Among Pashtuns an encroachment on a man's plot of land also signifies violation of his namus.According to those who adhere to this concept, a man is supposed to control the women in his family.If he loses control of them (his wife, sisters, daughters), his namus is lost in the eyes of the community and he has to cleanse his (and his family's) honor.…
The other deals with the purely physical results due to the weather, as differences in temperature, humidity, moisture, and other features to be mentioned later.Those who adhere to the first view maintain that wood cut in summer is quite different in composition from that cut in winter.…Cited from The Mechanical Properties of Wood, by Samuel J. Record
This, my last day at Windsor, was filled with nothing but packing, leave-taking, bills-paying, and lessoning to Mlle.Jacobi, who adhered to my side through everything, and always with an interest that made its own way for her.…Cited from The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2
There were, however, differences of opinion among those who adhered to the Republican Party.Mr. Stevens, who was a recognized, if not the recognized, leader of the Republican Party, advocated the doctrine that the eleven States were to be treated as enemy's territory, and to be governed upon whatever system might be acceptable to the States that had remained true to the Union.…Cited from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2, by Boutwell
The following extracts well express the views of those who adhere to the common theory on the subject.Cited from Mosaics of Grecian History, by Willson & Willson
There is nothing in the doctrine of the fixity of species -- if you hold it -- which will in the least degree tend to diminish vitality.Natural selection has practically no effect at all in exterminating those who adhere to this idea.There is no means of livelihood from which it would exclude them except indeed that it might prevent them from occupying Chairs of Biology.…Cited from Recent Tendencies in Ethics, by William Ritchie Sorley
Alqosh of course also houses many individuals who adhere to their own philosophies.Alqush was a Patriarch center for this church for many centuries.…
Those who adhered to the Roman interest, on the approach of the king, withdrew from the city.The soldiers of the Achaeans, and Eumenes, held Salganea; and the few Romans, who had escaped, raised, for the security of the place, a little fort on the Euripus.…Cited from The History of Rome; Vol III, Books 27 to 36, by Titus Livius
Only accredited members are allowed to vote at SATI's annual general meeting.Corporate members who adhere to specific requirements set by the Institute may also become accredited.SATI offers accreditation for general translation, sworn translation, language editing, simultaneous interpreting, and terminology in various combinations of South Africa's 11 official languages and some non-South African languages such as Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.…
No -- no; I reserved my friendship for those who deserved it, for those who undauntedly bore me company, in despite of difficulties, dangers, and fatigues.And now, as to those who adhere to me at present, I take them affectionately by the hand.…Cited from Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete, by Washington Irving
Smaller still is the share of the population who adhere to non-Christian faiths, or none at all.The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.…
Never were a set of people more blackened by this author.Are they among the party of those (no small body) who adhere to the system of 1766?These it is the great purpose of this book to calumniate.…Cited from Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12), by Burke
Researchers Jorge Villegas, Jennifer Lemanski and Carlos Valdez conducted a study on the portrayal of women in Mexican television commercials.Often women are portrayed as either those who adhere to the feminine ideal, and those who do not.These women are then categorized as good women and bad women, respectively.…
Stanley Reed was born in the small town of Minerva in Mason County, Kentucky, on the last day of 1884 to John and Frances (Forman) Reed.His father was a wealthy physician and a Protestant who adhered to no particular organized church.The Reeds and Formans traced their history to the earliest colonial period in America, and these family heritages were impressed upon young Stanley at an early age.…
This theory has been mostly discredited in recent years, but there are still some people who adhere to it, at least to some degree.During the late period the Cucuteni-Trypillian territory expanded to include the Volyn region in northwest Ukraine, the Sluch and Horyn Rivers in northern Ukraine, and along both banks of the Dnieper river near Kiev.…
It must be remembered that this classification of methods is at best very crude.It would not be easy to pick out any one teacher who adheres consistently to any of the three forms of instruction described.All that can be said is that a teacher usually tends somewhat more to one type than to another.…Cited from The Psychology of Singing, by David C. Taylor
Those who embrace what the Gospel offers with a lively faith, and in the power of their faith proceed to lead holy lives in accordance with the teaching of God's Word, are the members of the true Church of God, the kingdom of Christ.Those who adhere only externally to these institutions are merely nominal members.They may at heart be hypocrites and secret blasphemers.…Cited from Luther Examined and Reexamined, by W. H. T. Dau
He was born to command and direct other people.All who adhered to him and did his bidding were his soldiers; all who declined to follow his lead, he regarded as enemies.The former he compelled to serve him, the latter he defeated and slew.…Cited from Dr. Dumany's Wife, by Mor Jokai
Christianity brought with it some support from the Holy Roman Empire.It also allowed the king to dismiss many of his opponents who adhered to the old mythology.…
She disapproved of boys, of society, of second marriages, and she had four desperately intimate friends, all of whom were going to be authoresses.According to her observations she was the one person in the universe, excepting her father, who adhered to the truth.Hence her mission in life was to struggle single-handed against other people's inaccuracies.…Cited from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill, by Alice Hegan Rice
