`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.

Howard Taubman in his New York Times review wrote that Laurents ' " book lacks the fantasy that would make the idea work, and his staging has not improved matters.

To make matters worse, Stalin began espousing his policy of socialism in one country – a policy often viewed, wrongly, as an attack on Trotsky, when it was really aimed at Zinoviev.

He believed that the PFLP had become, under the guidance of George Habash, too focused on military matters, and wanted to make the PDFLP a more grassroots and more ideologically focused organization.

To make matters worse, unknown barriers of energy are sprouting up around the world – sometimes aiding the Exiles, sometimes helping the Empire who can afford the losses much more easily than the Exiles.

Freyja assists other deities by allowing them to use her feathered cloak, is invoked in matters of fertility and love, and is frequently sought after by powerful jötnar who wish to make her their wife.

To make matters worse, this was followed up by only tentative advances inland.

To make matters worse, Magloire followed in the footsteps of many previous presidents by disputing the termination date of his stay in office.

To make matters worse, coffee prices plunged on the international market in the mid-1980s and remained low throughout the decade.

In the United States " freethought was a basically anti-christian, anti-clerical movement, whose purpose was to make the individual politically and spiritually free to decide for himself on religious matters.

Akbar had given himself the right to make the final decision on all doctrinal matters, and began to establish his own religion, Din Ilahi (‘ Divine Faith ’).

Jurisdiction ( from the Latin ius, iuris meaning " law " and dicere meaning " to speak ") is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility.

To make matters worse, many factions have not kept accurate records ( or any at all ) of the exact locations of their minefields, making removal efforts painstakingly slow.

While the Academic Senate is an independent body, it is required to make recommendations to the university Council in relation to matters outside its delegated authority.

To make matters worse, the porteño government agitated for Paraguayan military assistance against the Spanish in Uruguay and, disregarding the Treaty of October 11, for unification of Paraguay with Argentina.

To make matters worse, the Antonine Plague swept through the capital in 166.

To make matters more complicated, CBS ' production staff found a reverse angle of the Kay catch that was unavailable to the replay booth and it clearly showed the reception made by Kay.

To make matters worse, late in the period quarterback Doug Williams twisted his leg while being sacked and had to leave the game.

To make matters worse, Kelly also suffered strained knee ligaments during the loss to the Oilers and had to miss the first 2 playoff games.

* When possible, refer all matters to committees for “ further study and consideration .” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible-never less than five

Usually injunctions will not impose positive obligations on tortfeasors, but some Australian jurisdictions can make an order for specific performance to ensure that the defendant carries out their legal obligations, especially in relation to nuisance matters.

Ostensibly, Zanzibar's House of Representatives can make laws for Zanzibar without the approval of the union government as long as it does not involve union-designated matters.

Since it is inevitable that we will make some assumptions, why not assume those things that are most obvious: the matters of common sense that no one ever seriously doubts.

The Assembly may make recommendations on any matters within the scope of the UN, except matters of peace and security under Security Council consideration.

The assumption that ZF is consistent is harmless because adding another axiom to an already inconsistent system cannot make the situation worse.

By the end of Judges the Israelites are in a worse condition than they were at the beginning, with Yahweh's treasures used to make idolatrous images, the Levites ( priests ) corrupted, the tribe of Dan conquering a remote village instead of the Canaanite cities, and the tribes of Israel making war on the Benjamites, their own brothers.

Most of Taoism's focus is on what is perceived to be the undeniable fact that human attempts to make the world better actually make the world worse.

In particular, many design techniques that make a CPU run faster make the " performance per watt ", " performance per dollar ", and " deterministic response " much worse, and vice versa.

To make things even worse, the Tome of Pope Leo of Rome was, according to the Alexandria School of Theology, particularly in regards to the definition of Christology, considered influenced by Nestorian heretical teachings.

A widely-accepted general standard is Pareto efficiency, which is reached when no further change can make someone better off without making someone else worse off.

Pleasure, for example, appears to not be good without qualification, because when people take pleasure in watching someone suffering, this seems to make the situation ethically worse.

To make things worse, Ash is forced to sever his right hand, which has become possessed.

Any sort of physical or mental stress will tend to make the tremor worse, often creating the false impression that the tremor is of psychosomatic origin.

The American Urological Association states that most ( but not all ) people with IC find that certain foods make their symptoms worse.

This remains controversial, however, since the risks may outweigh the benefits, and the further damage done to the lymphatic system may in fact make the lymphedema worse.

And this was measured on a system with a single large server providing the operating system ; breaking the operating system down further into smaller servers would only make the problem worse.

I am a good sergeant ; I might easily make a bad captain, and certainly an even worse general.

They also taught and were known for their ability to make the weaker ( or worse ) argument the stronger ( or better ).

This can render occupying the corner largely useless, and often much worse than that because of loss of tempo ( Where it is an issue of running out of desirable moves and being forced to make undesirable ones, the grabbing of a corner may give the opponent not only the wedging response but also a follow-up move which one cannot respond to practically ).

`` Soon as we send them on their way and make camp, let's you and me go for a walk down by the Snake -- all by ourselves ''.

They thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.

I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution: the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

And for the first time a representative of the highest office in the land would have been liable to the charge that he had attempted to make it a successorship by inheritance.

but, he held, instead of continuing as an `` art of reduction '', it must grow, must make a place for the contributions of the Raphaels and Poussins as well as for those of the early cubists and Mondrian.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.

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.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

He would not make a sound until the President had wakened and left for the office ; ;

Of course, if you don't make the American a success, Hearst will have no further use for you ''.