How To Use Count on In A Sentence
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When faced with mass desertion, regiments often lacked the personnel to pursue the scofflaws, and soldiers could count on the sympathy of civilians willing to give them jobs rather than report them.
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Last week I got a whopping discount on a new gas boiler, on account of my age.
Times, Sunday Times
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Westmoreland was wrong to count on his superior firepower to grind us down.
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In the olden days of interactive computing, you got an account on one computer which was all you ever used.
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If a citizen is wronged by any party, he or she can count on it that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will protect him and justice will prevail.
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Over the course of the day, in 2 hour increments, the number of voters having signed in was counted, and the voter count checked against the vote count on the machines.
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He learned right off the bat that you can't count on anything in this business.
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None can count on unequivocal support.
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I count on your help.
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We hope we can count on your continued cooperation and support.
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They've asked for something called a mandamus, an order from a judge to begin the count once again, that manual hand count.
CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2000
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein
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If you find one at this price with a decent engine, you can count on the interior looking like a dog's bed and the paint will be oxidized or flaking off in sheets.
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Thereafter the description of events is dependent upon her account only.
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At the start of this season they had no coach and little idea of the number of players they could count on for the upcoming season.
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Customers are allowed a discount on orders over ￡500.
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Tomorrow will be even worse, but you can always count on the Aussie Champion to put on a show: on uphill finishes, he never fails to ride a wheelie across the finish line.
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Count on more of his unusual routines, such as his strenuously graceful paeans to classical opera, sung by his favorite singer.
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The chairman of the Grozny City Council, Vitaly Kutsenko, was either thrown out of a window to his death or fell while trying to escape, depending on whose account one believes.
The Return
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Unfortunately, the advertiser didn't count on dim-witted viewers.
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Thanks to excellent scouting and research, teams can count on spotting a large baseline number of species.
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Some insurance companies have links with alarm providers and locksmiths who may offer extra discount on the cost of locks or alarms.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein
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The learned Attorney General finally submitted that a returning officer has no power to conduct a recount once the declaration of the poll declaring a candidate to be duly elected has been made.
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Barlow used to say, the difference between a good detective and a no-account one is three things: patience, patience, and patience.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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If there's anything I can do, count on me.
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But it wasn't until last March that I finally got ‘real’ cable into the house, when the Internet people said we could get a discount on our service if we added cable teevee.
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‘Those other teams would always fold one way or the other; you could count on it,’ says one SEC assistant coach.
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You can always count on your peers, friends, and enemies for a good heckle.
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Membership qualifies you for a discount on purchases.
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And he knows he can count on a tidy little sidelight moonlighting for me.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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Your little sis will learn she can truly count on you.
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Don't count on an invoice if you pay cash.
Times, Sunday Times
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Membership qualifies you for a discount on purchases.
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The respondent took this opportunity to add an entry on the computer which gave a 70% discount on the sale.
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But you can always count on some activity even mid week where other places are dead.
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I ran out of fingers to count on during the World Cup hosts' 13-0 laugher over San Marino on Wednesday.
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Typically, beneficiaries of such class action suits get piddling sums, often nothing more than a discount on their next purchase.
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If a compromise can't be reached, the Socialist government's only hope of passing its budget would be to count on abstentions from opposition lawmakers.
European Austerity Fuels Tensions
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Councils to help themselves to your bank account only a small piece in the Telegraph but the implications are writ large- Defy the State and we will 'garnishee' your bank account and wreck your credit record.
Councils to help themselves to your bank account
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With our children's minds in these sort of hands, we can probably count on seeing at least a further generation with more than its quota of unkept women.
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Some insurance companies have links with alarm providers and locksmiths who may offer extra discount on the cost of locks or alarms.
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Those in a position to purchase a tax-based property investment should do so before the end of the year so they can take the available relief into account on their latest tax return.
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For customers wishing to set up payment by direct debit, the money is withdrawn from their account on the 15th of every month.
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And as a labelmate to Sufjan Stevens and Shapes and Sizes, you could count on the sound to be a bit quirky.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein
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You can always count on this one for some comedy capers as blindfolded people crash into things.
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You can count on some dynamite protest music, spoken in many tongues.
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As for the claims that there is going to be a massive miscount on these particular counties, a representative of the state from the attorney general's office, said that that is strictly speculation.
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The difference is subtle, and the end result is the same, but if you use the terms currying and partial application interchangeably within earshot of a functional programmer, count on being corrected.
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We hope we can count on your continued cooperation and support.
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You can also count on just-in-time delivery, seamless customer support and something that's highly touted elsewhere but rarely seen - friendly, responsive service.
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Multiple regression of biface count on population and site count is questionable because of sample size and the rather wide dispersion of cases evident in crossplots.
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We hope we can count on your continued cooperation and support.
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I can always count on Gail to be supportive when things go wrong.
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Subsequently, his bank discovered that the original cheque for $132,987.66 was stolen and charged this amount to his account on the grounds of ‘forged endorsement.’
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They offer a 10 percent discount on rail travel for students.
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There's never a taxi when you want one - that's the one thing you can count on!
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It is a discount on the amount of tax due, not the size of the gift.
Times, Sunday Times
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A patient can adjust successfully to hospital life because he can count on its limiting its horrors to certain predictable patterns.
THE DICE MAN
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We hope we can count on your continued cooperation and support.
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I knew I could count on his understanding
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In poker, you need to know when you can count on someone behind you to bet for you.
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Sorry I'm late, I didn't count on being held up in the traffic.
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Thanks to its perceived strategic importance, the kingdom can count on high-level support in the capital, especially at the White House, State Department and Pentagon.
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He faced formidable foes and could count on few allies, at least for very long.
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He had always been able to count on her wise counsel.
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None of the routine separations the rest of us can count on - whether between day and night, safety and danger, duty and off-duty, or colleagues and bunkmates - pertains.
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Few people can count on having a job for life.
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If you accept credit card payments, bill the buyer's credit card account only when you're ready to ship the product.
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Gentlemen, all will agree with me that we could spread increased revenues, accruing from the utilization of our natural resources, upon all these humanitarian objects, increased revenues which the Province has not only a right to count on, but to discount.
Quebec of Yesterday and Quebec of Tomorrow
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Other spouses can count on spouse participation in special events… birthdays, anniversaries, concerts, football games, graduation, and even the birth of a child.
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She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed being with.
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The Young Persons Railcard gives you a discount on rail travel.
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Lam refused to estimate the number of electorate votes he could count on.
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In the Times, though, the news received a one-sentence "reefer" on its front page, directing readers to a ho-hum account on page A22.
Unfit to Print?
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The count on the machine reads 22 unread messages.
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He would have taken four things into account once he had decided that it was a foul, which it was.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until then, Macau will continue to count on Hong Kong, an hour away via hydrofoil, which provided half of Macau's 10 million visitors last year.
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He had always been able to count on her wise counsel.
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The Young Persons Railcard gives you a discount on rail travel.
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If you have a team of five or more, you can qualify for a group discount on our purchasing training.
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These are 65 ideas to change your life, but don't count on them any more than you can count on the substantiality of the floors you tread.
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It got so you could almost count on his walking in with the other latecomers.
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Count on the outside of the wrapper until you reach the appropriate line, take a knife and gently press on that line, making an indention, but do not pierce through the wrapper just make it so when you take off the wrapper you will see the line.
And so I begin… at
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There are no inns or hotels in the boundless grasslands, but one can always count on the Mongols for help.
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With luck, you might cover your costs, but don't count on it.
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But he signaled a return to his provocative ways in late July when he opened an account on Google Inc.'s new social-networking service Google+, identifying himself as "a suspected pornography enthusiast and tax evader.
Ai Weiwei Resumes His Defiance of Beijing
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Well, I can count on one hand the amount of cross-court nicks that were hit during this event.
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What he doesn't count on, however, is the resolve of the children, or the numerous interferences from the likes of Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine.
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So basically the True Cost to Own calculations count only the amount of value you lose by driving the car each year, which makes much more sense otherwise you'd be adding it up twice -- once when you spent the money to buy the car and again when you "depreciated" it.
WhatsTheCost Shows You The True Expense Of Things | Lifehacker Australia
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Passengers can pick up a coupon for a $2 discount on fair admission when they pay to ride the bus.
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Usually we can count on the irascible Democratic Congressman Jim Moran (VA-8) for entertainment whenever he decides to open his mouth, but this time the irascibility was a tag-team effort with his wife LuAnn Bennett who both caused a scene on Inauguration Day at the Capitol.
Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
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I can't always count on my pre-work routine to go off without a hitch.
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It was a genuinely selfless act, which I recount only because at the time it seemed so incredible.
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Soldiers and their families could count on returning to the regimental home base over a career.
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Last fall's dramatic-series surprise was Las Vegas, all jiggle and surveillance cameras, a rush we could count on.
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But don't count on a mass conversion experience in German boardrooms.
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Everyone I should have been able to count on, suddenly unreliable and inconstant, gone forever or drifting away.
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Regional Council employees receive ten percent discount on Blindcraft products including beds and bedroom furniture like chairs, stools and headboards.
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The Trojans can count on a deeper pool of ballhandling talent, paced by WR Patrick Turner and TB Joe McKnight.
Weekend Preview: Key games for several teams in the Big Ten
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He can probably count on showers of cash from enthusiastic legions of small-dollar donors, and that's an important start.
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Don't let her carry anything spillable, Betty, or we won't have all the lunch we count on, "Mollie urged.
The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand
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Always, you can count on Clemens somehow, someway getting the job done.
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We diffuse our feeling over others, and count on their acting from our motives.
Daniel Deronda
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Consider creating a new user account on your computer with none of your familiar apps or configurations.
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Can I count on your loyalty?
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We didn't count on so many people being on vacation.
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There is a steep discount on some foreign technical books, and many students wade through whatever is available to pick the title of their choice.
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You can't always count on the US umbrella to protect you when it starts to rain.
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Rental income under operating leases is hereby credited to the profit and loss account on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
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The count on which he was convicted was the first count of a three count indictment.
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You can count on Laura Linney, but not on the mundane script.
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But t count on Palin to wade in with maximum ill-informed jackassery.
Matthew Yglesias » Identity Politics for White People
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Like one responder stated, these powers that be have a two-party system for a reason, and if they can keep us divided then they can count on us never coming together with one mind and one agender to really do anything about the mess They have put us in.
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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One could count on seeing cartons of militantly smoked cigarettes, plenty of on-the-job hanky-panky and, in his late-period panty movies, ruttish lesbians and multiple grand-mal orgasms.
The Hollywood Beast Roars
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The relative mutational count on the intervisit to intravisit branches is an indicator of demographic subdivision because with increasing subdivision there should be more intervisit branches.
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Many retailers are giving a discount on six or more bottles, so it also makes economic sense to club together with friends or family.
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Unlike a group of children dealing with the kid who owns the only ball in the neighborhood, a band can usually count on a large pool of willing and able replacements for musicians and singers.
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I prefer to believe that Karolina misplaced her campus email address, and unwittingly signed up for an account on a domain implicated in previous Internet scams.
Going to Karolina in My Mind
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With English Labour stealing nearly £½bn from Wales, whilst not cutting several times that on Crossfail, a London railway scheme to take East Enders to Westbourne Park (and other equally useless places), I shouldn't even count on the Welsh Secretary having the confidence of any Welsh Labourite with a brain.
No confidence
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Holders of national railcards could claim a discount on Grand Central tickets, although there would be no further cuts on the cheapest fares.
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Some hedge funds are getting hurt because they count on being able to tap short-term muni debt for cheap funds.
A new sore spot emerges:
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Within minutes, though, we had collected an allotment of high-value supplies, including natural cold medication (with cardamom), decorative felt banners declaring the Krishna mantra, and a handwoven rug for my mother, available from a haber-dasher named Dinish, who gave us a good discount on account of my uncle.
A World Apart: My uncle is a Hare Krishna spiritual master
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The man alleged to be Williams is heard to say 'can I count on you tomorrow', to which the witness replies, 'deffo', slang for definitely.
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Being the Internet, you can also not count on perfectly low latency connections all the time.
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Even worse, Antonio can't count on the Duke to intercede on his behalf.
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Early stage and start up companies that bank with AIB will qualify for a 30 per cent discount on Sage products.
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The politicians can often count on industry representatives to take dead aim at their own feet, and pull the trigger.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the love of God were as sloppy and sentimental and subjective as our own, we could never count on him to be consistent in anything.
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At this point, slang and idioms are not recognized, so don't count on your pick-up lines being quickly translatable in the bar.
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Such was the account once given to me by a eunuch’s wife; and I need hardly say that she, like her confrerie, was to be pitied.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Should you decide to borrow in Florida your lender may include property taxes in your monthly mortgage payments and put them in an escrow account on your behalf.
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As I was unable to pay my bill online I just waited for my statement and once again payed with a check, I payed with a check until May when I called to ask them to fix my account once again, and they claimed I had a bad check.
Capital One Will Ruin This Guy's Credit One Way Or Another - The Consumerist
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If you buy your engagement ring from them you will get a 10 percent discount on your wedding ring or rings.
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In al-Marrakushi's work are developed the construction of planispheres, astrolabes, quadrants and the need of gnomonics, which constituted the great interest of Sedillot who had written by far the best account on Muslim astronomical instruments.
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He would have taken four things into account once he had decided that it was a foul, which it was.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once, the family could count on its extensive connections within the Turkish political Establishment.
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But as every social worker knows, almost all inner-city AFDC women count on supplementary incomes from husbands-in-hiding, coresident male consorts, or former consort fathers of their children.
Why Nothing Works
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See for yourselves and get a 30 per cent discount on this title into the bargain - a snip at just £13.29.
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Six thousand if you pay the Ranuans, and you cannot count on the liedgeld being paid on time," Dythya pointed out.
Darksong Rising
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The entire monthly balance is automatically debited from your bank account on a pre-arranged date.
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You can count on me.
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He unwrung, as if hearing me demand that secret four per cent discount on commission which they allow antique dealers, as a bribe.
The Great California Game
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Yes, you feeding into, enhancing and spooning out this same bile is exactly what they count on and look forward too.
Safety in Michoacan
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Sorry I'm late, I didn't count on being held up in the traffic.
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We diffuse our feeling over others, and count on their acting from our motives.
Daniel Deronda
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They must count on wits and be quick on their feet in a gamble with destiny.
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His company pairs blind people with sighted travellers who, in return for a 25% discount on their holiday, act as guides.
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After all, one cannot always count on a keeper's man knowing how to prepare Turian vulo or Kassau parsit.
Renegades Of Gor
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One of us, at least, was stirred at Renard's calm assumption -- the assumption so common to artists, who, when they see a good thing at once count on its possessorship, as if the whole world, indeed, were eternally sitting, agape with impatience, awaiting the advent of some painter to sketch in its portrait.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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I got a huge discount on this purse because I am great at haggling.
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Whether if it's a room full of old friends or spiked out stereotypical punkers, you have to count on the fact that every song you play will not appeal to each person in the room.
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You should at least be able to count on your seeds to be consistent, and so seed-saving should not be applied to hybrid varieties.
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For not unfrequently it happens that, for some reason or another, one feels abased, and inclined to value oneself at nothing, and to account oneself lower than a dishclout; but this merely arises from the fact that at the time one is feeling harassed and depressed, like the poor boy who today asked of me alms.
Poor Folk
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Southampton can count on loyal support too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Count on the monsoon
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Don't count on them breaking, even if faced with impossible odds.
TREASON KEEP
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Do not count on postemergence herbicides to control weeds that have already emerged at planting.
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I can at least count on my roomies to say something if I start to stink.
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If you buy your engagement ring from them you will get a 10 percent discount on your wedding ring or rings.
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I can always count on you to cheer me up.
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In some ways his performance in The Kids Are All Right is a sequel of sorts to the role that first brought him to Hollywood's attention, as Laura Linney's ne'er-do-well brother in the 2000 indie hit You Can Count On Me.
Mark Ruffalo: the 'journeyman' who's impressed Martin Scorsese, David Fincher and Michel Gondry
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If you set no count on workers, you set no count on your parents.
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You can count on Dean to ruin any party.
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Can I count on your loyalty?
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I didn't count on his capsizing the raft.
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Next is our Extra Care health care which provides a significant discount on CVS private label FSA eligible OTC products to Caremark members who elect to participate.
Retail Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
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Regional Council employees receive ten percent discount on Blindcraft products including beds and bedroom furniture like chairs, stools and headboards.
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Don't count on an invoice if you pay cash.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can count on us to find the answer, and to convey that information in an insulting, unfair and skewed manner.
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Just as you can count on different shades and degrees of ‘hispanicity’ so can you expect gradations in humor.
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We can count on the weather being fine.
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Who would she have to count on if I was sitting in a café, drinking mass amounts of coffee and trying to sober up?
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Ticket buyers are also choosier now and virtually no arts organization can count on selling out routinely.
Michael Kaiser: Mid (And Other) -Course Corrections
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Instead of having a current account that earns no interest, and a mortgage account on which you pay interest, the First Active Current Account Mortgage combines the two.
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You can count on Sam not to grass.
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We will no longer be able to count on human nature to serve as a source of resistance to radical utopians because human nature will become more malleable.
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Barracuda 20% discount on beach charges for all guests.
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And they can count on their defense and special teams to score only so many touchdowns.
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The politicians can often count on industry representatives to take dead aim at their own feet, and pull the trigger.
Times, Sunday Times
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The respondent took this opportunity to add an entry on the computer which gave a 70 percent. discount on the sale.
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The government thought it could count on the support of the trades unions.
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The remaining 2,300 annuitants will be offered a 25% discount on the redemption price of their annuity, provided their arrears are up to date.
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Technology Telecom says its customers can save 20 per cent compared to BT's business tariffs and a 5 per cent discount on BT line charges.
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He learned right off the bat that you can't count on anything in this business.
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You can count on him for a truthful report of the accident.
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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples dont count on harvesting golden delicious.
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I think we can count on Glen to be self-motivated.
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So when shopping count on four ounces per person.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
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It would be good for your studies if you advised the boulevardier that you are attending college, not bartending school, and he should no longer count on you to be his minder.
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There is a 25% discount on all electrical goods until the end of the week.
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Taking into account one-time charges, the firm recorded an actual net loss is $268.
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Don't count on an invoice if you pay cash.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can always count on you to cheer me up.
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Don't count on Lillian.
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You can count on him for a truthful report of the accident.
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Successful exploitation however is unlikely (exploitability index = 2) as it requires extensive user involvement including setting up an e-mail account on a malicious server," Kandek wrote in a statement.
Patch Tuesday's update small, but critical, Microsoft says
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You can a get a discount on your King House tour if you show your Boyle Abbey entry ticket on arrival.
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Many hundreds are flying, most powered with a 220-hp Continental radial, and you can count on them to leak oil, burn gas and give you more fun than is probably legal.
