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They were, in a sense, `` tried out '' in realistic situations.
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They and were
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
They and sense
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 even accept the `` double standard '' of sex morality in a double sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men differ from standards for women, and women apply to both sexes a standard different from that held by men.
They have a sense of marginality at being denied that special badge of status, the out-of-town school.
They should sense the tremendous significance of joining the spiritual succession reaching back to Christ our Lord and forward to an eternal fellowship with the saints of the ages.
They are taking form in independent bookstores, coffeehouses, local pubs, and through new and innovative means to create the social capital needed to foster the sense and spirit of community.
They believe strongly in traditional values and traditional politics, and often have an urgent sense of nationalism.
They do not rely on existing codes and social norms but trust that as they are open to experiences they will be able to trust their own sense of right and wrong.
They might include the hiring of actors, the development of a season of plays or operas with a sense of coherence among them, assistance with and editing of new plays or operas by resident or guest playwrights or composers / librettists, the creation of programs or accompanying educational services, helping the director with rehearsals, and serving as elucidator of history or spokesperson for deceased or otherwise absent playwrights or composers.
Other states decohere into mixtures of stable pointer states that can persist, and, in this sense, exist: They are einselected.
They also contain a small proportion of heavier elements, and this fraction is referred to as a star's metallicity ( even if the elements are not metals in the traditional sense, such as iron ).
They postulate that these elements of reality are local, in the sense that each belongs to a certain point in spacetime.
They need a keen business sense, and an intimate knowledge of all aspects of film production, financing, marketing and distribution.
They have a good sense of smell and will move upstream in search of food such as dead fish, following the trail of scent molecules.
They have quarreled with their respective fathers, they are proud to be Saxons, they display a highly-evolved sense of justice, they support the rightful king even though he is of Norman-French ancestry, they are adept with weapons, and they each fall in love with a " fair maid " ( Rowena and Marian, respectively ).
In fact the activities banned on the Sabbath are not " work " in the usual sense: They include such actions as lighting a fire, writing, using money and carrying in the public domain.
They are good only in a negative sense, insofar as they are self-sufficient and thus not subject to the vices of political society.
They have, by the help of Divine Providence, overcome all obstacles, and have made themselves free ... I know not by what misfortune, we are fallen into the error of those, who poised the Emperor Titus to make room for Domitian, who made away Augustus that they might have Tiberius, and changed Claudius for Nero ... whereas the people of England are now renowned, all over the world, for their great virtue and discipline ; and yet suffer an idiot, without courage, without sense, nay, without ambition, to have dominion in a country of liberty.
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