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She was wearing another one of her loud polka dot dresses and Johnny couldn’t understand how someone could wear such ugly clothes that made them stand out to such a high degree; it was almost as if the dots and varied colors were specifically made to clash as much as possible
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Dharma depends upon time, circumstances, age, degree of evolution and the community to which one belongs
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Most adjectives have the positive degree, the comparative degree followed by ‘ than’ to compare 2 things, and the superlative degree preceded by ‘ the’ to compare more than 2 things
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as’ with the positive degree
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We use ‘than’ with the comparative degree
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‘The’ is used with the superlative degree
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"This is the degree of control he said you’d have over those emitters
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Some of the stars weren’t where they should have been by only a tenth of a degree, but when the images from all the friendly craft were combined, the positional discrepancies were enough to make the stars appear to grow in angular diameter in one, moving location
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And yet I found a small degree of happiness in realising that I no longer had to argue
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The degree of love, unity, and soundness exceeded that which I have seen in most congregations in the forty years I have preached the gospel
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" Surprisingly, the whole exchange has brought out a degree of exuberance from Apollo and I must admit, I'm thankful for that
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A good definition of love is the degree to which one is willing to deny himself for the good of another
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On the other hand, nobody can say they lack these three characteristics completely; without them, even in a small degree, nobody survives infancy
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To the degree that we live from this reality is the degree unto which we are true believers in the faith
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by degree and minute, so that by two or three in the afternoon,
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Almost as though observing from a distance, I watch my other self flounder as doubts about my chances of concluding the quest with any degree of success become definite, bottomless failure; my perennial loneliness becomes an old age of isolation in a world slowly spiralling down into barrenness and desolation as I eek out my days, hated by those who remain here … the few who could not escape across … Berndt’s face stares at me, full of the loathing he feels for my failure
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Further, when we are no longer Israel and the Church, but are now the New Jerusalem – the Holy City – the Bride of Christ – we are now displaying a further degree of God
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the speaking in tongues that comes by degree
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In stretching the spinal column to the greatest degree it helps to relieve and prevent sciatica and lumbago
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Having had an easy time of it with the Letter L Breathing Exercise, try now another exercise which incorporates breathing, stretching, and in its advanced stages, a high degree of balance
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The downward drag, though it may be held in check by a healthy and active body, is nevertheless always present in some degree
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Though a certain degree of slowing down of activity on the first two days of a period is advisable, there need not be any undue resting
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'Not to this degree, this boy's brain is wired differently
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repeatedly stressed and even injured to a degree
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Innkeepers are required to have a degree in the Sciences, Agriculture, Psychology, and the Law
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Jed was doing a degree in something technical and scientific which meant he had to spend a lot of time working, and Joanna just could not get her head round that
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Joanna managed to get a degree of sorts - no idea how, she never did any work I could see - however, Jed's hard work paid off and he landed a good job with a local manufacturer
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It is an unmatched degree of
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degree within the circle
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"We are still waiting for the full pathology report, toxicity etcetera, but early indications are that this combination has caused a degree of cerebral oedema…"
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There is a degree of status amid the anarchy
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For all his scientific qualifications – and he has a degree of sorts according to these records – he’s not all that bright
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as a teenager and not as a teacher even though she had the degree
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‘Oh stop showing off your bloody literary degree, James!’ Grant said, ‘Anyway, it wasn’t anything we did
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” Harold was confident to a degree that was nearly infectious in both his manner and speech
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The facilities there are very well designed, giving the occupants a high degree of privacy while at the same time providing a community within which they can live as full a life as their age or infirmity permits
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Why hadn't she been able to convince Mike to do this for her, he was the one with the degree in accounting, she thought as she twirled the pencil between her fingers, gazing down on the numbers that blurred before her tired eyes
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Harry had to affirm the observation, he was made well aware of his distinct status nearly from his first days in the Hundred, sometimes favorable, often eliciting some degree of initial jealousy, though soon overcome and banished
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With this termination I heard from my mother, I and bared into my mind that my mother is wrong and that I forced them that I really want to go to school and be a degree holder
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The lakes extended at a roughly sixty degree angle all across the tropics and northern temperate zones, seven hundred oxygen barometric feet above Earth's sea level
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their local high school to some degree, but mostly I think it was because of
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Anyone will tell you today in the typical sarcastic fashion: you have degree in liberal arts “Would you like fries with that”? I didn't worry about my degree in government and history making me unemployable, I knew I was going to go to law school
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Back in 1971 you could go or attend any school without making any progress towards a higher degree
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Because I had never taken any business courses, I wanted to learn something about business and I wanted to learn something about auto mechanics so I figured that this would be the first time I would have fun in college, not caring at all whether I got a degree or not
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He fell the last thirty feet down the near ninety degree slope
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Now Hankins has a degree, her own business and the desire to participate in the betterment of
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The wilderness is the only place to get a degree in the
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it turned out, such was the degree of traffic in the wake of
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To ascertain what is the average profit of all the different trades carried on in a great kingdom, must be much more difficult; and to judge of what it may have been formerly, or in remote periods of time, with any degree of precision, must be altogether impossible
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But though it may be impossible to determine, with any degree of precision, what are or were the average profits of stock, either in the present or in ancient times, some notion may be formed of them from the interest of money
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But, perhaps, no country has ever yet arrived at this degree of opulence
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as it is higher or lower in degree
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The grand-vizir was the father of two daughters, of whom the elder was called Scheherazade, and she was clever and courageous in the highest degree
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years which it was necessary to study, in order to obtain the degree of master of arts, appears
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degree that was intended; because it has never been able to hinder either the one from being
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always to have enjoyed a degree of consideration much superior to any of the like profession
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In their eyes, the merit of an object, which is in any degree either useful or beautiful, is greatly enhanced by its scarcity, or by the great labour which it requires to collect any considerable quantity of it; a labour which nobody can afford to pay but themselves
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A considerable degree of both has now been introduced into all of them
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After all the wonderful tales which have been published concerning the splendid state of those countries in ancient times, whoever reads, with any degree of sober judgment, the history of their first discovery and conquest, will evidently discern that, in arts, agriculture, and commerce, their inhabitants were much more ignorant than the Tartars of the Ukraine are at present
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but with a degree of certainty the Abbot couldn’t ignore
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In the progress of wealth and improvement, the real price of the first may rise to any degree of extravagance, and seems not to be limited by any certain boundary
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That of the third, though its natural tendency is to rise in the progress of improvement, yet in the same degree of improvement it may sometimes happen even to fall, sometimes to continue the same, and sometimes to rise more or less, according as different accidents render the efforts of human industry, in multiplying this sort of rude produce, more or less successful
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Though it is late, therefore, in the progress of improvement, before cattle can bring such a price as to render it profitable to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them; yet of all the different parts which compose this second sort of rude produce, they are perhaps the first which bring this price ; because, till they bring it, it seems impossible that improvement can be brought near even to that degree of perfection to which it has arrived in many parts of Europe
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Wool was commonly paid as a subsidy to the king, and its valuation in that subsidy ascertains, at least in some degree, what was its ordinary price
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But from the high or low money price of some sorts of goods in proportion to that of others, we can infer, with a degree of probability that approaches almost to certainty, that it was rich or poor, that the greater part of its lands were improved or unimproved, and that it was either in a more or less barbarous state, or in a more or less civilized one
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The quantity of materials which the same number of people can work up, increases in a great proportion as labour comes to be more and more subdivided; and as the operations of each workman are gradually reduced to a greater degree of simplicity, a variety of new machines come to be invented for facilitating and abridging those operations
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Though a house, therefore, may yield a revenue to its proprietor, and thereby serve in the function of a capital to him, it cannot yield any to the public, nor serve in the function of a capital to it, and the revenue of the whole body of the people can never be in the smallest degree increased by it
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But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking
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They had over-traded a little, and had brought upon themselves that loss, or at least that diminution of profit, which, in this particular business, never fails to attend the smallest degree of over-trading
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The difficulties, accordingly, which the Bank of England, which the principal bankers in London, and which even the more prudent Scotch banks began, after a certain time, and when all of them had already gone too far, to make about discounting, not only alarmed, but enraged, in the highest degree, those projectors
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Nerissa knew she’d have a far greater degree of freedom as a
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Those other banks, therefore, were enabled to get very easily out of that fatal circle, from which they could not otherwise have disengaged themselves without incurring a considerable loss, and perhaps, too, even some degree of discredit
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This operation could not augment, in the smallest degree, the quantity of money to be lent
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has taken over the company to such a degree that if something happened to
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The success of this operation, therefore, without increasing in the smallest degree the capital of the country, would only have transferred a great part of it from prudent and profitable to imprudent and unprofitable undertakings
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Degree extension! It was a thing that should I
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What I find significant is the degree in which
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the cultural degree, the Greeks have given up
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one-eighty degree that would have made the fussiest of
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The country, indeed, which has not capital sufficient for all those three purposes, has not arrived at that degree of opulence for which it seems naturally destined
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In the grand scheme this seems to be preordained to a large degree as our normal egos are just puppets for the Universal big mind at large
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When the capital stock of any country is increased to such a degree that it cannot be all employed in supplying the consumption, and supporting the productive labour of that particular country, the surplus part of it naturally disgorges itself into the carrying trade, and is employed in performing the same offices to other countries
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In all the great countries of Europe, however, much good land still remains uncultivated ; and the greater part of what is cultivated, is far from being improved to the degree of which it is capable
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The: wealth of ancient Egypt, that of China and Indostan, sufficient1y demonstrate that a nation may attain a very high degree of opulence, though the greater part of its exportation trade be carried on by foreigners
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This order of things is so very natural, that in every society that had any territory, it has always, I believe, been in some degree observed
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The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated; and the western provinces of Europe, which had enjoyed a considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism
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To what degree such restraints upon the inland commerce of this commodity, joined to the general prohibition of exportation, must have discouraged the cultivation of countries less fertile, and less favourably circumstanced, it is not, perhaps, very easy to imagine
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The cities of Italy seem to have been the first in Europe which were raised by commerce to any considerable degree of opulence
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He was just as stout-hearted and stubborn as any other, and just as susceptible to anger if goaded to a sufficient degree
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his pursuit of a law degree, which he earned from the University of Houston Law
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He could see by the degree of decomposition that it must have been in there for quite some time
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Every such regulation introduces some degree of real disorder into the constitution of the state, which it will be difficult afterwards to cure without occasioning another disorder
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When two places trade with one another, this doctrine supposes that, if the balance be even, neither of them either loses or gains; but if it leans in any degree to one side, that one of them loses, and the other gains, in proportion to its declension from the exact equilibrium
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“There is a legend that over a thousand years ago, the venerable Matriarch, perhaps Reja Grenassia III, like our own present Matriarch has to some degree, initiated a program of 'public relations' to curb the vitriolic suspicion and loathing the other peoples of the Spur continued to maintain toward us
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She wouldn’t have guessed he’d care to this degree about her escape
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It is not the real, but the nominal price of corn, which can in any considerable degree be affected by the bounty
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They loaded the public revenue with a very considerable expense: they imposed a very heavy tax upon the whole body of the people ; but they did not, in any sensible degree, increase the real value of their own commodity; and by lowering somewhat the real value of silver, they discouraged, in some degree, the general industry of the country, and, instead of advancing, retarded more or less the improvement of their own lands, which necessarily depend upon the general industry of the country
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The demand of such countries for corn may frequently become so great and so urgent, that a small state in their neighbourhood, which happened at the same time to be labouring under some degree of dearth, could not venture to supply them without exposing itself to the like dreadful calamity
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The government, therefore, when it defrays the expense of coinage, not only incurs some small expense, but loses some small revenue which it might get by a proper duty; and neither the bank, nor any other private persons, are in the smallest degree benefited by this useless piece of public generosity