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The chief defect of his work, inevitable at the time it was composed, is that he relies on literary gossip rather than on factual evidence.
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In late June 2012, in an interview given by the rebels ' chief to Ashark Al-Awsat, Riad al-Asaad said that in recent time about 20-30 Syrian officers defect to Turkey each day.
Perhaps Chase's chief defect was an insatiable desire for high office.
They can, however, study the conditions under which they came into being, discover where lie the chief sources of defect, and eliminate those sources of defect from the coming generation so as to remove from those who are still to be born the needless burdens the race has carried.
His chief defect was an over-sensitiveness, leading to peevish and unreasonable behaviour in his private and official relations, to hasty and unbalanced judgments of persons and things that had given him annoyance, and to a despondency and discouragement which frustrated the great good he might have effected as a philosophic critic of public affairs.
In 1978, Edward Heath, the then former Conservative Prime Minister was planning to defect from the Tories, in order to start a Centre Party in Britain with Liberal chief whip, Cyril Smith.
If Don John had not suffered from the indolence which Clarendon considered his chief defect, the Portuguese might have been hard pressed.
His chief defect is that he refers vaguely to his manuscripts without specifying the source of his readings, so that their relative importance cannot be estimated.
He was a popular preacher and an earnest patriot ; his chief defect was a lack of appreciation of the theological attainments of Nonconformity, and a Welsh commentary on St. Matthew, which he had worked at for many years and published in two volumes in 1882, was severely handled by a Bangor Calvinistic Methodist minister.
chief and work
-- Old Knife's not the only chief he'll get to do his dirty work!!
It is the chief merit in Copernicus' work that all his planetary calculations are interdependent.
Part of this headquarters staff, however, are engineering managers who work between divisional chief engineers and headquarters management.
The battalion chief said he had just gotten into his 1958 model automobile to move it from the driveway of his home so that he could take his other car to work.
The philosopher Mencius once criticized its chief proponent Xu Xing ( 許行 ) for advocating that rulers should work in the fields with their subjects.
In this, the emperor was assisted by five chief lawyers: L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens, an author of legal treatises ; L. Volusius Maecianus, chosen to conduct the legal studies of Marcus Aurelius, and author of a large work on Fidei Commissa ( Testamentary Trusts ); L. Ulpius Marcellus, a prolific writer ; and two others.
His chief work on penance, the Liber poenitenitalis dedicated to Henry de Sully, exercised great influence on the many manuals of penance produced as a result of the Fourth Lateran Council.
His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.
The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.
Perhaps the chief value of Aelian's work lies in his critical account of preceding works on the art of war, and in the fullness of his technical details in matters of drill.
The chief work was done in committees or congregations.
He planned to dig a canal through the Isthmus in Greece and sent a chief centurion to survey the work.
Erasmus dedicated his work to Pope Leo X as a patron of learning and regarded this work as his chief service to the cause of Christianity.
It was reported that Kennedy would work alongside Lucas, who would remain chief executive and serve as co-chairman for at least one year, after which she would succeed him as the company's sole leader.
His chief interest was still in mineralogy, but he occupied himself also with medical, mathematical, theological and historical subjects, his chief historical work being the Dominatores Saxonici a prima origine ad hanc aetatem, published at Freiberg.
From this time he was occupied with his chief work, L ' Histoire romaine à Rome ( 4 vols., 1861-1864 ), until his death at Pau.
The chief work of Paul is his Historia Langobardorum.
His chief work was the framing of a penal code for Bavaria.
His chief work is the Traité de l ' argumentation-la nouvelle rhétorique ( 1958 ), with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, which was translated into English as The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation, by John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver ( 1969 ).
In 1919, Steiner's chief work on social reform ( English title: Toward Social Renewal ) was released simultaneously in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and sold some 80, 000 copies in the first year.
Even a collaboration with former Motown a & r chief, ' Mickey ' Stevenson failed to work.
The chief public work he commissioned outside of Cairo was the large bridge at Giza, which intended to form an outwork of defense against a potential Moorish invasion.
The chief work of Severus is the Chronicle ( Chronica, Chronicorum Libri duo or Historia sacra, c. 403 ), a summary of sacred history from the beginning of the world to his own times, with the omission of the events recorded in the Gospels and the Acts, " lest the form of his brief work should detract from the honour due to those events ".
chief and inevitable
An English intervention became inevitable ; it was decided that Leicester would go to the Netherlands and " be their chief as heretofore was treated of ", as he phrased it in August 1585.
Other than the inevitable damage to the economy, the chief effect of the 24-day strike was to induce Allende to bring the head of the army, general Carlos Prats, into the government as Interior Minister.
) Although Iturbide tried hard to convince O ’ Donojú that independence was inevitable, the new political chief refused to yield.
Convinced that war was inevitable, Burmese commander in chief Bandula became a main proponent of offensive policy against the British.
" British Commanders " states " the inevitable choice for the new chief of the Chindits was Major General Lentaigne.
Other than the inevitable damage to the economy, the chief effect of the 24-day strike was to bring the head of the army, general Carlos Prats, into the government as Interior Minister, as a sign of appeasement.
Alexei Moiseev, chief economist at Russia's VTB Capital, said at the time that " a ' 91-style meltdown is almost inevitable ," referring to the crisis which accompanied the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
He was one of the superior military authorities who in this period 1866-1870 foresaw and endeavoured to prepare for the inevitable war with Germany, and at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War he was given by Napoleon the choice between a corps command and the post of chief engineer at headquarters.
Bill Buxton ( University of Toronto, former chief scientist for Alias Wave Front and Silicon Graphics ) maintains that gel, thin film, and painted surface video technologies are the inevitable next step in this development.
chief and at
The chief, annoyed by these questions, knocks Voltaire down and shouts at him that he not only never went to any school, but never even learned how to read.
Dade's chief probation officer, Jack Blanton, will lead a discussion on `` The Changes in the American Family '' at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Christ Lutheran Church.
Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.
young chief stared at the wall of his lodge,, listening.
His chief motivation for enrolling at Hanford is the desire to '' --
Thus the chief magistrate of the republic at Genoa was called.
Her chief center of worship was at Paphos, where the goddess of desire had been worshipped from the early Iron Age in the form of Ishtar and Astarte.
They took their chief meal in a common refectory or dining hall at 3 P. M., up to which hour they usually fasted.
Each separate community had its own oeconomus or steward, who was subject to a chief steward stationed at the head establishment.
Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.
The chief causes of his victory over his opponents were his great popularity and the reverence paid to the episcopal character at that period.
It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.
One of the terms of the surrender was that Guthrum convert to Christianity ; and three weeks later the Danish king and 29 of his chief men were baptised at Alfred's court at Aller, near Athelney, with Alfred receiving Guthrum as his spiritual son.
In 1168 the chief Wendish fortress at Arkona in Rügen, containing the sanctuary of their god Svantevit, was conquered.
The chief resided at the town of Nowgong, at the foot of the hill-fortress of Ajaigarh, from which the state took its name.
In 1796, as chief of all Austrian forces on the Rhine, Charles out-generaled Jean-Baptiste Jourdan at Amberg and Würzburg, and forced Jean Victor Marie Moreau to withdraw across the Rhine, and followed these victories with others at Zürich, Ostrach, Stockach, and Messkirch in 1799.
His brothers are comedic actor Bob Einstein, better known by his stage name " Super Dave Osborne ," and Cliff Einstein, a partner and longtime chief creative officer at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates.
During the 18th century, again, at Hyderabad ( Sind ), two envoys, sent by the Jodhpur chief in regard to a quarrel between the two states, stabbed the prince and twenty-six of his suite before they themselves fell.
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