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The reason why the Aube sailed ahead of the Comte-de-Paris was to ‘ gain time for fear the British might get the start of them ’ Yet the New Zealand Company's survey ship Tory had sailed from Plymouth on 12 May 1839, before Langlois and his associates had made their first approach to the French government, and as early as June the British Government was considering sending Captain William Hobson to act as Lieutenant-Governor over such parts of New Zealand as might be acquired from the Māori.
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reason and why
Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.
One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.
In any case, she told Thompson that she saw no reason why he might not see Katie again, `` now that this frank explanation has been made & no one can misunderstand ''.
The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.
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.
Conceived as an organ of economic cooperation, there is no reason why O.E.C.D. cannot evolve into a broader instrument of union if its members so desire.
He explained his errand, but without bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt something well up in him which was the reason why he had fled the army.
We found in Gonzales v. United States, supra, that this was the controlling reason why copies of the recommendation should be furnished a registrant.
If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.
That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.
Really there is no reason why this fine exercise should not find its way into your leg program at all times, for the following suggestions show why it is so effective: 1.
Although I suggested that you hold the bar at the back of the neck there's no reason why you shouldn't make some experiments with the bar held in front of the neck.
And then again perhaps the reason why he couldn't find time to do any of the things he had planned to do after retirement: reading, roaming, gardening, lying on his back and watching the clouds go by, was because he didn't want to do them.
If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has escaped our steady plodding, and Lees has repudiated his own share in the founding, that is no reason why we should swerve.
There is no apparent reason why we should feel bound by Swadesh's rules and procedure since his predilections and aims have grown so vast.
The reason for this bears explaining for those who may wonder why State spends so much of its diplomatic energy on Congress when the Russians are so available.
She couldn't see any reason why Maude would attempt to frighten her.
Hayes said that if a way can be found to deal effectively with short-term capital movements between nations, `` there is no reason, in my judgment why the international financial system cannot work satisfactorily for at least the foreseeable future ''.
And that's another reason why it is imperative for us these days to conquer our fears, to develop the poise that promotes peace.
Now there is no reason in the world why a matchmaker in Ireland should happen also to be a talented soft-shoe dancer and gifted improviser of movements of the limbs, torso and neck, except that these talents add immensely to the enjoyment of the play.
There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty good time at `` Donnybrook '', unless they are permanently in the mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable Irish.
All the more reason why there should have been no place for the frills ; ;
`` And do you think there is a reason why I should accept your word ''??
I'd had patients who'd refused surgery before, of course, but never one who didn't show, in one way or another, the reason why.
reason and sailed
Sailing ship captains such as James Cook, who bypassed Milford Sound on his journeys for just this reason, also feared venturing too close to the steep mountainsides, afraid that wind conditions would prevent escape ( this refers to Doubtful Sound, so named as Cook thought it doubtful he would escape if he sailed in ).
Torbay left for its first patrol at very short notice, with half the crew on leave and replaced by members of the spare crew of the depot ship, the reason being that the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, had arrived at Brest and needed to be shadowed in case they sailed for the Atlantic sea lanes.
reason and ahead
The reason that we are not going ahead full speed to develop high thrust-to-weight engines is that it would cost perhaps a billion dollars -- and you don't spend that sort of money if aircraft are obsolete.
prudentia, contracted from providentia, seeing ahead ) is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason.
Raeder's principal reason for going ahead with Rheinübung was his knowledge of the upcoming Operation Barbarossa, where the Kriegsmarine could only play a very small part, and his desire to score a major success before Barbarossa that might impress upon Hitler the need not to cut the budget for capital ships.
Charlie comes to Tony begging him to act as a voice of reason for the times ahead, not wanting to get hung up or paranoid about anything he may find odd about her.
The magazine noted Pikachu as the " public face of a phenomenon that has spread from Nintendo's fastest selling video game to a trading-card empire ", citing the franchise's profits for the year as the reason for the ranking ; behind singer Ricky Martin but ahead of author J. K. Rowling.
The watchmen had no way of knowing whether a train had cleared the line ahead, so if a preceding train stopped for any reason, the crew of a following train would have no way of knowing unless it was clearly visible.
Raeder's principal reason for going ahead with Rheinübung was his knowledge of the upcoming Operation Barbarossa, where the Kriegsmarine was only going to play a small and supporting role, and his desire to score a major success with a battleship before Barbarossa that might impress upon Hitler the need not to cut the budget for capital ships.
It is for this reason that our people and so many other peoples in Asia, Africa and elsewhere saw in Lumumba the eloquent and true representative of the progressive force of dynamic African nationalism which, despite temporary set backs, is forging ahead with a strong Africa united by the common heritage of its people and sustained by its determination to ensure for itself and its descendants a life of freedom and dignity, to which they have fervently aspired and which has been denied to them for so long.
In late January 2006 Atkinson and Swindon parted company, with Swindon manager Onuora citing interference as the main reason for stopping the documentary from going ahead.
For whatever reason the attack had been launched ahead of schedule, however, for Amanullah had intended initially to time it to coincide with an uprising that was being planned in Peshawar for 8 May.
For this reason, this play is typically only attempted with very little time on the clock, when the field position advantage of the receiving team is not very important because they are already ahead and will simply focus on running the clock out and ending the game regardless of their initial field position.
A regular feature in the second series, medieval seer Nostradamus ( played by TV's Emma Kennedy with a false beard and, for no adequately explored reason, a Welsh accent ) would give his predictions for the week ahead, which would often be either completely absurd or extremely vague.
But we still have much work to do in building on this extraordinary forward momentum in the years ahead and therefore have every reason to maintain the continuity of Lee's principled leadership.
One reason this death toll was overlooked is that once introduced the diseases raced ahead of European immigration in many areas.
On July 3, 2012, Oda announced her intention to leave politics effective July 31, 2012, ahead of an anticipated cabinet shuffle ; Oda gave no reason for her departure.
Following the introduction of the London congestion charge, Professor David Begg, chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport, cited the reported of that success as a reason to go ahead with the Edinburgh scheme.
The reason for this is because there will almost always be a train in the second block ahead.
Stopped again at Pokagon and Niles for same reason, this freight train being ahead.
Another reason for the failed nomination was that SZDSZ was not consulted ahead of time and Szili lacked qualifications compared to Sólyom who previously held high office as the president of the Constitutional Court of Hungary.
Supporters of Lister v Stubbs suggest that there is no good reason to put the victim of wrongdoing ahead of other creditors of the estate.
Akmal was able to recover from the operation to participate in the two-match test series but Zulqarnain Haider was selected ahead of him Another reason also emerged that Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Umar Amin and Yasir Hameed were not selected for the tour due to the fact that suspicions were raised that they were involved with the spot-fixing scandal that included Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif.
For this reason, the series provoked complaints to the BBC from young earth creationists ahead of transmission.
It's been a challenge to be sidelined this year, but things happen for a reason and right now it's full steam ahead for Australia and Mexico.
People scoring high on the scale ( high Machs ) tend to endorse statements such as, " Never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so ," ( No. 1 ) but not ones like, " Most people are basically good and kind " ( No. 4 ), " There is no excuse for lying to someone else ," ( No. 7 ) or " Most people who get ahead in the world lead clean, moral lives " ( No. 11 ).
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