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Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.
Toward the end of his fourth hairy highball, while he was moodily making wet rings on the table-top with the bottom of the glass, he became aware that he was not alone.
* 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years ' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
Toward the end of the chapter Snorri becomes prophetic, describing Ragnarök, the twilight of the gods.
Toward the end of the 2nd century, however, Christians began condemning the actual instruments themselves.
Toward the end of his life, he freed his slaves and became one of the most prominent abolitionists.
Toward the end of the 1st millennium AD, the formation of states began across central Chad in the sahelian zone between the desert and the savanna.
Toward the end of the 11th century the Sayfawa king ( or mai, the title of the Sayfawa rulers ) Hummay, converted to Islam.
Toward the southern end of the Elephant Mountains, however, because of the topography, some small rivers flow southward on the eastern side of the divide.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the government in Santiago consolidated its position in the south by persistently suppressing the Mapuche during the Occupation of the Araucanía.
Toward the end of the 1920s, the introduction of sound into movies made possible dramatic new film styles and the use of verbal humour.
Toward the end of the 1950s, darker humour and more serious themes had begun to emerge, including satire and social commentary.
Toward the end of Manuel I's reign, the number of foreigners in the city reached about 60, 000-80, 000 people out of a total population of about 400, 000 people.
Toward the end of the Impressionist period, she began to avoid Degas, against whose " wicked tongue " she was unable to defend herself.
Toward the end of her career, Plato chose roles that could be considered erotic or even softcore pornography.
Toward the end of his life, Fermi questioned his faith in society at large to make wise choices about nuclear technology.
Toward the end of the week, Mellows ′ followers were increasingly poorly-fed and heard that large British reinforcements were being sent westwards.
Toward the end of the ninth century, several emperors tried, but failed, to check the Fujiwara.
Toward the end, the Brigade Wolff with 2, 000-3, 000 soldiers joined the battle.
Toward the end of the 18th century, Charles Messier compiled a catalog containing the 109 brightest nebulae ( celestial objects with a nebulous appearance ), later followed by a larger catalog of 5, 000 nebulae assembled by William Herschel.
Toward the end of his life he wrote a letter for general circulation pointing out that Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses and David were all keepers of sheep or cattle and therefore that a learned education should not be seen as a necessary qualification for ministry.
Toward the end of his life, Brood vowed to abstain from most drugs, reducing his drug use to alcohol and a daily shot of speed (" 2 grams per day ").
Toward the end of the 19th century, steel production largely replaced iron production.
Toward this end, Hippolyte Passy was appointed Finance Minister.

Toward and work
In 1971, the Arab-American scholar Ihab Hassan published The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature, an early work of literary criticism from a postmodern perspective, in which the author traces the development of what he calls " literature of silence " through Marquis de Sade, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Beckett, and many others, including developments such as the Theatre of the Absurd and the nouveau roman.
In 1919, Steiner's chief work on social reform ( English title: Toward Social Renewal ) was released simultaneously in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and sold some 80, 000 copies in the first year.
In her 1989 essay " On Mirrors, Mists and Murmurs: Toward an Asian American Thealogy ," Rita Nakashima Brock defined thealogy as " the work of women reflecting on their experiences of and beliefs about divine reality " ( p236 ).
Toward this end, it established five regional and six sub-regional offices in the field that help coordinate work in about 150 countries, areas and territories through a network of 129 country offices.
Toward the end of the 1990s, the company ( now called QNX Software Systems ) began work on a completely new version of the QNX RTOS, designed from the ground up to be SMP capable, and to support all current POSIX APIs and any new POSIX APIs that could be anticipated while still retaining the microkernel architecture.
Toward the end of the tour the band members became involved in a dispute with their manager, Decca Records ' Phil Solomon, over the revenues paid to the band ; that, coupled with the expiry of their work visas, meant the band returned from America dejected.
Toward the end of 1981, Paterson went to work on an upgrade, which was called PC DOS 1. 10.
Toward the end of his life in 1976, Morris sent two instalments of his work to the Institute for American Thought ( IAT ) at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis ( IUPUI ).
Building on Prospect theory and Kahneman and Tversky's body of work, Thaler published " Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice " in 1980, a paper which Kahneman has called " the founding text in behavioral economics " ( Kahneman, 2003, p. 438 ).
Toward the end of the decade, Wright began to work more frequently in television and theatre.
The second " golden fruit " was the great ethical, religious, philosophic and scientific work, " Toward the Light ", published in 1920.
In the present day there are a number of translations of " Toward the Light " and its supplements ; although it was inevitable that the books would be translated, because of this silence perhaps more significant initiatives outside of Denmark will be taken in support of the work than might otherwise have been the case.
She has received many awards for her work, including the Governor General's Literary Award, 2004, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, 2005 for Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida.
Toward the end of 1961, Kertesz broke his contract to Condé Nast Publishing after a minor dispute, and started doing his own work again.
Toward the end of the colonial period there emerged such figures as José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, whose work is considered emblematic of Mexican picaresque.
Toward the conclusion of the fourth season, Sloane confesses that through his work with Omnifam, he has seeded water supplies around the world with chemical contaminants designed to make humanity more peaceful.
Toward a Philosophy of the Act reveals a young Bakhtin who is in the process of developing his moral philosophy by decentralizing the work of Kant.
Bakhtin ’ s primary works include Toward a Philosophy of the Act, an unfinished portion of a philosophical essay ; Problems of Dostoyevsky ’ s Art, to which Bakhtin later added a chapter on the concept of carnival and published with the title Problems of Dostoyevsky ’ s Poetics ; Rabelais and His World, which explores the openness of the Rabelaisian novel ; The Dialogic Imagination, whereby the four essays that comprise the work introduce the concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, and chronotope ; and Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, a collection of essays in which Bakhtin concerns himself with method and culture.
His New England Journal of Medicine research article, “ A Strategy for Health Care Reform — Toward a Value-Based System ” ( June 2009 ), lays out a health reform strategy for the U. S. His work on health care is being extended to address the problems of health care delivery in developing countries, in collaboration with Dr. Jim Yong Kim and the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.
His essay " Where Mirrors Are Windows: Toward an Anthology of Reflections " ( 1989 ), and his commentaries in The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology ( 1967 ) and Folktales from India, Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages ( 1991 ) are good examples of his work in Indian folklore studies.
Volf published the new, pneumatological account of work in Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work ( 1991 ).
Toward the end of his career, he was rediscovered by James L. Brooks and Martin Scorsese who had grown up admiring his film work.
Toward the end of his work at Marvel, he wrote Hanna-Barbera stories for Mark Evanier under the anagrammatic name Reg Everbest.
One major psychological theory, Relational-Cultural Theory, is based on the work of Jean Baker Miller, who's book Toward a New Psychology of Women proposes that " growth-fostering relationships are a central human necessity and that disconnections are the source of psychological problems.

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