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And yet, so far was I beyond my tables, that all I needed was a mere look at a man to know his predispositions, his co-ordinations, and the index fraction of his motion wastage.
Chapter 1 2010
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Interagency co-ordinations began to take place as well as multiple co-ordinations and communications with BP and the National Parks Services got to work on contingency plans to protect wildlife and coastlines.
Susan Deily-Swearingen: Mike Brown Is a Heck of a Conspiracy Theorist 2010
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Interagency co-ordinations began to take place as well as multiple co-ordinations and communications with BP and the National Parks Services got to work on contingency plans to protect wildlife and coastlines.
Susan Deily-Swearingen: Mike Brown Is a Heck of a Conspiracy Theorist 2010
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So then always that knowledge is worthiest which is charged with least multiplicity, which appeareth to be metaphysic; as that which considereth the simple forms or differences of things, which are few in number, and the degrees and co-ordinations whereof make all this variety.
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When we choose to do our duty, we make a conscious choice, and although earlier right action has set up certain nerve co-ordinations which render it now easy to choose the right, yet it must be remembered that _conscious judgment_ is also involved.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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From this it would seem that instinctive action depends even more upon general bodily structure and development than upon fixed co-ordinations within the nervous system.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Now, these complex and simultaneous co-ordinations could never have been produced by infinitesimal beginnings, since, until so far developed as to effect the requisite junctions, they are useless.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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= -- One of the first conditions for an effective recollection of any particular experience will be, evidently, the strength of the co-ordinations set up in the nervous system during the learning process.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Moreover, not even the _sudden_ development of the snapping action could have been beneficial without the freely moveable stalk, nor could the latter have been efficient without the snapping jaws, yet no minute merely indefinite variations could simultaneously evolve these complex co-ordinations of structure; to deny this seems to do no less than to affirm a startling paradox.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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If this seems to establish the {70} existence of some other law than that of "Natural Selection," then the operation of that other law may surely be also traced in the harmonious co-ordinations of dental form.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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