He pontificates that `` one of the first signs of advancing civilization is the fall in the value of women in men's eyes ''.

The giant electric signs and marquees were lit up for the first time since blackout regulations had been instituted, and the atmosphere was alive with the feeling that victory was just around the corner.

The Proto-Sinatic or Proto Canaanite script and the Ugaritic script were the first scripts with limited number of signs, in contrast to the other widely used writing systems at the time, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Linear B.

The first signs of recovery emerged when GDP grew 1. 4 % in 1994 for the first time since 1988, and 2. 5 % in 1995.

The first signs of recovery emerged when GDP grew 1. 4 % in 1994 for the first time since 1988, and 2. 5 % in 1995.

The first signs of recovery emerged in 1994 when the GDP grew and inflation fell.

The first piece to show clear signs of this new interest is the String Quartet No. 1 in A minor ( 1908 ), which contains folk-like elements.

The first symptoms of his health problems began late in 1940, when his right shoulder began to show signs of stiffening.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

Although Croatian economy had showed signs of recovery in the last quarter of 2010 and officially exited recession in the first quarter of 2011, economic indicators suggest that the recovery may be sluggish with the economy expected to grow by 1. 5-1. 8 % in 2011.

It was during this time that Monet began to develop the first signs of cataracts.

Poe spent the last few years of his life in this small cottage in the Fordham, Bronx | Bronx, New York. One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.

The first signs of a new literary movement had appeared at the end of the second decade of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender in 1578.

The first signs of an El Niño are:

However, this was an exceptional case, and it is not until 1912 that there were the first signs of the special expressive use of Insert Shots ; that is, shots of objects rather than people.

During the last three weeks of shooting, Fellini experienced the first signs of severe clinical depression.

In this first part, John emphasizes seven of Jesus ' miracles, always calling them " signs.

" As Princess Ida showed signs of flagging, Carte realised that, for the first time in the partnership's history, no new opera would be ready when the old one closed.

* 1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.

* 1979 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

* 1947 – Larry Doby signs a contract with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, becoming the first black player in the American League.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.

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: ``

If the decision goes wrong, it may be -- as Mr. Stevenson fears -- `` the first step on the slippery path downhill '' to a U.N. without operational responsibilities and without effective meaning.

This immature use of crayons may suggest that she is a little immature for the first grade.

We who are living today may learn a valuable lesson from those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day.

The Presto Ma non assai of the first trio of the scherzo is taken literally and may shock you, as the real Allegro con Spirito of the finale is likely to bring you to your feet.

So our innate generosity of spirit prompts us to share our trials, errors and solutions with any who are taking the pool plunge for the first time -- in the pious hope that some may profit from our experience.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

In a two-story house, one unit may be installed in the basement to serve the first floor, another in the attic to cool the second.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

Letters may be wired to the face of the combined channels, painted on the first surface, or handled in other ways.

It seems to me that the first human being to reach one of these planets may well learn what it is to be a truly great and noble species ''.

The data for the first day indicate a meteor stream with a very high concentration of particles and may have led to the high estimates of micrometeorite flux.

Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United States the prairie rattlesnake may not give first birth until it is four or even five years old, and that the young may be born every other year, rather than annually.

The first is the strictly scientific, which demands concrete proof and therefore may err on the conservative side by waiting for evidence in the flesh.

The child with high anxiety may first direct his anxiety-released energy toward achievement, but because his distress severely reduces the abilities of discrimination and memorization of complex symbols, the child may fail in his initial attempts to master the problem.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

We first see him shaking Mrs. Joe's hand on discovering the sizable amount of the premium paid to her husband for Pip's indenture as an apprentice and later pumping Pip's hands `` for the hundredth time at least '' ( `` May I -- may I -- ''??