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An AFTRA statement confirmed the issues' importance, calling the 1% increase the union's "primary objective" in the bargaining. Jonathan Handel: AFTRA, Networks Reach New Three Year Deal
China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.” Storyteller
His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten!
There's a lot of people out there who are calling themselves rappers but they're not really down.

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Companies need to be able to handle surges, otherwise the cost of generating leads is wasted and prospective customers who cannot get through may get such a bad impression of the company that they do not bother calling back.
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
Airline officials are calling the attack a suicide attempt.
Ruling was in a sense a job, a calling, the only thing he knew how to do and could conceive of doing.
There was open laughter and catcalling by the end.
A notice posted on the chapel of Carrigtwohill, calling one of those meetings, warned such as absented themselves that they would be marked men, as there was famine in the parish, and they should have food or blood. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
I am speaking of the ease with which motives are impugned, lifestyles derogated, name-calling condoned, individuals and groups demonized. The Ten Commandments
NEWPORT, Wales — Phil Mickelson came to the defense of Rory McIlroy on Wednesday, calling him one of the classiest players in golf and his desire to play Tiger Woods is the goal of every player who wants to beat the best. Phil Mickelson Addresses Tiger Woods Feud
Gorgeous in a seemingly effortless Kate Hudson/Blake Lively kind of way, her future calling dawned on her when she saw her dad performing on stage and became enamored with the costumes the dancers were wearing. Buzzine » Stacey Oristano
Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.” George Washington’s First War
She tapped her umbrella on the setts, calling haughtily for way, and way miraculously appeared. At Swim, Two Boys
The ayatollah broke with Iran's clerical leadership and became a vehement critic, denouncing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling the postelection crackdown the work of a dictatorship. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
As to the charge of ‘pseudo-intellectual revisionism’ I don't think this means much of anything beyond polysyllabic name-calling.
The SPCA has been calling for the complete ban of fireworks and crackers for some time now.
Cadbury dismisses 'derisory' Kraft bid food giant Kraft yesterday, labelling it "derisory" and "unattractive" and calling on its shareholders to turn it down. WN.com - Articles related to Cadbury chief prefers Hershey to Kraft as bid battle looms larger
In the case of marriage, calling SSM discriminatory or segregationist represents either a failure to adequately recognise the sexuality of the individual involved or more perniciously to regard that distinction as immaterial or undeserving of respect. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
Halladay implied some criticism of his game-calling after the Orioles drubbed him last Friday.
i was in floods of tears at the end of "Bridge to Terabithia" when i went to go see it with me ten year old nephew. he promptly spent the rest of the day laughing at me for it and calling me a woose but in my defence it was really sad. lol. wrenchturner (5 posts) on April 16, 2009 - 9: 46pm. AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
The ending of secure tenancies could have a bigger impact on the demography of London than the creation of the new towns," she says, recalling the creation of places such as Basildon, Crawley and Harlow that were filled with people flowing out of the capital. Angry and insecure – the renting Britons with no hope of buying a home
Brooklyn itself was fine but calling 278 an expressway is a laugh. First we take Manhattan, then we..well...we go to Brooklyn.
The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
There was nothing but mud-slinging, exaggerations, outright lies and immature namecalling.
Hubert in particular was recalling times past when Patricia had behaved less than honourably towards his favourite cousin.
At this stage, as Hawks monopolised possession, their fans were calling for the ball to go wide.
Christopher awards Meet The Fockers three stars but then unnerves us slightly by calling Dustin Hoffman ‘48 inches of vintage dance-floor groove’.
Most Protestants only get as far as calling Catholic statues and icons a likeness.
They are also calling for powers to allow authorities to intervene to protect young people who are at risk from drugs.
Mao led the Cultural Revolution Authority in stirring up more animosity by calling the factional fighting “an extension of the struggle between the Communists and the Kuomintang”—without specifying which group was which. Wild Swans
But they are sorry, that they have just cause to regrate, that men of meer civill place and employment should usurp the calling and employment of the ministry, to the scandall of the reformed kirks, and particularly in The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
Uunknown to him, Williams was calling the police and firefighters at the same time.
A string of Labour figures of all ranks are calling for the Premier to quit to save the party from being fatally damaged. The Sun
Believing that my wallet was gone forever, I started calling my bank and credit card companies, but the front desk clerk called my room, saying, “A cabdriver is in the lobby with your wallet.” A wayward wallet returns
The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, the centuries spent trying to find a proof and Professor - now Sir - Andrew Wiles's final victory, is recounted in a book by Simon Singh , a physicist and author also famous for his battle to change the libel laws after he was sued for calling pseudoscientific medical treatments "bogus" . Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
One fan has captured the despair by calling his blog Capitol Punishment. Times, Sunday Times
When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill.
Cold-calling, at one licensed dealer, when the salesmen got desperate, was just not tolerated, it was actively encouraged.
We were just in the process of proceeding to a party vote when points of order were raised about the calling of the voice vote.
And yelping is also good for calling the birds in. I would like to hunt turkeys with my bow this fall. It will be my first time hunting turkeys.
Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention?
He was informed that Mr. Johnson would be calling today to encash the said draft.
Another scam involves a fraudster calling a bank and informing them that a company's contact details have changed, and then telling the company that the bank's details have changed.
After the feast was over, we had kava, and the calling of the kava was a very elaborate affair, and I thought had like to have made Vailima Letters
Mr. Romney drew first when his campaign had Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, a semirural stretch of Arizona, record automated calls to Iowa voters last month calling Mr. Perry "part of the illegal-immigration problem. High Noon on Immigration; Toss-Up on the Prairie
I jump off my bed and walk to my closet scanning the clothes, but not really looking, for my mind is recalling the events that happened earlier.
It's honestly embarrassing to listen to, but one should refrain from calling Arrington a brown-noser because who knows? Dan Snyder Mounts Charm Offensive Many Years Too Late
John Edwards today said that after watching his rivals slug it out last night, he's proud to represent what he's calling the grownup wing of the Democratic Party. CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2008
So what better way of proving her wrong than sticking her personal Myspace pics all over his site, libellously accusing her of being a porn star, and calling her an ugly old slack-fannied man in drag although, even in the worst pics he could dig up, I'm quite sure she's a damn sight foxier than he ever will be. The Haters of Roissy 3 : Bad Obsession
So what better way of proving her wrong than sticking her personal Myspace pics all over his site, libellously accusing her of being a porn star, and calling her an ugly old slack-fannied man in drag although, even in the worst pics he could dig up, I'm quite sure she's a damn sight foxier than he ever will be. Archive 2009-08-01
If you're calling the polemicist Arianna Huffington a "traditional network star," I demand that status be given to Ann Coulter. Infinite Monkeys - "...a sparkly blog..." - James Lileks
Food distributors across the country announced yesterday that they are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a WN.com - Business News
The state-run news agency is now calling Kostunica the elected president of Yugoslavia. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Dick Cheney and Joseph Lieberman Spar in Cordial Vice Presidential Debate - October 5, 2000
Most bothersome is during this week of Kanye, Serena and Wilson with virtually every news site asking are we rude/have we lost our civility, is that people from the stature of James Carville to presumably educated people writing comments, are ranting, raving and name calling. Carville takes aim at latest tell-all on Bush
A Yorkshire historian is calling on the Queen to help to clear Richard III of the double child murder which has blackened his reputation for more than 500 years.
The springtime calling of frogs had given way to the chirping of crickets and the distant barks of rutting roe deer.
Earlier today, Paul Preston, a.k.a., "pacified," posted a note on SoapBlox. net calling an end to the service, as Politico's Ben Smith reports: SoapBlox Burnout Points to Vulnerability in Left's Infrastructure
Shortly thereafter, I heard him calling CQ DX with no answers. WN.com - Articles related to Sarah Palin Gaffs: Media mistakes you don't want to make
When I got up to criticise her - which led to cheering and catcalling from there on - Cook simply sat back and kept his head down.
The courtship rituals of cranes are elaborate: paired birds spread their wings and leap repeatedly into the air while calling.
Surviving panels by him include parts of a Passion polyptych, recalling his frescoes in S. Francesco, Assisi.
Protesters are calling for a public hearing.
There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow.
Mr. FITZSIMONS (of Penn.) did not recollect whether he moved or seconded the motion, but if he had, he should not withdraw it on account of the threat of calling the yeas and nays. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
It is calling me to him, every night his calling grows stronger.
But the soldier, who, with proper military observance, continued to have his eye and attention fixed on the Emperor, as the prince whom he was bound to answer or to serve, saw none of the hints, which Achilles at length suffered to become so broad, that Zosimus and the Protospathaire exchanged expressive glances, as calling on each other to notice the by-play of the leader of the Varangians. Count Robert of Paris
Calling the open-sourcing of software treacherous is a little wildly off base, where is the treachery? Did Open Source ever have a halo? : #comments
I would probably "ground" the audience in tonal conventional music sounds during the real-world part of Zann and move them into atonal "out-there" sounds when that window opens (if I am recalling the story correctly). Lovecraft Paragraphs : The Lovecraft News Network
Calling me back, she pointed to an oversized letter B on a pillar about a foot and a half away from where I was standing.
Food distributors across the country announced on Thursday they are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a Plainview, Minn., milk Food distributors across the country announced Thursday they are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a WN.com - Business News
There are many versions of the recipe, some calling for cinnamon only, some also using ginger, cloves and nutmeg.
She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling. Chapter X
Since software uses the stack quite actively, particularly when calling subprograms, the introduction of the dedicated stack manager reduces the load on the CPU's execution units.
Like my friend said, "it's like calling the cable company to tell them your stolen cable is out. Boing Boing: February 11, 2001 - February 17, 2001 Archives
Which is why we are calling on all men to get a health MOT. The Sun
That she blames Bliss is clear from her calling her older daughter a "worthless miscreation".
And for President Bushmaster — a bushmaster is a highly venomous snake, extraordinarily dangerous to humans, that inhabits the Southern tropics (See, I can match ‘em bam-for-BAM!) — to suggest it was “disgusting” is so like a hog calling a wallowing pig filthy. Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful
Now the woman's voice came to them calling earnestly, "Sahib, sahib, sahib!" she cried. Jack Haydon's Quest
I guess you refer to name calling coz of the words Krusty Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed
If long node node names are used, initiation is done by calling erl_connect_xinit ( "idril", "cnode", "cnode@idril. ericsson.se", Hiveminds Magazine
The former chief of the judiciary and close ally of Khamenei, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, was quoted Monday in Iranian newspapers as calling the postelection rifts a "family dispute" that can be worked out through dialogue. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
He realized that his calling was to preach the gospel.
She actually envied the simplicity of Lucy Morris, for whom she delighted to find evil names, calling her demure, a prig, a sly puss, and so on. The Eustace Diamonds
Civil injunctions are enforced by the court staff and not by the police, but there is no means of calling out the tipstaff or bailiff at midnight on a Saturday night to deal with a drunken partner.
Through his open window came the faint, distant beating of the sea; a bird flew past him, a white flash of light; some one was singing the refrain of a Cornish "chanty" -- the swing of the tune came up to him from the garden, and some of the words beat like little bells upon his brain, calling up endless memories of his boyhood. The Wooden Horse
Still less do we need to try and settle that rivalry by calling one of them real and the others more or less illusory.
Yet God's all-wise, necessary and patient method of working out this intention in time is through calling individual human beings one-by-one to himself through prevenient grace and election.
September 13th, 2009 MICHAEL CAINE is calling on the U. K.'s leaders to reinstate national service in an effort to clean up the streets After shooting his new movie, Harry Brown, in London's most troubled neighbourhoods, Caine fears crime and drug use is out of control in his native Britain - and the government needs to do something drastic to stop youngsters from killing one another. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
I had not changed my intellectual belief as to my correspondent's behavior, but the impropriety of complicating an awkward business by placing myself in the wrong to the extent of losing my temper was so obvious that I blushed in recalling the bombastic periods of the torn composition. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
I believe what you are calling a smirk is where his teleprompter is telling him to "SMILE" -- that's so we, and he, know that he told us a joke, and also to dispel that nasty rumor going around about his bad temper. McCain Jokes About Obama's Overseas Trip And Press Coverage
Congressional Democrats have resisted impeachment considerations, recalling the acrimonious division when a Republican Congress impeached Bill Clinton in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Bush's Disapproval Hits Rare Heights; Only Nixon and Truman Scored Worse
Fans will revel in the snappy one-liners, the latex effects, the swearing and what sci-figeeks everywhere will be calling 'intertextuality'. Times, Sunday Times
Asman went back to Hardy and attempted to prod him into calling Obama the bigger evil-doer. FOX News "Asks" If The Obama Administration Is A Bigger Scammer Than Madoff
Queer how the echo of Cutty's description of the drums calling a jehad -- a holy war -- should adapt itself to that The Drums of Jeopardy
So next time the sun is shining and the birds are calling, go outside to broaden your exercise routine.
This retreat was followed by the calling in of mounted police and black-suited riot squads to attack demonstrators with batons and pepper spray.
A man even admitted to calling in sick yesterday because he was afraid to leave for work in the predawn hours.
It is so lovely to view the sweet innocence of the ghouls and hobgoblins who visit our thresholds, calling out ‘trick or treat’, often accompanied by imaginative verse of their own making.
There are all kind of analysts and experts calling this undoable.
Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: For President Bushmaster - a bushmaster is a highly venomous snake, extraordinarily dangerous to humans, that inhabits the Southern tropics (See, I can match \'em bam-for-BAM!) - to suggest it was "disgusting" is so like a hog calling a wallowing pig filthy.' Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful
A voice broke through the silence, calling out her name.
Next thing you know, she's on "The Today Show" calling the blackmailer's bluff by tearfully going public with the pictures. CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2007
My friends poke fun at me by calling me a bully.
Uncle Alphonse had a strap hanging on the inside of the door to the bathroom that he used on Mick and Caesare with liberal and gleeful intent, recalling, perhaps, the beat - ings his father had inflicted on him in the "backhouse," as the outhouse was called. Second Skin
I tried calling the hospital but just got answering machines. The Sun
The first smash hit of the 2007-2008 Broadway season turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Broadway history â€ â€œXanadu.â€ People are calling a hilariously reinvented send-up of the 1980â€™s Olivia Newton-John film, this irreverent musical adventure, about following your dreams when others say you shouldnâ€™t, spins along to the addictive original hit film score by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. Whoopi Roller Skates ‘Xanadu’
The mainly young protesters, many in their teens, defied the security forces' assaults and chanted slogans against the upcoming presidential elections, calling it a masquerade.
Calling it a slow walk or a light jog is probably more accurate, no matter what I think. WiMAX Will Keep Limping Along
He'd been a perfect gentleman, lauding me with compliments, calling when he said he would.
We pride ourselves on producing a quality product and will do all that we can to ensure our customers have an enjoyable experience when placing an order - or just calling with a question.
But in the common variety, they're ordinary people who believe it's their calling to help people worship a particular incorporeal deity instead of rocks.
But when the FBI or customs officers come calling, there is little room for manoeuvre.
He would have been able to hear other noises, such as the sound of urination or the calling out.
Substantial, wholesome, and clean -- though generated by a wet, helpless creature having no personal charms, and which, having passed the phase of life in which it enjoyed the gift of locomotion, has become a plant-like fixture to one spot -- the gas mingles with other diffusions of the reef, recalling villanous salt-petre and sheepdips and brimstone and treacle to the stimulation of the mental faculties generally. My Tropic Isle
Simpson shuddered, recalling the pock-marked drummer on the O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
The Prime Minister is calling for new restraints on trade unions.
Carlotta was a "prod"; it was only because she came at the end of the alphabet that she was left out, but thanks to Betty's fly-away fashion of running off to speak to some junior ushers, and then calling the Blunderbuss, whose mother wanted to see her a minute, nobody could find out positively who it was that had been "flunked out" of 19 --. Betty Wales Senior
The government has also issued a statement calling on the public to " revolt against the striking trade unions".
I once heard one calling in the top of a skimpy fir tree in a wood. Times, Sunday Times
Nassau Candy is recalling twenty-six peanut bulk products since they could be infested with salmonella, an mammal that can means critical as well as sometimes deadly infections, especially in immature children, a elderly as well as those with weakened defence systems. Archive 2009-12-01
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He is now calling for a united front between the agency and industry to squeeze out illegal operators and to support the existing tyre recovery system.
Inside the box was a never been fired, still in the cosmoline, Browning BAR. He said he tried calling me to see if I wanted it, but I didn't answer my phone. The Ones That Got Away
A STATICally called module is one that is bound with the calling module at link edit, and therefore becomes part of the executable load module.
Instead, diplomats, politicians and even the media in Pakistan have joined hands in calling brutalities against the Baloch as "Pakistan's internal matter. Malik Siraj Akbar: Pakistan Vs. Balochistan
Whatever they're calling Rowena now, it's not manic-depressive! Jinx High
It is worth recalling that when India had a very low rate of economic growth, as was the case until the 1980s, a common argument was that democracy was hostile to fast economic growth.
One character grew particularly animated, becoming red-faced as he struggled to contain the words that burst forth, recalling Offaly teams from bygone eras who had fought so bravely with their scant resources. FIRECRACKER
What does anybody get out of calling us karaoke singers? The Sun
Now if, in the view of many Australians, lying does not disqualify you from national leadership, then it is no good just going on calling politicians liars?
Three of the biggest unions, Unison, the Communications Workers Union and the GMB have tabled motions at their annual conferences next month calling for members to disaffiliate from Labour. Archive 2008-05-01
The hereditary king of Hawaii is calling for 100% pure-blood Hawaiians of noble descent to come forward and form a new government.
Recalling his experience of flying Oswald Mosley wrote, ‘once in the air you could do nothing about it if anything went wrong, on the ground the machine was looked after by our friends the mechanic and riggers.’
Friends of the Earth is calling for a global convention on corporate accountability.
Calling the long-awaited regulation a "landmark safety achievement" that resolves pilot-fatigue issues that have been festering since the 1970s, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday said the changes were based on the latest scientific sleep research. FAA Mandates Longer Rest Periods for Pilots
Recalling my bobsled runs reminds me that I'm up for any challenge. Nikki Stone: Even Country Leaders Have to Learn to Take a Risk: Prince Albert's Most Moving Experience
In office it is like the second kind of participles, described in Lesson 37, and from many grammarians has received the same name -- some calling both _gerunds_, and others calling both _infinitives_. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
They are now calling Aranguez - long known as the food basket of the country - the praedial larceny capital of the country.
Which is why we do eveything we can to help the patien, including sending the relase ourselves to the prior doc, calling the radiologist ourselves for the report, etc. A Team of One
Then without even giving a proper bill of charges, they went ahead and deactivated my connection since I had allegedly exceeded my calling value.
Who is calling the shots in this house?
If you were to call up veronica and type in "flambe" after calling up veronica, you would soon get a menu listing several flambe recipes, including one called "dessert flambe. The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 8: Gophers, WAIS, Web
Researchers at a Yorkshire university are calling for tighter controls on aviation in an attempt to reduce greenhouse gases and minimise the effects of climate change.
Placing bets and calling bluffs, it's a way to blow off steam from a rigorous course schedule, a camaraderie they all share. Whatever Happened To ... Derek O'Dell, Virginia Tech shooting survivor
There was another bit of the plan I never quiet understood which involved singing Marie Lloyd songs instead of calling the election while it was still winnable, but I don't pretend to have a firm grasp of psephology.
Seoul International Film Festival 2007 Net Section Calling For Entries!
As defined by Collins, Dinocarids are bilaterally symmetrical arthropods with a body divided into two principal tagmata, recalling the prosoma and opisthosoma of chelicerates, and a non-mineralised cuticle.
“Some girls had their qi pao custom-made, and some bought them from stores,” Crystal said, calling the cheongsam by its Mandarin name. American Chinatown
It is worth recalling that from the end of 1923 to the middle of 1925 the exchange rate in dollars relative to the pre-war parity was about a third.
Tom Goldstein, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where impressionable novitiates are prepared for the high calling of the Fourth Estate, avowed that Wright was just ‘a corporate citizen’ doing his job.
Calling the SEC "nonfunctional" and harmful to the reputation of the U.S. as a global financial leader, Markopolos recommended ways to revamp the agency, including replacing its senior staff and establishing a central office to receive complaints from whistleblowers. NewsObserver.com - Home
I didn't care over-weeningly for it for personal gratification; and in my philosophy I completed the circle, finding myself as equable with the lack of a ten-cent piece as I was with the squandering of scores of dollars in calling all men and hangers-on up to the bar to drink with me. Chapter 18
So he may appreciate the paradox of his lightning ascent in his second calling – not to mention the mutterings of those press-box colleagues who have toiled diligently for years without recognition from their trade's association and remember the days when they called him Captain Grumpy, a soubriquet he did his best to live up to. US hard courts will reveal if Andy Murray's lapses are part of a cycle | Kevin Mitchell
Viki remembers the mysterious figure in the dark calling her 'alula' and, as she does some research, the first of a series of startling events that will change her life forever unfold. News
Camped in the hills not far from her own house last summer, she even heard her uncle's voice calling out for her.
The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at hand -- for the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was calling -- weakly, indeed, but calling -- to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world. The War in the Air
Calling all Ghosts PETE, BOB AND JUPITER sat round the desk in Head - quarters, devouring the sandwiches Jupiter had brought. The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot
The offender is extruded as unworthy of an honorable calling.
Don't dignify his silly scratchings by calling it scholarship.
Calling me 'fatso' or 'lardass' was something very different. Archive 2006-11-01
Dress for the highest moments of your calling, not for the scrubbiest. Archive 2006-06-25
Thank you for calling this matter to our attention.
This means she is recalling a visual memory from the past. The Sun
A transmitter in Samoa was heard calling
Ehrlich did try to gain commuter support by calling MARC and Metro "broken," but did not much lay out a plan for improvement. Ehrlich vs. O'Malley -- Maryland governor debate liveblog
If you noticed too, the dire horses used the Velociraptor calling snort as well. 22-Minute Behind-the-Scenes Featurette on Creating Avatar’s World | /Film
There were so many times I considered calling, or going by, but was blocked by that mountainous candor of hers.
We now have techniques, because of these rapid methods of synthesis, to do what we're calling combinatorial genomics. Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life
He belonged to the generation of broadcasters who saw documentary reporting as the highest possible calling.
The meatball is classic, recalling an inspiring age when NASA did incredible feats like, oh, going to the moon. Worm Watch - NASA Watch
The group circulated petitions calling for a federal law to ban handguns.
Ramcharan, who has been a teacher at the school for the last 47 years, said the profession of teaching for her was a calling from God.
Elaine Garzarelli became a celebrity for calling the 1987 stock market crash.
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a halt to hostilities.
He struck me as a latter-day Socrates who had missed out on his true calling in the agora of Periclean Athens by some 2,500 years.
You can find a trained sugarer by calling 800-957-8427. Meg Hemphill: The Newest Oldest Form of Hair Removal
Instead of writing in opposition to your nemesis, write in favor of your cause; instead of calling the boneheaded author's integrity into question, extol the virtues of those who oppose that person; instead of pointing out flaws in the author's logic, create a flawless argument of your own. Edward Muzio: The Power of Shutting Up in the Internet Age
I think that there's room for debate about what is or isn't appropriate for public calling-out, but I think that the word *debate* there is key - not just running with a default assumption of anything possibly hurtful = bad = verboten. Community Is Hard. Deal With It.
The group said it had collected 3,000 signatures on a petition calling for the hunter's licence to be revoked. Times, Sunday Times
I had nothing invested so far but jacks were a fair hand, worth calling a raise; or so I thought.
On the campaign trail, he had coined a zinger against rival Mitt Romney, saying President Barack Obama's health-care law was largely based on the policy Mr. Romney promoted as Massachusetts governor, and calling Mr. Romney's law "ObamneyCare. Withdrawal Follows a Failure to Ignite
And I couldn’t translate whom he was calling supplicant The Best American Poetry 2010
This is despite calling numerous times to chase. The Sun
The student complained McCormick was falsely saying they were dating, that he was calling her obsessively and had punched a wall and said "I could have hurt you" after seeing her hug another guy, according to an e-mail Hansen sent administrators recapping the allegations. WCAX - Local News
The national organizer of a Ghanaian youth association is calling on elders and traditional rulers to help resolve a brewing conflict over a chieftaincy dispute. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
Even the name is a little chilling, recalling a medieval spearlike weapon as well as a ferocious fish. Try Pike On The Fly
The male pads about, calling to females with gruff barks. Times, Sunday Times
I can't believe the feebs who are calling in to discuss the blackout.
We take such matters much less lightly today, as Mr. Mullan notes while recalling the rumpus surrounding "Primary Colors," the Clinton-based novel that Joe Klein initially denied writing, much to the subsequent anger of his fellow journalists. In All But Name
A representative sample poll of 4,000 people has a plus or minus one per cent chance of correctly calling the outcome of a national or constituency vote.
The showpeople left calling it a travesty of justice.
He responded testily to questions about WikiLeaks's opaque finances, Private Manning's fate and WikiLeaks's apparent lack of accountability to anybody but himself, calling the questions "cretinous," "facile" and reminiscent of "kindergarten. NYT > Home Page
Yesterday, he also laid out an intricate plot to implicate him in his former wife's murder, stopping short of calling it political interference.
Something like calling someone a whoreson, I suppose. Essays in Honor of OOS - The Panda's Thumb
Below the wood, a curlew started from the grass and winged beneath us, its mate calling from across the dale.
Publius, the likes of you calling me classless and without a clue is a compliment. Waldo Jaquith - House Republicans: Muslims are teh evil!!!!11 Kaine caused 9/11! OMFG!!!one!!!
Demonstrations throughout the city have focused on immigration and an calling for an amnesty for illegal aliens.

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