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The agitation and execution of Jesus at any rate did not arouse the slightest interest on the part of his contemporaries.

Enormous though its financial and military resources appeared to contemporaries there was never sufficient to meet requirements.

with all this talk of a generation gap. We're all contemporaries. There's only a.

Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry.

Recently, known as the " national beauty" Yang Yang were contemporaries, faster players that once when " P3" and forced to leave his wife.

Even so, we know more about him now than any of his contemporaries did.

When he was a young man in the 1970s, many of his contemporaries were drawn to a particularly uncompromising vision of Marxism-Leninism.

Hitler's genius was to fuse German cultural nationalism with politics, allowing him to exert an aesthetic fascination on his contemporaries.

We do not know how people will one day view this presidency because we, Bush's contemporaries, don't yet understand it ourselves.

Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, Hart actually knew something of the old West.

And she had nothing but laughter for the escapist fantasies with which sentimental contemporaries solaced their more sentimental readers.

For this reason, therefore, I shall publish a sheet full of thoughts every morning, for the benefit of my contemporaries.

He was very gifted and became famous because he did so much more homework than any of his contemporaries .

Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors . Try to be better than yourself. "

Dont bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner.

So many of his contemporaries are still household names, one wonders if he would be too if he had won.

Such evidence convinces me that the ancient Egyptians and their contemporaries were far more accomplished mariners than once believed.

But then I started to think about my contemporaries and my spirits began to lift.

Many of my aunt's contemporaries say that she is amazingly up-to-date for a middle-aged woman.

Morally, he was an average man, no better and no worse than the bulk of his contemporaries.

Moreover, while many of his contemporaries approved of slavery, Darwin did not.

New England authors, though often erudite men, were not always acquainted with the work of English contemporaries.

O'NEILL What cannot be disputed is Enrique's talent as a songwriter. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Iglesias writes most of his songs.

Jesus' contemporaries admired the Temple: it was a magnificent building, and since it was the house of God, it should last for ever.

Earhart, however, was a heroic figure to millions of her contemporaries, and she still counts as one.

Lu Xun has been hailed as one of the greatest Chinese writers of his contemporaries.

without years of stage tradition to draw on , film artists have drawn on the exciting discoveries of their contemporaries.

I used to ask my contemporaries why they opted for King's.

The contemporaries of his Series Dying Wall lie in that firstly this Great Wall in his works was paint with the soil from Great Wall.

He must have been looked down upon by his contemporaries.

"The trouble with living so long, " he said, after the longest pause yet, "is that all your contemporaries die first. "

And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being more abundantly a zealot for the traditions of my fathers.

As an artist and thinker, his role was widely accepted by his contemporaries.

As a group, Ms Ye and her princeling contemporaries are notoriously shy and almost never speak out in public.

Copernicus was so troubled by a hack that all his contemporaries could tolerate that he felt there must be a better solution.

Zheng Xuan showed his moral integrity as a scholar-officical, and won respects and praises by his contemporaries.

All too few of Peter's contemporaries had come to see this doctrinal truth.

Portrait of a Chinese Lady, and Certain of Her Contemporaries.

Beethoven's unseemly, sometimes even rude, appearance and manner impaired his contemporaries' and acceptance of his music and himself.

And we know from his contemporaries that Leonardo was a very handsome , even beautiful man .

Future economic historians will probably regard Wim Duisenberg, his predecessor, more kindly than his contemporaries have done.

The writer became famous while most of his contemporaries were destined to be obscure.

The result is a more convincing interpretation of sustainable fashion than many of her Western contemporaries have mustered.

Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American writer of his contemporaries.

Because she knew nothing about the authors, she assumed they were contemporaries, unless something indicated this was obviously impossible.

All of these facts stand in stark contrast to what is known about its contemporaries, Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.

Could she picture him discussing politics with her father's contemporaries, or receiving guests with her in the parlor at he home?

His contemporaries made faces, like the ones you see here.

like Hosea 's contemporaries, Adam proved to be a covenant-breaker, rather than a covenant-keeper.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.

Not all of his works were better than those of his contemporaries.

His humorous rhymes were, however, more often quips and cranks at the expense of his contemporaries.

She was the winner of the 2008 MTN New Contemporaries Award, South Africa.

Quoting from contemporaries, he conjures up the London of the day, the customs of the countryside.

Geordie Greig (Editor): All her contemporaries at St. Andrews saw her as the most attractive girl there.

Successful individuals consistently seek advancement , while their less industrious contemporaries are merely content with the status quo .

he was consistently high-minded but conventional, and untouched by the religious and social struggles that disturbed his contemporaries.

Like many of his contemporaries, his education was interrupted during the Cultural Revolution.

Like many of his contemporaries, Liu Ye reaches back into the history and experiences of his youth in order to understand the present.

A genius is doomed to misfortunes: he is rejected by contemporaries as a heretic and rejected by posterity for his limitations.

In contrast, their contemporaries in the West receive reading lists as a major part of their college education.

His A Farewell to Arms is generally considered as a great genuine masterpiece among its contemporaries.

Like his contemporaries, Eisenhower wanted to reduce traffic jams, and in principle he supported the idea of a new highway system.

Whatever posterITy may say, IT is difficult to see his equal among his contemporaries.

Adams and his contemporaries portrayed the natural beauty of the West in ways that moved beyond the norm.

Superstar players -- much like American athletes -- are positioned to earn significantly more than their contemporaries.

This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Georgian poets, who were by and large content to work within that tradition.

He shared the tastes of his English contemporaries: Madeira, his coat of arms and fox-hunting.

like so many of his contemporaries , twain was not whole - hearted in his praise of industrialism.

Maybe the sight of contemporaries keeling over infuses survivors with a determination to make the most of their remaining years.

Boys who took apprenticeships were more confident, happy and skilled by the time they were 30 than their non-apprentice contemporaries.

Unfortunately for Mr Immelt and his contemporaries, these are not the 1990s and nor are they like the several years that followed.

Those with GCSE grades A to C earned 9% more than their untrained contemporaries who went on to do A-levels instead.

His A Farewell to Arms is considered as a great genuine masterpiece among its contemporaries.

The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.

However, toy manufacturers and their contemporaries in advertising make a killing during this period.

Higher education reform and development falls to the shoulders of our contemporaries.

Dickens was in a different class frommost of his contemporaries.

These men recognized this fact and willingly heralded the achievements of their contemporaries and predecessors.

Sometimes, these suicides have been friends of theirs, contemporaries from high school or college.

Apparently he speaks for a lot of his contemporaries .

Bach's gifts towered over those of his contemporaries.

The quasi-religious work, painted when the artist was just 21, was considered shocking by contemporaries for its grim, deathly atmosphere.

She was too familiar to her contemporaries in their county prefectural yard, and she also knew very well the urban students.

His view of nature not only tremendously surpasses that of his predecessors, but also exceeds that of his contemporaries .

Lincoln's contemporaries(6) noted his left eye at times drifted upward independently of his right eye, a condition now termed strabismus(7).

But listening to friends and contemporaries describe their experiences elsewhere, I sometimes wonder.

In that context, it is less of a surprise that older women are out-earned by their male contemporaries.

Politicians always believe that history will think better of them than their contemporaries. George W.

Joseph Addison makes a more profound study on imagination than his contemporaries.

This book is about the parallel lives of two contemporaries.

In fact, as Emerson saw, Irving and his American contemporaries were "picturesque" : a deeper power eluded them.

In his opinion this settled the issue for the contemporaries of Darwin and Maxwell.

He says he has seen many similarly competent, though notably more extrovert, contemporaries rise through the ranks with ease.

I spent the afternoon in the reading room of the London Library, looking up some of Darwin's more obscure contemporaries.

Hoover, by most signs, would have preferred to join his contemporaries going "over there" to fight the Germans.

And Milton's power for so many of these contemporaries was seen as palpably destructive and truly frightening.

The greatness of individuals can be decedied only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.

Phelps pauses in silence , then points to some of his contemporaries also listed .

Like most of my contemporaries, I was very far from being sexually inexperienced.

He and I were almost contemporaries in Cambridge.

Did his contemporaries in the music business kill him by being more business-savvy and being more skillful at making money?

This place has caused lots of deaths among contemporaries, who wanted to get something from here, except the God's love.

But he didn't think much of his contemporaries in San Francisco.

I am a modern man, and I share with most of my contemporaries an initial inhibition to hearing the gospel effectively.

We no longer look at our contemporaries, eager only for those points of reference in them that determine our behavior.

Kincheng's business of loan and investment developed rather rapid among its contemporaries.

In the outside world, men generally have shorter telomeres than their female contemporaries.

But instead, along with such contemporaries as and Michelle Branch, she's chosen to sell records by writing great songs.

Kobe has a much heftier resume than his teammates and contemporaries when it comes to hitting clutch shots.

Jack and I were contemporaries at college.

He and I were almost contemporaries in Oxford.

For Yadin and his contemporaries, the Bible was unassailable.

Other contemporaries also recall a relaxed, happy young man.

She and I were contemporaries at college.

standards set by our contemporaries, not forgetting the natural urge to develop and mature.

Bill's contemporaries, even at the age, recognized that he was exceptional.

The parallel lives of two contemporaries.

Posterity judges risk takers more kindly than their contemporaries do.

Dart's contemporaries received this claim with great skepticism.

He is not fed, sheltered, clothed, warmed, like his contemporaries.

They are more inclined to blow away the cobwebs than my contemporaries.

" Non suona, ma canta sul violin o " was what his contemporaries said of Tartini's playing.

Still, Ms Ye and her contemporaries are careful to keep a low profile and live relatively plain lives.

n. a person who belongs to the same period of time The two famous authors were contemporaries who spent a lot of time together.

Many identify more with their contemporaries in Paris, Tokyo, Berlin and New York than they do with their own parents.

I'm not quite there yet and neither are most of my contemporaries.

Watson was eminent among his contemporaries.

The two famous authors were contemporaries who spent a lot of time together.

But contemporaries, such as Ron Hoeflin, recall her as a member of the various high IQ societies in the city.

This is not only a self-criticism, but also a secret criticism of the prevailing opinion of his contemporaries.

women of fifty have an irritating habit of treating as contemporaries all persons of their own sex who are over twenty-five.

He towered above his contemporaries.

Vespucci 's contemporaries were not in thrall to hard facts based on firm evidence.

Your own contemporaries tend to self-centredness.

Among his later works are My Friendly Contemporaries (1932) and Afternoon Neighbors (1934).

Why was I born with such contemporaries.

For allies to replace our parents, we turn to our contemporaries.

We can , and quite often do , blame our contemporaries for personal failures , but the fact of.

Andrea and John are my contemporaries. I know them well.

The worst thing about growing old is that your contemporaries have become so terribly old.

BRIAN: I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't.

As we all know, the problem of women draws much more attention and sympathy of Hawthorns than his contemporaries.

Garden art has a very realistic significance which serves for contemporaries, and reflects the harmony between human being and the nature.

I feel constrained to consult with my conservative contemporaries and write my consultant a letter of consolation.

But I do collect the art of my contemporaries because they are my contemporaries.

I finally exceed the contemporaries, That is because they passed are continuously very outstanding, havelost the struggle power.

Great man is always in the front-end times, are not understood contemporaries

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Prendergast DID not embrace the more conservative aspects of impressionism

On this topic it must first be realised that our predecessors used lines of varying lengths in their canzoni , as do our contemporaries;

We all tend to seek the society of our contemporaries.

Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries,

Since it is so difficult to obtain the notice of contemporaries, how little is to be hoped from future times? (No. 146)

unlike the rest of your coddled contemporaries ,

On the Philosophical Outlook on Life of the Contemporaries

Some of which took to the land to avoid their predatory contemporaries;

Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood,

the contemporaries and future generations

stand out from the contemporaries

Speak for a lot of contemporaries

BE eminent among one's contemporaries