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The practicalities of this would support the chroniclers ’ tales of sexual abuse of the slaves and casual slaughter of unsalable encumbrances: " For the sick on their couches, women pregnant and in childbed, infants in the womb, innocents at the breast, or on the mother's knee, with the mothers themselves, decrepit old men and worn-out old women, and persons debilitated from whatever cause, wherever they met with them, they put to the edge of the sword, and transfixed with their spears ; and by how much more horrible a death they could dispatch them, so much the more did they rejoice.
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This would happen after his death, practicalities making it too inaccurate at the time.
Was one of the practicalities that he envisaged that, in constituencies such as mine, with a densely populated centre surrounded by great swathes of countryside, it would be very difficult to undertake a cull and persuade people in the densely populated centre that that was the right thing to do?
Sinan ( Joseph ) grew up helping his father in his work, and by the time that he was conscripted would have had a good grounding in the practicalities of building work.
Born in Fulham, London, his father also Henry ran a building firm and he built several of Capability Brown's buildings, although Henry would have learnt a lot from his father about the practicalities of construction it was under Brown that he would learn about architectural design, they formed a partnership in 1771.
Although the poetry is specific about his appearance being " Black / from the ears to the tip of his tail ", the practicalities of stage costume mean he is usually portrayed as a black and white tuxedo cat ( as seen above ), as a pure black costume would be completely lost under stage lighting.
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Concerns about the practicalities of war and the uncertainty of the promises of military support lead the other participants to propose to secretly jail Flessas in the monastery of Agia Lavra in order to avoid problems for the nation.
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This political tool is soiled and rigged against those who use it and cannot be used for practical change but its power comes from those who gives comfort to those who use it in the hope of a false belief of change can happen leaving the practicalities of the system as ‘ real ’ events.
The show ’ s creator, Russell Morash ( also the creator of This Old House ), thought that it was time that people got back to practicalities in their own backyards, and the title itself was chosen to harken back to the homespun victory gardens of World War I and World War II.
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For generations of Irish people, his life as the " lost leader " was highly dramatic and deeply tragic, against whose mythical reputation no later leader who lived a normal lifespan and who faced the practicalities of governance that Parnell never faced, could hope to prevail.
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Judaism is more focused on the practicalities of understanding how one may live a sacred life in the world according to God's will, rather than a hope of a future one.
One curious window on the practicalities of ostracism comes from the cache of 190 ostraka discovered dumped in a well next to the acropolis.
The clock speed of 20 MHz was quite high for the era and the designers were very concerned about the practicalities of distributing a clock signal of this speed on a board.
Antiquaries often appeared to possess an unwholesome interest in death, decay, and the unfashionable ; while their focus on obscure and arcane details meant that they seemed to lack an awareness both of the realities and practicalities of modern life, and of the wider currents of history.
His rulings were generally concerned with practicalities rather than legal theory, based more on social morality than legal precedent, and he did not establish any important precedents.
Jenny gives birth to Paul, her child with Greg, while the survivors are once more focused on the everyday practicalities of post-Death life.
* They are so focused on the practicalities of what they are about to do ( e. g., loading a pistol or tying a noose ) that the idea of leaving a note does not occur to them.
Stott was mentored by Bash, who wrote a weekly letter to him, advising him on how to develop and grow in his Christian life, as well as practicalities such as leading the Christian Union at his school.
His theological outlook focused on the practicalities of the moral life, with much less emphasis on the doctrinal traditions of personal redemption from sin in Christ.
Epstein had been the one to put the brakes on spending, talk over practicalities, and say " no " when required to do so.
Courts vary considerably in their layout, which depends a great deal on the history of the building and the practicalities of its use.
Frank Matcham received no formal training as an architect, but learnt the practicalities on the job.
Besides the practicalities of identifying specific records, album covers serve the purpose of advertising the musical contents on the LP, through the use of graphic design, photography, and / or illustration.
* Commons statement on the practicalities of land purchase, July 1919
While an average of 25 % of pupils may have received grammar school educations across the country, practicalities and local political decisions led to widespread variations on the ground.
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These all include appropriate responses to climate and customs of their inhabitants, including practicalities of simple construction, and if necessary, transport.
Cost considerations and building practicalities limit their use to fighter size aircraft.
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Drive terminals can be located either at the top or the bottom of an installation ; though the top-drive configuration is more efficient, practicalities of electric service might dictate bottom-drive.
" The practicalities of revenge are handed over to Archie, but Leon comes forward at the horrible denouement to the boxing match to stand in triumph beside Archie.
V, 4 August 1897 ) entitled " How I paint animals ", Rivière explained some of the practicalities of painting both tame and wild animals: " I have always been a great lover of dogs but I have worked at them so much that I've grown tired of having them about me.
What stood out was his engineer's practicalities at overcoming almost impossible difficulties.
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Sound, music, and ( more recently ) visual effects editors dealt with the practicalities of other aspects of the editing process, usually under the direction of the picture editor and director.
In Finland, the term " Finlandization " was perceived as blunt criticism, stemming from an inability to understand the practicalities of how a small nation needs to deal with an adjacent superpower, without losing its sovereignty.
Recognizing the profound implications and practicalities of the law of the lever, Archimedes has been famously attributed with the quotation " Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.
So, the pitch is partly dependent upon stylistic factors, and partially to do with practicalities.
Woolley is known for his initial disbelief in the practicalities of space flight, a notion he shared with Sir Harold Spencer Jones, his predecessor as Astronomer Royal.
In 2006, the NRA founded the National Association of Target Shooting Sports ( NATSS ) working group in association with the NSRA and CPSA, to explore the practicalities and benefits of a merger between the bodies.
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The origins of Unicode date back to 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set.
The practicalities of building a colony mean that there is very little music extant from this early period although there are samples of music originating from Hobart and Sydney that date back to the early 19th century.
Murray also finds himself suffering from pressure in a conflict between the practicalities of running a city and the revolutionary plans of the militant wing of the Party who are threatening to blackmail him.
The term case hardening is derived from the practicalities of the carburization process itself, which is essentially the same as the ancient process.
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The practicalities of building window tracery in this way severely limited the complexity of designs that could be produced and although plate tracery designs evolved over the course of the 12th and early 13th centuries, in practice, the only real variation was in the number and size of lancets and in the trefoils, quatrefoils and oculi used to fill the spaces above them.
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