How To Use As In A Sentence

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In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour". BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.

Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage. The Seattle Times
Season with a pinch of salt and pepper. The Sun
He was a cute little beggar, looked like you as well.
When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy. The Sun
What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times
Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
My aunt is very old-fashioned.
Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
Add white soy sauce and milk, season with salt and pepper to taste and bring to a simmer.
Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
The application of fertilizer increased the size of the plants.
Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
The unit can connect to any video source that has composite video and stereo audio RCA jacks, though the encoded audio is limited to mono.
If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
The defendant was released on bail until his trial next year. Times, Sunday Times
‘In the absence of those assurances, we will have no choice but to ballot for industrial action,’ he said.
I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
The Staff of Volans has a limited supply of magic energy. Roll a dice after each spell is cast.
This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing. Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures. Times, Sunday Times
Dom recognized a master tactician when he saw one. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
In 1984, he started Oh Boy as an outlet for his songwriting.
Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
The pain in his side was crushing, as if there was a steel hand in there relentlessly closing on an organ. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The speech was brimming with ideas for rewarding work and reducing dependency. Times, Sunday Times
Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
Unless contraindicated, prophylaxis with a gastrointestinal motility stimulant laxative and a stool softener is appropriate in terminally ill patients who are being given opioids.
Once tawhid is accepted as the first axiom of thought, the goal of life becomes bridging the gap between the asserter and the asserted. William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam and the Goal of Love
By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
That's as it should be, as the newspaper has a global audience but not global printing presses.
The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.
The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
They will also force schools to put more emphasis on teaching basic subjects.
The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
Shah went forth with her for a distance of three parasangs; after which he bade farewell to her and the Wazir and those with him, and returned to his home in gladness and safety. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The material you choose for surfaces including counters, backsplashes and floors can also account for variations in price.
We believe that it is okay to charge for healing based on the doctrine, ‘The workman is worthy of his hire.’
It is recognised as a crime against humanity under international law.
A specially designed speculum is used to help direct the injection into the G-spot, with effects lasting around four months. G Marks The Spot
I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
I never believed in God, not even between the ages of six and ten, when I was an agnostic.
The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
The poor bugger has nowhere else to sleep.
We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
I am told that Ferguson has called me 'unsellable'. The Guardian World News
Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
It is by these special touches that the author infuses the books with the spirit of humanity, without which a fantasy becomes an empty fancy.
Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
a class in conversational Spanish.
As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance. Blood Ninja II
It was a typical gesture of love and togetherness. The Sun
In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
Fertilization therefore results in an egg carrying a nucleus with contributions from both parents, and it was concluded that the cell nucleus must contain the physical basis of heredity.
The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
I used to think the worst feeling was losing someone you love. But, I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment you have lost yourself.
Their prayers were answered and the child was found safe and well.
The school has a very good relationship with the community.
I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die. Times, Sunday Times
The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
Using a bold colour such as yellow is risky. Times, Sunday Times
The first batch of ten shows is seen as a test of viewer demand. Times, Sunday Times
They have recognized that their business depends on world of mouth, and that world of mouth is based on customer satisfaction.
Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open. Times, Sunday Times
I reassured him it was secure by logging into my account and viewing his profile. Computing
However, by that time I was so hooked by the story that I let it pass.
Davis looked up and gave a signal of approval, and after a quick bow, the pair of messengers was gone.
She is daunted by the task ahead in the second of the six-part series. The Sun
If the indoor tables don't satisfy you, and if the weather is right, do ask for a table on the terrace.
We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
Once cool, release and tease hair with your fingers. The Sun
Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
Two years later she was omitted from the European squad that relinquished the trophy in Minnesota.
It was almost like my old dad was winking at me to help me notice him.
And I feel hopelessly undereducated, with all the MAs around me.
I often position an athlete in front of a mirror that has grid lines on it, ask them to close their eyes and stand up straight. Muscle Management
Saturday morning came, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.
I didn't know my success was going to be so big and that I would become 'the subtractor', always subtracting six years. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
The League Against Cruel Sports issued a statement Wednesday calling on Ottawa to "take steps to end the immense cruelty to animals in events such as calf-roping, which is practised at rodeos including the Calgary Stampede. CTV BritishColumbiaHome
Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
Last year there was only me and AA who were 1st years, plus AA is heaps older and I didn't know her at all.
The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous.
Metformin and sulfonylurea drugs -- the latter a class of diabetes drugs including glyburide, glipizide, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide and tolazamide -- are often among the first medications prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes. Drug linked to increased risk for older diabetics
Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Deirdre cast him one last look, then shut her eyes tight.
It continues as an usual inland resort set in woodland of silver birches, rhododendrons and conifers.
When the new student funding system was devised in 2010 the figure was just 28%. Times, Sunday Times
The striker was criticised by fans after voicing concerns about the club 's financial plight. The Sun
I shall be glad when the last of my daughters is married off.
Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
There's no massive hills and the swim won't be rough. Times, Sunday Times
The scene near the Chennai Kaliappa Hospital, on Tuesday was supremely ironical, and drew sharp reactions from tree lovers who were passing by.
She described him as 'maddening, but lovely' and the untidiest and clumsiest person she had met. Times, Sunday Times
Add the toasted almond slivers and mix well before turning into the pastry case. Times, Sunday Times
The BBC never tires of telling us how passionately it seeks the interest and participation of the public in its political output, particularly the young.
He had 112 helpers, many of whom had worked on some of the best fantasy movies of the past decade. Times, Sunday Times
At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun
Toast sandwiches in a dry skillet over medium-low heat until outside is golden brown and inside is delightfully melty, about 3 minutes per side.
The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories? CHAPTER I
She regarded him as a somewhat crazy and delusional man, no matter how good he looked.
They blew up the line and derailed a freight train as well. Times, Sunday Times
The softer rock has been weathered away into soil.
In recent years, Laganside Corporation has transformed the inner core of Belfast city centre, specifically along the Lagan river and in the surrounding area.
As a young man he wrote words to popular folk airs and had them printed as broadsheets.
A man came to load it onto the bus as we ran to find Ranwen's parents and siblings.
The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
The sun was shining, the food at the restaurant was good and I was left with a warm glow in my tummy afterwards.
The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.
Suddenly I heard a clash of metal on metal which brought me out of my thoughts - I looked up and found I could see two people fencing ahead.
I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
He has received several teaching awards, as well as the unprecedented award of being ‘the most quotable professor’ by MathSoc.
Contrary to what has been claimed, the theory is not insulated against attempts to disconfirm it.
IS is said to have used chlorine gas in attacks and built up a substantial chemical weapons cache. The Sun
He was an exceedingly capable and highly regarded individual. Times, Sunday Times
The RAM has a first location for storing the data signal and a second location for storing the initialization status indicator.
It has been about the whole squad all year. Times, Sunday Times
She even has ambitions to return to college and major in interior design and business.
There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
She has determined on going this afternoon.
He will remain affiliated with the firm as a special associate director.
He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
And approaching that very machine, his last pound coin clutched in his fist, was Felix Henderson McMurdo.
That these are things as silently present and inarguable as iron, or night. Times, Sunday Times
Consider some of the specific encounters Blue has with women Gareth is involved with. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Questions
The poet has symbolized his lover with a flower.
The results were disastrous, plunging the country into deep depression, with high unemployment, sharply falling living standards and serious political unrest.
His casual reaction, "you're overreacting," "these things happen, right?" suggests they've gone through this before, with presumably the more recent procedure she discussed with her gyno. Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Help!
The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
The comedian was very good indeed. He had the audience rolling in the aisles.
Another friend notes a shift in the type of gifts given at wedding showers, a reversion to 1950s-style offerings: soup ladles and frilly aprons are being unwrapped along with see-through nighties and push-up bras.
As you start your married life together hand in hand, may all the things you're hoping for turn out the way you've planned.
Here, however, they are unlikely to survive the frosts although both impatiens and pelagoniums can be kept for next year in a heated greenhouse or brought indoors and used as house plants.
He had just received my check and was apoplectic with rage, declaring he never wanted to see or have anything to do with ‘that woman’ - meaning me - again.
Roderick Little, a University of Michigan biostatistician, will become associate director for statistical methodology and standards at the Census Bureau beginning in September. Robert Groves Names Roderick Little, U Of Mich. Statistician, To New Census Post
The forecasts have been asking us to watch out for thunderclouds and thundershowers for a long while now.
Somewhere in the far regions of her mind a voice was screaming warnings.
Hatching may be synchronous or asynchronous (one or two days apart).
Each item was skewered on a cocktail stick and laid like sun rays around the plate, which also had a flower intricately carved out of turnip for decoration.
‘I was worried about my car lasting to the end considering that all the motors come from the same place,’ he said.
The decision to escalate UN involvement has been taken in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities.
Four principal types of source pertain to the subject: literature, works of graphic or plastic art, archaeological remains, and notated pieces of music.
Unions and managers are now referring to the stand-off as ‘class war in the classroom’.
Antifascist groups have had their objections rejected because they live outside the area. Times, Sunday Times
To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane
Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
There are some fantastic pubs and inns nearby but you should take advantage of the welcome pack you receive on arrival. The Sun
I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
About 40% of all students entering as freshmen graduate within 4 years.
All he wanted was a cup of tea and a sit-down.

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