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Good, quiet, uncomplaining mother Nature, long slighted and miscalled, still bide, her time and draws to her bosom the most errant of her children.
But if they suggest a moral equivalence between this failure and the failure to ensure some measure of personal independence to all, they are no more convincing than George Fitzhugh's polemical defense of slavery, which argued that "[i]n free society, miscalled freemen fulfill all the offices of slaves for less wages than slaves, and are infinitely less liked and cared for by their superiors than slaves." (18)
"With the increasing intrusion of federal tax questions into the practice of almost every member of the bar, that unusual institution commonly miscalled 'The Treasury Bar' has come to have a growing significance to the members of the profession generally," wrote the tax expert George M.
due to its having been miscalled and persistently reported as yellow fever by the surgeon of the army post, and due to the number and prominence of some of its victims.
(42) It is important to recognize, however, that platform providers are continuously improving the quality and performance of their assays while developing filter thresholds to remove a large portion of miscalled reads prior to assembly.
On the basis of this information, and the fact that read depth can compensate for miscalled nucleotides in individual reads by piling up reads covering the same region, we determined the theoretical probability for [greater than or equal to]1 miscalled base (TPMB) in a complete MinlON-sequenced EBOV genome to be <5% when the read depth is [greater than or equal to]33 at all positions (online Technical Appendix Figure 1, panels E and F).
He wrote, "Around 1880 English novelists of imagination--the writers of 'romances'--began to introduce into their works the so-called and miscalled 'supernatural' element.
Retrospective MRI classification of the total false negative MRI lesions and of those that represented significant cancer at biopsy Initial Second MRI Classification report read True miss (FN report) 10 7 Non-specific features 12 10 No feature of a focal lesion (FN MRI) 19 15 Miscalled zone 3 1 Difficult interpretation 2 2 Total (lesions): 46 35 * MRI classification Significant cancers (amber or red on UCL criteria) MRI report Second read True miss 7 4 Non-specific features 8 7 No features of a focal lesion 11 10 Miscalled zone 2 0 Difficult interpretation 2 2 Total (lesions) 30 23 * * p z 0.05.
The long-drawn-out hostage crisis exacerbated the tension felt by many Americans at what was miscalled "the return of Islam." All of a sudden there seemed to be an overwhelming interest in understanding Muslims/Arabs/Iranians who had become a visible threat to what many Americans felt was "the American way of life."
Bailey may be right about the reorientation of litigation on the debt bond towards assumpsit's concern with intentionality, but I am not sure that her readers will follow the logic of her argument as it is somewhat elliptically expressed, with the odd inaccuracy (for example, Lord Chief Justice Popham, who decided Slade's Case, is miscalled "Pope" [83]).
Traders at the site famously miscalled the Supreme Court's decision about ObamaCare in June 2012, showing a 75 percent likelihood that the law would be declared unconstitutional.
The point largely missed today is that further back even than the 1980s, the fight to remove as much of the real worthwhile content in education and best teaching practices stemmed from that miscalled "liberalism" which is basically Marxist, fundamentally deeply hostile to the values of a Christian-underpinned society.
Rich found such a paucity of writing about the richness of women's relationships that she was led to provocatively argue that women's resistance to compulsory heterosexuality "has never fully understood itself because it has been so fragmented, miscalled, erased.' (41) While these narratives are expressions of pain, they amplify the centrality of women's relationships in women's lives, possibly conveying that this kind of emotional intensity and conflict among women is a rite of passage, central to interpersonal and political growth.