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  • Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
  • The Ahmadiyah were explicitly "warned and ordered" that "as long as they consider themselves to hold to Islam, to discontinue the promulgation of interpretations and activities that are deviant from the principal teachings of Islam, that is to say the promulgation of beliefs that recognize a prophet with all his teachings who comes after the Prophet Muhammad SAW. The Heritage Foundation Papers
  • _Phyllocactus_ in having the branches dilated into the form of fleshy leaves, but differ in haying them divided into short truncate leaf-like portions, which are articulated, that is to say, provided with a joint by which they separate spontaneously; the margins are crenate or dentate, and the flowers, which are large and showy, magenta or crimson, appear at the apex of the terminal joints. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • Only when I had repented, that is to say, when I had ceased to look upon myself as a regular man, and had begun to regard myself as a man exactly like every one else, -- only then did my path become clear before me. What to Do?
  • Herbert recognized in this animal the capybara, that is to say, one of the largest members of the rodent order. The Mysterious Island
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  • Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • Apple's iOS designs show an increasing trend towards skeuomorphic design, that is to say they add design elements that are non-functional but hark back to analogue objects. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • One day the boy we had looking after The Trickler fell in with a mob of sharps who told him we didn't know anything about training horses, and that what the horse really wanted was "a twicer" -- that is to say, a gallop twice round the course. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
  • The "heavy daturine," of which only a small quantity is obtainable, is far from being a body of definite composition, that is to say, it is a mixture of atropine and hyoscyamine. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
  • It is the word magnus; the Scotchman makes of it his mac, which designates the chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the great Callumore [41]; slang turns it into meck and later le meg, that is to say, God. Les Misérables
  • The Bible tells us there is such a thing as the mystery of iniquity, that is to say, the mystery of the spiritual power used invertedly, used from the diabolical standpoint; and when the Bible speaks of the mystery of iniquity, it means what it says. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science
  • Also the pleasures of the eye consist in a certain equality of colour: for light, the most glorious of all colours, is made by equal operation of the object; whereas colour is (perturbed, that is to say) unequal light, as hath been said chap. II, sect. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • But my imagination, like Elstir engaged upon rendering some effect of perspective without reference to a knowledge of the laws of nature which he might quite well possess, depicted for me not what I knew but what it saw; what it saw, that is to say what the name shewed it. The Guermantes Way
  • One hill I passed over I found to be composed of puddingstone, that is to say, a conglomeration of many kinds of stone mostly rounded and mixed up in a mass, and formed by the smothered bubblings of some ancient and ocean-quenched volcano. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
  • We may now return to the Calle Pureza, and the waster that is a variant of Type II, that is to say with the diamond and feathers, but with a plant motif in the center.
  • Christ was quickened, that is to say, was active, in His own spirit state, although His body was inert and in reality dead at the time; and that _in_ that disembodied state He went and preached to the disobedient spirits. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
  • After vespers, that is to say half-past seven in the evening, the police regulations prohibit any woman from appearing in the streets dressed in the saya. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
  • Similarly, although nobody wants to be called a prude, one could hardly deny that being offended by non-abstinence sex education, pre-marital sex, and homosexuality is objectively anti-sex (that is to say: unmarried, non-heterosexual, and/or kinky sex). Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
  • It is my principle, as well as that of Lycurgus, to avoid "mediums" -- that is to say, people who are not decidedly one thing or the other. A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland
  • That is to say, Linda is in and out of both cultures, believing in old-world traditions and embracing the new ideals of a liberated woman.
  • That is to say I have only come accross open aggresion once myself, outwith the security forces in the north of course. The Irish Language- is there a Conservative & Unionist Policy?
  • a strange unity, that is to say, everything that Western man for twenty-five centuries was able to see or feel as common to what are at times radically heterogene - ous experiences, which he designates by the same word. LOVE
  • As far as I know, none but the votaries of monotheistic, that is to say, Jewish religions, look upon suicide as a crime. Studies in Pessimism
  • The slight layer of greasy matter that habitually lines the sides of vessels from whence no effort has been made to remove it, produces effects exactly like those of the oil of camphor, that is to say, that in measure as it becomes thicker it likewise arrests the motions of the concrete volatile essence. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
  • The next to be loved is the stranger, the orphan, the widow and the indigent, that is to say those citizens that are without a “defender”. Archive 2008-10-26
  • Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes. In Praise of Folly
  • He wore a kind of paletôt of light camlet cloth, with voluminous lapels and deep cuffs of lavender watered silk; very baggy trousers, with lavender stripes down the seams; very shiny boots and quite as glossy a hat; his attire being completed by tightly-fitting gloves, of the hue known in Paris as beurre frais — that is to say, light yellow. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
  • And should it be said that the word 'knowledge' in that text denotes not the Self, but the internal organ or buddhi, we point out that in that case there would be a change of grammatical expression, that is to say, as the buddhi is the instrument of action, the text would exhibit the instrumental case instead of the nominative case 'by knowledge, and so on' (vijñânena instead of vijñânam). The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
  • That is to say, seven years as one of the choosiest beggars imaginable. The Pitfalls Of Being A Freelance Journalist
  • That is to say it did not stem from any inherent infirmity or weakness or deficiency.
  • And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, They gave Him Vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.
  • The Brahmins in India possessed for a long time the theocratical power; that is to say, they held the sovereign authority in the name of Brahma, the son of God; and even in their present humble condition they still believe their character indelible. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the _unconscious_ upon the physical and moral being. Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • He's a local government administrator, that is to say a Civil Servant.
  • At the same time, enlisted personnel slots should be manned by conscripts - that is to say, draftees, not contract servicemen.
  • All portraiture is in its origin funerary – that is to say, the earliest known specimens of portraiture are found in tombs, and represent the dead. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
  • Hanc mensam indignam noverit esse sibi: that is to say: Whosoever loves to missay any creature that is absent, it may be said that this table is denied to him at all. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
  • That is to say, the push towards individualisation and learner-centredness has foregrounded individual differences over shared curricular goals. L is for Learning Styles « An A-Z of ELT
  • The facts concerning cryptorchidism, that is to say, failure of the descent of the testes in Mammals, seem to show that the hormone of the testis is not derived from semen or spermatogenesis, for in the testes which have remained in the abdomen there is no spermatogenesis, while the interstitial cells are present, and the animals in some cases exhibit normal or even excessive sexual instinct, and all the male characteristics are well marked. Hormones and Heredity
  • Naples was altogether different, but even here it must be admitted that her conception of deserving people was not at all that set forth in those novels of Dostoievski which Albertine had taken from my shelves and devoured, that is to say in the guise of wheedling parasites, thieves, drunkards, at one moment stupid, at another insolent, debauchees, at a pinch murderers. The Captive
  • In both cases, the rights of the patron and of the presentee were challenged peremptorily; that is to say, in both cases, parishioners objected to the presentee without reason shown. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
  • Imagine a kitchen-midden, that is to say the detritus of ordinary living in different ages, accumulated along the side of some ancient water course, having for its dimensions miles in length, extending hundreds of yards back from the margin of this creek, of tens and tens of thousands of years ago, and having a depth of often many feet along this water course. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
  • He spent a lot of his life philandering, that is to say, cheating on my mom, making her insanely miserable.
  • Hence he is apt to become narrative and admonitory, that is to say, fond of telling long stories, and of doling out advice, to the small profit and great annoyance of his friends. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
  • Parisian, that is to say, to rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. Les Miserables
  • Then he went on a little and came to a handsome cage, than which there was no goodlier there, and in it a culver, that is to Say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among the birds as the singer of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck, wonder-goodly of ordinance. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
  • 1836, Sir John Herschel writes as follows: 'If rocks have been so heated as to allow of a commencement of crystallisation, that is to say, if they have been heated to a point at which the particles can begin to move amongst themselves, or at least on their own axes, some general law must then determine the position in which these particles will rest on cooling. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
  • That is to say 'load and fire', or 'sharpshooter'. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
  • By the way, unlike the French, con's American equivalent would be the masculine organ, prick, and schmock is, I think, probably derived from German schmuck (jewel); that is to say, "the family jewel. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • In this latter case the rule applies: non entis nulla sunt predicata; that is to say, what we affirm and what we deny, respecting such an object, are equally untrue, and the apagogic mode of arriving at the truth is in this case impossible. The Critique of Pure Reason
  • That is to say that I am at the school swot end of the driving spectrum. Times, Sunday Times
  • -- The cells composing the embryous membrane contain, as already stated, the cerealine, but after the germination they contain cerealine and diastase, that is to say, a portion of the cerealine changed into diastase, with which it has the greatest analogy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
  • In the commonest form, popularly called bone-phosphate, which is the form in which lime and phosphoric acid are combined in bones, guano, and the ordinary mineral phosphates, the lime and phosphoric acid are combined in the form of what is known as tribasic phosphate of lime, or tricalcic phosphate -- that is to say, for every equivalent of phosphoric acid there are three equivalents of lime. Manures and the principles of manuring
  • When finished, we first placed our blacksmith's shop upon it, that is to say, our anvil, and large vice, and other valuable articles belonging to blacksmithery, bar-iron, and steel traps, and alas! John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey
  • Oh, you who have read Plato attentively, that is to say, seven or eight fantastical dreams hidden in some garret in Europe, if ever these questions reach you, A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Income taxes are progressive - that is to say, you pay a higher proportion of your income the more money you make.
  • But the time when Cuculain should be knighted, that is to say, invested with arms, and solemnly received into the Red Branch as man to the high King of all Ulla, now drew on, and such a knighting as that, and under such signs, omens, and portents, has never been recorded anywhere in the history of the nations. The Coming of Cuculain
  • He had three other daughters besides these—Theoderada, Hiltrud, and Ruodhaid—two by his third wife, Fastrada, a woman of East Frankish that is to say, of German origin, and the third by a concubine, whose name for the moment escapes me. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
  • The impossibility, however, to find any one of equal excellence as a performer (that is to say, in his more lucid and orderly moments) had forced his reinstalment, and he had now, for the most part, reconciled himself to the narrow sphere of his appointed adagios or allegros. Zanoni
  • Uncle Abram's boat was allowed to drift with the current as its three occupants watched the proceedings, Will with the more interest that his uncle had a share in the seine, that is to say, he found so many score yards of which its length was composed, and consequently would take his proportion of the profits if the mackerel were caught. Menhardoc
  • The mother was dressed as her kind are wont to be on Sunday morning - that is to say, not dressed at all, but hung about with coarse garments, her hair in unbeautiful disarray.
  • Such duty, however, is not absolute, and its breach is actionable only if it is wrongful, that is to say, without justification or excuse. Law In The Health and Human Services
  • This is it that the faithful stood in fear of, as long as they stood excommunicate, that is to say, in an estate wherein their sins were not forgiven. Leviathan
  • I got home, had a yarn with my Mum about the various things she had been doing as of late, that is to say she told me what she has been doing and I listened.
  • This is the APAture event's first blog; it's also a liveblog, that is to say, I will be posting here live during the APAture events, describing the smell of the greasepaint and roar of the crowd. APAture Live
  • He had the characteristic of a good functionary, that is to say, he had no mind of his own, and simply did what he was told or what he conceived to be his duty as a member of the administrative system. Russia
  • &c. these formed a kind of aristocratic order, who were distinguished from the minor gods, or from the multitude of ethnic divinities, who were entirely local; that is to say, were reverenced only in particular countries, or by individuals; as in Rome, where every citizen had his familiar spirit, called lares; and household god, called penates. The System of Nature, Volume 2
  • If the murdered leaves a widow with children, this widow may claim the criminal as her own, and he becomes her husband nominally, that is to say, he must hunt and provide for the subsistence of the family. Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
  • While he was studying equinus, varus, and valgus, that is to say, Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
  • I am obliged always to use the English word 'Grace' in two senses, but remember that the Greek [Greek: charis] includes them both (the bestowing, that is to say, of Beauty and Mercy); and especially it includes these in the passage of Pindar's first ode, which gives us the key to the right interpretation of the power of sculpture in Greece. Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
  • He was found innocent in the court, that is to say, the court could not convict him legally.
  • After this we drove in silence awhile; that is to say Diogenes ambled along at his own leisurely gait, as if he very well knew that 'time was made for slaves'. Peregrine's Progress
  • Because we are "metaphysically" free, that is to say, our inborn disposition from which they necessarily emanate, is the work of our free will, which specific acts are not. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
  • Once you have decided that you have permission to buy and once you get permission to apportion, that is to say, to divvy up the goods, then you can implement it, but it takes a long time, and it is complicated. Undefined
  • Well, at the end of ten days you would have taken a centigramme, at the end of twenty days, increasing another milligramme, you would have taken three hundred centigrammes; that is to say, a dose which you would support without inconvenience, and which would be very dangerous for any other person who had not taken the same precautions as yourself. The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Copper is like a man; it has a soul and a body ... the soul is the most subtile part ... that is to say, the tinctorial spirit. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
  • French Nation has contributed so much to civilization, and so much in art, beauty, and in great qualities, it is our duty to stand by France, and to prevent her being crushed by the oversexed, that is to say, overmasculine, country of Germany. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
  • Round the outer coast only a few houseless gaps marked the spots where 'long lines of cliff, breaking, had left a chasm '-- the gaps that afterwards bore the familiar names of Ramsgate, that is to say Ruim's Gate, or' the Door of Thanet; 'Margate, that is to say, Mere Gate, the gap of the mere (Kentish for a brook), Science in Arcady
  • ˜Every man or (a) donkey runs™, that is to say, whether only the term ˜man™ or the whole subject is distributed. John Buridan
  • Some saccharine substances, a little fat, but mostly albumen and vegetable caseine, that is to say, the substance which predominates in their lacteal secretions. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
  • Seeds, when ripened in the fruit, are disseminated, that is to say, scattered on the surface of the ground, to sprout in spots as yet unoccupied and fill the expanses that realize favourable conditions. The Life of the Spider
  • Wrath again implies that the bile endures, that is to say, that the memory of the wrong abides: and indeed the Greek word for it, menis is derived from menein, and means what abides and is transferred to memory. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
  • France out of that exemption (which makes the second member of the same article) _was also comprised_; that is to say, if _the whole_ was comprised, _the part_ was comprised. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington
  • HOWARD: He was, as President Reagan would have said, he was flaky, that is to say he was very intelligent, not nearly so intelligent as he thought he was. The First World War
  • He's a local government administrator, that is to say a civil servant.
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God,[sentence dictionary] which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • VORDER BRUEGGE: Patterned shirts are very easy to individualize, that is to say, to identify them, to the exclusion of all other shirts. CNN Transcript May 23, 2006
  • They only demanded an increase of pay, and Cyrus promised to give them half as much again as they had hitherto received — that is to say, a daric and a half a month to each man, instead of a daric. Anabasis
  • It is not patriotism, that is to say undiluted concern for the nation as a whole, which leads some of the modern Egyptians to prefer an entirely native government to the Anglo-Egyptian administration now obtaining in that country: it is restlessness; and I am fortunately able to define it thus without the necessity of entering the arena of polemics by an opinion as to whether that restlessness is justified or not justified. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
  • The synthesis of the imagination in apprehension would only present to us each of these perceptions as present in the subject when the other is not present, and contrariwise; but would not show that the objects are coexistent, that is to say, that, if the one exists, the other also exists in the same time, and that this is necessarily so, in order that the perceptions may be capable of following each other reciprocally. The Critique of Pure Reason
  • A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
  • Obama is best described as a foundation-bred counterinsurgent, that is to say an operative in the service of the US financier ruling class whose task it is to wreck and abort any positive outcomes that might be forthcoming from the political ferment which is shaking the globe, and above all from the deep political upsurge which is clearly at hand in this country. Wax Banks
  • Composed of half-castes, that is to say, of individuals whose diverse heredities have dissociated their ancestral characteristics, these populations have no national soul and therefore no stability. The Psychology of Revolution
  • The ladder just reached the edge of the cornice, that is to say, the sill of the window; so that, by standing upon the last round but one of the ladder, a man of about the middle height, as the king was, for instance, could easily talk with those who might be in the room. Louise de la Valliere
  • All these ideologies although they reflected in fact the sentiment directly due to social antitheses, that is to say, the real class struggles, with a lofty sense of justice and a profound devotion to an ideal, nevertheless all reveal ignorance of the true causes against which they hurled themselves by a an act of revolt spontaneous and often heroic. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—that is to say, a self-contained but slightly smug little kid called Wolfie—plays second fiddle to his older sister in René Féret's beguiling celebration, in French with English subtitles, of the family's other prodigy. 'One Day': A Stutter-Stop Affair to Forget
  • He therefore prudently forbore, that is to say, as much as he could forbear, to show any signs of his attachment to Rose, till he had full opportunity of forming a decisive judgment of her character. Tales and Novels — Volume 02
  • He was born in 1679, of well-to-do parents, but started his working life as a drover, that is to say a person who drove great herds of cattle from the countryside to the great cities like London, for consumption there. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
  • However, necessity was the spur to invention, and we did many things which before we thought impracticable, that is to say, in our circumstances. The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
  • Knowing all this, the Babu asked the Brahman point-blank to perform a false samadhi, that is to say, to feign an inspiration and to announce to the sorrowing mother that her late son's will had acted consciously in all the circumstances; that he brought about his end in the body of the flying fox, that he was tired of that grade of transmigration, that he longed for death in order to attain a higher position in the animal kingdom, that he is happy, and that he is deeply indebted to the sahib who broke his neck and so freed him from his abject embodiment. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
  • Second: The plastic mediator - that is to say, the metallic envelope, separated from the epidermis and the flesh, a kind of armature with flexible joints, in wich the internal system is firmly fixed. Eva do Amanhã
  • That is to say that consent must be truly and freely given. Times, Sunday Times
  • In each wind instrument I have defined the scope of greatest expression, that is to say the range in which the instrument is best qualified to achieve the various grades of tone, (forte, piano, cresc., dim., sforzando, morendo, etc.) — the register which admits of the most expressive playing, in the truest sense of the word. Principles of orchestration
  • That is to say, it is concerned with academic biblical exegesis and academic dogmatic theology.
  • Languages are taught by the direct method, that is to say, without using the student's own language.
  • That is to say it did not stem from any inherent infirmity or weakness or deficiency.
  • What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically moulded, which is sent into Ireland, that is to say, over the roofs of a prison, from one courtyard to another. Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
  • That is to say, if a delicate caliper ( "extensometer," so called) be fixed to the side of the test specimen, it would show the piece to be somewhat longer under load than when free. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
  • #4: Darwin was certainly a gradualist, that is to say a proponent of natural selection Darwiniana
  • But it may be doubled and multipled in succession — that is to say, that in one act of deglutition we may experience successively a second and even a third sensation, each of which gradually becomes more weak, and which are described by the words after-taste, bouquet, or fragrance. Sing for your supper
  • And that they bee free of their owne wines for which they trauaile of our right price or custome, that is to say of one tunne of wine before the maste, and of another tunne behinde the maste. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • The early-Christian "Jesus cult" was very different from the organized Christianity of our own age, as Elaine Pagels showed in this classic study of the so-called "heretical" traditions of Christianity in the first few centuries after Jesus' death—that is to say, all those diverse traditions that the church establishment later took care to brand as wrong. Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity
  • He was the leadsman, that is to say, it was his business to sound the depths of the sea; he had plumbed the profound abysses of the ocean, calculated the elevation of the land and the apparent motion of the sky; he knew the exact time by looking at the sun, and he could tell from the stars how far they had travelled. In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
  • L results; that is to say, the so-called absoluteness arguments are missing. Kurt Gödel
  • In this part of the country are to be found that race of persons known to the original natives as _Gavaches_: the word is one of contempt, taken from the Spanish; and the habit of treating these people with contumely, which is not even yet entirely worn out, comes from an early time: that is to say, so long ago as 1526; at which period a great part of the population on the banks of the Drot, and round La Réole and Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
  • She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the damsel said to the doctor, “‘The stomach is the house of disease and diet is the head of healing; for the origin of all sickness is indigestion, that is to say, corruption of the meat in the stomach;’” he rejoined, “Thou hast replied aright! what sayest thou of the Hammam?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • That is to say, Jackendoff attempts to map on to the concept of Universal Grammar findings in psycholinguistics regarding language processing and memory, and even goes so far to show how the UG may have evolved. X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT
  • In all which there is no colour at all for the burning of incorporeal, that is to say, impatible souls. Leviathan
  • That is to say, a facsimile, a carbon copy, a wisp of a ghost of a shadow of a bagel.
  • We re-saddled our horses, and searched those nearest, that is to say easterly; but no water was found, nor any place that could hold it for an hour after it fell from the sky. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
  • In short, M. Charcot places hypnotism in the same category of nervous affections in which hysteria and finally hallucination (medically considered) are to be classed, that is to say, as a nervous weakness, not to say a disease. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use
  • Germans -- colonised, that is to say, in urban and money-making fashion. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
  • My situation here is indeed a delightful situation; but I feel what I have lost ” feel it deeply ” it recurs more often and more painfully than I had anticipated, indeed so much so, that I scarcely ever feel myself impelled, that is to say, pleasurably impelled to write to Poole. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
  • The vulgar Latin hath it, regnum sacerdotale, to which agreeth the translation of that place, sacerdotium regale, a regal priesthood; 93 as also the institution itself, by which no man might enter into the sanctum sanctorum, that is to say, no man might enquire God's will immediately of God Leviathan
  • If there is a God, we must have him on our side, and if there is not a God, it would be necessary first of all to convert everybody to the same idea of the lawful and the useful, to reconstitute, that is to say, a lay religion, before anything politically solid could be built. Amiel's Journal
  • That is to say, whenever the ball is on the perimeter, 3 defensive players are between the player with the ball and basket.
  • Communion, the Priest that shall execute the holy ministry shall put upon him the vesture appointed for that ministration, that is to say The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • He was well mannered, that is to say well learned and induced in the sacrifices and works of the temple, as it appeareth in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
  • Dandy was now upon what they call the simplicity dodge; that is to say, he affected that character of wisdom for which certain individuals, whose knowledge of life no earthly experience ever can improve, are so extremely anxious to get credit. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • That is to say, he isn't the type of guy who will get ahead of you in speed, but he outsmarts you.
  • But there is, after all, prevalent among them a sufficiently evident logical inability to understand and appreciate the paramount need of national, that is to say dynastic, ascendancy that actuates all An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
  • That is to say, fundamentally the paper made no self - criticism .
  • Development must be integrated and sustainable, that is to say utilise our resources to satisfy present needs without compromising the needs of future generations. Mayibuye Editorial
  • Jesu Christ in the holy Evangile, that saith thus: Petite et dabitur vobis, etc., that is to say: My friends, ask you and ye shall have. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
  • In my everyday work as a doctor, for example, I see the results of ungoverned, and consequently ungovernable, passion: that is to say, murder, mayhem, and misery.
  • There are others, of rare occurrence in chains, which have a clear corpuscle, that is to say, a portion more refractive than other parts of the segments, at one of their extremities. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
  • “model of a deductive theory” is applied to another deductive theory which has the same logical structure; that is to say, all of the terms and propositions of the model are in a “biunique” relation to the first theory; the first theory can then, of course, be regarded recip - rocally as a model of the second. AXIOMATIZATION
  • Meuse and the territory and cities on the Moselle, on both sides of the Rhine, and in Jura, that is to say Friesland, the country of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • It is worthy of remark that it had been taken away blindfold, that is to say, wrapped in a handkerchief. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
  • Then he walked on a little and came to a goodly cage, than which was no goodlier there, and in it a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon,63 the bird renowned among birds as the minstrel of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck marvellous fine and fair. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • Most strikingly, 'postvocalic' '' 'r' '', that is to say '' 'r' '' after a vowel and in the same syllable, is silent in British English Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Iago and his despicable sidekick Roderigo refer to Othello as 'the thick-lips', 'an old black ram' who is 'tupping' a 'white ewe' (that is to say, Brabantio's white daughter Desdemona), and a 'Barbary horse' whose animalistic coupling with Desdemona will beget a generation of creatures half human and half horse. Shakespeare
  • Geithner, claimed that it would be impossible to find out where the money went, on the argument that money is "fungible" -- that is to say all money is the same. Look Out Below! They Call This Season 'Fall' for a Reason
  • Provide yourself at once with maps, etc., master the chorography of Africa in general, and the topography of Liberia in particular, that is to say, the whole range of the Kong mountains, including its eastern slope on to the Niger, our natural boundary! for the next thirty years! after that, onward! Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they found fault. Mark 7.
  • In any case he was something else to _a much greater degree_ — that is to say, an incomparable _histrio_, the greatest mime, the most astounding theatrical genius that the Germans have ever had, our _scenic artist par excellence_. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
  • Insects are identical, small animals with head, thorax, and abdomen; that is to say if, only noticing what is common to them, we leave out of consideration the difference of their development, the presence or absence and the multifarious structure of the vitelline membrane, the varying composition of the vitellus, the different number and formation of the germinal spots, etc. Facts and Arguments for Darwin
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • It can flourish only when there are still occasional pockets of the population who behave well – that is to say courteously, decorously and without leaving glistening lumps ofphlegm wherever they go – to replenish the stocks during the day. Lucy Mangan: The sound of the suburbs
  • I mean propositions in which the nature in question is found in any concrete body to be fleeting and movable, that is to say accruing or acquired, or on the other hand departing or put away. The New Organon
  • We may or may not "rebound" from this crisis -- that is to say, find our way back to a sort of middle-class comfortableness relatively free of anxiety -- but what we will do is slowly continue to be transformed by it. Printing: Getting the Scoop from Nationally Syndicated Journalist Bob Koehler
  • That is to say, Lodge's campus trilogy both inherits the great tradition of realism and absorbs some new technical innovations of experimentalism.
  • The patient finding himself abulic, and perhaps too critical minded to accept the mundane supports in his vicinity, seeks a solace in that which to him seems powerful because incomprehensible, that is to say in something supernatural. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • On the other hand, they may be bound by a topic in the previous discourse; that is to say, they need not necessarily be bound in their matrix sentence.
  • All the troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula and fifty per cent. of the troops on the Asiatic side were Nizam, that is to say, regular first line troops. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I
  • 56 ALBERT EINSTEIN logical reconciliation by making a change in kinematics, that is to say, in the doctrine of the physical laws of space and time. Out Of My Later Years
  • That is to say, the intercepts on the abscissa and the ordinate should be higher for isocline 2 at x = 1.
  • And going back just a little earlier, Aristotle, the co-founder of Western philosophy along with Plato, gave lectures on ethics which described the goal of human life as what he called eudaimonia, that is to say, happiness or human fulfilment. Integral Options Cafe
  • That is to say, they're well-versed and if it's a major research university they probably have some accomplishments on a narrow segment of scientific research, but basically they think like journeymen and are there to train journeymen. 2005 December - Telic Thoughts
  • Finally, dear readers, imagine the many opportunities for growth through pilgrimage to sacred sites, the handling and viewing of relics that retain the energies of the great man - the mind, that is to say the bundle of neurons and fatty tissue that fills my cranium through wholly fortuituous accident and yields no claim to any kind of speciesist preeminence on my part ... the mind so understood I say thrills at the prospect of living such a holistic and fervent faith ... Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
  • Under continued stimulation, they increase in the same direction as in the last case, that is to say, from less positive to _more positive_, being the reverse of fatigue. Response in the Living and Non-Living
  • The really evil libidinous people, that is to say the spiteful, the mean, the base and inhuman, fly from his presence, and for the obvious reason that he makes sex-pleasure so generous, so gay, so natural, so legitimate, that their dark morbid perverted natures can get no more joy out of it. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
  • Blanco is a nominal – not a real – horse-stealer, that is to say, he has committed the sin which a society of horsemen does not pardon. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
  • He accordingly resolved to manufacture and employ pyroxyle, although it has some inconveniences, that is to say, a great inequality of effect, an excessive inflammability, since it takes fire at one hundred and seventy degrees instead of two hundred and forty, and lastly, an instantaneous deflagration which might damage the firearms. The Mysterious Island
  • There are two varieties in which the movement is uniaxial, that is to say, all movements take place around one axis. III. Syndesmology. 3. Classification of Joints
  • Society is the total of the forced or voluntary services which men perform for each other; that is to say, of _public services_ and Essays on Political Economy
  • Statute of Winchester (1285), in which it is enacted that "every man have in his house harness for to keep the peace after the ancient assize, that is to say, every man between fifteen years of age and sixty years. Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government
  • Continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth, that is to say, continual prospering, is that men call felicity; I mean the felicity of this life. Leviathan
  • The original in conduct, that is to say, resistiveness to the voice of the herd, will be suppressed by natural selection; the wolf which does not follow the impulses of the herd will be starved; the sheep which does not respond to the flock will be eaten. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
  • That is to say a man would be committed to prison until such time as he purged his contempt by complying with the order.
  • That is to say, we are not acquainted with the duffer who foozled fifteen strokes. Public Opinion
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • This he took for a favour, and so laid down the cudgels, that is to say, the pen; I say, he took if for a favour, and a mighty one it was, if he had known all. Moll Flanders
  • Writing developed and counting was based on a sexagesimal system, that is to say base 60.
  • Or put a drop of balm in clear water in a cup of silver or in a clear basin, stir it well with the clear water; and if the balm be fine and of his own kind, the water shall never trouble; and if the balm be sophisticate, that is to say counterfeited, the water shall become anon trouble; and also if the balm be fine it shall fall to the bottom of the vessel, as though it were quicksilver, for the fine balm is more heavy twice than is the balm that is sophisticate and counterfeited. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • That is to say, randori provides the means to complete a painted dragon by filling in the eyes.
  • Not once -- leastwise, that is to say ----" A guilty memory of Rosherwich made him bungle here. The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance
  • That is to say, there are referential and quantificational uses of indefinite descriptions and these are a reflex of a genuine semantical ambiguity.
  • Starting from this idiom, that is to say eastward from the Hungarian frontier, another language prevailed all over the territory in that direction comprised in Europe, and even extended beyond…. The Great Experiment
  • Previous to the results of Minot's and Murphy's experiments the principal mode of treatment adopted, and one that was practised all over the world, was the giving of large doses of arsenic, while in serious cases it was also customary sometimes to resort to splenectomy, that is to say to removal of the spleen by an operation, or to blood transfusion, i.e. the transfer to the patient of blood from another person, a method that is still to be recommended at a critical stage in severe cases. Physiology or Medicine 1934 - Presentation Speech
  • Under this tissue is found with the Nos. 7, 8, and 9, the endosperm or perisperm, containing the gluten and the starch; soluble and insoluble albuminoids, that is to say, the flour. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
  • By 1917 the French army was so shaken that it mutinied, that is to say, it refused to accept further offensive orders.
  • Hence isolation has no LD50, or medium lethal dose — that is to say, a dose that will kill half the beings subjected to it. In Chile, the Lessons of Isolation
  • In his opinion the true cause of the alteration of the cauliflower is the humid gangrene, that is to say, a gummy degeneration and putrid fermentation of the tissues, caused by the abundance of manure in the soil and the excess of water in the plant at a time when it is subject to sudden changes of temperature. The Cauliflower
  • Newton solved it correctly; he showed that the curve was a part of what is termed a cycloid -- that is to say, a curve like that which is described by a point on the rim of a carriage-wheel as the wheel runs along the ground. Great Astronomers
  • -- Captain Huntly's bill of lading, that is to say, the document that describes the Chancellor's cargo and the conditions of transport, is couched in the following terms: Bronsfield and Co., The Survivors of the Chancellor
  • The continuation stated that Elliot Smith — with whom Keith was to quarrel a year or so later — had made the most notable contribution to the meeting with his commentary on the "brain cast" that was given him by Smith Woodward, and that "the chief divergence of opinion" in the discussion related to the antiquity of the finds, with Sir Arthur Keith — mentioned by name — regarding them as earlier than Pleistocene and possibly Pliocene, that is to say, the age to which some of the planted fossil animal teeth may have belonged. The Piltdown Mystery: An Exchange
  • Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in 1891, an untouchable in an India run by the British – that is to say a subaltern twice over, subjugated by an imperial government and by high-caste Indians. Unthinkable? An Ambedkar memorial | Editorial
  • Let ‘F’ and ‘G’ be certain sortal terms, that is to say, general terms denoting certain sorts or kinds of substantial individual.
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • The responses now undergo a change from positive to _less positive_; fatigue, that is to say, appears. Response in the Living and Non-Living
  • Howbeit there be many who would rather intitule it 'Metamorphosis', that is to say, a transfiguration or transformation, by reason of the argument and matter within. The Golden Asse
  • Francis I. had the advantage in artillery and in heavy cavalry, called at that time the gendarmerie, that is to say, the corps of men-at-arms in heavy armor with their servants; but his troops were inferior in effectives to the Imperialists, and Charles V. 's two generals, Bourbon and Pescara, were, as men of war, far superior to A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
  • At the foremost end of this division of the ship, so far as it was possible for my eyes to pierce the darkness -- for it seems that this run went clear to the fore-hold bulkhead, that is to say, under the powder-room, to where the fore-hold began -- were stowed the spare sails, ropes for gear, and a great variety of furniture for the equipment of a ship's yards and masts. The Frozen Pirate
  • In another group, represented by _Opuntia_ (fig. 1), the flowers are rotate, that is to say, the long tube is replaced by a very short one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

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