How To Use Blow In A Sentence
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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
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They drew swords, and fought fiercely, cussing and insulting each other as swiftly as they threw blows.
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The blow came at a meeting on Saturday.
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One Mercedes engineer estimated that, worldwide, up to 50,000 vehicles may have to be repaired, which is a blow for a company which prides itself on reliability and quality.
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Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
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These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Twice through the following night was I wakened by the boat being hurled upon her beam-ends by the blows of the seas; but she righted easily, and took scarce any water, the canvas proving a very roof of safety.
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
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Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
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Better to wait until bubbles burst and manage the consequences, softening the economic blow by loosening monetary policy very quickly.
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The servants disappeared as if they were whiffs of smoke blown away by the wind.
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Crank baits trolled parallel to the shore or over sand flats in the DIRTY water where wind is blowing waves into the shore or shallows is good too regardless of the depth.
Whats a good bait to use for walleye? ive never caught one but we now have land at a lake that is stocked with some.
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The only recent changes have been trees blowing down and the repair of thatched roofs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gulf War veterans fighting to prove hundreds of former servicemen have been crippled and killed by a mysterious syndrome caused by their time in the conflict have been dealt a massive blow - their own solicitors say the case is unprovable.
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The cuts are a heavy blow for the army 's rank and file.
Times, Sunday Times
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To be without Pearce would be a considerable blow.
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What Montgomery conceived was a one-two punch, a British blow followed by an American crack.
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In her dying depositions she accused Osio of having pushed her in; and there seems little doubt that he did so; for while she was struggling in the water, he disengaged his harquebuss from his mantle and struck her several blows upon the head and hands.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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The blow to his head must have concussed him, for he saw two middle-aged women straighten up and walk briskly to the I.V. unit.
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His defeat dealt a crushing blow to the party.
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Getting involved in European companies is likely to bring a complexity of personnel management that will blow their minds," Graeme Maxton, a Europe-based independent auto industry analyst, told the news service, noting Chinese companies 'poor track record of managing their businesses.
DealBook
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Every single one of his intended blows was blocked and parried, even when the man tripped and fell backwards.
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Tayside Police admit the whistle-blower's inside knowledge shows he has to be a high-ranking officer - at least an inspector and probably a superintendent.
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The shamal comes in quickly and silently, like an ocher paint roller, and can blow for several days straight, subsiding slightly at night when the air is cooler.
Peace Meals
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For a week after the headlands of Tarifa and Spartel have sunk under the eastern horizon, the vessel is kept every day upon her course, -- her top-gallant and studding sails all distent with the wind blowing freely from over Biscay.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
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There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall.
Flashman's Lady
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My whistle, it appeared, would have to remain mostly unblown.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her walls are papered with postcards and record covers, while lingerie, feather boas and a plastic blow-up doll hang from the ceiling.
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All due beasty inferences aside, the sudden departure of Hammond, a seasoned spokesperson who has good relations with the local media, is a blow to Smith's operation.
George Fearing: 4th Congressional District deserves better representation
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And when I see how many people are being sucked into gold investments from all those cheesy radio and TV ads (with their overt or sometimes explicit survivalist overtones), I see another bubble being blown that at some sad point will go blooey.
Fox Business News, Where Green Arrows Turn Brown Eyes Blue: James Wolcott
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The volume breathed out in the first second of forceful blowing into a spirometer, measured in litres.
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Another surprise is the limit on building space used for commercial activity, a blow to "multiuse" buildings.
Financing rules complicate search for dream condo
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That should have spelled the end of the convertible, except for one thing: The open car with its sun-baked, wind-blown passengers became a symbol of youth, freedom, and sexuality.
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In the Whispering Gallery at the presidential library and museum, Aidan was blown away by political cartoons of the day that criticized Lincoln for his stance on slavery.
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Later, I open the envelope and pull out a blow-up of the wedding photo.
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All are not hunters that blow the horn.
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After that, he delivered the knockout blow.
The Sun
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They were mantled with black and blue marks that advertised the weight and number of blows so shielded from his head and face.
THE TEARS OF AH KIM
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Links had been established between car exhaust and headaches, cancer and various respiratory problems, yet the automotive industry of the day, kicking and screaming, had to be forced to add a blowby tube.
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And, then, before he knew it, another song had started up; the same voice, the same wonderful, mind-blowing music.
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Kampke was blown overboard off the footrope that ran under the yard, as he stood there hauling in on the sail.
Tramping on Life
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Recovering slowly, with agony, from each of these recurrent blows, his unquenchable exuberance had lived.
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We have wind, this is heavy duty, serious blowy stuff.
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The blowup was the low point of a season in which Zambrano got banished to the bullpen after a slow start and continued to struggle when he returned to the rotation.
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However, if you choose to travel further afield, to Ringsend for example, a woman's wash, cut and blow-dry will cost just £13.50 in one salon.
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Sail while the wind blows; wind and tide wait for no man.
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He gave the dog a vicious blow with his stick.
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A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still.
Anne of Green Gables
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Board up, pack up, and blow town before the traffic chokes.
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The security goal is to stop them before they penetrate the security zone with the intent to blow up the city's waterfront.
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For Huysmans, kirsch is the "wild blowing of a trumpet blast.
Do They Taste of Trumpets?
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Add to this mix the prospects of an economy supercharged by €12 billion when the special saving investments accounts start to mature in under two years' time, and the economic winds seem to blowing fair for stocks.
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Charlie tried to lift her head to look at the house but the wind was blowing too hard for her to do so.
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HOW dare councils whine about being starved of funds while blowing millions on undies using taxpayer-funded credit cards?
The Sun
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This child spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, trailing his father up and down the hills, watching him swim in San Francisco Bay, and cringing from the blows that a drunken dad might aim at his head.
Robert Frost
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I do my share of driving and I had no idea all that cutting people off and speeding and changing lanes without signaling and blowing through stop signs was "choreographed"--no wonder I find driving to say nothing of cycling in New York City so irritating.
People Are People: Dealing With It
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These included repeated punchings, kickings, beatings with a baseball bat and truncheon, being urinated on and threatened with a syringe and blowtorch.
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There are motifs, themes, and recurring melodies, all the things you'd expect from one song blown up to forty minutes.
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But the time has surely come to blow the whistle on these jokers.
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She stamped her foot for a final emphasis, but she was aware of her words all having fallen effectless, like blows dealt some detestable thing in a dream.
The Coast of Bohemia
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Anderson dragged her into his office for a keelhauling and everyone went back to regular blowing.
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Each hospital is also appointing local whistleblowing guardians.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Choctaw [Footnote: Romans, p. 70, Bossu, Vol. I, p. 308.] boys made use of a cane stalk, eight or nine feet in length, from which the obstructions at the joints had been removed, much as boys use what is called a putty blower.
Indian Games : an historical research
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He evaded the blow quite easily and caught Steve in the mouth with his left fist.
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It will be a mortal blow if there is a single palm missing on Monte Chiaro or if a single stone has loosened from the town wall.
The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
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But those gusts must blow away any worries as this is a happy place.
The Sun
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As the bus turned into a new recognizable road, the pavements were filled with people, scarves blowing in the wind.
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If portfolio managers and analysts cannot recognize the greatest credit blowoff in the last 80 years, when will they?" asked Mr. Rodriguez.
Fund Managers in '08: 'We Stunk'
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How much/What do you charge for a haircut and blow-dry?
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Traffic pollution and dirt blown around by the wind add to the problem.
Times, Sunday Times
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Furthermore, its flexibility and power of movement are considerably greater, so that less power is needed to deliver a blow.
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There was a strong wind blowing.
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Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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We could, he implied, be fried, blown up, poisoned or atomised any day now.
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The man, who was dealt a severe blow on the farming front last weekend when he lost his entire herd of healthy livestock to foot and mouth, bids to bounce back at Aintree tomorrow.
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Two Doggett Coat and Badge-winners, both watermen resident in Greenwich, came to blows over which should row the Royal Barge.
COFFIN ON THE WATER
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People panicked and stampeded, blows rained down, people fell and hurt themselves in the melee.
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One year later, some dirtbags tried to blow up L.A. with a nuclear bomb, so Bauer had to punch in again.
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With a very strong easterly wind continuing to blow across the province fishing operations were very much restricted.
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Never mind York's links with Europe, the city's business people spend more time gabbing on the blower to Americans than they do to French or Germans.
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A reduction in interest rates would soften the blow of tax increases.
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A chock full pool of water, after blowing off silence.
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The wind started out as just a gentle breeze, but soon evolved into a strong blow.
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As there was no abatement of the blows of the boat against the embankment, no reply nor explanation, a shot from the gun of one of the levee-watch came skipping lightsomely over the water as
The Crucial Moment 1911
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By the late 1880s there was nothing terribly mysterious about getting a steam hammer to deliver a blow of so many tons.
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That will have blown away the cobwebs and he is strongly fancied to regain winning brackets.
The Sun
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All I could do was frantically reach for my safety whistle and blow like crazy to alert the raft crew.
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I lay in the bed with my eyes still closed but my mind was awake listening to the sound of the breeze blowing through the leaves of the coconut tree near my room window.
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Many young Marines were left with serious bruising after receiving 20-30 blows from their peers.
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Michael was struggling to deflect a rain of blows, and the swing of his arm was getting slower and slower.
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It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it.
The Sun
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LMAO the crowd in accra are singing and blowing on their vuvuzelas untill forlan equalizes for uruguay.
WN.com - Articles related to Graham Poll: Now let's have penalty goals to beat cheats like Uruguay's Luis Suarez
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Blown in on the north-west monsoon without aid of any chart or astronomical observation, a thousand mariners, tide-driven, converge on the coral reefs.
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Sociologists Claude Fischer and Greggor Mattson have argued that while much talk about America fragmenting is overblown, “gaps by social class and educational attainment are widening among Americans by almost any measure.”
American Grace
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A straw shows which way the wind blows.
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Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce 'boum' ...
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The border dispute turned into a full-blown crisis.
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The whistle is to be blown only in the event of emergencies and must be visibly worn at all times while on the premises.
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`A Pomeranian ," replied this morning's guest, a big, blowsy matron straight out of Laurel and Hardy.
SURE OF YOU
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En fait, she was saying to me: ` Here is my trust, ma confiance, my honour as a woman; I place it in your hands, Blowitz. '
Watershed
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It was another bitter blow for the star.
The Sun
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In a final blow she received a text message saying that she could no longer attend cabinet meetings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fighter could not help flinching from the blow aimed by his opponent,but it saved him from being hurt.
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And from belugas to blowfish, the world's largest aquarium has it all.
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I didn't blow the horn, but I was cussing that driver for about a mile.
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The punitive actions include economic sanctions, which are certain to deal a severe blow to the North, which desperately needs global aid.
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TSA bought a bunch of so-called puffer machines to detect explosives by blowing air on passengers, but they didn't work very well.
CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2009
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The new man, now on the inside, will blow the whistle.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it.
The Sun
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The wetness turned to rain, then to sleet, and then to a nasty, slushy snow, blowing into my face no matter which direction I took.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. George Eliot
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Temperatures are expected to drop even lower this evening as a north-eastern wind blows over the UK.
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For a second I thought the banksters would have to SUFFER for the damage they caused blowing a hole in the global economy.
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Kevin Newcomb suggests that stories in which Ask. com becomes a woman's search engine are overblown and erroneous.
Internet News: Another interpretation of the Ask.com situation
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He successfully stood off her heavy blows struck by his match.
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Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies.
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“Santa Ana” winds, or foehn winds, are hot winds … when one of them starts to blown, his assumption that wind will cool down the UHI gets blown out the window.
Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit
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This is a hefty blow, considering that it represents half of the already poor profits the company expected to announce for its next interims on 23 November.
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Designed and crafted in Valencia, Spain since 1975, the process combines computerized manufacturing with artisan glassblowing techniques.
Alexandra Kain | Inhabitat
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And a chance for punters to land a knockout blow on the last decent day of football punting until August.
The Sun
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He had not delivered the fatal blows, he had not pulled the trigger.
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But for many smaller outfits, the slowdown has become a full-blown credit crunch.
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He put his gittern into the stand by touch and knelt to blow the fire to flame.
Oathblood
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None of the wounds developed an infection or became infested by blowfly.
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About once every decade, an animated-film director manages to create a work that finds the perfect blend of innovative, mind-blowing visuals and emotive, engaging content.
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Around the clock, the coaches galloped down the towns' high streets with long brass horns blowing to warn pedestrians.
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This is the chappie who issued a fixed penalty ticket to a driver for allegedly blowing his nose and last year issued one to a man for littering – it was a tenner that had fallen out of his pocket on January 29, 2010 at 10: 33 pm Ben
See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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His watch was near an hour of the contest, and Brailstone's man had scored first knock-down blow, a particularly clean floorer.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2
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After I'd had my fill of blowpipes, dripping foliage and poisonous frogs I flicked through to an article on peanut farming.
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If a fuse is in the supply circuit, it will do its job and blow out, opening the circuit and stopping the current flow.
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One of the shoelaces on her sneaker had come untied and was blowing vulnerably in the wind.
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In case there is any mistake, Dawkins gives the example of a permanent dune - a barchan - that the wind pushes across the desert but which maintains it shape even while individual grains of sand are being blown into and out of the dune.
May 6th, 2009
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At the more extreme end, some individuals and groups crash aeroplanes or blow up buildings.
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i told my wife the other night, i'm hoping that obama can slip in a few "dishonors" and "dishonorables" under the radar on tuesday night. mccain will catch it and it will set him off. i honestly think that's the one button that you can push with mccain that he can't resist blowing up over -- hitting his honor (or lack thereof).
Obama Campaign Launches Pre-emptive Ad Strike Against McCain's Planned Character Assault
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For this treatment, you will wear a mask over your nose during sleep that blows air into your throat at a pressure level that is right for you.
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I'm just blown away by the fusions of Brazilian music and pop, rock, and jazz taking place there.
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If only the men could resort to blow-dries - but no.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm just blown away by the audacity the team has to toss around the word "musculoskeletal" and expect us to go along with it.
WNYMedia
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After we had lost all steerage way we were swept bodily southwards by the inblowing winds towards the cyclone's centre.
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During the dry season, a strong wind called the harmattan blows from the Sahara across West Africa.
Signs of the Times
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He blew out his breath, blowing his hair like Jocelyn had done earlier.
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There follows a succession of adventures, dangers, narrow escapes from death, and general blows of malign Fate.
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David Frederick was the big brother I never got as a kid, and so losing him was a hard blow.
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The single blow punctured a lung and he died in hospital a week later.
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The imitations were produced by the painter and decorator on the canvas he used daily as a decorator, Lincrusta - perhaps better known as modern-day blown vinyl.
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In an act of vandalism, the navy had blown this off in 1971 to instal a beacon, which probably never worked.
'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock
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What he really suffered from was the result of that blow on the head which had induced a haemorrhage with an unpronounceable name.
LOADED QUESTIONS
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The starchy food created gas, and the bowels, not having their natural tone, gave way to the gas until there was _ "Meteorism," _ not tympanites but meteorism which means to blow up or distend all that is possible.
Appendicitis
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They may arise from dormant seeds, or colonise by windblown seeds.
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The succession of blows—the Agency’s decision not to provide us with any security, followed by the horrifying SSCI report and its Additional Views section, then my colleague’s inability or unwillingness to retestify before the SSCI, and the continuing media onslaught—were overwhelming.
Fair Game
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The land- or cityscapes in the blown-up photos introduce varying degrees of spatial recession, the depth depending on the scenes.
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Felt Hat blows a bubble with her gum.
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However, shopping wisely - with an eye on bargain buys - should soften the blow to your bank balance.
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I was blown away by your story — so powerful, multileveled, poetic prose, all in so few words: a fabulous job.
Interview with String-of-10 TWO First Place Winner: Ann Pino
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Polls and complaints to the BBC about coverage before the event showed an unexcited nation, he said, adding: The public holiday blows a hole in the idea that the wedding will be an economic boost for Britain.
Royal wedding prompts surge in foreign holiday bookings
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A spark occurred and the inside of the capsule turned into a blowtorch.
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Posted December 6, 2009 at 10: 34 am | Permalink itzzzzzzzzzz truly aesthetic. dnt hav words to sy mindblowing
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In addition, if things get really bad, an emergency button under a safety cover will fire explosive charges, which blow out the windscreen to provide an emergency exit.
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Was that feeling not worth this disabling sledgehammer blow of sorrow?
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The blow dryer slipped out of his hands and I grimaced as the hot air blasted directly on my face.
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This is dangerous as some of the tyres don't go down but are weakened, which could cause blowouts.
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Any job cuts are a blow but the company has got to do something, I understand that even if I'm not happy with it.
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It was blowing dogs off chains.
Times, Sunday Times
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Experts claim that at least half were inflicted well before the fatal blow.
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For the most part, the sound is vintage electric Chicago blues, employing a raw two-guitar attack that buzzes with the dirty sound of overworked amps and blown speakers.
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And he said he was relishing the prospect of trading blows with the self-styled revolutionary.
The Sun
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It really makes a BIG difference to how your hair looks, plus you get a professional blow-dry.
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The port lifeboat was missing, its iron davits, twisted and wrenched, testifying to the mightiness of the blow that had been struck the old
THE SEA FARMER
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A group of men and women advanced cautiously into the clearing, covering the wounded with their slings, blowpipes, and bows.
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Let me tell you something which will blow your socks off.
BE YOUR BEST: How Anyone can become Fit, Healthy and Confident
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The worst blow of all for the federalists is under this constitution the Union has no power to tax.
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If the wind is blowing in from the east then sea fret hits even when the rest of old Blighty is basking in conditions more akin to the Mediterranean.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council.
Tales of Destiny
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We had a chat on the blower and were both satisfied with my withdrawal of the comment and my public apology.
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The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
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This attempted whitewash is another blow to the relationship between police and public which is essential for the only effective form of policing; “policing by consent.”
CO19 - A Few Good Men « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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To make the glyphs, the ancient carvers used chisels, probably of hard, fine-grained quartzite, which they struck with hammers of stone or antler, each blow chipping out one small stone flake.
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The Tribunal found that the vehicle was seriously damaged: a hole was blown in the sump.
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In this mind-blowing and heart-opening experience, I witnessed a six-foot-tall luminous egg directly in front of me.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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What kind of mailmen head into enemy territory in order to deliver a surprise blow?
Anime Nano!
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Well, the devastation to the east of Mississippi is mind-blowing.
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My neck muscles have only grown a bit sore from blowing my nose and the chafing from the rough toilet paper is already starting to heal.
Empty Head « Colleen Anderson
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I was blown away by it, especially the emotional quality it has.
The Sun
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They will have expected you to duck this punch and instead you let the blow bounce of your granite chin like an errant moth.
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If they were extracting strychnine from the curare vine for poison blowgun darts, he did likewise.
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Examination showed subconjunctival and subcutaneous emphysema, and radiography confirmed the presence of an orbital ‘blowout’ fracture.
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They are easy to blow and get a "ducky" quack, and you can find a replacement just about anywhere if you lose it or break it.
I am a beginner hunter and wanted to get some calls for duck and goose.
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You would have thought he told him he got a blowie from his equally irritating wife the way he reacted.
RVABlogs
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Thankfully, no steady breeze was blowing, so no wind chill was created.
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It should be stated further that in the case of "seppuku," as soon as the act of cutting the abdomen had been completed, always by a single rapid stroke, someone from behind would, with a single blow, behead the victim.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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The other saving grace is that springtime hailstorms usually blow over fairly quickly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Game 1 was a blowout, and the Bulls got a major psychological edge that helped them to their second straight title.
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September 13th, 2009 at 5: 05 am computerist: This irrelevance blows UCD through the roof simply from the fact that these organisms are each carriers of prescribed "blueprint" information slowly but surely waiting for their next "release" state.
Behe, Common Descent, & UD
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In a final blow she received a text message saying that she could no longer attend cabinet meetings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, I found some hand-blown bubbled-glass feeders from Mexico, with elegant red glass flowers as the spigots for the hummers' beaks.
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Our big opportunity had been blown by a bunch of tight-lipped, upright folks who wanted to mind their own business.
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But where are the media, now that her cover has been blown?
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The sleeves of her coat were blown back; but surprisingly, the wind was pleasantly warm, like the wind before Winter had come.
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Day-break from mischief of what He did make from mischief of moon eclipse-showing and from mischief of witches on cord-knots blowing and from mischief of envier when envying.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A whistle-blower's e-mail from someone at the authors' institution indicated that data in the study were fabricated.