How To Use Grappling In A Sentence
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They searched for his body, handlining with grappling hooks, setting gill nets straight offshore and hauling seine.
AMAGANSETT
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I have caught plenty more on hook and line than they have noodling (they call it grappling around here), so I don't think it is something that we should be concerned with.
What do you guys think about noodling? have you ever gone? or do you think its wrong?
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The students seemed to offer another option for an administration already grappling with sabo -- teurs in Iraq and suicide bombers in Israel: to sit back and wait for a second Iranian revolution.
Firefight Over Iran
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Aggressive behaviors included pecking the male, bill snapping, reverse mounting, and frontal attack, which resulted in aerial grappling.
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Since plants suck up more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than anything else on the planet, understanding leaf veins is an important part of grappling with the global carbon budget puzzle.
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Towards the middle of the plain, there lay the bodies of several men who had fallen in the very act of grappling with the enemy; and there were seen countenances which still bore the stern expression of unextinguishable hate and defiance, hands which clasped the hilt of the broken falchion, or strove in vain to pluck the deadly arrow from the wound.
The Monastery
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Apr. 30 -- Cass County health officials are grappling with a sharp rise in pertussis -- commonly known as whopping cough -- confirming five cases in the past six months, including one that resulted in death.
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It isn't always obvious who is supporting whom; the women grapple with their partners' bodies in ways we are used to the men doing with women -- and the grappling isn't obscured by all the prettifying tricks of classical ballet, part of whose magic is in the illusion of ease.
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For better or worse, he became a master of the grand gesture, grappling with his inner demons and his outsize ego in front of a bemused public.
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This blows by super-fast, but if you watch Hardison fight, he gets punched early, and after that he's mainly tying the guy up with his longer reach, kind of wrestle-grappling.
LEVERAGE: The Second David Job
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The party has been grappling with fractionalism and infightings with senior leaders blaming each other for the electoral debacles in both the assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
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Rather, it presents a collection of ideas and findings by people who have been grappling with big, unanswerable questions all their lives.
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Bertie is grappling with the pros and cons of his selection.
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He was a patriot grappling with questions of emancipation, dependence, neocolonialism, and the creation of a genuine social revolution.
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Yawn, I want a picture where the wrestler is grappling with …. .the truth.
CAGE OUT, ROURKE IN ARONOFSKY PICTURE
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Inexcusably perhaps, the entire vital element of seizures, grappling, disarms, and use of the second hand or even daggers and bucklers is almost wholly ignored as if it never existed.
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Your main method of movement is a grappling hook and parachute combo that allows you to scale any surface with ease.
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'Stonor's too content just to criticize, just to make his delicate pungent fun of the men who are grappling -- very inadequately of course -- still _grappling_ with the big questions.
The Convert
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How these two, and the other 31 miners, will be changed by their ordeal is something friends and psychologists are grappling to understand.
Writing Home, 'New' Miners Emerge
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Mandy fires the grappling hook onto a guardrail and bungees down into space, the cable holding her as she lowers herself to the fifth floor.
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It is important to note this early consideration of mixtures, at least for the relatively high levels of exposure experienced in occupational settings, even though 40 years later we are still grappling with how to advance beyond the simple concept of additivity.
Regulation of toxic chemicals
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Grappling with the nightmarish bureaucracy surrounding this and all such cases are what concerns the rest of the novel.
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Hayden's grappling with these issues led to sometimes jocose observations, as recounted here.
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After hundreds of pages grappling with such subjects as statistical regression analysis of melody and scientific studies of toddlers 'capacity for recognizing harmony, his plea is a bold and welcome affirmation of the mystery that music still poses for us.
Hear It, Feel It
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The top exponents of this system are experts in grappling and knowledge of this skill would be very complementary to any martial art.
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In the talmudic period, the focus of the sages grappling with the aguna problem was the husband lost at sea.
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And he deserved another one for grappling.
The Sun
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I play videogames in order to do things that I could never do in real life, like flying spaceships, grappling with monsters, or skateboard standing up.
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States are grappling with record budget deficits, which some governors have tried to close by trimming what they call the generous benefits public employees receive.
Republican Wisconsin senators bypass Democrats in vote on collective bargaining
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They are not the only ones grappling for a definition.
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I'm still grappling with the shock.
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Now, master," shouted I, "put the helm up and lay him alongside -- there stand by with the grapplings -- one round the backstay the other through the chainplate there -- so, -- you have it.
Tom Cringle's Log
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As the prayer evolved, so did the congregation, grappling with an issue that Reamer says goes to the very core of his mission as a Franciscan friar.
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The company is also grappling with a global glut of natural gas.
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And while the blogging world has exploded we're still grappling with what it all means.
Times, Sunday Times
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But BATMAN does come equipped with a Bat Hook: a grappling hook that special operators can throw onto power lines in order to charge up their battery-powered communications equipment.
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By attaching a grappling hook to a rope up to five miles long.
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AL GOODMAN, MADRID BUREAU CHIEF: I'm Al Goodman in Madrid, along with Armando de Leon Sartello (ph) and his youngest son, Lucas (ph), who, along with their whole family, are grappling with the rising food prices in Spain.
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Some are also taking a soft-headed look, as if they were already demented beyond grappling with reality.
Raging Against Aging
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The company is still grappling with extensive industrial unrest, its flotation plans have been mothballed and it is projected that profits will drop 75 per cent this year to just £15 million.
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Public loos have been a vexed issue in the town for some time and council has been grappling with plans to build new public toilets in the caravan park, but that's hit a snag.
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None could pierce the future; perhaps none dared to contemplate it: the wild rage of fanaticism and hate, friend grappling with friend, brother with brother, father with son; altars profaned, hearthstones made desolate; the robes of Justice herself bedrenched with murder.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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But politicians who have real experience of grappling with the day-to-day problems and issues ordinary people have to face have a much better chance of understanding them.
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Citing grappling targets, swinging across obstacles, pulling objects and fighting enemies are all victims of questionary physics requiring peculiar timing for maximum effect.
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Constitution to fetter the hands of conscientious loyalty in grappling with them, is a political creed which argues ill for the patriotism of its confessors; but it embodies the exact logic of those who look upon
The Assassinated President
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The company is also grappling with a global glut of natural gas.
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Grappling with a wonderful assortment of objects - from antique orreries to modern spectrographs - Davis Baird draws the reader deep into fascinating questions about the nature of knowledge.
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Hunting, falconry, fishing, rowing and sailing were all considered suitable pastimes for a freeman or noble, which left the more ignoble sports of grappling with others to the lower classes.
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Molly's upstairs grappling with her maths homework.
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As well as grappling with the weakness of output, policymakers are contending with another emerging markets crisis.
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In the latest title, players control a space cowboy with a gun for an arm, a cybernetic eye with multiple scan modes, and a collection of doohickeys - including a grappling beam - that let him explore a vast world.
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Jobs tossed out a few intuitive guesses but showed no interest in grappling with the problem rigorously.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your main method of movement is a grappling hook and parachute combo that allows you to scale any surface with ease.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a trice, however, by the assistance of his female second, he was on his legs again, and grappling with his antagonist, endeavoured to tip him a fall, but instead of accomplishing his purpose, he received a cross-buttock, and the brewer throwing himself upon him as he fell, had well-nigh smothered him on the spot.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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They are grappling with the awful stench emanating from the filth the water has left behind.
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They are also grappling with the soaring cost of petrol.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet the singer grew up watching what those did to her divorced parents, and has since seen her brother grappling with the vicissitudes of celebrity and fleeting chart success.
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It's unfinished, and the quite large figure of a hillwalker recently brushed in at the head of the gully suggests that the painter would like to show people grappling with the mountains.
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And he deserved another one for grappling.
The Sun
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Right now Canada and the United States find themselves at about the same stage in grappling with this new concept of a continental economy that the six common market countries reached in 1953, when they took the first step towards the Common Market by establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.
A Great Economic Opportunity
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Reflecting back, our nation has a proud history of grappling with difficult issues.
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grappling with financial difficulties
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Some of the Bay Area's new restaurant dynamics, including grappling with customers 'smaller expense accounts and growing time pressures, have manifested themselves in eateries such as Barbacco.
Restaurants Cater
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Even in Haflong, the markets are grappling to supply adequate foodstuffs.
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They plunged forward, huge arms grappling, closing the distance.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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By attaching a grappling hook to a rope up to five miles long.
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I just always loved fighting and grappling, so I got in the ring.
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And now she has admitted having a catfight with her housekeeper in which both women ended up rolling around on the floor, grappling and screaming.
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While ` grappling ' was a skill Mr Golightly felt he had lost the knack of, Sam had not.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Leigh decided to exact retribution on his teammate's behalf by grappling Gibson to the ground.
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Its compelling first page draws you in to the strange world of Wilbur McCrum, dispossessed anti-hero extraordinaire and his outrageous adventures through cowboy country, meeting with tarts, religious swindlers, bank robbers, bounty hunters and freak shows, grappling with the problem of his great love, Ida May, who is dead and embalmed but being carted around by Wilbur.
Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010
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The frantic father, grappling with debilitating parental problems, had vanished.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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This is not a party political issue as all politicians the length and breadth of the country are grappling with this difficult issue.
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They are also grappling with the soaring cost of petrol.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody wants to see the two of us grappling like two ageing businessmen in inflatable sumo wrestler costumes.
The Sun
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He was especially skilled in the American style of ‘holding and hitting’ and was capable of frustrating aggressive opponents by repeated clinching and grappling.
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Jobs tossed out a few intuitive guesses but showed no interest in grappling with the problem rigorously.
Times, Sunday Times
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The company is also grappling with a global glut of natural gas.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm still grappling with the shock.
Times, Sunday Times
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Historians are still grappling with questions of identity as these applied to pre-industrial societies.
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Yet the district's mammoth deficit has continued to grow during amid the state's downturn and growing pension and debt obligations, and the city's schools are still grappling with longstanding problems, including political battles involving the state, school board and teachers' unions and a long-term exodus by students.
Crisis Mode Persists for Detroit Schools
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Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.
The Big Over Easy: Summary and book reviews of The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde.
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Despite Nigel's existential grapplings, 2004 could send him and his bandmates soaring sky-high.
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They are also grappling with the soaring cost of petrol.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've scanned the document and it's choking with phrases like this, which presumably make sense in the heads of officials grappling unenviably with the programmes.
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Since plants suck up more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than anything else on the planet, understanding leaf veins is an important part of grappling with the global carbon budget puzzle.
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One takedown attempt came and went with the shrug of a Dos Santos shoulder, and UFC virgins were ultimately robbed of witnessing the ground game and grappling element to the sport, which often thrills and bemuses newcomers in equal measure.
Elliot Worsell: While UFC Only Teases, Boxing Cheats
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The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
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The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
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And while the blogging world has exploded we're still grappling with what it all means.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two men fell to the floor and started grappling.
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I'm still grappling with the shock.
Times, Sunday Times
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This song is supposed to go 'dan-nang-nang-nang, na'," seethes the suave insectoid singer, grappling furiously with a faulty keyboard.
Grinderman
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Whether you're a reporter trying to beat a deadline or an editor grappling with late copy, the simplest solution may be one that seems the toughest.
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The fencing mask gives a good level of visibility, can be removed quickly if grappling happens.
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He's not grappling with issues of post-human technology, but his novels are profoundly life-affirming, especially as he grapples with issues of aging and disease.
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Already, the field had turned away from its fiery adolescence, its entrancement with universal solutions and radical cures, and was grappling with fundamental questions about cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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He fires a grappling hook that hooks itself onto the balustrade of the rooftop garden.
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Ian Rickson, who staged the noisy Royal Court production of "The Seagull" that transferred to Broadway in 2008, is grappling here with a piece of material better suited to his overemphatic directorial style.
Their Lives of Loud Desperation
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The songbird family of shrikes that is responsible for such carnage is well represented by the woodchat shrike, pictured here grappling with a lizard.
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Blair returned with the grappling pole and began to extend it, gazing at the huge, deep orange jellyfish as it bobbed and pulsated next to the boat.
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And while the blogging world has exploded we're still grappling with what it all means.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I was grappling with some of the more technical passages that contained words like allele, nucleotide, cistron, and mitosis,
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She began to imagine a war of words, to see the Polish words and the English words coming at each other, stalking forward, not sentences, just words, gabble gabble gabble, flung out high and shrill and stalking forward and then grappling with each other.
Touched by Evil
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Trade in those comfortable slippers for a grappling hook.
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She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses.
THE UNEXPECTED
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In any case, Amiss's mind was racing, grappling with a situation devoid of any rational explanation.
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Lopate has spent nearly six decades living in that vortex and grappling with its contradictions by cultivating an essayistic style that's lyrical and historical, elegiac and pragmatic, steely and serene, affable and brash.
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Many of the households have other issues with which they are grappling.
Times, Sunday Times
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This year, the name expected to spark much conversation is Netflix Inc., the online and by-mail movie and TV-show rental business that media companies are grappling with.
Big Media Brace for Clouds As They Meet in Sun Valley
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And he deserved another one for grappling.
The Sun
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The lifeless body floated at the end of a grappling hook like a dead fish, right eye gorged by a prong.
Rude Awakening
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She was grappling with them and trying to fend them off.
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The fighters are grappling on the floor, tearing at each other, screaming abuse and growling like animals.
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The seine was then moored, that is, secured by grappling hooks.
Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast
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Melanie points out that today's feminists are still grappling with the questions of the nineteenth century.
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The company is also grappling with a global glut of natural gas.
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Courts are increasingly grappling with these questions.
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It's plain from the title of the Act that Congress was grappling with cybersquatting - admittedly a major issue for US business and in particular for trademark holders at the height of the dot-com boom.
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States are grappling with record budget deficits, which some governors have tried to close by trimming what they call the generous benefits enjoyed by public employees.
Wisconsin Assembly approves bill to slash union rights for public workers
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I would go to my death grappling my foe and cursing the fates with my last breath.
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The steering takes 2.5 turns from lock to lock which is fine on the move but requires a fair bit of grappling at low speeds to manoeuvre the car around.
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By attaching a grappling hook to a rope up to five miles long.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's similar to kick-boxing except that it incorporates grappling, throws and take downs.
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And now she has admitted having a catfight with her housekeeper in which both women ended up rolling around on the floor, grappling and screaming.
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It unsheathes its little mousey ladder, or its little mousey grappling hooks, or its little mousey suction pads, scales the wall, leaps to the pull-cord and swings and swings and swings until the light comes on.
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The men lose their temper and start grappling while the crowd boos.
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While they were grappling with these issues the matter was settled for them by the surprising arrival of a counterorder from the Bents, delivered by the taciturn old hunter Lonesome Dick, who seemed put out that he had had to ride so hard on their behalf.
The Berrybender Narratives
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Spare a thought for the foreigner grappling with English spelling and pronunciation.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Sir Harry lost no time in grappling with public business, and started by sea on the 11th December for the frontier.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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And I couldn't help but pity the poor chap who finds himself grappling with one of these after a night out on the sauce with his hot date.
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They are not the only ones grappling for a definition.
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The middle ground is boring; it gutlessly avoids grappling with outlying ideas.
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By attaching a grappling hook to a rope up to five miles long.
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And from that perspective, I suspect he wants folks to hurry the hell up in grappling with reality.
Pinter again
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The country is left grappling with the fact that it is no longer monocultural.
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The children weren't doing cage fighting, they were doing what they call grappling.
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They are also grappling with the soaring cost of petrol.
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JB, is it possible to have Caitlin toss a grappling hook around a sattelite tower as her descent reaches building level?
Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club.
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The company is also grappling with a global glut of natural gas.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he deserved another one for grappling.
The Sun
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The grant is not only timely but it comes at a critical time when the country is grappling with the economic reconstruction programme.
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He was pictured proudly holding his baby, not grappling with his grundies.
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The company is also grappling with a global glut of natural gas.
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Some films show their makers grappling with contemporary issues, without always the level of visual inventiveness applied elsewhere.
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Most African countries and others from the Least Developed Countries category have been grappling with the issues of sanitary and phytosanitary measures when trying to venture into export markets.
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Dondo was a clot of self-will, a leaden plug, digging into his body with claws like grappling hooks.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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Grappling with insurgency appears to be the daily assignment with no end in sight.
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In this film we have cast some of the very best grapplers and cage fighters, so you will see loads of grappling, take downs and chokes - a lot more than ever before.
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His jiu-jitsu looked solid, nonetheless he will positively give up the grappling v! alue to Nelson should the quarrel strike the ground.
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As well as grappling with the weakness of output, policymakers are contending with another emerging markets crisis.
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These moves are initially used in combos to set up one of four grappling moves: a quick grapple, a strong grapple, a submission grapple or a specialty grapple.
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Some films show their makers grappling with contemporary issues, without always the level of visual inventiveness applied elsewhere.
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Grappling hooks fly up from the ground and grab the edge of the awning, and the Viking berserkers start climbing onto the platform.
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The Democratic Party is grappling with the promise and the peril of the anticorporate populism of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the U.S.
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Jobs tossed out a few intuitive guesses but showed no interest in grappling with the problem rigorously.
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It works like your grappling hook did, but instead of string, it uses gravity focused into a ‘beam’ to connect it.
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I'm still grappling with the shock.
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we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully
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Courts are increasingly grappling with these questions.
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She plays Greta, a Manhattan book editor who's grappling with her new-found ambition.
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The Prime Minister immediately set about grappling with the challenge of investigating the bombings.
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The government is grappling with the arduous task of providing relief to distant islands.
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While they were still grappling with each other ,[Sentence dictionary] a fisherman passed by and netted them both.
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In completing my own offering on scepticism as a rhetorical-poetical "war of ideas," I turn to the close grappling between Byron and Hemans over the enthymeme, or rhetorical syllogism, which like the epideictic is a legacy of the classical Sophism. [
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_
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Nevertheless, it was timely and puts us ahead of the pack in terms of grappling with these difficult issues.
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Hugenholtz says that metagenomics is grappling with the problem of having too much information and too few references.
Gut Reactions
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He is already grappling with the difficulty of converting diplomatic rhetoric into actual money.
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Though the pushing and grappling can be quite vigorous, marmots have only to give a sharp yelp to end the bout.
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About half of the countries in the world are not just grappling with the undernutrition problem but also the overnutrition problem as well.
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I suggest, perhaps, that he was grappling with the one thing we all had a sense of.
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We are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq.
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JB, is it possible to have Caitlin toss a grappling hook around a sattelite tower as her descent reaches building level?
Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club.
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Courts are increasingly grappling with these questions.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his mind, the grappling arts -- wrestling, judo, jujitsu, sambo, submission fighting -- are the most combat-relevant because, as the Gracies of Brazilian jujitsu fame have proven, most fights go to the ground and it is difficult to stop a grappler from getting hold of you if he wants to.
Barry Eisler Answers....
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By attaching a grappling hook to a rope up to five miles long.
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Its retractable, switchblade-like claws on its thumbs worked as grappling hooks to bring an animal to the ground, Wroe said.
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They hang from the bus, with half a big toe firmly planted on the footboard, and one hand grappling the handhold meant to help people get in.
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The fighters are grappling on the floor, tearing at each other, screaming abuse and growling like animals.
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Grappling with neocon ideals and non-existent states was much less attractive, or even attainable, for others.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody wants to see the two of us grappling like two ageing businessmen in inflatable sumo wrestler costumes.
The Sun
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Meanwhile, a woman suffered injuries to her arm and wrist after grappling with a robber who mugged her for her handbag in Bradford city centre.
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The accompanying picture, in lurid colours, showed a robotic device grappling with a red blood cell.
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Historians are still grappling with questions of identity as these applied to pre-industrial societies.
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You may, however, be playing Stableford, in which case you are left grappling with even more numbers and lists, this time interpreted through a labyrinthine points system.
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Molly's upstairs grappling with her maths homework.
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He secured his weapons before unshipping his grappling hook and two of his home-made grenades.
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And while the blogging world has exploded we're still grappling with what it all means.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jobs tossed out a few intuitive guesses but showed no interest in grappling with the problem rigorously.
Times, Sunday Times
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Courts are increasingly grappling with these questions.
Times, Sunday Times
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One day US officials might be grappling with Carville's adage albeit that modern Asian twist.
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But the Romans hurriedly built ships and placed upon each a kind of drawbridge, fitted with great hooks called grappling-irons.
Introductory American History
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Jewish spirituality comes through grappling with the mundane world in a way that uplifts and elevates.
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The two sides were grappling with very difficult issues that have divided them for over 50 years.
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He did not reject science; rather his work was directed at grappling with science and locating it in specific contexts, be they constraints of material, place or function.
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The Democratic Party is grappling with the promise and peril of the anticorporate populism of the Occupy Wall Street movement, seeking to tap its energy without opening the party to charges of class warfare.
Democrats' Populist Puzzle
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Politicians are grappling with modernising a system unreformed for 40 years.
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Your main method of movement is a grappling hook and parachute combo that allows you to scale any surface with ease.
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They are not the only ones grappling for a definition.
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