How To Use Deliberate In A Sentence
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Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses.
Caesars’ Wives
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Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
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But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor.
Labourhome
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They've deliberately gone against my wishes and sold the apartment.
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The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film.
Film flam
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Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere.
American Grace
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He deliberately paused outside the door, forcing them to wait in frustration before they dared erupt into excited comment.
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By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
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The terms of the agreement were deliberately vague.
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Could it be -- and the sudden thought stung him to the quick -- that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered?
Phantom Wires A Novel
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The first is dysphemism, the deliberate use of an offensive word to indicate disapproval.
Times, Sunday Times
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We believe that modern-day Hitlers have deliberately adulterated the oral polio vaccines with antifertility drugs and … viruses which are known to cause HIV and AIDS," prominent physician Datti Ahmed told journalists at the time.
Scientific American
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Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years.
Apologia Diffidentis
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Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated.
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Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
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Here again he is adopting a course of confrontation, a course of deliberate challenge to established authority.
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The jury took five days to deliberate on the case.
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He poured a tankard of beer, and placed it between the acrobat's feet, eliciting an oath as he deliberately spilt some over his crotch.
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Oh, we've been very diplomatic but in the face of a deliberate and concerted political campaign the issues get muddied.
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Deliberate in counsel, prompt in action.
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They also deliberated on the path-breaking innovations that changed things for the better.
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His actions were clearly the result of deliberate calculation.
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She was being quite deliberate with her movements, and I wanted to know why.
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Many hospitals deliberately tried to avoid challenging or openly discouraging the parents' hopes and expectations for a perfect or near-perfect recovery.
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She said it was regrettable that a policeman, who had taken an oath, had come before the court and deliberately misled the court.
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In all three cases the conclusion reached was that a deliberate intention to breach the order was not a necessary element for a finding of contempt of court.
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Locale: Staging and dressing together constitute locale and their absence will render it "vague" or "vapid" -- though a writer might, of course, pare away the requisite details deliberately, in the same way they might pare away features distinguishing voice.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Deliberate slowly, execute promptly.
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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
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A village postwoman has been branded a ‘nasty busy body’ for deliberately withholding mail from a resident who was an ‘outsider’.
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Still, though, the head of the investigation said there was no evidence of deliberate distortion or what Lord Butler called culpable negligence.
CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2004
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He was sure that the casualness of the gesture was deliberate.
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There is a lot he can do to make life difficult for a candidate he has deliberately chosen to lobby against.
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‘uprest’ (“Revolt of Islam”, 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley ‘on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.’
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The voice acting is deliberately hammy, the sound effects are loud and intrusive and the gameplay is frantic.
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In the face of "misalignment," the very existence of a "currency imbalance" would be sufficient to open the door to trade sanctions -- whether or not that imbalance resulted from a deliberate attempt to manipulate the market.
Forbes.com: News
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Therefore, the small amounts of copper were almost certainly added deliberately to harden the alloy without significantly debasing the silver.
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He deliberately misled us about the nature of their relationship.
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Any such definitive analysis, however, would need to respond, at the very least, both to his at once ‘avant- garde’ and hard-headedly commercial use of abstracted, deliberately over-stylised backgrounds and movements, and to the logical circularity which repeatedly dictates the emotional lives of his characters.
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The lawsuit would likely allege that Symington got the loan because he deliberately misled the pension funds about his financial condition.
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According to the MSM reports here and here the French crew, of a ship with the very Italian sounding name MSC Napoli, deliberately run aground close to Sidmouth, 165 miles southwest of London.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Hotel staff have told Scotland on Sunday that the man can be seen with matches deliberately setting the curtain ablaze.
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The opening is one piano note, plonked slowly, deliberately after the other.
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By this substitution of a sure job for a possible masterpiece, military science made a deliberate sacrifice of capacity in order to reduce the uncertain element, the bionomic (read biological) factor.
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We don't know if it was done by accident or by design , ie deliberately.
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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
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The deep breaths exhaled by his broad lines, his declarative sentences and their assertive plangency, his deliberate tactlessness and brave humor, redirect the reader to a history of poetic Yanks: Whitman, Williams.
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It takes a lot of calculating to sing a role as challenging as Butterfly, but in Naglestad's case the calculation was sometimes visible enough to dull the dramatic edge: a pause before a high note, a slightly too-deliberate leap into fortissimo in "Un bel di.
Anne Midgette reviews Washington National Opera's 'Madama Butterfly'
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The slow and deliberate steps of philosophers, here, if anywhere, are distinguished from the precipitate march of the vulgar, who, hurried on by the smallest similitude, are incapable of all discernment or consideration.
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I think he was deliberately ignoring me.
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We made a deliberate decision to live apart for a while.
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Adrian died of a heroin overdose which some of his friends thought was deliberate.
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She was a beautiful ship, in what we call "high kelter;" she seemed a living body, conscious of her own superior power over her opponents, whose shot she despised, as they fell thick and fast about her, while she deliberately took up an admirable position for battle.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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Deliberate learning situations have to be constructed if we want to pin causes down and further our grasp on the world.
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While his discourse is extreme and accusatory, his demeanor is equable and deliberate.
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That the portraits of Beethoven did not bear much likeness to the composer could be deemed a deliberate transgression.
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They walked slowly and deliberately for about two miles until they reached a place known as Dn Leathghlaise, or the “Chieftain’s Fort.”
The Pawprints of History
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It's hard to say it's deliberate, but they're undefined, and you can't do that game of gotcha, saying, ah-ha, in 1986 you voted for such and such.
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Did they - whoever they were - deliberately try to kill him?
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I'm fairly sure they were deliberately straggling so they could get the prize for coming last.
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Her promise was deliberately misquoted by her opponents, who then used it against her.
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I know you think I did it deliberately, but I assure you I did not.
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The title is in honour of Australia’s first female deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, jibe from the enlightened Mr Heffernan – stating she was unfit for leadership because she was” deliberately barren”.
Archive 2008-09-01
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Anonymous - but in that case, how come so many men end up with there's no nice way to say this lardy boring ultra-respectable old mingers, who they've deliberately chosen as their life partners over foxier alternatives?
Why Modern Women Can't Win With Modern Men
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Let's be honest, business is about exchanging goods for cash; no genuine business would deliberately omit a mention of its products and a description of its operations.
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C.C. testified that she was also deliberately scalded by her mother on numerous occasions when she was in the bathtub, leaving permanent scars.
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We must assume his comments were deliberately provocative to attract interest to the rather dry topic of female participation in public life.
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Isn't Marx making a deliberately exaggerated statement of his own position in order to display its novelty?
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She deliberately averted her gaze when he came in.
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But that he would deliberately attempt to break that link was something that he would never admit, even to himself.
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It's at this point I begin to wonder whether Wayne's post is actually satirical, replete with deliberate ironies I completely missed.
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As a result of centuries of both deliberate and inadvertent plant breeding, the varieties used today have little resemblance with their wild ancestors.
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The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
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That inability to distinguish between free enquiry and deliberate insult reminds me of those who wielded the blasphemy laws which were used to persecute freethinkers and rationalists in the middle ages.
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The Government has also yielded to public disquiet over the inability to deliberately spoil votes.
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The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators.
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Myers accused the government of deliberately massaging the unemployment figures .
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At first, you could see that the wrestlers were playing along with the crowd, deliberately leaving pauses during their speeches.
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Is it a deliberate recruitment drive by the church; are the robes particularly alluring; is it the funny hats?
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Horses Mouth January 22, 2007 4:24 PM
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Nathan was looking at her with a wild expression, the kind he got whenever she had deliberately provoked him.
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In attending to surveillance at a broad level of social analysis, David Lyon notes that surveillance is “the focused, systematic and routine attention to personal details for purposes of influence, management, protection or detection” that it is “deliberate and depends on certain protocols and techniques” (Lyon 2007: 14).
DPI: simplified and demystified
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Council chiefs have slammed vandals who deliberately damaged a historic priory.
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His style is much the same here as on those discs: calm, unhurried, and deliberate.
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There were a number of design defects and other criminally negligent operational practices which resulted in the leakage of [methyl isocyanate] and these were in the knowledge of the management and were deliberately ignored for commercial reasons," said the CBI in a statement Monday.
Court Convicts Seven in Bhopal Gas Leak
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The omission of her name was not a deliberate act.
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By the time the number of examples of myths, false assertions and cases of deliberate disinformation had reached 40 I reckoned it was time to publish them.
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Like many men of his generation who have experienced war, this is how he is; measured, deliberate, cool - as if nothing in civilian life is worth getting too exited about.
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All trace of his working - class background was deliberately obscured.
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Every move was deliberate and purposeful, almost as if she were executing some sort of martial art act.
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For her latest film she deliberately chose a cast of unknowns.
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Psychological comfort is inextricably related to physical comfort although some interactions are deliberately planned by staff to contribute to psychological comfort.
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His tome was the tone of ordinary conversation, and his speech, while it would not be called hesitating, was exceedingly slow and deliberate.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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Her tone was deliberately insulting.
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I am naturally, ...err , flattered that you refer to me as 'estimable', but am surprised that the only answer to the perfectly justified observation I made that it is 'bonkers' to assert that there have been 'deliberate moves' to break up the normal family as an aside, whatever that is is to make this comment:
[those days] under the microscope
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None of this is to say that, historically, we Tibetans were deliberately 'conservationist'.
The Natural World
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(Not a little has been written about 'uprest' ( "Revolt of Islam", 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley 'on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.'
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete
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Marriage, or any other form of promiscuous amoristic monogamy, is fatal to large States because it puts its ban on the deliberate breeding of man as a political animal.
Maxims for Revolutionists
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They deliberately used Pali, the language of the common folk for their discourses, not Sanskrit.
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Rogers was dismissed from the army for deliberately disobeying an order.
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I'm picking them up, much more deliberately, much more slowly, taking time to really look them over.
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Some of the objects were miniatures especially made for the funeral, and many were deliberately broken, with only a portion interred in the cinerary urns, with the rest perhaps kept as mementoes for the living, he added.
Anglo-Saxons honored their dead with mundane household objects
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He made a complete idiot of himself over that, and I swear it wasn't done deliberately.
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All the familiar elements - the deliberate, stately percussion; the elongated, cyclical riffs; the snarled lyrical tautologies and abstruse involutions - are all intact.
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As you are undoubtedly aware, the sad old electrical engineering model was deliberately crippled by Lorentz (who deliberately symmetrized Heaviside's original equations at the instigation of the infamous J.P. Morgan) in 1892, prior to the very birth of electrical engineering itself.
ZPEnergy.com
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As might be expected under such circumstances, the literature on this deliberately mysterious country tends to be polarized and politicized, with the ratio of opinion to fact often distressingly high.
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This deliberate emphasis on the young people's unreliable and hurtful past relationships poses a dilemma for residential workers.
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I pondered all that Chade had wrought, and why he had deliberately withheld this threat to me from my knowledge.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff.
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Her promise was deliberately misquoted by her opponents, who then used it against her.
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He admitted it was deliberately written in gobbledegook.
The Sun
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This was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the ceasefire.
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You're being deliberately vague.
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Miller was an armorer for the Army Marksmanship Unit who taught Vickers how to fit a barrel - the old fashioned way - slow, deliberate, no jigs or fixtures, just skillful handwork.
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They deliberately shifted off the argument.
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Some deliberate manipulation must have taken place.
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A deliberate policy of promoting free trade can be traced back to the mid nineteenth century.
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A supermarket assistant, in cahoots with a customer, wrapped goods and deliberately understated the price.
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It's the same thing, people deliberately setting prices and inflating charges and stealing our money.
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Dave felt she was deliberately turning the kids against him.
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We have had snowballs thrown at us when they went past, but this was a deliberate and malicious act.
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The demarcation is clear: Heumann doesn't allow the two modes to blur together; he deliberately counterpoises one against the other in precarious, hypnotic equilibrium.
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Sung in a deliberately flat tone, this song is a typically acidic musical joke and for that reason it does not stand up to repeated listens.
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The killing of children, deliberately targeted-what kind of a person could commit such an act?
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I have deliberately used the word managing here together with the words strategy and planning because the present/future dichotomy goes into all aspects of managerial work.
Managing with Dual Strategies
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I can say as a parent that I was often innocent and occasionally deliberately ignorant about the areas of sin in my own life.
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As a contrast, I follow them up with Nigella's Finger Lickin' Ribs, from her book Feast, a deliberately quick recipe designed, apparently, for eating "oozy and sticky" in bed, which cooks at 200C for an hour.
How to cook perfect barbecue ribs
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Yes, we deliberately chose people who were high profile, and also yes, quite cool and quite hip and quite witty.
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Interestingly, what makes the movie work is precisely that it does (I assume deliberately) seem creepy at the outset: The director wants your initial response to be a certain unease, if not revulsion.
Of Human Bondage
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The description was deliberately non-specific.
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He deliberately roughed the goal-keeper.
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But the president is trying in a very deliberate way to reach out to those elements of organized labor that might be friendly to him - the teamsters, the steel workers, the machinists.
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Finally, an apparently valid consent may be vitiated if it is obtained by fraud, which includes cases where a professional deliberately withholds information in bad faith, or by misrepresenting the nature of the proposed care.
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It is a deliberate, nasty and vicious attack on a young man's character.
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Which, when it was full, they drew to shore -- for the separation will not be made till the number of the elect is accomplished. and sat down -- expressing the deliberateness with which the judicial separation will at length be made. and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away -- literally,
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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That some scientists confuse the unprovable with the nonexistent does not justify the deliberate attempt of IDists to substitute sophistry for science in our public schools.
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They cliqued up in the corner and played that high school game, where you deliberately exclude people, but I am an adult so I am immune to this game.
Whitehelmet Diary Entry
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Deliberate moves should be made to upgrade the Point Lisas port, leaving a minimal about of shipping at Port of Spain.
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She deliberately ignored my question and changed the subject.
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Every magician has a trick that goes wrong, but you can turn this to your advantage by pretending it was deliberate and making the audience laugh.
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Sometimes the road to illusion is created by hoaxers, people who engage in deliberate acts of trickery with the aim of proving how gullible other people can be when a skillful imposture is presented.
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Pictographs should be used carefully because the graphs may, either accidentally or deliberately, misrepresent the data.
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Secondly, the party disobeying the contempt order must do so in a deliberate and willful fashion in order to satisfy the criminal nature of the contempt proceedings.
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My plan is to not actively seek it out through deliberate use of radio, tv, web or print.
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Some photographs look as though they've been deliberately composed, with the figures and their expressions carefully arranged to convey a particular message.
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It's difficult to tell when this anachronism is deliberate, and when it is merely a lack of writerly control.
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Though the Chief Minister ignored the interruptions a couple of times, the third time she said someone was doing it deliberately.
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The global warming postulate is based almost entirely on models, and today's models are deliberately biased to support global warming.
Trust the Experts: A Reasonable, Defeasible Presumption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Then with deliberate grace, Hilda rose from her chair, a tall figure among them, looking down with a hint of compassionateness on the little man at her left.
The Path of a Star
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The amusement of the onlookers changed to gaping wonder when they saw him deliberately bore a hole in the bottom of the boat near the bow, after which, fixing up some kind of derrick, he tipped the boat so that the water she had taken in at the stern ran out in front, and she floated safely over the dam.
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Everyone wants peace, no one wants war, and if you aren't prepared to march then you're either gung ho or deliberately awkward.
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And we now have compelling evidence that German forces deliberately carried out a scorched-earth policy; they flooded mines, blew up bridges and stripped bare factories as they retreated.
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Estimates have been deliberately pitched on the conservative side.
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Each word was annunciated deliberately as though allowing time to access a vocabulary database hidden away somewhere.
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Michelle had deliberately placed the card in front of the old woman on the far side of the table.
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She deliberately stayed behind after work to go with me.
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They are deliberately flouting the law in order to obtain an advantage over their competitors.
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It looked wonderful, and fit to perfection, the sleeve-set-in seam sitting precisely on the shoulder, the stripes looking deliberate across body and sleeves.
Archive 2009-01-01
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I was asked to enter some of my favourite music, so being deliberately awkward, I entered four of my less well known favourites, first among them being Lucy Woodward.
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In this exploration of armed hold-ups, convicted armed robbers speak candidly about how they conduct their crimes and about the terror that they deliberately create.
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When she questioned Gunther about the future, he was deliberately evasive.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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The jury deliberated for more than 13 hours to reach a majority verdict.
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The image overall is often fairly soft, but this seems to be a deliberate cinematographic choice, rather than a flaw in the transfer process.
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She continued deliberately to toss the books severally upon the floor.
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In order to avoid charges of heresy (the Inquisition were always sniffing around him), Nostradamus wrote in a deliberately vague and obscure manner.
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It is, of course, deliberately provocative and designed to tempt an unwitting Unionite into criticising his choice of closure before blinding him with the weight and depth of his erudition.
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Lawless insolence, and wanton caprice" [Trench]. to work all uncleanness -- The Greek implies, "with a deliberate view to the working (as if it were their work or business, not a mere accidental fall into sin) of uncleanness of every kind." with greediness -- Greek, "in greediness.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Chris is either misremembering or deliberately conflating two separate issues.
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We did not agree with the outcomes and we voted against the bill when we deliberated.
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She speaks deliberately and methodically, but enthusiastically, with an italic emphasis on seemingly random words.
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Police launched a murder inquiry almost eight weeks ago after disclosing that the cord on the main parachute and the strapping on his reserve chute had been deliberately severed.
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A good test for whether the dictum has been developed in this way is a philosopher's account of akrasia, in which agents fail to comply with their deliberated verdicts in the face of temptation.
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Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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On the contrary, I was constantly hearing tales of silly fooleries, of overbearing behaviour, of deliberate rudeness, such as irresistibly recalled, in spirit if not in form, the conduct of the common barrator in the guise of a king, who, if
The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War
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The jury deliberated on the penalty phase late into Friday evening, but did not reach a unanimous verdict.
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They accused him of deliberately sabotaging the peace talks.
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The above appears to be a deliberate distortion of an event in the 19th Century, the battle of Adwa, where Ethiopians handed a humiliating defeat to the Italians.
Archive 2007-02-01
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The case of the prosecution and prosecutors is that the couple intentionally and deliberately starved their child to death and used the term vegan to escape prosecution.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Their record sleeves and videos are cryptic, self-mythologising, deliberately uninformative.
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On the other hand, Jaki is clearly present in the rhythms which are straightforward but tricksy, deliberate but playful.
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The teams - in orange, blue or green bibs - are each a deliberate mixture of first-team regulars, substitutes and fringe players.
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For the remaining three hours of the exercise, I stank to high heaven with other members of the patrol deliberately evading me.
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Tombs of ecclesiastics (Obazine Abbey, Hereford Cathedral) were made deliberately shrinelike, with relief carving or a pinnacled canopy.
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Thåre was a high probability the fire was caused by deliberate human agency and that a flammable liquid could have been poured into the building and an "incendiary device such as igniter cord or something" used to light it.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He emphasises that the statutory offence requires a deliberate intentional act.
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Then a clumsy foot in a cow-leather boot or heavy wooden-pegged veldschoen would be thrust out, and the boy would be tripped up and go down, and the crowd would deliberately kick and trample the life out of him, and no one would be able to say how or by whom the thing had been done.
The Dop Doctor
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After what she calls a deliberate campaign to keep her from meeting performance targets â including by giving her an out-of-the-way desk where customers couldn't find her â she was fired in August, according to her complaints.
Debrahlee Lorenzana Asks Human Rights Officials To Investigate Citibank (VIDEO)
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The deliberately sculptured profiles of the Tower proved extremely difficult to build because of the complexity of the necessary framework.
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It is a deliberately powerful metaphor, which Attenborough uses to good effect.
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Then he began to rebutton the easy, brown great-coat, going deliberately up the whole series, from the small button below, to keep the laps together, up to the one on the neck, or where the neck would have been if Jog had not been all stomach up to the chin.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
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He thought that a compromise between the two entremes was feasible, by which a certain element of picturesqueness might be introduced into our programmes without exposing us to the charge of deliberately seeking to denationalise ourselves.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914
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He said there should be a deliberate policy to compel gemstone companies to sell part of their produce to local jewellers.
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It's unfair to suggest that he deliberately provokes dressing room conflict, but he's not the ideal chap to apply soothing balm when it breaks out.
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A CAT was injured after being caught in a deliberately-set noose snare.
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It's played out in cinema-verité, all rough cutting, long track shots and, in the end, a distinctively and deliberately unpolished style.
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I think this was a deliberate ploy to muffle the sound of my clock radio, thereby ensuring my lateness.
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They are doing deliberate patrols with aircraft to try and locate any pockets of people.
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Some have accused Stoiber of deliberately trying to sabotage Merkel in a fit of pique at her rapid rise.
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Having deliberately created speculation about a snap election, Howard is now in a position to say that the only way to end the speculation is by holding one.
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Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he couldn't face the consequences of his gambling?