By subduing disparate lesser groups the nation has, to some degree at least, broadened the capacity for individual liberty.

to some degree they are being supplanted by a concept of national responsibility.

We feel the quality of these powers initially as in some degree wholesome or threatening.

It is the consequence of the system of ideas that constitutes the frame of our international -- and in some degree our domestic -- policy.

For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.

The continuation and expansion of the shooting development program will assure to some degree that national and community leaders will be made aware of the ever-growing need for shooting facilities and activities for hunting and shooting in answer to public demand.

Lung type 3 ( ( fig. 3 ) is to some degree a composite of types 1, and 2.

Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

No one should wish to deny these purists the obvious pleasure they derive from all this, and to give fair warning where warning is due, no one who becomes fond of wines ever avoids acquiring some degree of purism!!

Of course, it can be argued that an ability to write English correctly and with some degree of elegance is a marketable skill.

On the other hand, Russia also participated to some degree in the nationalist ( cultural and political ) movements of Central and Eastern Europe.

However this ideal is not normally achieved in practice ; some languages ( such as Spanish and Finnish ) come close to it, while others ( such as English ) deviate from it to a much larger degree.

Over the next two decades, some of the basic concepts it addressed would strengthen and others would weaken, particularly the degree of deserved loyalty to the crown.

Though the ceremony installs the new abbot into a position of legal authority, it does not confer further sacramental authority-it is not a further degree of Holy Orders ( although some abbots have been ordained to the episcopacy ).

Many alloys of aluminium, copper, magnesium, titanium, and nickel can be strengthened to some degree by some method of heat treatment, but few respond to this to the same degree that steel does.

Although much of Inge's principles, above, still apply to the New Agrarianism, the affiliation with a particular religion and patriarchal tendency have subsided to some degree.

This moor also to some degree limits the range of a vessel's swing to a narrower oval.

The catkins of some alder species have a degree of edibility, and may be rich in protein.

In some jurisdictions, most notably England, it is not a defense where the degree of injury is severe, as long as there is no legally recognized good reason for the assault.

It is impossible to know to what degree he actually wielded political power, and over what area, but it is certainly possible that he ruled some part of England.

The Bohrs returned to Denmark in 1945, and Aage resumed his university education, graduating with a master's degree in 1946, with a thesis concerned with some aspects of atomic stopping problems.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

While his comrades cocked the trap, that one behaved as if it was some dull maneuver.

The marine was sprawled some thirty yards away, one arm extended.

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

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