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1 Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints .
2 Groups or chains of hotels usually follow a standard system and use the same type of reservation and room status charts .
3 There was ‘ in the English constitution an absence of those declarations or definitions of rights so dear to foreign constitutionalists ’ , but this was a strength rather than a weakness ; whereas ‘ general rights guaranteed by the constitution may be , and in foreign countries , constantly are , suspended ’ , the English emphasis on specific remedies protected by legislation and the courts meant that ‘ the suspension of the constitution , as far as such a thing can be conceived possible , would mean with us nothing less than a revolution ’ .
4 It delivers significantly better quality pictures than NTSC with definition somewhere between PAL and HDTV .
5 The risks and rewards of ownership effectively pass to the lessee .
6 TOP referees and linesmen in England yesterday launched a campaign to repair their shattered morale .
7 Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them .
8 The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought .
9 Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively .
10 If it 's courage it takes to put sports cars and coupes into production then the product planners at Mazda deserve a medal .
11 housing and household types which enhance or restrict leisure opportunities and types of people thus affected ;
12 A spokesman said : ‘ People will also be able to browse through a selection of books and games to while away dark evenings .
13 Guide books and handbooks for travellers often dismissed them as being of little interest .
14 Common examples of such businesses include petrol stations , public houses , fast-food restaurants and shops within shops often found in department stores .
15 Their belief that they could make it , be proud of themselves , and of their nation , lives on the streets , schools and corporations of America today .
16 Among his successors as Duke of Aquitaine only Richard is known to have written verse and certainly neither of the two surviving poems attributed to him is of this quality .
17 Lévi-Strauss ' reference to the Ojibwa use of squirrels as symbols for trees also highlights another aspect of Greenfield 's case .
18 The Corporation will indemnify the Policyholder in the event of an accident caused by or through or in connection with any Caravan described in the Schedule and the fixed site on which such Caravan is situated together with any fences hedges posts or chains in relation thereto against liability at law for damages and claimants costs and expenses in respect of
19 Whether civil liberties or freedom of expression really languished in this period is open to debate .
20 This is most readily achieved by laying out cores , sample bags , bottles or blocks of material sequentially .
21 The fact that one has a clear conscience is not always a sign of right responses to the trials and temptations of life so much as an appropriate response to sin and guilt .
22 It recounts the dehumanizing conditions under which children labour in the Third World in order to provide commodities and services to consumers usually from the West .
23 Factors influencing demand might be numbers of tourist visitors and growth in GNP respectively .
24 In this way , such studies give the subjective wants and goals of individuals far more centrality as explanations of change .
25 According to anthropologists and linguists most heavily influenced by the romantic movement , they were the sole creators and carriers of culture even among European groups .
26 Time Zone also normalises your skin so it can resist forming lines and wrinkles for years longer than you 'd expect .
27 That £5 million will buy an awful lot of sightscreens , heavy rollers and bags of loam all designed to improve the country .
28 Conserving and restoring the work of masons and artists from centuries past is the delicate task of Principal Conservator Rab Snowden and his team at Historic Scotland 's Stenhouse Conservation Centre .
29 These were the two sides of the same coin which I referred to at the beginning of this essay , the nature — culture opposition and the particular characterizations and choice of emphases here explored being one explanation for the apparent gender differentials in blood within Jewish ritual practice , and one link at least between the rite of circumcision and menstrual taboo .
30 Did modern planners and architects in London ever use their eyes ?
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