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knows and land
Mr. Christiansen knows that a soldier will get the Distinguished Service Medal for conduct that would land him in prison for life or the electric chair as a civilian.
Hector knows that Troy and the house of Priam are doomed to fall and that the gloomy fate of his wife and infant son will be to die or go into slavery in a foreign land.
For example, if a geologist knows there is a high likelihood of the discovery of petroleum under Farmer Smith's land, he may be entitled to make Smith an offer for the land, and buy it, without first telling Farmer Smith of the geological data.
Pytheas, however, rightly knows what is now Scotland as part of Britain, land of the Picts, even though north of Ierne.
That boundary is described in legal documents and the land surveyor follows that description and locates the boundary on the physical land and marks it, so the owner knows what land he owns.
He convinces Beaky to finance his next venture, a land development, even though neither of them knows much about the business.
In a Lehrerleut colony, the land will be purchased and buildings actually constructed before anyone in the colony knows who will be relocating to the daughter colony location.
This is because the singer pours out his sorrows “ Bereitet ist daz velt, verhouwen ist der walt ” and suggests he no longer knows his people and land, applicable to the Waldviertel.
Dismayed that " the land of the South knows only greed, hedonism, promiscuity, and sins ", the Buddha instructs the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara ( Guanyin ) to search Tang China for someone to take the Buddhist sutras of " transcendence and persuasion for good will " back to the East.
* And with Him are the keys of the unseen treasures — none knows them but He ; and He knows what is in the land and the sea, and there falls not a leaf but He knows it, nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor anything green nor dry but ( it is all ) in a clear book.
The owner knows that eventually, the land must be rezoned as the community grows.
No one knows for sure where the name derives ; it has variously been translated as from " Dorainn nis " tempest point, or " Dhu thir nis " the point of the black land ; or from the Norse for deerpoint.
Former West Virginia Governor William A. MacCorkle described him as a man who knew " the land as a farmer knows his fields.
## Landlord knows or should know that the tenant makes public use of the land ( e. g. the land is rented for use as a restaurant or a store );
The land in question is apparently " dry ", but Papet knows of a source of water, a spring, that can solve that problem.
Former West Virginia Governor William A. MacCorkle described him as a man who knew the land " as a farmer knows a field.
He knows that some of you may be sick, and others travelling in the land, seeking the grace of Allah, and yet others fighting in Allah's way.
In the epic, Odysseus is instructed by Tiresias to take an oar from his ship and to walk inland until he finds a " land that knows nothing of the sea ", where the oar would be mistaken for a winnowing fan.

knows and is
He knows that the economy of life in the `` outback '' is awful.
For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.
So we see that a specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less as he develops, as contrasted to the generalist, who knows less and less about more and more.
His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.
True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;
But now he knows `` that an intellectual is not only a man to whom books are necessary, he is any man whose reasoning, however elementary it may be, affects and directs his life ''.
Secondly, the VA physician knows that when the patient leaves the hospital, he is no longer going to have a chance to visit his patient.
A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute.
`` But when it comes to war, the Colonel knows what it is and Jeff doesn't.
The stories Everyone really knows what is happening there ''.
For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.
He knows that he is thinking about action in relation to a future which can be perceived but dimly through a merciful fog.
He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.
He knows your signals, what is expected of him and the way the Class is conducted, right up through the flash-bulbs of the photographers ''.
Last year a boy he knows and helped in Journalism won the Thoroughbred Racing Ass'n Scholarship which is worth $10,000.
Russia knows this, and that is why there were over 800,000 competing for places as candidates for the Olympic gymnastic team.

knows and hard
One upward-mobile teacher may be a hard taskmaster for lower-class pupils because she wants them to develop the attitudes and skills that will enable them to climb, while another upward-mobile teacher may be a very permissive person with lower-class pupils because he knows their disadvantages and deprivations at home, and he hopes to encourage them by friendly treatment.
It is especially hard for him when he visits a victim in the person's home, because he knows that he must immediately call for an ambulance and have the person removed from the house.
As such only he fully knows the Quran in its complete context in which it was revealed to Prophet Mohammad over a span of 22 long and hard years.
Roman of course knows every trick in the book, and the besiegers are hard pressed to find out what is going on in the room with the hostages, since he blocks the entrances to the ventilation units and destroys the security cameras and other surveillance devices.
Pa tells Laura that he knows the winter is going to be hard because muskrats always build a house with thick walls before a hard winter, and this year, they have built the thickest walls he has ever seen.
Nina Anisimova danced the part of an Armenian girl who is an image and symbol of Socialist labour: she works hard ; she knows how to produce the most from the fields ; but she also knows how to enjoy life, spending her free time dancing and laughing.
Jacobs still knows that with this glimpse of success, it will still be hard for colored people to really succeed in the south.
Ramona knows that she has been described as a pest, but she doesn't see herself that way, and in this book she tries very hard to be good and follow the rules.
" It is hard to cast the skin ," he tells Mowgli, but Mowgli knows he must cast the skin of his old life in order to grow a new one.
The cut is disguised by the character blocking the camera ; the audience still knows that a cut has occurred, they would simply have a hard time pinpointing the exact moment.
Just ask bz, He knows, and Dobrikcs tetst are hard .. Hello bz
Archie proclaims that it was hard but John knows how hard it is when his wife grows mad at him, Charisse growing mad at him too and spending his family vacation with a pizza delivery boy.
Odom was also openly critical of the Neocon influence in the decision to go to war: " It's pretty hard to imagine us going into Iraq without the strong lobbying efforts from AIPAC < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > and the neocons, who think they know what's good for Israel more than Israel knows.
Tito admitted, however, that there is no hard proof for this theory, and that at this point in time no one really knows what the true origin of the " 33 " may have been.
It ’ s very hard to find a producer that can play ... and knows how to record with modern facilities.
He tells them that he is going to continue looting, but he knows someone called ' Guy ' ( a French name, pronounced " Gee " with the hard G sound ) who can help them find a ' big long pointy thing ', he warns them to avoid the MPs as they will shoot on sight.
He knows all about animals, but is a bit clumsy and has a hard time remembering the first names of Little Bill's parents.
:" Simple, sober, hard, with habits of austerity bordering on spartan, he knows how to reduce his requirements as he lacks resources, living in his isolation like Robinson on his island, Teófilo Braga has a unique passion, a passion of a prelate of science.
With infectious melodies and warm harmonies, " PT " is a group that loves life, values friendship, knows how to work hard, is always open to dialogue and puts its entire soul into every song which they offer as a gift to all its dear listeners, to people of good will and everyone who loves culture and art.

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