How To Use Reckoning In A Sentence
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise.
Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Officials concerned with environmental policy predict that a day of reckoning will come.
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A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
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In the interests of finding a solution to the equation of how debt might be alleviated we offer this reckoning: less money to be spent on G8 junketing and more - much more - to be found for aid budgets.
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He had a knee injury, which put him out of the reckoning.
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Other than releasing small amounts of oil from the Reserve for very limited short term climatic or pipeline disruptions, extortionist high oil prices that were risking a national economic calamity were never adequate cause to tap the SPR in this administration's reckoning.
Raymond J. Learsy: Stop The Energy Department From Hiking Oil Prices By Reinstituting Purchases For The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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These three writers can be viewed along a continuum of historical reckoning and self-identification, from complete self-negation and self-hatred, to a more holistic historical reckoning and ancestral identification.
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Justice permits the doer of evil to be held accountable for every iota of harm that ensues as a result of the evil act, and that reckoning can be terrible indeed.
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But there are far too many sassy waitresses, far too much Jim Beam in clinking glasses, far too many people reckoning instead of thinking – far too much caricature instead of character, in other words.
The OLM Blog
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Did she agree with his financial reckoning?
Times, Sunday Times
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Full back Marcus Bignot could come back into the reckoning after recovering from a knee ligament injury that has ruled him out since the second game of the season, but will more than likely start on the bench.
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They scratched this on a slab of slatelike rock, with a sharp iron awl; and, reckoning the present day as about October first, agreed that every waking-time they would cross off one square.
Darkness and Dawn
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Even our first parents ate themselves out of paradise; and Job's children junketed and feasted together often, but the reckoning cost them dear at last.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
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If the critics have ways of bringing about this changed pattern of cropping, why don't they simply do it, and stop wasting their time attacking a system that by their reckoning is a failure?
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When the financial reckoning comes, a lot of debts will go unpaid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Upon a wilderness of ocean the human psyche makes a reckoning with its own essential loneliness.
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I suppose it's the day of reckoning for him as it his first run over fences.
The Sun
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One suggestion I would make is that the sense of ouai doesn't seem judgmental, as "reckoning" would imply that there will be a reckoning upon you (and there's no indication that the interjection is present progressive or gerundial), but purely interjectory along the lines of "poor you.
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With Darren Gough, Matthew Hoggard and Kirby all out of the reckoning, Yorkshire will be preparing a pitch which is receptive to spin rather than pace and both Richard Dawson and Andy Gray are expected to play.
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The reckoning must be that that payment will be made.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then she took reckoning of the dead and found that he had slain fourscore of the Knights, and other twenty had taken to flight. 202 When she saw what work he had made with them she said to him, Allah bless thee, O Sharrkan!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Garrymore, lacking the overall balance of their opponents, did make a spirited effort to get into the reckoning in the third quarter, but could make little headway.
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By Catherine Walter's reckoning, it was at 10 o'clock on Sunday night that the Board members of the National Australia Bank reached a deal.
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They look not too close into the shape of the canakin, nor into the host's reckoning: with them and with their purses 'tis lightly come, and lightly go.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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It was inevitable that the final reckoning would be personal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Blues have dropped from first to third after a dip in form but McCracken insists the mailaise isn't terminal and is backing the team to muscle their way back into the title reckoning starting with tonight's home clash against Chester City.
Undefined
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According to the abjad reckoning, the numerical value of each of these letters is 6, 1 and 6 respectively.
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
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We knew there was a greater reckoning ahead, but we could not quite feel it yet.
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A domestic reckoning of sorts, the latest book by Apter, a psychologist, is an in-depth look at “the inescapable power of in-laws.”
Cover to Cover
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The day of reckoning for the free press will soon be upon us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another method of defining the Sylvian point is to divide the distance between the nasion and inion into four equal parts; from the junction of the third and fourth parts (reckoning from the front) draw a line to the frontozygomatic suture; from the junction of the first and second parts a line to the auricular point.
XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 2. Surface Markings of Special Regions of the Head and Neck
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Because, to my reckoning, amputating limbs is a far more than cosmetic process.
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I have been idle enough in my time, to make a computation of wits here, and do find we have three hundred performing poets and upwards, in and about this town, reckoning six score to the hundred, and allowing for demies, like pint bottles; including also the several denominations of imitators, translators, and familiar-letter-writers, &c.
A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
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By my reckoning, that amounts to over 10 per cent per month or 120 per cent annual interest - just because I was out of town and a few days late paying the bill.
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New York police did not release an official crowd estimate, but the march was, by anyone's reckoning, enormous.
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Justice permits the doer of evil to be held accountable for every iota of harm that ensues as a result of the evil act, and that reckoning can be terrible indeed.
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The Last Judgement and the Resurrection at the end of times were still perceived as the final reckoning, but this ultimate judgement had come to be preceded by an earlier one, immediately after death.
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Lucien was living from hand to mouth, spending his money as fast as he made it, like many another journalist; nor did he give so much as a thought to those periodically recurrent days of reckoning which chequer the life of the bohemian in Paris so sadly.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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But what were the surprise and alarm of the Earl of Oxford and his companions, when they came to that part of the camp which had been occupied the day before by Campo-Basso and his Italians, who, reckoning men-at-arms and Stradiots, amounted to nigh two thousand men — not a challenge was given — not a horse neighed — no steeds were seen at picquet — no guard on the camp.
Anne of Geierstein
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Cupar-Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the very circumstance constituting DOCH AN DORROCH, which is a standing drink, for which no reckoning is paid.
Redgauntlet
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“It was decided in a case before the town bailies of Cupar Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale, while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the circumstance constituting a Doch an Dorroch, which is a standing drink for which no reckoning is paid.”
Sir Walter Scott
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With Shamardal ruled out of the reckoning, Michael Bell's stable star may have most to fear from Starcraft, who finished third to Valixir in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot at York.
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─but the hail has other reasons than serving and the wet eastern wind of evening does not dream of standing watch by my disenchanged lion sobs: no longer will I run after every passage of beauty,─beauty is defeated, never again at attention will I snuff out that fire now glimmering like an old tree trunk in which hollow swallows make nonsensical nests, child's lay, unreckoning misery, unreckoning misery of sympthy.
Amelia Rosselli
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By my reckoning, we should arrive in ten minutes.
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It had been part of his plan to stun and confuse Ravenswood's ideas, by a complicated and technical statement of the matters which had been in debate betwixt their families, justly thinking that it would be difficult for a youth of his age to follow the expositions of a practical lawyer, concerning actions of compt and reckoning, and of multiplepoindings, and adjudications and wadsets, proper and improper, and poindings of the ground, and declarations of the expiry of the legal.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Anyways, we made our way back to the festival by way of a bar, for a wee beer and a blether, and then a supermarket, so's I could pick up some beer for the room party I was reckoning as a necessity that night, given that the hotel bar in Novotel closed at half twelve the previous night.
Famous in Finland, Fixture in France
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If 'this knowledge' occurs in the immediate aftermath of loss, other elegies are set in the later, reckoning phase.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They are typical of couples who plan a family without reckoning on the small fortune it will cost.
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Phelan is fit again and could come into the reckoning.
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Turner must be, by my reckoning, the most frequently exhibited artist of all time. I have five shelves just of his catalogues.
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By that reckoning, we'd have to give everyone gas masks and surround every building with the National Guard.
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The day of reckoning for the free press will soon be upon us.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a positive fix was not possible, the position was deduced from reckoning (time, speed, and direction).
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A behemoth called Dead Reckoning, a 70 ft long armoured truck provides cover and support for the looters.
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Off in the distance, well out of sight, a comparable number of protesters partied in the streets, sang, bounced on trampolines, enjoyed live music and, by my reckoning, seemed to be having at lot more fun.
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D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
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BRITAIN'S shale gas industry faces a day of reckoning tomorrow when planners decide whether to allow fracking in Lancashire.
Times, Sunday Times
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James Drinkall is definitely unavailable, so Alex Mathie and Joe Connor come back into the reckoning, while Brown could add a few of the club's talented juniors to the squad.
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By his reckoning, Mr Brown has led us through the Normandy bocage, but the Ardennes and the Rhine lie ahead.
Brown's Churchillian delusion
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Cupar Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale, while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the circumstance constituting a Doch an Dorroch, which is a standing drink for which no reckoning is paid.
Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)
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Later, celestial navigation using sextants and fairly accurate clocks enabled absolute positioning, but the sailors had to refer back to dead reckoning on days with poor weather conditions.
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Dobson, very impressive during his last spell with the Wasps in 1998, will also come into the reckoning against the newly-formed Eagles.
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“They make up a balanced account with Heaven, as our old cellarer used to call his ciphering, as fair as Isaac the Jew keeps with his debtors, and, like him, give out a very little, and take large credit for doing so; reckoning, doubtless, on their own behalf the seven-fold usury which the blessed text hath promised to charitable loans.”
Ivanhoe
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A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
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The best even Vickers can say of her is that she was stylish and elegant and, by his reckoning, descended from Henry III.
Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review
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Everyone remarks on my dishevelled appearance and opines that perhaps I've being going out too much - every night since rehearsals started on June 11 by my reckoning.
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Terpandrus when he ended the brabbles of Lacedaemon, neyther pyped Rogero nor Turkelony, but reckoning vp the commodities of friendeship, and fruites of debate, putting them in mind of Lycurgus lawes, taught them too treade a better measure.
The More Things Change II
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He had been costly to hire, by Keos reckoning, where most things are paid in kind.
The Praise Singer
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And he further informs us (v. 8) that, as there are two sorts of seedness, sowing to the flesh and sowing to the Spirit, so accordingly will the reckoning be hereafter: If we sow to the flesh, we shall of the flesh reap corruption.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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We have survived yet another day of reckoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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longitudinal reckoning by the navigator
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Since medieval times, mariners have employed dead reckoning to navigate their vessels.
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The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun.
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller: Book summary
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Dead reckoning is a technique to re duce latency and communication costs in distributed interactive simulation systems.
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Even reckoning makes long friends.
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For accurate dead reckoning, calibration is required for the odometer pulses and the gyroscope.
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The generous officer would have included Mr. Jarvie and me in this general acquittance; but the Bailie, disregarding an intimation from the landlady to “make as muckle of the Inglishers as we could, for they were sure to gie us plague eneugh,” went into a formal accounting respecting our share of the reckoning, and paid it accordingly.
Rob Roy
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Will this defeat count against him in the final reckoning?
The Sun
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By his reckoning this candidate for a job was already fifteen minutes late.
YELLOW BIRD
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They are in second place, only 11 points adrift of Surrey, but fourth-placed Leicestershire could also come into the reckoning if they defeat Yorkshire.
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Pat was reckoning up the cost of everything in her mind.
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He isn't sure of his real age (somewhere in the early 80s), he seems to have been married a number of times, and, by his own reckoning, had dozens of kids.
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The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It could prove decisive in the final reckoning.
The Sun
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After dinner comes the reckoning.
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Terpandrus when he ended the brabbles of Lacedaemon, neyther pyped Rogero nor Turkelony, but reckoning vp the commodities of friendeship, and fruites of debate, putting them in mind of Lycurgus lawes, taught them too treade a better measure.
The More Things Change II
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It is no less patriotic to issue just criticism than it is to utter just praise and, in my reckoning, rather more constructive than to adopt a ‘my country, right or wrong’ attitude, even on Armistice Day.
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What form it would take she hardly knew; events would shape themselves somehow; and then -- the cold blue eyes glittered ominously at the thought of what she termed her reckoning-day.
Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life
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Either way, the sense is likely to be one of unfinished business and a reckoning postponed.
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Our gastrosopher was speaking only of the culinary caprices of man rendered fastidious by the sweets of life; but he might, in a more serious department of thought, have given his formula a wider and more general bearing and applied it to the dishes which vary so greatly according to latitude, climate and customs; he might above all have taken into his reckoning the harsh realities suffered by the common people, when perhaps his ideal of moral worth would have been found in
More Hunting Wasps
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We will all face a reckoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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By this reckoning, buoyant growth will boost wages and salaries, giving home buyers the extra money they need to cover their increased borrowing costs and so buttress housing.
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The day of reckoning is here, Ah yeah!
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According to the abjad system of reckoning, the numerical value of Tá is nine, which equals the numerical value of the name Bahá.
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
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That's for another subject but needless to say, Obama's day of reckoning with his followers is already set into concrete.
Poll: Obama approval rating dips under 60 percent
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A financial reckoning is coming.
Times, Sunday Times
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So I've been going through an existential reckoning lately, in which I'm in the process of critically examining what I'm doing with my life and why I'm doing it.
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Alan's uncommunicativeness extended below the level of speech, and his mother, reduced to the helplessness of dead-reckoning, had not even the solace of adapting her sympathy to his needs.
The Quicksand
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The day of reckoning was postponed by a series of maneuvers, and the banknotes remained intact.
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Our material ease and the freedoms it has spawned are dangerous illusions, and now comes the reckoning.
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The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
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It is telling that Gephardt and Dean, the twin favorites in Iowa until a week ago, together received less than 30% support in the final reckoning.
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The only thing so far saving the economy from a terrible reckoning is the fact that there aren't great prospects for profit anywhere else in the world either.
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A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
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I'm further humbled to realise that I received my MA in 1964, and so it has taken me 38 years to complete my doctorate - a slow learner by any reckoning.
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According to one reckoning, in China the year is 4698.
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It could prove decisive in the final reckoning.
The Sun
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However, I found his list of despots interesting in that there were a couple of notable absences who, by my reckoning, have more deaths on their hands than any of the ones he mentioned.
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Given the dearth of England centres he must at some stage come into the international reckoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to the present mode of reckoning Mr Phillips with his sixteen seems I mention him because his unrecovered is the greatest to do more but the reckoning is deceptive.
Elisha Mitchell's Private Notebook, 1818-1847 [Containing Miscellaneous Comments on Mathematics, Musicology, Electricity, Natural Sciences, and History and Personal Accounts and Notes on Readings and Letters Received]
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BRITAIN'S shale gas industry faces a day of reckoning tomorrow when planners decide whether to allow fracking in Lancashire.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the race is not always to the swift; honest art and noble jockeyship have interposed; Firetail has been distanced, Blacklegs fallen lame, and Potatooooooo run the wrong side of the post: — then comes a reckoning, a dreadful reckoning; empty pocket-books, — bankers accounts, — exhausted credit, — bets to be be paid the moment of arrival in town.
Francis, the Philanthropist: an unfashionable tale
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`By my reckoning this track, half-right, will take us down to the ford.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Has he saved the company or merely postponed its day of reckoning?
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The day of reckoning had arrived for one of the most notorious white-collar criminals in history.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is the song of the "shaduf," and the "shaduf" is a primitive rigging, which has remained unchanged since times beyond all reckoning.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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It looks like things went fairly well for you, but it says here you only brought in three fleeces and no lambs at the spring reckoning.
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They want shabbily compensated, compulsory labor as a means of delaying a reckoning for imperial botchery.
Stop Me Before I Vote Again
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However, in Mahaz's own reckoning, it achieved 75 per cent success as it also takes into the account the second places secured by its supported candidates.
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They have failed to win any of the seven games since, a slump which has seen them pick up only three points and crash out of the reckoning for a play-off finish.
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Divorce used to be a time of emotional reckoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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We stressed before the game how important it could be for us in the final reckoning.
The Sun
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Commercial real estate faces its own reckoning. When the housing market began to fade at the end of 2005, it kicked off a boom in nonresidential construction.
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Assuredly the Dean has a purse, and a tolerably well-filled one; and, assuredly, the Archbishop, on departing from an inn, not only settles his reckoning, but leaves something handsome for the servants, and does not say that he is forbidden by the Gospel to pay for what he has eaten, or the trouble he has given, as a certain Spanish cavalier said he was forbidden by the statutes of chivalry.
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'
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We must learn to love all the stuff that comes in between, but when it comes to the reckoning, we measure out our sporting life in masterpieces.
Times, Sunday Times
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If there is to be a reckoning over this war and its disorderly aftermath, it will come in next year's elections.
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The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Tomorrow is the day of reckoning; the accountant will tell me what my profits were and how much tax I'll have to pay.
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Graine that you die scarlet withall is worth the batman ready mony, 200 shaughs, reckoning the shaugh for 6. pence Russe, it may be 6. rubbles their batman.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Martial, however, was one of those men who are capable of reckoning on the future in the midst of their intensest enjoyment; he had already learned to judge the world, and hid his ambition under the fatuity of a lady-killer, cloaking his talent under the commonplace of mediocrity as soon as he observed the rapid advancement of those men who gave the master little umbrage.
Domestic Peace
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After dinner comes the reckoning.
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One way or another, by accident, divine reckoning or human error, an avenging fire is turned against them.
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Business knew this reckoning would come.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a time of reckoning.
Christianity Today
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Officials concerned with environmental policy predict that a day of reckoning will come when the issue has to be faced again.
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The "quipu," a knotted reckoning-cord, was in use in Peru and in China.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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He had a knee injury, which put him out of the reckoning.
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Enjoy this while you can because your day of reckoning is coming.
Polls: Majority oppose heath care bill
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Well, my dear, on he went till he was almost within grip of her, cock-sure that he had nothing more to do than slip the bridle over her neck and secure her; but he made a bit of a mistake in his reckoning, for though she smelt and snoaked about him, just as if she didn't care a feed of oats whether he caught her or not, yet when he boulted over to hould her fast, she was off like a shot with her tail cocked, to the far end of the demesne, and Jack had to set off hot foot after here.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
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The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was, by many reckonings, the most reactionary pope of the 20th century.
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In addition, both Craig White and Gavin Hamilton will also come into the reckoning when they are fully fit, while Paul Hutchison is also highly-regarded by the England selectors.
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This is my best chance and I swear that if you ruin it there will be a reckoning!
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As the day of reckoning dawned, it was the grown-ups who were struggling with their emotions as the 50,000 students headed off.
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Then truepenny and I will write A Reckoning of Men, and I will write "Spell 81a" (with stillsostrange) and "Ligature" (all by myself).
I need a verb
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The reckoning of systemic debt presents regulators with a choice of facing the cancer frontally and honestly by excising the invasive malignancy immediately or let it metastasize through the entire financial system over the painful course of several quarters or even years and decades by feeding it with more dilapidating debt.
A DIARY OF THE ONSET OF THE GREATER DEPRESSION
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Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate; of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt; of the Doric architecture, and the
Uncollected Prose
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With the St. Kieran's senior and under 21 teams gone out of the reckoning in their respective championships, much attention will now be focussed on the minors.
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There are some signs of a reckoning in sports where teams have grown accustomed to living in a manner that some would call grotesquely and dangerously large.
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Tommaso's gaze flickered over her, appraisingly, and he had made no such reckoning of Caterina, as Davide grasped.
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The daily liturgical cycle began in the evening with vespers, following the Jewish reckoning by which the day begins at sunset.
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It takes place in the synagogue on Yom Kippur, introducing expectations of an ultimate reckoning.
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And furthermore, that stream Castalia, which people talk so much about, with fall on fall, at lowest reckoning, must mean a thousand horse – power good —!
Peer Gynt
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Most of our navigation was pure pilotage and dead reckoning over unfamiliar, sometimes hostile territory and some very bad weather.
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The day of reckoning has arrived with an obesity epidemic on our doorstep.
The Sun
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It is rapidly approaching day of reckoning when it will totally exhaust its nuclear energy supply.
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But yet I would not haue you ignorant of this one thing, that I doe now part with Chanceler, not because I make little reckoning of the man, or that his maintenance is burdenous and chargeable vnto mee, but that you might conceiue and vnderstand my good will and promptitude for the furtherance of this businesse, and that the authoritie and estimation which hee deserueth may be giuen him.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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I timed the auction to end on the evening of Christmas Day, reckoning to catch those folks who will by then have retired to their computer to get away from the festivities and the family jollity.
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The aim was to reduce the heavy toll of shipwrecks caused by the crude navigational method of dead reckoning.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Driven from their homeland by a force beyond reckoning, the norn have regrouped among the dwarven ruins of the Shiverpeaks.
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The missions are generated using a twenty-digit alphanumeric seed code, which, with a little simple reckoning, leads me to over 1031 possible combinations.
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‘By my reckoning Newcastle have scored from eight penalties so far this season and they've probably been awarded more,’ says Rob Compton.
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With dead reckoning therefore so important, all of us have been trying hard to hold course when on helm.
Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
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The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
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They are also subject to sharp revision, often in ways which suggest that political factors were at work in the numerical reckoning.
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An annual Experian survey, which leaves York's large businesses out of its reckoning, places the city a lowly 377th out of 404 towns and cities when it comes to average profit margins.
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5.00 am and the bleeder starts - about 10 moos a minute by my reckoning - and doesn't stop, at all, ever.
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By any reckoning, holidays are preferable to hooliganism, and jolly good luck to all who have the physical strength to enjoy them, and the money to pay for the tickets, which seem to run well into the thousands of dollars.
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They are typical of couples who plan a family without reckoning on the small fortune it will cost.
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Most of our navigation was pure pilotage and dead reckoning over unfamiliar, sometimes hostile territory and some very bad weather.
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Nevertheless New Zealand were able to pull two goals back thanks largely to sloppy Scotland defending and those careless concessions would contribute considerably to the final group reckoning.
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Each film, by his reckoning, is taking the medium of computerized animation a giant leap forward.
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And his performances this season have propelled him back into the international reckoning.
The Sun
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‘I'm reckoning on having the house on the market in two or three weeks,’ he said.
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On any reckoning James of St George's achievement in the field of medieval military architecture was outstanding.
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He had dressed that morning in his civilian clothes, reckoning that military uniform was unsuitable for the work of the day.
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I'm setting myself a target of a run a ball and hopefully that will get me back in the Scotland reckoning.
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But, of course, this only postpones the final reckoning and leads to more intense withdrawal symptoms later on.
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But another contender, centre Craig Reed, is out of the reckoning until November, recovering from an ankle injury as well as having work commitments.
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise.
Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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I, haue receuied 6. tumens in ready money, 200. shaughs is a tumen, reckoning euery shaugh for sixe pence
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
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And all eyes are likely to be on Gallagher, who has forced his way into the reckoning for a full international call-up following some impressive displays in the Premiership with Rovers.
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At some point, a reckoning will have to be made and the total costs and benefits of Pickles' decision totted up.
Abolishing the Audit Commission does not add up
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Even if they don't come into the reckoning in time for the Italy match, some of them must have impressed sufficiently to ensure that they will feature in the course of this summer's warm-up games for the World Cup.
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But there is neither synthesis nor a new reckoning.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The reckoning is that, like the duck, it has something to do with conceptual art.
Times, Sunday Times
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But such men experience no difficulty whatever in performing their mental computations in the decimal system; and they acquire through constant practice such quickness and accuracy of calculation, that it is difficult to see how octonary reckoning would materially assist them.
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
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Those corporations face a terrible reckoning when he falls from power.
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Besides, it proposes the principles and methods to adjust the compensation movement reckoning in "dynamic error" and "rigid error".
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The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors.
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“Pore lamb!” with which she beplastered Polly, and the antiquated reckoning-table she embarrassed them by consulting.
Australia Felix
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We were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year.
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The reckoning must be that more will be returned.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are 22,000 schools in Britain, many, by this Government's own reckoning, failures in the business of education.
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Jacob has bid us farewell with an angry post threatening us all with a divine reckoning.
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I was reckoning on getting at least 60% of the votes.
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Another such meditation - albeit a far less allegorical one -- on semi-recent history and by extension, a nation-state's internal reckoning, is found in director Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem, which for me, emerged as one of the most powerful films of NYFF#48.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
