Owe Sentence Examples

I think you owe me an explanation.

I owe you an apology.

I owe you some money.

I owe you more than you could ever know.

You owe me for that.

I don't owe you anything.

I guess I owe them a lot more than bread then.

Do I owe you anything more?

I owe you that, Gabriel.

I think you owe his mother an apology.

I owe this passion to my high school friend Jason.

I will owe them my life, A'Ran said.

I don't know anything about the case, but I know it would take a room full of CPA's to figure out how many cups of coffee you guys owe each other.

Indeed, I owe to her loving wisdom all that was bright and good in my long night.

If this solution works, you owe me a favor of my choosing.

You owe me some explanations.

How do you figure I owe you anything?

I owe you my life.

You still owe me for the time you were in Europe.

You owe Gabriel one, the silver- haired man said.

I wanted him to owe me.

The members of both chambers owe their election to universal suffrage; but the Senate is not elected directly by the people and the Chamber of Deputies is.

Besides this most important contribution to the general fabric of dynamical science, we owe to Lagrange several minor theorems of great elegance, - among which may be mentioned his theorem that the kinetic energy imparted by given impulses to a material system under given constraints is a maximum.

The town is supposed to owe its origin to the foundation of a convent on the spot by Itta or Iduberge, wife of Pippin of Landen.

Though not endowed with the strength and originality of mind that characterized Tyndale's work, Coverdale showed great discrimination in the handling and use of his authorities, and moreover a certain delicacy and happy ease in his rendering of the Biblical text, to which we owe not a few of the beautiful expressions of our present Bible.

I owe it to Jake.

I'll owe you two.

But I do owe you for the joy of pregnancy that I took away from you.

I'll owe you one.

You owe me this, if nothing else!

You owe him your life.

If our army is well organized and strong and has withdrawn to Drissa without suffering any defeats, we owe this entirely to Barclay.

Equity loans do not eliminate the debt you owe.

Many states will suspend the licenses of drivers who are found to owe a substantial amount of back child support.

If you do your family this favor, they will owe you one.

They owe their origin to M'.

To him we owe the distinction between canonical and apocryphal writings; in the Prologus Galeatus prefixed to his version of Samuel and Kings, he says that the church reads the Apocrypha "for the edification of the people, not for confirming the authority of ecclesiastical doctrines."

Of the principal later writers whose works are extant, and to whom we owe what little knowledge we possess of the labours of their predecessors, mention will be made hereafter.

Machiavelli now entered upon a period of life to which we owe the great works that have rendered his name immortal.

To Weizsacker we owe the first statement of this theory.

For many of the facts, the discovery of which we owe to the literary critics, have made the assumption of an absolute unity in the details of the Apocalypse a practical impossibility.

For the elucidation of these foreign elements a new method - the traditional-historical - is necessary, and to the brilliant scholar Gunkel we owe its origination.

They owe their origin to depressions of the earth's crust of no very wide extent and not running very far into the continental mass, and geologically they are of recent age and still subject to change.

In these respects they contrast with the great oceans which owe their origin to the most extensive and the profoundest depressions of the crust, date back at least to Mesozoic times, and have perhaps remained permanently in their present position from still remoter ages.

Harrar is believed to owe its foundation to Arab immigrants from the Yemen in the 7th century of the Christian era.

In the vicinity of Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika, sandstones and shales of Lower Karroo age and yielding seams of coal are considered to owe their position and preservation to being let down by rift faults into hollows of the crystalline rocks.

To him the people of Italy owe a great debt, for if he failed in his object he at least materialized the idea of the Risorgimento in a practical shape, and the charges which the Republicans and demagogues brought against him were monstrously unjust.

To them we owe not merely the possession of the greatest works of Greek intellect, but the possession of them in a readable state.

The most celebrated critics were Zenodotus; Aristophanes of Byzantium, to whom we owe the theory of Greek accents; Crates of Mallus; and Aristarchus of Samothrace, confessedly the coryphaeus of criticism.

The founder of the mathematical school was the celebrated Euclid (Eucleides); among its scholars were Archimedes; Apollonius of Perga, author of a treatise on Conic Sections; Eratosthenes, to whom we owe the first measurement of the earth; and Hipparchus, the founder of the epicyclical theory of the heavens, afterwards called the Ptolemaic system, from its most famous expositor, Claudius Ptolemaeus.

But that space and time, matter and cause should owe their origin to the action of the mind has always seemed paradoxical to common sense.

They are covered with a fur to which they owe their chief commercial value; this consists of two kinds of hair - the one close-set, silky and of a greyish colour, the other much coarser and longer, and of a reddish brown.

Though part of the plumage in many sun-birds gleams with metallic lustre, they owe much of their beauty to feathers which are not lustrous, though almost as vivid,' and the most wonderful combination of the brightest colours - scarlet, purple, blue, green and yellow - is often seen in one and the same bird.

Smith, though recognizing the unpleasantness of beats, could not accept Sauveur's theory, and, indeed, it received no acceptance till it was rediscovered by Helmholtz, to whose investigations, recorded in his Sensations of Tone, we owe its satisfactory establishment.

The natives of protected states owe not only allegiance to them, but also certain duties, ill defined, to the protecting state.

Further, its opening seems modelled on the lines of the preface to Luke's Gospel, to which, along with Acts, it may owe something of its very conception as a reasoned appeal to the lover of truth.

We owe to its realization by them the constitution and nomenclature of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Assyrian cylinders and inscriptions indicate for the familiar series of our text-books an antiquity of some four thousand years.

No one thing about it commended it to all, and to no one thing alone did it owe its victory, but to the fact that it met a greater variety of needs and met them more satisfactorily than any other movement of the age.

It is to him that we owe many of our most important fragments of the dramatists, particularly of Euripides.

The great Gardens at Berlin were founded in 1844, and belong to a private company, but owe much to the interest and beneficence of the Royal House.

He wrote a number of comedies, to one of which, La Belle Plaideuse, Moliere's L'Avare is said to owe something; and also some volumes of verse.

In the 5th century we may place Hesychius of Alexandria, the compiler of the most extensive of our ancient Greek lexicons, and Proclus, the author of a chrestomathy, to the extracts from which (as preserved by Photius) we owe almost all our knowledge of the contents of the lost epics of early Greece.

The Stassfurt minerals owe their industrial importance to their solubility in water and consequent ready amenability to chemical operations.

The Harpacticidae owe their name to the genus Arpacticus (Milne-Edwards, 1840).

Deperet points also that we owe to Cuvier the first clear expression of the idea of the increasing organic perfection of all forms of life from the lower to the higher horizons, and that, while he believed that extinctions were due to sudden revolutions on the surface of the earth, he also set forth the pregnant ideas that the renewals of animal life were by migration from other regions unknown, and that these migrations were favoured by alternate elevations and depressions which formed various land routes between great continents and islands.

We owe especially to Willy Ki kenthal, Eberhard Fraas, S.W.

Leeuwenhoek, to whom we also owe the discovery of Bacteria and ciliate Infusoria.

Asplanchnaceae, plankton, dwellers in small pools, are, however, ovoid, and Trochosphaera is spherical and must owe its floating powers to the low density of the liquid in its enormously dilated bodycavity.

It is, therefore, in all likelihood to the zeal of Wycliffe and his followers that we owe the two noble 1 4 th-century translations of the Bible which tradition has always associated with his name, and which are the earliest complete renderings that we possess of the Holy Scriptures into English.4 The first of these, the so-called Early Version, was probably completed about 1382, at all events before 1384, the year of Wycliffe's death.

To Mitrophanow (1883-1884) and Danilewsky (1885-1889) we owe the first serious attempts to study the comparative anatomy of these haematozoa.

He, moreover, sought in the events of his own life a verification of the theory of planetary influences; and it is to this practice that we owe the summary record of each year's occurrences which, continued almost to his death, affords for his biography a slight but sure foundation.

Evi-Jently, therefore, the Appalachians as we now see them are not the still surviving remnants of the mountains of late Palaeozoic deformation; they owe their present height chiefly to the Tertiary upwaroing and uoliftinr.

Many small lakes in the lowland appear to owe their basins to the solution of the limestones.

We are thus presented with a view of the literature of the age which is much more characteristic and comprehensive than that given by the brilliant poet to whom we owe the Ilamasa, and enables us to form a better judgment on the general level of poetic achievement.

Old alluvial deposits are left high above the existing level of many rivers, in the form of "terraces" of gravel and loam, the streams to which these owe their existence having modified their courses and cut deeper channels; such are the alluvial gravels and brick-earths upon which much of "greater London" is built.

Lord Rayleigh, to whom we owe the first general discussion of the theory of the spectroscope, found by observation that if two spectroscopic lines of frequencies n1 and n, are observed in an instrument, they are just seen as two separate lines when the centre of the central diffraction band of one coincides with the first minimum intensity of the other.

Halm,' to whom we owe a careful comparison of the above equation with the observed frequencies in a great number of spectra, attached perhaps too much weight to the fact that it is capable of representing both line and band spectra.

The details of this antagonism, as well as nearly all our knowledge of this valuable drug, we owe to Sir Thomas Fraser, who introduced it into therapeutics.

This final distinction between bodily and spiritual substances we owe to Descartes.

He therefore confined his attention to several practical arts and trades; and to these labours we owe his Beitrdge zur Geschichte der Erfindungen (1780-1805), translated into English as the History of Inventions - a work in which he relates the origin, history and recent condition of the various machines, utensils, &c., employed in trade and for domestic purposes.

The Historiated Bible, the Letter from Heaven, the Wanderings through Heaven and Hell, the numerous Adam and Cross legends, the religious poems of the "Kaleki perehozhie" and other similar productions owe their dissemination to a large extent to the activity of the Bogomils of Bulgaria, and their successors in other lands.

We owe to Newton (1642-1727) the consolidation of the views which were current in his time into one coherent and universal Galileo- system, sometimes called the Galileo-Newton theory, Newton Theory.

One kind of work practised with great zeal and success by the Studite monks, was the copying of manuscripts, so that to them and to the schools that went forth from them we owe a great number of existing Greek MSS.

Even to-day the ignorant peasantry of many European countries, Russia, Galicia and elsewhere, believe that all disease is the work of demons, and that medicinal herbs owe their curative properties to their being the materialized forms of benevolent spirits.

They owe their capacity to live under the most inhospitable conditions to the dual nature of the organism, and to their capacity to withstand extremes of heat, cold and drought without destruction.

It is to him we owe the commentaries on seven of the shorter canonical books, consisting almost entirely of verses, and also the commentary on the Netti, perhaps the oldest Pali work outside the canon.

The identification of the author of the second Gospel with Mark, which we owe to tradition, enables us to fill in our picture of him a little further.

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

It may be questioned whether there is any other writer to whom the Germans owe a deeper debt of gratitude.

It is believed that the bluish colour of many clays and limestones is referable to the presence of finely divided pyrites, and it is known that certain deposits of blue mud now forming around continental shores owe their colour, in part, to disseminated iron sulphide.

Alloy steels and cast irons are those which owe their properties chiefly to the presence of one or more elements other than carbon.

In and after the later part of the 5th century it received many Celtic immigrants from the British Isles, fleeing (it is said) from the Saxons; and the Celtic dialect which the Bretons still speak is thought to owe its origin to these immigrants.

They owe not a little to Descartes, for Pascal's indebtedness to his predecessor is unquestionable from the literary side, whatever may be the case with the scientific. But Descartes had had neither the opportunity, nor the desire, nor probably the power, to write anything of the literary importance of the Provinciales.

West of Berlin the Havel widens into what are called the I3avel lakes, to which the environs of Potsdam owe their charms. In general the soil of the North German plain cannot be termed fertile, the cultivation nearly everywhere requiring severe and constant labor.

To the connection of their kingdom with the Empire they owe the fact that for centuries they were the most divided of European nations, and that they have only recently begun to create a genuinely united state.

The Moslem inhabitants are mainly of Turkoman origin, and used to owe fealty to chieftains of the family of Chapan Oglu, whose headquarters were at Yuzgat in Cappadocia.

Under Kalan we first hear of the Burjite Mamelukes, who owe their name to the citadel (Burj) of Cairo, where 37C0 of the whole number of 12,000 Mamelukes maintained by this sovereign were quartered.

The monarchy is declared to owe its origin to the surrender of the supreme authority by the Estates to the king.

Besides these works of Alfred's, the Saxon Chronicle almost certainly, and a Saxon Martyrology, of which fragments only exist, probably owe their inspiration to him.

He himself says, "I owe more to Hamilton than to any other influence."

Ludlow was a borough by prescription in the 13th century, but the burgesses owe most of their privileges to their allegiance to the house of York.

Over much of this region they owe their preservation largely to the mass of lavas poured over them in Tertiary time.

The volcanic episode to which these plateaus owe their origin was one of the most important in the geological history of Great Britain.

But the real interest of Dortmund centres in its vast industries, which owe their development to the situation of the town in the centre of the great Westphalian coal basin.

He succeeded Haiiy as professor of mineralogy in the Museum of Natural History; but he did not confine himself to mineralogy, for it is to him that we owe the division of Reptiles into the four orders of Saurians, Batrachians, Chelonians and Ophidians.

To Strassburg we owe Goethe's first important drama, Gotz von Berlichingen, or, as it was called in its earliest form, Geschichte Gottfriedens von Berlichingen dramatisiert (not published until 1831).

As a poet, his fame has undergone many vicissitudes since his death, ranging from the indifference of the "Young German" school to the enthusiastic admiration of the closing decades of the 19th century - an enthusiasm to which we owe the Weimar Goethe-Gesellschaft (founded in 1885) and a vast literature dealing with the poet's life and work; but the fact of his being Germany's greatest poet and the master of her classical literature has never been seriously put in question.

It was as a teacher, however, that Adams rendered his most valuable services, and many American historical scholars owe their training and to a considerable extent their enthusiasm to him.

Especially in the art of metal-work Spain was much influenced in the 15th and 16th centuries by both Italy and Germany, so that numberless Spanish objects produced at that time owe little or nothing to native designers.

As the elevation continued, they were sometimes involved in the folding to which the mountains owe their origin.

The best biographical sketch of Thorbecke we owe to the late Professor Buys, his principal scholar and devoted friend, whose biography appeared in 1876 at Tiel.

To Salah Bey, who ruled from 1770 to 1792, we owe most of the existing Moslem buildings.

But we owe something to the Irish practice which first popularized the idea of maintaining a strict supervision over convicts in a state of conditional release, and it reconciled us to a system which was long wrongfully stigmatized as espionage.

Taken as a whole, the lieutenantgovernorship consists of the richest wheat-bearing country in India, irrigated both naturally by the rivers which take their rise in the northern mountains, and artificially by the magnificent system of canals which owe their origin to British enterprise.

If Alexander is responsible for such doctrines as that of the intellectus acquisitus, it is to Porphyry, with his characteristically Platonist preference for the doctrine of universals, and for classification, that we owe the scholastic preoccupation with the realist controversy, and with the quinque votes, i.e.

The pioneers of the Renaissance owe something of their strength to their training in the developments which the system that they overthrew underwent during this period.

That impatience of authority to which we owe the Renaissance, the Reformation and the birth of Nationalism, is not stilled by the downfall of Aristotle as the nomen appellativum of the schools.

It is to internal combustion that they owe their success, for it enables them to get all the heat of combustion into the working substance, to use a relatively very high temperature at the top of the range, and at the same time to escape entirely the drawbacks that arise in the air-engine proper through the need of conveying heat to the air through a metallic shell.

To Franklin also we owe the important knowledge that the electric charge resides really in the glass and not in the metal coatings, and that when a condenser has been charged the metallic coatings can be exchanged for fresh ones and yet the electric charge of the condenser remains.

Little is positively known of the wild stock to which we owe our tame birds, nor can the period of its reintroduction (for there is apparently no evidence of its domestication being continuous from the time of the Romans) be assigned more than roughly to that of the African discoveries of the Portuguese.

Excluding some of alluvial formation at the mouths of many of the rivers, and others along the shore which owe their existence to volcanic upheaval, the principal islands are Banguey and Balambangan at the northern extremity, Labuan, a British colony off the west coast of the territory of North Borneo, and the Karimata Islands off the south-west coast.

So far as concerns the residue of powers unallotted to the central or federal authority, the separate states retain unimpaired their individual sovereignty, and the citizens of a federation consequently owe a double allegiance, one to the state, and the other to the federal government.

In the recovery of a more real standard, we owe much to men like Mommsen, Ramsay, Blass and Harnack, trained amid other methods and traditions than those which had brought the constructive study of Acts almost to a deadlock.

On the other hand, considering the late date of the authority for the Scandinavian traditions, we cannot be sure that the latter may not owe some of their material to English minstrels.

To Turner's name, repeated by Gesner and other authors, we owe the introduction by Linnaeus of Sterna into scientific nomenclature.

Cantharides owe their value to the presence of a peculiar chemical principle, to which the name cantharidin has been given.

Even in copies of Jerome this is transformed into millibus; and it is perhaps not impossible that to this misreading we may indirectly owe the "thousands" in the Ursula legend.

It is to du Fay also that we owe the abolition of the distinction between electrics and non-electrics.

But for this sudden revival of Cymric literature under the patronage of Elizabeth (for the obtaining of which Wales must ever owe a deep debt of gratitude to Bishop Richard Davies, " her second St David "), there is every reason to believe that the ancient language of the Principality must either have drifted into a number of corrupt dialects, as it then showed symptoms of doing, or else have tended to ultimate extinction, much as the Cornish tongue perished in the 17th century.

Talmud by the Qaraites in their controversies with the Rabbis we owe the preservation of this recension, incomplete though it is.

After the departure of the Romans the baths seem to have been long neglected, but were again frequented in the 16th century, when the chapel of St Anne was hung round with the crutches of those who were supposed to owe their cure to her healing powers; these interesting relics were destroyed at the Reformation.

Extensive deposits of the salt (called caliche in its crude, impure state) in the provinces of Tacna, Tarapaca, Antofagasta and Atacama owe their existence to the rainless character of the climate.

To the latter fact we owe a contemporary description of it by Xenophon.

To Edward Jenner we owe the discovery that vaccination protects against smallpox, and it is now generally acknowledged that smallpox and vaccine are ' Quoted by Weir Mitchell, "Researches on the Venom of the Rattlesnake," Smithsonian Contributions (1860), p. 97.

Simple thermal waters are those which contain only a very small quantity of solids, and owe their efficacy chiefly to their temperature.

In the well-known "rest" cure, which we owe to Weir Mitchell, forced feeding takes a prominent part.

From this sprang the Lyrical Ballads, to which Coleridge contributed The Ancient Mariner, the Nightingale and two scenes from Osorio, and after much cogitation the book was published in 1798 at Bristol by Cottle, to whose reminiscences, often indulging too much in detail, we owe the account of this remarkable time.

For this purpose a horse or mule is killed, and the carcase surrounded with palisades to which the condors are soon attracted by the prospect of food, for the weight of evidence seems to favour the opinion that those vultures owe their knowledge of the presence of carrion more to sight than to scent.

It is to the Spaniards that we owe this valuable esculent..

The Operas portuguezas of Antonio Jose da Silva, produced between 1733 and 1741, owe their name to the fact that arias, minuets and modinhas were interspersed with the prose dialogue, and if neither the plots, style, nor language are remarkable, they have a real comic force and a certain originality.

Unio pictorum, the common river mussel (Thames), appears to owe its name to the fact that the shells were used at one time for holding water-colour paints as now shells of this species and of the sea mussel are used for holding gold and silver paint sold by artists' colourmen, but it has no other economic value.

The towns owe their origin to two forts or castles, built on each side of the mouth of the Medina by Henry VIII.

Nor does the new relation make any change as to the nationality of the subjects of the two states, though in some countries facilities are afforded to the subjects of the Unterstaat to transfer their allegiance; and they owe a certain ill-defined degree of obedience to the protecting state.

James Russell Lowell said, "To him more than to all other causes did the young martyrs of our Civil War owe the sustaining strength of thoughtful heroism that is so touching in every record of their lives."

Again, many devices of civilization bear unmistakable marks of derivation from a lower source; thus the ancient Egyptian and Assyrian harps, which differ from ours in having no front pillar, appear certainly to owe this remarkable defect to having grown up through intermediate forms from the simple strung bow, the still used type of the most primitive stringed instrument.

American man, for example, need not necessarily owe the minutest portion of his mental, religious, social or industrial development to remote contact with Asia or Europe, though he were proved to possess identical usages.

The magnificent revenues derived from the profits of this manufacture were devoted by the monks to various purposes of benevolence, especially in the neighbouring villages, which owe to this source their churches, schools, hospitals, &c., &c., built and maintained at the expense of the monks.

Some of these are undoubtedly faulted into their present positions, and to this they owe their preservation.

It occurs in the urine, blood, tissues, and bones of animals, calcium phosphate forming about 58% of bones, which owe their rigidity to its presence.

Deep wells owe their comparative immunity from pollution to the circumstances that the larger quantity of water yielded renders it worth while to pump that water and convey it by pipes from comparatively unpolluted areas; and that any impurities in the water must have passed through a considerable depth, and by far the larger part of them through a great length of filtering material, and must have taken so long a time to reach the well that their organic character has disappeared.

Wilson, to whom we owe our first detailed knowledge of the nyanza.

He was a Scythian by birth, and did not come to Rome till after 496; his learning was considerable for his times, and to him we owe the employment of the Christian era and a new way of reckoning Easter.

These drawbacks were felt a long time back, and to this feeling we owe two attempts at a supplementary codification which were made in the 16th century, both of which are "Liber known under the name of Liber septimus.

The swainmote, held three times in the year, is the court to which all the freeholders within the forest owe suit and service, and of which the verderers are the judges.

To this renewed interest we owe his studies of men and women of note in France in the 17th century.

Lincoln was also given the right of electing its own magistrates in 1194, and many smaller places owe grants of more or less of municipal privilege to Hubert Walter acting in the name of the absent king.

The folding of the old rocks took place towards the close of the Palaeozoic era; but the faulting to which they owe their present position was probably Tertiary.

He sought the courts of Tuscany and Naples and tried to enlist Frank sympathies, inventing (probably) the curious myth, so often credited since, that the Druses are of crusading origin and owe their name to the counts of Dreux.1 1 Sophisticated Druses still sometimes claim connexion with Rosicrucians, and a special relation to Scottish freemasons.

They comprise Seil, Easdale, Torsay, Luing and Shuna, and owe their name to the fact that they are composed mainly of metamorphic rocks, Easdale, Torsay and Luing being entirely slate, Seil mostly slate with some porphyrite in the north, and Shuna gneissose.

We owe to him, too, some manuals used in his educational work; a grammar and works on rhetoric and dialectics.

A separate tribe, the Filmans, i.e Finnmans, wander about the Pazyets, Motov and Pechenga tundras, and retain the peculiar dialect and the Lutheran creed which they owe to a former connexion with Sweden.

Many of his most acute critics would be the first to admit how much they owe to his teaching.

The lakes of Iceland owe their origin to different causes, some being due to glacial erosion, others to volcanic subsidence.

It was among the Scandinavian colonists of the British coasts that in the first generations after the colonization of Iceland therefrom a magnificent school of poetry arose, to which we owe works that for power and beauty can be paralleled in no Teutonic language till centuries after their date.

To Greenland, Iceland's farthest colony, founded in the 10th century, we owe the two Lays of Atli, and probably HymiskviOa, which, though of a weirder, harsher cast, yet belong to the Western Isles school and not to Iceland.

It is to this period of his life that we owe a revised and enlarged form of his Institutes, his Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, and his Tract on the Lord's Supper.

The families are grouped in townships or otherwise (qali) under the lesser chiefs, who again owe allegiance to the supreme chief of the matanitu or tribe.

We also owe much of our knowledge of the alkaloid piperine to Fittig, who in collaboration with Ira Remsen established its constitution in 1871.

The heresy was successfully stamped out in Britain, but distinct traces of it are to be found some three centuries later in Ireland, and it is to Irish monks on the European continent that we owe the preservation of the recently discovered copies of Pelagius's Commentary.

This reform may have helped to foster the cultivation of the native literature, and it is possible that we owe to it the preservation of the Ulster epic. But the Irish were unfortunately incapable of rising above the saga, consisting of a mixture of prose and verse.

De Lacy sublet the land among kinsmen and retainers, and to his grants the families of Nugent, Tyrell, Nangle, Tuyt, Fleming and others owe their importance in Irish history.

Since the close of the Cretaceous period the Bohemian massif has remained above the sea; but the depression which lies immediately outside the Carpathian chain has at times been covered by an arm of the sea and at other times has been occupied by a chain of salt lakes, to which the salt deposits of Wieliczka and numerous brine springs owe their origin.

As already noticed, the Malagasy owe to missionaries of the London Missionary Society their first school system and their first literature, in 1820 and subsequent years; 1 and for fifteen years all educational work was carried on by them, some 10,000 to 12,000 children having been instructed in their schools.

A venerated tree in modern Palestine will owe its sanctity to some tradition, associating it, it may be, with some saint; the Israelites in their turn held the belief that the sacred tree at Hebron was one beneath which their first ancestor sat when three divine beings revealed themselves to him.

It is highly probable that the churches of the south part of this district owe their origin to the munificence of the abbeys of Crowland and Spalding.

In the vicinity are the villages of Joinville and Montpensier, which owe their origin to military camps established by Marshal Valee in 1838; and on the road to Medea are the tombs of the marabout Mahommed-el-Kebir, who died in 1580, and his two sons.

Of the thousand years or more of effective Egyptian occupation many monuments exist, but on a broad general view it must be pronounced that they owe their fame more to the accident of survival than to any special intrinsic value.

To astrological politics we owe the theory of heaven-sent rulers, instruments in the hands of Providence, and saviours of society.

To him we owe the well-known catch, "Hark, the bonny Christ Church bells."

Yet probably to no one man, except perhaps to Washington, does American nationalism owe so much as to Hamilton.

The commercial value of tea, coffee, wine and other beverages may be said to depend largely on the delicate aroma which they owe to the presence of minute quantities of ethereal oils.

The curvature of the range around the Brazilian massif, and the position of the zone of older rocks upon the eastern flank, led Suess to the conclusion that the Andes owe their origin to an overthrust from east to west, and that the Vorland lies beneath the Pacific. In the south Wehrli and Burckhardt maintain that the thrust came from the west, and they look upon the ancient rocks of Argentina as the Vorland.

A strong man offered himself in Bardaisan (q.v.; Bardesanes), to whom perhaps we owe the finest Syriac poem extant, the " Hymn of the Soul," though orthodoxy rejected him.

The large number of vegetable substances used as purgatives owe their action to an irritating effect upon the mucous membrane and the neuro-muscular apparatus of the bowel, whereby the secretions and peristalsis are more or less increased, as the result of which diarrhoea ensues.

It is noteworthy that these mistranslations are for the most part found in Jeremiah - a fact which has rightly drawn scholars to the conclusion that we owe the LXX of Baruch i.-iii.

All cultivated hemp belongs to the same species, Cannabis saliva; the special varieties such as Cannabis indica, Cannabis chinensis, &c., owe their differences to climate and soil, and they lose many of their peculiarities when cultivated in temperate regions.

How much do I owe you, sir?

He loves you; remember that and you owe him all the consideration you can muster.

You and the Guardians gave me a second chance, B, and I owe it to you, and me, and the … the girl I hurt to make things right.

I owe D my life.

But" – she rushed on – "I want to clarify that I'm not going to owe you anything and there's no weird contract with fine print that says you get to claim my firstborn child or anything."

I may be obligated, but I also owe a life debt to this particular Guardian.

Many climbers and walkers owe their lives to the shelter afforded by MBA maintained bothies.

On reflection do you not think you too owe an apology to the Forum?

I am sure we owe him no such particular civility as to be obliged to say nothing HE may not like to hear.

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This notice will inform members how much they owe or how much will be collected by direct debit over what period.

It is to Austin that we owe the distinctive ethos of History at Lancaster.

The Vale army is under the command of the Knight-Protector of the Vale, to whom all the Knights of the Vale owe fealty.

And I owe most of it (some to the teacher) to murderous maths.

We owe a debt of gratitude to Horatio for the financial aid he gave his orphaned nephews.

What they require of us is not absolute, but only because we first owe obedience to our heavenly Father.

Tom Clothier I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Patronage politics are dominated by who knows who, who owes who, and how much they owe.

Do not forget to note down any debts owed to you or any money you owe to others.

Does the free marriage owe anything to the analytic philosophy?

I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty, and to help reformers.

To him we owe the symbols for and, a 2 and a 3, and the cube root sign.

William did not, however, owe more service to the Crown than before, for in 1230 he paid scutage on 9?

I figure we owe you one for this little shindig.

You owe it to us all to resist him in this, even if you have no solicitude for yourself.

A major stumbling block preventing this from occurring is the crippling debt these developing countries will subsequently owe.

You owe the Oracle a can opener that doesn't require an opposable thumb.

Home owner insurance trampoline coverage amounts we owe it.

Fischer said, My priestly vocation, the source of my happiness, I owe to almighty God.

Harden, New View of the Atomic Theory (1896), have shown, from a study of Dalton's manuscript notes, that we do not owe his atomic theory to such experiments.

To the study of the life-history of the butyric and acetic organisms we owe the terms "anaerobic" and "aerobic."

The record of his voyage is interesting from the fact that he was the first to carry back to Europe an authentic account of the western coast of Australia, which he described in any but favourable terms. It is to Dutch navigators in the early portion of the 17th century that we owe the first really authentic accounts of the western coast and adjacent islands, and in many instances the names given by these mariners to prominent physical features are still retained.

Later works by the Jesuits Bartoli, Maffei, de Sousa, Poussines, Menchacha, Leon Pages and others owe much to Torsellino and Lucena, but also incorporate many traditions which can no longer be verified.

In later post-exilian times this great day of atonement became to an increasing degree a day of humiliation for sin and penitent sorrow, accompanied by confession; and the sins confessed were not only of a purely ceremonial character, whether voluntary or inadvertent, but also sins against righteousness and the duties which we owe to God and man.

At the same time we have no evidence that any Endopterygota existed amongst Palaeozoic insects, so that the phenomena of endopterygotism are comparatively recent, and we are led to infer that the Endopterygota owe their origin to the older Exopterygota.

The peculiar art therein is that while the discords owe their intelligibility and softness to the smooth melodic lines by which in " resolving " they prove themselves but transient rainbow-hues on or below the surface, they owe their strangeness to the intense vividness with which at the moment of impact they suggest a mysteriously remote foreign key.

Marchi's line of investigation was followed by the Commendatore De Rossi, and his brother Michele, the former of whom was Marchi's fellow-labourer during the latter part of his explorations; and it is to them that we owe the most exhaustive scientific examination of the whole subject.

It is to Jellinek that we owe the oft-repeated comparison of the Jewish temperament to that of women in its quickness of perception, versatility and sensibility.

They are homoplasts (see 18) one of another, and do not owe their existence in the various classes compared to a common inheritance of an ancestral tracheal system.

To the wider national sympathies which stimulated the researches of the old censor into the legendary history of the Italian towns we owe some of the most truly national parts of Virgil's Aeneid.

The so-called Psalter of Solomon, on the other hand, a collection of Pharisee psalms written in Hebrew soon after the taking of Jerusalem by Pompey, and preserved to us only in a Greek version, has nothing to do with Solomon or the traditional conception of his person, and seems to owe its name to a transcriber who thus distinguished these newer pieces from the older "Psalms of David" (see SOLOMON, PSALMS OF).

But it is to the physicists of the 19th century, and especially to Joule, whose experimental results were published in 1843-1849, that we practically owe the most notable advance that has been made in the development of the subject - namely, the establishment of the principle of the conservation of energy (see Energetics and Energy).

Traced eastward into north Germany, Thuringia and Silesia, the limestones pass into the detrital culm formations, which owe their existence to a southern uplifted massif, the complement of the synclines already mentioned.

His flight from the monastery of Sahagun, where his brother Sancho endeavoured to imprison him, his chivalrous friendship for his host Almanun of Toledo, caballero aunque mon, a gentleman although a Moor, the passionate loyalty of his vassal Peranzules and his brotherly love for his sister Urraca of Zamora, may owe something to the poet who took him for hero.

They appear to owe their position to the latest redactor (akin to the latest stratum in the Hexateuch) who has heavily worked over xix.- xxi., and put the book into its present form by the addition of i.-ii.

To Henrique Lopes de Men - donga, scholar, critic and poet, we owe some strong historical plays as well as the piece written with Lobato, which made a big hit.

I owe my life to you and offer you my friendship.

You owe it to yourself and your kids to incorporate Time-Out into your life and theirs today.

You owe the Oracle a can opener that does n't require an opposable thumb.

To what do I owe this tirade of abuse from you?

This way, you distance yourself from any unpleasantness involved in reminding a client they owe you money !

The British public and the Gurkhas owe a great deal to General Sir Walter Walker and his unselfish devotion to his beloved Gurkhas.

It currently seems to owe more to wishful thinking than reality.

Finally, you owe it to yourself to stay as informed as possible.

If you are going to return to work soon, you owe it to yourself to become educated on the facts of breastfeeding and working.

Make sure you understand everything he/she has done, and definitely be sure you know how much money you owe or how much money you're getting back.

Luggage Shops - Many leather backpacks owe more to luggage than handbags in their construction, so visiting a dedicated luggage shop may yield the backpack you seek.

While the traditional and most recommended method for paying off debt is to pay what you owe, there may be ways to eliminate some of what you have to pay back.

One of the most effective methods for reducing what you owe is debt settlement.

In this method, you will pay less than what you owe, after coming to an agreement with the creditor.

You may need to increase your income or reduce your assets if you owe money on those assets.

Debt consolidation programs work on behalf of consumers to reduce the amount of debt they owe.

The process of debt settlement is to settle a debt, or legally pay it off, for less than you actually owe.

This means that you shouldn't allow yourself to leave bills unopened or avoid staying in contact with the creditors to whom you owe money.

Debt settlement, however, can actually reduce the amount of debt you owe.

If you are in a 30 percent tax bracket, that means you owe $1,620 in taxes just for this forgiven debt.

Since this could eat into your tax return or make you owe the government, this puts you in a sticky situation.

Having a professional review your taxes and estimate how much you owe can help you decide if the program is worth it.

Now you have a clear understanding of what you owe and when it is due, next are to determine how you will make the payments.

Reduce the principal that you owe on any debt.

This company will pay an amount equal to 10 percent of the average amount you owe on your cards for up to 12 months.

Equity is the amount of money your home is worth minus the amount of money you owe.

The amount you owe on your accounts and the number of accounts with balances will affect the score.

The collector cannot produce lists of consumers who owe debts.

Chances are good that if you owe Wells Fargo money, you can easily pay it online.

Some will even offer a discount on the entire amount you owe if you pay a lump sum amount by a set due date.

Whenever a borrower ignores requests from the creditor about the debt they owe, they show the lender they have no real intention of paying the debt.

Those who owe money can miss out on blessings due to lost spiritual focus.

Figure out how much you owe for your next Sears payment.

Balance transfers from higher interest rates are particularly attractive to many individuals who feel they are paying too much on the money that they owe, and that each payment barely chips away at their debt.

With this tool, you simply enter the amount of money that you owe and the payment you are making.

Chase offers the debt management help as a courtesy to customers; but, what if you are not comfortable with getting help from the very creditor to which you owe money?

In other words, collectors can still ask you to pay the debt that has exceeded the statute of limitations, but they cannot take you to court in an attempt to make you pay what you owe.

You then owe money to that one single lender and you send a single monthly payment.

Calculate debt settlement proposals by looking at the total amount of money you owe and then figuring out what percentage of that full amount you are willing (and able) to pay.

For example, if you owe $1000 to a creditor on a delinquent account, you can contact the creditor and propose a settlement amount of $400, which is 40 percent of $1000.

Don't believe the ads that say you can basically forget about your debt or only pay back a tiny percentage of what you owe.

Sometimes these companies will negotiate so that you don't have to pay the total amount you owe, but instead you pay only a portion of the debt.

First of all, collect all of your notices and find out exactly how much you owe.

This may seem like an intimidating process, especially if you have lost control over how much money you truly owe, but it is an important first step.

If you have so much debt you can't make your monthly payments or you feel as if you will never be able to climb out, you can consider contacting your creditors to try to settle your debt for less than what you owe.

It knows that you have the money to repay any balance you owe.

Forbearance doesn't change the amount of money you owe to creditors.

If you receive a notice either from a lender or from a collection agency that the lender has hired on its behalf, it should state exactly how much you owe and must repay.

You will also need to provide proof that you do not owe the requested amount, such as a copy of a police report or a payment receipt.

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Typically when you sign up for a collection service online you enter your information and the contact information of your debtors, as well as how much they owe you, and often how long they have owed you money.

You can choose from different ways to contact the people who owe you money, such as having a letter sent to them, having a call made to their home or both.

You owe it to yourself and everyone who cares for you to get the help you need.

There was no one really left in my life, so I was extremely grateful and owe him a huge debt of gratitude.

There is no minimum amount you need to owe to qualify for consolidation, and there are no fees to consolidate.

Figure out how much you owe, and who you owe it to.

While the federal government can cancel or reduce the debts you owe via student loans, the circumstances under which they will offer debt forgiveness is specified by the types of forgiveness programs.

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The amount of money you can borrow is directly related to the value of your home and the amount of money that you currently owe.

In this option, you turn the equity in your home into cash by refinancing your existing mortgage for more than you currently owe.

Start running as you add that you don't owe them a thing!

Contributions made to a Roth IRA are not tax deductible, but the Roth IRA offers tax-free growth, so you don't owe tax when you make withdrawals.

You nor your estate will ever owe any more than your property's value.

If you don't make a withdrawal, you'll owe a 50 percent penalty on the amount you should have withdrawn.

Although each puzzle is fairly linear (as is the entire game), we owe our thanks to Ubisoft for adhering to this, as a completely open-ended Prince of Persia would be nearly impossible to complete...

Pinot Grigio may owe much of its tremendous popularity to its quaffability.

Your employer doesn't owe you much under layoff laws.

Equity is the difference between how much you still owe on your home and how much it is worth.

Enter the total amount you still owe on your first mortgage.

You could end up paying thousands of dollars in interest and selling your house for what you owe on it.

At the end of that amount of time (usually 5-7 years) people with interest only mortgage loans can refinance, pay the full amount they owe, or start paying off the principal balance.

For example, if your home's market value is $150,000 and you owe $50,000 on your mortgage, you have $100,000 equity in your home.

One of the biggest problems with home equity loans is that if your house loses equity (as is currently happening in some housing markets) you could end up paying money on something that isn't worth what you owe on it.

The amount of equity that you have built in your home depends on how much you still owe on the house and how much the house is currently valued at.

With a cash-out refinance, you refinance your first mortgage for more than you owe and get cash back at closing.

Think about how long you plan to be in the home, how much your home is worth, and how much you still owe on it.

The amount of money that you can borrow will depend not only on how much you owe and the value of your home, but also on the guidelines set by your lender.

If your home increased in value as fast as you spent money, you may owe nothing.

You need to contact all the people you owe money to - whether you're current with them or not - and start working out payment plans.

People who still owe a considerable amount of money on their mortgages and who do not have much equity built up in the home are not good candidates for reverse mortgages.

If you buy a house for $150,000 and for five years only pay interest, then you still owe $150,000 unless you make additional payments toward principal.

The equity in your home is the amount of money your home is worth minus the amount of money you owe on your mortgage and any other loans attached to the home.

Equity is the amount of money your home is worth after you subtract any money you owe on it.

For example, if the market value of your home is $200,000 and you have a mortgage with which you owe $125,000, the amount of equity in your home is $75,000.

Some states allow the original homeowner to buy back the property by paying whatever money they still owe.

It indicates how much you still owe on your house from year to year.

Due to falling home values, a homeowner may be unable to refinance their mortgage to a lower interest rate if they owe more than 80 percent of the current market value of the home.