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In a similar matter, he overstresses the significance of Mary's virginity to her power, omitting mention of her unique role as Mother of God (6). A raging rainstorm can cause a pilot to lose control - an "upset" - amid the rapidly varying vertical air currents inside a mature cumulus cloud, and often the result is a high-speed dive that ends in a desperate pullout, which fatally overstresses the airplane's wings or tail. Giesselmann argues that the Tilly approach unjustifiably overstresses organized mass actions and ignores a variety of incidents, ranging from assassination attempts on the king to violations of forest regulations, that were carried out by individuals or small groups but that nonetheless reflected hostility to the existing social order. |
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