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1. The workmen, accordingly, very seldom derive any advantage from the violence of those tumultuous combinations, which, partly from the interposition of the civil magistrate, partly from the superior steadiness of the masters, partly from the necessity which the greater part of the workmen are under of submitting for the sake of present subsistence, generally end in nothing but the punishment or ruin of the ringleaders
2. It is to him that they naturally complain of the injuries which they imagine have been done to them ; and his interposition, in such cases, is more easily submitted to, even by the person complained of, than that of any other person would be
3. He fully realized that he could cast himself off the ledge and out into space, and that nothing could happen to harm him provided he would rescind his first great decision not to invoke the interposition of his celestial intelligences in the prosecution of his lifework on Urantia, and provided he would abrogate his second decision concerning his attitude toward self-preservation
4. ‘’Major General Ingrid Dows, Commander of the Palestine Interposition Force
5. ‘’Ladies and gentlemen, the Palestine Interposition Force is now starting its mission
6. Office of the Commander, Palestine Interposition Force
7. ‘’Lieutenant Commander, advise at once by radio Rear Admiral Brown on the USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN that he has now command of the naval element of the Palestine Interposition Force
8. I am Major General Ingrid Dows, Commander of the United States Palestine Interposition Force
9. On top of that, this interposition force is commanded by Major General Dows, who is rightly considered by many as the best fighting general the Americans have at this time
10. We should at a minimum protest strongly the destruction of our planes and, ideally, neutralize that American interposition force by political or military means
11. ‘’We could suggest to the Arabs to threaten the United States with an oil embargo if it doesn’t withdraw that interposition force
12. With its most dangerous component eliminated, the American interposition force would find itself highly vulnerable and would then have to withdraw
13. The local driving methods had been a shock for her and for the other American drivers of the interposition force, when there were any methods at all
14. Going to her command station and putting on her radio headset, Avery spoke on the air command net of the Palestine Interposition Force
15. The British, who were quite indignant at first and even threatened war with the United States, have by now toned down their protests as the Americans exposed their role in sending an anonymous commando force to attack the Ramat David Airbase, which is the main base of the American Palestine Interposition Force
16. Apparently, the old American inter-service rivalry was at play here, with that Admiral Felt feeling that, as a more senior officer, he should have been the commander of the Palestine Interposition Force
17. However, the American interposition force then encouraged more Arabs to return to Israel, notably by sending landing barges to a number of refugee camps established along the Lebanese coast and by opening special border crossing points for returnees along the Syrian, Jordanian and Egyptian borders and organizing truck convoys to transport those returnees to their respective villages
18. Despite having forced a stop to the demolition of Arab houses by Jewish forces as soon as she had been able to, much of the district had already been blown up or bulldozed before even the arrival of her interposition force
19. Headquarters of the Palestine Interposition Force
20. With a peace treaty signed, President Dewey had announced that the American interposition force would be replaced by a military training group that would help the Israelis form their own air force and heavy army units
21. In such case, the Messenger will be a medium between God and His creatures and a means that lightens the power of that Revelation so as to make the spirits able to receive and bear it, because if the Almighty God reveals Himself directly upon the spirits of people without the interposition of the Messenger (cpth) their spirits will crack for being unable to endure Such Revelation
22. Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States
23. before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the
24. I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers
25. interposition of Providence, the facts are jumbled in the
26. of Jupiter and to the interposition of Mercury
27. word form separatesyllables)19 is caused by the interposition of a weakunstressed vowel, as in:
28. 10:28, the sentence of ‘cutting off’ may perhaps conclude that the primary meaning of ‘cutting off’ is a sentence of death to be executed in some cases without remission, but in others voidable: (1) By immediate atonement on the offender’s part; (2) by direct interposition of the Almighty, i
29. Dimmesdale's study! Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, who knew that Heaven promotes its purposes without aiming at the stage-effect of what is called miraculous interposition, were inclined to see a providential hand in Roger Chillingworth's so opportune arrival
30. But, much to the disappointment of the crowd, this latter business was broken off by the interposition of the town beadle, who had no idea of permitting the majesty of the law to be violated by such an abuse of one of its consecrated places
31. Susan tried to be useful, where she could only have gone away and cried; and that Susan was useful she could perceive; that things, bad as they were, would have been worse but for such interposition, and that both her mother and Betsey were restrained from some excesses of very offensive indulgence and vulgarity
32. I may illustrate what I mean by supposing three varieties of sheep to be kept, one adapted to an extensive mountainous region; a second to a comparatively narrow, hilly tract; and a third to the wide plains at the base; and that the inhabitants are all trying with equal steadiness and skill to improve their stocks by selection; the chances in this case will be strongly in favour of the great holders on the mountains or on the plains improving their breeds more quickly than the small holders on the intermediate narrow, hilly tract; and consequently the improved mountain or plain breed will soon take the place of the less improved hill breed; and thus the two breeds, which originally existed in greater numbers, will come into close contact with each other, without the interposition of the supplanted, intermediate hill variety
33. They prayed the Congress for its interposition in their behalf
34. If they were guilty, they certainly should not receive the benefit of the interposition of the Government of the United States
35. Resolved, That the committee appointed to report on the rules and orders for the government of the House, do report a rule declaring, "That if any member, in the course of debate, shall make use of opprobrious or vilifying language with respect to any member, or call into question the integrity of his motives, or those of either branch of the Government in relation to the discharge of his official duties, except on a motion for impeachment, or for other interposition of the constitutional powers of this House—or apply to either indecorous or reproachful expressions—it shall be deemed a breach of the orders of the House
36. In such a conjuncture I did not delay the interposition required for the occupancy of the territory west of the river Perdido, to which the title of the United States extends, and to which the laws provided for the Territory of Orleans are applicable
37. Although the letter cannot have been written in consequence of any instruction from the British Government, founded on the late order for taking possession of the portion of West Florida well known to be claimed by the United States; although no communication has ever been made by that Government to this of any stipulation with Spain, contemplating an interposition which might so materially affect the United States; and although no call can have been made by Spain, in the present instance, for the fulfilment of any such subsisting engagement; yet the spirit and scope of the document, with the accredited source from which it proceeds, required that it should not be withheld from the consideration of Congress
38. To these are added the several correspondences which have passed on the subject of the British Orders in Council; and to both, the correspondence relating to the Floridas, in which Congress will be made acquainted with the interposition which the Government of Great Britain has thought proper to make against the proceeding of the United States
39. Over and above these unjust pretensions of the British Government, for many years past they have been in the practice of impressing our seamen from merchant vessels; this unjust and lawless invasion of personal liberty, calls loudly for the interposition of this Government
40. At any rate, they will be the judges of the juncture when their interests may call for the interposition of force, and will exercise that force according to their own whims and caprices
41. The dilated summit is not so much the effect of a gradual enlargement of the tubes, as of the frequent and adventitious interposition of young ones, which of course renders the openings of the tubes unequal
42. Lacock said that he should not offer any subject for the consideration of the House at this late stage of the session, had he not been convinced the subject was such as required the immediate interposition of Congress
43. Governments which have naturalized foreigners have protected their naturalized subjects, and the Government to whom the native allegiance of such subjects was due, though they have denied the right of expatriation, have not impugned the protecting interposition of the adopted sovereign
44. if the men were guilty they should not receive the benefit of the interposition of government, 144;