How To Use Instructive In A Sentence
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Figures due out on November 21 might be instructive but a merger deal is not thought likely to figure in the statement.
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In fact, our lunar friend provides an instructive example of how a vulgar and dogmatic notion of ‘science’ can be quite compatible with the most arcane fantasies.
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They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell (mostly to us, not each other) are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction.
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It is instructive to consider also the origin of avifaunal elements at the level of Family.
Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
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What's instructive is to look at how the Obama campaign responded: challenge the facticity and factiousness of the ACORN story -- and get it explained about how ridiculous it is, and let the pictures of the McCain/Palin supporters diffuse themselves across the i-net.
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While it's uncertain whether the protest and subsequent meeting will prevent cuts, the way the governor's staff handled the whole affair is instructive: I'm told that technically they could have been arrested for blocking the way.
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More instructive was watching how quickly the experienced NCOs jumped and ran at any bangs from the drive bells.
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The US system of rank badges and insignia, introduced in the early 19th century, is highly distinctive, and instructive.
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It is a fearsomely complicated one, and I would never dream of showing it in a non-technical book about science if my intention was to be instructive.
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There's another instructive paradox in skeleton bob and bobsleigh.
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What makes this cautionary tale so instructive is not just the details of back-room wheeling and dealing that relate specifically to Chicago.
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There's another instructive paradox in skeleton bob and bobsleigh.
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An odd bestiary, or, A compendium of instructive and entertaining descriptions of animals: Culled from five centuries of travelers 'accounts, natural histories, ... famous and obscure, arranged as an abecedary by Alan James Robinson
120th Tournament of Roses Parade: An Intimate Photographic Essay
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The disagreement between the establishment, West-leaning Alsops and the liberal idealist Lerner proved instructive.
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The pumping speed is predicted according to the vacuum-pumping program, and it is very instructive and meaningful for choosing the vacuum pump in the succeeding phase.
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I also recall his insightful and instructive exhibition Harlem on My Mind.
Michael Henry Adams: Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige?
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However, it was the prologue to the England game which was most instructive about the rottenness of the state.
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This algorithm has great instructive meaning for the foundation of simulation flat for information confront of spaceflight tracking telemetry and command link.
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Artistic parallels less pregnant with theology can also be instructive.
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All of which makes this a far more absorbing and instructive experience than your average festive countdown show.
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I think that in any study of anything, an example of excess is instructive, because bibliomania on the whole -- bibliophilia, which is the cousin, are productive exercises.
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
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There are no easy answers here, but the guiding principle left by the Founders that bankruptcy be used to quickly and finally resolve insolvency is instructive.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Comes Out Swinging in Weekly Address
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It has been asserted that the darnel is a degenerated kind of wheat; and attempts have been made to give additional significance to our Lord's instructive parable by injecting this thought; there is no scientific warrant for the strained conception, however, and earnest students will not be misled thereby.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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The pumping speed is predicted according to the vacuum-pumping program, and it is very instructive and meaningful for choosing the vacuum pump in the succeeding phase.
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It is instructive at this point to return to the issue of national versus international economies of scale.
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His hand as an editor is present in helpful and instructive ways in this collection.
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That is what happens in this most instructive example.
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A sound theory is therefore an essential foundation for criticism, and it is impossible for it, without the assistance of a sensible theory, to attain to that point at which it commences chiefly to be instructive, that is, where it becomes demonstration, both convincing and sans re'plique.
On War — Volume 1
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It is instructive to apply the book's thesis to Scotland - too often wrongly lumped in with England.
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While it will be fun, the seminar also promises to be most instructive.
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Although that document now appears to have been overtaken by events, it is instructive to examine the legal terms as part of the sensitive political gamesmanship.
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Learning the meaning of verbal categories from scratch is difficult and time-consuming but it is very instructive.
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The research is favor to the operation staff to analyze and compare various spray methods, and is instructively significant to design and optimize air-cooled unit as well.
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Thus not least of the pleasures afforded by Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style -- a comparatively small but thoroughly entertaining and subtly instructive exhibition on view at the Museum of the City of New York -- is to be reminded that once upon a time, and not so long ago, the most influential style-setters actually owned their haute couture and bijoux.
Fashion As Social History: What Makes A 'Refreshingly Unpretentious' Exhibit On Fashion?
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History in America has basically become inspirational, not instructive.
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This book is deeply interesting to read while still being informative and instructive.
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The lecturer, in a most interesting and instructive address, dwelt chiefly on the principal characteristics of the three classes of fowls, the non-sitting or table fowl, the layer, and the general-purpose fowl.
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Indeed the lines of thinking in different epochs provide instructive examples of the science of the day.
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It is instructive to look back at just what those who were dubious thought the downside was.
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His choice of sidemen was instructive.
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Which is a pity, since with a little interpretation they can be highly instructive.
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Our lively zaptieh cheered the route with an instructive tale of the siege of a certain kula we passed, by soldiers from Scutari sent to collect cattle-tax.
High Albania
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It is instructive to trace these back to their origin.
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It is worth interrupting the chronicle to draw attention to a hitherto unnoted irony in a political career in which ironies instructively abound.
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Accordingly from today and continuing during the coming week I shall be giving further instructive examples of superlative endgame performance.
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Rather than denigrating insurers, it would be instructive for Nation readers to hear from an actuary or underwriter.
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Character is one of the most important instructive and suasive devices in literature, Fowler points out.
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James Q. Wilson, in his review of Irving Kristol's "The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009" edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb Bookshelf, Jan. 21 , articulates an instructive and powerful approach to government decision-making.
Say Yes to Fact-Based Decision-Making
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Only rarely do legitimate children express such feelings of inferiority, and these exceptions are instructive.
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Creature, less instructive; for it excited me in this my Solitude, to admire the inscrutable Providence of the Powers Divine, who distribute their Benefits diversly; to some the Gifts of Nature, to others those of
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Similar instances could be given from every country, and one of the most instructive is to be found in the writings of Colonel F.N. Maude, C.B.,
Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women
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It is instructive to compare Dawson's version of a song with that of a more highly regarded singer.
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They are instructive but are not determinative.
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It is perhaps instructive to note that a copy of the signed letter was sent the same day on headed fax paper.
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Randall, is very anxious that the services should be what he calls instructive; that courses, for instance, of sermons should be preached on certain books of the Old Testament, on the Pauline
The Upton Letters
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The precise formulation is instructive for the ways that it connects the issue of un/mourning to the place of literature in psychical reality.
Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
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Either a basal gnathostome such as a shark or a basal actinopterygian such as a sturgeon would be equally instructive.
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It made buying wine, not to mention rare malt whiskies, instructive and enjoyable.
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The union was unable to prevent the strike, but it is instructive to look at how it was conducted.
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Was it illuminating and instructive, or was it merely emotional pornography?
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But while they may be instructive, requiring them seems burdensome.
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Lacan's elaboration of the Jungian concept of the imago seems instructive here.
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Here, in a regular series of instructive reading, in the cultivation of every elegant talent, and the acquirement of every useful art, and in the interchangement of the good offices and real pleasures which the society of the good and the rational may every where afford, their hours of amusement were past; those of duty, in every exertion of active benevolence and even-handed justice, that their situation as lords paramount of the neighbourhood, or as the richest people in it, could give occasion for.
Things By Their Right Names
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Although a comparative analysis of the Yamal and the Finnmark cases would certainly be instructive it is premature given the preliminary character of research on each of these at this time.
Understanding and assessing climate change vulnerabilities in the Arctic through case studies
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It will be instructive to see how they react to this first setback.
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It would be no gain for intellectual culture if all the reasoning were confined to the so-called instructive pictures and the photoplays were served without any intellectual salt.
The Photoplay A Psychological Study
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It is instructive that Isocrates uses oral metaphors to describe the role of poetry and oratory in cultural reproduction and to convey the idea of an education he himself professes.
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The extend thanks to the organisers for a very instructive and enjoyable day.
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And it is instructive that the people who think this is a good idea are artists and artistic types.
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Corbin on Contracts, § 559A through 559I (Kaufman supp., 1980) contains a rather extensive discussion of contracts of adhesion which is apt and instructive.
The Volokh Conspiracy » After Stolt-Nielsen v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp.: Deciding When Class Arbitration Is Permissible
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It is instructive to compare the operation of the essentially similar institutions in Sweden and Denmark.
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An experience I had as a young assistant professor is instructive.
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The second of these two phenomena is particularly instructive.
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An instructive example of this problem was reported in an important paper on the evolution of insect wings.
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Traherne continues to be instructive: ‘Flight is but the preparative: the sight / Is deep and infinite ’.
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Particularly instructive is the effectively continuous high-resolution signal of the interval from the base of the upper coccolith limestone to the calcareous mudstone above the upper oil shale.
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This is an impressively instructive example of the genre.
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Just to say the word bodhichitta or to hear it spoken is profoundly positive and instructive.
A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Four: Completion of Preliminaries and the Two Types of Bodhichitta
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For an instructive comparison, think of the hadrosaurian dinosaur Maiasaura peeblesorum, which died out about seventy million years ago.
The Song of The Dodo
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My small olive-branch of fancy will be withered, in truth, and ready to drop budless from the tree, when I cease to feel a mild delight in the billings and cooings of the little birds that separate from the flocks to fly together in pairs, or in the uninstructive but mutually satisfactory converse which Strephon holds with Chloe while they dally along the primrose path.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
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It is instructive to see how many of the largest “true wapiti” heads listed in this book were killed in Wyoming.
Bird Cloud
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He also got an instructive whiff of the old guard.
THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
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Historical examples are also instructive.
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This startling reversal of fortune is instructive of the way in which modern management techniques are revitalizing Chinese business.
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That would give other failed institutions an encouraging and instructive example.
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This last quote is instructive because of the manner with which Barton admitted that it is unconfirmed.
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Watching yourself on video is a hoot, but it is also highly instructive.
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The research is favor to the operation staff to analyze and compare various spray methods, and is instructively significant to design and optimize air-cooled unit as well.
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Chubarov, in an Instructive and thoughtful book, presents the whole panorama of Russian history from the reforms of Peter the Great to the shock therapy of Egor Gaidar and Boris Yeltsin.
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She's instructive, witty and fun - watching her show is edifying without feeling that way.
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This dissertation argues that Friedan's feminist thought is still instructive and applicable for contemporary American women, because the feminine mystique is still imperiling them to some extent.
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For an instructive comparison, think of the hadrosaurian dinosaur Maiasaura peeblesorum, which died out about seventy million years ago.
The Song of The Dodo
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The paper explains the visible phenomena and mental state from the objective, realistic and historical perspectives and points out the instructive meaning of traditional idea to toda...
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A look at the distribution of the major groups of plants and animals alive today is instructive.
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At the same time, the party congress was instructive in exposing the political background of the latest round of anti-foreigner and German nationalist agitation.
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I found one other instructive quote from the right hon. Gentleman - a delphic utterance worthy of William Wordsworth at his best.
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It is instructive, while examining the connection between the religious mythology of a culture and its sexual mores, to look at an offshoot of the Judaeo-Christian tradition where the erotophobia has been attenuated.
Christianity's Persecution of Gays: Historical Bigotry
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The campus was humming with instructive activities and cheerful, volunteer undergraduates directing and informing the crowds with courtesy and charm.
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Stafford's over-arching description for this transition is the change from a visual to a verbal culture, from one based on the instructive power of sensations to one rooted in the ratiocinative skills of language.
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It is instructive to follow the Post's line of argumentation.
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This favourable environment has produced a usefully instructive specimen of the democratic species.
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Fanning is an instructive case because of his former identification with rock, which remains his abiding passion.
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It is also quite an instructive one.
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His evidence in favor of such a shift is instructive of his thinking and acceptance of Darwinian ideas.
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Aside from the freedom and joy these drawings radiate, their simplicity is instructive.
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In their speech, there is a tendency to be rhetorical and instructive and school-masterly and sermonising.
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The Sun Inn, or "House of the Giants," as it has sometimes been called, from the colossal figures which appear in the pargeting over its gateway, is a building which evidently grew with the needs of the town, and a study of its architectural features is curiously instructive.
Vanishing England
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He's so instructive to us on what human sexuality is all about.
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Meanwhile, frustrated barflies screamed the actual lyrics and made instructive gestures at Brian, who smiled vaguely, raised his arms above his head, and gyrated.
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Dare to make constructive criticism, and embrace the instructive criticism with an open mind.
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An experience I had as a young assistant professor is instructive.
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Two segments of the game were particularly instructive.
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His Psalm 71 is instructive for he considers the very matter of evildoing, and in psalm after psalm his recourse is in prayer to God.
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Fifteen years of wandering around sea-smashed, out-of-season beach resorts with a Dictaphone have taught me the banal but instructive lesson that generally in this country you gets what you pays for.
Britain isn't called great for nothing | Bella Bathurst
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It Stinks!" is a way of encouraging readers to pay less attention, since even bad books can be bad in instructive ways.
Principles of Literary Criticism
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Bennett's memoir is full of crucial technical insights into Broadway and Hollywood practice, but by way of instructive anecdote rather than structured discussion.
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It would be instructive therefore to look to their experience.
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The principle of equivalence in translation which based on functional equivalence is an important instructive theory on the translation of trade names.
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The case of Tyler Clementi is especially instructive about how far we have to go in accepting our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender children.
Bishop Gene Robinson: How Religion Is Killing Our Most Vulnerable Youth
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The much-publicised case of Samit Patel is instructive, for no one would accuse Mike Newell, his county coach, of not being cognisant of the requirements and endeavouring to encourage him into what amounts to a lifestyle change.
Cricketers today cannot afford to ape hard-living Ian Botham | Mike Selvey
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This book is deeply interesting to read while still being informative and instructive.
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The whole hierograph thus combines, in an extremely simple and instructive unity, the symbolisation of Apis,
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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But it is more instructive, perhaps, for him to go back a couple of seasons earlier, when David Gower brought an unfancied team to India and walked away victorious.
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There is no doubt that the book is an interesting and instructive roundup of the problems that beset human societies, but it doesn't probe deeply enough, and in addition it is rather prolix.
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It's instructive to see her as the aristocratic adventuress in the 18 th-century potboiler The Affair of the Necklace.
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But like everybody else in public life, from politicians and pundits to performers and poets, Stewart wants to seem edifying and instructive.
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His fables, written in iambic senarii, consist of beast-tales based largely on ‘Aesop’, as well as jokes and instructive stories taken not only from Hellenistic collections but also from his own personal experience.
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A few days ago, I was riffling through the more obscure volumes on Tchaikovsky held by Cambridge University and, when the dust settled, I found a highly instructive story about the Fifth Symphony.
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As for the seats themselves, it's instructive to read the Royal Commission report.
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The early work in turbulence modeling in the fluid dynamics community is an instructive case study as well (model parameters that were originally thought to be universally valid turned out to depend on the type of flow, but experimental results were limited early on).
Climate Science and Software Quality | Serendipity
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In this matter of verbosity the example of Westminster is again instructive.
Our Parliament, Its Organization and Work
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It was also highly instructive.
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Why not press into the service of instructive novelism truths stranger than fiction, among characters more marked, and names of higher note, than the whole hot-pressed family of the Fitzes?
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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It also is instructive as an example of the gray areas that are inherent in the discipline.
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It is instructive to look at preliterate societies, where literacy and standardization have been more recently introduced, to see how different languages begin to acquire prestige and others are devalued.
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fibbed" to her mother; and on that memorable and ethically instructive occasion her mother had regarded her in this same calm fashion.
The Last Shot
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Here they are stifled by large pictures of lesser quality, although the juxtapositions are instructive.
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It has been instructive to comb the literature for evidence of when astrology has made a difference.
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Before we continue with the human story, it's instructive to look at numeracy in animals.
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It made buying wine, not to mention rare malt whiskies, instructive and enjoyable.
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For my own part I think that Cain's version is infinitely more humorous and instructive as well, because a "door is not a door" when it is a "daw," which is, indeed, as Cain's answer to the riddle claims it to be, a bird.
The Autobiography of Methuselah
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In this context it is instructive to look at other countries or at attitudes towards housing in Britain earlier in the century.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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While it will be fun, the seminar also promises to be most instructive.
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One case is particularly instructive concerning changing attitudes toward women and the family.
America Past and Present
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When searching for what humans really want, it is instructive to look at what rich people actually get.
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On either side of the entrance to the Wargrave columbarium are carvings of peacocks of considerable finesse, in such low relief that they are almost invisible at times; to know the artist would be instructive.
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There are also instructive parallels between Schneider's work and two photographers who explored painterly and imaginative renderings of the body.
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This was all very friendly, fun and instructive, and we bought a small bottle of balsamic vinegar (the one we liked best in the blind test) to take home.
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Within the framework of this publication, I see my role as a film historian primarily in presenting some material: instructive examples of filmic counter-information from the 20s to the 90s.
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Perhaps the reason I find the fresh-start movement that led to responsible government so fascinating and instructive is that it was led by parties formed specifically for the purpose of change -- the Reform Parties of Upper and Lower Canada.
A Fresh Start for Canadians
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But I think he sees it as more of a parable, a story wrapped up in a morally instructive message.
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His way of reasoning is always his own, sometimes sublime and heavenly, so as not to be reduced unto the common rules of our arts and sciences, without a derogation from its instructive, convictive, and persuasive efficacy.
Pneumatologia
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Though some might find such games dull, I personally feel that the clarity of the resulting positions (even his combinative games somehow appear thematic and clear) should prove extremely instructive for non-masters.
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In this connection it is instructive to pass in review the secret maneuvers by which the recognition of Poland's independence was, so to say, extorted from a Russian Minister, who was reputed at the time to be a Democrat of the Democrats.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
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The result has the kind of rangy nervous energy that can make a review dramatic, instructive, and great fun to read.
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Claudia Kramatschek gives a very instructive insight into Pakistani literature - pardon, into Urdu, Sindhi, Pashto, Punjabi and Balochi literature.
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The instructive trajectory of their political decay has now reached the terminal stage of free-market libertarianism.
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A break-down of the secular rates of motion of the lunar orbit's apse and line of nodes, taken from Brown's lunar theory, is instructive in this respect.
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There is nothing so sottish, or foolish, or contradictious in and to itself, as may not be countenanced from teaching parables to be instructive and proving in every parcel or expression that attends them.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The contrast with my trajectory at a similar age is instructive.
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Yet, at the same time, few violinists can speak with more authority anent the instructive phases of their Art. Not only has he been active for years in the teaching field; but as a pedagog he rounds out the traditions of Ferdinand David,
Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
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My "specific" application I mentioned earlier is instructive for fans of anime and manga - as a member of the otaku-rhombus, that is, non-Japanese fans of anime creating works with roots in aforementioned anime, I view the art from my point of view, which is just as accurate as the native Japanese person's.
Anime Nano!
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But before politicians get too excited, it may be instructive to compare the supposedly wasteful public sector with the supposedly lean privateers.
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I personally found it instructive and helpful, as I think all those who have taken the course so far.
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The Septuagint translation is instructive; it runs thus: ewv an eluh ta apoceimena autw -- "until the things laid up in store come into his possession.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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I have actually served a term of imprisonment in Britain under such a law, and Americans may find my experiences instructive.
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To understand this on a practical level it may be instructive to turn to an example.
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His life and struggles are socially instructive to those of us who would like to one day become doctors, as he made a simple discovery that enabled other doctors and scientists to better understand the nature of bacteriological diseases.
So Much Pretty
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Quite naturally, in my wanderings of nine months there were moments when my thoughts dwelt upon such material things as "vittles," and it was instructive to compare the various kinds of food served on a dozen ships, a score of hotels, and a hundred camps.
In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
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This tolerant approach of the Moors and Ottomans is instructive for today's world.
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I hope you've found it as instructive reading the posts as I've found it writing them.
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The whole culture of greed, arrogance, cronyism and corruption was marvellously encapsulated in that instructive episode.
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They had what I found to be an instructive adventure, because Smash did something so stupid only an ogre could have managed it: he looked into the peephole of a hypnogourd.
Question Quest
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For these assertions are instructive just because they reveal some of the less obvious effects of a denial of human rights.
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These men drilled a long time on what they called a heifer dance -- a beautiful spectacular, and highly moral and instructive quadruped clog, sirloin shuffle, and cow gallop, to the music of a piano-forte.
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It helpfully reasserts the book's argument; and by its resort to invective — "jeremiad," "screeds," "emotionally gratifying," "capitalist hobgoblins," etc. — his letter offers an instructive insight into Reich's own thought processes.
'Supercapitalism': An Exchange
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Once it is all over, though, it will be instructive to see how important have been the legal and regulatory issues in influencing the outcome.
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What I find most instructive is how New Media folks are critical of his new media stance but pro to his anti-government stance.
KAMN Show #46: Fahrenheit 451 : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
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Herewith a compilation of great moments in precocity, endurance, and procrastination, organized instructively by age
Innocence and Experience
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If there's one lasting impression that's instructive, it's the lack of hereness.
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In order to clarify their ethical agendas, they include prefaces that explicate the thematic direction and instructive nature of their novels.
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Inspection of the comparative figures is both instructive and startling.
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This puzzle is highly instructive and the winning blow is based on a thematic tactical idea as seen in yesterday's column.
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The novel is so instructive that I can hardly tear myself away from it.
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The present interesting volume -- while it is instructive in no small measure as to the scope and character of Mickiewicz's poetry and literary work -- draws so lively a picture of the persecutions and sufferings and of the unconquered spirit of the poet that its human interest easily overbears mere questions of literature. ...
Kościuszko A Biography
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In thinking about robots and the future, a look at the recent past in instructive.
Science vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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And both accounts - examples of nonaffluent parents of color taking their children's education into their own hands - demonstrate two key principles that are instructive for education reform.
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Simkin's hand as an editor is present in helpful and instructive ways in this collection.
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China’s huge investment in high-speed rail may be instructive to the United States, whether for proponents of federal rail investments or critics who consider bullet trains a boondoggle.
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You have enough to tell that is harmless as well as interesting, and not only harmless, but valuable and instructive, and that _ought_ to be told, and which _no one but yourself can tell_.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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It is instructive, for example, to visit a Vietnamese city, and experience how agreeable it is.
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Again, the relative lack of eroticism in instructive for today’s viewer, as it makes one think about how the nature of what turns us on has changed, or how the options for being turned on have changed.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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Such an ovum as that of our present type, however being devoid of such yolk (alecithal = without yolk), necessitates a very early start in life, and, for reasons too complicated to state fully here, the development in such a case is considered particularly instructive and primitive by zoologists.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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This sequence of events is instructive in several respects.
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Not that my trip was uninstructive.
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It is also instructive to remember that he lived at a time when the United States was undergoing a renewed interest in nation-building.
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It is instructive to compare ball speeds and distances in cricket and hockey.
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Veda's deafness is smartly played, and Graham's depiction of the tailor shop's inner workings is instructive ... the redemptive ending will please fans of the genre.
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Indeed, comparing him to Benedict Arnold is instructive: both gifted men were at times disgracefully ill-used.
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However unpleasant these flows are to scramble over when cold, it is very instructive to watch them when hot.