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`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.
This was the same, except that it was the murder of one man by two men and neither of us was wearing gloves.
: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.
It was once taboo in Western society for women to wear clothing traditionally associated with men, except in certain circumstances such as for necessity ( as per St. Thomas Aquinas's guidelines in Summa Theologiae II ),
For instance, manshonyagger derives from the German words " menschen " meaning, in some senses, " men " or " mankind ", and " jäger ", meaning a hunter ; referring to war machines that roam the wild lands between the walled cities and prey on men, except for those they can identify as Germans.
He would not allow women to view even the gladiators except from the upper seats, though it had been the custom for men and women to sit together at such shows.
This ambivalence appears to underlie his presentation of human history in Works and Days, where he depicts a golden period when life was easy and good, followed by a steady decline in behaviour and happiness through the silver, bronze and Iron Ages – except he inserts a heroic age between the last two, though representing its warlike men as better than their bronze predecessors.
Rousseau, a deteriorationist, proposed that, except perhaps for brief moments of balance, at or near its inception, when a relative equality among men prevailed, human civilization has always been artificial, creating inequality, envy, and unnatural desires.
None of these fines shall be imposed except by the assessment on oath of reputable men of the neighbourhood.
Two months later Rumson has a population of 400, all of whom are men except for Jennifer.
* 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
When Terrill and the men ride to the Hannassey place in retribution for Buck's harassment, McKay stays at the ranch and successfully rides the unruly horse while telling no one except ranch hand Ramon ( Alfonso Bedoya ).
* October 25 – Crimean War – Battle of Balaclava: The allies gain an overall victory, except for the disastrous cavalry Charge of the Light Brigade, from which only 200 of 700 men survive.
* September 5 – In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards: all men except priests and peasants are required to pay a tax of 100 rubles a year ; commoners are required to pay one kopeck each.
All the Cambridge men except Clive Bell and the Stephen brothers were also members of " the exclusive Cambridge society, the ' Apostles '"; there they met older members such as Desmond MacCarthy and Roger Fry as well as E. M. Forster and J. M. Keynes, who were all from King ’ s College.
The Press ’ s experience of World War II was similar to World War I except that Milford was now close to retirement and ‘ hated to see the young men go ’.
It is generally completely or partially covered by the foreskin, except in men who have been fully circumcised.
All types of Judaism except Orthodox Judaism allow women as well as men to be ordained as rabbis and cantors.
Many working-class Mexican men in American cities wear their hair in styles like the Mongolian ( shaved except for a tuft of hair at the nape of the neck ) or the rat tail ( crewcut on top, tuft at the nape ), and African-Americans often wear their hair in complex patterns of braids and cornrows, fastened with barrettes and beads, and sometimes including shaved sections or bright colour.
Everybody was making more money except the women .” In 1969, ratios of 5: 1 in terms of pay between men and women were common at smaller tournaments.
: There have been many instances of men swimming or diving for combat, but they always had to hold their breath, and had no diving equipment, except sometimes a hollow plant stem used as a snorkel.

men and for
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
The three men stepped out to the side to wait for Captain Clemens' signal.
Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.
`` Karipo's women then named this place ' Eromonga ' -- manhood -- for just the strongest men could stay here.
A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.
By prevailing over other claimants for the loyalties of men, the nation-state maintained an adequate measure of certainty and order within its territorial borders.
There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.
After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.
But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.
Righteous in their denunciation of all that makes for death, the beat prophets bid all men become cool cats ; ;
The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.
An interregnum ensues in which not men but ideas compete for existence.
Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.
He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
and although it was a school for men only, it afforded Henrietta an opportunity to attend its public lectures.
It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz musicians, their aims, their problems -- the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' -- and seemed a promising vehicle, for the two men shared a common interest in jazz.
When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.
Trevelyan's Liberalism was above all a liberalism of the spirit, a deep feeling of communion with men fighting for country and for liberty.
Thomas thanked his men for their tenacity of purpose, unmurmuring endurance, cheerful obedience, brilliant heroism and high qualities in battle.

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