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31. But when it comes to his fellow-countrymen and old school contemporaries, he becomes worryingly erratic.

32. In his collection of the works of contemporaries Scott's policy was more erratic.

33. Huxley invented the word agnostic and, like many of his contemporaries, became one.

34. Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks.

35. Along with many of his contemporaries, Mercator held the Baconian belief that knowledge should be exploited for utilitarian ends.

36. The justification for Gloucester's assumption of power confused contemporaries and has continued to arouse controversy.

37. Contemporaries often appear to have been uncertain as to how best to describe the political structure of their day.

38. From this point contemporaries recognized that Richard was moving to take the throne.

39. Charles had been Lord of the Scaffold since 1699, contemporaries describing him as a gentle and even-tempered man.

40. He had a profound influence at a personal level on his contemporaries.

41. Like heroines, heroes in Contemporaries come in all shapes and sizes.

42. Throughout this period contemporaries continued to describe partisan conflicts in terms of Civil War allegiances.

43. On the few occasions she'd spent holidays at home she'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries.

44. Ianthe was the only child of elderly parents, who seemed to be a whole generation removed from those of her contemporaries.

45. Other parts of my argument derive from Malinowski, Mauss and Levi-Strauss, as well as from various of my younger contemporaries.

46. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Darwin realized that the human race was not the predictable end-product of a universal progressive trend.

47. The pagan contemporaries of Constantine were not wrong in saying that he had carried through a huge religious and social revolution.

48. Locke's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope.

49. War has had a searchlight effect on historians as well as contemporaries,(sentencedict.com) rendering the area outside the beam yet more obscure.

50. The copious footnotes to the recipes in this book were believed by his contemporaries to have been written by Sir Walter Scott.

51. While hipper contemporaries were playing the clubs the music critics went to, he was making a living playing local pubs.

52. The Somerset commoners succeeded in fighting off most attempts at drainage where their contemporaries in the eastern counties had failed.

53. Many older disabled people may also perceive themselves as ageing more rapidly than their non-disabled contemporaries.

54. Miller would also wish to discuss and inspect rarities being cultivated by his contemporaries.

55. All around him his friends and contemporaries were exhibiting and selling their work, some of them under contract.

56. More successful, indeed, than even contemporaries realised because of inaccuracies in the official statistics which were available.

57. The process is so slow that contemporaries never notice it.

58. Revival under Law, 1911-1914 Few contemporaries would have expected Balfour's retirement to lead to a Unionist recovery.

59. They're young and poor and the patriarchal culture they inherit and the conspicuous consumption of their contemporaries sanctions their irresponsibility.

60. But it has remained as puzzling to modern historians as it was shocking to contemporaries.