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more and doubtful
Since the Supreme Court's decision of that year this is more doubtful ; ;
It is doubtful any individual has ever given more entertainment, pleasure and relief to so many human beings when they needed it the most ".
That Cão, on his second voyage of 1484-1486, was accompanied by Martin Behaim ( as alleged on the latters Nuremberg globe of 1492 ) is very doubtful ; but we know that the explorer revisited the Congo and erected two more pillars beyond the furthest of his previous voyage.
But Amadeus, doubtful of victory and now more fearful of Habsburg influence in Italy than he was of French, had begun secret dealings with Louis XIV aimed at extricating himself from the war.
Because the nickname was first recorded in the 1180s, more than 150 years after Æthelred's death, it is doubtful that it carries any implications for how the king was seen by his contemporaries or near contemporaries.
The vain, arrogant, and tactless Ribbentrop was not the man for such a mission, but it is doubtful that even a more skilled diplomat could have fulfilled Hitler's dream.
His strategic vision was more doubtful, and both of his invasions of the North ended in defeat.
It is usually said that, at the synod which deposed Benedict V, Leo VIII conceded to the Emperor and his successors as sovereign of Italy full rights of investiture, but the genuineness of the document on which this allegation rests is more than doubtful.
Nevertheless, the story of Demosthenes ' relations with Aristarchus is still regarded as more than doubtful, and no other pupil of Demosthenes is known by name.
It would have been impossible to have commenced an attack much earlier than it occurred, and it is doubtful that the Confederacy could have placed the attack in any more secure hands than General Longstreet.
Despite selling more than a million copies by 1945, its influence within Nazism ( beyond providing specious intellectual cover for unintellectual governance ) remains doubtful.
A 19th century identification of teff seeds from an ancient Egyptian site is now considered doubtful ; the seeds in question ( no longer available for study ) are more likely of E. aegyptiaca, a common wild grass in Egypt.
Livy infers Romulus ' murder as no more than a dim and doubtful whisper from the past ; in the circumstances, Proculus ' declaration is wise and practical because it has the desired effect.
Daniel comes up against opposition from doubtful local parishioners who question his faith and the Bishop Hegarty, played by Tom Hickey, who is more interested in raising funds for a new church.
This statement made him lose his status among the left-wing intellectuals ; when he died in 1960 in a car crash, the official thesis of an ordinary accident ( a quick open-and-shut case ) has left more than a few observers doubtful.
.. but is much more doubtful about noumena:
But it is doubtful that any can meet that of Miller County, probably the only county in the United States which, once created was " abolished " and made a part of a " more patriotic " county.
Without Lorenzo's support it is doubtful that Pico would have survived even the 10 more years that he did.
A larger collection, possibly more extensive than that of Artemidorus, and including poems of doubtful authenticity, was known to the author of the Suda, who says: " Theocritus wrote the so-called bucolic poems in the Doric dialect.
But as time went on and the research progressed Hodder became more and more doubtful that such models and simulations did really ' test ' or ' prove ' anything.
Whether he used the words attributed to him in the Annual Register for 1761 is more than doubtful, but the minutes of Council show that they express his meaning.
Whether Pope had really understood the tendency of his own work has always been doubtful, but there is no question that he was glad of an apologist, and that Warburton's jeu d ' esprit in the long run helped more than all his erudition.
For softer or more doubtful surfaces sole boards must be used, beneath a single standard a sole board should be at least 1, 000 cm² with no dimension less than 220 mm, the thickness must be at least 35 mm.

more and possible
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
Fortunately, it is possible to be somewhat more concrete and factual in diagnosing the involvement of values in education.
But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.
It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.
and administrative practices which will make possible the more effective review and implementation of programs once established.
Designers and manufacturers have produced models for purchasers who run the gamut from a nautical version of the elderly Pasadena lady who never drove more than five miles an hour on her once-a-month ride around the block, to the sportiest boatman who insists on all the dash, color, flair and speed possible to encompass in a single boat.
No less an authority than the FHA concurs that the savings air conditioning makes possible more than offset its operating costs.
Unlimited game bags are possible and legal in more than 40 states, on shooting preserves ( one of the newer phases of modern game-management ) for five and six months each year.
and an administrative organization to take the routine load away from department managers and project engineers as much as possible, thus allowing them more time for strictly technical work.
No generalization of these results to spaces of more than three dimensions has so far been found possible.
A more tenable explanation for the change in reactions is that the added knowledge and increased familiarity with the total situation made it possible for these subjects to be less guarded and to relax, since any reaction seemed acceptable to the examiner as `` normal ''.
Apparently the feeling is that anything more would be involvement in technical abstrusenesses of possible pedantic interest but of no visible significance in practical affairs.
The paper has a certain value as a comparatively easy introduction to this approach, particularly since it treats a fairly simple and straightforward phenomenon where it is possible to compare it with a more traditional ( though not structural ) statement.
Resolved, that we find in this fearful tragedy at Harper's Ferry a reason for more earnest effort to remove the evil of slavery from the whole land as speedily as possible.
Deactivation of enzymes is also possible, although some types require extremely heavy doses of 10 Mrad or more.
It is possible that the polyether foams may soon be molded on a production basis in low-cost molds with more intricate contours and with superior properties to latex foam.
For the first fifteen or twenty minutes it's possible to be more or less interested in window displays, then in people passing by.
`` It's quite possible there's more than codfish down there, man '', Poet replied with a short, nervous laugh as he held the harness for Elaine.
Mr. Martinelli explained that there should be more than enough signatures to assure the scheduling of a vote on the home rule charter and possible election of a nine member charter commission within 70 days.
Is it after all possible that no matter how the liberals trumpet their confidence in human dignity they are exposed to a contagion of fear more insidious than any conservative has ever to worry about??
Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

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