How To Use Scend In A Sentence

The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
The snow relented and we were back to a rocky descending path.
The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
Hesher (Director: Spencer Susser; Screenwriters: Spencer Susser and David Michod; Story by Brian Charles Frank) — A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss. Sundance 2010 Competition Lineup Arrives, And Here Are Some Highlights » MTV Movies Blog
CANON LXXXI: We have said that a Bishop, or a Presbyter must not descend himself into public offices, but must attend to ecclesiastical needs.

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It is an Extended Family Tree - showing all the collateral branches of a family, i.e. all the descendants.
Look, if you want a descending obligato, do it in the privacy of your own home away from us normal people.
La transcendance de l'égo: esquisse d'une description phénoménologique. Jean-Paul Sartre - Bibliography
What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance. Archive 2008-03-01
Enough to raise themselves to the same level of transcendence.
The Chin language descended from Tibeto-Burman language domain.
The ‘hammer’ and ‘anvil’ bones of the mammalian ear are descendants of these nubbins.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
The established idea that granitoid magmas ascend through the continental crust as diapirs is being increasingly questioned by igneous and structural geologists.
After several days of climbing, high on a huge, exposed face of Annapurna, a mountain almost double the height of Mont Blanc, a storm erupted and the two men decided to descend.
The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
If you hit him back, you'll only be descending to his level.
February 26, 2005 03: 43 schlarb: re: Soul-Junk chronology: all of the full length records run in ascending order from 1950 through, most recently, 1958. conversely all the EP's run in decending order from 1949 through, again most recently, 1937. Not one to shy away from a challenge (Music (For Robots))
All through the service balloons ascended, but when it was over 1/3 of the balloons were unreleased.
When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
To neatly convey the choice of sizes in the case of such items as drawer pulls, the entire range might be lined up on the page in descending order.
We honor Ralph Waldo Emerson, but where does Transcendentalism figure in anybody's life today?
Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots. Frieze art fair 2010 – review
Amateurs can easily fill the tubes using simple agricultural tools, after which bags are arranged in a spiral that is gradually corbelled inwards as it ascends to form a dome.
His critics say he should resign because he has lost the moral ascendancy to govern and to save the plummeting economy from collapse.
Together with other Brassica species, it likely descends from a hexaploid ancestor followed by extensive rearrangements, making its genome essentially a triplicated A. thaliana genome.
She ascended the stairs quickly, aerially, as in a dream. Times, Sunday Times
And then there is the current reprehensible practice of offering only two minutes of news throughout the day, with five minutes condescendingly given at certain selected times.
Thousands of visitors are set to descend on York when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry comes to the city in June next year.
Medieval parties to celebrate saints' days would often descend into chaos or a protest.
But only one is a riot-grrrl guitar hero, turned NPR blogger, turned ascendant sketch comedian. ‘Portlandia’ star, guitarist Carrie Brownstein finds outlet for all her interests
This is about television and the audience, both of which, on the evidence of these programmes, have descended over the past 40 years into a condition of unutterable stupidity.
Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
The presence on an arts board of the occasional, often atypical artist from a minority does not do much for the community, other than condescend to him or her.
At that moment a sudden darkness descended upon the house.
Bena and her husband, a condescending, philandering doctor named Ted, arrive in Pueblo, Colo., in the midst of a drought, as well as the Depression. As The Pages Turn
The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. The Skeptic's Field Guide
She belongs to a family descended from free Blacks those released from slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
Corticospinal and corticobulbar fibers descend in large bundles at this level, destined for the pyramids of the medulla oblongata.
Sclavonic blood, or from the descendants of Rurik's companions, differ little in regularity of feature and expression of countenance from the handsomest races of Europe. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
Carlo lit a cigarette, and wishing the old woman a merry "addio" left and descended the stairs. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
Descended from a long line of respected yogis in Yoga Vedanta philosophy, Swamiji was born in Rajasthan in Northwestern India where he has established a school and other social welfare facilities.
At my Nativity," writes Browne in Religio Medici, "my ascendant was the water signe of Scorpius, I was borne in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that Leaden Planet in me. Out of Novemberland
This support of the fabrication of the transcendent in its different modes, all of which, according to Diotima, come under the same propaedeutic: love of beauty.
The _vettura_ came to a halt under the shade of some old mulberry trees, and our travelers descended to leave it where it was, for the town was not built with a view to the entrance of carriages. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Broad flights of steps descended directly into the azure water.
I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree. A Circuit Rider's Wife
It is perhaps correct to say that Moses actually was descended from Levi, and that the later significance of the name Levite is to be explained by reference to him. Prolegomena
WINDING ALONG HIGH ground where tall oaks, maples, and hickories crowded the sky, we descended to a swampy bottom filled with palmettos, water oaks, gums, and bald cypresses. Fire The Sky
From time to time they could see the glimmer of sun on an ascending vehicle. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The two groups have jockeyed for position ever since, with Sistani's forces in the ascendancy recently.
The hippogryph reluctantly descended, landing near his rider. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
Descending downstairs feels like entering a 1970s vision of decadence – all red and gold sequinned drapes, geometric railings and carpeted walls. 10 of the best music venues in London
Moreover, cephalopods or both scaphopods and cephalopods, are closely related to, and descended from, laterally compressed helcionelloids.
Shiites of this branch believed that the Prophet Muhammad's successors or vicars were his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, and the eleven lineal descendants of Ali and the Prophet's daughter, Fatima.
It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.
Besides the majority Sinhala Buddhists, the nation also includes Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamils of recent Indian origin, Muslims, and Burghers, descendants of intermarriages between Sri Lankans and Europeans.
To "ascend the hill of the Lord" and to "stand in his holy place "means to enter into his house and find acceptance. Christianity Today
To my knowledge, the patient relations office never discussed the matter with the surgeon -- I certainly never heard from him -- but I did receive a termination letter followed by a series of surprisingly rude and condescending letters from their risk management attorney after I pointed out that HIPPA promises patients will not be "penalized" for filing a privacy complaint. Genital Photos, HIPAA and the Media
Making our way up the gently ascending road that cut its way through the forest, we saw hordes of greedy monkeys waiting for freebies.
And the Gospel of Mark would declare that on my im - mersion, the heavens opened and I saw "a spirit like a dove descending. The Gospel according to the Son
Otherwise nothing useful will be achieved and, instead of debate, we shall descend to the level of vulgar slanging matches.
Adults adopt an essentially Kantian moral perspective that seeks to transcend and judge all conventional moralities.
I became delirious, and quitting that staircase, which methought it was impossible for me to reascend, I sprung forth into the void with an execration. The Paris Sketch Book
As if it were good for the oxen, and some terebinthine or other medicinal quality ascended into their nostrils. The Maine Woods
As the song reaches a crescendo, she drops to her knees, lost in the raw emotion of her thoughts. Times, Sunday Times
Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky.
In all but the most one-sided encounters, however, the ascendancy shifts between the teams.
A Native American people formerly inhabiting north-central Missouri, with present-day descendants living with the Oto in north-central Oklahoma.
The material world is manifest out of singular consciousness, nondual suchness, it evolves ... and then transcends again. Sebastian Siegel: Manifesting the Moon
The train station is underneath the terminal so you just descend to the platforms by escalators or lifts.
A sense of unease and foreboding quickly descended on the crowded chamber, followed by a hush minutes later when confirmation came through of what had happened.
Heathcliff, who, kinless and kithless, was in the end compelled to see the property he has so cruelly amassed descend to his hereditary enemies. Emily Brontë
Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons.
Mr Fournier will spend around three hours ascending in an enclosed lightweight gondola before deflating the balloon and parachuting back to earth in six minutes and 25 seconds.
The draft reflects a similar innocence about how the media operate, while presuming to call shots and issue admonitions and injunctions in an often condescending way.
The violent enforcement of orthodoxy in Christian history is the necessary and logical consequence of seeing an institution as the agent and protector of transcendent truth.
Thus to this congregation of excellent, undeceiving refuge, we pray that by the power of this prayer expressed from a heart filled with fervent devotion and humility, may the body, speech and mind of the sole of the Land of Snows, the supreme Ngawang Lobsang Tenzin Gyatso, be indestructible, unfluctuating and unceasing; may he live immutable for a hundred aeons, seated on a diamond throne, transcending decay and destruction. The Long Life Prayer for the 14th Dalai Lama
It seems that transcendental phenomenology inevitably involves solipsism.
Our relationship started well, descended into hate-hate, recovered somewhat to love-hate and, latterly, has drifted into respectful acceptance.
The stairs would do any Scarlett O'Hara justice in that the first landing leads to a bathroom, then ascends by a further five steps to the first bedroom.
Mathematicians had regarded algebraic numbers as, in some sense, simpler than transcendental numbers.
To put it simply, this bike climbs like a squirrel, descends like a greased squirrel on a luge, corners like a decagon, and accelerates like a methamphetamine-addicted rabbit. Happy Birthday To Me: BSNYC Turns 1
Ordinary Māori, many of whom were victimized by the police raids, descended upon Parliament today in a hikoi mass march, and beg to differ. Archive 2007-11-01
Kids demand shows that are smart and have lots of action and they remember if you condescend to them.
The command module would then descend to the sea on its parachutes.
The sealed road wends its way across the stark Anti-Atlas and startling scenery appears after Igherm while descending the Akka Valley.
Troopergate was about a dangerous renegade brother-in-law; Walt Monegan was "insubordinate;" Charlie Gibson's interview was full of "gotcha" questions; Katie Couric was just mean and condescending; the shouts of "kill him" and "terrorist" at her rallies were the fault of Bill Ayers; Wardrobegate was the fault of the McCain Campaign; losing the election wasn't her fault, it was George W. Bush and the economy. Shannyn Moore: Gobble Gobblegate
The mikko descended wooden stairs from his steep-roofed palace, its ridgepole adorned with sculptures of ivory-billed woodpeckers. Fire The Sky
Then a strange quiet descends after the Gregorian chant ‘Tantum Ergo’ as the Blessed Sacrament is laid at the altar of repose.
When one departs from the deeds of a specific group into speaking of the vices of a whole race or a people, one is descending to demonization and engaging in pure propaganda.
Our plan was to find a guide with a boat, then ascend 20 miles up the Río Jaqué to the heart of the national park.
After ascending the elliptical stairs past a couple small galleries, one is immediately struck by the bright orange carpet laid across most of the fourth floor.
And then he saw the smooth mask of Dr. Anderson descend, veiling the vivid sensuality of Joy. THIS TIME LOVE
The Romance languages are the modern descendants of Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
Athenians so far forgot their Philosophy, and the nature of humane production, that they descended unto belief, that the original of their Nation was from the Earth, and had no other beginning then the seminality and womb of their great Mother. El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios
A trainee controller mistakenly directed a plane to descend through the flight level of another plane.
Dolphins, for example, descend from a hoofed mammal that adapted to life in the ocean about 50 million years ago.
Yet evolution predicts not just successions of forms, but also genetic lineages from ancestors to descendants.
The lingual artery may provide the following unusual branches: the superior laryngeal, the submental, and the ascending palatine arteries.
Arriving at the pickup point early, she honked the horn and kept on honking until Peter finally appeared and descended from a high embankment on a slideway of fractured sandstone. From This Beloved Hour
A healthy suppuration will always set in after the exhibition of Apis, provided Sulphur or a psoric taint do not gain the ascendancy. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid.
Jacob's dying blessing focusses on the distant future, when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land.
A little in this way -- but these similes are very imperfect, and will not bear close application -- the sap rises in a tree, stealing up branch by branch; and it is then called _ascending sap_. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
Rounding out the top five smart cities are in descending rank, San Francisco, San Jose, Raleigh, N.C., and Boston. D.C. is America's smartest city. (We won't lord it over you.)
When she discovered they were also out of half-fat coconut milk, the red mist descended and she let rip at the nearest shelf-stacker. Home | Mail Online
Could this mountain metropolis be the third stop and final launching pad of the ascendency of a major civilizational power?
You say cable news squanders its resources by descending to tabloid sensationalism, personality cult shows and aping talk radio with high-testosterone shout shows.
From that perch, one's picture of the cosmos grows to galactic proportions, dwarfing any prior world view and yielding a perspective transcendent beyond imagination.
He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him. Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine
In places the sound of the river rises up the gravel slope, and thirsty dogs rush down for a drink and cannot reascend; should the owner go down to fetch the dog, he or she will be trapped as well.
At precisely that moment, some other mother, somewhere out in the universe, must have been having an out-of-body experience and decided to descend into my body to seize control of my vocal cords.
It is easier to descend than to ascend.
There would be descending lockage the whole way, and the Lake Erie water would have continued in the Canal until it arrived at the Hudson!
Follett proposes a fourth possible outcome, which she calls integration: the creation of something new, which transcends the mutual exclusion of the opposing sides and fully satisfies both. Robert Koehler: Restraining the Profit Itch
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
A hush descended on the crowd as the village chief began to speak.
The results are expressed in descending numerical order .
In doing so, he would inevitably have descended into the arena in a totally unacceptable way.
High in the Alps is a monument raised in honour of a faithful guide who perished while ascending a peak to rescue a stranded tourist.
An uncanny silence descended on a school as pupils made a superhuman effort to clamp their lips tightly shut.
There are at least 12 million Americans, she says, who claim to be descended from the former inhabitants of our straths and glens and slums.
I explore optimistic possibilities in fictional worlds to express my hope for good and transcendent outcomes. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Kay Kenyon
In my opinion, Kalawnn replied, the Greatest Stone should be able to transcend all lesser forms of sorcery. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
This character is common to all animals as the result of their being descended from a common multicellular ancestor that also possessed this character.
Some of the fossils are proving pivotal in testing the hypothesis that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs.
The woman in our distant ancestry who carried the mitochondrial chromosomes from which all the human mitochondrial chromosomes of the present time are descended. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
A second ascender was in the air—Newkirk aboard, clutching an aerial bomb in his arms. LEVIATHAN
Seagoing exhibition - descended from two generations of seamen, Leonard Shiel has inherited a great love of 'seagoing'. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
Trials often descend into desperate searches for collateral information, such as the colour of paint, whether a bicycle was in a yard or whether a school was open that year.
The noise outside had risen to a deafening, ear-splitting crescendo.
The path ascended to the top of the hill
The first obvious difference from the manga is in the appearance of the central character, Deunan, who in the manga is more-or-less a regular self-capable woman with an unusual skill for violence and mayhem, but who in the anime has become a short-haired tomboy whose fighting skills ascend to the level of gravity-defying superpowers, as she is capable of backflipping over enemy gunfire in slow-motion. Archive 2007-08-01
It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself.
Blood then courses down through the descending aorta and comes back to the placenta where it gets oxygenated again by way of two umbilical arteries.
Then the Emir Salamah and his wife and household and all the tribesmen donned garbs black-hued and ashes whereupon to sit they strewed, and ungrateful to them was the taste of food and drink, meat and wine; nor ceased they to beweep their loss, nor could they comprehend what had befallen their son and what of ill-lot had descended upon him from Heaven. Arabian nights. English
Complete the line in the narrator's Tribute to Hampshire: `A domain where a man might reasonably...' C: `Attain transcendence. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Those who fled at once, unburdened by possessions, had a chance of survival, for the rain of ash and pumice, mixed with lithics, that descended for several hours was not necessarily lethal.
Freedom from habit or formula. Escape from daily routine or the ordinary. Unworldly. Transcending the conventional.
Now you may descend the spiral staircase to find a golf simulator instead. Times, Sunday Times
Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful, attitude.
And she descended the stairs and, tapping lightly on the door, turned the handle and went in.
A clade is a group, consisting of a single organism and all of its descendants. A Disclaimer for Behe?
It becomes superficial and descends with the great saphenous vein along the medial border of the tibia as far as the middle of the instep.
The way in which the various issues that come to light here connect to the question of world, transcendence, and the conceallng-unconcealing of truth is somewhat tangled, and, in the period of the late 1920s, and even into the early 1930s, is not yet clearly worked out in Heldegger’s thinking. Enowning
The mountain path descended precipitously to a small valley.
She descended the stairs carefully because the shoes were pinching her feet.
Other descendants of the marine invertebrates have also left the water.
On the other hand, liking her a lot after spending an evening alternating between trying to save her life, kill her, and turn her mind over to an evil demigoddess, is Prince Tarvek, descendant of the fabled Storm King. Archive 2009-01-01
His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
Owned by descendants of the original lessees who took up the station - sight unseen - in 1877, the famous black soil downs carry more than 60,000 cattle.
As for the climbing gear, I saw nothing in the photos that resembled a descendeur or karabiner.
Since independence the term indigenous, widely used in an affirmative action campaign, has applied almost exclusively to blacks and left out whites and other minorities born in the southern African nation - some the descendants of several generations of settlers. ANC Daily News Briefing
They slowly ascended the steep path up the mountain.
Among sports we have terms like parascending and surfari, and nonce adjectives such as sportsational or swimsational which blend words with the last element of sensational.
The thundering guitars, melodic vocals and poetic lyrics seemed to transcend classification.
This will be almost falsetto but will have enough heaviness to enable the singer to crescendo smoothly.
Ascending along this road, you open a valley broad and shallow, a wide green trough of pastures and hedges merging inland into a vista of purple tints and flowing lines closing the view.
Real spiritual practices can help one to transcend material activities.
As compared to the ascending aorta, 30-50% narrowing was seen in the coarctate segment in 3 cases.
Of the irrational, transcendental numbers, pi seems to get all the attention.
As the ship's company, in their summer whites, descended the gangway in single file, a roar of jubilation filled the air.
The personal paragraphist of 1749 was perhaps no less inaccurate than his descendant of to-day. Henry Fielding: a Memoir
Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.
More false beams ascended the walls of the A-frame, reaching an apex perhaps thirty feet from the floor. DOUBTING THOMAS
Ascendency quantifies growth and development of an ecosystem as a product of total system throughflow and the mutual information inherent in the pattern of internal system flows.
After the organization of a new heaven and a new earth it was taught that upon the latter would descend a beautiful city, with pearly gates and golden streets, called the City of God, the Kingdom of God, the Astral Worship
Each year, just before spring, flocks of fig birds descend on Grafton to build their nests & rear their young.
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was not a bolt from the blue: it fitted naturally into, as well as transcending, a corpus of writing on evolution.
No plague of locusts descends, the oceans don't boil over with frogs, and the apocalypse isn't ushered in because of our discovery.
Descended from the Carolingian counts and vicomtes, they possessed and exercised very ancient rights of jurisdiction over their lordships.
Yes, the transcendental deduction is not and cannot be based on direct evidence. Matthew Yglesias » Kinsley’s Transcendental Deduction of Hyperinflation
Starting on C major, they ascend in pitch utilizing the key signatures that employ no more than four sharps or fiats.
Turning 50 is a cause for sombre reflection, not celebration," opined Norris and, as a flurry of firemen attempted to free her empurpled cranium, shame descended once more. World Of Lather
Descending into the cellar of the palace, he taped a speech agreeing to free elections and other liberal measures.
From this he adopted the name Plantagenet, and the kings who descended from him and ruled England for more than three hundred years are called the Plantagenets. Famous Men of the Middle Ages
The people of Namoris were, supposedly, descendants of the Lunarians, immortal beings, the subjects of the moon goddess Celhyst, banished to the Earth and subjected to mortality for some misdeed against their queen.
The monkey descended from the tree.
Eastern senators extolled the peace while Senor Villa descended on the tents & adobes of the 13th Cavalry, Columbus, New Mexico
The Pagoda, like hundreds of other buildings in Hawaii, sits on land leased from a trust established more than a century ago by a descendant of the ruler who united the major Hawaiian islands. Hawaii Local's Inside Play
In these early days, the gramophone was considered to be little more than a toy, and the ‘great artists’ of the time did not want to condescend to its perceived level to make recordings.
Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
French literature, discussions on the advisability of establishing a monarchy, on the advisability of establishing a republic, on the advisability of establishing an empire; and before we proceed to examine the arguments, we cannot help being struck at the strange contrast which this multiplicity of open questions presents to our own uninquiring acquiescence in the hereditary polity which has descended to us. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
His seventh house contains Mars while Libra is at the Ascendant containing Uranus.
The book clearly states that the "lamasery" of Shangri-La was in Tibet, that the native people were Tibetans, spoke the Tibetan language, practiced Tibetan Buddhism and polyandry, wore sheepskin robes and yak leather boots and believed that they were "descended from monkeys". Phayul Latest News
This novel of ideas covers myriad issues and themes, all related to the transcending power of love.
Then, somewhat more alarmingly, there is the hunger for a voluntarist transcendence of the limitations of history, the fantasy of escaping from the inextricable complications and complexities of the past into some pure state of agency.
Wilberforce was quite prepared to allow science unfettered freedom to research, and to accepts its findings, just because he did not think that science was the sole truth; if facts emerged which proved that men were descended from some primordial fungus, he could agree, but go on to enter a further ` but ', and adduce further considerations that marked humanity off from the rest of creation. May 7th, 2009
Soon after leaving the Blackheath, we descended from the sandstone platform by the pass of Mount Victoria. Chapter XIX
Soon the wind rose to a crescendo as it tore through trees and over roof tops.
When darkness descended we hurriedly cleared the kitchen table in order to commence our fretwork.
The Republicans, in the face of Obama's ascendancy and the indefensibility of their policy decisions in the last eight years, have just pulled a desperation maneuver and hijacked what is perhaps the most important election in America's history by demoting it to an emotional cat-fight between pro-choice and pro-life women, over the one issue where neither side can be reasonable. Cintra Wilson: It's the Freedom, Stupid
BRINKLEY: The one thing that I think transcends all the other things they have in common between FDR and Ronald Reagan is both of them distained utilitarianism in guise. CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2007
With her klutziness and jumping into situations without thinking them through, she could easily be an Archie descendant. Tales From Riverdale Digest #36 » Comics Worth Reading
First, the council are of opinion that you should now begin to stir in the thirlage cause; and they think they will be able, from evidence NOVITER REPERTUM, to enable you to amend your condescendence upon the use and wont of the burgh, touching the GRANA INVECTA ET ILLATA. Redgauntlet
But he washed his hands and brushed his hair and they descended to the dining-room, where they ate a 'table d'hote' meal, beginning with lukewarm soup and ending with salty ice cream. Cap'n Dan's Daughter
The fluctuations didn't seem to get worse, but, when we descended into the heliport, I saw the fluctuations corresponded to power inputs.

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