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question and Andrei
This question led to a great deal of activity in commutative algebra, and was finally answered in the affirmative by Daniel Quillen and Andrei Suslin independently in 1976.
On the negotiations between the leadership of the Communist Party of Finland and Andrei Zhdanov, the chairman of Allied Control Commission the question of removal of Väinö Tanner, the chairman of Social Democratic Party, was raised.
A good natured guy, Andrei makes friends easily off the pitch but the only question mark is will he make friends on it.

question and .
Barton waited for a long moment, then asked the question which lay always uppermost in his mind.
The same old question.
I grinned, but ignored the question.
His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.
I never heard of a poll being taken on the question.
No question ruffles him or causes him to hesitate.
`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.
At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.
The question would also be removed if we believed in the contrary -- total salvation.
Calhoun dealt with this question in his `` Disquisition On Government ''.
I leave out of account the question of the best interests of the children, the question of what their best interests really are.
It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.
George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''.
As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.
This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.
If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.
Also, since the man questioned feels a strong compulsion to answer ( and thereby avoid the consequences of being thought queer ) the question has assumed some measurable properties of a command.
When some question arises in the medical field concerning cancer, for instance, we do not turn to free and open discussion as in a political campaign.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
There is no socially existential answer to the question.
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
Even if men eventually find themselves able to look through walls and around corners, one may question whether this will help them to live better lives.
Copernicus did not question it, Ptolemy could not.
And now there was some question as to his continued residence there.

frightened and .
The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.
For a moment, she could not catch her breath and then, her breath returning in short, frightened spasms, she lifted herself to her feet laboriously.
He strode past the now frightened man, entered the house.
Once more he lifted Jess's gun from its holster, only this time he tossed it into the stall with the frightened buckskin.
It wasn't the roughness and crudity and discomfort of the trip that had frightened her.
She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.
When offered a morsel it glanced right and left and winced, obviously frightened and expecting a kick, but too hungry not to snatch the tidbit.
The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.
and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.
Violence always made him tired, but he was not frightened.
But though I boasted and gave off a dapper front, I was beneath it all frightened.
If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.
The novel opens with a fugitive convict frantically trying to avoid the nemesis of being `` laid hands on '' -- a mysterious figure who looks into Pip's frightened eyes in the churchyard `` as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in ''.
In 1602, George Waymouth, in the same little Discovery that Hudson now commanded, had sailed 300 miles up the strait before his frightened men turned the ship back.
After finding that its coasts led nowhere, however, he turned north again, toward the main, ice-filled passageway -- and the crew, at first uneasy, then frightened, rebelled.
The din was successful, too, for just before the moon disappeared, the frightened toad had begun to spit it out again, which meant good luck all around.
Keeping her frightened gaze on the men at the counter, she began to feel her way to the door.
She had cried a little because she was frightened.
Mrs. Williams was both sullen and frightened.
This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.
He wondered if he might bag a tourist, but they looked frightened of him.
The first time the nurse took him out of the lung, she said if he got frightened, she'd put him back for a second.
Due to her immense beauty, Zeus was frightened that she would be the cause of violence between the other gods.
The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

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