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abide
The nature of that empire has been of abiding interest, as the extensive bibliography of the book under review shows.
The abiding impression is of a composer whose work embodies some intriguing contradictions.
Of abiding importance, though, is the fundamental distinction, alluded to above and accepted by the vast majority of studies, between repetition and revision.
In most cases, the leaders abided by these restrictions rather than face years of imprisonment ; most of those who did not fled into exile.
Postnational narratives formed a continuum with national narratives, moreover, in their covert but abiding reliance on traditional narrativity itself.
However, if such women abided by police rules, they would be left alone.
Neither was it feasible to construct a spine of policy dimensions to act as a suitable general backdrop or abiding reference point.
Overall, that must be the abiding judgement on this volume.
Because of its abiding popularity as a pastime, opera was a convenient method of instilling ideology in the people as a whole.
What is the difference between the abiding state or countr y and the government of the day?
Indeed, ritual propriety in accordance with the oracles' temporary and unpredictable demands is an abiding source of anxiety for practitioners in these expensive times.
Schelling's abiding interests in nature and mythology are combined with a relative disinterest in politics.
Ethnic elements have been retained, and there is an abiding impression of innovation.
How, then, was he to square this abiding passion with the odium attached to evolution theory?
One of his abiding ambitions was to make such collaboration seem both plausible and worthwhile to his readers.
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