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Indeed, such was the perceived threat of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Suleiman that ambassador Busbecq warned of Europe's imminent conquest: " On Turks ' side are the resources of a mighty empire, strength unimpaired, habituation to victory, endurance of toil, unity, discipline, frugality and watchfulness ... Can we doubt what the result will be ?... When the Turks have settled with Persia, they will fly at our throats supported by the might of the whole East ; how unprepared we are I dare not say.
Among his last words were, according to Plutarch, " By all means must we fly ; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.
We fly our flags on holidays and we plod along trying to make it better for ourselves and our children and our parents.
In the final panel, we see the landscape is a city made from human skulls, and one fly responds: " Don't be too hard on them, they did leave us such splendid cities ".
In his letter to the Grumman employees he wrote, " You build them, we'll fly them and between us, we can't be beaten.
He said, " At break we all went behind the kitchen for a fly smoke, and there in the corner was this quiet kid who said very little, but when he sang, everyone listened.
The Seventh Symphony perhaps more than any of the others gives us a feeling of true spontaneity ; the notes seem to fly off the page as we are borne along on a floodtide of inspired invention.
This also caused the autopilot to shut down ; at 22: 24: 28 AT ( 01: 24: 28 UTC ), Loew informed ATC Halifax that " we now must fly [...] manually.
She just did it backwards and in high heels, " and " When we pay billions for planes that won't fly, billions for tanks that won't fire, and billions for systems that won't work, that old dog won't hunt.
Please pass on our regards and inform them, that we will have a warm reception ready for them, next time they fly over our airfield ".
On August 1,, the day before the first anniversary of the accident, the Yankees filed a $ 4. 5-million lawsuit against Cessna Aircraft Co. and Flight Safety International, Inc. ( the company who was training Munson to fly ) with team spokesman John J. McCarty saying " we asked for $ 4. 5 million because that is what Munson would be worth if the Yankees traded him.
" " According to Miller, cultivation theory was not developed to study " targeted and specific effects ( e. g., that watching Superman will lead children to attempt to fly by jumping out the window ) rather in terms of the cumulative and overarching impact has on the way we see the world in which we live ".
Jenifer was outvoted on this point, but his reaction was to marvel at the delegates ' ability to come to agreement on a plan of government: " The first month we only came to grips, and the second it seemed as though we would fly apart forever, however we came as close as friends of eighty years in but days.
The cicada and the little dove laugh at this saying, " When we make an effort and fly up, we can get as far as the elm or the sapanwood tree, but sometimes we don't make it and just fall down on the ground.
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There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
Through the World Bank and other instrumentalities, as well as through individual action by every nation in position to help, we must squarely face this titanic challenge.
In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.
The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.
In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.
Goethe asks in Wilhelm Meister whether we know the land where the lemon trees flower, and the light of the Mediterranean glows through Torquato Tasso and the Roman Elegies.
She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.
Yet we who lean upon such a man and draw strength from him and expect interpretation of the infinite through him -- we who readily accept his sacrifice as our due, we of the congregations are the first to tell him what is in our minds instead of listening to what is in his soul.
It is through them that we have become aware of the divine humanity in man, and therefore, that most people are noble, helpful and good.
Sir -- When the colonies decided upon freedom from England, we insisted, through the Declaration of Independence, that the nations of the world recognize us as a separate political entity.
the next a headless horror on a horse that bolted through the redcoat ranks, and during the next second or two, we all of us fired into the suddenly disorganized column of soldiers.
At the other end of the spectrum, where the more advanced countries can be relied upon to make well thought through decisions as to project priorities within a consistent program, we should be prepared to depart substantially from detailed project approval as the basis for granting assistance and to move toward long-term support, in cooperation with other developed countries, of the essential foreign exchange requirements of the country's development program.
What I am suggesting is that when we delay, or when we fail to act, we do so intentionally and not through inadvertence or through bureaucratic or procedural difficulties.
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I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.
Schweitzer notes that St. Paul apparently believed in the immediacy of the " Second Coming of Jesus ": " Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord " ( 1 Thessalonians 4. 17 ).
Most of the substances we encounter in our daily life are some kind of mixture ; for example: air, alloys, biomass, etc.
Cambodia's ruler Prince Sihanouk complained bitterly to us about these North Vietnamese bases in his country and invited us to attack them ( which we did from the air in 1969 – 70 ).
In his letter to the church at Thessalonica, Paul writes, " The Lord himself will descend from heaven ... and the dead in Christ will rise first .” But he adds that “ we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air ." Th.
" Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
It is not really fire, for fire is an excess of heat and a sort of ebullition ; but in reality, of what we call air, the part surrounding the earth is moist and warm, because it contains both vapour and a dry exhalation from the earth.
Plato, for instance writes that " So it is with air: there is the brightest variety which we call aether, the muddiest which we call mist and darkness, and other kinds for which we have no name ...." Among the early Greek Pre-Socratic philosophers, Anaximenes ( mid-6th century BCE ) named air as the arche.
He rejected the very idea that every explanation of the meaning of a term needed itself to be explained: " As though an explanation hung in the air unless supported by another one ", claiming instead that explanation of a term is only needed when we need to avoid misunderstanding.
In electric guitars, transducers known as pickups convert string vibration to an electric signal, which in turn is amplified and fed to speakers, which vibrate the air to produce the sounds we hear.
They base this belief on, which says that, along with " the dead in Christ ", " we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air ".
" I find great pleasure in being naked in the woods, bathed in light and air, two natural elements we cannot do without.
" Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O ' Reilly.
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