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They seem to act as reservoirs into which the fluid which is used to keep the proboscis " erect " can withdraw when it is retracted, and from which the fluid can be driven out when it is wished to expand the proboscis.
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They and seem
This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.
They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.
They seem to feel that because they fought on the right side during the Civil War, and won, they have earned the right merely to deplore what is going on in the South, without taking any responsibility for it ; ;
They can be exuberant or sentimental, flirtatious or funny, but the only thing they seem unable to be is dull.
They show how our conscious experience can discriminate between infinitely different possible scenes and details ( differentiation ) because it integrates those details from our sensory systems, while the integrative nature of consciousness in this view easily explains how our experience can seem unified as one whole despite all of these individual parts.
They seem to have appeared there at about the same time that other new Semitic peoples, the Arameans and the Sutu appeared in Babylonia, circa 1000 BC.
They go on to add, " Most contemporaries seem in fact to have held him in high esteem, and he certainly inspired loyalty in a way his brother could not ".
They never seem to succeed, despite being supreme fighters, brilliant detectives, extraordinary hackers and duplicitous conwomen.
They do not seem to have been politically centralised: coins are relatively rare, none of them locally minted, and the structure, distribution and construction of Bronze Age and Iron Age hill forts, " rounds " and defensible farmsteads in the south west point to a number of smaller tribal groups living alongside each other.
They seem in Words to acknowledge the King of Portugal for their Sovereign ; yet they will not accept any Officers sent by him.
They seem to have radiated in the Gelasian ( Late Pliocene, roughly 2. 5-2 mya, probably starting in tropical East Africa, as indicated by mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data analysis and considerations of biogeography.
They produced very little sculpture in the round, except for colossal guardian figures, often the human-headed lamassu, which are sculpted in high relief on two sides of a rectangular block, with the heads effectively in the round ( and also five legs, so that both views seem complete ).
They were mainly small states, though some confederations of republics seem to have formed that covered large areas, such as Vajjian Confederacy, which had Vaishali as its capital around 600 BC.
They say that these efforts make Judaism seem an easy religion to join and observe when in reality being Jewish entails many difficulties and sacrifices.
They and act
They had spent the morning revising the act, eliminating all the gay songs, patter and dancing with a view of the best public relations.
Thornburg added in a lower voice but Andy overheard, `` They act more like a jury than an audience ''.
They then analysed the responses to generate an estimate of a person's tendency to act altruistically and compared each person's level of altruism against their fMRI brain scan.
They are also abundant components of the peptidoglycan cell walls of bacteria, and-serine may act as a neurotransmitter in the brain.
They may not administer Penance ( Reconciliation ), Anointing of the Sick ( Extreme Unction ), or function as an ordained celebrant or concelebrant of the Mass ( by virtue of their office and their training and institution, they may act, if the need arises, as altar servers, lectors, ushers, porters, or Eucharistic ministers of the Cup, and if need be, the Host ).
They act very similarly when exposed to ultraviolet light and most toxins, but at elevated temperatures the phytoplankton reacts negatively, while the thermophilic zooplankton reacts positively to the increase in temperature.
They also suggested that such killing is in fact a benevolent act, because the slaughtered animal will attain a high rebirth in the cycle of reincarnation.
They believed that amok was caused by the hantu belian, which was an evil tiger spirit that entered one ’ s body and caused the heinous act.
They have also been shown to act as mechano-sensory receptors — regulating the bone's response to stress and mechanical load.
They act in ways enjoined in both Jewish and Christian precepts, that promote the well-being of others.
They signed to the major label but their unwillingness to be moulded and promoted as a major act caused conflict.
They named this substance " secretin " and coined the term hormone for chemicals that act in this way.
They participate in hydrogen bonds as hydrogen-bond acceptors, but cannot act as hydrogen-bond donors, unlike their parent alcohols.
They agreed to act together the following Easter and made Connolly the sixth member of the Military Committee.
They hear the most simple of criminal cases ( or sit when the Senior Magistrate is not in the Islands ) and they also act as the Licensing Justices who deal with alcohol-related applications, such as extended opening hours, special occasion licences, etc.
In response, former Channel 4 chief executive Sir Jeremy Isaacs describing Loach's intervention as an act of censorship, he said: " They must not allow someone who has no real position, no rock to stand on, to interfere with their programming.
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