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What and was
What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.
What a spectacle he was, caked with dirt and sweat and blood, filthy as a pig and naked as an Indian, kissing the finest, the sweetest, the bravest, and absolutely the prettiest girl in this whole wonderful world.
What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
What they wished for most was security ; ;
What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.
What was the list??
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
What was true for archaeology was also true of place-name studies.
What they meant was that there was no evidence to show that the south and east coasts of Britain received Germanic settlers conspicuously earlier than some other parts of England.
What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
What was he doing??
What Mr. Kennedy, in fact, wrote was: `` It is the Department's view that no anti-trust enforcement considerations justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ''.
What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.
What if it came when he was playing, or was asleep and dreaming??
What the hell was he up to now??

What and acceptable
What may be acceptable in one state may be strictly prohibited across the boundary line.
What may be acceptable to one group of people may be considered offensive or even dangerous to another.
What follows is a typical definition of " God ," which, perhaps with some adjustments, would be acceptable to many within the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths:
What most homeowners looked for in a house was comfort, serviceability, and an acceptable level of appeal conforming with their community's taste.
* What sorts of criticism are acceptable.
What is considered a solecism in one register of a language might be acceptable usage in another.
What constitutes an illegitimate regime and what types of violence and war are acceptable against such a state are subjects of debate.
What are acceptable displays of affection vary between cultures as well as to time and context.
What better way to rehabilitate anti-Semitism, make anti-Semitic arguments seem once again respectable in civilized discourse and even make it acceptable for governments to pursue anti-Semitic policies than by convincing the world that the great crime for which anti-Semitism was blamed simply never happened — indeed, that it was nothing more than a frame-up invented by the Jews, and propagated by them through their control of the media?
He writes, " What really failed here was not the directing, acting, or story ( which were all acceptable for a summer movie ) but the marketing campaign.
* What fraction of the population will be acceptable to endure energy poverty
* What environmental externalities are acceptable and are forecast
What is acceptable is determined by the managing authority or customers.
What is socially acceptable on one island may not be so on another.
What had been acceptable before the war became less so after 1917.
In 2003 there was an Opinion Poll implemented by the " Skan " agency from Novi Sad, in which the citizens of Vojvodina answered the question: " What status of Vojvodina is most acceptable for you ?".

What and past
What actually occurred in the past is seldom as important as what a given generation feels must have occurred.
What is clear is that formally, there is mostly peaceful living side by side, with strong inter-dialogue at many levels to reconcile past differences between the two groups, and many Christians emphasize common historical heritage and religious continuity with the ancient spiritual lineage of the Jews.
*" What if ... starring Secret Wars: 25 years later " the children of heroes are teleported back to earth where sometime in the last 25 years, a variation of " Days of future's past " is shown when the group is attacked by Sentinels
Another song on the album " For What It's Worth " features Nicks ' niece in the video, and was inspired by a past bus tour with Tom Petty.
What is being taught today may differ in content significantly from the past but the methods used to teach this have not really changed that much.
Counterfactual ( contrary to established fact ) thought experiments speculate on the possible outcomes of a different past ; and ask " What might have happened if A had happened instead of B?
Diodorus is also famous for his so-called Master argument, that the three propositions " everything that is past is true and necessary ", " the impossible does not follow from the possible ", and " What neither is nor will be is possible " are inconsistent.
The opening Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin sequence in the 1955 film Oklahoma !, with Gordon MacRae singing the famous song while riding a horse past the stalks of corn " as high as a elephant's eye ", was filmed in Amado.
What today would be referred to as commissioners, or councilmen were referred to as judges in the past.
" Shelley, said Trelawny — " No Shelley has pastWhat do you mean?
What we do know of Israel and Judah of the tenth century does not allow us to interpret this lack of evidence as a gap in our knowledge and information about the past, a result merely of the accidental nature of archeology.
* What is the proper unit for the study of the human pastthe individual subject?
What follows is a study of terror but, more specifically, the memory of terror as the narrator is relating events from the past.
Terry Deary said of The Terry Deary History Experience Park: " What I hope to build is a History Experience where I recreate authentic villages from various periods — Tudor, Roman, Victorian perhaps — with nothing of the 20th century in them ... They'll be enclosed in domes like the Eden Project in Cornwall so they'll be all-weather attractions and they will not be museums or theme parks ; they will be peopled by actors and the visitors can join in the never-ending re-enactments of the past — with all its horrible history flavour — over there is a pickpocket on trial for stealing ... is he guilty, do we hang him?
Appearing in many films over the past fifteen years, her most commercially successful films to date are What Women Want ( 2000 ), Anger Management ( 2003 ), and Wild Hogs ( 2007 ).
What we have learned through past experience becomes an inventory, or data bank, consisting of values or goals, sets of expectations and preconceptions about the consequences of acting one way or another, and a variety of possible ways of responding to the situation.
What we learn about the Kirks ' past does not set them apart from most young working-class intellectuals who grew up in the 1950s when there was growing hope of improved economic and educational opportunity.
What had been praised during Clarkson's tenure, however, was soon critiqued when it was revealed that into Jean's appointment, Rideau Hall's interpretation and exhibition planner, Fabienne Fusade, was removing from sight the portraits of Canada's past and present sovereigns and other members of the Royal Family, in order to fulfill Jean's wish to make the royal residence a showcase for Canadian art and give " a strong image of Canada "; the portrait by Jean Paul Lemieux of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh that had for decades dominated the focal wall of the ballroom was shifted to the rear wall, thereby bumping the copy of George Hayter's state portrait of Queen Victoria that had hung there to the Tent Room, where the portraits of Canada's British governors general had been collected together.
Whiteread reluctantly collected her K Foundation winnings at just past 11pm, saying, " sarcastically, " What an honour.
Other scientists such as Georges Cuvier put forward ideas of past ages, and Werner's ideas were incorporated into concepts of catastrophism by geologists such as Adam Sedgwick who inspired his university student Charles Darwin to exclaim " What a capital hand is Sedgewick for drawing large cheques upon the Bank of Time !".
What is now Ford Road was Gallowford Road which led down past the gallows to the crossing point over the River Earn.
What is significant is not whether the past thinkers ' insights are relevant today, but whether they were exceptionally relevant to the great facts of their own time.
" Even within Russia, Hobsbawm doubts the ostensibly " progressive " effects of the revolution: " What remained revolution and civil war was a Russia even more firmly anchored in the past ... hat actually governed the country was an undergrowth of smaller and larger bureaucracy, on average even less educated and qualified than before.
Philippines National Historical Institute chairman and historian Ambeth Ocampo commented: “ Two of the wealth myths I usually encounter are the Yamashita treasure and gossip that the Cojuangco fortune was founded on a bag of money …” Ocampo also said: " For the past 50 years many people, both Filipinos and foreigners, have spent their time, money and energy in search of Yamashita's elusive treasure .” Professor Ocampo noted “ What makes me wonder is that for the past 50 years, despite all the treasure hunters, their maps, oral testimony and sophisticated metal detectors, nobody has found a thing .”

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