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I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.
We use the term `` bio-medicine '' because of the close interrelation between biology and medical research.
The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.
He seems to use the term alienation in two different ways.
The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.
Indeed, one school superintendent in a large city objects to the use of the term comprehensive high school for the senior high schools in his city, because these schools do not offer strictly vocational programs.
the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.
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The term " Hamito-Semitic " remains in use in the academic traditions of some European countries.
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The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).
The use of this term illustrates a past trend towards referring to the whole continent of Africa by the name Aethiopia.
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The term " allocution " is generally only in use in jurisdictions in the United States, though there are vaguely similar processes in other common law countries.
Existentialist philosophers use the term " angst " with a different connotation.
The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ).
It is thus a term used to describe attempts to use philosophical methods to identify the morally correct course of action in various fields of human life.
Many contemporary Pueblo peoples object to the use of the term Anasazi, although there is still controversy among them on a native alternative.
Some modern descendants of this culture often choose to use the term " Ancestral Pueblo " peoples.
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In the Roman Catholic Church, abbots continue to be elected by the monks of an abbey to lead them as their religious superior in those orders and monasteries that make use of the term ( some orders of monks, as the Carthusians for instance, have no abbots, only priors ).
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Sign languages exhibit the use of polymorphemic constructions referred to as classifiers ( not all researchers term these constructions classifiers ).
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.
In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

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This policy of parliamentary procedure was based on the assumption of the political equality of every " gentleman ", with the corollary that unanimous consent was needed for all measures The Commonwealth could never be liquidated unless its longtime ally, Austria, allowed it, and first Catherine had to use diplomacy to win Austria to her side.
These healthy gentleman before you use peoti
Indeed, Quatermain states that he refuses to use the word " nigger " and that many Africans are more worthy of the title of " gentleman " than the Europeans who settle or adventure in the country.
The doctrine which The United Irishman was to follow was stated as follows: " that the Irish people had a distinct and indefeasible right to their country, and to all the moral and material wealth and resources thereof, to possess, to govern the same, for their own use, maintenance, comfort and honour, as a distinct Sovereign State ; that it was within their power and their manifest duty to make good and exercise that right ; that the life of one peasant was as precious as the life of one nobleman or gentleman ; that the property of the farmers and labourers of Ireland was as sacred as the property of all the noblemen and gentlemen in Ireland, and also immeasurably more valuable ; that the Tenant Right custom should be extended to all Ulster, and adopted and enforced by common consent in the other three provinces ; that every man who paid taxes should have an equal voice with every other man in the government of the State and the outlay of those taxes ; that no man at present had any ' legal ' rights or claim to the protection of any law and that all ' legal ' and constitutional agitation in Ireland was a delusion ; that every freeman, and every man who desired to become free, ought to have arms, and to practise the use of them ; that no ' combination of classes ' in Ireland was desirable, just, or possible save on the terms of the rights of the industrious classes being acknowledged and secured ; and that no good thing could come from the English Parliament or the English Government ".
John Selden, in Titles of Honour ( 1614 ), discussing the title gentleman, speaks of " our English use of it " as " convertible with nobilis " ( an ambiguous word, like noble meaning elevated either by rank or by personal qualities ) and describes in connection with it the forms of ennobling in various European countries.
: The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.
: The power which the strong have over the weak, the employer over the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even the clever over the silly — the forbearing or inoffensive use of all this power or authority, or a total abstinence from it when the case admits it, will show the gentleman in a plain light.
The Reform Act 1832 did its work ; the middle classes came into their own, and the word gentleman came in common use to signify not a distinction of blood, but a distinction of position, education and manners.
In its best use, moreover, gentleman involves a certain superior standard of conduct, due, to quote the 8th edition once more, to " that self-respect and intellectual refinement which manifest themselves in unrestrained yet delicate manners.
She also said that " The tone in which he speaks of royalty is unlike anything which one sees in history, even of people hundreds of years ago, and is most reprehensible ... Of George IV he speaks in such shocking language, language not fit for any gentleman to use ".
" No gentleman ," he remarked, " can be without three copies of a book, one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.
His fortunes later revived after the success of his son, and he was granted a coat of arms five years before his death, probably at the instigation and expense of his playwright son, entitling him to use the honorific " gentleman ", conventionally designated by the title " Master " or its abbreviations " Mr ." or " M ." prefixed to his surname.
While in French this word remained restricted to the feudal use for a ( knight's ) squire, in modern English it came to be used for the various other male servants originally called va ( r ) let other than the gentleman's gentleman, when in livery usually called lackey, such as the valet de pied (' foot varlet ', compare footman ).
It remains in use, for example, as a counterpart to " gentleman ," in the phrase " ladies and gentlemen ," and is generally interchangeable ( in a strictly informal sense ) with " woman " ( as in, " The lady at the store said I could return this item within thirty days .").
The Fifth Obligation: At all times be a gentleman and use moderation in all things.
Royall, a learned gentleman farmer twenty years Anne's senior, took an interest in her and arranged for her education, introducing her to the works of Shakespeare and Voltaire, and allowing her to make free use of his extensive library.
Therefore all gentlemen who bear old ( coats of ) arms ought to honour Sir Tristram for the goodly terms that gentlemen have and use, and shall until Doomsday, that through them all men of respect may distinguish a gentleman from a yeoman and a yeoman from a villein.
Always the gentleman, his use of the phrase " by Timothy " was the nearest he ever got to swearing.
After Ochterlony's death, she inherited Mubarak Bagh, an Anglo-Mughal garden tomb he had built in the north of Old Delhi, but her intense unpopularity combined with her dancing girl background ensured that no Mughal gentleman would use her structure.
This Schaghticoke estate was held by Johannes Harmensen's son Johannes ( 1723 – 1802 ), a colonel in the Continental Army in the War of Independence, and by his son Herman, ( 1779 – 1855 ), a lawyer, a Federalist representative in Congress in 1809-1811, a member of the New York Assembly in 1816, and a famous gentleman of the old school, who for his courtly hospitality in his manor was called the " prince of Schaghticoke ," and whose name was borrowed by Washington Irving for use in his ( Diedrich ) Knickerbocker's History of New York ( 1809 ).

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