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A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.
He worked closely with his new chief D. Von Balluseck, a political appointee without diplomatic experience.
McClellan resigned his commission January 16, 1857, and, capitalizing on his experience with railroad assessment, became chief engineer and vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad and also president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1860.
These included the painter Theophilus Brown ( whom she later referred to as " the chief experience of my life ") and his long-time partner Paul John Wonner, the poet May Sarton, John Marquand, Jr. and Alan Lelchuck.
In accordance with the experience of World War I, it was usually conceived of as a large land mass over which continuous operations would take place and was divided into two chief areas-the combat zone, or the area of active fighting, and the Communications Zone, or area required for administration of the theater.
Despite his poor military experience, Pope Leo X named him Gonfalonier and Captain General of the Church ( commander in chief of the Papal Army ), though a clause allowed Frederick to avoid fighting against the Empire, to which Mantua has been always traditional ally.
Before returning to Scotland, they visited several of the chief American cities, and his experience strengthened Jeffrey in the conciliatory policy he had advocated towards the States.
He became famous following publication of his bestselling autobiography, purportedly based on his experience as the son of a Blackfoot chief.
Hitherto, my chief experience has been in Junior League shows.
In 1914, Liu joined Sun Yat-sen's party and gained extensive military experience, starting out as a company commander, then as chief of staff of a brigade, later attaining the rank of colonel.
George Greanias, a former city councilman and city controller, was named chief executive by the majority of the METRO board appointed by Mayor Annise Parker, even though he had no transit experience.
His power of work, accuracy and quick comprehension, combined with his long and varied experience and his complete mastery of detail, made him the ideal chief of staff to a great soldier ; and in this capacity he was Napoleon's most valued assistant for the rest of his career.
The Emperor nominated his eldest surviving son, Mirza Mughal, to be commander in chief of his forces, but Mirza Mughal had little military experience and was treated with little respect by the sepoys.
The Emperor nominated his eldest surviving son, Mirza Mughal, to be commander in chief of his forces, but Mirza Mughal had little military experience and was treated with little respect by the sepoys.
One of the hardest tasks chief director Kiyoshi Mizuki was assigned to do was to attract people who had no prior experience with the series ; he decided to make the gameplay as simple as possible.
In 1989, Shih hired Leonard Liu away from a 20-year career with IBM, making him president of the Acer group and chairman and chief executive officer of Acer America Corp. Liu's managerial style reflected his experience at " Big Blue ": in contrast with Shih's traditionally progressive corporate culture, Liu tried to centralize control of Acer.
Mountbatten had originally ordered that Hasler could not take part in the raid, because of his experience as the chief canoeing specialist, but changed his mind after Hasler formally submitted his reasons for inclusion.
He was a staunch Lutheran and a prolific writer on theological subjects ; his chief field of work was practical theology, and his important book on that subject summing up his long experience and teaching appeared at Erlangen ( 1877 – 1878, 2 vols .).
Its chief designer John George Rackham, who had experience at the Yellow Coach Company in Chicago before returning to England, created the Titan and Tiger ranges in 1927 that revolutionised bus design.
LPO experience for a first-class petty officer is not officially required for advancement to chief petty officer ; however, it is generally accepted that at least one documented tour as an LPO ( preferably at sea ) is a vital step for advancement.
Mills of Shreveport as chief of staff, to, in the words of Gomez, " bring some maturity and experience to the office.
* March 22 – President Bush's former chief counter-terrorism aide, Richard Clarke, releases a book documenting his experience under Bush and previous administrations.
, applicants to the post of Commissioner must be British citizens, and be " serving UK chief constables or of equivalent UK ranks and above, or have recent experience at these levels ".
The next day, Wild wrote to David Hill, the chief executive of the NSW State Rail Authority ( SRA ): he described his XPT experience and asked, " Can we help in any way to improve things ?".

chief and is
Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
It is the chief merit in Copernicus' work that all his planetary calculations are interdependent.
Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Next to it is a copper section, with cooking utensils and a figure of the chief cook in an elaborate, floor-length robe.
As Loomis remarks, `` In the internal pattern the chief reason for interacting is to communicate liking, friendship, and love among those who stand in supporting relations to one another and corresponding negative sentiments to those who stand in antagonistic relations ''.
`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.
This serious condition, popularly known as pyorrhea, is one of the chief causes of tooth loss in adults.
One of the chief features of this community of interest is the automotive patents cross-licensing agreement, a milestone in the development of American industrial cooperation.
Jerome Leavitt, a partner in the Union Liquor company, 3247 S. Kedzie Av., Dominic Senese, a teamster union slugger who is a buddy of Stein and a cousin of Tony Accardo, onetime gang chief ; ;
They know it is the chief ingredient in gallstones.
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.
His chief motivation for enrolling at Hanford is the desire to '' --
The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.
An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.
Odin is the chief of Asagarth.
In 1541, he received Bayreuth as his share of the family lands, but, as the chief town of his principality was Kulmbach, he is sometimes referred to as the Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
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.
) where each of them is declared to be the chief in some quality, Ānanda is mentioned five times ( more often than any other ).

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