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extent and Occupy
Those involved with the Occupy movement have been described as very much attached to their forms of participatory democracy, even to the extent of " fetishizing it.

extent and movement
but he quickly involves himself in the Young Turk revolutionary movement to such an extent that his own country begins to doubt his patriotism.
The very idea of there being `` count rules '' implies that there is some sort of proportion to be expected between the amount of congestive activity and the extent of the breakaway ( run up or run down ) movement.
However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
It was the task of the movement to reconcile that conflict of interest so as to enable savers to conclude that their interests and those of borrowers were to some extent complementary rather than conflictive.
More elaborate scales, such as the Glasgow Coma Scale, quantify an individual's reactions such as eye opening, movement and verbal response on a scale ; Glasgow Coma Scale ( GCS ) is an indication of the extent of brain injury varying from 3 ( indicating severe brain injury and death ) to a maximum of 15 ( indicating mild or no brain injury ).
In addition many bookmakers offer fixed odds on a number of non-sports related outcomes, for example the direction and extent of movement of various financial indices, the winner of television competitions such as Big Brother, and election results.
It influenced the German and Dutch Autonomen, the worldwide Social Centre movement, and today is influential in Italy, France, and to a lesser extent the English-speaking countries.
Custody means either that the suspect was under arrest or that his freedom of movement was restrained to an extent " associated with a formal arrest.
Various strands of Calvinist thought of the 17th century were taken up by different parts of the Puritan movement, and in particular Amyraldism was adopted by some influential figures ( John Davenant, Samuel Ward, and to some extent Richard Baxter ).
There is something of a modern movement amongst Yorkshire residents to attempt to claim the legend of Robin Hood, to the extent that South Yorkshire's new airport, on the site of the redeveloped RAF Finningley airbase near Doncaster, although ironically in the historic county of Nottinghamshire, has been given the name Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield.
The Ultramontanist movement after Italian Unification and the abrupt ( and unofficial ) end of the First Vatican Council in 1870 ( due to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ), and the opposing Conciliarism, became obsolete to a large extent.
However, such a tail highly flexible at the base but intensely stiffened elsewhere particularly against vertical movement is only found in association with the predatory foot claw ( to a lesser extent in troodonts ), and its design suggests and allows its use as an aid to the efficiency of the 2nd toe claw.
The impact of this road on migratory wildlife will undoubtedly be negative and reduce the aesthetic value of the ecosystems, but the magnitude of the impact ( in numerical terms ) on the population will depend on the extent to which the road acts as a barrier to movement, causes collision mortalities, and opens the area to illegal hunting.
Another study was done to investigate movement extent and speed using PET mapping of regional cerebral blood flow in 13 humans.
It was found that " increasing movement extent was associated with parallel increases of rCBF in bilateral basal ganglia ( BG ; putamen and globus pallidus ) and ipsilateral cerebellum.
Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-tenth century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, " the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life ", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.
Together these sensors provide 6 component motion sensing ; acceleration for X, Y, and Z movement, and gyroscopes for measuring the extent and rate of rotation in space ( roll, pitch and yaw ).
( Historians continue to debate the extent and significance of this movement.
The extent to which he engineered this has been hotly debated ever since, and was even at the time regarded as ironic by many in the Labor movement given Hughes ' violent hostility to earlier Labor " rats " like Joseph Cook.
This stance was reaffirmed very clearly in a discussion on “ To what extent is the SI a political movement ?”, during the Fourth SI Conference in London.
" ( p. 128 ) Rice believes that " the Precession is fundamental to an understanding of what powered the development of Egypt " ( p. 10 ), to the extent that " in a sense Egypt as a nation-state and the king of Egypt as a living god are the products of the realisation by the Egyptians of the astronomical changes effected by the immense apparent movement of the heavenly bodies which the Precession implies.
Quite a significant number of the citizen groupings known collectively as the antifascist ' partisan movement ' that did much to defeat fascist forces during the war, were politically communist-oriented or otherwise radical left in political views, such as left communists and anarchists – continuing to a great extent the political spirit of the failed Republican forces that fought Franco during the Spanish Civil War and the anarchist forces who briefly established a social-anarchist society in Catalonia, among other similar precedents.
The Fred Bronner Corp., American importer of Lesney toys, took a first step towards organizing this movement to a small extent by creating the " Matchbox Collectors Club ", which produced a polished, quarterly, 4-6 page newsletter for a small membership fee, starting in the late ' 60s.
While the extent of his participation is unclear, Attucks became an icon of the anti-slavery movement and was held up as an example of the first black hero of the American Revolution.

extent and attempted
It is not known to what extent escaping German sailors attempted to surrender as they were not asked before shooting them.
A survey approaching the scope and extent of the Domesday Book was not attempted until the Return of Owners of Land, 1873 which presented the first subsequent complete picture of the distribution of landed property in the British Isles and is thus sometimes referred to as the " Modern Domesday ".
Pope attempted to conceal the extent of the collaboration ( he himself translated only twelve books, Broome eight and Fenton four ), but the secret leaked out.
Masaniello attempted to discipline the mob and restrain its vandalic instincts, and to some extent he succeeded ; attired in his fisherman's garb, he gave audiences and administered justice from a wooden scaffolding outside his house.
Since the Lebanon War, the Syrian Air Force attempted to rebuild with Eastern-made equipment, however the full extent of this is not known, nor are the exact numbers of planes or what types of aircraft are in the Air Force.
" He recalls that he attempted to get himself removed from his editorial position by " asking for bigger and bigger raises ," but instead found his demands met-even to the extent that he was given " generous stock options " and " made a vice president of public relations for the company.
The hearings attempted to detail the extent of Soviet influence in American government and society and its cultural institutions, and it was during this super-heated period that the term " fellow traveler " came into common use as a political pejorative.
Students are frequently blamed, to the extent that the British National Union of Students has attempted to play down this " outdated stereotype ".
He returned and attempted to take back his empire, succeeding to an extent as he drove Cliff Barnes out of Ewing Oil, returning it to Bobby.
Goss has noted that while the title ( and the title track lyrics ) are to an extent autobiographical, unlike she states in the music video, she has never attempted suicide.
American Architect magazine commented, " The two Catholic Cathedrals will be -- when completed, noteworthy achievements in church building for any period ; in extent and splendor they promise to surpass anything yet attempted in ecclesiastical work in the United States.
Arago attempted to measure the extent to which corpuscles of light would be refracted by a glass prism at the front of a telescope.
The resulting maps ( primarily at 6 ″ scale, with greater detail for urban areas, to an extreme extent in Dublin ) portrayed the country in a degree of detail never attempted before, and when the survey of the whole country was completed in 1846, it was a world first.
" Pictorialist photography was dazzled by the spectacle of Western painting and attempted, to some extent, to imitate it in acts of pure composition.
Burke, Wills and King attempted to reach Mount Hopeless, the furthest extent of settlement in South Australia, which was closer than Menindee ( the route preferred by Wills ), but failed and returned to Cooper Creek.
The archaeological site has demonstrated the extent to which the Spanish attempted to establish a colonial foothold in the interior of the Southeast.
The first commercial operations were attempted in the US in 1924 and use of insecticide and fungicide for crop dusting slowly spread in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, other nations.

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