By putting himself in an attitude of complete passivity he is more nearly able to give back just what he heard from the teacher or read in the book.
The school takes the attitude that the pupil did not make the right choice; by coöperating with him, the effort is made to have his second factory experience correspond more nearly to his abilities and interest.
The girls’ technical high school does about what the vocational grammar schools are doing excepting that the work is more thorough, so that the graduate is more nearly prepared to take up work in some one industry.
There is no doubt that Moschus is more nearly related to the Cervidae than to any other Ruminants.
The oldest forms seem to be more nearly akin to the living Muntjacs, and their remains occur in the lowest Miocene beds of both Europe and America.
This animal is more nearly approximated to "the modern standard" of Rhinoceroses than is its possible ancestor Aceratherium.
In regard to iron ore supplies of proper grade and quantity, the United States is more nearly self-sufficing than any of its competitors.
Certain developments in progress, notably the project for concentration of siliceous eastern Mesabi Range ores, make it likely that future domestic production will more nearly be able to meet the requirements.
I shall have an opportunity hereafter of describing it more nearly; from this point it looks as if spiders had woven it in the air.
The seat of the Lord Chancellor here is also a Woolsack, but of rather a more aristocratical sort, more nearly allied to the Golden Fleece.
It has been wisely said, that love is more nearly akin to hate than to liking.
The family is most accomplished, and the Scotch mind is more nearly akin to the German than the English is.
On this account, as well as on account of the direction of motion, the shape of the actuating cam may be more nearly that of the form required to be produced in proportion as the pivoted centre falls directly beneath the tool point.
Equal quantities of corn, therefore, will, at distant times, be more nearly of the same real value, or enable the possessor to purchase or command more nearly the same quantity of the labour of other people.
It may seem a curious paradox that the latest and most perfect flower of the western civilisation is more nearly akin to the spiritual life of the serfs and villeins than it is to that of the grange or the abbey.
For this reason, the serpent is supposed to be more nearly related to lightning than to man; more nearly related to man than is lightning, because mortal and less mysterious.
It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken.
It resembles the pocket gopher in size, form, and habits, but is more nearly allied to the porcupines.
Real identical twins, being two halves of the same egg-cell, have the same heredity, and their natures are therefore much more nearly identical.
The Rocky Montain goat (Haplocercus montanus) is more nearly related to the antelopes.
It is possible that the birds of the Territory of Misiones and of some parts of Northern Corrientes may be more nearly akin to those of Brazil, but we may say generally that the Argentine Republic belongs to the Patagonian Subregion.
If we be more nearly real we are reasons arraigned before a jury of dream-phantasms.
This time we are spared contact with the anthropologists and have geologists instead, but I am afraid that the relief to our finer, or more nearly real, sensibilities will not be very great.
In color of ears, length of zygomata, and size and shape of the incisive foramina these specimens are more nearly like Z.
I have examined these specimens and find them to be more nearly like Z.
Geographically, this specimen probably ismore nearly a topotype than any other examined.
The female is smaller than primulina and in this small size and in general configuration of the skull, viewed dorsally, is more nearly like noveboracensis.
The dorsal outline of the skull is more nearly flat (less convex) in some.
In other respects it agrees with, or is more nearly like, spadix.
Side-note: Parmenides and Pythagoras--more nearly akin to Plato and Aristotle.
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