How To Use It In A Sentence
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It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
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The Staff of Volans has a limited supply of magic energy. Roll a dice after each spell is cast.
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Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
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Season with a pinch of salt and pepper.
The Sun
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It's good to have a cry sometimes.
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A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
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Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk.
Savages
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He was a cute little beggar, looked like you as well.
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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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It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope.
Times, Sunday Times
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The buildings are usually gabled, with rows of tiles along the ridges of the roofs.
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Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the
WN.com - Photown News
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While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre-rigged ship flying the
The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
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In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally.
Times, Sunday Times
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A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
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Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour".
BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
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She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
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The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.
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Add white soy sauce and milk, season with salt and pepper to taste and bring to a simmer.
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I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
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These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.
The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
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It sparked to life in the second act, when the symbolism gave way to themes of lust and sexual temptation.
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They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
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The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy.
The Sun
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By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
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But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
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Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
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In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
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It also seems to carry the well-tempered glow of late Woody Allen with a well-satisfied view of late life and with few illusions.
The Unshine Boys
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The unit can connect to any video source that has composite video and stereo audio RCA jacks, though the encoded audio is limited to mono.
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It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing.
Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
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The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
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He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual
Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
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An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
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Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
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If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
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He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
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He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
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Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
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The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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In 1984, he started Oh Boy as an outlet for his songwriting.
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It is recognised as a crime against humanity under international law.
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A specially designed speculum is used to help direct the injection into the G-spot, with effects lasting around four months.
G Marks The Spot
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When the moment finally comes, one look through his cataract lenses is all it takes.
Christianity Today
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Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
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Serve the chicken with salads and chips or potatoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
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Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town.
The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
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Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
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The speech was brimming with ideas for rewarding work and reducing dependency.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is by these special touches that the author infuses the books with the spirit of humanity, without which a fantasy becomes an empty fancy.
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Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
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Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
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The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
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However, we still rely entirely on the generosity of the public for funding.
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Chlorophyll is only one of several pigments found in plants, but it is by far the most important.
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It was a typical gesture of love and togetherness.
The Sun
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In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
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This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
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Fertilization therefore results in an egg carrying a nucleus with contributions from both parents, and it was concluded that the cell nucleus must contain the physical basis of heredity.
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The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
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According to police and prosecutors, the two got into a fight after she told him he should be committed to a mental hospital.
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I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
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The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
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Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin.
The Complete Father Brown
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Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
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In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
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When Modin scored from the right circle to make it 3-0, it looked bleak for the Devils, who rallied from one-goal deficits twice before winning Game 2 in overtime.
USATODAY.com - Tampa Bay creeps closer to New Jersey with 4-3 win
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Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
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Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality.
The Lovecraft News Network
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They were now surrounded on all sides by a ring of excited, curious faces.
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The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it.
The Sun
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The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores.
Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
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The school has a very good relationship with the community.
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Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unless contraindicated, prophylaxis with a gastrointestinal motility stimulant laxative and a stool softener is appropriate in terminally ill patients who are being given opioids.
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The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
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Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
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As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes.
Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
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Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance.
Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
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In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
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The interiors are beautifully kept and the countryside is lush and fruitful.
Times, Sunday Times
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He made a very positive contribution to the overall success of the project.
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Then there are the PIP implant problems that thousands of women have had to contend with.
The Sun
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Come to think of it, it should read "sententia" but you managed to misspell in Latin the word you misspelled in English.
When Latin Tattoos Go Wrong
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The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
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Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions.
The Sun
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But yes, good of Prof. Adler, who I hope will be a little chary of Althousian pseudoreality in future.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
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It's impossible to look at yourself in a pair of new frames and not see another character.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
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I reassured him it was secure by logging into my account and viewing his profile.
Computing
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Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
Undefined
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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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However, by that time I was so hooked by the story that I let it pass.
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Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
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As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
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Shake them to bits and you are destroying more than property.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own.
Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
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That's as it should be, as the newspaper has a global audience but not global printing presses.
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In her house apron and with her hair a little ruffled she looked younger, startled and then angry.
THE WHITE DOVE
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The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.
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The battery-operated doll comes complete with walkie-talkie and a wardrobe choice of military fatigues or bolero jacket and gold trousers.
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I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
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We learn a little more about how interconnected the world is.
Times, Sunday Times
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The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight.
Looking for the Lost Greeks
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Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail.
Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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She had a constant parade of young men coming to visit her.
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Visitors are welcome to fuss and pet the animals.
The Sun
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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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It's good for you to suck in fresh shore air.
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It is the way they keep their finger on the pulse and keep in touch with their audience.
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Once cool, release and tease hair with your fingers.
The Sun
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Howie is a well-known writer and clown.
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Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
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The demonstration is set for Sunday to coincide with World AIDS Day.
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Mr. Sorapong, 35 years old, selected industrial estate developers Hemaraj Land & Development PCL and Amata Corporation PCL among his top picks, with Hemaraj returning 147% over the course of 2010 and Amata providing a 99% return on investment.
Real Estate
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Two years later she was omitted from the European squad that relinquished the trophy in Minnesota.
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It was almost like my old dad was winking at me to help me notice him.
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And I feel hopelessly undereducated, with all the MAs around me.
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I often position an athlete in front of a mirror that has grid lines on it, ask them to close their eyes and stand up straight.
Muscle Management
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Saturday morning came, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.
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Trip steels have a microstructure with retained austenite, ferrite and martensite.
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The main superstructure frame is formed from reinforced concrete with post-tensioned, ribbed slab floors.
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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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Everyone needed time to take stock after the most prestigious solo race had turned into a demolition derby.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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I find it hard to get my tongue round these Polish names.
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It continues as an usual inland resort set in woodland of silver birches, rhododendrons and conifers.
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The striker was criticised by fans after voicing concerns about the club 's financial plight.
The Sun
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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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By then, the town had been well-fortified and withstood a siege of nine weeks before the Mexicans were forced to surrender from starvation.
Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
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My store-bought long dresses are too "dressy" and made of rayon and other finer fabrics that are not suitable for housework.
Sewing Simple Clothing
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Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
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The score may actually have been 32-0, but it seems the scoreboard operator could not keep up.
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The scene near the Chennai Kaliappa Hospital, on Tuesday was supremely ironical, and drew sharp reactions from tree lovers who were passing by.
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And at the same time the huge body tried to take the invader and enwomb it.
The Gunslinger
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I picked a piece of fluff off my shiny black suit.
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The BBC never tires of telling us how passionately it seeks the interest and participation of the public in its political output, particularly the young.
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They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.
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At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards.
The Sun
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These planes are made with two separate stocks held together with either metal or turned wooden screws.
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The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories?
CHAPTER I
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The seeds were then cut in half longitudinally and deposited on a sterile Whatman No.1 filter paper impregnated with 1% tetrazolium chloride.
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Or better if you know how to fix it ... * wink wink** nudge nudge*
Burnkryten Diary Entry
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trees heavy with fruit
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In recent years, Laganside Corporation has transformed the inner core of Belfast city centre, specifically along the Lagan river and in the surrounding area.
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A man came to load it onto the bus as we ran to find Ranwen's parents and siblings.
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The sun was shining, the food at the restaurant was good and I was left with a warm glow in my tummy afterwards.
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The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.
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Entry forms for the forthcoming Community Games should have been received by now.
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Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
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Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
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My hand came into contact with a small lump.
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And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet.
CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
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Contrary to what has been claimed, the theory is not insulated against attempts to disconfirm it.
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The altitudinal distribution of Earth-surface processes is controlled by all these factors.
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With no warning signs on either side and under poor lighting, the road is a death trap for motorists.
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Some hospital patients experience high levels of anxiety.
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It is not just a projection of human motives on to a neutral universe.
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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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The authors concluded that creativity and psychotic symptomatology do indeed reflect equivalent forms of cognitive processing.
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They therefore blame not the buddy system but political patronage for government inefficiency.
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It has been about the whole squad all year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Faceless, unqualified reviewers define our work, remove our colleagues from panels and routinely breach confidentiality.
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She even has ambitions to return to college and major in interior design and business.
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There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
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Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
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Venuti advocates that translators create a discursive heterogeneity by using non-dominant English forms to make the foreignness of the source texts felt and render the translations visible.
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We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
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There are some trademark pieces - elegant-legged tables and high-quality marquetry - mixed in with contemporary designer furniture, antique shop finds and some very in-your-face art.
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He will remain affiliated with the firm as a special associate director.
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At this point, I can't think of a job I'd like more than a writing gig.
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It is murder trying to find a parking place for the car.
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These will involve more rigorous checks on claimants to make sure their disability qualifies.
The Sun
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These small exquisitely carved ivory figurines come in an almost limitless variety.
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He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
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Update: BB commenter DHC says, It's worth noting that his is an outtake from a TV show that Warhol developed and aired on Manhattan cable.
Boing Boing
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The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate.
Saunterings
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He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Success is neither a gift nor a blessing. Success is what you deserve. You work for and earn your success. Dr T.P.Chia
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The pictures show squares within squares - the water-holding depressions that in ancient times made the gardens fruitful.
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Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.
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Consider some of the specific encounters Blue has with women Gareth is involved with.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Questions
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It avoids a phony moral high ground or fake appeals to the sanctity of multilateralism.
Globe and Mail
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The poet has symbolized his lover with a flower.
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For high-definition video, the umi needs an Internet connection that can send, or upload, data at 1.5 megabits per second, higher than that of typical DSL or cable services.
Cisco Launches 'Umi' Telepresence Box To Turn TVs Into Videophones
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The contacts for the USB connector are even gold-plated to ensure better conductivity, according to Razer.
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Connecticut schools have been fitting yellow intruder alarms next to fire alarms in their corridors and dining halls.
Times, Sunday Times
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The results were disastrous, plunging the country into deep depression, with high unemployment, sharply falling living standards and serious political unrest.
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Most organic farmers try to supply their nitrogen needs with legumes in the crop rotation or with manures and composts.
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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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His casual reaction, "you're overreacting," "these things happen, right?" suggests they've gone through this before, with presumably the more recent procedure she discussed with her gyno.
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Help!