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But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
The dramatic construction of his stories characteristically turns on a situation in which someone is simultaneously compelled and forbidden to love.
The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.
It does not appear that we will be delivered from our situation by articles on The National Purpose.
Such were the incongruities of the situation that the very police assigned to check up on me were drafted into driving me to the Strasbourg Hospital while World Citizen Jean Babel waved adieu from the `` Line ''!!
Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.
Such a situation regarding the Board of War could hardly have helped Morgan's chances for promotion when that matter came before the group later on.
But because of the peculiar nature of the military situation in Laos, the Soviet leader must be tempted to let things ride -- a course that would appear to cost him little on the spot, but would bog Washington in a tactical mess.
The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike.
The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.
Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.
The second situation is illustrated by the operator T on Af ( F any field ) represented in the standard basis by Af.
In order to focus clearly upon the operation of this one force, which we may call the effect of `` public-limit pricing '' on `` key '' wage bargains, we deliberately simplify the model by abstracting from other forces, such as union power, which may be relevant in an actual situation.
With this situation, it is difficult to sight in on the platform with surveying equipment.
Faced with this situation, Postmaster Charles F. McKenna of Montpelier went with Fogg on a Burlington trip, and together they scouted the terrain on the heights of Berlin.
It is far better to have such conditions treated in advance than to have them show up on the honeymoon where they can create a really serious situation.
One of the beer-runners telephoned O'Banion -- on a line tapped by the detective bureau -- and reported the situation.
The killer, if in our present group, would certainly be interested in knowing that much, and even though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation, there might always be some way.
This Sunday those attending the second session will hear a lecture by Kern on the world situation ; ;
but, in Senator Gore's words, it was `` not a very encouraging '' situation that would confront John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day.
`` Even on the basis of 154 games, this is the ideal situation '', insists Hank Greenberg, now vice-president of the Chicago White Sox.
Confronted with this situation, most libraries either endure the severe limitations of their budgets and do what they can with what they have, or else depend on the bounty of patrons and local governments to supplement their annual funds.
Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

situation and east
On the one hand, it had a large region ( largely east of the Urals ) of highly distinct, pre-industrial, often non-literate peoples, similar to the situation in the Americas.
The situation was aggravated by the invasion of other peoples from the northwest, such as the Qin, forcing the Zhou to move their capital east to Luoyang.
Stephen was forced to give up his western campaign, returning east to stabilise the situation and protect his capital.
Between Brest-Litovsk and the point when the German military situation in the west became dire, some officials in the German government and high command began to favour offering more lenient terms to the Allies in exchange for their recognition of German gains in the east.
Valens's first priority after the winter of 365 was to move east in hopes of shoring up the situation.
In the east, the situation was grave.
This was the situation in the east when William returned from Europe.
These territories abounded in water, a precious commodity in Canaan, and thus constituted one of the most valuable parts of the country ; additionally, Manasseh's geographic situation enabled it to defend two important mountain passes-Esdraelon on the west of the Jordan and Hauran on the east.
Its neighbors to the east, the Cham of what is now southern Vietnam, took advantage of the situation in 1177 to launch a seaborne invasion up the Mekong River and across Tonlé Sap.
Stephen was forced to give up his western campaign, returning east to stabilise the situation and protect his capital.
This contrasted with the situation in the east, where Slavic tribes maintained a more " spartan and egalitarian " existence bound to the land " even in times when they took their part in plundering Roman provinces ".
The situation on the ground in 1589 was that the new Henry IV of France, as Navarre had become, held the south and west, and the Catholic League the north and east.
The earliest form of the name of Daventry, the Celtic dwy-afon-tre, " the town of two avons ,"( i. e. " the town of two rivers "), describes its geographical situation between the nearby sources of the River Leam, which flows west, and the River Nene which flows east.
Dilmun, furthermore, is said to lie " in the east where the sun rises ," a situation that does not apply to the eastern Arabian littoral, Failaka or Bahrain, all of which lie south of Sumer and Eridu.
The remnants of Somerset's force were in a hopeless situation, hemmed in and unable to manoeuvre ; the Yorkist troops charged through the one opening at the east end of Linnel's Meadow and engaged the bewildered Lancastrian soldiers.
By 259, Valerian was campaigning in the east against the Persians, while his son and co-emperor Gallienus was distracted with the situation on the Danubian frontier.
For four years Gallienus had been too distracted by Germanic invasions and other usurpers in the east to turn his attention to the situation to his north and west.
The situation changed in the second half of 18th century: in 1767-1773 the east wing of the castle was completely rebuilt into an administrative building of the Governorate of Estonia by the orders of Catherine II.
The town is situated at the junction of two main routes from the north before traffic climbs over the Greensand Ridge which crosses Kent from west to east ; that situation is similar to Maidstone and Ashford.
However, the worsening situation near the Polish capital of Warsaw prevented the Poles from continuing that southern counteroffensive and pushing east.
Before the situation could develop into a rout Mmanthatisi suddenly disengaged her armies and retreated with her hordes to the east.
This situation is compounded by the quarry to the north east of the village which generates significant HGV traffic movements through the village.
Due to its situation inside Mirkwood and east of Lórien, Dol Guldur was a key stronghold in Sauron's return to power.

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