Activities Sentence Examples

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  • As our activities grew, the task became more daunting.

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  • The weather made outdoor activities unrealistic.

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  • In 1919 and 1920 Community Chests were organized, and sums aggregating $4,000,000 and $4,500,000 were subscribed in " drives," to meet the needs of all community activities, not only charities, but also Red Cross, Y.M.C.A.

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  • The two women resumed their activities, unaffected by his outburst.

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  • These activities were part of the culture of everyday life.

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  • Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human activities of 160,000 Russians and French--all their passions, desires, remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and enthusiasm--was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the so-called battle of the three Emperors--that is to say, a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history.

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  • It took us some time to ties his activities together.

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  • Sailing, biking and fishing are only a few of the outdoor activities here.

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  • Our activities certainly looked demanding and our positions important.

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  • Amid the turmoil of his activities and distractions, however, Pierre at the end of a year began to feel that the more firmly he tried to rest upon it, the more masonic ground on which he stood gave way under him.

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  • It had taken more than an hour to get to school on the bus, making any after-school activities rare.

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  • This isn't a good time to draw attention to your other activities.

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  • These activities were not.

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  • So in the present and future, when a technology comes along that represents such a change—that saves details of our activities with which to advise us later, or has us speaking to machines as if they were creatures—it will simply be more of the same.

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  • With so many activities available at the resort, guests are bound to work up an appetite.

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  • His brother was brought in and finally confessed, professing he had no knowledge of Jude's criminal activities.

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  • If harm gets too close, stop your activities.

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  • He remained, however, uncertain how to do so without immersing himself further in Lydia Larkin's sordid activities.

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  • He wasn't trying to restrict her activities.

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  • A brief consideration of some of the constructive achievements of his administration will show that the "destructive" theory of his political activities is not sustained by the facts.

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  • But in Ethics a man's individual good is his own happiness; and his happiness is no mere state, but an activity of soul according to virtue in a mature life, requiring as conditions moderate bodily and external goods of fortune; his virtue is (I) moral virtue, which is acquired by habituation, and is a purposive habit of performing actions in the mean determined by right reason or prudence; requiring him, not to exclude, but to moderate his desires; and (2) intellectual virtue, which is either prudence of practical, or wisdom of speculative intellect; and his happiness is a kind of ascending scale of virtuous activities, in which moral virtue is limited by prudence, and prudence by wisdom; so that the speculative life of wisdom is the happiest and most divine, and the practical life of prudence and moral virtue secondary and human.

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  • But as we grew up, reality set in that market forces did not allow those activities to pay enough to support us, so at some point we all figured out we had to "earn a living."

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  • Saint Paul, is a good place for travelers, offering unique and distinctive restaurants, hotels and activities.

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  • He desperately wants to eliminate what he sees as the only threat to his activities.

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  • The three were north of sixty and involved with Fred's research activities.

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  • The capital was the center of the commercial activities.

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  • The revolution of 1848 arrested for a while her novelistic activities.

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  • The spread of the modern industrial system has brought with it the modern state, with its millions of consumers, its vast area, its innumerable activities, its complicated code of industrial and commercial law.

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  • It should be remembered that such comparatively simple activities, though there is little about them to arrest popular attention, are just the raw material out of which the normal active life of such organisms is elaborated, and that for scientific treatment they are therefore not less important than those more conspicuous performances which seem at first sight to call for special treatment, or even to demand a supplementary explanation.

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  • This is but natural; for, though the progress of knowledge has not disproved the existence of devils, it has greatly limited the supposed range of their activities.

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  • The very important activities of the Conseil Permanent International pour l'Exploration de la Mer were suspended during the war except in a few local seas.

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  • The rapid growth of the Indian population from about 1890 caused much disquiet among the majority of the white inhabitants, who viewed with especial anxiety the activities 1 The causes, both local and general, are set forth in a despatch by the governor of the 21st of June 1906 and printed in the Blue Book, Cd.

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  • Their original centre was Rome, but in view of the hostile attitude of the Salandra-Sonnino Government they transferred their activities to Paris and London early in 1915.

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  • A subdivision of zoology which was at one time in favour is simply into morphology and physiology, the study of form and structure on the one hand, and the study of Scope the activities and functions of the forms and structures of zoo- on the other.

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  • But in addition to these distinctive characters, living matter has some other peculiarities, the chief of which are the dependence of all its activities upon moisture and upon heat, within a limited range of temperature, and the fact that it usually possesses a certain structure or organization.

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  • Richmond was for many years the centre, west of Philadelphia, of the activities of the Society of Friends.

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  • Their physiological activities gradually fail owing to the constructive processes having become so exhausted from long use that the destructive ones are able to overtake them.

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  • We have analogies to this in the two nuclei of some of the protozoa, the one being solely for the purpose of propagation, the other being associated with the functional activities of the cell.

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  • Her earliest political activities in her student days were connected with the Socialist movement in the country of her birth, but about 1895 she migrated to Germany.

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  • The activities of Prof. Masaryk in Russia, England and America, enthusiastically supported by his compatriots living abroad, and especially by the Czechs and Slovaks who had emigrated to the United States, the self-sacrificing valour of the Czechoslovak legions on the French, Italian and Russian fronts, and the work of the Czechoslovak Council with its headquarters at Paris, moved the Allies to acknowledge the last-named body as the de facto Provisional Government of the Czechoslovak State.

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  • The proposals made were put forward to improve the management of Council activities and to provide a more contemporary and flexible structure.

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  • The town of Ouray was so oblivious to these frequent winter gifts from Mother Nature that snow caused not a hitch in the local activities.

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  • Fred began eating his cereal, with a serving spoon, a sure sign he wanted to accelerate the process and get on with the day's activities.

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  • Not only did the intensifying snow make climbing even more dangerous than usual, but Shipton's accident had cloaked a pall over everyone's activities.

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  • He returned to his rocker, sipped his beer and began to patiently answer the barrage of Fred's questions about his day's activities.

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  • The neighbors continued to help, but they had their own lives to live and she was encouraging them to get back to their normal activities.

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  • The pair finished their burglary report and agreed to try and keep the matter out of the papers in deference to Dean's other police activities.

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  • In the meantime, Dean had all he could do to keep up with Parkside's police day-to-day activities.

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  • Avoiding the possessed king, Taran took his place directing the great hall's activities.

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  • Certain concordats deal with the orders and congregations of monks and nuns with a view to subjecting them to a certain control while securing to them the legal exercise of their activities.

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  • It is true that in the unicellular plants all the vital activities are performed by a single cell, but in the multicellular plants there is a more or less highly developed differentiation of physiological activity giving rise to different tissues or groups of cells, each with a special function.

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  • It forms a part of the 1mm or plastin network of the nucleus and may become impregnated with varying quantities of chromatin stored up for use in the formation of the chromosomes and other nuclear activities.

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  • Apart from these missions, his activities were devoted to the composition of history, a pursuit for which the monks of St Albans had long been famous.

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  • But if the economist, while studying one side of man's activities, must also cultivate all other branches of human learning, it is obvious that no substantial progress can be made.

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  • Unfortunately politics were inextricably interwoven with the religious controversies of the time, and resistance to English influence involved resistance to the activities of the reformers in the church, whose ultimate victory has obscured the cardinal's genuine merits as a statesman.

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  • This closing prophecy may possibly be a later addition (so Marti) rounding off the prophetic canon by reference to the two great names of Moses and Elijah, and their characteristic activities.

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  • In1779-1780Prairie du Chien was the scene of plots and counterplots of American and British sympathizers and of the activities of Godefrey Linctot,.

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  • Deane's capacities and activities were now required for the navy.

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  • An account of savage life, therefore, includes the knowledge of the animal life of America and its distribution, regarding the continent, not only as a whole, but in those natural history provinces and migrations which governed and characterized the activities of the peoples.

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  • Beliefs and practices with reference to the heavenly world were inspired by zoic activities; its location, scenery and environment were the homes of beast gods.

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  • In 1882 the activities of the Bollandists were exerted in a new direction, with a view to bringing the work more into line with the progress of historical methods.

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  • To afford a home for the centralized activities of the Union, the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London, was built on the site of the Fleet prison - soil consecrated by sacrifice for conscience under Elizabeth - and opened in 1875.

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  • The number of church members steadily increased, and activities of wider and more lasting importance were undertaken.

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  • This firm and its successor, that of Evarts, Choate & Beaman, remained for many years among the leading law firms of New York and of the country, the activities of both being national rather than local.

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  • In 1846 he was appointed professor at Marburg, and though this small university offered little scope for his activities as a teacher, a seat in the Hessian Landtag gave him his first experience of political affairs.

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  • The hope had been general that the Committee would cease their activities when once parliamentary government was established; but the hope remained unfulfilled.

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  • Just as in Protestant countries there has often been an amalgamation of evangelical belief with national feeling, to the great gain of both, Catholics demand that Catholicism shall enter into the sphere of their national interests, and that the activities of the Catholic Church should rest on a national basis.

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  • About the same period began his activities as a journalist and publicist.

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  • We recognize an atom only through its physical activities, as manifested in its interactions with other atoms at a distance from it; this field of physical activity would be identical with the surrounding field of aethereal motion or strain that is inseparably associated with the nucleus, and is carried on along with it as it moves.

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  • This raises the further question as to whether the transmission of gravitation can be definitely recognized among the properties of an ultimate medium; if so, we know that it must be associated with some feature, perhaps very deep-seated, or on the other hand perhaps depending simply on incompressibility, which is not sensibly implicated in the electric and optical activities.

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  • These men naturally acquired more and more as time passed the control and leadership of the Church in all its activities, and out of what was in the beginning more or less informal and temporary grew fixed and permanent offices, the incumbents of which were recognized as having a right to rule over the Church, a right which once given could not lawfully be taken away unless they were unfaithful to their trust.

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  • On the accession of Charles, Laud's ambitious activities were allowed free scope.

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  • As minister of the interior Puttkammer's activities were less commendable.

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  • By various modifications of their valves and appendages the creatures have become adapted for swimming, creeping, burrowing, or climbing, some of them combining two or more of these activities, for which their structure seems at the first glance little adapted.

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  • Thus the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (founded 1698), besides its other activities, has done much to cheapen and multiply copies of the Scriptures, not only in English and Welsh, but in many foreign languages.

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  • For many years, however, the Indians remained in subjection and took no part in the political activities of their native country.

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  • Nature as the sum of that which is objective, intelligence as the complex of all the activities making up self-consciousness, appear thus as equally real, as alike exhibiting ideal structure, as parallel with one another.

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  • A Trypanosome always possesses two distinct nuclear bodies, one the trophonucleus, regulating the trophic life of the cell, the other, the kinetonucleus, directing its locomotor activities.

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  • Virtuous activities determine happiness, and a virtuous man is happy in this life, in spite of misfortunes unless they be too great; while after death he will not feel the misfortunes of the living so much as to change his happiness.

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  • The industrial activities of Rio Janeiro have been largely increased since the organization of the republic through increased import duties on foreign products.

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  • His activities as President were still directed to strengthening the internal and external position of France.

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  • After the outbreak of war his activities were mainly directed to stirring up the patriotic spirit of the people, as in his messages to the Chambers of Aug.

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  • Founded in 1877, it was the first in the United States, and its manifold activities have not only contributed much to the amelioration of social conditions in Buffalo, but have caused it to be looked to as a model upon which similar institutions have been founded elsewhere.

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  • One end of the body, through contact, during locomotion, with fresh tracts of medium and other forms of stimuli, has become more specialized than the rest, and here the nervous system and sense-organs are more densely aggregated than elsewhere, forming a means of controlling locomotion and of correlating the activities of the inner organs with the varying stimuli that impinge upon the body.

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  • Following, however, in the footsteps of Schelling, he idealizes the one extended and thinking substance into one mental being; but he thinks that its essence consists in unconscious intelligence and will, of which all individual intelligent wills are only activities.

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  • Our souls he tried his best to endow with a quasiexistence, arguing that the unity of consciousness requires an indivisible subject, which is distinct from the plurality of the body but interacting with it, is in a way a centre of independent activities, and is so far a substance, or rather able to produce the appearance of a substance.

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  • If he is to be believed, at the bottom of all organic evolution organic impulses becoming habits produce structural changes, which are transmitted by heredity; and as an impulse thus gradually becomes secondarily automatic, the will passes to higher activities, which in their turn become secondarily automatic, and so on.

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  • Thirdly, on the grounds that logical thinking adds the notion of substance, as substrate, to experience of the physical, but not of the psychical, and that the most proper being of mind is will, he concludes that wills are not active substances, but substance-generating activities (" nicht thatige Substanzen sondern substanzerzeugende Thdtigkeiten," System, 429) What kind of metaphysics, then, follows from this compound of psychology and epistemology?

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  • Thus, according to him, in the first place reason forms a cosmological " ideal " of a multitude of simple units related; secondly, it forms a psychological " ideal " of a multitude of wills, or substance-generating activities, which communicate with one another by ideas so that will causes ideas in will, while together they constitute a collective will, and it goes on to form the moral ideal of humanity (das sittliche Menschheitsideal); and, thirdly, it forms an ontological " ideal " of God as ground of this moral " ideal," and therewith of all being as means to this end, and an " ideal " of God as world-will, of which the world is development, and in which individual wills participate each in its sphere.

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  • In short, it was in the sphere of French interests much more than in that of the general interests of Latin Christendom that the activities of these popes were exerted.

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  • Such activities might well be taken as proof that the papacy at the outset of the 20th century possessed a vigour which it was far from possessing a hundred years earlier.

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  • He abolished all privileges which were not secured by charter and imposed a more rigidly centralized scheme of government in which the activities of the provincial diet were restricted to some judicial and financial functions, and their freedom in matters of foreign policy was withdrawn altogether.

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  • But his activities were essentially manysided.

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  • He was convener of the committee which issued the Free Church hymn book, and he threw into this work the same energy and catholicity of mind which marked the rest of his activities.

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  • To these activities he devoted his scanty intervals of leisure.

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  • Added to this the spiders commonly copy to the life the mode of progression and the restless activities of their models.

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  • Magee's manifold activities, his capability as an administrator, his sound judgment, and his remarkable insight into the ecclesiastical problems of his time, rank him among t he most distinguished of English prelates.

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  • In philosophy he found the basis for positing a, collective human will, revealing in its activities the materials for determining ethical laws.

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  • The appointment, which had hitherto been reserved for ecclesiastics of marked ability as scholars or administrators, excited much comment; but it was undoubtedly popular, and this popularity was confirmed when it was realized that the bishop intended to carry on in his new sphere the democratic traditions of his East End activities.

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  • The central authority in the United States, formerly almost unheard of by the average citizen, now touches him in many of the activities of life and sometimes intrudes even into the domain of local self-government.

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  • German nervousness, which had seen British intrigues everywhere, and suspected in the beneficent activities of King Edward VII.

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  • It was this multiplicity of activities and interests that proved fatal to him.

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  • In such theories not only animals and plants but even the smallest particles of matter are regarded as having some rudimentary kind of sensation or "soul," which plays the same part in relation to their objective activities or modifications as the soul does in the case of human beings.

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  • John the Baptist were due to Domenico Gagini of Bissone on the Lake of Lugano, who later transferred his activities to Naples and Palermo, and other Lombard masters.

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  • In Rome, in 1844, his eldest da q ghter, Julia Romana (afterwards the wife of Michael Anagnos, Dr Howe's assistant and successor), was born, and in September the travellers returned to America, and Dr Howe resumed his activities.

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  • The traveller in Egypt thus views, side by side with the activities of the present day, where occident and orient meet and clash, memorials of every race and civilization which has flourished in the valley of the Nile.

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  • They lower the external activities of the cells, but do they not at the same time lower the internal, reparative, assimilative activity of the cell that in natural sleep goes vigorously forward preparing the system for the next day's drain on energy?

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  • Moreover, by the processes the subject has gone through he has had those physiological activities upon which his volitional power depends excessively deranged, and not improbably permanently enfeebled.

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  • There is much uncertainty as to the influence of atropine on the secretions of the stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas and kidneys, and it is not possible to make any definite statement, save that in all probability the activities of the nerves innervating the glandcells in these organs are reduced, though they are certainly not arrested, as in the other cases.

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  • The activities of German agents, some real and many imagined, seemed to call for vigorous action.

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  • Most of these regularly published the official news from Washington concerning war activities and purposes.

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  • On the whole, however, it is doubtful if all these legal and extra-legal activities in a nation of ioo,000,000 were serious enough to justify any general condemnation of war legislation, the courts, and the nation.

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  • In 1511 these two works were brought out for the first time, and the Apocalypse series in a second edition; and for the next three years, 1511-1514, engraving both on wood and copper, but especially the latter, took the first place among DUrer's activities.

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  • The Franco-German War engaged Flach's activities in other directions, and he spent two years (described in his Strasbourg apres le bonabardement, 1873) at work on the rebuilding of the library and the museum, which had been destroyed by Prussian shells.

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  • He then added another to his many activities; he assumed a direct interest in typography.

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  • His personal tastes, apart from his activities as a Maecenas, being economical, he endeavoured also to limit public expenditure, in a way which was not always a benefit to the country.

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  • In this lay the European significance of the Laibach conference, of which the activities had been mainly confined to Italy.

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  • On the one hand, the suppression is denounced as a base surrender to the forces of tyranny and irreligion, an act of treason to conscience, which reaped its just punishment of remorse; on the other hand, it is as ardently maintained that Clement acted in full accord with his conscience, and that the order merited its fate by its own mischievous activities which made it an offence to religion and authority alike.

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  • It was one of the "New Hampshire Grant" towns, both New York and New Hampshire claiming jurisdiction over it, and, being the home of Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, it became the centre of activities of the "Green Mountain Boys," of whom they were leaders.

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  • The commercial and financial collapse that followed lasted through the greater part of the last three decades of the century; but settled government and improved finances subsequently contributed to a slow but steady recovery in the trade and industrial activities of the city.

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  • Their presses confined their activities to the production of catechisms, martyrologies and handbooks in the native languages after the fashion of the presses of Mexico.

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  • In spite of these manifold activities Mamun did not forget the hereditary enemy of Islam.

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  • They are formulae for the control of the activities and the production of the qualities of bodies.

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  • Forms are qualities and activities expressed in terms of the ultimates of nature, i.e.

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  • Although there is not much to justify such a proposition, it may perhaps be conceded that she was in many respects abnormal and that some of her work is characteristic of a process known to modern psychologists as "automatism," or in other words that it is the result of a spasmodic uprush to the surface of sub-conscious mental activities.

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  • The first caused him to reject the idea of a conference of which the activities would have been primarily directed against Russia; the second led him to drive a wedge into the AngloFrench entente by making direct overtures to Great Britain.

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  • For his life on earth with his material body was only an appearance, a seeming, a phenomenon, and simultaneously with its activities the true Buddha existed unmoved and eternal.

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  • Or it may mean the resuscitation of simply intellectual activities, stimulated by the revival of antique learning and its application to the arts and literatures of modern peoples.

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  • His firmness in thwarting the activities of Edmond Charles Edouard Genet, minister from France, alienated the partisans of France; his suppression of the "Whisky Insurrection" aroused in some the fear of a military despotism.

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  • The states could not, without violating the constitutional compact, interfere with the activities of the Federal government so long as the government confined itself to its proper sphere; but the attempt of Congress, or any other department of the Federal government, to exercise any power which might alter the nature of the instrument would be an act of usurpation.

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  • An account of Colorado agriculture would not be complete without mentioning the depredations of the grasshopper, which are at times extraordinarily destructive, as also of the "Colorado Beetle" (Doryphora decemlineata), or common potato-bug, which has extended its fatal activities eastward throughout the prairie states.

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  • It appears that St Bernard offered him an asylum at Clairvaux; but it is not known if he reached Clairvaux, nor do we know when or in what circumstances he resumed his activities.

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  • Again, the savage universe is no preserve of man, but is an open field wherein human and non-human activities of all sorts compete on more or less equal terms, yet so that a certain measure of predominance may be secured by a judicious combination of forces.

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  • Among the more progressive races, on the other hand, continual processes of elevation and decline may be observed, and the activities of the greater gods are constantly being enriched with new functions.

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  • All colours are complementary, or go in pairs; each pair makes up the whole activity of the retina, and so is equivalent to white; and the two partial activities are so connected that when the first is exhausted the other spontaneously succeeds.

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  • In later years her activities again assumed a political cast.

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  • In the 17th century the religious orders and especially the Jesuits absorbed even more of the activities and counted for more in the public affairs of Portugal than in the preceding age.

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  • Simon's beneficent activities came, however, to a sudden and tragic end.

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  • The industrial activities of the Bolivian people are still of a very primitive character.

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  • Astonishment has been frequently expressed at the powerful activities of bacteria - their rapid growth and dissemination, of the extensive and profound decompositions and Activity bacteria.

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  • Side by side with his activities in education he directed the departments of trade and the colonies.

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  • Through Cooke's activities the sales became enormous; the notes, issued in denominations as low as $50, appealed to the patriotic impulses of the people who could not subscribe for bonds of a higher denomination.

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  • Possessed of a bold and intensely original mind, his activities radiated in many directions, apparently rather attracted than repelled by the unpopularity of a subject.

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  • This conception has been extended by analogy to phenomena different in kind, such as the activities of masses of water or of air, or of machinery, or by another analogy, to the duration of a composite structure, and by imagination to real or supposed phenomena such as the manifestations of incorporeal entities.

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  • On the other hand, it may be that the initial conditions for the synthesis of proteid are different from those under which proteid and living matter display their activities.

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  • Until greater knowledge of protoplasm and particularly of proteid has been acquired, there is no scientific room for the suggestion that there is a mysterious factor differentiating living matter from other matter and life from other activities.

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  • The question of the divorce of Lothair II., king of Lorraine, who had repudiated his wife Theutberga to marry his concubine Waldrada, engaged Hincmar's literary activities in another direction.

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  • The same year was one of special importance in the prodigiously versatile activities of Leonardo da Vinci.

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  • The ambiguity lies in the multifold purpose of the activities.

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  • He was not indeed a parish pastor; he inspired church activities which grew to large proportions, but trusted the organization of them to laymen of organizing abilities in the church; and for acquaintance with his people he depended on such social occasions as were furnished in the free atmosphere of this essentially New England church at the close of every service.

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  • Nominally there was a school system under the supervision of the national and departmental governments, but its activities were limited to the larger towns, where there were public and private schools of all grades.

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  • In March of the following session, that of 1921, while he was in the full swing of his multifarious activities, he suddenly broke down, and was recommended by his medical advisers to abandon his work at once.

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  • The daily activities of the great mass of the adult population, in countries where commodities are sold at definite prices for definite quantities, include calculations which have often to be performed rapidly, on data orally given, and leading in general to results which can only be approximate; and almost every branch of manufacture or commerce has its own range of applications of arithmetic. Arithmetic as a school subject has been largely regarded from this point of view.

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  • The Knights of the Golden Circle at first confined their activities to the encouragement of desertion, and resistance to the draft, but in 1864 a plot to overthrow the state government was discovered, and Governor Morton's prompt action resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of arms and ammunition, and the arrest, trial and conviction of several of the leaders.

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  • But there was little scope there for the activities of a young and energetic subaltern, and, leaving the service in 1836, he entered the Carlist army campaigning in Spain.

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  • By the Germans he was distrusted, and in 1526 his activities were prohibited by the city of Strassburg.

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  • The general activities of the body are conducted partly by its association (Essex Street, Strand), partly by its (triennial) National Conference, established 1882.

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  • The deacons superintend the financial affairs of the church, co-operate with the minister in the various branches of his work, assist in the visitation of the sick, attend to the church property and generally supervise the activities of the church.

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  • It is true that the precise relation between the activities of human wills and other forms of activity in the natural world is a highly speculative problem and one with which the ordinary man is not immediately concerned.

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  • We see here, as in other activities of the age, a determination to acquire technical knowledge, and to apply it directly to the practical issue; just as music was being enriched by new technical knowledge, architecture by modern theories of plans and T-squares (sc. Hippodamus), the handling of soldiers by the new technique of " tactics " and " hoplitics," so citizenship must be analysed afresh, systematized and adapted in relation to modern requirements.

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  • Pleasure, in Aristotle's view, is not the primary constituent of well-being, but rather an inseparable accident of it; human well-being is essentially well-doing, excellent activity of some kind, whether its aim and end be abstract truth or noble conduct; knowledge and virtue are objects of rational choice apart from the pleasure attending them; still all activities are attended and in a manner perfected by pleasure, which is better and more desirable in proportion to the excellence of the activity.

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  • Nor have we to consider the special doctrines that have formed the bond of union of the Christian communities except in their ethical aspect, their bearing on the systematization of human aims and activities.

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  • He does not prove the coincidence of life-sustaining and pleasant activities.

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  • From 1905 to 1909 Venizelos' activities alternated between those of chief of the Cretan executive and those of leader of the Opposition.

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  • The large majority chose the latter; and thus 1,800 officers were retired on small pensions, and became a dangerous leaven for all subversive activities against the Government.

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  • In 1903 he was elected as a representative of the Catholic Centre party in the Reichstag, and soon, by virtue of his unusually varied activities, took a leading position in the parliamentary party.

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  • From the Elysee by means of the mass of officials whom they had at their command, the conspirators extended their activities throughout the whole country.

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  • In April 1921, a special session of the Southern (Canton) Parliament elected him to be President of the Chinese Republic, his supporters declaring the Canton " Military Government " to be the only lawfully constituted government in the country; but the influence of these Cantonese " Constitutionalists " over the other southern provinces had then become almost insignificant, and the " Military Government," prohibited by the Foreign Powers from interfering with the revenues of the Maritime Customs, was confronted by financial problems of a kind which threatened not only its reforming activities but its continued existence.

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  • His object is to discover the highest end of human life, and with this view he classifies the various activities of the human soul, rejects such as are material or animal, and then analyses the various spiritual forms to which the activities may be directed.

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  • He enforced the censorship with unexampled rigour, and h13 interference with the food-supply work of the Zemstvos and Towns Union created a serious danger to the activities of these organizations.

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  • Everywhere the supernatural elements are eliminated or subordinated, and the story becomes a drama of human motives, depending for its development on the interplay of human passions and activities.

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  • His activities were not limited to his college work.

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  • These were the chief printed media of his anti-Government propaganda; but he took every advantage of public activities, such as membership of the local municipality and the organizing of Shivaji and Ganpati celebrations, to work upon the prejudices and passions both of the masses and of the educated minority.

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  • Lisa let the matter drop, but she began to pay more attention to the activities around the house - like the shiny black car that sometimes came up the driveway and followed the path back into the woods without stopping at the house.

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  • We spent the next hour discussing potential rainy day activities.

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  • Her boss allowed her to beg off a trip that would cut into the weekend, after she complained about exhaustion fallowing our recent wedding activities.

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  • Howie is our prime focus but I'll direct his activities.

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  • I would set the schedule of Howie's activities, with ample time for us to have a life and hopefully cease feeling guilty for not doing more.

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  • We held closed door meetings cautioning one another against the slightest slip that might cause someone to develop the slimmest suspicion about our true activities.

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  • Betsy glanced up to oversee Molly's culinary activities.

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  • Perhaps these people fear a threat after that stupid other person broke into the Abbott house and interrupted my activities.

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  • It was teeming with vamps, and he'd set up several Guardians around the country club to conduct surveillance on the vamps' activities.

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  • Better to have him concentrate on Fitzgerald, who was beginning to look more and more like a candidate, not only for sheriff, but for some nefarious activities.

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  • We're managed by a council that very poorly oversees Immortal activities in the mortal world and fights demons to keep the underworld dwellers from destroying the human world.

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  • While these endeavors had produced zero income, the activities endeared him to the local ladies of the historical society who fluttered around the dapper gentleman like chicks at feed time.

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  • He explained that like most athletic activities such as running, climbing, swimming or skiing, ice climbing evolved from the practical necessity of getting someplace not otherwise easily accessed.

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  • The climbers grumbled about the negative affect of the snow on their anticipated activities, all except Penny, who considered the weather a new and exciting challenge.

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  • The phone bill, thanks to Fred's vigorous activities, was only a few commas less than the national debt and he was knocking on the ceiling of his newly acquired Visa limit.

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  • There was a hiatus in the activities of the agency.

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  • These activities were integratedinto the teaching of the course.

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  • We will liaise to agree the support activities and materials needed for each bilingual student.

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  • He chose the most mundane of daily activities.

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  • Equality mainstreaming occurs when these ideas, attitudes or activities routinely incorporate an equality perspective and become a normal feature of mainstream thinking.

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  • There was a phenomenon to suggest ways in which they could investigate the activities that were going on.

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  • To improve pupils ' achievement and progress in games through developing high quality learning activities.

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  • You get to have a go at a wide range of activities, including acrobatics, juggling, static trapeze and balance.

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  • Kingswood activity Centers are the UK's leading provider of residential educational and fun activities for schools.

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  • This meme-driven altruism might even explain the popularity of activities like recycling bottles, in spite of their arguable value.

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  • Dominic uses a computer for all writing activities - apart from examinations when he has an amanuensis.

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  • These findings indicate that defects in the normal activities of astrocytes in clearing beta amyloid could lead to the formation of plaques.

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  • The usual exploratory activities to Teddybear Island and solving anagrams from floating buoys ensured that boredom never even entered peoples heads.

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  • Normally they will be merely ancillary to the strictly religious activities.

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  • The term derives from the notion of cultural brokering developed by anthropologists to describe the activities of individuals who connect local with national worlds.

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  • Open days offer a flexible program of activities specifically designed to assist prospective applicants in the decision-making process for 2006 entry.

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  • Activities include canoeing, rock climbing and abseiling, archery, hill walking, kayaking, orienteering.

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  • Other local activities include rock and tree climbing, archery, quad bikes, and golf.

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  • Activities included architectural modeling, psychological testing, map making, a photographic portraiture project, and a memorial plaque sculpture project.

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  • It organizes exhibitions, visual, performing and participatory articipatory arts activities to inspire staff, patients and visitors to the hospital.

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  • Activities include making a simple astrolabe, calculating your moon weight and writing a letter to an alien.

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  • Long term Ensure the sustainable success of junior athletics in the Mendip area by developing all aspects of the club's activities.

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  • The focus of these meeting revolved around issues related to merging special education content and activities into the post baccalaureate methods courses.

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  • Activities include hockey, cross-country, trampolining, badminton, cricket, athletics, tennis, basketball.

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  • Good knowledge of shallow water bathymetry is vital to a wide range of marine activities.

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  • Being moody and irritable - easily upset, ' ratty ' or tearful becoming withdrawn - avoiding friends, family and regular activities.

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  • It also reviews existing major human activities in the area that are currently affecting the benthos.

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  • Other bioengineering work within SES As well as the orthopedic biomechanics program, there are a number of diverse bioengineering work within SES As well as the orthopedic biomechanics program, there are a number of diverse bioengineering research activities within SES.

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  • Additional activities will cover topics such as world biomes, habitats and resource use.

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  • Activities include bird-watching, snorkeling, sailing and walking - one of Explore's most laid-back tours.

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  • Our research activities encompass the entire breadth of marine science.

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  • This way, no political parties will have to depend on donations, dubious loans or alleged bribery for their election activities.

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  • We are always pleased to receive good quality bric-a-brac for our fund-raising activities.

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  • The Player provides faster access to top activities, such as ripping, burning, and syncing.

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  • The site provides a calender of events, and details of activities in Asia, Central America, and West Africa.

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  • Free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, is defined as cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures.

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  • Management activities reduced cattail, but improved habitat for aquatic birds.

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  • In addition, all off-site activities are covered by separate insurance which includes personal accident claims.

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  • Many of these proteins are also cleaved by proteases, and these enzyme activities are targets of drugs that stop invasion.

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  • Carrying out study Delivery activities to time, cost, and quality from Study Delivery Concept through database lock and study closeout activities.

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  • You can create simple cloze or sequencing activities - or, better still, show students how to create them.

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  • The key thematic cluster for the Commissionâs activities during the 2003-2005 implementation cycle is focused on water, sanitary services and human settlements.

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  • Students have been combining the comfort of city hotels with more challenging cultural activities.

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  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a term for business activities addressing goals that are not purely commercial.

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  • All BW personnel have to demonstrate competence in their activities.

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  • A helpful 24-hour concierge assists guests in planning their activities, from shopping to golf, sailing to skiing.

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  • He then runs the popular trolley shop, selling confectionary and biscuits, before helping out with activities in the afternoons.

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  • The activities consisted of kayaking, sea level traversing and rock climbing, as well as problem solving and team games.

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  • The exercise has really consolidated officers ' competence in assessing manual handling activities.

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  • A further design question is to reconsider whether and how different activities should be spatially constrained.

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  • Additionally, most of the islands are made up of surrounding coral reefs and lagoons, just superb for snorkeling and diving activities.

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  • These same indigenous peoples are being driven to extinction by the activities of the oil, timber and mining corporations.

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  • Many angels will disapprove of their fellows for purely corporeal activities, in a most bigoted way.

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  • According to Steve Smith, center manager for e-media activities at the tic, it's all about unlocking creativity.

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  • CreeS staff members are fully involved in both of these activities.

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  • Activities include cross-country skiing, ice fishing, archery, snowmobiling, snow tubing and even dogsled driving.

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  • These admittedly crude figures indicate that the true risk of serious injury in these dive activities is probably very small.

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  • To help finance its governing activities, the Company had in 1773 acquired a monopoly of opium cultivation in Bengal.

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  • The directory below just gives a very cursory glance at the activities of a very small number of the largest defense firms in Europe.

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  • The Popular Party's government also managed to sharply curtail the terrorist activities of the Basque pro-independence ETA group.

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  • They will advise on daily living activities such as dressing, eating and handling cutlery, and developing daily routines.

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  • How about even simpler, even more unassuming activities, such as having fun blowing a dandelion 's seeds into the air.

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  • A report of the team's activities will appear on the web site once debriefs have been undertaken.

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  • A limited company can sue only insofar as the alleged defamation relates in some way to its trading activities.

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  • Word quickly spread and the beggars desisted in their activities.

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  • They are able to actively discourage activities which they see as detrimental to the wellbeing of the hunt and the deer.

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  • We are given a talk each morning on the day's activities, which includes a diatribe on geological formations of the canyon.

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  • The website includes an online directory of Arts Activities in Prisons.

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  • To prove that you are not disloyal you have to overtly express support for the most right wing activities of the state.

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  • The hospital escaped dissolution under Henry VIII's Act of 1547, probably because of its charitable activities.

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  • Our trained team will visit you in your classroom and undertake a range of activities including rag rug making, peg dolls and weaving.

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  • Befriending service and social and leisure activities including dominoes, pool and a computer room.

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  • All game activities are included and species range from the Big Five to the tiny blue duiker and rock hyrax.

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  • It can also come from natural sources, such as wind-blown dust, as well as construction, mining and quarrying activities.

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  • Each student was given an opportunity to tackle a variety of new activities including dyeing and printing in the Department's teaching laboratory.

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  • In general, new activities require voluntary effort to master them.

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  • Skin piercing The skin piercing activities which are controlled by registration are Acupuncture Tattooing Ear piercing electrolysis A fee is required.

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  • Our research and consultancy activities are supported by a large advanced equipment base ranging from the latest electron microscopes to high performance computing hardware.

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  • In reality many charities with an expendable endowment depend on the income it produces to fund core or continuing activities.

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  • It also hopes to involve end-users in its activities.

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  • These processes aim to understand potential end-users ' habitual activities in their usual work or educational contexts.

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  • Neuro Linguistic Programming and Learning Paul Hobbs explains the importance of mentally envisioning a successful outcome when beginning courses or activities.

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  • They are also looking at bringing in other equestrian and countryside activities for all the family to enjoy.

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  • National Grid intends to commence excavations for the construction of the line itself in mid-late January and construction activities will continue throughout the year.

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  • Perhaps because social work learning demands more experiential and reflective types of learning these types of activities are more necessary.

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  • Activities include falconry, clay pigeon and target shooting, archery, pony trekking, massage therapy - all onsite.

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  • Projects could include income generation activities such as small-scale farming, arts and craft, and small scale trading.

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  • Social activities in regard to professional and family are highly favorable, and if you can combine the two, so much the better.

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  • P = Primary S = secondary fe = Further Education Learning Activities for Students 14-19 (new) Work -related learning for Citizenship.

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  • Other activities such as the conduct of anthropological fieldwork are relegated, on this account, to an insignificant footnote.

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  • Many activities were subsidized, and travel to sporting fixtures was free.

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  • We are happy to prepare a packed lunch with homemade flapjacks or cakes for your day's activities.

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  • The increase is primarily attributable to lower interest expense and gains from the company's foreign exchange and interest rate management activities.

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  • We aim to launch a new training directory in the autumn, which will link our educational activities to the national competency framework.

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  • The authorities attempted to obstruct the activities of Bradlaugh and other freethinkers.

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  • Beyond the usual gamut of sporting activities, there's also hill walking, ballroom dancing, surfing -- the list goes on.

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  • As a reporter in the Belfast office of the Dublin-based Sunday World he had investigated the criminal and paramilitary activities of loyalist gangs.

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  • Wednesday morning saw two sessions devoted to plant disease resistance genes, followed by social activities in the afternoon.

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  • The newest adventure activities include battery-powered go-karts for 3 to 8 year olds on The Forum, Blackhorse Way.

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  • Biking and hiking are among the activities on offer, and there are barbecue grills and picnic facilities.

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  • The following table is a rough guide to the way in which the activities could be used.

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  • This will fund activities including educational campaigns to promote sensible drinking and programs to tackle alcohol-related harm.

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  • One section of the site is KidZone, an area aimed at activities for Kids who own land hermit crabs as pets.

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  • Other evening activities include viewing the latest releases at the cinema or evening snowshoe hikes.

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  • Discusses several possible single identity programs and includes some icebreakers and activities.

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  • The first possible solution is blanket immunity for ISP activities.

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  • Develop learner independence through the selection of planned activities which encourage students to become self-reliant.

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  • Toward the end of the evening activities became more informal with games of darts, billiards or table tennis.

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  • But we would run an event for you on how to create interactive learning activities in Word.

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  • The Sonderkommando tried thus to prevent interruption of the normal smooth working of the camp activities.

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  • Such activities are considered intrinsic to the production of fossil fuels.

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  • These activities could well complement those in the looking inwards - Looking Outwards books.

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  • This research indicates that access to services and activities intended to alleviate social isolation and loneliness among older people is inequitable.

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  • Finally, social activities will be increased in order to combat isolation in the community.

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  • Loaded with a huge variety of activities ranging from making mosaics in the Sculpture gallery to designing a kimono in the Japanese Gallery.

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  • Children are welcome to join in all of the activities, except the off-road mountain biking excursions.

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  • Fully trained and qualified operatives will ensure that the product's high performance is reflected in the quality of all on-site activities.

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  • Students have the opportunity to participate in activities ranging from gamelan orchestra to fully staged opera.

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  • On site activities include canoeing, sailing, climbing, horse riding, swimming, abseiling, orienteering, archery and many more.

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  • This is shotgun shooting off road karts group outdoor activities without the noise, bruises and painful go karting outdoor recoils.

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  • Like these two activities, the benefits massively outweigh any downsides.

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  • There are now limitations on cross-media ownership, which has limited Berlusconi's activities somewhat.

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  • Loads of daytime activities including paintball, karting, Brighton Racecourse, hangliding, ballooning and sea fishing trips.

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  • Here at the Honiton day project we all partake in a wide variety of activities which change between weeks.

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  • Brussels has a list of 21 activities for the next five years to tackle gender inequality issues, mostly those still pervasive pay gaps.

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  • Pigeons - are racing / homing pigeons - are racing / homing pigeons economic activities?

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  • Activities include painting, drawing, puppets, toy box, soft playrooms, cars, tricycles.

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  • Include this program in your sensory room, or use for fun wet playtime or end of term activities.

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  • Our best pictures of the human mind suggest that we do n't plop our mental activities into single, ordered boxes.

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  • The activities of the CD rom include pneumatics that I didn't cover in the classes.

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  • Incorporating hands-on activities for visitors of all ages, it also features the popular 1940s House and part of a post-war prefab.

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  • The characteristics of worthwhile activities were not defined by the researchers but emerged out of interviews with teachers and school principals.

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  • He is also patron of the host club and a keen supporter of this and other regular activities allowed on this largely private park.

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  • Back to contents of this issue Meet our new profs Aston is committed to excelling in all of our research activities.

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  • You will also be able to enhance the profile of the academic group through your own commitment to research activities.

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  • Après-ski activities are also profuse, with bars and discos providing plenty of lively entertainment.

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  • Activities from Inventor's Workshop link directly to the teaching of wheels and axles, gears, pulleys and cams.

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  • Parallel activities (for example on Javanese shadow puppets) can be arranged in the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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  • Focus group discussion provides predominantly qualitative data that is suitable to stimulate creative designing activities.

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  • Our three main strands of work in the current quinquennium are all natural progressions from previous interests and activities.

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  • The way that music in Ancient Greece is integrated into a seamless whole with other social activities has considerable philosophical ramifications.

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  • We will always support the broadest range of audience accessing our activities.

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  • With a huge range of activities to choose from across the UK, the lucky recipient will be spoilt for choice.

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  • If there are any gaps then please nominate a referee who can verify your activities.

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  • Activities which involve bending down may cause acid regurgitation.

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  • Dog forums | Agility forums | Obedience Forums Dog forums related to dogs and dog related activities such as agility, obedience and more.

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  • The activities are interesting, challenging and offer both curriculum related and physical activity to complement the aims of the pack.

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  • At the same time, one can sympathize with the lay public and bereaved relatives, in confusing these activities with freak shows.

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  • Consumers are increasingly relying on the internet for more sophisticated activities, reports Jupiter Research.

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  • We find the idea repugnant, which is why such activities have also been made illegal, at least in most modern countries.

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