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Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.
Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.
All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.
That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.
The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.
But the natural condition for the heavenly bodies is neither rest, nor rectilinear motion.
There is no explanation of terms nor a qualification that most such revolts have been dealt with by force -- only a bald dogmatism that they must, because of some undefined compulsion, be so repelled.
Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.
Then it added: `` It is not possible to determine how extensive these ill effects will be -- nor how many people will be affected ''.
It is also significant that neither this report nor the hearing officer's notes were furnished to the appeal board.
Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.
The effective recognition of excellence and its nurture has to be learned and is not learned in a day, nor even in a year.
The flavor is neither sweet, like a pear, nor tart like an orange ; ;
Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.
One species is restricted to statements which are neither explicit nor precise regarding a particular person, place, time or thing.
The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.
There is no conclusive evidence yet that either of the proteases has been prepared in highly purified form nor is their specificity known.
In the primary decomposition theorem, it is not necessary that the vector space V be finite dimensional, nor is it necessary for parts ( A ) and ( B ) that P be the minimal polynomial for T.
Her conclusion has been borne out in the experience of many practitioners: `` short-contact interviewing is neither a truncated nor a telescoped experience but is of the same essential quality as the so-called intensive case work ''.

nor and there
No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.
Now there was no work in the fields, nor would there be till it rained, and she did not know where he went.
I can lead you to every one of the bodies, and there ain't four, nor five, nor six of 'em -- there's seven!!
Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.
nor did Synthetic Cubism fully begin there.
As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.
`` There is not now, nor has there ever been in Emory University's charter or by-laws any requirement that students be admitted or rejected on the basis of race, color or creed.
`` In view of the current expansion, which promises to be substantial '' he said the odds appear to favor rising interest rates in coming months, but `` there is reason to believe the change will not be as abrupt as in 1958 nor as severe as in late 1959 and 1960 ''.
For example, the Banach – Tarski paradox is neither provable nor disprovable from ZF alone: it is impossible to construct the required decomposition of the unit ball in ZF, but also impossible to prove there is no such decomposition.
Note that " completeness " has a different meaning here than it does in the context of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, which states that no recursive, consistent set of non-logical axioms of the Theory of Arithmetic is complete, in the sense that there will always exist an arithmetic statement such that neither nor can be proved from the given set of axioms.
A relation can be both symmetric and antisymmetric ( e. g., the equality relation ), and there are relations which are neither symmetric nor antisymmetric ( e. g., the " preys on " relation on biological species ).
" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.
In fact, there is no evidence of the deposed Sultan being allowed to make such foreign travels, nor did Voltaire ( or Gürsel ) assert that it had any actual historical foundation.
Nonetheless, the written sources do not mention damages wrought by fire, save the Gardens of Sallust, which were situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance ; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.
Believing that without Christian wisdom there can be neither prosperity nor success in war, Alfred aimed " to set to learning ( as long as they are not useful for some other employment ) all the free-born young men now in England who have the means to apply themselves to it.
Hence, there are two different conceptions of art in aesthetics: art as knowledge or art as action, but aesthetics is neither epistemology nor ethics.
In the world to come there shall be neither eating nor drinking, neither trading nor toil, neither hatred nor envy ; but the righteous shall sit with crowns upon their heads, and rejoice in the radiance of the Divine Presence ".
Parmenides reasoned that if everything is identical to being and being is a category of the same thing then there can be neither differences between things nor any change.

nor and need
But the form in which the claim must be stated need not be different from what the State exacts in the enforcement of like obligations created by it, so long as a requirement does not add to, or diminish, the right as defined by Federal law, nor burden the realization of this right in the actualities of litigation ''.
Neither Mantle nor Maris need fear being classified an intellectual, but lately Mantle has shown unusual devotion to an intellectual opus, Henry Miller's `` Tropic of Cancer ''.
Kant is not generally considered to be a modern anthropologist, however, as he never left his region of Germany nor did he study any cultures besides his own, and in fact, describes the need for anthropology as a corollary field to his own primary field of philosophy.
There was no need for the wires to be connected back together into a loop, nor the need for hubs or other devices.
However it is important to note that the objects of a category need not be sets nor the arrows functions ; any way of formalising a mathematical concept such that it meets the basic conditions on the behaviour of objects and arrows is a valid category, and all the results of category theory will apply to it.
Due to their unique power of sacrosanctity, the Tribune had no need for lictors for protection and owned no imperium, nor could they wear the toga praetexta.
By choosing the angle of bank to match the car's speed around the curve, the car seat transmits only a perpendicular force to the passengers, and the passengers no longer feel a need to lean nor feel a sideways push by the car seats or doors.
)-These people know the application and its end-user interfaces, but need not know nor understand the underlying DBMS.
There is no need for higher order derivatives in the equation, nor for time dependence in v ( x ) because these can be eliminated by considering systems of higher dimensions.
It was unusual among school voucher proposals in that it required neither accreditation on the part of schools accepting vouchers, nor proof of need on the part of families applying for them ; neither did it have any requirement that schools accept vouchers as payment-in-full, nor any other provision to guarantee a reduction in the real cost of private school tuition.
Once a GSSP boundary has been agreed upon, a " golden spike " is driven into the geologic section to mark the precise boundary for future geologists ( though in practice the " spike " need neither be golden nor an actual spike ).
Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.
However, mechanical medical nanodevices would not be allowed ( or designed ) to self-replicate inside the human body, nor would medical nanorobots have any need for self-replication themselves since they would be manufactured exclusively in carefully regulated nanofactories.
* Substantial law on almost all matters was neither legislated nor codified, eliminating the need for courts to interpret legislation.
And therefore his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly styled irreformable, since they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, promised to him in blessed Peter, and therefore they need no approval of others, nor do they allow an appeal to any other judgment.
Public key certificates that include an expiration date are unsatisfactory in that the expiration date may not correspond with a real-world revocation need-but at least such certificates need not all be tracked down system-wide, nor must all users be in constant contact with the system at all times.
The language of the patents indicate that at this time, Silberrad saw no need to explain to " those versed in the art " either what he meant by plasticity nor why it may be advantageous, as he only explains why his plastic explosive is superior to others of that type.
Other scholars, such as Salikoko Mufwene, argue that pidgins and creoles arise independently under different circumstances, and that a pidgin need not always precede a creole nor a creole evolve from a pidgin.
Critics of this traditional view have observed that the types can be quite strongly stereotyped by professions ( although neither Myers nor Keirsey engaged in such stereotyping in their type descriptions ), and thus may arise more from the need to categorize people for purposes of guiding their career choice.
The sense of timelessness was also predominant in the story as a perfect utopian community remains unchanged, that is, it had no decline nor the need to improve.
ELA is performed as an outpatient procedure and does not require the use of an operating theatre, nor does the patient need a general anaesthetic.
Poor w is so infamous and unknown that many barely know either its name or its shape, not those who aspire to being Latinists, as they have no need of it, nor do the Germans, not even the schoolmasters, know what to do with it or how to call it ; some call it we, others call it uu, [...] the Swabians call it auwawau

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