ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ASTRAY
From Old French estraie roaming, from estraier to stray.
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASTRAY»
The term «astray» is quite widely used and occupies the
35.683 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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10 QUOTES WITH «ASTRAY»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
astray.
It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Passion without focus can lead you astray.
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.
It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASTRAY»
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astray in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
astray and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray.
But Patricia game. She brings it up again and again. It starts to make sense. All that money'plus the life insurance. But how do they do it?ASTRAY examines the dirty business of greed, lust, and sex in the workplace.
Michael Todd Rebuck, 2000
The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new.
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Religion Gone
Astray: What We Found at the Heart of Interfaith
Welcome to the deeper dimensions of interfaith dialogue exploring that which divides us personally, spiritually and institutionally.
Don Mackenzie, Ted Falcon, Jamal Rahman, 2011
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Methodological Thinking in Psychology: 60 Years Gone
Astray?
Brings together contributions from leading scholars in different fields of psychology - cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, cultural psychology, methodology of psychology - to discuss methodological issues that were more ...
Aaro Toomela, Jaan Valsiner, 2010
Katie Clifford sat on the floor, in the sun, feeding her white mice.
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Astray of the Herd: Observations, Commentaries and Rants ...
Read this book for a laugh, give it to your stressed-out friends, or get inspired to do some straying of your own. Scott B. Williams is the author of 3 additional books published by University Press of Mississippi.
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Sweeney
Astray: A Version from the Irish
A Version from the Irish Seamus Heaney. After that, they did confide in each other
and shared their life stories. Sweeney said to the madman; ——Tell me about
yourself. —I am a landowner's son, said the mad Briton, a native of this country, ...
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Going
astray: Dickens and London
The book combines detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the novelist's major works.
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New Beginnings Book Two: Led
Astray
When a client's privacy is threatened by a Hatfield and McCoy battle erupting, skip-tracer Danita Ballinger heads to Mourning, WV, hoping to settle the feud before it starts.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASTRAY»
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astray is used in the context of the following news items.
Rumourtrage can lead investors astray
It's pretty clear that ''rumourtrage'' (traders buying and selling shares on the back of rumours) is back to haunt us, and every private investor ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
Video shows uncontrolled crowds at St. Joseph fireworks
... group that had to leave early because a little girl got injured by one of the many fireworks these teens let off that went astray and hit her. «WZZM, Jul 15»
Not All ETFs Are Created Equal
Popular formulas that equate the two terms lead students, investors and CEOs astray.” Buffett was making the point that over the past 50 years, ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
10 Catholic Things that Caught My Eye Today on Maria Goretti's …
From Maria's story carefree children and young people with their zest for life can learn not to be led astray by attractive pleasures which are not ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
Experts offer tips on behavior if you're attending US Women's Open …
If a ball should go astray, make sure to get out of the way, he advises. A catchy way to remember what Sawicki says about out-of-play golf balls ... «LancasterOnline, Jul 15»
Md. teen suffers burns from illegal fireworks
... and her family were watching fireworks on the 1800 block of Brickhouse Lane when a few of them went astray and exploded in front of her. «The Bellingham Herald, Jul 15»
Editorial: US should follow Illinois, abolish death penalty
But the defense argued that Dzhokhar was an impressionable 19-year-old who was led astray by his volatile and domineering 26-year-old ... «Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 15»
A village of Big Brothers
... but I can't do so because my actions may be linked to theirs, and if my social media is misinterpreted, it could lead my cousins astray. «Daily Californian, Jul 15»
America needs to get back to reality
When we fail to question those people we elect to lead us we should not be surprised when they lead us astray. So this gluttony of spending ... «Alton Telegraph, Jul 15»
What's next in Greece, and how will all this affect Irish politics?
It sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the longterm stability of the bloc, but the fact that Greece has ended up going so far astray ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Jul 15»
