Examples of past

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A theist need not maintain all the doctrines of the past - but creationism is no insignificant dogma.
Facts that have such consequences are, so to speak, ' embedded ' in the world's past, as part of the causal processes leading up to the present.
Most approaches published in the past are based on local optimization techniques with a redundancy resolution at the velocity level using the gradient projection technique.
I say that these are two conditions which would have to be fulfilled in any envisaged eschatological redemption of the past.
Then yesterday, and, indeed, any day in the past year, cannot be set in correspondence with a past year beginning subsequently to that day.
Suppose further that, in response to some past wrongdoing, an omnipotent being changes one of the numbers on the winning ticket.
All people establish the meaning and being of the present by suppor ts of the future and the past as a being founded on temporality.
In this context heterogeneity may be induced by a combination of host behaviour, host genetics and past or current experience of infection.
One cannot constrain eternity to either the past or the future.
Improved manure management: a systems approach than in the past.
The current profit is offset by past results.
If anything, during the past few years the trend has been towards the recentralisation of wage fixing.
In particular, they form their past tense forms in untypical ways, and they distinguish two types of onset.
Indeed, patients were often reluctant to be prescribed a detoxification drug which had not led to them successfully achieving abstinence in the past.
A consultation had been made for the same problem in the past.
In the past, our group's main focus of research [4, 5] was to explore the low-n mode phenomena.
My experiences over the past year, however, may or may not be over.
The past and current medications used in their cancer treatment were also examined in detail for an accurate evaluation.
There was a significant relation between reaction times on the identification task and past burden of illness, particularly past number of depressions.
Five subjects had a past history of major depression.
Memory complaints do reflect perceptions of past memory performance and are also an early manifestation of memory impairment.
There have been reports of some localised fumarole activity during the past 100 years, and a new lava flow broke out only 20 years ago.
Negative memories of past rumination and selffocused depressive episodes and ineffectual coping may be associated with more depressogenic attributions.
During the past year, how often have you felt completely hopeless about everything ?
The period of reference is the past 1 month and detailed questions were asked about the past 1 week.
Predicting depression in women : the role of past and present vulnerability.
Such a path would occur if memory complaints were based on a comparison of present and past objective memory performance.
Obviously that leads you back into the past, into memory, into repressed emotions.
I'd walk past a corner and everything was suddenly different.
In days past, the features, often words, were directly plotted on a map, and isoglosses were drawn to circumscribe the region.
Is the past of 'dive' dove or dived?
The use of the pluper fect in (20) is ambiguous between present per fect and past per fect meanings.
Regular past tense verbs show a distribution that is even more fascinating.
Clearly, for values of around 1, this cannot be expected because past inflation has almost no predictive power.
Of these, only 1% of past temporal reference contexts were marked by periphrastic did.
Second, it must be noted that present extremely low levels of development are largely due to the failures of past centralised regimes.
The country has experienced considerable policy and political change over the past decades.
We are willing to share our past experiences, which may be useful in this regard.
Decolonisation is over but it is not yet the past.
The country's general policy direction over the past ten years is not in question.
In the next age group, 13-16 for (ay0) and 16 years for the nonstandard past tense forms, males lead females.
Let me offer an example from some past research.
Over the past decade or so, there has been active development of alternative time-frequency representation schemes, independent of computer music research and largely theoretical.
Also, much of this research has been conducted by musicologists, many of whom specialise in past eras of music history.
The times are past when you can tell these myths even to children.
With her words she helplessly returns to the past, but she can't recall the right tunes any more.
Issues of transition and the relevance of the past are considered.
Over the past five years older children have become unruly.
Only where both coincide can business be expected to act out of moral concerns for past sins or the future public good.
The occasion marked the official return to the past.
What if past thought were not always surpassed thought?
Little applied research was published on the study of pronunciation over the past years.
An array of agent-based models have been suggested over the past two decades.
First, the present be paradigm is more robust to levelling than the past be paradigm.
The rate that a zero copula was used with the adjective and past par ticiple environments is almost identical (adjective 17%, past par ticiples 16%).
Others treat them as bimorphemic, that is, deletion occurs at a lower rate than monomorphemes, although not as low as regular past-tense forms.
In both of these situations, social subjects enact authentication by historicizing their identities through claims of linguistic continuity with a valued past.
Equalizing the vote among party nominees in larger districts was more difficult in 2004 than in the past.
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