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- noun Plural form of
attainment .
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Examples
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A conceit of the sufficiency of our attainments is a great enemy to our improvement.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Understanding the reasons why so many black and brown Americans enter adulthood with extremely weak skills and low educational attainments is central to figuring out how to change the future.
How Can the Achievement Gap Be Closed? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Understanding the reasons why so many black and brown Americans enter adulthood with extremely weak skills and low educational attainments is central to figuring out how to change the future.
How Can the Achievement Gap Be Closed? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In 1861 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he commenced reading mathematics, not at first equal in attainments to the best of his contemporaries, but his exceptional abilities soon enabled him to overtake his competitors.
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The cultivation of personal charm, sometimes to the neglect of more solid and valuable attainments, is the more natural, because, as I have already pointed out, the material rewards of wifehood and motherhood have no connection at all with excellence in the performance of the duties of wifehood and motherhood – the wage paid to a married woman being merely a wage for the possession of her person.
Marriage as a Trade 1909
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Note, A humble spirit, in the midst of high attainments, is a great ornament to any man; it sets his good qualities off to much greater advantage.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Lack of joy means not rejoicing in other's happiness or constructive attainments, which is also the defining characteristic of jealousy.
The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005
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Lack of joy means not rejoicing in other's happiness or constructive attainments, which is also the defining characteristic of jealousy.
The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon 2005
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The Book of Ecclesiastes is a sardonic reflection of another side of the problem of evil: not the unmerited sufferings of righteous men but the final futility and vanity of all so-called attainments and satisfactions of human life.
PROBLEM OF EVIL RADOSLAV A. TSANOFF 1968
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With this exception and a few dollars from the Indiana conference and friends, his attainments are the results of the sacrificing life and determined efforts.
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