Word Finder - paragraphs

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A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.

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A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.

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An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.

He first introduced the division into chapters and paragraphs, and by means of carefully compiled indexes illustrated the lexical peculiarities of each author.

The history of these lines is the subject of the following paragraphs.

As regards doctrine, the work is exhaustive; but it is diffuse, obscure, and occasionally selfcontradictory, as might be expected in a work which consists of a number of unconnected paragraphs of various authorship and date.

While it is impossible to give here anything like a complete or exact survey of the field - a task rendered almost impossible by the arbitrary manner in which paragraphs are divided, by the difficulty of making Old English enactments fit into modern rubrics, and by the necessity of counting several times certain paragraphs bearing on different subjects - a brief statistical analysis of the contents of royal codes and laws may be found instructive.

Dr Cutler was selected to negotiate with Congress, and seems to have helped to secure the incorporation in the Ordinance for the government of the North-West Territory of the paragraphs which prohibited slavery and provided for public education and for the support of the ministry.

No one proofed the report before it was distributed, so nobody noticed the repetition of the two paragraphs.

If a collection could be made of all the gazettes of Europe, for the latter half of the 18th century, a greater number of panegyrical paragraphs upon le grand Franklin would appear, it is believed, than upon any other man that ever lived."

Etienne's division into verses was retained in the inner margin, but the text was divided into paragraphs.

The Government repeatedly exposed itself to the charge of proroguing Parliament in order to avail itself of these emergency paragraphs.

The following paragraphs review the oceanic islands generally, and are therefore concerned almost entirely with the central and mid-western parts of the ocean.

In the preceding paragraphs an account has been given of the actual announcement of the invention of logarithms and of the calculation of the tables.

The text of the Revised Version is printed in paragraphs, the old division of books into chapters and verses being retained for convenience of reference.

In the above paragraphs we have drawn examples only from races organized on a patriarchal basis among whom the headship passes from father to son.

The first three Gospels have in consequence of the large amount of similarity between them in contents, arrangement, and even in words and the forms of sentences and paragraphs, been called Synoptic Gospels.

He preached to crowded congregations, and, when Lord Shelburne acceded to power, not only was he offered the post of private secretary to the premier, but it is said that one of the paragraphs in the king's speech was suggested by him and even inserted in his words.

Among the Aramaic-speaking people the revolution which displaced the Arabian court of Damascus in favour of a cosmopolitan world centred at the Babylonian seat of the civilizations dealt with in the preceding paragraphs naturally gave an impulse to the wider scholarship. Translations were made from Greek, as, e.g.

This work, composed a hundred brief paragraphs, was the last, and is one of the most suggestive of Lessing's writings.

The result was a constitutional dead-lock; for the diet refused to sanction loans until its representative character was recognized; and the king refused to allow to come between Almighty God in heaven and this land a blotted parchment, to rule us with paragraphs, and to replace the ancient, sacred bond of loyalty.

Lasker objected to these elastic paragraphs, an expression for which in recent years there has been abundant tise.

In the middle ages people used to cite passages by the initial words; and the Germans do so still, giving, however, the number of the paragraph in the extract (if there are more paragraphs than one), and appending the number of the book and title.

The pandects were divided into fifty books, each book containing several titles, divided into laws, and the laws into several parts or paragraphs.

Wiseman displayed calmness and courage, and immediately penned an admirable Appeal to the English People (a pamphlet of over 30 pages), in which he explained the nature of the pope's action, and argued that the admitted principle of toleration included leave to establish a diocesan hierarchy; and in his concluding paragraphs he effectively contrasted that dominion over Westminster, which he was taunted with claiming, with his duties towards the poor Catholics resident there, with which alone he was really concerned.

Hence the following paragraphs, while they will resume and affirm his principal results, will qualify and impugn some of his positions.

Again the Roman Church unhesitatingly reaffirms the ancient principles in their extreme form (Syllabus, paragraphs 8-9-13; Decrees of the Vatican Council, chapter 4, note especially canon 4-2).

It should be understood that the instantaneous centre considered in the preceding paragraphs is available only for estimating relative velocities; it cannot be used in a similar manner for questions regarding acceleration.

The object of the foregoing paragraphs has been to show in what way the positive, inquisitive, secular, exploratory spirit of the Renaissance, when toned and controlled by humanism, penetrated the regions of literature, art, philosophy and science.

These are subdivided into Peragim (" sections ") or chapters, and these again into paragraphs or sentences.

The agricultural and forestry schools have been mentioned in the paragraphs on these subjects.

Its irregular character, abrupt connexions and loose transitions' are due to the nature of the subject rather than to any material disarrangement of its paragraphs.

I indicates a very loose relationship to the preceding paragraphs.

At the same time it is hardly doubtful that the original discourse has been modified and expanded by later hands, especially in the concluding paragraphs.

Emerson's style is brilliant, epigrammatic, gem-like; clear in sentences, obscure in paragraphs.

This consists of brief didactic chapters, or more properly paragraphs, of practical direction or critical remark on all the branches and conditions of a painter's practice.

Only about a quarter of the total number of paragraphs are identical with passages to be found in the master's existing autograph notebooks.

The final five paragraphs reaffirmed commitment to implementation of article IV on nuclear energy and expressed support for initiatives on nuclear safety and security.

This PBS page on the series, called The Life of Birds, has a few paragraphs toward the bottom about the whooping cranes.

More details of each of these is given in the following paragraphs.

The problems surrounding the determination of a fair discount rate are considered in preceding paragraphs in this paper.

The DT and DD entries can contain multiple paragraphs (indicated by P paragraph tags ), lists, or other definition information.

Welconstruct Terms & Conditions The following paragraphs are a summary of our terms and conditions.

The judge's reasoning appears in paragraphs 195 to 211 of his judgment.

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We find roughly 419 paragraphs devoted to criminal law and 1 The Judicia civitatis Lundoniae are a gild statute confirmed by King Æthelstan.

Lastly, we possess a judicial text in 48 paragraphs, which bears the title of Notitia vel commemoratio de illa ewa (law), quae se ad Amorem habet.

Humanism, a word which will often recur in the ensuing paragraphs, denotes a specific bias which the forces liberated in the Renaissance took from contact with the ancient world, - the particular form assumed by human self-esteem at that epoch, - the ideal of life and civilization evolved by the modern nations.

The divergent parabolas are of five species which respectively belong to and determine the five kinds of cubic curves; Newton gives (in two short paragraphs without any development) the remarkable theorem that the five divergent parabolas by their shadows generate and exhibit all the cubic curves.

No clearer proof could be desired of the utterly uncritical spirit of the age in which the Hexateuch got its present form than that this detailed account should be immediately followed by two short paragraphs in palpable contradiction of the whole plan of camp and march so elaborately worked out in the preceding narrative.

Paragraphs are usually rendered flush left with a ragged right margin.

The judge 's reasoning appears in paragraphs 195 to 211 of his judgment.

Consequently, many delegations have proposed to have these paragraphs redrafted to reflect their concerns.