The eclogues depict the shepherds' evening recreations ofathletics, dancing, music, and especially verse competition.
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Such a disadvantage, if it exists, would be expected to be less pronounced in swimming than inathletics.
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What if musicianship is seen differently from the way ourathleticsanalogy would suggest?
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Other examples of discrimination on the basis of natural attributes of persons can be cited in insurance, education,athletics, or commercial life.
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There are many obvious applications such asathleticscoaching, monitoring patients after an operation, identifying fatigue in public service drivers and private motorists.
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This leads to a consideration of screening for athletic potential and a general discussion of performance enhancing drugs inathletics.
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Consider as well the parent of a child who is serious aboutathletics.
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Both reviewers of this research noted that cer tain professions are simultaneously age- and gender-segregated, such as professionalathleticsor stock exchange work.
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However, it was also assigned to individuals who had special skills, prowess inathletics, storytelling abilities, or exceptional piety.
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Outside the walls of this differentiated set of educational arrangements, there arose a great variety of youth clubs, social service groups, competitiveathletics, social service organizations, and religious groups.
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In none of these cases is there a systematic exercise of choice on the part of the empowered, let alone anything in the way of socialathletics.
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However, the son had developed his own interest inathletics, and the father showed little interest in or knowledge of the son's achievements in this field.
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It would seem, then, that physical and physiological factors may be less important in influencing male/female differences in performance at swimming than at trackathletics.
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In the case ofathleticsthe regression is still positive, but only just and certainly markedly less so than was the case in either 1948 or 1956.
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Athletics, swimming, camping, rock climbing, sailing and so on seem to be an excuse to expose oneself to stimuli from largely natural causes, to which one can respond.
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athletics department
Theathleticsdepartmentwas founded in 1919.
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athletics facility
The proposed platform remains poor value for money and an inappropriate solution to the need for an international athletics facility.
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college athletics
As a result of these practices, numerous concerns were raised, including the desire to regulatecollegeathletics.
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