How To Use Led In A Sentence
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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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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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Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage.
The Seattle Times
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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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Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
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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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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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He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
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Not bad for someone who failed to shine at school and feared he would end up in a coalyard.
The Sun
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For centuries, scholars have squabbled over the design of the ship, which was crucial to defeating the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., part of a wider war that included the fight at Thermopylae dramatized in the film "300.
Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
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He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect.
Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
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The resettlement fee shall be calculated according to the number of agricultural population to be resettled.
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The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
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I am told that Ferguson has called me 'unsellable'.
The Guardian World News
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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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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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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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The ball rolled into the hole and she had won.
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Two more debates are scheduled in the coming weeks, one debate dealing with education and health will be held in Irbid next week and the final week before elections the southern city of Karak will witness a candidates debate on agriculture and development.
Daoud Kuttab: Jordanian Candidate Uses Debate to Call for Curtailing King's Powers
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Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees.
A Renegade History of the United States
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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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You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
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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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Mr Smith said the department's own funds, which have bankrolled major improvements in the naval service, had been well tapped and it was now time to explore new ways of funding.
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This, coupled with a lack of accounting controls, led the district into bankruptcy.
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Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
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The language is out of condition: -- fat and fozy, thick-winded, purfled and plethoric.
Famous Reviews
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Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
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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
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The space left by evaporation is called the ullage, while the liquid lost is sometimes called the ‘angels' share’ and is particularly financially significant in the production of older cognac and Armagnac.
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Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction.
Times, Sunday Times
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English is called a nominative-accusative language because both transitive and intransitive verbs take subjects.
Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN
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Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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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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They blew up the line and derailed a freight train as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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The altitudinal distribution of Earth-surface processes is controlled by all these factors.
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Rose doubled over when Facer walked in wearing his funny clothes.
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We failed utterly to convince them.
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To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
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I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does.
I-claudius Diary Entry
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Because wheat emerges so quickly, weeds must be killed before drilling using tillage or contact herbicides.
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Unlike the other swap deals, this deal, called a "swaption," is on a fixed-rate bond.
Undefined
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He appealed to all householders to continually check their security arrangements.
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This sort of enamel work on a faceted metal body was copied from the enamelled European watches.
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The next day Tredias' arm was very nearly healed and needed only the support of a sling.
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It will be wormed throughout, and parcelled in the wake of the housing-bolt and frapping lashing, and where there is no swell, in the wake of the muzzle-ring.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
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Another harvest has failed, and international aid agencies warn of the threat of mass starvation.
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We had 24 people that were killed outright on the bus, of the 40 patients that were on there.
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The guest got very drunk so they bundled him into a taxi and sent him home.
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He was trampled to death by a runaway horse.
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The one are fellows called devilish good -- the other, fellows called devilish gentleman like.
Godolphin, Complete
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‘Ah Dublin, you're giving it away,’ he wailed in the 55th minute, as the Dublin defence fluffed its lines yet again, giving Laois another unearned scoring opportunity.
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Many scientists think that hotspots mark locations where diapiric convection cells, called mantle ‘plumes’, rise beneath lithospheric plates.
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Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
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Gone are the spelling rules that bedeviled many students' days.
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Over 20 factors were analyzed amongst the DUI attorneys sampled, including whether free consultations are offered, if a lawyer is willing to do 'outcall' (meaning they will meet with potential clients outside the office), how aggressive the defense of the client is, the degree to which each client is offered access to their lawyer, how much time is spent with each client talking by phone or over email, and other factors.
WebWire | Recent Headlines
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A 19-year-old man was killed and four other people, including a pregnant woman, were injured when their car was riddled with bullets by the soldiers.
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Measurement Intangible assets, such as knowledge and learning, account for a large part of a company's value.
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I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish.
From a College Window
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Police claim to have dismantled 12 networks of traffickers so far this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not only our senses, but our very intuitive faculties that cease to provide us with the necessary adaptive knowledge.
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There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square.
Impressions of a War Correspondent
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Enlarged heart, medically called cardiomegaly, is not a disease, but a symptom of another condition.
Foodconsumer.org
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The couples agreed on a discreet slate-tiled mansard roof extension that gave each house an additional 30sq m of floor space.
Times, Sunday Times
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut
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This came after scores of pro-Uribe legislators and other officials were indicted on conspiracy charges involving so-called demobilized paramilitaries.
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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Philips is also exploring the potential of applying LED to help 'declutter' city streets increasingly obscured by a variety of elements, including lighting fixtures.
WebWire | Recent Headlines
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'If he _has not fulfilled_ his promise to write,' but 'If he _did not write_ as he undertook to do' ([Greek: _egrapsen huposchomenos_]); nor 'If he _has commenced and finished_,' but 'If he _commenced and finished_' ([Greek: _arxamenos sunetelese_]).
A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays
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These constricted unmyelinated regions are called nodes of Ran-vier (rahn-vee-ay), after the French histologist Louis Antoine
The Human Brain
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This construction of a new world order comes from a naïive and untraveled President, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse.
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This is due to the then nonexistent mobilization of what is called today the "civil society."
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I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
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It also emerged on Tuesday that actress Sienna Miller had obtained a court ruling ordering phone operator Vodafone to disclose data relating to other users - so-called third party disclosure.
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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
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Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared.
The Berrybender Narratives
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Sed vt bonis et cordatis omnibus, etiam extraneis, satisfaciam qui maledicentiam istam Germanicam lecturi vel audituri sunt, aut olim audierint, ne et hi nos meritò calumniam tantam sustinere credant: Tum etiam vt alios qui istis virulentis rhythmis
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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Following the example set by her father, she has fulfilled her role and done her duty.
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If you think you can work out a containment system where all the defense wonks have failed, have at it.
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His rapid rise through the ranks after an eye-catching performance in the April trials was a rare highlight in a troubled season.
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Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed.
Archive 2004-07-18
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If there was no exudation the disease was called plica sicca.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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He walked out and claims he then saw his 26-year-old girlfriend being manhandled.
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Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
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Although I was already a fan of both authors, it was this curious title overlap that led me to snatch these two off the New Releases table at my local bookstore.
Romi Lassally: My Literary Indiscretions
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He pulled the hood of his cloak over his head to avoid recognition.
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But the family have pulled together and, in spite of fits of irritability, are happy.
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It freewheeled down the hill and collided with the car in which Mrs Reilly and her daughter were travelling.
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To avoid fattening, unhealthful fats, you need to understand what types of foods they are concealed in.
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He and Barton were now called upon for their names, and in return, we were favoured with the liquid and vowelly appellatives, by which our ingenuous and communicative acquaintances were respectively designated.
The Island Home
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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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Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then.
"I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
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She had wiggled through a tot-sized aperture in the alcove, and toddled over to a display of butterfly nets four feet away.
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Another level could be called "agile big data," whose concern is solving a different class of problems and allows more experimentation.
Forbes.com: News
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Knowledge is a Treasure, but Practice is the key to it.
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It took yards of line off a hard-set drag, and it all but pulled me off my ledge.
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Yet countries perceived as our enemies nurture their computer geeks in the full knowledge that they are the future.
Times, Sunday Times
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In some cases, the vomited milk may smell curdled because it has mixed with stomach acid.
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Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
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Before reaching the main square, the vehicle swerved left and entered a narrow side street filled with people, most of them in uniform.
Somewhere East of Life
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If you're partial to poultry, the Nostos Special is a good bet at $7.95 for a grilled half chicken and $14.95 for a whole one.
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We believe that this directly relates to reality programming that has been instilled in our race since its conception.
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It acknowledges that some students may be experiencing difficulty, so we should be sensitive to their needs - such as allowing make-ups.
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While you're in Miami, make sure you stay up to see the sun come up … and try a drink called Miami Vice, which is a mix of daiquiri and pina colada.
Insider's guide to music pilgrimages: Hip-hop, dance, disco, electro
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So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called
Nobody Knows Nothing
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Service providers haven't completely snapped their wallets shut, but the emphasis for the near-term will be on controlled spending as they look for ways to grow revenues.
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Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA.
Your Right Hand Thief
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Alimony (also called spousal support) is tax deductible to the payor and taxable income to the payee.
How To Make Divorce Less Taxing
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At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.
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She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
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U.S. network CNN for what it called biased reports on political unrest and on the alleged assault and torture earlier this month of opposition leaders, including Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The depth and rate of breathing are controlled by special centres in the brain, which influence the nerves that cause contraction and relaxation of the muscles of respiration.
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The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness).
Jezebel
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Air in free fall does not convect, which means that everything that heats up has to be cooled by fans; the space shuttle is LOUD inside.
8/4/08: Launch Pad, day 5
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The large bone of the upper arm was splintered to the elbow joint, and the wound bled freely.
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Origen did mightily oppugn a new heresie which did springe vpp in his tyme/it was called the heresie of Helchesaites/and at lẽghth he did happily extinguishe it.
A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
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Marshals struggled in vain to prevent spectators rushing onto the racetrack.
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Could the hearts of kings and the counsels of cabinets be known with that literal exactness which is so desirable in politics, and yet so unattainable, we should probably find that Prussia's apparent readiness to lead Germany was owing to her determination that German armies should be led nowhere to the assistance of Austria.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
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The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran.
THE SHADOWS OF POWER
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Santa should have called in elf 'n' safety!
The Sun
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He handled it really well for a man who doesn't have children, is not used to having to think about money and employs a cleaner.
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Take it with a glass of mulled wine and it'll keep you going until the spring.
Times, Sunday Times
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Regardless of how skilled she knew she was, the extreme risk and danger of what she was about to undertake wasn't lost on her.
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Phase I called for dewatering and rehabilitating the No.6 shaft, sinking the shaft to the 45th level, cutting seven level stations, and diamond drilling the conglomerate bed.
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Louis XIV spent 200,000 gold francs for the construction of the royal kennels at Versailles where he kenneled hunting hounds, truffle terriers and toy poodles.
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The dinner was being hosted by a fledgling company he had set up just months before.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Blonde had the doracha seekh, a combination of chicken and crab flakes chargrilled in the tandoor oven and served with a piquant mango and avocado chutney, at £7.50.
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Among these are the best specimen of the dome-skulled chalicothere Tylocephalonyx skinneri, and type specimens of several other mammals, including rodents, oreodonts and carnivores.
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he struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution
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However today my race was really over when I stalled the car at the start and had to begin my race from the pit lane.
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Laplace called probability theory ‘the calculus of inductive reasoning.’
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So brisk was the malwa business that it propelled Okello to some form of royalty.
New Vision Frontpage News
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One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
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Unemployment has hit unskilled workers in particular.
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Bishop Bernard Fellay revealed to ZENIT that the congregation told him to expect the publication of a statement issued "motu proprio" (on his own initiative) by Benedict XVI on the new structure of Ecclesia Dei before June 20.
Fellay: Restructuring of Ecclesia Dei Imminent
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Except that in Latin a ship's prow was called a rostrum and the plural of rostrum was rostra so they called the speaking platform rostra.
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Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy.
The Titan
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He said the long term vision of the ginnery is to establish a fully fledged textile industry, which will produce finished materials if the company started producing more lint than what the customers could take.
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It joins a host of other multinational businesses making similar pledges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every jag, every bump on the wall revealed a zone of darkness that was worth to explore, but every time, in the shadows, there was just the sides of the cave, continuing.
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On the taxes proposed she said, "Those concerned by our wish list's ` nanny state 'implications might helpfully redirect their focus to the many unseen measures intentionally adopted by the food industry to shape our behaviour … It seems that without our knowledge or consent we are subject to the pervasive' nannying 'activities of industry.
THE MEDICAL NEWS
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I disagreed with something…kind of bristled at how something was characterized and was piled on.
Scott Brown Posed in Cosmo’s Center-Fold 28 Years Ago — And So What? - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
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But he railed against subsidies for ethanol producers and other provisions of the bill that he called unneeded, unnecessary, unwanted sweeteners ' ' to win votes for the package.
Tax-Cut Bill Draws Wide Support in Senate
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It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role.
Times, Sunday Times
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He towelled his wet hair.
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Union officials privately acknowledge that Phoenix's achilles heel has always been the difficulties it would face raising the necessary finance.
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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
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It built that knowledge into the system; if you typed a word inaccurately, Google would give you the right results anyway.
In the Plex
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The Centenier finished his coffee, while Holmes selected and filled his briar pipe.
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He insisted the second try - which levelled the scores in injury time - was short of the line.
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Of course, you would expect it to be damp in those parts of the Highlands which the Camanachd Association holds as its fiefdom and indeed shinty has suffered in recent weeks with matches being cancelled due to unplayable pitches.
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-- _More beautiful, most beautiful_, etc. can hardly be called degree forms of the adjective.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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He wears his cap backwards and spits rhymes with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics.
The Harvard Crimson :: News
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As Locke and Jean stumbled to their feet, the door on the wall opposite the window slammed open, and in stepped a broad-shouldered man with the slablike muscles of a stevedore or a smith.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Twice through the following night was I wakened by the boat being hurled upon her beam-ends by the blows of the seas; but she righted easily, and took scarce any water, the canvas proving a very roof of safety.
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
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Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion.
Postmodernism
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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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The orbit of the earth (or the circle which the sun seems to describe round the earth), is called the ecliptic, which is divided into twelve equal parts, called signs, and are distinguished by the following names and marks, [again, the symbols for the signs can be seen in the
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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I showed up at West Point and found that 60% of my classmates were team captains, and 20% were valedictorians.
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Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
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The new sled is meant to replace the one he had in Colorado, back with his family.
Eric’s Top 10 Defining Christmas Moments » Scene-Stealers
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Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
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He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
CHAPTER XV
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The equipment had to be dismantled and reassembled at each new location.
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Reconditioned radiator or cooling system refilling ( possibly under filled or air trapped in system ).
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He pledged his gold watch to pay for her birthday gift.
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Non-emergency surgery planned over the next few days had to be cancelled because of the blood donor crisis.
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He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
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Had such a nice time, it was really charming in a slightly run-down way and on a beautiful little lake called Stoney Lake.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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The attractive forces between molecules in a liquid are called surface tension forces and are what hold the liquid together.
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The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years.
Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
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Carry out detailed market research before committing financial and staff resources to new products or services.
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It cannot be smoked, drunk or gambled away.
Times, Sunday Times
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He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata.
Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
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I boxed, swam, sailed, rode horses, lived in the open an arrantly healthful life, and passed life insurance examinations with flying colours.
Chapter 29
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The inner reef, where we do walk, is actually composed of coralline algae, calcium-rich plants that form rock-hard ledges.
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The court say that, "to be a citizen it is necessary that he should be entitled to the enjoyment of these privileges and immunities, upon the same terms upon which they are conferred upon other citizens; and unless he is so entitled, _he cannot, in the proper sense of the term, be a citizen_.
An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting
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There is also a small genus of orchids, called coralroots, that obtains the majority of its nutrition from a mycorrhizal association with soil fungi.
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This is a habit I developed surrounded by thick-skulled idiots.
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Often considered to be one of the most spectacular lizard species, sometimes called the "Jesus lizard", the green basilisk is a striking addition to any reptile collection.
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His answer was tinted by his prior knowledge.
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So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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She pulled out her camera and took several snapshots of it as she approached.
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Chickadees called occasionally, but never titmice.
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BLITZER: In our strategy session today, President Bush was out heralding what he called the vibrant state of the U.S. economy.
CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2005
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To struggle in sweat pooled rivers, will cause the boat to the other side of the ideal sail.
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Volumes of exchanges have been taking place over what some of these correspondents have called the militarisation of Haiti by international forces, many of the voices sounding off against it.
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John Sayles is often hailed as the king of independent cinema, so it is little wonder that his latest movie, Silver City, was able to attract such a mouth-watering cast.
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He travelled widely in pursuit of his ornithological passion, making many new discoveries.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Three teams of firefighters tackled the blaze for more than an hour.
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The dean promptly caved and told us that our party was now being called the ‘Annual’ party
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The adults' menu may feature grilled shrimp, charbroiled chicken, sautéed vegetables, and salads galore.
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However, anotIT vole relative titled the montane vole, have no interest in partnership beyond sex.
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Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century.
New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
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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
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It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress.
Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
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Calis, and so on the mondaie following, [Sidenote: Iohn Hall executed.] he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne, and there hanged, bowelled, headed, and quartered: his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp, where the duke was murthered.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
