He seemed to be fighting not one man but a dozen.

It seemed to me that the liberals had scrapped the balanced polarity and reposed both liberty and the fundamental law in the common man.

Very much the political man, Helion felt himself deeply affected by the increasingly pessimistic atmosphere of France and all Europe, whose foundations seemed to him more and more shaky.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.

It all seemed -- if one could have peeked in at him through one of his windows -- as though this broken-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's neck was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss's work.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

Haney watched the small but wiry man slip out the door quickly and silently, and felt relieved to see that nobody else seemed to notice his departure.

Phil decided to stay a little longer, and as time passed it seemed as if the strange little man had never been there, but for the other glass on the table.

The president, Joseph Kasavubu, seemed an able administrator and the premier, Patrice Lumumba, a reasonable man.

Despite being a qualified engineer, a successful businessman, a multiple record-breaker in his own right and a highly effective advocate of his own cause, Campbell was not an easy man and seemed driven to emulate, if not surpass, his father's achievements.

A few weeks after his arrival, using a novel course of treatment, he restored the health of a young man whose death seemed inevitable.

His nephew Ludovico Ludovisi, a young man of 25 years, seemed to him to be the right person and, at the risk of being charged with nepotism, he created him cardinal on the third day of his pontificate.

Thus, if it seemed likely that a strong, poor man were guilty of robbing a rich, weak man, the strong poor man could argue, on the contrary, that this very likelihood ( that he would be a suspect ) makes it unlikely that he committed the crime, since he would most likely be apprehended for the crime.

However, they were certain they did not want the show to be set aboard a starship because Star Trek: The Next Generation was still in production at the time and, in Berman ’ s words, it " just seemed ridiculous to have two shows — two casts of characters — that were off going where no man has gone before.

It is difficult to describe the transformation that took place as this smiling, friendly man hunched over his guitar and launched himself, bodily it seemed, into his music.

His friendship with the louche Joe Orton also seemed out of step with his image of every housewife's favourite funny man.

Some man who seemed to be a stranger ( a United States officer, I presume ) made a little speech and then read a rather long paper — the Emancipation Proclamation, I think.

( 3 ) After a lengthy debate whether it was less appropriate to refuse a triumph to man, in his presence, in whose name when absent a thanksgiving ( supplicatio ) had been decreed and honour paid to the Immortal Gods by reason of the things successfully accomplished under his leadership, ( 4 ) or for a man to triumph as though a war had been concluded whom they had ordered to hand over his army to a successor ( something that would not be decreed if no war remained in the province ) when his army, the witness of a deserved as of an undeserved triumph, was far away, the middle course seemed best: that he should enter the City in ovation ( ovans ).

That same year on 15 August, Ernest Martin Jehan became the first and only man to sink a steel submarine with a sail rigged Q-ship, this off the coast of Great Yarmouth.

The town seems deserted, but everywhere the man goes, he seems to find proof that someone had been there recently: food is cooking on a stove, water dripping in a sink, and a cigar is burning in an ashtray.

Then she will not make an imperfect man for her god, and thus sink to idolatry.

" Towards the end of Descent of Man, Darwin said that he believed man would " sink into indolence " if severe struggle was not continuous, and thought that " there should be open competition for all men ; and the most able should not be prevented by laws or customs from succeeding best and rearing the largest number of offspring ," but also noted that he thought that the moral qualities of man were advanced much more by habit, reason, learning, and religion than by natural selection.

He executed several low-altitude bombing and strafing runs on enemy ships ; during one of these attacks, he became the first man to sink a warship, the Japanese destroyer Kisaragi, with small caliber bombs delivered from a fighter aircraft.

In 1225 Henry III gave every man the right to sink a marl pit on his own land.

In 1863 a drunken mob attacked him, throwing him in a river to see if he would sink or float ( a traditional method of identifying a witch, who it was believed would float, whereas an innocent would sink ), but the resulting shock killed the elderly man, who was in his eighties.

Feeling her sink, the man let go.

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This man did his best to sink when they dropped him into the water, but he could not do it.

In this way, an ignorant man should fear any gift, for it has the ability to make him sink " like a cow in the mud ".

Approximately a century later, Aristotle used a similar definition in Meteorology, writing " Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said.

" Then they were giving George Brett a hard time because he had a slow start that year, so they told him, ' Hey, man, you're going to sink down below the Mendoza Line if you're not careful.

At the same time the emergence of the " angry young men " and " kitchen sink realism " in drama were signs that the democratisation of British culture was increasingly dominated by the concerns of the " common man ".

Everything goes wrong, however, and Davidson and just a few other survivors end up with a horrific fate ; they sink in quicksand which then hardens when they are half-buried ( one man is left with just his face exposed, the rest of him in the solidified ground ) and are left for dead in the burning desert heat.

Alf was a working class man, forever complaining that he worked and worked and yet lived somewhere near the poverty line, and was a staunch supporter of the Conservative Party, although he didn't support one-time leader Margaret Thatcher, because he believed that a woman's place was at home " chained to the bloody kitchen sink!

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

And you love Ahmiri, that black bastard of a servant even a little more, because he's a beautiful man.

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.

A little later, the sports shop man returned with a small pup tent.

As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

Oedipus and Lear instruct us how little of the world belongs to man.

Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.

What it is trying to do is to protect the little man, too, as well as trying to maintain a flow of fresh meat to all stores, with choice of cut being made by the consumer, not the store.

This young man had so little time to learn he had to be curious ; ;

In the audience a man named Ferguson lost his head and tried to rescue a little girl from the mob, on the same principle which had led Miss Harris to demand water.

Slowly, like a man grown old, he took Eli's hand and led him below to the tower study, guiding him to a chair beside the little hearth where a fire still burned.

I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe.

Progress in predicting water conditions is encouraging, but little guidance is available to the man at sea on the use of such information.

Naturally, such scholarly facts are of little concern to the man trying to make money or fan patriotism by means of folklore.

The ordinary man and woman, however, saw little of the great professional games of those Golden Days, or of any other sporting event for that matter.

She jumped as the little man now appeared at the window and, reaching through the opening, offered her a bottle of coke.

My man, he won't be around a little while, he just fixed me up with this stuff they took out of the Elite.

He was not a superstitious man, but he felt perhaps there was a little something in that, indeed.