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point and view
If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.
The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.
Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.
From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.
The Gog Magog Hills to the southeast afforded him and all other students a vantage point from which to view the town and university of their dwelling.
From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.
It's simple enough from my point of view.
Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.
While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.
Carleton aims throughout its entire teaching program to represent a point of view and a spirit which will contribute to the moral and religious development of its students.
The president who appoints strong men who have an all-college or university point of view and a talent and respect for administration can count on useful assistance.
From the manufacturer's point of view, the increasing cost of advertising and promotion is a very real problem to be faced in the sixties.
The opposition to this point of view has its staunchest support in the work of Miller ( '50 ).
From the point of view of the applicants, less time was wasted in being evaluated -- and they got a meal out of it as well as some insights into their performances.
From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;
From the point of view of word formation real might be expected to have two syllables.
Nevertheless, their conclusions and recommendations cannot please everybody, and they often represent a particular economic or political point of view.
If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.
Fromm's analysis of alienation in the sphere of production centers around the concepts of the bureaucratization of the corporation, the separation of ownership from control, and the broad ( and thus from the point of view of corporate control, ineffective ) dispersion of stock ownership.
Yet from the dentist's point of view, bad-fitting teeth should be corrected for physical reasons.
And even more complex items can be interpreted to conform to one's own point of view, which is by nature so personal.

point and has
It will be noted that point f has seven nearest neighbors, h and e have six, and p has only one, while the remaining points have intermediate numbers.
In his recent evaluation of Kennedy's potentialities for leadership, Walter Lippmann has cited the `` precision '' of his mind, his `` immense command '' of factual detail, and his `` instinct for the crucial point '' as impressive in the extreme ; ;
When disruptive change has penetrated to the third level of social order, the process of disruption rapidly reaches a point of no return.
His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.
At this point, of course, the issue has become complicated by a development unforeseen by Lappenberg and Kemble.
Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.
And now Mr. Hodges has pioneered further into the economic unknown with the announcement that he thinks business has stopped sliding and that it should start going upward from this point.
The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.
If design head has a deep cavity, clay lid will be quite thick at this point ; ;
Now, the machine has been improved to a point where it is generally more economical than oil heat at temperatures down to 15 degrees.
The square has one corner point on the straight line segment, and does not lie entirely in the interior.
In some neighborhood of an isolated tangent point in the f-plane, say Af, the function Af is either double-valued or has no values defined, except at the tangent point itself, where it is single-valued.
Up to this point stress has been placed on roleplaying in terms of individuals.
In such a case, any attitude would be as fitting or unfitting as any other, which means that the notion of fitness has lost all point.
where, of Costaggini, only some foliage has been washed, at the point where his work stopped.
To this point the need for an over-all plan for submarine defense has been demonstrated, the mission has been stated, broad principles delineating its content laid down, and the supporting elements listed.
The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

point and been
There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.
The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.
But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.
If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
Had I been granted the floor on a point of personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified.
The Jews for 2500 years have been a prime example, though the adherents of any world or interpeople religion are cases in point.
Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.
In a private communication written in 1911, Parker had been more to the point.
There was no point either in telling herself again what a fool she'd been.
Bake was waiting to report that Lou DuVol had been sobered up to the point where he could function efficiently.
She had grown up with young Jenkins, and he had heard that they had been at the point of getting married at least twice.
The reading, which has been watched with interest since Russia's detonation of a super bomb Monday, was 4 on Tuesday and 7 last Saturday, a level far below the danger point, according to the board of health.
If it was, then it must have been God's intention to translate him at a certain point from time to eternity.
It has been endlessly rephrased, but I may here put it thus: at what point do the tolerant find themselves obliged to become intolerant??
After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.
Twenty minutes after the interruption, although it was still raining, the play was resumed at the point in the fourth act where it had been stopped.
He made use of the time by undertaking far more intensive fieldwork than had been done by British anthropologists, and his classic ethnography, Argonauts of the Western Pacific ( 1922 ) advocated an approach to fieldwork that became standard in the field: getting " the native's point of view " through participant observation.

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