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is and true
The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.
If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.
That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
The resulting picture might appear a maze of restless confusions and contradictions, but it is more true to life than a portrait of an artificially contrived order.
`` What is more true than anything else??
To swim is true, and to sink is true.
One is not more true than the other.
that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.
A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
`` The man's true reputation is his work ''.
Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.
Of few authors is this more true than of Heidenstam.
it is true that they are also extremely dull.
Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

is and because
This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
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.
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
Or is it relevant because it teaches us something useful to know about ourselves??
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates.
It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.
If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

is and savings
The savings are not as great, however, as is sometime supposed.
He said his plan is designed to `` meet the needs of those millions who have no wish to receive care at the taxpayers' expense, but who are nevertheless staggered by the drain on their savings -- or those of their children -- caused by an extended hospital stay ''.
One way to use the savings is to purchase larger lots, which permits more amenities at the same cost.
This is related to the loss of savings deposited in the Zagreb branch of the former Ljubljanska Banka.
It is usually necessary to increase the total sample size to achieve equivalent precision in the estimators, but cost savings may make that feasible.
Sometimes the space savings is given instead, which is defined as the reduction in size relative to the uncompressed size:
and instead of space savings, one speaks of data-rate savings, which is defined as the data-rate reduction relative to the uncompressed data rate:
In particular, some authors use the term ' compression ratio ' to mean ' space savings ', even though the latter is not a ratio ; and others use the term ' compression ratio ' to mean its inverse, even though that equates higher compression ratio with lower compression.
This is an order of magnitude higher than traditional space propulsion methods, resulting in a mass savings of approximately half.
When the efficiency of a motor is raised by even a few percentage points, the savings, in kilowatt hours ( and therefore in cost ), are enormous.
The modernization is expected to deliver significant productivity gains and cost savings to NASA.
Another important discovery is that of savings.
The second list was generally memorized faster, and this difference between the two learning curves is what Ebbinghaus called “ savings ”.
However, the biggest chunk of Italian public debt is owned by national subjects, and relatively high levels of private savings and low levels of private indebtedness are seen as making it the safest among Europe's struggling economies.
This is predicted to result in a long-term cost savings relative to multiple daily injections.
Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, that is generally expressed in monetary terms.
But a summary of its essence is that it is a collection of insurance coverages ( including components of life insurance, disability income insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance, and others ), plus retirement savings, that requires participation by all citizens.
The Mint states that multi-ply plated steel technology, already used in Canada's smaller coinage, produces an electromagnetic signature that is harder to counterfeit than that for regular alloy coins ; also, using steel provides cost savings and avoids fluctuations in price or supply of nickel.
While reducing the cargo reshipment rates for New Zealand industry, this is seen by some as a heavy blow for local competitors, who, specialised in coastal shipping only, are less able to achieve the costs savings of large lines – these can generally operate profitably even without cargo on New Zealand-internal legs of their routes, and are thus able to underbid others.
In more technical terms, Krugman argues that the private sector savings curve is elastic even during a balance sheet recession ( responsive to changes in real interest rates ) disagreeing with Koo's view that it is inelastic ( non-responsive to changes in real interest rates ).

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