TEND


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TENDTechnological Education and National Development
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The sophistry which has been employed to show that this will tend to the destruction of the State governments, will, in its will, in its proper place, be fully detected.
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The prospect of success seemed very small; and most people would have thought that Captain Phips was as far from having money enough to build a "fair brick house" as he was while he tended sheep.
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The men sulkily replied, ``that they desired nothing better than to go to the battlements, providing Front-de-B uf would bear them out with their master, who had commanded them to tend the dying man.''
tend me this bedridden fellow since he must needs be tended, whilst these knaves use their weapons.
His charity would willingly have stopped short at Ashby, or at most would have left the wounded Christian to be tended in the house where he was residing at present, with an assurance to the Hebrew to whom it belonged, that all expenses should be duly discharged.
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In a confined or isolated area, if not very large, the organic and inorganic conditions of life will generally be in a great degree uniform; so that natural selection will tend to modify all the individuals of a varying species throughout the area in the same manner in relation to the same conditions.
Consequently, each new variety or species, during the progress of its formation, will generally press hardest on its nearest kindred, and tend to exterminate them.
As the differences slowly become greater, the inferior animals with intermediate characters, being neither very swift nor very strong, will have been neglected, and will have tended to disappear.
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If this remark be just, it becomes useful to inquire whether so many JUST causes of war are likely to be given by UNITED AMERICA as by DISUNITED America; for if it should turn out that United America will probably give the fewest, then it will follow that in this respect the Union tends most to preserve the people in a state of peace with other nations.
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They tend to have limited eye contact, or have a limited use of gestures to communicate a need or to describe something.
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If found that large schools in both primary and secondary sectors tend to need less follow-up activity after inspections and small and medium-sized schools are more likely to have areas requiring improvement.
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