This seeming pedantry is, however, atoned for by the clear practical aim of his sermons, the noble ideal he keeps before his hearers, and the skill with which he handles spiritual experience and urges incentives to virtue.

" It provides a list of films included for being philosophically instructional ; seeming to " delight those with a Satanic sense of irony, justice or aesthetics "; or for being " clear examples of the effect on technology, societal norms, and religion that the Church of Satan has had " over its history.

This produced an explosion of popularity ; the method spread across the United States — especially because of its seeming success with people with autism.

Many of the largest members of the IWA were broken, driven underground or wiped out in the 1920s-30s as fascists came to power in states across Europe and workers switched away from anarchism towards the seeming success of the Bolshevik model of socialism.

The follow-up single, " Still On Your Side " peaked at # 8 and despite seeming to continue on with success, they disappeared after the release of their debut album Sooner Or Later, which was a very slight Top 20 smash.

Gregory's friends, Andy and Charlie ( Graham Thompson ), are even more inept with girls but see Gregory at various times, never with fewer than three beauties, and are envious of his seeming success.

" To realize that within our grasp, in Zeta Tau Alpha, lies the opportunity to learn those things which will ever enrich and ennoble our lives ; to be true to ourselves, to those within and without our circle ; to think in terms of all mankind and our service in the world ; to be steadfast, strong, and clean of heart and mind, remembering that since the thought is father to the deed, only that which we would have manifested in our experience should be entertained in thought ; to find satisfaction in being, rather than seeming, thus strengthening in us the higher qualities of the spirit ; to prepare for service and learn the nobility of serving, thereby earning the right to be served ; to seek understanding that we might gain true wisdom ; to look for the good in everyone ; to see beauty, with its enriching influence ; to be humble in success, and without bitterness in defeat ; to have the welfare and harmony of the Fraternity at heart, striving ever to make our lives a symphony of high ideals, devotion to the Right, the Good, and the True, without a discordant note ; remembering always that the foundation precept of Zeta Tau Alpha was Love, ' the greatest of all things.

Whether or not the word " satire " is the best choice, there is more general agreement that despite seeming to be written for someone wanting to be a monarch, and not the leader of a republic, the Prince can be read as deliberately emphasizing the benefits of free republics as opposed to monarchies.

His seeming troubles with a " frog in his throat " throughout most of his two years as leader prompted Private Eye to refer to him incessantly as " Iain Duncan Cough ".

The minority leader may also work closely with leaders in the majority party to ensure that provisions important to the interests of his party be included in legislation, which often occurs if it can be done without seeming to appear particularly harmful to the interests of the majority party.

His desire to fight and kill any perceived threat, instead of using diplomatic means, results in his demotion as leader and seeming replacement by Nightcrawler.

Also, there was the seeming lack of military or political support for the anticommunist rebels during the uprising in German Democratic Republic in 1953, during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and during the democracy-oriented reforms in Czechoslovakia in 1968 ( the so-called " Prague Spring ").

Australian political theorist Robert E. Goodin argues that the problem with dog-whistling is that it undermines democracy, because if voters have different understandings of what they were supporting during a campaign, the fact that they were seeming to support the same thing is " democratically meaningless " and does not give the dog-whistler a policy mandate.

The newly elected Austrian parliament allowed regions to conduct education and official government business in the predominant language of each region, thus posing a seeming threat to the German language and German cultural dominance in general.

David Salomons, who had successfully fought the battle for the shrievalty and the aldermanic chair, had been elected member for Greenwich and insisted on taking his seat, refusing to withdraw on being ordered to do so by the speaker, and adding to his seeming parliamentary offence by voting in the division on the motion for adjournment which was made to still the uproar caused by his bold course of action.

On April 14, 2004, President George W. Bush wrote a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon seeming to herald two significant changes or increased specifications to longstanding but ambiguous U. S. policy which had most recently been embodied in the road map.

For instance, in Who's on First, Oakes deliberately chooses not to stop the Soviet Union from launching Sputnik ahead of the otherwise-superior US satellite program, in order to protect the life of a Soviet contact ( and thus the seeming Soviet technological triumph was actually authorized by a US agent, who allowed it to happen ); in Marco Polo, if You Can, Oakes is the real-life U2 pilot Gary Powers, and allows himself to be captured while flying over the Soviet Union in order to create a cover story for a secret US intelligence operation ( and thus the U2 incident was actually planned from the start, Gary Powers was not shot down by the Soviet military but deliberately set up his own capture, and U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's subsequent humiliation by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev never happened ).

In response to this and to her seeming endorsement of it, Ray Powell, President of the National Black Police Association, described the minister's language as " intemperate and inconsiderate ".

Shortly afterwards, he deliberately tanks a sale and quits, with his boss seeming relieved that he'll be gone, and begins ranting when he sees President Nixon giving a speech on TV, repeatedly screaming " It's about MONEY, DICK !!!".

Despite this seeming willingness to avoid change, Hayes became one of the first major college head coaches to recruit African-American players, including Jim Parker, who played both offensive and defensive tackle on Hayes ' first national championship team in 1954.

Herman Kahn's innovative non-fiction book On Thermonuclear War, ( 1961 ) describing various nuclear war scenarios, was never widely popular, but the seeming outlandishness of its projections and the possibility of a " Doomsday Machine " ( an idea Kahn got from Leo Szilard before relatively small, deliverable thermonuclear weapons were developed in 1954 ) as a way to prevent war were direct inspirations for director Stanley Kubrick to handle Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as a black comedy.

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

Since his Christ was to be life size, how was Mary to hold him on her lap without the relationship seeming ungainly??

Bari was chosen as a depot, not only for its seeming safety, but because of its proximity to airfields.

David Robinson writes that the film's failure was probably due to it seeming too old-fashioned compared to many of the other films released that year, such as the French New Wave films.

Engineering DataXpress was perhaps the first such company in this realm, with Electronic Tools Company seeming to have captured the market in the mid to late 1990s.

There are two versions of the first message sent by Gauss and Weber: the more official one is based on a note in Gauss's own handwriting stating that " Wissen vor meinen – Sein vor scheinen " (" knowing before opining, being before seeming ") was the first message sent over the electromagnetic telegraph.

As Bryan was not deemed a major contender for the nomination, even delegates committed to a candidate could cheer him without seeming to betray their allegiance.

" The Judge was also critical of Mr. Marr as seeming to the Judge to be " willing to embroider his evidence to a point where he became less credible.

15: 23 ), refusal ( 24 ), and seeming reproach that it was not meet to cast the children's bread to dogs ( 26 ).

It was here that Saddles was to deliver the drug, but before Peacock can investigate anything, he is drafted into an inter-precinct gladiatorial contest due to a seeming bureaucratic oversight.

The human-time lord hybrid River Song in " Let's Kill Hitler " claimed she was " focusing on a dress size ", but subsequently weighed herself, seeming unsure of how her new body had truly developed.

France's seeming intransigence in settling a colonial war that tied down half the manpower of its armed forces was also a source of concern to its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.

Azinger, seeming to feel that his integrity was being questioned, said " I can tell you we're not trying to cheat.

Repairing next to Vishnu, he found the deity asleep, and, indignant at his seeming sloth, Bhrigu stamped upon his breast with his left foot and awoke him ; instead of being offended, Vishnu gently pressed the Brahman ’ s foot and expressed himself honoured and made happy by its contact ; and Bhrigu, highly pleased by his humility, and satisfied of his being impersonated goodness, proclaimed Vishnu as the only being to be worshipped by men or Gods, in which decision the Sages, upon Bhrighu ’ s report, concurred, " Who was he to test the trimurtis?

The building was dark and dirty, almost seeming to be scrap pile rather than a dwelling.

We were among the first members of the colony to arrive at the station of an unfinished railroad … There was a good hotel, well and comfortably furnished, one or two stores neatly furnished and already stocked with goods, several other in process of erection … The streets, scarcely to be defined as such, were full of prairie schooners, containing families waiting until masters could suit themselves with “ claims ,” the women pursuing their housewifely avocations meanwhile – some having cooking stoves in their wagons, others using gypsy fires to do their culinary work ; all seeming happy and hopeful.

Having suffered serious financial setbacks, the Rothkowitzes were mystified by Rothko ’ s seeming indifference to financial necessity ; they felt he was doing his mother a disservice by not finding a more lucrative and realistic career.

When the show first started in 1991, it was very basic with white walls, in an effort to capture the feel of fellow talk show Donahue, Jerry's haircut and glasses even seeming to make him look like Phil Donahue.

It was rejected for seeming too bleak ; the final exit from the hospital was intended to imply Selena and Hannah's survival, whereas test audiences felt that the women were marching off to certain death.