When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating , among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivative...
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and ...
I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.
I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.
The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
The money opens many doors. That of the coffin, among other things. (L'argent ouvre de nombreuses portes. - Celle du cercueil, entre autres.)
Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
