How To Use Bombard In A Sentence
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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
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It is probable, however, that M. Thoinan, who makes this statement, has not considered the possibility of the word _musette_ applying in this case to the small rustic hautbois or _dessus de bombarde_, also written _muse_,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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The antiproton was produced when protons from a cyclotron were used to bombard a copper target.
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Today's report says the bombardment of children with messages of what is cool pits children against each other and their parents.
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Additionally, the Bombardier Beetle has the ability to direct its defensive spray toward its aggressor with pinpoint accuracy.
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Side note: If the tables were turned and McGavick had a larger war chest than Cantwell we'd be bombarded with cries of "Big Money!" and schemes to reduce/eliminate financial support in senatorial races too.
Sound Politics: Suppression of dissent in Mrs. Gregoire's Amerikkka
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The third class of ordnance included the guns firing stone projectiles, such as the pedrero (or perrier, petrary, cannon petro, etc.), the mortars, and the old bombards like Edinburgh Castle's famous Mons Meg.
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
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Many such terms bombard the English language continually: some are stopped at the barriers of honesty and common sense; many invade the lexicon like novae, only
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2
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Ads constantly bombard us with the notion that we will be irresistible if we purchase the product being promoted.
Christianity Today
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But the signs, which cost the parish £215, will not be re-erected because members reversed their policy after being bombarded with complaints.
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Artillery bombarded rescue workers in the aftermath of the strike, the aid group added.
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Atomic number 101 is a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles.
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The Pre-Parliament was an obvious failure and Lenin continued to bombard his lieutenants with demands for a forcible seizure of power.
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Heavy shelling and bombardment rocked Somalias restive capital Mogadishu on Sunday, claiming the lives of at least 14 people Drag to Playlist
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Madrid was heavily bombarded for several months.
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We are bombarded with images of elderly people being frail and sickly.
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Worse yet, their presence frequently meant indiscriminate artillery bombardments against innocent villages suspected of harboring the Vietcong.
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We live in a world where we are bombarded with information and sensate 'noise'.
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The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
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—Thousands of visitors from all over the world are expected to flock this month to Charleston, S.C. for a re-enactment of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, commemorating the beginning of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Reliving First Shots of Civil War
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Consumers are bombarded with offers to check up on their scores and to improve them.
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You keep telling parents that they lack confidence and bombard them with often contradictory advice.
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In recent years, he was touched to be bombarded with offers of work from modern comedians.
The Sun
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He was then bombarded with criticism from Twitter users.
The Sun
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En una guerra un barco necesita bombardear una base de comunicaciones del enemigo que se encuentra a 3000 metros.
Wolfram Blog : Surprise! Mathematica 7.0 Released Today!
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Since, Hollywood insiders claim Jolie has been 'bombarding' Depp with emails and 'buring up the phone lines' about her woes.
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Their friends quickly bombarded their pages with messages of congratulations.
The Sun
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Harold Ings, 86, a bombardier with the Royal Artillery was one of the soldiers whose unit was surrounded by Germans in occupied France.
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Experts say the vast rewards on offer has encouraged claims handlers to bombard people with texts and calls to drum up business.
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We are bombarded with information every waking moment!
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I have sustained a continual Bombardment of increased high-stakes testing and accountability-related bureaucracy and a cannonade of gross underfunding for 10 years at least and have lost several good men and women.
Texas district schools chief issues plea in Alamo-like letter
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Five destroyers were detached to carry out a bombardment of the port.
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The bombardment includes the use of fuel-air explosives, cluster bombs, bunker-busting bombs and carpet-bombing.
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In his own work he's now studying large Venezuelan bombardiers to learn how the insects aim their weapons and to understand more about the glands involved.
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He had known for ever so long why at the head of each battery there rode a stalwart bombardier, and why he was called a bombardier; immediately behind this bombardier could be seen the horsemen of the first and then of the middle units.
The Party
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Similarly, parents concerned that their daughters are getting a skewed view of the world should identify women who challenge the images they are bombarded with.
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She was bombarded with abusive messages on social media.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ads constantly bombard us with the notion that we will be irresistible if we purchase the product being promoted.
Christianity Today
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No wonder we are constantly bombarded with instant credit offers!
Say Goodbye to Debt
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I strongly feel that your campaign stirs up unnecessary resentment towards a service that has received a constant bombardment of criticism.
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The word 'disciplined' ... is conceding that there used to be a problem, he said, adding that a publicly funded procurement could benefit Bombardier, owner of Britain's last remaining train factory, because it will not have to provide guarantees on private financing.
Transport for London warns against PFI deal for Crossrail
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Its fuselage is made by Bombardier's subsidiary in Northern Ireland, Shorts of Belfast.
Britain in Europe
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The last thing I want to do is bombard people with information too early.
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I wouldn't have been able to look away if terrorists were bombarding the room and announcing the end of the world, I was that enraptured.
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Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.
Politics and the English Language
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We're all constantly bombarded with television advertisements.
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They were short of essential supplies and were continually subject to aerial bombardment.
Broken Lives
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Bankers are being being bombarded with messages asking them to consider moving some or all of their business to a new home safely within the eurozone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The enemy mad bombardment caused unprecedented death and destruction in the country.
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The bombardment continued for a terrible nine hours.
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My biggest concern was whether I was going to get seasick but the only queasiness I felt was on about day three, when we encountered sea-state seven, with swells up to 8m high bombarding the ship.
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Throughout the early 1990s, he also bombarded a Canadian housewares company with his designs.
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This prevented another bombardment of Henderson Field by the Japanese battleships, but that night their cruisers shelled it heavily.
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In the days to come, residents will be bombarded by the siren and flashers of ‘traffic’ motorbikes.
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One cannot ignore the fact that this chessboard is populated by people who have to endure [this crisis] every day," Kurtzer says, point out how Israel considers it absolutely unacceptable to come under constant rocket bombardment from Palestinian areas and how Palestine considers it absolutely unacceptable for Israeli reprisals to carry such "civilian cost.
We Want Two States | ATTACKERMAN
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Mr Hornby, a bombardier in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, was ordered on a perilous mission while acting as a dispatch rider in Italy.
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The album is a bombardment of autotuned vocals with loud drums and techno beats.
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MPs are now bombarded by tweets and emails.
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We told how he is regularly bombarded with demands for signed photographs from admirers.
The Sun
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Finally, The bombardier presses a button to release the bomb.
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Casualties have been streaming out of the besieged city of Homs, which is under heavy bombardment by Assad's forces.
Syria: live from the frontline in Homs
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In a post called "le biniou et la bombarde" a play on words for bagpipe and "wog", commentators claimed that "an extra-European will never be a real Breton.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Today we are bombarded with advice on what to eat and what to avoid.
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The larger masses of molten glass remained near the effusive center; these were slower to solidify and commonly became strange agglomerations where bombarded by the rain of smaller ejecta.
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Of course, they also face the constant bombardment from celebrity images in magazines such as Heat.
Times, Sunday Times
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He fell back into the bed as the sword bombarded his mind with a barrage of images, more vivid than the flicks, for he was in them.
Fiddler Fair
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Women are bombarded with lifestyle images of perfectly proportioned celebrities who seem to have everything, without much effort.
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Periodical intense bombardments all along the line, any one of which might have been the preliminary to a great offensive, left the Germans doubtful as to where the real blow would fall.
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Equivalent ranks in the Royal Artillery are lance-bombardier and bombardier, harking back to the ancient rank of bombardier, a species of trained artilleryman.
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The picture provides evidence that supernovae are one source of cosmic rays, highly energetic particles that bombard the planet, passing through us in their thousands every day.
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The public do not, as yet, know all the circumstances in which the bombardment of an unfortified town took place.
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Canadian officials at the band's record company have warned their management about one particular crazed fan who has been bombarding them with emails and phone calls.
The Sun
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And that makes for dangerous times for public investors, who are being bombarded with what seem like cartoonishly large valuations for Apple Inc., Groupon and even closely held Zynga Game Network Inc. All the talk is pushing price expectations higher for companies with even the slightest hook into an iPod or a Facebook app.
Skullcandy IPO? Check Your Head
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a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake
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He imagines himself in stressful climbing situations - say, hanging from ice axes a thousand feet off the deck and suddenly getting bombarded by rockfall.
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Besides, where was the prolonged preparatory artillery bombardment?
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Ion bombardment affects the stability and lifetime of micro - tip field emission devices.
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Lewis served in the 1914-18 war first as a bombardier at Ypres and then as a Canadian war artist.
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American warnings had been broadcast to the local population to move inland to avoid the bombardment.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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Tom was bombarded with questions and he was getting fed up.
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Despite this bombardment, all ring moons have erosional lifetimes that exceed the solar system's age.
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Meanwhile, the massive aerial bombardment/bombing of military targets continued unabated.
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They turn up uninvited and bombard my husband with texts asking what she's eating or wearing.
The Sun
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The things this man had experienced astounded me: he had run in the Olympics and crossed paths with Hitler; lived through ferocious aerial combat and bombardment on the ground; endured a plane crash, forty-seven days on a tiny life raft, shark attacks, a typhoon and a machine gunning from a Japanese bomber; and, after his capture, joined a daring prisoner underground while enslaved in Japanese POW camps.
The New Yorker
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Bankers are being being bombarded with messages asking them to consider moving some or all of their business to a new home safely within the eurozone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spokesman said: 'The constant bombardment by certain agency photographers at her home has increased anxiety and caused disturbance.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also says the bombardment lasted for about 90 minutes, but has the infantry attack beginning while the artillery barrage is still going on.
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Bombarded with stories about unscrupulous corporate executives and the employees they done wrong, workers begin to gaze warily at their own managers.
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As a product of the cold-war era, it was engineered to withstand aerial bombardment.
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China's CDB Leasing Co. will offer predelivery payment financing, delivery financing and leasing solutions to customers of Bombardier's CSeries, Q400 and CRJ aircraft, the Montreal company said in a statement.
Corporate Watch
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Government forces used mortars, helicopter gunships and airplanes to bombard rebel positions.
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Fifteen microlitres microcarrier suspension was used for each bombardment.
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We experience the possibility of living a life in which we aren't continuously bombarded by emotions, discursiveness and concepts about the nature of things.
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And if they're talking about rem, this is presumably a measure of gamma radiation probably a secondary product from magnetospheric charged-particle bombardment of Jupiter's outer atmosphere, or Io's own feeble salt-and-sulfur atmosphere, and would indeed at the doses you've uncovered require significant shielding.
Mikandra: crap and duh
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From behind the grass covered ramparts above, mortars and heavy guns on the surrounding terreplein would provide heavy bombardment against the enemy.
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The Nazi artillery dutifully shelled without mercy, and the Luftwaffe bombarded the streets relentlessly.
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You can't yawn for being bombarded with political rhetoric.
The Sun
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They had been bombarding the city for days before they attempted to storm the walls.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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But after his plight hit the headlines the father of four was bombarded with job offers.
The Sun
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An obscure fishing village on an offshore island suddenly bombarded by artillery shells on a quiet Tuesday afternoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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I expect she was trying to escape the Suffolk weather, which, when it's not bombarding us with thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening), is chucking meteorites at us.
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Overprotective parents may bombard their young children with messages that reinforce their lack of mastery.
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In recent years, he was touched to be bombarded with offers of work from modern comedians.
The Sun
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It's not that children aren't otherwise bombarded with consumer messages - on television, at the mall and from their peers.
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She also said they enjoyed walks in the country and that the doctor bombarded her with text messages at one point.
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All my trolls slinker off to their oddball activities when bombarded with facts, anyway.
Think Progress » Obama’s second TSA nominee backs out.
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He bombarded Catherine with questions to which he should have known the answers.
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No wonder we are constantly bombarded with instant credit offers!
Say Goodbye to Debt
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In 2007, the Russian government punished Estonia for removing a Soviet war memorial by launching a "cyberwar" - a bombardment of hacking and viruses that brought their computers down for weeks.
Johann Hari: Has The Internet Brought Us Together -- Or Pulled Us Apart?
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Stark warnings and a constant bombardment of information on the fragile nature of Earth's environment surround us on a weekly basis.
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The use of modern weapons has made it more difficult to protect civilians from aerial bombardment.
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The pediment of the town hall had been hung with garlands of ivy; a tent had been erected in a meadow for the banquet; and in the middle of the Place, in front of the church, a kind of bombarde was to announce the arrival of the prefect and the names of the successful farmers who had obtained prizes.
Madame Bovary
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The capital is still under constant bombardment by the rebel forces.
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He bombarded Catherine with questions to which he should have known the answers.
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As children we are bombarded with the question, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’
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Avalanching electrons bombard the surface.
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Outline the arguments for and against the late heavy bombardment of a terrestrial planet occurring after its formation. 6.
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There are closed shops, crumbling apartment blocks and empty offices and schools, many pancaked from bombardment and pock-marked with bullet and shrapnel holes.
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These guys will fall silent, then we'll be bombarded with a slew of alibis and lame excuses for their failure.
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Bombardment by asteroids and comets is an extraterrestrial process that may release huge quantities of water.
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But then slowly, inexorably, the great occasion descended into torpor - deliberately induced by a classic Brownite bombardment of figures, forecasts and the odd indisputable fact.
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‘We have only just started college and we are already being bombarded with university prospectuses,’ says Lydia.
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Instead of working their way back into the game as reigning champions should be expected to do, they constantly bombarded Quirke with high balls as they desperately sought a lifeline through a goal.
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The threesome dealt with an aerial bombardment late in the game as if it was second nature to them.
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In the 1950s, while working as a copywriter on Madison Avenue, he quit writing stories and started strategizing a novel based on his wartime experience as a bombardier in the Army Air Corps.
Major Minor
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Over the years, he has taken hold of his practical joke side to bombard me with as many tricks as humanly possible.
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There even was a couple of Bombardier passenger train cars, between a boxcar and a flatcar, for use in St. Louis' new commuter rail system, not to be confused with its light rail system.
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This theme is one of the elements in his new work, a detailed examination of the brutal history and indefensible consequences of aerial bombardment.
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You can't turn on the television without being bombarded with images of sex, and these are as likely to come in an advert as they are in a third-rate post-watershed movie.
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Government forces unleashed airstrikes and artillery bombardment yesterday as they fought back.
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The strong form states that we're constantly being bombarded with biochemical material from space, and that there's a correlation between Viral outbreaks and patterns of infall.
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It may sound like a dental malady, but cavitation is a powerful natural force, a bombardment of microscopic bubbles that breaks down some of the hardest materials on earth.
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Mrs Reston was one of the last to leave, and carried her son across the battery, under heavy bombardment, to the waiting boat.
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Part of this problem stems from all the propaganda they bombard you with when you buy a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
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An estimated 5,000 civilians were killed and 10,000 injured when the Iraqi air force bombarded Halabja with mustard and other poison gases, including sarin.
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We are constantly bombarded by it.
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A propaganda line was prepared, while the city was peppered with repeated bombardment.
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They have withstood heavy bombardment for many months.
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He went to navigation, bombardier and observer school at hot and humid Ellington Air Force Base, Texas, near Houston.
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Sun brought his little navy up to Canton and bombarded Lu's yamen.
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The search is complicated by the Bombardier's obviously faulty memory, but the novel concludes with the trio's discovery of the ruins of the bombed-out target, presumably validating the Bombardier's remembered experience.
July 2010
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Plus the punishing impact of US-led aerial bombardment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Continuing these investigations, Rutherford was able in 1919 to produce transmutations of atomic nuclei by bombarding nitrogen with helium nuclei from a radium source.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 - Presentation Speech
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It also explains the reliance on aerial bombardment of civilians.
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Unsurprisingly, all the major newsprint and most journalists officially endorsed the Respondents, politicians were bombarded with letter and email campaigns resulting in vocal pronouncements for a review of human rights commissions (HRCs) and their provisions, and several civil liberty groups and recognizable figures such as Alan Borovoy provided unwavering support and reprimanded the use of HRCs for censuring our God given right (sic) to express ourselves.
2008 October : Law is Cool
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No wonder we are constantly bombarded with instant credit offers!
Say Goodbye to Debt
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I think the real problem is that women are bombarded with casual sexism and have come to expect it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The allies let loose an intensive artillery bombardment over the border.
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Within hours of the announcement last August, hoteliers were being bombarded by inquiries from people desperate to book accommodation for an event which is a fixture in the social calendar.
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We're bombarded with boorish cell phoners, disengaged and seemingly somnambulistic texters who walk in the middle of traffic Tweeting.
Lionel: Olfactory Terror at 36K Feet
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A stable isotope of potassium, 9K, is converted to 39Ar by neutron bombardment of the sample to be dated.
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But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment.
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Experiments using X-ray bombardment eliminated electrostatic attraction as a necessary mechanism for setal adhesion since the geckos were still able to adhere in ionized air.
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The neutron bombardment is serious: it radioactivates substances and weakens structures.
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She was bombarded with abusive messages on social media.
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Businesses are waking up to the need for this high level of protection, but are still being bombarded by virals.
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Pinned down under bombardment outside the strategic town of Cambes, evacuation of the wounded was not easy so Jack was patched up and restored to duty.
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Their forces capitulated five hours after the Allied bombardment of the city began.
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As they attacked, the men faced machinegun fire and heavy artillery bombardment.
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Mr. Hadrick's video went viral on YouTube—at least among fellow cattlemen, who bombarded Yellow Tail with protest emails.
Beef Industry Carves a Course
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Health charities have been bombarded recently with criticism for their close links with the world of commerce, particularly the pharmaceutical industry.
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We have been massed towards Saint Denis, which is being bombarded," he replied.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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The former hurricane looped back across Florida and bombarded the Texas - Louisiana line last night with heavy rain.
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The Early Earth, scientists believe, was subjected to a bombardment by comets and asteroids, and heated to such a degree that its primordial oceans evaporated.
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The dynamic strain is an important mechanic parameter of the structural response produced in the target structure bombarded by electron beam.
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Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.
Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity
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I'm bombarded with questions and statements and doubts and sympathy.
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At the height of the violence a raging gang of 40 men bombarded the pub with bricks and customers were forced to barricade themselves in the landlord's living quarters in fear of their lives.
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Health charities have been bombarded recently with criticism for their close links with the world of commerce, particularly the pharmaceutical industry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The men kill time collecting the small parachutes from the shells in between attacks and bombardments.
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I've been bombarded by the press and television since I came back from Norway.
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Further north, Tomahawk missiles bombarding the city heralded the beginning of the War.
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Air bombardment raised criticism on the humanitarian grounds that innocent civilians might suffer.
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The cars are being assembled at Bombardier's Thunder Bay works, and 112 have been delivered to date.
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Instead of a lesson in experimental theatre, they were bombarded with graphic scenes of violence and a non-stop stream of expletives.
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For years, men have been bombarded with low-cut bumsters, gaudy tracksuits and blinged-up denims.
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I had been in action bombarding the Normandy coast.
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Rosin feels that it's best to address the messages that bombard her students.
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They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
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I believe he would have done it for the sake of the cornet; but before I had finished eating, up stepped a sentry escorting a man with my bombardon under his arm.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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Dr. Johnson, however, strangely enough deduces the word bumpkin from bump; but what if it should prove to be a corruption of bumbard, or bombard: in low Latin, bombardus, a great gun, and from thence applied to a large flagon, or full glass.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
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Today we are bombarded with advice on what to eat and what to avoid.
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Military officers were in charge of the battle and commanded both soldiers and gunmen - ‘bombardieri’, and sopracomito, while officers ran the boat with sailors and rowers - galliots.
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The aerial bombardments have neutralized the threat of artillery attacks on allied ground forces.
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Meanwhile, the massive aerial bombardment/bombing of military targets continued unabated.
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Rutherford was studying the structure of matter by bombarding a very thin gold foil with the alpha radiation from radium and polonium.
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But consumer tolerance of marketing bombardment is wearing thin.
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But all aerial bombardments, offensive raids, ambushes and assassinations are to come to a halt, he said.
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Fifteen microlitres microcarrier suspension was used for each bombardment.
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We are constantly bombarded with the extravagances of our celebrities, Real Housewives, Teen CRIBS, and a slue of juvenile spoiled brats partying like it's 1999.
The Relevance of Roseanne Today
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Bombardier Roy Brown's daughter Judy Valentini inspects the wrecked wing of an aircraft during the visit to Horn Island.
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As I was bombarded with more questions and exclamations, I could feel myself starting to lose my temper very fast.
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Yet for all the muskets, bombards, and cannon, Kelly appears more interested in the impact of gunpowder as a technological force driving deeper societal changes.
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The great family of ground beetles (Carabidæ) almost all possess a disagreeable and some a very pungent smell, and a few, called bombardier beetles, have the peculiar faculty of emitting a jet of very volatile liquid, which appears like a puff of smoke, and is accompanied by a distinct crepitating explosion.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
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By comparison, there is not a single nationally recognized speaker on the dais at any of the United States Social Forum plenaries, no Democratic party candidates bombarding the Forum or its constituent organizations for endorsements and no mainstream liberal foundations are backing the effort.
Sally Kohn: Force or Fringe: United States Social Forum Vs. Tea Party
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Anachronisms and nautical howlers bombard the reader like spindrift in a Force 10 gale.
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The 1950s saw the illegal Suez operation, during which a British warship bombarded Port Said and killed several Egyptian civilians.
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The Classical" and ended with the cacophonous valedictory bombardment of "And This Day", a two-drumkit headfuck not unlike The Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" played by The Glitter Band, which Smith edited randonly down to 10 minutes from around 25.
FallNews - Hey Peasants!
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In the 1420s when the Byzantines had their first experience of bombardment by cannon, they reduced the effectiveness of the new weapon by suspending bales of material, wood and anything that might absorb and diffuse its impact.
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Sun is nuclear frequency magnetic electic air, chemo makes you totally hairless, which is alien silicon skinless,. (chemo treatment of nuclear frequency bombardment removed silicon alien skin),.
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