How To Use Populace In A Sentence

A bloodless revolution is possible, but only if it's supported by a clear majority of the populace, who are no longer afraid to say what they think for fear of being shot.
The tribal populace in the hilly areas of the State has not been largely affected by the same as comapared to the plain people.
As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
A colporteur, known to me, when engaged selling Bibles in a Brazilian town, reports that the fanatical populace got his books and carried them, fastened and burning, at the end of blazing torches, while they tramped the streets, yelling: "Away with all false books! Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Personal ornaments - strap-ends, buckles, brooches, jewellery and the like - suggest that what was true for the lordly classes was true also for the populace as a whole.
That He says, "The morrow shall be anxious for itself," comes of desire to make more plain what He speaks; to that end employing a prosopopeia of time, after the practice of many in speaking to the rude populace; to impress them the more, He brings in the day itself complaining of its too heavy cares. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
Without a well-educated populace we are a poor and intellectually bankrupt society.
What matters is how this declaration would contribute to the uplifting of morals by those in government and the general populace and whether it contravenes the rights and freedoms of non-Christians.
In the US, the punishments for yobbery are harsh, and gangs are likely to be attacking each other, rather than the general populace.
He imagined that very few people in history had actually seen this carving up close, since it was designed to sit so high above the populace—but up close, the carved image of the disclike Sun looked odd, as if it were not a carved image but rather…well…aplug in the stone. Seven Deadly Wonders
For that, the hometown boy-turned-space traveler was treated to parades and accolades from an awed San Diego populace.
With added momentum, the mob turned its vengeance on the black populace.
I can't wait for the crowd who plead for understanding of why certain populaces have brought terrorism on themselves to try and wiggle this one around 180 degrees.
But the rather malleable populace here seems to be quite pleased at this governmental largesse.
American soldiers committed, their demeanor has been warlike, which is not perceived by the occupied populace as reassuring or secure, but as frightening and dangerous. Jane Smiley: The End is Nigh
We should have _known_ the characters as they were known to the patrician and the populace of two thousand years ago; we should have seen them as they threw out all their stately and muscular strength; we should have been able to recover them from the tomb, make them move before us "in their armour, as they lived," and gather from their lips the language of times and things, now past away from man. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick ones way between the sketching-stools. Inside the Whale
The meeting actually invades the auditorium, the shouting populace standing in the aisles right next to us, so we become complicit. Times, Sunday Times
The captain of Wales requires the patience of a saint to cope with the demands of the populace of a country besotted by rugby. Times, Sunday Times
The populace has deferred to the independent authority of government and to those who occupy government in return for the satisfaction of expectations.
And there are TV screens everywhere, pumping out a constant stream of ramped up news and political rhetoric, at once nerving up and pacifying the populace.
In a country where the military, along with all other uniformed branches, is actively employed in brutally repressing popular protest, the populace cheers them. Bread and circuses
That the populace easily changed their cry from "hosanna" to "crucify him" is not surprising. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
Normally the word feral refers to a domestic animal that has gone wild, but it’s also used to describe people the general populace believes have done the same. Surviving Australia
Mike, presidents always do things that are not compassed in the vision of the populace. Has anyone heard a peep out of Barack Obama the past few days? | clusterflock
Further he is a poet, and one who lives in a country where the majority of the populace are not of his culture, so that his poems are necessarily written for an absent clerisy.
[263] The distinction between the Roman people and the tribes, is also observed by Tacitus, who substitutes the word plebs, meaning, the lowest class of the populace. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
Perhaps if the sensationalists looked at the effects of tobacco and alcohol on the populace, they would find more serious causes to champion.
Hence, the sudden emergence of what seems like the whole ant populace. Times, Sunday Times
There is no other state where the local populace is prouder to be counted in the census.
Mong-ju divined as my brains, was executed by the paddle -- in short, was promptly and expeditiously beaten to death to the delighted shouts of the Keijo populace. Chapter 15
This may well explain why we have a populace that excepts a two-party system the does not represent them andcan be easily manipulated by a corporate controlled media. Lying Traitors vs Economic Cowards
Let republicans stand up for international corporations, who pay no taxes and pour obscene amounts of money into the pockets of their senators and see what the reaction is among the populace. Think Progress » Lobbyists For Foreign Corporations Begin Fight To Ensure Foreign Money Can Influence American Elections
The meeting actually invades the auditorium, the shouting populace standing in the aisles right next to us, so we become complicit. Times, Sunday Times
The expansion of the Nanny State, which eventually turns not into democracy, which was the goal of socialization and "egalite", but rather a docile and cowed populace the overlords treat as their wards and thus their .... children. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
It is not too much to say that the colonialist condition and its sectarian history drove a wedge between the populace and its writers.
There had developed since Khrushchev's time policies to involve the populace more in low-level administrative activities on a voluntary basis.
There had developed since Khrushchev's time policies to involve the populace more in low-level administrative activities on a voluntary basis.
Offering assistance to parents who face substance abuse issues is all well and good, but turning homes into prisons under constant surveillance, complete with guards, seems a wee bit over the top - even for an island populace well-conditioned to having virtually their every move in public monitored. Look what's "for the children" now (Jack Bog's Blog)
The arming of the populace guaranteed rather than disturbed the peace. Times, Sunday Times
Do I think that states will use whatever technology is available to control their own populaces?
It remains to be seen whether the American populace will wake from their torpor, put down the remote, and do something.
It does not matter whether we fly jets, develop purchasing agreements with local populaces, guard airfield and housing perimeters, make policies, or design new weapon systems, our thoughts do count in this uncertain future.
Under his reign his atempts to withdraw back to only francistown and maun were blocked by the congress but his seclusionist efforts weren't suported by the general populace and in the 2003 elections he was replaced by Ian Mmusi (Not a relative of Peter Mmusi) of the Botswana National Front that advecated expansionist polices. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
If someone had predicted the president's staff would out a CIA agent as revenge against a critic, defy a law against domestic propaganda by bankrolling supposedly independent journalists and commentators, and ridicule a 37-year Marie Corps veteran for questioning U.S. military policy -- and that the populace would be more interested in whether Angelina is about to make Brad a daddy -- I would have called the prediction an absurd fantasy. 12/27/2005
To get the correct likeness of Naples we merely reduce the priests by one-half and increase the beggars by two-thirds; we richen the color masses, thicken the dirt, raise the smells to the Nth degree, and set half the populace to singing. Europe Revised
The populace became a supplicant citizenry dependent upon the state rather than themselves and the socialist state aborted indigenous traditions of working class self – help, reciprocality and social insurance. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
The more covert and salacious these prints were, the more they were treasured by the general populace, who at such times were also frustrated by limits placed on their dress and behavior by strict sumptuary codes.
The populace took comfort in the fact that the law was unenforceable; there simply weren't enough lamp posts.
Florida has been called ‘God's waiting room,’ due to a large chunk of its populace being golden-age refugees from the cold, there to bask in the rays and get a little shuffleboard in before they buy the farm.
No astronomer was needed to tell the populace what operations to perform once the waters had receded.
Act I opened, not at the harbour side but with the assembled populace sitting singing a hymn as if in church.
Applied anthropologists, by their work placed in between corporations, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and various populaces, are well-positioned to study up.
He had the support of large sections of the populace.
He had the support of large sections of the local populace.
Right now you're either dazzling the general populace with brilliance or charming them with blarney.
In Britain judges arbitrated on the fate of the convicted during the trial and used their powers of mercy to demonstrate the majesty of the law to a wider populace.
The paternalistic style of rule is unequal to the demands of transparency and accountability that local populaces - and overseas investors - want.
He is dead now, but his son and all princes who live by the sword would do well to peruse and reperuse the accounts of the tragical scenes that the victors left upon the battle-field when they departed to receive the ovations of the fickle populace. Roumania Past and Present
They want a populace that will absorb spin as fact and regurgitate it when ‘tested’ on election day.
The arming of the populace guaranteed rather than disturbed the peace. Times, Sunday Times
Without a well-educated populace we are a poor and intellectually bankrupt society.
Some studies show that workers in the nuclear industry are more likely than the general populace to get cancer.
He was greatly respected by the local populace. Times, Sunday Times
The castles themselves helped to fuel the growing schismatic power of the Barons in later years to the great detriment of the local populace.
It's the best set of opinions I've seen yet on the current attempts to pound the populace into digital serfdom.
This last issue obtains most often in poorer and less populace states where the high cost of getting and staying elected cannot be borne by the citizens of the state, but must be augmented and subvened (and owned) by large donations from corporate donors. The Senate
It aims at creating awareness about the snakes among the rural populace and also to dispel the many myths surrounding the reptiles.
Except for the fact that he carried a large messenger bag and preferred a rollerball pen to a quill, he would have fit the stereotype to the letter, had the general populace remembered what the stereotype was.
The subsequent ancillary development to support the burgeoning populace headed for this part of the city added its own flavour to the area.
So, since their sectional interest excites no passions amongst the populace, some are attracted by more radical measures.
The unemployed crowded the city, and were sustained by state imports of grain, now available as tribute, which glutted the markets, fed the soldiers, and were from time to time distributed to the populace at cheap rates.
Every year we received a polite note ‘for the record’ asking us to disarm our Gurkhas (they carried kukris) so as not to alarm the populace.
I am happy if the only time I draw my sidearm is at the end of my shift when it is time to unload it and put it back on the armoury shelf. .and I have been using firearms on and off for 22 years now!! on July 27, 2006 at 1: 02 pm | Reply Zebedee billbo - No offense, but in my experience (both from helping train and from “exercises”) & from the “media based knowledge” that I and the rest of the country have seen, the general populace has good cause to have minimal faith in the Police and in particular the Firearms toting side of it. CO19 - A Few Good Men « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
As a stark background, the war-torn Russian populace bitterly voices its utter misery.
Her plain-spoken charm wows the populace and the royal family.
The most difficult and the most valuable is a well-educated populace.
There is also a population zone, which prevents one from building a city too close to other friendly or enemy populaces.
But nothing seems to shift a complaisant populace.
Soaring plume prices coupled with a poverty-stricken, rough-hewn populace contributed to a true ‘tragedy of the commons.’
When you see a topic bubble up in weblogs, I believe that matters because it is an indication of the topic bubbling up across the populace.
And the air was rent by drumfire and shellblast and the surging cheers of the populace. At Swim, Two Boys
It is alien to what the prevailing populace believes, or what it thinks it should believe.
A strict blackout was imposed in Pyongyang, and the populace was crowded into underground shelters as air raid sirens wailed.
An uneducated populace is easy to frighten and manipulate, which is clearly the way some people want it. Democracy needs informed people, Obama tells grads
He had the support of large sections of the local populace.
They are also responsible for the foetid crime they laughably call "extra-ordinary rendition," and torture, through Suleman and Mubarak on Egyptian soil which occurred without the cowed populace even knowing. Egypt: After the revolution, the ballot box | Observer editorial
Personal ornaments - strap-ends, buckles, brooches, jewellery and the like - suggest that what was true for the lordly classes was true also for the populace as a whole.
When this occurs, the victim becomes completely insane, and in large populaces, such as ours, riots and chaos ensue.
Finally, anthropologists since Eric Wolf's seminal work on brokers have observed bureaucracies encouraging patron-client relationships, both between bureaucrats and clients and within local populaces.
Only grand events of martyrhood, bloody deaths, crusades, sea partings, and other jejune items could evoke faith, could tease belief from the listless and fickle populace.
The ancient Brahmins acknowledged one only Supreme Being; the Chinese associated no inferior being with the Divinity, nor had any idol until the times when the populace were led astray by the worship of Fo, and the superstitions of the bonzes. A Philosophical Dictionary
See how they bepraise their patrons, the grand Whig nobility, who hope, by raising the cry of liberalism and by putting themselves at the head of the populace, to come into power shortly. Lavengro
Will those who claim to represent the Hindu populace reciprocate the gesture?
A glimpse of the silent rage of China's populace has awakened Japan to the need for a comprehensive regional strategy.
On the plus side of the ledger, Iraq has many of the structural features of a modern, functioning society - an educated populace, an economic middle class and bureaucratic institutions that, while lumbering and more corrupt than would be conscionable by our standards, still manage to deliver services to the public. Rep. John Sarbanes: Key Tests Loom in Iraq and Afghanistan
Poverty of the first kind belongs to the populace; the second kind is that of blacklegs, of kings, and of men of talent. The Magic Skin
The presence of these armaments in the hands of civilian officers has disabled any last thought that the fabled Posse Comitatus Act might save the populace from the deadly force designed to vanquish foreign armies.
I think I'm going to start drilling holes in crowded areas and wow the populace by catching fish through the ice with my fly rod. Fly fishing through the ice
Democracy needs an informed and educated populace to function.
A small number of people in London and puritan Connecticut developed the takeover scheme and English gunboats found an overwhelmed, isolated populace not prepared to fight for a company they increasingly disliked.
The library is an expensive luxury that morally should only be paid for by users not burden across the whole populace, especially those of us conscribed into the city. Imagine the Possibilities | Aurora City Council Unanimously Approves Site for Library of the Future, Center for Knowledge and Urban Transformation
Unless you're a CEO or a millionaire I don't see how you can defend a party whose policy benefits benefits the elite over the general populace.
Some studies show that workers in the nuclear industry are more likely than the general populace to get cancer.
The arming of the populace guaranteed rather than disturbed the peace. Times, Sunday Times
In the novel "Virtual Light," cyberpunk author William Gibson envisages a Mexico City of the near future where the air is a sooted ebon and the populace wears oxygen masks. The city's "apocalypse" has come and gone
We will be smarter; we will be a “populace stuck in overdrive, searching out the last bits of competitive advantage.” Letters to the Editor
Israel will come out of this with a greatly cowed hamas, who will have to explain to the populace of gaza why this was all worth while and why islamofacism as a concept is so attractive, and why no longer having a home/street/electricity whatever is just so pleasing to the master mullah maniacs in iran. this is what you anarchists are all about 'innit' On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
He finds better health-care plays in stocks like St. Jude Medical Inc. and Boston Scientific Corp., medical-device makers tied to nonelective care; and in stocks of skilled-nursing and long-term care facilities such as Kindred Healthcare Inc. and Sun Healthcare Group Inc., which benefit from an aging populace unaffected by unemployment. Jobless Recovery Would Call for Nuanced Investing
This imperishable writer's works resonated among the Chinese populace, living in an abyss of suffering at that time, winning him great popularity.
It would probably not be easy to again induce such decency in the populace – the devastatingly visible defeat in Vietnam was obviously a decisive factor, and we have no such luck with Iraq – but I do miss that aspect of those days. Matthew Yglesias » “Winning” The War
It seems the deceased is the brother of Raymond Barnette, local undertaker and a candidate for sheriff, who wants to keep any hint of kinkiness out of the minds of the God-fearing populace. Hunting Season: Summary and book reviews of Hunting Season by Nevada Barr.
Had those railing against the charges staged a dignified and lawful protest, the likelihood is they would continue to enjoy the support of the general populace.
But lesbians are still lagging far behind the general female populace in getting physical examinations, she said.
This is the work of the Joker, an archfiend who suffers from rabies of the soul — and cherry-picks his victims at will from the populace of Gotham. Bat to the Future
Observing the crowd round her, the idea of pickpockets occurred to her mind; she put her hands to her sides, and at the same time looked round upon the populace. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are
When the British took formal control of the colony, the Dutch populace, about 8,000 people, struggled to retain their cultural identity.
With their high standards and empathetic members, the unit was beloved by the populace of the Republic.
That such a populace of deluded hypocrits are allowed to take part in our "body politic" is a testament to the LIBERAL nature of our constitution. DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
Their general populace is well dressed. Times, Sunday Times
In London, he was feasted by the City, drawn by the populace from Ludgate-hill to Guildhall, and received the thanks of the common-council for his great victory, and a golden-hilted sword studded with diamonds. The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
After all, it's a good beginning to stress the importance of ordinary people without depreciating the correct leadership of politicians, and to put the populace on a par with the elite.
An hour's amusement, not amusing either, but wearisome and dreary, to a high-dizened select populace of male and female persons, who seemed to me not worth much amusing! The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
Why support a system that had the great mass of the populace in chains to abject poverty? THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
Why support a system that had the great mass of the populace in chains to abject poverty? THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
The whole country, the entire populace, should be discussing and debating this in an attempt to work our way out of the morass and design new beginnings.
A look at the accompanying tables confirms which industries have skimmed the most wealth from the American populace.
When the suitably iodized salt was subsequently used prophylactically throughout Otago, there was a dramatic decline in the incidence of goitre in the populace of this province.
True, Custer's connection to impotence may have been largely metaphorical, but to a certain fretful portion of the populace it struck home. Excerpt: Charlatan by Pope Brock
The 1933 Reichstag conflagration, the Gliwice Radio Tower invasion, the Pearl Harbor attack, and, yes, even the Tonkin Gulf Incident were ALL orchestrated events that served to galvanize an unsuspecting populace into supporting unpopular wars. Suicide by F16 fighter jet?
It certainly seems that mass numbers of surrenders from the existing troops, as they exist, and the end of snipers and potshots coming from the local populace will indicate an end to this.
In order to ingratiate himself with the populace, he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale.
Populace's disaffection, directly relates the society the harmony and the stability.
Porta del Popolo; and the Bustum, where the bodies of the emperor and his family were burnt, is supposed to have stood on the site of the church of the Madonna of that name.] [Footnote 263: The distinction between the Roman people and the tribes, is also observed by Tacitus, who substitutes the word plebs, meaning, the lowest class of the populace.] [Footnote 264: Those of his father Octavius, and his father by adoption, De vita Caesarum
A party of horsemen, belonging to the caravan in which he had travelled from Egypt, were ready at the gates of the mosque to assist the lithoclast, as soon as he should have executed his task; but they were not able to protect him from the fury of the populace. Travels in Arabia
Catering for the needs of the populace appears to have been a major preoccupation of utopians.
The commander's emergency response program is a program set up by the military to take care of humanitarian needs for the local populaces - needs that will make a quick and lasting impact on the community.
The populace resented what they called the insolence and the treachery of France and the French ambassador was pelted at Canterbury as he drove to the seacoast on his recall. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence
But the later ones, from the viceregal period onwards, are in the vernacular and display a marked deterioration; one must suppose that they were printed for such of the common people as could still read (up to a few years ago, sixty-five per cent of the populace were analphabetic). Old Calabria
In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace.
The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an explosion of traveling lecturers in the United States thanks to the lyceum movement, an autodidactic effort that catered to the hunger for knowledge of a self-educating populace. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Everything being in readiness, the machine was carried to Moncuco, the splendid domain of Andriani, where the first experiments were made; for this gentlemen knew that as the populace are impatient, they are also often un-reasonable, and jump to the hastiest and most inconsiderate conclusion when, in witnessing scientific experiments, any of the arrangements happen to be imperfect, and the results in any respect prove unsuccessful. Wonderful Balloon Ascents
Under his reign his atempts to withdraw back to only francistown and maun were blocked by the congress but his seclusionist efforts weren't suported by the general populace and in the 2003 elections he was replaced by Ian Mmusi (Peter Mmusi's disinherited son) of the Botswana National Front that advecated expansionist polices. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
Elysées "to the frenzied cries of the populace saluting its victorious army, and greeting with wild applause" Pétain, who kept Verdun inviolated, "" De Castelnau, who three times in the fray saw a son fall at his side, "" Gouraud, the Fearless, "" Marchand, who rushed on the On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes
The populace, who re-act against such illegal actions and interference in their sovereignty, knows the truth.
The populace at large is / are opposed to sudden change.
The story goes that rebels wrapped messages of their plot to capture a walled city inside cakes that they distributed to the local populace. Times, Sunday Times
You sway the perception of the populace with your questions, and it is YOU who will either awaken the populace to be asking pertinant questions about what will have the most dire affects on our nation, AND YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT PINS? George Stephanopoulos Responds To Obama, Defends Handling Of Debate
A poet, of all men, should cherish the liquid consonants, and should resist the tendency of the populace to make trochees of all dissyllables. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
The tribal populace in the hilly areas of the State has not been largely affected by the same as compared to the plain people.
See how they bepraise their patrons, the grand Whig nobility, who hope, by raising the cry of liberalism, and by putting themselves at the head of the populace, to come into power shortly. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825
The movement was re - sisted, however, by the populace, who were incited by the intransigeance of the Calvinist ministers and supported by the House of Orange. CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY
It's when they up the ante and start selling air to whole areas that the populace is left, quite literally, gasping.
To modern eyes, the manual can seem overly conscious of presenting a positive image before whites, but otherwise, regarding gender roles, it is no different than what can be found in etiquette manuals aimed at the general populace. African-American Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade
He was also adept at promoting the scheme to the Australian populace by presenting it as a symbol of national pride.
The Revolution itself divided the populace, with patriots and loyalists battling one another for control of what each saw as their country.
I liked the way the producers began and ended their broadcast on the same theme and wondered what other risks they took to keep the populace informed. The Tribes Triumphant
They and firefighters were sent to drop sand and pour concrete on the lava-like reactor fuel still seething at the site, to haul away debris, to put out fires with water, and to seed the skies for rain that would precipitate volatile cesium from the atmosphere, resulting in black rain that poured down on an unevacuated populace. Rogue Oracle
In order to ingratiate himself with the populace, he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale.
Whigs, who were the men in fact that wrought the most deray among the populace. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Then Nahum denounced the city and was slain by the populace, who proclaimed him and Jonah to be false prophets, since the doom the latter foretold does not come to pass, See Schwarz, _Das Heilige Land_, 1852, p. 259, identifying Kefar Tanchum near Tiberias with Nahum's burialplace] [Footnote 121: As to Jewish seats of learning in Babylon refer to Dr. Krauss's Article "Babylonia" in the _Jewish The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
As you walk through the casino's main, earth-tone-colored entrance, you're confronted with a spiral-shaped chandelier made of 193 handblown glass bulbs engraved with the names countries represented by the populace of Queens. City's First Casino Gambles With Design
God Forbid a quake should hit our area, as these embrittled domes would shatter like a thermos dropped on a concrete floor, the radioactive plumes rapidly visiting death upon the populace of our area. Entergy's Indian Point is Another Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Waiting To Happen...Stop The Nuclear Renaissance Now
First, any rookie economist will tell you that creating a job by extorting money from the populace, filtering it through any number of government agencies (where they skim off their percentage for handling it) and turning it into a paycheck is the absolute worst way to do it. Sound Politics: Tunnel of Funny Money
Such reports hearten rebel leaders who hope a weakened security apparatus and frustrated populace will hasten the regime's collapse. Hardships in Tripoli Buoy Rebels
As global economies sink into bankruptcy, sabre rattling may on occasion be used to distract the populace, but in the main current trends become more pronounced.
Even The Lord of the Rings' Gollum can't touch the level of physical detail instilled into the digitally-rendered Na'vi populace the indigenous Pandora inhabitants, who transcend previously expected special effect barriers, convincing even these most scrutinous eyes that what is on display is true flesh and blood. Archive 2009-12-01
While European runways may introduce the latest hemline, I suspect that it isn't until Hollywood movie stars adopt the new look that the trend spreads to the general populace. Kamran Pasha: Fashion Alert: Fearing Muslims Is The New Black
If there is no innate difference between the substance of Sylvia Plath and a Mr Sheen add – ifyou take all the wild, ritous variety of the creative world and declareit to be identical, forcing each vibrant shape into the drab grey monotone of texthood – then it is you, Herr Doktor, who are running the police state, garbing the populace in prison smocks and shaving their obedient, coweringheads. Dear Board of Studies « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
Yet Linnaeus was delighted with Osbeck's journal, which described novel plants, harbor boats filled with hundreds of ducks trained to come and go on command, and a populace with the nasty habit of throwing rocks at him while he botanized. Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net
The most endangered predators he meets are Indian lions, which were once protected by Indian nabobs but now threaten local livestock and compete with the populace for scarce resources.
Female cowhands numbered far fewer but were still among the populace.
If the populace now see that as PM he is "'orf' is 'ead" will they perchance put two and two togther and work out that he was just as mad as Chancellor and realise that his policies then were just as ludicrous the current ones? British Blogs
In any case the cricket folklore among this cricket crazy populace stands to be enriched.
He received the support of the local populace and became that constituency's MP.
Medieval physicians created even more elaborate theriacs to dose a plague-dreading populace, for whom the possibility of a cure-all didn't seem too wild a notion at all.
It's much more threatening to the status quo here, because there's a kind of docility that's expected of the American populace. Questions &Amp; Answers: Battlelines
One approach which is curiously similar to business studies in its view of the populace is that of some contemporary Marxism.
It penetrated through the houses, shaking the earth and pounding the eardrums of a garbled populace which had gradually grown accustomed to the noise.
As for pornography, the librarian has discretionary powers to censor what he deems too racy for the prison populace.
It is true, the populace retained themselves; but there arose a perpetual hum and bustle from the throng round the palace, which added to the noise of fireworks, the frequent explosion of arms, the tramp to and fro of horsemen and carriages, to which effervescence he was the focus, retarded his recovery. II.1
In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace.
BUt now, with excellent PR and global communication, it can be used as another tool to reinforce the ongoing effort to keep the populace fucused on the central government for a "solution" and to quell the fear that was so skillfully in generated, and that we were so gullible in cranking up. Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?
Severe justice is the only condition on which French supremacy can be maintained in the country, and probably for the general Arab populace the rule of the Gauls is a judicious one. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
But, after Varennes, the mistrust built up by his long record of apparent ambivalence burst out into widespread demands from the populace of the capital and a number of radical publicists for the king to be dethroned.
The order was intended to create a new dimension of fear among the local populace by making its victims simply disappear without trace.
The linen trade, introduced into Ireland and funded by a series of Linen Acts, was perceived by a generally unappreciative populace to be an inappropriate and insufficient replacement.
One epigram speaks obscurely of the destruction of the idols of Alexandria by the Christian populace in the archiepiscopate of Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Les Miserables
Macias exterminated a third of his populace before being executed after a 1979 coup.
Many scraps of traditionary lore relative to the latter nobleman must linger in and about London, where he was the idol of the populace, as well as the leader of what we should now call the "legitimist" party. Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
Set in 1966, during what an opening title helpfully labels "the greatest era for British rock 'n' roll," the movie takes place almost entirely on a massive, red-hulled ship that has been converted into a radio station for the purpose of promulgating the devil's music to Britain's unsuspecting populace, who would otherwise be limited to the rock-free BBC. The Clog
It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure.
What a great deal of "buncombe" the American populace will bear! Echoes of the Week
Yielding to pressure from above and below, the tycoon begged the ambassadors to consent to the removal of the buildings to some other site in the metropolis less obnoxious to the mikado and to the populace, all the expense of which the Japanese Government offered to pay. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Highly constrained genomes such as those of birds represent the opposite extreme, in which the subgenomic populace suffers under a totalitarian regime.
One of the principal personages in the comic part of the drama was, as we have already said, a quaestionary or pardoner, one of those itinerants who hawked about from place to place relics, real or pretended, with which he excited the devotion at once, and the charity of the populace, and generally deceived both the one and the other. The Abbot
Why support a system that had the great mass of the populace in chains to abject poverty? THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
Local legends invariably eulogize a small band of the faithful who arrive as torch-bearers of the faith in the hostile terrain and face the resistance of the infidel populace.

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