How To Use Receding In A Sentence

In the receding angle below the chin is the hyoid bone, and the finger can be carried along the bone to the tip of the greater cornu, which is on a level with the angle of the mandible: the greater cornu is most readily appreciated by making pressure on one side, when the cornu of the opposite side will be rendered prominent and can be felt distinctly beneath the skin. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 1. Surface Anatomy of the Head and Neck
The preceding months of wrangling were the cause of a great deal of economic uncertainty.
A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; _e.g. hsing_ = _hissing_ without the first _i_, Myths and Legends of China
The relative clause: it is defined as a clausal modifier, restrictive or non-restrictive, used to modify a preceding construction, most often a preceding noun or noun phrase.
This was especially worrying given that three quarters of those surveyed claimed to have experienced rudeness in the preceding year. Times, Sunday Times

The preceding locution is established Mazzinian; the following clearly mine. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
The New York law confers a right of inspection only on persons who have been church members for the six months preceding their request for inspection. Christianity Today
But unlike Karl Barth or Paul Tillich, for example, who saw themselves as fusing philosophy and theology, Rosenstock-Huessy refused to see himself primarily as a philosopher or theologian ” though when the term philosopher was qualified by the preceding ˜social™, he was more willing to accept that designation. [ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Kazzer was a big deal before anybody even knew who he was - in the months preceding the release of his first CD, Pedal to the Metal, he was already on a Canada-wide tour to promote his brand of good-time rock & hip-hop.
At the national level, they show that for most of the twentieth century, each successive cohort of young people left home at an average age below that of the cohort immediately preceding them.
The Safety Board concluded that the incorrect rigging wasn't a significant factor on the preceding flights because weight and balance on those flights were well within limits.
The image shows a slightly chubby-faced man with receding, dark cropped hair, tanned skin and stubble.
He is of a medium build and has short grey receding hair and a moustache.
The format for the final is slightly different to preceding shows, as the result will emerge tonight rather than on the following day. Times, Sunday Times
The honest depiction seemed to emphasize his worst features: his big nose, the dark circles under his eyes, his slightly receding hairline.
It shrank by 0.9 per cent in the preceding three months. Times, Sunday Times
Despite a slightly receding hairline, his ample, glistening night-black hair remained full and healthy.
This ebb of the tide continued from the middle of the preceding night until dark on the following night. Times, Sunday Times
Thus I think we now have a sensible solution to the reconstruction of the Old IE objective endings preceding the agglutination of “indicative” postclitic demonstrative *əi PIE *-i: The trouble with the PIE 1st & 2nd person plural endings (3)
The preceding section dealt with the validity of state regulation in the absence of federal regulation.
Page 394 coursing through the green plains, and dark promontories, or obtuse projections of the side-long acclivities, alternately advancing or receding on the verge of the illumined native fields, to the utmost extent of sight; the summits of the acclivities afford, besides the forest trees already recited, Halesia, Ptelea, Circis, Cornus Florida and Amorpha. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
He had dark chestnut brown hair without a receding hairline, and eyes, and his skin had an almost olive complexion.
The term preceding the Commencement of 1799 was especially stormy. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
(By the way, the water is receding from the back garden now - it's gone down at least 4 inches from the photos.) A watery day
Once again, one need not even comment on the law in affirming the substance of my preceding sentence here. Balkinization
Her third piece, an arpillera, depicts in stylised, pale shapes, in a receding line, the children who are lost in war, enduring the trauma of fear and separation. OpenDemocracy
Cicero was out of Rome during the eighteen months preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, being selected under regulations following Pompey's lex de provinciis.
Every year on St Paul's day, while the soloist on the ambo sang the melodies of the fourth vigiliary responsory, the Pope, entering, as we have said, into the camera confessionis, withdrew the censer - which had been let down through the hole on to the tomb of the apostle at this same Office in the preceding year, and introduced another also full of burning incense. The Station at St Paul
And it is the galaxies, not individual stars, that are receding from one another, being carried farther apart as the space in which they are embedded expands.
Preceding it, ISU carillonneur Tin-shi Tam will provide music, and cookies and hot chocolate will be served.
Day after day we're treated to an over-long British news sequence covering the ‘events’ of the preceding twenty-four hours on the campaign trail, and nit-picking over the meaning of the latest polls.
All I could find about this enigmatic term was some World of Warcraft guy, and some scientific stuff about the embryonic phase of an animal preceding the "gastrula" phase. YesButNoButYes: Caption Competition
Use a beard to minimize a soft or receding or overly prominent chin.
The story was simple to him: good prospects that warranted the starting of the tunnel into the sidehill; the three months 'work and the getting short of money; the lay-off while the men went away and got jobs; then the return and a new stretch of work, with the "pay" ever luring and ever receding into the mountain, until, after years of hope, the men had given up and vanished. Chapter IX
In this case, we should put at the intersections between the rows and columns the figures corresponding to the required initial levels of preceding themes or subjects.
A few years ago, the bilious 1990s backlash against single parents living on crumbling estates - like my sister - was slowly receding.
She had been experiencing an increasing sense of desperation over the preceding weeks, and she didn't really know why. Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
The dual leadership of the preceding three weeks was now over. Times, Sunday Times
The special meaning here attached to the term deformity is sufficiently explained in the preceding paragraph; it remains to give a few illustrations, and to refer to other headings, such as Heterotaxy, Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
There is no documented report of Virginia being placed into a mesmeric trance in the hours preceding her death.
At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
His testimony contradicted that of the preceding witness.
I hear that the night that Charles sat up at White's, which was that preceding the night of Lady Holland's death, he planned out a kind of itinerant trade, which was going from horse race to horse race, and so, by knowing the value and speed of all the horses in England, to acquire a certain fortune. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
And unlike the preceding White Album, the jumbled juxtaposition of forms - faux-blues toss-offs, stately piano ballads, folkie hootenannies - feels less like a band overflowing with inspired ideas than one running out of them.
The decade immediately preceding Picasso's turn to ceramics saw the century-old debate about craft and society in France take on emphatic new political colorations, first of a leftist cast, and then of a rightist.
His hand moved up to rub his forehead, below the dark, receding hairline; he was probably a lot tireder than he looked. NIGHT SISTERS
The sensitive plant is too vulgar an allusion; but if the truth of modern naturalists may be depended upon, there is a plant which, instead of receding timidly from the intrusive touch, angrily protrudes its venomous juices upon all who presume to meddle with it: – do not you think this plant would be your fittest emblem? Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
Let me emphasize, straight away, that he isn't what I would call a friend, but I know him enough to say that he did purposely design himself: single, modest dresser in receding colours, mathematics teacher, sponsor of the chess club, mild-mannered acquaintance to all rather than a friend to any, a person anxious to become invisible. Excerpt: Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
In conclusion, I hope the preceding arguments have convinced you of the need for action.
The receding tide stranded the whale.
Still, I drew it on the page immediately preceding the most killer page in the whole book.
Although the waters are slowly receding the villagers are not optimistic about what they will find when they return home.
This weekly Robin installment is a follow-on to the preceding essays about the Boy Wonder as comic relief, and DC's collective effort to develop established aspects of superhero characters into meaningful personality traits. Archive 2009-07-01
John between the preceding vision and the following one, implying, on the one hand, the solemn introduction to the eternal sabbatism which is to follow the seventh seal; and, on the other, the silence which continued during the incense-accompanied prayers which usher in the first of the seven trumpets (Re 8: 3-5). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The problem is receding slightly as advertisers come to terms with the consolidation in the agency business. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
This small journey seems quite a formidable expedition to me, and that sort of cowardly feeling of incapacity and disinclination for the smallest effort or unusual exertion is the growth of a two years 'habit over that of thirty preceding ones, and is a greater sign of age than white hairs, wrinkles, or loss of teeth. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
I deem it my duty further to observe that much of the imperfections in the returns of the last and perhaps of preceding enumerations proceeded from the inadequateness of the compensations allowed to the marshals and their assistants in taking them. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
A truce with a leading militant group a few months ago ran into trouble, with hopes of peace receding in South Asia's most troubled area.
Does this and the preceding section refer also to non-Lutheran movements, organizations, and bodies, such as the Federal Council, of which the General Synod was a member? American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
But an error it most certainly was: and to that _error_, the _accident_ described in the last preceding paragraph _would have_ very materially conduced, and it may have very easily done so. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
It is this: it is much easier and quicker to knit two stitches together, by whatever means, if the two stitches themselves were knit or purled in the preceding row. Archive 2009-02-01
One saving thought alone presented itself — this might be a trial, an experiment of the philosopher Agelastes, or of the Emperor his master, for the purpose of proving the courage of which the Christians vaunted so highly, and punishing the thoughtless insult which the Count had been misadvised enough to put upon the Emperor the preceding day. Count Robert of Paris
The nuclear installation operator shall indemnify the nation for the loan under the preceding paragraph.
An applicable large employer is an employer that employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees on business days during the preceding calendar year. Christianity Today
There are a number of other achondrites that do not fit into any of the preceding groups or subgroups.
His program note explains the gyrations: "In L.S.O., L equals the solfège syllable la, which is the note A; S becomes the note that is known as Es pronounced s in German, which is what English speakers call E flat; and O elides with the preceding S to suggest the solfège syllable sol, which is the note G. NYT > Home Page
As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past.
From 1970 on, he wrote -- and directed and produced -- plays in Algerian dialectal Arabic (when practically no one had attempted literature in dialectal language) following, and preceding, plays, novels and poetry in French. Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker
In all preceding studies, alkaloid production was measured as scopolamine and hyoscyamine only.
The preceding plants form a grade between the lineages considered in Lab 9 (conifers, Ginkgo and Cordaites) and the flowering plants and their kin.
The same happened to men whose doctors had said that there was nothing that could be done for their receding hairlines and baldness, as hereditary factors were to blame.
AllMail (with preceding period) which will alphabetize to the top of the list. Make The Palm Pre Archive Instead Of Delete Gmail Messages | Lifehacker Australia
Each passage, let it be noted, solves a problem posed in preceding stanzas. The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth
The axis possesses an ovate odontoid process for articulation with the preceding atlas.
His death mask, which showed him to have had a sharply receding forehead, created problems for nineteenth century phrenologists since it ‘left no room for the organ of causality’.
A grey drizzle filled the valley, obliterated the mountains and separated the receding regiment of trees into saw-edged platoons.
It shows a man in his 30s with receding hair and wearing glasses. Times, Sunday Times
They," that is, both the makers and the idols, are witnesses against themselves, for the idols palpably see and know nothing (Ps 115: 4-8). that they may be ashamed -- the consequence deducible from the whole previous argument, not merely from the words immediately preceding, as in Isa 28: 13; 36: 12. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They have hawkish noses, receding chins and luxuriant mullets that fall to their jeans.
Lateral or terminal on shoots of the preceding season; sterile flowers oblong-cylindrical, 1/4 inch in length; anthers yellow, red-tinged: fertile flowers on the upper side of the twig, erect, cylindrical; cover-scales broad, much larger than the purple ovuliferous scales, terminating in a long, recurved tip. Handbook of the Trees of New England
From 1970 on, he wrote -- and directed and produced -- plays in Algerian dialectal Arabic (when practically no one had attempted literature in dialectal language) following, and preceding, plays, novels and poetry in French. Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker
Preceding the publication of this pamphlet is a report of investigations made by Ralph Bunche and Gunnar Myrdal in 1940. Race and Suffrage in the South Since 1940
Thus the moon is slowly receding from Earth at about 4 cm per year, and the rate would have been greater in the past.
Experiment 2 included a preceding context in order to fix the referent of the target word and to exclude singular interpretations.
Van Jones, who was purged from the White House through a Fox News-orchestrated smear campaign, told a gathering of activists in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, that the day after Obama's election, "you gave away your power" by receding to the sidelines or turning their attention to individual issues while neglecting the over-arching narrative. Adele Stan: GOP Wave: Progressives Not Bold Enough?
'I wouldn't have given it him, but it is _rude_ -- it is _bad manners_, not even to ask!' the supposed victress was saying to herself, with quivering lips, her eyes following not the Trinity freshman, who was their latest captive, but an older man's well-knit figure, and a head on which the fair hair was already growing scantily, receding a little from the fine intellectual brows. Robert Elsmere
For countries that had annexed territory in the preceding two centuries, the only real option was to fight for as long as seemed possible and then arrange an orderly retreat.
Great disturbances in ballistocardiograms were observed on days preceding embryonic deaths.
These include executing each action slowly at first; performing thrusts first in the left, and then in the right line; and preceding each exercise with the command ‘Engage the sword!’
These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding evening. Les Miserables
Tbe preceding extracls fufficiently manifeft this writer's waL It the fennel we do not find Efficient proofs of fuperiour judgment or erudition, to authorize our recommending his work to the attention of young clergymen as a guivte in their flu dies, rhef r clerical duty, or their peifonal conduit, home of the author's fuggtftiont may claim attention* particularly the letter on the compofitiori and delivery of fermons; but the general fubieel of tliefe letters has been much better treated by bUhop Burnet, archbifhop Seeker, Dr. Napletoa, and others. The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
None of the sedentary students participated in organized exercise activities during the preceding year.
This year, because the weather system has not followed its usual pattern, for the month preceding our visit, there had been continual cold north-easterlies.
The preceding features required that certain traditional statements in the text of the ocean bill of lading be modified or replaced.
The horizon is low, the masts and hulks of the ships making a series of horizontals and verticals receding far into the distance.
Because the existing word hypnagogic means “of, relating to, or occurring in the state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep,” and hypnopompic means “of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep,” many people came up with hyp - coinages. Word Fugitives
The problem in both cases is that no condition can ever be met without the fulfillment of a preceding condition.
We extracted records on 32 384 patients who had not received such a drug in the preceding three months.
Reading about a "daylily bud and petal salad" preceding a "stinging nettle and sea spinach soup" is almost enough to make one yearn for a wedge of iceberg lettuce drenched in Thousand Island dressing. Gastronomy
The preceding discussion has been devoted exclusively to disulfiram because controlled studies of calcium carbamide have not been done.
Those who had taken levodopa or a dopaminergic agonist in the preceding two months were excluded.
Taking the hatbox and carpetbag, she went back on the trail, a receding frail figure in a burgundy dress. Locust Valley Breakdown
Thallus granulose, verrucose, or areolate, rather better developed than those of the preceding genera as shown in the more frequent verrucose and areolate conditions; apothecia minute to large, sessile to immersed, the disk and the exciple usually black; hypothecium usually brown; hymenium pale to light brown; paraphyses usually distinct; spores brown, Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
The preceding provision does not apply to licensed oil refinery operators or licensed importers.
In Gvozdanović's Indo-European Numerals, Robert Coleman suggests an assimilation of *k with preceding voiced resonants in some decad words like 'seventy' or 'ninety'. Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads
Subject to the preceding sections of this Act and as hereinafter provided, actions shall and may be commenced within the time herein expressed after the cause of such actions.
He is of a medium build and has short grey receding hair and a moustache.
The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
The format for the final is slightly different to preceding shows, as the result will emerge tonight rather than on the following day. Times, Sunday Times
The common cranberry (_oxycoccos palustris_,) is distinguished from the preceding by its growing on moist sphagnous spots, and is hence called _maskoego-meena_ swamp-berry. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1
On the following morning I accompanied Admiral Porter in the ram Price, several iron-clads preceding us, up through Steele's Bayou to near Black Bayou. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
Six out of ten in the industry have lost their hair or have a receding hairline. The Sun
The receding tide stranded the whale.
None of their family members had attempted or committed suicide in the preceding year.
In a letter of grievance over his July 14 firing, Smith says he was subject to "severe and debilitating harassment" over the 18 months preceding his dismissal.
While these lakes existed, they were maintained by the inflow of dirty meltwater from the receding glacier.
His program note explains the gyrations: "In L.S.O., L equals the solfège syllable la, which is the note A; S becomes the note that is known as Es pronounced s in German, which is what English speakers call E flat; and O elides with the preceding S to suggest the solfège syllable sol, which is the note G. NYT > Home Page
The inner surface of the intermaxillary bone and the opposing surface of the receding alveolus of the other side are freshened by slicing off the mucous covering. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
His fine dark hair was receding a little.
Because of the unusual pattern of speciation preceding extinction, the region contained a mix of extinct and living species through the period of change.
Little Thady Kilfoyle reported that he had met the strange man a bit down the road, "leggin 'it along at a great rate, wid a black rowl of somethin' under his arm that he looked to be crumplin 'up as small as he could" -- the word "crumpling" went acutely to Mrs. Kilfoyle's heart -- and some long-sighted people declared that they could still catch glimpses of a receding figure through the hovering fog on the way towards Strangers at Lisconnel
During the Hohenstaufen period, as in the preceding age, the customary education for women of rank consisted chiefly in learning to read the Psalter. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
She had leapt out of bed and pushed aside the muslin curtains just in time to see two receding figures as they ran into the forest.
The distinction between a participle and a gerund affects the case of a preceding pronoun. Times, Sunday Times
More tears fell from her eyes and traced the preceding paths of tears.
On the Sequence diagram the object boxes have no name preceding the ":." These are called anonymous objects.
Loading is the easiest of all tubular magazine centerfires for you can easily see the magazine follower or the base of the preceding cartridge and push it with the bullet of the next round.
Apart from a receding hairline, he is absurdly youthful for his years. Times, Sunday Times
But in the preceding century, England was frequently an afterthought on the world stage, an island kingdom tinkering on the brink of inconsequence.
Indeed, they are the first postwar group not to have higher incomes in early adulthood than those born in the preceding decade. Times, Sunday Times
A pride of lionesses and their cubs appeared out of the bush, heading for the small pool that Glen and his wife Cindy had built the preceding year.
Flood waters are receding in some parts of the Midwest, but still rising in others.
Leading Britain into the opening ceremony of the Games preceding one hosted by his own country is the culmination of a difficult personal journey. Times, Sunday Times
Little Thady Kilfoyle reported that he had met the strange man a bit down the road, "leggin 'it along at a great rate, wid a black rowl of somethin' under his arm that he looked to be crumplin 'up as small as he could," -- the word "crumpling" went acutely to Mrs. Kilfoyle's heart, -- and some long-sighted people declared that they could still catch glimpses of a receding figure through the hovering fog on the way toward Sallinbeg. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
The sound change would be sporadic but not without credible phonetic motivation since the height of the vowel e and the preceding palatal l which is naturally +high as well might have lacked sufficient saliency for speakers to maintain without further fortition of the preceding m. Some random thoughts on Proto-Aegean languages
While men tend to get a receding hairline and a bald patch, women experience more diffuse loss and become thin on top. Times, Sunday Times
And the reader will see (in the paragraph preceding that memorable one which winds up with the diseased oyster) that he must be a worthless creature for daring to like the book, as he could only do so from a desire to hug himself in a sense of superiority by admeasurement with the most worthless of his fellow-creatures! The Kickleburys on the Rhine
The success of this venture as a magazine serial preceding the book, has the writer planning a sequel.
Some linguists believe that English possessive is no longer a case at all, but has become a clitic, an independent particle that is always pronounced as part of the preceding word.
In both we have "phonic," evidently meaning the same in each case, limited or modified by the preceding part -- _poly_ and Music Talks with Children
The scene of the preceding day had dwelt on the mind of Father Eustace, who was of that keen and penetrating cast of mind which loves not to leave unascertained whatever of mysterious is subjected to its inquiry. The Monastery
He lifted his hands to the skies and sounded a long weird call that seemed to shudder endlessly out into space, dwindling and fading, yet never dying out, only receding farther and farther into some unreckoned cosmos. Wings in the Night
In verses 31 and 32 weighty warning and dehortation follow, based in part on the preceding picture. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
Furthermore, in order not to disturb the original pagination, the first page of this footnote began 63 pages later than the preceding page.
Did I remark in some preceding breath that Allison is more or less "dippy" over music? The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
Last evening brought us to the moment when the rescue party, having entered Volcano Bay, were about to land at the foot of the great mountain, called Olympus -- the Hili-li synonym for Mount preceding the name Olympus when the peak, some eight miles high, was referred to. A Strange Discovery
Since my hairline is receding as fast as snow on a sunny day, I have no room for crowing, but your man Alex Massie there should get a haircut and change photos. Matthew Yglesias » Fox News Panel Pans Jindal
Are you worried about the receding royal hairline? The Sun
The format for the final is slightly different to preceding shows, as the result will emerge tonight rather than on the following day. Times, Sunday Times
The first part consists of an antiphonal chant from the Service for the Thursday Preceding Good Friday.
It is noticeable that a slighter disturbance of normal conditions is needed to render digestion painful than to cause painful ovulation, that is, pain preceding the menstrual flow. The Education of American Girls
The staging for Radames's return - with massed wind and brass, plus ballet - was terrific, despite some backstage noise for Aida's preceding recitative.
The young woman noticed its shaggy fur was receding and looked to see the moon disappearing behind another cloud.
It shows a man in his 30s with receding hair and wearing glasses. Times, Sunday Times
Avoid headings that cause you to cross behind and below the preceding aircraft in order to avoid turbulence.
We may gather from the rich abundance of motives which the Apostle suggests before he comes to present his exhortation, that he suspected the existence of some tendencies in the opposite direction in Philippi, and possibly the same conclusion may be drawn from the exuberance of the exhortation itself, and from its preceding the dehortation which follows. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
Yet, there is a sense that even in deconstructionism, the interpreter is somehow getting deeper even if at the same moment she is flying out on wings of ever receding signification. So, that homework I mentioned? This is part of it . . . | Living the Liminal
The last syzygy is the new or full moon preceding the chart.
Now young boys and girls also suffer receding hairlines.
No matter how careful the drafters are and how carefully legislation is considered-and this Act had ten years of consultations preceding its enactment-its only test is its performance as law. Priorities of My New Office
Curiensis "is of a later date (middle of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century), and differs very much in character from the preceding" leges "; it is a collection containing extracts from the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The deacon sings both “Flectamus genua” and “Levate”, which is no longer done by the subdeacon, also as on the preceding day. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.1 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the New Fire, Procession, Exultet, Prophecies
The preceding description of a hypothetical study is based on the use of traditional endoscopie methods.
Meanwhile, Lynley, who's been away on compassionate leave following the murder of his wife (in the preceding novel), is summoned back to duty to guide his possible replacement, an attractive divorcee and closet tippler named Isabelle Ardery. Book review of Elizabeth George's 'This Body of Death'
The tide was receding.
His hair is receding, though he is vain enough to dye it. Times, Sunday Times
This area is known to have supported a flourishing culture in the centuries preceding Christianity.
Among the visitors at the chateau was the Baron de Saint Foix, an old friend of the Count, and his son, the Chevalier St. Foix, a sensible and amiable young man, who, having in the preceding year seen the Lady Blanche, at Paris, had become her declared admirer. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Its open mouth was lined with tiny scarlet teeth, row upon row of them, receding down its throat. EVERVILLE
Sixty-seven percent of women included in the sleep study were classified as premenopausal (no change in menstrual bleeding regularity) and early perimenopasual (menses in the preceding three months with an increase in bleeding irregularity), 21 percent were identified as late perimenopasual (menses in the previous 12 months, but not in the previous three months), and Medlogs - Recent stories
He had thick reddish-yellow eyebrows at the base of a slightly receding forehead – wanting in benevolence, phrenologists would have said, and with the bump of self-esteem considerably developed. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
Sterile flowers terminal or axillary on wood of the preceding year, 1/2-3/4 inch long, cylindrical; anthers pinkish-red: fertile flowers lateral along previous season's shoots, erect; scales madder-purple, spirally imbricated, broader than long, margin entire or slightly erose. Handbook of the Trees of New England
Any man who would call his wife a filthy name, for commenting on a receding hairline is not someone who cares about women or their rights and hisSupreme Court nominees with reflect that. Blitzer: This year, the Supreme Court hangs in the balance
Before he could extricate himself, the runners preceding the pageant returning the great god to his shrine, beat the multitude back from the dromos and once again Kenkenes was imprisoned by the hosts. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
Indiana Jones name shall have very good effect but only on Indiana Jones Fan for some reason if somebody didn't like Indy in preceding films then bam this is a big NO to them It's All in a Name - Batman: The Dark Knight « FirstShowing.net
The answer of the defendants, which one of the courts below characterized as ‘stuffed with irrelative and redundant matter,’ did not deny the preceding facts.
A full-time farmer may elect for income averaging only if he was charged to tax on his farming profits for the two immediately preceding tax years.
The party finishes on Ash Wednesday, and J'Ouvert on the preceding Thursday night signals the beginning of the real, hard-core bacchanal.
This expanding professional stratum, now including women who once led federated organizations, allied increasingly with business groups rather than with a receding clerical or working class.
Some purchasers have warned they would consider receding from the contract if the company fails to deliver the planes in the near term.
Do they suffer from receding hair, facial scars or other disfigurations?
Now it is important to realize that what is called Say's Law was in the first instance designed as a refutation of doctrines popularly held in the ages preceding the development of economics as a branch of human knowledge.
So the relevant exports took place in the six months immediately preceding the imposition of that total ban.
Example: Many French and Chinese people receding chins, which is a classic neanderthal feature. Modern humans may have inherited some Neanderthal genes - The Panda's Thumb
“Ho! the fair wind! oh-ye-ho cheerly, men!” the crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portends preceding it. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Sport, show business and ethnic culture seamlessly blend in New Zealand's favourite sport, rugby, with the haka preceding every test match.
2 Coincidently with or preceding these changes the centriole, which usually lies by the side of the nucleus, undergoes subdivision, and the two resulting centrioles, each surrounded by a centrosphere, are seen to be connected by a spindle of delicate achromatic fibers the achromatic spindle. I. Embryology. 1. The Animal Cell
The malleus is connected through a tiny joint to the incus, which is attached to the stapes, both of which vibrate in their turn as result of the vibrations of the bone preceding them. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
Nowadays, however, more and more men are shaving their heads whether their hairlines are receding or not.
The chances of these problems receding in the new year have therefore been enhanced. Times, Sunday Times
Preceding and separating the cold glacial periods were three main interglacials (Cromerian, Hoxnian, and Ipswichian) when the climate was rather warmer.
Page 103. 3. vieilles gens: attributive adjectives are generally _feminine_ when preceding and _masculine_ when following _gens_. Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant
These eclipses belonged to 26 different saros series and included all the umbral eclipses of the 19 years preceding 1938, in order to include all the saros series now running which produce umbral eclipses. The History of the Former Han Dynasty
Six out of ten in the industry have lost their hair or have a receding hairline. The Sun
He had the 10,000 op last year after his hair was spotted receding fast. The Sun
The last level, in the physical centre, is a three-dimensional yantra that disappears into the absolute central point of the temple - receding into eternity.
But with the aid of a meddling foreign country, the rebellious and discontent barons of that upper part of the country succeeded in receding from Palasar to create their own kingdom.
Asp can be carried back to the _aspis_ of the Romans, no trace being found in the dim vistas of preceding tongues. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
For example, the preceding leg of the circuit in Mumbai saw two unseeded finalists.
The quarterly measure improved by 0.5 per cent on the preceding three months - the first rise for more than a year. Times, Sunday Times

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