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But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.
Community decision makers must make up their minds whether a claim is acceptable to the larger community in terms of prevailing expectations regarding members of nation states.
In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.
Cities and counties interested in industrial development would do well in the months ahead to keep their eyes peeled toward the 13 northwest Georgia counties that are members of the Coosa Valley Area Planning and Development Commission.
Soon some members of the two industry groups doubtless will want to amend their codes on grounds that otherwise they will suffer unfairly from the efforts of non-code competitors.
At no time did I attempt to seek approval or commendation for the members of the Chicago board of election commissioners for the discharge of their duties.
His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.
many of their gifted members were prominent in the Vatican as physicians, musicians, bankers.
Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.
For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.
The president expects faculty members to remember, in exercising their autonomy, that they share no collective responsibility for the university's income nor are they personally accountable for top-level decisions.
Faculty members depend on their department chairmen to promote their interests with the administration.
One way that this can be done, other than by hiring new high-priced professors, is by constantly encouraging the department members to raise their standards of performance.
They can be effective, however, if their members set high standards for candidates and devote substantial time to the work.
To avoid passing over quiet, unaggressive teachers as well as to decide whether others merit promotion, review of the right of faculty members to promotion or salary increases should be made periodically whether or not they have been recommended for advancement by their departments.
Some members of the bee family have become idlers, social parasites that live at the expense of their hardworking relatives.
The capacity of intellectuals and members of the new professional classes to contribute creatively to national development is likely to be destroyed by a constraining sense of inferiority toward both their own political class and their colleagues and professional counterparts in the West.
At certain critical stages, and only for sound diagnostic reasons, it may be important to accompany family members in their use of these resources if their problem-solving behavior is to be constructive rather than defeating.

their and often
But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.
The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.
Most avant-garde creators, true to their interest in the self-sufficiency of pure movement, have tended to dress their dancers in simple lines and solid colors ( often black ) and to give them a bare cyclorama for a setting.
Such characters, with their low existence and often low morality, produce humorous effects in his novels and tales, as they did in the writing of Longstreet and Hooper and Harris, but it need not be added that he gives them far subtler and more intricate functions than they had in the earlier writers ; ;
this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.
By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.
The terms `` renewal '' and `` refreshed '', which often come up in aesthetic discussion, seem partly to derive their import from the `` renewal '' of purpose and a `` refreshed '' sense of significance a person may receive from poetry, drama, and fiction.
Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.
Rifle fire often kept the opposing gunners from manning their pieces.
He often donned their tribal costumes, such as the one featuring a tall, black sheepskin hat from the top of which dangled a little red bag ornamented by a chain of worsted lace and tassels ; ;
Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.
With their facile generalizations about the United States, these mediocrities, as they often were, had been great successes.
In the fairly brief but hectic history of Florida, the developers of waterfront land have too often wound up with both their land and ours.
Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.
Customers often bring their children ; ;
They keep their wings and feet pressed tightly against their bodies, and in spite of their often colorful attire you may very well mistake them for lumps of dirt.
The females like to burrow in the short turf of well-kept lawns, where their little mounds of earth often appear by the hundreds.
In fact, they often revamped their social activities to include class members previously unknown.
In the tune to which this hymn is most often sung, `` Boylston '', the syllables have and fy, ending their lines, have twice the time any other syllables have.
Nevertheless, their conclusions and recommendations cannot please everybody, and they often represent a particular economic or political point of view.

their and equate
The mayors then forces everyone, himself included, to live in a big barrack, then to shave their heads to be equal to the bald, and then to become mentally disabled to equate intelligence downward.
With the increasing Hellenization of literate upper-class Roman culture in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, the Romans tried to equate their own deities with one of the Greeks ', applying in reverse the Greeks ' own interpretatio graeca.
Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, and the Ganapatya sects of Hinduism states that Vishnu, Shiva, Devi, and Ganesha respectively equate to Brahman, and that all other deities are aspects of their chosen deity.
In much the same fashion, and with the same reasoning of better-ness, the colonised may over time equate the colonisers ' race or ethnicity itself as being responsible for their superiority.
Those who use this style often equate their own self-worth with controlling others.
Those who often use this style equate their self-worth with the attainment of extremely high standards.
People in majorities tend to assume that their own psychology is normative and to equate difference with inferiority.
Dan Egonsson, followed by Roger Wertheimer, argued that while it is conventional for people to equate dignity with ' being human ' ( Egonsson's ' Standard Attitude ', Wertheimer's ' Standard Belief '), people generally also import something other than mere humanness to their idea of dignity.
These definitions equate class with income, permitting people to move from class to class as their income changes.
Since two polynomials are equal if and only if their corresponding coefficients are equal, we can equate the coefficients of like terms.
Other critics, such as Michael Rowbotham, equate the practice with counterfeiting, where government-protected privileged private entities ( the banks ) are granted the legal right to create money " out of the nothing " while also being granted the right to charge interest on their creation.
However, those involved in the contemporary art glass scene often equate their passion to " art glass " as a whole.
Authors may regard the two terms as synonymous, or equate ovoviviparity only with aplacental yolk-sac viviparity, in which the embryos are solely sustained by yolk ( as opposed to secondary provisioning by their mother in the form of " uterine milk ", such as in the stingrays, or unfertilized eggs, such as in the mackerel sharks ; the latter is referred to as intrauterine oophagy ).
Societies still tended to equate physical characteristics, such as hair and eye colour, with psychological and moral qualities, usually assigning the highest qualities to their own people and lower qualities to the " Other ", either lower classes or outsiders to their society.
Critics in Poland oppose the idea of the centre claiming that it would equate German suffering with that of the Jews and Poles and will suggest a moral equivalence between the victims of war and their oppressors.
Firms producing VNRs disagree and equate their use to a press release in video form and point to the fact that editorial judgement in the worthiness, part or whole, of a VNR's content is still left in the hands of Journalists, Program Producers or the like.
Though both Mars and Quirinus each had militaristic and agricultural aspects, leading later scholars to frequently equate the two despite their clear distinction in ancient Roman writings, Dumézil argued that Mars represented the Roman gentry in their service as soldiers, while Quirinus represented them in their civilian activities.
Interpretatio graeca the common tendency of ancient Greek writers to equate foreign divinities to members of their own pantheon.
Rutgers University professor Paul McCartney, for instance, argues that as a nation defined by a creed and sense of mission, Americans tend to equate their interests with those of humanity, which in turn informs their global posture.
This information is significant to anthropometric historians, who usually equate the height of populations with their overall health and standard of living.

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