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1 Arguably the blinder kinds of sexual radicalism , wherein sexuality is made the prime political mover , have tended to be mainly heterosexual , and in the case of Wilhelm Reich , overtly homophobic .
2 And one who has arguably the toughest brief of all the carvers at the palace .
3 But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) .
4 Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras .
5 He is particularly good with young players and will have to weigh up that security against taking arguably the best job in English cricket . ’
6 The sermons in which it is presented are arguably the finest contribution to moral philosophy in English .
7 It finished the year with the launch of the Twingo , arguably the biggest breakthrough in small car design since the Mini .
8 These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) .
9 ‘ The petitioners remark that ‘ the Royal Veterinary College of London is the private property of the subscribers thereto who may continue or close the same at their discretion ; that it is only from their desire to advance the veterinary art that they have allowed their institution to be employed as a College of instruction ; and that thereby the veterinary profession in this country owes even its existence to their establishment ’ .
10 But nevertheless if it were handled properly the high-yielding seeds of African maize , upland rice and cassava which are on the way could make a real difference .
11 In order to work properly the dominant forces in each of the three spheres have to monopolize the key resources for which there is great competition .
12 Additionally the full range from Marvic Textiles is now available from Sloane Avenue providing an exceptionally comprehensive selection of furnishing fabric .
13 Additionally the full range from Marvic Textiles is now available from Sloane Avenue providing an exceptionally comprehensive selection of furnishing fabric .
14 Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role .
15 The major objective of the study is therefore to investigate empirically the strategic behaviour of such firms .
16 First , they fail to discuss empirically the relative seriousness of corporate compared with ‘ conventional ’ crime .
17 Eventually the traditional route to professional training will emerge whereby qualified community interpreters will , after a defined period of professional practice and experience , be trained to pass on their skills .
18 Eventually the total rose to 350 women on the platforms of trams and buses , and at Whit 1940 the first ten motorwomen were trained .
19 Chapters 20 and 21 of this book give detailed attention to ‘ fiction ’ — overwhelmingly the main preoccupation of public library users — and to the related fields of biography and travel writing .
20 Overwhelmingly the biggest problems in post-war British buildings ( and other structures such as bridges as well ) is concrete .
21 The criteria mentioned above have often been employed , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , in the construction of very broad evolutionary schemes , but these have been increasingly criticized — in Marxist thought as elsewhere — for their excessively abstract depiction of the ‘ stages of development ’ which seem to fit very loosely the actual changes in political systems in different regions of the world and in determinate historical periods .
22 And the labour council — in reality a fragile and temporary alliance of Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) , Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) , christian socialist , Irish nationalist and independent members — elected on a platform little different from that of progressives on the LCC , was never able to challenge effectively the accepted boundaries of municipal activity .
23 This conservative response , led by the fiery Abbot Joseph of Volokolamsk , carried the day , and Ivan 's successors were unable even to halt effectively the further growth of ecclesiastical landholding .
24 For our purposes , however , the most important result was that the Mortgage Act 1949 did not change fundamentally the Roman-Dutch law on parate execution .
25 I lost a pad somewhere the other week with some It was n't important notes but some notes in .
26 It is rather the visible sign of underlying defensiveness and uncertainty .
27 Its evocative power derived not only from its biblical roots , but also from the fact that it did not evoke clergy or hierarchy but rather the basic equality of all the baptized .
28 Furthermore the overall effect of this circulation is to link together into a widely ramifying network of relationships a great number of individuals of quite different status and quite different cultural background .
29 Furthermore the particular type of cellular bone found in the same deposits as Eriptychius suggests that cephalaspids ( osteostracans ) may be equally as old as heterostracans .
30 Furthermore the raw materials of such labour would be ideas and not material objects or practical action .
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