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These responses are explicable in terms of characteristics inherent in the crisis.
When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.
But these terms are treacherous.
SBA loans, which may be made to small manufacturers, small business pools, wholesalers, retailers, service establishments and other small businesses ( when financing is not otherwise available to them on reasonable terms ), are to finance business construction, conversion, or expansion ; ;
This help is offered to applicants who ordinarily would not undertake the exploration under present conditions or circumstances at their sole expense and who are unable to obtain funds from commercial sources on reasonable terms.
Present pool quarters at two locations in Providence are crowded, antiquated and, in general, make for inefficient operation in terms of dispersement of personnel and duplication of such operational needs as stock and repair equipment.
That means that, if we are to achieve a new standard of leadership, we must think in terms of the total context of our situation.
Their friends and ours are welcome to share the pool, but on our terms and at our times.
Cooling requirements are best expressed in terms of Aj.
The information provided by the electron paramagnetic effects is then discussed, and finally the nuclear effects are interpreted in terms of various motional-modified models of the Af bond in Af.
their classes of animal and plant terms are restricted to generalizations or recurrent parts ( fish, bird, tree, grass, horn, tail, bark, root ).
What we have left as reasonably comparable are four classes: ( 1 ) body parts and products, which with a proportionally nearly even representation ( 51 terms out of 253, 25 out of 100 ) come out with nearly even ratios ; ;
Here again laboratory approaches are being evolved, for it is recognized how `` elastic '' these readings can be, how they can apply to many people, and are often stated in general terms all too easily applied to any individual's own case.
Slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts by the terms of the constitution of 1780, which declared `` all men are born free and equal ''.
The terms are generally taken for granted as though they referred to direct and axiomatic elements in the common experience of all.
Mythological concepts may by all means still be used, but they can be used responsibly only as `` symbols '' or `` ciphers '', that is, only if they are also constantly interpreted in nonmythological ( or existential ) terms.
To do this, it is sufficient to point out that if the principle in terms of which alternatives are to be conceived is such as to exclude more than two, then the question of a `` third '' possibility is a meaningless question.
Against such a termination of human life on earth by human action, he then proposes as an alternative that we `` negotiate at once with the Russians and get the best terms which are available '', that we deliberately `` negotiate from comparative weakness ''.
If we have not thought and made a decision entirely in these terms, then we need to submit ourselves to the following `` simple test '': `` Have we decided how we are to kill the other members of our household in the event of our being less injured than they are ''??
Even Professor Arnold Toynbee, agreeing with his son, does so in these terms: `` Compared to continuing to incur a constant risk of the destruction of the human race, all other evils are lesser evils.
`` I think we're agreed that he and Evans are equal in ability, so we have to look at the thing in terms of incentive.
The majority of the clocks are caesium clocks ; the definition of the SI second is written in terms of caesium.

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The native terms ( Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji, Korean hanja ) are also fairly widespread in the contexts of the individual languages, but they are not generally considered suitable for discussion of the script as a whole.
Logic, for instance, involves a ( fairly minimal ) commitment to viewing the world in terms of individual entities and relations between them.
Classical chamber ensembles of six ( sextet ), seven ( septet ), or eight musicians ( octet ) are fairly common ; use of latinate terms for larger groups is rare.
Most observers describe Venezuela in terms of four fairly well-defined regions: the Maracaibo lowlands in the northwest, the northern mountains extending in a broad east-west arc from the Colombian border along the Caribbean Sea, the wide Orinoco plains ( llanos ) in central Venezuela, and rank highly dissected Guiana highlands in the southeast.
These types of founders not only diverge in fundamental ways in terms of their self-views and their social motivations in entrepreneurship, but also engage fairly differently in new firm creation.
Because of the fairly brief terms of the two presidents who preceded him, Hinsdale is known as the first permanent president of Hiram College.
As Lee considered surrender, Longstreet advised him of his belief that Grant would treat them fairly, but as Lee rode toward Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Longstreet said, " General, if he does not give us good terms, come back and let us fight it out.
Despite the very low quantity, the quality of cassava root protein is fairly good in terms of essential amino acids.
Many of these centres are filled to capacity in terms of general doctors, and there are often fairly long waiting lists and the centres also utilize nurse practitioners, who reduce the workload on the doctors and increase efficiency.
ScriptBasic has been developed since 1999 and has reached a fairly matured state in terms of functions and stability.
Quantitative uses of the terms uncertainty and risk are fairly consistent from fields such as probability theory, actuarial science, and information theory.
Since he has a fairly legitimate claim on the throne himself, is on better terms with his neighbours ( Begma, who objected to Duke Arkans ), and has given up his vendetta on Amber, Random is letting things stand.
New Hanover is considered a fairly evenly-divided county in political terms, favoring Democrats and Republicans in near equal measure.
Debate is fairly common about whether the use of these terms should be restricted, and generally reflects an awareness of the distinction made by Burns ( 1978 ) between " transactional " leadership ( characterized by e. g. emphasis on procedures, contingent reward, management by exception ) and " transformational " leadership ( characterized by e. g. charisma, personal relationships, creativity ).
The introduction Taylor wrote was fairly sympathetic towards the Bolsheviks but also pointedly tweaked the Kremlin's nose by pointing out certain contradictions between Reed's book and the official historiography in the Soviet Union — for instance Leon Trotsky played a very prominent and heroic role in Ten Days That Shook The World while in 1963 Trotsky was almost a non-person in Soviet historiography, mentioned only in terms of abuse.
And while most slang terms maintain a fairly brief duration of popularity, slang provides a quick and readily available vernacular screen to establish and maintain generational gaps in a societal context.
The Common Blackbird seems to be closest in evolutionary terms to the Island Thrush ( T. poliocephalus ) of Southeast Asia and islands in the southwest Pacific, which probably diverged from merula stock fairly recently.
This principle applies to all properties of the wave, including wavelength ( color ), direction, polarization, and even coherence, so that it is quite possible to have thermal radiation which is polarized, coherent, and directional, though polarized and coherent forms are fairly rare in nature far from sources ( in terms of wavelength ).
The building has an unusual, bulbous shape, purportedly intended to reduce its surface area and thus improve energy efficiency, although energy use measurements have shown this building to be fairly inefficient in terms of energy use.
In terms of her siblings, Joan kept a fairly tight bond.
At the time of Franco's death, Spain still lagged behind most of Western Europe, but the gap between its GDP per capita and that of the major Western European economies had greatly narrowed ; in world terms, Spain was already enjoying a fairly high material standard of living with basic but comprehensive services.
However, Chinese histories since ancient works such as Shiji were also fairly liberal in terming local tribal chiefs as " king " of a particular territory ranging from vast to tiny, using convenient terms of the form "( locality )" + "( king )" such as Changshawang, " King of Changsha " which was briefly recognized as a kingdom but was usually a smaller part of Chu state or just a county of the Sui Dynasty state, or phrases such as Yiwang, " Yi ( Eastern ) Foreign (' barbarian ') king ( s )," while in other cases or by other authors other terms such as, " native chief " might be used for the same office.
Rawls defined justice as fairness, especially in distributing social goods, defined fairness in terms of procedures, and attempted to prove that just institutions and lives are good, if rational individuals ' goods are considered fairly.

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