Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.

But he was `` afraid of the future -- he would in fact welcome a way back to social integration, a functional art of some kind ''.

How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.

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.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

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.

Sir -- Permit me to commend your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit them to.

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

And the few must win what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement would not support markets as we know them at all, and is, in fact, unimaginable.

For a statement of costs per kilowatt-hour would ignore the fact that many of these costs are not a function of kilowatt-hour output ( or consumption ) of energy.

Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.

As a matter of fact, Albert S. Flint expressed his conviction that `` her physical strength, her mental power, her lively interest in all objects about her and her readiness to serve her fellow beings '' would have led her `` to a distinguished career amongst the noted women of this country ''.

This is a significant fact in Japan, for only a few years ago he would have had no choice.

Added to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she wouldn't have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.

In fact, the neat balance of these pairs, and their subtle equilibrium, would have had special meaning in the minds of the Old Chinese.

He does not mean, in fact he addresses himself specifically to reject the proposition, that `` if we took the risk of surrendering, a new generation in Britain would soon begin to amass its strength in secret in order to reverse the consequences of that surrender ''.

However, many would disagree with this hypothesis ; in fact, many of the popular mouthwashes contain sodium lauryl sulfate as an ingredient ( e. g., Listerine Total Care ).

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

This was not, however, the point in which Alfred came to be known as King of England ; in fact he would never adopt the title for himself.

Generally the absent zee-rhyme is not missed, although some children use a zee pronunciation in the rhyme which they would not use elsewhere.

A lighted candle would be sitting on the night stand beside her bed and after she was through delivering one of her bizarre stories, sometimes a re-written nursery rhyme, she'd giggle, wink to the camera, and blow out the candle ... end of skit.

Melle Mel is cited as an Old School MC who epitomizes the Old School flow – Kool Moe Dee says, “ from 1970 to 1978 we rhymed one way Melle Mel, in 1978, gave us the new cadence we would use from 1978 to 1986 ... he ’ s the first emcee to explode in a new rhyme cadence, and change the way every emcee rhymed forever.

They, too, were considered an integral part of the rhyme, so that " pont " could rhyme only with " vont " and not with " long "; but this cannot be reduced to a simple rule about the spelling, since " pont " would also rhyme with " rond " even though one word ends in " t " and the other in " d ".

This is because the correctness of the rhyme depends not on the spelling on the final consonant, but on how it would have been pronounced.

In fact, only the " silent " final consonants which would be able to be pronounced the same way, if they were followed by a vowel, are able to rhyme together.

His sardonic sense of humour is evident throughout, as when, during his description of the Athenian plague, he remarks that old Athenians seemed to remember a rhyme which said that with the Dorian War would come a " great death ".

" used to solicit agreement or confirmation is also heard regularly amongst speakers in Australia ( where it is sometimes spelled " ay " on the assumption that " eh " would rhyme with " heh " or " meh ").

Spenser would have been familiar with this rhyme scheme and simply added a line to the stanza, forming " ababbcbcc.

On stage the DJ would provide the music for the MCs to rhyme to, scratching records during the performance and showcasing his skills alongside the verbal skills of the MC.

Traditional forms of Chinese poetry are rhymed, however the mere rhyming of text may not qualify literature as being poetry ; and, as well, the lack of rhyme would not necessarily disqualify a modern work from being considered poetry, in the sense of modern Chinese poetry.

Using English as an example, we would be hard-pressed to find rhyme or even meter in the opening verses of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in Middle English, if we were to pronounce the words of that poem as we pronounce their direct descendants in Modern English.

Although he would not today be considered a poetical genius, he may justly claim to have been the " father of German poetry " in respect at least of its form ; his Buch von der deutschen Poeterey ( 1624 ) put an end to the hybridism that had until then prevailed, and established rules for the " purity " of language, style, verse and rhyme.

It is activated when Duckula enters an upright coffin while saying where he wants it to take him ( often, he would have to come up with a rhyme to activate it properly ).

To accomplish such a feat as well as they have, they used complicated rhyme schemes that would render a poem nonsensical if any of the key words were changed from the original version.

As far as Group Home was concerned, Premier commented, " They don't respect what fed them ," in a 2003 interview, going on to say that the only reason he produced a track on their second album was because Guru said he would rhyme on it.

Thus, it would appear that the name of St. Clements was selected by the rhymer simply for its consonance with the word ‘ lemons ’, and it now seems more likely that the melody called ‘ Oranges and Limons ’ predates the rhyme itself.

There is a surviving rhyme about him to the effect that " honest Lumpy did allow he ne ' er would pitch but o ' er a brow ".

Another special feature of the show was that some episodes were done entirely in rhyme, in which case the character who found the polka dot shorts would exclaim, " Polka dot shorts, a great big pair!

Written Chinese has always been in the classical form, so Wu speakers would have written in this classical form and read it in a literary form of their dialect based on the phonetic distinctions outlined in rhyme dictionaries.

These included Mime Lady segments, animated quizzes designed to test a child's observation, narrated storybooks, and popular nursery rhymes ( which an unseen Muffy would introduce with " And now I'd like to introduce a nursery rhyme by Mother Goose ").

Buchanan came out and attacked Rikishi after the match thus aligning himself with Cena, who had recently developed a rapper gimmick in which he would freestyle rhyme about his opponent as he made his entrance.