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1. My afternoon is taken up with a meeting intended to plan the office move at which I present my outline plans and we discuss the incipient problems; the move is scheduled for the first week of May so I have two and a half weeks to get everything organised with bank holidays to be taken into account
2. After an hour and five minutes of fast jogging Roidon returned, his incipient frustration put into abeyance
3. A child‘s maturity level is determined in part by that child‘s (incipient) understanding of things that are factual or real (or possible) in contrast with ideas considered to be a product of wishful thinking or make-believe that are otherwise agreeable in themselves provided that the (rational) limits and conditions of the imagination are properly outlined
4. Such fears were justified, in part, by the legitimate concerns of an incipient nation engaged in a war of independence against the British Monarchy
5. Although the purpose of television is to entertain (and instruct) and to provide a meaningful outlet for a child‘s (incipient) imagination, it should do so in a manner that correctly distinguishes between what is real from implausible or uncertain (impressions) that that child normally receives; that is to say, that otherwise obscure what is real from what is not real (or make-believe) but only appears to be real whenever taken out of context
6. Christ‘s principled teachings are oftentimes questioned by Secularists, Atheists and (nominal) ―Christians‖ alike who routinely disclaim their authenticity by either challenging scriptural interpretations or biblical precedence(s) mentioned in His teachings; that is to say, questioning whether or not Christ specifically said this or said that or whether His (contemporary) followers/biographers simply put words in His mouth in order to lend legitimacy to an incipient religious movement inasmuch as Christ, Himself, never 122
7. In fairness, it has to be conceded that the incipient Free Church took ten years (known as the “Ten Years Conflict”) to plan the event
8. An incipient drowsiness of whitish smoke rose promising to reach major protrusion
9. The majestic figure of an elder was insinuated at the door, his hairs were falling down in cascades up to his shoulders, his beard was opened to show the track of an incipient smile, his luxury tunic spun with gleaming fibers reflecting twinkles to his gait and he carried the same intense navy blue look of the young magician, but with the warmth and docility of an evening in the tropic
10. Pleasantly surprised by his skills in the art of magic, I took the chance to express to him, in an attempt for encouraging the solid threads of an incipient friendship and showing my excellent manners, the following:
11. Then the wind began, warm, incipient, full of voices from the past, the murmurs of ancient geraniums, sighs of disenchantment that preceded the most tenacious nostalgia
12. However, signs of incipient and sustainable growth are more elusive
13. She is an incipient
14. When we crossed Harris Boulevard in east Charlotte, Sharon looked at me as I headed towards the incipient, predominately orange-hued sunset
15. and brought the craft out of its incipient spin to continue on its
16. This incipient and insidiously overlooked aspect of democracy makes us worship democracies rather than question their efficiency, purpose and necessity
17. He had a large force of incipient shysters for that purpose
18. The mayor nodded his incipient understanding
19. With legs heavy with incipient despair, he started up the modest incline
20. 'The germs, we are assured, of Newton and of his dog Diamond, are, in their incipient stages, absolutely identical
21. "Let me go to bed, then," answered the boy, shrinking from Catherine's salute; and he put up his fingers to remove incipient tears
22. It is more than probable that, in the disordered state of his thoughts, he would soon have fallen into some suspicious, if not fatal, error had not his incipient attempts been interrupted by a fierce growl from the quadruped
23. It appeared to me that the eggs from which young Insurers were hatched were incubated in dust and heat, like the eggs of ostriches, judging from the places to which those incipient giants repaired on a Monday morning
24. The shock and the incipient pain had partly sobered him
25. Mr Dixon, to turn the table, took on to ask of Mr Mulligan himself whether his incipient ventripotence, upon which he rallied him, betokened an ovoblastic gestation in the prostatic utricle or male womb or was due, as with the noted physician, Mr Austin Meldon, to a wolf in the stomach
26. Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity
27. This bore some resemblance to incipient rigour, and was accompanied by a marked sinking of the pulse
28. He enveloped in a swift mental malediction the whole country, with all its inhabitants, partisans of Ribiera and Montero alike; and there were incipient tears in his mute anger at the thought of the innumerable ox-hides going to waste upon the dreamy expanse of the Campo, with its single palms rising like ships at sea within the perfect circle of the horizon, its clumps of heavy timber motionless like solid islands of leaves above the running waves of grass
29. The tiny specks of black poised against it may be the first birds of morning or the last ones of night … or the ashes of a thousand incinerators, or incipient blindness, he doesn’t know which yet, but surely there’s a message here, if he can just look hard enough
30. When Carlotta heard of the astounding reception bestowed upon her understudy, she was at once cured of an incipient attack of bronchitis and a bad fit of sulking against the management and lost the slightest inclination to shirk her duties
31. They floated in his mind agreeably enough, and as he took up his bed-candle his lips were curled with that incipient smile which is apt to accompany agreeable recollections
32. “Very good, Sir,” the Surgeon says, whereupon he sets about inspecting first my Scalp, then Susannah’s, pronounces, not surprizingly, that I have Lice, whilst Susannah may have ’em in the incipient Stage and suggests a thorough Ablution with Vinegar as the Cure, or possibly e’en our being shorn
33. His company was TWA, and his recommendation was not to invest, a promising start for his incipient career
34. He wanted to shout above the blaring noise, the buzz of the incipient police investigation, to yell Alex’s name, to see him appear out of one of the bedrooms
35. and he put his fingers to remove incipient tears
36. Maggie Botwins camera was focused to catch my moment of incipient inebriation
37. Nevertheless according to my view, varieties are species in the process of formation, or are, as I have called them, incipient species
38. We have seen that in each country it is the species belonging to the larger genera which oftenest present varieties or incipient species
39. If this had been effected, who would have ever imagined that in an early transitional state they had been inhabitants of the open ocean, and had used their incipient organs of flight exclusively, so far as we know, to escape being devoured by other fish?
40. of natural selection to account for the incipient stages of useful
41. The one new point which appears to have struck many readers is, "That natural selection is incompetent to account for the incipient stages of useful structures
42. Darwin's theory, there is a constant tendency to indefinite variation, and as the minute incipient variations will be in ALL DIRECTIONS, they must tend to neutralize each other, and at first to form such unstable modifications that it is difficult, if not impossible, to see how such indefinite oscillations of infinitesimal beginnings can ever build up a sufficiently appreciable resemblance to a leaf, bamboo, or other object, for natural selection to seize upon and perpetuate
43. It seems, even, that such an incipient transformation must rather have been injurious
44. Mivart in every detail, remarks on this structure: "It is impossible to believe that in any number of ages the first slight incipient tendency to grasp could preserve the lives of the individuals possessing it, or favour their chance of having and of rearing offspring
45. With respect to the former, he says: "The explanation of their ORIGIN is deemed thoroughly unsatisfactory—utterly insufficient to explain the incipient, infinitesimal beginnings of structures which are of utility only when they are considerably developed
46. As twining is the simplest means of ascending a support, and forms the basis of our series, it may naturally be asked how did plants acquire this power in an incipient degree, afterwards to be improved and increased through natural selection
47. I have now considered enough, perhaps more than enough, of the cases, selected with care by a skilful naturalist, to prove that natural selection is incompetent to account for the incipient stages of useful structures; and I have shown, as I hope, that there is no great difficulty on this head
48. So in hybrids themselves, there are some which never have produced, and probably never would produce, even with the pollen of the pure parents, a single fertile seed: but in some of these cases a first trace of fertility may be detected, by the pollen of one of the pure parent-species causing the flower of the hybrid to wither earlier than it otherwise would have done; and the early withering of the flower is well known to be a sign of incipient fertilisation
49. For it would clearly be advantageous to two varieties or incipient species if they could be kept from blending, on the same principle that, when man is selecting at the same time two varieties, it is necessary that he should keep them separate
50. It may be admitted that it would profit an incipient species, if it were rendered in some slight degree sterile when crossed with its parent form or with some other variety; for thus fewer bastardised and deteriorated offspring would be produced to commingle their blood with the new species in process of formation