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I think the nurse was a full hour bathing and dressing my firstborn, who protested with a melancholy wail every blessed minute. Ignorant myself of the initiative steps on the threshold of time, I supposed this proceeding was approved by the best authorities.
Michael, on his own initiative, followed. And, like Jack, he walked very stiffly on his guard and very circumspectly. One of them, Alphonso, spat suddenly at him. He did not startle, though his hair rippled erect and he bared his fangs in a silent snarl.
He must make as well as solve problems. He must be in the game himself, if he is to learn to play the game. He must be independently productive. Children and older students, therefore, must become accustomed to taking the initiative and doing the other work of study in class, if they are to do these things outside.
Tactically, the offensive also possesses advantages, but they are less positive, since, the operations being upon a limited field, the party taking the initiative cannot conceal them from the enemy, who may detect his designs and by the aid of good reserves cause them to fail.
But the rest of the city were unwilling to adopt this measure, preferring to trust more firmly in the strength of their defences. Finally, Mahomet determined to essay upon his own initiative some means of subtlety whereby he might force back this encompassing foe that hourly threatened his whole dominion.
Nothing has brought pedagogical theory into greater disrepute than the belief that it is identified with handing out to teachers recipes and models to be followed in teaching. Flexibility and initiative in dealing with problems are characteristic of any conception to which method is a way of managing material to develop a conclusion.
Neither Atlanta, nor Augusta, nor Savannah, was the objective, but the "army of Jos. Johnston," go where it might. Major-General W. T. SHERMAN, commanding Military Division of the Mississippi. GENERAL: It is my design, if the enemy keep quiet and allow me to take the initiative in the spring campaign, to work all parts of the army together, and somewhat toward a common centre.
The faster the resources were developed the more rapidly the nation became economically independent and economically great, and since they could not be developed by the State it is not strange that private initiative was stimulated by offering men great and immediate rewards.
Because of the complex technical nature of our military organization and because of the security reasons involved, the Secretary of Defense must take the initiative and assume the responsibility for developing plans to give our Nation maximum safety at minimum cost.
And he was off to see Strobik none the less. Cowperwood knew that Stener did not have any two or three hundred thousand dollars to invest in anything. There was only one way that he could get it and that was to borrow it out of the city treasury and forego the interest. But he would not do that on his own initiative.
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