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are and conflation
Clausewitz's Christian names are sometimes given in non-German sources as " Carl Philipp Gottlieb " or " Carl Maria ", because of reliance on mistaken source material, conflation with his wife's name, Marie, or mistaken assumptions about German orthography.
However, ontological being and existential being are different categories, so Heidegger's conflation of these categories is, according to Husserl's view, the root of Heidegger's error.
The most commonly recurring characters outside of the Earwicker family are the four old men known collectively as " Mamalujo " ( a conflation of their names: Matt Gregory, Marcus Lyons, Luke Tarpey and Johnny Mac Dougall ).
The stone overmantels are a conflation of two designs by Inigo Jones and contain mythological paintings by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer ( 1636 – 99 ) and the Venetian painter Sebastiano Ricci who also carried out commissions at Burlington House in Piccadilly.
It is unclear whether the various companions of St. Nicholas are all expressions of a single tradition concerning Knecht Ruprecht ( since various texts, especially those outside the tradition, often treat the companions as variations of Knecht Ruprecht ), or most likely a conflation of multiple traditions.
It is however unlikely given that the Indo-Iranian roots of the term are related to the Semitic ones and although — through conflation — Aredvi Sura Anahita ( so the full name ) inherited much from Ishtar-Inanna, the two are considered historically distinct.
The fictional films are said to have been produced by " Samuel L. Bronkowitz " ( a conflation of Samuel Bronston and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ).
Even Allen's name was a source of controversy: he had been known since his youth as " Dick " to family and friends, but for reasons which are still somewhat obscure, the media referred to him upon his arrival in Philadelphia as " Richie ", possibly a conflation with the longtime Phillies star Richie Ashburn.
These references are only a few to the various shadowy saints and kings named Constantine attested across Britain, and suggests a confusion and conflation of various figures.
By blending the identity of the two conflated St. Lazarus individuals with the identity of the Babalu Aye, Santería has gone one step further than the conflation within Catholicism, to become the kind of religious conflation known as syncretism, in which deities or concepts from two different faiths are conflated to form a third.
Finally it may take the form of central conflation where structure and agency are seen as being co-constitutive i. e. structure is reproduced through agency which is simultaneously constrained and enabled by structure.

are and old
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.
Many of them, moreover, are beginning to complain about the scarcity of Western amusements and to ridicule the old life of the bazaar merchant, the mullah, and the peasant.
and the young people should not even be permitted to see comedies till they are old enough to drink strong wine and sit at the public tables.
One is that there sometimes are real although inadequate compensations in growing old.
These women whose organization grew out of the old suffrage movement are dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's dictum that one must cherish the people's spirit but `` Keep alive their attention ''.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care.
Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.
It truly relives another age for the inhabitants use carriages rather than autos and old British and French forts are left intact for tourists to visit and record.
new panels are exchanged for the old right in the field on a single trip.
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.
The last three volumes are again more dependent on the past, as Hardy's creative powers declined in his old age.
If so, you are of the old school.
You realize you are getting in the old fogy class.
Maybe you are not that gifted either, but how about puttering around with the old paints??
The wine waiter will see to it that the bottles are taken from the bin and opened at least in time to warm and aerate, preferably allowed to stand on end for as long as possible and, perhaps in the case of very old wines, be decanted.
Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.
Also, there are housed here some priceless historical treasures from 400 to 600 years old -- paintings, lacquer, brocade, etc..
I'm going to become a good nurse, and I've got two baby brothers that are going to have college if I have to work at my profession until I'm an old maid to give it to them ''.
It'll be a tedious job, but if you want to try it, the old newspaper files are in the basement here in the county supervisor's office ''.
The department apparently intends to make the Rural Roads Authority a revolving fund under which new bonds would be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid off by tax authorities.
There will be masses of flowers, reproductions of the handsome old buildings with their grillwork and other things that are typical of New Orleans.

are and accusative
That is, they are plural if the nouns they modify are plural, and accusative if the nouns they modify are accusative.
Many aspects of the syntax of Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact ( nominative for subjects and predicates, accusative for objects of most verbs and many prepositions, genitive for possessors ), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify, relative pronouns are clause-initial.
The grammarian Pāṇini identified six semantic roles or karaka, which are related to the seven Sanskrit cases ( nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, and locative ), but not in a one-to-one way.
English still retains some nominative pronouns, which are contrasted with the accusative ( comparable to the oblique or disjunctive in some other languages ): I ( accusative, me ), we ( accusative, us ), he ( accusative, him ), she ( accusative, her ), they ( accusative, them ) and who ( accusative, whom ).
In the declension of nouns, five cases are the same as in Old Prussian: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative.
If the three arguments of a typical ditransitive verb are labeled D ( for Donor ; the subject of a verb like " to give " in English ), T ( for Theme ; normally the direct object of ditransitive verb in English ) and R ( for Recipient, normally the indirect object in English ), these can be aligned with the Agent and Patient of monotransitive verbs and the Subject of intransitive verbs in several ways, which are not predicted by whether the language is accusative, ergative, or active.
The Forms are named after the corresponding singular accusative Latin noun.
Flora itself is the accusative / dative case form of “ Flore ” ( Old Norse Flóri ), from which the names Florø and Florelandet are derived.
The cases are the nominative ( Nominativ / Werfall ), genitive ( Genitiv / Wesfall ), dative ( Dativ / Wemfall ), and accusative ( Akkusativ / Wenfall ).
Although the traditional terms accusative and dative continue to be used by some grammarians, these are roles rather than actual cases in Modern English.
These are typically split systems ; a widespread pattern is for pronouns ( or first and second person ) to have nominative – accusative case marking and for third person to be ergative – absolutive, though splits between animate and inanimate are also found.

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