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things and construction
While there were visible signs of damage, in the vegetation and an apparent lack of construction in some places, the Island was bustling again as some things had been freshly re-built and those that were not were quite on their way.
Conditions did improve during the 19th century as public health acts were introduced covering things such as sewage, hygiene and making some boundaries upon the construction of homes.
When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.
Among other things the Swedish government has to decide whether or not to lend its support to the construction of a Russian gas pipeline in the Baltic sea near the Swedish island of Gotland.
* Cholesterol – a waxy substance related to the steroid chemicals which serves as a substrate for many things including cell membrane construction.
There is also a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which contains, among other things, the Institute of Cosmophysical Research, which runs the Yakutsk Extensive Air Shower installation ( one of the largest cosmic-ray detector arrays in the world ), and the Permafrost Research Institute developed with the aim of solving the serious and costly problems associated with construction of buildings on frozen soil.
The construction of the Canal Crossings Condominium by Moyle Inc. has obstructed some of the view of the neighbourhood from the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, one of the things for which the project has been criticised.
Given the size of Merchant's capital outlay — including construction in Boswell of the world's largest tipple, a central business district and a high school — the company planned big things for Boswell.
Pattullo was also a great advocate for British Columbia, and suggested such things as the annexation of Yukon by BC, and the construction of the Alaska Highway to reduce the power of eastern Canada over BC.
" that social construction talk is often in reference not only to worldly items, like things and facts – but also to beliefs about them.
" Social construction " may mean many things to many people.
However, honey bees, stingless bees, and bumblebees are colonial ( eusocial ), though they are sometimes believed to have each developed this independently, and show notable differences in such things as communication between workers and methods of nest construction.
At the time of the construction of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Lord Cloncurry was compensated with, among other things, a private railway bridge and harbour.
The 20th century saw an increasing use of technology in chair construction with such things as all-metal folding chairs, metal-legged chairs, the Slumber Chair, moulded plastic chairs and ergonomic chairs.
# Parikalpita ( literally, " fully conceptualized "): " imaginary nature ", wherein things are incorrectly apprehended based on conceptual construction, through attachment and erroneous discrimination.
The impetus to bring things back to the city center included the construction of the new mayoral residence just off the Zócalo.
It was reported that the Chinese government officially promised to invest in and help establish the complex area, which includes the construction of a college and distribution warehouses among other things such as a Chinatown for expatriates.
It continued to purchase well-known companies involved in manufacturing such things as overhead cranes, gasoline-dispensing pumps, and heavy equipment for mining and construction.
Blofeld's cricket commentary is celebrated for his plummy voice and his idiosyncratic mention of superfluous details regarding the scene, including things like construction cranes or numbers of pink shirts in the crowd ; as well as pigeons, buses, aeroplanes and helicopters that happen to be passing by.
Acoustic sensors will need to distinguish vehicles and aircraft from footsteps ( unless personnel detection is a goal ), and things such as construction blasting.
In the late 1960s, he diversified his business to include oil — establishing Petrola — and construction, building ( among other things ) oil refineries in Greece and Saudi Arabia, before gradually expanding into banking and financial services.
He once traveled to Kitende, Uganda to help a village, by among other things teaching villagers how to make Bovl Blocks, a modular concrete block Berg invented for use in tower construction where steel is not readily available or is cost-prohibitive.
Among other things, it is remarkable for its inclusion of a proposal for the construction of a navy in five rates ( sizes ) which Dudley designed and described.
This notion of “ solidity ” increasingly became an issue as the nature of modern construction changed, especially when dealing with such things as the lightweight partition and the glass curtain wall.

things and large
She stood there, a large old woman, smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning, this big foolish baby of a son.
I walked to the right around it to buildings containing illuminated manuscripts and came to the Treasury, which houses such things as coffee cups covered with diamonds, jewelled swords, rifles glittering with diamonds and huge divan-like thrones as large as small beds, on which the sultans sat cross-legged.
However, an earlier version of events by the same ancient author downplays Agrippa's role — so it is not known how large a hand he had in things.
He can cause large groups of people to forget things.
Additionally, according to Plutarch's essay on the meaning of the " E at Delphi "-- the only literary source for the inscription --- there was also inscribed at the temple a large letter E. Among other things epsilon signifies the number 5.
The large majority of Old Testament references in the New Testament are taken from the Greek Septuagint ( LXX )— which includes the deuterocanonical books, as well as apocrypha — both of which are called collectively αναγιγνοσκόμενα anagignoskomena ( things that are read or " profitable reading ").
Among other things, this treaty took away a large chunk of the Terai from Nepal and the rivers Mahakali and Mechi were fixed as the country's western and eastern boundaries.
* Socialism's fundamental principles are centered on a critique of this concept, stating, among other things, that the cost of defending property is higher than the returns from private property ownership, and that, even when property rights encourage their holders to develop their property or generate wealth, they do so only for their own benefit, which may not coincide with benefit to other people or to society at large.
Logoli men with large families were also capable of obtaining justice, as they would be feared people, who would not forcefully dare take their livestock or other things away from them.
Interpersonal communication and public speaking have several components that embrace such things as motivational speaking, leadership / personal development, business, customer service, large group communication, and mass communication.
Higher ratings are available, but do not run at higher temperature ; instead there is more heat available for making soldered connections to things with large thermal capacity, for example, a metal chassis.
When Jefferson's father Peter died Thomas inherited, among other things, his large library.
The tax is often designed with blanket coverage and large exceptions for things like food and clothing.
This seafood encompasses many different things, from large fish such as tuna and grouper, to sardines and even smaller fish such as anchovies.
" ... " round things were used to represent large solar objects, birth, and death.
The church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a silver iconostasis.
Skeptics and debunkers have questioned the interpretation of sea serpent sightings, suggesting that reports of serpents are misidentifications of things such as cetaceans ( whales and dolphins ), sea snakes, eels, basking sharks, baleen whales, oarfish, large pinnipeds, seaweed, driftwood, flocks of birds, and giant squid.
:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).
In the original and simplified sense, commodities were things of value, of uniform quality, that were produced in large quantities by many different producers ; the items from each different producer were considered equivalent.
Some say that the Chinese Emperor Wu became interested in developing commercial relationships with the sophisticated urban civilizations of Ferghana, Bactria and Parthian Empire: " The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Ta-Hsia ) and Parthian Empire ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hou Hanshu, Later Han History ).
Many of these efforts were based on children's frequent misperceptions of things they hear from adults, such as the " chocolate moose for dinner ," which was illustrated as a large brown quadruped seated at the dinner table.
One conclusion is that other things being equal ( such as Q and μ ), a large moon will lock faster than a smaller moon at the same orbital radius from the planet because grows much faster with satellite radius than.
Natural monuments are things such as trees, large stones and other substantial, naturally occurring objects that were in place before the survey was made.
The 2006 movie " The Prestige " makes reference to this claim with a device powered by a large Tesla coil that is created by Tesla himself, to make things disappear, but instead creates an exact replica that comes into being a short distance away.

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