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And we had the uneasy sense that the cleavage between the moral and the political progressed amid the events which concern us.
and we watch him amid the overtones which suggest he could never in any conscience urge a risk upon the voters.
but I am so aware of an uninterrupted continuity of the persona or ego that I see only as absurd the tendency of some psychologists from Heraclitus to Pirandello and Proust to regard consciousness as no more than a flux amid which nothing remains unchanged.
A hermit living there told him that amid the rocks was a chasm communicating with purgatory, from which perpetually rose the groans of tortured souls.
Collins decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection ; she was part of an encounter group that ended a contentious meeting by singing " Amazing Grace " as it was the only song to which all the members knew the words.
A third single was released amid controversy before Christmas 1984: a revival of " It Ain't Necessarily So ", the George and Ira Gershwin classic ( from Porgy and Bess ) which questions the authenticity of Biblical tales.
The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which he and Deborah Kerr make love on a Hawaiian beach amid the crashing waves.
In fall 1976, however, amid the turmoil of New York City's dire fiscal crisis, the free tuition policy was discontinued under pressure from the federal government, the financial community that had a role in rescuing the city from bankruptcy, and New York State, which would take over the funding of CUNY's senior colleges.
Here is the heady scent of jasmines amid the swaying palm tress, the dream fantasy of an Andalusian “ Arabian Nights ” in which Albéniz loved to let his imagination dwell .”
The relationship between the two Latin American countries has evolved amid conflicts over the San Andrés y Providencia Islands located in the Caribbean sea close to the Nicaraguan shoreline and the maritime boundaries covering 150, 000 km² that included the islands of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the banks of Roncador, Serrana, Serranilla and Quitasueño as well as the arbitrarily designed 82nd meridian west which Colombia claims as a border but which the International Court has sided with Nicaragua in disavowing.
In October 1997, the mayor's City Council floor leader, Patrick Huels of the 11th Ward, the Daley family's home ward, resigned in disgrace amid allegations he used his aldermanic office to benefit his private security firm, which got a loan from city contractor and close Daley friend Michael Tadin.
He immediately reprised his opposition to the greenback, saying, " any party which commits itself to paper money will go down amid the general disaster, covered with the curses of a ruined people.
Officials in the People's Republic of China recently tested an anti-satellite missile, leading to widespread international concern, as anti-satellite missiles are viewed as threats to nuclear-launch warning systems, which could facilitate a first strike ; further, tensions amid the Chinese governments over Taiwan have been rife in recent years ; in addition, the PRC is reportedly pursuing modernization of their nuclear forces.
In 1988, amid the ATA's Return Our Land Movement, in which aborigines demanded the return of lands to the original inhabitants, the ATA sent its first representative to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
Later in life, disillusioned with architecture, Mackintosh worked largely as a watercolourist, painting numerous landscapes and flower studies ( often in collaboration with Margaret, with whose style Mackintosh's own gradually converged ) in the Suffolk village of Walberswick ( to which the pair moved in 1914 ), where he was briefly arrested as amid accusations of being a German spy in 1915.
There was considerable acrimony between the two very high-profile senators during the life of this committee, which reached a level of public disagreement between the five leaders of a congressional committee seldom seen in recent years, amid allegations that Glenn suppressed these issues prior to his subsequent space shuttle flight which had to be approved by President Clinton.
Life-sized, finely detailed sculptures by Francisco Salzillo ( 1707 – 1783 ) are removed from their museums and carried around the city in elegant processions amid flowers and, at night, candles, pausing at stations which are meant to re-enact the final moments before the crucifixion of Jesus.
First they erected and dedicated the altar of God on the exact spot where it had formerly stood, and they then cleared away the charred heaps of debris which occupied the site of the old temple ; and in the second month of the second year ( 535 BCE ), amid great public excitement and rejoicing, the foundations of the Second Temple were laid.
At the trade deadline on February 26, 2008, however, apparently unable to agree on a new contract and amid some controversy, Blue Jackets captain Adam Foote requested a trade to the Colorado Avalanche, which was granted.
Image: Eyejf. jpg | Optic effect: Macrophotography of a pupil ( which gets wider in the dark amid photo flash ).
The Greeks, moreover, will admit that even amongst those who are considered to be most largely endowed with wisdom, good fortune has had much to do, as in the choice of teachers of one kind rather than another, and in meeting with a better class of instructors ( there being teachers who taught the most opposite doctrines ), and in being brought up in better circumstances ; for the bringing up of many has been amid surroundings of such a kind, that they were prevented from ever receiving any idea of better things, but constantly passed their life, from their earliest youth, either as the favourites of licentious men or of tyrants, or in some other wretched condition which forbade the soul to look upwards.
" Wayne asks amid the gunfire, to which Colorado replies: " Maybe the girl with another flower pot.

amid and nothing
Stating she could remember nothing of the incident, Mitford returned to England with her mother and sister in January 1940 amid a flurry of press interest and her comment, " I'm glad to be in England, even if I'm not on your side ", led to public calls for her internment as a traitor.
In reality, Poços de Caldas is inside a caldera that was formed by the collapse of a central portion of terrain amid elevated areas, and while the latter have volcanic origin, the process that formed the supposed " crater " had nothing to do with volcanic activity.

amid and human
In fact, He came into this world Himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who stood here amid the darkness of human sin and said: `` I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life ''.
On 11 November, the Malaysian government briefly detained de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday and arrested a human rights lawyer and about a dozen opposition leaders, amid growing complaints the government is cracking down on dissent.
Stephen Prince comments that the horror is " born of the torment of the young woman subjected to imprisonment and abuse amid decaying arms ... and mobiles made of human bones and teeth.
A montage shows milk bottles melting, animals writhing amid the flames and human corpses burning.
Turner placed human beings in many of his paintings to indicate his affection for humanity on the one hand ( note the frequent scenes of people drinking and merry-making or working in the foreground ), but its vulnerability and vulgarity amid the ' sublime ' nature of the world on the other hand.
As an example, in 1984, Iran ’ s U. N. representative, Said Raja ’ i Khorasani, said the following amid allegations of human rights violations, " recognized no authority [...] apart from Islamic law ....
Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear.
## Dante: 1265 – 1321 " All in all, the picture we form of the medieval Latin Church is that of a complex organization doing its best, despite the human frailties of its adherents and leaders, to establish moral and social order, and to spread an uplifting and consoling faith, amid the wreckage of an old civilization and the passions of an adolescent society.
Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear.
No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so called.
In another example, Ivison noted that in 2004-2005 China received $ 57 million in ODA, amid concerns held by the international community about human rights abuses.
In 2004, ADIAS discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the region amid the remains of Neolithic buildings and over 200 flint tools.
Paepcke sought a forum " where the human spirit can flourish ", especially amid the whirlwind and chaos of modernization.
Originally a military unit codenamed " Operation Wembley ", it was put under police control and renamed, amid charges of human rights abuses.
Several sites in the grounds of Haut de la Garenne, a former children's home, were excavated in 2008 and finds of human remains and other items were announced amid sensational international publicity.
It was then that the foreman builder, Mr. Goodwillie, whom I see before me in his rock-habit of indecipherable rags, would get his fiddle down and strike up human minstrelsy amid the music of the storms.
[...] Relentlessly thrusting herself at the camera, compulsively preening amid special FX galas, Britney is the MTV video age in human form.

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