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movement and was
There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.
Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.
Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.
Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.
When McPherson pushed blindly through Snake Creek Gap in a potentially decisive movement, the only cavalry in his van was the Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry, totally inadequate for its role.
For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.
Another powerful factor in the European movement was the threat of Soviet aggression.
Mrs. Podger had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement.
From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.
Ahead there was a stirring of sudden movement at a crossroads.
There I was a retired wobbly and structural iron worker who'd never gouged a cent off a fellow worker in my thirty years in the movement.
Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.
The doctor, he noticed, was attempting a transverse movement towards the stairs, but before the movement could be completed a distinct and audible cluck ruffled the air in the hollow of the stair-well.
There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.
Fifty years ago the general raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen was an example of this movement.
When it was all arranged to fit, and not to interrupt the lengthwise flow of movement in the frieze, the cartoons were tried in place.
But the time came when a church that had no part in the missionary movement was looked upon as deficient in its essential life.
As if this was a signal, Poet abruptly began to thrash the water and the quick movement slowly made them sink through the water.
There was no sound and apparently no movement in the room except the noiseless pulsation of the red light on the wall.
The movement to end Negro slavery began before 1815 and mounted after that year until, as a result of the Civil War, emancipation was achieved.
My movement did frighten the snake and it raised its head and trailed delicately a couple of feet and stopped again, and its tongue was working very rapidly.
From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

movement and split
In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.
The first split in the Conservative coalition occurred in 1963, when followers of Mordecai Kaplan seceded from the movement to form a distinct Reconstructionist Judaism.
In the 19th century, conflict between wealthy businessmen and the aristocracy split the British conservative movement, with the aristocracy calling for a return to medieval ideas while the business classes called for laissez-faire capitalism.
The Misurasata movement split in 1983, with the breakaway Misura group of Stedman Fagoth Muller allying itself more closely with the FDN, and the rest accommodating themselves with the Sandinista government.
When it was re-staged in 1923 in a more professional production, the play provoked a theatre riot ( initiated by André Breton ) that heralded the split within the movement that was to produce Surrealism.
The Third Republic followed and after the death of his son Napoleon ( IV ), in 1879 during the Zulu War, the Bonapartist movement split, and the Third Republic was to last until 1940.
After their criticism of Charlie Chaplin and split with the movement, the Ultra-Lettrists continued to cause disruptions when they showed their new hypergraphical techniques.
Disputes between offices over fund-raising and organizational direction split the global movement as the North American offices were reluctant to be under the authority of the Vancouver office and its president Patrick Moore.
* Running martingale: This design adds leverage to a bit and features a split fork beginning at the chest with a ring on each side of the fork through which the reins pass, enabling the rider to more easily keep the horse under control, but also allowing the horse freedom of movement when needed.
The memetics movement split almost immediately into two.
It has continuously existed since the succession crisis of 1844 that split the Latter Day Saint movement after the death of founder Joseph Smith, Jr.
As hardcore became the dominant punk rock style, many bands of the older California punk rock movement split up, although X went on to mainstream success and The Go-Go's, part of the Hollywood punk scene when they formed in 1978, adopted a pop sound and became major stars.
By the turn of the decade, the punk rock movement had split deeply along cultural and musical lines, leaving a variety of derivative scenes and forms.
In this he disagreed with Charles Bradlaugh, and the disagreement split the secularist movement between those who argued that anti-religious movements and activism was not necessary or desirable and those who argued that it was.
The naming conventions of communist parties became more diverse as the international communist movement was fragmented due to the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s.
Modern American creationism arose out of the theological split over modernist higher criticism and its rejection by the Fundamentalist Christian movement which promoted Biblical literalism and, post 1920, took up the anti-evolution cause led by William Jennings Bryan.
One of the most important events of the Bábí movement was a conference held in Badasht in 1848 where the split from Islam and Islamic law was made clear.
Relations with the Conservative movement are much more cordial ( although the two split due to such affairs as the Treyf ( that is, Nonkosher ) Banquet ), and Conservative and Reform leaders co-operate on many areas of mutual concern.
The more conservative group that emerged from the NSWS split spoke out against what they called the " extreme left " wing of the movement.
After the death of theorist Ber Borochov, the left-wing and right-wing of Poalei Zion split in 1919 with Ben-Gurion and his friend Berl Katznelson leading the right faction of the Labor Zionist movement.
The song marked the birth of the all-archipelago nationalist movement in Indonesia that supported the idea of one single " Indonesia " as successor to the Dutch East Indies, rather than split into several colonies.
Ultimately, the abolitionist movement split apart.
* Schism ( religion ), a division or a split, usually between people belonging to an organization or movement, most frequently applied to a break of communion between two sections of Christianity that were previously a single body
The movement was split between supporting and opposing the radicals, and in the end, the conservative government of William Massey suppressed the strike by force.
The 1966 coup split the Ba ' ath Party between the Iraqi-led Ba ' ath movement and the Syrian-led Ba ' ath movement.

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