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place and is
The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.
That place is crawling with Bill Doolin and his gang ''.
Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??
Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.
The singular uncompromising force of their revolt against the cult of restraint is illustrated by their refusal to dance in a public place.
That this abandonment takes place on a stage, during an ' artistic ' performance, is enough to associate Jacoby with art, and to bring down upon him the punishment for art ; ;
In its place is a passionate consciousness grasped and molded to feelings of positive or negative values even as the actions of one's life are determined by constellations of process in which one is caught.
Leadership is lacking in our society because it has no legitimate place to develop.
he is out of place in our times.
As a means of silencing a discussion which ought to have taken place, the statement is an effective one: we sympathize with the universal confusion which gives rise to such convictions.
we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.
`` This is no place for a young girl '', he said.
Third, the United States is pressing forward in the development of large rocket engines to place vehicles of many tons into space for exploration purposes.
The `` conventional '' image of a particular time and place is not necessarily congruent with the image of the facts as established over the years by scholarly and scientific research.
but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.
`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.
`` Little Rock is a vile, detestable place.
`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.
We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.

place and site
King Alfred's Tower ( 1772 ) on the supposed site of Egbert's Stone, the mustering place before the Battle of Ethandun.
A second attempt took place in 437 BC on the same site under the guidance of Hagnon, son of Nicias.
His home a few kilometers outside Banyuls, also the site of his final resting place, has been turned into a museum where a number of his works and sketches are displayed.
As of the mid-18th century the site served as " a lurking place for bandetti ".
Before the demolition could take place, Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair ( Director of Naval Intelligence and head of MI6 ) bought the site.
Nevertheless, Constantine identified the site of Byzantium as the right place: a place where an emperor could sit, readily defended, with easy access to the Danube or the Euphrates frontiers, his court supplied from the rich gardens and sophisticated workshops of Roman Asia, his treasuries filled by the wealthiest provinces of the Empire.
The reaction takes place in the active site, a small part of the enzyme which is usually found in a cleft or pocket lined by amino acid residues, and the rest of the enzyme is used mainly for stabilization.
The game played between teams from Rutgers University and Princeton University, which was called the College of New Jersey at the time, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field, which is now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The site is venerated as Golgotha ( the Hill of Calvary ), where Jesus was crucified, and is said also to contain the place where Jesus was buried ( the Sepulchre ).
Eusebius claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that Hadrian had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his own temple on top, due to his hatred for Christianity.
They have been described as ' a sort of Via Dolorosa in miniature '... since little or no rebuilding took place on the site of the great basilica.
One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).
Discussions are taking place to build a 100 ft high statue of " The Scarecrow " on a site ( the Maize Maze site at Haguelands Farm ) in the centre of Romney Marsh.
An obvious place to look for documentation is in the Estonian city of Tallinn, the site of the legendary battle.
" A third, proposed in 1895 by Eiríkr Magnússon, but since discredited, is that it derives from the Icelandic place name Oddi, site of the church and school where students, including Snorri Sturluson, were educated.
By the 1930s the place would evolve to become her greatest legacy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the site of today's New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
This site is home to many wildlife species and a very interesting place for birdwatchers and divers.
In Hebron, Baibars banned Jews from worshiping at the Cave of the Patriarchs ( the second holiest site in Judaism ), the ban remained in place until its conquest by Israel 700 years later.
The start of the Norman Conquest was the Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066 ; although the battle itself took place to the north at Senlac Hill, and William had landed on the coast between Hastings and Eastbourne at a site now known as Norman's Bay.
The bell tower stands on a mound that is the site of the original cave which according to various myths is an entrance which leads inside the earth to a place of purgatory.

place and opposite
An exception is the granular poison frog ( Oophaga granulifera ) where the male and female place their cloacae in close proximity while facing in opposite directions and then release eggs and sperm simultaneously.
No place having a similar name to Birka is known to have situated on the opposite shore of Oder, so it may be possible that something similar to Jumne was located opposite to Birka.
This bet is the opposite of the place bet and wins if a 7 is rolled before the specific point number.
For example, in the UK ( and in other Commonwealth countries ), to " table " a motion means to place it on the agenda ( to bring it to the table for consideration ), while in the US it means exactly the opposite —" to remove it from consideration " ( to lay it aside on the table rather than hold it up for consideration ).
Only the Vestal virgins were assigned a place to themselves, opposite the praetor's tribunal.
In 2002, Indianapolis hosted the FIBA World Championship ( now known as the FIBA Basketball World Cup ), an event that takes place on even years opposite the Olympic Games.
Then, the electrons to be placed in the molecular orbitals are slotted in one by one, keeping in mind the Pauli exclusion principle and Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity ( only 2 electrons, having opposite spins, per orbital ; place as many unpaired electrons on one energy level as possible before starting to pair them ).
At the time the two of us were in Heliopolis and we both witnessed the extraordinary phenomenon of the moon hiding the sun at the time that was out of season for their coming together ... We saw the moon begin to hide the sun from the east, travel across to the other side of the sun, and return on its path so that the hiding and the restoration of the light did not take place in the same direction but rather in diametrically opposite directions ..."
The scholarly opinions became basically divided between a European hypothesis, positing migration from Europe to Asia, and an Asian hypothesis, holding that the migration took place in the opposite direction.
Two other acronyms commonly used in the community are FIAWOL ( Fandom Is A Way Of Life ) and its opposite FIJAGH ( Fandom Is Just A Goddamned Hobby ) to describe two ways of looking at the place of fandom in one's life.
Some say that the direction of a rotation depends on the side which the tree nodes are shifted upon whilst others say that it depends on which child takes the root's place ( opposite of the former ).
However, as we have seen, reducing a tachyon's energy increases its speed, so that the single hyperbola formed is of two oppositely charged tachyons with opposite momenta ( same magnitude, opposite sign ) which annihilate each other when they simultaneously reach infinite speed at the same place in space.
The safest place is the side or corner of an underground room opposite the tornado's direction of approach ( usually the northeast corner ), or the central-most room on the lowest floor.
However, Pausanias gives another place called " Museum ," namely a small hill in Classical Athens opposite the Akropolis.
During a climactic scene in October 1999, involving an argument and fight between Grant and Phil Mitchell, the Dome was a part of the background as the scene took place directly on the opposite side of the river
Then, place the next spar on top of the item, but with the bottom end facing in the opposite direction.
The designation of Goliath as a איש הביניים, " man of the in-between " ( a longstanding difficulty in translating 1 Samuel 17 ) appears to be a borrowing from Greek " man of the metaikhmion ( μεταίχμιον )", i. e. the space between two opposite army camps where champion combat would take place.
One takes place between The Grange and School House which, until the building of Mitchinson's House, were opposite each other.
According to Nyrop, up until the 20th century, " it seldom or never takes place between men, with the exception, however, of royal personages ," although he notes that in former times the " friendly kiss was very common with us between man and man as well as between persons of opposite sexes.
This is the only place in the world where two national capital cities are situated on opposite banks of a river, within sight of each other.
A common recommendation for residential dwellings is to place living areas facing solar noon and sleeping quarters on the opposite side.
A sort of tub area is opposite the throne, behind the benches, termed a lustral basin, which means that Evans and his team saw it as a place for ceremonial purification.

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