He speaks Finnish with Finns, Mongolian with Buriats, Ostiak with Ostiaks; he shows remarkable facility in adapting his agricultural practices to new conditions, without, however, abandoning the village community; he becomes hunter, cattle-breeder or fisherman, and carries on these occupations according to local usage; he modifies his dress and adapts his religious beliefs to the locality he inhabits. Thessalonica was at once abandoned and in 1189 William made peace with Isaac, abandoning all the conquests. By continuing, you agree to our (3) When the proportion becomes one-tenth or less it is doubtful whether the state can do best for its subjects by making the proportion still lower, that is, by abandoning one tax after another, or whether equal or greater advantage would not be gained by using the revenue for wise purposes under the direction of the state, such as great works of sanitation, or water supply, or public defence. The scale of social precedence as recognized by native public opinion is concisely reviewed (ib.) Before abandoning a room it is usual to cover the bottom of the working-place with laggingpoles, which facilitate the mining of the floor below. His policy of abandoning the land defence was unpopular with the land-owning section of the people, who from the walls of Athens could see their own property destroyed by the invaders. abandoning definition: Verb 1. all duty abandoning, to me, the sole refuge, come; i will liberate you from every sin, do not grieve. Before abandoning the struggle, the Whigs decided on appealing from the House of Commons to the country.

of the fort; after heavy losses to both sides, about 250 men from the fort under Willett attacked the camp of the Indians who were supporting St Leger, thus relieved Herkimer through the falling back of the British and Indians to save their supplies, captured five ensigns of the Royal Greens, and seized large quantities of stores from the enemy's camp. Veii is mentioned in connexion with the defeat of the Romans at the Allia in 390 B.C., after which many Roman soldiers fled there, while a project was actually broached for abandoning Rome for Veii, which was successfully opposed by Camillus. " abandonment " - repair costs exceed the actual value of the car. Tertullian (c. 160-240) uses it in both senses, of an oath, as in the passage of his treatise About Spectacles, where he says that no Christian " passes over to the enemy's camp without throwing away his arms, without abandoning the standards and sacraments of his chief.". On the one hand Empedocles and Anaxagoras, abandoning the pursuit of the One, gave themselves to the scientific study of the Many; on the other Zeno, abandoning the pursuit of the Many, gave himself to the dialectical study of the One. Edward chose abdication in preference to abandoning his marriage plans. By his alliance with the Liberals under Nicotera in 1891, and by his understanding with the Radicals under Cavallotti in 1894-98; by abandoning his Conservative colleague, General Ricotti, to whom he owed the premiership in 1896; and by his vacillating action after his fall from power, he divided and demoralized a constitutional party which, with greater sincerity and less reliance upon political cleverness, he might have welded into a solid parliamentary organization.

As for abandoning his children, there's more to it than you think. Please set a username for yourself.

Mystics and sophists of all kinds roamed through the Ganga Valley, all advocating some form of mental discipline and asceticism as a means to salvation; but the age of the Buddha, when many of the best minds were abandoning their homes and professions for a life of asceticism, was also a time of advance in commerce and politics. Abandoning therefore all a priori theoretical assumption, Bashforth set to work to measure experimentally the velocity of shot and the resistance of the air by means of equidistant electric screens furnished with vertical threads or wire, and by a chronograph which measured the instants of time at which the screens were cut by a shot flying nearly horizontally. If you love a girl, it's better to fight for her happiness than to, 28. It produced not only philosophers and ascetics, but also merchant princes and men of action. The most serious criticism of EMU is that by abandoning exchange rate adjustments it transfers to the labor market the task of adjusting for competitiveness and relative prices... losses in output and employment (and pressure on the European central bank to inflate) will predominate.

Abandoning truth and falsehood, pleasure and pain, the Vedas, this world and the next, he shall seek the Universal Soul, in knowledge of which standeth eternal salvation.". Two sons-in-law followed him with brief reigns; but the second, Tutenkhaton, soon changed his name to Tutenkhamfin, and, without abandoning Ekhaton entirely, began to restore to Karnak its ancient splendour, with new monuments dedicated to Ammon. to stop doing an activity before you have finished it: The game was abandoned at half-time because of the poor weather conditions. Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s. When the mood is fallen, only thought is to, 29. The Wet Babylonians began an exodus which rivaled that of rats abandoning a sinking ship. 381. Do you not know that flight never leads to safety, but shows the folly of a useless effort? You’ll enjoy this brain training game and test your spelling as well. 78. It's his". In April 2010, ABC announced that One Life to Live was abandoning the Kish story line, blaming the couple for a decline in ratings. What I cannot explain to my enemies are my reasons for abandoning the pleasures of solitude, for the priesthood of public life. The agency contemplated abandoning Polaris. The boundary on the east was settled by a treaty with Portugal in 1869, the Boers abandoning their claim to Delagoa Bay; that on the west was dealt with in 1871. most, serious, criticism, EMU, exchange, rate, adjustments, transfers, labor. Tags: Why did he not retire at once by the Kaluga road, abandoning Moscow?

With his father's murderer, Ptolemy, Antiochus was soon compelled to make peace, abandoning apparently Macedonia and Thrace. You're abandoning us, you have no right to say that.