It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

These incidents, typical of many others, dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension, rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue.

In fact, Hudson's sail up the Great North River had disposed of one of the last hopes.

The fact that metropolitan churches of the major denominations have moved approximately every generation for the last hundred years becomes somewhat more intelligible in the light of this struggle to maintain economic balance.

The apparent asymmetry in that last equation is due to the fact that, so both update terms are equal to.

In fact, they've fallen short of it but -- difficult as it is for me to understand -- a modern sophist might say that these last years have actually demanded a reduction in conscience and feeling in the name of greater intelligibility.

Scripture reflects the fact that early Christians embraced marriage and yet felt that a false ascetic bias against marriage was seeping into their culture: 1 Timothy 4: 1 " In the last times, some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences.

Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.

Taken in conjunction with the fact that a string of such parcels existed around Woensel, the original location of Eindhoven may be understood to be the " last hove on the land of Woensel ".

For him, the fact that his theory gave a straightforward explanation of the anomalous perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, discovered earlier by Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, was important evidence that he had at last identified the correct form of the gravitational field equations.

Together, Gibraltarians of Spanish origin are one of the bigger groups ( more than 24 % according to last names, even more taking into account the fact that a larger share of Spanish women married native Gibraltarians ).

In Ancient Greek those last three words would be rendered tōi podi ( τῷ ποδί ), with the noun pous ( πούς, foot ) changing to podi to reflect the fact that John is using his foot as an instrument ( any adjective modifying " foot " would also change case to match ).

This particular fact was reinforced when TV Guide ranked the series number 10 on its 50 Worst Shows of All Time List in 2002 ... a full 10 years after the last first-run episode aired on May 30, 1992 ( although the entry specifically refers to the Hee Haw Honeys spinoff, not the main show itself ).

The fact that the result came late during the last matchday of the season makes the sudden and unexpected end to the rossoneris title ambitions all the more memorable.

In fact, we are confident enough of our ability to reidentify people over time that we are given names that are supposed to last us from when we get them until we die many years later.

The Colts 1977 playoff loss in double overtime against the Oakland Raiders was famous for the fact that it was the last playoff game for the Colts in Baltimore and is also known for the Ghost to the Post play.

Despite arguments prevailing on the ivory trade for the last thirty years through CITES, there is one fact that virtually all informed parties now agree-poaching of African elephants for ivory is now seriously on the increase.

Some chess pundits said she was unprepared for the tournament and appeared affected by the fact that she'd played less chess in the last three years to concentrate on her two children.

Later kings are known as rois fainéants (" do-nothing kings "), despite the fact that only the last two kings did nothing.

Curiously, in the case of Civilization, a player's chosen historical character is the same throughout the course of the game despite the fact that a campaign can last several hundred years before and after the lifetime of the real historical persona.

Although little is known about this period in Rome, there is one thing that is for certain: the fact that Boniface ’ s last reign lasted eleven months without any imperial intervention is evidence of not only the weakness of the government of this time, but also is proof that despite his actions and opposition, he must have had much support.

He says that “ the plays themselves contain occasional references to the fact that the state is at arms ...” One good example is a piece of verse from the Miles Gloriosus, the composition date of which is not clear but which is often placed in the last decade of the 3rd century BC.

The last event mentioned in his Histories seems to be the construction of the Via Domitia in southern France in 118 BC, which suggests the writings of Pseudo-Lucian may have some grounding in fact when he states, " fell from his horse while riding up from the country, fell ill as a result and died at the age of eighty-two ".

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

it introduces Pimen when he comes before Boris in the last act.

Then comes the time when the last wire is removed and Susie walks out a healthier and more attractive girl than when she first went to the orthodontist.

Elihu says he spoke last because he is much younger than the other three friends, but says that age makes no difference when it comes to insights and wisdom.

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

In the Ophite and Sethian systems, which have many affinities with that last mentioned, the making of the world is ascribed to a company of seven archons, whose names are given, but their chief, “ Yaldabaoth ” ( also known as " Yaltabaoth " or " Ialdabaoth ") comes into still greater prominence.

Currently, most electrochemical power comes from closed electrochemical cells (" batteries "), which are arguably utilized more as storage systems than generation systems ; but open electrochemical systems, known as fuel cells, have been undergoing a great deal of research and development in the last few years.

She feeds him the last of their food, and Elijah's promise miraculously comes true ; thus, by an act of faith the woman received the promised blessing.

The scientific name Fringillidae comes from the Latin word fringilla for the Chaffinch ( Fringilla coelebs ) – a member of that last subfamily – which is common in Europe.

The ordination of a priest occurs before the Anaphora ( Eucharistic Prayer ) in order that he may on the same day take part in the celebration of the Eucharist: During the Great Entrance, the candidate for ordination carries the Aër ( chalice veil ) over his head ( rather than on his shoulder, as a deacon otherwise carries it then ) as a symbol of giving up his diaconate, and comes last in the procession and stands at the end of the pair of lines of the priests.

" Over the last century, research on the nature of human mating has generally found this not to be true when it comes to character and personality — people tend to like people similar to themselves.

Other evidence comes from experimental studies showing that some manipulations ( e. g., a distractor task, such as repeatedly subtracting a single-digit number from a larger number following learning ; cf Brown-Peterson procedure ) impair memory for the 3 to 5 most recently learned words of a list ( it is presumed, still held in short-term memory ), while leaving recall for words from earlier in the list ( it is presumed, stored in long-term memory ) unaffected ; other manipulations ( e. g., semantic similarity of the words ) affect only memory for earlier list words, but do not affect memory for the last few words in a list.

This play would later be immortalized by one of the last great lines from John Facenda who said, " Here comes Marcus Allen, running with the night.

Nasa hulí ang pagsisisi. Regret always comes last.

* April 1 – The Spanish Civil War comes to an end when the last of the Republican forces surrender.

* July 13 – With the death of Henry Benedict Stuart, the last Stuart claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom, the movement of Jacobitism comes to an effective end.

On 2 June, Powell spoke against the stationing of American Cruise missiles in Britain and claimed the United States had an obsessive sense of mission and a hallucinatory view of international relations: " The American nation, as we have watched their proceedings during these last 25 years, will not, when another Atlantic crisis, another Middle East crisis or another European crisis comes, wait upon the deliberations of the British Cabinet, whose point of view and appreciation of the situation will be so different from their own ".

Folk etymologies exist which state that the word comes from the Late Latin expression carne vale, which means " farewell to meat ", signifying that those were the last days when one could eat meat before the fasting of Lent.

The popular name of " Meatfare Sunday " comes from the fast that this is the last day on which the laity are permitted to eat meat until Pascha ( Orthodox monks and nuns never eat meat ).

Aware he was dying, Thoreau's last words were " Now comes good sailing ", followed by two lone words, " moose " and " Indian ".

Some sources suggest that the " K " in CMYK comes from the last letter in " black " and was chosen because B already means blue.

The Regional Council of Campania ( Consiglio Regionale della Campania ) is composed of 60 members, of which 47 are elected in provincial constituencies with proportional representation, 12 from the so-called " regional list " of the elected President and the last one is for the candidate for President who comes second, who usually becomes the leader of the opposition in the Council.

Since the r < sup > th </ sup > failure comes last, it remains to choose the k trials with successes out of the remaining k + r − 1 trials.

" In her review for The New York Times, Caryn James claimed that the film had " at least four endings ," and " by the time the last ending of this two-and-a-quarter-hour film comes along, the effect is like getting off a demon roller coaster that has kept racing several laps after you were ready to get off.

Although Das Rheingold comes first in the sequence of Ring operas, it was the last to be conceived.