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This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
Moving as he is into the phase of the campaign which demands conviction of him, he adopts a position that is morally indefensible.
For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.
This is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but also by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in position to provide help.
The formal position of Americans who identify themselves with one or more of the several identities of the Jewish symbol is already clear ; ;
Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.
Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.
That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
The new President is in no position to start out his dealings with Moscow by issuing callable bluffs.
But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.
The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.
`` A better position for negotiations is the real point of this speech.
-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.
Perhaps Khrushchev is in a more difficult position than any since 1957, when the `` anti-party group '' nearly liquidated him.
The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.
After you have taken a breather, reverse the position of your legs so that the front thigh of the previous exercise is now to the rear, and the rear thigh now to the front, and perform the same movement in the same manner.
If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.
As an engineer approaches the plant the position of the home signal is seen in advance when he passes the `` distant '' signal located beyond the limits of the interlocking plant.
Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.
The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

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But because teeth sometimes may drift back to their original position, a retaining appliance is used to lock them in place.
The expectation of obtaining these sinecures drew young men towards the church in considerable numbers, and the class of abbés so formed — abbés de cour they were sometimes called, and sometimes ( ironically ) abbés de sainte espérance, ( abbés of holy hope ; or the pun, of St. Hope )— came to hold a recognized position.
Now queen, Amalasuntha made her cousin Theodahad partner of her throne ( not, as sometimes stated, her husband, for his wife was still living ), with the intent of strengthening her position.
An inside director who is employed as a manager or executive of the organization is sometimes referred to as an executive director ( not to be confused with the title executive director sometimes used for the CEO position ).
At that time, the position next to the driver was said to be occupied by an " express messenger " or sometimes colloquially a " shotgun messenger ".
In order to reinforce his position that the Greeks were inclined towards plagiarism, he cites numerous instances of such inappropriate appropriation by classical Greek writers, reported second-hand from On Plagiarism, an anonymous 3rd century BC work sometimes ascribed to Aretades.
Even apart from documents drawn up jointly with other churches, it has sometimes, in view of the central position it attributes to the See of Rome, adopted the adjective " Roman " for the whole church, Eastern as well as Western, as in the papal encyclicals Divini illius Magistri and Humani generis.
Cetaceans ' blowholes have evolved to a position at the top of the head, simplifying breathing in sometimes rough seas.
Bassists who stand and bow sometimes set the endpin by aligning the first finger in either first or half position with eye level, although there is little standardization in this regard.
The position of emperor is a territory-independent phenomenon — the emperor is the emperor, even if he has followers only in one province ( as was the case sometimes with the southern and northern courts ).
Still, sometimes, even leading religious authorities and theologians misleadingly present their fatwā as obligatory, or try to adopt some " in-between " position.
However, Lord Russell sometimes liked to use this position to speak for the whole government, as if he were the prime minister.
Turret presses, most commonly of the " C " type, are similar to single stage presses, but permit mounting all of the dies for one cartridge ( or sometimes two cartridges ) simultaneously, with each die being installed and correctly locked in position with lock rings onto the press at the same time.
Rau was known as a practising Christian ( and sometimes titled, " Brother John ", to ridicule his intense Christian position ; however, he sometimes used this term himself ).
Natural law is sometimes identified with the maxim that " an unjust law is no law at all ", but as John Finnis, the most important of modern natural lawyers has argued, this maxim is a poor guide to the classical Thomist position.
Unlike other lanthanides, which lie in the f-block of the periodic table, this element lies in the d-block ; however, lanthanum is sometimes placed on the d-block lanthanide position.
That appears to be a monist position, but the Madhyamaka views-including variations like Prasangika and Yogacara and the more modern shentong ( which is sometimes criticized as stating the existence of an absolute ) Tibetan position-will refrain from asserting any ultimately existent entity.
* Stage V: Thirty-six to seventy-two hours after last dose: Increase in the above, fetal position, vomiting, free and frequent liquid diarrhea, which sometimes can accelerate the time of passage of food from mouth to out of system to an hour or less, involuntary ejaculation, which is often painful, saturation of bedding materials with bodily fluids, weight loss of two to five kilos per 24 hours, increased white cell count and other blood changes.
Symptothermal methods combine observations of basal body temperature ( BBT ), cervical mucus, and sometimes cervical position.
An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations.
Because of their position between the two main systems of law, these types of legal systems are sometimes referred to as " mixed " systems of law.

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