How To Use Coup In A Sentence
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The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
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This, coupled with a lack of accounting controls, led the district into bankruptcy.
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There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
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He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
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I'm still in contact with her - we write a couple of times a year.
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He made comments about a couple of items, suggesting an appetizer that sounded unlikely but that, in his words,'went down a treat.
FOLLY
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The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
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There are only a couple of days left in Graeme's Fantasy Book Review's Giveaway for one of three copies of Orson Scott Card's new release, Hidden Empire.
Book Contest Links ... more than a few
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The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
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She also lent me a couple of Ben Elton books which were good, but not as good for relaxing as they have a whole dark seedy side.
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According to what I read in a couple of dictionaries, "gild" means to decorate the outside of something, usually unnecessarily.
Untwisted Vortex
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It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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A poor game was redeemed in the second half by a couple of superb goals from Anthony Edwards.
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It was only a couple of minutes after his toe-curling DJ'ing started that I gave up and turned over.
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Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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I just stayed the dorm to around and shoot the breeze with a couple of friends.
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As it was, we spent a couple of sweltering hours there and left.
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A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view.
Very Little Drops Dead
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On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
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I lashed the clothes that I had been brought to wear at the hospital into the bag, a couple of ancient pairs of socks that felt suddenly found and familiar.
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Thell Torrence's name may not be familiar to the average fight fan but he, along with a couple of others, is the premier teacher of the manly art in the USA.
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I usually sqirt a drop or two on the front and back of my boots, and a few drops on a wick around the stand. i never used the buck pee though. i have used a couple of tarsal glands from a buck that my friend killed. had small buck circle the tree i hung it from a couple times.
When to use What deer pee?
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A light tubular chassis with an inline 8 cylinder engine was made by cobbling a couple of sports engines together.
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That was from when she played the school computer nerd a couple of years ago.
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I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
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And while everyone around wished the couple a happy married life, one of the guests decided to be a little cheeky.
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They also caught a couple of large kingfish and many skipjack.
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On his first day there he approached a couple of elegant young toffs strolling around the campus.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ballymaloe take a more seasonal approach to things by using redcurrant rather than lemon juice, made by simmering a couple of punnets of the astringent little fruits with water, and then pushing them through a sieve.
How to make perfect strawberry jam
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Most of this I've written down to get my own thoughts in order before I start draughting letters to the media, but first I have a couple of weeks of university to catch up on… sheesh.
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His season may have turned on a couple of bits of skill and a small dash of luck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cap Cities executives said they were hopeful approval would come in a couple of weeks.
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There are some sharp lines and a couple of catchy songs but there's also a lot of turgid stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton.
Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
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Mix up pots of poster paint, and give your children a pot of paint in each colour, a couple of brushes and a glass of water.
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Like, Darren, I have a fairly uncommon name - however, there are a couple of others out there.
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Some people did their remixes in a week or even a couple of days.
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Having a couple of chances and that luck is missing for me now.
The Sun
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A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block.
The Sun
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One of our current projects is to convert a couple of bungalows in south London into a five-bedroom detached property.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for.
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A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve.
The Lampshade
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It's been destroyed and redone a couple of times since then.
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After our engineless sail into the anchorage at Santa Domingo we spent a couple of days trying to resuscitate the iron genny.
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There are a couple of girls waiting for you.
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I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’
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She strode over to a couple of fallen logs and kicked one of them.
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I've never really got into them that much, so I let other people go mental and bought a couple of beers.
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You know, I always joked I had a million acquaintances and only a couple of close friends.
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He nearly knocked over a couple of pop fans en route.
The Sun
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Ketheral looked around the inside of the armory, picked up a chainwhip, a normal whip, a brace of throwing knives, and a couple of shields.
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A couple of coats of new antifouling paint may cost the equivalent of a couple tanks of gas, but you will keep saving money on fuel all season long.
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I befriended a couple of the kids, and together we built a raft that we would row down the Dodder as far as the great waterfall in Donnybrook.
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Nakamura even gives them a bit of an Odd Couple twist: Buddha is frugal and kind of uptight; Jesus goes with the flow.
License request day: Saint Young Men
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I always take a couple of aspirins when I feel a cold starting.
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The huge amounts that this would bring in would allow the personal allowance to be raised by a couple of thousand, helping those on low and medium incomes.
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He would make an appointment with him to straighten out a couple of things.
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We did that a couple of Saturdays ago when we put on the most ridiculously illogical bet.
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In obvious pain, Martin banged his fist hard on the floor a couple of times and had to be carried off.
USATODAY.com
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She and I corresponded a couple of times, but that's sad.
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So far, only a couple of the trees (literally two) have been found to be successful in fending off beetle attacks, using chemical and physical responses similar to those in lower-elevation tree species, such as lodgepole pine and Douglas fir.
Louisa Willcox: Whitebark Pine: Functionally Gone in Much of the Greater Yellowstone
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After a couple of days she showed her true self .
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A little wool, a couple of knitting needles and a bit of time and lives can be changed.
The Sun
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I took myself offline for a couple of days - the ole bod has decided it has had enough and succumbed to a flu-like thing.
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Scanlon -- you know, the red-headed cop only a couple of blocks away an 'pipin' us off though not recognizin 'us.
CHAPTER XI
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For verrucae and warts place a drop of neat Tea Tree Essential Oil in the centre and cover with a plaster once a day, this procedure can take a couple of weeks before you will see the results.
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He moved to Paris in 1767, and after a couple of years had become so popular that he received regular commissions to write two or three operas a year for various theatres.
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I've got a couple of equipment malfunctions which I'm struggling with.
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Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
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caught by a couple of alert cops
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At 48, he is learning to tame his creative spirit and take on just a couple of projects at a time.
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But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
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These include a nice Nigerian guy who sells the best roast chicken around (he did this in Paris as well), a couple of Egyptians and a Tunisian who make great chicken shawarma and a couple of Turkish guys who do the same with beef.
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Although there are a couple of jarring transitions, the bulk of the movie unfolds with organic clarity.
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The four of us stayed for a couple of nights in the Rest House at Takoradi, which gave us a few hours to walk the beaches and paddle in the ocean, and to luxuriate in the fresh sea breezes after the heavy atmosphere of the interior.
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My first indication that I'm going to need to let out my belt a couple of notches comes at the hotel's raclette and fondue evening.
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Had to give up on a couple of nice bulls but that's the haps at that time of year.
Help with Colorado Elk
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But try telling that to the little old lady who has waited in vain a couple of years for a vital eye operation.
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I myself ran a popular singles group for a couple of years once so I recognize the behaviour of which he speaks.
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A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought.
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A little diner food helped, but after the incident with the couple on the street all I wanted was to go home, take a shower, slather lotion on my blistered tootsies, and lick my wounds.
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A couple have told how they are lucky to be alive after a horse pulling their carriage ran amok and started a stampede during a holiday pleasure trip.
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The couples agreed on a discreet slate-tiled mansard roof extension that gave each house an additional 30sq m of floor space.
Times, Sunday Times
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Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed.
Archive 2004-07-18
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And as journalists and commentators have often said, the French elected a man and not a couple.
Times, Sunday Times
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The couple have blocked access to the track, forcing horse owners to make a long and muddy detour across fields.
Times, Sunday Times
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Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
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Sifting through the reports logged in the last couple of weeks, he came across a tale that had previously gone unread.
EVERVILLE
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Making a completely clean break with the past, the couple got rid of all their old furniture.
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A military coup seems unlikely.
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Established couples let old regrets go and focus on a brilliant future together.
The Sun
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He was later released, but over the next couple of days wasn't himself and complained of chest pains.
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Attach the coupon to the front of your letter.
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Sur le coup j'me suis dit "pouaaaaaah le cauchemar!!!" en plus yen a une qui m'avait piké ma place reservé!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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For years, the couple's tempestuous relationship made the headlines.
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Still, on watching the movie a good couple of decades since I last read the book, as much as I found it enjoyable enough, I couldn’t help but start to think through just what Lewis is saying here, in allegorical terms, just how it all turns on the idea that, by the rules of Deep Magic, Edmund must die.
Thoughts on Narnia
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His wife, Belinda, recently retired as a magistrate on the Kennet bench after 22 years and now the couple can enjoy their retirement.
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The closely held retailer said it would sue its partner to recoup more than $ 50 million it claims was unfairly withdrawn.
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The current yield is the portion generated by coupon payments, which are usually paid twice a year, and, it accounts for most of the yield generated by corporate bonds.
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Moreover, many insurance companies (including mine) refuse to pay the $30,000 cost, reasoning that any economic benefit they would recoup is years down the road.
Beating Obesity
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The helpers provision the couple's fledglings with a steady supply of lerp, sugary casings secreted by plant-sucking insects.
Signs of the Times
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Supported by an angelic chorus and lush orchestration, Gibb extolled the virtues of "fingering foreign dirty holes," arguing that while love may be grand, he'd rather "let 'coupledom' die
Spinner
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We have worked very hard in the last couple of years and the kind of maneuverability that we have just spoken about in the fourth quarter typifies the progress we've made.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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We hosted 4 couples last night
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But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months.
Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
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LSU blitzed from a couple different places, forcing Jason to throw it early, but he did a great job concentrating and hitting the receiver he wanted to.
USATODAY.com
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This solution gives homeowners the freedom of never having to carry or circulate multiple sets of keys, coupled with the ability to instantaneously grant entry to family members, friends, unexpected house guests, and service providers such as handymen and housekeepers.
HomeToys News
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It is imperative that couples should communicate in order to know the root of the conflict.
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The second scenario is a military coup d'état by the hardliners.
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The couple met on the show last autumn when the former equerry to the Duke of York ended up choosing presenter Jonsson over the contestants.
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Moreover, the combined salaries of the three wardens or lieutenants was now less than £400 per annum, and much of this was recouped by reviving the ancient practice of farming the shrievalties.
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The couple provided the perfect foil for one another.
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A bereaved couple allow their dead son to be cloned by a sinister scientific institute in this clunking supernatural thriller.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the last couple of years, he had become impervious to the disrespect and ignorance of his classmates.
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A study of long-term coupling in which the partners were unhappy, showed that women more than men were likely to suffer from high blood pressure and obesity.
Diana Kirschner: Is Marriage Toxic to Women? Musings on Valentine's Day
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Now that marriage no longer means much, why not let couples or triples or quadruples of whatever variety get married?
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After the military coup, the family left for self-imposed exile in America.
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In the New World, Spain coupled religious orthodoxy with political conquest.
Marilyn Mellowes: 'God in America:' A Question of Religious Liberty (VIDEO)
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Sehwag let a couple go by, 'hipped' one away and then reverse swept him magnificently past point.
Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
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The loved-up couple had arrived in Ireland by private jet, before being whisked to the plush Hotel in a blacked-out limo.
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The reason we don't do it more is that coupling and uncoupling trains adds to the journey time.
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Ola also claimed certain couples get preferential treatment when it comes to routines and song choices.
The Sun
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This lack of action may also trigger some legal action from insurance companies in an attempt to recoup cash paid out to flooded households.
Times, Sunday Times
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Post-Civil-War America therefore seemed to exhibit the worst kind of small-minded, lacklustre parochialism, but it had coupled it with a loutish popularism.
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Byzance ne s'en remettra jamais complètement et cet évènement dramatique marqua la vraie rupture entre catholiques latins et orthodoxes grecs, beaucoup plus que le schisme de 1054 !
Archive 2007-03-01
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The case centred on a postnuptial agreement signed by the couple in 2010 after he was caught cheating on her.
The Sun
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There were mixed feelings - their summer vacation had started at the end of June this year and since they had been cooped up at home the whole summer, the last couple of months didn't count as a summer vacation to them.
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Some couples choose to keep their main accounts separate, paying into a joint account to cover regular outgoings such as the mortgage and supermarket bills.
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Today, we no longer gasp when we hear a teenage girl is pregnant or whisper about unmarried couples who live together.
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Or if I want to see a police officer in a time frame where the person concerned might be caught, I report a couple having a domestic, who called me a derogatory name ref my Race, Religion, or sexual preference (underline the relevant option) and just out of interest they broke the wing mirror on my car.
Norfolk Constabulary. Pants On Fire. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Dances like the rumba and cha-cha are very sexy, and offer a great opportunity for a couple to learn to move together well.
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The insured person is guilty of unconscionable conduct if he does not provide for the insurer to be recouped out of the damages awarded against the wrongdoer.
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Coupe has had to redraw the battle plan.
Times, Sunday Times
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(Hamburg, 1893).] the poisonous character of the former would be lessened by the introduction of the carbonic acid esters and subsequent coupling of the substances (depside formation).
Synthetic Tannins
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Only one coupon per item purchased.
The Sun
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He was always what they call ‘a bleeder,’ a puncher who leads with his face and usually gets cut to ribbons by the time the first couple of rounds are over.
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She will blame the couple's very different social backgrounds for the differences that eventually led to the collapse of their marriage.
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Il a également souligné qu'il ne s'agissait pas de «faire un coup marketing» et que «pas un euro ne sera fait sur ce clip».
Videos.antville.org
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There's a newly married couple living opposite .
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At this point in the economic cycle, they are piling up like used tires: debt-sacked college kids who can't get jobs, foreclosed homeowners, failed small-business owners, pink-slipped employees, millions suddenly ejected from the middle class and now a couple Republican candidates who won't be our next president.
Occupy Mitt Romney!
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The accolade has not gone to one of the big-name hotels but to a former Manchester couple who have converted a rundown B&B into a set of luxury self-catering apartments.
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Rebelotte re-coup de file, la navette ne dessert pas notre hotel.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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The couple sorted out their problems and moved abroad.
The Sun
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Lessons of IVF babies mix-up ‘will be learned’ Report pinpoints series of failures at Yorkshire fertility clinic where white couple had mixed-race twins in error
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To enter the competition, fill in the entry coupon on page 6.
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The engineer hastily tore away the paper and took up five or six glass photographic negatives, of a half-plate size, which were damp, and stuck together by the gelatine films in couples.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator
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Are photography and surrealism such an ‘unnatural coupling,’ as one observer has recently suggested?
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For the past couple of years, the appearance of Christmas lights and festive decorations has heralded the arrival of a weighty travel anthology.
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My brother and his wife are a happy couple.
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Inside, it takes a big jump forward with a cabin featuring new instruments which look good enough for a sporty coupé.
The Sun
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They found that the couples whose expectations matched their relationship skills were most satisfied.
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To celebrate their golden anniversary the couple are planning a relaxing break in Torquay.
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The couple said they will be organising lots of fundraising events over the coming year.
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The decision to discontinue participant recruitment after six couples was made on the basis of saturation of relevant themes, with couple six adding only one or two themes to each area of inquiry.
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The spatial proximities between labels are determined by heteronuclear dipolar couplings, which are measured by rotational-echo double resonance (Gullion and Schaefer, 1989 ab).
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As this is is an inclusive service, the fee also covers the procurements of gifts to the happy couple.
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In this approach, the diagrams are tightly coupled representations of the code and provide an alternative way to view and possibly edit at the code level.
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Even back then, local foresters advised the couple on which species to replant.
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In addition, the Chancellor plans to restrict the married couple's allowance to the new low rate.
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A rectal probe housing a linear array of five copper-constantan thermocouples was designed to measure colonic temperatures simultaneously at positions anterior to, within, and posterior to the region of the colon flanked by the countercurrent heat exchanger.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Blood tests have been taken to determine what had made the couple ill.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which mythical couple is depicted in the picture?
Times, Sunday Times
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We have Elizabeth and David, a couple who have been together for 20 turbulent years.
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President Ali Abdullah Saleh told supporters his government had rejected what he called a "coup" against his country's constitution and democracy.
Yemen's President Rejects Resignation Plan; Protests Continue
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In the last year, three general strikes called to protest against the president, protests in the streets, people killed, and one attempted coup.
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The couple had been wed just three months.
The Sun
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can we couple these proposals?
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An infuriatingly gooey-wooey silly-billy lovey-wovey couple.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now the microwave oven was pretty old and I'm not surprised it conked out, but the iron was relatively new and I hadn't been expecting it to explode in my hand for another couple of years at the earliest.
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Attach the coupon to the front of your letter.
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A couple blocks from Baird's museum is The Rosebery restaurant, an exceptionally fine establishment that specializes in grilled sea bass.
USATODAY.com - Tiger is buzz of Scotland
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The first couple of meetings are for the doctor and patient to get to know each other.
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A couple more flicks of the switch adjust the flame height and heat output.
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The couple have become devotees of the mystical sect of Judaism - Kabbalah.
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It is not every couple that is a pair.
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The young couple she confronted with this information today seemed bemused and uncertain how to react.
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I had one girl who was gifted, another couple who are learning disabled and another who is a second-language learner.
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Also Randy Alcorn, a well-known pro-life apologist and Protestant pastor, published a booklet in 1998 in which he gave the reasons for why the pill is an abortifacient and he has actually counselled couples in his ministry against using the pill for that reason.
ProWomanProLife » A remarkably honest abortionist
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The old couple will attempt to leave the town as soon as possible.
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She is also a psychotherapist in San Francisco who works with couples, triads and other forms of alternative families.
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Hips will be shimmying and the smoke will be dense at the new restaurant when it opens in the next couple of weeks.
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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 'Ram of Amun' at Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum In the current financial climate, it is a real coup to have completed this £5 million project, which comes two years after the big renovation of the museum in 2009.
More Beauty in Oxford
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They coupled the carriages of the train together.
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That is not because there will be a coup against him but just through sheer boredom.
Times, Sunday Times
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After ascending the elliptical stairs past a couple small galleries, one is immediately struck by the bright orange carpet laid across most of the fourth floor.
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Massachusetts today became the first state to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
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The report focuses on a couple whose ceremony included the joint signing of a document called a ketubah.
The Guardian World News
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While I was conducting a deliverance meeting, without my knowing it, an unsaved couple came to the Lord.
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But Couples doesn't wear a skivvy shirt under his golf tunic to minimize the subcutaneous fat.
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The couple had been married for 40 years after meeting as teenagers and had two grown-up daughters and a grandson.
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The recent availability of bittersweet chocolates coupled with our access to a global food market and unique ingredients has created an increased interest in artisanal chocolates.
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More deeply, when coupled with emotion, labels activate something at the physical, sensation level.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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The serial number of the security must appear in the top right-hand corner of each security, on any talon and on each coupon (if any).
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There is another couple walking down the street, this one pre-consumerist, their handclasp signifying a ‘right of ownership’ in which she is ‘silently, sadly, complicit.’
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My prodigious (if I may humbly say so myself) drinking is coupled with insatiable eating.
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The young couple was cruising slowly in the Raffles Hills housing estate.
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Mr Ellis had set up a training consultancy in Bath and the couple were looking to move out of London.
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At home catches of white fish have been poor over the last couple of weeks.
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I give beaucoup extra points to applicants who have lived through real struggle and who have shown determination amid adversity.
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With a quick pull, Baxorth released his scimitar from the ground's clutches and took a couple steps to his left, toward his agile adversary.