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But he brought back the sheriff and several deputies, and to the lawmen the entire affair seemed a repetition of the Lewis killing.
It is curious that even centuries of repetition of the yearly cycle did not induce a sufficient degree of confidence to allow people to abandon the ceremonies of the winter solstice.
Bible reading, even more so than good classical music, grows in depth and meaning upon repetition.
He felt trapped in that pattern, in the repetition.
It places terrific tension on the leg muscles from start to finish of each repetition.
One species of ambiguity tries to baffle by interweaving repetition.
The content of his words may lapse back into monotonous repetition, as if a phonograph needle were stuck in one groove ; ;
On the one hand, the major European nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty, independence, formal equality -- thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience.
Anglo-Saxon poetry appears to have no comparable amount of repetition ; ;
Stammering or repetition of I, you, he, she, et cetera may signal ambiguity or uncertainty.
Murray Louis and his dance company appeared at the Henry Street Playhouse on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons in the premiere of his latest work, `` Signal '', and the repetition of an earlier one, `` Journal ''.
It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.
He cupped his ear and shook his head at her repetition, announcing in a nettled way that he had heard her the first time.
In music an " answer " ( also known as countersubject ) is the technical name in counterpoint for the repetition or modification by one part or instrument of a theme proposed by another.
The number of cycles of repetition are as follows:
* 10 cycles of repetition for 128 bit keys.
* 12 cycles of repetition for 192 bit keys.
* 14 cycles of repetition for 256 bit keys.
Religion was stripped of ornament and ceremony, and made as plain and simple as possible ; sermons and songs often used repetition to get across to a rural population of poor and mostly uneducated people the necessity of turning away from sin.
" Amazing Grace " was one of many hymns that punctuated fervent sermons, although the contemporary style used a refrain, borrowed from other hymns, that employed simplicity and repetition such as:
This public interest is usually satisfied by preventing a continuation or repetition of the offence on the same victim.
The latter is in substance a more didactic repetition of the former.
Alexander's term, " debauched sensory appreciation " describes how the repetition of a circumstance encourages habit design as a person adapts to circumstances or builds skills.
Commercial advertisers often seek to generate increased consumption of their products or services through " branding ," which involves the repetition of an image or product name in an effort to associate certain qualities with the brand in the minds of consumers.
A pulsed high voltage source ( typically 1-2 kV ) is generated and applied to the specimen, with pulse repetition rates in the hundreds of kilohertz range.

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