Without it we are all, to put it proverbially, screwed.
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Pyongyang's argument simply wouldn't hold up in court, proverbially speaking.
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You know what they say: Talk sh*t, get proverbially hit.
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Until said award exists, we need to learn how to proverbially walk and chew bubblegum.
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Still, with a bit of preparation and the right attitude, it doesn't have to proverbially rain on your vacation.
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And since Uncle Sam has a proverbially long hand, Washington is also involved in major trouble spots threatening geopolitical stability.
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However, these shows of faith in myself have not proliferated simply because my therapist has proverbially patted me on the back.
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Elephants are proverbially hard to miss, but even these huge beasts can be swallowed up in the vast plains of Africa.
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If Kjellberg ever streams on YouTube, where his videos regularly pull in millions of views, it will proverbially break the internet.
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But I'm constantly thinking about the why I can't just live without having my size be proverbially attached my attractiveness or worth.
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It was so notable that she says the chart showing the spike in net-long futures positions proverbially keeps her team up at night.
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But when I paused to really pay attention — and stopped busily managing logistics and proverbially running through the pain — I knew it wasn't right.
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By joining her all-American 21-year-old counterpart on the runway, Hutton has proverbially passed the torch to a whole new generation of models.
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She is Versace, both literally and proverbially, and yet she is so much Versace, so impossibly anything but Versace, that she is never called Versace.
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Death is proverbially a leveller, but this sweeping and provocative study, which examines economic trends from the earliest societies to now, takes the idea further.
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Just as there are proverbially no atheists in foxholes, it's increasingly difficult to be a local politician in coastal Florida and deny the sea is rising.
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The holy grail of voice recognition technology is to render speech as a natural method of communication between humans and the software that's proverbially eating the world.
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PARIS (Reuters) - United States captain Jim Furyk proverbially fell on his own sword on Sunday, accepting blame for his team's heavy loss to Europe at the Ryder Cup.
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And when the views of those who are actually afflicted by ill-health are considered, the cases cited are often the hard ones that proverbially make bad law.
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For an entire decade — known proverbially as Japan's lost decade, due to its persistently and irremediably sluggish growth, and intermittent years of recession — commissions in Tokyo completely dried up.
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" But llike many Democrats, Potter believes that the race is still fluid and that "the lesson, I think, is not to attempt to proverbially set your hair on fire.
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"Sources of buzz" could be office water coolers where people proverbially gather to chat, but in this puzzle, we're supposed to be thinking of bees, and the answer is HIVES. 50D.
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With five planets in retrograde and Mercury entering its pre-shadow phase on Saturday before proverbially throwing a fork in the blender later this month, we're witnessing the calm before the storm.
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It's a potted history, and one that dips proverbially "in" and "out" of the closet—which is to say that, while some films are overtly LGBT, others have the potential to be read that way.
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" McCloskey began working on his library after 9/11, when he started to not only question how to proverbially love his neighbor, but how to actually "live the intimacy of the truth of the human heart.
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He's like a hyper-empowered schlemiel — I'm using the Yiddish word for the guy who proverbially spills his borscht all over you — while turning the rest of us into his schlimazels, the ones who get spilled on.
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"It's Trump going after Cuba that worries investors, as opposed to Venezuela, which has largely been proverbially costed in," said British investor and consultant David Mathew, who has been involved with a number of Cuba projects, including growing and importing coffee.
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The man who proverbially would never tell a lie sure could prevaricate, and Washington's carping about his troops, his officers and his lot in life — "I distrust everything," he grumbled in 1776 — transforms the demigod into a sometimes petulant mortal.
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Americans do not generally refer to a wood; they say the woods, where bears proverbially relieve themselves, or woodlands, or sometimes a woodlot, but a discrete parcel of the primary forest that once covered the land scarcely excites the American imagination.
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But based on the data we see from the top-selling U.S. brands in China via Alibaba's Tmall, Amazon could be looking to proverbially "kill two birds with one stone" with these offerings — it looks like most of them will clearly appeal to the Chinese consumer, as well.
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"Only when you actually get your hands proverbially dirty by rolling up your sleeves and engaging in these projects and initiatives can you really learn and understand the issues and how we can make an impact, however small," wrote Joss Kent, chief executive of andBeyond, in an email.
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Krystal, who wants above all else to survive, is all Eros, all Id. Reduced to living with her infant daughter in the storeroom of the water park, subsisting on a steady diet of Miller Lite and stolen dollar-hot-dogs, it does not seem particularly unnatural that she might desire a little more security, or that instinct might convince her it is better to proverbially kill than to be killed.
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And he all unnoticed, and still a commoner, while Vernon Smith is a peer! But idiots are proverbially the favourites of fortune.' He was chairman of the London School Board between 1870 and 1873.Mosley, Charles, editor.
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Imperial German Silesia 1905. The population moved both to Silesia and to neighboring provinces. For example, a "typical" inhabitant of Berlin of 1938 would proverbially be a Silesian.Anthony Read, David Fisher, "The Fall of Berlin", Da Capo Press, 1995, page 18.
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Joseph Dejardin, Dictionnaire des spots ou proverbes wallons, Liège 1863, p.371 But the fable’s title itself eventually came to be used proverbially, for example as the title of a novel by Ernest Feydeau (Paris 1872) and a historical play by Jean Schlumberger (Paris, 1924).
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In Plautus' comedy The Captives, a reference to the Turdetani (Act i, Scene ii) amusingly purports to show that their district in Hispania Baetica had become proverbially famous for the thrushes and small birds supplied for Roman tables. Turdus is the genus of the thrushes.
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In support of this, he cites Diogenianus, who says that in the Gardens of Adonis, seedlings "wither quickly because they have not taken root".Diogenianus, Παροιμιαι Δημωδεις, 1.14 In ancient Greece, the phrase "Gardens of Adonis" was used proverbially to refer to something "trivial and wasteful".
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Located on the River Forth, Stirling is the administrative centre for the Stirling council area, and is traditionally the county town of Stirlingshire. Proverbially it is the strategically important "Gateway to the Highlands". It has been said that "Stirling, like a huge brooch clasps Highlands and Lowlands together". Similarly "he who holds Stirling, holds Scotland" is often quoted.
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The pose is named after Durvasa (दुर्वासा), a proverbially angry sage. The 18th century Hathabhyasapaddhati verse 81 describes a pose that it names Trivikramasana with the words "Place a foot on the neck and stand up". The 19th century Sritattvanidhi describes and illustrates a pose that it names Trivikramasana, but which the yoga scholar Norman Sjoman states is Durvasasana.
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Wulfgeat was an important adviser to Ethelred, a king who proverbially, as the Unready or Redeless, did not accept good advice: he fell into disgraceDuignan, p. 9, footnote 2. and Wulfrun's grants were partly to make amends for his perceived injustices. When Wulfgeat died in about 1006, he left four oxen to the church at Heantune.
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The Belfast Gazette further praised "the people, proverbially sober and industrious, are prospering as they deserve to do". The farm predominantly ran sheep but also had a small number of cattle and horses. Krummnow became an accomplished shearer – giving demonstrations to local farmers. Soon, however, the harmony of the group was interrupted by a dispute about the ownership of the Herrnhut land.
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Gustave Doré's print of La Fontaine's fable, 1867 Hares are proverbially timid and a number of fables have been based on this behaviour. The best known, often titled "The Hares and the Frogs", appears among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 138 in the Perry Index.Aesopica As well as having an Asian analogue, there have been variant versions over the centuries.
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Though he begs for more time and attempts to bribe Death, no mercy is given. Proverbially, an "Anika the Warrior" is one engaged in something as hopeless as a fight against death. He appears in the folk plays Tsar Maximilian and King Herod, and is mentioned in Maxim Gorky's Childhood. Its plot is loosely based on the Byzantine epic about Digenes Akritas.
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It is the last confirmed place where the Punic language was spoken, in the 5th century CE. The region had no recognized administrative centre and was infested for centuries by bandits. In Classical times, the coast was "proverbially dangerous to shipping", called "inhospita Syrtis" in Virgil's Aeneid.Book IV, line 41 John Milton's Paradise Lost Book 2 lines 939-940 speaks of "a boggy Syrtis, neither sea/Nor good dry land".
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Summerson (1993), 58–59; Airs, 14–17, 50 A characteristic was the large area of glass – a new feature that superseded the need for easily defended external walls and announced the owners' wealth. Hardwick Hall, for example, was proverbially described as "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall."Airs, 158 Many other smaller prodigy houses were built by businessmen and administrators, as well as long-established families of the peerage and gentry.
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The centre of the domestic service of the gods is formed by the worship of the Penates and Lares. In particular cases recourse was also had to certain specified deities. Besides this, private sacra were attached to particular families; these passed to the heir with the succession and became a burden on him. Hence an inheritance without sacra [hereditas sine sacris] proverbially signified an unimpaired piece of good fortune.
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Eric Berne described the game of "Stupid" as having "the thesis...'I laugh with you at my own clumsiness and stupidity.'"Eric Berne, Games People Play (Penguin 1968) p. 138 He points out that the player has the advantage of lowering other people's expectations, and so evading responsibility and work; but that he or she may still come through under pressure, like the proverbially stupid younger son.Berne, p.
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Proverbially, "when the emotion becomes too strong for speech, you sing; when it becomes too strong for song, you dance."Wattenberg, Ben. The American Musical, Part 2, PBS.org, May 24, 2007, accessed February 7, 2017 In a book musical, a song is ideally crafted to suit the character (or characters) and their situation within the story; although there have been times in the history of the musical (e.g.
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466,371 (1937) Bowell married Phoebe March in June 1898. He died, aged 67, on 3 February 1942. In total, he was awarded thirty-two patents across five countries, of which twenty-two were British. His early collaborator, Frank Hope-Jones, contributed to Bowell's obituary, 'I understand that he met with an abundant share of the trials and difficulties which proverbially beset the inventor and that he failed to reap the reward due his skill and ingenuity.
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The Centre of Stirling Bridge - The Heart of Scotland Matthew Paris's map of 1247 shows a clear north-south divide to Scotland. Proverbially Stirling is the strategically important "Gateway to the Highlands". It has been said that "Stirling, like a huge brooch clasps Highlands and Lowlands together". There is also and east-west divide as told in the story as recorded by Boece who relates that in 855 Scotland was invaded by two Northumbrian princes, Osbrecht and Ella.
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Beecher was proverbially absent-minded, and after having been wrought up by the excitement of preaching was accustomed to relax his mind by playing "Auld Lang Syne" on the violin, or dancing the "double shuffle" in his parlor. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the home of her father Lyman Beecher on the former campus of the Lane Theological Seminary. Harriet lived here until her marriage. It is the only building of Lane still standing.
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The river Kosi, which is proverbially known as the sorrow of Bihar, has one of its embankment 8 km west to this village. Before this embankment came into existence, coping with flood was a routine thing for people of this area. However, since the 1950s when the embankment was made, there has been only one occasion when the village has been affected by the flood. This happened in September 1984 when the Kosi embankment breached near Nauhatta in Supaul district.
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The tract in which Andkhoy stands is fertile, but proverbially unhealthy; the Persians accounted it "a hell upon earth" by reason of its scorching sands, brackish water, flies and scorpions. Renovation of Andkhoy started in 1959, mainly at the eastern parts of the old town. The original plan of the infrastructure was reconditioned and reduced to half its volume of the developments to take place. The property owners refused to sell their land for further developments and the plan consequently failed.
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Methymna gained a particular reputation among Romans for viticulture during the Imperial period. Virgil speaks of the vines of Methymna as the best and most numerous on Lesbos, while Ovid invokes them as an example of something which is proverbially numerous and bountiful.Virgil, Georgics 2.89-90, Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.57-9. The distinctive strong taste of Methymnaean wine is mentioned by Silius Italicus, and Propertius uses this as a point of reference when describing another Greek wine.Silius Italicus, Punica 7.209-11, Propertius 4.8.38.
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Whirling dervishes, Rumi Fest 2007 The whirling dance or Sufi whirling that is proverbially associated with dervishes is best known in the West by the practices (performances) of the Mevlevi order in Turkey, and is part of a formal ceremony known as the Sama. It is, however, also practiced by other orders. The Sama is only one of the many Sufi ceremonies performed to try to reach religious ecstasy (majdhb, fana). The name Mevlevi comes from the Persian poet Rumi, who was a dervish himself.
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Dauke (2004) also gave another version of the tradition on the "discovery" of the Aku and Ashokwa clans. According to him, the Aku were proverbially said to have "sprung out" from the hoof marks of the Agbaat horsemen as they pursued the Ashokwa. In other words, while the Agbaat were pursuing the Ashokwa, the hooves of their horsemen opened a termite's mound from where the Aku emanated. This explains why the Aku to date bear the nickname of "Bi̠n Cíncai", which means, "relatives of the termites".
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Under the proverbially rich King Croesus (reigned 560–546 BC), Phrygia remained part of the Lydian empire that extended east to the Halys River. There may be an echo of strife with Lydia and perhaps a veiled reference to royal hostages, in the legend of the twice-unlucky Adrastus, the son of a King Gordias with the queen, Eurynome. He accidentally killed his brother and exiled himself to Lydia, where King Croesus welcomed him. Once again, Adrastus accidentally killed Croesus' son and then committed suicide.
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The plant referred to here is generally considered to be black mustard, a large annual plant up to tall,I. Howard Marshall, The Gospel of Luke: A commentary on the Greek text, Eerdmans, 1978, , pp. 561. but growing from a proverbially small seed: this smallness is also used to refer to faith in Matthew 17:20 and Luke 17:6. According to rabbinical sources, Jews did not grow the plant in gardens, and this is consistent with Matthew's description of it growing in a field.
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1746 also marked the purchase of land from the Wyantenock tribe by the Averill family for a homestead on Baldwin Hill, which is still occupied and farmed by direct descendants of the original inhabitants. Washington was incorporated in 1779, with lands carved from the towns of Woodbury, Litchfield, Kent and New Milford. The town was named after George Washington, who traveled through the area several times during the American Revolution, and proverbially slept in New Preston in 1781. Major William Cogswell, son of Edward Cogswell, was elected the town's first selectman.
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This muscular action is clearly visible when a snail is crawling on the glass of a window or aquarium. Snails move at a proverbially low speed (1 mm/s is a typical speed for adult Helix lucorum). Snails secrete mucus externally to keep their soft bodies from drying out. They also secrete mucus from the foot to aid in locomotion by reducing friction, and to help reduce the risk of mechanical injury from sharp objects, meaning they can crawl over a sharp edge like a straight razor and not be injured.
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They often had additional practical advantages as well, in terms of size, power requirements, or being air-cooled instead of requiring a chilled water supply. This offered a price/performance ratio superior to the IBM lineup, and made Amdahl one of the few real competitors to "Big Blue" in the very high-margin computer market segment. The company won about 8% of the mainframe business worldwide, but was a market leader in some regions, most notably in the Carolinas. Proverbially, savvy IBM customers liked to have Amdahl coffee mugs visible in their offices when IBM salespeople came to visit.
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In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, Dubthach Dóeltenga ("beetle-tongue", beetles being proverbially black) was a cynical ally of Fergus mac Róich who rarely had a good word to say about anyone. He accompanied Fergus to escort Deirdre and Naoise back to Ireland under the orders of Conchobar and later followed Fergus into exile in Connacht following Naoise's murder under Conchobar's orders. He was responsible for the death of Conchobar's son, among others. He later fought beside him in the Táin Bó Cuailnge, although at one point Fergus kicked him right out of the camp for his plans to kill Cú Chulainn.
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After a small discussion between the two, Cenmar told the king two things: the first was about a brick within the palace that would cause the whole construction to collapse if moved, and that he was the only one to know where it lies; the second was that he could build a palace that moved with the sunlight wherever it went. The king, who became afraid of Cenmar's knowledge of the brick and jealous he might build a bigger and more beautiful palace for another king, ordered his guardians to kill Cenmar by throwing him off the palace down to the ground. "Cenmar's compensation" is used proverbially in Persian and Arabic.
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Das Schulmeisterlein – Aus dem Leben des Volksschullehrers im 19. Jahrhundert, Exhibition on 19th-century teaching in Lohr am Main school museum, 20 May 2012 The notion of Biedermeier, a petty bourgeois image of the age between 1830 and 1848, was coined on Samuel Friedrich Sauter, a school master and poet which had written the famous German song "Das arme Dorfschulmeisterlein" (The poor little schoolmaster). Actually the 18th primary teachers income was a third of a parish priest and teachers were being described as being as uppity as proverbially poor. However German notion of homeschooling was less than favorable, Germans deemed the school system as being necessary. E.g.
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Mircea Eliade, Journal II, 1957-1969, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1989, p.4. He later came to the conclusion that the very evolution of mammals was made possible by the abundance or scarcity of food: the ancestors of such animals were arboreal and viviparous reptiles, who evolved into lighter and more agile species while continuously searching for food sources; an exception was the proverbially slow-moving sloth, whose feed, the slugs, was in abundance.Piveteau, p.155-156 Sanielevici explained hair growth on mammals (humans included) as an adaptation to humidity, while differences in skin pigmentation reflected exclusively the nature of the soil and the specimen's own blood circulation.
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Argentines enjoy a variety of alcoholic beverages and Argentina can boast a varied array of elaboraciones, whether industrial or artisanal. Besides beer and wine, Argentines frequently drink cider (here again, the heritage comes from Spain and Italy, more precisely from Asturias and Campania). Cider is the most popular beverage of the middle and lower economic classes at Christmas and New Year (the upper classes proverbially preferring to celebrate with locally produced champagne, although real old-line "creole" aristocrats will still drink cider, which is much more traditional). Other widely consumed spirits are aguardiente (firewater) made from sugar cane, known as caña quemada ("burnt cane") or, simply, 'caña' ("cane").
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An early (1888) conception of what a Neanderthal male may have looked like; reconstructions such as this greatly influenced the portrayal of "Neanderthals" in popular culture. Wax model of a Neanderthal, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 1929 Le Moustier Neanderthals by Charles R. Knight (1920) Neanderthal statue in Veringenstadt, Germany (1960s) Sculptural family group at Krapina Neanderthal Site (Croatia) Neanderthals have been portrayed in popular culture since the early 20th century. Early depictions were based on notions of the proverbially crude, low-browed caveman; since the latter part of the 20th century, some depictions were modeled on more sympathetic reconstructions of life in the Middle Paleolithic era.
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His friends at the Royal Academy such as Sir Thomas Lawrence, George Dance, Benjamin West and Joseph Farington were able to introduce him to patrons such as: John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn; Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville; Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet; George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford; Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst; John 'Mad Jack' Fuller and William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale. These politicians and aristocrats ensured his rapid advancement and several were to commission buildings from Smirke themselves. Thomas Leverton Donaldson described Smirke as able to please "Men whom it was proverbially impossible to please".
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After their destruction of Gordium, the Cimmerians remained in western Anatolia and warred with Lydia, which eventually expelled them by around 620 BC, and then expanded to incorporate Phrygia, which became the Lydian empire's eastern frontier. The Gordium site reveals a considerable building program during the 6th century BC, under the domination of Lydian kings including the proverbially rich King Croesus. Meanwhile, Phrygia's former eastern subjects fell to Assyria and later to the Medes. There may be an echo of strife with Lydia and perhaps a veiled reference to royal hostages, in the legend of the twice-unlucky Phrygian prince Adrastus, who accidentally killed his brother and exiled himself to Lydia, where King Croesus welcomed him.
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In 1980 he met Cesenate actress Nicoletta Braschi, who became his wife on 26 December 1991 and who has starred in most of the films he has directed. In June 1983 he appeared during a public political demonstration by the Italian Communist Party, with which he was a sympathiser, and on this occasion he lifted and cradled the party's national leader Enrico Berlinguer. It was an unprecedented act, given that until that moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal. Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show ("Wojtylaccio", meaning "Bad Wojtyla" in Italian, but with a somewhat friendly meaning in Tuscan dialect).
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Legend has it, that after Keawe's death, while both brothers were living in their respective territories a quarrel arose between them over the claim to the Big Island throne, and that Kaiimamao was killed, or caused to be killed, by Keʻeaumoku Nui. One version of legend states that he was deposed ("Wailani") by the landholders ("Makaainana") of Kaū, who were a notoriously and proverbially turbulent people, frequently deposing, and even slaying, their chiefs, when, either from popular caprice of personal tyranny, they had become unpopular. Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the son of Kalaninuiamamao assumed the lordship of his father's land as his patrimonial estate. Kalaniʻōpuʻu later passed it as such from him to his son Kīwalaʻō.
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Proverbially, one may sell a house for as little as a peppercorn, even if the seller "does not like pepper and will throw away the corn."Chappell & Co Ltd v Nestle Co Ltd [1960] AC 87, per Lord Somervell This means the courts do not generally enquire into the fairness of the exchange,c.f. UK insolvency law, IA 1986 s 238 allows the court to declare a contract by an insolvent company void if it was at an undervalue to protect the general body of creditors. unless there is statutory regulatione.g. National Minimum Wage Act 1998 or (in specific contexts such as for consumers, employment, or tenancies) there are two parties of unequal bargaining power.e.g.
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In the 1840s personal narrative Two Years Before the Mast, the author (Richard Henry Dana, Jr.) describes the role of a second mate on an American merchant trading brig as follows: > The second mate's is proverbially a dog's berth. He is neither officer nor > man. The men do not respect him as an officer, and he is obliged to go aloft > to reef and furl the topsails, and to put his hands into the tar and slush, > with the rest. The crew call him the "sailor's waiter," as he has to furnish > them with spun-yarn, marline, and all other stuffs that they need in their > work, and has charge of the boatswain's locker, which includes serving- > boards, marline-spikes, etc.
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Partick Vercher at L'Audiophile said that the ideal listening position is at least 3 metres away, and 40-50 cm lower than a normal seated position; alternatively the speaker needs to be hoisted up by that amount for a comfortable sound. The sound itself is described as possessing "unshakeable dynamics" when turned up loud, pacey without any sign of fatiguing distortion, and with an impressive separation of instruments. Sonic Flare describes the sound of the Paragon as possessing well-integrated "liquid highs, excellent midrange and bass", and proverbially worth dying for. There are rumours that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin acquired three Paragons each – one for each of left, center and right channels – with which they used to monitor their recordings from master tapes.
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Lemprière notes that "As Caria probably abounded in figs, a particular sort has been called Carica, and the words In Care periculum facere, have been proverbially used to signify the encountering of danger in the pursuit of a thing of trifling value." The region of Caria continues to be an important fig-producing area to this day, accounting for most fig production in Turkey, which is the world's largest producer of figs. An account also cited that Aristotle claimed Caria, as a naval empire, occupied Epidaurus and Hermione and that this was confirmed when the Athenians discovered the graves of the dead from Delos. Half of it were identified as Carians based on the characteristics of the weapons they were buried with.
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His parents belonged to old and aristocratic families, being descended from the founder of the city, Juan de Garay, as well as from notable men of letters of 19th century Argentina, such as Florencio Varela and Miguel Cané. As was traditional at the time, the family spent protracted periods in Paris and London so that Manuel, known proverbially and famously as Manucho, could become proficient in French and English. He completed his formal education at the Colegio Nacional de San Isidro, later dropping out of Law School. In spite of their proud ancestry, the Mujica-Laínez family was not notably well-off by this time, and Manucho went to work at Buenos Aires' newspaper La Nación as literary and art critic.
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Edmond Malassis' illustration from a collection of La Fontaine's fables The Greek fable tells of an ass that is carrying a religious image and takes the homage of the crowd as being paid to him personally. When pride makes it refuse to go further, the driver beats it and declares that the world has not yet become so backward that men bow down to asses. The Latin title of the fable, Asinus portans mysteria (or its Greek equivalent, ονος αγων μυστήρια), was used proverbially of such human conceit and was recorded as such in the Adagia of Erasmus.2.2.4 The fable was revived in Renaissance times by Andrea Alciato in his Emblemata under the heading Non tibi sed religioni (not for your sake but religion's), and is placed in the context of the Egyptian cult of Isis.
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Public humiliation exists in many forms. In general, a criminal sentenced to one of the many forms of this punishment could expect to be placed in a central, public, or open place so that his fellow citizens could easily witness the sentence and, occasionally, participate in it as a form of "mob justice". Just like painful forms of corporal punishment, it has parallels in educational and other rather private punishments (but with some audience), in school or domestic disciplinary context, and as a rite of passage. Physical forms include being forced to wear some sign such as "donkey ears" (simulated in paper, as a sign one is—or at least behaved—proverbially stupid), wearing a dunce cap, having to stand, kneel or bend over in a corner, or repeatedly write something on a blackboard ("I will not spread rumors", for example).
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If, > therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems > justly to deserve to be followed. Noteworthy is Bede's summation of the nature of Edwin's reign as King of Northumbria: > “It is told that at the time there was so much peace in Britannia, that > whenever King Edwin’s power extended, as is said proverbially right up to > today, even if a woman with a recently born child wanted to walk across the > whole island, from sea to sea, she could do so without anyone harming her.” Kershaw indicates that “Bede’s decision to couch Edwin’s peace in proverbial terms offers ...a chilling insight into the levels of lawlessness accepted in eighth-century England”. Furthermore, a definition of “peace” is to be understood as “freedom from robbery, rape, or violence; security to travel at will and to literally ‘go in peace.’” Edwin's conversion and Eorpwald's were reversed by their successors, and in the case of Northumbria the Roman Paulinus appears to have had very little impact.
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In 1841, Ryan describes the scene… > Shotley Grove is the appropriate and euphonious name which the late John > Annandale, Esq. gave the High Mill when he purchased the property about > thirty years ago, and commenced those improvements which his talented Sons > have so laudably continued, and which have added so much to the richness and > beauty of the whole landscape. The lands adjoining their substantial and > elegant residence, and the flourishing plantation grounds, used to be > proverbially poor farms and sterile fields, scarcely worth any cultivation, > but are now extremely luxuriant and productive, and in the highest stage of > agriculture – so much can judicious management accomplish in a few > years….The whole of the estate, which is now very extensive, the magnificent > manufactories of the first order, the clear water ponds around the house and > in the rich gardens, the woods, plantations, and groves on all sides, and > the verdant meadows and lawns present a rare combination of the town's > opulence and the country's simplicity and retirement, of commerce and > agriculture embracing each other, and both retaining their respective > advantages and rural attractions.
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Thompson, on the back of the animal, a fine bay mare, who is to run > the first stage of the great through Express from St. Joseph to her sister > cities of the Pacific shore. Horse and rider started off amid the loud and > continuous cheers of the assembled multitude, all anxious to witness every > particular of the inauguration of this greatest enterprise which it has as > yet become duty, as a public journalist, to chronicle. The rider is a Mr. > Richardson, formerly a sailor, and a man accustomed to every description of > hardship, having sailed for years amid the snows and icebergs of the > Northern ocean. He was to ride last night the first stage of forty miles, > changing horses once, in five hours; and before this paragraph meets the > eyes of our readers, the various dispatches contained in the saddlebags, > which left here at dark last evening, will have reached the town of > Marysville, on the Big Blue, one hundred and twelve miles distant-an > enterprise never before accomplished even in this proverbially fast portion > of the country.
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Job is the proverbially wisest man on earth yet goes through suffering. This leads some to say proverbs are true in the sense of a maxim that is usually true but not always (such as RC Sproul and also the ESV Study Bible “Your barns will be filled with plenty is a generalization concerning the effect of honoring the Lord with all that one has and is. It is not, however, more than a generalization (as Job’s comforters held), for to view this as a mechanical formula dishonors God and his inscrutable sovereign purposes.”.see ESV Study Bible note on Proverbs 3:9-10 Others say the Bible is true in ensemble taken in the light of all scripture (such as Bruce Walke “The popular evangelical solution that these are not promises but probabilities, though containing an element of truth, raises theological, practical, and psychological problems by stating the matter badly…A psychologically well person could scarcely trust God with all his heart (Prov 3:5) knowing that he usually, but not always, keeps his obligations” (The Book of Proverbs, Chapters 1-15 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004), pp. 107-8).).
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