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more and daring
Both are good, daring fielders: Mantle covers more ground ; ;
Although the Turun Sanomat Building and Paimio Sanatorium are comparatively pure modernist works, they too carried the seeds of his questioning of such an orthodox modernist approach and a move to a more daring, synthetic attitude.
It was Maire Gullichsen who acted as the main client, and she worked closely not only with Alvar but also Aino Aalto on the design, inspiring them to be more daring in their work.
The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.
Crick felt that this attitude encouraged him to be more daring than typical biologists who tended to concern themselves with the daunting problems of biology and not the past successes of physics.
) His daring use of power series enabled him to solve the famous Basel problem in 1735 ( he provided a more elaborate argument in 1741 ):
Devoting his full energies to his work, Picasso became more daring, his works more colorful and expressive, and from 1968 through 1971 he produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings.
" He continued: " The heart stood still, and the stoutest cheek paled as this rain of death fell from the sky and crash after crash foretold a more fearful fate yet impending ... old and young, soldier and citizen vied with each other in deeds of daring to rescue the crumbled and imprisoned.
Designers are putting greater emphasis on rich-looking fabrics, laces, embroideries and brighter, more daring colors.
Turan suggested that American Beauty may have benefited from Mendes ' inexperience, as his " anything's possible daring " made him attempt beats that more seasoned directors might have avoided.
Tile covered concrete quickly supplanted marble as the primary building material and more daring buildings soon followed, with great pillars supporting broad arches and domes rather than dense lines of columns suspending flat architraves.
At the same time, other West European countries entered a period of more daring policy directed to the East.
Boromir was judged to be the more daring one, as well as the more fearless.
Almost every book contains one or more incidents where Flashman had to fight or perform some other daring action, and held up long enough to complete it.
The barbarian incursions into the Empire were becoming more and more daring and frequent whereas the Empire was facing a serious economic crisis in Decius ' time.
Released in 1972, Saint Dominic's Preview, revealed Morrison's break from the more accessible style of his previous three albums and moving back towards the more daring, adventurous, and meditative aspects of Astral Weeks.
Much of his work draws on his Leeds background and while he is celebrated for his acute observations of a particular type of northern speech (" It'll take more than Dairy Box to banish memories of Pearl Harbour "), the range and daring of his work is often undervalued – his television play The Old Crowd includes shots of the director and technical crew, while his stage play The Lady in the Van includes two characters named Alan Bennett.
Livy found the swimming event hard to believe, quipping " though many missiles fell over him he swam across in safety to his friends, an act of daring more famous than credible with posterity.
The first version of the portrait of Madame Gautreau, with the famously plunging neckline, white-powdered skin, and arrogantly cocked head, featured an off-the-shoulder dress strap which made the overall effect more daring and sensual.
The Financial Times established itself as the sober but reliable " stockbroker's Bible " or " parish magazine of the City ", its only rival being the slightly older and more daring Financial News.

more and ruthless
Most of the Green Martians were wiped out by a plague, although the more ruthless White Martians still exist.
Concerning the differences and similarities in Machiavelli's advice to ruthless and tyrannical princes in The Prince and his more republican exhortations in Discourses on Livy, many have concluded that The Prince although written in the form of advice for a monarchical prince, contains arguments for the superiority of republican regimes, similar to those found in the Discourses.
King Henry made a pact that allowed his armies to engage in more and more ruthless tactics.
Security Chief Odo of Deep Space Nine remarked that it was one of the most brutally efficient organizations in the galaxy, being even more ruthless than the Romulan Tal Shiar.
The terror of the villains against their defenseless victims became just as ruthless as in A Fistful of Dollars, or more, and their brutalization of the hero when his treachery is disclosed became just as merciless, or more – just like the cunning used to secure the latter's retribution.
The Manticore hunt for the escaped X-5s is led by Colonel Donald Lydecker ( John Savage ), who is ousted at the end of the season by the even more ruthless Elizabeth Renfro ( Nana Visitor ).
During the same meeting on 10 October 1939, Raeder stated his belief that the more ruthless the war at sea, the sooner victory would come.
He wants to become involved with his hero, the corporate raider Gordon Gekko ( Michael Douglas ), a ruthless and legendary Wall Street player, whose values could not conflict more with those of Bud's father Carl ( Martin Sheen ), a blue-collar maintenance foreman at Bluestar Airlines and president of Bluestar's machinists ' union, who believes success is achieved through work and actually providing something of value, not speculating on the goods and services of others.
In a well-known letter to Arnold Ruge, Karl Marx wrote: " if constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
The Amalekites became associated with ruthlessness and trickery and tyranny, even more so than Pharaoh or the Philistines, and required a ruthless response:
This appears to have hardened him-he is considerably more ruthless than Scrooge-but also leaves him vulnerable to being simply outnumbered by his rivals.
Arguably establishing Pete as more ruthless than a mere kidnapper.
Tom quickly rises from apprentice to leading gangster by being more vicious and ruthless than his rivals.
Upon returning to Vietnam, he helped his brother in his quest for political power, and Nhu proved an astute and ruthless tactician and strategist, helping Diệm to gain more leverage and outwit rivals.
What's more, he was a greedy, ruthless tyrant.
Warbucks became much more ruthless in later years.
Their captain is the ruthless James Hook, known as Captain James Hook or more personally Jas Hook, named after ( or predestined for ) the hook in place of his right hand, and who is obsessed with finding Peter and his Lost Boys ' secret lair and exacting revenge for the loss of his hand, which was cut off by Peter and then fed to the crocodile, which has " licked its lips after the rest of him, ever since ".
While more ruthless than Crow's crew, the Green Pirates have not generally proven to be much smarter or more competent.
The helmet, an object of power, has the same effect on each of its successive owners: A cold glitter in their eyes betrays awakening greed and ambitions, as they become more ruthless, each of them in turn revealing the dreams of a would-be tyrant.
Historian L. G. Thomas recognized Stewart's admirable qualities, but criticized him for lacking Sifton's " ruthless and forceful leadership " and claimed that " few provincial premiers have been more universally praised by their opponents and more unanimously deplored by their supporters.

more and veterans
The 1963 season saw more young talent mixed with seasoned veterans.
* Royal Canadian Legion, a non-profit Canadian ex-service organization ( veterans organization ) founded in 1925, with more than 400, 000 members worldwide
In 30 BC, Octavian became Roman emperor, reorganized the colony, and established more settlers there, veterans possibly from the Praetorian Guard and other Italians.
Their visits to posttraumatic stress disorder counselors rose in number after the film's release, and many counselors advised "' more psychologically vulnerable '" veterans to avoid watching it.
By 1950, enrollment had reached 21, 000, of whom more than one third: 7, 700 were veterans supported by the G. I.
However, the more common usage distinguishes between those who served " in country " and those who did not actually serve in Vietnam by referring to the " in country " veterans as " Vietnam veterans " and the others as " Vietnam era veterans ".
5, 000 more white canes were later sent to blind French veterans from World War I and blind civilians.
Public pensions got their start with various ' promises ', informal and legislated, made to veterans of the Revolutionary War and, more extensively, the Civil War.
According to Fox News, this is a ' 25 percent ' rise, with more than ' 2. 9 million ' total veterans now disabled.
The reason was that the adoption of a mainly conscript army, after 1872, meant a substantial reduction in the numbers of veterans having the twenty or more years of military service formerly required to enter the Hôpital des Invalides.
Frontier League rules limit teams to three " veterans " ( those with three or more years of professional experience ), two two-year players and seven one-year players ( those with at least 150 professional at-bats or 50 innings pitched ).
Players with five or more years of professional experience were labeled " veterans " and teams could carry no more than four.
The memorial took eleven years and $ 1. 5 million ($ million in present terms ) to build and was unveiled on 26 July 1936 by King Edward VIII, in the presence of President Albert Lebrun of France and 50, 000 or more Canadian and French veterans and their families.
The parade, attended by 200, 000 Vietnam veterans and more than half a million spectators, did much to repair the rift between Vietnam veterans and the American public.
Ms Smith subsequently announced that all Gurkha veterans who had served four years or more in the British Army before 1997 would be allowed to settle in Britain.
The 2004 Sessions album, which had six previously unreleased Norman songs ( including covers of an old hymn, a traditional folk song, and songs by Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris ) that were backed by Mark Lemhouse and Charles Norman's Softcore, as well as rare songs by Jesus Music veterans Dave Mattson, Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Keith Green, Steve ' N ' Stonebrooke, and Daniel Amos, was sent to those who contributed $ 100 or more to his medical fund.
Friends who knew him at the time said Davis — like many war veterans — came back a changed man, interested in politics and more intense, according to the Sacramento Bee.
The thousands of returning World War II veterans in Wisconsin needed more college choices for their studies under the G. I.
They include not only the various worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also the rites of passage of certain societies, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages and funerals, school " rush " traditions and graduations, club meetings, sports events, Halloween parties, veterans parades, Christmas shopping and more.
Frazier Park also had slightly more veterans than its share — 293, or 17 percent, compared to 13 percent around the country.
Lebec also had slightly more veterans than its share — 169, or 19 percent, compared to 13 percent around the country.

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