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Usage examples of envisage.

It seems likely that messianism formed the principal medium through which angelology impinged on nascent Christology, and that Christ, precisely as messiah, was envisaged as an angel-like spiritual being.

There are few incentives for a Service or the Joint Staff to reward innovation or divestiture of roles or missions in order to change the character and mix of land, sea, air, and space forces and to prepare them to fight the battles we must envisage for the twenty-first century.

It attacked us in a way no epidemiologist envisaged, even in their worst nightmares.

And also some differences, for Stauffenberg was not satisfied with the kind of stodgy, conservative, colorless regime which the old rusty leaders of the conspiracy, Beck, Goerdeler and Hassell, envisaged as soon as National Socialism was overthrown.

Henry Lionel Leopold dear Henry Flower earnestly Mr Leopold Bloom envisaged battered candlesticks melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags.

Mais, puisque les choses sont ainsi, il vaut mieux les envisager a ce point de vue et ne considerer que le rapprochement que cet incident amenera entre nous.

But where in the past the exponents of the mnemotechnic art might have envisaged themselves as spectators at such a theatre, looking inward to the stage as an elaborate set full of memory cues, in the Renaissance memory theatres the mnemotechnician was supposed to look outward from the stage, the actor facing an audience whose location in their ordered ranks of seats provided the sequence clues.

No one envisaged that the most valuable real estate at the heart of most of our old cities would be tax-exempt, as churches and temples and orgone boxes increased their holdings and portfolios.

Dostoevsky envisaged, however, was not one that he was able to incarnate artistically, no matter how much he might have wished to do so.

The gospel of the Supermind which Sri Aurobindo brought to man envisages a new level of consciousness beyond Mind.

On the other hand, to give people like Guerrero, Lucas, and even Angers their due, they had an ideal of their ownthey wanted Ciudad de Vados to continue as it had begun, a showpiece of the Western Hemisphere and the kind of place they had envisaged when it was founded.

As the Caledonian savages danced through that long-gone night, a thousand years, perhaps, before the prototypes of Joseph Smith, John Alexander Dowie and Aimee Semple Mc-Pherson envisaged the Star of Bethlehem, a new sun looked down upon the distant land of the Athapascans and another scene--American Indian savages.

Tony could envisage them walking along, Masters and Overland in front, Braker and Yates behind, making their slow way to the cave, Overland dreading what he was to find there.

I Tony Bridgeman had deceived her, in a way so cruel I and evil she could never have envisaged it.

The amazing result was a spontaneous outburst of sympathy and partisanship such as Chips, in his wildest dreams, had never envisaged.