Religion is still defined as ' any pursuit which dominates the life of many men and cements them together in common dedication to an aim' (159).
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The pebbles cemented in guano, are in a swale about 10 m east of the 1911 hut porch.
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Located along the edges of the pyramid were ten more qualities (honesty, sincerity, integrity, faith, patience, etc.) cementing the entire structure in place.
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Meanwhile, they cemented his spiritual intimacy with his more intellectually and spiritually inclined father.
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In addition to grains of different composition, sandstones also contain mineral cements and grain coatings.
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Fiscal reform was a critical component of this, as it contributed both to redressing distortionary state interventions and to cementing fragile macroeconomic stabilisation plans.
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Medium-grained sandstones (protoquartzite) contain quite well-rounded quartz grains, quartzite lithoclasts, muscovite, plagioclase (rare) and bioclasts, especially echinoderm plates, cemented by calcite spar.
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What follows is a succession of medium-grey mudstones, which are also shelly and locally silty, interbedded with thin cemented horizons and organicrich layers.
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The present day petrography of this formation shows a medium-grained and well-sorted quartzite with syntaxial quartz cements and virtually zero porosity.
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Such anomalously low values can be attributed to overprinting by isotopically light cements precipitated during diagenesis of the organic-rich intervals.
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Through gift-giving, women are cementing exchange relations with their natal kin as security against extreme adversity.
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The very pre-eminence of the crown, in fact, cemented the fundamental coincidence of interests between oligarchs and monarchs.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of laboratory studies cemented the view that social influence has nefarious consequences on otherwise rational individuals.
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Alternatively, surface stereom could have been filled with syntaxial cements and then etched out during weathering.
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As the storm swell dissipated, the continued application of layer-parallel shear stresses macerated any stratigraphy not already cemented to form the platy, intraclastic matrix.
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cement block
Cementblockpartitions in conveniences which, to specification, should have been nine inches, were put in at 14 inches, and had to be pulled down and replaced.
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cement factory
Good progress has been made with the preliminary work, and acementfactoryis about to come into operation.
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cement floor
Around 1958, acementfloorwas added and the roof to the porch was raised.
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