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inattention
1. The Scotch banks, no doubt, paid all of them very dearly for their own imprudence and inattention : but the Bank of England paid very dearly, not only for its own imprudence, but for the much greater imprudence of almost all the Scotch banks
2. inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention
3. there is nothing like ignorance, only inattention
4. M: Evil is the shadow of inattention
5. He waited for a moment of inattention, for a distraction of any sort to occur
6. "I said," Krystyl emphasized, put out by his inattention, "she's changed her name
7. More fundamental y, we can say that the devil uses our negligence and our inattention to leave the
8. If you don’t, you can soon expect inattention and possibly behavior problems to appear
9. in a moment of inattention I'd allowed myself to be put into a
10. While his warning probably saved many of his remaining pilots from crashing down into the sea later on, that moment of inattention cost him dearly, as a salvo of 76mm rockets bracketed his aircraft
11. Drivers are responsible for safely operating multi-thousand pound projectiles capable of terrible death and destruction caused by nothing more than callousness and inattention
12. In this noble fortress, the Almighty God wants to draw our attention to some universal signs which show man the Might of his Creator and acquaint him with His great Favor and Care about him, so that he may turn from his inattention and recover his consciousness, then he desists from his shunning and adopts the right path
13. Another example, the case of inattention during the performance of prayer, when he (cpth) made the fourfold prayer shorter and performed it with only two bows
14. Then the Messenger completed the prayer and performed one prostration for the inattention, and that was but a legislation and demonstration
15. For instance, the neighbor made friends the very first evening with Papa, who walked with injudicious inattention in our garden and slipped down through a gap in the fence into his orchard and his arms, he being engaged in picking up the fallen plums for his wife to make jam of; and he told me when he came in one day at dinner and found me struggling through what he considered dark ways and I thought were cabbages, that my salvation lay in almonds
16. The rest of us took the moment of inattention to scale back up the rope ladder, knowing that at some point, we would need to escape
17. The school children were still learning about Bismarck's birthday, the schoolmaster was still laboriously computing attendances and endeavouring to obey the difficult law which commanded him to cane the absent, the elders of the church were still refusing to repair the steeple in time, the confirmation class was still meeting explanations and exhortations with thick inattention, the ecclesiastical authorities were still demanding detailed reports of progress when there was not and could not be progress, couples were still forgetting marriage until the last hurried moment and then demanding it with insistent cries, infants were still being hastily christened before the same neglects that killed those other infants who else might have been their proud and happy grandparents carried them off, and peasants were still slinking away at the bare mention of intelligence and manure
18. � My identity felt threatened because I couldn't do enough, and my ego defended my identity by not seeing, creating an inattention to the existence of those who caused such a feeling
19. If there was any weakness to be found in the defenses before me, it was probably the overconfidence of the soldiers defending it, thinking that the wall could never fail, which is a very dangerous weakness to have as overconfidence breeds laziness and inattention to detail
20. This opinion, so natural in its auguries, proceeds on inattention to the facts of religious history
21. Any definition of the disorder includes the word inattention or attention
22. But that he lived so poorly and roughly, not from any plan or design, but simply from inattention and indifference
23. "Marianne has not shyness to excuse any inattention of hers," said Elinor
24. Dashwood; she had never been used to find wit in the inattention of any one, and could not help looking with surprise at them both
25. His handsome features glowed with pleasure, and his eyes kept impatiently wandering from the page to a small white hand over his shoulder, which recalled him by a smart slap on the cheek, whenever its owner detected such signs of inattention
26. As he took the plane through 16,000 feet, his copilot took over, apparently aware of and sympathetic to Butterfield’s distraction and momentary inattention
27. It happened that, by some inattention, she had, one frosty morning,
28. Unsurprisingly, the killer took advantage of that moment of inattention
29. ‘Why do you say this young man is so rich?’ asked the countess, turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention
30. However often she told herself that she must not get irritable when teaching her nephew, almost every time that, pointer in hand, she sat down to show him the French alphabet, she so longed to pour her own knowledge quickly and easily into the child- who was already afraid that Auntie might at any moment get angry- that at his slightest inattention she trembled, became flustered and heated, raised her voice, and sometimes pulled him by the arm and put him in the corner
31. The bagpipe-player in the centre dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under his arm, played the Highland airs
32. inattention to proper names was an aristocratic habit of his
33. Given that this looks like an underreaction due to investor inattention, it is not surprising that the patterns are stronger for small stocks
34. It was English history: among the readers I observed my acquaintance of the verandah: at the commencement of the lesson, her place had been at the top of the class, but for some error of pronunciation, or some inattention to stops, she was suddenly sent to the very bottom
35. He thought about it a great deal and came to the conclusion that it was nuts—which proves that Hazel’s problem had been inattention, not unintelligence
36. The inattention of the two brothers and the aunt to Julia’s discomposure, and their blindness to its true cause, must be imputed to the fullness of their own minds
37. The two young men were the only talkers, but they, standing by the fire, talked over the too common neglect of the qualification, the total inattention to it, in the ordinary school-system for boys, the consequently natural, yet in some instances almost unnatural, degree of ignorance and uncouthness of men, of sensible and well-informed men, when suddenly called to the necessity of reading aloud, which had fallen within their notice, giving instances of blunders, and failures with their secondary causes, the want of management of the voice, of proper modulation and emphasis, of foresight and judgment, all proceeding from the first cause: want of early attention and habit; and Fanny was listening again with great entertainment
38. “Marianne has not shyness to excuse any inattention of hers,” said Elinor
39. The inattention of the two brothers and the aunt to Julia's discomposure, and their blindness to its true cause, must be imputed to the fullness of their own minds
40. From his complete inattention to the tidings, you would think that moody Ahab had not heard his menial
41. “Why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention
42. However often she told herself that she must not get irritable when teaching her nephew, almost every time that, pointer in hand, she sat down to show him the French alphabet, she so longed to pour her own knowledge quickly and easily into the child—who was already afraid that Auntie might at any moment get angry—that at his slightest inattention she trembled, became flustered and heated, raised her voice, and sometimes pulled him by the arm and put him in the corner
43. He said that almost all the injuries and insults sustained by the United States from public armed ships of the belligerents within our waters, were attributable to an inattention to the exercise of this right, and, relax the interdiction when you may, without a stipulated obligation on the part of the belligerents, to respect your neutrality, and your marine jurisdiction, they will be renewed and continued
44. On more than one occasion his hostess found it necessary to address the same remark to him, whereat he excused himself somewhat lamely for his inattention
45. In a subscription so widely dispersed over a large portion of the United States, an inattention to punctual payment, must soon put in hazard the existence of a work, having otherwise the fairest prospects of continuance, and we hope of usefulness
46. For one of these powers, even in the most peaceful condition of the world, to be destitute of a powerful and permanent military force, would evince an inattention to its own security and independence, which would demonstrate the incapacity of its monarch to govern his subjects, or to preserve the integrity of his possessions
47. Speaker, during the very lengthy discussions which have taken place in this session, I have remained silent in my seat; this has not arisen from a supineness of disposition, or from an inattention to the public business, or the public welfare, but in the hope, that when gentlemen had exhausted all their eloquence, they would have permitted us to progress, and to place our country in the situation demanded by the crisis; and I should have indulged that disposition which I have to be silent, had not an attempt been made to deprive the brave and needy tars of that which is justly due to them; but under these circumstances I could not restrain my feelings, and have to regret that I cannot give to them that utterance which the occasion calls for