How To Use Irs In A Sentence
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Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy.
The Sun
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When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
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Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
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But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
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Once tawhid is accepted as the first axiom of thought, the goal of life becomes bridging the gap between the asserter and the asserted.
William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam and the Goal of Love
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Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators.
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The first batch of ten shows is seen as a test of viewer demand.
Times, Sunday Times
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If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Goodnight Tweetheart
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A substantial element of the system is the set of physical exercises performed in pairs and again based on the idea of the power of co-operation.
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A barman at the pub said that he was one of the first two men to be arrested.
Times, Sunday Times
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Warner wrote from Egypt expressing sympathy for their unfurnished state of affairs, but added, "I would rather fit out three houses and fill them with furniture than to fit out one 'dahabiyeh'.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
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We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.
Fighting the Whales
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Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in
The Black Bar
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The first part of the book is pretty boring, but it gets a lot better as the story goes on.
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I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room.
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Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
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Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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We need first of all a fact finding mission and then we need to put together a coalition of conservators, a cultural coalition.
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Metformin and sulfonylurea drugs -- the latter a class of diabetes drugs including glyburide, glipizide, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide and tolazamide -- are often among the first medications prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.
Drug linked to increased risk for older diabetics
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First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
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As a young man he wrote words to popular folk airs and had them printed as broadsheets.
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The RAM has a first location for storing the data signal and a second location for storing the initialization status indicator.
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We do not allow people a second try on a second question when they have so absurdly got it right the first time round.
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Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
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I don't know who'll get there first, but Las Vegas is a good bet.
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But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap?
McTeague
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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 Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
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They have provided two chairs in a pool of light.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Mewme was an old cat not like the playful little kitten that Alison had first encountered after her mother entered her life.
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First, the entire science of astronomy had depended on careful measurement from the very beginning.
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It was the first Nonconformist chapel in the area.
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Tonight is a big night, because tonight I am going to my first creative writing class.
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We also saw our first pelagic bird, the natty Northern Gannet.
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We have no interest in interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
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Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
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The site has its own airstrip and light aircraft service, and its own small marina.
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Sometimes, when people die of heart failure, they first suffer angor animi, anguish of the soul.
Times, Sunday Times
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These cases come first on the court's calendar.
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Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray.
I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
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Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.
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It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite.
Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
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At first, when their cops out there started telling me things, I didn't want to know.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert.
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This also suggests that this deity was first adopted by the tradition of the monastery of Sa-gya, [26] a hypothesis further confirmed by the reference in the founding myth to his being taken over by the holder of the Sa-gya throne So-nam-rin-chen (bsod nams rin chen).
The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)
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This is because people who suffer Panic Disorder, when they experience tetany for the first time, often think incorrectly that they are about to die.
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Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life, an execrable test of value.
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I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds.
Archive 2008-07-01
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LONDON, February 4/PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc ( "RDS") today announced an interim dividend in respect of the fourth quarter of 2009 of US$0. 42 per A and B ordinary share, an increase of 5% over the US dollar dividend for the same quarter last year.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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His first impulse was to turn around and walk away, blank her out, pretend he hadn't even seen.
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Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it.
The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
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Open, and I was quietly confident that I would have a chance, said Leaney, who was forced to change caddies after his original caddie, Justin Hoyle, fell ill after the first round.
USATODAY.com - Leaney's second at U.S. Open earns PGA Tour card
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Marry that fat son of a fat cattle dealer? She would die first!
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Bachofen was the first to discuss under the name of gyneocracy and mother-right.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
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It was here that the Gaelic tongue first arrived in the fourth century - and with it came that form of the stick game which has evolved into the modern sport of shinty.
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A favorite uncle provided pointers on pugilistic defenses against bullies - namely her father, who was the first regular bully in her life.
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The first letter she wrote me was less than a page long, and her second letter was similarly brief.
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This makes is seem inevitable that the scanning device which supposedly generates higher-order experiences of our first-order visual experience would have to be almost as sophisticated and complex as the visual system itself.
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Because there were still plenty of crayfish in the becks and streams, and they are the first to go if there is pollution.
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The first rutted section of the road jolted the vehicle airborne, slamming my head against the roof.
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They are not people who crumble at the first sign of a strong opinion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oddly, these TV wreck detectives are always trying to find out something which the experienced real divers nannying them around the wreck discovered when they first dived the ship 20 years ago.
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We will probably start telecasting them by the first week of August.
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So I'm pleased to introduce our first presenter , one of the stars of Traffic , Catherine Zeta - Jones .
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When they met she was happily married to her first husband Laurie Brown, a member of Manchester United's back-room staff.
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The sun was bright in a sky already shading into a cooler, breezier blue, and the trees surrounding the compound glowed with the first, bright brush strokes of fall.
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Firstly, the board excerpt below represents an endgame situation.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are trialling it for commercial growing for the first time in this country.
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Indeed, since entering 2011, I have been cautious; and except for the 14-point, first day of the year "yippee" to 1273, the SPX hasn't really done all that much.
Jeffrey Saut: Waiting for a Pullback - Seeking Alpha
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Young barristers undertaking publicly funded work frequently earn very little in their first years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first is that China will continue to sustain high growth rates in gross national product.
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The first is to wonder why, if the government knows that it wants to impose a ban, does it not get on with it?
Times, Sunday Times
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Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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But their brief respite in the conditioned air of the shuttle made that first step outside a gasper.
Cattle Town
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There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word.
Hyphens.
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Carlotta put the salve on Pierce's wounds, before joining her brother downstairs in the parlor.
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This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
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At the least, that first conclusion seems to me unproven by his own arguments in favor of mortality.
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He picked up his first booking for a 45th-minute foul on Bull.
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The films he made look simple at first glance, yet already invite a more complicated response.
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First, you should equip yourself with the knowledge you can acquire. Only thus can you be confident of yourself.
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1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.
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It then possessed 39 aircraft, 52 seaplanes, and 7 airships.
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Different methods are a better fit for different people," Lyubomirsky explains."Keeping a daily gratitude journal seems hokey to some people, but writing a letter of gratitude may be very meaningful.
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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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The boracic powder was lifted in my absence from the _Pharmacie_ to try and get the first glimmerings of a slide on that sticky creosoted floor.
Fanny Goes to War
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It was the first time I'd finally counter-attacked.
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Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister in 1979.
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And the first ranks have been followed by what one might almost call a levée en masse of those that remained.
England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
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Daniel Defoe, The Consoli - dator: or Memoirs and Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (London, 1705).
COSMIC VOYAGES
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He's not the first politician to be caught with his pants down, and he won't be the last.
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`All right, I'll tell you some of it, but first, let's get my things put away, before the high priestess comes looking for me.
WEB OF DREAMS
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He was one of the first 19th century sailors who tamed the seas through science, inventing systems for transporting cannon over marshy ground, ciphers for code and a system of hydrographical surveys.
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The first pitch was low and over the outside corner.
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In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
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In the first instance the government was aiming to foster a private sector in small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring.
Election Central Sunday Roundup
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The fact that I first met it as part of a pavlova didn't help: the deep clouds of snow-white sugar-cake need a fruit with a sting in its tail (the Antipodeans are bang on with their inclusion of passion fruit) if the dessert isn't to cloy.
Tender delights
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In the first instance your child will be seen by an ear, nose and throat specialist.
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Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison
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The rival TV companies are in a race to bring out the first film drama of his life.
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The muscle layer needs to be sewn first.
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The only cloud on the immediate horizon is raising a mortgage - especially if you are a first time buyer.
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I've got a face like a punctured beachball, like an arse that's fallen downstairs, like a rucksack full of dented bells.
Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
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The mobs of drunken men are whooping it up upstairs.
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It is the first major film the Star Wars actor, from Crieff, has made in the town where he got his first theatrical break.
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The unicity is run by Johannesburg's first-ever executive mayor - previously the mayor was a largely ceremonial position.
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During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh in 1617 he accordingly published the first chiliad of his logarithms.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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He admitted to five different affairs and countless visits to massage parlors for ‘full-body’ massages.
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In 1672, when Mars was in the vicinity of the three Psi stars of Aquarius, the time was ripe for obtaining the first reliable parallax of Mars.
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I was halfway through the gates before the first journalist reached me.
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Northampton was another elegant county town and regional market centre and was known far and wide for its horse fairs.
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Stick to this well-regarded first book in the series.
Times, Sunday Times
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
The Waverley
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Betty, aged 43, was severely depressed when I first met her.
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After that, Feingold joined a Madison law firm and practiced civil litigation, including First Amendment law.
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After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana.
NPR Topics: News
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I'm not going home yet. I have to go somewhere else first.
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I doubt that Michelle Obama was surprised or dismayed by the boos at the Nascar rally: it's not surprising that the national doubtfulness about first ladies and the strong, accomplished women who are coming to hold the role would emerge in boos from some of the Obama administration's fiercest opponents.
Michelle Obama's Nascar boos | Kay Dilday
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It sounds good and if it does result in more properly-managed concerts, fairs, festivals and community events being staged in the city's parks it has to be good news.
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copasetic" [used so nicely in "West L.A. Fadeaway"] -- and such stunts as dancing down Broadway in 1939 from Columbus Circle to 44th Street in celebration of his sixty-first birthday.
The Annotated "Alabama Getaway"
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Then they recruited him (not their first choice, incidentally) to do the donkey work.
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The first followed a head on collision with a bus, where she had to be cut out of the car and fortunately her only injury was severe whiplash.
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See, Stuart is like all the rest of the blood thirsty criminals in D.C., … ya seel hundreds of thousands more brown people will be killed because he's arrognt enough, he's evil enough and doggonnit Satan likes him!
Franken Tells Pickens To Blow it Elsewhere « Antiwar.com Blog
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The church that holds the undisputable proof as the first authentical apostolic establishment with founder the apostle of the Gentiles himself.
Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker
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But going back to the days when I was seeing these epics first time round, in the fleapits and bug-hutches of south-east Leeds - most of them converted music halls or disused chapels - we didn't give a hoot what the title of the film was.
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The petals were so dry and apery that they crumbled at the first touch.
The Seventh Scroll
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I could continue this yo-yo description of euroland affairs were it not that I will run out of good news to juxtapose against the bad.
Euroland Should Prepare for More Ups and Downs in Its Yo-Yo Economy
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At first I was minded to send a boat after them, but by this time the rafts were a good two miles beyond the harbour, and Mrs. Purchase said, 'No, they can do no good, poor dears; let them have their few hours' pleasure. '
Shining Ferry
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His interest in public affairs, especially in social questions, was keener.
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Here, my voice broke as I let my emotions through for the first time in a year.
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But although there was a scare with my first sample being clear, as we'd only just arrived, my second proved that I, along with the entire Sunday Herald table, was completely ratted and therefore allowed to keep the trophy.
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First examine the entries on the marriage register.
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If you're going to resort to the tried-and-true missionary position, perform oral sex on her first or take you time to ensure she's really wet before penetrating her.
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She soon made her first stage appearance and won second prize in a competition for the most photogenic young hopeful.
Times, Sunday Times
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The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.
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In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
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The Falcons' first miscue of the night is a missed field goal by Feely, but I imagine it won't matter much.
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The first was that, though the sea was indeed rough, there was little rain, and the air lacked the clammy humidity of a thunderstorm.
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She liked him from the first time she met him at the local gym where he was a fitness trainer.
The Sun
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Among the first generation, family relations adhered rather closely to the traditional Bulgarian model.
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The first two Toyota pickups we got into wouldn't start, even with eight men rocking them to get the engine to catch.
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One of the first aims of propaganda is to dehumanize the enemy in the public mind.
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He appears, at first sight, to be very like his urbane television character, the radio psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane.
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Deputy Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit called on farmers to invest in what he described as human resource capital.
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The duplex houses are better where the bedrooms are on the first floor.
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They are indeed miniatures, as the entire set of eight take about eight minutes to perform by the pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, violins, violas, cellos and one horn.
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Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
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Tell me, exactly what happens when the first C130 full of blokes cops a Manpad up it's jacksie and crash lands in flames?
Army Rumour Service
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The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
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The established idea that granitoid magmas ascend through the continental crust as diapirs is being increasingly questioned by igneous and structural geologists.
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She even formed an American touring troupe with the distinguished George Washington Smith, America's first, and aptly named, premier danseur, who taught ballet in Philadelphia until his death in 1899.
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Surrounded by musicians and men who directed its movement, and followed by child maskers, the Ijele begin to spin, slowly at first, then gaining speed.
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The second half of the match comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value.
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First, I'll explain the rules of the game.
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We clearly need to replace the name ascribed to those whose ideology got us into this situation in the first place: the Neoconservatives.
Making Sense of the News: Time To Update Some Terms
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Unfortunately, in many cases, the first real symptom is a broken bone.
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Some rooms were once first-floor barns and feature original timber and stone in very modern but understated designs.
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There must have been laughter amidst the apes when the Neanderthaler first appeared on earth.
Autumn
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It's not the first few rounds of the cup, it's the quarter-final and the teams have been whittled down to the last eight.
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From the first, these universal histories represented both scientific advances and political and religious challenges.
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She also said: 'I talk about my hopes and fears and ask people about theirs.
Times, Sunday Times
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That includes splashing out on three deckchairs with matching beach huts for the patio.
The Sun
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For a variety of reasons, the first quarter of 2017 is expected to see a huge volume of debt issuance.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the first moment he interested me, especially for his obligingness and for his knowledge of local conditions.
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Makar Sankrant is the first Hindu festival of the solar calendar year, falling on January 14.
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The government also has a fairly loose definition of what constitutes a first-time homebuyer, which is defined as someone who has no "present interest" in a main home during a two-year period prior to the date of acquisition of the new home.
Five Penalty-Free IRA Withdrawals
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The first man picked up the end and threaded it through the loop on his leg iron.
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In the first half maybe evern longer, his art was much more clean, smooth, and linear, whereas much later, he developed the blockier style of Kirby.
Top 100 Comic Book Runs #30-26 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
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In the last cliffhanger, downstairs lover Tony Head was caught sharing his Gold Blend nightcap with a mystery lady.
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He was a large, meaty, oily type of man — a kind of ambling, gelatinous formula of the male, with the usual sound commercial instincts of the Jew, but with an errant philosophy which led him to believe first one thing and then another so long as neither interfered definitely with his business.
The Titan
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OOh gosh 20 whole cm women & children first, man the life boats, wind the winches & pump the bilges.
Cheeseburger Gothic » This is why the Playboy Mansion sits atop a very high hill.
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Finish your homework first, then wash my car.
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Doctors put her on a respirator and wheeled her downstairs to the intensive care unit.
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The first two years provide a solid foundation in the basics of computing.
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I use the brush first rapped with a cleaning patch soaked in carburetor cleaner.
Live from the SHOT Show: New Gun Reviews
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It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign.
Barbarossa
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Our first priority is to improve standards.
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‘Our wedding meal was the first kosher food we ever ate,’ recalled Sarah years later.
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The second is the gender division of work, she says, looking at the larger issue of why first generation schoolgoers in particular require an extraordinary amount of care and attention.
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It is also exciting that it's come to the east coast for the first time, following the Mod.
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What is not said in these notes is that this piece is a responsory, found in most manuscripts on Monday in the first week of Lent.
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Several of these rhododendrons will flower this year for the first time.
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‘She's the first step to selling out the sport,’ one critic carped in an online discussion group.
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Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes.
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All the hairs on her arms stood straight out from her skin and her scalp tingled.
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A study session held by the Beijing government for leaders of the "open" Church – organized as a sight-seeing tour for the first time – is set to conclude tomorrow.
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Two victims die in the first scene, an effective evocation of place, character and a whole range of powerful emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Being able to prevent costly repairs is crucial on such expensive machinery.
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I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
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Your first point of contact should always be the company.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first two British charter jets picked up 413 refugees last night.
The Sun
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He had to wait for the first-class passengers to deplane, of course, since even flag officers fly coach.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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It was built as a Methodist chapel in 1910, became a convalescence hospital during the First World War, and was later partly used as a billiard hall.
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At first sight, the economy hit the August turmoil in fine fettle.
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They said that as their longer "taciturnity" might cause the ruin of his Majesty's affairs, they were at last compelled to break silence.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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In the first place there was some music; then tables were placed all about for all kinds of gambling; there was a 'lansquenet'; at which Monsieur and Monseigneur always played; also
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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More than 70 marble, bronze, terracotta and plaster busts and life-size sculptures are on display together for the first time in nearly two centuries.
