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  • A Catalan parade will kick off an exuberant evening of Catalonian dance, music and fireworks.
  • What time does the match kick off?
  • What time does the laser show kick off?
  • I kick off my flip-flops and slide into shorts and sneaks.
  • The theatre company will kick off the season with a production of The Playboy of the Western World.
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  • Right, any suggestions? Jim, you kick off.
  • He's really upset, not ready to kick off just yet, but I'm not going to give him an excuse to start a barney by turning my back.
  • The melon festival will kick off here with a veritable mishmash of melon-based menu, complete with cocktails and mocktails.
  • The referee tossed a coin to decide which team should kick off.
  • It will kick off with a seminar on diet and fitness before looking at every aspect of becoming a successful pro racer.
  • Well, I really must kick off now. I've stayed long enough.
  • She ushered guests into the studio, replenished the coffee maker, and unfailingly turned up bright and early for the 7am kick off.
  • He insists that he'll not be in a particular hurry - though he neglects to mention whether he'll pick it up a gear if, approaching Loch Lomond, he realises that the Lions are about to kick off.
  • ‘The roadshows for this new scheme will kick off around the world in the last week of July,’ said the official, who declined to be named.
  • The mix tapes that kick off every chapter are total time-capsule candy for anyone who grew up with, say, Duran Duran and U2 and grew into the indie-era of Pavement and Superchunk and others (in fact, many others: the mixes are delightfully mixy and eclectic, criss-crossing time and genre: you'll quickly understand why he listens to them over and over). October 2009
  • I want you to sit back, kick off your shoes, and light up a pipeful of Bond Street Tobacco so you can relax.
  • They feared if a member of the audience heckled or booed, the star's devoted followers could kick off. The Sun
  • Although you are speaking before the National Football League's 2011 season kick off between the Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints, the pressure and intensity is more akin to the fútbol moment weary fans are only too familiar with: the nail biting end when the hard-fought soccer championship between teams tied in skill and public support hinges on a postgame penalty shoot-out. Viviana Hurtado: Open Letter to Barack Obama: Mr. President, Three Plays to Score a Jobs Golazo
  • Tom will kick off with a few comments.
  • Anxious and hypervigilant, they kick off the second they feel threatened. Times, Sunday Times
  • The parade will kick off at its usual time of 1.15p.m. despite the fact it is clashing this year with the Waterford City Parade.
  • Kick off your shoes, tread lightly across the shagpile, snap open a Babycham, ease back in your Parker Knoll recliner and smooch your way through this little lot like the silky smooth operator you know you can be.
  • It's getting late, I must kick off now.
  • The fifth JJGF Open Golf Championship will kick off on May 10 with the pro-am tournament proceeding it one day earlier at the Jagorawi Golf and Country Club in Bogor.
  • It looked hard - rain just before kick off did not help. The Sun
  • Louisiana Republicans kick off the 1996 quest for national convention delegates Tuesday in party caucuses around the state, with Sen.
  • Now is an opportune time to kick off a pan-national campaign for energy conservation.
  • To rouse themselves, they kick off the festivities with "Soldiers of the Cross, Arise," the bloodthirstiest tune in all of Christendom: "Seize your armor, gird it on/Now the battle will be won/Soon, your enemies all slain/Crowns of glory you shall gain. THE DOMINIONISTS / FAR RIGHT THREAT TO AMERICA
  • Kick off your shoes and dangle your legs off the quayside. Times, Sunday Times
  • England won the toss and chose to kick off.
  • An effort is also on to kick off work to cover open storm water drains like the one in Jeevan Bhima Nagar - where a youth was drowned earlier this year.
  • From the kick off Celtics passing was a class act, with the ball moving around swiftly and purposely.
  • Try to ensure that yours doesn't kick off with a drunken fumble on the photocopier - it could be awkward when your children want to know how Mummy and Daddy met.
  • My brother's stag guests are travelling up on Saturday morning, and the festivities will kick off almost as soon as they get here.
  • OK Marion, would you care to kick off?
  • Toray will likely kick off shipments of prepreg as early as 2011 at its plant in Japan and it is considering whether to build a new plant in Europe. Toray Signs Carbon Fiber Supply Deal With Airbus
  • I'd like to kick off the discussion with a few statistics.
  • Kick off your shoes, tread lightly across the shagpile, snap open a Babycham, ease back in your Parker Knoll recliner and smooch your way through this little lot like the silky smooth operator you know you can be.
  • Things kick off at the Full Moon Folk Club tomorrow with an appearance by the multi-talented Chip Taylor.
  • Voisin notes that the oyster season was supposed to kick off on September 7, but now the oystering community will have to reassess its schedule, given the decimated oyster beds that will take several years to recover.
  • C2 is slated to kick off with stock options on Ford Motor Co. among the handful of first contracts traded. As CBOE Goes Electronic, Voices Rise From the Floor
  • Just two months later, Pope Benedict XVI, a longtime close associate, waived the traditional five-year "cooling-off period" to kick off the process of sainting the Polish pope. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • As the sleeve notes say, perhaps it was a rather odd idea to kick off proceedings with a series of unheard songs.
  • The event will kick off at 9.30 am and at 4pm roads in the town centre will be closed to allow market stands and crowds to overflow into the streets.
  • Let's kick off with an Indian meal somewhere, and go on to a club after that.
  • Let's kick off with some suitably chilled warm-up music, while you pitch your virtual tent and skin up a virtual fat one.
  • Lovely because it suggests that there was a time before history began, when people hung around in a kind of antechamber waiting to be called forth to kick off the human story. The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor
  • Grey skies had seen the floodlights switched on before noon but nothing could darken the mood of optimism which swirled around the transformed Station View prior to kick off.
  • Having recuperated from their spawn and buffed from a summer of feeding on crayfish, smallmouths kick off their annual bid to fatten up for the upcoming winter starvation and subsequent spring spawning. The Smallmouth Blitz
  • Things kick off at 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. and, like all the best things in life, it has shisha (oh yeah, it's free too).
  • Ahmadinejad arrived in Venezuela yesterday to kick off a four-nation tour to push investment projects such as a hydro- electric power plant in Ecuador. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • I agree that single patrolling is a bad idea, I have lost count of the times I have stopped 2 or more known criminals seeing me on my own 1 will “kick off” requiring all my diplomacy and tact to calm him down while matie with the class A/Stolen items walks away quietly. ‘Single Crewed’ In Ruralshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Globe editor John Stackhouse yesterday, it was announced that next Monday's issue will be "overseen" by Bono and Geldof to kick off two months of G8-G20 coverage. Torontolife.com
  • With the 2009 set to kick off, USA TODAY grades each team's offseason, the pretest before the real exams begin: NFL offseason grades: Clunky start nets 'F' for new coaches
  • OK Marion, would you care to kick off?
  • It will kick off with a seminar on diet and fitness before looking at every aspect of becoming a successful pro racer.
  • TWO days of sporting thrills will kick off in Bolton tomorrow morning with the start of the Greater Manchester Youth Games.
  • The place is the perfect spot to kick off your après-ski.
  • He said: 'When there are two games of this significance and importance we should kick off at the same time. The Sun
  • Add to this eight passes that missed the receiver altogether and twice being in front of the kicker at the kick off.
  • I'll ask Tessa to kick off .
  • The first game ended all square, and the replay was due to be played a fortnight ago, only to be controversially called off minutes before kick off because of floodlight failure.
  • The exhibition gives a nod to the fur trade's history in Canada and also provides viewers a chance to kick off their shoes and enjoy a wall-to-wall carpet made entirely of fur.
  • The first sporting action will be at Hampden Park where the football tournament will kick off.
  • Why have I decided to kick off the new year with an iced bun, you may wonder. Times, Sunday Times
  • She has therefore allowed him "insider's access" "largely waiting on sofas with my laptop waiting for her make-up/rehearsals/almost anything else to be finished until I can ask her a few more questions of such surpassing asininity that it will make your ears bleed to hear them" to kick off his new ITV2 series, Perez Hilton: Superfan. TV review: Perez Hilton: Superfan; Frozen Planet
  • They feared if a member of the audience heckled or booed, the star's devoted followers could kick off. The Sun
  • It might be a good idea to kick off with a few folk songs.
  • He deliberately and calculatedly chose the county fair to kick off his presidential campaign.
  • Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. Oprah Winfrey 
  • The shows kick off on October 24th.
  • Homer Simpson's description of America's favorite pastime is more true than ever after all these years, and to kick off its 22nd season premiere, "The Simpsons" continues to celebrate the medium. 'Glee' And 11 Other TV Shows Parodied On 'The Simpsons' (PICS, VIDEO)
  • Bipartisan negotiations to reorganize electoral precincts for the general elections in April next year are going to kick off within this week.
  • Word spread that something "phat" was about to kick off. Return of underground rave culture is fuelled by the recession and Facebook
  • Kick off your shoes and dangle your legs off the quayside. Times, Sunday Times
  • A club-record four straight wins to kick off the campaign means the Gulls are really flying. The Sun
  • NEWPORT - Leaders from seven Northern Kentucky cities met on a bocce court in Newport on Wednesday to compete and kick off this year's Newport Italianfest. Cincinnati.Com - All Local News
  • The theatre company will kick off the season with a production of The Playboy of the Western World.
  • All the pomp and ceremony being done with, Lyon kick off from right to left in their dark blue.
  • For instance I find it likes very much to kind of kick off right away beyond the showery curtain with sopping up your skin's steam, naked as a newly inflated rainbow, but who wouldn't want to burst forth whistling for tea from such a top advantage? All About That Place
  • I'm going to kick off today's meeting with a few remarks about the budget.
  • The game will be screened live on Sky TV with a 6.05 pm kick off.
  • The game's 7.30 am kick off, with the final whistle at 9.15 am, meant the game overlapped with the start of the school day.
  • I'd like to kick off the discussion with a few statistics.
  • The game will kick off weeks of celebrations in the city, including an open-top bus parade and a victory rally in a local park. The Sun
  • When should we kick off?
  • So, you should kick off your shoes, get some scented oils into your bath, wrap yourself up in some of the cosiest bathrobes and if you want a blissful nights sleep try the snuggliest snow goose down duvets, pure indulgence! Add a Mediterranean Touch of luxury to your home
  • A club-record four straight wins to kick off the campaign means the Gulls are really flying. The Sun
  • It will kick off with a seminar on diet and fitness before looking at every aspect of becoming a successful pro racer.
  • The Friday after Thanksgiving, holiday celebrations in Redstone kick off with the Grand Illumination: a tree lighting, carolers, and luminarias lining the main street.
  • It will kick off with a seminar on diet and fitness before looking at every aspect of becoming a successful pro racer.
  • The country's leading sprinters kick off the heats with the 50m dash - a tough line-up to just make the semi-final among the men.
  • Dynamite Entertainment has announced Red Sonja #32 will kick off the next big story arc for the she-devil with a sword. Red Sonja #32 kicks off new event | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • Skipper Casey thundered a massive 35-yard free kick off the underside of the Omagh crossbar and from the rebound it was like the Alamo with Reilly and Hoey both failing to force the ball across the line.
  • The squally showers that drenched the area before kick off had mercifully ceased by the time Chris took an early long-range penalty.
  • Both sides are at the ground a half an hour before the kick off time, togged out, raring to go, and the referee never turns up.
  • The ensuing period of parity was brief, however, as straight from the kick off Catz reassumed the lead.
  • The energetic polonaise and waltz will kick off the dancing, introduced by debut dancers from the German language school in Sofia with their choreographer Ventsislav Dermendjiev.
  • Orrell were without first choice fullbacks who were sent home before kick off after suffering a stomach ailment in the dressing room.
  • But instead of lingering outdoors, we head up to our room, where it feels wonderful to kick off our shoes and lie back on the overstuffed feather bed in a room filled with delicate antique furniture.
  • As a visiting professor at the National Brain Research Centre, Sur will help kick off two research clusters: One will use high-resolution imaging technology to study cells and synapses in the living, intact brain; the second will make stem cells from adult skin cells to study neuropsychiatry disorders like autism and schizophrenia. India's Biotech Messiah
  • The referee tossed a coin to decide which team should kick off.
  • In February and March, heathers and hellebores kick off Annemarie's garden's flowering season, which continues until late in the year.
  • Louisiana Republicans kick off the 1996 quest for national convention delegates Tuesday in party caucuses around the state, with Sen.
  • What time shall we kick off?
  • The kick off is at 2pm where a plaque to commemorate the event will be unveiled.
  • I see her kick off her black thong sandals and pull her feet up into her chair, sitting Indian style as she settles in to study.
  • Milan's five-star visitors demand top spots in which to kick off their calfskin leather heels, so it's no surprise that luxury hotels are on every corner.
  • As Palm's PalmSource developer conference was due to kick off yesterday, much of central San Jose, which was hosting the jamboree, suffered a power brown-out.
  • Instead of trundling along a straight road, I like to kick off in different directions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gleeson followed the others in, pausing in the doorway to kick off the gumboots he was wearing. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
  • And so the Edinburgh Fringe begins, more with a tootle than a fanfare, as the week zero shows kick off (week zero being the pre-week before the first week - as if three weeks wasn't enough time to fit in all the shows).
  • Consider engaging in some kind of psychometric testing to kick off your exploration. Christine Hassler: Uncertain In Uncertain Times
  • The Army's departure is probably going to kick off a huge bunfight for the land - the MoD still owns a huge swathe of property, some of it crumbling, much of it in surprisingly picturesque locations.
  • I'm going to kick off today's meeting with a few remarks about the budget.
  • With the group stages earmarked for the middle of the season, fingers are firmly crossed for some untypically warm and sunny weather to help the competition kick off on the right note.
  • My aim is to kick off a vigorous national debate on what has been one of the most undebatable subjects in Amerian history and law.
  • Part way through the landing roll, the pilot will apply pressure to the brakes and that will kick off the autobrakes.
  • A protein complex called the polymerase, which is attached at the end of RNA, helps kick off replication once the assembly is injected into a healthy cell. Health News from Medical News Today
  • The match is due to kick off at 2:00 p.m.
  • The mix tapes that kick off every chapter are total time-capsule candy for anyone who grew up with, say, Duran Duran and U2 and grew into the indie-era of Pavement and Superchunk and others in fact, many others: the mixes are delightfully mixy and eclectic, criss-crossing time and genre: you'll quickly understand why he listens to them over and over. Shelfari:
  • The Titans line up to kick off once again, but this time their kicker isn't wearing a jersey because he thinks it was bad luck last time around.
  • It looked hard - rain just before kick off did not help. The Sun
  • Opening June 1 nationwide and slated to kick off next month's Cannes Film Festival, Moulin Rouge stars Nicole Kidman and depicts the cancan and cabaret world of Paris in 1899.
  • At the crowing of the cock, the extravagant and erring spirit (that is, the spendthrift of a defendant) whether he be drinking arrack punch at Vauxhall, champaigne at the Mount, or brandy and water at the Eccentries, must kick off his glass-slipper, and hobble back to St. George's Fields, like the lame bottle-conjuror of Le Sage. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
  • May become deathly pale if the room is overheated; kick off the bed covers if they are able to.
  • It was a sunny morning last summer and the children were having breakfast in the garden when I saw the papers and realised it was all going to kick off.
  • I'd like to kick off the discussion with a few statistics.
  • Although much of the rest of Scotland was shrouded in mist and heavy rain, the deluge which dampened Aberdeen in the morning had abated long before kick off.
  • The referee tossed a coin to decide which team should kick off.
  • Anticipation was hardly a word in Newrys mind as they forged on and went straight from the kick off Newry to charge over the brow of the hill and launched a assault on the Cookstown line.
  • It might be a good idea to kick off with a few folk songs.
  • It looked hard - rain just before kick off did not help. The Sun
  • Helping to kick off Sydney Design Week, this exhibition showcases more than 150 pieces of silver produced by Italian studios in recent years.
  • Veteran hoofer Lionel Blair was surrounded by dancing stars on stage in Bromley to kick off the theatre's new programme.
  • Festivals, also known as sagras or festas, kick off in the middle of July and run until August 15, though there are occasional wild boar or fungi festivals in the autumn.
  • Kick off your shoes and dangle your legs off the quayside. Times, Sunday Times
  • England won the toss and chose to kick off.
  • They feared if a member of the audience heckled or booed, the star's devoted followers could kick off. The Sun
  • I'm not one of those cycle louts who kick off at the most minor of indiscretions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Liverpool kick off at 12.45 pm so can lay down a title marker, or lay down in the title race and die, so which will it be? Telegraph Blogs
  • Ahmadinejad arrived in Venezuela yesterday to kick off a four-nation tour to push investment projects such as a hydro- electric power plant in Ecuador. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • What time does the laser show kick off?
  • From a list of starters that included such Gallic staples as grilled snails and steamed mussels, we chose the French onion soup and the boudin noir (black pudding, to most of us) to kick off the meal in grand fashion.
  • With the stage constructed on the round, central dancefloor there's already a certain cabaret feel to things even before three serious-looking and suited men kick off a tight, skilled piece of loungey blues.
  • The world No 2 had chosen to kick off his crowdfunding investment portfolio in areas of industry that he had a personal interest in. Times, Sunday Times
  • I kick off with an idea for a shady border under a deciduous tree.
  • Compilers of match programmes will confirm that as soon as they pick an all-action shot of a striker in full flight he will duly oblige by picking up a groin strain 48 hours before the kick off.
  • Las Vegas Sands Macau brought in Las Vegas showgirls to kick off its grand opening today, but its owners have lined up even better-endowed partners behind the scenes.
  • After the runner is done their leg, the flame is snuffed and dismantled from the torch; it has been Olympic rules that the torch is only lit once and cannot be lit further than that one time, and with only with the original Olympic flame that started the kick off of the relay. I’m an Olympic goddess « Northern Belle
  • C'mon in, kick off your shoes (unless you have particularly minging feet, in which case errrr don't).
  • The Warriors hope to ride their momentum as they kick off their playoff drive this weekend.
  • It will kick off with a seminar on diet and fitness before looking at every aspect of becoming a successful pro racer.
  • Among the artists performing are African artist, Abdulaye Diabate, who will kick off the festival, The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, Something Positive (An Afro-Caribbean dance and music group), and Cuban salsa artist Cocomama among others. Gabby’s Beatnik Brydge: Summer Music in Harlem «
  • Their days are spent busy in the bush while the evenings kick off with sundowners on the brow of a hill.
  • May Day 1995 will kick off COSATU's Tenth Anniversary Celebra - tions. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Kitt will also kick off the event by playing alongside Jerry Fish on Thursday night.
  • Kick off your shoes and dangle your legs off the quayside. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tonight, Ms. France (who's become quite the gal-about-town since Glamour 's Bonnie Fuller was-there'snosugarcoatingit - askedto leave) co-hosts a party with New Age designer Donna Karan to "kick off" the "Miracle on Madison Avenue" charity shopping event, which is coming on Dec. 2. The Eight Day Week
  • WATERFORD, N.Y. -- A flotilla will set sail from Waterford to Rochester later Monday to kick off a conference that brings canal enthusiasts, professionals and scholars from around the world to Upstate New York. TOP STORIES - YNN, Your News Now
  • We let the ball bounce from kick off and we didn't regain our composure until after the game was lost.
  • Instead of trundling along a straight road, I like to kick off in different directions. Times, Sunday Times

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