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1. Kelvin began, “First I commend you for the job you’ve done in preparing this proposal
2. They naturally, therefore, commend the former as more favourable to industry
3. “Considering the injuries to her mouth and jaw, shouldn’t we commend the meticulous way she
4. commend that it represent me
5. This was the first she'd heard her taskmasters specifically commend her on any bit of her 'education
6. This political gimmick has little if anything to commend itself
7. Traveling nowadays has little to commend itself other than exit signs and billboards directing the traveler to uniform convenience stores, gas stations, restaurants and motels corporately owned, of course
8. Where has it been written that a Great Nation must commend itself to the parochial interests or jealousies of ancient traditions that have lost their comparable standing or concede its leadership position among the Community of Nations, rather than conforming to its (own) enlightened self-interests? Such designs must inevitably tarnish that nation‘s highest historical achievements that it should (otherwise) enjoy and (rightly) pass along to posterity
9. [48] I commend a fascinating book None of these Diseases (S I McMillen, 1966 and subsequent editions which looks at the health benefits of following certain Old Testament practices
10. I, Luci, would like to commend the Russian Federation
11. 2 Commend not a man for his beauty; neither abhor a man for his outward appearance
12. And rulers commend those that do well in their sight
13. then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honours,
14. Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us; 18 And as each one of the brethren was called
15. Which do not commend
16. 46 Then I said to the angel What young person is it that crowns them and gives them palms in their hands? 47 So he answered and said to me It is the Son of God whom they have confessed in the world; Then began I greatly to commend them that stood so stiffly for the name of the Lord
17. 10 For their virtues then it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honours I may count them happy
18. 17 If we suffer so Abraham and Isaac and Jacob will receive us and all the fathers will commend us; 18 And as each one of the brethren was called away the rest exclaimed Disgrace us not O brother nor falsify those who died before you
19. Through his craftiness he introduces into Monasteries and Nunneries his servants of Fashion and Vanity, soon followed by Laziness and Disobedience, then Lust and Fornication (both natural and otherwise): Tetta, your struggle is truly against the fever of Lucifer, the blackest of sins, the ruin of souls! So I applaud and commend you on your firmness in discipline regarding your flock
20. 7 And Jesus said My Father forgive them; for they know not what they do; And Jesus cried again with a loud voice and said My Father into your hands I commend my spirit
21. damned lonely up here on top and I invited you tonight, not only to commend you on the
22. "I have to commend you on the way you handle that job," Orlando said sitting in his recliner
23. My father and mother, Lord Raymond and Lady Elwen would commend you for your recent support of the campaign to bring peace to the totality of Gaea
24. It is not the mental immaturity of the child that I commend to you but rather the spiritual simplicity of such an easy-believing and fully-trusting little one
25. 3 When the lawyer perceived that Jesus had answered not only in accordance with the highest concept of Jewish religion, but that he had also answered wisely in the sight of the assembled multitude, he thought it the better part of valor openly to commend the Master's reply
26. 5 It was just before three o'clock when Jesus, with a loud voice, cried out, "It is finished! Father, into your hands I commend my spirit
27. We heard him say, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit
28. He would equally condemn the irreligious pauper and commend the consecrated and worshipful man of wealth
29. So I do commend him for taking on this tough subject but it will be interesting on what is done and what will not be able to be done because of the cost to Americans
30. I commend their determination and success in overthrowing the white missionary paternalism and segregation at many of the HBCUs
31. commend that you do learn to use either of them as it will be very useful for you in the long run
32. into the disappearance, but he certainly was not going to commend her for her assiduousness or to inform her that he had already decided to continue looking into the matter just in case there was some point he had overlooked
33. You care about what matters most in life, and that I commend you for
34. I commend you for that
35. edge, but she was a trooper for still going on with the dinner and for that I commend her
36. Then he thought about dispatching a messenger to the Military Zone for help, though it would be hours before they could arrive, and he wondered if they would commend his alertness or reprimand his presumption
37. until he was eaten had little to commend it either
38. We commend our Warrior for investigating your remark, and we caution you that such remarks will aggravate the seriousness of your crimes
39. Where are Hansel and Gretel when you need them? Anybody got any breadcrumbs? Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit
40. I leave the subject of the lay members of the apostolic Churches at this point, and commend it to the attention of all who read this paper
41. I commend the whole subject to the minds of all thoughtful lay Churchmen
42. complain or commend whoever is elected on November 4, 2008
43. First of all, I would like to commend you for the great work that you’ve done awhile ago with Grace
44. They had been together a while now, they had not known each other intimately, but were on terms as close as you could be without taking the last moon step, an achievement to commend Emily for
45. He had to commend the
46. “Lord, we commend the souls of these fallen men unto Thee
47. "Your esteemed parent's reasons for refusing," said Fritzing, "reasons which she has given me with a brevity altogether unusual in one of her sex and which I cannot sufficiently commend, do more credit, as was to be expected in a lady, to her heart than to her head
48. He stopped, and looked around the editorial office remembering his promise to commend the young reporter who wrote the story
49. "I wish to commend the able mock prosecutor, H
50. "Though her soul has left this vessel, we commend her body back to you, Great Giver
1. commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken
2. When she got back to her, Yorthops was standing in front of the honor wall in the front hallway where Kulai commended his employee of the year
3. in Acts 14:23; "And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed
4. with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed” (Acts 14:23)
5. 8And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the
6. commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to
7. Pritzlaff had just commended the Republican national convention for bringing a fair amount of delegates to the city the month before, and hoped the Democrats would be as forthcoming when they met in a few weeks
8. ‘What about you? I saw you were commended for your efforts on that gang problem on your patch
9. After several steps each young woman was more and more competent in performing the movements with poise and grace, at which point he commended them and offered pointers of a minor nature to each
10. He commended their efforts and reminded them that after the porch, they would need to repair and repaint the garden fence
11. he greeted them pleasantly and commended his luck to
12. “Well done, Captain!” Elenir and Jista both commended at once
13. It is upon this principle that the treaty of commerce between England and Portugal, concluded in 1703 by Mr Methuen, has been so much commended
14. About that;” GingerKat began, “Our little guardians have begun your training in a most excellent fashion and are to be commended
15. A child should be properly commended as well as disciplined whenever either situation calls for it
16. “Your precision and tight control would be well commended in the military,” she pointed out crisply
17. An individual who behaves or reacts in a manner consistent with his or her nature should not be equally commended with another individual who behaves in a similar manner under comparable conditions otherwise contrary to that individual‘s (own) nature (I am speaking here of heroic deeds)
18. In this manner, a timid or shy individual who performs some courageous act for the right reason(s) should be commended above another individual whose similar acts of courage come naturally
19. (This is not to imply that the latter should not be commended only that the former, by stepping out of character by doing something out of the ordinary, arguably displayed greater courage)
20. before the couple in their original form and commended them at this
21. stand; Man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised
22. 15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry, for that shall
23. 14 For she is a treasure to men that never fails: which those who use become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts that
24. 12 The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them
25. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house
26. of lights as the host commended
27. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house
28. Jesus who spoke to and visited with tax collectors had no condemnation for their business, instead, He commended Zacchaeus for his decision to be honest in his dealings
29. “Well done, my loves, well done indeed!” he commended
30. That type of tolerance is to be commended since she had a choice of either having the dog’s drooling head or its back end in her lap when we drove around
31. 16 For if you shall acknowledge the determination of God to be just you shall both receive your son in time and shall be commended among women
32. 42 Now when Tryphon saw Jonathan came with so great a force he durst not stretch his hand against him; 43 But received him honourably and commended him to all his friends and gave him gifts and commanded his men of war to be as obedient to him as to himself
33. I have appointed my son Antiochus king whom I often committed and commended to many of you when I went up into the high provinces; to whom I have written as follows: 26 Therefore I pray and request you to remember the benefits that I have done to you generally and in special and that every man will be still faithful to me and my son
34. 41 The king commended them and wrote the subjoined letter of magnanimous import for them to the commanders of every city
35. 12 The king admitted the truth of this reasoning and commended them
36. 8 "His Lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely for the children of this world are in their own generation wiser than the children of the Light
37. In your last wise letter, which I have often re-read by bed-side candle, you commended use of the rod in monastic discipline
38. The chief petty officer commended his 20 years of Coast Guard experience, and honed his writing skills during long periods of sea duty on the USCGC Mendota (“African-Americans in the United States Coast Guard,” pp
39. happens when we shake the wobbly pillar of the commended lady
40. There was a certain rich man who had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods and he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this thing about you? Give an account of your stewardship because you may no longer be a steward; then the steward said to himself: What shall I do? Because my lord takes away from me the stewardship; I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg; I am determined what I am to do so that when I am put out of the stewardship they may accept me into their houses; So he called everyone of his lord’s debtors to himself and said to the first: How much do you owe to my lord? And he said: A hundred measures of oil? And he said to him: Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty; then he said to another: And how much do you owe? And he said: A hundred measures of wheat; and he said to him: Take your bill and write eighty; and the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely because the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light; and I say to you Make for yourselves friends from the Mammon of unrighteousness so that when you fail they may accept you into everlasting dwellings; he who is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he who is unjust in the least is unjust also in much; If you therefore have not been faithful with the unrighteous Mammon who will commit the true riches to your trust? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters because either he will hate one and love the other otherwise he will hold to one and despise the other; You cannot serve God and Mammon; You are those who justify yourselves before men but God knows your hearts because what is highly regarded among men is abomination in the sight of God
41. But I have neither seen nor heard of any such thing among you in the midst of whom the blessed Paul laboured and who are commended in the beginning of his Epistle
42. Most of it commended Lydia on her courage
43. her soul should be commended
44. They commended me in my efforts at wanting to become a writer
45. Acts 14:23 - When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed
46. Actually I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am a nobody
47. The fourth letter, dated two days following Bart’s near fall to oblivion, admitted to a certain sadness that a permanent solution to the problem had not been achieved, but commended the skill and planning involved
48. earnestly to be commended to the consideration of all students of occultism,
49. `In the course of your talking you commended every part of the leadership in the kingdom without even knowing it
50. Her husband Barry, trying to put a brave face on it all, had to be commended for being a rock for her at this time
1. the young woman said a quick prayer commending her
2. Nevertheless, there are many of us, who, conditioned by our obstinate desires, have seemingly compromised our ability to (consciously) distinguish between right and wrong, commending, by inuring habit(s), inappropriate behavior
3. Jesus, although commending the steward’s foresight and shrewdness, condemned his dishonesty
4. In commending Richard and lamenting the loss of his leadership, I shared with him one of my father’s favorite quotes, the words of the late Peter Kiewit, entrepreneur and former owner of the Omaha World-Herald (now the largest employee-employerowned newspaper in the United States), because they so perfectly fit Dean Cole: I do not choose to be a common man
5. And as none of them responded, he wondered whether the critics were more interested in condemning a work than commending any
6. Pedro had been talking nonsense to me in Spanish most of that time, calling me Chiquitita and pobrecita and commending me on my apetito as I nibbled on my ratito
7. After saying a prayer commending Astarte's spirit to the angel Gabriel and thanking their own angels for taking part, they stood in silent prayer a while, then ended with the same chant:
8. Either he must come between us and be what is known as bodkin, or some one must get out and walk; and the bodkin solution not commending itself to me it was plain that if some one walked it must be myself
9. It was to this Conscience or moral faculty that the apostles appealed in commending original Christianity to the world; 'commending ourselves to every man's conscience (sunei>dhsin) in the sight of God ’ (2 Cor
10. The Eternal Severity and Righteousness, limited in all its actions by consideration for the frailty of the creature,—and the Eternal Love bringing ultimate good out of earlier forms of evil and imperfection, and commending itself as a reality to every man’s conscience,—may win God-ward many of the explorers of the material world; as when that self-sustaining Flame, the symbol of the Self-existent Being, allured in a voice of soft thunder the shepherd of Midian, who found in the investigation of a natural phenomenon the revelation of an Essence Divine
11. "Sir," answered Don Quixote, "that cannot be on any account omitted, and the knight-errant would be disgraced who acted otherwise: for it is usual and customary in knight-errantry that the knight-errant, who on engaging in any great feat of arms has his lady before him, should turn his eyes towards her softly and lovingly, as though with them entreating her to favour and protect him in the hazardous venture he is about to undertake, and even though no one hear him, he is bound to say certain words between his teeth, commending himself to her with all his heart, and of this we have innumerable instances in the histories
12. Nor is it to be supposed from this that they are to omit commending themselves to God, for there will be time and opportunity for doing so while they are engaged in their task
13. "For all that," answered the traveller, "I feel some doubt still, because often I have read how words will arise between two knights-errant, and from one thing to another it comes about that their anger kindles and they wheel their horses round and take a good stretch of field, and then without any more ado at the top of their speed they come to the charge, and in mid-career they are wont to commend themselves to their ladies; and what commonly comes of the encounter is that one falls over the haunches of his horse pierced through and through by his antagonist's lance, and as for the other, it is only by holding on to the mane of his horse that he can help falling to the ground; but I know not how the dead man had time to commend himself to God in the course of such rapid work as this; it would have been better if those words which he spent in commending himself to his lady in the midst of his career had been devoted to his duty and obligation as a Christian
14. Rocinante took fright at the noise of the water and of the blows, but quieting him Don Quixote advanced step by step towards the houses, commending himself with all his heart to his lady, imploring her support in that dread pass and enterprise, and on the way commending himself to God, too, not to forget him
15. "That is enough," said Dorothea, "for with friends we must not look too closely into trifles; and whether it be on the shoulder or on the backbone matters little; it is enough if there is a mole, be it where it may, for it is all the same flesh; no doubt my good father hit the truth in every particular, and I have made a lucky hit in commending myself to Don Quixote; for he is the one my father spoke of, as the features of his countenance correspond with those assigned to this knight by that wide fame he has acquired not only in Spain but in all La Mancha; for I had scarcely landed at Osuna when I heard such accounts of his achievements, that at once my heart told me he was the very one I had come in search of
16. On this point we all agreed; and Zoraida, to whom it was explained, together with the reasons that prevented us from doing at once what she desired, was satisfied likewise; and then in glad silence and with cheerful alacrity each of our stout rowers took his oar, and commending ourselves to God with all our hearts, we began to shape our course for the island of Majorca, the nearest Christian land
17. We called to him, and he, raising his head, sprang nimbly to his feet, for, as we afterwards learned, the first who presented themselves to his sight were the renegade and Zoraida, and seeing them in Moorish dress he imagined that all the Moors of Barbary were upon him; and plunging with marvellous swiftness into the thicket in front of him, he began to raise a prodigious outcry, exclaiming, "The Moors--the Moors have landed! To arms, to arms!" We were all thrown into perplexity by these cries, not knowing what to do; but reflecting that the shouts of the shepherd would raise the country and that the mounted coast-guard would come at once to see what was the matter, we agreed that the renegade must strip off his Turkish garments and put on a captive's jacket or coat which one of our party gave him at once, though he himself was reduced to his shirt; and so commending ourselves to God, we followed the same road which we saw the shepherd take, expecting every moment that the coast-guard would be down upon us
18. For, come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: 'Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;' and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared
19. marvellous intrepidity and resolute courage, to plant himself in front of the cart, commending himself with all his heart to God and to his lady Dulcinea
20. Far from it, finding a shower of stones rained upon him, and crossbows and muskets unnumbered levelled at him, he wheeled Rocinante round and, as fast as his best gallop could take him, fled from the midst of them, commending himself to God with all his heart to deliver him out of this peril, in dread every step of some ball coming in at his back and coming out at his breast, and every minute drawing his breath to see whether it had gone from him
21. commending himself with all his might and soul to his lady Dulcinea he made up his mind to listen to the music; and to let them know he was there he gave a pretended sneeze, at which the damsels were not a little delighted, for all they wanted was that Don Quixote should hear them
22. He of the White Moon thanked the viceroy in courteous and well-chosen words for the permission he gave them, and so did Don Quixote, who then, commending himself with all his heart to heaven and to his Dulcinea, as was his custom on the eve of any combat that awaited him, proceeded to take a little more distance, as he saw his antagonist was doing the same; then, without blast of trumpet or other warlike instrument to give them the signal to charge, both at the same instant wheeled their horses; and he of the White Moon, being the swifter, met Don Quixote after having traversed two-thirds of the course, and there encountered him with such violence that, without touching him with his lance (for he held it high, to all appearance purposely), he hurled Don Quixote and Rocinante to the earth, a perilous fall
23. My master hesitated not a moment in complying with her request: reluctant as he was to leave home at ordinary calls, he flew to answer this; commending Catherine to my peculiar vigilance, in his absence, with reiterated orders that she must not wander out of the park, even under my escort: he did not calculate on her going unaccompanied
24. The sisters followed him into the outer cave, where David was beginning, by his sighs, to give symptoms of returning consciousness, and then commending the wounded man to their attention, he immediately prepared to leave them
25. They often address their victims in this way, reproaching them for cowardice or commending their resolution, as they may happen to exhibit fortitude or the reverse, in suffering
26. Before that, Nicholas had told his wife all that had passed between himself and Sonya, blaming himself and commending her
27. most imperious souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, the colonel commending Thenardier to his care
28. He remained steadily inclined to gratify so amiable a feeling; to gratify anybody else who might wish to see Fanny dance, and to give pleasure to the young people in general; and having thought the matter over, and taken his resolution in quiet independence, the result of it appeared the next morning at breakfast, when, after recalling and commending what his nephew had said, he added, "I do not like, William, that you should leave Northamptonshire without this indulgence
29. Before that, Nicholas had told his wife all that had passed between himself and Sónya, blaming himself and commending her
30. After commending the condensed and honest manner in which the work is printed, (for they say, that the same matter which here fills one volume would in England have been spread over three,) the reviewer adds, "We should be glad to see it reprinted exactly upon the plan of the original; and we have no doubt that it would be found the most useful work on mineralogy in our language
31. The study of the monuments of art is one thing, their analysis, their criticism, their comparison, is one of the most attractive, the most fascinating, the most stimulating, the most absorbing of studies, one that I shall never cease commending in the most earnest way to all those persons to whom scholarship is dear and to whom it is a question of recommending a study which is worthy of their most earnest and hearty devotion, but it is not the study of practical art, that is another and a very different thing
1. It commends itself especially to food-reformers, as the slow cookery renders the food more digestible, and the earthenware pots are easier to keep clean than the ordinary saucepan
2. Stonehouse commends the thinly spread, understaffed and under-budgeted service for its exemplary record
3. blessing the church commends these animals to
4. Brink commends himself for the investment in soundproofing the room
5. Paul commends the Thessalonians for their Christian maturity and acts
6. The Apostle Paul commends the Philippian believers for their vital partnership in his ministry through their financial giving
7. ” For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends
8. God commends those of His pure believers who keep Amant “trust” by saying: ﴾And those who are faithfully true to their amanat (all the duties which God has ordained, honesty, moral responsibility and trusts) and to their covenants﴿surah 23, Al-Muminun, verse 8
9. willingness to act upon that trust which commends
10. What commends itself most highly to the judgment of the administrator is the best use for him, for his heart should be in the work
11. Every truth is revealed for the purpose of being thought upon, and commends itself to good men the more they think of it and compare it with Scripture and experience
12. Who, then, can wonder that a Christianity so diminished in its forces both to win and to appall, so pale and so colorless, naturally maintains a doubtful fight with the stiff-necked pagans of Asia? Is there not required a doctrine that commends itself more cogently to the reason and to the conscience of men, of the teachers as well as the taught, to their imagination not less than to their affections,—a love so real, so tender and intelligible—a terror so soul-subduing, so near at hand, and so appreciably just,—as to shake if it cannot vanquish the stoutest resistance of the heathen;—a hope of speedy victory to the Church, sufficient to restore the death-daring energies of the first century, and a courage founded on overpowering conviction which would engage in closer conflict with Eastern Buddhism, and the stolid positivism of Confucius? That 'throneless king,’ as the Chinese call him, would soon, I trust in God, lose much of his, opposing power, before a Savior preached as if He were the very JESUS of the gospels, 'coming again quickly’ to be the Lord of the world
13. Forgive me and have pity on my folly, and remember I know but little, and, if I talk much, it's more from infirmity than malice; but he who sins and mends commends himself to God
14. The chief engineer commends also the ship steward for the manner in which he made the little food they had last, the cheery spirit he manifested, and the great help he was to the captain by keeping the men in good humour
15. The King of France, in "All's Well that Ends Well," commends to Bertram the example of his late father in his relations with his inferiors:
16. Although Stuart's arrangement violates the symmetry maintained between the other groups of the frieze, yet Overbeck 104 especially commends the symmetry shown in the composition of these portions of the relief
