It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
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" This policy, he warned, "is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
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One question often asked was why on earth he needed more books, when those he hadn't yet sold were heaping up all over.
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" Watching Britain let in so many immigrants of color, Powell went on, "is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
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They had built a square pen of rough cottonwood logs around the grave, and had marked the head and foot with a big flat stone, edged up, heaping up quite amound of stones to keep the animals away.
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Panyarams include laddu, vada, Dosa, Appam, jilebi, muruku, poli, payasam. Free meals are given daily to the pilgrims. On Thursdays, the Tiruppavada seva is conducted, where huge quantity of pulihora is offered to Venkateswara by heaping up into a pyramidal shape in Tirummani mandapam (ghanta mandapam).
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The Hintner Youth's uniform, with its blue shirt, gray trousers and red scarf are reminiscent of East Germany's Pioneer Organization and the Free German Youth (FDJ). The Hintner Youth organizes an annual summer camp at the Helmut Kohl memorial camp site near Waldhambach as well as a number of other events, among them climbing the Watzmann in the name of, "heaping up the summit to get up to at least 3,001 meters".
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Their lifestyle had to remain modest, though, and Lord Robert (as he was known) was heaping up considerable debts. Sir John Robsart died in 1554; his wife followed him to the grave in the spring of 1557, which meant that the Dudleys could inherit the Robsart estate with the Queen's permission.Skidmore 2010 pp. 45–46, 59; Loades 1996 p. 273 Lady Amy's ancestral manor house of Syderstone had been uninhabitable for many decades,Skidmore 2010 p.
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Wild parrots were decoyed with domesticated birds, and iguanas were taken from trees and other vegetation. Livestock was not practiced as there were no large animals native to Puerto Rico that could be raised in an agricultural setting in order to produce commodities such as food, fiber, or labor. Fields for important root crops, such as the staple yuca, were prepared by heaping up mounds of soil, called conucos. This improved soil drainage and fertility as well as delaying erosion, and it allowing for longer storage of crops in the ground.
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Thus, their inferiority complex, based on social efficacy, would lead only to pessimism on the psychological level. On the social level, it would lead to what we have elsewhere called takdis (heaping- up). To turn this feeling into an effective driving-force, Muslims needed to ascribe their backwardness to the level of ideas, not to that of "objects", for the development of the new world depended increasingly on ideas and other such intellectual criteria. In underdeveloped countries, which were still within the sphere of influence of the superpowers, arms and oil revenues were no longer sufficient to support that influence.
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His best is contained in the admirable anecdotes of his Old Notebook, an inexhaustible mine of sparkling information on the great and small men of the early nineteenth century. A major prose work of his declining years was the biography of Denis Fonvizin. Though Vyazemsky was the journalistic leader of Russian Romanticism, there can be nothing less romantic than his early poetry: it consists either of very elegant, polished, and cold exercises on the set commonplaces of poetry, or of brilliant essays in word play, where pun begets pun, and conceit begets conceit, heaping up mountains of verbal wit. His later poetry became more universal and essentially classical.
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Due to the element of surprise – a combination of darkness and the unexpected route of attack – the company took the hill with relatively few casualties, all of whom were not fatally wounded. All through the night, the young soldiers searched for the protective tunnels dug by the Turks, but to no avail. They tried digging trenches in the rocky ground, but were unsuccessful, and so, they started heaping up stones in order to make protective mounds in advance of the immanent counter-attack. Furthermore, they faced superior Arab fire supporting the enemy from the hill across the valley, at a distance of only several hundred meters.
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Oxford University Press, 1998. Elbo and Anysis are unknown except outside of Herodotus, but Sabacos may refer to Shabaka, a Kushite pharaoh of Egypt's twenty-fifth dynasty. As Heroditus states in Book II of his histories: 140\. Then when the Ethiopian had gone away out of Egypt, the blind man came back from the fen-country and began to rule again, having lived there during fifty years upon an island which he had made by heaping up ashes and earth: for whenever any of the Egyptians visited him bringing food, according as it had been appointed to them severally to do without the knowledge of the Ethiopian, he bade them bring also some ashes for their gift.
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72, 214–215 The historian W. H. Stevenson commented in 1898: :The object of the compilers of these charters was to express their meaning by the use of the greatest possible number of words and by the choice of the most grandiloquent, bombastic words they could find. Every sentence is so overloaded by the heaping up of unnecessary words that the meaning is almost buried out of sight. The invocation with its appended clauses, opening with pompous and partly alliterative words, will proceed amongst a blaze of verbal fireworks throughout twenty lines of smallish type, and the pyrotechnic display will be maintained with equal magnificence throughout the whole charter, leaving the reader, dazzled by the glaze and blinded by the smoke, in a state of uncertainty as to the meaning of these frequently untranslatable and usually interminable sentences.Quoted in Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England, p.
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Elias Hicks's Observations on the Slavery of Africans and Their Descendents published in 1811 advocated a consumer boycott of slave-produced goods to remove the economic support for slavery: > Q. 11. What effect would it have on the slave holders and their slaves, > should the people of the United States of America and the inhabitants of > Great Britain, refuse to purchase or make use of any goods that are the > produce of Slavery? A. It would doubtless have a particular effect on the > slave holders, by circumscribing their avarice, and preventing their heaping > up riches, and living in a state of luxury and excess on the gain of > oppression ... Observations on the Slavery of Africans and Their Descendents gave the free- produce movement its central argument for an embargo of all goods produced by slave labor including cotton cloth and cane sugar, in favor of produce from the paid labor of free people. Though the free-produce movement was not intended to be a religious response to slavery, most of the free-produce stores were Quaker in origin, as with the first such store, that of Benjamin Lundy in Baltimore in 1826.
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