic name IOCSIXF will be assigned.
When an actual index word or a symbolic address is specified, Autocoder will equate the name IOCSIXF to it.
If the second item in the operand is omitted, the symbolic name IOCSIXG will be assigned.
When an actual index word or a symbolic address is specified, Autocoder will equate IOCSIXG to it.
The importance of this 5 can largely be explained by the natural mathematical properties of the middle number and its special relationship to all the rest of the numbers -- quite apart from any numerological considerations, which is to say, any symbolic meaning arbitrarily assigned to it.
But the primitive method of explaining the unknown with what is known bears at least a symbolic resemblance to the methods of modern science.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, religious head of the Church of England, has no formal authority outside that jurisdiction, but is recognised as symbolic head of the worldwide communion.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's role is strictly symbolic and unifying and the Communion's three international bodies are consultative and collaborative, their resolutions having no legal effect on the autonomous provinces of the Communion.
Patrick Wormald's explanation is that Alfred's law code should be understood not as a legal manual, but as an ideological manifesto of kingship, " designed more for symbolic impact than for practical direction.
In allegory a message is communicated by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation.
This period is marked by his intense involvement with Remy de Gourmont in the publication of L ' Ymagier, a luxuriously produced " art " magazine devoted to the symbolic analysis of medieval and popular prints.
This is a work that bridges the gap between serious symbolic meaning and the type of critical absurdity with which Jarry would soon become associated.

is and attribute
Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.
Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.
The famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook stated that love is the most important attribute in humanity.
The terrible god is called " The Archer ", and the bow is also an attribute of Shiva.
In her earliest depictions she is accompanied by the " Mister of the animals ", a male god of hunting who had the bow as his attribute.
Depending on the materials, adobe roofs can be inherently fire-proof, which is a valuable attribute when the fireplace is kept lit during the cold nights.
For a reader to assign the title of author upon any written work is to attribute certain standards upon the text which, for Foucault, are working in conjunction with the idea of " the author function ".
The character with 1st rank in each attribute is considered " superior " in that attribute, being considered to be substantially better than the character with 2nd rank even if the difference in scores is small.
The character who bids the most for an attribute is " ranked " first and is considered superior to all other characters in that attribute.
A player may intend, for example, to create a character who is a strong, mighty warrior, but being " outplayed " in the auction may result in lower attribute scores than anticipated, therefore necessitating a change of character concept.
In a hotly contested auction, such as for the important attribute of warfare, the most valuable skill is the ability to force one's opponents to back down.
With two or more equally determined players, this can result in a " bidding war " where the attribute is driven up by increments to large sums.
For example, if two characters are wrestling the relevant attribute is Strength ; a character could reveal a weapon, changing it to Warfare ; they could try to overcome the other character's mind using a power, changing it to Psyche ; or they could concentrate their strength on defense, changing it to Endurance.
It is clear that widespread respect was paid to animals as the abode of dead ancestors, and much of the cults to dangerous animals is traceable to this principle ; though there is no need to attribute an animistic origin to it.
Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

is and for
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
`` What is the scaffolding for, Brassnose ''??
He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
This is a paradise for hunters.
`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??
There is nothing for you '', Matsuo said.
It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.
I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.
National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

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