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Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.
The new site was less than ideal ; it was located on an old landfill, and just over a large sewage pipe.
While these old maps are originally seen as representation of Christian proselytizing influence, they also exude an ideal of European supremacy.
In Odyssey Homer carries the old belief to the ideal island for mortals Scheria, the imaginary perfect world that was offered to the future emigrants.
" The official church ," says F. C. Conybeare, " had to respect the ascetic spirit to the extent of enjoining celibacy upon its priests, and of recognizing, or rather immuring, such of the laity as desired to live out the old ascetic ideal.
In old Egyptian beliefs, the otherworld is Aaru, the reed-fields of ideal hunting and fishing grounds where the dead lived after judgment.
It underscores the fact that for Marx, communism is not an ideal to be achieved but a " real movement " born from the old society with a set of programmatic tasks.
Such wines lack the pungent " whiff of turpentine " streak of old, and are considered ideal accompaniments to such strong-tasting local cuisine as pastırma or garlic dips.
To see the connection with the classical picture, note that for any set S of polynomials ( over an algebraically closed field ), it follows from Hilbert's Nullstellensatz that the points of V ( S ) ( in the old sense ) are exactly the tuples ( a < sub > 1 </ sub >, ..., a < sub > n </ sub >) such that ( x < sub > 1 </ sub >-a < sub > 1 </ sub >, ..., x < sub > n </ sub >-a < sub > n </ sub >) contains S ; moreover, these are maximal ideals and by the " weak " Nullstellensatz, an ideal of any affine coordinate ring is maximal if and only if it is of this form.
The early settlers, with the help of a resident Shinnecock Indian guide, were led over an old woodland trail that is now North Sea Road to an ideal spot for their first settlement.
In the same year The Times Literary Supplement asked whether the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells companies would stick modestly to their old bases " or shall they boldly embrace the ideal of a National Theatre and a National Opera in English?
During the first decade of the 17th century the madrigal moved away from the old ideal of an a cappella vocal composition for equally balanced voices, into a piece for one or more voices with instrumental accompaniment.
This new ideal of love called for a new ideal of language, according to Chrètien, and so, translations from old, dead Latin into French, or romanz, began.
The humid conditions and little dust makes the grounds ideal place to practice reverse swing with a 50-over old ball.
The ICTS vehicle design with shorter height was also ideal, as the old heavy-rail Dunsmuir Tunnel in downtown Vancouver could be easily modified and split into two stacked tunnels.
Under ideal growth conditions, cells may sometimes undergo two or three rounds of mitosis before the daughter cells are released from the old cell wall into the medium.
Oak trees are typically between 80 – 120 years old prior to harvesting with the ideal conditions being a cool climate in a dense forest region that gives the trees opportunity to mature slowly and develop a tighter grain.
In the Philippines, the ideal balut is 17 days old, at which point it is said to be balut sa puti (" wrapped in white ").
call divinity in every human being ... The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and new -- the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent with the promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of ' love thy neighbor ' will finally be achieved.
Plans to put the canal back to water were gradually taking shape and, as a brownfield site in a rural area, the old pit head area would prove an ideal area for the building of a marina.
Ancient, or old growth, forest, with its dead trees and woody remains lying where they fell to feed new vegetation, constitutes the ideal woodland in terms of recycling and regeneration.
At a Senate Estimates Hearing in Canberra, Heffernan called the Irish-born head of Qantas, Alan Joyce, an " an old Irish bomb maker ", saying " Mr Joyce if the power was yours, you know from being an old Irish bomb maker, if you had the choice, what would be the ideal pilot training?

old and independent
The old established independent art schools try their best to fulfill their obligations.
Miss Marple has never worked for her living and is of independent means, although she benefits in her old age from the financial support of Raymond West, her nephew ( A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 ).
Its first editor, William O. Eaton, just 22 years old, said " The Herald will be independent in politics and religion ; liberal, industrious, enterprising, critically concerned with literacy and dramatic matters, and diligent in its mission to report and analyze the news, local and global.
This controversy between those who advocated independent computations, and those who wished to continue the custom of relying on the Jewish calendar, was formally resolved by the First Council of Nicaea in 325 ( see below ), which endorsed the move to independent computations, effectively requiring the abandonment of the old custom of consulting the Jewish community in those places where it was still used.
Both the biblical and Assyrian sources speak of a massive deportation of people from Israel and their replacement with settlers from other parts of the empire – such population exchanges were an established part of Assyrian imperial policy, a means of breaking the old power structure-and the former Israel never again became an independent political entity.
As a result 120, 000 of the 176, 000 Indians kept their old British passports rather than become citizens of an independent Kenya ; large numbers left Kenya, most of them headed to Britain.
According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.
A movement of new unions began to emerge with a more independent model, while the old institutionalised unions had become very corrupt, violent and gangster led.
While Murad was besieging the city, the Byzantines, in league with some independent Turkish Anatolian states, sent the sultan's younger brother Mustafa ( who was only 13 years old ) to rebel against the sultan and besiege Bursa.
During the late Middle Ages it was an independent commune with considerable importance owing to its location on the old Via Francigena, the main road between France and Rome, but increasingly Montalcino came under the sway of the larger and more aggressive city of Siena.
The poor are exempt, as well as those who are not independent or wealthy, such as slaves, women, children, the old, the sick, monks and hermits.
Creation of an independent Czechoslovakia made the old ideals of Pan-Slavism anachronistic.
The sandstone building was constructed between 1911 – 1914, when it replaced the old town hall of Schöneberg, at that time an independent city () not yet incorporated into Greater Berlin, which took place in 1920.
An average human child achieves independent walking ability around 11 months old.
Western attempts to reunite the Partisans, who denied the supremacy of the old government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the émigrés loyal to the king led to the Tito-Šubašić Agreement in June 1944 ; however, Marshal Josip Broz Tito was seen as a national hero by the citizens and was elected by referendum to lead the new independent communist state, starting as a prime minister.
He was 21 years old and had reigned as an independent ruler for just under six years, having nominally reigned for under 19 years.
Overwhelmed by more powerful forces, Doge Ludovico Manin resigned and retired to his villa at Passariano in Friuli and the thousand year old Republic disappeared as an independent state.
The old " Mylae " Zancle became independent in 550 BC.
He established an independent Christian state in opposition to Moorish hegemony, but there is no strong evidence that he intended to resuscitate the old Visigothic Kingdom, or was motivated by any religious desire.
Drifting in an escape suit, he is picked up by an independent ship, the Clear Air Turbulence, crewed by a Free Company of mercenaries, and he has to fight and kill one of them ( while still in the form of a very old man ) in order to prevent them dumping him back into space.
The previous plans to include a number of " high-street " stores was thrown out when an independent official branded it " damaging " and " out-of-place " with the character of the old town.
It was an argument for the old quantum condition mostly independent from the one developed by Wien and Einstein, which focused on adiabatic invariance.
In the independent film Into My Heart, the characters Ben ( Rob Morrow ) and Adam ( Jake Weber ) are seen exiting the old Thalia Theatre on Broadway after their ' yearly viewing ' of the film, whose name can be seen on the marquee.

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