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Examples
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He has what we call houding, which is presence and attitude.
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Consistently in its newsletters, studies have found that IT jobs are abundant and recruiters have been practically houding computer science/engineering majors with job offers.
Daily Kos Falls Into My Trap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Those Victorian houses were higher density than the houding replacuing them and were regarded as a hell on earth. the whole reaosn we have the "Town and Country" Planning act is to try to avoid the mistakes of that development .... and we are not getting it right.
In Praise of Nimby`s Newmania 2007
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This is the piece of human excrememt that sent our soldier off to TWO wars badly equipped and ensured that he had enough money to fund his ever expanding houding portfolio.
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Those Victorian houses were higher density than the houding replacuing them and were regarded as a hell on earth. the whole reaosn we have the "Town and Country" Planning act is to try to avoid the mistakes of that development .... and we are not getting it right.
In Praise of Nimby`s Newmania 2007
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De eigenzinnige, eigenwijze houding van Smith en zijn veelgelaagde, intelligente en intrigerende teksten wekken bij fans van The Fall obsessief gedrag op: er zijn aan The Fall gewijde websites op Internet waarop gepoogd is alle teksten op te schrijven, en waarop wordt nagegaan waaraan Smith precies refereert als hij het heeft over 'Balti, Vimto and Spangles', of '2000 dead Thai monk in SS uniform'.
The Fall 1999
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Vandag staan u voor 'n Derde Vryheidsoorlog en die wyse waarop u deelneem aan hierdie stryd sal ook tot' n groot mate die houding teenoor Afrikaans en Afrikaners help bepaal.
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Om werklik u ondersteuners te help om vorentoe te beweeg en deel van die nuwe Suid - Afrika te word kan u tog nie voortgaan met u party se ambivalente en soms antagonistiese houding teen regstellende aksie nie.
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Dit was dieselfde ou rassistiese houding wat daartoe gelei het dat u Onderwyskollege in 1926 gesluit is omdat die toetentydse Onderwysdepartement geredeneer het dat Kleurlinge nie tersiere opleiding nodig het nie.
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Luke, jy is nogal "Cheeky", Papie en jy moet maar liewer emigreer want ek dink nie jy sal weer in die RSA rugby speel nie en indien ek verkeerd is sal daar 29 ander manne op die veld wees wat nie jou houding gaan verdra nie.
Muti 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word houding
"Houding" is a term from the art theory of the Dutch Golden Age which has no equivalent in English. Houding has to do with the "pleasing and effective evocation of space." Another translation renders it as "the tonal and spatial organization of the picture as a whole."
It combines several factors, including color, chiaroscuro, and atmospheric perspective, all working together to achieve a sense of depth and illusion. If the houding is successful, the colors are chosen and modified with depth and atmosphere in mind, with "the powerful at the front, and the less forceful further back according to their nature."
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/12/houding.html
November 2, 2017