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reasons and for
However, in recent decades, for what doubtless are multiple reasons, an unannounced but nonetheless readily observable shift has occurred in both facets of national activity.
When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.
Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).
The reasons for this experience are rooted in the metaphysical characteristics of such a change.
The reasons for this are partly observational, partly philosophical, and reinforced by other aesthetic and cultural factors.
In light of all this, one would require special reasons for saying that the paths of the heavenly bodies were other than circular.
There were no reasons for such suppositions then.
The reasons for the Whig joy on this occasion are found to be their expectation of regaining control of the government, their delight at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having the Tories hanged, and so on.
But there are at least two reasons for contemplating one's mind in even a cracked mirror.
It is for these reasons that proposals for a `` new world order '', through radical overhaul of the United Nations or through some sort of world federation, are utterly fatuous.
Speaking in terms of sociological stereotype, the `` private eye '' might appeal to the poet in search of a myth for many reasons.
She had her reasons for this.
There were a few reasons for that, too: Garibaldi had been taken up and exploited by the Communists nowadays.
And there, on the way, had been the box turtle, that slow, self-contained, world-ignoring relic of pre-history, bent, for reasons best known to itself, on crossing the road.
We sympathize with Mr. Kennedy, but we feel bound to say that his budget review doesn't please us either, although for very different reasons.
And for good reasons.
The reasons for stressing self-help
But there will be still other countries where, despite the inadequacy of the level of self-help, we shall deem it wise, for political or military reasons, to give substantial economic assistance.
The specific reasons for a long-term approach
There are legitimate reasons for differences of opinion among the assessors as a whole and among the public officials in each town.
It should be noted that there are other and equally important reasons for establishing meaningful intergovernmental reporting bases on a uniform fiscal year.
Although there are many sound reasons for adopting uniform and coordinated fiscal years in Rhode Island, there are also certain difficulties encountered.
The Commission shall notify all claimants of the approval or denial of their claims, stating the reasons and grounds therefor, and if approved, shall notify such claimants of the amount for which such claims are approved.
In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

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He reasons that as anacondas 30 feet long are often found, some might be 38, and occasional `` monstrous freaks '' over 50.
Unfortunately, however, and for reasons to be discussed in the following chapter, no rate relationships can be made completely nondiscriminatory as long as all or some of the rates must be set above marginal costs in order to yield adequate revenues.
Pope Pius 12, declared in 1951 that it is possible to be exempt from the normal obligation of parenthood for a long time and even for the whole duration of married life, if there are serious reasons, such as those often mentioned in the so-called medical, eugenic, economic and social `` indications ''.
Historians have had two reasons for persisting so long in their investigations.
" By the Way " was popular with the readership, and of course, one of the reasons it lasted so long.
In primary school his head was shaven to prevent head lice, a serious threat back then, which he cited among reasons for his later signature long hair.
( b ) The reasons given for a decision are often more important in the long run than the outcome in a particular case.
Many prominent figures testified in that trial, including members of the parliamentary committee investigating the reasons for the defeat, so some of its results were made public long before the publication of the committee report in 1928.
As suggested by the etymology of the word, one of the earliest reasons for interest in geometry was surveying, and certain practical results from Euclidean geometry, such as the right-angle property of the 3-4-5 triangle, were used long before they were proved formally.
In the human mind, the facts used must remain invariable as long as the brain reasons with them.
" Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.
Although the reasons for Saddam Husayn's decision to invade Iran were complicated, the leaders of the Baath Party had long resented Iranian hegemony in the Persian Gulf region and had especially resented the perceived Iranian interference in Iraq's internal affairs both before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The drastic rise in population was due to several reasons, including the long period of peace and stability in the 18th century and the import of new crops China received from the Americas, including peanuts, sweet potatoes and maize.
Workers also had good reasons for discontent: overcrowded housing with often deplorable sanitary conditions, long hours at work ( on the eve of the war a 10-hour workday six days a week was the average and many were working 11 – 12 hours a day by 1916 ), constant risk of injury and death from very poor safety and sanitary conditions, harsh discipline ( not only rules and fines, but foremen ’ s fists ), and inadequate wages ( made worse after 1914 by steep war-time increases in the cost of living ).
In dealing with atheism Cudworth's method is to marshal the atheistic arguments elaborately, so elaborately that Dryden remarked " he has raised such objections against the being of a God and Providence that many think he has not answered them "; then in his last chapter, which by itself is as long as an ordinary treatise, he confutes them with all the reasons that his reading could supply.
The Reconquista was a war with long periods of respite between the adversaries, partly for pragmatic reasons, and also due to infighting among the Christian kingdoms of the North spanning over seven centuries.
Their short hair may have come about for practical reasons, since long hair can be a liability in industrial jobs and in streetfights.
Iceland, on the other hand, does not have a long tradition of squatting, but homeless people have been occupying abandoned houses for the same reasons as in other countries.
It was long thought that Darwin avoided or delayed making his ideas public for personal reasons.
" The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory.
Some of these are get-rich-quick schemes, though many others affect the financial security of the Duke farm, which Hogg has long wanted to acquire for nefarious reasons.
Clover, either sown alone or in mixture with ryegrass, has for a long time formed a staple crop for soiling, for several reasons: it grows freely, shooting up again after repeated mowings ; it produces an abundant crop ; it is palatable to and nutritious for livestock ; it grows in a great range of soils and climates ; and it is appropriate for either pasturage or green composting.
As an illustration of the central role that the ovaries play, it is worth pointing out that when for medical reasons the uterus has to be surgically removed ( hysterectomy ) in a younger woman, her periods will of course cease permanently, and the woman will be incapable of pregnancy, but as long as at least one of her ovaries is still functioning, the woman will not have reached menopause.

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