Example sentences of "from among " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , and in contrast with this respect for the state 's monopoly of violence , because the provisionals seek to destroy the Northern dominance of protestant loyalists with a view to restoring ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ , there is and will remain substantial support from among the Southern population for the violence the provisionals actually commit in the North . |
| 2 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 3 | Drovers had pastured their herds here for many years but their customary right had vanished when Flemyng bought the ground and it was a daily vexation of Cameron 's to move the animals out from among his materials and even from inside the unfinished walls . |
| 4 | He and James should have broached it early on , devised sanctions ( the withholding of rents ; the blocking of highways and sieging of the big houses ) , called for practical suggestions from among the crowds — all that tradesmen 's and farmers ' skill and nous and energy , coalesced for a moment into a great ball of force , then left to collapse under its own weight , to crumble again into its thousands of separated grains … |
| 5 | So Leonard was called by name from among the congregation , arose and ascended the steps , stepped on to the special box placed for short candidates like himself , and recited in Hebrew the traditional blessing before the reading of the Torah : |
| 6 | Praised art Thou , O Lord our God , King of the universe , who hast chosen us from among all peoples , and hast given us Thy Torah … |
| 7 | It argued in the early days that to be too closely allied with Catholicism would deter a broad membership , which is now drawn from among protestants , muslims , baptists , Jews — and , it emphasises proudly , atheists . |
| 8 | Our job is to sort everything out : to snatch the rocks and clods from the potato channel , and whip rogue spuds from among the stones . |
| 9 | There is some corroboration for our conclusion in previous research , however : at the 1983 election Gunter , Svennevig and Wober ( 1986 , p. 119 ) found that ‘ whilst television clearly emerged from among various sources of information about politics as the major source , it seemed to be relatively less important in the decision-making process of which way to vote ’ . |
| 10 | The fourth way of finding acts is from among an agent 's existing managers . |
| 11 | Brothers , choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom . |
| 12 | The Commons scrutiny committee proposed better procedures last month for vetting , or resisting , the flow from Brussels and Mr Michael Heseltine has urged the creation of an upper house at Strasbourg — a European senate — drawn from among MPs in national parliaments to bridge the current gap . |
| 13 | Suddenly one name seemed to leap off the page from among the hundreds of unknowns — it was Dana 's , and it was followed by his address and telephone number . |
| 14 | His head nodded up from among the pink clover flowers . |
| 15 | She lifted a bottle of Champagne from among the photographs cluttering the occasional table beside her and passed it to Charity with an instruction to fill the glasses and hold the chatter , because she insisted on listening to the nine o'clock news on the wireless . |
| 16 | The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev . |
| 17 | The Lord Chancellor 's civil servants can , they say , only recruit judges from among advocates who have already distinguished themselves by their performance in court . |
| 18 | He chose a small squad from among those men available who did not belong to any lineage closely involved in the affair . |
| 19 | By the thirteenth century these officers were elected in the county court from among the knights who resided in the neighbourhood of the forest and held land within it ; they took an oath in the county court or in the attachment court faithfully to perform the duties of their office . |
| 20 | Though Labour intended to invite the ‘ best and brightest ’ from among a whole range of people who had achieved acclaim in their chosen fields , the audience for this informal reception had a distinctive literary bent . |
| 21 | The machinery of identifying and training field workers from among the community groups , and in some areas , college students , of the selection of regional staff and State co-ordinators was set in motion even though the ARC delayed in granting approval for the funding . |
| 22 | Mary stood on tip-toe and plucked dry cotton dreff from among the spinning wheels . |
| 23 | In spite of this handful of ‘ collaborators ’ , it was nevertheless inevitable that the majority of those serving in the Imperial household should be drawn from among the families which had been connected with the First Empire . |
| 24 | These lodgers were quite often from among their own more distant relatives . |
| 25 | He was startled to see a column of smoke rising from among the trees . |
| 26 | He chose his companions from among the poor and the despised . |
| 27 | In his head rang the music of the fair , the raucous shouting , the screams of silly girls in swingboats , the throbbing of the great engine which supplied the power , and over all , the head-hammering mammoth voice which roared old half-forgotten tunes from among the whirling horses of the roundabout . |
| 28 | This philosophy is built into the common core by assigning a key task to the in-bureau tutor that each bureau is obliged to appoint either from among its paid or voluntary staff . |
| 29 | It was mainly from among those with a principal carer who wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home were to be found ( if one excludes those who died or moved away , and compares place of care for those whose principal carer said initially that he or she preferred home or institutional care the difference between the two groups is significant at the 0.001 level ) . |
| 30 | At first interview half the carers said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care , and it was overwhelmingly from among these who wanted the sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home for the year were to be found . |