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  • I grant you that only by struggle do we reach our highest feeling of accom - plishment, but that need not be struggle against another of our kind.

    Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975

  • Cesare Borgia's most significant accom - plishment was establishing his independent power de - spite the fact that he had received his state by the power of the king of France.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JERROLD E. SEIGEL 1968

  • The blankets and cushions were all piled at one end; bedmaking, it seemed, wasn't a Fuzzy accom-plishment.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • It is mainly a program, and faith in the possibility of its accom - plishment in principle is only founded on partial successes.

    Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950

  • I advise you to learn, for German is a valuable accom - plishment to teachers.

    Little Women 1921

  • NEW PARADIGM: THREE-DIMENSIONAL OUTCOME ASSESSMENT 293 to breathe is very different from being alive and plishment.

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  • Some of these manuscripts are hundreds of years in the holdings of the Ahmed Baba Institute reveals the vibrant old, and were written in a variety of styles of Arabic calligraphy by atmosphere of piety, debate, scientific enquiry and literary accom - scholars and copyists who were part of an African Islamic intel - plishment that flourished in Timbuktu at the height of its period as a lectual tradition centred in Timbuktu.

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  • We find then as the captive Jews, the accom - plishment of the prophecy in my text; and we enjoy, during the years of our dispersion, favours similar to those which soothed the Jews during their captivityo But can we promise ourselves that ours shall come to a similar close?

    Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague 1812

  • Common-wealth, to be an institution of the Lord, and much availeable through his blessing for the accom - plishment of his promises to his people.

    Collections Massachusetts Historical Society cn 1792

  • "The company have not the general power of disposal, incident to the absolute right of property; they are obliged to use it in a pai ticular manner and for the accom - plishment of a well-defined public object; they are re - quired to render frequent accounts of their management of this property to the agents of the public; and they are bound ultimately to surrender it to the public jit a price and upon terms established."

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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