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a concrete commitment

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

Fires are less frightening today than they once were, because more and more houses are built of concrete, and concrete houses do not burn as easily as the old wooden ones.

It's a concrete bridge, but several places along its length have collapsed.

If the demolition of buildings is uncontrolled, a fine city is in danger of becoming nothing more than a concrete jungle.

A committee should apply the focus to the more concrete problem.

So it's built from stone? "It's ordinary reinforced concrete."

Concrete can be reinforced by putting steel bars inside it.

If Buddhism is attractive, it is because it appears as a possibility of touching the infinite and obtaining happiness without having any concrete religious obligations. A spiritual auto-eroticism of some sort.

The distinctive narrow windows of the grid facade are being removed, while the surrounding concrete is being restored.

This is a concrete example of how the EU affects our day-to-day lives.

This building is made of concrete. The construction workers concrete the walls of a building. Concrete buildings are very solid.

We needed tonnes of concrete to build our house.

Do you have any concrete proposals about how we can cut costs?

His notion was neither concrete nor abstract.

particular method

In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.

Boeing's safety experts have joined others in the industry to form an international task force to try to eliminate one particular kind of air crash known as controlled flight into terrain, CFIT.

The film “Helvetica” is not so much about one particular typeface as it is about the last fifty years in Western graphic design.

Since most speakers of Esperanto have learned the language through self study, the Internet in general, and websites such as www.lernu.net in particular, have been a great boon to the language.

In particular, it is customary for actual examples of use of the harmonic mean to generally cover "average speed," and explain no further than that.

The state of the art is the highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field, achieved at a particular time.

We need to distinguish what a sentence could mean from what it actually does mean when used by one particular speaker on one particular occasion.

Spirits are to be found all over the world. This school was built upon the site of a shrine and thus there is a particular tendency for them to gather.

We can conjecture that it may be advantageous for a particular bird to be known to its neighbors or its mate.

At school I had enjoyed reading Japanese literature in English translation, in particular Soseki's I am a Cat and Kokoro, and Akutagawa's The Nose and Kappa.

Slotted spoons have a particular role in the traditional absinthe ritual. They are used to hold a sugar cube over a glass as one dissolves it into her drink with cold water.

when handling or checking cash the cashier should exercise particular care. he is wrong in every particular.

The Internet in particular provides details about our private lives, something which was unimaginable a few years ago.

So, I didn't call for any particular reason; I just wanted to hear your voice. If you're busy, I'll let you go.

This areas are us!

Even now, many years after the cold war, there is still much bitterness between Germans and Russian, especially in areas which were occupied by the Soviet Union.

Advances in science and technology and other areas of society in the last 100 years have brought to the quality of life both advantages and disadvantages.

This movement has not yet achieved all its goals, but it has already had considerable impact in many areas of male-female relations.

Solar energy seems to offer more hope than any other source of energy, particularly because those areas most in need of water lie rather close to the equator and have a relatively clear atmosphere.

The giant panda is recognised as a national treasure of China, but in some conservation areas it is still killed by poachers.

This is true partly because non-Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates.

As he unhesitatingly extended his arm towards me, he came to touch my private areas.

Service industries include communication, transportation, distribution, finance and a host of other areas which do not involve production of goods.

And now, think about a county, any county, and imagine this county divided into five or six different areas.

The Waterfront's success could mean that other cities soon follow, creating areas that offer people a new kind of city living, with all the benefits and none of the stress, noise and pollution of crowded centres.

How do the situations shown in the film illustrate possible differences and areas of possible cultural conflict between our culture and the American one?

In some rural areas, the Internet is important for agricultural information, as well as being particularly useful for the purposes of agricultural production technologies and pricing.

During the Golden Week holidays, many volunteers went to the quake and tsunami-hit areas in Tohoku.

The Viking expansion from the 9th century onwards reached areas such as Normandy, Galicia, Andalusia, Sicily and Crimea.