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The kings who follow Rehoboam in Jerusalem continue the royal line of David ( i. e., they inherit the promise to David ); in the north, however, dynasties follow each other in rapid succession, and the kings are uniformly bad ( meaning that they fail to follow Yahweh alone ).
Almagro's parents had promised each other to get married, but ended their relationship before fulfilling this promise.
The junta also explored other options, but public clamor, which included public demonstrations in support of potential candidates, eventually forced the officers to make good on their promise.
At the moment when she met the gaze of the judge, the beckoning of her arms seemed to hold the promise that if he preferred her over the other goddesses, she would present Paris with a bride of unmatched beauty, one like herself.
# Special talents, achievements and awards in a particular field, such as visual and performing arts, communication or athletic endeavors ; special skills, such as demonstrated written and oral proficiency in other languages ; special interests, such as intensive study and exploration of other cultures ; experiences that demonstrate unusual promise for leadership, such as significant community service or significant participation in student government ; or other significant experiences or achievements that demonstrate the student's promise for contributing to the intellectual vitality of a campus.
I, Ulfila, bishop and confessor, have always so believed, and in this, the one true faith, I make the journey to my Lord ; I believe in one God the Father, the only unbegotten and invisible, and in his only-begotten son, our Lord and God, the designer and maker of all creation, having none other like him ( so that one alone among all beings is God the Father, who is also the God of our God ); and in one Holy Spirit, the illuminating and sanctifying power, as Christ said after his resurrection to his apostles: " And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you ; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be clothed with power from on high " ( Luke 24: 49 ) and again " But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you " ( Acts 1: 8 ); being neither God ( the Father ) nor our God ( Christ ), but the minister of Christ ... subject and obedient in all things to the Son ; and the Son, subject and obedient in all things to God who is his Father ... ( whom ) he ordained in the Holy Spirit through his Christ.
It is in the breadth of the insurance carrier's obligations that we see the application of an indemnity ; in other words, an indemnity is a " generalized promise of protection against a specific type of event by way of making the injured party whole again.
To ease the pressure from Hungarian nobles, Sigismud tried to employ foreign advisors which was not popular and he had to promise to not give land and nominations to other than Hungarian nobles.
He obtained a promise from the new pope, Honorius III, that during his lifetime no resident legate should be again sent to England, and won other concessions from the same pontiff favorable to the English Church and exalting the see of Canterbury.
On 2 August 1853, he met a gathering of 1, 500 to 2, 000 protesters, but all he would promise to do was relay their grievances before the legislature ( which could not meet, as all the other members had fled ).
The " bulwark of Christianity " and other slogans put forward by the papal envoy Giuliano Cesarini, together with much more reasonable but only verbal promises of Venetian and papal fleets blockading the Dardanelles Straits, along with an enticing vision of a promise of victory in this glorious crusade carried for the glory of God and against the Turks, persuaded Władysław to engage his freshly victorious forces ( long campaign ) for another season of war, thus breaching the ten-year truce with the aggressive and still powerful Ottoman Empire.
Going west on Route 66, the Joad family discovers that the road is saturated with other families making the same trek, ensnared by the same promise.
In the United States, chain letters that request money or other items of value and promise a substantial return to the participants ( such as the infamous Make Money Fast scheme ) are illegal.
At night, the trappers make camp around a campfire in the office and promise each other not to over hunt this new game like they did the beaver in times past.
But when he asks a question for information, when he testifies a fact, when he gives a command to his servant, when he makes a promise, or enters into a contract, these are social acts of mind, and can have no existence without the intervention of some other intelligent being, who acts a part in them.
3 ) declared Edward's and Elizabeth's children illegitimate on the grounds that Edward had made a previous promise ( known as a precontract ) to marry Lady Eleanor Butler, which was considered a legally binding contract that rendered any other marriage contract invalid.
" He adds, that the love kiss, " rich in promise, bestows an intoxicating feeling of infinite happiness, courage, and youth, and therefore surpasses all other earthly joys in sublimity.
The Steinway Artist program has been copied by other piano brands, but Steinway's program is still unique in that a pianist must promise to play pianos of the Steinway brand only to become a Steinway Artist.
I promise you that if you look at it from outside, and perhaps you're taking rather a parochial view at the moment, I don't think that other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos.

other and anthropology
In the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), calls for clarification of what constitutes a culture, of how an observer knows where his or her own culture ends and another begins, and other crucial topics in writing anthropology were heard.
Hundreds of other organizations exist in the various sub-fields of anthropology, sometimes divided up by nation or region, and many anthropologists work with collaborators in other disciplines, such as geology, physics, zoology, paleontology, anatomy, music theory, art history, sociology and so on, belonging to professional societies in those disciplines as well.
As academic disciplines began to differentiate over the course of the nineteenth century, anthropology grew increasingly distinct from the biological approach of natural history, on the one hand, and from purely historical or literary fields such as Classics, on the other.
A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.
Today, social anthropology in Britain engages internationally with many other social theories and has branched in many directions.
Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and American traditions, in part because many French writers influential in anthropology have been trained or held faculty positions in sociology, philosophy, or other fields rather than in anthropology.
Canadian anthropology began, as in other parts of the Colonial world, as ethnological data in the records of travellers and missionaries.
Some German and Austrian scolars have increased cultural anthropology as both legal anthropology reagarding " other " societies and anthropology of Western civilization.
Chemists can use isotope analysis to assist analysts with issues in anthropology, archeology, food chemistry, forensics, geology, and a host of other questions of physical science.
His work in this specific field ( based on the criss-crossing between literary criticism, bibliography, and sociocultural history ) is connected to broader historiographical and methodological interests which deal with the relation between history and other disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology.
The study of government may overlap other fields of study such as anthropology, economics, history, philosophy, science, and sociology.
A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".
Modern historical analysis usually draws upon other social sciences, including economics, sociology, politics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy and linguistics.
Within anthropology and other sciences which study the past, historicism has a different meaning.
Principal criticisms of memetics include the claim that memetics ignores established advances in other fields of cultural study, such as sociology, cultural anthropology, cognitive psychology, and social psychology.
The term " medicine man / woman ," like the term " shaman ", has been criticized by Native Americans, as well as other specialists in the fields of religion and anthropology.
* Forensic anthropology, the application of osteology, paleopathology, archaeology, and other anthropological techniques for the identification of modern human remains or the reconstruction of events surrounding a person's death.
Human biology is an interdisciplinary academic field of biology, biological anthropology, nutrition and medicine which focuses on humans ; it is closely related to primate biology, and a number of other fields.
" Political science intersects with other fields ; including anthropology, public administration, public policy, national politics, economics, international relations, comparative politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, political organization, and political theory.
Structuralism was an intellectual movement in France in the 1950s and 1960s that studied the underlying structures in cultural products ( such as texts ) and used analytical concepts from linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and other fields to interpret those structures.

other and one
He picked her up, sliding one hand under her shoulders, the other under her knees, and carried her into the house.
But there were other homesteaders who passed the Lewis murder off as a personal grudge killing, the work of one of his neighbors.
`` Take one side of the street, and I'll take the other '', he proposed.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
But I'm sure the other one was Lou ''.
With one hand she held her skirt down while she took Jack's extended hand with the other.
Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.
Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.
'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.
He seems, by some unconscious division of labor, to have given them that one function and no other, leaving communication to the rest of the face.
Two thieves are crucified with Christ, one saved and the other damned.
He chooses to subordinate one to the other, sometimes reluctantly, accepting criticism for the lesser immoralities facts breed.
But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.
As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings, he wrote on the one hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on the other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble, Arkansas, where no one had ever seen a piano ; ;
At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.
They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.
In light of all this, one would require special reasons for saying that the paths of the heavenly bodies were other than circular.
but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.
Hanoverian agents assisted in promoting circulation, said to have reached 40,000, and if one may judge by the reaction of Swift and other government writers, the work must have had considerable impact.
He had talked one other member of the group to stay with him, but that friend had tired of not eating regularly and returned to Savannah.
In conformance with the maximization principle we affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations will be harmonious or inharmonious to the degree that one relation or the other is expected by the active participants to yield the greatest net advantage, taking all value outcomes and effects into consideration.
The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.

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