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reason and for
He had a legitimate reason for wearing it.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
Why, that's his main reason for making the dive ''.
Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.
In the care-free indolence of the East he sees the last reflection of the old happy existence, and for that reason he loves it.
Reactionary theories, for this reason, usually assume some form of organismic theory.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Some even say that this is the reason for the ultimate acceptance of the former.
Hence, noting the simplicity achieved in Copernicus' formulation does not provide another reason for the acceptance of De Revolutionibus, another reason beyond its systematic superiority.
The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.
`` The reason for that report was to settle the matter of the list.
`` How about your press conference three days later -- what was the reason for that??
Marshall pondered the reason for this, and pondered too the replacement of one member of the three-man group.
He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.
Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.
The primary reason for the abandonment of the `` shore occupied by '' thesis has been the assimilation and accumulation of archaeological evidence, the most striking feature of early English studies in this century.
Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..
( It is sort of as if our government should decide to disown Washington or Lincoln for the same reason.

reason and orders
* reason is dissociated and he / she obeys the hypnotist's orders
The notion of cognitive biases was introduced by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1972 and grew out of their experience of people's innumeracy, or inability to reason intuitively with the greater orders of magnitude.
: For the purpose of this Declaration, torture is defined as the deliberate, systematic or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons acting alone or on the orders of any authority, to force another person to yield information, to make a confession, or for any other reason.
Wu Hu herdsmen saw no reason to obey orders from the Jin court and widespread uprisings soon followed.
On June 22, Terry ordered the 7th Cavalry, composed of 31 officers and 566 enlisted men under Custer, to begin a reconnaissance and pursuit along the Rosebud, with the prerogative to " depart " from orders upon seeing " sufficient reason.
The reason for this was that Zbigniew did not follow the orders of Bolesław III and did not burn down the fort of Kurów.
# Acting within local laws and obeying the local authority within reason ( presumably, the Guardians ' orders can overrule this when necessary ).
While the state of consecrated life is neither clerical or lay, institutes themselves are classified as one or the other, a clerical institute being one that " by reason of the purpose or design intended by the founder or by virtue of legitimate tradition, is under the direction of clerics, assumes the exercise of sacred orders, and is recognized as such by the authority of the Church ".
Marsh writes that another reason for the Chancery's growing influence was the remedies available ; through orders of specific performance and injunctions, the Court could not only rectify previous wrongs but prevent future wrongs from occurring, while the common law courts were limited to awarding damages.
Vetinari has refused to become involved in the war with Klatch, due to the fact Ankh-Morpork does not have an army to stand against any opposing forces ( the reason given being that killing enemy soldiers makes it difficult to sell them things afterwards ), but Rust declares Martial law and orders the city's noble families to revive their old private regiments.
George Cantero, who served as a medic in Vietnam during the early 1970s, explained that incompetent officers who gave dangerous orders and refused to listen to reason or threats were fragged because that was the only way to get a new ( presumably safer ) commanding officer.
# For any reason, when on hand plus inbound inventory is less than the buffer, orders are placed as soon as practical to increase the inbound inventory so that the relationship On Hand + Inbound
After a year of " obligatory regency " ( public lecturing ), Foxe would have been obliged to take holy orders by Michaelmas 1545, and the primary reason for his resignation was probably his opposition to clerical celibacy — which he described in letters to friends as self-castration.
Many Protestants were afraid that if a Catholic were elected president, he would take orders from the Pope ; this was one reason why Al Smith lost the 1928 election.
The most probable explanation of the reason why Newton wished to be excused from these payments is to be found in the fact that, as he was not in holy orders, his fellowship at Trinity College would lapse in the autumn of 1675.
Although he was ignorant to the reason, Jiang Wei was recalled by an imperial edict and he could not disobey ; but Liao Hua refuted these orders and advised Jiang Wei that " a leader in the field is independent and need not obey even the command of his prince.
Peymann had been under orders from the Crown Prince to burn the Danish fleet, which he failed to do, though the reason for his failure to do so is unknown.
None of these conditions was in fact inaugurated or maintained for the reason that the responsible commanders failed to consult and cooperate as to necessary action based upon the warnings and to adopt measures enjoined by the orders given them by the chiefs of the Army and Navy commands in Washington.
Even in the early years of the 20th century, no minimum age, other than that of that of the use of reason, was laid down for receiving minor orders.
Sinclair meets Pierce and asks the reason for his sudden arrival, Pierce tells him that he and his ship were headed to the Vegan outpost when they received orders from EarthForce Command to come to Babylon 5 on the authority from the Office of Planetary Security to assume control.
In the case In re: Parson, the United States Supreme Court wrote: " If the orders be regarded merely as directions in the administration of judicial affairs in respect of the immediate possession of property or custody of prisoners, we cannot be properly called to, by reason of anything appearing on these records, in the exercise of appellate jurisdiction in this manner, to direct them to be set aside.
However, many Malays in Selangor believed the real reason for Tengku Musa Eddin's dismissal was his refusal to follow Adam's orders.
However, many Malays in Selangor believed the real reason for Tengku Musa Eddin's dismissal was his refusal to follow Adam's orders.
For some reason Teague-Jones did not communicate Malleson's request to the Committee, and later claimed he left before a decision was made and did not discover until the following day that the committee had eventually decided to issue orders that the commissars should be executed.

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