How To Use Grounding In A Sentence
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The arresting part of this photo is not her femaleness, although foregrounding her gender seems to be the intention, but the condition of her gun, which is old, chipped, and rusty.
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Indeed, in 2002 it seemed that a firm grounding in popular mythology and local fauna was at least as important as a basic grasp of engineering in the designprocess.
South Africa races ahead in battle of weirdest World Cup stadiums
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As if that weren't sufficient grounding to make a prison film, he based this on a true story, co-wrote it with one of the original prisoners involved, and cast it with non-professionals, including another of the cellmates.
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Though humans are never present in the photographs, human presence is emphasised through foregrounding the conscious activity of design.
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A discussion of grounding involves examining the role of determiners and quantifiers, and other aspects of the noun phrase.
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His grounding has prepared him for many adversities, but he is also making his mistakes in an unforgiving environment.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the majority of commercially available bronchoscopes are not electrically grounded, the bronchoscopist risks becoming the grounding electrode should the unipolar probe tip touch the scope while the current is on.
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But this is impossible without a thorough grounding in history, both ancient and modem.
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The intertextuality and self-reflexivity of literature is not, finally, a defining feature but a foregrounding of aspects of language use and questions about representation that may also be observed elsewhere.
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This omnibus of three classic studies provides a basic grounding for scholars of India's maritime history.
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Yes, simulation can teach you stuff, but you have to have a solid grounding in basics before it helps you.
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The research also indicates that 100 mm-high humps pose a greater possibility of pollution, property and vehicle damage and grounding, specifically to buses, emergency vehicles and hearses.
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Here, we get a slew of metaphors in service of a spectacular act of Cirque du Soleil isometrics, with biology grounding and supporting the higher mental properties, which in turn reach down to elevate the biology.
Skyhooks and Tuned Decks and Bloombast (Oh My!)
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But she says that giving students a really good grounding in a subject and teaching them thinking skills'are not mutually exclusive '.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple.
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As a concept, it can easily flitter away, since it has no grounding through a transformative search; note, not a search for transformation but a transforming search; not where the end result is clear beforehand and one only has to find the best means, but a transforming search.
Rabbi Jack Bemporad: 'What is God?' By Jacob Needleman
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Instead of grounding its characters in a convincing world, the film shrouds them in a vague, New Age, woo-woo spirituality.
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Clean uncluttered shapes work particularly well in this context, where anything fussy would counteract the effect of calming and grounding an otherwise busy scene.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the notions of instantiation, quantification, and grounding are applicable to all nominals, their morphosyntactic realization may be affected by the status of a noun as count or mass.
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The social ostracism extends to grounding the child or even making him go to bed early.
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He'll give you a good grounding, my love.
CHARMED LIFE
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I am indebted to three of these crisis clubs for giving me an excellent, if slightly surreal, grounding in football management.
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Numerous proleptically elegiac poems share this prediction, foregrounding the silence that will replace consolatory language in the new round of suffering.
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But then I realise that without a basic grounding in sociobiology, I would likely think the very same.
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The ability of your children to have a positive emotional reaction begins with a firm grounding in their feeling loved, secure, and competent, in other words, their self-esteem.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Freak Out or Geek Out?: Children's Emotional Reactions to Achievement
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The City of Laguna is undergrounding all the ugly wires and utility poles.
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She had taken the not abnormal route to mainstream, rightish orthodoxy by a basic grounding in left-wing student activism.
THE SCAR
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a good grounding in mathematics
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His language is adept but limited, flavoured by gymnastics and carrying an athletic sheen on a solid grounding of contemporary techniques.
Times, Sunday Times
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Grounding contacts are disposed adjacent the ball contacts, where the grounding contacts are electrically connected to the ground plane.
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The colours also provide a good grounding for what otherwise might be an overly white and glass space.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then later in that dark street, you stepped left as I stepped right, we stood for a moment and looked at each other, then we kissed - a first kiss - like electricity grounding out from your lips to my lips all the way through me, to my toes, a rush of warm chaos - everything stopped as it does for lovers - everything stopped and the world revolved around you and I and that wonderful kiss
the drunken clatter of fellow athletes hooting, hollering in at least 6 languages
Admit-it Diary Entry
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Altering the logs was a crime warranting a grounding at home and one leading to detention and mandatory group therapy at school.
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She had been drilling her on military tactics and shipboard systems for the past few days, trying to give her a good grounding in both.
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Between my mom and the brigade of little old ladies from Tower 2, I had a solid grounding in the basics of knitting.
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Even those which did stay for any length of time had to survive batterings, groundings and the ravages of the Great Storm of 1869, which pulled ships from their moorings and pitched the Humber into chaos.
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I do recognise that the MBA gives a good grounding for business.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a liberal sprinkling of referentiality, Easter eggs of nods to other writers, and to particular pulp stylings, and a lot of that intertextuality is going to be lost on those who haven't read the type of thing I'm riffing off, but the key conceits are maybe not so hard to grasp without a grounding -- the book itself, the Cant, gravings, angels.
What is Literary Fiction?
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For those of you who need some backgrounding, this section of the South Platte is one of the most famous trout fisheries in the West.
Is Deckers Back?
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Was all the improvisation a good grounding for a young actor?
The Sun
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Without solid textual grounding, you will become lost in supposed relevance.
Christianity Today
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The ship lost its sonar dome and the starboard stabiliser in the grounding.
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An early critic of Williams is E.J. Bond in his book Reason and Value (1983) where he urges, echoing Frankena's earlier critique of internalism, that Williams 'argument is undermined if we distinguish clearly between what he calls motivating reasons and grounding reasons.
Reasons for Action: Justification vs. Explanation
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All applicants for the job should have a basic grounding in computer skills.
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My degree in business and management provided me with a good grounding.
Times, Sunday Times
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There have been incidents of grounding where ships have been operating where charts are inadequate and waters unsounded.
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Despite these follies, the kind of foregrounding that he has attempted in course of the present series of essays is immensely praiseworthy.
Richard Carlson with a pinch of salt
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COG Centralized operations group COGRDG Central office grounding COLP Connected line identification presentation COLR Connected line identification restriction COLT Central office limit table COLT Central office line tester COM Common controller COM Communication COM Complement size COM Computer output microfilm COM/EXP PCM-compander/expander COMM Comunication COMMS Central office maintenance management system COMMS-PM Central office maintenance management system-preventive Maintenance COMP Computed COMPNY Company COMPS Central Office Managenment Program (GTE)
Tricks of the Trade Issue #6 by Hype (Christmas Edition)
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Was all the improvisation a good grounding for a young actor?
The Sun
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As someone with experience training raptors for "outsized" quarry, I agree with Carl that this is not a difficult task, given firm grounding in basic techniques; although I take small exception to Carl's dim view of the motivations for doing this.
When eagles go bad, one more time... part II
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But now people see it as a way of getting into a major organisation and gaining a very good grounding in training and opportunities.
Times, Sunday Times
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His parents deserve credit for giving him a solid grounding and his game has improved so much.
Times, Sunday Times
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His incompetence, both in terms of seamanship and leadership, led to the grounding of the Medusa and encouraged the panic that swept those on board.
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This omnibus of three classic studies provides a basic grounding for scholars of India's maritime history.
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He loves Latin, thinks a good grounding in grammar is essential and wants more testing.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had a good grounding in the classics and became well versed in Greek and Latin.
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The follow-on course will be more intense in order to give the adult students a more indepth grounding in the Microsoft Office Programme.
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Viewed from the rhetorical perspective, a discourse is an organic combination of unity, coherence, and foregrounding.
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He has had a good grounding, having been born in India and having nurtured contacts in the industry.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the game ended with Jerry Hairston grounding into a force-out at second.
Live blog: Braves at Nationals, Space Coast Stadium
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The degree provides a thorough grounding in both mathematics and statistics.
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Even so, solid grounding in the Latin classics was still regarded as the essential foundation of a superior education.
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This long campaign of leaking, backgrounding and sabotage would be legitimised.
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There used to be weekly rep to help you get your grounding, but now you have to work on the fringe a lot, often without pay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having wangled a job on the support staff - ‘the best grounding I could have had’ - she had daily access to the editors and decision-makers in every title.
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Considering these will strengthen the proposal by grounding it in the dynamic of an ongoing reality; failure to do so will confine its discussion to the narrow scope of the academy.
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Despite that, he said the grounding of future shuttle missions opens the station to risk.
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The lightning protection could be improved by means of decreasing grounding resistance of tower, installing line type surge arrester and side lightning rod as well as increasing the insulation level.
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These groundings probably contributed to the comprehensiveness of his economic thought.
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Nor is the book particularly well-suited to those without a solid grounding in England's economic history during the early modem period, since the text is occasionally vague and its arguments telegraphic.
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A grounding plate and a transmission line are provided in a stack of dielectric material layers.
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It's no surprise that one is the first wife; she was out in the media in December and she's been backgrounding journalists ever since.
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Her question pleased him greatly and he gave her a marked copy, annotated with the chapters she should skim and those she should skip altogether, in order to provide her with an appropriate grounding in political philo- sophy, sociology and economics.
The Guardian World News
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As the Joyce example shows, this foregrounding is not limited to the more obvious poetic devices, such as metaphor and alliteration.
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The magazine has a good article backgrounding a politician's use of internet networking.
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The author of Glanvill clearly had a sound grounding in Roman law, though the book makes it clear that English law is by no means the same.
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The tense, aspect, or voice of verbs in academic writing often seems to be related to degrees of generality or relevance or to signal discourse functions like transition or foregrounding.
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Watchmen was the first film to reinvigorate the beleaguered genre, and this adaptation of Mark Millar’s revered graphic novel brings the super-hero – sometimes quite literally – kicking and screaming into the modern world, grounding costumed vigilantes in the laws of reality more than any film before and thus making the notion of caped crusaders absolutely enthralling again.
Darren says KICK-ASS really does KICK-ASS!!! | Obsessed With Film
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The giant 580-mile (930-km)-wide storm unleashed 8O miles per hour (130 km per hour) winds, grounding aircraft all along the heavily populated eastern seaboard.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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We give them a practical grounding in subjects like computers, maths and communications as well as workshops related to the transition to third level.
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I feel sad that these divides exist, but I want to continue foregrounding them and discussing them.
Fem 2.0 tweetchat
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White America's problem is a loss of moral grounding and gradual erosion of its family structure.
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A grounding plate and a transmission line are provided in a stack of dielectric material layers.
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We give them a practical grounding in subjects like computers, maths and communications as well as workshops related to the transition to third level.
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And in some ways, it's good because it's very grounding to come back from all of that and be frustrating to doing school run, and living a normal life, and not kind of wallowing in what you've seen and all the horror and.
CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2008
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As the Joyce example shows, this foregrounding is not limited to the more obvious poetic devices, such as metaphor and alliteration.
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The team will assess the scale and severity of the physical damage of the grounding; as well as the level of contamination from anti-foulant paint.
Australian Government Media Releases [All Portfolios]
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The irony is that he would have been two strokes better off had he not been penalised for grounding his club in a bunker during Thursday's first round.
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Goldstein's earlier novels psychologized time, foregrounding the present and explaining it by the past.
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If you must use an extension cord, be sure it has a three-hole receptacle and three-prong plug for grounding.
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The arresting part of this photo is not her femaleness, although foregrounding her gender seems to be the intention, but the condition of her gun, which is old, chipped, and rusty.
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The ability of your children to have a positive emotional reaction begins with a firm grounding in their feeling loved, secure, and competent, in other words, their self-esteem.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Freak Out or Geek Out?: Children's Emotional Reactions to Achievement
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By closely reading the famous poem "The Star" by Jane Taylor, this essay delineates some of the poetic forms involved in the inscription of environmental awareness, such as minimalism, and the foregrounding of what in structuralism is called the "contact" or medium of communication.
Abstracts
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We have learned from the writings of philosophers of science since the 1960s to emphasize corrigibility and anti-foundationalism in our interpretation of scientific knowledge; but a coherentist epistemology and a perspective of causal realism provides a philosophically powerful grounding for social science knowledge.
What is social scientific knowledge?
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My paper gives an account of the development of Peirce's views on probability, and of the seminal role these views played both in his ethical grounding of logic, and in tychism, his doctrine of absolute chance.
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The degree provides a thorough grounding in both mathematics and statistics.
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And high amplitude lightning current is fed to grounding grids, spark discharge will be generated.
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The white background establishes a sense of grounding solace, and the blue pane up top is straight out of an aerogramme via Royal Mail.
Out with the aughts and in with the zippy 'teens!
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That jazz grounding he acquired in his youth has stood him in good stead.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is probably no single school that regularly turns out graduates with solid grounding in all the areas of design, theory, and practical experience.
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In fact, in this case he was backgrounding journalists in the full knowledge of his departmental minders and masters.
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Adaptive Bleaching Hypothesis* satellite observations, and coral reef protection coral disease coral resistance to disease* ship groundings and anchor damage terrestrial runoff onto reefs threats to coral reefs other causes of coral decline
Coral reefs (collection)
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His grounding was a basic training in technical and commercial art in a New York art school on the GI Bill.
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That jazz grounding he acquired in his youth has stood him in good stead.
Times, Sunday Times
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It means all you care about is grounding me whenever I do something you think is wrong.
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The circulating nurse applies the electro-surgery grounding pad and then cleanses the patient's skin with the surgeon's preferred prep solution.
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He agrees that any reasonably intelligent and communicative pairing of instructor and disabled diver should be able to sort out most problems, given a basic grounding in special diving skills.
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With the crashes and groundings, the small force of heavy attack fire bombers has been severely depleted.
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He loves Latin, thinks a good grounding in grammar is essential and wants more testing.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think you deserve a bit of congratulations for "foregrounding" the "person who can't go to gig sells his ticket at cost price to best mate" angle ... you may well have saved us all well some of us anyway, at least those with slightly flawed babysitting arrangements quite a lot of court fees, fines etc.
Burnham wants to criminalise football fans who sell their spare ticket to a mate
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Grounding Totem: This totem will no longer absorb multiple effects from Entrapment in a 10 second period.
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The agate stones have a very earthy, grounding influence, which can be invaluable to the Mercurial personality.
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A fortunate grounding and optimistic cleansing which a cycle of this sort provides.
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A basic grounding in math is essential for the economics course.
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He'll give you a good grounding, my love.
CHARMED LIFE
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They are also designed to further the interests of Black women by foregrounding their concerns and insights and prioritizing their needs and relationships.
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He introduces the letters with somewhat formal, at times clumsy, historical notes backgrounding the existing social and political conditions both in England and in New Zealand.
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If a direct plug-in unit employs a manually operated line connected single-pole switch or a fuse with an accessible contact, it shall employ a polarized-or grounding-type blade assembly.
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The drama uses conventions of televisual reality, grounding the drama in the real world, making it more accessible for the viewer and more easily appropriated by them.
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In conclusion, this is a helpful guide for those wishing to get a basic grounding in typical minor piece sacrifices.
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They believe the soul is immortal, grounding this belief on the Divine nature of the human spirit.
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It gives even field-hardened terrorism experts the willies: bad guys launching shoulder-fired missiles at jetliners, killing hundreds and grounding air traffic.
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But as soon as thegrounding line moves over the lip and starts to move down into the dipin the sea bed, the situation changes critically.
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It is caused by the expansion of bottom crevasses and tidal flexure along grounding lines, supported by water pressure in the crevasses.
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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By grounding interviews in recent consultation, we sought to minimise generalised or idealised accounts.
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There are many such texts and I assume that the readers have a grounding in that subject.
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The grounding of the ball in a driven maul satisfied the touch judge, but not the referee, and another chance disappeared.
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Talk of giving primary school children a basic grounding in science is fanciful if we cannot find enough teachers at second level to teach maths and physics.
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A basic grounding in math is essential for the economics course.
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Along with bankrupt airlines cutting their fleets, other airlines are also grounding inefficient aircraft, as well.
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The agency said in a statement that it "is investigating the grounding and subsequent complete hull failure" of the bulk carrier cargo ship.
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These heavy mineral substances tend to create more grounding sedative effects that help calm the mind and emotions.
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His parents deserve credit for giving him a solid grounding and his game has improved so much.
Times, Sunday Times
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Grounding is marked by a cluster of features pertaining to the verb and its subject, namely tense inflection, number agreement of the verb with its subject, and the nominative case of the subject.
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After a firm grounding in orthopaedics he entered general practice.
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In a one-day taster of paragliding with Active Edge, I manage to achieve several exhilarating flights, but not without some thorough grounding first.
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Objective : To probe into the grounding for diagnosis and delivery methods fetal macrosomia.
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56Mihopoulou (1995-96: 37), foregrounding the genesis of Skoupa, confirms the antipathy felt by many readers towards the preponderance of Resistance literature which, in her assessment, 'masqueraded' as feminist literature.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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This meant that the sailors from these ports could do what they wanted, including wrecking, grounding and plundering other ships.
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My degree in business and management provided me with a good grounding.
Times, Sunday Times
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A basic grounding in math is essential for the economics course.
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And high amplitude lightning current is fed to grounding grids, spark discharge will be generated.
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That was a very good grounding for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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A basic grounding in math is essential for the economics course.
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Each of the essays is long enough to give readers a thorough grounding in the topic being analysed.
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That was a good grounding.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you use one of these, be sure to attach the adapter's grounding metal flange to the wall receptacle's center screw, which must be grounded.
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Note the use of the term prophetic by both, with its complex of connotations quite at odds with the grounding in science — religion and rapture, voices and visions, the conjuring otherwise known as fantasy defined, for the moment, not in terms of literature but in terms of psychology: the sustained fancy; the ludic or oneiric imagining; from the Greek phantasia; a making visible.
Notes from New Sodom: Down in the Ghetto at the SF Café
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It was grounding out through the conduit with enough amperage to scorch the wooden joist.
Electrical question
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The article introduces voltage unbalance of neutral non-grounding system, analyzes the cause of voltage unbalance. It is valuable on fault analysis in practice.
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And I think, first of all, it is a grounding in the basic facts of human nutrition, which I think people need to know because there's so much craziness out there today.
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On the other hand, Raven's blatant foregrounding of sex in Phineas Finn reminds us that Trollope's young heroes are neither neuters nor angels in their ‘private’, un-narrated lives.
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But now people see it as a way of getting into a major organisation and gaining a very good grounding in training and opportunities.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is the sort of thing most readily identified as a "novel of ideas," although this novel may be the most insistent on foregrounding the "ideas" themselves as its central interest.
The Reading Experience
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In his view the pupils received an excellent grounding in the key subjects of reading, writing and arithmetic, and if they passed Proficiency and then left school they had the basic skills to enter the workforce.
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The drama course gives students a solid grounding in the basic techniques of acting.
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The drama course gives students a solid grounding in the basic techniques of acting.
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Clean uncluttered shapes work particularly well in this context, where anything fussy would counteract the effect of calming and grounding an otherwise busy scene.
Times, Sunday Times
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The degree provides a thorough grounding in both mathematics and statistics.
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Its strength lies in foregrounding the inner recesses of house and home as critical sites of history.
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The colours also provide a good grounding for what otherwise might be an overly white and glass space.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frank attributes his groundingin 'mridangam' to his gurus Ramnad V. Raghavan, T. Ranganathan, and Palghat T.S. Mani Iyer.
The Hindu - Front Page
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In the future's China Asian regional cooperation strategy, we should stress bilateral cooperation under the backgrounding of multilateral cooperation.
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The ash plume from the Icelandic volcano has continued to spread and has resulted in the grounding of flights in nearly 20 European nations.
Fighter Jets Suffer Volcanic Damage: Why Resume Flying?
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Water hazards are especially tricky for grounding your club.
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There was a time when no one thought grounding off the table could be performed as it now is; the writer well remembers when it was in agitation, to print two reds, and two olaves at the house where first executed.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Clean uncluttered shapes work particularly well in this context, where anything fussy would counteract the effect of calming and grounding an otherwise busy scene.
Times, Sunday Times
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Definiteness needs to be explicitly encoded by a demonstrative; the demonstrative, therefore, counts as an explicit grounding device.
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It's just a beginning, but it does provide an essential grounding in the basic knowledge professionals need.
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Without solid textual grounding, you will become lost in supposed relevance.
Christianity Today
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Students of music, for their part, are almost never classicists with a strong grounding in such arcana as papyrology and epigraphy.
Notes from Antiquity
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The major achievements of O'Quinn's essay lie in foregrounding abolition and the slave trade as critical sites for the deployment of sexuality during the
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_
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Although Virginia Woolf's version of "psychological realism" needs to be taken as a special case -- it's so pure an attempt to stay within the flow of her character's stream of thought -- I would argue that most expository passages in modern fiction do in fact take place as part of the "foregrounding of psychology.
Genre Fiction
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The agency said in a statement that it "is investigating the grounding and subsequent complete hull failure" of the bulk carrier cargo ship.
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He had left the bridge a few minutes before and as the grounding was not felt, when I realised that the vessel was stopped I called the Master and he took command.
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The reader should recognize that just as there have been only a few individuals who could do certain tasks really well—natural geniuses in gardening, overpaid handymen, or those teaching sign language to chimpanzees and actually getting paid for it—so too has there been only a select number of beings who have had sufficient education, wisdom and grounding to find themselves, and not make a complete mess of it.
How To Find Yourself (or a reasonable facsimile)
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Besides certain tools, he carried with him a strange rig that consisted of a small, green plastic box with “Xzillaraider 7.3” imprinted on it, a swirl of heavy wire with electronic interface clips at one end, with a more complex swirl of lighter wire—one for power, one for grounding—a bypass, and a switch connecter.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
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If, for example, after grounding the operator tries to power off instead of calling for assistance or poling the boat to deeper water, it will create a ‘blow hole’ in the grass bed about the size of the hull.
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They'll solve that problem quickly enough by coming home a bit later this morning and finding the house a mess and grounding him for the next year.
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But for the ones who could cope I think it was an excellent grounding in the subject.
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All applicants for the job should have a basic grounding in computer skills.
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This is to say that cable, connectors, grounding kits, lightning arrestors, and other non-radiating components would not affect signal transmission at all.
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Deal clincher The course options are really flexible, which means you get a good grounding in your degree subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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After several years of highly expensive flight training, he ‘failed to accomplish’ his flight medical exam, grounding himself as a pilot.
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The Wasps played probably their best stuff of the season and crossed the try-line four times, only to see one try disallowed for a forward pass and two more ruled out for not grounding the ball.
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Her question pleased him greatly and he gave her a marked copy, annotated with the chapters she should skim and those she should skip altogether, in order to provide her with an appropriate grounding in political philo- sophy, sociology and economics.
The Guardian World News
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The philosophical grounding for the cognitive approach is experiential realism.
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After a firm grounding in orthopaedics he entered general practice.
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The aim of the course is to give students a thorough grounding in English pronunciation.
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Accordingly, some theoretical and methodological grounding for this transformation needs to be provided.
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This paper proposes a study of the influence of the HVDC(High Voltage Direct Current transmission) ground electrode current on neutral grounding transformer.
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They believe the soul is immortal, grounding this belief on the Divine nature of the human spirit.
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A basic grounding in math is essential for the economics course.
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I promise, I'll get to the story eventually; there just needs to be backgrounding here for those who aren't in the know and/or haven't worked at an animal hospital or been to a farm.
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It aims to give writers and art directors a thorough grounding of the advertising business and valuable first-hand experience.
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I wanted guys who were hot musicians who didn't have grounding in rockabilly or country or blues.
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The drama course gives students a solid grounding in the basic techniques of acting.
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Here the split images, paralleling, fore- and backgrounding of the original dancers with the current ensemble, acted more as a commentary on the passage of time.
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Alec, despite his grounding in the rational science of making lots of money, is swayed by symbols and portents, seemingly mundane signs that he interprets superstitiously to be indicators of the path he is meant to pursue.
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Clean uncluttered shapes work particularly well in this context, where anything fussy would counteract the effect of calming and grounding an otherwise busy scene.
Times, Sunday Times
