However, this chain of succession was disrupted with the vanishing of the twelfth imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi.
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Tolkien, a devout Catholic, who deplored the vanishing of the Latin Mass, believed in the existence of evil and in the struggle to be delivered from its claws.
And the sense it had given him, of union with nature and of the spiritual basis of all creation, convinced him that he had found a sacrament for the modern age: the antidote to the ennui caused by consumerism, industrialisation and the vanishing of the divine from human life.
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Gerhartsreiter lived as a tenant on the property in 1984 and 1985, vanishing around the same time the couple disappeared, according to witnesses.
He argues that fondness for nuclear energy, vanishing from the West, is moving eastwards.
Markets plummeted, credit dried up, and jobs were vanishing by the hundreds of thousands each month.
So far this year, both candidates have established brief leads, only to find them vanishing as the 50-50 parity reasserted itself.
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Thorin Klosowski describes something many believe impossible: actually vanishing from the Internet.
For years, she had tried in vain to make sense of that moment of farewell, but all she could recall was two heads bobbing before vanishing under the boat, the linked arms of two other friends, and a wave from Meimei, the youngest of the six, as she sank beneath the surface.
At the same time, a less confident undercurrent whispered that the possibilities of human freedom were vanishing even as the glories of nature were being despoiled.
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Everyone knows that the days of easy money are a vanishing mote in the rearview mirror.
Had Ellsworth closed, as many people expected, the vanishing tribe of Plains Democrats would have claimed that Mr Thune was a walking example of the dangers of replacing a senior figure with a fresh face.
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That political support for CAIR seems to be diminishing and indeed nearing the vanishing point.
He said it was impossible to estimate how many pigeons were vanishing because of the transmitters.
The vanishing Coleman vote came during a week in which election officials are obliged to double-check their initial results.
These days, he is preoccupied with such issues as pollution and genetic manipulation: the vanishing dodo in his Dodon't is a comment on DNA disaster.
For last year's Frieze Art Fair in London, she created "The Vanishing Lake, " a site-specific exhibition of her drawings and tapestries shown within a Georgian house on Fitzroy Square.
Or the vanishing deductible that some auto-insurers provide?
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As I watched the Vanishing Family Trick unfold, and played my own part in it, I sometimes felt as if love itself, or the acts of heart and mind that constitute love, were being leached out of the house by our screens.
Harrison, who travels the world to seek out the last speakers of vanishing languages, has been describing his work here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Independent booksellers have been vanishing for decades at the rate of 200 or 300 a year nationwide.
Ordinary people, who regarded Mr Tohra as the last among a vanishing breed of simple and fiercely honest politicians, stood silently in the blistering sun around the common cremation grounds at Village Tohra.
Poor, humble and decentralized to multiple vanishing points of obscurity, the chip-based PCs nevertheless would grow to be mighty in the next 25 years.
Tagging is also helping David Welch, the head of the Canadian government's salmon programme, to find out where and why large numbers of the fish are vanishing.
And since insurance companies and pension funds buy long-dated bonds to match their long-dated liabilities, everyone has been scrambling to acquire what appears to be a fast-vanishing asset hence the soaring prices and plunging yields.
But a frequently asked question these days is: Are we exceeding the optimal point of inequality and descending into an era of a vanishing middle class and, with it, the spending power and inclination with which it fuels an economy?
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This is a problem because as mentioned earlier, the energy producers are vanishing, and with their disappearance, so is supply.
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The Wanamaker Problem is vanishing as companies like Google are able to show advertisements that an individual is likely to click, and that are likely to result in more actual purchases.
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