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Time trials will be held with all interested companies contributing as many ships that they think can qualify, and the three ships that make the fastest time will be entered in the actual race. This way we can eliminate the weaker contenders and reduce the chance of accidents taking place millions of miles out in space. Also, it will result in a faster time for the winner.
For his sake for the sake of Christine and Tara and the babies, fast sprouting into boys she felt at last irresistibly constrained to accept, with certain mental reservations, the tenets of her husband's creed; and so qualify herself to share with them all its outward and visible forms, as already she shared its inward and spiritual grace. The conviction sprang from no mere sentimental impulse.
For two years I had been studying and working hard to qualify for this examination, and had spent most of my earnings in tuition, and now the issue was that in spite of my utter dislike to a naval life as a sailor, I must still pursue it.
He has ever been a man of low instincts and loose habits, though he was considered what is called a smart lawyer. In my opinion this did not qualify him for his position as judge. A man may be cunning, and so is a fox. He may have the qualities which enable him to browbeat a witness, and so has a bully. He may have great volubility, and so has a Billingsgate fishwife.
You ought not to be ashamed of earning an honest living ." "Nor am I ashamed of it," replied Isabel with dignity, "at least I hope not." "I am glad that you qualify your denial, as your crimson cheeks both now and during dinner are ample proof that I am right.
Every advantage which wealth, and the means of education could impart to qualify her for happiness in this life had been hers nor had her religious culture been entirely overlooked.
Donatello has essayed that thing impossible for sculpture, to arrest a moment instead of denote a permanent attribute. Art is adjectival, is it not, O Donatello? Her business is to qualify facts, to say what things are, not to state them, to affirm that they are.
She moved in a set, when at home, which was more polite than adventurous, and had frequently found the atmosphere enervating. "Adventure," said Jimmy, "is everything." He paused. "Or a good deal," he concluded weakly. "Why qualify it like that? It sounds so tame. Adventure is the biggest thing in life."
Many a man who votes himself a salary in five figures or gets a friendly board of directors to do it for him if thrown unfriended between the millstones of supply and demand probably couldn't qualify for your modest hundred dollars a month and board. But he has risen into a different world; instead of being dictated to, he dictates. That is your position, Grant. Look at it sensibly."
It was necessary, in order to qualify for this place, that he should undergo an examination at the bar of the House of Peers; and thus "the evil from which he seemed to have escaped again met him." "A thunderbolt," he writes, "would have been as welcome to me as this intelligence.
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