How To Use Zealous In A Sentence
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If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating.
A Far From Model Marriage
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Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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Bradshaw has a tendency to be over-zealous in his role as the Department of Health's attack dog, andthis wasn't the first time in the last year that the Minister has been somewhat economical with the truth.
More Brownies from Bradshaw
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John Hales, clerk of the hanaper, a learned and able man, and, like all who espoused this party, a zealous protestant, had written, and secretly circulated, a book in defence of the claims of the lady Catherine, and he had also procured opinions of foreign lawyers in favor of the validity of her marriage.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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He admits that he ‘may be overzealous at times,’ maybe even nasty or rude.
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Advertisers had argued that to ban the advertisements would be overzealous political correctness.
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Since 1838, when it declared itself a sovereign nation, Costa Rica has enjoyed an independent existence, which it has zealously maintained.
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Nixon blamed the "overzealousness" of a Highway Patrol unit and revealed that no one in his administration had reviewed the report before it was distributed to police statewide.
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When he came nearest to the scientific spirit of his time, in zealous observations of the life of nature, he characteristically concentrated on the sequence of various bird notes at daybreak and the flight of moths as the stars of twilight were kindled.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 - Presentation Speech
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With such discourse, and the intervening topics of business, the time passed until dinner, Macwheeble meanwhile promising to devise some mode of introducing Edward at the Duchran, where Rose at present resided, without risk of danger or suspicion; which seemed no very easy task, since the laird was a very zealous friend to government.
Waverley
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This isn't about "overzealousness": it's about enforcing the law.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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As for Titania, she blossomed into a more mature woman, although her zealousness never fully died down.
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Perhaps it was the overzealous con brio on the part of cellist Andrés Díaz: maybe there are a lot of sforzandi in the score, but from where I sat I heard more percussive bowstrikes than pure tone more often than I would have liked.
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[389] Recopilación de leyes, lib. iv, tit. x, ley vii, has the following law, dated Madrid, March 17, 1608: "The governor and captain-general of Filipinas shall for the present appoint the magistracy [regimiento] of the city of Manila, choosing persons who shall prove to be suitable for the office and zealous for the service of God our Lord, and for ours; and he shall not remove them without our special order.
History of the Philippine Islands
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He was known as a zealous puritan, and had given his sister in marriage to the celebrated Edmund Cartwright the leader of the sect.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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It had taken its eye off the situation and its conduct was not as diligent and zealous as it should have been.
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This man, taciturn, clearminded, laborious, inoffensive, zealous for no government and useful to every government, had gradually become an almost indispensable part of the machinery of the state.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
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You react with an intense and zealous activity designed to achieve your aims at all costs.
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Given that the DA will see his chances for re-election dwindle if he/she is perceived to be soft on a multiple felony slam-dunk conviction case against a spoiled, arrogant, crime-committing, room-temperature-IQ behemoth, I suspect the moron in question (e.g., the football player), after considerable wheeling and dealing by his zealous defense attorney -- who is just doing his job, will likely receive felony deferred adjudication from the appropriate court.
No Prison for Plaxico?
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If the EU Commission is thought to be acting with undue zealousness in the application of the pact it may work against the pro-euro cause in Britain, Denmark and Sweden.
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I feel it is very important to warn drivers there are overzealous private clamping companies operating on private roads in the area.
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So, too, the zealous devil-worshippers of Travancore, whose diet is the putrid flesh of cattle and tigers, together with arrak and toddy and rice, which they have previously offered to their deities.
The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala
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I wish to acquaint your love in Christ that the very zealous brethren who have been commissioned by your reverence to act for you in this good work have won praise for all the clergy by the amiability of their manners; for by their individual modesty and conciliatoriness they have shewn the sound condition of all.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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But such entrism is of little value if the final product is rejected by the electorate as too extreme and too zealously focused on single issues.
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But some readings of Marx's materialism have been somewhat overzealous.
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In addition to his witness to the faith under persecution which encouraged the young to persevere, Fr Jia was known as a zealous and devout pastoral priest.
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The bill was blocked last year by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats concerned about over-zealous federal law enforcement.
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Police cars, buses and disabled drivers have all been victims of overzealous parking wardens since the Parkwise scheme was introduced.
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Some might call his zealousness to get Terry Wayne Smith dedication.
Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue
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She is a zealous supporter of our cause.
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I've seen it done here in Oregon and IMHO overzealously.
It's a Cutthroat World Out There...
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At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting glances like chained wolves.
Les Miserables
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Indeed, one of the many reasons why I like this site is that the comments are quite open to adverse opinions (unlike HuffPo, who seems to police comments quite overzealously).
Think Progress » Demoralizing His Supporters, Obama Calls Nukes, Coal, And Oil Drilling ‘Clean Energy Jobs’
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We knew instinctively that anyone wearing a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches was a history teacher and those wearing ponchos were over-zealous social workers.
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Elaborated between 1790 and 1799, the decimal metric system of weights and measures was zealously promoted under Napoleon.
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The most you could accuse them of is overzealousness.
Times, Sunday Times
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One reason that injury can occur in yoga is due to overzealousness, or even just plain enthusiasm, on the part of the student -- I have of course experienced this myself -- it is a natural response for a particular type of person when it comes to any activity that has physicality associated with it -- no matter what a teacher may caution.
Eddie Stern: Sheetal Is a Punk Rocker, or How the NYT Wrecks Yoga
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While they were in close pursuit of charity, and made this Christian disposition their chief scope, they might be zealous of spiritual gifts, be ambitious of them in some measure, but especially of prophesying, that is, of interpreting scripture.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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It is conceivable that I have become a little zealous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Infants brighten up in her presence and mothers listen to her with almost child-like zealousness.
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New council wardens brought in to enforce parking restrictions have been accused of being over-zealous following Witham's recent electricity blackout.
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The shop assistant is very zealous.
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Until then, uprisings against the new Norman régime had been confined to local spats prompted mainly by the heavy-handed actions of overzealous castellans.
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There have been no protests about people who feel their right to debate a contentious assertion in the NDT has been quashed by over-zealous topic starters.
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No zealous advocate of good citizenship would argue that political participation ought to be pursued to the neglect of all other obligations.
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This was just a bad move by some overzealous security guards.
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Was it the first bright idea of some overzealous publicist?
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Lobotomy is notorious for its over-zealous application and long-term damaging effects, post-trauma counselling - otherwise known as 'debriefing' - has been shown to make trauma worse in some people, and drug company advertising is widely cited for its insidious effects on both doctors and patients.
Mind Hacks: July 2006 Archives
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Pastor Boichenko is indeed a zealous Pastor and evangelist always leading from the front.
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I don't know many lawyers in the bankruptcy practice who take the idea of zealous representation of their client as seriously as he does," says Richard Chesley, a Chicago bankruptcy lawyer who has worked with Mr. Lauria on a couple of cases.
Lawyer Who Slowed Chrysler Deal May Take On GM
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But Penry, the minority leader in the State Senate, said was troubled by what called overzealousness in the civil-unions debate on the part of some advocates and opponents.
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Are you driven into a frustrated frenzy because of the overzealous comb-over dad who just cut into the line you've been waiting in for half an hour?
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That is a disadvantage I am powerless to overcome, unless it be by forewarning and forearming those readers who zealously seek the truth.
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First, Saul had zealously enforced Torah's prohibition against necromancy as king of Israel, yet he is now so desperate for guidance that he consults a medium - one who is a criminal by his own laws.
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One overzealous man even tried to sell him some overripe tomatoes once, and it took only one glare to send the man scurrying on his way.
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Nor has it become difficult only for me to explain the relevance of a kirpan or a kara, but also for those who sermonize in the gurudwaras or those who so zealously write in the religious magazines.
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What I can not accept is the zealous, blind rush to condemn the parents of Jessica Dubroff.
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Who is AC going to fight anyway? over zealous walrus smackers? evil penguin capers? over active krill give me a gorram break.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Aquaman pilot swims to WB Network
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Jewell was annoyed that press descriptions of him always emphasized his "overzealousness"; he considers himself a man of details.
American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell
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Cork -- the most zealous and successful advocate for the cultivation of this plant -- informed me that he had obtained so much as 14 tons per acre; a fact which proves that the furze is a plant which is well deserving of the attention of the farmer.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
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Elaborated between 1790 and 1799, the decimal metric system of weights and measures was zealously promoted under Napoleon.
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In some parts of the country zealous Chinese Communists tried to establish rural communes, as was happening in China.
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Bran was also a zealous patriot and served his country well as a warrior.
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These came zealously, with speed of leg and wing, from straw-rick, threshing-floor, double hedge, or mixen; and following their tails, the boy slipped through the rick-yard, and tossed a note to Mary with a truly
Mary Anerley
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In both occupied France and the unoccupied zone, anti-Jewish laws were enforced zealously.
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The first to be elected was that famous pen-woman, zealous worker for her sex, and "Mother of Clubs," Mrs. JC Croly.
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For though one should speak ten thousand words well, if there happen to be one little word displeasing to you, because not sufficiently intelligible or accurate, you make no account of the many good words, but lay hold of the little word, and are very zealous in setting it up as something impious and guilty; in order that, when you are judged with the very same judgment by God, you may have a much heavier account to render for your great audacities, whether evil actions, or bad interpretations which you obtain by falsifying the truth.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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So, if you zealously guard your privacy and love snuggling alone in the bunk bed and chewing a chocolate, a job on a ship is not for you.
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Yet in this work he can find no words sufficiently strong to praise what he calls the zealous freedom and Christian earnestness of one of the most offensive canters that the whole range of fiction presents.
James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters
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This can make them extremely zealous in their pursuit of you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elijah was a man of great austerity and mortification, zealous for God, bold in reproving sin, and active to reduce an apostate people to God and their duty; John Baptist was animated by the same spirit and power, and preached repentance and reformation, as Elias had done; and all held him for a prophet, as they did Elijah in his day, and that his baptism was from heaven, and not of men.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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But there's poor lawyering, overzealous prosecutors, tunnel vision for investigators.
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Herbert earnestly points to the fact that more than 300 economists have signed onto a statement urging policy makers not to undercut the change of recovery by focusing overzealously on deficit reduction.
Allison Kilkenny: The morality disconnect
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That you think that’s hateful and overzealous is just, I don’t know, kinda hateful and overzealous.
Why Anyone Who Says We Live In A Post-Feminist World Should Be Cuffed In The Head | Her Bad Mother
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Those words were rather extreme, sadly uneducated and overly zealous.
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Throughout a pulsating and fiercely-contested match, Kendal were unable to please the zealous match official.
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Sometimes overzealousness, greed, avarice, or fear of reprisal can affect human judgment.
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No zealous advocate of good citizenship would argue that political participation ought to be pursued to the neglect of all other obligations.
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His appeal is his integrity and an almost zealous commitment to his beliefs.
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Courts, the media and the public have managed so far to turn back some of the zealous excesses of this government to persecute, harass and maroon our duskier citizens.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Sir William Trumball [sic] whom Macaulay (chap. xxi) characterizes as “a learned civilian and an experienced diplomatist, of moderate opinions and of temper cautious to timidity” was appointed Secretary of State in 1691 and resigned in 1697 to make way for a more zealous partisan.
A Pleasing Form; a firm, yet cautious Mind
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Clearly the over-zealous child protection lobby that we have here and in America has not yet reached southern Sweden, as the children actually were sitting on the besuited fella's leg.
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What I'm saying, in the end, is that e-voting must be implemented properly, overcautiously, overzealously guarded and protected.
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Sir James; but though he was fortunate enough to find a zealous and well-informed cicerone in Mr. Thomas Haddow, and had every assistance from the kindness of Mr. Alexander Finlay, the resident
Castle Dangerous
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The Times" framed the story as a huge spy scandal beginning back in March of 1999, but has come under fire for its early stories, which some have called overzealous and inaccurate.
CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Media Prepares for the Great Debate; 'New York Times' Admits it Went too Far on Wen Ho Lee - September 30, 2000
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Communication skills affect every area of life, from expressing feelings in intimate relationships to dealing with over-zealous shop assistants.
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Where will prosecutors and overzealous puritans draw the line?
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Pryor also had some nasty anti gay views, and managed to be fairly intemerate in his zealous defense of the women of Alabama from evil vibrating massagers.
Judges and religion: the Young-Bainbridge debate.
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The overzealous weekend soldiers prevented many of the veterans from getting to the car park next to their meeting room.
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He was ecstatic at the thought, but could never show it; he didn't want to scare her off with any overzealous behavior.
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Clearly these are pathways to injury, and it's not surprising that some people have wrecked their bodies due to overzealously practicing their yoga routine.
Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.: How Yoga Hasn't Wrecked My Body (Yet)
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No zealous advocate of good citizenship would argue that political participation ought to be pursued to the neglect of all other obligations.
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The story creates the impression that this was a serious violation of privacy rights by overzealous government officials.
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Thus, on his account, my ‘zealous effort’ to rebut the authors I discuss harms the cause of peace.
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Such zealous passion would seem to be the natural preserve of that dangerous species, the young man.
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This was an act committed by one zealous serving girl who sinned thereby.
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Overly zealous employers can be guilty of promoting a culture of presenteeism by pressurising their staff to identify with their job roles to the exclusion of almost everything else in their lives.
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One bit of sloppiness and his backing of a fruitless theory made him increasingly irrelevant which is actually unfortunate—he was otherwise an interesting, if bombastic and overzealous, thinker who contributed to many disciplines but his theory, called recapitulation or the biogenetic law, was abandoned because his theory didn't fit the facts.
The Haeckel-Wells Chronicles - The Panda's Thumb
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I counted eleven able seamen polishing the breechblock of the stern nine-point-two, four marines zealously relieving each other at the life-buoy, six call-boys, nine midshipmen of the watch, exclusive of naval cadets, and the higher ranks past all census.
Traffics and Discoveries
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A zealous Protestant, he was well disposed to investigate the prime targets of secret-police attention at the time: unreconstructed Catholics.
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Among the industry’s truly protean figures, he ably filmed every type of genre picture imaginable; weathered several epochal shifts in moviemaking technique (example: with the talkie ascendant, he effortlessly transformed from zealous location realist into sound-stage artifice reveler); and helped shape the screen personas of Gable, Cooper, Tracy, and Fairbanks (and swell the bosoms of Shearer, Bow, Bergman, and Velez).
Cover to Cover
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The responsibility of parents can only be restricted under a court order, providing a safeguard against overzealous intervention by local authorities.
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Although we must be careful not to overzealously proselytize, we can go too far the other way.
Le mot juste - French Word-A-Day
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They are zealous in the work and are casting their whole influence towards the redemption of society from the thralldom of intemperance.
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In the interim his zealous pursuit of legendary status has foundered on London's mean streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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That kind of zealousness seems fine when it is offered in opposition to the fascist repression of Nazism; on the other hand, when we hear it today from the Tea Party types, it sends a certain chill.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Max Manus
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Flying is already a pain, thanks to overzealous and intrusive security checks often devoid of common sense.
The Sun
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He left behind him a name endeared to the Virginians by his amiable manners, his liberal patronage of the arts, and, above all, by his zealous intercession for their rights.
Life of George Washington — Volume 01
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a very zealous friend to Government --- The poultry-yard had been laid under requisition and cockyleeky and Scotch collops soon reeked in the Bailie's little parlour.
The Waverley
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DOBBS: What you describe as zealousness, if it turns out to be, I would prefer on the part of a prosecutor, effectiveness every time, in particular in a case of this nature.
CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2005
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Occasionally these communities have created disasters of their own making, through inappropriate irrigation practices and over-zealous forestation.
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[218] _Recopilación de leyes_, lib. iv, tit. x, ley vii, has the following law, dated Madrid, March 17, 1608: "The governor and captain-general of Filipinas shall for the present appoint the magistracy [_regimiento_] of the city of Manila, choosing persons who shall prove to be suitable for the office and zealous for the service of God our Lord, and for ours; and he shall not remove them without our special order.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the
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Whenever the general apathy characterising public servants gives way to zealousness, we smell something fishy.
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Nuts are high in monounsaturated ‘good’ fats and a handful may sate an overzealous appetite.
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Some unionists especially at lower ranks are overzealous and keen to score points among members by wrongly advising the rank and file to go on strike.
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Sure, the combination of Carrey's zealous contortionism and the Farrellys 'fearlessly low humor will make you laugh (see Jim wrestle a dying cow, see him locked in mortal combat with himself, see him pee all over the wall).
Gross And Grosser
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They just had too much makeup," he continues, using a common term for overzealous cellar work.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.
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While its stated mission has been to support the nation's gun laws to prevent criminals and mentally incompetent people from acquiring firearms, the BATF has a history of what might kindly be termed "overzealousness.
Richard Feldman: Gun Rights & Marijuana Reform -- Issues Joined!
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Comparing with the faithful obligation to the court, zealous advocacy direct duty of the defense attorney.
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■ who have ftood forth the zealous advocates of the democratical American charters, be the loudeft in their clangours againft fuch inn novations?
Political reflections on the late colonial governments [microform] : in which their original constitutional defects are pointed out, and shown to have naturally produced the rebellion, which has unfortunately terminated in the dismemberment of the British
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No zealous advocate of good citizenship would argue that political participation ought to be pursued to the neglect of all other obligations.
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And the religious fanaticism that Morier tweaked also echoes down the years: A character named Nadan who wants to become Tehran's religious leader, Morier writes, has no peer "either as a zealous practiser of the ordinances of his religion, or a persecutor of those who might be its enemies.
Five Best
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The shop assistant is very zealous.
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Where will prosecutors and overzealous puritans draw the line?
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Just how zealous is the religious right?
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The zealous friends of the church, as well as those who were enriched by confiscations, represented to the king that this state of things arose from the fact that the higher magistrates, themselves tainted with heresy, connived at its spread, and that the "presidial" judges abstained from employing the powers conferred by the edict, through fear of compromising themselves with the sovereign courts.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Fraser moves convincingly from his zealous naif to more steely operator convincing himself of his mission's objectives.
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A fussy mother of the Caucasian bride and an over-zealous traditional aunt of the East-Indian groom make this road to marital bliss rougher than it needs to be.
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Once with the title stamped on his memory, the zealous Irishman might be trusted to become an ambulant advertizer.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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On fire now, he designs a nationwide study of thousands of adults, their intimacies recorded in explicit questionnaires administered by his zealous disciples.
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Meanwhile they please themselves with this zealous pursuit, and even dare to judge all others, whom they do not see adorned with such a glittering display of works; while, if they had been imbued with faith, they might have done great things for their own and others salvation, at the same cost which they now waste in abuse of the gifts of God.
Concerning Christian Liberty
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The arc of this group's path in America has been one from zealousness to bland, corporate moderateness.
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He almost had his helmet ripped from his head at third, and he sent one overzealous fan sprawling during his broken-field run toward the plate.
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And in particular, how mercifully hath the Lord dealt with this poor county of Worcester, in raising up so many who do credit to the sacred office, and self-denyingly and freely, zealously and unweariedly, lay out themselves for the good of souls!
The Reformed Pastor
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Diligence (Latin, Industria) (ethics, brought the term exceedingly in vogue, opposes Sloth, Latin Acedia): A zealous thinking hereby to draw the philosophers to and careful nature in one's actions and Christianity, who aspired after such a work.
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Too often, the descriptions are imprecise, perhaps because of Johnson's overzealous desire to unleash sequence after sequence of arresting images, even if it means lulling us into uncertainty.
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We can't afford to allow our zealousness for fiscal responsibility to wipe out programs that actually generate additional dollars that wouldn't otherwise exist.
Ron Fairchild: A Smarter Budget Ax
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Moisturizers also fill in and fortify gaps between skin cells caused by overzealous washing or hot showers.
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You probably don’t know that religious zealousness is a symptom of schizophrenia – right?
Think Progress » Fitzgerald going to new grand jury.
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Now in their 50s, she and her husband are zealous promoters of the mission they began in 1981.
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That matter is not rightly understood -- has never been rightly explained," said Deerslayer earnestly, for he was as zealous a friend as his companion was dangerous as an enemy; "the Mengwe fill the woods with their lies, and misconstruct words and treaties.
The Deerslayer
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But leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, many of whose followers lived at the ranch, accused the state agency of conducting an overzealous raid simply because the group believes in polygamous marriages.
Child welfare officials say child abuse, neglect common at Texas polygamists’ ranch
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It is not the overzealous, fault-finding traffic officers who ambush motorists at every street corner.
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Will we see these zealous litter police staking out public houses.
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He went into one of the New Mexican troops, and by his high qualities and zealous attention to duty speedily rose to a sergeantcy, and finally won his lieutenancy for gallantry in action.
The Rough Riders
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To begin your marketing adventure, head West, where 32 percent of all zealous American outdoor sportsmen live.
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If you're a red-faced hockey dad in Massachusetts, a high-strung cheerleading mom in Texas or some other species of overzealous sports parent, be warned.
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Nazmi is more than just a simple farmer: he is a born-again farmer with a zealous devotion to organic farming and a burning desire to organize other people around him to reap its benefits as well.
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The left that so loves to "deconstruct" everything about Western culture and faith can't seem to recognize their own new religion or their zealous resistance to any deconstruction of their new god object.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Ann Lee and her immediate entourage were unbowed in their zealous commitment.
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A tutoress ought not only to be well accomplished, but she ought to be zealous in the cause of virtue.
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She was a zealous worker for charitable bodies.
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It also demonstrates that the President is either an over-zealous delegator, plain lazy or lacking the intelligence to sort out the wheat from the chaff himself.
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Nigel, who had sat almost stupefied while these zealous friends volunteered for him in arranging the measures by which his fortune was to be disembarrassed, now made another eager attempt to force upon them his broken expressions of thanks and gratitude.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Zealous political pundit Pat Robertson observes, "The entire world is being convulsed by a religious struggle ... whether Hubal, the Moon God of Mecca, known as Allah, is supreme, or ... the Judeo-Christian Jehovah God of the Bible is Supreme.
Ben DeVan: Evangelicals And Muslims Loving God, Each Other, And The World Together?
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Some who have testified say they're less worried that what they say will be leaked to the public than that it will get back to the agencies themselves, which are known for their zealousness in tracking down whistleblowers.
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Absent, too, is the zealous activism of a huge freshman class that entered Washington two years ago brimming with enthusiasm.
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This can make them extremely zealous in their pursuit of you.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has left us this bright folio of her "lightning and fragrance in one," scintillant with stardust as perhaps no other before her, certainly not in this country, none with just her celestial attachedness, or must we call it detachedness, and withal also a sublime, impertinent playfulness which makes her images dance before one like offspring of the great round sun, fooling zealously with the universes at her feet, and just beyond her eye, with a loftiness of spirit and of exquisite trivialness seconded by none.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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That might result in a wholly different problem, of course, as overzealous regulators tried to make their bonuses by going after small-potatoes corporate peccadilloes, rather than spotting potentially systemic crises.
FCIC report: What if the SEC paid like Goldman Sachs?
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Pre began a long battle, both with the AAU to finally expose the hypocrisy of "shamateurism," and the arbitrary judgments of then USOC President Avery Brundage, a zealous adherent to amateurism.
TheFinalSprint.com - Track & Field, Marathons, Racing News, Training Advice, Elite Athlete Blogs, Interviews, Podcasts, Videos and More!
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On the other hand, the anti-spyware could just be overzealous.
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It is, on the contrary, a most zealous defence of Perkinism, and a fierce attack upon its opponents, most especially upon such of the medical profession as treated the subject with neglect or ridicule.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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He is a zealous advocate for the rights of Irish immigrants and others as Chair of the Emerald Isle Immigration Centre.
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Incensed with her forever indulging sister, Maggie zealously knocked on room 305, hoping Olivia would open the door.
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I suppose the look would be epitomised by the finalist who emerges from a particularly disastrous exam to be pelted with eggs and glitter by an over-zealous congratulatory crowd.
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The bill was blocked last year by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats concerned about over-zealous federal law enforcement.
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I think a lot of people have gotten overzealous and overoptimistic that Europe is going to solve the debt crisis this weekend…All the buying you've seen lately in oil, equities, and other risk assets has been premature.
Crude Prices Fall in Late-Day Selloff
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Then, the financial jest with acerbic only zealous those past economist, what had become American at one's leisure today is newfangled.
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The trouble is that often the penalties are being exacted from the wrong people by overzealous officials.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bill was blocked last year by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats concerned about over-zealous federal law enforcement.
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Now we learn of retribution efforts aimed at those who tried to correct the zealous propaganda which drove this nation into war.
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But why, if they can respond so zealously to this kind of pressure, can they not respond to the other kind, which requires them to deal with recidivist hoodlums, neds, antisocial juveniles or whatever the correct term is?
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Ravel's exclusive publishing arrangement notwithstanding, it's not uncommon for musical works to be published over time by different publishers and subsequently freighted with the conflicting, sometimes overzealous or heavy-handed input of seriatim editors reflecting shifting interpretative mores.
Four Lost Measures Found
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At the extreme low-water of new or full moon tides, the rocks and tide-pools are to be zealously hunted over by the aquarian naturalist.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
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overzealousness" in allowing the flow of water runoffs from developments to the east onto the golf course fairways.
The Daily Journal Local News
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With 19 convicted pirates languishing in Kenyan prisons and another 99 still to be convicted, the AG said the penal institutions are taking an extra toll with no compensation for Kenya's "overzealousness" to fulfill its international obligations.
AllAfrica News: Latest
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Communication skills affect every area of life, from expressing feelings in intimate relationships to dealing with over-zealous shop assistants.
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Editors may be more skeptical of authority today, but they do not all believe the Harlem boys were railroaded by a frenzied press and a zealous prosecution.
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The resultant atmosphere of zealous, self-righteous piety smacks of the same sort of religious-based fundamentalism that is derided and anathematized when proclaimed by radical Islamists, to offer but one example.
American Exceptionalism
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The legal profession has taken the notion of zealous representation to mean whatever the client wants.
The Practice
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As for the claim that they had been over-zealous, that is just rubbish.
Archive 2008-12-01
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As the Revolution developed, he became "a zealous Whig" who served in the Continental Congress, the only member who wore clerical bands in 1776.
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An elderly birdwoman, whose placard proclaimed her a member of the Senior Citizens Harlan Grzyb Fan Club, was trying to fight her way through the zealous Voe admirers by swinging out with her plexiglaz crutch.
Galaxy Jane
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I would like to read one book about modern birds...*just one*...where conservation is not a looming, overzealous theme.
Life's Time Capsule: Making of Karoo Sunset
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When he talks about the case, he sounds less like a zealous advocate than a political zealot.
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The phrase ‘close to city centre’ is an elastic term which is being stretched to its limits by some overzealous selling agents.
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Letting out a zealous shriek, he took a great daredevil dive over the sofa, knocking against the coffee table and scattering its contents all over.
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Babies have died as a result of overzealous dunking.
Times, Sunday Times
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They defend their right to profit from patients' pain, suffering and death with a zealousness that is unmatched in the corporate world.
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Over-zealous traffic wardens have slapped tickets on two Radcliffe traders outside their own shops, even though they were unloading stock.
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The bill was blocked last year by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats concerned about over-zealous federal law enforcement.
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On the last occasion the king ennobled him, As prime minister he was most zealous in establishing the supremacy of the State over the Church, and in abolishing the privileges of the nobility together with feudalism, He restricted the jurisdiction of the bishops, impeded the last increment of the so-called mortmain, and reduced the taxes belonging to the chancery of the Roman Curia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Parents cheered as their boys chased down fly balls and hurled them home, where overzealous runners were tagged out.
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As he was zealous to accomplish his mission, SlideIl fumed and protested the delay.
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That would be the over-zealous interference of the nanny state.
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In the interim his zealous pursuit of legendary status has foundered on London's mean streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor is it a charge made possible by the Patriot Act, a simple overzealous attempt to keep America safe.
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Part of it, too, is frankly to reign in overzealous creativity.
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