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our and loss
The biggest loss, of course, was the individual's lessened desire and ability to give his services to the growth of his company and our economy.
It is this loss of initiative in how we conduct our economy which may lead to the loss of initiative in how we conduct our political affairs.
Davis believed the loss of Johnston " was the turning point of our fate ".
Ivinskaya later recalled, " But I became so ill through loss of blood that she and Luisa had to get me to the hospital, and I not longer remember exactly what passed between me and this heavily built, strong-minded woman, who kept repeating how she didn't give a damn for our love and that, although she no longer loved Leonidovich herself, she would not allow her family to be broken up.
Through the dharmic lens, one focuses on doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong, while the kama perspective focuses on doing what is pleasurable to our higher nature ( not referring to sex ) and avoiding pain, and the artha perspective focuses on doing what is profitable for our higher nature ( not referring to material goods or money ) and avoiding loss.
* 1979 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called " malaise " speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as " this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation " but in which he never uses the word malaise.
A 4 December 1980 press statement stated that, " We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were ", and was simply signed " Led Zeppelin ".
The peculiar policy of the government in employing so weak and vacillating a person as General Miles to look after the uneasy Indians, has resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers, and a battle which, at best, is a disgrace to the war department.
How our convictions slowly changed from total non-involvement to total commitment as we realized that loss of freedom anywhere increased the danger to our own freedom.
Evidence from previous studies ( Gombos et al., ; Vaidya et al., ) and from our pilot experiments indicates that treating rats either with five to ten widely spaced ECS ( at 24-or 48-hr schedules ) or with two stimulations only 2 hr apart does not lead to loss of hippocampal neurons ".
Christianity teaches humbleness, the loss of National and Racial identity, and equality, things alien to our cosmotheory.
Secretary of State Andrew Oliver reported that, had the troops not been removed, " that they would probably be destroyed by the people — should it be called rebellion, should it incur the loss of our charter, or be the consequence what it would.
Clifford were " the greatest loss to science in our time ".
Ligonier later recorded, " Having had orders to make a second attempt, our troops … a second time made the enemy give way ; and they were once more pushed as far as their camp with great loss of men, which we too felt upon our side.
" We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend and the deep respect we have for his family, together with the sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were.

our and prestige
Unlike so many of the power-starved intellectuals in underdeveloped nations of our own day, they commanded both prestige and influence before the Revolution started.
Our weapons production, our world prestige, our ideas of democracy, our actions of trust or stubbornness or secrecy or espionage??
What does he think a remark like this `` lousy '' one does to our prestige and morale??
This leads one to conclude, as you have, that there is inevitably more prestige in a management position in the minds of our people ''.
Volodya's prestige was so high that people came to him to discuss all questions: personal as well as questions of our work.
If our support of King Hussein and the other Arabian leaders of less distinguished origin and prestige means anything it means that we are prepared to recognise the full sovereign independence of the Arabs of Arabia and Syria.
# An A. A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A. A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
This fact constitutes an enormous moral strengthening of our government and its prestige.
CAE2Ys receive formal recognition from the U. S. government, as well as opportunities for prestige and publicity for their role in securing our nation ’ s information systems.
... We build our monuments in the name of scientific truth, they built theirs in the name of religious truth ; we use our Big Science to add to our country's prestige, they used their churches for their cities ' prestige ; we build to placate what ex-President Eisenhower suggested could become a dominant scientific caste, they built to please the priests of Isis and Osiris.
With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause.
" We are embarking on an occupation that, if history is any guide, will be as damaging to our souls as it will be to our prestige and power and security.
However, throughout history the greatest prestige has come with the design of public buildings-opera houses, libraries, townhalls, and especially museums, often referred to as the " new cathedrals " of our times.
I pointed out with some justification, but certainly not as my basic argument, that the Mentor list was essential as part of the character and prestige of our company and an indispensable exhibit when our more daring fiction — by Faulkner, Farrell, and Caldwell — was attacked by the censors.
* Greene and Greene's guide, Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence refers specifically -- in its introduction -- to " the group historically known as the ' Little Ivies ' ( including Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams )" which it says have " scaled the heights of prestige and selectivity and also turn away thousands of our best and brightest young men and women.

our and abroad
Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.
To meet situations of less than general nuclear war, we continue to maintain our carrier forces, our many service units abroad, our always ready Army strategic forces and Marine Corps divisions, and the civilian components.
To cite only a few examples: The wrong man in the wrong position, perhaps even in a junior position abroad, can be a source of great harm to our policy ; ;
" Breen specifically objected to " the generally unflattering portrayal of our system of Government, which might well lead to such a picture being considered, both here, and more particularly abroad, as a covert attack on the Democratic form of government.
We are menaced less by fleets and armies than by catastrophic technologies in the hands of the embittered few ," and required " defending the United States, the American people, and our interests at home and abroad by identifying and destroying the threat before it reaches our borders.
Neoconservative author Michael Ledeen argued in his 2002 book The War Against the Terror Masters that America is a revolutionary nation, undoing traditional societies: " Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad.
Now in its 15th year, La Buena Vida gathers several hundred good-hearted Puerto Ricans and visitors from abroad, to enjoy fine art, excellent food from our foremost chefs-de-cuisine, and the best wines available in Puerto Rico.
He played an indispensable role in turbulent times as our Administration undertook a broad range of initiatives at home and abroad.
:" The Germans perceive our desidousness, and do send daily young scholars hither that spoileth, and cutteth them out of libraries, returning home and putting them abroad as monuments of their own country.
Huntingdon, however, wrote that ‘ it could not but be ill-taken of all the godly learned both at home and in all the reformed churches abroad, that we should allow of the popish massing priests in our ministry, and disallow of the ministers made in a reformed church ’.
Frequent contacts with the world abroad put their mark on our culture and traditions.
Then ran the paynims to the sepulchre of S. Agatha and took the cloth that lay upon her tomb, and held it abroad against the fire, and anon on the ninth day after, which was the day of her feast, ceased the fire as soon as it came to the cloth that they brought from her tomb, showing that our Lord kept the city from the said fire by the merits of S. Agatha.
" He accused legislators promoting anti-Chinese legislation of betraying the principles of the Declaration of Independence: " Worse than any heathen or pagan abroad are those in our midst who are false to our institutions.
Former Austrian Jewish chancellor Bruno Kreisky called the World Jewish Congress's actions an " extraordinary infamy " adding that in election, Austrians " won't allow the Jews abroad to order us about and tell us who should be our President.
# We need to defend our ideals abroad vigorously.
" Rather than tying our hands to other states by investing our power in institutions, he advocated keeping power on the state level and focusing on maintaining the balance of power abroad to protects America's domestic security interests.
In December 2009, Timur Lakhonin, the head of the Russian National Central Bureau of Interpol, stated, " Certainly, there is crime involving our former compatriots abroad, but there is no data suggesting that an organized structure of criminal groups comprising former Russians exists abroad ," while in August 2010, Alain Bauer, a French criminologist, said that it " is one of the best structured criminal organisations in Europe, with a quasi-military operation.

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