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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!)
  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • 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
  • An empty plastic 2 litre bottle is tied to a rock, or bag of stones with strong twine or string.
  • So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room. Moderately Shocked
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  • It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
  • Last night, a steady stream of people arrived at the evacuation centre in Brisbane's showground, only a few minutes' drive from the swollen river. Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise
  • Lastly, I am a bit of control freak with a blistering pace when it comes to work.
  • Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
  • At the last minute I decided to go, so I flung a few clothes together and left.
  • An Ohio appellate court last week reversed a lower court ruling that the city's pernicious treatment of marijuana users was unconstitutional under state law.
  • Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
  • So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
  • The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • Last time I took my pulse, it was a bit fast.
  • The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
  • I've given you the password to my heart in all its anagrammatic permutations; but you seem to insist this is nothing but a start; so herewith, at last comes the story of my first puppy— Spill
  • Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
  • Last year there was only me and AA who were 1st years, plus AA is heaps older and I didn't know her at all.
  • Deirdre cast him one last look, then shut her eyes tight.
  • I shall be glad when the last of my daughters is married off.
  • 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
  • And approaching that very machine, his last pound coin clutched in his fist, was Felix Henderson McMurdo.
  • ‘I was worried about my car lasting to the end considering that all the motors come from the same place,’ he said.
  • Four principal types of source pertain to the subject: literature, works of graphic or plastic art, archaeological remains, and notated pieces of music.
  • The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
  • Plans include occasional stops at Central Terminal, which saw its last passenger train in 1979, and special excursions through the region to destinations such as Niagara Falls, Medina, Jamestown and even Cleveland. The Buffalo News: Home
  • Europe was last united in neolithic times, before the inseparable meshwork of land, people, community and trade separated into hierarchy, nations and cities.
  • She suffered minor smoke inhalation and was discharged from hospital last night. The Sun
  • The illness means sufferers' pulmonary arteries have thicker and less elastic walls. The Sun
  • The celebrations proper always begin on the last stroke of midnight.
  • It was also a noteworthy echo of a speech Sarkozy himself made last December, when he called for a "positive laicity" and suggested that the state could ultimately grant subsidies to religious groups. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • The overall seaminess of that enterprise is so underreported that just last week, one of the Post's own reporters felt like they had to obtain a quote in order to get the dictionary definition of "lobbyist" into their story. Peter Orszag's Move From The White House To Citigroup Should Definitely Trouble You
  • Born in an American Stalinist medical facility**** to foreign parents, he spent his early years nomadically, drifting from country to country***** as his feckless father moved the family in search of lasting employment******. Support Al Kemal for Mayor of London: the People’s Choice! « raincoaster
  • But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
  • The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.
  • He spoke of the difference between the journey and the destination and how lasting success was found at the latter. Times, Sunday Times
  • A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
  • The Bedroom In The Sky is three-quarters windowed and the last window blocked off with a hardboard offcut insulated, floored, plasterboarded, plumbed and wired. April 1st, 2007
  • 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
  • During the last year, two-thirds had remained faithful to a single partner.
  • Shakedown analysis is a method which can be used to research the elastoplastic behavior of a structure under variable repeated loads that exceed the structure′s elastic limit load.
  • Others suggested that the friendship might have soured in the middle of last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • We ordered the store's last six bottles, so we could retaste and also experiment with aging them. Score one for the little guy
  • he didn't get enough sleep last night
  • I have typed out some lecture notes for the benefit of those people who were absent last week.
  • The snowstorm will last till tomorrow afternoon.
  • The fix will be quick but the damage will be long-lasting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hopefully, with two and a half days work last week I made enough money to cover my costs.
  • Rack mounted systems are much more interchangeable and the casing lasts forever.
  • In a healthy pregnancy, cells that come from the embryo's placenta-called trophoblast cells-move into the walls of the uterus and help to open up maternal arteries, thereby increasing the available blood and nutrient supply. Slate Articles
  • If the rivalry pwnage wasn't at tragic levels going into last year, it certainly is now.
  • The market opened 100 booths selling South Korean clothes on 2,600 square meters of floor last August.
  • There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests expressly for those in love, — in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there are hedges and scholars. Les Miserables
  • Their last nine league games have brought four wins, four defeats and a draw. The Sun
  • There was a final flourish in the last seconds of stoppage time. Times, Sunday Times
  • His second book came out in hardback last month.
  • It's every girl's dream, and last weekend, restaurateur and fashion aficionada Elizabeth An and couture curator Christos Garkinos of Tina Daunt: A Magical Fusion of Food and Fashion
  • There is a gap of several tens of millions of years between the Middle Permian when the last Metoptomatids lived, and the Middle Triassic when the true limpets appear.
  • Ed would drill by hand and blast away the rock, exposing the pegmatite.
  • They are stored wrapped in plastic and aluminium. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • And while ferrous metals are certainly not out of the picture, even from a consumer's perspective, it's hard not to notice the increased use of aluminum and plastic.
  • It was the last big wreck of the steam era on the C.P.R., occurring shortly before I began railroading.
  • A terrible outrage was committed here last night. Times, Sunday Times
  • The best adequacy for EA was obtained by combinations of imipenem/cilastatin or piperacillin/tazobactam, amikacin and a glycopeptide, with values reaching 99% and 94%, respectively. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • The RV maker last month posted its third-straight quarterly profit, topping Wall Street forecasts, as motor home deliveries rose.
  • He's not the first politician to be caught with his pants down, and he won't be the last.
  • Christopher Rees is another self-taught value investor but runs a concentrated portfolio of only ten stocks; his average annual return for the last decade is 24%. Tap Your Inner Buffett
  • Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
  • Last April I wrote a column that suggested it was unwise to try to load the .45 Colt to levels approaching the .44 Magnum.
  • For the last five years, he's been a fixture on Houston street corners begging for money, a life Edwards describes as dehumanizing and empty. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2009
  • The Last Supper. The final time that the apostles shared a meal with Jesus.
  • I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed.
  • The researchers attached this 'contrast agent' to a molecule that binds to the protein elastin, which is found in artery walls. Dailyindia.com News Feed
  • Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
  • Here, human or mouse embryonic stem cells, in vitro representatives of the totipotent inner cell mass blastomeres, are placed into culture.
  • A new law took effect last year that makes it illegal to abduct young girls and force them into marriage.
  • The lath-and-plaster technique involves constructing a frame with rebar and attaching diamond metal lath (the same lath used for plastering walls) with tie wire to the frame.
  • The air bleed in the ballast tank facilitated maintenance of a constant pressure.
  • Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
  • Plastic bags, crisp packets, plastic bottles and soggy newspapers lie abundantly in the verges, or caught in trees and hedges.
  • Gadafy's striking non-endorsement of the Democratic candidate focused in part on Obama's pledge of "unshakeable" support for Israel, which caused dismay, if not surprise, across the Arab and Muslim worlds last week. Obama Taking Over Democratic National Committee Partly To Avoid Kerry's Fate
  • Gates oversaw last year's troop surge in Iraq, which Mr. Obama opposed.
  • Last night as I slept I dreamed everyday dreams - I can't even remember now what they were.
  • Tyson pays his respects to the last guy who beat him and Britain's undisputed world heavyweight champion.
  • Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
  • In 1537 it was ceded to Angelo Massimi, who commissioned Perino del Vaga to paint frescoes on each of the lateral walls and on the pilasters on either side of the entrance.
  • In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
  • With her pupils dilated to blackness, and spitting vituperation in all directions, the very last thing she seems is sane.
  • Sifting through the reports logged in the last couple of weeks, he came across a tale that had previously gone unread. EVERVILLE
  • To ensure that there is no interference from the most recent deworming, FECRT should not be performed within eight weeks following the last benzimidazole or pyrimidine treatment, or within 12 (ivermectin) or 16 (moxidectin) weeks after a macrocyclic lactone treatment. Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
  • She blasted him in the face with a shot of plasma, more than likely killing the pilot instantly.
  • PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Thailand and Cambodia said they have made progress in settling a border dispute that sparked a deadly military confrontation last month. My Sinchew -
  • The only way to make it last is to turn it into cheese, yoghurt or quark.
  • The company profits grew by 5% last year.
  • Most of last week was spent concentrating on trying to get the pitch dry because of all the rain we had.
  • Nick managed to move his battered body quickly enough to launch his own counter-blast, successfully stalemating the battleship's beam.
  • Zack and I spent last evening making modelling clay figures at the kitchen table.
  • The two elves approached the last goblin, still stuck to the ground, from both sides.
  • This nascent bleach can also react with primary or secondary amines to form longer lasting, antimicrobial chloramines.
  • WASHINGTON — A U.S. military official says the Navy had a close encounter with an Iranian surveillance plane last week in the Gulf of Oman. Iranian Military Plane 'Buzzes' U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
  • We need not worry about the disappearance of this space because its elasticity prevents true rupture or breakage.
  • 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.
  • Fr. Stephen celebrated fifty years as a priest recently and the occasion was marked by the concelebration of Mass in St. Patricks Church, Clonbur on last Friday evening.
  • Two fire trucks and more than 50 firefighters were last night battling to extinguish the blaze. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said last night the move would prevent the waters from being looted and pillaged by other EU members, and introduce effective conservation of fish stocks.
  • Troops found the church with large holes blasted out of its cement walls and its tin roof collapsed.
  • Baf, Bafilomycin A1; BH, Bcl-2 homology; CHX, cycholoheximide; GFP-74Q, GFP-tagged exon 1 mutant htt fragment; htt, huntingtin; MEFs, mouse embryonic fibroblasts; 3MA, 3-methyl adenine; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; STS, staurosporin; TNF - Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • If we don't save water, the last drop of water will be a tear-drop of us.
  • While he was busy, I punched a Tylenol caplet out of its plastic bubble. Ancient, Strange, and Lovely
  • The smoothly boiled porridge, with its accompaniment of thick yellow cream; the new-laid eggs; the grilled trout, fresh from the stream; the freshly baked "baps" and "scones," the crisp rolls of oatcake; and last, but not least, the delectable, home-made marmalade, which is as much a part of the meal as the coffee itself. Big Game A Story for Girls
  • In the last cliffhanger, downstairs lover Tony Head was caught sharing his Gold Blend nightcap with a mystery lady.
  • The exotic flowers we crossbred on the farm never lasted as long as the wild ones which grew naturally.
  • Sometimes, they can detect the plastic implanted in my abdomen to repair a hernia from a prior surgery, but other times the miss the plastic. Discourse.net: Former Asst Police Chief Gives TSA a Failing Grade
  • The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face. The Magic of Krynn
  • Although the race, the last on the card, was a fairly ordinary event, it had great significance for Oliver, who was warmly greeted by racegoers.
  • It was responsible for the mid-air collision last month between a cargo plane and a Russian airliner.
  • Last year, Patricia McMahon, who attended St Patrick s Community College, was awarded the bursary.
  • That proud record lasted eight minutes before they were crushed under the German machine. The Sun
  • Last Thursday, campus officials received a bomb threat that was sent over the university e-mail system.
  • As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
  • Patagonia has turned organic cotton and fleece made of recycled plastic into high-end outdoor wear.
  • The first two British charter jets picked up 413 refugees last night. The Sun
  • 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)
  • Last week I lamented the lack of tries in our now defence-dominated game, what with the accent on specialist prevention coaching.
  • By the hunting season in the following year, not a single survivor of the last group could be found.
  • She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother. The Brothers Karamazov
  • 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.
  • The jury, which began deliberations last Friday after a six-week trial, had to decide whether Castroneves, his sister-manager Katiucia "Kati" Castroneves, 35, and Michigan sports attorney Alan R. Miller, 71, evaded U.S. taxes on more than $5.5 million income that the race driver earned between 1999-2004 from his arrangement with Penske Racing. Undefined
  • The petticoat is very easy to make, too ... just cut the fabric to the right length (front & back piece), stitch sides, add lace at the bottom, sew a casing at the top for elastic & then add elastic & stitch opening closed! Year Around Feminine Fashions
  • Thirteen months on from his last visit to Wales, he is keen to put the record straight. Times, Sunday Times
  • The battalion had three men killed last month. The Sun
  • The skin of D. holocanthus is highly elastic because of microfolds in the epidermis and collagen fibers of the dermis.
  • Lions string together eight successive phases on the last play of the half.
  • But the underlying cause of last week's yo-yo-ing on the markets was the long-awaited shake-out of the over-valued internet companies.
  • Two-way trade between the two countries increased by more than forty per cent last year.
  • I got baked on tequila last summer and passed out in the street.
  • He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with The Last of the Barons — Complete
  • The cramps possibly were a side effect of a pulled muscle suffered in winter ball last year.
  • Snap elections called towards the end of last year deterred investment and the recovery ground to a halt. Times, Sunday Times
  • At last, after wise deliberation of the concerns of either side, she assumes the office of arbitress which is offered to her by both parties.
  • When it was their turn to be served, the pharmacist gave them each a plastic beaker filled with liquid, which they greedily consumed.
  • I drew a smiley face, played tic-tac-toe with myself, drew another smiley face, scribbled all over it and finally, I wiped the ink off the plastic table.
  • The three-time world champion only resumed playing last month after a six-month ban on disrepute charges. The Sun
  • Lying in the plastic chair, he wondered about the rigours of human existence, and about the people he had been. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • Why pay 5p for a plastic bag when you can jazz up a plain canvas tote? Times, Sunday Times
  • A picket was organised last week after receivers Robson Rhodes refused to withdraw redundancy notices issued to 67 staff.
  • Twice in the last few days I have been for walks on Dartmoor.
  • That's about four acres under cultivation - enough to produce a total harvest last year of about 10,000 bundles.
  • I had one fight last year where the judges scored it against me 1-0 after we'd been leathering each other for five rounds.
  • The most common is what's called a dipole antenna, a good example being those T-shaped, plastic covered wires that came with home stereo sets once upon a time. Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news
  • You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal!
  • It was a pleasure to present the awards last Friday and to see so many adults attend to show their appreciation and support for these champions of literature.
  • Start planting the clover and grasses in the spring after the last frost is over. I was wondering how to keep deer coming in year round on very little money cause im only 14.i have about the size of a football
  • I am honestly disturbed by last Monday's shooting of the booter on the city's South Side. The Parking Ticket Geek: Don't Shoot The Messenger: Take Action!
  • Those of you too lazy to hit the last link won't understand this, but the key to a successful performance of this story is to remain deadpan. Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park
  • And some other statto is going to have to tell me when the last time we were top was. Arseblog
  • Tim's eyes went past him to the last black binder in the safe. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • She hadn't seen Kenta much, but when she had in the last week he had been smiling nervously and in a strained manner.
  • The convention allows for lawful detention of children for the shortest possible period of time and as a matter of last resort.
  • Brown, OTOH, is attractive and charming, with a compelling tie to the military – MASS National Guard Units (like everywhere) have been heavly involved in the wars over the last 8 years, and stories about them abound on local news. Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of Scott Brown
  • The firm shut for business last month after it was stopped from claiming legal aid cash. The Sun
  • The last few words are delivered in a comic staccato.
  • I was studying a phenomenon known since 1908 as the phototaxy of chloroplasts: the property of some algae living at the surface of ponds to orient their large unique chloroplast according to the intensity of light; if the light was too intense, the chloroplast turned inside the tubular cell to present its edge. Luc Montagnier - Autobiography
  • The only real surprise in last week's announcement is that he would not stand for a fourth term.
  • Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
  • He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police. When the Sleeper Wakes
  • He came to Egypt in 1168 as an assistant to his uncle, who was a general and then became the vizier of the last Fatimid caliph.
  • And I don't believe it's right for the Democrats to kind of overreact to the last election. President In Photo Op During Congressional Meeting
  • Last, but not least, I suggest you consider posting the definition below somewhere within sight at your place of writing. com-pel verb Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Win Ray Rhamey’s new book!
  • Just last year, pinkos raised a stink over the NCERT's deleting of certain offensive and unauthenticated assertions from history books.
  • Public housing has been transformed into an ever-diminishing refuge of last resort.
  • Last week I got a whopping discount on a new gas boiler, on account of my age. Times, Sunday Times
  • That's when the elastic rope comes in. Times, Sunday Times
  • The essential and indispensable element of the nucleus is called nuclein (or caryoplasm); that of the cell body is called plastin (or cytoplasm). The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • After several years of investigations, the Boys Ranch was indicted on criminal Medicaid fraud and grand theft charges last April.
  • Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
  • That proud record lasted eight minutes before they were crushed under the German machine. The Sun
  • In Munich last February, Putin railed against America the "hyperpower" that flouted international law. The Tyrant's Turn
  • But at last there came a Tuesday -- a gold-medal Tuesday for one frustrated amigo. MUSIC FOR BOYS
  • One thing for certain though is that we have a squad full of quality and confidence, and that last season's treble is only a sign of things to come.
  • Nonetheless, this era had the same conflicts (over cultural diversity and nativism, for example) as later periods, and established lasting policies toward immigrants and aliens.
  • A typical write-up of last August's vote in the New York Times, for example, focused on the way the president had "outmaneuvered" the Democrats. Why Obama's Support For FISA Cave-In Is Such A Downer
  • The United States recognized the People's Republic of China at last.
  • Still, on watching the movie a good couple of decades since I last read the book, as much as I found it enjoyable enough, I couldn’t help but start to think through just what Lewis is saying here, in allegorical terms, just how it all turns on the idea that, by the rules of Deep Magic, Edmund must die. Thoughts on Narnia
  • Last year, Manganese Ore India's IPO was overbid 56 times. In India, All That IPOs Isn't Gold
  • The currency had already been weakened after China carried out the biggest devaluation in two decades last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • I asked my daughter-in-law if there was anything special we needed to stock up on and she revealed she's been craving mandarin oranges for the last three weeks.
  • Last time the IRS audited one of his businesses, he got a half-million-dollar refund. WORST FEARS REALIZED
  • The negotiators made a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement.
  • However this game can be tricky at the best of times and lo an behold the favourite was crowded out at this stage being put back to near last.
  • He came sometime last month.
  • Instead of replying, he took out a small plastic phial from his bag and handed it to her. GRACE
  • Most everybody puts a plastic bag in the bathroom basket as a liner, so emptying is just a matter of lifting out the plastic bag and tying it up. Bugs and Wastebasket W.C.
  • With a glazed stare she revived for one last instant.
  • Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
  • He was accused of submitting claims for ‘inappropriate’ items, including metal fruit baskets, plastic holders for bathroom utensils, and even jars of piccalilli.
  • The combined entity was meant to unveil its first results last month. Times, Sunday Times
  • The contestants are eliminated one by one until the last two compete in a head-to-head contest.
  • The modified expoxies, ie, those with plasticizers added to improve workability, were found to be incompatible with the fluorocarbon flotation fluids.

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