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they sweated out some kind of formal education ; ;
Instead, we became involved in a series of friendly, but overly formal, welcoming addresses to which we had no choice but to reply in kind.
At that meeting, Athanasius was accused of threatening to interfere with the supply of grains from Egypt, and, without any kind of formal trial, was exiled by Constantine to Trier in the Rhineland.
" A formal defection of this kind was then noted in the register of the person's baptism, an annotation that, like those of marriage or ordination, was independent of the fact of the baptism and was not an actual " debaptism ", even if the person who formally defected from the Catholic Church had also defected from the Christian religion.
In 3 dimensions, a differential 0-form is simply a function f ( x, y, z ); a differential 1-form is the following expression: a differential 2-form is the formal sum: and a differential 3-form is defined by a single term: ( Here the a-coefficients are real functions ; the " wedge products ", e. g. can be interpreted as some kind of oriented area elements,, etc.
In no other city-state did women receive any kind of formal education.
A kumite may begin with a formal movement but is transformed progressively into a kind of free dance between two partners.
For cases of gross neglect of administrative duty, formal law will regulate the kind of provisions to be made in deviation of Articles 125 and 127 ( Article 132, sub 4 )
In computer science, specifically software engineering, formal methods are a particular kind of mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
The formal scientific name of a cultivar, like Solanum tuberosum ‘ King Edward ’, is a way of uniquely designating a particular kind of plant.
Because the elimination of functional predicates is both convenient for some purposes and possible, many treatments of formal logic do not deal explicitly with function symbols but instead use only relation symbols ; another way to think of this is that a functional predicate is a special kind of predicate, specifically one that satisfies the proposition above.
An axiomatic system that is completely described is a special kind of formal system ; usually though the effort towards complete formalisation brings diminishing returns in certainty, and a lack of readability for humans.
Of the ' two major socializing agents in children's lives: the family environment ... and formal educational institutions ,' it is ' the family in its function a primary socializer of the child ' that predominates in the first five years of life: middle childhood by contrast is characterized by ' a child's readiness for school ... being self-assured and interested ; knowing what kind of behavior is expected ... being able to wait, to follow directions, and getting along with other children.
Tacit knowledge ( as opposed to formal or explicit knowledge ) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalising it.
The older, formal kind of hula is called kahiko, while the modern version is auana.
Close to 8 % of Americans are unbanked, meaning around 9 million are without any kind of bank account or formal financial services.
The ci is a kind of lyric poetry using a poetic meter based upon certain patterns of fixed-rhythm formal types, of which there were about 800 of these set patterns, each associated with a particular title.
This kind of Buddhism had little to offer the illiterate and uneducated masses, and led to the growth of " people ’ s priests " who were not ordained and had no formal Buddhist training.
A subsequent, lazy consensus in mainstream Hispanism has deemed Ramón ’ s reputation to have been overrated, but the comparison with Proust and Joyce seems justified, whilst recognizing that what differentiates him from their modernist cult of large-scale structures and formal perfection is precisely his avant-garde experimentation with a fragmentary, anarchic formlessness on the one hand, and on the other, his dedication to a kind of untranscendental meditation in a present usually severed from Joyce ’ s classical archetypes and Proust ’ s memories of the past.
Several Axé music groups such as " É o Tchan " have as part of their marketing strategy to always release a choreography together with every one of their songs ; therefore, Samba Axé is an ever-changing kind of dance with no commitment to maintaining any formal set of steps or routines ( there's actually no such a thing as a basic step in Samba Axé.
A boater ( also straw boater, basher, skimmer, cady, katie, somer, sennit hat, or in Japan, can-can hat ) is a kind of men's formal summer hat.
The word μίτρα, mítra, ( or, in its Ionic form, μίτρη, mítrē ) first appears in Greek and signifies either of several garments: a kind of waist girdle worn under a cuirass, as mentioned in Homer's Iliad ; a headband used by women for their hair ; a sort of formal Babylonian head dress, as mentioned by Herodotus ( Histories 1. 195 and 7. 90 ).
Many young women in mid-19th century England had no access to the kind of formal secondary schooling which would have enabled them to go straight into the same university courses as the young men-Anne Jemima Clough herself was never a pupil in a school.
His " New English Grammar " is also considered, by modern historians of formal English as a work of foreign language teaching and as the first work of its kind in the English language.

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Loyal and unscrupulous, with a single-minded ambition to which he devoted all his energies, he outmatched the English diplomats time and time again until, by a kind of poetic justice, he fell at the battle of Courtrai, the victim of the equally nationalistic if less articulate Flemings.
The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;
Anthony Burgess writes that " Australian English may be thought of as a kind of fossilised Cockney of the Dickensian era.
The fruit is a peculiar kind of capsule named siliqua ( plural siliquae, American English silique / siliques ).
: ( 1 ) in France, a kind of " cookie " ( or " biscuit " in British English ), similar to a biscotto ;
The language of Don Quixote, although still containing archaisms, is far more understandable to modern Spanish readers than is, for instance, the completely medieval Spanish of the Poema de mio Cid, a kind of Spanish that is as different from Cervantes's language as Middle English is from Modern English.
Never was there such a dame school as ours, so firm and kind and smelling of galoshes, with the sweet and fumbled music of the piano lessons drifting down from upstairs to the lonely schoolroom, where only the sometimes tearful wicked sat over undone sums, or to repent a little crime — the pulling of a girl's hair during geography, the sly shin kick under the table during English literature.
The continued growth of the English language itself is seen by many as a kind of cultural imperialism, whether it is English in one form or English in two slightly different forms.
However, historians dispute whether this archery used a different kind of bow to the later English Longbow.
A shallow approach which simply guessed at the sense of the ambiguous English phrase that Piron mentions ( based, perhaps, on which kind of prisoner-of-war camp is more often mentioned in a given corpus ) would have a reasonable chance of guessing wrong fairly often.
It includes some Inuit and First Nations words ( for example tabanask, a kind of sled ), preserved archaic English words no longer found in other English dialects ( for example pook, a mound of hay ), Irish language survivals like sleveen and angishore, compound words created from English words to describe things unique to Newfoundland ( for example stun breeze, a wind of at least 20 knots ( 37 km / h )), English words which have undergone a semantic shift ( for example rind, the bark of a tree ), and unique words whose origins are unknown ( for example diddies, a nightmare ).
Classically idea has been translated ( or transliterated ) as " idea ," but secondary literature now typically employs the term " form " ( or occasionally " kind ," usually in discussion of Plato's Sophist and Statesman ) to avoid confusion with the English word connoting " thought ".
The first example of this kind of research is Whorf's observation of discrepancies between the grammar of time expressions in Hopi and English.
In this kind of analysis, singular they in English is typically an example of a semantically bound variable,
In philosophy, it also refers to the ability of a subject to speak of or refer to himself, herself, or itself: to have the kind of thought expressed by the first person pronoun, the word " I " in English.
This kind of inoculation and other forms of variolation were introduced into England by Lady Montagu, a famous English letter-writer and wife of the English ambassador at Istanbul between 1716 and 1718, who almost died from smallpox as a young adult and was physically scarred from it.

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Limestone cliffs are particularly vulnerable to this kind of erosion.
From earliest times, some kind of government has arguably been a vital part of every human society — though this refers only to a particularly loose definition of government.
While Leonardo's experimentation followed clear scientific methods, a recent and exhaustive analysis of Leonardo as scientist by Frtijof Capra argues that Leonardo was a fundamentally different kind of scientist from Galileo, Newton and other scientists who followed him in that, as a Renaissance Man, his theorising and hypothesising integrated the arts and particularly painting.
A general kind of lossy compression is to lower the resolution of an image, as in image scaling, particularly decimation.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and wider Arab-Israeli issues are a particularly controversial area, and nearly all coverage of any kind generates accusation of bias from one or both sides.
They allow breath and pitch glide control that provide a more human and realistic kind of phrasing, particularly when playing sampled or physically modeled wind instrument parts.
The term " bangers " is attributed to the fact that sausages, particularly the kind made during World War II under rationing, were made with water so they were more likely to explode under high heat if not cooked carefully ; modern sausages do not have this attribute.
As used by some journalists, particularly sportswriters, " gaffe " becomes an imagined synonym for any kind of mistake, e. g., a dropped ball by a player in a baseball game.
* A particularly dangerous kind of Snark, a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll.
It was composed of twenty-six experts whose responsibility was to undertake studies, particularly in light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and make recommendations to the Commission concerning the prevention of discrimination of any kind relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms and the protection of racial, national, religious and linguistic minorities.
) Unlike the throat singers in other regions of the world, particularly Tibet, Mongolia and Tuva, the Inuit performers are usually women who sing only duets in a kind of entertaining contest to see who can outlast the other.
forms being wearg and wearh ) to refer to a wolf-like creature of a particularly evil kind.
Later, after the screenplay had been written and submitted, Breen reversed course, saying of the film that " It is a grand yarn that will do a great deal of good for all those who see it and, in my judgment, it is particularly fortunate that this kind of story is to be made at this time.
In the Middle Ages, the cathedral functioned as a kind of marketplace, with different commercial activities centred around the different portals, particularly during the regular fairs.
From Orcus ' association with death and the underworld, his name came to be used for demons and other underworld monsters, particularly in Italian where orco refers to a kind of monster found in fairy-tales that feeds on human flesh.
By the 1950s and 1960s, particularly in Europe, where it was more widely tolerated, blackface became a kind of outré, camp convention in some artistic circles.
* Marker buoys – used in naval warfare, particularly anti-submarine warfare, is a light-emitting or smoke-emitting, or both, marker using some kind of pyrotechnic to provide the flare and smoke.
His attraction to other women — particularly if they were rich — naturally incensed Olive, and she once succumbed to a fit of " lunaphobia " ( a kind of angry madness ) over one of his amours.
Joad saw the material world as distinct from matter, and came to see the human ' spirit ' living on after death providing a kind of life force or vital essence particularly present in the natural environment where people can feel the vital force of previous generations.
For anarchist historian George Woodcock " the modern pacifist anarchists ,... have tended to concentrate their attention largely on the creation of libertarian communities -- particularly farming communities -- within present society, as a kind of peaceful version of the propaganda by deed.
The Star was not particularly kind to hometown Democrat Harry Truman, who had been backed by famed big city Democratic Machine boss Tom Pendergast.
A compartment is usually some kind of landscape ( in the case of Scottish chiefs it is generally a " mount vert "-grassy mount covered with the clan's flower ) or seascape, and these can be quite elaborate, particularly in more recent Canadian grants, such as the compartment of the University of Northern British Columbia, in which the female kermodei bear and woodland caribou buck stand on a forest, mountain peaks and ears of wheat, all rising out of the conventionalised heraldic representation of water, which is itself charged with an orca as designed by Ron Sebastian.
The compulsator would be used to power a railgun, and potentially other pulsed energy weapons ( particularly electronic warfare systems ); also, the compulsator could be used in non-pulsed mode to drive a tank with electric motors for limited periods as a kind of " quiet mode ", which could be useful in urban combat.
Some digital versions of Bodoni are said to suffer from a particular kind of legibility degradation known as " dazzle " caused by the alternating thick and thin strokes, particularly from the thin strokes being very thin at small point sizes.

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