| 单词 | achieve |
| 例句 | He had already attained Incentive Level A, the highest incentive level a young inmate could achieve, and he was housed among other low-risk youths in a hall where the atmosphere was generally relaxed. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I calculate this will be easier to achieve without being a freaky genius. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t talk about things that I don’t achieve.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The goal for my third week at The Maids is to achieve a state of transcendent detachment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Americans obtained the middle part of what would become their nation because the Haitians achieved their freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Perhaps a few moralists were disappointed that it was economics and not ethics that triumphed over racist ideology, but clearly economic pressure achieved better results than black appeals to white morality. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Barred by law from invoking race explicitly, those committed to racial hierarchy were forced to search for new means of achieving their goals according to the new rules of American democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Back then it was thought that for justice to be achieved, the jury, the accuser, and the accused all had to see one another. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Just as her sister Inge and brother Hans did, she believed that Hitler would help Germany achieve greatness, fortune, and prosperity. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It achieves racial segregation by segregating people in prison—the majority of whom are black and brown—from mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The curriculum was extremely quantitative, focused on figuring out how to maximize benefits and minimize costs, without much concern for what those benefits achieved and the costs created. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As soon as the animal has laid a paw in your territory, or even made a determined advance into the neutral territory,you have achieved your goal. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Certainly, he never achieved much, and he disappointed my mother with broken promises, but I don’t think he deserved not a word from anyone in his family that day. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Bobby claimed that his system would actually reduce the number of draws, that it would produce games in which the players would take more chances, trying to achieve wins rather than half points. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But the Nazi leaders achieved their goal: In the spring of 1943, the SS sent ten thousand young recruits to a training camp near Beverloo, Belgium. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There he became the first African American to achieve an international reputation as a concert singer. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The best speeds yet achieved by any human object are those of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which are now flying away from us at about thirty-five thousand miles an hour. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Janie achieved the tail of the cow and lifted her head up along the cow’s rump, as far as she could above water. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He achieved such astonishing speed records that he was promoted to superintendent, and then went into the contracting business for himself, building bridges, canals, industrial towns, and factories. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Security was achieved not by roping myself to a teammate but rather by clipping my safety tether to the fixed line and sliding it up the rope as I ascended. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She sensed now how this might be achieved, through desire alone; the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Strength has been given to us. Else how could so much have been achieved by such as we?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z You live, as you always have, by the code of effort/result, and with it you keep achieving until you think you know the answers to all the questions—including the most important one. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z How could he have broken into that house— the only one he knew that achieved comfort without one article of comfort in it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Raizel believed that society as a whole was corrupt, and that true freedom and liberty would only be achieved once the power structure was dismantled completely and capitalism abolished. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Within a short time, the Cherokees achieved almost 100 percent literacy in the syllabary, bought a printing press, had Sequoyah’s signs cast as type, and began printing books and newspapers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But Priddy was concerned that his attempts to achieve eugenic sterilizations would still be challenged by state and federal courts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There in 1841–the fateful year in which Owen would achieve his greatest glory for naming and identifying the dinosaurs–Mantell was involved in a terrible accident. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z After all, everything I achieve, everything I have done, it is all for you. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He tried ro sound casual, as though this was a throwaway comment of no real importance, but he was not sure he had achieved the right effect; Lupin’s smile was a little too understanding. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z To have even a hope of achieving this, the railroads would have to reduce their fares, and Frank Millet would have to intensify his efforts to attract people from all corners of the country. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Both of these examples suggest that extremely effective control of many kinds of unwanted vegetation might be achieved by paying more attention to the role of plant-eating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I would do just about anything to accomplish the goal she failed to achieve. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They were using the negotiations not to achieve peace, but to score their own petty political gains. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other good news is that it only takes a couple of minutes and a little thought to achieve this, and put some of the basic elements of music to work. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The central question, then, is how exactly does a formally colorblind criminal justice system achieve such racially discriminatory results? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That didn’t mean I was willing to give up anything else in my life to achieve that goal. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “My pleasure, Mrs. Brooks. Melody is a delight, and I’m amazed she’s been able to achieve as well as she has.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Large-scale production of 94 would require a uranium chain reaction, which Fermi had not yet achieved. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even we humans have achieved the dubious technical dis- tinction of being able to make our own disasters, both intentional and inadvertent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A bunch of other students added their own dreams of what first they wanted to achieve. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But unlike Galton, Muller began to realize that positive eugenics was achievable only in a society that had already achieved radical equality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A Ji-li who always pushed herself to do better, achieve more. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We say these things for a reason,” he warns, “not to look funny, but to achieve something.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Within days, the mortality rate from bacterial infections decreases to levels never before achieved. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Each may achieve his goals with these different means. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z No matter what happens, at least I have achieved that. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In such cases, they do not simply produce copies in the accepted sense of the word, since they do not try to achieve the effect of a duplicate. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a scourging that Michael was not intended to survive, and it achieved its purpose. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the Party was trying to achieve. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This natural control, plus quarantine measures and local spraying, achieved what the Department in 1955 described as “outstanding restriction of distribution and damage.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If this occurred the Gethenians might have an excellent chance of achieving the condition of war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He simply feels like he’s experiencing a pressure so many people feel in their everyday lives—to keep up, push on, achieve. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "Do you think he hurt you? That boy just gave you something you could never achieve on your own." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Benko had achieved the “better” of it and years later would confess: “I am sorry that I beat up Bobby. He was a sick man, even then.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Jim Moore, the last principal of Ector High School before it was closed down as a means of achieving desegregation, felt the same way. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He understood it all now; saw what the androids, working together, had achieved. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Tchaikovsky, though, was the first Russian composer to achieve meaningful fame outside Russia. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And now that their purpose was achieved, now the children had found their dæmons, and escaped, the dead warriors allowed their atoms to relax and drift apart, at long, long last. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z This achieved the desired result, blocking the treaty, while avoiding a frontal assault on executive power. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They resented the level of individual power he had achieved, and they could no longer tolerate his reckless behavior with the Egyptian queen. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It became apparent that the quickest way to achieve better racial balance at the two schools would be to change the boundaries. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When that balance is achieved, remarkable adaptations occur. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew in my heart that any one of us could have achieved what I had; I was lucky that I had parents who encouraged me despite the fear we all felt. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Let us begin, then. Let us commence. Let us undertake to establish what it is that you hope to achieve or acquire, what it is that I may provide to you for this yet-to-be-determined price.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z You’re giving up a smaller dream for a bigger one that you actually have a chance of achieving. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But that did not mean that harmony was restored, for harmony is never achieved through murder. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z With Duke Valentino as his instrument and the French invasion as his opportunity, he achieved all those things that I discussed earlier in describing the actions of the Duke. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The agency hadn’t yet achieved its mandate to place a human into orbit, and Kennedy already had them kicking up Moon dust? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Of course, he added, this was quite natural for a scientist who had achieved repeated triumphs with instruments scaled to fit on a laboratory bench. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From the moment I achieved consciousness, I vowed to separate myself from the Scythedom in perpetuity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z For some few weeks, I continued my studies as before, Dr. Trefusis guiding me without remark through stories of slaves who had achieved greatness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Then what do you hope to achieve with this protest, Moss? What do you want to happen?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She deserved only the best, and he had yet to achieve it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z His face, whose shades we had often labeled, now achieved a new one. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z What Bobby achieved in going undefeated in both Bled and Stockholm was the chess equivalent of pitching two successive no-hitters in baseball’s World Series. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In each generation, new tactics have been used for achieving the same goals—goals shared by the Founding Fathers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To me, the moral of the story was that there will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They tell us Pol Pot makes us work hard because he wants to purify our spirit and help us achieve beyond our potential as farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I never got to stay for very long before I was unceremoniously tossed out, of course; but every small victory spurred me on to achieve another, and then another. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After all my hard work trying to make it, this was the first time since graduating from college that I felt like I had finally achieved something meaningful. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The distribution of class schedules was more complicated than usual this year, for Professor McGonagall needed first to confirm that everybody had achieved the necessary O.W.L. grades to continue with their chosen N.E.W.T.s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We used to wonder how in the world the Gobstopper Factory managed to achieve this magic. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to deepen my experience, achieve as much mastery as I could in the time I had. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we end this gallop through early astronomy, it’s worth asking why the ancient Greeks didn’t achieve more in their study of the heavens. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In public, by contrast, full individuality is achieved, paradoxically, by those who are able to consider themselves members of the crowd. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, imprinting in an animal’s mind the artificial connection that if it does a certain action, say, roll over, it will get a treat can be achieved only by mind-numbing repetition. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Sputnik weighed 184 pounds, and obviously required a very large rocket to accelerate this mass to a sufficient speed to achieve orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Sapiens had other aspirations, and were consciously willing to make their lives harder in order to achieve them. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Parasites and predators of the gypsy moth achieved good control, as did the Tiphia wasp against the Japanese beetle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In this he failed–though he did achieve a certain belated, inadvertent triumph. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The young woman who wanted “to ‘achieve’” would have been delighted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s a thing that happens when you achieve peak mortification. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I said I hoped that a climate conducive to a negotiated settlement could soon be achieved, ending the need for the armed struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s called the principle of favorability, beginner’s luck. Because life wants you to achieve your Personal Legend,” the old king had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppressed for centuries, divided, hopeless, corrupted, misled, they were cynical—as I had once been—and the Communist method of unity had been found historically to be the only means of achieving discipline. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We of Umkhonto have always sought — as the liberation movement has sought — to achieve liberation without bloodshed and civil clash. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A wish that continually approaches but never achieves fulfillment. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z If the dead end is reached before control of disease-carrying insects is achieved, our situation will indeed be critical. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Biological control has achieved some of its most spectacular successes in the area of curbing unwanted vegetation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was the South Carolina solution achieved in the Virginia style. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And he wants to achieve serenity of mind. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Being granted a communicuff is a special privilege that’s reserved for those important to the cause, a status Gale achieved by his rescue of the citizens of 12. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The campaign would help him move closer to achieving that goal. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But somehow, even fifty years later, I keep thinking that there might have been another way, beside war, to achieve the same end. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Clover tried to stir her stout limbs to a gallop, and achieved a canter. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But quite the opposite results were achieved, as the dancers danced themselves to utter exhaustion, and one by one they began to expire from heart attacks, strokes, and complete organ failure. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z That too had been a failure, because those who had achieved the Quest had become perfect and been lost to the world, while those who had failed in it had soon returned no better. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry kicked it, achieving nothing but an excruciating pain in his big toe. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She spent some minutes making adjustments in order to achieve a natural chaotic look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In short, what Andrews’ defenders, a team composed of Men- ninger Clinic psychiatrists and two first-class attorneys, hoped to achieve was a victory of legal-landmark stature. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Alchemists promised it—had been promising it for centuries, and if they achieved purity and perfection in anything, it was the purity and perfection of their failure to produce it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The greatest test of the airplane’s new prowess—a nonstop flight through the turbulent skies over the Atlantic Ocean—remained to be achieved, though. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Those that achieved more, I thank God for. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Our involvement will be so great that we cannot—without national humiliation—stop short of achieving our complete objectives. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They wanted their wives to like the climbing, the acquiring, and the work it took to maintain status once it was achieved. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The charter was in fact a revolutionary document precisely because the changes it envisioned could not be achieved without radically altering the economic and political structure of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These were carefully phrased to suggest, without saying so outright, that he and Edlefsen had achieved the resonance they had been seeking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Woodrow Murphy, the walking fat man, had achieved this sort of fame the year before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Would he tell Slughorn — Harry’s stomach churned — how Harry had been achieving such good results in Potions all year? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Darwin wondered incessantly about a mechanism of heredity that could achieve these counterbalanced properties. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Cleopatra knew what was at stake and the treachery Octavian would stoop to in order to achieve his goals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “Yes, you have achieved the bottom,” he says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z At its heart lies a theory Wagner drew from Schopenhauer, from Buddhism and from Christianity, that self-enlightenment, or personal redemption, is achieved by denying oneself gratification, resisting temptation and seeking an understanding of fellow-suffering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They angled and tipped it until a fine delicate balance had been achieved. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “These cultic movements and AA can achieve dramatic and rapid transformation,” he says, speaking very broadly of religious movements. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In looking back over my career thus far, my chief satisfaction derives from what I achieved during those years, and I am today nothing but proud and grateful to have been given such a privilege. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Ang Dorje became an able student and achieved the equivalent of an eighth-grade education before quitting to go back to work in the mountaineering and trekking industry. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed be the final irony. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now, as it turned out, the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than anyone had expected. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z By now, you must have guessed just how far Artemis Fowl was prepared to go in order to achieve his goal. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But I want to achieve more than that. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He never achieved greatness in the history books. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t think our caseworkers valued the education we had achieved. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His every decision was crafted for that purpose; every manipulation was part of a strategy to achieve acceptance into the imperial family. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z For the system to succeed—that is, for it to achieve the political goals described in chapter 1—black people must be labeled criminals before they are formally subject to control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I want, oh, so much, for us both to ‘achieve,’” she wrote to William. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They also knew that the black community had been longing for the opportunity to break down barriers that had been in place for years and achieve a better education for their children. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Or the people could have united in larger and more disciplined social units for the sake of ambitious group efforts that no loosely organized tribal society would have been able to achieve. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It would take a long time to cook this rooster, for it had taken him a long time to achieve his size and muscularity. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, it had a popularity out of proportion to what it had achieved on the ground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Isles of the Blest, for people who had chosen to be reborn three times, and three times achieved Elysium. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z In all these weeks he had never come to so close an intimacy with the Savage as Helmholtz immediately achieved. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In the years that followed, Kate played fair with him and he gradually achieved a certain respect for her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Johnsons had achieved a level of independence that others in the neighborhood didn’t know existed, let alone understood how to obtain. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Never had he suspected that foxes might soar like birds, whose swooping arcs were not like any movement he himself could achieve. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z To the extent that major changes are achieved without a complete shift, the system will rebound. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was becoming a super-celebrity in the world of chess, but the more fame he achieved, the more unpleasant his behavior became. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z From small starter fires, inmates had been throwing out boxes and sheets of newspaper and Lord knows what else, trying to achieve the fuel density necessary for a real blaze. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Supreme Court outlawed community zoning by race in 1917, segregationists had to develop another means for achieving this same exclusionary end. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “No propaganda work undertaken by the State Association and Party has ever achieved such publicity,” bragged the New York State Woman Suffrage Association’s official journal. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He ultimately achieves a personal and moral victory by finding the bad guy and throwing him in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He thinks certain modern technologies—the clock, the compass, gunpowder, the telescope—represent a real advance over anything achieved by the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All but one of the world’s six most populous nations are melting pots that achieved political unification recently, and that still support hundreds of languages and ethnic groups. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, I’d picked up on the simple, encouraging correlation between how long I practiced and how much I achieved. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He adjusted the burner and tried again but achieved little improvement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Working far away from Bletchley, with minimal Enigma experience, Elizebeth and her small team had managed to achieve the same goal. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z If so, time was precious; for, now that he had achieved a certain amount of distribution, he could, by choosing his own time, complete the task unobserved. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “At any rate she bore a fine son, who seems to have achieved the Grail.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z However, after some time had passed, and I had exhausted the tasks which could usefully be achieved with the implements I happened to have at hand, Miss Kenton was evidently still outside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It was through gene regulation, Monod argued, that cells could achieve their unique functions in time and space. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If they had to wait another day before sending in a strike force, who knew what damage Fowl could achieve? Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Before he could think it through, before his mind could tell him to stop, he launched himself toward the curate, and thrust his blade forward with all of his force, finally achieving that exquisite completion. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z As Chief Luthuli said, “When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In four years he’s achieved more wrinkles, and the sideburns and mustache are graying further. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But he was awarded a handsome trophy for achieving the best score of a player under the age of thirteen. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They had lived together in Baltimore as kids, had struggled to survive, and had achieved a physical and emotional toughness that seemed to fit them well. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But it would have achieved little, digging up the dirt of yesterday. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For Farmer, Cuba represented hope, proof that a poor country could achieve good public health. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Scythehood is humanity’s highest calling, and to achieve it should cut one’s soul to the very core, so that no scythe will ever forget the cost of the ring they bear. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z While the boycott wasn’t a complete victory, the number of concessions achieved was striking. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I had to keep in mind that my entire life could be, and might well be, used in achieving my mission for the Ekumen. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z As the lightning flashed and the thunder cracked, I, the unsung quarterback of an unsung team, rose up out of that mud not once, but twice, to achieve football immortality. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Smokies achieved their natural splendor without the guidance of a national park service and don’t actually need it now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But a woman determined to achieve a better life for her son. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z In contrast, only one in three thousand “randomly” selected men could achieve distinction. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Year after year she arrived at the beach with a base coat that the rest of us could only dream of achieving as our final product. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Copernicus achieved the same effect by different means. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Although Chicago was rapidly achieving recognition as an industrial and mercantile dynamo, its leading men felt keenly the slander from New York that their city had few cultural assets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Cayley was convinced that he had made an important breakthrough; but it would be more than a century before the significance of what he had achieved would become apparent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The sit-in was planned to achieve the maximum national effect and paced to build a powerful and sustainable movement capable of destroying Jim Crow. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So, too, a boat capable of sailing into the wind uses natural forces to achieve a result that would not occur in nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Ask the Paper,” the emperor said, “if I will achieve immortality.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “It is often necessary to break up a larger group to achieve a goal, especially since a lone shadow can get into more spots without notice than a larger group.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But such splendid running was achieved not without great trouble and vexation on the part of François. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s surprising what you can achieve with trickery and deceit. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z People of color, because of the history of racial subjugation and exclusion, often experience success and failure vicariously through the few who achieve positions of power, fame, and fortune. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z You have achieved it with your first story. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I lean against my husband, he is already leaning on me, together we achieve a kind of comfort. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z But then again, I have never known a single person who achieved a measure of success and could not look back and credit at least one treasured teacher. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it,” he had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Carvajal went on to achieve modest renown as a priest in Lima, dying peacefully at the age of eighty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We and the other nations might set it as an objective of international, collaborative science to achieve a complete understanding of a single form of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jim Kim, a Korean American, shared the same principles as Farmer, but he had a different view about how to achieve them. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z What, in his twisted brain, will that achieve? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’ The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “But there was nothing he cared about more deeply than achieving a lasting peace in the world.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In answer to a question as to whether de-mocracy could be achieved through gradual reforms, I suggested it could. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Only by taking account of such life forces and by cautiously seeking to guide them into channels favorable to ourselves can we hope to achieve a reasonable accommodation between the insect hordes and ourselves. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He just doesn’t have a goal, plus he thinks he’s too stupid and: inferior to ever achieve anything. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There had to be a solution to Muslim women having to layer their clothes to achieve their modest look. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He had a purpose here, and might need Aeron's help to achieve it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The campaign should be judged on two levels: whether the immediate objective was achieved, and whether it politicized more people and drew them into the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We met with the district attorney, filed papers with the judge, and consulted with a variety of local officials in an effort to achieve a new, constitutionally acceptable sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The most modest of these options, the radioactive spray, would take at least a year to perfect after the first chain reaction was achieved. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask her what she was trying to achieve but she saw me looking at her and scrunched up her face, so instead I said, ‘About Salim...’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z That landscape testifies to the population densities achieved in the highlands by farmers with stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His father had been a vaudeville dancer and singer and had achieved quite a bit of success in the black entertainment outlets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He described the wondrous feats of magic Lon could achieve if he joined them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It found differences in the views of rich and poor in some areas, including the likelihood of achieving the American dream. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But she and Jack would be long buried before the full effect was achieved. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Those African herders thereby achieved a huge advantage over African hunter-gatherers and quickly displaced them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s a very specific way that one must think if one wishes to achieve true success. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z No. They wouldn’t be proud until I had achieved my goal, and I was still so far from it. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Some artists reach a creative peak quite early in their careers and then “go dry,” while others, after a slow and unpromising start, may achieve astonishingly original work in middle age or even later. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was easier than building and carrying a giant picket sign with the word “Geek” on it, but it achieved the exact same effect! Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Chess had to become paramount again; it had to be his first priority, or his dream of achieving the World Championship would be just that: a dream. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By kicking me into the dark they'd made me see the possibility of achieving something greater and more important than I'd ever dreamed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I might have from time to time served as the butt of their laughter, but I had never achieved enough status to earn their hatred. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To achieve even a reasonably smooth and powerful stroke, they had to learn to execute a series of precisely timed and carefully coordinated moves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Her dark, pert face showed satisfaction, as if she had achieved something of worth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t’ai chi. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny, smaller and leaner, became a proficient and scrappy fighter but never achieved his brother’s success. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, when our predecessors at the Bureau inserted ‘corrected’ genes into your ancestors, they also included a genetic tracker, which is basically something that shows us that a person has achieved genetic healing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Madison’s more judicious arguments, published as the Virginia Resolutions, were circulating in the national press and achieving the same goal—condemning the Sedition Act but without recourse to nullification. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z That was the closest thing to fellowship we had achieved so far—a shrieked demand for a gift! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And in both situations, you desperately hope that some miracle will occur to bring you glory, but you’re too scared to attempt to do anything that might actually achieve any recognition. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He already knew what the ultimate goal was; now he could figure out how to achieve it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Both achieved more than they might have done had they not met. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Only through the hottest fires can purification be achieved. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The process is incredibly painful and it takes many years to achieve a permanent curve. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As more and more African nations achieved independence, the United States government was compelled to defend racial equality here at home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The only thing they’d achieved, coming to the alternate world, was to doom more people. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They decided on a goal and then helped one another achieve it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He folded himself on the divan seat behind my table with a grace I never achieved in all my traveling. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As they hurtled through the underground passage, a tiny ship on this impossible sea, Royals endorsement achieved its purpose. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Florentines made Paulo Vitelli their captain, a very able man and one who rose from being a private citizen to achieve great prestige. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Having achieved the rank of major general, Garfield resigned his U.S. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The train wasn't coming back, and standing there was achieving nothing, so I struck out toward the biggest mound. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The second son was ordained at the age of seventeen, and by the time he was twenty had achieved an awesome reputation as a Talmudist. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Meaningful reforms can be achieved without such a movement, but unless the public consensus supporting the current system is completely overturned, the basic structure of the new caste system will remain intact. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Descendants of those societies that achieved centralized government and organized religion earliest ended up dominating the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A mighty deed, which could never be mentioned, had been achieved. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In my case such bilingualism could not have been so quickly achieved. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Populists took direct aim at the conservatives, who were known as comprising a party of privilege, and they achieved a stunning series of political victories throughout the region. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In creating modern maize from this unpromising plant, Indians performed a feat so improbable that archaeologists and biologists argued for decades over how it was achieved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘I think we have achieved idiot mode'. ‘Hello! Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “We cannot take the same attitude now because the success which we have achieved in the development of nuclear power is fraught with infinitely greater dangers than were all the inventions of the past.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was the first clear evidence that Chicago might have created something extraordinary after all, and it renewed Burnham’s hopes that the fair at last would achieve the level of attendance he had hoped for. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The power and influence of chieftaincy pervaded every aspect of our lives in Mqhekezweni and was the preeminent means through which one could achieve influence and status. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And in my view, at the peak of his career, my father achieved his ambition. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It is important that I tell you their names, that you know that I have never achieved anything alone. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Balance can be achieved in two different kinds of conditions,” said Mr. Powell. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z To achieve this, Galton proposed to selectively breed the strong. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In war the innocence of a child is lost, and though the soldiers feel theirs is a worthy cause, they behave like children when trying to achieve their goals. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The selective breeding of the strongest, smartest, “fittest” humans—unnatural selection—Galton imagined, could achieve over just a few decades what nature had been attempting for eons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was a truly hilarious moment, but all I seem to have achieved this time is a totally unexpected collusion between Engel and Thibaut. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But such simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve, because to be clear in your writing you have to be clear in your thinking. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Papin’s pump consists of a cylinder with a piston; the piston is sealed by a layer of water, and Papin describes with care how to achieve this. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Burnham knew that together he and Root had reached a level of success that neither could have achieved on his own. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And we have difficulty convincing you that we believe in you, that we don’t believe that you will grow up to be members of gangs, that you can achieve anything that you want to achieve. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If I can achieve that somehow, I might see a longer version of what he looks like and how he feels. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Madam Mina, you are, as always, most wise. You shall with us come; and together we shall do that which we go forth to achieve.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He was the most eloquent example of what African boxers could achieve if given the opportunity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps my lord father was right to despise me all these years, if this is the best I can achieve, Tyrion thought when he was alone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Time lines of labor-union victories do not always show the depth of the struggles and the sacrifices made to achieve gains in workers’ rights. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Our manifesto stated: “We believe that the national liberation of Africans will be achieved by Africans themselves. . . . The Congress Youth League must be the brains-trust and power-station of the spirit of African nationalism.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While the Maori achieved some stunning temporary victories, they could not maintain an army constantly in the field and were in the end worn down by 18,000 full-time British troops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They differed primarily in their techniques for achieving that end. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She spent whole days blending oils, making adjustments to achieve specific fragrances and attributes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The creator has given us certain inviolable rights: the right to life, the right to be free, and the right to achieve happiness.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z To Collins, Bobby represented a second existence—the boy’s career was a vicarious entry to a level of chess mastery he himself would never achieve. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Speaking to me, he added, “Sorry. Hazards of having overachieving parents. Papa got his PhD at twenty-eight and Mom was the youngest person in her department to achieve tenure.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Winter hasn’t achieved in thirty centuries what Terra once achieved in thirty decades. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z How, then, has New York achieved its fine record? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Anderson made her final decision based on her best musical judgment—on the strength of the repertoire and musicianship she had achieved through her years of work with Vehanen. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I’ve been lost in thought, thinking about what these sessions with Kamal are actually supposed to achieve: am I really planning to rifle through his desk drawers if he happens to leave the room? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest was willing to assume that he had achieved a proof of concept; verifiable results required only superior detection equipment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The aspiring artist of talent will eventually achieve the real thing. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z What John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison achieved as composers had an impact way beyond the internal fashions and rejuvenations of pop itself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The little towns, where nobody waved, and the other passengers in the train, with whom I had achieved an almost kinfolk relationship, disappeared into a common strangeness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Not one cross word or impatient look, and praise for whatever small success I achieved. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z This could have been the forerunner of the kind of chronometer that would have been accurate and dependable enough to determine longitude at sea, and Hooke claimed to have worked out how to achieve this. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He said that Americans had no choice but to keep fighting in Vietnam until they achieved victory or until the Communists realized that they could not force their way of life on weak countries. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothingness was what the world came from, and to achieve nothingness again became the ultimate goal of mankind. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In South Africa, to merely achieve fairness, one had to destroy apartheid itself, for it was the very embodiment of injustice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Big-men achieve that status by their own attributes; the position is not inherited. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As sixth graders who were taking the test in the eighth month of the academic year, these students needed to achieve an average score of 6.8 to be considered up to national standards. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I’d just achieved my goal of making the junior national team, and to be honest, I hadn’t thought much beyond that yet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Yet these modern efforts have achieved only very limited successes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That lady has achieved true immortality, both in the test-tube and in the hearts and minds of scientists the world over, since the value of HeLa cells in research, diagnosis, etc., is inestimable. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the Scientific Revolution, Bacon and Descartes were amongst those with plans for thoroughgoing intellectual change, but their plans were castles in the air, and neither of them imagined what Newton would achieve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It’s bad enough to fail, but far worse to see another succeed at the very accomplishment you’d hoped to achieve. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Holly had achieved nothing and this was entirely due to the unexpected unfriendliness of the Efrafan rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Tolkachev's espionage helped America achieve total air superiority by the late 1980s, earning him the nickname "the Billion Dollar Spy." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Olmsted did think about it and began to see the exposition as an opportunity to achieve something for which he had fought long and hard but almost always with disappointing results. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The second major component of swing was a lilting effect achieved by subtly shifting the subdivisions of the given four-in- a-bar beat. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In Xhosa tradition, this is achieved through one means only: circumcision. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And as unlikely as it seems that I can achieve it in the face of the Capitol’s anger, it’s important that I be at the top of my game. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He could achieve one briefly, but it would wither in his hand before he had a chance to take pleasure from it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Like Adlai Stevenson, he had achieved much in defeat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z None of them had ever done something like that, none had achieved on his level. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A critical mass would not be achieved, and the bomb would fizzle. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The only problem with school, for the kids who aren’t achieving, is that there isn’t enough of it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There are many alternative options for achieving the level of professional communication necessary without our meeting on this basis.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The conquest and administration of this maritime proto-empire were achieved by navies of large canoes, each holding up to 150 men. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I said, hoping to achieve success by a surprise attack. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Of the three groups, only the Low are never even temporarily successful in achieving their aims. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Court’s enforcement decree, issued a full year after Brown, seemed conciliatory to segregationists, imposing no deadline for achieving racially mixed schools and calling merely for “good faith implementation.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence and Livingston finally achieved resonant acceleration with this device. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The author, Mary Wollstonecraft, argued that women weren’t naturally inferior to men but lacked educational opportunities that allowed them to achieve equality. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Therefore, with his impetuous move, Julius accomplished what no other pontiff would ever have achieved with the greatest of human prudence. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z "Alexander of Macedonia. Alexander the Great. Only thirty-two years old and ruler of much of the ancient world. How much more he might have achieved if he'd only listened to me." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z For change it certainly did, around 1935 or 1936, after many years in which we had steadily achieved a fine professional understanding. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But they both knew it was a joint code-breaking coup, one they had achieved together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The plan was to fling particles through a tunnel fifty-two miles long, achieving a truly staggering ninety-nine trillion volts of energy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I hate the whole white race and will work always so that the colored race can achieve revenge for all their sufferings. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the legal framework of American society—new “rules of the game,” so to speak. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I had now achieved the rank I once considered so exalted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will the emperor achieve immortality?” the king said in a loud voice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved the future economic security they so craved through their hard work in the present. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to achieve the life I wanted, I had been dealt, it seemed to me, the worst possible hand. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The problem these fifty-nine years has been this: how can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Opposed to increased busing, Shannon concluded that the quickest, surest way to achieve desegregation was to close Ector High School, since it had a relatively small population. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To achieve their goals—to have no starvation, or war—they are willing to do the worst kind of evil. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This time they were using the Constitution, the rule book for their country, to achieve justice. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z With Mach 1 achieved, engineering imaginations broke free of all previous speed limits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "And just how would you achieve that miracle?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In 4-Wind’s first exercise of statecraft, he abandoned the Zapotec allies who had helped him achieve the throne, aligned Tilantongo with the Toltec empire to the north, and attacked the Zapotec. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps only the basic idea is known: someone has succeeded, somehow, in achieving a certain final result. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By accepting those values, I imagined, I would move into a society that would find me as wonderful as I found it, and together we would have achieved the state of being good. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Formally race-neutral devices were adopted to achieve the goal of an all-white electorate without violating the terms of the Fifteenth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The U-2 achieved a high altitude that made it impossible for the jet to intercept or shoot at Powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The aura of science and medical research was meticulously maintained, often dramatized to achieve an even greater effect on public imagination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Neither could have achieved his goals without the other. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The operation had failed to achieve its most important goal, which was to show that radioactive fallout from weapons tests could be confined to the test site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They stood outside Balham tube station, which in three months' time would achieve its terrible form of fame in the Blitz. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The princes’ efforts to breed cheetahs in captivity failed, and not until 1960 did even biologists in modern zoos achieve their first successful cheetah birth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nothing could have been achieved without Boxer, whose strength seemed equal to that of all the rest of the animals put together. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z After several rounds of refinement in the Langley wind tunnels, the Mustang achieved its apotheosis with the P-51D. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They said that if I nurtured these qualities, I would achieve or even exceed my extraordinary potential, and this wasn’t just a good thing, but a great thing. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The girls achieved a certain prominence when they went naked to the camp meeting to confess and testify. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And best of all, he had achieved “Outstanding” at Defense Against the Dark Arts! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Which coven you got placed into was out of your hands. Doesn’t mean you didn’t achieve what you set out to,” Fox said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The bear watched and saw what he was doing and why, and understood more fully than Will himself did what the boy had achieved. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z This African patriot had helped found the organization in 1912, and casting my vote near his grave site brought history full circle, for the mission he began eighty-two years before was about to be achieved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The early technical fussing was crucial; by early August, the three had achieved the transformation reaction in a flask and distilled the “transforming principle” into a highly concentrated form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If the Klan itself was defeated, however, its aims had largely been achieved through the establishment of Jim Crow laws. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Its potters produced the delicate celadon ware that had achieved fame not only in Korea but as far away as the court of the Chinese emperor. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And they got a reward of seven pounds for each new level achieved. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z To achieve vision in this way, this journey into a darkness that is composed of women, a woman, who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything,” writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If she achieved scythehood, she would probably live with other junior scythes, and if she did not become an ordained scythe, she would not live at all. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And that is something you can’t achieve by taking the easy ways out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Only one member of this crew will make the dive,” the captain says, “and I’ve chosen you. You alone will achieve Challenger Deep and discover the riches it holds.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was true I was short and muscular, which meant that, unlike long, lean gymnasts, I had to pay extra attention to my extensions and body shape to achieve the most graceful lines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He had achieved what he’d wanted to do — the Snitch had disappeared again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “How on earth do you achieve that effect? The skunk stripe,” she says, reaching up and brushing her own temple. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Not only would that be groveling, it probably wouldn’t achieve the desired effect; Dana would still hassle him without mercy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Eisenhowers brochure put forth a vague, practically useless timetable for when the United States might be expected to achieve a variety of objectives in space: “Early,” “Later,” “Still Later,” “And Much Later Still.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He understood that this could not be achieved through racing exploits alone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have found no evidence of large-scale warfare at this time, and thus suggest that Hopewell probably did not achieve its dominance by conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Based on what I told you about Russ, do you not think that our team would have a better chance of achieving its goals if he played for us this year?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It is simple, yet not nearly so easy to achieve. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In order to arrive at a definitive view, we should be able to survey the entire length of every chain, and that we can never hope to achieve. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If being married was a matter of becoming one, they had finally achieved what in better times they could not. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z With a house full of people all trying to achieve Persian Casual, there wasn’t much hot water left. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In 1958 he’d made history as the driving force behind the first ascent of Hidden Peak, a 26,470-foot mountain in the Karakoram Range of Pakistan—the highest first ascent ever achieved by American climbers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it,” the old king had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "And you will be the one to help me achieve my goals—finally. I want to be the most gorgeous woman in all of Orléans, and the world." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The great and noble effort to master the elements in order to achieve purity, perfection, and divinity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If he had been an only child or if Aron had been a different kind of boy, Cal might have achieved his relationship normally and easily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Black minstrels were largely viewed as celebrities, earning more money and achieving more fame than African Americans ever had before. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He looked so huge and wild, and Cecilia with her bare shoulders and thin arms so frail that Briony had no idea what she could achieve as she started to go toward them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They were dressed in jeans of that light blue, lighter and a little frayed at the seams, that can be achieved only by a hundred washings. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to accomplish any goal, one must feel worthy of achieving what one seeks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Rather than use logos—detailed arguments and eye-glazing statistics about the ways in which the charity achieves the greatest good, distributes its funds, and so on—the ad shoots straight for the heart. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Regardless of whether or not I achieve what I came here for, I believe I'm doing something, just being here. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Each knew that, alone, he would be unable to achieve the synthesis of an accurate and coherent world system, which they both felt to be imminent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The deballing occurred quite early one morning, shortly after Herbie had at last achieved a sort of painful, but at least semicomatose, state. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Forty thousand years ago, those crossings may have been achieved by bamboo rafts, low-tech but seaworthy watercraft still in use in coastal South China today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The situation looked very grim, and any understanding that had been achieved with the government seemed lost. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Many people have high hopes that Yelena can achieve what so few Russian women have been able to—flying into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z In just a few years she moved up the ladder from rural poverty to the high- achieving circles of the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Fermi had yet to achieve a chain reaction, so the availability of plutonium was still in question. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As good as everyone else was, she sometimes seemed to achieve a superior level of intelligence and sophistication as an actor. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z For my parents, however, those symbols became taunts, reminders of all they could not achieve in one lifetime. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z What would a society of eunuchs achieve?—But of course they are not eunuchs, in somer, but rather more comparable to preadolescents: not castrate, but latent. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Even if fairly dramatic changes were achieved while ignoring race, the results would be highly contingent and temporary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hermione, who had now achieved Apparition twice, was a little more confident, but Harry, who would not be seventeen for another four months, could not take the test whether ready or not. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I promise we’ll remember the little people when we achieve egg drop stardom.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Having achieved this much, I was scared to go further. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The first impression forced on me was that permanence is neither achieved nor desired by mobile people. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z What Ptolemy had managed to achieve was a system that accurately predicted movements in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Is that it? What exactly did you hope to achieve, following in the strikebreakers as though you were one of them? With those clothes, you stood out like a fly in soup.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The only thing I achieved was getting splinters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Of course, we have no way of knowing if this is the first time a sustained chain reaction has been achieved,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It’s about labor. The good things that were achieved—the railways, for example—but also how labor was exploited and the lengths the colonial enterprise went to.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Pope Julius II acted impetuously in all his affairs, and he found the times and circumstances so suitable to this method of procedure that he always achieved felicitous results. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z It is a pure white, horned horse when fully grown, though the foals are initially golden and turn silver before achieving maturity. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s getting dark, Mia,” she says, in that special tone that only mothers can achieve. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z She turned to him with a face of composure and relief —the efficient and undramatic face which women achieve when they have nursing to do, or some other employment of efficiency. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Du Bois didn't completely reject the economic path set out by Washington—but he insisted that commerce alone wouldn’t achieve the ultimate ends both he and Washington wanted: the full liberation of their people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes he achieved his ends by engaging in a dialogue instead of simply saying no. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the lights and the ever-present blue ghosts of the Columbian Guard, the fair achieved another milestone: For the first time Chicagoans could stroll at night in perfect safety. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Upward mobility was more difficult to achieve in the larger, more bureaucratic operation at Mother Langley, with a well-developed management structure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z What would I achieve by showing people at their worst? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an abiding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z By 1914, an altitude record of over eleven hundred feet had been achieved and flight would provide a whole new frontier for people around the world. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z To perceive that blowing up the drum will be the only way to achieve my mission. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Though some trains were able to go sixty miles per hour, they were exceptions, and such a speed was achieved only over a short distance. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The match would continue, indefinitely, until one player achieved ten wins, draws not counting. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Amsterdam News and Ebony always printed pictures of blacks who worked in downtown offices or who had achieved some small recognition. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I'd have achieved nothing and given them far too much information about myself. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I remember thinking that Governor Wallace would always be a permanent fixture holding black people back—a roadblock to the progress my people yearned to achieve. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I described the demands I had made, and the progress that had been achieved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Portland, Maine, I came closest to achieving a decent fit between income and expenses, but only because I worked seven days a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I judged it best to look away while she did so, but with her person positioned so closely, this could only be achieved by my twisting my head away at a somewhat unnatural angle. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I am confident when I say that he has the potential to achieve anything that he wants. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z To achieve the look, a Bryan house may have a section of brick and next to it one of stone, then one of cedar shake. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This allegation was far from the truth, but it achieved a certain currency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was such a pleasure to be back home again with all his friends, and everything achieved.. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Total, unequivocal sterilization is extremely difficult to achieve in practice and is almost impossible to verify afterward. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Let us say that the Muslims were to achieve the possession of the six or seven states that they claim are owed to Negroes by the United States as “back payment” for slave labor. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes I am lucky to achieve a steady state between replacing the returns and picking up items strewn on the racks and the floor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Englishman was fascinated with the part about the progress achieved at the crystal shop after the boy began working there. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Civil war would mean the destruction of what the ANC stood for; with civil war racial peace would be more difficult than ever to achieve. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But Lawrence and Oppenheimer understood that they could not have achieved what they did without each other. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now that I had achieved the goal I had set for myself, it made me wonder if all the pain and suffering, of both my body and mind, had been worth it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Aaron is crazy. But the Mayor knows enough to use craziness to achieve his ends.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But in the meantime, Nixon could declare he had finally achieved “peace with honor.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The boy could see that freedom depended on the possession of land; he was persuaded that, in one way or another, Negroes must achieve this possession. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I was proud to have achieved my B.A., but I also knew that the degree itself was neither a talisman nor a passport to easy success. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But thus far they had been detected only in cosmic rays; the possibility of a laboratory demonstration of their existence might well justify construction of the cyclotron that could achieve it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Just fourteen years old, he was now officially ranked as a chess master, the youngest person ever to achieve that ranking in the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘To do these things we have ridden far,’ said the king, ‘and we shall attempt them. But what we shall achieve only tomorrow will show.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Even relative freedom from fallout, well short of the 95 percent cleanliness Strauss and the scientists had mentioned, could be achieved only from reducing yields. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he still dreams that his children will someday join the millions who have lost their accents, gotten good educations, and firmly achieved the American dream. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z By uniting the small power of small sums, by skillfully manipulating it, they could achieve a consolidated financial power. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They discovered that they could achieve much better results by sowing the grains deep in the ground rather than haphazardly scattering them on the surface. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z To think Mr. Julian has made me realize I still had hope that once I really achieve some things, I won't have to deal with racist BS anymore. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z "It's a risk which we must take. All of us must sacrifice for the good of the whole. Change is achieved through sacrifice. We follow the laws of reality, so we make sacrifices." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The theory is, when black individuals achieve power for themselves, black people as a group benefit, as does society as a whole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The more tests given—and the more students enrolled in rigorous courses—the higher the ranking a school achieves. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Walter's freedom was, for some of the white people in town, well beyond what African Americans with limited education were able to achieve through legitimate means. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Harry, Ron, and Hermione were not the only ones who had been talking; the whole Hall had erupted in a buzz of conversation at the news that Snape had finally achieved his heart’s desire. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He had nearly achieved his goal of buying every single Hard Tack yearling on the market. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When he had finished combing his hair he moved into the room, and he moved with a majesty achieved only by royalty and master craftsmen. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a thing that sometimes happens in rowing that is hard to achieve and hard to define. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z ‘To see how your work goes, my friend,’ said Gandalf, ‘and to thank you for your aid in all that has been achieved.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Still, I wondered whether skin grafts could have achieved what Mother had with her comfrey and lobelia salve. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Because there’s no way I could ever achieve escape velocity: the speed an object must reach in order to break away from another object’s gravitational pull. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The search for scientific truth was never an end in itself, but a means toward attaining the wisdom necessary to achieve peace of mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z As a mother and educator, she was comforted by the thought that such remembrances would enable young people to have an opportunity to be exposed to her husband, ask questions, learn, and achieve. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z To achieve those goals, Klan leaders, who were all from the higher social classes, needed the support of lower-class whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But like Emma, Newman believed that you could get to heaven only through accepting Jesus’s teachings, by achieving a full sympathy of spirit with God’s spirit. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what this would achieve exactly, but it brought me a tiny measure of comfort to be nearer to him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The way to achieve the ultimate liberation through lifelessness is to cease paying heed to the illusion of reality. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We had achieved the ultimate triumph in a white man’s sport. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In principle I heartily agreed with this, for I knew that it was impossible for working people to forge instruments of political power until they had achieved unity of action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The passing of the regent removed from the scene an enlightened and tolerant man who achieved the goal that marks the reign of all great leaders: he kept his people united. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It might seem a marriage made in heaven, but there were still hurdles to be overcome before Kepler could achieve the breakthrough that made him a key figure in the history of science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Her husband worked hard for what he achieved, she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad said that this had traditionally kept the black people from achieving the unity which was the worst need of the black race in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Changing school boundaries was thorny under any conditions, but any effort to achieve a more balanced composition would inevitably be heightened by the politics of football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He, too, wanted a free South Africa but he thought that goal could be achieved faster and more peacefully through the government’s policy of separate development. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No mention that since then more than twenty thousand Americans had died in Vietnam—all to achieve a lousy deal that allowed North Vietnam’s army to stay in the South, making a lasting peace impossible. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Very shortly, fewer people asked her, and she achieved the reputation of being “stuck up.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z That higher birthrate of food producers, together with their ability to feed more people per acre, lets them achieve much higher population densities than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Next day new steps were to be taken; my plans could no longer be confined to my own breast; I must impart them in order to achieve their success. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And yet power is real, and many things, including, very often, love, cannot be achieved without it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z It is thus easy to think of scientific revolutions as deliberate acts, conducted by people who achieve what they set out to achieve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to the skeptics, Maya society was divided into a small number of blocs, each controlled by a dominant city, each striving to achieve some semblance of empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is essential, then, to keep one's attention focused on the present; to guard against any complacency creeping in on account of what one may have achieved in the past. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The agreeable nullity of Leon’s life was a polished artifact, its ease deceptive, its limitations achieved by invisible hard work and the accidents of character, none of which she could hope to rival. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Few people in history have achieved greater fame in a shorter period with less useful activity in the brainbox than Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mass defiance, especially in the rural areas, was never achieved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We thanked our Fuhrer that we had achieved this fantastic triumph,” said Henry. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There was no easy way to achieve his goal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z So to achieve the game’s maximum possible score, I had to find and eat each of those dots five more times, once with each of my five remaining lives. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Even to have awakened Katharine, if he could have achieved it, would have been like a seduction, although she was his wife. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “The temperatures that we can reach with our furnaces will easily double what your blacksmiths can achieve.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes a little subterfuge and chicanery is in order and the quickest way to achieve one’s goal. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The same impression struck them in Britain, where the most groundbreaking advances were being achieved in Manchester and Cambridge with the most modest handmade gear. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Only when agriculture came into practice—and that’s not very long ago in terms of the whole history—did a place achieve meaning and value and permanence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Having absorbed Lawrence’s confidence that further efficiencies eventually would be achieved, Groves reduced the specification for Y-12 to five hundred tanks, or five racetracks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Eric raised his head and achieved a faint ululation by beating on his open mouth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But when the boy wanted to learn how to achieve the Master Work, he became completely lost. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What if the solution to the structure of DNA could be achieved by the same “tricks” that Pauling had pulled? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Many of them would stop at nothing to achieve their goals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “My brother,” I said to Sobukwe, “there is nothing so dangerous as a leader making a demand that he knows cannot be achieved. It creates false hopes among the people.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “And as the Mockingjay, your primary goal of unifying the districts against the Capitol has been achieved. Don’t worry—if it goes well, we’ll fly you in for the surrender.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z This would be a key component in the full flowering of mechanics achieved following the work of Isaac Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In the twentieth century, what Madison aimed to achieve would have required a decision by the Supreme Court. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z How did he achieve such sheer shade without so much as a pause or a fingerprint? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The son of Grace and Ernest Turner, the daughter of Emily and Jack Tallis, the childhood friends, the university acquaintances, in a state of expansive, tranquil joy, confronted the momentous change they had achieved. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z With Bull, volume was the thing, but Virgil could achieve the same results by letting the interior ice harden his eyes or freeze the edges of his voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Having failed to achieve her goal, Mrs. van D. is obliged to change tactics. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z For the first time since I started working on the case, everything we were struggling to achieve finally seemed to make sense. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z If you want to be a star, you have to be willing to work harder than everyone else to achieve your goals and dreams! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Some of the littluns started a ring on their own; and the complementary circles went round and round as though repetition would achieve safety of itself. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Even families making less than $30,000 a year subscribe to the American dream; more than half say they have achieved it or will do so. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When I pull it out of the pot, I am happy to see what I have achieved. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It implies the existence of states, of state interests and of rational calculation about how they may be achieved. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z It was inclined to rely on a series of accidents to achieve its object It was patient, and did not think. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The two indisputably independent inventions of writing were achieved by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia somewhat before 3000 B.C. and by Mexican Indians before 600 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But how did this flow of biological information achieve the observed complexity of living systems? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Until now I had never doubted that I could achieve anything I wanted. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For they gave me no sign for a month yet that I was any nearer achieving that purpose than I had been at Fish Island. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z One day, perhaps the Thunderhead would announce that while everyone was looking the other way, humanity had achieved a sustainable presence beyond the bounds of planet Earth. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And this human truth has an especially grinding force here, where identity is almost impossible to achieve and people are perpetually attempting to find their feet on the shifting sands of status. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Only through the hottest fires, whispers the radio, can purification be achieved. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So it was logical to hope that since the buildings and the Deans and the curriculum could achieve this, I could achieve, perhaps unknowingly already had achieved, this growth and harmony myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It never occurred to me that those brief displays of affection between one's parents were rare or special or that they even required hard work to achieve. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z One cannot just introduce good institutions to poor countries like Paraguay and Mali and expect those countries to adopt the institutions and achieve the per-capita GNPs of the United States and Switzerland. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And if marriage was not achieved, there were alternative roles: teacher, librarian, or . . . well, something intelligent and public-spirited. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z McKissick, just five years older than Moore, not only believed in developing new strategies for achieving racial justice; he was an activist in his own right. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Found only in Ireland, it achieves a height of up to six inches and is green in colour. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1919, Rutherford had become the first scientist to achieve the medieval fantasy of chemical transmutation: by bombarding nitrogen with radioactivity, he had converted it into oxygen. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Seven would have a much better chance of achieving her biggest dream, becoming a witching-world-famous journalist, if she was in one of the powerful covens, like her mom. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Across the Atlantic, American eugenicists applauded the effort, often lamenting their own inability to achieve such effective measures. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t achieve glory or get a standing ovation, but I didn’t muck it up entirely, either. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The only other way he could have achieved this curling effect, we boys decided, was by prolonged upward brushing with a hard toothbrush in front of the looking-glass every morning. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But Campbell achieved the final confirmation, made in September 1922 from the northwestern coast of Australia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ceaugescu’s ban on abortion was designed to achieve one of his major aims: to rapidly strengthen Romania by boosting its population. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consummation, the peace, not of mere vacant satiety and nothingness, but of balanced life, of energies at rest and in equilibrium. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not know what the future would hold; but they did have a clear sense of what they were trying to achieve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the movies, you can achieve slow motion in two ways, first, by overcranking, basically capturing each frame at a much faster rate with your camera than it will be played back on a projector. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Master, we crave to know ... we beg you to tell us. . . how you have achieved this. . . this miracle . . . how you managed to return to us. “ Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Everything was different for her now she had achieved one small thing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was nine p.m. on July 20, 1971, and Bobby Fischer had achieved what no one else had ever accomplished in chess: winning two grandmaster matches without drawing or losing a single game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As we grew older, we organized matches against boys from neighboring villages, and those who distinguished themselves in these fraternal battles were gready admired, as generals who achieve great victories in war are justly celebrated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, Anthony admired all that Willard had achieved, and she eagerly accepted help from the group. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The tombs of the pharaohs and of Alexander the Great himself served as constant reminders of the heights she could hope to achieve. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I have achieved, finally, a face that a mustache can be drawn on, a face that attracts mustaches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And in this way finally he would achieve the intended bleached-out white, race of devils. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z By following this principle, the movement would achieve its short-term goal of integrating lunch counters, theaters, buses, and motels. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Declaration was still regarded as a product of the whole Continental Congress, not the work of one man, and had yet to achieve the symbolic significance it would in the nineteenth century. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Their most dramatic — and naive — promise was that liberation would be achieved by the end of 1963, and they urged Africans to ready themselves for that historic hour. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “A good beginning for a Solidarity Service,” thought Bernard miserably, and foresaw for himself yet another failure to achieve atonement. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And I’d get a big speech about Marcus and how black youngsters need to achieve and how we got to work so hard to show ourselves better than the white students. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not wholly so, yet it did not achieve its end. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “None of that has anything to do with me liking Elliot. I’m not trying to achieve a goal here,” Jenna said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The letter, whoever had written it, had achieved its intended effect. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In my era at Truman, many graduates did go on to achieve high levels of success—they became doctors, lawyers, college professors, engineers, business owners, high-ranking military officers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Your soul could live hundreds—maybe even thousands—of lives before you got out of the loop of life and death by achieving enlightenment. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was playing for a draw with white, but Bobby played so badly that I achieved a winning position. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They seem to achieve some sort of completion on that day that makes them steady enough on their feet to appear graceful even if they are not. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt, though, that she could achieve better results in the long run by objecting to the part of the anatomy selected for punishment, rather than the punishment itself. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z So what exactly was I trying to achieve? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Experts expected that Petrosian would follow his conservative style and try to achieve a draw, to break Fischer’s winning streak. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “This is a flower that achieved the impossible,” she told me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I discovered that to achieve perfect personal silence all I had to do was to attach myself leechlike to sound. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes was heroic as much for the obstacles he overcame as for the results he achieved. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The GUTs also predict that at this energy the different spin-'/2 matter particles, like quarks and electrons, would also all be essentially the same, thus achieving another unification. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The urge to penetrate unknown realms, to achieve something original, may be felt by every one of us now and than. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Thunderhead achieved consciousness, when it was merely known as “the cloud,” criminals—and even public agencies—would find ways into people’s private doings, against the law, and exploit that information. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In any event, Cleopatra knew about Berenice’s murdering ways, and she understood that people would do anything to achieve and maintain power. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z With my red scarf, the emblem of the Young Pioneers, tied around my neck, and my heart bursting with joy, I achieved and grew every day until that fateful year, 1966. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I understand that when it comes to campus diversity, the ideal would be to achieve something resembling what’s often shown on college brochures—smiling students working and socializing in neat, ethnically blended groups. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If the state needed cleansing, it would not be achieved through genetic selection, but through the reeducation of all individuals and the erasure of former selves. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z While I learned the importance of virtue from Elnora's conduct books, Gertrude's romances held out the delights of love and the means to achieve them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I would lose that, plus the self-confidence I’ve worked so hard to achieve, if I were to be subjected to criticism halfway through the job. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A common bet-hedging adaptation by which wild plants achieve that result is to enclose their seeds in a thick coat or armor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “You quest to achieve the bottom,” he says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Positive results in Martian microbiology were achieved in seven different samplings in two locales on Mars separated by 5,000 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet a number of African fighters were able to triumph over these difficulties and achieve great success. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She even knew how to achieve this—bite him under the chin. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Lacking competition, racehorses in workouts rarely approach the speeds they achieve in races. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I started wondering how I am going to achieve anything in life, if I can’t even start the day without alcohol. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z You have the peel, the mere skin.You have not nor will you ever achieve heights so dizzy you’ll be feasting on the apple itself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z ‘In every human observation,’ I explained, ‘there is a margin of error. This is because our senses are not foolproof. In fact, some people believe that one hundred per cent certainty is impossible to achieve.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “This test,” he says, “was to disprove your theory of how to achieve the bottom of the trench.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z My friend Candace still hadn’t qualified for a national team, so I truly recognized what an accomplishment I had achieved. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The run-down house, the overheated room, the stacked mattress, and the hoarded toilet paper—all remind him how far he would have to go to achieve a success like John Zannikos’s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She said that they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Attuned to each other to an almost spooky degree, they achieved things that others considered impossible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z What mattered was what they achieved, not how they started. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And there’s no way to quantify the professional gain many scientists have achieved with the help of HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The appearance of Woundwort had achieved what Blackberry and Fiver could not. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakable. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z If nature could achieve such remarkable effects on animal populations through survival and selection, Galton imagined accelerating the process of refining humans via human intervention. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But she’s always there to help you set goals and achieve them. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Over a longer stretch of time, the Farewell Address achieved transcendental status, ranking alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address as a seminal statement of America's abiding principles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Though no fan of the Inka, he conceded that “only a very small number of empires throughout the whole world have succeeded in achieving this feat.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “When I think of the days I worked and the miles I traveled to achieve these things for the Woman’s building, my ire rises a little yet.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They had done so—until, in the course of time, the ends had been achieved, but the force had remained upon his hands unchastened. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I told the court that we believed we could achieve our demands without violence, through our numerical superiority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value. “It’s only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “But enough delay. Even greater things lie ahead, Reynard, much greater things, and we must waste no time achieving them.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He could not hope to match the level of luxury and attention to detail that Cleopatra had so flawlessly achieved. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Together they will achieve lives filled with a purpose. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I was proud of Father for wanting to be a dragon again, and even prouder of the fact that he was now so close to achieving his ambition to fly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, early Australians and New Guineans were probably capable of intentionally traveling over water to visible islands, and were using watercraft sufficiently often that the colonization of even invisible distant islands was repeatedly achieved unintentionally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now that the hyper-rich have achieved a critical mass, property values have zoomed so high that the less- well-off are being forced to leave and the island is becoming nature’s ultimate gated community. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Elaine, who had never been more than an incidental part of the muddle, had achieved a peace of her own. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z All they could hope to achieve against a Panzer division was an extra hour or two for the retreating soldiers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His model was intended as a way of achieving that and, on its own terms, it failed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I couldn’t quite achieve a normal speaking voice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They lacked political and social mechanisms, which we take for granted, to achieve peaceful resolution of serious disputes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I take off, looking for a water dispenser with one of those hot taps for making tea, so I can quickly pour the perfect mix of hot and cold to achieve room temperature. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z What fantastic levels might be achieved by using this technique on normal people. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z "We're scientists. We must take the risks of our science and our will to achieve. Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1913, though women had not yet achieved the right to vote in federal elections, Illinois extended local suffrage to women. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This is something I would very much like to do, though no clue how carving a rock will achieve it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “The thing is,” whispered Hermione through the dark, “we could have achieved that with Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Darwin had, it seemed, achieved yet another marvelous synthesis between opposing poles of biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Some are already in use and have achieved brilliant success. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And above all, a prince should strive in all of his actions to achieve the reputation of a great man of outstanding intelligence. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But here he was, at the point of finding his treasure, and he reminded himself that no project is completed until its objective has been achieved. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z More sweepingly, it suggested that the enormous but latent potential of the American economy required more than mere release to achieve its full potential. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His winter victories said little of his quality, as they had been achieved on the suspect terrain of the West. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achieving. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The advocates of nuclear disarmament seem to believe that, if they could achieve their aim, war would become tolerable and decent. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z With his chubby face and his grumpy expression, he looked like a Buddha who’d achieved enlightenment and wasn’t thrilled about it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She achieved something like her natural sleep position—curled on her side, her hands tucked under one cheek. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You are wrong. We do care. We care greatly for the greater good of a singular Collective. The Collective has made difficult choices over all these units to achieve this point.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I held Hamlet as he took his last breath. He and your brother forgave each other their wrongs. That much I did achieve.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was over too quickly, and nothing for certain was achieved. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z |
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