Approach Sentence Examples

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  • Her plan was to approach the building from the back parking lot.

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  • Sofia didn't have time to plot how to approach her.

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  • Deidre heard him approach from behind.

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  • This approach is even more flawed than the first.

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  • To achieve this, a catchment based approach is required.

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  • She felt comfortable enough now to approach that intimate conversation.

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  • She didn't hear him approach, but he sounded close.

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  • When you approach retirement, you will need to know who will step into their shoes.

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  • Guards drew arrows back at their approach, and Rissa roused herself.

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  • At dinner the talk turned on the war, the approach of which was becoming evident.

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  • This approach has a long and mostly negative history.

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  • Something was troubling him and he was trying to figure out the best way to approach it.

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  • Rhyn ignored Hannah's approach, and Toby shuffled his feet.

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  • She leaned back, considering how best to approach it.

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  • This was the nearest approach I could get to Harvard and to the fulfillment of my childish declaration.

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  • Only when he sensed the approach of someone behind him did he realized it was real.

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  • From the corner of her eye she saw them approach, but the amber gaze held hers in its intoxicating grip.

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  • They parked behind rocks, away from the direction of their approach, and immediately saw a nearly invisible path upward.

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  • I decided that being truthful was the best approach.

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  • Xander watched her approach, seemingly at ease while the world went to shit around him.

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  • McNulty felt that the key issue would be a partnership approach with clubs to draw down extra funding.

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  • Alex was sitting in his chair and they were alone at the moment, so it was a good time to approach him.

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  • Hannah glanced up with a smile at her approach and patted the seat beside her.

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  • It was her responsibility now and having a job would give her the opportunity for a more modern approach to being a wife and mother.

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  • Cornwall was one of the first counties in the UK to adopt this action plan approach.

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  • He preferred the direct approach over any form of subtlety.

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  • By adopting smaller and smaller elements of motion we only approach a solution of the problem, but never reach it.

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  • In short, we suggest that a more holistic approach to the evaluation of these packages is needed.

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  • This approach, however, has a couple of downsides.

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  • She heard him approach from the direction of the stairs some time later.

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  • The Black God turned at his approach.

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  • She straightened her shoulders, determined to approach her fate without fear.

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  • Perhaps we should endeavor to approach our problem together.

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  • Having spent most of his years in battle, he understood when a traditional approach would not work with an unusual opponent.

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  • In many cases the rivers as they approach the main stream break up into numerous branches, or spread their waters over vast flats.

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  • It was the approach proposed by the sciences education board of the national research council in the USA.

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  • It looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its joy at the approach of the Emperors.

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  • He was in a state of suppressed excitement and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of a long-awaited moment.

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  • Lana watched him approach, the same uncertainty on her features.

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  • War did not again approach the city.

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  • The sound of tires crunching on gravel announced the approach of a vehicle.

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  • Darkyn saw it somehow, and Deidre suspected Gabriel's here-gone approach to her was his way of hiding how much he did care.

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  • Rhyn watched her approach, his gaze dropping from his foes to her sweet face.

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  • She debated returning to her quarters until she could find a more private moment to approach him.

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  • The ground approach slowed drastically as the pod's thrusters roared but was still too fast for her comfort.

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  • In winter, for example, when the northern monsoon begins to blow, numbers of denizens of the Sea of Okhotsk swim southward to the more genial waters of north Japan; and in summer the Indian Ocean and the Malayan archipelago send to her southern coasts a crowd of emigrants which turn homeward again at the approach of winter.

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  • The building, sometimes of huge dimensions, is invariably surrounded by a raised gallery, reached by a flight of steps in the centre of the approach front, the balustrade of which is a continuation of the gallery railing.

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  • It seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army itself, rejoicing at the Emperors' approach, had naturally burst into music.

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  • The eastern part of the country has always had a rather lackadaisical approach to maintenance, Tim said.

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  • West of Ararat high hills extend along the Black Sea, between which and the Taurus range lies the plateau of Asia Minor, reaching to the Aegean Sea; the mountains along the Black Sea, on which are the Olympus and Ida of the ancients, rise to 6000 or 7000 ft.; the Taurus is more lofty, reaching 8000 and 10,000 ft.; both ranges decline in altitude as they approach the Mediterranean.

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  • But it makes some difference to the future of a democratic state whether its leading men are eagerly on the look-out for something to revolutionize, or approach a constitutional change by the gradual processes of conviction and conversion.

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  • Its pure white or rose-red blossoms, heralding the first approach of genial weather, are regarded with special favor and are accounted the symbol of unassuming hardihood.

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  • The avenue of approach generally passes under a structure called toni.

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  • This meant an extension of the TOkaidO (under a different name) nearly a hundred miles northward, for the magnificent shrines erected then at NikkO and the periodical ceremonies thenceforth performed there demanded a correspondingly fine avenue of approach.

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  • With the approach of the revolutionary year 1848, however, Radicalism once more began to lift up its head.

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  • Only very few poisonous snakes (like Naja elaps) are known to resent the approach of man so much as to follow him on his retreat and to attack him.

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  • He also at this time showed a leaning to Presbyterianism, but on the approach of the Restoration his views on church government underwent a change; indeed, he was always regarded as a time-server, though by no means a self-seeker.

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  • A still nearer approach to literature was probably made in oratory, as we learn from Cicero that the famous speech delivered by Appius Claudius Caecus against concluding peace with Pyrrhus (280 B.C.) was extant in his time.

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  • Round about the city on all sides were similar opportunities for close approach; even the villages stretched out long irregular streets towards the city gates.

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  • Bolivar then marched upon Lima, which the royalists evacuated at his approach; and entering the capital in triumph, he was invested with absolute power as dictator, and authorized to call into action all the resources of the country.

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  • The close approach of the great political crisis in which Cromwell expelled the Long Parliament and established the Protectorate (17th of April 1653), may have had some influence.

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  • The Dutch remained masters of the approach to the Thames till the 21st of July.

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  • The approach to his house was free, and he loved to pass through the city unattended and to pay unexpected visits to his friends.

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  • His marriage with Elizabeth of Valois on the 22nd of June 1559, and the approach of the wars of religion, gave him a temporary security from France.

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  • They approach the book from the standpoint of the author and seek the clue to his writings in the events of his time.

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  • Being protected by the water from the rapid subaerial erosion which sharpens the features of the land, and subjected to the regular accumulation of deposits, the whole ocean floor has assumed some approach to uniformity.

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  • Coal is never definitely crystalline, the nearest approach to such a structure being a compound fibrous grouping resembling that of gypsum or arragonite, which occurs in some of the steam coals of South Wales, and is locally known as " cone in cone," but no definite form or arrangement can be made out of the fibres.

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  • Examples of analyses treated in this manner are furnished in the last column of Table I., from which it will be seen that the nearest approach to pure carbon is furnished by anthracite, which contains above 90%.

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  • The proportion of carbon in bituminous coals may vary from 80 to 90% the amount being highest as they approach the character of anthracite, and least in those which are nearest to lignites.

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  • Gustavus's hopes of an early decision were frustrated by the fog, which delayed the approach and deployment of the Swedes.

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  • The defenders of Los Angeles fled at the approach of the troops, and on the 13th of August 1846 the American flag was raised over the city.

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  • The first decided protests against the exercise of sovereign power by the crown, the first general moral and political revolt that marked the approach of the American War of Independence, took place in Massachusetts; so that the most striking events in the general history of the colonies as a whole from 1760 to 1775 are an intimate part of her annals.

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  • It is allied to the European species of shad and pilchard, and, like the latter, approaches the coast in immense shoals, which are found throughout the year in some part of the littoral waters between Maine and Florida, the northern shoals retiring into deeper water or to more southern latitudes with the approach of cold weather.

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  • Each of these must be considered separately before we approach the question of the locality and date of the whole book in its present form.

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  • This course has been adopted in Germany, Belgium and France, and an approach to it is made in the decennial census of Canada and the United States.

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  • The young when first hatched are clothed with mottled down, so as closely to resemble a stone, and to be overlooked as they squat motionless on the approach of danger.

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  • The great courts of approach were not finished before the reigns of Caracalla and Philip. In commemoration, no doubt, of the dedication of the new sanctuaries, Severus conferred the jus Italicum on the city.

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  • In the first, John describes how the Baptist, on Jesus' approach, cries " Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of, the world "; and how he says " I saw the spirit descending upon Him, and I bore witness that this is the Son of God."

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  • This is termed the equal temperament scale, and it is obviously only an approach to the diatonic scale.

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  • Take as a further example the fifth with harmonic overtones as under The fundamental and overtones of the second either coincide with or fall midway between overtones in the first, and there is no approach to a dissonant frequency of beats, and the concord is perfect.

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  • Rozhestvenski had, moreover, numerous store-ships, colliers, &c. Nevertheless, the Japanese viewed his approach with considerable anxiety, and braced themselves for a final struggle.

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  • He urged upon the administration the bold policy of protesting against the sailing of Cervera's fleet, on the ground that it would be regarded as a warlike measure not against the Cuban revolutionaries, who had no navy, but against the United States; and he advised that, if Cervera sailed, an American squadron be sent to meet him and to prevent his approach to America.

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  • It was destroyed in 1867, during the approach of Garibaldi to Rome.

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  • The Brooklyn approach being 971 ft., and the New York approach 15622 ft., the total length of the bridge is 5989 ft.

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  • The anchor ties are connected to girders embedded in large concrete blocks in the foundations of the approach viaducts.

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  • The amount of steel used was 38,000 tons exclusive of approach viaducts.

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  • The Runcorn bridge crosses the Manchester Ship Canal and the Mersey in one span of woo ft., and four approach spans of 552 ft.

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  • The low-level approach roadways are 35 ft.

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  • The holiness of Israel centres in the sanctuary, and round the sanctuary stand the priests, who alone can approach the most holy things without profanation, and who are the guardians of Israel's sanctity, partly by protecting the one meeting-place of God and man from profane contact, and partly as the mediators of the continual atoning rites by which breaches of holiness are expiated.

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  • This city - Aski Shahr (Old Town) as it is now called - was destroyed in 1514 by Mirza Ababakar (Abubekr) on the approach of Sultan Said Khan's army.

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  • His reign was, however, brief, for at the end of seventy-five days, on the approach of the Chinese, he fled back to Khokand amid the jeers of the inhabitants.

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  • On becoming lieutenant-colonel in July 1777, he assumed the command of a regiment, and during the winter at Valley Forge guarded the "Gulf," a pass commanding the approach to the camp, and necessarily the first point that would be attacked.

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  • We now approach the critical period of Dollinger's life.

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  • Near the Capitol, at the approach of the memorial bridge across the Park river, is the Soldiers' and Sailors' memorial arch, designed by George Keller and erected by the city in 1885 in memory of the Hartford soldiers and sailors who served in the American Civil War.

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  • With the approach of the crisis in the relations between Great Britain and the American colonies he adopted a conservative course, and, while recognizing the justice of many of the colonial complaints, discouraged, radical action and advocated a compromise.

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  • In the latter respect, and in the fact that they frequently develop by a metamorphosis, they approach the Mollusca, but they differ from that group notably in the occurrence of metameric segmentation affecting many of the systems of organs.

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  • By repeated discharges upon these they gradually expend this marvellous force; after which, being defenceless, they become timid, and approach the edge for shelter, when they fall an easy prey to the harpoon.

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  • The bluffs approach the Missouri more closely at this point than elsewhere in the state, so that little more than manufacturing establishments and business blocks are built on the bottom lands, and the residences are spread over the slope and summit of the bluffs.

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  • He graduated at Harvard in 1745, and was a member of the lower house of the general court of Massachusetts in 1753-1756, and from 1757 to 1774 of the Massachusetts council, in which, according to Governor Thomas Hutchinson, he "was without a rival," and, on the approach of the War of Independence, was "the principal supporter of the opposition to the government."

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  • To the mass these signs are unintelligible, because they deem it impossible that Yahweh should utterly cast off His chosen nation; but to those who know His absolute righteousness, and confront it with the people's sin, the impending approach of the Assyrian can have only one meaning and can point to only one issue, viz.

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  • As we approach the tropics, the variety of forms and the number of individuals increase, the most specialized and developed forms, and also the most degraded, being found in the tropics.

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  • As a unit of 1.013, decimally multiplied, is most commonly to be deduced from the ancient Persian buildings, we may take 25.34 as the nearest approach to the ancient Persian unit.

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  • The Jewish and Christian thinkers of the first two centuries approach considerably nearer than Numenius to the later Neoplatonism.'

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  • This is reached through contemplation of the primeval Being, the One - in other words, through an ecstatic approach to it.

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  • The degree of accuracy in such anatomical and physiographic restorations from relatively imperfect evidence will always represent the state of the science and the degree of its approach toward being exact or complete.

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  • Abraham Gottlob Werner (1750-1817), the famous exponent of the aqueous theory of earth formation, observed in successive geological formations the gradual approach to the forms of existing species.

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  • A system of emanations of this kind, in its purest form, is set forth in the expositions coming from the school of Basilides, which are handed down by Irenaeus, while the propositions which are set forth in the Philosophumena of Hippolytus as being doctrines of Basilides represent a still closer approach to a monistic philosophy.

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  • Progreso, Yucatan, has only an open roadstead, and large vessels cannot approach its landing-place nearer than 6 m.

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  • On the 12th of December 1859 the M`Lean-Juarez treaty was concluded, which gave the United States a sort of disguised protectorate over Mexico, with certain rights of way for railroads over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and between the Rio Grande and Pacific. The American Senate, however, did not ratify the treaty, and a motion for its reconsideration late in 1860 came to nothing, owing to the approach of the War of Secession.

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  • The sprat is one of the more important foodfishes on account of the immense numbers which are caught when the shoals approach the coasts.

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  • The capture of Antioch was due to his connexion with Firuz, one of the commanders in the city; but he would not bring matters to an issue until the possession of the city was assured him (May 1098), under the terror of the approach of Kerbogha with a great army of relief, and with a reservation in favour of Alexius, if Alexius should fulfil his promise to aid the crusaders.

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  • On the coast of America the news of the approach of d'Estaing compelled the British commanders to evacuate Philadelphia on the 18th of June.

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  • The approach of winter made a naval campaign on the coast of North America dangerous.

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  • In July, on the approach of the dangerous hurricane season, Rodney sailed for North America, reaching New York on the 14th of September.

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  • Its birthday was celebrated once a year; oxen, which had to be pure white, were sacrificed to it; women were forbidden to approach it when once its education was finished.

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  • He seemed momentarily to approach the doctrinal position of the Baptists, but by his statement, "I will be baptized only into the primitive Christian faith," by his iconoclastic preaching and his editorial conduct of The 'Christian Baptist (1823-1830), and by the tone of his able debates with Paedobaptists, he soon incurred the disfavour of the Redstone Association of Baptist churches in western Pennsylvania, and in 1823 his followers transferred their membership to the Mahoning Association of Baptist churches in eastern Ohio, only to break absolutely with the Baptists in 1830.

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  • With the approach of night their season of activity commences, when they may be occasionally seen gliding from tree to tree supported on their cutaneous parachute, and they have been noticed as capable of traversing in this way a space of 70 yds.

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  • This the elders of the tribe pick up or pretend to find, and carefully store up in a cleft of the hills or in a cave which no woman may approach.

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  • From the plans of Todleben a new fort, Constantine, and four batteries were constructed (1856-1871) to defend the principal approach, and seven batteries to cover the shallower northern channel.

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  • The island thus divides the seaward approach to St Petersburg into two channels; that on the northern side is obstructed by shoals which extend across it from Kotlin to Lisynos on the Finnish mainland, and is only passable by vessels drawing less than 15 ft.

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  • The approach to the capital has been greatly facilitated by the construction in1875-1885of a canal, 23 ft.

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  • Along parts of their eastern border, where the rainfall is a little increased by the approach of the westerly winds to the Rocky Mountains, there is a belt of very deep, impalpably fine soil, supposed to be a dust deposit brought from the drier parts of the plains farther west; excellent crops of wheat are here raised.

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  • For fifty years after this date the place retained the character and traditions of a sleepy cathedral city, but with the approach of the 79th century it was touched by a more modern spirit.

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  • The claim that Bering Sea was mare clausum was abandoned, but it was asserted that Russia had formerly exercised therein rights of exclusive jurisdiction which had passed to the United States, and they relied inter alia upon the ukase of 1821, b y which foreign vessels had been forbidden to approach within too Italian miles of the coasts of Russian America.

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  • In February 1798, at the approach of the invading French forces, Henry was forced to fly from Frascati to Naples, whence at the close of the same year he sailed to Messina.

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  • The chief railway station is Exchange station, which is in Salford, but has its main approach in Manchester.

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  • Within the next few days Soult's approach on the line of communication was discovered, and Wellesley, disgusted with his Spanish allies, had no choice but to withdraw into Portugal and there stand upon the defensive.

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  • As these moulting periods approach, the worms lose their appetite and cease eating, and at each period of change they are left undisturbed and free from noise.

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  • The Babusar Pass at the head of the Kagan valley marks the most direct approach to Chilas and Gilgit from the plains of India.

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  • The most complete hydrogen spectrum is that measured by Evershed 8 in the flash spectrum observed during a total solar eclipse, and contains thirty-one lines, all of which agree with considerable accuracy with the formula, if the frequency number n is calculated correctly by reducing the wave-length to vacuo.9 It is a characteristic of Balmer's formula that the frequency approaches a definite limit as s is increased, and it was soon discovered that in several other spectra besides hydrogen, series of lines could be found, which gradually come nearer and nearer to each other as they become fainter, and approach a definite limit.

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  • For years the subject of prophecy had occupied much of his thoughts, and his belief in the near approach of the second advent had received such wonderful corroboration by the perusal of the work of a Jesuit priest, writing under the assumed Jewish name of Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra, that in 1827 he published a translation of it, accompanied with an eloquent preface.

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  • Pentine Point shelters Padstow Bay on the north-east, but the approach to the estuary is dangerous during north-westerly gales.

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  • They were closed when the property was bought in 1896 by the Louisville & Nashville railway and a new approach made as indicated on the accompanying map. From the surface to the floor is 240 ft.; under Chester Sandstone and in the St Louis Limestone.

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  • The magnetism of these two needles is never reversed, and they are as much as possible protected from shock and from approach to other magnets, so that their magnetic state may remain as constant as possible.

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  • In 1852 the constitution of the Quarterly Meeting was clearly defined, and the June Quarterly Meeting obtained the right to approach conference with memorials.

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  • The acceleration of a falling body is naturally attributed to the presence of the earth; and, though the body approaches the earth in the course of its fall, it is easily recognized that the conditions under which it moves are only very slightly affected by this approach.

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  • Besides the persons immediately concerned in the cotton trade and connected with allied trades, a large number of members find it convenient to use this great meeting-place as a means of approach to a body of responsible persons.

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  • It will be noticed that in all these theoretical curves the points of initial fusion and solidification do not in general coincide; we reach a different curve first according as we approach the diagram from below, where all is solid, or from above, where all is liquid.

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  • The solution then freezes, until the heat liberated is enough to raise the tern perature to the point of equilibrium given by the tendency of the solution taken in contact with ice to approach the true freezing point on one side and the temperature of the enclosure on the other.

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  • The nearest approach to a difficulty lay in the behaviour of liquid air, from which it was supposed, as the event.

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  • Strict personal poverty was enforced, and all were encouraged to approach confession and communion frequently.

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  • The term mimicry has also been applied to resemblances of a different kind from the two enumerated above - resemblances, that is to say, by which predaceous species are supposed to be enabled to approach or mix without detection with animals they prey upon or victimize in other ways.

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  • Montreal on the St Lawrence was a strong position on the British side to which, however, the Americans had an easy road of approach by Lake Champlain.

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  • The adult bird in the wild state is exceedingly shy and difficult of approach, and, owing to its great fleetness and strength, is rarely if ever caught.

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  • Ravenna was Valentinian's usual residence; but he fled to Rome on the approach of Attila, who, after ravag- ing the north of Italy, died in the following year (4J3).

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  • News of his approach reached them on the night of June 14, and they marched before dawn with 2200 men to meet him near Musselburgh.

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  • For when she perceives the approach of those Enemies, she so settles her self in her Nest as to put her Bill out at the hole, and gives the Monkeys such a welcome therewith, that they presently pack away, and glad they scape so."

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  • Hence all attempts to fix accurately the level of perpetual snow in the Alps are fallacious, and can at the best approach only to local accuracy for a particular district.

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  • Thus the passes which crossed a single ridge, and did not involve too great a detour through a long valley of approach, became the most important and the most popular, e.g.

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  • The fortress was bravely defended, and the siege was raised on the approach of succour from the allied cities.

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  • Cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce plants that are in frames should be regularly ventilated by lifting the sash on warm days, and on the approach of very cold weather they should be covered with straw mats or shutters.

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  • On the approach of a Saracen force they retired, but a small plundering detachment was cut off.

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  • The appearance of northern shells in the upper divisions of the Pliocene series indicates the approach of the Glacial period, and glacial drift containing Scandinavian boulders now covers much of the country east of the Zuider Zee.

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  • Although far from uncommon, chiru are very wary, and consequently difficult to approach.

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  • It was important as commanding the approach to the valley between the Alban and Volscian mountains.

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  • Until the time of the French occupation no Christian was allowed to pass through the gates without a special permit from the bey, whilst Jews were altogether forbidden to approach the holy city.

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  • This he found at Phthiotis in Thessaly, where he surprised some wolves eating sheep; on his approach they fled, leaving him the bones.

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  • In 1760 it was surprised by a French squadron under Commodore Thurot, who landed with about loco men, and, after holding the place for a few days, evacuated it on the approach of the English troops.

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  • He believed, however, that calm discussion was the only thing needful to carry every change, and from the beginning to the end of his career he deprecated every approach to violence.

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  • An auroral curtain travelling with considerable velocity would approach from the south, pass right overhead and retire to the north.

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  • Cathode rays usually have a velocity about a tenth that of light, but in exceptional cases it may approach a third of that of light.

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  • In some places a Slav-speaking individual would himself have to provide the interpreter, and approach the government in German.

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  • As we go on, we hear of both Sicel and Sican towns; 1 but we may suspect that any approach to true city life was owing to Greek influences.

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  • Ducetius's own foundation of Kale Akte lived on, and we presently hear of Sicel towns under kings and tyrants, all marking an approach to Greek life.

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  • Charles was now besieging Messina; Sicily seems to have put on some approach to the form of a federal commonwealth.

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  • The Spartan king Archidamus assembled his army, sent a herald to announce his approach, marched into Attica and besieged Oenoe.

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  • Callicratidas, hearing of this fleet's approach, withdrew from Mytilene, leaving Eteonicus in charge of the blockade.

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  • This Hesiodic genealogy connects the Achaeans closely with the Ionians, but historically they approach nearer to the Aeolians.

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  • They then look like floating logs; and thus they float or gently approach their prey, which consists of anything they can overpower.

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  • As a rule, however, they are so wary and suspicious that they are very difficult to approach, and their haunts are so well stocked with fish and other game that they make off and hide rather than attack a man swimming in their waters.

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  • Being a very watchful bird, its cry of warning, when it flies off on the approach of danger, is probably appreciated by the crocodile.

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  • Numberless semi-divine beings had no r purpose than to fill,out the myths, as, for instance, the tering apes that greeted the sun-god Re as he rose above eastern horizon, and the demons who opened the gates of nether world at the approach of the setting sun.

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  • On the approach of Marcus Aurelius, the adherents of Cassius slew him, and the clemency of the emperor restored peace.

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  • Mehemet Ali and al-Bardisi therefore descended to Rosetta, which had fallen into the hands of a brother of All Pasha, and having captured the town and its commander, alBardisi purposed to proceed against Alexandria; but the troops demanded arrears of pay which it was not in his power to give, and the pasha had cut the dyke between the lakes of Aboukir and Mareotis, thus rendering the approach to Aleicandria more difficult.

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  • As their numbers thinned, they endeavoured to maintain their little power by training some hundreds of blacks; but again, on the approach of Ismail, another son of the pasha of Egypt, sent with an army in 1820 to subdue Nubia and Sennar, some returned to Egypt and settled in Cairo, while the rest, amounting to about 100 persons, fled in dispersed parties to the countries adjacent to Senngr.

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  • Cholera and fever were busy both with the North Staffordshire regiment at Gemai, whither they had been moved on its approach, and with the Egyptian troops at the front, and carried off many officers and men.

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  • Such a method of entrance is styled chalazogamic, in contrast to the porogamic or ordinary method of approach by means of the micropyle.

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  • Lord Maxwell, earl of Morton, as a Roman Catholic, mustered his tenants here to act in concert with the Armada; but on the approach of King James VI.

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  • There is thus a Protococcales, and in the bulk of the Confervales, the thallus consists close approach to the external morphology of the higher plants.

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  • Some Zygnemaceae and Mesocarpaceae form either a short conjugating tube, or none at all, but the filaments approach each other by a knee-like bend, and the zygospore is formed at the point of contact, often being partially contained within the walls of the parent-cell.

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  • A few algae approach the ordinary terrestrial plants in their capacity to live in a sub-aerial habitat subject only to such occasional supplies of water as is afforded by the rainfall.

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  • His admiration for Carlyle probably led him to assume too early that his readers would approach the story from the same point of view, that is, with an admiration too warm to be repelled by the admissions.

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  • But hardly one can be identified with any approach to certainty, except in the extreme south.

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  • Siward, a man of unusual strength and size, is said to have risen from his bed at the approach of death, and to have died dressed in all his armour.

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  • He had authorized the English Bible and some approach towards Protestant doctrine in the Ten Articles.

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  • By March 1483 he was reduced, we know not how; he laid down his office, and was forbidden to approach the court.

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  • On the west coast the harbour of Ampanam is the most frequented, though, on account of heavy breakers, it is often difficult of approach.

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  • Budapest is situated nearly in the centre of Hungary, and dominates by its strategical position the approach from the west to the great Hungarian plain.

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  • The nearest approach to it now preserved is probably the code of laws attributed to the mythic king Fr061 (the Wise) and preserved in the pages of Saxo Grammaticus.

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  • The obscurity of the mist, which had at first allowed the big battalions to approach unobserved, now favoured the weaker side.

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  • During the daytime the hillock at the entrance to the burrow is frequently occupied by one or more members of the family, which at the approach of strangers sit up on their hind-legs in order to get a better view.

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  • During the Rebellion of 1745, on the approach of Prince Charles Edward from Manchester, the bridge was cut down and the few stragglers who ventured that way seized.

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  • He saw that he stood for the spiritual priesthood of all believers and that medievalism in religion meant that man cannot approach God without a priestly mediator.

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  • It will be necessary here to approach the subject from a point of view which is less.

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  • The letters vividly describe the approach of the enemy, and, in appealing to Egypt, abound in protestations of loyalty, complaints of the disloyalty of other kings and excuses for the writers' suspicious conduct.

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  • Even at this depth there was no indication of an approach to the base of the alluvial deposits.

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  • The five universities of Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Allahabad and Lahore, which were formerly merely examining bodies, had their senates reformed by the introduction of experts; while hostels or boarding-houses for the college students were founded, so as to approach more nearly to the English ideal of residential institutions.

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  • The dialogue form was used merely to secure an undress manner of approach to his subject; there was no attempt at the dramatic. The book reflects curiously Lowell's mind at this time, for the conversations relate only partly to the poets and dramatists of the.

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  • The combined overhanging weight of the cast-iron fork, the mirror and tube is so great, that without a very perfect relief-friction system the instrument could not be moved in right ascension with any approach to practical ease.

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  • These rivers approach each other at their mouths, and form a vast network of tidal channels, creeks and islands.

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  • From the `Araba travellers approach by a track which leads round Jebel Harun (Mt Hor) and enters the plain of Petra from the south; it is just possible to find a way in from the high plateau on the north; but the most impressive entrance is from the east, down a dark and narrow gorge, in places only to or 12 ft.

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  • These two regions are connected by a narrow strip of land behind Annesley Bay, where the Abyssinian hills approach close to the sea.

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  • At his approach the Kharijites left their camp and fled to Abdallah b.

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  • At his approach Salih, who was afraid of Musa, hid himself, but was soon discovered and killed.

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  • Down to 1910 the sum expended by Japan on Korean reforms was estimated to approach fifteen millions sterling.

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  • An approach to a constitution was made.

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  • On the 19th of June he laid siege to La Roche-aux-Moines, the fortress which defended Angers and commanded the Loire valley; but on the approach of a royal army under Prince Louis on the 2nd of July his Poitevin barons refused to risk a pitched battle, and he fled hastily to La Rochelle.

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  • At the approach of winter he gathered his troops into the chief cities and declined operations in the field, while the Alamannic brothers marched through Italy, killing and plundering.

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  • On the left bank are the Lycus (Churuk Su), which flows westwards by Colossae through a broad open valley that affords the only natural approach to the elevated plateau, the Harpasus (Ak Chai), and the Marsyas (China Chai).

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  • The forces underlying the movement may differ from time to time in their respective intensity, and, in highly exceptional cases, may approach equilibrium, their natural tendencies being interrupted by special causes, but the instances of general decline are confined to wild and comparatively small communities brought into contact with alien and more civilized races.

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  • At last, however, he saw the loose filaments of the twine standing out every way, and he found them to be attracted by the approach of his finger.

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  • This research opened a way of approach to the phenomena of radioactivity, and the history of the steps by' hich P. Curie and Madame Curie were finally led to the discovery of radium is one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of science.

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  • At Bernard's approach Henry quitted Toulouse, leaving there many adherents, both of noble and humble birth, and especially among the weavers.

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  • Primitive religion, however, resorts to either way of approach so indifferently as to prove that there is little or no awareness of an inconsistency of attitude.

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  • The island belt is widest (some 45 m.) off the city of Stockholm, the approach to which from the sea is famous for its beauty.

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  • Exports approach £30,000,000 and imports £40,000,000 in average annual value.

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  • Inside the island of Chiloe the large gulfs of Chacao (or Ancud) and Corcovado are well protected from the severe westerly storms of these latitudes, but they are little used because the approach through the Chacao channel is tortuous and only 2 to 3 m.

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  • After the battle of Placilla it was clear to President Balmaceda that he could no longer hope to find a sufficient strength amongst his adherents to maintain himself in power, and in view of the rapid approach of the rebel army he abandoned his official duties to seek an asylum in the Argentine legation.

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  • As we approach inner Persia the flora rapidly makes place to steppe vegetation in the plains, while the mediterranean flora predominates in the hills.

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  • All who approach fling themselves to the ground, life and death depend on his nod.

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  • The nearest approach to a sovereignty in those parts on the death of Abu Said is that of Uzun Ijasan, the leader of the Ak Kuyun, or White Sheep Turkomans, and conqueror of the Black Sheep, whose chief, Jahan Shah, he defeated and slew.

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  • This functionary, alarmed at th near approach of the Persians, fled to Peshawar.

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  • Although the British had tried to keep this movement a secret, Dr Joseph Warren discovered their plans and sent out Paul Revere and William Dawes to give warning of their approach.

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  • A lighthouse has been erected at the entrance, but reefs render approach difficult, and the outer anchorage is fully exposed to west and north and not good holding.

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  • Here and there the mountains, which run in lines parallel to the coast, approach close to the sea, as at Table Bay.

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  • He retired (17th of February) to Pendennis Castle at Falmouth, and on the approach of Fairfax (2nd of March) to Scilly, where he remained with Hyde till the 16th of April.

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  • A thawing night is said to promote the flow, and it ceases during a south-west wind and at the approach of a storm; and so sensitive are the trees to aspect and climatic variations that the flow of sap on the south and east side has been noticed to be earlier than on the north and west side of the same tree.

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  • But on the other hand we find the Chinese saint, on the approach of death, causing one of his disciples to frame a catalogue of his good works, of the books that he had translated or caused to be transcribed, of the sacred pictures executed at his cost, of the alms that he had given, of the living creatures that he had ransomed from death.

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  • This position gives full scope for the senses of sight, hearing and smell to warn of the approach of enemies.

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  • The first approach is called the Dead Sea, embraced by cliffs 60 ft.

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  • On the southern or Indian side the routes to Tibet and Ladakh follow the levels of Himalayan valleys with no remarkably steep gradients till they near the approach to the water-divide.

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  • At the same time the rain is heavier as we approach the Himalaya and the greatest falls are measured in its outer ranges; but the quantity again diminishes as we pass onward across the chain, and on arriving at the border of Tibet, behind the great line of snowy peaks, the rain falls in such small quantities as to be hardly susceptible of measurement.

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  • This having been effected, let us now suppose that each of the units of area of free surface of fluid (I) is allowed to approach normally a unit area of (2) until contact is established.

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  • Let one of these disks be made to approach the other by a small quantity dx.

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  • Hence if one of the disks be made to approach the other, the internal pressure will be increased if the distance between the disks is less than half the circumference of either, and the pressure will be diminished if the distance is greater than this quantity.

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  • If the mean curvature is concave towards the axis the film will tend to approach the axis.

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  • All these lines approach the town from the north and east through an unattractive industrial district, but the central Wales branch of the London & North-Western railway from Craven Arms in entering it on the west passes through some beautiful woodlands and then skirts the bay, having parallel to it for the last 3 m.

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  • Under an act of 1791 harbour trustees were appointed who cleared and deepened the river bed and built a long pier on either side of it; in 1796 the approach to the port was made safer by means of an improved light on Mumbles Head.

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  • The approach to this ziggurat was toward the north-east, and on this side lay also the principal rooms of the temple of which this was the tower.

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  • Ivanov determined to push home the assault on the main position on the night of the 25th26th, an order which involved an approach march in broad daylight and consequently heavy losses.

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  • On the approach of the royal troops he deserted his followers, and ran for refuge to the sanctuary of Beaulieu in Hampshire.

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  • On the approach of the Seven Years' War the island of Minorca was threatened by an attack from Toulon and was actually invaded in 1756.

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  • The pass of Neumark, called also the pass of Neugedein, has always been the principal approach to Bohemia from Germany.

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  • It was really suggested by the political weakness of the Byzantine empire and the dread of the approach of the Turks.

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  • In 1812, the approach of the French being apprehended, the suburbs were burned.

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  • Homer, he said, was dumb to him, while he was deaf to Homer; and he could only approach the Iliad in Boccaccio's rude Latin version.

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  • The approach of the south-west monsoon precluded the immediate renewal of the attempt; but hostilities were resumed, and Achin fell in January 1874.

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  • The principal approach to the convent is from St Laurent du Pont, a village situated on the Guiers Mort, and largely built by the monks - it is connected by steam tramways with Voiron (for Grenoble) and St Beron (for Chambery).

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  • His miscellanies, in some of which his satire made the nearest approach perhaps ever made to the methods of physical force, such as A Meditation upon a Broomstick, and the poems Sid Hamet's Rod, The City Shower, The Windsor Prophecy, The Prediction of Merlin, and The History of Vanbrugh's House, belong to this period.

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  • On the r i th of July, after seeing Mr Hofmeyr on his return, Mr Schreiner made a personal appeal to President Kruger to approach the imperial government in a friendly spirit.

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  • During the War of Independence, General Washington and his army entered New Brunswick on the 28th of November 1776, but on the approach of the enemy evacuated it, and from the 3rd of December 1776 to the 13th of April 1777 it was occupied by the British under Lord Howe.

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  • Some recent discoveries have proved that certain statements in the song usually regarded as anachronisms are quite accurate; but no nearer approach has been made towards fixing its exact date, or that of any of the three bits into which it has been cut up. In this song the story appears in its full-blown shape, the name of Winckelriet being given.

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  • There is, however, in Travancore, on the mainland, a low-caste "Veda" tribe, nearly black, with wavy or frizzly hair, and now speaking a Malayalim (Dravidian) dialect (Jagor), who probably approach nearer than the insular Veddahs to the aboriginal pre-Dravidian "negrito" element of southern India and Malaysia.

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  • Salt Lake City was prominently identified with the Mormon church in its struggle with the United States government; in 1858 it was entirely deserted upon the approach of the United States troops.

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  • Thus the genera exhibiting it were regarded as primitive, and those orders and classes in which it was least obscured were supposed to approach most nearly the ancestral Echinoderm.

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  • The theory has been vigorously opposed, notably by Semon (op. cit.), who saw in the holothurians a nearer approach to the ancestral form than was furnished by any calyculate echinoderm, and by the Sarasins, who derived the echinoids from the holothurians through forms with flexible tests (Echinothuridae, which, however, are now known to be specialized in this respect).

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  • Turning to fossil Asteroidea, we find the earlier ophiurids scarcely distinguishable from the asterids, while in the alternation of the ambulacrals, which undoubtedly correspond to the flooring-plates of Edrioaster, both groups approach the Pelmatozoan type.

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  • The same circumstances which had emboldened the Boers to declare war in the autumn of 1899, induced them to renew a guerilla warfare in the autumn of 1900the approach of an African summer supplying the Boers with the grass on which they were dependent for feeding their hardy horses.

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  • It was first used to compile written statements of customs and dooms which were their nearest approach to law, and these codes and charters are the earliest written materials for Anglo-Saxon history.

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  • Nor can we truly say that there is much, though there is certainly some, of that tact which literature is alleged to confer on those who approach it in a just spirit and with the true gift.

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  • The influence of literature on Burke lay partly in the direction of emancipation from the mechanical formulae of practical politics; partly in the association which it engendered, in a powerful understanding like his, between politics and the moral forces of the world, and between political maxims and the old and great sentences of morals; partly in drawing him, even when resting his case on prudence and expediency, to appeal to the widest and highest sympathies; partly, and more than all, in opening his thoughts to the many conditions, possibilities and "varieties of untried being," in human character and situation, and so giving an incomparable flexibility to his methods of political approach.

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  • Besides absorbing the prerogatives of Ea and Bel, Marduk was also imbued with the attributes of other of the great gods, such as Adad, Shamash, Nergal and Ninib, so that, more particularly as we approach the days of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the impression is created that Marduk was the only real deity recognized, and that the other gods were merely the various forms under which he manifested himself.

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  • It was occupied in 1584 by the earls of Angus and Mar, the Protestant leaders, who, however, fled to England on the approach of the king.

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  • They are exceedingly timid, and therefore wary and difficult of approach; like many other ruminants, however, their curiosity sometimes overcomes their timidity, so as to bring them within range of the hunter's rifle.

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  • In the middle division, or from the mouth of the Voronezh to the point where it makes its nearest approach to the Volga, the stream cuts its way for the most part through Cretaceous rocks, which in many places rise on either side in steep and elevated banks, and at intervals encroach on the river-bed.

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  • Moreover, the site constituted a natural citadel, difficult to approach or to invest, and an almost impregnable refuge in the hour of defeat, within which broken forces might rally to retrieve disaster.

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  • On the approach of the War of Independence he identified himself with the patriot or whig element in the colony, and in 1776 and 1777 he was a delegate to the Continental Congress.

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  • No Englishman could approach Disraeli without some immediate consciousness that he was in the presence of a foreigner.

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  • Finally, at the extreme west of the whole district, Cithaeron is bent round at right angles in the direction oft the isthmus, at the northern approach to which it abuts against the mighty mass of Mount Geraneia, which is interposed between the Corinthian and the Saronic Gulf.

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  • On one side of this, towards Hymettus, lay the open roadstead of Phalerum, on the other the harbour of Peiraeus, a completely land-locked inlet, safe, deep and spacious, the approach to which was still further narrowed by moles.

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  • Korah and his associates maintained that the other tribes, belonging as they did to a holy people, had as much right as the Levites to approach Yahweh directly, without the mediation of any Levite, and offer sacrifices and even incense to Yahweh.

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  • It has thus led to a condition of uncertainty as regards the relationship of the great groups of Vascular Cryptogams, in which, however, lies the hope of an ultimate approach to a satisfactory solution.

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  • This is facilitated by an important general change in the position of the parapodia; their basal attachments are all more ventral in position than in the Chaetopoda, and tend to approach from the two sides towards the mid-ventral line.

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  • As a rule, they frequent barren rocky districts in large droves, and are exceedingly fierce and dangerous to approach.

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  • And it is only thus, he says, that we can approach a positive conception of God, namely by " enlarging indefinitely some of the simple ideas we received from reflection."

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  • But they were unable to hold their ground on the approach of a Prussian army.

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  • No physiologist has ever claimed the power to prophesy with any approach to accuracy the future mental states of any individual from an examination of his brain.

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  • In later art they approach the model of Artemis, wearing a thin dress, girt high for speed; while on the later painted vases their dress is often peculiarly Persian - that is, close-fitting trousers and a high cap called the kidaris.

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  • A similar criticism might fairly be passed upon the majority of philosophers who approach ethics from the standpoint of evolution.

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  • But Russian-Slavonic was not readily understood by the Servian reading public. It was not much better when through the influence of the living language it began to approach nearer to Servian than to Russian, and was called " Slavonic-Servian " (Slaveno-Serbski).

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  • A periodic character was thus indicated for the disturbance; and Laplace assigned its true cause in the near approach to commensurability in the periods of the two planets, the cycle of disturbance completing itself in about goo (more accurately 929) years.

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  • The radical leaves of this biennial plant spread out flat on all sides from the crown of the root; they are ovate-oblong, acute, stalked, and more or less incisely-toothed, of a greyish-green colour, and covered with viscid hairs; these leaves perish at the approach of winter.

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  • The males are polygamous, and during autumn and winter associate together, feeding in flocks apart from the females; but with the approach of spring they separate, each selecting a locality for itself, from which it drives off all intruders, and where morning and evening it seeks to attract the other sex by a display of its beautiful plumage, which at this season attains its greatest perfection, and by a peculiar cry, which Selby describes as "a crowing note, and another similar to the noise made by the whetting of a scythe."

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  • Southward from i ts northern horn, the rocky headland of Howth, the coast is generally steep, occasionally sheer, and the mountains of county Wicklow approach it closely.

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  • Recumbent sphinxes were especially used in pairs to guard the approach to a temple, and it may be conjectured that the Great Sphinx was sculptured at Giza to guard the entrance of the Nile valley.

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  • Thus those qualities, physical and otherwise, in which the Bantu approach the Hamites gradually fade as we proceed westward through the Congo basin, while in the east, among the tribes to the west of Tanganyika and on the upper Zambezi, " transitional " forms of culture are found.

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  • By his alliance with the Grisons (1603) he guaranteed the integrity of the Valtellina, the natural approach to Lombardy for the imperial forces; and by his intimate union with Geneva he controlled the routes by which the Spaniards could reach their hereditary possessions in Franche-Comt and the Low Countries from Italy.

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  • He spent ten months (July 1474 - June 1475) in besieging the little town of Neuss on the Rhine, but was compelled by the approach of a powerful imperial army to raise the siege.

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  • The progress amongst the Arabians on this side lies in a closer adherence to their text, a nearer approach to the bare exegesis of their author, and an increasing emancipation from control by the tenets of the popular religion.

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  • The question had been suggested alike to East and West by Porphyry, and the Arabians were the first to approach the full statement of the problem.

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  • Most of the business of Sus is carried on at great fairs lasting eight or fifteen days, during which time all roads of approach are guaranteed safe by the tribesmen that trade may be uninterrupted.

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  • On the approach of a body of Illyrians, who, though summoned by Perdiccas, unexpectedly declared for Arrhabaeus, the Macedonians fled, and Brasidas's force was rescued from a critical position only by his coolness and ability.

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  • The Italian prince had put himself into a thoroughly false position, in which the nearest approach to friends he could find were intriguing politicians who sought to use him as a tool, and where every man of honest principles, royalist or republican, looked upon him as an in- truder.

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  • The spectacle of anarchy, and the stoppage in payment of taxes frightened the Republican deputies into some approach to sanity.

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  • As the birthplace and residence of Krishna, it is the most sacred spot in this part of India, and its principal temple is visited annually by many thousand pilgrims. The approach from the sea is by a fine flight of stone steps, and the great spire rises to a height of 150 ft.

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  • In places, as between Suakin and Berber and above Roseires on the Blue Nile, the mountains approach close to the river.

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  • His midnight ride from Charlestown to Lexington on the 18th-19th of April 1775, to give warning of the approach of British troops from Boston, is Revere's most famous exploit; it is commemorated by Longfellow, who, however, has "paid little attention to exactness of fact" (Justin Winsor).

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  • In India and Persia they are difficult to approach, although this is not the case in Tibet.

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  • This effect is enhanced by the light being brighter as we approach the sun.

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  • Ormarah, Khor Kalmat, Pasni and Gwadar are all somewhat difficult of approach by reason of a sand-bar which appears to extend along the whole coastline, and which is very possibly the last evidence of a submerged ridge; and they are all subject to a very lively surf under certain conditions of wind.

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  • A naked short-sighted eye, which would be corrected for distant objects by a spectacle glass of - Io diopters, may approach the object up to about 4 in.

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  • On the 29th of July 1748 he arrived off Fort St David's, and soon after laid siege to Pondicherry; but the sickness of his men and the approach of the monsoons led to the raising of the siege.

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  • The latter is frequently turned round in such a way as to approach the base.

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  • Aurivillius considered that Pollicipes signatus showed a closer approach to the Balanidae than any other of the Lepadidae, but he, too, in ignorance of the Devonian Protobalanus (Whitf.), discoursed needlessly about the gap in the distribution.

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  • These ruins consist of a gateway and an approach enclosed by two lateral walls, 15 ft.

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  • On the lateral walls of the approach we have a similar procession of attendants Leaded by the chief priestess and priest, who pours a libation at the feet of the goddess seated on her throne; while on the right returning wall are fragments of a third procession approaching another draped figure of the goddess on her throne (placed at the angle opposite the bull on the pedestal), the train being again brought up by a bull.

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  • As heat is both taken in and discharged at constant temperature during the change in physical state of the agent, a vapour compression machine must approach the ideal much more nearly than a compressed-air machine, in which there is no such change.

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  • There are no recent stems with a structure quite like that of Sphenophyllum; so far as the primary structure is concerned, the nearest approach is among the Psiloteae, with which other characters indicate some affinity; the base of the stem in Psilotum forms some secondary wood.

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  • Archaeocalamites, Bothrodendron, Archaeopteris, Megalopteris, &c. Among fern-like fronds Diplotmema and Rhacopteris are characteristic. Some of the Lepidodendreae appear to approach Sigillariae in external characters.

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  • Among existing types the genus Macrozamia appears to show the nearest approach to this simpler structure of the leaf-traces.

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  • We have a combination in the same flower of stalked ovules, the structure of which has already been described, and interseminal scales constituting a complex gynoecium, which exhibits in certain features an approach to the angiospermous type, and differs in structure from other Gymnosperm flowers, associated with male organs constructed on a plan almost identical with that.

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  • A flower of a rather different type, Pseudaraucaria major, exhibiting in the occurrence of two seeds in each scale an approach to the cones of Abietineae, has been described by Professor Fliche from Lower Cretaceous rocks of Argonne.

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  • The Discoglossidae are noteworthy for the presence of short ribs to some of the vertebrae, and in some other points also they approach the tailed batrachians; they may be safely regarded as, on the whole, the most generalized of known Ecaudata.

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  • But in a few European and North American species, and in a great many inhabitants of the tropics, the egg is large and a considerable portion of it persists for a long time as a yolk-sac. Although the segmentation is always complete, it is very irregular in these types, some of which make a distinct approach to the meroblastic egg.

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  • But the cultivation of tobacco is confined almost exclusively to the valleys of the Connecticut and Housatonic rivers, and these lands are constantly and expensively treated with nitrogenous fertilizers; the grades raised are the broad-leaf and the Habana seed-leaf wrappers, which, excepting the Florida growth from Sumatra seed, are the nearest domestic approach to the imported Sumatra.

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  • In addition to the gains mentioned, he bought in iior a large slice of territory, including Bourges and Dun-leRoi, from Eudes Arpin, viscount of Bourges, who was going on the crusade; and toward the end of his reign took Montlhery, whose lord beset the southern approach to Paris.

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  • The approach to the port is not difficult at any season of the year.

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  • With the approach of the War of Independence, the dream of becoming a separate colony with a royal governor was abandoned, and on petition of the inhabitants the territory was annexed to North Carolina in 1776 as the Washington District, which in 1777 became Washington county, with the Mississippi river as the western boundary.

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  • They retire on the approach of summer.

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  • The lighthearted approach chased away embarrassment as easily as passion.

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  • Only a few minutes passed before the sound of tires crunching on gravel announced the approach of a vehicle.

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  • Her plan was to approach building from the back.

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  • Each of us was concerned with Howie's sanity and after I laid out all the proposed safe guards, we agreed for me to approach Howie.

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  • I decide being truthful was the best approach.

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  • The man in the corner took that as in invitation to approach, and she moved behind the table her father used for laying out pieces of disassembled weapons in the center of the armory.

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  • It strained against his direct approach, like beating the crap out of Fitzgerald and getting Fred home where he belonged.

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  • He and Gabriel stood nearby, their approach silent.

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  • He tried to ignore his thoughts and didn.t hear Kris.s approach until his eldest brother spoke.

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  • Kiera almost apologized, but the approach and introduction of two pre-teen boys with white-blond hair and bright blue eyes distracted her.

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  • Nishani fell silent and unsure at their approach, but was prodded by something soft his youngest sister said that threw her into another animated story.

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  • Deidre reached the group of demons.  Rather than attack her, they parted, inching away from her.  Speechless, Katie watched her approach.  The demons fell silent, and even those fighting Gabe stopped.

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  • She'd have to approach one of them eventually if she ever wanted her powers back.

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  • The Others were mortal enemies of the Watchers, whose more lenient approach on good and evil made them fickle allies for the White God.

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  • They decided to abandon the siege of Warwick Castle on hearing news of the approach of the parliamentary relief force.

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  • He held the antithesis of this approach.

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  • The circumspect approach to the ridge now loomed above him.

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  • Every major physics concept is treated, but should arrive to the student in a real-world context.The book departs from the "physics for physicists" approach of concentrating on physics principles and trying to find applications.

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  • In any event, nearly everything that Lord Wright said is directly contrary to the approach of the judges.

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  • Did he take a didactic approach?

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  • There are people who want to disparage this excellent approach.

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  • A school needs to approach allegations practically to minimize the negative effects as much as possible.

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  • An emphasis on prevention of secondary spread of the disease is a novel approach in breast cancer research.

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  • This approach makes use of most people's ability to determine sharp focus for themselves, minimizing the need for highly trained and scarce personnel.

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  • This is compared with an alternative approach using diamond abrasives bound onto flexible carriers attached to the bonnets.

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  • We aim to provide an individual treatment approach promoting abstinence enabling clients to maintain change.

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  • The surveillance approach course line will coincide with the runway centerline extended.

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  • The restaurant's daily specials usually have a more contemporary approach.

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  • Existing policies on Emu, Schengen and the Amsterdam Treaty's provisions on flexibility, perhaps foreshadowed this approach.

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  • He watched her furtive glances, waiting for the signal to approach.

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  • In the end, the federal government had to change its approach and send another question to the Supreme Court.

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  • He was intrigued to hear of the next "shady" approach.

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  • From a personal perspective, I was attracted to Sussex because of the interdisciplinary approach to learning that the university promotes.

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  • A sensible, pragmatic approach was taken to public sector reform.

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  • We should accept the positive elements of Blair's essentially pragmatic approach.

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  • John Deacon takes an in-depth, highly pragmatic approach.

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  • But there is an inherent absurdity when you try to take a compliant approach.

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  • However, much of the work on transferable skills has largely failed to provide an approach which has gained widespread acceptance.

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  • I am pleased to make my base the college of traditional acupuncture with their totally professional approach to Holistic Therapies.

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  • The ecology movement seems particularly adept in its innovative approach to venues.

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  • Indeed accusing someone falsely of an ad hominem approach to debate is itself an ad hominem argument.

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  • An ideal book for older Primary Children who are rapidly becoming more self-conscious and subject to moods as they approach adolescence.

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  • Logic approach for better newspaper advertisements start looking for want to bitch.

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  • The process of making good TV advertorials is very similar to the approach for creating advertorials for magazines.

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  • Conventional programming languages only provide facilities for exact matching, a more adaptive approach is required in order to support data aggregation.

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  • We may not always like their attitude and their approach, which might sometimes appear aggressive.

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  • In congested airspace or restricted airspace, the controlling facility has a more hands on approach for guidance.

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  • Another approach is to construct algebras directly from the algebraic group itself.

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  • Instead an empirical approach was used with a very small initial aliquot that was increased in weight as the experiment proceeded.

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  • However, this approach is not suitable for the analysis of fetal genetic traits that do not differ largely from the maternal alleles.

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  • The usual approach is to investigate the effect of the enzyme amylase on the breakdown of starch solution at various temperatures.

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  • This approach allowed quick, low cost sensitivity analysis to be undertaken to examine issues raised during the study.

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  • The respondents were found to be very analytic in their approach and were aware of the historical developments that had led to these events.

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  • The approach is not analytical, but the approach of ' designing the way forward ' .

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  • Papert sincerely wants to escape the one-sidedness of an overly analytical, abstract approach to learning.

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  • We use the type system and our treatment of generalized quantifiers in natural language to construct a type-theoretic approach to pronominal anaphora and ellipsis.

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  • To make an impact, you should approach these issues from a more oblique angle.

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  • This approach can also be used to automatically test biological genome annotations.

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  • Mix a little sincerity and gumption in your hard-line approach, and perhaps you'll get somewhere and not antagonize others.

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  • These are also most likely to believe in a ` deliverance ' approach to anything considered antisocial.

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  • Always a lover of dogs, Bennett could do anything with them; no dog, however fierce, resented his approach.

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  • Using the option appraisal tool will help partners to assess whether the approach meets their needs.

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  • An investment appraisal will establish the value for money of such an approach.

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  • We are also aiming to develop a positive approach to diversity within the staff team.

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  • I'm finding it hard not to take a personal approach to the issue.

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  • We take a varied and often innovative approach to teaching, learning and assessment.

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  • What we hope will impress you most is the flexible, fun approach we have to wedding dress shopping.

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  • To do this we need a very different approach to our use of land.

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  • We also explain how schools can take an effective whole-school approach to drugs.

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  • In the principal water supply aquifers, levels continue to decline gently - as they approach drought minima over wide areas.

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  • Steven Metsker's approach is mostly architectural, with lots of object relationship diagrams and relatively little code.

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  • The best approach is to ask the archivist who holds the document from which you copied.

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  • Large warehouses selling an odd assortment of car parts and furniture line the main approach road.

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  • They decide to employ a boy to help them with the duties on their farm and approach the orphan asylum for suggestions.

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  • We would encourage ONS to continue to develop its approach to low pay in order that the figures can be regarded as authoritative.

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  • However the Scottish Executive approach demands transfer, presumably on the grounds of ideological aversion to the public sector.

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  • The former approach reveals comparatively high levels of inequality aversion (implying a high level of income weighting) in contrast to the latter.

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  • I believe it is how we approach bach which matters most.

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  • The second purpose was to examine the environmental biosafety of the approach.

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  • It is very broad in its approach so that plant and animal systems are discussed as well as microbial biotechnology.

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  • Can William get a birdie or will his approach be below par?

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  • The innovative approach to military bookselling and their commitment to publishing have made them Britain's leading independent military bookseller.

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  • A long breakwater to the south of Dunoon Pier changes the approach to the pier totally.

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  • More information about PPARC's approach to partnership brokering is available.

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  • Reasonable approach, with only a slight bump on the wing wall.

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  • The approach shot must be hit toward the right side of the green to avoid the greenside bunker.

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  • This would be the least administratively burdensome approach - except, of course, for no relief at all.

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  • This puts pressure on organizations to become more businesslike in their approach.

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  • Your house is somewhere beyond the crossroads, but as you approach the ancient byway, you realize you are not alone.

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  • But above all, and whatever the constraints, you must have a can-do, innovative approach to procurement.

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  • This actually represents a capitulation to contemporary culture; a pattern of worship which takes this approach to the extreme is the seeker service.

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  • This is because it is so capricious in its approach.

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  • In this project we exploit a novel mathematical approach in which viral capsids are modeled based on tiling theory.

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  • This approach is becoming increasingly popular in Organic Chemistry as an alternative to the used of expensive chiral catalysts and auxiliaries.

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  • For Johnson the pattern of adult catechesis is the most integrated approach to keeping together outreach, discipleship, worship and ministry.

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  • This time, skippers seem more cautious on their approach to the line.

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  • Given the success of the euro area changeover, there is no reason for the UK to adopt a different approach.

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  • Couples can approach priests who look at individual astrological charts and data to suggest the most auspicious nights.

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  • Approach Emma consulted senior Rotating Equipment Engineers, compiled the checklist and then gained feedback on the layout and material it covered.

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  • Down payment car insurance chico california would new approach to looking at this some states rate.

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  • But what made me really enjoy the movie as a whole was his fresh approach to action choreography.

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  • Its slow approach to Valley is seen in the second shot awaiting clearance to proceed onward to Bangor.

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  • Researchers will take a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating clinical, psychological and economic aspects, to develop and evaluate the dataset.

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  • A better approach would be to use the clipboard.

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  • This innovative approach avoids visually intrusive surface-mounted closers and invasive work to floors to fit floor-level closers.

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  • The approach to the newly built clubhouse doesn't suggest what lies ahead.

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  • It looks like the beginning of a spider's cobweb, hence the name of this approach.

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  • Analysis of an elastic collision We consider the case where two masses approach each other head on.

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  • Approach every badger with extreme care - even a which is apparently comatose may move suddenly!

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  • We strongly commend this approach to the UK Government.

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  • Contact me for a scientific, yet compassionate, approach to solving problems or just for improving the relationship with your horse.

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  • Non-classical computation encompasses many different approach to tackle some or all of these problems.

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  • An alternative, and probably nicer, approach is to make use of what is called string concatenation.

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  • Its distinctive approach is to unite all the main actors in the first ever concerted approach to avert a major extinction crisis.

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  • The argument is that the Cartesian approach, to start with self evident premises and to derive rational conclusions from them is too limited.

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  • Such an approach recognizes that chronic disease is multifactorial involving a confluence of genetic, environmental, social, psychological and physical events.

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  • These tensions are often reflected in local church congregations where increasing numbers of churches are adopting a niche approach to " doing church " .

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  • This may irritate the purists but seems congruent with the call to action and pragmatic approach within.

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  • On the one hand the equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture gives an abstract and still largely conjectural approach which applies in very general situations.

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  • This low-key approach will be a turn-off for many extreme cinema connoisseurs.

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  • Year teams meet on a regular basis to ensure consistency of approach across teaching groups.

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  • I am using the modification of the Eshelby approach to model for the elastic constants of porous coatings.

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  • We offer a truly consultative approach, both to those actively seeking employment and even more commonly, those open minded to their career.

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  • By offering a fully consultative service to our clients, we strive to provide a tailored, realistic approach to actuarial recruitment.

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  • A multidisciplinary approach will be taken in order to consider all aspects of urinary and bowel continence needs of clients.

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  • The Tories ' approach toward Ireland symbolized the continuity between their reactionary domestic policies and their reactionary foreign policy.

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  • Try to approach the subject like you would if you were discussing contraception - with honesty and without fear!

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  • The modern approach is to determine the settings of the PID controller based upon a model of the process.

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  • The approach he advocates could have been enormously helpful to women who were wrongly convicted of killing their dead children.

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  • These recipes possess an innovative and accessible approach to vegetarian cookery.

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  • I approach the business end cautiously, keen to photograph the parasitic copepod that is found on each shark's eye.

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  • This guidance often formed an important cornerstone of a school's approach.

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  • It seems to us that the logical corollary of that approach was to take no action on existing stocks of such products.

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  • Access is further complicated by a hanging serac and ice couloir that regularly spew rock and ice down the approach slopes.

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  • While it sounds counterintuitive, we have found the " use, build, design " approach to be highly effective.

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  • On the way Double-banded coursers hurried away anxiously from our approach only to stop again suddenly to look back at us.

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  • We therefore propose that the GEM approach be applied to adaptation of hidden Markov models which use non-diagonal covariances.

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  • This approach to quality allows us to produce an exceptionally fresh product with a very crispy taste.

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  • Or you can both approach the same location from different directions, laying down a deadly crossfire to quickly take out the enemy.

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  • The stripped down approach seemed to go down well with the packed crowd as the band performed classic after classic.

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  • This approach has been proven to be highly resistant against many attacks such as differential and linear cryptanalysis.

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  • Extension of the direct methods approach to structure solving by X-ray or electron crystallography based on the principle of maximum entropy.

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  • The following specification difference-in-difference-in-difference DDD alliance company health insurance life approach of the number states may require.

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  • This is the only approach which can provide solutions for the urgent problem of the birth dearth.

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  • This work introduces a novel approach to decoding for segment models in the form of a stack decoder with A * search.

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  • Take, for example, our approach to ballistic missile defense.

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  • This approach might be thought to be perhaps both overly dismissive of the Human Rights Commission and overly deferential to the Strasbourg Court.

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  • This approach permitted the simultaneous evaluation of ploidy changes and chromosome arm deletions.

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  • We also believe that ACORN will prove to offer a portable, cost-effective approach to managing such electronic delivery in the future.

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  • The program of the communists in Germany is informed by this profoundly democratic approach.

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  • The approach is based on qualitative deviation models for the automatic derivation of on-board diagnostics based on decision trees.

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  • However, a recent approach is to use a cultured human dermis to improve healing.

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  • Security guards also prevented detainees from accessing the center's exercise yard and didn't even allow them to approach the windows.

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  • Further, we introduce a flexible approach to resolving non- determinism which gives this translation a practical advantage.

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  • Funding Funding should be shared by Central Government, commerce and industry to facilitate the development of a common approach.

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  • Project Spectrum Project Spectrum offers an alternative approach to assessment and curriculum development for the preschool and early primary years.

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  • The simplest approach to this is to calculate the standard deviation.

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  • We are currently engaged upon the application of the CLF approach to magnetic circular dichroism.

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  • That approach has some support in the case-law [20 ], although there are conflicting dicta.

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  • Now married, Alex St Clair felt increasingly uncomfortable as Beefheart's approach grew ever more dictatorial.

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  • In this approach we use differential calculus and differential geometry both to filter and analyze multi-dimensional images.

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  • Conceptual models for such a systemic approach have been developed using signed digraph and cybernetic feedback formalisms.

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  • A key element in the module is its interdisciplinary approach, encompassing the disciplines of history, archeology, literature, religion and onomastics.

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  • These methods are based on a discontinuous Galerkin approach, where the unknowns are approximated by completely discontinuous piecewise polynomials.

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  • Yet the magpie approach doesn't sound stupidly disjointed as it can in the wrong hands.

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  • Saints also recently gained a special dispensation from the Premier League to approach players on the Channel Islands.

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  • Because more than 90% of scapula fractures are minimally displaced, this noninvasive approach is effective for most.

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  • A more practical approach for combining wine with food is to avoid any possible dissonance between them.

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  • By taking a multi-disciplinary approach to post-operative hyponatraemia the adverse effects of this metabolic disturbance could be avoided.

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  • This consistent approach aims to reveal the divergence in their processes.

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  • But many questions still remain - What approach is best to achieve landfill diversion targets?

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  • But if you make that your general approach, it is extremely divisive.

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  • I also visited the dojo of Sensei Kase; I much admired his approach to teaching Kata (form ).

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  • Whatever your approach, your aim should always be to try to help the dreamer to understand their dream.

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  • She says that her approach, on being ignored, was to take a drumstick from him and bang his drum with it.

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  • Mimi's accomplished guitar picking effortlessly entwined with Richard's revolutionary approach to mountain dulcimer playing.

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  • As you approach duns You need to turn left heading for Longformacus.

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  • The intentional approach allows the system to simulate more closely the dynamics of a human encounter, such as the communication of emotion.

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  • Third, this approach will introduce greater dynamism into allocations.

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  • We fully acknowledge that the traditional treatment of osteofibrous dysplasia has been a conservative approach.

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  • A union with Christ approach is also more likely to come with a high ecclesiology.

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