Therefore, it is plain that the clear distinctions of the nineteenth century are no longer with us.

The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time to go off to a back room and reappear in the spare uniform of the harem.

It is plain as hell Johnson is no reactionary.

It is easy for the teacher to rationalize that the child who is not achieving in accordance with his known ability is just plain lazy, or that the child who lacks interest in school, who dislikes the teacher, or who is overaggressive is a hopeless delinquent.

But it is plain that a warning system, however efficient, is not enough.

If tests are to be resumed, the argument went, it is vital that the U. S. make plain that the onus belongs to the Soviet Union.

To the southeast, it is bounded by the ranges that separate it from the Orontes valley in Greater Syria and the Mesopotamian plain.

For Lamprias had said that the first articulate sound made is " alpha ", because it is very plain and simple — the air coming off the mouth does not require any motion of the tongue — and therefore this is the first sound that children make.

The plain of Idavoll is the centre of Asgard ( Section 14 ).

That the emperor sincerely sympathized with Alexei, and suspected Peter of harbouring murderous designs against his son, is plain from his confidential letter to George I of Great Britain, whom he consulted on this delicate affair.

Steele noted that " This plain Man's Story is a memorable Example, that he is happiest who confines his Wants to natural Necessities ; and he that goes further in his Desires, increases his Wants in Proportion to his Acquisitions ".

English speakers treat them as the same sound, but they are different: the first is aspirated and the second is unaspirated ( plain ).

Abadeh is situated at an elevation of in a fertile plain on the high road between Isfahan and Shiraz, from the former and from the latter.

Megiddo is mentioned twelve times in the Old Testament, ten times in reference to the ancient city of Megiddo, and twice with reference to " the plain of Megiddo ", most probably simply meaning " the plain next to the city ".

The village itself constituted a sturdy defensive position and Napoleon himself came forth to inspect it, noticing that it was strong enough to potentially delay the deployment of IV onto the Marchfeld plain beyond.

Judge Tallman's dissent argued that Vonn required the court to view the proceedings as a whole in determining whether the Rule 11 violation constituted plain error.

The plain constituted the majority of delegates to the Convention and would vote with either the Girondists or Mountain depending on the issue at hand, the current circumstances and mood of the Convention.

Hanthawaddy, as it was constituted in 1911, consisted of a vast plain stretching up from the sea between the To ( or China Bakir ) mouth of the Ayeyarwady River and the Pegu Yomas.

) Vernon, however, held out for plain oyster roast, and plenty of it, unadorned by herbs or any seasoning but salt, though he did fancy a bit of lemon.

Greasy soils are hardly removed by washing in plain water ; ;

Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

The feeling was that he would sense an inner core of toughness and determination in the President and that plain talk by Mr. Kennedy would give him pause.

In Milan, however, he impressed his captor with his cultured demeanor and persuaded him to let him go by making it plain that it was not in Milan's interest to prevent the victory of the Aragonese party in Naples.

These were followed by certain discoveries made in the S. plain Messara by F. Halbherr.

During 11 August, Tallard pushed forward from the river crossings at Dillingen ; by 12 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces were encamped behind the small river Nebel near the village of Blenheim on the plain of Höchstädt.

Mérode-Westerloo later wrote – " died to a man where they stood, stationed right out in the open plain – supported by nobody.

On their left, on the broad plain between Taviers and Ramillies – and where Marlborough thought the decisive encounter must take place – Overkirk drew the 69 squadrons of the Dutch and Danish horse, supported by 19 battalions of Dutch infantry and two artillery pieces.

Barcelona is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea, on a plain approximately wide limited by the mountain range of Collserola, the Llobregat river to the southwest and the Besòs river to the north.

This plain covers an area of, of which 101 km² ( 38. 9 sq mi ) are occupied by the city itself.

He positioned his troops in a strongly defensive position, in a plain surrounded by natural obstacles, such as a stream on the left and woods to his back.

The Athenians, joined by a small force from Plataea, marched to Marathon, and succeeded in blocking the two exits from the plain of Marathon.

Today it is common to print everything ( even plain text ) by sending ready bitmapped images to the printer, because it allows better control over formatting.

These two ranges are bordered on the west by a narrow coastal plain that contains Kampong Saom Bay, which faces the Gulf of Thailand.

The low South Cameroon Plateau, rising from the coastal plain and dominated by tropical rain forest, has an average elevation of.

The nation's terrain is coastal plain separated by rugged mountains, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca, which form the spine of the country and separate the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds.

The island is dominated by two mountain ranges, the Troodos Mountains and the Kyrenia Mountains, and the central plain, the Mesaoria, which is between them.

Though the name came to be commonly used to refer to the whole of southern Mesopotamia, Chaldea proper was in fact the vast plain in the far south east formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending to about four hundred miles along the course of these rivers, and about a hundred miles in average width.

Geophysically the city is likewise surrounded by the narrow coastal plain of Vocha, Corinthian Gulf, Corinth Canal, the Isthmus of Corinth, Saronic Gulf, Oneia Mountains, and the monolithic rock of Acrocorinth, where the medieval acropolis was built.

It is the simplest of the orders, characterized by short, faceted, heavy columns with plain, round capitals ( tops ) and no base.

A plain text list of dates with this format can be easily sorted by File managers, word processors, spreadsheets and other software tools with built-in sorting functions.

Within ten years, the Supreme Court interpreted Rule 48 in such a way so that it could apply to absent parties under certain circumstances, but only by ignoring the plain meaning of the rule.