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In the words of the venerable Chinese proverb, they are “feeling for the stones while crossing the river.”
But there is another answer, which takes the form of the old and venerable tradition of Confucianism, which is being revived by government officials, critical intellectuals, and ordinary citizens.
Even the venerable Congress party - which led India's struggle for independence - manipulates religious, communal and caste rivalries so as to boost its chances of forming government.
But Americans will remember this homegrown plot as a highly symbolic moment: an attack on a venerable international sporting event on Patriots’ Day.
Today’s jihadist extremists are a venerable political phenomenon wrapped in religious dress.
The venerable New York Times editorial page was apparently opposed to an energy tax until only recently, when the newspaper finally endorsed the idea.
CAMBRIDGE – Next month marks the one year anniversary of the collapse of the venerable American investment bank, Lehman Brothers.
This view reflects a venerable tradition that goes back to Adam Smith and continues a proud existence in today’s economics textbooks.
What makes this place interesting is its sponsor: venerable old IBM.
The venerable Bank of England gained monetary independence only 20 years ago.
In the 1990s, a single Singapore-based trader brought down the venerable Barings Bank.
The sad fate of our porcine population will not be frowned upon as primitive and anti-European, but will be condoned as a venerable national tradition, preserved in accordance with the best European standards.
In the Dutch elections that year, the venerable Labour Party lost 29 of its 38 parliamentary seats.
We Parisians believed our venerable lady to be immortal.
The Crisis of Anglo-American DemocracyNEW YORK – How did the world’s two most venerable and influential democracies – the United Kingdom and the United States – end up with Donald Trump and Boris Johnson at the helm?
There is an obvious answer to the question of how two venerable democracies installed disordered minds in power and enabled them to pursue unpopular policies.
At the center of the US response to the COVID-19 crisis is one of the country’s most venerable scientific institutions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has traditionally been staffed with committed, knowledgeable, highly trained professionals.
Though Kitty was not going out anywhere because of her condition, yet she went with her father to see the venerable old lady, and there met Vronsky.
"Approach, venerable Catherine Nicaise Elizabeth Leroux!" said the councillor, who had taken the list of prize-winners from the president; and, looking at the piece of paper and the old woman by turns, he repeated in a fatherly tone—"Approach!
'I am old and liked here,' he murmured to himself at length, 'they would never dare!'Turning at once to the gentleman from Paris, with eyes in which, despite his great age, there burned that sacred fire which betokens the pleasure of performing a fine action which is slightly dangerous:'Come with me, Sir, and, in the presence of the gaoler and especially of the superintendents of the poorhouse, be so good as not to express any opinion of the things we shall see.'M. Appert realised that he had to deal with a man of feeling; he accompanied the venerable cure, visited the prison, the hospital, the poorhouse, asked many questions and, notwithstanding strange answers, did not allow himself to utter the least word of reproach.
There was nothing to conceal the coarse surface of this masonry, which formed a sorry contrast to the venerable splendour of the woodwork.
That would look rather silly; but it does not do, either, to wear them pulled down over one's eyes like an officer's shako.''It seems to me to be quite right.''The King of ---- is accustomed to venerable clergy who are doubtless very solemn.
Where can Saint Clement be?'A little clerk, who was next to him, informed him that the venerable relic was in the upper part of the building, in a _chapelle ardente_.
'That author is most immoral,' Julien said to Madame Valenod; 'in one of his Fables on Messire Jean Chouart, he has ventured to heap ridicule on all that is most venerable.
'My dear disciple,' he said to Julien, 'my mother used to hire out chairs in this venerable fane, so that I was brought up in this great edifice.
Since the restoration of the Faith by Napoleon, it has been my happy lot to take charge of everything in this venerable mother church.
Yes, my friend, one of the venerable personages whom you are about to hear discuss is fully capable of transmitting information by means of which someone may quite possibly administer opium to you, if nothing worse, in the evening, in some respectable inn at which you will have called for supper.''It would be better,' said Julien, 'to travel thirty leagues farther and avoid the direct route.
STERNEHe heard a great din in the corridor; it was not the hour for visiting his cell; the osprey flew away screaming, the door opened, and the venerable cure Chelan, trembling all over and leaning upon his cane, flung himself into Julien's arms.
The venerable prelate, in whose hands was the list of benefices, added as a postscript to one of his niece's letters: 'That poor Sorel is nothing worse than a fool, I hope that he will be restored to us.'
The short curly hair of Caesar had acquired from age a coloring of gray, that added greatly to the venerable cast of his appearance.
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