Accumulated Sentence Examples

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  • He was accused of having accumulated great treasures.

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  • Then, stores of food-material being accumulated at the injured place, other buds arise at the base of or around the injured one.

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  • The money which he accumulated he put to good use in the construction of roads and public buildings.

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  • Many volumes containing accounts of such phenomena have been printed, and appeal is often made to the mass of evidence so accumulated.

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  • The story runs that food was passed through the bars to the child, who survived in spite of the accumulated filth of his surroundings.

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  • It is unnecessary in this place to recapitulate the many results which had accumulated by the end of the 18th century, or to discuss the labours and theories of individual workers since these receive attention under biographical headings; in this article only the salient features in the history of our science can be treated.

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  • On his return he found both his parents dead, and was appointed the guardian of his eleven young brothers and sisters, in which capacity, profiting by the spoliation of the church, he accumulated immense riches.

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  • Under the influence of the touchstone of strict inquiry set on foot by the Royal Society, the marvels of witchcraft, sympathetic powders and other relics of medieval superstition disappeared like a mist before the sun, whilst accurate observations and demonstrations of a host of new wonders accumulated, amongst which were numerous contributions to the anatomy of animals, and none perhaps more noteworthy than the observations, made by the aid of microscopes constructed by himself, of Leeuwenhoek, the Dutch naturalist (1683), some of whose instruments were presented by him to the society.

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  • To provide for the repayment from earnings of the capital invested in a mining property and expended in development, and to provide for the depreciation in value of the plant and equipment, an amortization fund must be accumulated during the life of the mine; or, if it be desired to continue the business of mining elsewhere, a similar fund must be created for the purchase, development and equipment of a new property to take the place of the original deposit when that shall be exhausted.

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  • The men who manipulate the stirring bars are therefore changed at short intervals, while the bars themselves have also to be changed at somewhat longer intervals, as they rapidly become oxidized, and accumulated scale would tend to fall off them, thus contaminating the glass below.

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  • He increased his bodyguard to Boo men, all Frenchmen, who behaved with the greatest licence and brutality; by his oppressive taxes, and his ferocious cruelty towards all who opposed him, and the unsatisfactory treaties he concluded with Pisa, he accumulated bitter hatred against his rule.

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  • No store of food is accumulated, and the winter sleep is probably unbroken.

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  • The game is set up in 34 levels and additional coins are accumulated at the higher levels.

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  • When you move to Level 37, you become an Appetizer Imperator and Level 38 honors you with the distinction of being a Mashing Majesty.Level changes are determined by how many points you have accumulated.

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  • At the ebb of the tide the more or less clear water flows back again from the land into the main river with sufficient force to clean out any deposit which may have accumulated in the drain leading to the warped area, thus allowing free access of more warpladen water at the next tide.

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  • But whereas, from its construction, the Siemens furnace was intermittent in operation, necessitating stoppage of the current while the contents of the crucible were poured out, many of the newer forms are specially designed either to minimize the time required in effecting the withdrawal of one charge and the introduction of the next, or to ensure absolute continuity of action, raw material being constantly charged in at the top and the finished substance and by-products (slag, &c.) withdrawn either continuously or at intervals, as sufficient quantity shall have accumulated.

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  • The accumulated treasures of Meshed `Ali were carried off by the Wahhabites early in the 19th century, and in 1843 the town was deprived of many of its former liberties and compelled to submit to Turkish law; but it is again' enormously wealthy, for what is given to the shrine may never be sold or used for any outside purpose, but constantly accumulates.

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  • In 1830 the debt and accumulated interest owing in London amounted to £2,310,767, in addition to which there was a home debt of 17,183,397 dollars.

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  • Other obligations had accumulated in the meantime, however, so that the debt in 1848 amounted to $187,000.

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  • Having accumulated much material, he began the actual composition of his work in the spring of 1776, and the printing in the summer of 1777.

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  • They accumulated wealth by war, or by privateering against the Turks and their allies.

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  • After the war he invested extensively in pine lands in Michigan, and accumulated a large fortune in the lumber business.

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  • Fouquet, the finance minister, had accumulated enormous wealth during the late disturbances, and seemed to possess power and ambition too great for a subject.

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  • By 1904 more than 6800 of these meteorological logs with 7,000,000 observations had been accumulated by the Meteorological Office in London; 20,000 with io,600,000 observations by the German Marine Observatory at Hamburg; 4700 with 3,300,000 observations by the Central Institute of the Netherlands at de Bilt near Utrecht.

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  • Sir John Murray believes that no more than a few feet of red clay have accumulated in the deepest depressions since the close of the Tertiary period.

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  • The management of such places, therefore, requires the most constant vigilance on the part of the workmen, especially in the examination of the working places that have been standing empty during the night, in which gas may have accumulated, to see that they are properly cleared before the new shift commences.

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  • The popular agitators, headed by Samuel Adams - with whom John Hancock, an opulent merchant and one of the few of the richer people who deserted the crown, leagued himself - forced on the movement, which became war in April 1775, when Gage sent an expedition to Concord and Lexington to destroy military stores accumulated by the patriots and to capture Adams and Hancock, temporarily staying at Lexington.

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  • A reserve of $10o,000,000 of gold had been accumulated for the redemption of these notes.

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  • At all the more interesting sites he took up his abode for a time; he examined, he inquired, he made measurements, he accumulated materials.

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  • In Leipzig Reiske worked mainly at Greek, though he continued to draw on his Arabic stores accumulated in Leiden.

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  • He went to New Netherland (New York) in 1660, married a wealthy widow, engaged in trade, and soon accumulated a fortune.

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  • Values can therefore be accumulated only by being reproduced in the course or, as often happens, by the very act of consumption; hence his distinction between reproductive and unproductive consumption.

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  • But the reasons against the author being John the Zebedean or any other eyewitness of Jesus' earthly life have accumulated to a practical demonstration.

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  • In this way a State debt of 35,069 millions of kronen was accumulated.

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  • There are throughout the state occasional tracts in which, owing to deficient drainage, an excess of alkali '507 has accumulated, and which require special treatment before they can be made again productive.

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  • In a quiet interval, the Lower Eocene plant-beds of Glenarm and Ballypalady were formed in lakes, where iron-ores also accumulated.

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  • The evidence for the existence of the luminiferous aether has accumulated as additional phenomena of light and other radiations have been discovered; and the properties of this medium, as deduced from the phenomena of light, have been found to be precisely those required to explain electromagnetic phenomena."

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  • Profit arises as soon as stock, being accumulated in the hands of one person, is employed by him in setting others to work, and supplying them with materials and subsistence, in order to make a gain by what they produce.

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  • Materials accumulated far more rapidly, however, than the power of generalization and classification.

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  • The family is assumed to have sprung from Walsingham in Norfolk, but the earliest authentic traces of it are found in London in the first half of the 15th century; and it was one of the numerous families which, having accumulated wealth in the city, planted themselves out as landed gentry and provided the Tudor monarchy with its justices of the peace and main support.

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  • But as contributions accumulated, it was found possible to send a number of Doukhobor emigrants to Canada, whither they arrived in two parties, numbering above 4000, in January 1899.

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  • The Tigris may have swept the western wall, though now a wide belt of sand has accumulated between the ruins and its present channel which is perpetually shifting.

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  • When the ice of the last glacial epoch had retreated so far that Its front lay on a northward slope, belonging to the drainage area of the Great Lakes, bodies of water accumulated in front of the ice margin, forming glacio-marginal lakes.

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  • In certain districts the subglacial till was not spread out in a smooth plain, but accumulated in elliptical mounds, 100 or 200 ft.

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  • Like the earlier Palaeozoic systems, the Devonian attains its greatest known thickness in the Appalachian Mountains, where sediments from the lands of pre-Cambrian rock to the east accumulated in quantity.

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  • Triassic SystemThis system has but limited representation in the eastern part of the United States, being known only east of the Appalachian Mountains in an area which was land throughout most of the Palaeozoic era, hut which was deformed when the eastern mountains were developed at the close of the Palaeozoic. In the troughs formed in its surface during this time of deformation, sediments of great thickness accumulated during the Triassic period.

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  • The Lafayette formation has been the occasion of much difference of opinion, but is by many held to be a non-marine formation, made up of gravels, sands and clays, accumulated on land, chiefly through the agency of rain and rivers.

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  • Yet no war had intervened; the industries of the land had flourished; the advance in accumulated wealth had been beyond all precedent; and immigration had increased.

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  • But in the course of a few years the accumulated difference between the solar year and twelve lunar months would become considerable, and have the effect of transporting the commencement of the year to a different season.

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  • By Reason Also Of The Fractional Excess Of The Length Of The Year Above 365 Days, It Likewise Happens That The Years Cannot All Contain The Same Number Of Days If The Epoch Of Their Commencement Remains Fixed; For The Day And The Civil Year Must Necessarily Be Considered As Beginning At The Same Instant; And Therefore The Extra Hours Cannot Be Included In The Year Till They Have Accumulated To A Whole Day.

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  • During The 1257 Years That Elapsed Between The Council Of Nicaea And The Reformation, The Error Had Accumulated To Four Days, So That The New Moons Which Were Marked In The Calendar As Happening, For Example, On The 5Th Of The Month, Actually Fell On The 1St.

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  • In some districts the ground is undermined by these burrows, in which stores of food are accumulated.

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  • The revenue of the state is about one million sterling; and large reserves have been accumulated, from which two millions were lent to the government of India in 1887, and later on another million for the construction of the Gwalior-Agra and Indore-Neemuch railways.

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  • Much of Constant's time was spent with her at Coppet; but he also made long sojourns at Weimar, where he mixed in the GoetheSchiller circle, and accumulated material for the great work on religion which he had begun, so far back as 1787, at Colom bier.

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  • Unhappily he ordered his papers to be burnt after his death, and the knowledge that such a traveller must have accumulated died with him.

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  • His energy was temporarily paralysed by accumulated misfortunes.

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  • Since belief in the adequacy of the two theories, above outlined, to account for the facts they profess to explain, depends ultimately upon the testimony that can be brought forward of the usefulness of warning characters, of the deception of mimicry and of the capacity for learning by experience possessed by enemies, it is necessary to give some of the evidence that has been accumulated on these points.

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  • Vessels were accumulated on the American sea-board, and the watch became more strict.

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  • Nearly all the moisture that is precipitated during six or seven months is stored up in the form of snow, and is gradually diffused in the course of the succeeding summer; even in the hottest and driest seasons the reserves accumulated during a long preceding period of years in the form of glaciers are available to maintain the regular flow of the greater streams. Nor is this all; the lakes that fill several of the main valleys on the southern side of the Alps are somewhat above the level of the plains of Lombardy and Venetia, and afford an inexhaustible supply of water, which, from a remote period, has been used for that system of irrigation to which they owe their proverbial fertility.

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  • The area within which the Carboniferous rocks of Britain occur is sufficiently extensive to contain more than one type of the system, and thus to cast much light on the varied geographical conditions under which these rocks were accumulated.

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  • He consulted the older and graver Laurentius Andreae, who told him how "Doctor Martinus had clipped the wings of the pope, the cardinals and the big bishops," which could not fail to be pleasing intelligence to a monarch who was never an admirer of episcopacy, while the rich revenues of the church, accumulated in the course of centuries, were a tempting object to the impecunious ruler of an impoverished people.

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  • The water may be drainage-water from lands at a higher level; or it may be water from a neighbouring river; or it may be drainagewater accumulated from a farm and pumped up to the necessary level.

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  • The extravagance of Frederick drained the resources of his state, but this was amply atoned for by the rigid economy of Frederick William I., who not only paid off the debts accumulated by his father, but amassed an enormous treasure.

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  • This superseded the complicated system of laws and royal ordinances which had accumulated in Prussia during the fifty years that had elapsed since the system of short service had been introduced; the application to other states of course made a clearer statement of the laws desirable.

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  • Property was to belong to him who most wanted it; accumulated property was a monstrous injustice.

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  • The first nucleus round which the present dominions of the house of Austria gradually accumulated was the mark which lay along the south bank of the Danube, east of the river Origin of Enns, founded about A.D.

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  • Moreover, some 10,000,000, being accumulated surpluses in the hands of the Caisse after meeting the charges of the debt, were handed over to the Egyptian tceasury.

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  • By the sale of offices, the establishment of new "Monti" and by levying new taxes, he accumulated a vast surplus, which he stored up against certain specified emergencies, such as a crusade or the defence of the Holy See.

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  • Nominated in 1770 librarian to Francis III., duke of Modena, he turned to account the copious materials there accumulated for the composition of his Storia della letteratura italiana.

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  • When it persists as a massive element of the seed its nutritive function is usually apparent, for there is accumulated within its cells reserve-food, and according to the dominant substance it is starchy, oily, or rich in cellulose, mucilage or proteid.

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  • The total thickness of both these groups of rock cannot be less than 30,000 ft., and, as most of them bear evidence of having been deposited in shallow water, they could only have been accumulated during a prolonged period of depression.

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  • In other words, the Old Red Sandstone and Carboniferous rocks, though chiefly accumulated in the broad lowland valley, crept also over some part of the hills on either side, where a few outliers tell of their former extension.

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  • The mountains in fact have been hewn out of the original bulk of the land in proportion as the valleys have been excavated_ The denudation would continue so long as the ground stood above the level of the sea; but there have been prolonged periods of depression, when the ground, instead of being eroded, lay below the sea-level and was buried sometimes under thousands of feet of accumulated sediment, which completely filled up and obliterated the previous drainage-lines.

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  • Some of these changes he supposed to have been the result of new conditions, including abundance of food and protection from enemies, but most he attributed to the accumulated results of selective breeding.

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  • At the order of Constantine, the shrine of Venus above mentioned was destroyed, and the accumulated rubbish removed, till the ancient rockfoundation was reached.

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  • Moved at last by the great quantity of military material that was being found in the Gulf, the British Government urged the Persian Government to enforce the actual law and to confiscate the stores of arms which had accumulated at Bushire.

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  • His historic fame came from the Christian Schoolmen, whom he almost initiated into the system of Aristotle, and who, but vaguely discerning the expositors who preceded, admired in his commentaries the accumulated results of two centuries of labours.

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  • He wasted the treasure accumulated by Ala-ud-din in purchasing the retirement of the Mogul hordes, who had already made their appearance in the Punjab.

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  • His adopted son, Nana Sahib, inherited his accumulated savings, but could obtain no further recognition.

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  • Left an orphan at the age of nine, he early entered journalism, and, in banking and railway enterprises, accumulated a considerable fortune.

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  • First of all Monsignor Bayardi was brought from Rome and commissioned to write about the antiquities which were being collected in the museum at Portici under the care of Camillo Paderni, and when it was recognized that the prelate had not sufficient learning, and by the progress of the excavations other most abundant material was accumulated, about which at once scholars and courtiers were anxious to be informed, Bernardo Tanucci, having become secretary of state in 1755, founded the Accademia Ercolanese, which published the principal works on Herculaneum (Le Pitture ed i bronzi d'Ercolano, 8 vols., 1757, 1792; Dissertationis isagogicae ad Herculanensium voluminum explanationem pars prima, 1797).

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  • For a very long time no care had been taken to remove the old covering when a new one was put on; and the accumulated weight caused uneasiness respecting the stability of the walls.

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  • To the epistemologist it seemed to confuse foundation and keystone, and to suppose itself to build upon the latter in a construction illegitimately appropriative of materials otherwise accumulated.

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  • The effects of a season of drought on the dry portions of the state need not be adverted to; and as there is no rain or snow of any consequence on the mountains during summer, a succession of dry seasons may almost bare the ranges of the accumulated stock 1 During the interval from 1850 to 1872 the yearly rainfall at San Francisco ranged from 11.37 to 49.27 in.; from 1850 to 1904 the average was 22.74, and the probable annual variation 4 in.

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  • It is situated at the junction of the sandstone and slate, where the water, having worn away the former, has accumulated on the latter.

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  • The Sabah Steamship Company, subsidized by the Chartered Company, runs steamers along the coast, calling at all the company's stations at which native produce is accumulated.

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  • The accumulated waters which pour down into the depression are gathered into the two basins of Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua.

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  • The new dogmas promulgated by the Holy See from time to time have been the outcome of the slow growth of ages, built up from precedent to precedent, and only defined at last when the accumulated weight of evidence in their favour, or the necessity for precise definition to meet the contradictions of heretics, seemed to demand a decision.

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  • His kingdom therefore lapsed to Rome, and Prasutagus, anxious that the transfer should be effected in an orderly way, divided his accumulated wealth between his two daughters and the emperor.

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  • Chairs had therefore to be founded under the title of rhetoric, from which men like Chrysoloras and Guarino, Filelfo and Politian expounded orally to hundreds of eager students from every town of Italy and every nation in Europe their accumulated knowledge of antiquity.

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  • In the fields of classical learning the students of the Low Countries broke new ground chiefly by methodical collection, classification and comprehensive criticism of previously accumulated stores.

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  • As tax contributions have taken the places of the revenue from land and fees, so, it would seem, are the taxes on commodities likely to be replaced or at least exceeded by the imposts levied on income as such, in the shape either of income taxes proper or of charges on accumulated wealth.

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  • If, however, pairs of metallic disks, made, say, of zinc and copper, are alternated with disks of cloth wetted with a conductor of the second class, such, for instance, as dilute acid or any electrolyte, then the effect of the feeble potential difference between one pair of copper and zinc disks is added to that of the potential difference between the next pair, and thus by a sufficiently long series of pairs any required difference of potential can be accumulated.

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  • In a true scientific sense no hypothesis was possible, because few facts had been accumulated.

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  • The neutral fluid could, however, be divided up or separated into its two constituents, and these could be accumulated on separate conductors or non-conductors.

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  • The charges rapidly accumulated, but Bacon still looked upon them as party moves, and was in hopes of defending himself.'

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  • They necessitated a great deal of labour, because each feed required a separate layer-on and taker-off besides the superintending printer, and other hands to carry away the sheets as fast as they accumulated at the different taking-off boards.

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  • These lands are very extensive, and present every degree of fertility and elevation, from the vast chars of pure sand, subject to annual inundations, to the firm islands, so raised by drift-sand and the accumulated remains of rank vegetable matter, as no longer to be liable to flood.

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  • From 6000 to 8000 prisoners, 60 cannon, engines of war and a considerable booty from the wealth accumulated by piracy fell into the hands of the conquerors.

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  • The resources of Balmaceda were running short on account of the heavy military expenses, and he determined to dispose of the reserve of silver bullion accumulated in the vaults of the Casa de Moneda in accordance with the terms of the law for the conversion of the note issue.

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  • In October the Chilean government announced that the contemplated conversion scheme, for which gold had been accumulated, would be postponed for two years (till October 1903), the gold being held as a reserve fund pending the result of the arbitration over the Argentine frontier.

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  • These latter so accumulated that the temple became a rich museum, among the chief treasures of which were the figures of Amazons sculptured in competition by Pheidias, Polyclitus, Cresilas and Phradmon, and the painting by Apelles of Alexander holding a thunderbolt.

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  • Of Phanerogams, only the Dryas octopetala covers small areas of the debris, interspersed with isolated Cochlearia, &c., and, where a layer of thinner clay has been deposited in sheltered places, the surface is covered with saxifrages, &c.; and a carpet of mosses allows the arctic willow (Salix polaris) to develop. Where a thin sheet of humus, fertilized by lemmings, has accumulated, a few flowering plants appear, but even so their brilliant flowers spring direct from the soil, concealing the developed leaflets, while their horizontally spread roots grow out of proportion; only the Salix lanata rises to 7 or 8 in., sending out roots I in.

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  • It is held by some historians that there was at the time on the part of many of the Roman nobles a determination to raise themselves to power, despite the opposition of the senate; others with "greater probability maintain that Catiline's object was simply the cancelling of the huge debts which he and his friends had accumulated.

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  • The affair dragged on from 1713 to 1716, when the examination of the Solov'evs' books, and the subsequent application of torture, revealed the fact that the Solov'evs had systematically robbed the Treasury of 675,000 roubles (1 rouble then = 5s.) and had accumulated a fortune of half a million.

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  • As the Pharisees accumulated the oral tradition which was afterwards codified and elaborated or preserved by fragments, which served some useful purpose, in the Talmud and other Rabbinic writings, the Sadducees acquired concrete regulations to oppose so long as they dared.

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  • But for rendering the gloomy horror of the subjects in which he most delights - detail on detail being accumulated till the result is overwhelming - Zola has no superior.

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  • Yet it was Herodotus himself who first hinted at the new use of the word, applied merely to the details accumulated during a long search for knowledge.

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  • His work there enables him to judge of the methods of his fellows, but his own remains restricted by the very wealth of material which has been accumulated on the single subject before him.

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  • Reports which gave colour to these charges steadily accumulated, and gave rise to a strong agitation against the Congo State system of government.

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  • Field & Co., and in 1853 had accumulated $250,000, paid off the debts of the Root company and retired from active business, leaving his name and $100,000 with the concern.

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  • Again, certain inferences have been tentatively made from the depth of mud, earth, peat, &c., which has accumulated above relics of human art imbedded in ancient times.

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  • The floor of the Basin Region is formed of alluvium washed from the high plateaus and mountain ranges, a part of which has accumulated in alluvial fans, and part in the greatly expanded lakes which existed here in the glacial period.

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  • Returning to Milan with his law-suits ended in 1511, Leonardo might have looked forward to an old age of contented labour, the chief task of which, had he had his will, would undoubtedly have been to put in order the vast mass of observations and speculations accumulated in his note-books, and to prepare some of them for publication.

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  • Nevertheless, as the mass of knowledge accumulated, it naturally came about that the name "philosophy" ceased to be applied to inquiries concerned with the particulars as such.

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  • A new epoch of investigation was inaugurated by John Forster, who began a new scrutiny of the accumulated material and published his first volume in 1875.

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  • The Meghna represents the accumulated waters of the Brahmaputra and Ganges.

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  • The Rumanian Academy keeps jealous watch over the treasures it has accumulated, and few have had access to the riches entombed in its archives; nor has any private or public collection been catalogued.

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  • The few who had taken the trouble to study Rumanian literature paid not the slightest attention to the vast MS. material accumulated during the years of the Phanariote dominion, and out of sheer ignorance and political bias condemned this period as sterile.

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  • The movement towards contraction and consequent rise of temperature which radiation sets up, like other motions, overruns the equilibriumpoint, only however by a minute amount; the accumulated excesses from all past time now stored in the sun would maintain its radiations at their present rate for nX3000 years, that is, for a few thousand years only.

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  • To collate the whole of the material accumulated at different parts of the world is a much more difficult task; it requires first of all a most carefully constructed star-catalogue, upon which the further discussion may be built.

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  • It is worthy of note that this debt, principal and accumulated interest, exceeded six and a half millions sterling in 1873, and that the bondholders surrendered about 60% of the claim in the hope of securing the payment of the balance.

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  • Both these and the court of the great mosque lie beneath the general level of the city, the site having been gradually raised by accumulated rubbish.

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  • He had meantime (in 1742) been appointed to succeed Edmund Halley as astronomer royal; his enhanced reputation enabled him to apply successfully for an instrumental outfit at a cost of 1000; and with an 8-foot quadrant completed for him in 1750 by John Bird (1709-1776), he accumulated at Greenwich in ten years materials of inestimable value for the reform of astronomy.

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  • He organized many telegraph construction companies, was one of the founders of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and accumulated a large fortune.

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  • If we cut away the mass of mere fiction which Philostratus accumulated, we have left a highly imaginative, earnest reformer who laboured to infuse into the flaccid dialectic of paganism a saner spirit of practical morality.

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  • The process was not so hard as might be thought; when once the Danes had settled down, had brought over wives from their native land or taken them from among their English vassals, had built themselves farmsteads and accumulated flocks and herds, they lost their old advantage in contending with the English.

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  • During her reign the people of Great Britain doubled their number; but the accumulated wealth of the country increased at least threefold, and its trade sixfold.

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  • The species inhabiting cold climates construct a winter nest in which they hibernate, waking up at times to feed on an accumulated store of nuts and other food.

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  • And, though he maintains as against the Utilitarians the existence of certain fundamental moral intuitions which have come to be quite independent of any present conscious experience of their utility, he yet holds that they are the results of accumulated racial experiences gradually organized and inherited.

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  • In China, Egypt and Babylonia, strength and continuity were lent to this native tendency by the influence of a centralized authority; considerable proficiency was attained in the arts of observation; and from millennial stores of accumulated data, empirical rules were deduced by which the scope of prediction was widened and its accuracy enhanced.

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  • The Mecanique celeste, in which Laplace welded into a whole the items of knowledge accumulated by the labours of a century, has been termed the " Almagest of the 18th century " (Fourier).

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  • The materials for it were rapidly accumulated by the use of an objective prism, that is, of a prism placed in front of, instead of behind the object-lens, by which means the spectra of all the stars in the field, to the number often of many score, imprinted themselves simultaneously on the sensitive plate.

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  • Evidently the flint has accumulated along fissures, such as bedding planes, joints and other cracks, after the chalk had to some extent consolidated.

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  • He was also prominent and successful in business and accumulated a large fortune.

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  • Divergent opinions have been held as to the mode of origin of the East African lakes, especially Tanganyika, which some geologists have considered to represent an old arm of the sea, dating from a time when the whole central Congo basin was under water; others holding that the lake water has accumulated in a depression caused by subsidence.

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  • The name of "Tariff Commission," given to this voluntary and unofficial body, was a good deal criticized, but though flouted by the political free-traders it set to work in earnest, and accumulated a mass of evidence as to the real facts of trade, which promised to be invaluable to economic inquirers.

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  • Although the Arabs were in full possession of the store of knowledge of the geometry of conics which the Greeks had accumulated, they did little to increase it; the only advance made consisted in the application of describing intersecting conics so as to solve algebraic equations.

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  • The third, John, became chaplain at Gibraltar, where he accumulated much material for a work on the natural history of the rock and its neighbourhood, and carried on a scientific correspondence, not only with his eldest brother, but with Linnaeus.

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  • I dashed over, retrieving it from accumulated fuzz balls of dryer lint and used softener sheets.

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  • She apologized for her tardiness to the balance of the accumulated climbers who were tarrying over coffee and herb tea.

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  • It was a time to tackle all those built up chores that had accumulated during the busy season now that life was stalled in the dark of winter.

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  • That too held little interest, so he began to peruse the papers he had accumulated at World Wide.

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  • Maybe he felt she had equal rights to the money he had accumulated before they were married, but she didn't — especially not now.

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  • The sums due from individual tenants, for instance, might represent the annual rental, or the rent plus accumulated arrears.

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  • During his latter years he turned to research on East Anglian churches - abandoning his accumulated backlog of excavations.

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  • Trikatu formula increases the digestive fire, which then burns away these accumulated toxins and cleanses the alimentary canal.

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  • When the spark igniter is made conductive, the storage capacitor discharges the remainder of its accumulated energy.

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  • This is crucially important for storage with liquid nitrogen owing to the high levels of accumulated microbial contaminants in liquid nitrogen storage vessels.

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  • Accumulated boxes are then transferred by conveyor from the sorter to the dispatch area for onward delivery.

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  • Clean out the accumulated debris to open up the drainage holes.

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  • Spain has an accumulated deficit of 10% of their total health budget.

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  • This wholesale destruction of accumulated wisdom in the name of God precipitated the dark ages from which we did not recover until the Renaissance.

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  • The pores open wide and all the accumulated dirt can be easily washed out.

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  • He moved over to the windowsill and half sat on it, heedless of the accumulated filth.

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  • The Quaker families in those concerns, like their 18th century forebears, accumulated wealth on a stunning scale.

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  • Years of accumulated grime had to be removed, probably built up over the life of the box in London.

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  • It depends on someone's accumulated inclinations how deeply he will consider what he hears.

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  • It will also clear a lot of accumulated karma, making space for the new order.

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  • The OwnCal feature shows your energy expenditure during exercise as well as your accumulated kilocalories to date.

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  • In total DELPHI accumulated data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 116 pb(-1 ).

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  • Our loyal staff have massive accumulated experience whatever your boating needs.

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  • Once you've accumulated a certain mileage in helping or delivering training within JCI, you will qualify to take part in Excel.

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  • Accordingly, no auditors ' remuneration has been charged in arriving at the balance transferred to the accumulated fund for the year.

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  • This gap must be plugged by foreign credits, and by the state reducing its accumulated savings in the banking system.

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  • An MRI scan can show how much scar tissue has accumulated over time due to MS activity.

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  • December 2004 Coy Pond Dredging Coy Pond was cleared of some accumulated silt in December.

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  • A stiff brush should be used if necessary to remove any obvious dirt and accumulated fish slime and debris.

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  • And the black was centuries of accumulated soot and the white was the contribution from London's pigeons.

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  • Substantial experience has been accumulated in solving large-scale linear, integer programming problems, and recently stochastic integer programming.

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  • Known as the ' guru ' of southern sailing, he has accumulated a storehouse of knowledge, some readily forthcoming, some not!

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  • Inside, he found that accumulated debris has almost completely blocked the oil strainer, fortunately without the engine having suffered any damage.

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  • The ongoing momentum gained by the visitors eventually accumulated into an opening goal, scored by prolific striker Duncan Stoddart.

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  • I wheeled a suitcase into Reading town center to haul away all the personal stuff she'd accumulated at the office.

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  • The relevant Head of Department is responsible for any accumulated surplus or deficit once a CET account has been closed.

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  • Cleansing your body of its accumulated toxins is a great way to boost well-being.

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  • But looking back recently through the papers which have accumulated over the past ten years perhaps I was a little ungracious to decline.

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  • The accumulated wisdom of parents, gained over many years, is completely overlooked.

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  • It was his misfortune to be the scapegoat upon whose head parliament laid the accumulated sins, real and imaginary, of the East India Company.

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  • To each radiator should be fitted an air tap, which when opened will permit the escape of any air that has accumulated in the coil; otherwise free circulation is impossible, and the full benefit of the heat is not obtained.

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  • It is true that centuries of law-abiding and litigious habitude had accumulated in the temple archives of each city vast stores of precedent in ancient deeds and the records of judicial decisions, and that intercourse had assimilated city custom.

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  • He also devised a " call " or arrangement for actuating an ordinary electric bell by the accumulated effect of the properly tuned inductive impulses falling on the secondary circuit.

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  • The formidable undertaking of reducing the accumulated planetary observations made at Greenwich from 1750 to 1830 was already in progress under Airy's supervision when he became Astronomer Royal.

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  • The very essence of their philosophy was the negation of the graces of social courtesy; it was impossible to "return to nature" in the midst of a society clothed in the accumulated artificiality of evolved convention without shocking the ingrained sensibilities of its members.

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  • Documents accumulated from court to court, till none but the clerks who had written them could tell their gist; costs were piled up; and all this, combined with the confusion caused by the chaotic mass of imperial ukazes, ordinances and ancient laws - often inconsistent or flatly contradictory - made the administration of justice, if possible, more dilatory and capricious than in the old, unreformed English court of chancery.

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  • The Directory thought it time to act; the bureau central had accumulated through its agents, notably the ex-captain Georges Grisel, who had been initiated into Babeuf's society, complete evidence of a conspiracy for an armed rising fixed for Floreal 22, year IV.

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  • The preservation of any record, however rude, of the lapse of time implies some knowledge of the celestial motions, by which alone time can be accurately measured, and some advancement in the arts of civilized life, which could be attained only by the accumulated experience of many generations (see Time).

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  • The truth of the new doctrine is proved by accumulated instances of God's working in nature and in history; the objections of opponents, whether advanced in good faith or in jest, are controverted by arguments; but the demonstration is often confused or even weak.

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  • It will be regarded as a human right—a dividend for being born a human being, your share of the inheritance that all the prior generations accumulated.

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  • The gates are then closed for 0.8 seconds to allow the readout electronics to read the accumulated counts from the counters.

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  • In 2005, the drought was more notable in terms of accumulated runoff deficiencies than in relation to the minimum river flows experienced.

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  • And the black was centuries of accumulated soot and the white was the contribution from London 's pigeons.

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  • Known as the ' guru ' of southern sailing, he has accumulated a storehouse of knowledge, some readily forthcoming, some not !

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  • However, since each citta which falls away is succeeded by the next citta, kamma can be accumulated from moment to moment.

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  • I wheeled a suitcase into Reading town center to haul away all the personal stuff she 'd accumulated at the office.

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  • Figure 1 shows an image of the tritium standard accumulated in 20 hours.

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  • Add the pork cubes and any juice that has accumulated in the bowl, the vindaloo paste and remaining water.

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  • Voyageur Rewards is free to join and accumulated points are valid for one year.

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  • Once he has accumulated five to seven days of stickers, you might want to give him an extra treat, such as a small, inexpensive toy, colors, a book, or an ice cream treat.

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  • Monster Gift Card is another gift card marketplace that also gives you Monster Points that are accumulated in order to buy gift cards.

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  • Once you've accumulated a few Paw Points, go to mypawpoints.com and choose a prize that you'd like to purchase with your points.

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  • Once enough miles have accumulated, they can be traded for a round-trip airline ticket.

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  • Many cards even let the accumulated reward be deposited into the current balance, helping with a monthly payment.

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  • While an offer of 5 percent may be appealing, the fine print may reveal that the higher tier only applies when the accumulated purchases rise above a certain monetary amount.

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  • As a bonus for accumulating higher rewards, cardholders may be eligible for additional incentives and better rewards if they do not redeem the minimum as soon as it is accumulated.

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  • Extra points are accumulated when the card is used for purchases through the Tesco network.

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  • If you're at the point of jumping into a DMP plan, you've probably already accumulated a few delinquent accounts here and there.

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  • By that point, the attorney has already spent a considerable amount of time and accumulated a large number of billable hours for which he or she has not been paid.

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  • Reward miles are accumulated for purchases made at both Sam's Club and with other retailers.

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  • Once the cardholder has accumulated enough points, they can trade their points for discounts from a special list of merchants.

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  • You can also trade up, so to speak, by redeeming any of the miles that you have accumulated for airline tickets, hotel accommodations or car rentals.

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  • You can earn one point per dollar spent on net retail purchases, with the ability to start redeeming these accumulated points when you reach 2500 points.

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  • Both parties in the partnership are responsible for the accumulated debt as long as both are on the account.

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  • Register at the Chase +1 Store with your card information to redeem accumulated points.

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  • In a community-property state, all assets accumulated during the marriage are split 50-50.

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  • In a community property state, all marital property accumulated from the date of marriage to the date of separation is designated as community property.

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  • All of the couple's personal property accumulated during the marriage is considered community property and subject to division under these laws.

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  • Community property is property and assets you and your spouse accumulated while you were married.

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  • For those who have accumulated a significant amount of marital assets, there are important tax benefits to making this designation.

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  • If you want to get a divorce in Mississippi, you should gather as much information about the property you and your spouse have accumulated as possible.

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  • Under United States law, property accumulated before the date of the wedding is considered separate property.

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  • In most parts of the United States, property accumulated by a couple during their marriage is divided equitably.

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  • Any property that the couple accumulated during their marriage will need to be divided according to the guidelines of the state where the couple lives.

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  • In a case where you and your spouse have accumulated assets throughout the marriage and/or have minor children, you need to work with someone who can provide you with expert advice.

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  • The debts the couple accumulated during the marriage are also counted when it's time to divide any marital property.

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  • The debts that either person has accumulated during the marriage create a liability that must be paid, irrespective of the terms of the divorce settlement.

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  • Each time, supplementation has resulted in the significant reduction of plaque in the aorta, as well as reducing the amount of accumulated cholesterol on the vascular walls.

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  • This will probably be the toughest part of the job because you need to get rid of all the soap scum and lime scale that may have accumulated.

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  • If they are dissatisfied, they have not only lost money, but have also accumulated an excessive amount of bottles and jars on the bathroom counter.

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  • If you've been scrapbooking for awhile, you've probably accumulated a nice stash of paper.

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  • Come summer, you will want to rinse your ski bindings with fresh water in order to remove the accumulated salt, dirt and debris.

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  • If ice has accumulated, use your scraper to remove it.

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  • With her high school career coming to a close, your teen has probably accumulated a lot of memorabilia over the last four years.

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  • Points are accumulated by the opposing team when the balloon hits the floor on one side of the net.

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  • The snow continued to fall steadily and by the time we were ready to go to the rehearsal dinner another inch had accumulated.

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  • From there, his fame quickly accumulated into superstardom.

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  • A lot of dust and grime gets accumulated in these areas between string changes.

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  • Home equity loans are fixed rate loans that allow you to dip into the equity that has accumulated in your home and borrow a lump sum of money.

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  • Sheets should be changed once a week to maintain them in good condition and to remove allergens, dirt and sweat that have accumulated on the sheets during use.

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  • The weight of accumulated snow sitting in one area can damage the affected area and can even lead to a collapse.

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  • We do know that the ramifications of sleep deprivation are significant, whether the person has accumulated a sleep debt over time or whether the person has lost a night's sleep.

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  • You must clean your CPAP mask regularly to prevent mold growth and to remove accumulated skin cells and particulate matter.

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  • First make sure you have accumulated a lot of gold.

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  • This Tamogotchchi-style game directly involved the main game because any stats accumulated would be transferred to Sonic Adventure on the next play.

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  • The sand can be accumulated by defeating enemies and picking up the residue they leave behind.

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  • The game scores the singer on pitch and length of note, but bigger scores are accumulated through the awesome thrashing and pounding of the other players.

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  • The accumulated fructose interferes with the conversion of glycogen, the body's energy storage material, into glucose.

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  • The drug cholestyramine may reduce the skin's sensitivity to sunlight as well as the accumulated heme precursors in the liver.

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  • If blood has accumulated under the nail (subungual hematoma), the doctor may drain it by piercing through the fingernail.

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  • Character-An individual's set of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral patterns learned and accumulated over time.

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  • Consolidation-A condition in which lung tissue becomes firm and solid rather than elastic and air-filled, arising because of accumulated fluids and tissue debris.

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  • Skin hematoma-Blood from a broken blood vessel that has accumulated under the skin.

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  • It's believed that feng shui was responsible for the enormous wealth and power that the Chinese royalty accumulated and more importantly why the dynasties were able to reign for so many generations.

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  • A moisture meter can detect accumulated moisture that may not be visible with the naked eye.

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  • After that period of time, the borrower begins repaying the principal balance as well as accumulated interest.

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  • You must have completed at least twelve months of employment with your current employer and have accumulated at least 1,250 work hours during the previous year.

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  • Most employers will allow you to use your accumulated sick leave, vacation, and personal days for maternity leave.

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  • The tradition is to clean houses by sweeping away any back luck that may have accumulated during the past year.

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  • These processes help to remove unsavory compounds from the oil that may have accumulated in the fish's liver, and prevent them from infiltrating your own body.

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  • You use a deliming spring to clean the internal tubes and other parts to clean out any lime deposits that have accumulated inside the coffee maker.

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  • You land on free parking, and you still get the accumulated cash.

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  • The Settlers of Catan rules state that a player wins the game as soon as ten points are accumulated.

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  • While many families end up putting out decorations they have accumulated over the years, having a theme can go far in bringing together your Christmas winter scene inside your home.

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  • Your accumulated knowledge will help you make good choices.

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  • To care for high quality hobo handbags from Sondra Roberts, first shake out any dirt or debris that has accumulated inside of the bag.

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  • Today, scientists and archeologists are continuing to learn more about the dinosaurs, and kids love learning the latest facts while exploring the wealth of information that has already been accumulated.

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  • For instance, the 2008 Pepsi Stuff promotion allowed participants to order DVDs from Amazon.com when they had accumulated enough codes from bottles and 12 packs of Pepsi products.

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  • Many employers offer these plans and may match contributed funds, but be aware that these accounts frequently expire at the end of the year and accumulated funds may be lost.

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  • Hunt earned her real estate license, went back to work full time, and the family began the process of repaying the more than $100,000 in unsecured debt they had accumulated.

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  • Although the company still manufactures Swatches, only the models from early decades have accumulated any real worth.

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  • The biggest challenge for professionals changing careers is how to demonstrate that all the experience accumulated so far will be attractive to a prospective employer in a new field.

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  • When humidity levels rise or temperature shifts cause more humidity on one side than the other, the accumulated dust becomes chunky, thick and dirty.

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  • This procedure removes fat tissues from different areas of the body where fat mass has accumulated.

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  • The diet offers a unique spin on weight reduction because it focuses on using healthy fats to rid the body of accumulated fat.

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  • Exercise makes for a great outlet of frustrations, anger, anxiety and other negative feelings you may have accumulated during the day.

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  • Permanent life insurance provides the tax-deferred accumulation of cash value in your policy which means all the accumulated cash value works for you - instead of part of it going to the government.

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  • Equipment coverage offers more protection against loss from failure of important household equipment because many of the policies pay for expenses accumulated because your home is uninhabitable due to equipment breakdown.

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  • If you no longer need the life insurance death benefit, or if you have a need for cash for any reason, you can withdraw any dividends that have accumulated within the policy, tax-free.

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  • They take the accumulated bras and send them to charities.

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  • At the end of each task, the winning team's project manager gets all of the proceeds accumulated during the task by both teams for his or her charity.

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  • Abdominoplasty is the cosmetic surgical procedure which Kate Gosselin underwent in order to remove the excess skin and fat from her abdomen that accumulated during her pregnancies.

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  • These folks have usually accumulated more belongings than their homes can comfortably handle, and this clutter is the main focus of the house tour.

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  • This doesn't necessarily mean that the cayenne pepper is causing excess acne; on the contrary, it could be a sign that the pepper is doing its work by eliminating the body's accumulated toxins.

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  • Maybe he felt she had equal rights to the money he had accumulated before they were married, but she didn't — especially not now.

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  • The above gives some idea of the evidence that has been accumulated in favour of the laws of chemical combination, laws which can be deduced from the atomic theory.

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  • Much accumulated evidence, biological and geological, has pointed to a southern extension of India, an eastern extension of South Africa, and a western extension of Australia into the Indian Ocean.

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  • She reinforced her story with A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she accumulated a large number of documents and testimonies against the great evil; and in 1853 she made a journey to Europe, devoting herself especially to creating an entente cordiale between Englishwomen and Americans on the question of the day.

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  • The material thus accumulated, both halakhic and agadic, forming a commentary on and amplification of the Mishnah, was eventually written down under the name of Gemara (from gemar, to learn completely), the two together forming the Talmud (properly "instruction").

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  • Some attempt has been made to improve matters by macadamizing one of the principal thoroughfares, but it will be the labour of a Hercules to cleanse this vast city from the accumulated filth of ages of neglect.

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  • Notwithstanding the advance of £160,000 made by the four protecting powers after the institution of autonomous government and the profits (£61,937) derived from the issue of a new currency in 1900, there was at the beginning of 1906 an accumulated deficit of £23,470, which represents the floating debt.

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  • The social instincts and industrious habits of ants have always made them favourite objects of study, and a vast amount of literature has accumulated on the subject of their structure and their modes of life.

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  • In spite of the mass of literature which has accumulated on the subject, neither his death in the Temple nor his escape therefrom has been definitely established, though a very strong presumption is established in favour of the latter.

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  • The varied collections of Sir John Soane, accumulated at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, are open to view as the Soane Museum.

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  • He cannot afford to ignore the results that have been gradually accumulated - the truths that have been slowly established - at the agricultural experiment stations in various parts of the world.

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  • There is in existence a vast store of accumulated knowledge, and few, if any, departments of economics have been left quite unilluminated by the researches of former generations.

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  • If we take the mere popular view of what is meant by the " old Political Economy," that is, that a generation or so ago economics was comprised in a neatly rounded set of general propositions, universally accepted, which could be set forth in a question we have really to determine is how we can make the best use of the accumulated knowledge of past generations, and to do that we must look more closely into the economic science of the 10th century..

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  • During the progress of the works, however, he acted as surveyor, and accumulated in that lucrative employment a sum of several thousand pounds, discovered after his death in an old iron chest, which had evidently lain unopened for above thirty years.

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  • The freshness, the air of leisure, the enthusiasm of discovery that mark the work of these old writers have lessons for the modern professional zoologist, who at times feels burdened with the accumulated knowledge of a century and a half.

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  • Drawing on the knowledge accumulated during sixty years, he had brought it down to the end of the 15th century before his death in Berlin on the 23rd of May 1886.

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  • The earliest system adopted for the collection of petroleum appears to have consisted in Early skimming the oil from the surface of the water upon Methods which it had accumulated, and Professor Lesley states, that at Paint Creek, in Johnson county, Kentucky, a Mr George and others were in the habit of collecting oil from the sands, " by making shallow canals loo or 200 ft.

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  • The second half of the 17th century witnessed remarkable transitions and developments in all branches of natural science,and the facts accumulated by preceding generations during their generally unordered researches were re placed by a co-ordination of experiment and deduction.

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  • Descriptive chemistry was now assuming considerable proportions; the experimental inquiries suggested by Boyle were being assiduously developed; and a wealth of observa tions was being accumulated, for the explanation of which the resources of the dominant theory were sorely taxed.

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  • Turning his attention from law to divinity, Hare took priest's orders in 1826; and, on the death of his uncle in 1832, he succeeded to the rich family living of Hurstmonceaux in Sussex, where he accumulated a library of some 12,000 volumes, especially rich in German literature.

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  • As usual, the excessive self-introspection was not checked by a rational criticism; the individual was guided by his own reason, the limitations of which he did not realize; and in becoming a law unto himself he ignored the accumulated experiences of civilized humanity.'

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  • Suleiman kept the possessions he had won by the sword, Temesvar, Szolnok, Tata and other places in Hungary; Transylvania was assigned to John Sigismund, the Habsburg claim to interference being categorically denied; Ferdinand bound himself to pay, not only the annual tribute of 30,000 ducats, but all the arrears that had meanwhile accumulated.

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  • In spite of the emperor Alexander's engagements to the Grand Alliance and the ideal of European peace, this was no easy matter; for the murder of the patriarch was but the culmination of a whole series of grievances accumulated since the Treaty of Bucharest.

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  • Between Linnaeus and Cuvier there are no very great names; but under the stimulus given by the admirable method and system of Linnaeus observation and description of new forms from all parts of the world, both recent and fossil, accumulated.

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  • On the ether hand, a survey of the facts of cellular embryology which were accumulated in regard to a variety of classes within a few years of Kovalevsky's work led to a generalization, independently arrived at by Haeckel and Lankester, to the effect that a lower grade of animals may be distinguished, the Protozoa or Plastidozoa, which consist either of single cells or colonies of equiformal cells, and a higher grade, the Metazoa or Enterozoa, in which the egg-cell by " cell division " gives rise to two layers of cells, the endoderm and the ectoderm, surrounding a primitive digestive chamber, the archenteron.

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  • He gradually accumulated a fortune, which at his death was variously estimated as from $60,000,000 to $80,000,000.

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  • Wealth accumulated to such a degree that Simon the son of Oniah was enabled practically to rebuild the Temple, and to maintain its services with a grandeur of ritual which they had probably never known before.

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  • His personal fortune, accumulated during office, was considerable, and was bequeathed almost entirely to members of his family.

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  • Among the drawbacks of this temper, which on the whole made for progress, was the rise of a school of excessive scepticism, which, forgetting the value of the accumulated stores of empiricism, despised those degrees of moral certainty that, in so complex a study and so tentative a practice as medicine, must be our portion for the present, and even for a long future, however great the triumphs of medicine may become.

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  • In dry and dusty mines the danger may be greatly lessened by sprinkling the working places and passages, and the removal of the accumulated dust and fine coal.

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  • The deposits in the great limestone caves of Kentucky, Virginia and Indiana have been probably derived from the overlying soil and accumulated by percolating water; they are of no commercial value.

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  • In 1801 Saud, son of the amir Abdul Aziz, led an expedition to the Euphrates, and on the festival of Bairam, the 10th of April, stormed Kerbela, put the defenders to the sword, destroyed the sacred tomb, scattered the sacred relics and returned laden with the treasures, accumulated during centuries in the sanctuary of the Shia faith.

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  • The fountain Pirene, "behind the temple," still exists, but so much earth has accumulated about it that one now approaches it by going down a ladder.

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  • To meet the interest, such heavy taxes were levied that anti-tax associations were formed to resist the collection, and in 1842 the state failed to pay what was due; but the accumulated interest had been funded by 1848 and was paid soon afterwards, the expenses of the government were curtailed by the constitution of 1851, and after the Civil War the amount of indebtedness steadily decreased until in 1902 the funded debt was $6,909,326 and the net debt only $2,797,269.13, while on the 1st of October 1908 the net debt was $366,643.91.

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  • It will be regarded as interest payments on the accumulated riches of one thousand years of technical and material progress.

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  • I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox, and bundle.

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  • I one evening overtook one of my townsmen, who has accumulated what is called "a handsome property"--though I never got a fair view of it--on the Walden road, driving a pair of cattle to market, who inquired of me how I could bring my mind to give up so many of the comforts of life.

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  • The laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies his thoughts of the dross and earthiness which they have accumulated during the day.

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  • This is a great way to use up all the scraps you've accumulated from other crafts.

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  • When Dean kicked the door loose from the accumulated snow blown against it, he found Jake Weller dressed in civilian clothes, huddled against the frame of the unshoveled rear entrance.

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  • He had accumulated an immense private fortune, possessing in addition to his see the revenues of seven abbeys.

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  • Jerusalem thus lost much of its importance, especially after it was forced to surrender to Shishak, king of Egypt, who carried off a great part of the riches which had been accumulated by Solomon.

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  • Starting from an observation of Marconi's, a number of interesting facts have been accumulated on the absorbing effect of sunlight on the propagation of long Hertzian waves through space, and on the disturbing effects of atmospheric electricity as well as upon the influence of earth curvature and obstacles of various kinds interposed in the line between the sending and transmitting stations.4 Electric wave telegraphy has revolutionized our means of communication from place to place on the surface of the earth, making it possible to communicate instantly and certainly between places separated by several thousand miles, whilst The Electrician, 1904, 5 2, p. 407, or German Pat.

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  • When the tuber of a potato begins to germinate the shoots which it puts out derive their food from the accumulated store of nutritive material which has been laid up in the cells of the tuber.

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  • Now the jeep road was closed, as it had been since early fall and would remain so until June, locked in its privacy by several feet of accumulated snow.

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  • Old enough to think you should have accumulated more by now, and young enough to feel challenged to do something about it while you have the time.

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