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.

The German victory over the numerically superior Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 validated this point.

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Another relevant example is SAT scores: These are validated by collecting the scores during the examinee's senior year and high school and then waiting a year ( or more ) to correlate the scores with their first year college grade point average.

In 2001, Khanna appeared in Farhan Akhtar's cult classic Dil Chahta Hai which turned out to be a turning point in his career ; the film was a commercial and critical success and Khanna's performance was particularly applauded, later validated by first Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2002.

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.

They estimate further that with sufficient experience and when cost-data of compact cars is compiled, the break-even point may be reduced to 7,500 miles of travel per year.

Combellack argues further, and here he makes his main point, that once The Iliad and The Odyssey are thought formulaic poems composed for an audience accustomed to formulaic poetry, Homeric critics are deprived of an entire domain they previously found arable.

He further gave a rule for the determination of the boiling point if the barometric pressure deviates from a certain standard pressure.

As Athlon XP-M CPUs were already rated running lower voltages than their desktop siblings, it was a better starting point for lowering voltage even further.

In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the evident expansion of the universe, if projected back in time, meant that the further in the past the smaller the universe was, until at some finite time in the past all the mass of the Universe was concentrated into a single point, a " primeval atom " where and when the fabric of time and space came into existence.

Even though it did not feel like it, this was a turning point in the club's history leading to a period of turbulence and change including further promotion and exile.

Much faster than the PDP-9 even in basic form, the PDP-15 also included a floating point unit and a separate input / output processor for further performance gains.

By exposing an azeotrope to a vacuum or positive pressure, it's possible to bias the boiling point of one component away from the other by exploiting the differing vapour pressure curves of each ; the curves may overlap at the azeotropic point, but are unlikely to be remain identical further along the pressure axis either side of the azeotropic point.

In further cases of the use of the term, " the reference to the conceptual homeland – to the ' classical ' diasporas – has become more attenuated still, to the point of being lost altogether ".

For the consumer, that point comes where marginal utility of a good, net of price, reaches zero, leaving no net gain from further consumption increases.

At the point where marginal profit reaches zero, further increases in production of the good stop.

This one sure point provided him with what he would call his Archimedean point, in order to further develop his foundation for knowledge.

" As phenomenology further evolves, it leads ( when viewed from another vantage point in Husserl's ' labyrinth ') to " transcendental subjectivity ".

From this point onwards Griffith certainly developed the device much further, gradually increasing the number of alternations between two, and later three, sets of parallel scenes, and also their speed.

If drain-to-source voltage is increased further, the pinch-off point of the channel begins to move away from the drain towards the source.

1942 At this point, Rommel decided his exhausted forces could make no further headway without resting and regrouping.

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He tried to solidify it by further reducing the temperature but failed because helium does not have a triple point temperature at which the solid, liquid, and gas phases are at equilibrium.

Below the lambda point, however, helium does not boil, and it expands as the temperature is lowered further.

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