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Throughout the centuries, except for the initiated, most of the Japanese common folk knew little about its secretive doctrines and the monks of this " Mantra School " except that besides performing the usual priestly duties of prayers, blessings and funeral rites for the public, they practiced only Mikkyō ( 密教 ）, literally " secret ways " in stark contrast to all other Buddhist schools and were called upon to perform mystical rituals that could summon rain, improve harvests, exorcise demons, avert natural disasters, heal the sick and protect the state.
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Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, when such bodies were discovered, they were often removed from the bogs and given a Christian burial on consecrated church ground in keeping with the religious beliefs of the community who found them, who often assumed them to be relatively modern.
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Throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, Freetown served as a very industrious area.
Throughout the centuries, Elburgh remained a fishing and farming center through the end of World War II.
Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Wayne Township remained a farming community.
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the company continued to make waterproof clothing.
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Throughout the centuries, Christians have used different metaphors and given differing explanations of the atonement to express how the atonement might work.
Throughout the centuries of eastward expansion of Russia Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples were assimilated and included into the emerging Russian nation.
Throughout the third and fourth centuries, Laodicea remained dependent on Antioch.
Throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries the concentration of wealth in Georgetown sparked the growth of many university-preparatory schools in and around the neighborhood.
Throughout the next few centuries Vikings conducted raids up the Severn, but by the 11th century the kingdom of Wessex had established civil government in the area.
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Throughout his parliamentary career, except for the period from 1994 – 2001 when he was a minister, he continued his law practice in Tangalle.
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Throughout the Southeast area ( except for the gentrified Eastern Market area closest to the United States Capitol ), basic shopping, dining, entertainment, and cultural facilities are minimal and scanty, so that residents must travel either downtown or to the suburbs for such services.
Throughout the series the soul of the human Bakura is almost entirely suppressed and he is continuously controlled by the spirit, except in rare moments where he is separated from the Ring or able to overpower the spirit.
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Throughout his life, Burke rarely left the city except for rare out of town gigs or his tours with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in the later years of his life.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, except during the Cyprus dispute, many types of U. S. Air Force warplanes, including F-4 Phantom IIs, F-15 Eagles, F-16 Fighting Falcons, F-111 Aardvarks, A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, and the C-130 Hercules were based at Incirlik.
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