The course which basically comprised lectures and demonstrations started with a talk by the tall, thin, long-haired Nandakumar Kamat.

Basically one has to hold the tail with one hand and control the snake using the snake hook (a long stick with an iron hook at the end) with the other.

Because it is basically cut off from civilization.

Basically, you'll be condemning an entire race to extinctionjust like the dodo bird or the winkledejimpker!" "Couldn't we use criminals and thieves to feed to the crocodiles?" suggested Nibbles.

The Old Testament, for example, is basically the repeated story of how younger sons attempt to outwit their fathers for an inherited birth right.

It had been pleasant enough, I mean, O.K., she wrote in her journal, but men's bodies were basically terra incognita.

Basically, Heidi was afraid she'd never have a baby.

Man's nature is basically bad, but by working on himself within the framework of society, he can change his nature and can develop.

When, towards the end of the second century B.C., a kind of examination system was introduced, this attitude was not basically changed.

Similar to the Chou state, the Hsiung-nu state contained, especially around the ruler, an element of court bureaucracy which, however, never developed far enough to replace the basically feudal character of administration.

The plan was basically accepted in 477, put into action in 485, and remained the land law until c. 750.

Basically, both groups were against allowing the developing middle class and especially the merchants to gain too much freedom, and whatever freedom they in fact gained, came through extra-legal or illegal practices.

These activities along the coast led the Chinese to the belief that basically all foreigners who came by ships were "barbarians"; when towards the end of the Ming epoch the Japanese were replaced by Europeans who did not behave much differently and were also pirate-merchants, the nations of Western Europe, too, were regarded as "barbarians" and were looked upon with great suspicion.

Finally, the gentry basically remained anti-industrial and anti-business.

The build-up of heavy industry enabled China to conduct an aggressive policy towards the countries surrounding her, but industrialization had to be paid for, and, as in other countries, it was basically agriculture that had to create the necessary capital.

For most people proofreading is basically checking spellings and omissions by the typesetter.

His attempt at Margao News was not half as successful, basically because there was no significant local involvement and input in Margao.

The strategy in Squash Tennis is basically the same as Squash Racquets; i.e., to control the so-called "T" or the intersection of the service court lines, by keeping your opponent up front, off to the sides, or behind you, the majority of the time (see fig.

In early India, marriage had been regarded as a contract between families and romantic love between husband and wife as an accidental, even an unexpected product of what was basically a utilitarian agreement.

Its style was basically Western Indian, yet being executed in an area so far to the east, it also possessed certain novelties of manner.

But if the war shows anything it is that basically English character has not changed.

Basically, therefore, the Roman world was divided first into Romans and non-Romans and second into masters and slaves, with a third category which consisted of an immense bureaucracy (including the military), a professional and technological group and a heavy burden of persistent parasitism.

Its European homeland is basically divided by potent fears, ambitions, feuds and conflicts, and separated geographically from North America and Asia.