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When I complained to my boss about my co-worker sexually harassing me, he was very dismissive, and suggested that I was exaggerating the whole thing.

displace Repeat the copper sulphate test, using excess of caustic soda to displace the ammonia from the ammonium sulphate.

If those who labour for and attain what they think to be the truth about any matter, were a little better informed concerning mental processes and the conditions under which ideas grow and displace others, they would be more patient with mankind; teachers of every rank might then discover that what is often called stupidity may be nothing else than mental inertia, which can no more be made active by simply willing than can the movement of a cannon ball 9 by a like effort.

In probing between the ring of anthers (that are pressed against the style by the S-shaped curvature of the filaments so as to retain the pollen), he needs must displace some of them and release the vitalizing dust through the large terminal pores in the anther-sacs.

These are most conspicuous when they displace the chlorophyll in autumn foliage.

Henry was to keep the Crown for life, and Richard was to displace Henry’s son as heir-apparent.

No opposition was made to the accession of Richard the Second, but there seems to have been a strong notion in men’s minds that John of Gaunt sought to displace his nephew.

It may be doubted whether the people have not a more real control over the Executive, when the House of Commons, or, in the last resort, the people itself in the polling-booths (as in 1868), can displace a Government at any moment, than they have in constitutions in which an Executive, however much it may have disappointed the hopes of those who chose it, cannot be removed before the end of its term of office, except on the legal proof of some definite crime.

The first is, that the presentation of the palm of the hand towards the object, which we wish to displace, often brings about the movement.

I saw the box slowly displace itself, and drag itself over the plush-covered table, for a distance of nearly five inches.

Not all the Dryasdusts in England and Germany combined will ever displace the tradition of Amy Robsart and the concealed trap-door.

The Middlesex Justices Bill was conceived in too parsimonious a spirit, and the right sort of men did not come forward to fill the important posts of police justices, many of the new magistrates, in fact, being recruited from the ranks of the old discredited class, which it was one of the principal objects of the Bill to displace.

Supposing the stomach acid to be lactic, it would be too weak to displace mineral acids.

These medicines all act upon and pass through the glands of the several mucous surfaces which they affect: while so doing, they stimulate the healthy function and secretion of the gland, and cause it to displace the morbid one.

If in small quantity, it is neutralized by the slight excess of alkali in the blood; if in larger amount, it may exceed this alkali, and displace and set free other acids in the blood, combining with their bases on account of its strong affinities.

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