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If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.
I will mention two volumes of specific comment on this malaise that appeared last year.
The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
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.
`` What I'd like you to comment on is the criticism leveled at your Committee ''.
Could you comment on that ''??
In his comment on these laws Steele sounds all the usual notes of current Whig propaganda, ranging from a criticism of the Tory peace to an attack on the dismissal of Marlborough ; ;
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
( Editorial comment on this letter appears elsewhere on this page ).
In this letter, Mr. Kennedy made it clear that he limited his comment only to one consideration -- what effect the legislative proposals might have on future anti-trust judgments.
Without comment he opened the closet and from its shelves constructed a highboard around the egg case which he had placed on the floor inside.
Before we comment further on these pathological conditions, we should remember that changes in the state of the hypothalamus within physiological limits distinguish sleep from wakefulness.
For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.
An Ohio soldier who, from a comrade just returned from leave, received an unfavorable comment on the conduct of his sister, took pen in hand and delivered himself thus: `` dear Sis.
Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.
Hughes would not comment on tax reforms or other issues in which the Republican candidates are involved.
Downtown and art theater managers and owners, contacted Friday night for comment on the COAHR request, said they had no knowledge of such a letter, and that it was not in the Friday mail.
Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.
A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.
Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: " I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper.
The first Greek Christians to comment extensively on Aristotle were John Philoponus, Elias, and David in the sixth century, and Stephen of Alexandria in the early seventh century.

comment and arguments
Gee also stated that, while purely aquatic mammals such as whales show strong skeletal evidence of adaptation to water, humans and human fossils lack such adaptations ( a comment made by others as well ); that there are many hypothetical and equally plausible scenarios explaining the unique characteristics of human adaptation without involving an aquatic phase of evolution ; and that proponents are basing arguments about past adaptations on present physiology, when humans are not significantly aquatic.
But it was an offhand comment mocking Berkeley's arguments by the ' free-thinking ' royal astronomer Sir Edmund Halley that prompted Berkeley to pick up his pen again and try a new tack.
* 29 – Without comment, the Supreme Court of the United States refuses to hear arguments appealing the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that same-sex marriage must be allowed in that state, in essence letting the ruling stand.
In it, students and administration were engaged in fierce debate that eventually degenerated into each side simply reprinting the other side's arguments without comment, believing that the opposing side was so self-evidently absurd that to state its propositions was to refute them.
Political arguments are also used by citizens in ordinary interactions to comment about and understand political events.
They cite, for example, the U. S. Supreme Court's comment in 1892 that " this United States is a Christian nation ," after citing numerous historical and legal arguments in support of that statement.
Political arguments are also used by citizens in ordinary interactions to comment about and understand political events.
During closing arguments, counsel may not ( among other restrictions ) vouch for the credibility of witnesses, indicate their personal opinions of the case, comment on the absence of evidence that they themselves have caused to be excluded, or attempt to exhort the jury to irrational, emotional behavior.

comment and William
This somewhat cynical comment may be found in `` Blue Skies, Brown Studies '', a collection of travel essays by William Sansom, who would never consider staying home for long.
William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part II contains a wry comment about people who claim to be related to royal families.
There have been relatively few modern attempts to challenge this notion that the Historia Regum Britanniae is primarily Geoffrey's own work, with scholarly opinion often echoing William of Newburgh's late-12th-century comment that Geoffrey " made up " his narrative, perhaps through an " inordinate love of lying ".
Handel's awkward, repeated stressing of the fourth syllable of " incorruptible " may have been the source of the 18th century poet William Shenstone's comment that he " could observe some parts in Messiah wherein Handel's judgements failed him ; where the music was not equal, or was even opposite, to what the words required ".
Processual archaeology ( formerly the New Archaeology ) is a form of archaeological theory that had its genesis in 1958 with Willey and Phillips ' work Method and Theory in American Archeology, in which the pair stated that " American archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing " ( Willey and Phillips, 1958: 2 ), a rephrasing of Frederic William Maitland's comment that " y own belief is that by and by, anthropology will have the choice between being history and being nothing.
Except for Crowley and Francis Meres ( who simply cribs Webbe ) William Webbe is the only person to comment on the alliterative Piers Plowman favorably, since he disliked verse with " the curiosity of Ryme.
In a possible comment on the politics of Crowne's adaptation, Phillips dedicated his version to William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, a leading Whig politician.
The British commander in the South, Lord Cornwallis, would later comment that “ there could be no more formidable antagonist in a charge, at the head of his cavalry, than Colonel William Washington .”
The dispute came to a head at the AFL ’ s convention in Atlantic City in 1935, when William Hutcheson, the President of the Carpenters, made a slighting comment about a rubber worker delivering an organizing report.
This dispute came to a head at the AFL ’ s convention in Atlantic City in 1935, when William Hutcheson, the President of the Carpenters, made a slighting comment about a member of the fledgling union of tire factory workers who was delivering an organizing report.
The phrase gained further currency after William Manchester's comment that members of this generation were " withdrawn, cautious, unimaginative, indifferent, unadventurous and silent.
It can be a combination of multiple genres to create a unique narrative or to comment on situations in postmodernity: for example, William S. Burroughs uses science fiction, detective fiction, westerns ; Margaret Atwood uses science fiction and fairy tales ; Umberto Eco uses detective fiction, fairy tales, and science fiction, Derek Pell relies on collage and noir detective, erotica, travel guides, and how-to manuals, and so on.
It is also taken as his longer-term reaction and comment on William Wordsworth, earlier ( at the time of Lyrical Ballads ) his close collaborator.
* William Bennett, especially his radio-show comment on abortion
Lucy did not comment about the difficulties she encountered with church leaders during the transitional period — troubles which, without doubt, were exacerbated by her son, William — but they are suggested in the few letters and second-hand accounts that have survived ( Quaife, 246-48 ).
The Dorset poet William Barnes called it " elbow-streeted Cattstock ", a comment on the less-than-linear village street.
The name " Scribblies " derives from Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh's comment to Edward Gibbon upon receiving the second ( or third, or possibly both ) volume ( s ) of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " Another damned thick book!
The persistance of the rumour necessitated investigations of Calcutta archives and comment by William Lee-Warner in 1917 and Lord Zetland, Secretary for India in 1936.
In 1668, William Lilly, the astrologer and occultist, had commented on the connection between comets and the death of princes in a draft to his 1670 almanac: comets indicated, wrote Lilly, “ some dreadful matter at hand ,” and were “ a prediction of the fall of kings and tyrants .” The latter comment was removed from the draft by L ’ Estrange.
Riffing on this comment, in the 2006 Big Finish Productions audio drama The Kingmaker, William Shakespeare cries, " What the Chaucer ?".
It references a similar comment made by William Hartnell, breaking the fourth wall, during " The Feast of Steven " episode of The Daleks ' Master Plan.
Fleming's comment that Adam " was at his best when guided by a man of taste who knew his own mind ", is echoed by McWilliam, who suggests that William Adam " always did his best, but did his best architecture ... when he was in touch not only with his source books, but with other lively minds ".
Later, on an Internet discussion board head engineer William Scarboro would comment that " In hindsight, portal tricks such as these should be used as tricks, not as an engine paradigm.
Star Trek had also previously featured an interracial kiss, specifically William Shatner with France Nuyen in " Elaan of Troyius " but had drawn no comment.

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