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latter and is
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.
This strange person quarrels with a cyclist because the latter is using the path rather than the highroad.
However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.
Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.
In the latter research program, information is available for 2,758 Cornell students surveyed in 1950 and for 1,571 students surveyed in 1952.
Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.
And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.
The latter is what concerns us all.
The latter is likely to occur when the thyroid is removed.
and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.
The location of the latter now is determined for tax purposes at the time of registration, and it is now accepted practice to consider a motor vehicle as being situated where it is garaged.
The latter matter is considered in detail in a later section.
This latter reaction is in accord with the reported decomposition of Af.
Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.
the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

latter and reduced
William Scott-Elliot in The Story of Atlantis ( 1896 ) elaborated on Blavatsky's account, claiming that Atlantis eventually split into two linked islands, one called Daitya and the other Ruta, and that the latter was later reduced to a final remnant called Poseidonis.
In this process, the former species is oxidized and the latter is reduced, thus the term redox.
The latter requires immersion in water for at least four minutes for the pain to be reduced to less than what would be accomplished using vinegar.
In many of the latter, buds are even more reduced, often consisting of undifferentiated masses of cells in the axils of leaves.
The kitchen was reduced to its minimums and the " work kitchen " paradigm taken to its extremes: in East Germany for instance, the standard tenement block of the model " P2 " had tiny 4 m² kitchens in the inside of the building ( no windows ), connected to the dining and living room of the 55 m² apartment and separated from the latter by a pass-through or a window.
It is probable that many of the subfamilies listed here will no longer be recognized very much longer, as they will likely be reduced in status below subfamily rank, or elevated to family status ( the latter is most likely, e. g., with the family " Melolonthidae " already appearing in some recent classifications ).
Although there were initially over 300 prefectures, many of them being former han territories, this number was reduced to 72 in the latter part of 1871, and 47 in 1888.
The latter referred ironically to how young warriors ' " wounds in unmentionable places " reduced their romantic warrior status in the eyes of young women.
Above the inversion temperature, gas molecules move faster and so collide more often, and the latter effect ( reduced collisions causing a decrease in the average potential energy ) dominates: Joule – Thomson expansion causes a temperature increase.
During the latter number, Rowlf attempts to help Fozzie with his singing but is finally reduced to changing the hapless bear's lyrics to " I Don't Got Rhythm.
He provided some backing vocals for both The Other Side of Life and Sur La Mer ; however, multiple production considerations led Visconti to leave Thomas ' vocals off of the latter of these two albums, thereby further reducing the texture of their overall vocal sound, which had been rich four-part harmonies, then went down to three, now reduced still further to just the more similar-sounding voices of Hayward and Lodge ( Lodge also providing falsetto vocals and high harmonies ), with Pinder and Thomas each having provided both lower-and higher-pitched vocal harmonies in the group's earlier vocal sound.
This latter system reduced the possibility of cheating, as neither principal had to trust the other not to turn too soon.
In the latter case, where the ply of a search is even, the effective branching factor is reduced to its square root, or, equivalently, the search can go twice as deep with the same amount of computation.
In other words, it is possible to build a single binary that will run on configurations with and without the add-on present, albeit operating with reduced functionality in the latter situation.
Akathisia can be reduced by withdrawing or decreasing the dose of the causative agent, or by administering other drugs, though the latter proves many times to be counter-productive unless the person administering and managing the drugs has an extensive knowledge of neurobiology and pharmacokinetics.
It was the latter, and not the former town, that Servilius reduced by cutting off the water supply.
On a deeper level, though, Cunt can be seen as an attempt to ridicule both machismo ( with the man always willing, ready and able ) and the whole genre of pornographic literature, the latter by the author's making use of exactly the same devices — a flimsy plot linking the various descriptions of the sexual act, the presentation of women reduced to " cunts " pleading to be abused, and filthy language everywhere.
The snap-in can be reduced by measuring in liquids or by using stiffer cantilevers, but in the latter case a more sensitive deflection sensor is needed.
Hightower's emergence prompted Thibault to plug her into the starting lineup and subsequently demote Renee Montgomery to the bench, with the latter player initially chafing her reduced role as a spark off the sidelines.
Interestingly, the ancestors of the swifts and hummingbirds, two groups of birds which are morphologically very specialized, seem to have looked very similar to a small owlet-nightjar, possessing strong legs and a wide gape, while the legs and feet are very reduced in today's swifts and hummingbirds, and the bill is narrow in the latter.
Injuries reduced Alfredsson's playing time and effectiveness in the latter half of the season.
By the latter 20th century, a significant percentage of the habitat was lost and the clam population was dramatically reduced, devastating the neighboring communities that depended on it.
Similarly for Lacan, despite his personal respect for Winnicott, the latter was implicated in the ' contradiction between the pre-Oedipal intrigue, to which, in the opinion of certain of our modern analysts, the analytic relation can be reduced, and the fact that Freud was satisfied with having situated it in the position of the Oedipus complex ... lead to a propedeutics of general infantilization.
During the latter half of the 20th century their numbers were severely reduced from an estimated 70, 000 in the late 1960s to only 10, 000 to 15, 000 in 1981.

latter and former
The former receives its legitimacy from the latter.
Historians have traditionally regarded the great debates of the Seventeen Nineties as polarizing the issues of centralized vs. limited government, with Hamilton and the nationalists supporting the former and Jefferson and Madison upholding the latter position.
In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.
Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.
It is believed that drug therapy and electroshock involve the former and psychotherapy the latter mechanism.
Thus, a low intensity of hypothalamic-cortical discharges prevails in sleep and a high one during wakefulness, resulting in synchronous EEG potentials in the former and asynchrony in the latter condition.
The former comprise analeptic and psychoactive drugs, the latter the tranquilizers.
On the other hand, the null space of Af and the null space of Af together span V, the former being the subspace spanned by Af and the latter the subspace spanned by Af and Af.
The former proof seems applicable to a statutory merger or consolidation, the latter to a contractual acquisition.
the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.
-- The crystallization of copolymers comprising Af units interspersed with a minor percentage of Af is limited by the inability of the crystal lattice characteristic of the former to accommodate the bulky side group of the latter.
He could not manage the former or expect the latter ; ;
taking the former from the Five Sacred Mountains of the Han period and the latter from the principal river systems of Old China.
In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be ' a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants '.
The former is basically a giant multinucleate amoeba, while the latter lives solitary until food runs out ; in which a colony of these functions as a unit.
In discussion of the arts, a distinction is sometimes made between the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses where the former is concerned with imposing intellectual order and the latter with chaotic creativity.
The key distinguishing factor between direct and collateral appeals is that the former occurs in state courts, and the latter in federal courts.
" You see ," Korzybski remarked, " I have just demonstrated that people don't just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter.
Turkey's First Geography Congress in 1941 created two regions to the east of the Gulf of Iskenderun-Black Sea line named the Eastern Anatolia Region and the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the former largely corresponding to the western part of the Armenian Highland, the latter to the northern part of the Mesopotamian plain.
The latter has been shown to be extensively paraphyletic, and has now been divided into 11 subfamilies, but the former still stands.

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