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They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.

In certain respects, their task was incomparably greater than ours today, for there was nobody before them to show them the way.

During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.

The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension: the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas.

The North and the South were in greater agreement on sovereignty, through all their dispute about it, than were the Founding Fathers.

The fact that the Americans who upheld the sovereignty of their states did this in order to keep many of their people more securely in slavery -- the antithesis of individual liberty -- made the conflict grimmer, and the greater.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

The need for monitoring became greater when radio was adopted for military signaling.

It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.

Hence government must establish greater controls upon corporations so that their activities promote what is deemed essential to the national interest.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

The very firmness of her convictions and logical clearness of her arguments captivated and stimulated him to make greater efforts ; ;

To us and to every nation of the Free World, rich or poor, these qualities are necessary today as never before if we are to march together to greater security, prosperity and peace.

Undoubtedly, however, the significance of the volume is greater than the foregoing paragraphs suggest.

Schweitzer seems, in fact, to acquire for himself a burden of sin, not bequeathed by Adam, but accumulated in the inevitable judgments which life requires of him as between greater and lesser responsibilities.

The shadows cast by the personages of Greek and Shakespearean drama lengthen into a greater darkness.

There can be no greater magic than to wrest from death her in whom the flesh was all, in whom beauty was entirely pure because it was entirely corruptible.

`` Did you ever know a man with greater zest for information??

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

And this, of course, is exactly what Madison Avenue has been accused of doing albeit in a primitive way, with its `` hidden persuaders '' and what the space merchants accomplish with much greater sophistication and precision.