How To Use Fig In A Sentence
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For centuries, scholars have squabbled over the design of the ship, which was crucial to defeating the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., part of a wider war that included the fight at Thermopylae dramatized in the film "300.
Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
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Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures.
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I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
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To avoid leaving the center posts in the permanent work, two rows of temporary posts were placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were built, and the posts were removed, as shown by Fig. 2, Plate LX, before placing the remainder of the lining.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
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My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
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According to police and prosecutors, the two got into a fight after she told him he should be committed to a mental hospital.
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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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Clinton will fight for the American people, and Obama will sit in a racest church for another 20 years where The "rev" is preaching hate, racism, and black seperatism.
Clinton: Put down the Blackberry at home
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Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf.
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The dress wasn't low cut, but in truth she didn't have a lot of cleavage to reveal, her figure being quite elfin.
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When the new student funding system was devised in 2010 the figure was just 28%.
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Figure 13.2 shows a single memory core in what would have been a large array.
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Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions.
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Said hi also to a few of the guys from Aereogramme after they'd finished up, but wasn't actually sure of who was there from Chemikal Underground or what they look like, so I was basically floating around and looking glaikit until Mags pointed out the Newsnight crew, and the nice interviewer man figured out who I was.
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Well, the good news is a few weeks ago they were talking about it being the main source of law, so there has been some concession there, which the Iraqi women leaders have been fighting for.
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It had multiple shooters, multiple locations, mobile threats, willingness to fight the first responders and follow-on SWAT/commando units, well-equipped and well-trained operatives, and a willingness to die.
Cliff Schecter: The Terrorist and the Terror Watch List
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· The tailstock quill is brought into working position (Fig. 14) whereby special attention must be given to quill cleanliness.
3. Preparations for thread cutting by dies and taps
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It should also be noted that there are no contact-period materials from the Johnson site and that the only historic materials recovered date to the nineteenth century and did not occur in the provenances associated with the figurines.
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Indeed, the chants of ‘York, York, York’ which greeted the final hooter summed up what the supporters thought of their performance and, in particular, their fightback.
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Tanks often attacked the outskirts of the city in skirmishes with resistance fighters, adding to the chaos and unrest.
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It is sad, very sad to watch a great champion being beaten in a one-sided fight where he cannot offer any meaningful counterpunch, which is what boxing is all about.
Undefined
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Central Asian desert and grow cotton, which tsarist Russia lost access to when the American south, its supplier, began fighting the American north in the Civil
A Conversation with Tom Bissell
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These guys went at it like two tomcats fighting over the pussy next door.
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Similarly, the exaction of stiff reprisals for unexpected attacks on troops remote from the fighting front might cow the local population, or might stimulate them to more aggressive resistance.
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These small exquisitely carved ivory figurines come in an almost limitless variety.
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The figures are a useful guideline when buying a house.
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The example of the first fighter aces fixed itself in the imaginations of a generation being born just as they had met their deaths.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square.
Impressions of a War Correspondent
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These days Britain's race laws are configured in Brussels.
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CALLS for firefighters to move obese people are up by a third in just three years.
The Sun
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Committed by parents, teachers, priests or minders it undermines trust and dependency, disrupts relations with authority figures and can interfere with loving and learning.
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However, even during adulthood we are constantly learning the faces of new individuals, both personal acquaintances and media figures.
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_ -- The dotted lines in Fig. 60 represent isacoustic lines -- that is, lines which pass through all places where the percentage of observers who recorded their perception of the sound is the same.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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The social networking giant has admitted excluding views of less than three seconds from its figures.
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Once all that is figured out, the most confusing factor in the equation must be pondered: playing time.
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And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
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It still perplexes Kross that he survived while the firefighter on the other side of Josephine, Sergeant Bacco, did not.
Humble 9/11 hero relives tale of the twin towers for tourists
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Figures for income, gross profit, salaries, motor expenses, drawings etc are fed into the Revenue computer system.
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It has made it far harder for determined and powerful figures to control how people see events and that can only be a good thing.
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Chess takes the place of all the other passions, and the people in his life, including his parents, become shadowy, meaningless figures.
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Firefighters said a man had taken off a valve before realising gas was still leaking out.
The Sun
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The figure is expected to double with legal costs and more court battles.
The Sun
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Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism.
Ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing
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Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
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Then the first of three banderilleros (usually older bullfighters who form part of the matador's team) individually run towards the bull making him charge.
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Three teams of firefighters tackled the blaze for more than an hour.
The Sun
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Rising up off a stone bench that stood in a shadowy area out of the torchlight was a dark, robed figure.
Dragons of Winter Night
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The arrows indicate the beginning of the grace note figure and the placement of each note in the triplet figure for the left hand.
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At least 5,500 people have died during the past decade in fighting between government and rebel forces.
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Which of us would want our lives to lay in ruin while those who are supposed to help are busy fighting over politics, power and property that does not belong to them?
National Council of Churches
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The figure slowly walked into the room whistling a familiar tune of one of his favorite bands.
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The schematic for the DTMF decoder in the figure below. Again you can use a combination of wire wrapping and soldering. Part placement is not critical.
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This meant that they had to take on Fighter Command, led by Sir Hugh Dowding, of the Royal Air Force.
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The _router-plane_, Figs. 121 and 122, is used to lower a certain part of a surface and yet keep it parallel with the surrounding part, and it is particularly useful in cutting panels, dadoes, and grooves.
Handwork in Wood
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Figures due out on November 21 might be instructive but a merger deal is not thought likely to figure in the statement.
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Records, is among the thousands of devoted followers who have raised figure skating to new heights of popularity.
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This is a Dutch lugger from Samarcand, laden with raisins and fig-paste and lichi nuts and cream dates.
The Merryweathers
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At about the time Hanson began making his realistic figures in the 1960s, other artists were also making life-sized figures molded from actual people.
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There is grassland on the natural brae of Royal Garden, yellow and green, fighting with the autumn. In this grassland, an alley wanders forward, just like the traces from a big snake' creeping.
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But spring is here now, the fighting season is upon us.
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Jug-eared and barrel-chested, he still looks the part of the fighter.
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The people who inhabited America at that time were fighting an uphill battle.
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I left figurative art because I was bored of it.
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An awesome book - what Robinson is particularly good at is figuring out how Chaplin pieced together out of accident, inspiration and music hall stunt, what turned into complex, archetypal early film narrative.
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Zack and I spent last evening making modelling clay figures at the kitchen table.
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Coming back to the bill itself, I find that the figures have been massaged.
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He intends to fight the case to the Supreme Court.
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Among Baptist preachers, the most formative figure in the area of homiletics was John Broadus.
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In the future, fights and disagreements between husbands and wives will simply result in the immediate end of their marriages.
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Gulf War veterans fighting to prove hundreds of former servicemen have been crippled and killed by a mysterious syndrome caused by their time in the conflict have been dealt a massive blow - their own solicitors say the case is unprovable.
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This is something the airlines figured out long ago.
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We can add a custom rule for Live ID to copy the nameidentifier to the name claim if we plan on using the name in our application by clicking add, then configuring the rule to copy the
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Figure 1: The figure represents diagrammatically the key factors, as described in the literature review, which influence the reading development of English and Greek bilingual and monolingual children.
Reading Development in Two Different Contexts:the Case of the English-greek Bilingual Children in UK and in Cyprus « Articles « Literacy News
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This can easily be addressed by finding the right clothes to flatter her figure.
The Sun
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The gorillas 'behaviour has strong similarities to the children's game tag, but is perhaps more like a playful exchange of punches that must be well-judged to ensure it does not escalate into a more serious fight.
Gorillas learn about injustice and revenge by playing tag
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Two fire trucks and more than 50 firefighters were last night battling to extinguish the blaze.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fight for Samarra was not won on completion of the kinetic phase of operations.
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He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I can give you the actual figures.
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A successful fighting man must have a strong sense of pride and self-respect.
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On one of the horses was a slight figure, bound and blindfolded.
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The figures amply confirm this.
MANAGING FOR RESULTS
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We then found her a green patterned dress which flatters her figure.
The Sun
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That this dog and White Fang should come together was inevitable, and for a week the anticipated fight was the mainspring of conversation in certain quarters of the town.
Reign of Hate
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`Me and Jude we figure you could come out even didn't know you'd decontrol like that "Iz said.
RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
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We will fight them on the landing grounds.
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So get on down the bierkeller, even if everyone knows the figures are next to meaningless.
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Falling masonry, backdrafts and explosions are all very real dangers facing a firefighter outside the training room.
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Another movie might have had a rapid-fire exchange, a fight.
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Preserving the launch configurations also gives the developer the ability to run the server inside the JDT debugger, so he can set breakpoints on his user-defined SQL functions.
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Those qualities were instead projected on to a father he had barely known and a figure he invented in fiction.
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The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them.
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Sharpening his rhetoric, what they call contrasting himself with Senator Clinton before she started fighting back.
CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007
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For many years, along with the Department of Defense and many other federal agencies, the Department of State has been our partner in fighting terrorism around the world.
CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2001
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It took its corporeal form in the living room, disguised as a humanoid figure made of what could be described as a giant cotton ball.
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They had already experienced discrimination in the army while fighting the "crusade for freedom".
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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I had one fight last year where the judges scored it against me 1-0 after we'd been leathering each other for five rounds.
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You collect the material and create the shiv you fight with!
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A subsequent kerfuffle (rather drawn out) sounding not unlike a fist fight interspersed with successive shards of glass falling.
BEHINDLINGS
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The commanding general wishes to talk to her himself, but it is of low priority, with the fight so close at hand.
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The show is in blistering form and viewing figures are on the up.
The Sun
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I would expect the government to fight a lawsuit trying to prevent something like this, just as I would expect a leg to bounce up when its patellar reflex is hit with a tendon hammer.
Matt Kane: The Obama Administration's Desire to Keep Citizens in the Dark is Inexcusable
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Extra hydration makes it easier for the molecule to assume the lowest-energy configuration.
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Scientists are claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer.
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Unless a member of the Vanguard or the Scarlet Scholars (both groups paying attention to what most consider obscure and nigh-useless knowledge), even most paranormal agents active today have only heard of the Bleak Baron Frederick or his granduncle Wolfgang and their works on fighting monsters.
The Codex Continual » The Von Baurs
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As a developer, you will recognize these steps as the normal procedure to configure, compile, and install most applications from source code.
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She questioned the authenticity of the contracts the two fighters signed, saying that one alleged he was forced to sign a blank contract.
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There was a gang fight outside our window and a motorcycle rider was shot and killed.
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He was then able to manoeuvre some of his cavalry on to the hilltop and fight the Saxons on level ground.
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China should build its own first carrier by 2010 and equip it with imported fighters.
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PERRY: There's no question about it, parents who are comfortable with a child who gets a C or D, parents who are comfortable dropping their child off at a school that they no is ragged -- they have watched that school undereducate a generation or two -- parents who are willing to go down and fuss and fight when their child doesn't play on the basketball team, but are unwilling to go down and fight the same way when that child is not being served in -- in the classroom.
CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009
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It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and ‘beaming,’ and is configurable to an unlimited number of options.
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And how can those who profess to revere this charismatic figure, propound views so intolerantly divergent from those of their great leader?
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We honor Ralph Waldo Emerson, but where does Transcendentalism figure in anybody's life today?
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There have also been six recorded fights between snakes and alligators.
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It's still early in the morning; the air is cool and exhilarating, and the low sun softens the landscape and transfigures the dour colours of the hills.
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Founded in Sep of 2004, IrishEnvy. com has grown in to a premiere web portal upon a Internet for grown up as well as intelligent Notre Dame Fighting Irish entertainment discussion!
Tunverified voracity
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more prudent to hide than to fight
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The payroll figures are derived from a poll of employers.
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The report included structure diagrams for each type of local authority based on the outlines shown in Figs 5.1 and 5.2.
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Airwing flight handlers prepare to launch a Navy F / 18 fighter aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt on Monday.
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The run is a 825-metre stampede from the corral where the bulls are kept to the outdoor bullfighting arena where they will be invariably killed by matadors later in the day.
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I feared enormous crowds at Chawton paying hefty admission fees to file past animated wax figures.
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People who have pledged their lives to fighting Islamic extremism, when asked about Charles Johnson now, unsheathe a word they do not throw around lightly ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Comparing Left and Right Blogospheres
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The recent discussion about pterosaur patagia inspired this simple, but I think effective, visual representation of many possibilities for patagial ? configurations.
Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Gallery
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Forte is a very popular figure in city government, seemingly beloved by every local politician in sight.
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Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed.
The Sermons of John Owen
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He was stabbed to death in a fight.
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These figures kill off any lingering hopes of an early economic recovery.
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The shop-owner, hoping to raise the price to a round figure, pulled the rickshaw in and out of the shed, folded and unfolded the hood and sounded the horn, singing the vehicle's praises all the time.
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he cut a fine figure
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Sometimes, as here, valor among black minstrels consisted of exercising discretion and living to fight another day.
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So he vowed to fight for a fitting memorial to be erected to them.
The Sun
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They're exploring every avenue available and have promised to fight for their school.
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This is best illustrated by considering the flow of information through the various stages of recognition, as shown in Figure 3.1.
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The figures of his angels are elongated, with wings stretched upward as if they were sculpted by the Gothic masters.
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Tarja strode on, then suddenly stopped, frozen to the spot, as three figures began to materialise out of the dust.
TREASON KEEP
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The door knocker was a female figure in brass.
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Each town captured boosts the number of its fighters.
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We are heartened to see the counter-errorist troops in the SGPS fighting to gain a thought foothold among graduate students.
Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics
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Then I'll tell you: The moral of this story is to know what you fight for.
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Other interesting ones include figures from Pieter Breughel, the tessellations of MC Escher, and the composite portraits of Guiseppe Arcimboldo (for instance, his Vertumnus and Water).
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Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
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In the figure of the sun, the text also allegorizes desire as the very medium that allows the Lover, the dreamer and the writer to ‘see.’
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Not until November 1944 were conscripts sent to fight overseas.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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The fruit of the fig is about as big as a rounceval pea, or very small gooseberry; and each of them, upon breaking off the stalk very close, produces one drop of a milky liquor, resembling the juice of our figs, of which the tree is indeed a species.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
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The judge praised the firefighters for their bravery and devotion to duty.
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Whipping round, he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights.
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Arrange clumps of fig and peach over the cream.
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Educators have also applied paper folding to such diverse mathematical objects as logical structures, axiomatic systems, and tessellations with geometrical figures.
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Many of the major characters are historical figures, notably Llewellyn and David, their mother Lady Senena and their two other brothers Owen Goch “Owen the Red” and Rhodri, and King Henry III of England.
Sunrise in the West, by Edith Pargeter. Book review
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They are fighting to defend their beliefs/interests/rights.
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The figure was accompanied by an upwardly revised 5.4 per cent increase in November.
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For the fruits, I used candied bitter orange peels, green raisins, and dried apricots, figs (black and white), and peach.
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A fight broke out behind me as we lined up to receive our food rations.
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The fear rose as the flames were rekindled and leapt higher… and the impulse to fight took over when Mhyra reached for Tovon.
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Official figures show the scale of the implant rupturing problem.
The Sun
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He joins a roll call of the great and good who have been drafted into public service to help the government fight the financial crisis.
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So he insists he will have to win the fight with a knockout.
The Sun
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Heya guy i own the film Fight Club and every time i watch it i always catch a new part of the plot its that well made do you guys find this one of the most eye opening and phycological films ever made
Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
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Firefighters fought the flames throughout the night despite the strong gusts and torrential rain.
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Fig. 265 is a rebated joint with loose tongue-slip and astragal mould, suitable for frames over 1-1/4 in. in thickness.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.
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No fighting style remains a mystery to Hopkins inside the ring and he can box with you or brawl - it does not matter.
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Four goals down with 20 minutes to go, Jock Nugent's side looked to be fighting a lost cause.
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He should fight against oppression and to establish justice and the broadest principles of religious toleration.
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If you add those four figures up, it comes to over £500.
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In one of her wittiest pieces, three gorgeously entangled clay figures hobnob.
Meet the best new artists in Britain
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Can you type the additional figures in at the bottom of the page?
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A braai is the South African version of a barbecue - and I figured I could handle slapping meat on the grill.
Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
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And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again.
Antiquities of the Jews
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The ancient way to settle a quarrel was to choose a leader from each side and let them fight it out.
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The fashion-forward actress, who graces the FROW of countless fashion events, showed off her trim figure in a form-fitting number.
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Hell, I even understood certain imprints in my psyche better, which helped me figure out other things.
Nonsense
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He is the latest public figure to go on record about corruption in politics.
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This figure shows the peculiar ocular part of the altazimuth, with the vertical and horizontal circles.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
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Those who fight in the support of Taliban have their own agenda like any other fighters but the media lable them as "islamic Terrorst".
CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan
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Figures were the same for a driver using a hand-held or hands-free phone and likelihood of a crash held true regardless of gender or age.
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Pay a visit to the camp infirmary, get your clothes deloused, or just park yourself in the latrine and fight that nasty case of amoebic dysentery you picked up along the way - it's up to you.
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More than a fight between armies, the Middle East conflict is a clash between two national stories.
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Now go and Google "Durga" - a primarily Hindu "great goddess" figure - and maybe you will learn something about the intercultural aspects of Islam while you are at it.
Propeller Most Popular Stories
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Fighting erupted soon afterwards and lasted for more than three years.
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Many of the events are informal and unscripted, and can afford glimpses of public figures talking unguardedly about their ideas, their life, and their convictions.
The Story Behind the Story
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Yet we make no apology for fighting for our independence as fiercely as we fight in our journalism to expose wrongdoing and hold the powerful to account.
Times, Sunday Times
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Expenses figures from Westminster show he has resumed a busy schedule in the Lords.
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Wolves and jackals, when frightened, certainly tuck in their tails; and a tamed jackal has been described as careering round his master in circles and figures of eight, like a dog, with his tail between his legs.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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His escape meant that he had to be figuratively executed, with the result that the people, ideas, and culture associated with him were outlawed and destroyed in his stead.
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In the marketing department they figured, what the hell, you just trade zax for Zack and keep the ball rolling for another generation!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Scrambling Scrabble
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Are we going to see small clouds of dust when fighting on dusty grounds?
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Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed.
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Its work figured in the arguments of advocates in this field that were based on the developing customary law.
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We will not serve as anyone's fig leaf.
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Archaeologists were excited to find lots of bronzes, ceramics, lacquerworks, wood tomb figures, steel weapons and leather weapons, jewelry and even coloured drawings.
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The fighting in the area has intensified sharply.
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And even the reputations of major figures at times fluctuate, with periods of obscurity intermitting their fame.
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Its perceptual configurations have been thought to have a special relevance to the emergence of formal artistic qualities which cannot be reduced to a measurable aggregate of more elementary constituents.
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Dick Brewer had taken refuge behind a thirty-inch sawlog near the mill, just one hundred and forty steps from the window near which this fierce little fighting man was lying, wounded to death.
The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado
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Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing - and drawing the figure especially.
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Musical notation for instruments, based on figures, letters, or other symbols instead of conventional staff notation.
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Note the telling musical score, anticipating events, cueing the audience as to when to be scared, assuming we cannot figure that out ourselves.
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Dr Dick Shaw explains how a tiny plant-eating predator can fight the superweed spread
BBC - Ouch
