How To Use Fourteen In A Sentence
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At fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, where he came under the influence of Francis Hutcheson, and in 1740 he went up to Oxford as Snell exhibitioner at Balliol College, remaining there till 1746.
Introductory Note
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Children under fourteen should be accompanied by a parent.
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The hard labor of the farm was mostly done by them, and on the floor of the big kitchen, toward sundown, would be squatting a circle of twelve or fourteen "pickaninnies," eating their supper of pudding (Indian corn mush) and milk.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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I didn't grow much until I was about fourteen by which time it was still functioning as a mini gaberdine raincoat as per the fashion and with the belt buckled around the back as you did.
Harbingers
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From the fourteenth century onwards, other properties were also abandoned, so that finally the important lasting properties were signification, supposition, ampliation and restriction, and the supposition of relatives.
Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms
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Not surprisingly, the twistiness of the daffodil was much higher (fourteen times higher, in fact) than its bendiness, explaining why these plants are far more likely to turn in the wind than to bend over.
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The carving of the Mount Rushmore Monument likewise spanned a period of fourteen years.
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The black juggernaut with its fourteen wheels drove past, all lit up in the accumulating darkness.
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And so he had grown in the warmth of his parents 'love, trained in what we call outdoor sports, but which are life itself to the Arab, until at fourteen no one could surpass him in running or horsemanship or spear-throwing, whilst with rifle or revolver he could clip the hair off the top of a man's head, the which strenuous accomplishments he balanced in passing his leisure moments in the gentle arts of verse-making and even music, in spite of the latter being condemned by religion; also did he learn to converse in foreign tongues.
Desert Love
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To the west of the church is an open cortile, the ancient burying ground, with fourteen pillars in the wall bearing niches for the Stations of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Over its fourteen-year history the military government has become adept at exploiting Burma's geostrategic position and at manipulating the concerns of its regional neighbors.
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Beginning in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, shoes were worn with pattens - carved wooden supports with pedestals under the heel and ball - to protect the shoes.
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Ibn Khaldun was a fourteenth century north African who is widely regarded as one of the fathers of historiography.
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What Tughlukabad was to the military of fourteenth-century Delhi, the suburb of Hauz Khas was to the savants.
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By the mid-fourteenth century, another specialized court emerged to hear, and record, public acknowledgements of property transfers, known as recognizances, including those made through testaments.
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Lengeling provides tables of the frequency of readings from both Testaments in fourteen Western liturgical books but without indicating where there might be only one such usage on the vigil of a feast not celebrated widely.
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In the fourteenth century this custom greatly increased, and small additional side aisles and transepts were often annexed to churches and called mortuary chapels; these were used indeed as chantries, but they were more independent in their constitution, and in general more ample in their endowments.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See
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Jepson claims the service will charge a twenty-five cent connection fee for each call, and seven to fourteen cents per minute.
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One paterero, old Manila casting, caliber eight libras, length fourteen diameters.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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There are fourteen contributors, and thirteen admit to an ongoing full or part time academic appointment.
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He missed in the twelfth and fourteenth minutes, although his second effort did hit the upright, and fluffed his dropped goal attempt early in the second half.
Times, Sunday Times
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Parson, laying his pipe on his hand, “fourteenthly, it is calumniously asserted by the opposers of divine truth that on this hypothesis God made men to damn them; but we say
Margaret
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He looked hardly more than a child to me, maybe thirteen or fourteen.
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Fourteen wagons of timber left the track at Quintinshill, near Gretna, at 9.07 am.
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This expansive alteration of the Federal System was to have been achieved by converting the rights of the citizens of each State as of the date of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment into privileges and immunities of United States citizenship and thereafter perpetuating this newly defined _status quo_ through judicial condemnation of any State law challenged as "abridging" any one of the latter privileges.
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
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Because in fourteen of these traditions the person who quotes her is the fourth-century Babylonian amora Abbaye (278 – 338), it is usually assumed in scholarly circles that she was his mother, and that Em is a description (mother) rather than a name.
Female Personalities in the Babylonian Talmud.
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It gives us a measure of the indulgent sympathy and religious tolerance which prevailed in this Evangelical home, that the parents should have unhesitatingly supplied the boy of fourteen, at some cost of time and trouble, with all the accessible writings of the "atheistical" poet, and with those of his presumably like-minded friend Keats as well.
Robert Browning
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[11] But in this instance, perhaps, distance of space, combined with the unrivalled grandeur of the war, was felt to equiponderate the distance of time, Susa, the Persian capital, being fourteen hundred miles from Athens.
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
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This nuns 'choir was in existence by the beginning of the fourteenth century, but may have been built along with the rest of the nave and may have been accessible by stairs near the chapterhouse in the west range of the cloister.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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When she is forcibly enchanted by a man she is tailing for her faerie liege lord, she not only loses fourteen years of her life to being a fish, she loses everything she worked for in the human world, including her family.
Rosemary and Rue: A Knight in Shining…Satin? « A Working Title
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At the early age of fourteen he graduated with the degree of master of law.
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Calais alone received 26000 quarters of grain and 2000 head of cattle in the fourteen years between 1347 and 1361.
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It's actually an island, a fourteen-mile sliver of sandy beaches whose name means ‘golden snake’ in the native Mayan language, and back then, a mere 120 people enjoyed its honeyed shores.
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The pair travel in an orbit from fourteen to forty-two times the radius of the Earth's orbit; so that when at apastron they are three times as distant from each other as when at periastron.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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Here endeth the fourteenth booke, which is of Syr Percyval.
Chapter X. The Fourteenth Book. How Sir Percivale for Penance Rove Himself through the Thigh; and How She Was Known for the Devil
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The design is copied from Japanese porcelains of the fourteenth century.
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“That,” she said tartly as the family got back into their car, “is not what I want my fourteen-year-old exposed to.”
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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With the large ones they catch bonnetos and albicores, by putting them to a bamboo rod, twelve or fourteen feet long, with a line of the same length, which rests in a notch of a piece of wood, fixed in the stern of the canoe for that purpose, and is dragged on the surface of the sea, as she rows along, without any other bait than a tuft of flaxy stuff near the point.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
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He was due for a routine medical check on the fourteenth of the month.
Bomber
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The dynastically related western principality of Halych (Galicia) and Volyn resisted the Mongols and Tatars and became a Rus bastion through the fourteenth century.
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When I was fourteen I was apprenticed to a dental mechanic for a five-year apprenticeship.
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Corunna, which is about five Leagues from this Place by Water, in a barge of fourteen Oars, but the Weather proved so boisterous, that it was impossible to go.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 December 1779
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At last Dom Fernando, the youngest of the brothers, a lad of fourteen, proposed that their knighthood should be earned by an expedition to take Ceuta from the Moors.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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This endeavor is given more precise form by a detailed study of Johannes Klenlok's commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, from the middle of the fourteenth century.
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The officers to be armed with a sword or hanger, a fusee, bayonet and belt, with a cartridge box to contain twelve cartridges; and each private of matoss shall furnish themselves with good horses of at least fourteen hands and an half high, and to be armed with a sword and pair of pistols, the holsters of which to be covered with bearskin caps.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Whether the Second Amendment Applies to the States
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A fourteenth-century mould at Saint-Barban (Haute-Vienne) makes hosts of different types for Lent and Easter time.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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A group of students filed in, fourteen or fifteen all told.
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They wear three braids when they are thirteen or fourteen, and five braids at the age of fifteen or sixteen.
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Fourteen men a side is not rugby union, nor league, and certainly not cricket, and the sooner they learn that the better for the dignity of the game and future tourists.
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Western method of keeping Easter on the Sunday after the fourteenth day of the moon should be adopted throughout the Church, believing no doubt that this mode fitted in better with the historical facts and wishing to give a lasting proof that the Jewish Passover was not, as the Quartodeciman heretics believed, an ordinance of Christianity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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I have also ventured to invent a metre for that technically known as the Fourth Archilochian, the "Solvitur acris hiems," by combining the fourteen-syllable with the ten-syllable iambic in an alternately rhyming stanza.
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
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Broker figured fourteen to sixteen hours of nonstop paddle and portage to the lodge.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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Fourteen columns of colored marble sustain a domed ceiling of gilded cedar, with an exterior deambulatory under a tunnel-vaulting also roofed with cedar.
In Morocco
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Carlo Mario da Buonaparte, as he called himself, married the fourteen-year-old Letizia, also of distant Italian noble extraction, but from a family that had heavily intermarried with the squireens of the wild interior.
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So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror - blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad.
Fiancée
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Of all the major versions of humanism, the Renaissance humanism that developed in Italy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries has been the most influential.
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The US in theory has the potential to be ten to fourteen times that number.
Times, Sunday Times
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The side altar of the right choir pillar is the altar of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (the famous Shrine of the Fourteen Holy Helpers - Vierzehnheiligen - is on the opposite Banz on the other side of the Main valley, can actually be seen from Banz and will be the subject of a subsequent instalment of this series) flanked by statues of Saints Dorothee and Margaret.
Catholic Bamberg: Banz Abbey
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Phoebe Martin was a thirty-three-year-old widow, and Clarine Eldridge, just fourteen, was scarcely older than the children she had been hired to watch.
Excerpt: Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss
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The Haggadah is a book which tells in fourteen steps the story of the Jewish experience in Egypt and of the Exodus and revelation of God.
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The staple fish and main export of Icelanders since the fourteenth century has been cod.
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By the early fourteenth century, in Marian literature, Jewish antipathy toward Christianity was increasingly represented by images of Jewish violence toward children.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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She was tall for her fourteen years, and very slender – "scraggy," Jim was wont to say, with the cheerful frankness of brothers.
Mates at Billabong
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He left school at the age of fourteen, and worked as a clerk at the Henley Telegraph Company and took evening lessons in draughtsmanship and drawing at the University of London.
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Mark knew he was gay by the time he was fourteen.
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For this fourteen year I never discovered one thing that I have used, and that may I now wite my shame and my disadventure.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2
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Allow me to spool back fourteen years, or thereabouts: October time.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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That's all well and good, but what Keyes omits is the subsequent history of the country, and in particular the effect of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Balkinization
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This feeling was compounded when Conway skewed an unmissable free about ten metres west of the posts from the fourteen yard line minutes later.
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In stanzas twelve through fourteen, the omniscient narrator directs our eye to the movement of the skies.
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Seven of the fourteen cuts in tutorials have already been made, most significantly as the result of the introduction of a compulsory thesis.
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More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, marked a great shift in American constitutionalism.
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Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.
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I will go away from this gathering, for example, knowing the name of Trilleck of Hereford, a fourteenth-century English bishop with whose name I was previously unacquainted.
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To the left of the compartment was a gap of about eight inches in breadth and fourteen in length.
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Crenellated ornament occurs from the early fourteenth century onwards, as on the silver Ramsey Abbey censer of c.1325.
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Sir Peter Carew claimed the barony of Idrone as his inheritance on the basis that his ancestors had held the land but had been disseized in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century.
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As I explained in this article, the odds of winning the Jackpot are almost fourteen million to one.
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The rise of chamber knights and squires was a general phenomenon of the fourteenth century, and was not confined to the well-known court of Richard II.
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The name was taken out of the Psalms for the Fourteenth Day of the Month, and was bestowed on her in obedience to her father's conviction that, where parents were constrained to give their child so indistinctive a surname as Smith, they ought to counterbalance it with a Christian name more original and vivacious.
Sydney Smith
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The gale rose again after sunrise, and when, after doing sixty miles in fourteen hours, we reached the heads of Hakodate Harbour, it was blowing and pouring like a bad day in Argyllshire, the spin-drift was driving over the bay, the Yezo mountains loomed darkly and loftily through rain and mist, and wind and thunder, and
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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By this stage, the scriptwriters are into their fourteenth magic mushroom, as the plot ricochets between schizophrenia and plain stoopid.
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The last time I remember ever having dedicatedly listened to radio was almost fourteen years ago.
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The Fourteenth Amendment says states may not deny anyone the equal protection of the laws.
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Sir James instantly dispatched orders to the cessed soldiers either to come to Dumfries or meet him on the way to Dalry, and commanded the thirteen or fourteen men in the town with him to come at nine next morning to his lodging for supplies.
Lay Morals
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Fourteen per cent no longer bother with a wallet or purse.
The Sun
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That's what Kinvig said when he was cutting up his sermon into firstly, secondly, thirdly, and fourteenthly.
Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon
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The work, mostly painting, tends towards the abstract and each is a series of seven, fourteen or ten.
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Fourteen candidates were expelled from the examination venue on the charge of indulging in malpractices.
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After we had sailed some fourteen days we were brought to Cape St. Anthony again through lack of favourable wind; but then our scarcity was grown such as need make us look a little better for water, which we found in sufficient quantity, being indeed, as I judge, none other than rain-water newly fallen and gathered up by making pits in a plot of marish ground some three hundred paces from the seaside.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
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She had emigrated from Germany to America at the age of fourteen.
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The soft pitter-patter of bare feet announced the arrival of the other two children in Nana's snug little foster home, nine-year-old Katriel and fourteen-year-old Nante.
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Imagine if you put fourteen artists from seven different countries in a room together.
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Grown-up dancing at fourteen... "Jenny, crestfallen, grew quiet, as she did always when Aunt Dulcie scolded her.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Accordingly, St. Augustine treats the idea of antipodes as an absurdity; and Lactantius, whom we have already quoted, expressly says “can there possibly be any persons so simple as to believe that there are men whose heads are lower than their feet?” etc.St. Chrysostom exclaims, in his fourteenth homily, “Where are they who pretend that the heavens are movable, and that their form is circular?”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Theology has moved on since the fourteenth century, and no doubt there is a complex answer in the theology of grace.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Thus, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were years of struggle to keep Ukrainian lands from Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania, as well as free of the boyars or noblemen who tried to take control.
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The factory greatly wanted a flat-bottom iron steamer, a stern-wheeler, with sliding keel, and furnaces fit for burning half-dried wood — a craft of fourteen tons, costing perhaps £14 per ton, would be ample in point of size, and would save not a little money to the trader.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Fourteen people, waiting to be hanged for the murder of a former prime minister, have been reprieved.
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At the Cistercian female house of Weinhausen in Saxony a very elaborate decoration program survives. 12 The church of the male Dominican convent in Constance, located closer to the female Dominican houses of the Upper Rhine, contained friezes and medallions. 13 Most choir spaces seem to have been decorated, but unfortunately few survive in their thirteenth - and fourteenth-century state.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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Fourteen foreign ships, laden with fish, arrived at Billingsgate, which ships should have arrived at the said Hithe.
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As was the case for the last fourteen years, I was sitting at my desk, working, while the crowd at the showgrounds enjoyed their pap and braaivleis, gaping at the fireworks display.
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Fourteen calls to the department were redirected there from NHS Direct.
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Fourteen specimens are obviously from placer deposits.
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The children who attend the forty-two camps around America are aged between two and fourteen.
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Its wide roads, which can take fourteen lanes of traffic, have been kept away from living areas.
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A group of students filed in, fourteen or fifteen all told.
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In this way, portraits emerged as critical pieces of evidence in efforts to rehabilitate the reputation of French art of the fourteenth century.
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The farmer informed us that the game was very plentiful; and when we entered the first stubble field, we saw a nide of fourteen pheasants run into the hedge row.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
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Chapman's "fourteener" and reminding the reader frequently of Chapman's large, vigorous manner, his compound epithets and spacious Homeric similes.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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He got his first wage packet at fourteen years old.
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Fourteen large wind turbines are spread across the slopes of Beinn Ghlas in Argyll, their blades turning in the breeze to produce up to 600 kilowatts of electricity each.
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Yang's trip lasted more than twenty-one hours and took him on fourteen orbits around the Earth.
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It included specimens of fourteen insect orders, with major holdings of New Zealand moths, butterflies, beetles, stoners, caddis and bugs.
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As a fourteen-year-old she had made her debut in a particularly sophisticated team, and went on to appear on Broadway.
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The 17th to _Sinan_, [146] fourteen coss, which is an ancient city, where they manufacture great store of cottons.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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Compiled by a group of US foreign policy experts, the programme included fourteen different points.
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Fourteen of the 20 amino acids are glucogenic; two are ketogenic; and four are partly glucogenic and partly ketogenic.
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The goss is that South Africa has scored their team and Aussie has lost theirs and the fourteenth team is going to New Zealand.
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He birdied thirteen of fourteen holes but these scores were overshadowed by the events on the par three eight.
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An unbroken list of masters of the almonry school exists dating from the fourteenth century until 1538 when the monastery was dissolved.
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At the age of fourteen he left for Bologna, intending briefly to study canon law, but within two years he moved to Ferrara and shortly afterward to Padua, where he met one of his most important teachers, Elia del Medigo, a Jew and an Averroist Aristotelian.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Canaria, commonly called Grand Canary (which gives its name to all the reft) is equally large as it is long, being about thirteen or fourteen leagues either ways, and in drcuit about forty: the town of Canary is a biihop's fee, and the refidence of the Spaniih governor.
Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
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And yet I remember that at that early age -- mayhap under fourteen -- notwithstanding, and through all its incidental attractiveness, he hazarded the opinion to me (and the expression riveted my surprise), that there was feebleness in the structure of the work.
Stories of Authors, British and American
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Its name Jassy (Ruman, Iasi, pronounced Yash) seems to be derived from the Slavonic Askytorg, found for the first time in a Russian geography of the fourteenth century (Xénopol, "Histoire des Roumains de la Dacie trajane", I, 236, note).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Some Negro slaves were brought to Europe by the Spaniards in the fourteenth century, and a small trade was continued by the Portuguese, who conquered territory from the "tawny" Moors of North Africa in the early fifteenth century.
The Negro
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This development will be of fourteen houses, eight of which will be bungalows along with six two storey dwellings.
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In the fourteenth century, two parallel movements were under way to enforce Magna Carta's curbs on arbitrary royal authority.
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Studies of captive lorises have shown that after a female has given birth, the demands of lactation and raising an infant may keep her from mating again for ten to fourteen months.
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The ring came out then, one and a quarter karats of diamonds set in fourteen carat gold.
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So it is that an untitled Arthurian romance from the fourteenth century, in Middle English, has come to be known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
A Successful Defiance
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Aegidius Romanus, more commonly known as Giles of Rome, was one of the most influential of high papalist theologians in the latter half of the thirteenth century and early part of the fourteenth century.
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Another Committee of Fourteen investigator in 1914 observed the loose behavior of women workers in a restaurant: “They were putting on their aprons, combing their hair, powdering their noses, . . . all the while tossing back and forth to each other, apparently in a spirit of good-natured comradeship, the most vile epithets that I had ever heard emerge from the lips of a human being.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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It took from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century for Europeans to achieve peaceful sovereignties with peaceful transitions of power.
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Simply put, the system divides the orchestra pit into ten acoustical zones and the stage into fourteen, each governed by a directional microphone.
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Bishop Provoost of New York, after fourteen years of service, demitted his functions in 1801, discouraged about the continuance of the church.
A History of American Christianity
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She lived in Colorado and died at eighty-eight on her descent from her fourteenth climb of Pikes Peak.
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Fourteen years old and stuck in the middle of the countryside, he is grieving over the death of his mother and distanced from his equally upset father.
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Such a complaint I read of those isles of Cape Verde, fourteen degrees from the Equator, they do male audire: [1520] One calls them the unhealthiest clime of the world, for fluxes, fevers, frenzies, calentures, which commonly seize on seafaring men that touch at them, and all by reason of a hot distemperature of the air.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I chomped on my croissant as I heard Andrew complain for something like the fourteenth time.
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She could have been anywhere from the age of fourteen to the age of thirty.
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An editorial in the New York Times titled "A Tammany School Board Still," attacked Mayor Gaynor and Tammany's attempts to roll back the clock on civil service reform by gaining complete control over teacher and administrative appointments to the schools, thus undoing fourteen years of school reforms.
Marc Epstein: What Is the Meaning of LIFO: You're Fired Mr. Chips!
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Fourteen people were injured, five of them critically.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was in effect a prison for young people between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years.
The Prisons We Deserve
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I can maybe handle being thirteenbut fourteen is way out of my frame of reference.
Gennifer Choldenko - An interview with author
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Kay said the ruling violates the Fourteenth Amendment, and could affect landmark rulings on reproductive rights.
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The part of this clause relating to the mode of apportionment of representatives among the several States was changed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and as to taxes on incomes without apportionment, by the Sixteenth Amendment.
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At last, after some twenty-five minutes, a stunning fish was beached: a fresh-run female steelhead of some fourteen or fifteen pounds.
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The fourteen essays gathered here embrace a range of issues which perhaps transcend the limits suggested by the subtitle.
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I have been experiencing restorative outages of up to fourteen hours per day through the use of this miraculous invention.
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Nor can they claim that Lochner violates the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, since these legal analysts by and large reject originalism altogether.
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Ockham's contributions were by no means the only factor in the increasing mathematization of science in the fourteenth century.
William of Ockham
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The Arthurian Legends are a cycle of stories that has been shaped and passed down through over fourteen hundred years of English history.
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There are fourteen bus routes which coincide in Enfield's key shopping street, they carry 74,000 passengers every weekday.
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So the clubwoman who reads a purchased essay on "Ireland in the Fourteenth Century," has not the slightest interest in the subject; but she does want to remain a member of her club, in good and regular standing.
A Librarian's Open Shelf
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Neither in his sonnets, nor in his various stanzas composed of heroics, nor in what may be called his doggerel metres -- the fatally fluent Alexandrines, fourteeners, and admixtures of both, which dominated English poetry from his time to Spenser's, and were never quite rejected during the Elizabethan period -- do we find evidence of the want of ear, or the want of command of language, which makes Wyatt's versification frequently disgusting.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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And his farming was well done; for though he was, out-and-out, a gentleman-farmer, he knew how to get the full worth in work done for the fourteen shillings a week which he paid to his labourers, — a deficiency in which knowledge is the cause why gentlemen in general find farming so expensive an amusement.
The American Senator
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Fourteen dollars, for two coffees and two mingy blondies, which he paid without flinching, even leaving the change from his twenty in the concessionaire's plastic cup.
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The Festival, now in its fourteenth year, has become a major international jazz event.
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The next morning, fourteen hours later, they're still sitting there, completely destroying the whole minimalist design shtick.
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Anyone over the age of fourteen has to pay the full fare.
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As noted in that Schedule, for purposes of distribution on an intestacy, the deceased was survived by fourteen nieces and nephews among whom, the net estate should have been divided equally.
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Fourteen murders was more than enough for jurors to vote Bonin into the gas chamber.
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_ -- The cavity containing the brain of a crocodile measuring thirteen or fourteen feet, will hardly admit the thumb; and the brain of the chamelion is not, according to the description of the Paris dissectors, larger than a pea.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832
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As with strength of grip, so with endurance as measured by the ergograph; boys surpass girls at all ages, and this differentiation becomes very marked after the age of fourteen, after which age girls increase in strength and endurance but very slightly, while after fourteen boys acquire almost exactly half of the total power in these two features which they acquire in the first twenty years of life.
Civics and Health
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Lent and Michaelmas or if he be not paid within fourteen Days after the said Feasts to distrain on any part of the Ground or on any of my Lands of Inheritance Item I give to my Sister Katherine Jackson during her life eight pounds per Ann. Annuity to be paid at the two
Anatomy of Melancholy
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They can gas my car and change four tires in less then fourteen seconds during a pit stop.
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He practically lived at the Metropolitan on Fourteenth Street.
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Although she was still only fourteen (fifteen in September, she reminded herself) she felt extremely grown up.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary the word crone dates back to the fourteenth century and is a Middle English term of abuse.
ABC News: ABCNews
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Here too the church has the faded remains of fourteenth - fifteenth century frescoes.
Umbria - the green heart of Italy
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Fourteen per cent said they struggle to buy presents for their grandchildren as they already have so much.
The Sun
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[1] Fourteen hundred French troops had landed in Pembrokeshire on the night of 22 – 23 February 1797.
Letter 205
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Regarded as a major ancient source on tyranny and tyrannicide, it was the only text attributed to Plutarch known and taught during the fourteenth and much of the fifteenth century.
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Fourteen per cent no longer bother with a wallet or purse.
The Sun
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This unusual fourteenth-century Green Man is to be found on a corbel high on the north wall inside Pinchbeck church.
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But she was only without at least one peacetime treaty of alliance for about fourteen of those years.
The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
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Chapter 36 1. Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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I haTe abeady abridged die fourteen causes of disinherison in tfaatnovel, hm diey are alsobrieflf comprized in the foUowi«g TevMS.
The Institutes of Justinian
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_Défenses_ may be seen in fourteen closely printed Elzevir 18mos.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
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Nevertheless, wind or no wind, the Fourteenth Regatta, with a record number of keelboats and ocean going catamarans peaking at 93 craft, was probably the best on record, in terms of sponsorship, management, the social side and the media.
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Now, in some of our shipyards these vessels are being launched only ten days after the keel is laid and they are fully ready to load cargo and sail to the aid of our fighting forces only fourteen days after they are launched.
Labour, Industry and the War
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With rain pattering gently off the window of her small bedroom, the fourteen year-old girl clambered out of bed to face the first day of term.
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The scale of the enterprise is so large that fourteen nations combine their efforts at this single lab.
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For fourteen years I chaired the Works of Art Committee and sought to add to our collection of historical statues, busts and portraits, and topographical works.
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The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
How You Can Fight Global Warming
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It is critical that you consider the carat weight of the gold jewellery you are considering and when comparing costs, ensure you are comparing fourteen carat gold jewellery, and not twelve carat, which is even less pure.
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Each of these vessels was fourteen tons burden and plied the same route as those owned by Barlow.
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The ring came out then, one and a quarter karats of diamonds set in fourteen carat gold.
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The Fourteenth Amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteed equal protection to all people.
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El conegut adagio del authority moviment de la sonata fourteen de L. Beethoven, coneguda com Clar de Lluna (Mondschein), interpretat per Alfred Brendel;
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On the fourteenth, frequent convulsions; extremities cold; not in anywise collected; suppression of urine.
Of The Epidemics
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Some of the older men didn't, and the boys who looked about fourteen or fifteen opted out.
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It's presented, on the back cover, as a ‘sonnet sequence,’ and nearly all the poems, though of varying stanzaic configurations, are fourteen lines in length.
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_eyster_ for _oyster_ as early as the fourteenth century.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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He pulled up sharply midway through his fourteenth over and rubbed the back of his right thigh.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chief reason why a vast number of patents are unsuccessful, is, that it takes a long time (longer generally than fourteen years, the statutable limit of patent grants) to make the workmen of a country familiar with a new manufacture.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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Whether fifty thousand words of prose action or fourteen decasyllabic lines of verse with a strict rhyme scheme, a genre is a list of the minimal conditions that a writer must meet.
Genres and niche markets
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“Growth in benefits is unsustainable,” it warned, going on to recommend fourteen measures of containment: nine “limited-risk initiatives” and five “bold steps.”
The New War Over Wal-Mart
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Fourteen respondents reported utilizing education through a variety of media, including genograms, use of stories and metaphor, bibliotherapy, television, movies, music, and other expressive formats.
