he was long past the point of coherent thinking.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

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.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.

It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.

it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

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 ''.

He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.

There was a pretty thorough silence at that point.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

The gradient was about one half of a millidegree at 4.2 Af but increased to several millidegrees for bath temperatures slightly greater than the **yl point.

`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.

`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''??

In this way, we can succinctly state that two vectors point in the same direction if and

The point is succinctly made in a popular Sicilian proverb Cu è surdu, orbu e taci, campa cent ' anni ' mpaci (" He who is deaf, blind, and silent will live a hundred years in peace ").

The aphorism: " Ask not what's inside your head, but what your head's inside of " succinctly captures that point.

* Narratio, in which the author succinctly states what will be the argument, thesis or point that is to be proven

" At that point, the accidents of bread and wine remain, i. e., it would appear to all senses that these continue to exist, while the substance has been entirely altered, a position succinctly summarised by St. Thomas Aquinas ' hymn, Adoro Te Devote ( see Catholic Encyclopedia article Adoro Te Devote ).

The third generation stressed history from the point of view of mentalities, or mentalités.

" The result of the crisis produced by the result of Alfonso I's will was a major reorientation of the peninsula's kingdoms: the separation of Aragon and Navarre, the union of Aragon and Catalonia and — a moot point but stressed particularly by some Castilian historians — the affirmation of ' Castilian hegemony ' in Spain " by the rendering of homage for Zaragoza by Alfonso's eventual heir, Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona.

The climate change theory has suggested that a change in climate near the end of the late Pleistocene stressed the megafauna to the point of extinction.

Kook, first Chief Rabbi of Israel, stressed that the climax of the story, commanding Abraham not to sacrifice Isaac, is the whole point: to put an end to the ritual of child sacrifice, which contradicts the morality of a perfect and giving ( not taking ) monotheistic God.

The " oneness of practice-enlightenment " was also a point stressed in the Bendōwa ( 弁道話 " A Talk on the Endeavor of the Path ") of 1231:

Goldstein said that the planned university was to be supported by contributions from Jewish organizations and individuals, and stressed the point that the institution was to be without quotas and open to all " regardless of race, color, or creed.

Hobsbawm stressed that since the utopia had not been created, the sacrifices were in fact not justified — a point he emphasised in Age of Extremes:

According to Geoffrey Dean at eSkeptic Magazine, the skeptic's assertion that " the highest mean total is nonsignificantly different from the observed total for Mars in sectors 1 and 4 " is falsified by the fact that " right from the start it was known that planetary effects ( not just Mars effects ) replicate — a point stressed in three of the references Panchin cites.

Wolf Gal was possibly, and even probably a cannibal — although the point was never stressed since she considered herself an animal, as did the rest of Dogpatch.

* Continuing the above point, the indefinite article < a > is often pronounced by many Indian English speakers as, irrespective of whether it is stressed or unstressed.

Traditional military values of bravery, sacrifice, sense of duty, and camaraderie are stressed, and the action is usually described from the point of view of a soldier or officer.

Big bounce models have a venerable history and were endorsed on largely aesthetic grounds by cosmologists including Willem de Sitter, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, George McVittie and George Gamow ( who stressed that " from the physical point of view we must forget entirely about the precollapse period ").

This last point was stressed by O ' Connor.

To speak of Galilean Judaism and Galilean Jews is to add an important qualifier, a point Meyer's work on Galilean regionalism stressed, but to juxtapose Galileans with Judeans, and to stress geographical differences at the expense of their common ethnicity, skews their common heritage and obscures their historical connections.

But although the above quotations point towards a magnetic explanation for displacement current, for example, based upon the divergence of the above curl equation, Maxwell's explanation ultimately stressed linear polarization of dielectrics:

If a low carbon steel is only stressed to some point between the upper and lower yield point then the surface may develop Lüder bands.

This point should be stressed for all hands.

Experts point out that in a country where many different boards are present common entrances are essential, but application skills rather than cramming should be stressed on.

Both owners stressed that they remain committed to the franchise, and were looking at returning to ABA competition at an undetermined point in the future.

Alan Lomax himself stressed repeatedly that completeness of sampling was not the point:

Additional functionalities, such as silane coatings, are commonly added to the surface of hollow glass microspheres to increase the matrix / microspheres interfacial strength ( the common failure point when stressed in a tensile manner ).

According to Pulleybank, the " point that needs to be stressed is that the Chinese conception of Da Qin was confused from the outset with ancient mythological notions about the far west ".

Edwards stressed the importance of restoring competition in health insurance markets noting that at one point, " the President of UnitedHealth made so much money, that one of every $ 700 that was spent in this country on health care went to pay him.