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Both efforts were internally contradictory and externally became the basis of perpetual conflict.
As long as liberals were unwilling to contemplate more redistributive state measures, local government became their central arena for social policy.
During the 1860s and 1870s, then, local self-government became a distinctively liberal concern.
Speculators became involved, and there was strong competition for the rights to erect lights.
Worsteds became the flavour of the year in 1622.
Shaming and humiliation then became tools of policy or a vehicle of private psychosis.
What might have been a vice became a virtue.
Advertising companies also became larger and more integrated.
With the outbreak of war, crossing the road became newly perilous.
However, the policy design became less problematic for the counties than it might have been.
However, it became increasingly difficult to make changes to the system.
Estimates are based on data during the period before the child became symptomatic.
Their social network became reduced due to communication dif culties.
By anyone's definition he became, as far as we know, the world's first cyborg.
All fish became reproductively active within a few days.
They became a system without a means of ver if ication-mere metaphysics and easy cannon f odder f or the rational sc ientif ic mind.
Also, immigrant integration became more politicized, with various politicians now openly calling for a tougher approach to immigrant integration.
More extension educators became involved, expanding the geographic area of farmer participants.
The first treatment was tolerable, but predictably each treatment became more difficult.
I was scared, and became tearful, looking at my wife.
However, as we analyzed the interviews, it became clear that coping strategies were an important component of the cancer journey.
As expected, there was a systematic decline in the willingness of individuals to assume risk as the stakes involved became progressively higher.
She developed good anxiety management skills and, most importantly, she became able to talk with family about the cancer.
When the eggs or larvae were crushed and inoculated into a monkey the latter became infected.
Most noticeable was the beginning of the formation of the median bulb; the nucleus of the dorsal oesophageal gland also became pronounced.
In one instance the person became worried after seeing someone holding a mobile telephone looking in her general direction.
Lyrically and musically, the lament became an important juxtaposition to the upbeat anger or desire of rock.
The object was then moved, so the map became out-of-date and falsely represented the object's location.
The bridge later became populated by more mature myelinated axons, which was best quantitated by 21 days.
As a consequence of this, the original phenomenological responses and essences of the work became diluted.
The principle of raccourci became increasingly important to the rehearsals.
The director boasted of only one success story, a young man who graduated from high school and became a teacher himself.
We thus became caught in a web of mutual accusations.
At the age of seventeen, diversity became my existential condition.
The movement was so strong that it became a very condensed version [of the play's content].
She used gestus as a sign that came 'from within' rather than 'without': it became an aspect of the character.
In such cases, character became an obvious vehicle for presentational play.
Moreover, the more systematic investigation procedure used here only became practical some years later.
In the spring of 1962, the tax cut became law.
An important element is how more and more activities became the object of private property.
I became convinced that my right place was in academia, rather than in politics or public administration.
Because of where it led more than because of what it is, this became one of my most cited papers.
Studying teachers' 'subjective school-related knowledge' required some sort of unit of analysis, which became the notion of decisions.
An example is provided of how one author's comments to an unsupervised group of students became increasingly disciplinary.
In effect, when the brutality became unmarketable, the music became intolerable.
Thus, the current 'nested' interlocking 'tree-like' hierarchical structures of the site were developed, and the intended thesaurus became a keyword index.
The parasite appeared alternately rounded, amoeboid and piriform, and finally became rounded when all activity ceased.
The harps became integrated with the natural environment.
In effect, he became one of metaphysics' sacrificial lambs.
When the number of nonterminals became 10, the number of rules was further reduced to only n2 (before each separation).
The rules became in turn an object of study, inducing their own logic, which is not the original (classical) one.
Consequently, a degree of arbitrariness in political behaviour, with little room for dissent, negotiation and consensus, became the norm.
The remaining forest in the far south-west became the focal point for expansion.
During the second period, when irrigation area irrigators increased their market share, the price difference between private diverters and irrigation areas became measurable.
To what extent this is the case became a major topic of debate in anthropology.
The 1955 drawing embodied the historical conditions that produced it, and became the tool that propagated the impact of these conditions to the present day.
At that time, the drive-in became the diner's fiercest competitor.
He worked at the drawings till they became quite simple.
Conversely, 'new' theories of perspective became concerned with depicting 'retinal' images, such as curved or threepoint perspectives.
The morphology of the village became a medium for the realization of another of the period's most poignant and generative concepts, the open form.
The art of ventilation became an assemblage of discrete mechanical devices, parallel but often independent of the architecture.
The flesh became nourishment for the body, while the skin or feathers nourished the spirit.
Coupled with family unity and talent it became a formidable force in the national political arena.
The plot was overheard by the daughter, who, looking forward to the marriage, became sad and alarmed.
The participants became more fully engaged in the more enjoyable and fulfilling aspects of life and had fewer immediate financial worries.
Most of the daughters in the present study were born during the 1950s and became teenagers during the 1970s.
Mid-point 3 on the original scale became 3 on the new variable and represented ' equality ' in marital power relations.
Without democratic deliberation, power struggles became the main means for rationalizing the party-state's ideological and policy orientation.
Girls who became pregnant had less elaborate initiations than their age mates.
By and large, however, kanga cloths became an extremely important new consumer item, particularly for urban women.
Commissioners and commoners held to the view that, according to custom, when a chief took office his property became indistinguishable from that of the stool.
Whiteness in the form of illuminated or phosphorescent body parts and clothing became a common feature of many seances by the 1870s or thereabouts.
After the rise of national syndication of comic strips in the 1920s, the use of ethnic characters in comic strips became less and less common.
Thus, investiture became a means of forging a loose but extensive network of political alliances expressed through religious hegemony.
Figure 1 shows an x-y scanned cavity as it first became known in the late 1990s.
With each repetition, the misinterpretation, or better said, misrepresentation, became more and more elaborate and moved further and further from the mark.
Chants that were once closely related became far more individualized.
The student and adult volunteers became more confident with each day's efforts and learned to help one another with difficult tasks.
A likely explanation is that as time passed the setting reaction became more complete.
In previous decades, a coccidioidal skin test antigen was a useful adjunct in the diagnosis, but it became unavailable in the 1980s.
The atmosphere was relaxed, and after a while all of the monkeys became friends.
In the final section of the fourth chapter, this lack of connexion with ritual became more obvious, and more disconcerting.
Not that the novel became enmeshed in nostalgia.
They became experts in manipulating the system for the benefit of the unemployed.
As unemployment grew from late 1920, the boards became the centres of political battles in many boroughs.
Under certain conditions, women's interests might appear to complement men's but when there was a crisis in the male sphere, women's concerns became secondary.
When independence was achieved and the new states set about nation building, the churches became heavily involved in development.
Thus, as theological reflection decreased, in many cases the churches became even less qualified to play any prophetic role.
However, this adaptation became untenable at a certain point.
The within-sites data bases became less extensive as observation times were shortened.
As the examination of program implementation and program effectiveness became more central to the case study, so did the ability to generalize findings.
When the trick became law, police drove out in hordes to hunt down children for school.
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