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The way in which the pupils view their peers has powerful overtones.
As already indicated, there can be several types of passive, or of antipassive, in a given language, with distinct semantic overtones.
Villagers reported only one such incident; but this appears to have political overtones.
Global sound resonance occurs at multiple frequencies (fundamental and overtones) depending on sound speed (cortico-cortical axons propagation speed) and hall size and shape.
I shall offer no apology for the hagiographic overtones of the preceding two paragraphs of this review.
We know that it can only oscillate at frequencies which correspond to the fundamental note and its overtones.
Similarly, nationalism with its symbols of family, common blood and origins has profound overtones for the individual psyche.
As a word, it implies a subjective/distorted view with clear psychological overtones, although its meaning has been open to varied interpretation.
More difficult concepts with subjective overtones can be illuminated with the spotlight of science fiction.
The fact that these overtones contribute to the propositions expressed in the above examples, does not entail that they are encoded.
Words with ideological overtones undoubtedly indicate that the participant is conversant with politics, but it does not mean that he adheres to a fully-fledged ideology.
They likewise acquired distinctively civic overtones as cathedral clerics employed them in honour of local patron saints.
At the same time the tuna sandwich was a cultural artifact with evocative overtones of gender distinction.
The desire to see beauty, convenience, and harmonic proportion in the universe had clear religious overtones.
Likewise, the ' illustrious ladies ' genre could carry political overtones.
The notion of convergent drift has strong teleological overtones, and its ontological status is dubious.
The attempt to tone down the quasi-nationalist overtones of former interpretations focused on three aspects of the rebellion.
Further, the totem-pole, an ethnic image, complicates the regional construction of identity by layering it with racial overtones.
The growth of the enti pubblici became part of a strategy for achieving consensus throughout the political system - with decidedly autarchic and militaristic overtones.
They have sensual overtones: you can play at how much you let the person see.
The words for participation in all the countries discussed here also have strong statist overtones.
At the same time, however, this image with its romantic overtones suggests that the songwriter was not familiar with southern architecture.
First, are the overtones associated with certain utterances containing be going to truth-conditional, that is, do they contribute to the proposition expressed ?
In context the auxiliary yog red acquires gnomic-evidential overtones, with doctrinal tradition understood as the implicit information source.
Is 'obsession' too strong, with its overtones of psychiatric disease?
The term was often used not with political overtones but simply to describe personal behaviors (known more recently as "lifestyle" issues).
The unrestricted touching and his freedom to enter and exit the cabinet at will certainly suggest familiarity, and a familiarity with markedly physical overtones.
Most of the anti-nuclear authors tended to avoid sensitive political overtones, cautiously framing their writings as professional discussion.
Consequently, in common usage, it seems to have strong positive overtones, sometimes even of correctness or moral justness.
The sounds have a marked harmonic structure consisting of a fundamental frequency and its overtones.
Thus, teaching respect and moral behaviour through pension sharing becomes an undertaking with almost political overtones.
However, in one-dimensional systems, the higher modes (overtones) are often harmonics of the fundamental, but this is not true for two-dimensional planar or surface systems.
Still, larger bnm values cause higher overtones to decrease in frequency.
The concurring opinions contain three arguments that have legal-moralist overtones.
The overtones mesh and reinforce, even without body resonance, so that isolating the fundamental is a very complex problem.
She also offers a convincing and multifaceted explanation for why this new patriotic sentiment took on increasingly ethnic overtones.
As they carry a wide range of meanings and emotional overtones, diminutives, together with augmentatives, are also known as evaluative or expressive morphology.
Language change happens slowly except when there is a purposeful change - for example, to rid language of sexist overtones and expressions.
The moral overtones of such a statement are clear.
The debate has remained evergreen not only because of its obvious political overtones but also because of its seemingly unresolvable nature.
Other resonant frequencies are multiples of these three (overtones, one would say, in musical terms).
There is a connotation of implicit approval of those covered by we and disapproval of the non-we, which may have disturbing overtones.
I believe personally that the postmodernist overtones in many critical-reflexive theories severely limit their practical significance.
Utterances containing be going to often express future time reference and overtones of prior intention, inevitably or imminence.
In perceiving a timbre the listener is primarily aware of the frequency aspect of the sound, the fundamental and its overtones.
Resonance, which is notionally perceived as a simultaneity of partials and overtones, is conditioned by our listening modes.
In this context the notion of a performance acquires overtones of mechanical reproduction, strain, even sweat.
His message also had populist overtones.
In others there are strong emotive overtones.
The resulting overtones embody the angst of the song just as lyrics and the rhythm section's steady pulse reinforce a woman's frustration with love's resistance to control.
Such overtones are generally not harmonics.
Moreover, in this context the marriage which constitutes the traditional 'happy ending' required by the genre, and which had no political signi®cance originally, acquires distinctly conservative overtones.
The overtones of paranoia in his description grow stronger as he focuses on the people surrounding him, described here as "strange monstrosities" whose laughter inspires dread.
Often these jokes had bawdy overtones.
If they are encoded, then be going to must be polysemous, given that not all of the overtones are recovered in every utterance, as the examples above illustrate.
The second question to be answered, therefore, is whether the overtones associated with certain utterances containing be going to are encoded by be going to or inferred.
If be going to is monosemous and semantically underdetermined, then the overtones of prior intention, inevitability and imminence cannot be directly encoded by be going to.
By contrast to the local oscillations discussed in section 5.3.3, a large number of global mode overtones can occur, but these are equal at all cortical locations.
152 ' their approach, and that of their followers, was largely genetical, with mathematical and rhetorical overtones which sometimes tended to obscure rather than enlighten ' (p. 89).
There were racial overtones here as well.
I was amused, but not impressed, by its medieval overtones.
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Our voice there is not muffled by overtones from nations with more material weight than ourselves.
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In this sense, this proposal for the coming decade is clearly a political proposal with strategic overtones.
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The "war" would then begin again, and would continue to have serious political and criminal overtones.
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However, we have a type of voluntary policy with certain statutory overtones which were clearly brought out and discussed during an earlier debate on inflation.
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After all, reference has been made to action taken by workers which could have political overtones.
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Have there ever been the remotest political overtones to it?
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No matter how one may try to improve it, one cannot remove the basic overtones of racialism implicit or explicitly stated in it.
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The decision has racialist and deeply ideological overtones.
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Tensions over politics, economics and security are made worse by the religious overtones of these questions.
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Much of it has had considerable constitutional and moral overtones.
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There was no ideological clash, there was no history of bitterness and there were no undertones or overtones of confiscation.
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In some respects, as we have heard, there have been racial overtones in this debate that go back to even more primitive tribalism.
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In many cases people who seek asylum have suffered persecution and detention and to them detention therefore has overtones of horror.
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There are no political overtones in this matter.
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Whether there are overtones or undertones of partisanship in this debate, they are as nothing compared with what would have been raised in another place.
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If that situation were to emerge, we should not need the amendment with its somewhat threatening overtones.
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I am myself suspicious of a slogan or catch phrase with moral overtones.
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I want also to consider the euro by itself as a currency and for the moment to ignore its political overtones.
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He says in overtones that we do not do enough in social services for these territories.
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Such aid also, as is emphasised in paragraph 111, tends to have fewer colonial overtones than that offered bilaterally by member states.
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I am not referring to political overtones but to political decisions.
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Are all these matters to be kept out of the courts and away from the judges because they have political overtones?
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Apart from obvious objections about the unfortunate overtones of the word, it is doubtful whether it is the right word to include.
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The policy he must follow has some dangerous overtones.
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Reason and good sense will prevail only when secondary action, with all its consequent overtones, is called off.
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There are certain overtones and it is not, perhaps, the best body to undertake such harmonisations.
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There are also some disturbing overtones contained in suggestions that patterns of consumption, linked to sectors of the population, should be adopted.
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However, we have chosen to vote against certain proposals that have strong federalist overtones.
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Surely there are also political overtones in the allocation.
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We had an automatic control which worked without all these difficult overtones.
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The first emphasises the huge range of overtones and undertones.
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There are, of course, political overtones as well.
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The report uses phrases like "civic pride"and"civic status" with slightly snide overtones, and this is a pity.
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My final criticism on this has constitutional overtones.
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All kinds of overtones and undertones have been introduced into the argument.
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