Sentence examples for XII from inspiring English sources
" I no longer take the same pleasure in this beautiful countryside where he would have brought forth happiness… How far we are fallen, my dear and illustrious master, and from such height" (cited in Baker 1776, xii).
As Jerry Fodor puts it, "if commonsense psychology were to collapse, that would be, beyond comparison, the greatest intellectual catastrophe in the history of our species …" (1987, p. xii).
This discovery was made as early as the year 1709, and lay dormant, till Wolff was thus excited by the admonitions of Leibniz" (p. xii).
Historian Mario Biagioli (1999, xii) defines science studies as a field that asks how science works rather than what science is and he describes science studies as using a variety of methodologies and research questions to find out how science works.
Best estimates put him anywhere between 100 CE and the first half of the third century CE (House 1980), but it has been suggested that he was already well known by the end of the second century (Barnes 2000: xii).
"The Islands I-XII," painted in 1979, float on the pale rose walls, radiating calm.
He is a good storyteller and has a rather 17th-century way of sketching characters: Charles XII of Sweden, for example, "abstained from women and alcohol, but enjoyed wrestling with bears".
"We have reason to believe that Pius XII didn't do enough to save Jewish life," he said, speaking for many Israelis.
It may simply be that the actions taken by a candidate warrant more unfavourable reporting.Michael Chow Thousand Oaks, CaliforniaWithholding the blessingSIR – The controversy surrounding Pope Pius XII misses an important point ("The weight of history", October 25th).
"I don't mean that Pius XII did not make mistakes—I myself make many but one needs to see his role in the context of the time... ...... Pius had hidden and protected many Jews, and he faced hard moral dilemmas over how openly he should confront the Nazis.But the interview's real bombshell comes when he speaks of the global economic crisis and its causes.
