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A nickname that would stick with Bennett for the remainder of his political career, " Iron Heel Bennett ," came from a 1932 speech he gave in Toronto that ironically, if unintentionally, alluded to Jack London's socialist novel:
Not until it was published as a three-volume novel by William Tinsley did it become a success and allow Braddon to be financially independent for the remainder of her life.
At the time the novel was published, Doubleday did not remainder its unsold science fiction when its sales cycle was complete ; instead, it simply destroyed the unsold copies.
Musashi ’ s action haunts him for the remainder of the novel.
By the end of the novel decades later, a cure has still not been discovered, and it is unknown how Bean lives the remainder of his life.
The " Watcher in the Water " is the only name Tolkien gave to this creature in the The Lord of the Rings, and in any of his writings, although Tolkien refers to the Watcher in the Water as simply " The Watcher " for the remainder of the novel.
* The concept is also the central theme of the novel Passenger by Billy Cowie ( published by Old Street Publishing 2008 ) where the main character Milan discovers his sister Roma is embedded in himself and spends the remainder of the book attempting to communicate with her.
She subsequently dedicates herself to pursuing Yossarian, and ambushes him several times throughout the remainder of the novel in an attempt to exact revenge for Nately's death by stabbing him.
For the remainder of the novel, Adeline trembles uncontrollably, a sign of her weakness.
Beginning with this novel, and continuing for the remainder of the John Gardner series, Bond is promoted to the Royal Navy rank of Captain.
The remainder of the novel ties up the loose ends.
The remainder of the novel traces the experiences of Taylor and the child, whom Taylor has named Turtle.
The novel opens with a brief prologue set in 1957 in which the narrator, an Italian Jew, describes a visit to the Ferrara cemetery where the Finzi-Contini family mausoleum stands, empty in all but two slots: a young child, Guido, who died of illness before the narrator was born ; and Alberto, the son of the Finzi-Continis and a friend of the narrator's, who died of lymphogranulomatosis ( Hodgkin ’ s disease ) before the mass deportation that sent the remainder of the family to a concentration camp in Germany.
The remainder of the novel focuses on the aftermath of Bunny's death, especially the collapse of the group, the psychological strains of remorse borne by the individual members and their efforts to maintain secrecy as investigators and other students develop theories about Bunny's disappearance.
Pierre then seizes upon the secret poison vial that Isabel carries and drinks it, and Isabel finishes the remainder, leaving three corpses as the novel ends.
When Raoul-who tells the remainder of the novel from his point of view-learns of Christine's return to Erik, he descends himself into the underground home to fetch her, but is detained by Nadir, who refuses to let him enter the room where Erik is dying.

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The intuition about mankind conveyed in these opening pages is of crucial importance for understanding the remainder of the text ; ;
It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.
The Russian experimenters claim that only a small fraction of the impulse from the sensors is caused by the incident momentum with the remainder being momentum of ejected material from the sensor.
The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.
And to " measure " is to place a shorter measuring length s successively ( q times ) along longer length l until the remaining portion r is less than the shorter length s. In modern words, remainder r = l − q * s, q being the quotient, or remainder r is the " modulus ", the integer-fractional part left over after the division.
The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.
In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.
The remainder of the state is occupied by the Coastal Plain.
Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.
The remainder of this article is about the carbonyl-nitrogen sense of amide.
The first half is based mainly on the Soliloquies of St Augustine of Hippo, the remainder is drawn from various sources, and contains much that is Alfred's own and highly characteristic of him.
Of the rest of the land, 55. 2 % is settled ( buildings or roads ) and the remainder ( 4. 5 %) is non-productive ( rivers or lakes ).
The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.
For example, an estate is granted to A for life, with remainder to the heir of B.
During B's lifetime, the remainder is in abeyance, for until the death of B it is uncertain who is B's heir.

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Of the human body's solid components after drying and burning of organics ( as for example, after cremation ), about a third of the total " mineral " mass remaining, is the approximately one kilogram of calcium that composes the average skeleton ( the remainder being mostly phosphorus and oxygen ).
While the Red Guards consisted mostly of volunteers ( who, at the beginning of the war, were paid wages ), the White Army contained only 11, 000 – 15, 000 volunteers, the remainder being conscripts.
* Bangladesh: The vast majority ethnic group of Bangladesh are the Bengali people, comprising 98 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of mostly Bihari migrants and indigenous tribal groups.
For the remainder of the 19th century, under a series of elected and appointed presidents, Uruguay saw interventions by — and conflicts with — neighboring states, political and economic fluctuations, and large inflows of immigrants, mostly from Europe.
The remainder of the journal consists mostly of research articles, which are often dense and highly technical.
For example, a quartz arenite would be composed of mostly (> 90 %) quartz grains and have little / no clayey matrix between the grains, a lithic wacke would have abundant lithic grains (< 90 % quartz, remainder would have more lithics than feldspar ) and abundant muddy matrix, etc.
The remainder of imperial forces came mostly from the Confederation of the Rhine, especially Saxony and Bavaria.
The remainder of the reservation is mostly utilized for cottages on Cuba Lake, Seneca run gas stations and woodlands.
About 90 % of Bangladeshis are Muslims and the remainder are mostly Hindus.
It was mostly removed to the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Cromer in 1896, the remainder being kept for incorporation in the new abbey organ.
Today, approximately three of every four Hutterite colonies are in Canada ( mostly in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan ), with almost all of the remainder in the United States ( primarily South Dakota and Montana ).
Their population size vary from decade to decade, largely dependent on rainfall ; current estimates range from 625, 000 to 725, 000 birds, with 100, 000 – 200, 000 in Western Australia and the remainder mostly in New South Wales and Queensland.
This continued during the remainder of the decade, with hundreds of magazines publishing mostly imported material.
The bedrock is mostly ( 92. 3 %) Ordovician in age, with 7 % being Cambrian and the remainder Pre-Cambrian.
Zoetermeer is divided into 10 neighbourhoods, which cover most of the municipality's territory, with the remainder being the commercial area in the east and the mostly green and undeveloped Buitengebied in the west.
The south-central section contains the remainder of the golf course, with the rest mostly residential.
In the 1950s Losey was blacklisted in the United States and moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom.
4, 400 came from Australia, the remainder mostly from South-East Asia.
Only the entry façade exhibits the typical late-19th-century ornamentation, while the remainder of the exterior is modest and shows mostly undecorated brick stone.
It is historically important in that it resulted in the destruction of most of France's fleet, making a French invasion of England impossible, and ensuring that the remainder of the war would be fought mostly in France.
The proportion of Lutheran Finns in Ingria ( Ingrian Finns ) made up 41. 1 % in 1656, 53. 2 % in 1661, 55. 2 % in 1666, 56. 9 % in 1671 and 73. 8 % in 1695, the remainder being mostly Izhorians and Votes.
Only about 2 km is underground, the remainder runs mostly at surface level.
The Regional Route serves the remainder of the county, mostly along the US 7 and Historic Route 7A corridor.
While international as well as exchange students are generally guaranteed on-campus housing, spaces are appropriated on a competitive basis to the remainder of mostly local applicants.
Of that number, about half are from the United States ( 2, 420 ), with Canada ( 474 ), the United Kingdom ( 399 ), Australia ( 254 ), New Zealand ( 206 ), Ireland ( 112 ) and South Africa ( 110 ) for ALTs as well as China ( 72 ) and Korea ( 56 ) mostly CIRs, making up most of the remainder.

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