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  • Not only can significant aspects of thinking, feeling, and acting be concurrently exhibited and experienced in the enactment, but, as Corsini points out, “due to the summating effects of each on the other, they tend to be heightened—exaggerated—forced to fuller limits” p.

    Planned Short-Term Treatment RICHARD A. WELLS 1994

  • Others had thought the task easier of accomplishment by measuring each division or aspect of intelligence separately, and summating the results.

    The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916

  • [382] By the age of twenty-five, as G. Hirth remarks (_Wege zur Heimat_, p. 541), an energetic and sexually disposed man in a large city has, for the most part, already had relations with some twenty-five women, perhaps even as many as fifty, while a well-bred and cultivated woman at that age is still only beginning to realize the slowly summating excitations of sex.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • In the establishment of these other sciences, the successful stroke was always to take some simple process actually observable in operation -- as denudation by weather, say, or variation from parental type, or change of dialect by incorporation of new words and pronunciations -- and then to generalize it, making it apply to all times, and produce great results by summating its effects through the ages.

    Pragmatism William James 1876

  • In June 2008, Steenkolk completed a 35-mile mountain trek, which included summating Mount Phillips (elevation 11,700 feet), at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, N.M. After graduating in June from Boise High School, Steenkolk plans to complete a backcountry trek at the ranch and attend the Order of the Arrow's National Conclave in Indiana.

    IdahoStatesman.com News Updates 2009

  • Nonetheless, traditionally, in order to demonstrate your sincerity, you must complete a good number of preliminary practices, including a mastery of various states of meditative consciousness, summating in a stable post-postconventional adaptation, all of which is well and good.

    Integral Options Cafe 2009

  •  Skin dose - The actual dose received by any area of skin summating given dose contributions received through body from any beam.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • I think we should escape the notion of an article as summating a viewpoint, but embrace the idea that a gateway article is an open and interesting essay introducing different viewpoints and varied aspects of the subject.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • On the eve of con - summating it, he thus addresses his heavenly Father:

    Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague 1812

  • In the UK, the chorus of headlines summating another disappointment in this nation whose relationship to its football team is perhaps still about coming to grips with post-imperial melancholia, were pregnant with deeper meaning: “England just isn’t good enough.”

    Lapham's Quarterly: The Fine Art of Losing the World Cup 2010

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