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  • If you've been to the crossroads, and made the deal, and got the mojo — which turns out to be dependent on a great deal of hard work and practice, just like sleight-of-hand — wouldn't you maybe get a trifle riled by that kind of misjudgment from time to time? Cops and Robbers
  • But hey, it didn't matter, because we were all having a frabjously great time and arrived at the same crossroad in less than 3/4 time.
  • They approached the first crossroad and turned right, the road soon becoming smoother and wider as the trees started to thin.
  • On Tuesday there was a serious accident at the crossroads at Tzanov Boulevard and Ivanov Street at 9pm when one driver jumped a red light.
  • All I could hear in the hush was the birds tweeting until, suddenly ahead of me, a lithe lad in Lycra darted over a crossroads like a rabbit scuttling for cover.
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  • There are no teachers to check on progress, and only a few mothers at some crossroads to oversee road crossing.
  • Logistics in the automotive industry is at a crossroads.
  • Britain has reached a crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • We shall contest every river, every crossroads, every village, every town, and every kopje. Rainbow’s End
  • As it approached the crossroad, a truck loaded with sugarcane pulled out, blocking the road.
  • One other authority has a joint budget with the health authority, funding a crossroads care attendant scheme and health care assistants.
  • You turn sharp right at the crossroads.
  • I think today our nation is at the crossroads where a serious reflection on the direction of our policies is a matter of uttermost urgency.
  • We were at the first crossroads, where I had last seen him four nights previously.
  • It feels fairly hardcore what with starting off in a steepish cycle ride up Morrell Avenue and then on, getting second wind, past the various hospitals such as the Churchill and the Nuffield, across the crossroads which takes you over the ringroad and then oh my let's walk the bikes from here due to steepness. Ooh, very nice weekend, but did I say relaxing?
  • The tunnel to the right turned left after a short distance, while the tunnel to the left led to a crossroads.
  • For me, these two definitions do not just create a crossroads of meaning when intersected but more so, the saliency of the connection is that one is a mircocosm standing in for the macrocosm. Maytha Alhassen: Love is... ?
  • I have always been particularly grateful to Fred for this generous and helpful boost when I was at the crossroads.
  • At an isolated crossroads stands this old inn, enfolded by high peaks and craggy tree-covered fells.
  • There is also a crossroads called Rappahannock about three hours driving time east of us. CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2003
  • The 63-year-old Nastase said Friday he and Amalia Nastase "are at a crossroads andcan only continue as friends and business partners. Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com
  • Chamber of Commerce and American Crossroads have proved crucial in allowing Republicans to surge ahead of Democrats in overall money, although not by much. Midterm campaign spending may reach $4 billion, data show
  • Turning left as I came to a crossroad, I caught a glimpse of my parent's cosy home before going down the steep hill.
  • If you'd like to understand the teenager in your family a little better then Crossroads is the film to watch.
  • Portraits of the royal family placed at crossroads were heaped with garlands of flowers and swathed in burning incense. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
  • He then found himself lost and confused once again, as if on a path of winding roads and crossroads.
  • Our army stole a march on the enemy and reached the crossroads an hour ahead of them.
  • He said they were also conducting a feasibility study into the possibility of replacing the crossroads with a full-sized roundabout.
  • It is ironic that what O'Casey was satirising in some of his later plays, the dancing colleens at the crossroads blessed by big bellied bishops, is what, in effect, is celebrated in that father of all cash cows Riverdance.
  • She turned back towards the crossroads.
  • Clapton has covered the Johnson songbook throughout his career, most famously in ‘Crossroads’, his barnstorming showstopper when he was in Cream more than 30 years ago.
  • But these trees were not indigenous to southern England, and whilst self-seeded from their forebears, the originals were deliberately planted in a very dim and distant past to mark critical points on trackways, be it a crossroads, junction or simply to act as a waymark. Landmark Firs
  • The longing and the appetite at work in the body, all tickling to open a girl's mane, gaping, health-giving crossroads to the body. A girl's mane
  • The Capital, known historically as Rabbath Ammon, is one of the world's oldest inhabited cities, and was an important crossroads connecting the Arabian Peninsula in the south to Damascus in the north, and the "Syrian desert" in the east to Palestine and the Mediterranean in the west. TravelDailyNews.com
  • At a crossroad he stopped on the corner and watched a carriage approach.
  • Now he seems at another crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • The singularity point where all universes intersected was now a polyhedral globe and characters could be standing inside, outside, or anywhere and that would be the “floor” of the CROSSROADS for him or her. The Codex Continual » Bulwark Comics: CROSSROADS
  • Some of those children live in the Crossroads shelter in East Boston.
  • So the holiday passed, I got to work and plowed through the copy-edit (I am fortunate to have been given a most excellent copy editor for the Crossroads series). Kateelliott: Not As Bad As I Feared
  • We are about to find out as the Yorkshire actor faces a career crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's in a prime site and it's a shame to let the building go to rack and ruin but we are at a crossroads and it's a question of which way we go.
  • Also it is planned to install video monitoring and speedometer (velocimeter) equipment on major crossroads and highways of big cities, which will allow registering violations. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Why not herd sheep at a crossroads? Times, Sunday Times
  • Legend has it that Johnson took his guitar to the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 in Clarksdale, Mississippi where the devil retuned his instrument in exchange for his soul. Robert Johnson sells his souls to the devil
  • There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut. In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25
  • It is always said that great cities are built on rivers, ports or crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • Single and fortyish, Greenberg is intelligent, witty, sharp-tongued – and, like Florence, something of a lost soul; he is at a crossroads in his life. 5 Movie Clips from Noah Baumbach’s GREENBERG Starring Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig and Rhys Ifans – Collider.com
  • Assayas seems obsessed by the workaday world of Hong Kong with its mass insouciance as a crossroads of international, interlingual and interracial commerce and industry, which leaves it little time to pause and notice a desperate European woman running for her life," writes GreenCine Daily
  • Built at the crossroads of an ancient Middle-Eastern trade route, it was ruled by the Syrian queen Zenobia, who dared to defy Rome, resulting in the sacking of the city in AD 273.
  • But now he had reached a crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • Police said the Citroën Saxo was travelling along the A19 towards Selby when the driver lost control and left the road on a humpbacked bridge next to the crossroads.
  • We are at the crossroads to position ourselves as the source and resource of relevant information, knowledge, and insight.
  • Stories “The Scent of Copper Pennies” and “Jen at the Crossroads” and poem “The God of the Crossroads” — all about the vodun loa Papa Legba, the opener of the way, and all about parallel universes, but more importantly, all about those linchpin moments in life, those choices that change everything forever after; decisions to leave, or stay, or love, or run away. Thematic Circling «
  • Scotland's optoelectronics industry stands at the crossroads.
  • Rituals by the Converted temporarily sanctify specific locations - a house, the market square, a crossroads, a beach - for services they hold there.
  • His freakish athletic versatility petrifies almost every star in three weight divisions, leaving him to take on other fighters with more skill than fame such as Cintron (32-2-1, 28 KOs), a Puerto Rican star also at a career crossroads. Williams takes on Cintron, waits for big bouts
  • At busy crossroads throughout the city, the company has rigged up poles which transmit a continuous location code.
  • Now farming is at a crossroads in the European Community.
  • The Methodist chapel is also in a vulnerable spot, standing as it does at the crossroads.
  • This is not the first time cycling has reached a crossroads or that it has had to begin anew. Times, Sunday Times
  • A caring and unselfish man, he was content with the little crossroads church he served. Christianity Today
  • At forty-two, Lena Macy is standing at major a crossroads in her life. I.O.U.
  • At each crossroads the stone fountains with their precious supply of water were guarded by men-at-arms.
  • Forget gourmet cuisine, decadent drug-soaked clubbing extravaganzas, and entertainment crossroads of the world for a moment.
  • A crossroads lay before us, and stood in the middle of it was Master sat astride his steed, writing, as ever, in a small pocket book.
  • Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road.
  • The report outlines that advance warning should be given to alert motorists that the crossroads is now a T-junction.
  • Then he turned his horse towards the crossroads.
  • At an isolated crossroads stands this old inn, enfolded by high peaks and craggy tree-covered fells.
  • They should listen to Pearce - who stands at the crossroads of becoming the state's long-term halfback - and hear what this second chance means to him. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
  • Adversity often provides the kind of crossroad that defines who we are. SeMissourian.com Headlines
  • A bustling area at the crossroads, stands were set up where women and men were hawking things from jewels and fabrics to vegetables and fruits.
  • The chapter's main aim is to examine the nature of that crossroads and how best to analyse it.
  • AMERICAN POETRY is at something of a crossroads, and the roads leading there are jammed with traffic.
  • Thus, the Oedipal version of parricide and incest conflates identification and difference; they meet at the crossroads, if you will.
  • In 1910, 16 other Britons accumulated 16,000 taels and bought the Dalla Horse Repository, located at the present crossroad of Hongqiao Lu and Hami Lu, to change it into a club.
  • TWO fabulous careers have reached the crossroads. The Sun
  • Volume 2 of Roy Foster's magisterial biography of W. B. Yeats opens in 1915, when Yeats was in his fiftieth year and at a crossroads in his life.
  • Within this variety, where all races meet at America's crossroads, Levins Morales overcomes racism, decenters European authority, and affirms the power of America's multiracial heritage, all in the tradition of Ferre and Vega.
  • (Chomphra-Thatoom), and visitors need to make a leftturn at Ban-Nongtart crossroad which is only 15 kilometers from Thatoom district. WN.com - Business News
  • The 6ft 3in art dealer - or ' gallerist', to use the art- world jargon - is at a crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • The relentless demise of small farmers who brought their milk to the crossroad creameries, now replaced by bulk collection from increasingly larger farms, has led to the closure of the creamery stores.
  • While Episcopalianism stands at a crossroads at present, that which remains of their traditional liturgy has become almost unconsciously Catholicized in the past century.
  • If you're organized, Safeway's only necessary for things like Saran Wrap and diapers - you can even buy sarongs at Crossroads.
  • Elect me, and crime, crookery, criminality, venality and bad parking will vanish like crossroads dancing.
  • Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and nEurology.
  • Now that the caseless round is effectively dead and buried at a crossroads with a tombstone on its chest. Cheeseburger Gothic » Venue for next Thursday?
  • But then there was a time when he found himself at the crossroads - mainstream cinema was not accepting him and his versatility was not finding any creative route to expression.
  • Turn left at the crossroads into Clay Lane.
  • Ignore tracks to the left and right but keep to the main access road which bears right and climbs gradually to the lane crossroads.
  • Local constabularies were based either in district, subprefectural, or prefectural yamens or local constabulary offices located at crossroads, fords, and other strategic points.
  • The traffic policeman took his stand at the crossroads.
  • On Sunday last great craic was had down at Conlon's Crossroads in Cullyhanna where there was a pre-match hooley.
  • Turn right at the first crossroads.
  • He chose to photograph a crossroad in Pretoria.
  • Piles of wood were heaped up at crossroads and street corners.
  • It used to be known as Elisabethville when Zaire was a colony of Belgium, and it remains a strategic crossroads between all Zaire and the south of the African continent. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • a godforsaken wilderness crossroads
  • Many of the deaths have resulted from conflicts with local traffic at crossroads and junctions along the single carriageway sections.
  • The support site was built above an ancient Roman crossroad.
  • Within this variety, where all races meet at America's crossroads, Levins Morales overcomes racism, decenters European authority, and affirms the power of America's multiracial heritage, all in the tradition of Ferre and Vega.
  • He saw journalism at a crossroads, and urged news directors to take the higher road.
  • Last fall, when they were at the crossroads, he went to a conference for greenhouse growers in Arizona and returned with new ideas and techniques on raising tomatoes.
  • The small garden located at the crossroad of Wusheng Lu and Huangpi Beilu once served as a cemetery for Jewish stablemen from the race track.
  • And now there was yet another distraction: some kind of brouhaha up at the crossroads. EVERVILLE
  • To find this restaurant, go back to Insadong-Gil street, turn right onto Insadong-negori (negori means "crossroad") and take the first alley to the left. Seoul
  • Here they can graze on common ground seeking solace at different crossroads in their emotional journeys. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is not the first time cycling has reached a crossroads or that it has had to begin anew. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the time the summer season was drawing to a close I'd reached an important crossroads in my life. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
  • The memory of the late, mainly unlamented Crossroads, when the acting - under pressure - became as embarrassingly threadbare as the clothes, is fresh in many a soap addict's mind.
  • The ‘pinch points’ have been identified at major motorway junctions, congested dual carriageway roundabouts and crossroads.
  • The text of the piece simply described the CROSSROADS as “the centerpoint where all realities cross each other and from where you can enter anywhere, anywhen, anywhy, anyhow. ” The Codex Continual » Bulwark Comics: CROSSROADS
  • A caring and unselfish man, he was content with the little crossroads church he served. Christianity Today
  • The nonprofit he advises, Crossroads GPS, has poured tens of millions of dollars into advertisements in contested Senate races around the country, and a new report Thursday suggests it will spend another $50 million on House races in the next three weeks. Dick Durbin To IRS: Investigate Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS Nonprofit Status
  • The pilot slammed on the brakes and came to a halt two thirds of the way down the runway, turned full circle and headed towards a crossroads in the tarmac.
  • As we returned from our journey we found them halfway down the hill, waiting patiently if anxiously for us at a crossroad in the path.
  • At some point in our lives, we all face a crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • Central Lobby is the busy crossroads of Parliament where politicians and public congregate; it offered Devereux no chance of privacy. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • Her refusal to meet him after working hours sparks off a situation where she finds herself at the crossroads - shall I choose career or self-respect?
  • Finding the crossroads where Maeve O'Connell had buried the medallion had proved more difficult than Buddenbaum had anticipated. EVERVILLE
  • You buried one of the Shoal's medallions at the crossroads, and over the years it's been gathering power somehow. EVERVILLE
  • Campaigners will meet at noon to make a ring around the clock at the crossroad of Regent Street and The Parade.
  • He's at a crossroads in his career—either he stays in his current job and waits for promotion, or he accepts this new post in Brazil.
  • Turn right at the first crossroads.
  • Here they can graze on common ground seeking solace at different crossroads in their emotional journeys. Times, Sunday Times
  • Same in more austral Patagonia, in Calafate, Santa Cruz province, an historic crossroads for selling cattle and sheep, a magnet for dodgy adventurers in search of limitless estancias, and today a boutique pueblo with a totally dollarized economy. Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale
  • The exception were landholders who made a killing because of their ability to visualize the future 57th Street, or thereabouts, not as glacial rock and weeds but as an international crossroads with half-naked male models serving sentry at stores selling overpriced stone-washed jeans, and loud-mouthed real-estate moguls who build garish skyscrapers. Grateful for Our Grid
  • One other authority has a joint budget with the health authority, funding a crossroads care attendant scheme and health care assistants.
  • This, after all, is a place where people don't mind being called ‘Bennies’ (after Benny from Crossroads) because of their predilection for wearing bobble hats.
  • This path has taken many curves and turns and at every point when there is a crossroad, something propels me in the right direction.
  • They had reached a crossroads in their relationship. Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home
  • a lonely crossroads
  • On behalf of the great state of Illinois, crossroads of a nation, Land of Lincoln, let me express my deepest gratitude for the privilege of addressing this convention.
  • He visited every crossroads, village, and town from the Canadian forests to the Louisiana bayous - along with three itinerating trips to England and Ireland.
  • I have always been particularly grateful to Fred for this generous and helpful boost when I was at the crossroads.
  • We are standing at an important crossroads in the history of Europe.
  • The Times report the close relationship between them and American Crossroads describing how they sublet from the Republican "Crossroads Media, whose other clients include the national Republican Party, the Republican Governors Association and American Crossroads, a Karl Rove-backed group raising millions to support Republican candidates. Kevin Zeese: Can Anyone Stop Rove's Crime Against Democracy While it is in Progress?
  • That is the kind of crossroad he approaches this season. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
  • We have reached a curious crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • I live near the Four Lane Ends crossroad at the top of Shear Brow and daily around 8.30 am I see hundreds of cars pour into Blackburn with only one person in the car.
  • The GNP is standing at the crossroads, facing a road to a permanent opposition party or being reborn as the main pillar to support national politics as the alternative force of the incumbent regime.
  • Turn right at the next crossroads.
  • The Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Hotspot represents the crossroads of two major floristic and faunistic regions: the Neotropical and ancient Gondwanan provinces. Biological diversity in the Chilean winter rainfall-valdivian forests
  • He took orders from no bishop and could start a local church at any crossroads at which he could attract a gathering.
  • They approached the first crossroad and turned right, the road soon becoming smoother and wider as the trees started to thin.
  • We also have just had speed humps installed around Beulah Hill crossroads.
  • There she sits in her car, at the crossroads of her life.
  • Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology
  • I decided I better keep walking forward until I came to a crossroad.
  • While, as a Singaporean Chinese, Alicia is steeped in the traditions of China and in the food of one of the world's most eclectic, subtle, and delicious, culinary crossroads.
  • Each one jogged down the road to the four-way crossroad.
  • Putting aside spectator interest, in some ways the sport of shinty is approaching if not a crossroads, then certainly a fork in the path.
  • In fact, Kimble admits that racing led him to his biggest crossroad in life, deciding whether to pursue a career behind the wheel or behind an airbrush.
  • This is more like Crossroads Motel than a country manor. Times, Sunday Times
  • A new round of digital one-upmanship is further transforming the Crossroads of the World. Flashier Times Ahead
  • Here they can graze on common ground seeking solace at different crossroads in their emotional journeys. Times, Sunday Times
  • Turn right at the first crossroads.
  • He took orders from no bishop and could start a local church at any crossroads at which he could attract a gathering.
  • He says people dash out in front of traffic at the busy crossroads, impatient for the pedestrian green light to show.
  • To use a much cited cliche, we are at the crossroads.
  • Central Lobby is the busy crossroads of Parliament where politicians and public congregate; it offered Devereux no chance of privacy. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • They seem to end in odd places, for example, at the crossroad off the roundabout on Epsom Road.
  • 'Dick,' 'e used to say (but Richard I were baptized, though they calls me Dick for short),' Dick, '' e used to say, 'd'ye know that theer big oak-tree -- the big,' oller oak as stands at the crossroads a mile and a 'alf out o' Cranbrook? The Broad Highway
  • I turned toward the voice when I came to a crossroad at the footpath.
  • Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology.
  • This village is your next waypoint - turn right at the crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the end of the crossroad was a small cafe, one dark oak door open. The Death of Chaos
  • With the isthmian barrier broken, the Caribbean would become not simply a prime commercial crossroads, but a vital military highway. The Path Between the Seas
  • At roundabouts, zebra crossings, crossroads and traffic lights, rear-end shunts can cause serious injury and, in some extreme cases, death.
  • I think today our nation is at the crossroads where a serious reflection on the direction of our policies is a matter of uttermost urgency.
  • A while later at a crossroads, there were exquisite sunken doughnuts of stone and bilberry: i.e. four-star grouse butts, five star but for the nearby quarry.
  • Our business is at the crossroads: if this deal succeeds, our future is assured; if not, we shall be bankrupt.
  • Central Lobby is the busy crossroads of Parliament where politicians and public congregate; it offered Devereux no chance of privacy. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • Turn left at the next crossroads.
  • Turn right at the next crossroads.
  • Well we're definitely at the crossroads.
  • Villagers are to be given the chance to have their say over £1.8m plans to reduce the death toll at a crossroads where two major roads meet near Selby.
  • India is at a very crucial crossroads and only courageous adherence to the letter and spirit of its constitution will ensure its continuance as a time-tested secular democratic Republic.
  • Still, as with the Wheel of Ptah sept in Casablanca, they are often located at crossroads , so tales of the road can soften loss of the road itself.
  • Turn left at the crossroads into Clay Lane.
  • The National has reached a crossroads; its survival cannot and should not be taken for granted. Times, Sunday Times
  • Why not herd sheep at a crossroads? Times, Sunday Times
  • After the bridge, follow the road to the right up to the crossroads with the main road.
  • The Goat stands on a busy crossroads a couple of miles from Leopardstown racecourse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.
  • American poetry is at something of a crossroads, and the roads leading there are jammed with traffic.
  • Last year, Obama sanctimoniously railed against nondisclosing groups, and this year his brazenly hypocritical operatives started one for him," said Jonathan Collegio, a spokesman for American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS. Key Fund-Raiser for Obama Gets Off to a Slow Start
  • MILD SPOILER ALERT In the episode, change is afoot as TV's most endearing and unaffectedly sexy married couple, Coach Eric and Tami Taylor the sublime Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton face a personal crossroads while Coach's underdog Lions head to the state championship in their last hurrah. Roush Review: Dim Sunshine, Glorious Justified, FNL Farewell
  • Rebecca pointed out her driveway beyond the next crossroad.
  • Watkins found crossroads falling on leys with amazing frequency, even though the present-day roads were not aligned on the leys.
  • The bizarre sight of two snorkellers in wetsuits and extreme wet weather gear at the crossroads in Regent Street was aimed at raising awareness of how climate change is increasing the risk of flooding.
  • Rome was a busy crossroads for spies during the Cold War. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was a time as well when Broadway was the center of American culture, a crossroads where art, glamour, wit, money, fame, and intellect all came together in one yeasty, unstable mix.
  • Stories abound about the blues guitarist: had he really sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads?
  • At age twenty four life really is at the crossroads.
  • Described all that he'd seen and felt at the crossroads, though his lawyerly vocabulary was barely adequate. EVERVILLE
  • It is always said that great cities are built on rivers, ports or crossroads. Times, Sunday Times
  • The idea of a crossroads is a difficult concept to pin down because we have to distinguish between different types of changes.
  • The local communities are in fear of another serious accident happening and some people are using alternative routes to avoid the Crossroads.
  • Thus, without a word of dialogue or a note of music, he has conveyed the change that this woman is about to undergo at the crossroads of her life.

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