No people is too mean or lowly to seek an asylum on our shores. The net result of this immigration has been to produce a congeries of human beings, unparalleled for ethnic diversity anywhere else ...

Within a month of Lost in the Funhouse's appearance came Nakobov's Congeries, a collection of stories, poems, fragments of novels, and critical essays. Vladimir Nabakov, like Joseph Conrad ...

The Sphinx and Pyramids of Egypt consist of a congeries of animal remains, being composed of the so-called nummulitic limestone ; this name is given to it on account of its containing millions of ...

I was taught at Princeton, in the early 1960s—in history and literature, above all—before the congeries that we term “the Sixties” began. Most of my professors were probably men of the Left—that’s ...

[Read: What it would take to see the world completely differently] Over and over in the past 10,000 years or so, dynasties, empires, and whole congeries of states have come into existence.

It is also a facade, beneath which is a congeries of mutually hostile southern factions. One thing they agree on is hatred of ...

She still has a taste for contrivance (a villanelle in fourteeners, with a few hexameters thrown in), for straining lines to the breaking point, yet the center is missing—a more natural way of ...

It was always a racing certainty that this week’s ‘Swiss grannies’ climate change judgment in Strasbourg would spawn a new ...

People say there is no plot. In a way they are right. Instead, there is a congeries of tiny plotlets, ever so delicately and carefully contrived. Chekhov once wrote of playwriting "in which people ...

How many pubs still have carpets? It's also a rare pub in the area with the modesty to have a ceiling, rather than the usual congeries of air conditioning ducts and visible cabling. Amen to that.

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It addresses the following questions: How does the labour rights narrative emerge through everyday negotiations with an epidemic and the law and what congeries of history, public health policies, ...