Exertions
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It needed very little more to finish the supper by a general and ferocious battle, and it was only the
exertions
of Jackson, Belcher, Harrison, and others of the cooler and steadier men, which saved us from a riot.
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Well resisting temptation is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, "To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful
exertions
of the human will."
I memorized in my anatomy class the origins and
exertions
of every muscle, every branch of every artery that came off the aorta, differential diagnoses obscure and common.
ODYSSEY (like SUNSHINE) also dealt with astronaut shortcomings (Zoe's failed EVA, Ivan's over
exertions
on Venus, the spats with mission control) and the sheer danger of exploring new planets with unfamiliar dangers (the fatal radiation spike on Mars).
It is going to be difficult on both ends, more difficult on the European side because it will involve greater exertions, but America, too, will have to make some hard adjustments, say within NATO and the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, where the United States has exercised a monopoly of power.
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