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reason and is
I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.
Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.
For this reason, too, their language is more forthright and earthy.
The mind has betrayed them, reason is the foe of life ; ;
Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Some even say that this is the reason for the ultimate acceptance of the former.
The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.
There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.
`` The reason for this '', the orders said, `` is that the enemy may think to take advantage of the celebration of this day.
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.
One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.
The other reason ( and the one with which I am here concerned ) is that one thus becomes inclined to inquire of any opinion, or change of opinion, whether it represents the wisdom of experience or is only the result of the difference between youth and age which is as inevitable as the all too obvious physical differences.
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
Conceived as an organ of economic cooperation, there is no reason why O.E.C.D. cannot evolve into a broader instrument of union if its members so desire.
The trouble with this machinery is that it is not used and the reason that it is not used is the absence of a conscious sense of community among the free nations.

reason and when
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.
Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.
But there is every reason to regard deal as a monosyllable, and because of the fact that /l/ commonly has the quality of AAb/ when it follows vowel sounds, deal seems to be a perfectly satisfactory rhyme with deal.
and a policeman asserted he had found a pair of brass knuckles in Art's pocket once when he had occasion to collar the Great First Baseman for some forgotten reason.
The reason for this bears explaining for those who may wonder why State spends so much of its diplomatic energy on Congress when the Russians are so available.
in effect, he was practicing what he preached in his Berlin message two weeks ago when he declared: `` We shall always be prepared to discuss international problems with any and all nations that are willing to talk, and listen, with reason ''.
You also, when you were dead by reason of your offenses and sins.
There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty good time at `` Donnybrook '', unless they are permanently in the mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable Irish.
But the greater reason for fumbling, stumbling American leadership is due to the shock her pride suffered when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor.
However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.
For whatever reason, Ealdred gave up the see of Worcester in 1062, when papal legates arrived in England to hold a council and make sure that Ealdred relinquished Worcester.
For this reason many people refer to any 625 / 25 type signal as " PAL " and to any 525 / 30 signal as " NTSC ", even when referring to digital signals, for example, on DVD-Video which don't contain any analog color encoding, thus no PAL or NTSC signals at all.
For this reason, a low dose of a benzodiazepine is often used for several weeks when initiating SSRI / SNRI therapy in order to counteract the initial anxiety caused by the drugs until the therapeutic delay of the SSRI / SNRI is finished and the drug becomes effective.
There was much dispute about the questionability of the reason why there was another AMD treaty when one had failed not many years before.
These contradictions are inherent in reason when it is applied to the world as it is in itself, independently of our perceptions of it ( this has to do with the distinction between phenomena and noumena ).
This is the reason for specifying computer hard drive capacities of, say, 100 GB, when it contains 93 GiB of storage space.
First, common law courts are not absolutely bound by precedent, but can ( when extraordinarily good reason is shown ) reinterpret and revise the law, without legislative intervention, to adapt to new trends in political, legal and social philosophy.
Hence I can see no reason to doubt that natural selection might be most effective in giving the proper colour to each kind of grouse, and in keeping that colour, when once acquired, true and constant.
Some Conservative theologians, like Seymour Siegel have stressed that the word, " Conservative ," must be understood in the way it is used in the British political system: that the laws and traditions have to be conserved or preserved, with changes allowed only when there is an overriding reason — almost always, an overriding ethical reasonto do so.
One episode in Series 5 of Steptoe and Son was entitled " Any Old Iron ", for the same reason, when Albert thinks that Harold is ' on the turn '.
One reason for the popularity of the dissociation constant in biochemistry and pharmacology is that in the frequently encountered case where x = y = 1, K < sub > d </ sub > has a simple physical interpretation: when = K < sub > d </ sub >, = or equivalently /(+)= 1 / 2.
This is typically done at regular intervals ( e. g., weekly or monthly ), but there is no reason why EV cannot be accumulated in near real-time, when work elements are started / completed.

reason and characters
Later he lies freely in order to gain the confidences of other characters, either inventing his own reason for being interested in the case or a family excuse for pursuing a line of questioning.
At first, the fact that he was asked back to audition for the recurring role slightly puzzled him, until he discovered the reason he had not previously been cast in those roles — Carter had been unable to envision Pileggi as any of those characters, because the actor had been shaving his head.
The reason behind this was that Gillian Anderson wanted to move on, so the production crew moved up Monica Reyes and Walter Skinner to main characters of the show to illustrate that season nine was not like the previous seasons.
Another reason is that the characters and their emotions are more reminiscent of the lives of real people than those in most Egyptian myths, making the story more appealing to the general populace.
Filmmakers Ralph Bakshi and Peter Jackson stated that the reason the characters were omitted from their films was because, in their view, he ( Bombadil ) does little to advance the story, and would make their films unnecessarily long.
For some reason that escape sequence was ignored by DC ++ developers and they use HTML equivalent if these characters are to be viewed by the user.
The reason for many discrepancies in the telling of the myth is because playwrights such as Euripides modified the stories about Iphigenia to make them more palatable for the audiences and make sequels using the same characters.
The main reason for this is that, unlike with traditional phonetic input methods, one does not have to spend time selecting the desired character from a list of homophonic possibilities: virtually all characters have a unique representation.
These include such things as unlikely behaviour or actions of characters, illogical or impossible events, events happening for no apparent reason, or statements / events that contradict earlier events in the storyline.
Paul Verhoeven himself and many other people have stated that the reason why the film failed at the box office was because audiences were alienated by the film's misanthropic attitude not only toward its characters and subject matter, but of the general human existence.
Sekhmet is used in The 39 Clues book Beyond the Grave and is the reason why the characters travel to Cairo.
Usually his jokes involves scenarios where Condorito and / or other characters had died and for any reason they are not able to enter Heaven.
Part of the reason was that it was a request from the Ribon publishers, who wanted a female as the central character as the story was going to be included in a " Mother's Day " set with magnets featuring the characters.
Problems like this grow exponentially in the number of computations they require, and are one reason why exponentially difficult problems are called " intractable " in computer science: for even small numbers like the 40 or 50 characters described earlier, the number of computations required exceeds even theoretical limits on mankind's computing power.
" He finished by saying, " Mrs. Christie provides a little gallery of thumb-nail sketches of plausible characters ; she gives us all the clues and even tells us where to look for them ; we ought to find the murderer by reason, but are not likely to succeed except by guesswork.
The characters act completely differently to how they do in later seasons ; Lisa, for example, is indisciplined and short-tempered, while Homer is the voice of reason ; these roles are reversed in later episodes.
The state of mind which attributes to it these characters of a living creature is one in which the reason is unhinged by grief .”
Kenny said that he voices " a lot of sweet yellow characters for some reason.
Part of the reason for his self-imposed isolation ( and only part of it-his isolation was closely connected to his writing and is often featured among his characters ) was the fact that, for most of his life, Blanchot suffered from poor health.
A State Language Commission official cited " oversimplification " as the reason for restoring some characters.
Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious ; his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.
In addition to the superheroes a trio of sidekicks was introduced, each of whom were new characters not drawn from the comic books: Wendy and Marvin ( voiced by Sherri Alberoni and Frank Welker ) and Wonder Dog ( also voiced by Frank Welker ), none of whom had any special abilities ( save the dog's unexplained ability to reason and " talk ").
After a complication involving Street Fighter characters, they decide to help the agents figure out the reason for their appearance, as well as many other visitors from other dimensions.

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