Preliminary Sentence Examples

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  • That event was so important it requires some preliminary explanation.

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  • All the other preliminary examinations were conducted in the same manner.

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  • Perhaps it is even indispensable as a preliminary statement.

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  • The preliminary, or classical examination, is usually that of university matriculation, or its equivalent.

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  • Several preliminary incursions had been already made, when in 1521 an opportunity presented itself for a more extended expedition.

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  • The preliminary preparation for research of any value becomes yearly more exacting.

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  • Descartes's preliminary statement of the argument in somewhat popular form brings it very near the lines of the cosmological proof.

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  • After some preliminary manoeuvres the two armies drew up face to face on the left bank of the Roneo, the Spanish left and the French right resting on this river.

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  • He even details the rules to be observed for the lending and care of the books, and he had already taken the preliminary steps for the foundation.

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  • This description, although not absolutely comprehensive, serves as a convenient starting-point for a preliminary classification, since a great number of substances, including the most important, are directly referable to hydrocarbons, being formed by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by other atoms or groups.

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  • After a preliminary examination of all possible different attempts at a solution of the problem of evil, the attempt is here made to represent the devil as an instrument of God.

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  • It is with Aristotle that the bookish tradition begins to dominate the evolution of logic. The technical perfection of the analysis which he offers is, granted the circle of presuppositions within which it works, so decisive, that what precedes, even Plato's logic, is not unnaturally regarded as merely preliminary and subsidiary to it.

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  • This is an indispensable preliminary.

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  • The necessary preliminary for this is the possession of the Christian consciousness.

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  • There were long preliminary disputes.

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  • These laws vary greatly in their details from state to state, but they all aim at enabling the voters to exercise a free and unfettered voice in the selection of their candidates, and they have created a regular system of elections of candidates preliminary to the election of office-holders from among the candidates.

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  • Wilkinson's preliminary discourses to these translations and his criticisms of Coleridge's comments upon Swedenborg displayed a striking aptitude not only for mystical.

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  • One, however, the Categories, may be regarded with an ancient commentator, 10 as preliminary to the dialectical inquiry in the Topics.

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  • Sumner thus stepped from the lecture platform to the Senate, with no preliminary training.

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  • The diet of Regensburg, under the mediation of Maximilian of Bavaria, decided in favor of peace with France, and on the25th of December 1641 the preliminary settlement at Hamburg fixed the opening of negotiations to take place at Munster and Osnabruck.

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  • Melatonin Years ago, a preliminary study suggested that melatonin Years ago, a preliminary study suggested that melatonin may help stabilize the condition of some people with advanced cancers.

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  • As a preliminary to most subsequent processes the removal of the whole or some portion of this gum is necessary by boiling-off, scouring or decreusage.

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  • They constituted themselves a preliminary parliament (Vorparlament), and at once began to provide for the election of a national assembly.

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  • A considerable party wished that the preliminary parliament should continue to act until the assembly should be formed, but this was overruled, the majority contenting themselves with the appointment of a committee of 50, whose duty it should be in the interval to guard the national interests.

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  • Some of those who were discontented with this decision retired from the preliminary parliament, and a few of them, of republican sympathies, called the population of Upper Baden to arms. The rising was put down by the troops of Baden, but it did considerable injury by awakening the fears of the more moderate portion of the community.

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  • By the preliminary treaty of peace signed at Nikolsburg on the 26th of July the great objects for which Prussia had fought were fully secured.

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  • The verdict of the court, was a serious rebuff for the government; after a preliminary investigation of nine months, and a public trial of a fortnight, the major charges against the prisoners were dismissed, and six of them were condemned only to short terms of imprisonment for conspiracy.

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  • Rolle then entered on the contemplative life, passing through the preliminary stages of purification and illumination, which lasted for nearly three years, and then entering the stage of sight, the full revelation of the divine vision.

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  • The indispensable preliminary to a really historic view of these writings is some solution of the problem of their mutual relations.

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  • The Corwin or "Witch" house, so called from a tradition that Jonathan Corwin, one of the judges in the witchcraft trials, held preliminary examinations of witches here, is said to have been the property of Roger Williams. The Pickering house, built before 1660, was the homestead of Timothy Pickering and of other members of that family.

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  • But here, too, the preliminary classification of the documents is beset with doubt.

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  • After careful study and a preliminary examination of the land, a scheme was passed which has given satisfaction to the landowning community, and which distributes the tax equitably in proportion to the fertility of the soil.

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  • This was observed by British officers, from the time of the preliminary operations about Kosha and at the action near Ginnis in December 1885 down to the brilliant operations in the pursuit of the Mahdists on the Blue Nile after the action of Gedaref (subsequent to the battle of Omdurman), and the fighting in Kordofan in 1899, which resulted in the death of the khalifa and his amirs.

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  • However carefully the preliminary rites of embalmment and burial might have been performed, however sumptuous the tomb wherein the dead man reposed, he was never- The soul.

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  • On the 24th of October of that year he concluded a preliminary convention by which an Ottoman and a British high commissioner, acting in concert with the khedive, should reorganize the Egyptian army, tranquillize the Sudan by pacific means, and consider what changes might be necessary in the civil administration.

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  • The remaining stipulations of the preliminary convention were duly carried out.

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  • Technically, therefore, the preliminary convention still remains in force, and in reality the Ottoman commissioner continued to reside in Cairo till the close of 1908.

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  • Some preliminary Irrangements were made and on the 14th of, Tune the government sanctioned certain measures of preparation at Suakin.

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  • After a preliminary reconnaissance to the north, which afterwards turned out to be vitally important, the summer of 1895 was spent in exploring the coast to the north-west by a boating expedition.

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  • Less abundant, but still sufficient to prove the artist's intention, are the preliminary studies to a picture of the Crucifixion.

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  • It was separated from the English Department, and undertook the inspection of higher class schools (public, endowed and voluntary), and two years later instituted a leaving certificate examination, the pass of which is accepted for most of the university and professional authorities in lieu of their preliminary examinations.

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  • The process adopted for the Canadian ores, which are poor in copper and nickel, consists in a preliminary roasting in heaps and smelting in a blast furnace in order to obtain a matte, which is then further smelted with a siliceous flux for a rich matte.

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  • If they are realized, the work of the scientist falls entirely within the field of the processes preliminary to the satisfaction of the canon.

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  • Martin Koszta, a Hungarian revolutionist of 1848, had emigrated to the United States and had there taken the preliminary step for naturalization by formally declaring his intention to become a citizen of the United States.

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  • In the same year a convention was concluded by Servia and Bulgaria as a preliminary to a customs union between the two states.

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  • He aimed at finding out the cause as well as the mode of the planetary revolutions; and his demonstration that the planes in which they are described all pass through the sun was an important preliminary to a physical explanation of them.

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  • Hence, the preparation of a catalogue recording the " mean " positions of a number of stars for a given epoch involves considerable preliminary labour; nor do those positions long continue to satisfy observation.

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  • Its scope, wide as the universe, can be compassed no otherwise than bystatistical means p and the collection of materials for this purpose involves most arduous preliminary labour.

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  • Euler conceived the idea of starting with a preliminary solution of the problem in which the orbit of the moon should be supposed to lie in the ecliptic, and to have no eccentricity, while that of the sun was circular.

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  • But even so, the Balkan League would never have sprung into being but for Venizelos' higher vision, and his supreme courage in consenting to an alliance with Bulgaria, without a preliminary agreement as to the division of the Turkish spoils in case of victory.

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  • In 1848 he actively supported Martin van Buren, the Free Soil candidate, for the presidency, and in 1852 he supported Franklin Pierce, but soon afterwards helped to organize the new Republican party, and presided at its preliminary convention at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in February 1856.

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  • The technical investigation of the literary problems (especially the extent of the earlier sources) is a work of great complexity, and, for ordinary purposes, it is more important to obtain a preliminary appreciation of the general features of the contents of Genesis.

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  • There are, therefore, many preliminary points which combine to show that the critical student cannot isolate the book from Oriental life and thought; its uniqueness lies in the manner in which the material has been shaped and the use to which it has been put.

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  • He claimed to lay down the law everywhere, in the preliminary negotiations between his ambassador and the Spanish ambassador in London, in the affair of the salute exacted from French vessels by the English, and in that of the Corsican guard in Rome; while he proposed to become the head of the crusade against the Turks in the Mediterranean as in Hungary.

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  • After having separated the Piedmontese from the Austrians, whom he drove back into Tyrol, and repulsed offensive reprisals of Wurmser and Alvinzi on four occasions, he stopped short at the preliminary negotiations of Loben just at the moment when the Directory, discouraged by the problem of Italian reconstitution, was preparing the army of the Rhine to re-enter the field under the command of Hoche.

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  • After the loss of Spain, ff15 reconquered by Wellington, the rising in Holland preliminary to the invasion and the manifesto of Frankfort which proclaimed it, he had to fall back upon the frontiers of 1795; and then later was driven yet farther back upon.

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  • It is a mere abstract or statement of the Peripatetic systems, and was made preliminary to that Destruction of which we have already spoken.

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  • In the preliminary treaty with Great Britain he ceded the Spanish colony of Trinidad without even consulting the court of Madrid, while he sold Louisiana to the United States in spite of his promire not to alienate it except to Spain.

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  • As a preliminary to negotiation, the government was required to rescind all the obnoxious measures.

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  • It involved a preliminary appearance at the bar of the house.

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  • He had to carry on the negotiations with the French preliminary to the surrender of Paris, and to enforce upon them the German terms of peace.

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  • But the incident was evidently unknown to the author of chap. xv., and in this subordination of the history of Saul to that of David, in the reshaping of writings by specifically Judaean hands, we have a preliminary clue to the literary growth of the book.

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  • This preliminary purification is of the greatest importance, especially for the preparation of edible oils and fats.

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  • The comminuted mass, forming a more or less coarse meal, is either expressed in this state or subjected to a preliminary heating, according to the quality of the product to be manufactured.

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  • In order to dispense even with the charging of the presses by hand, in some systems the cages are first charged in a preliminary press, from which they are transferred mechanically by a swinging arrangement into the final press.

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  • If care be exercised in the process of rendering animal oils and fats or expressing oils in the cold, the products are, as a rule, sufficiently pure to be delivered to the consumer, after a preliminary settling has allowed any mucilaginous matter, such as animal or vegetable fibres or other impurities, and also traces of moisture, to separate out.

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  • Where this process does not suffice, as in the case of coco-nut oil or palm kernel oil, a preliminary purification in a current of steam must be resorted to before the final purification, described above, is carried out.

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  • Catechetical instruction was designed as a preliminary to baptism.

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  • This preliminary announcement was approved by the board on 1 April 2005.

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  • Assessment will be by means of the production of a detailed research proposal accompanied by preliminary bibliography.

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  • The resulting preliminary biotope and sub-biotope groups of records were then checked to ensure cohesion of both the environmental and species data.

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  • Preliminary laboratory studies in animals 87 and humans 88 89 90 suggest that acupuncture may help regulate blood pressure.

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  • Preliminary results from clinical trials showed positive effects of sea buckthorn on blood counts.

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  • Preliminary reports suggest that child combatants have been used extensively during the current conflict.

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  • This plant was recommended for a preliminary commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee.

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  • In a preliminary trial, chlorophyll supplementation eased chronic constipation in elderly people.

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  • Open access publishing - Ben Toth has had preliminary discussions about establishing an NHS-wide research document depository.

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  • These are just preliminary thoughts rather disjointed to provoke the process of reflection.

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  • Acknowledgements Frank van Harmelen provided many insightful comments on a preliminary draft of this paper.

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  • Energy minister Mr Tim Eggar gave the revised estimates in Parliament and made it clear these estimates were still very preliminary.

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  • Following on from the success of these tests, further performance tests and preliminary field trials are proposed for phase two of the study.

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  • In writing up their preliminary findings, the national research coordinators chose to emphasize different aspects of their projects.

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  • The previous day on a preliminary walk to see where we might go I found blue fleabane and tomato.

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  • The first stage (which is the one indispensable preliminary to counseling) he calls 'free floating ' .

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  • Verify the results of the preliminary study by repeating some experiments in a larger flume.

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  • It looks forward to being able to provide a further update when the Group announces preliminary results on 1 December 2004.

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  • Our preliminary results indicate that cortical cells may be responding to temporal cues in flickering or moving gratings.

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  • Her executors presented her papers to Cambridge University Library, and a preliminary handlist of them has now been prepared.

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  • The Tribunal will give further details at the preliminary hearing.

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  • Of the preliminary one couple brought and included an editorial heavyweights rich.

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  • Original, also preliminary, theoretical ideas or experimental studies and propositions of new heuristics when they support or point toward theoretically grounded principles.

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  • In this preliminary study, paraffin-embedded tumor samples of uncertain histogenesis from seven patients were then analyzed.

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  • The King's preliminary challenge, on the grounds of sovereign immunity, was upheld.

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  • I can only give a few preliminary indications, which are appended below, as a postscript.

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  • Preliminary results indicated a high remission induction rate with the human CD52 antibody, CAMPATH-1H.

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  • In cases of urgency, preliminary injunctions may be obtained.

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  • Some preliminary evidence suggests that vitamin E might help people with discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE ).

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  • The Council's preliminary decision was voted through in late December by a qualified majority.

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  • Moreover, some popular funds have created village banks to grant small loans to the poorest women who can not mobilize preliminary savings.

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  • Breach of the implied obligation 65 Two preliminary observations must be made.

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  • In a preliminary trial, women who did not ovulate were treated with acupuncture 30 times over three months.

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  • Preliminary data indicate that stress can increase lithium pilocarpine toxicity in rats.

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  • Why is the preliminary 1 test defined as " Scales of Training " and how does it differ from other prelim tests?

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  • We intend to start as soon as possible, and some very preliminary work has already begun in London.

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  • It said the views were indeed only preliminary, only provisional.

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  • They are not preliminary studies for sculpture but related explorations freed from many of the laws of physics that a sculptor must obey.

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  • We shall therefore confine ourselves to what, in the main, may be regarded as preliminary.

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  • We then undertake preliminary Risk Assessment on the application, and if you pass this, your check is banked for clearance.

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  • Preliminary evidence suggests increased activity of a broad spectrum cysteine protease.

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  • Several members of the expedition made a preliminary reconnaissance in ordinary clothes.

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  • The preliminary results of this work have been presented at the European Geophysical Union Conference in May 2002.

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  • Checklists are a useful preliminary tool for expert assessment Full evaluation ultimately required road tests.

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  • We respectfully request the Court of Justice to give consideration to the acceleration of its preliminary ruling in this case.

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  • After a few preliminary skirmishes, she had lost patience and reacted.

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  • However, eliminating solanine from the diet has been reported to bring relief to some arthritis sufferers in preliminary research.

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  • In his view, not enough preliminary spadework is carried out before pen is put to paper.

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  • A preliminary list of the avifauna gives 224 species including 42 endemics, 75% of the endemic species of the Central Highlands.

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  • Soccer Saturday kicks off the event and the preliminary rounds of an exciting 7-a-side knockout tournament.

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  • The case was listed for a preliminary trial on liability issues.

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  • Preliminary hitherto undocumented experimental results have already been obtained.

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  • This seminar presents preliminary steps toward providing flexible credential verification, security management and access control in ad-hoc networks.

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  • A reanalysis of the Mariner data provides some preliminary evidence of recent volcanism on Mercury.

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  • Wavelet methods make this possible and good preliminary results have already been achieved using harmonic wavelet methods make this possible and good preliminary results have already been achieved using harmonic wavelets (Newland & Butler, 1998 ).

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  • A preliminary, double-blind trial found that yucca might reduce symptoms of OA.

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  • These doctrines of Lotze - though pronounced with the distinct and reiterated reserve that they did not contain a solution of the philosophical question regarding the nature, origin, or deeper meaning of this all-pervading mechanism, neither an explanation how the action of external things on each other takes place nor yet of the relation of mind and body, that they were merely a preliminary formula of practical scientific value, itself requiring a deeper interpretation - these doctrines were nevertheless by many considered to be the last word of the philosopher who, denouncing the reveries of Schelling or the idealistic theories of Hegel, established the science of life and mind on the same basis as that of material things.

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  • Propositions I-II are preliminary, 13-20 contain tangential properties of the curve now known as the spiral of Archimedes, and 21-28 show how to express the area included between any portion of the curve and the radii vectores to its extremities.

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  • The first (a mechanical proof) begins, after some preliminary propositions on the parabola, in Prop. 6, ending with an integration in Prop. 16.

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  • At the Heidelberg meeting and the preliminary convention (Vorparlament) of Frankfort he deeply impressed the assemblies with the breadth and moderation of his views; with the result that when the German national parliament met (May 18), he was elected its first president.

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  • As during his father's lifetime Maximilian had favoured the reforming party among the princes, proposals for the better government of the empire were brought forward at Worms as a necessary preliminary to financial and military support.

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  • That method, however, implied a careful study and comprehension of the results which accrued to man from reason and revelation, and a thorough grasp of all that had been done by man in relation to those two sources of human knowledge; and so, in his preliminary writings, Thomas proceeds to master the two provinces.

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  • In the south of France it is rather popular with artisans, who, however, are content to pursue it on any flat surface and use round instead of biased bowls, the bowler, moreover, indulging in a preliminary run before delivering the bowl, after the fashion of a bowler in cricket.

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  • In all criminal prosecutions, other than those coming before the juge de pair, a secret preliminary investigation is made by an official called a juge dinstruction.

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  • Criminal appeals usually go straight to the criminal section, while civil appeals are generally taken before the Chambre des Requtes, where they undergo a preliminary examination.

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  • His thesis on that occasion was devoted to a question in organic chemistry, for he held the opinion that the study of chemistry is an indispensable preliminary to the pursuit of physics, which was his ultimate aim.

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  • Before beginning the work, he made a preliminary reconnaissance of the fortifications on the south of the town from the Valley Gate, which was near the S.E.

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  • Nevertheless he was not averse to a peace, nor to a preliminary suspension of hostilities, and negotiations were opened at Pressburg, Kassa and Beszterczebanya successively, but came to nothing because Bethlen insisted on including the Bohemians in the peace, whereupon (20th of August 1620) the estates of North Hungary elected him king.

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  • The family migrated to Italy in 1894, whilst Albert Einstein went to the Cantonschule at Aarau in Switzerland, where he passed the abiturienten examination, the indispensable preliminary to any professional career in Central Europe, two years later.

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  • The wire being paid out without slack measures the actual distance and speed over the ground, and the engineer in charge is relieved of all anxiety in estimating the depth from the scattered soundings of the preliminary survey, or in calculating the retarding strain required to produce the specified slack, since the brakesman merely has to follow the indications of the instrument and regulate the strain so as to keep the pointer at the figure required - an easy task, seeing that the ratio of speed of wire and cable is not affected by the motion of the ship, whatever be the state of the sea, whereas the will I',/ OW= o a ' 30 30 ao.

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  • Further, the preliminary survey over the proposed route, necessary for deciding the length and types of cable required, can afford merely an approximation to the depth in which the cable actually lies, since accidents of wind and weather, or lack of observations for determining the position, cause deviations, often of considerable importance, from the proposed route.

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  • It is scarcely possible from the preliminary survey, with soundings several miles apart, to obtain more than a general idea as to the average depth along the route, while the nature of the constituents of the sea bed can only be revealed by a few small specimens brought up at isolated spots, though fortunately the globigerine ooze which covers the bottom at all the greater ocean depths forms an ideal bed for the cable.

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  • Field-Marshal dAspre from seizing Mortara, a fault for which he was afterwards courtmartialled and shot, and after some preliminary fighting Radetzky won the decisive battle of Novara (March 23) which broke up the Piedmontese army.

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  • Both in Germany and Austria the visit was construed as a preliminary to the adhesion of Italy to the Austro-German alliance.

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  • But such a scheme gives at best an external preliminary description of the object to which it is applied.'

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  • In other words, the ordinary Israelite worshipper of Yahweh was at this time far removed from monotheism, and still remained in the preliminary stage of henotheism, which regarded Yahweh as sole god of Israel and Israel's land, but at the same time recognized the existence and power of the deities of other lands and peoples.

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  • Such, however, were his preliminary difficulties that he confesses he was often "tempted to cast away the labour of seven years "; and it was not until February 1776 that the first volume was published.

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  • In 1902 Congress provided for the beginning of extensive irrigation works in the arid West, and Nevada (where preliminary reconnaissances had been made in 1889-1890) was the first state to profit from this undertaking.

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  • Availing himself of the admirable generalized co-ordinate system of Lagrange, Maxwell showed how to reduce all electric and magnetic phenomena to stresses and motions of a material medium, and, as one preliminary, but excessively severe, test of the truth of his theory, he pointed out that (if the electromagnetic medium be that which is required for the explanation of the phenomena of light) the velocity of light in vacuo should xvii.

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  • The internal literary and historical questions are extremely intricate, and the necessity for some reconstruction is very generally felt (for preliminary details, see Ezra And Nehemiah).

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  • On the 25th of July the powers announced a series of reforms, including the reorganization of the gendarmerie and militia under Greek officers, as a preliminary to the eventual withdrawal of the international troops, and the extension to Crete of the system of financial control established in Greece.

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  • The protecting powers had fixed the conditions preliminary to evacuation - (i) the organization of a native gendarmerie, (2) the maintenance of the tranquillity of the island, (3) the complete security of the Mussulman population.

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  • The census-taking may have been a preliminary to the great wars, but the latter, on the other hand, are obviously presupposed by the extent of his kingdom.

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  • However, his ability was too great to be neglected by a great minister such as Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes undoubtedly was, and after a preliminary tour to Berlin at the beginning of 1786 he was despatched in July 1786 on a secret mission to the court of Prussia, from which he returned in January 1787, and of which he gave a full account in his Histoire secrete de la tour de Berlin (1789).

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  • On hearing of the king's determination to summon the statesgeneral, Mirabeau started for Provence, and offered to assist at the preliminary conference of the noblesse of his district.

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  • As a preliminary to the transit of Mercury in 1743, which he personally observed, he issued a map of the world showing the varied circumstances of its occurrence.

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  • Accordingly, a preliminary series was undertaken in 1888; more extended series were conducted in 1889 and in 1890; and the investigation was continued up to the commencement of the year 1895.

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  • After a preliminary skirmish on Sunday the 23rd, in which Bruce distinguished himself by a personal combat with Sir Henry de Bohun, whom he felled by a single blow of his axe, the battle of Bannockburn was fought on Monday the 24th; and the complete rout of the English determined the independence of Scotland and confirmed the title of Bruce.

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  • True, on the 22nd of December 1793 he was made general of brigade for his services; and in February 1794 he gained the command of the artillery in the French army about to invade Italy; but during the preliminary work of fortification along the coast he was placed under arrest for a time owing to his reconstruction of an old fort at Marseilles which had been destroyed during the Revolution.

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  • That event was so important as to require some preliminary explanation.

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  • Nevertheless Napoleon ordered the preliminary agreement to be considered as a definitive treaty, and on the 2nd of April gave instructions that one of the refractory cardinals should be carried off secretly by night from Fontainebleau, while the pontiff was to be guarded more closely than before.

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  • This preliminary treaty was signed on the 30th of November 1782.

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  • Mr. Harding's preliminary invitations to the principal naval Powers (Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy) were sent July 10, and formal invitations Aug.

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  • The abnormal specific heats of the halogen elements may be due to a loosening of the atoms, a preliminary to the dissociation into monatomic molecules which occurs at high temperatures.

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  • Wagner's first inspiration was for an opera (Siegfried's Tod, projected in 1848) on the death of Germany's mythical hero; but he found that the story needed a preliminary drama to convey its antecedents.

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  • By the treaty signed in London on the 6th of July 1827 (see Greece, History), England, France and Russia agreed to demand an armistice, as preliminary to a settlement.

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  • An indispensable preliminary was the virtual elimination of oxygen-absorption in the earth's atmosphere, and his bold project of establishing an observatory on the top of Mont Blanc was prompted by a perception of the advantages to be gained by reducing the thickness of air through which observations have to be made.

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  • Thus a civil career was open to the equites without the obligation of preliminary military service, and the emperor was freed from the pernicious influence of freedmen.

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  • Preliminary experiments have given results correct to ± 0.5 micron, and it appears probable that by further experiments, results correct to to ± 1.0ÃŽ¼ may be obtained.

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  • In 1908 the Geological Survey issued a preliminary map of the then known areas productive of oil and natural gas in the United States, estimating the extent of the former at 8850 and of the latter at 9365 sq.

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  • Some men of the Ersatz receive a short preliminary training in peace time.

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  • Before entering on this, however, he wisely took the preliminary step of settling the more important of the legal questions as to which the older jurists had been divided in opinion, and which had therefore remained sources of difficulty, a difficulty aggra 1 See, for an account of the instructions given to the commission, the constitution Haec quae, prefixed to the revised Codex in the Corpus juris civilis.

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  • The orgies or mysteries were open to all, freemen or slaves, who had duly performed the preliminary purifications, and secured to the participants salvation and remission of sins.

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  • The relationship between the Pahlavi and the Aramaic is clearest in the records written in the " Chaldaeo-Pahlavi " characters; the a conclusion which is not invalidated by the fact that some important modifications are found beyond this area, nor by Dr Stein's discovery of a great mass of documents in this alphabet at Khotan in Turkestan, for, according to tradition, the ancient inhabitants of Khotan were emigrants banished in the time of King Agoka from the area to which Buhler assigns this alphabet (see Stein's Preliminary Report, 1901, p. 51).

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  • Prismatic borax is found widely distributed as a natural product (see below, Mineralogy) in Tibet, and in Canada, Peru and Transylvania, while the bed of Borax Lake, near Clear Lake in California, is occupied by a large mass of crystallized borax, which is fit for use by the assayer without undergoing any preliminary purification.

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  • It seems fairly established that when the preliminary heating process of fermentation is drawing to a close, the cotton, hay, &c., having been converted into a highly porous friable and combustible mass, may then ignite in certain circumstances by the occlusion of oxygen, just as ignition is induced by finely divided metals.

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  • This is important as a preliminary stage, but philosophy properly begins when it attempts to coordinate or systematize those convictions in harmony, to conciliate apparent contradiction and opposition, as between the correlative notions of finite and infinite, the apparently conflicting notions of personality and infinitude, self and not-self; in a word, to reconcile the various sides of consciousness with each other.

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  • In spite of a general tendency to relinquish the inquisitorial method, it is still prevalent in certain countries, notably in France, where the efforts of the prosecution, especially during the preliminary investigations, are directed to extracting a confession from the accused.

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  • This was only a preliminary skirmish; the main battle opened in the following year, when the king, quite aware that he must for the future look on Thomas as his enemy, brought forward the famous Constitutions of Clarendon, of which the main purport was to assert the jurisdiction of the state over clerical offenders by a rather complicated procedure, while other clauses provided that appeals to Rome must not be made without the kings leave, that suits about land or the presentation to benefices, in which clerics were concerned, should be tried before the royal courts, and that bishops should not quit the realmunless they had obtained permission to do so from the king (see CLARENDON, CONSTITUTIONS OF).

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  • He thus caught a preliminary glimpse of the " Fraunhofer lines," so called because ofer Joseph Fraunhofer brought them into prominent ofer notice by the diligence and insight of his labours upon them in 1814-1815.

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  • A preliminary investigation produces a list of areas ranked according to the number of occurrences.

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  • In the current preliminary study, 61 men with prostate cancer in various stages were given a shiitake mushroom extract for six months.

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  • Preliminary findings of my analyzes have been presented at recent sociolinguistics conferences.

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  • Preliminary tests in pots have indicated that garden compost, when added to soil can suppress diseases such as white rot.

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  • Preliminary meeting between trainer and delegates - the examples on the course can then be tailored to match the delegate 's background.

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  • Preliminary evidence suggests there may be some benefits of thymus therapy on T-cell function, but this needs further investigation.

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  • Wavelet methods make this possible and good preliminary results have already been achieved using harmonic wavelets (Newland & Butler, 1998).

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  • A preliminary analysis of some aspects of the results is offered, to whet reader 's appetites.

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  • Wild yam has been reported to raise HDL cholesterol in preliminary research.

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  • Interviews-While the employing family will most likely be responsible for setting up a personal interview with the nanny, the agency should have already conducted a preliminary interview before signing the nanny.

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  • In that case, adoptive parents may already know the birth parents and may have reached a preliminary agreement in regards to the adoption.

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  • You'll be glad you took care of this preliminary planning before baby arrives!

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  • Unlike the preliminary test, this test or assay will need to be sent out to a lab for further analysis.

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  • Then, the court will require that the spouses attend a Preliminary Conference.

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  • At the Preliminary Conference, the spouses must discuss the issues raised in the Verified Complaint and settle any temporary matters if possible.

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  • The temporary matters that are often addressed in the Preliminary Conference are who will continue to live in the home, who will provide daily care for any children, and who will pay which expenses.

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  • A preliminary search is conducted at no charge to confirm that you will be able to find the information you need.

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  • You'll have the satisfaction of building a piece of fine furniture without some of the preliminary work and hassle.

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  • The preliminary costs of purchasing and assembling solar panels may dissuade some people from using solar energy.

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  • Candidates had further to be fugitives (probably slaves), and as a preliminary had to break off a bough from a specified tree.

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  • In all the cases which have yet arisen in astronomy the extraneous forces are so small compared with the gravitation of the central body that the orbit is approximately an ellipse, and the preliminary computations, as well as all determinations in which a high degree of precision is not necessary, are made on the hypothesis of elliptic orbits.

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  • A preliminary distribution of 1060 natives in1509-1510was the direct precursor of the rebellion of the natives in 1511.

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  • This preliminary drama soon proved to need another to explain it, which again finally needed a short introductory drama.

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  • The Turks succeeded in surrounding Peter the Great near the Pruth, and his army was menaced with total destruction, when the Turkish commander, the grand vizier Baltaji Mahommed Pasha, was induced by the presents and entreaties of the empress Catherine to sign the preliminary treaty of the Pruth (July 21, 1711), granting terms of peace far more favourable than were justified by the situation of the Russians.

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  • The emperor was, moreover, imperfectly acquainted with the degree of preparation of his adversaries' designs, and when he dictated his preliminary orders he was still unaware of the direction that the allies' advance would assume.

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  • By the treaty signed in London on the 6th of July 1827, England, France and Russia agreed to demand an armistice, as preliminary to a settlement.

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  • The preliminary stages of all mosquitoes are passed in water, either fresh or salt, stagnant or slightly moving.

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  • The personal and preliminary revelation embodied in Vision i.

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  • The latter is an artist; those who have performed the preliminary operations are merely skilled artisans.

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  • To such a philosophy a consideration of the conditions, if any, under which progress can be conceived as ultimately real, seems a necessary preliminary, which Spencer omits.

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  • Soluble impurities which are more electro-negative than the metal under treatment must, if present, be removed by a preliminary process, and the voltage and other conditions must be so selected that none of the more electro-positive metals are co-deposited with the metal to be refined.

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  • In all cases the quartz or other vein stuff must be reduced to a very fine powder as a preliminary to further operations.

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  • At the same time any lead, calcium, barium and strontium present are precipitated as sulphates; it is therefore advantageous to remove these metals by the preliminary addition of sulphuric acid, which also serves to keep any basic iron salts in solution.

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  • The leaching is generally carried out with a strong, medium, and with a weak liquor, in the order given; sometimes there is a preliminary leaching with a weak liquor.

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  • The alloy, after the preliminary refining, is granulated by being poured, while molten, in a thin stream into cold water which is kept well agitated.

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  • Meanwhile a third panic broke out which delayed the preliminary movements and it was now growing dark in the ravine.

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  • Sulphuretted ores are smelted, either with or without a preliminary calcination, with metallic iron; calcined ores may be smelted with carbon (coal).

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  • The capture of these defences, which would afford observation over the greater part of the main Hindenburg line proper, was of course an essential preliminary to any operation against the latter.

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  • The preliminary bombardment commenced at 10 P.M.

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  • Three prayers, accompanying the Pax and preliminary to communion.

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  • The ceremony was of a preliminary nature, securing that the fief would not be alienated; but the vassal had to take the oath of fealty, and to be formally invested, when he reached his majority.

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  • Greater depths These preliminary trips of scientific marine investigation were than those usually sounded by a hand-line may possibly not have followed by the greatest purely scientific expedition ever underbeen beyond the reach of the earlier navigators, for Strabo taken, the voyage of H.M.S.

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  • The opening and laying out, or, as it is generally called, "winning," of new collieries is rarely Prelimin- undertaken without a ary trial preliminary examination of coal= of the character of the workings.

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  • As a preliminary to examining further into the nature of molecular motion and the differences of character of this motion, let us try to picture the state of things which would exist in a mass of solid matter in which all the molecules are imagined to be at rest relatively to one another.

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  • The preliminary treaty was signed by the commissioners on the 30th of November 1782, the final treaty on the 3rd of September 1783.

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  • After a visit to his uncle, the archbishop of Reims, he returned to St Sulpice to finish his preliminary training for the church, but in his spare time he read the works of Montesquieu, Voltaire, and other writers who were beginning to undermine the authority of the ancien regime, both in church and state.

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  • A little more than twelve months later, a coup d'etat placed the tsesarevna Elizabeth on the throne (December 6, 1741), and Ivan and his family were imprisoned in the fortress of Diinamtinde (Ust Dvinsk) (December 1 3, 1742) after a preliminary detention a Riga, from whence the new empress had at first decided to send them home to Brunswick.

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  • Not until 11 was it possible to open fire, for want of a visible target, but about noon, after a preliminary cannonade, Gustavus gave the word to advance.

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  • In his blind eagerness *for peace he conducted on his own responsibility secret negotiations for peace with France through Viri, the Sardinian minister, and the preliminary treaty was signed on the 3rd of November at Fontainebleau.

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  • After the preliminary period of conquest the whole of the Spanish possessions were divided into the two "kingdoms" of New Spain, - consisting of Venezuela and the Spanish possessions north of the isthmus - and of New Castile, a title soon changed to Peru, which included the Central American isthmus and all of South America except Venezuela and Brazil.

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  • The precipitate, being difficult to wash, is (after a preliminary washing) re-dissolved in hydrochloric acid and re-precipitated with ammonia.

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  • In 1292 a synod was held here, and in 1474 an imperial diet, preliminary to that of Vienna, in which the concordat was decided which has therefore been sometimes called the Aschaffenburg Concordat.

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  • To this army must be added the controlling agency, of at least a tenth of the above number, charged with the instruction of their subordinates, the inspection and correction of the preliminary record, and the transmission of the schedule books to the local centre after the census has been taken.

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  • By means of a well-organized chain of tabulating centres, the preliminary totals, by sexes, of the 294 millions enumerated in 1901 were given to the public within a fortnight of the census, and differed from the final results by no more than 94,000, or 03%.

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  • The results of this census were tabulated with care and skill, and a preliminary analysis gave the salient results and in some cases compared them with European figures.

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  • Miller, were presented to the Royal Society in 1863, in a preliminary note on the "Lines of some of the fixed stars."

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  • As regards the " Declaration of Faith, Church Order and Discipline " adopted in 1833, and still printed in the official Year Book " for general information " as to " what is commonly believed " by members of the Union, what is characteristic is the attitude taken in the preliminary notes to " creeds and articles of religion."

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  • The split broke up the rule of the "regency," Marcy accepting the " Hunker " support and a seat in Polk's cabinet, while Wright, Butler and Van Buren joined the " Barnburners," a step preliminary to Van Buren's acceptance of the " Free Soil " nomination for president in the campaign of 1848.

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  • As a preliminary to the investigation of the modes of vibration of certain sources of sound we shall consider the formation of " stationary waves."

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  • President Kruger, however, soon brushed these propositions aside, and responded by stating that, in consideration of the common enemy and the dangers which threatened the Republic, an offensive and defensive alliance must be preliminary to any closer union.

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  • The brilliant way in which he sustained his preliminary examination won him the friendship of the examiner, Bishop Jasper Brokman, at whose palace he first met Frederick III.

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  • The German National Union (Nationalverband) agreed to extend temporary hospitality to the Italian university in Vienna, but the Southern Slav Hochschule Club demanded a guarantee that a later transfer to the coast provinces should not be contemplated, together with the simultaneous foundation of Slovene professorial chairs in Prague and Cracow, and preliminary steps towards the foundation of a Southern Slav university in Laibach.

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  • In 1905 the government started preliminary surveys for a system of irrigation.

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  • But this was only a preliminary to the success attending his development of the iron and steel industries at Pittsburg.

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  • The formal siege of the Perches redoubts had now been decided upon, and as an essential preliminary to further operations, Danjoutin, now isolated, was stormed by the Landwehr on the night of the 7th-8th January.

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  • After a three weeks' carnival of blood and debauchery Razin quitted Astrakhan with two hundred barges full of troops to establish the Cossack republic along the whole length of the Volga, as a preliminary step towards advancing against Moscow.

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  • As butter is consumed in the raw state, a trustworthy preliminary treatment of the cream is in the highest degree desirable.

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  • These theorems may prove useful in preliminary calculations where the pressure-curve is nearly straight; but, in the absence of any observable law, the area of the pressure-curve must be read off by a planimeter, or calculated by Simpson's rule, as an indicator diagram.

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  • As a preliminary step to the determination of the pressure in the bore of a gun, it is desirable to measure the pressure obtained by exploding a charge of powder in a closed vessel, varying the weight of the charge and thereby the density of the powder-gas.

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  • Meanwhile, at Oxford a proposal practically making Greek optional with all undergraduates was rejected, in November 1902, by 189 votes to 166; a preliminary proposal permitting students of mathematics or natural science to offer one or more modern languages in lieu of Greek was passed by 164 to 162 in February 1904, but on the 29th of November the draft of a statute to this effect was thrown out by 200 to 164.

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  • By the last decades of that century a preliminary list of these new Sacred Books had been formed and placed by the side of the Old with substantially the same attributes.

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  • Having passed his law preliminary, he was articled to a firm in Portmadoc, and in 1884 obtained his final qualifications.

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  • Congress passed a preliminary act in February 1791, and the state was formally admitted into the Union on the 1st of June 1792.

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  • Preliminary experiments have given results correct to ± 0.5 micron, and it appears probable that by further experiments, results correct to to ± 1.0μ may be obtained.

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  • All these writers attacked the problem of descent, and published preliminary phylogenies of such animals as the horse, rhinoceros and elephant, which time has proved to be of only general value and not at all comparable to the exact phylogenetic series which were being established by invertebrate palaeontologists.

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  • The pope began with some preliminary measures, permitting first the renewal of lawsuits against the Society, which had been suspended by papal authority, and which, indeed, had in no case been ever successful at Rome.

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  • The volume is provided with woodcuts and initials, the title-page and preliminary matter in the only two remaining copies (British Museum and Holkam Hall) being in the same type as the body of the book.

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  • A second issue of the same date, 1535, has the title-page and the preliminary matter in English type, and omits the words " out of Douche and Latyn "; a third issue bears the date 1536.

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  • Preliminary articles of peace, signed on the 30th of November 1782, were followed by a definitive treaty concluded on the 3rd of September 1783.

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  • Keppel, after a preliminary cruise in June, brought d'Orvilliers to action off Brest on the 27th of July.

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  • His embarrassment was relieved however by an offer from Tycho Brahe of the position of assistant in his observatory near Prague, which, after a preliminary visit of four months, he accepted.

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  • A preliminary study of optics led to the publication, in 1604, of his Astronomiae pars optica, containing important discoveries in the theory of vision, and a notable approximation towards the true law of refraction.

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  • A bill to enable the people of Missouri to form a state government preliminary to admission into the Union came before the House of Representatives in Committee of the Whole, on the 13th of February 1819.

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  • Immediately after the completion of federation a serious agitation for repeal of the union arose in Nova Scotia, which had been brought into the federal system by a vote of the existing legislature, without any direct preliminary appeal to the people.

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  • To this list should also be added the Oxford and Cambridge preliminary examination for candidates for holy orders, with which he was from the first most closely identified.

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  • The emperors of Russia and Austria were still far away at the time of Napoleon's second abdication, and it was with Wellington that the commissioners of the provisional government opened negotiations preliminary to the surrender of Paris.

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  • The Hague Conference of 1907, owing to difficulties which occurred in the course of the preliminary negotiations for the conference, did not deal with the subject.

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  • His treatise De natura novi orbis libri duo (Salamanca, 1588-1589) may be regarded as the preliminary draft of his celebrated Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Seville, 1590) which was speedily translated into Italian (1596), French (1597), Dutch (1598), German (1601), Latin (1602) and English (1604).

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  • It was in the 14th century more especially that the Apostolic Chamber spread the net of its fiscal administration wider and wider over Christian Europe; but at the close of the 13th century all the preliminary measures had been taken to procure for the papal treasury its enormous and permanent resources.

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  • This procedure is useful as a preliminary step in the study of the subject.

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  • Chalcedon was repudiated afresh, union with the Jacobites instituted, use of water and leaven in the Eucharist condemned, the five days' preliminary fast before Lent restored, Saturday as well as Sunday made a day of feasting and synaxis, any but the orthodox excluded from the Maundy Thursday Communion, the first communion of the new catechumens; union of the Baptismal and Christmas feasts was restored, and the faithful forbidden to fast on Fridays from Easter until Pentecost.

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  • This time there was no preliminary bombardment but aircraft were cooperating.

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  • Formerly it was used for the preparation of the metal, but the inaccessibility of its source, and the fact that it is not sufficiently pure to be employed without some preliminary treatment, caused it to be abandoned in favour of other salts.

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  • A check or arrest of growth in the vegetative organs seems to be a necessary preliminary to the development of the flower.

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  • The trial was merely a preliminary to condemnation.

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  • As a preliminary step William aimed at a centralization of the powers of government in the United Provinces in his own person.

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  • But if the silicon of the pig iron is removed by a preliminary treatment in the Bessemer converter, then its presence in the pig iron is harmless as regards the open-hearth process.

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  • Looking at the duplex process in another way, the preliminary desilicidizing in the Bessemer converter should certainly be an advantage; but whether it is more profitable to give this treatment in the converter than in the mixer remains to be seen.

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  • Gradually, however, the archonship lost its power, especially in judicial matters, until it retained merely the right of holding the preliminary investigation and the formal direction of the popular courts.

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  • The successful candidate had to take an oath to the people (that he would not take bribes, &c.) and to go through certain preliminary rites.

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  • Potassium bisulphate is useful in the preliminary treatment of refractory aluminous ores.

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  • He is the head of the army and has the exclusive right of dissolving the chambers as preliminary to an appeal to the country.

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  • On the outbreak of the Texan War of Liberation Goliad was garrisoned by a small force of Mexicans, who surrendered to the Texans in October 1835, and on the 10th of December a preliminary "declaration of independence" was published here, antedating by several months the official Declaration issued at Old Washington, Texas, on the 2nd of March 1836.

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  • The Greek Church, represented by the patriarch of Constantinople, and the Russian Church, represented by the Holy Synod, also canonize their saints after a preliminary examination of their titles to public cultus.

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  • With public opinion thus ripened by alternate defeat and victory, President Lincoln, on the 22nd of September 1862, issued his preliminary proclamation of emancipation, giving notice that on the 1st of January 1863, "all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward and for ever free."

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  • The preliminary examination is conducted by a judge, who does not sit on the bench at the trial.

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  • The preliminary negotiations for peace were begun at Hamburg and Cologne before the death of the emperor Ferdinand Il.

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  • In October, after a preliminary meeting between Metternich and Hardenberg, in the course of which the latter signed a convention pledging Prussia to Austrias system, a meeting of German ministers was held at Carlsbad, the discussion of which issued in the famous Carlsbad Decrees (October 17, 1819).

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  • Throughout three years such a dog failed to learn that the attendant's lifting it from the cage at a certain hour was the preliminary circumstance of the feedinghour; yet it did exhibit hunger, and would refuse further food when a sufficiency had been taken.

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  • Among colonial Desmidiaceae, the break-up of the filament is a preliminary to this conjugation; otherwise the process is the same.

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  • In answer to this question a recent writer, Yamanouchi, states in a preliminary communication that he has found that in Polysiphonia violacea the germinating carpospores exhibit forty chromosomes, and the germinating tetraspores twenty chromosomes.

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  • In them, working with infinite preliminary pains, as a vast number of extant drawings and studies testify, he produced what have been accounted his four capital works in painting, besides several others of minor importance.

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  • In the preliminary discussions he voted against the promulgation of the dogma.

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  • After such preliminary explorations, the French made permanent settlements, which had their origin in the missions of the Jesuits and the bartering posts of the French traders.

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  • For admission to the baccalaureate a preliminary test or " Responsions " was first required, at which the candidate had to dispute in grammar or logic with a master.

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  • At the Cambridge tripos (as described by Jebb in 1774, Remarks, &c., pp. 20-31) the first twenty-four candidates were also selected by a preliminary test; they were then divided further into " wranglers" (the disputants, par excellence) and Senior Optimes, the next twelve on the list being called the Junior Optimes.

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  • By the statutes of 1849 and 1858 an intermediate " Moderations " examination was instituted between the preliminary examination called " Responsions " and the final examination.

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  • The Board of Education holds special examinations (Preliminary Certificate examination and Certificate examination, &c.) for primary teachers.

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  • In 1857, after some unfruitful preliminary attempts, the Turkish Government agreed to the construction of a line from Scutari to Bagdad on their behalf; this was finished in 1861 and was extended to Fao by 1864, after further lengthy negotiations, when it was linked up with the cable from Karachi which had been laid meanwhile.

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  • In 1880 the Government of India took preliminary steps in the matter within its own borders; in 1881 the importation of arms and ammunition into Persia was made illegal, but with little effect.

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  • With Kant he regarded Kritik, or the critical investigation of the faculty of knowledge, as the essential preliminary to philosophy.

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  • The first step is a preliminary affirmation and unification, the second a negation and differentiation, the third a final synthesis.

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  • A study of the scholastic philosophy was then the preliminary training for a course of law, and Luther worked so hard at the prescribed studies that he had little leisure, he said, for classical learning.

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  • The preliminary hypotheses, it would seem, must be both literary and historical.

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  • But, although Protagoras and Gorgias had examined the teaching of their predecessors so far as to satisfy themselves of its futility and to draw the sceptical inference, their study of the great problem of the day was preliminary to their sophistry rather than a part of it; and, as the overthrow of philosophy was complete and the attractions of sophistry were all-powerful, the question " What is knowledge?

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  • In the United Provinces and the Punjab the ascertainment of the actual rents paid is the Pro The other necessary preliminary to the land revenue demand.

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  • Naturally sin is a necessary preliminary to this redemption, and Erigena has the greatest difficulty in accounting for the fact of sin.

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  • But he thought that inferences other than syllogism are imperfect; that analogical inference is rhetorical induction; and that induction, through the necessary preliminary of syllogism and the sole process of ascent from sense, memory and experience to the principles of science, is itself neither reasoning nor science.

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  • Lastly, Wundt's view is an interesting piece of eclecticism, for he supposes that induction begins in the form of Aristotle's inductive syllogism, S-P, S-M, M-P, and becomes an inductive method in the form of Jevons's inverse deduction, or hypothetical deduction, or analysis, M-P, S-M, S-P. In detail, he supposes that, while an " inference by comparison," which he erroneously calls an affirmative syllogism in the second figure, is preliminary to induction, a second " inference by connexion," which he erroneously calls a syllogism in the third figure with an indeterminate conclusion, is the inductive syllogism itself.

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  • Darton, " Preliminary Description of the Geology and Water Resources of the Southern Half of the Black Hills and adjoining regions in South Dakota and Wyoming," pp. 489-599 of Pt.

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  • The Porte now tried once more to modify its terms; but the Western powers were now intent on getting rid of the Russians at all costs, and as a result of the pressure they brought to bear on both parties the preliminary convention of Kutaiah, conceding all the Egyptian demands, was signed on the 8th of April, and Ibrahim began his withdrawal.

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  • Hitherto the praetor had conducted the preliminary inquiry as to whether an action would lie, and had appointed for the actual trial of the case a deputy, whom he instructed in the law applicable to the case and whose decisions he enforced.

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  • There is a preliminary chapter of chronology from Adam to John Palaeologus I.

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  • Points, lines and surfaces have no independent existence, and consequently those divisions of this chapter which relate to their motions are only preliminary to the subsequent divisions, which relate to the motions of bodies.

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  • Preliminary to the operation of pressing, the seeds are crushed and ground to a fine meal.

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  • The new king was anxious to restore the Empire to the position it had occupied under Charlemagne and Otto the Great, and saw clearly that the restoration of order in Germany was a necessary preliminary to the enforcement of the imperial rights in Italy.

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  • As there is no preliminary crushing, the presses used for extracting the juice have to be of a powerful character.

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  • The sun is sufficiently powerful to cause the evaporation of the water in the grape through the skin without any preliminary loosening of the latter by the action of the botrytis cinerea or any other micro-organism.

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  • Paxson, "A Preliminary Bibliography of Colorado History," being vol.

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  • In the preliminary collection the greatest care must be taken that the mind be absolutely free from preconceived ideas; nature is only to be conquered by obedience; man must be merely receptive.

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  • There is required in the process not merely a preliminary critical induction, but a subsequent experimental comparison, verification or proof, the canons of which can be laid down with precision.

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  • So the Encyclopedie, besides giving a eulogistic article " Baconisme," speaks of him (in d'Alembert's preliminary discourse) as " le plus grand, le plus universel, et le plus eloquent des philosophes."

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  • Here too it is essential that the preliminary underlaying be done with extreme care if good work is desired.

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  • By such preliminary labours the way was prepared for the new science of anthropology.

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  • As a result a charter was granted by the legislature in 1764, and after a few years of preliminary work at Warren (where the first degrees ever bestowed by a Baptist institution were conferred in 1769), Providence was chosen as the home of the college (1770).

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  • In the case of the latter class, however, acclimatization is a necessary preliminary to naturalization, and in many cases to useful domestication, and we have therefore to inquire whether it is possible.

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  • Owing, however, to the woody and brittle nature of the fibre, it has to undergo a preliminary treatment peculiar to itself.

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  • The uniform moistening of the fibre in this machine facilitates the subsequent operations, indeed the introduction of this preliminary process (originally by hand) constituted the first important step in the practical solution of the difficulties of jute spinning.

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  • Members of the forest service undergo a preliminary course of instruction at a school of forestry, and a further course at the Institute of Forestry, Stockholm, which dates from 1828.

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  • The expedition of 332 B.C. to the shrine of Ammon was a preliminary to this procedure, which, in 324, was sealed by his official elevation to divine rank in all the republics of Greece.

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  • In the United Kingdom the budget is placed by the executive before the whole House, without any previous examination except by the cabinet, and it is scrutinized by the House sitting as a committee; in the majority of countries, however, the budget undergoes a preliminary examination by a specially selected committee, which has the power to make drastic changes in the proposals of the executive.

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  • This recognition, the necessary preliminary to the abandonment of the Orange River Sovereignty; was made in the Sand River Convention on the 17th of January 1852.

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  • The acquisition of Bechuanaland by Great Britain was the essential preliminary to the development of the schemes which Rhodes entertained for the extension of British rule into Central Africa.

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  • The first preliminary steps were now taken for the reintroduction of the Roman Catholic religion.

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  • In the committee appointed for preliminary consultation, one section was for the immediate condemnation of the order, and declined to allow it any opportunity of defence, on the ground that it was now superfluous and simply a source of strife.

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  • The agents of the " New Christians " in Rome long contrived, by lavish bribery and with the support of many enlightened Portuguese, to delay the preliminary negotiations; but in 1536 the Holy Office was established in Lisbon, where the first auto-da fe was held in 1540, and in 1560 its operations were extended to India.

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  • The consecration of Aaron and his sons was, according to P, a necessary preliminary to the offering of sacrifice, and chap. ix.

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  • In many cases a very moderate preliminary warming of the watch-glasses makes all the difference in the behaviour of the drop.

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  • Thus the apparent increased activity of the leucocytes is due to a preliminary effect of the opsonins on the bacteria.

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  • Deer readily eat them, and, after a preliminary steeping in lime-water, pigs also.

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  • The population of Michigan in 1880 was 1,636,937; in 1890 it was 2,093,889, an increase of 27.9% within the decade; in 1900 it was 2,420,982, a further increase of 15.6% and in 1910, according to the preliminary returns of the U.S. census, it was 2,810,173.

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  • C. Baur complained, his critique of the Gospel history had not been preceded by the essential preliminary critique of the Gospels themselves.

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  • In ores containing much copper, this metal is largely concentrated in the lead button, making it hard, and necessitating repeated scorifications and, in some cases, a preliminary removal of the copper by solution of the ore in nitric acid.

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  • He was much interested, too, in universal algebra, non-Euclidean geometry and elliptic functions, his papers "Preliminary Sketch of Bi-quaternions" (1873) and "On the Canonical Form and Dissection of a Riemann's Surface" (1877) ranking as classics.

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  • According as a preliminary chloridizing roast has or has not been given, the process is classed as roast-amalgamation or raw-amalgamation.

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  • As a rule the ore is subjected to a preliminary chloridizing roast, though occasionally it may be leached raw.

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  • The reason is, that in order to depose them with some show of legality, it was necessary, as a preliminary, to convict them of heresy, and it began to be seen that their tenacity of power, and the ruses by which they evaded the necessity of abdicating, however harmful might be their consequences, did not in themselves constitute a clearly-defined heresy.

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  • The idea was to get up the initial velocity by a preliminary run on the ground.

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  • While Langley conducted his preliminary experiments in 1889, he did not construct and test his steam-driven flying models until 1893.

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  • The machine required to be dropped from a height, or a preliminary forward impetus had to be given to it, before it could be started.

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  • On the death of Theodore (13th April 1868) many Shoans, including Ras Darge, were released, and Menelek began to feel himself strong enough, after a few preliminary minor campaigns, to undertake offensive operations against the northern princes.

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  • In beginning treatment, it is well to clear the hepatic and alimentary passages by a preliminary dose of calomel combined with a secretory cholagogue, such as enonymin or iridin.

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  • Not, indeed, a preliminary criticism of our faculties or conceptions such as Kant himself proposed to institute, in order to determine the limits of their application; such a criticism ab extra of the nature of our experience is essentially a thing impossible.

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  • An intelligence from a superior sphere, bound on a voyage to the earth, might actually have obtained a fair idea of average humanity by a preliminary call at Lilliput or Brobdingnag, but not from a visit to the Yahoos.

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  • After receiving preliminary instructions in mathematics from his father, he was sent to the university of Basel, where geometry soon became his favourite study.

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  • The archbishop of Corinth girded him with a sword which had lain upon the Holy Sepulchre, and the metropolitan of Kiev absolved him from all his sins, without the usual preliminary of confession, before he rode forth to battle.

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  • He therefore insisted that England should be required not merely to pay damages for the havoc wrought by the " Alabama " and other cruisers fitted out for Confederate service in her ports, but that, for " that other damage, immense and infinite, caused by the prolongation of the war," the withdrawal of the British flag from this hemisphere could " not be abandoned as a condition or preliminary of such a settlement as is now proposed."

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  • In the (so-called) Constitutions through Hippolytus we have possibly a preliminary draft of the famous 8th book of the Apostolical Constitutions.'

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  • Livingston was again a representative in Congress during 1 Preliminary work in the preparation of a new civil code had been done by James Brown and Moreau Lislet, who in 1808 reported a "Digest of the Civil.

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  • Two consultors had the duty of separately drawing up a preliminary plan for each title, these projects being twice submitted for the deliberation of the commission (or sub-commission) of consultors, the version adopted by them being next submitted to the commission of cardinals, and the whole finally sent up for the papal sanction.

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  • During the period allotted to his preliminary studies, he read over and over again all the yearbooks, reports, and law treatises in print, and at the Tower of London and other antiquarian repositories examined and carefully studied the records from the foundation of the English monarchy down to his own time.

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  • It Is Usually Convenient To Make Out A Preliminary Table Of Multiples Up To Io Times; The Table Being Checked At 5 Times (§ Ioo) And At 10 Times.

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  • A person having a liquidated claim might either sue a debtor or proceed at his peril to seize without this preliminary.

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  • Finally they took to wintering on the coast of England or the Empire, a preliminary to actual settlement and conquest.

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  • There were a few preliminary outbreaks of rebellion, which were suppressed with vigour and punished with horrible cruelty.

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  • On the 18th of April, during the very crisis of the mutiny at Spithead, Austria had signed with Bonaparte the humiliating terms of the preliminary peace of Leoben, which six months later were embodied in the treaty of Campo Formio (October 17).

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  • The Union, then, was in his view the necessary preliminary to Catholic emancipation, which was at the same time the reward held out to the majority of the Irish people for the surrender of their national quasi-independence.

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  • But the temper of the country was by this time excited, and it was loudly demanding something more than a preliminary success.

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  • Greens Making of England and Conquest of England deal with certain portions in some detail, and Freeman gives a preliminary survey in his Norman Conquest (6 vols.).

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  • Up to 1909 only a preliminary account had been given of Tocharish, a hitherto unknown Indo-European language, which is reported to be in some respects more akin to the Western groups than to Aryan.

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  • The drum (tungur) is an important instrument in his ceremonies; it may be assumed that in many cases the effect of the preliminary performances is to induce autohypnotic phenomena.

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  • Further, the morphologists of the 'fifties appear, with few exceptions, to have accepted a preliminary scheme with regard to the Arthropod head and Arthropod segmentation generally, which was misleading and caused them to adopt forced conclusions and interpretations.

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  • What interested him chiefly, in so far as he made a study of morality, was the development of moral conduct in its preliminary stages.

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  • Prince Milan was educated in the political school favourable to Russia, and unhesitatingly followed the Russian lead up to the conclusion of the preliminary treaty of peace between Russia and Turkey at San Stefano.

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  • But the Constitutions of Clarendon (c. 9) reserved the preliminary question, of " frankalmoign " or not, for a jury in the king's court.

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  • The first is of a preliminary character, qualifying for registration as a student or apprentice; in lieu of this examination, certificates of matriculation at a university, and those of certain other educational bodies, are accepted.

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  • Notwithstanding the form of this classification, Kant himself treats mathematical geography as preliminary to, and therefore not dependent on, physical geography.

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  • On the other hand, great stress is laid on a preliminary citation of names of power followed by the word idith.

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  • By the preliminary peace of San Stefano the Slavophil aspirations seemed to be realized, but the stipulations of that peace were considerably modified by the congress of Berlin (13th June to 13th July 1878), at which the aged chancellor held nominally the post of first plenipotentiary, but left to the second plenipotentiary, Count Shuvalov, not only the task of defending Russian interests, but also the responsibility and odium for the concessions which Russia had to make to Great Britain and Austria.

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  • Preliminary research indicates that acai provides some exciting health benefits, but long-term studies have yet to prove any one miraculous benefit of acai.

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  • The University of Florida released results of a study in 2006 that presented preliminary evidence suggesting that acai can prevent some types of cancer, including inhibiting leukemia cell growth.

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  • Even the researchers at the University of Florida, who conducted one of the most often quoted acai studies, cautioned that their findings were highly preliminary.

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  • Furthermore, there are promising preliminary lab results that indicate milk thistle may be able to play a role in inhibiting the growth of certain types of cancer cells.

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  • Preliminary evidence suggests some deficiencies or imbalances in certain unsaturated fatty acids might contribute to behavioral disorders like ADHD, which can be managed with flaxseed oil supplements.

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  • Heart Disease-While the evidence is still uncertain, preliminary studies indicate ginger may lower cholesterol and inhibit blood clots.

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  • While the results of research conducted on the use of Chinese herbs in the prevention of diabetes offers promising results, it is still considered preliminary and more clinical trials still need to be completed.

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  • In fact Kristen Stewart's makeup artist, Van Phue, was required to submit preliminary artwork before the first scene was shot, and she had to work closely with the restoration artist and sculptor, Kathy Shorkey, to create the wanted look.

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  • E-mail isn't exactly a window into the soul, but it is a great way to get a preliminary feel for a person.

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  • Even after you've filled out a preliminary survey, you may still need to answer qualifying surveys to see if you fit a particular profile.

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  • If you've done some preliminary research on the Internet, write down your findings along with specific brand names and models that interest you.

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  • This new found self-assurance helps catapult beginner shutterbugs from the preliminary stages of picture-taking to the ranks of the professionals.

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  • This one decision will affect every other aspect of your preliminary research.

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  • When the balanced stance is established, you will be taught a series of preliminary skills and drills.

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  • Although you don't technically need to worry quite so young, it is important and wise to start some preliminary planning.

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  • Scientists continue to study the benefits of probiotics on the human body, but preliminary research shows that probiotics may aid digestion, reduce inflammation and bloating, and even ease symptoms of lactose intolerance and other maladies.

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  • However, doing a little preliminary work before you visit with your travel agent can help you understand just how good a deal you are receiving!

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  • Many couples opt for save the date magnets instead of formal printed cards with their preliminary wedding information.

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  • Madonna and Ritchie have now gained preliminary custody of one-year-old David.

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  • Preliminary reports state that Dr. West died of complications from surgery at Centinela Marina Hospital in Marina Del Ray, California.

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  • The preliminary report from the Los Angeles county coroner's office is revealing that Murphy died from complications from pneumonia, anemia and prescription drug toxicity.

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  • Others, however, are much more elaborated, with preliminary rounds held that encompass a variety of divisions, including formal wear, swimwear, casual wear, interviews, and sometimes even talent competitions.

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  • Brainstorm ideas and do preliminary research, so you can make a good impression.

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  • In other instances, the ideas never get off the ground because academic advisors or administrators don't approve a student's preliminary plan to follow a new course of study.

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  • Proof of the dog's vaccinations and preliminary checkups by a qualified veterinarian, according to the age of the dog or puppy you are buying.

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  • After you've done your preliminary planning, it's time to choose a shed style.

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  • While you may ultimately decide to shop in person for your gear, you might want to do some preliminary online research.

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  • Some preliminary information can be gathered over the phone, but making a personal visit yourself and/or with a loved one will provide the peace of mind that you're making the right choice.

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  • Preliminary numbers on the preorders of people who wanted to buy Wii Fit have proved successful so it stands to reason that the masses will buy Wii Fit.

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  • In other words, you may need to show grades over a certain standard, or preliminary coursework before you can be considered for the program.

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  • In preliminary studies, this acid has also shown inhibit and reduce the damage caused by colitis.

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  • This enables you to complete a preliminary application form to determine if you meet the criteria and how much money you are eligible to borrow to purchase a camper, assuming that you find a unit to purchase that has sufficient value.

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  • Preliminary evidence suggests that parents of a child with this disorder, and other carriers of the mutant gene, may have an increased risk for gout.

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  • Sometimes, before the symptoms appear, people experience preliminary symptoms, including fever, malaise, sore throat, or headache.

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  • The type of treatment chosen depends on the type of VWD and a patient's response to a preliminary treatment trial.

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  • Preliminary results are encouraging, but it will be many years before the safety and effectiveness of this therapy is fully known.

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  • At-home hair dye kits give instructions for preliminary tests, and you can ask your colorist for a similar test to see how the dye will react with your hair.

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  • This site will direct instructors to materials that develop a child's preliminary academics and also his motor skills.

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  • For preliminary investigation, however, free varieties are more than adequate and are very reliable (though not necessarily guaranteed).

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  • The frog, preliminary and bird base are just a few commonly used bases in origami.

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  • Amazon.com is a good place to start a preliminary fishnet swimsuits search.

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  • It was at this time that swimmers reverted to wearing suits that featured more fabric, at least when warming up and performing preliminary races.

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  • While of course you cannot learn how to swim online, you can get preliminary advice and view videos that can help you feel confident long before you step into the water.

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  • Thanks to You Tube, you can get good preliminary lessons in swimming long before you go anywhere near the pool.

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  • Preliminary chemical analysis suggests that kombucha enhances liver function, adding to the liver's ability to cleanse toxins from the body.

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  • Preliminary animal research on the effects of chia seeds on coronary heart disease have shown promising results as well.

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  • Whether you choose a pill, tablet, effervescent powder or liquid vitamin is up to you, although some preliminary studies indicate that effervescent powders and liquid vitamins are more readily absorbed by the body than pills and tablets.

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  • While you must do more preliminary research, you will know your ring intimately and are assured of its uniqueness, just as your relationship is as unique and timeless as a precious jewel.

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  • If the couple is using email as a preliminary notice (in place of a phone call or in-person announcement), a quick note is acceptable as well.

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  • Providing preliminary sketches or photographs of similar designs can help the jeweler decide if they can accommodate the project.

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  • Building your own engagement ring can be time-consuming and expensive, however, and couples should make preliminary decisions about metals, stones, and basic designs before consulting with jewelers.

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  • Wish lists or comparison features so couples can save preliminary choices for further consideration.

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  • They may visit several different mines to amass a large quantity of raw stones, and they may make some preliminary quality assessments based on carat size or other basic factors.

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  • There are many games online for preschoolers that can help them with letter and number recognition, early phonics skills, preliminary math skills, science and nutrition, and much more.

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  • You can even have a "preliminary" or a trial race just to make sure the young children understand.

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  • In many cases, the preliminary information is free, but if you want to participate in a more in-depth course, you'll need to spend some money.

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  • Preliminary evidence seems to point to the contrary on both counts, with increased rates for lower coverage or higher deductibles, according to the website MLive.com.

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  • These preliminary Western research results are helpful, as they affirm that everybody can benefit in some way from the positive attributes of moving the body daily and seeking a state of relaxation.

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  • A 2004 study conducted by the Division of Sleep Medicine at the Harvard Medical School shows preliminary results that daily simple yoga can help in the treatment of some insomnia.

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  • I was lead architect for ABC Company and involved in the preliminary design for the Buck Building.

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  • This is a sales tactic, and you can simply tell the salesperson you are doing some preliminary research.

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  • In addition, ask the lender to get you a preliminary quote without taking your personal information.

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  • Depending upon the age of the children who are making this craft, you may need to do some preliminary work for them.

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  • Some diets tout free trials or free preliminary offers or something similar.

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  • Once the trial period or preliminary period has passed, you will be charged.

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  • They are not price guarantees, but rather general estimates based on preliminary information gathered from the driver.

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  • Websites like eHealthInsurance can offer preliminary quotes from several private insurance companies all at once, allowing you to compare between the options to find the best coverage at the lowest price.

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  • Preliminary quotes will include information like the estimated deductible and cost for an office visit.

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  • Since so little information is needed in order to obtain a preliminary quote it is quite likely that the amount needed every month for policy premiums may be different.

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  • Once you complete your preliminary information, you will receive tentative quotes from major providers as well as providers in your state.

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  • Although she made it through preliminary rounds, Jessica was not accepted into The Mickey Mouse Club.

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  • Once you've made your preliminary plans, it's time to think about pajama party ideas.

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  • During the preliminary rounds former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff, British journalist Piers Morgan, and Ozzy Osbourne's wife, Sharon, are given the task of booting off the worst wannabe singers, dancers, magicians and comedians.

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  • Jo - also known as the Supernanny - reviews recordings of the homes and then makes a preliminary visit to get a feel for the status of the family.

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  • Not surprisingly, Boyle made it through the preliminary rounds of Britain's Got Talent and ended up in the final three performers.

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  • This shows that charges, often involving preliminary imprisonment, are brought against an excessive proportion of persons who either are not or cannot be proved to be guilty.

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  • The first class includes those substances which require no preliminary treatment, and comprises the amides and ammonium compounds, pyridines, quinolines, alkaloids, albumens and related bodies; the second class requires preliminary treatment and comprises, with few exceptions, the nitro-, nitroso-, azo-, diazoand amidoazo-compounds, hydrazines, derivatives of nitric and nitrous acids, and probably cyanogen compounds.

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  • In 1907 active preliminary work was begun on the Louisiana section of a great interstate inland waterway projected by the national government between the Mississippi and Rio Grande rivers, almost parallel to the Gulf Coast and running through the rice and truck-farm districts from the Teche to the Mermenton river (92 m.).

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  • Bayonne was then invested on both banks as a preliminary to the siege.

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  • Africa, can, however, only be enforced by special administrative machinery and at considerable expense, and this legislative action can only be regarded as temporary and preliminary to the establishment of plantations of rubber trees, which are not only easier to control, but the trees are less liable to injury from careless tapping.

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  • The second edition was enlarged by a preliminary chapter on the sources of the Gospels, and by a third section for the Son of God chapter.

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  • As a preliminary to the melting process, the "browse" left in the preceding operation (half-fused and imperfectly reduced ore) is introduced with some peat and coal, and heated with the help of the blast.

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  • Ores are smelted raw if the fall of matte (metallic sulphide) does not exceed 5%; otherwise they are subjected to a preliminary oxidizing roast to expel the sulphur, unless they run too high in silver, say 100 oz.

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  • But his assent to this was only extracted from him in 1540 by the importunities of his friends, especially of his enthusiastic disciple George Joachim Rheticus (1514-1576), who printed, in the Narratio prima (Danzig, 1540), a preliminary account of the Copernican theory, and simultaneously sent to the press at Nuremberg his master's complete exposition of it in the treatise entitled De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543).

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  • For steel which has been made redhot, suddenly cooled, and then let down to a yellow temper, the critical value of the magnetizing force is smaller than for steel which is either softer or harder; it is indeed so small that the metal contracts like nickel even under weak magnetizing forces, without undergoing any preliminary extension that can be detected.

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  • After the completion 'of their preliminary military service, the equites were eligible for a number of civil posts, chiefly those with which the emperor himself was closely concerned.

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  • When we go on to inquire what special offices the church from the beginning, or almost from the beginning, adopted and recognized, two points claim preliminary attention.

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  • He simply sets the discussion aside as too difficult for a preliminary discourse, and not strictly relevant to a purely logical inquiry.

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  • After a good deal of time spent in these preliminary and unofficial negotiations, the question of a treaty of commerce between the two countries having entered into the arena of diplomacy, Cobden was requested by the British government to act as their plenipotentiary in the matter in conjunction with Lord Cowley, their ambassador in France.

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  • He refused to take part in the preliminary parliament consisting of Soo former deputies to the diet, which met at Frankfort, on the ground that as a Czech he had no interest in German affairs.

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  • After several preliminary engagements Sherman on the 26th and 27th of June made repeated unsuccessful attempts to drive the Confederates from their defences at Kenesaw Mountain; he then resorted to a flanking movement which forced the Confederate general to retire (July 2) toward Atlanta.

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  • The new rule requires some preliminary explanation.

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  • In order to minimize the heating action of the light, it might be submitted to a preliminary prismatic analysis before it reaches the slit of the spectrometer, after the manner of Helmholtz.

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  • After completing his preliminary education in the little school at Lexington, Virginia, which later developed into Washington and Lee University, he came under the influence of the religious movement known as the "great revival" (1789-1790) and devoted himself to the study of theology.

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  • The explanation is that in an alkaline medium at body heat nitroglycerin yields a nitrite, probably as a preliminary stage of resolution.

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  • A condition of this reform was the need of a preliminary training of the mind of the pupil in pure science, even in physics and chemistry; that is to say, before introduction into his professional studies.

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  • The preliminary work on the Carolingian diplomas involved such lengthy and costly researches that the Academie des Inscriptions et BellesLettres took over the expenses after Giry's death.

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  • In such cases preliminary surveys should be made to determine the thickness of rock over the proposed workings.

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  • Vertical interval British front /ine before authorities, an almost indispensable preliminary to the undertaking of warlike operations against Constantinople and the Bosporus by fighting forces coming from the west.

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  • As a preliminary to his undertaking a serious land campaign on the shores of the Aegean, the general felt himself obliged to concentrate his forces in Egypt, and to prepare them there for the hazardous undertaking to which they were to be committed.

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  • The weather, as it turned out, was none too favourable on several of the preliminary nights, but, owing to its direction, the wind did not greatly retard the work of removal.

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  • By a proper mixing and blending the manufacturer is enabled to prepare the smoking mixture which is desirable for his purpose; but certain of the rough, bitter qualities cannot be manufactured without a preliminary treatment by which their intense disagreeable taste is modified.

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  • The events prior to the exodus are relegated by Ewald to a preliminary chapter of primitive history; and the events of the apostolic and postapostolic age are treated as a kind of appendix.

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  • The proof lies in the new Offenburg demands of the 19th of March, and in the resolution moved by Hecker in the preliminary parliament of Frankfort that Germany should be declared a republic. But neither in Baden nor Frankfort did he at any time gain his point.

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  • But as he does so, it is added to, in the way of detail and illustration, by a fresh series of revelations through an angel in the guise of a Shepherd, who in a preliminary interview announces himselt as the Angel of Repentance, sent to administer the special " repentance " which it was Hermas's mission to declare.

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  • He first undertook a preliminary inquiry into the principles upon which flight depends, and established at Allegheny a huge "whirling table," the revolving arm of which could be driven by a steamengine at any circumferential speed up to 70 m.

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  • First a preliminary record is made a short time before the night in question, of the persons ordinarily residing in each house.

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  • Now Berkeley put this whole problem in a new light by pointing out a preliminary question.

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  • One preliminary question must first be disposed of.

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  • The ustav was but a preliminary step to a still more sensational novelty.

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  • Here Henry received his preliminary education at the free school.

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  • The first 3 years are passed in the preliminary division, the next 12 in active service, and the last 5 years in the reserve.

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  • Some preliminary surveys have been made by the United States government with a view to establishing a naval station on the island Kiska, in the western part of the Aleutian Chain.

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  • After preliminary negotiations, in which Bernard was roused by Abelard's steadfastness to put forth all his strength, a council met at Sens (1141), before which Abelard, formally arraigned upon a number of heretical charges, was prepared to plead his cause.

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  • The master lost no time in proceeding to the execution of his design upon the mural surface; this time he had devised a technical method of which, after a preliminary trial in the Sala del Papa, he regarded the success as certain; the colours, whether tempera or other remains in doubt, were to be laid on a specially prepared ground, and then both colours and ground made secure upon the wall by the application of heat.

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  • This picture was at Fontainebleau in the 16th century and is known from several copies, the finest of them at the Borghese gallery, as well as from one or two preliminary sketches by the master himself and a small sketch copy by Raphael.

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  • Preliminary reports state the Morgan Freeman was conscious, lucid and even cracked a few jokes with the rescue team despite the fact that they had to use the Jaws of Life to pry the 71-year-old actor from the car.

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  • Preliminary reports state that the couple's oldest child banged his head in the bath tub and although every attempt was made, the young man could not be revived.

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  • The judge allowed about a month and set the preliminary trial for the end of May.

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  • Who knows, but the preliminary hearing is set to begin in August.

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  • Whilst no small amount of observational work has been done in these new branches of atmospheric electricity, the science has still not developed to a considerable extent beyond preliminary stages.

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  • Both these methods, differing from that now employed, are interesting as preliminary steps towards the method of fluxions and the differential calculus.

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