he was long past the point of coherent thinking.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.

It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.

it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.

There was a pretty thorough silence at that point.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

The gradient was about one half of a millidegree at 4.2 Af but increased to several millidegrees for bath temperatures slightly greater than the **yl point.

`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.

Oddly enough, his music of the 1990s slowly starts to incorporate it more and more to the point where one critic believes this slowly increasing incorporation of minimalism " represents a coming to terms with minimalism according to a decidedly tonal slant: pulse and repetition have been transmuted, by a kind of reverse-chronological alchemy, into devices of familiar from earlier eras, such as moto perpetuo and ostinato.

The commission was silent on wages ( except to say that these should not be fixed by legislation ), the operation of company stores ( a sore point among the miners ), and the incorporation of mine unions ( which was recommended by mines but opposed by the unions ).

The commission was silent on wages, other than to say that these should not be fixed by legislation, the operation of company stores ( a sore point among the miners ), and the incorporation of mine unions which was recommended by mines but opposed by the unions.

Carbonation of ribulose bisphosphate is the starting point of the incorporation of carbon dioxide into the biosphere.

Unfortunately, following their incorporation in the Norwegian Hydroelectric Power Authority, their water flow is diminished to such a point that only after heavy snow melts is there any flow of substance.

However, other scholars are unsatisfied with their reasoning, and point out that the legend associating the Fabii with Romulus and Remus would place them at Rome before the incorporation of the Sabines into the nascent Roman state.

It has long been a historic crossing point in Birmingham, with the incorporation of Salford Bridge, which was first mentioned in a deed in 1490, although a bridge is believed to have been at this location since 1290.

Also notable was the appearance of rapper, DJ and producer Mr. C ( real name Richard West ), as well as incorporation of a female vocal talent, Plavka Lonich – who was intended to become the focal point of the group.

The Thomasville, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad was incorporated under the general incorporation laws of Florida to build, maintain, and operate a railroad from a point on the line between the cities of Tallahassee, in the State of Florida, and Thomasville, in the State of Georgia, through the counties of Leon, Wakulla and Franklin, in the State of Florida, passing through Tallahassee and terminating on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, at or near Carrabelle, on James's Island, in Franklin county, a distance of about seventy miles.

The Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad Company was incorporated under the general incorporation laws of Florida for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property, from the south bank of the river St. Johns opposite the city of Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, to a point on the Atlantic, at or near section 33, township 2, south, range 29, east.

The St. Johns and Halifax Railway was incorporated under the general incorporation laws of Florida to build a railroad from Rawlston, in Putnam County, on the St. Johns River, to a point on the Halifax River, in Volusia County, at or near New Britain ( known as Ormond Beach today ).

From about 1400, Despite its incorporation into the Japanese political order ( this incorporation was however limited, to the point that Japanese authorities, regional and national, were unable throughout most of Japanese history to control and limit pirate activity originating in this area ) before the Goryeo dynasty, Tsushima was in something of a state of " limbo " between Japanese and Korean authority for much of its history.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

Along these lines, the particular point that sensitivity in literature leads to sensitivity in human relations would require more proof than I have seen.

Gun on shoulder, he would march smartly for a few yards, bring his heels together with a click, make a brisk pirouette, skirts flaring, and march back to his point of departure.

But it would not be very satisfactory to leave our conclusions at the point just reached.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

Had I been granted the floor on a point of personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

Through the swathings of terror, she jabbed deceit's sharp point -- Amy would be reborn, a new child, with new parents, living under new circumstances.

Juniors who attend this Chicago show should make a point to enter this Class as it would be of great help to them.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

Under the circumstances, however, the team considered it would provide the most useful information at this point.

In such a case, any attitude would be as fitting or unfitting as any other, which means that the notion of fitness has lost all point.

to do so would have spoiled the dramatic point of the scene.

William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.

The sniper, whether psychopathic marksman or murderer by intent, would hardly have walked to his vantage point with rifle over shoulder, whistling a marching tune.

The Narragansett Race Track grounds is one assembly point, he said, and a drive-in theater in Seekonk would be another.

Riverside residents would go to the Seekonk assembly point.