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While Alexander had been priming Athanasius to assume the bishopric after his death, it is said, he was not unanimously supported, and questions of his age ( the minimum age to become a bishop was thirty, and questions remain to this day whether he was yet that old ).
Civil tranquillity has yet to be established and parts of the country remain out of government control.
In the Eastern Christian traditions, priests and deacons are allowed to be married, yet have to remain celibate if they are unmarried at the time of ordination.
Often, the term " critical theory " is appropriated when an author ( perhaps most notably Michel Foucault ) works within sociological terms yet attacks the social or human sciences ( thus attempting to remain " outside " those frames of enquiry ).
It made the same statement with regard also to later ordinations by those bishops, saying that, " as for those who have already thus unlawfully received ordination or any who may yet accept ordination from these, whatever may be the validity of the orders ( quidquid sit de ordinum validitate ), the Church does not and will not recognise their ordination ( ipsorum ordinationem ), and will consider them, for all legal effects, as still in the state in which they were before, except that the ... penalties remain until they repent " ( Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Decree Episcopi qui alios of 17 September 1976-Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1976, page 623 ).
An eighteenth-century response to the novel from the Monthly Review reads: “ We must hear no more of enchanted forests and castles, giants, dragons, walls of fire and other ‘ monstrous and prodigious things ;’ – yet still forests and castles remain, and it is still within the province of fiction, without overstepping the limits of nature, to make use of them for the purpose of creating surprise .”
Between 1926 and 1929 the elite " Campionato Nazionale " assimilated the top sides from the various regional groups and Hellas Verona joined the privileged teams, yet struggled to remain competitive.
The realization that he had been deceived shocked Isaac, yet he acknowledged that Jacob had received the blessings by adding, " Indeed, he will be remain blessed!
Production methods have been streamlined since colonial days, yet remain basically unchanged.
Until recently in the developed world, it was common for many people to be fluent in spoken and yet remain illiterate ; this is still the case in poor countries today.
The reasons for this lack of promotion ( or possible future demotion ) have not yet been revealed, although it is not unheard of for an officer to remain at a set rank for many years without promotion ( examples include William Riker and Pavel Chekov, who remained at the rank of Commander for many years without moving on to become captains, and Harry Kim, who never moved beyond the rank of Ensign during the seven-year run of Star Trek: Voyager ).
The chemical elements of the food a person eats become in a few hours part of that person's human body and are no longer food but have been turned into the human flesh and blood and bone of that person, yet the physical chemical elements of what was once food remain the same ( calcium, copper, salt, protein, sugars, fats, water, etc .).
CL-20 is considered a major breakthrough in solid rocket propellant technology but has yet to see widespread use because costs remain high.
However, crossbar exchanges remain in use in countries like Russia, where some massive city telephone networks have not yet been fully upgraded to digital technology.
Critics of multiculturalism often debate whether the multicultural ideal of benignly co-existing cultures that interrelate and influence one another, and yet remain distinct, is sustainable, paradoxical, or even desirable.
Some colleges have recently obtained the power to award their own degrees and the University has amended its statutes to allow them to do so and yet remain in the University federation.
The functional, yet mentally ill, who were once forced to remain locked up were now de-institutionalized and living in the rundown mansions on Capitol Hill.
Unfortunately the choice had to be made at an age when the boy would not yet be able to consciously choose whether to sacrifice his reproductive capabilities, and there was no guarantee that the voice would remain of musical excellence after the operation.
Major questions, however, remain unanswered: “ Whether this event was in a single location or in a short period of time in several locations cannot be deciphered from the data ,” Research also has yet to identify the area in China where domestication arose.
He wants to expand by merging with the powerful beyond that transcends him, yet he wants while merging with it to remain individual and aloof ..." ( ibid., p. 155 ).
The leaves of some other varieties are green practically from the start, whereas in yet others a pigment masks the green colour of all the chlorophyll-bearing parts, leaves, stems and young fruit, so that they remain a dramatic purple-to-reddish-brown throughout the life of the plant.
Today only glimpses of his poetry remain, either in the form of papyrus fragments or quotations by ancient literary figures, yet new fragments continue to be unearthed by archeologists at Oxyrhynchus.
::: Nor yet how long one who appears blessed will remain that way,
Though sagging slightly from the massive weight of books, the inspectors pronounced that "... the whole Fabrick of the said Theatre is, in our Opinion, like to remain and continue in such Repair and Condition, for one hundred or two hundred Years yet to come.

yet and unmoved
If a rook is unmoved and can still castle, yet there is more than one rook on that side, FEN notation as traditionally interpreted is ambiguous.
Could a man be so unmoved under the very shadow of the scaffold as to lead a fellow-human there and yet, dry-eyed, read of a pit that has no bottom into which this fellow must fall?
In his review for the Washington Post, Tom Shales wrote, " When the smoke clears away, a viewer may feel impressed yet unmoved.
Black's queen bishop is unblocked ; the pawn structure remains balanced ; and the move Bg5 is not yet a threat as the unmoved black pawn on e7 prevents the pin.
Querelle sleeps with Mario in an attempt to get him to back away from arresting him or Gil, but the captain is unmoved from turning him into yet another of his jailed conquests.

yet and .
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
Silence walked at Pamela's side, its presence numbingly close, yet too far for her to hear.
But she couldn't, not yet.
Pat swung into the saddle, yet still he delayed, his brows puckered.
`` Can't say yet.
There was one object which sickened yet fascinated me.
The slightest twitch would have parted the shoe entirely from the foot, yet the toes were still inside.
Even yet there was no realization in his eyes.
and yet like a child among adults.
`` Yes, George, but I ain't got poor old Pat's body yet.
`` I'll get her yet '', he muttered to himself.
The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.
But not just yet.
It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.
The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.
Incapable of self-delusion, the Founding Fathers found the crisis of their time to be equally grave, and yet they had confidence that America would surmount it and that a republic of free peoples would prosper and serve as an example to a world aching for liberty.
`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.
William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.
And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at least uncertain way on the details of how we behave.
That is why, the argument runs, the squares are so fearful of jazz and yet perversely fascinated by it.
From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.
And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.

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