How To Use Pale In A Sentence
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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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She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow.
Incubus
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China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
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Second, if a Palestinian state is recognized along the 1967 lines in point of fact, nothing more than the 1949 armistice lines, this undermines UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and the Camp David Accords, which call for a negotiated outcome and do not predetermine final boundaries.
David Harris: Support Peace: Oppose Palestinian UN Gambit
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Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject
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It is a big sweep of soft, pale coral sand shelving gently into the Ionian sea.
The Sun
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Her eyes were a light shade of blue, dominating her pale face.
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‘We tooted and tooted,’ says Harry, ‘until the white sugar lump melted into the pale horizon.’
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In other words, you can look at one face and see loess topped by a paleosol and then covered in flow deposits.
NYT > Home Page
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He was asleep on the window, looking angelic as the moonlight shone in, making his skin a smooth pale lucid colour.
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Wielding his blade like a master painter, his palette holds only one colour, and that is crimson.
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On fair skin, pale shades are delicate enough not to overpower your colouring.
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A dab of pale lilac or silver on the inner corner of the eye will make your eyes look whiter and brighter, giving an instant youth punch.
The Sun
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Apart from a pale yellow primula, snowdrops are the only flowers in the front garden but despite this there is plenty of other interest.
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Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered.
Undesirables
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The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
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It may seem a paradox that the same colour should be at once so durable and so fugitive, but we may briefly explain it by saying _when vitreous pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided state_.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power.
'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
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I thought my deathly pale face made me look awful.
The Sun
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We really don't want to be the overlords of the Palestinian population.
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A more specific look is then taken at the Ottoman 'sanjaks' or district provinces, with the Jerusalem sanjak "as a separate entity from the other regions of Syria [being] of tremendous importance for the emergence of Palestine about fifty years later.
The Israel/Palestine Question - Book Reveviw
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‘Forest Pansy’ makes my plain old redbud pale by comparison.
Late April Mish Mash « Fairegarden
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While contemplating the possibility that the Baraita is a Karaite forgery intended to attack rabbinic Judaism, Horowitz finally opted for a rabbinic origin, and concluded that it was composed around the fourth century, in Palestine.
Baraita de-Niddah.
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Washington jugeait "intenable" le blocus de l'enclave palestinienne qu'Israël a défendu cette semaine en tuant
WN.com - Articles related to Pourquoi Obama et Sarkozy doivent s'investir au Proche-Orient
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Inside, the walls were all plastered and painted pale colours with cream carpets - very novel for the early 1970s in Ireland.
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However, it is hardly an unsolvable mystery: remember that there were plants with sap, leaves, seeds, spores and pollen in the Paleozoic, long before flowering plants appeared.
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A pale complexion can also signal iron deficiency anaemia.
The Sun
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Everyone who uses those arguments has already assumed the longterm disfranchisement and marginalization of that majority of the Palestinian people forced to live in complete exile from their homeland for, in many cases, the past 60 years ...
Charlottesville Blogs
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Sketch pale write, when you leave me after the story.
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The wide expanse of floor between the two areas was pale, marble patterned tile.
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And this forensic paleographer over here agrees with me that it's too good to be true!
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
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For the burgers• 1½ pounds fresh tuna steaks, cut into 1/2-inch dice• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard• 1 tablespoon chipotle pepper in adobo purée• 1 tablespoon honey• 3 tablespoons canola oil• 2 green onions, green and pale-green part, thinly sliced• Salt and freshly ground pepper• 4 kaiser rolls• 2 ounces watercress• 1 red onion, peeled, halved and thinly sliced.
Bobby Flay’s tips for great burgers
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The first cycle initiated in the early Paleocene and represents a transition from Cretaceous marine turbidites and shales to subaerial fluvial sandstones and conglomerates.
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The subtle colour palette is another layer in the creation of a calm and relaxing area for catching up with work or with after party guests.
The Hill House
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Luckily it had short sleeves, and she knew that the subtle shade of pale aquamarine suited her colouring.
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Americans I talked to recently looked pale and wan after staying in the capital.
Times, Sunday Times
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She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings.
Maid in Waiting
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Decorated in pale green, it has decorative ceiling plasterwork, a white marble fireplace and French doors to the back garden.
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And Israel has again started to crack down on Palestinian militants.
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But it pales beside the one his missus continues to live in.
The Sun
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The stalks grow pale and wide, the flavour mellow yet powerful and tangy.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is the author of well over 100 research publications including journal articles, book chapters, and six books on desert grassland, the cacti of Sonora, the Sonoran desert tortoise, and packrat middens and the paleoecology of the southwestern deserts.
Contributor: Tom Van Devender
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Body about the size of a common goose; bill short, vaulted, obtuse, two-thirds of which is covered by an expanded cere of a pale greenish-yellow colour, the tip of the bill being black, arcuated, and truncated.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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She stretched the way that a cat does, edging her pale arms through the slimy, greasy mess we left behind.
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As he walked towards me I saw he was wearing a pale mac, like in one of his films.
Times, Sunday Times
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The young leaves of my magnolia look tattered and some have pale spots on the surface.
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His opinions are entirely beyond the pale.
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Love Israel/Palestine or leave it, like Simone Bitton's politics or not, the film RACHEL deserves to be seen and Cindy Corrie deserves to be heard because, if nothing else, Rachel was an exceptional "girl-next-door.
Undefined
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I thought the first one looked like a distorted and VERY pale purple pieman from strawberry shortcake ...complete with the bakers hat! humm wonder if they would do it in purple for me LOL....
Ghosts with the Most, Continued
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Parking for the venue, the Palestinian people have made announcements to persuade, but no enforcement power to prevent reversals .
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She swung the truck off the highway and angled it between the pale green signs to rattle over the cattle guard.
The Man From High Mountain
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And will he make clear, by his word and deed, that his goal in this conflict is Palestinian statehood, which is American policy and American's goal, and not the destruction of Israel, which, of course, America could never accept.
CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2002
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When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill.
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As revolution spread to Palermo, Milan and Naples it seemed as if the people of Italy could break the domination of the myriad of foreign rulers and domestic autocrats.
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His only movement was in the tears which crept down his pale cheeks.
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He smiled over at Marietta, then his face paled and he froze, seeing Marietta's rounded stomach and radiant face.
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His paintings feature bright intensities of color, unique contrast, relationships of space and a palette of approximately 100 pure, unmixed acrylics.
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The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.
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The saris, dresses and kurta-churidars, made of fabrics like fabrics like chiffons, georgettes and net, were in various shades of beiges, ivory, pale yellow, peach, nude and blue. comment Note: By posting your comments here you agree to the
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You haven't been this pale since, like, February, she says, poking a little fun at the difficulty I seem to have in maintaining any kind of darker pigmentary coloration in the winter.
Things You Can Do, Some Can't Be Done
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This afternoon the Palestinians held an impromptu press conference.
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She noticed a soft nightdress, also pale blue, had replaced her torn gown.
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A limited edition of 1,000 white on pale blue Jasper 8-inch plates, featuring the Home Office seal, were produced.
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I would suggest that if they are bent on breaking Bengal they may opt for joining Sikkim which is a state comprising of Nepalese, Gorkhas, Bhutias, Lepchas and some other mongoloid ethnic groups.
Is Gorkhaland Movement Entering a Phase of Violence?
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Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
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The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia.
A Sicilian Romance
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The announcement electrified the paleoanthropology community.
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The kukri is a traditional Nepalese large knife, which is carried by Gurkha soldiers.
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Palestinian Authority has launched a new security initiative in the West Bank.
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We in Jaffa used to hear news about Palestinian villages falling into Jewish hands as well as massacres committed by the Jews.
Global Voices in English » Palestine: Remembering Shafiq Al Hout
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“His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow.
Musicians of To-Day
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The hall teams a pale oatmeal carpet with yellow tones above and below the dado, plain coving and stylish pendant lighting.
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Her smooth black hair fell around her shoulders, and her cream-coloured dress nearly matched her pale complexion.
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Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.
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Modern luxury ships are a pale imitation of the glamour and style of the early ocean liners.
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A fitful breeze stirred the pale foliage over her head, now and then showering her with pink petals from the lingering blossoms; from beneath her rose the damp sweet fragrance of soft earth and green grass, nearby a meadow-lark sang plaintively; somewhere a robin called arrogantly to his mate in the nest; from the valley, stretching below the sloping orchard, a violet mist lifted.
Red-Robin
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Tom Staple would have willingly been impaled before a Committee of the House, could he by such self-sacrifice have infused his own spirit into the component members of the hebdomadal board.
Barchester Towers
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Her pale face had taken on a dreamy glow, a faraway look glazed her eyes.
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The Sedimentary Subalpine Zone ecoregion is found southeast of Yellowstone National Park, in the overthrust belt, and in the northwest corner of the Bighorn Mountains in areas underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone).
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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Her mouth opened, and stayed so, as her pale eyes widened under the close bonnet she wore.
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Stanley's complaint is about the inadequacy of phyletic gradualism to account for the known facts of paleontology and the superiority of punctuated equilibria as an explanation for those facts.
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One of the executioners then pulled off a kind of furred tippet which covered her bosom; her modesty taking the alarm, made her start back a few steps; she turned pale, and burst into tears.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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Quantitative growth ring analysis of fossil woods may be used only in well-constrained paleoecological studies where taxonomic and climatic sources of variability can be controlled, and additionally, of course, as a qualitative tool in paleoclimatic and paleoecological analyses.
Supplementary Comments to NAS Panel « Climate Audit
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His skin was, sure enough, pale and colorless.
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Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.
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The artistic palette of colors, on the other hand, includes additive colors which include red, green and blue.
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Patches of pale blue appeared fleetingly, punch holes of sanity beneath the roiling storm clouds.
Mercy Kill
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The question is, where do you put political muscle behind these sentiments so that the Saudis stop supporting Wahhabi Islam and al Qaeda and even the Palestinians, who've been used as a cat's-paw to direct pressure from these autocracies?
Obama's Sense of Ummah
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Rendered in black augmented by a thin sienna pinstripe, each is a variation on a halved or quartered circle which floats below center in a field of pale, luminous celadon green.
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The darkness began to lighten into a pale yellow, getting brighter as the seconds passed.
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Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage.
Wayneandwax.com
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I hear a sharp indrawn breath and I look away from inside myself to see Sam looking anaemic, her colour is so pale.
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The idea that cycads stem from Carboniferous so-called pteridosperms (‘seed ferns’ or seed plants with fern-like foliage) has long been popular with paleobotanists.
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Et tamen, dum hi simulant pietatem, licet ex Ecclesia non sint, numerantur tamen in Ecclesia: sicuti proditores in republica, priusquam detegantur, numerantur et ipsi inter cives, et quemadmodum lolium vel zizania et palea inveniuntur in tritico, ant sicut strumae et tumores inveniuntur in integro corpore, cum revera morbi et deformitates sint verius corporis, quam membra vera.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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She was idealized as a martyr's daughter and a symbol of Palestine.
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Ne vous fachez iamais en table, quoy qu'il aduienne, ou bien si vous vous fachez, n'ent faites point de semblant, principalement y ayant des estrangers a table.
George Washington's Rules of Civility
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Prey is not chewed or ground in the mouth: once it is impaled on the sharp teeth, it is swallowed whole.
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Masses of pink light up shady places where the false dragonhead grows, and the jewel weeds are thickly hung with pendant blossoms of orange and pale yellow.
Some Summer Days in Iowa
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I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
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One of the most important aspects of paleobotany is establishing relationships between the organisms that we encounter in the fossil record.
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On National Public Radio a newscaster reads a report on the latest Palestinian-Israeli spat then hesitates - and almost as an afterthought attributes the information to the Israeli government.
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Any negotiations would be complicated by the rival Palestinian governments in the West Bank, which Abbas controls, and in the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Islamic Hamas militants who overran the territory in June 2007.
Israel Settlement Freeze Ends, Construction Resumes
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So, while everyone else was noticing that Avatar hates pale-skinned people with a passion, I was enjoying watching the battles between dragons and helicopters.
Movie Review: Avatar
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Soft, pale colors such as creamy Olay white; pale grays with a slight hint of blue, yellow or green; mushroom beiges that are clean and fresh.
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We've had the bathroom done out in pale yellow.
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The species grows as a partially herbaceous deciduous vine, with fairly pale green, somewhat cut foliage and campanulate light rose-purple flowers.
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Katy, still dressed in her attorney clothes, a gray tweed suit with a pale-blue silk blouse, tucked her napkin under her chin and dug in to the pirogi.
Hot And Bothered
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The besiegement of a people can only erode moderation, foment hatred, and bring Palestinians and Israelis back to darker times.
All Roads Lead to Checkpoints
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The remake of 'Casablanca' was a pale imitation of the original movie.
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Hippocampus severnsi is distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 13 mm, standard length 15 mm); 12 trunk rings; 27 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 14 dorsal fin rays; 10 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; medium length snout which lacks a bulbous tip; raised, angular coronet; single gill opening on midline directly behind coronet supported by raised cleithral bone; scattered tubercles on trunk and tail; predominant colour dark brown (sometimes slightly marbled) with large, bright red patch covering dorsolateral surfaces of trunk rings 1-4; tiny white dots scattered all over; pale posterior section of tail with dark transverse bands.
Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
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I even also know that paleontologists (folks who study dinosaurs) decided that a dinosaur that was once called a brontosaurus (a very nice name) shouldn’t be called brontosaurus anymore, and changed it to apatosaurus (a kind of ugly name).
Lulu and the Brontosaurus
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Her usually rosy cheeks were now pinched and deathly pale.
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Yet these surges pale beside the rise in the global elite fortunes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Far in the back of his throat was a glimmer of light, a pale glow that illuminated his teeth and palate.
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Alice, very pale, was leaning against him as if for support.
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This is the source of the intifada, the uprising of Palestinian youth and workers against the Israeli regime.
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But every day we see more pastel patches of red, purple, yellow, and pale green of swelling buds.
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He knelt inside a globe of pale fire, his face lifted to the chains, his eyes closed.
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Rendered in black augmented by a thin sienna pinstripe, each is a variation on a halved or quartered circle which floats below center in a field of pale, luminous celadon green.
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Phosphor is clearly named for the pale, luminous green that animates a thick, pythonlike convolution which winds up from the bottom of the horizontal canvas and takes several loops around itself before exiting at the top.
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Why does everything else pale in comparison to the rich, glistening red of a rare filet mignon?
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Slowly the edge parted and flattened out, broadwise, displaying the marbled brilliance of the butterfly's inner wings, illumining the pale chastity of the sleeping figure as if with a quivering and evanescent jewel.
Success A Novel
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At the same time, Gaon, the Israeli playwright, attempted to use his version as a way of providing the audience with a more balanced view -- the duel of the Palestinian and Israeli narratives, if you will, which goes back to 1948 and Israel's War of Independence and the Palestinians' Nakba Disaster That may explain why Gaon has been criticized by both Palestinians and Israelis.
Leon T. Hadar: Return to Haifa: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway?
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The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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His compositional palette incorporates atonal and nontonal elements, but within a primarily tonal framework.
NYT > Home Page
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Having studied the Palestinian refugee situation in detail during her Masters Degree in Forced Migration at Oxford, she is looking forward to returning to the Middle East to work in an advocatory capacity.
Palestine Blogs aggregator
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Initially a driver and radio operator, he became a paratrooper and later served in Palestine.
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There were notable standing ovations for the Iraqi and the Palestinian teams.
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Juniper whiled many a day away in her sitting room, speaking to none, playing absently with the pale rose petals, as soft as the skin of a newborn's cheek.
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Isidore's face was pale and he quickly recovered, dusting his chiton.
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The moon pales the stars with her brilliance.
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Her eyes were as black as licorice, and her pale, pale skin was covered in men's clothing.
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We really don't want to be the overlords of the Palestinian population.
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To form them use two very small coffeespoons or eggspoons, as the quenelles should not be larger than _small_ olives; butter the spoons slightly, and when formed drop each for one or two minutes into boiling pale-colored stock.
Choice Cookery
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We have trailblazers like Sheikha Hanadi of Qatar, along with Waed al Taweel, who I met earlier -- a 20-year-old student from the West Bank who wants to build recreation centers for Palestinian youth.
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The piece is illustrated with images that demonstrate the austere intensity of his work since then, exquisite abstract interiors and still lifes executed in his preferred palette of white, grey, light ochre and sienna.
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Constantinople, and several of their friends empaled.
Candide
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paleolithic artifacts
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Miraculously, Posada managed to find the ball, whirl and throw a perfect peg down to second to impale the Impaler.
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Gradually the sun warms up and then, finally, a band of bright, pale gold hits the snow and the fresh powder begins to sparkle beneath your skis.
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In much discourse about the Middle East, there is a widespread myth that Jews are interlopers from Europe and the US - white westerners who came to 'colonise' and 'steal land' from the 'native' Palestinian people to whom it rightfully belongs.
San Francisco Sentinel
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But the mountain still blushes with the palest of pinks, suffusing the blues that give an inkling of the intense cold.
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About their bared legs the shallow water plashed in palest blues and greens over the gold of sand, and the sky above them was blue almost to whiteness, with a scatter of whiter clouds diaphanous as feathers.
His Disposition
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Under the pale blue sky the trees seemed visibly to burgeon: yesterday's bare branches swelled into bud and would be in leaf by tomorrow.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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She paired her bijoux with a simple sheath and pale pink pumps.
Michelle Obama Shows Off Statement Necklace (PHOTOS)
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Call it what you will - lily white, creamy white, porcelain or pearl - I am still ghostly pale.
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The flesh was so pale as to seem blue in the dim light, and waxily cold.
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He had her name put on the sides in big, bold opalescent green, hoping it would reflect like the shimmerings of an imaginary dragon.
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He was gaunt and extremely pale, with parched lips and a beak-like nose.
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Now a team of paleontologists has found a fossilized arthropod they're betting is an early member of the subphylum Crustacea.
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Not only is phylogeny important for understanding paleontology, but paleontology in turn contributes to phylogeny.
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A Palestinian stood in front of Israeli soldiers during a protest in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah.
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The next few pockets yielded only dark blue apatite and clear to smoky to pale citrine quartz.
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It resembled a nineteenth-century spiritualist picture, those pale blurs of ectoplasm in which believers detected the forms of the dead.
SACRAMENT
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Schanzer's language bias is clearly demonstrated when he says that the "United Nations General Assembly partition plan ... endowed the Palestinian Arabs with a state that included an expanded Gaza strip, the West Bank, and much of the northern territory. [emphasis added]" How considerate for sure, to be "endowed" with only portions of your own homeland, while a minority of the population, immigrants at that, is given a majority of the land.
Book Review - Hamas vs. Fatah
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Her face turns paler, she stutters a bit and then finally she leaves with her stupid, moronic girlfriends.
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This second-hand or transcribed social history isn't "parodic," just misconceived, and testimony (if any is needed) to the increasing inability to discern what our disciplinary base actually is in "literary-and-cultural studies," and why it matters that we cannot and should not be simply pale echoes of better-equipped social historians like Colley herself.
Presentism and the Archives
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An Israeli official says Palestinian militants fired on Israeli soldiers from the courtyard of a U.N. school where dozens of people died in fiery explosions.
Coming Soon? Hamas' Media Massacre
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Actually, he's mimicking the action of holding a palette.
Times, Sunday Times
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Qassam himself was "martyred" by British troops in 1935, at the start of the Palestine Revolt, and then largely forgotten until his memory was revived by Hamas.
Which Way for Hamas?
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The younger bridesmaids wore pale lilac shimmer satin dresses with cream embroidered bodices, and carried pomanders of lilac and cream flowers.
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The young birds of the family can be picked out by their pale head and the grey flecks on their back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other Palestinian groups such as the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mediate between the two sides to stop the clashes.
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I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
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At first sight, his canvases resemble palettes and drop cloths rather than finished compositions.
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Pale skin, smooth all over, little pink nipples on a smooth, flat chest, snub nose with a little pale spray of freckles, big, _big_ blue eyes, naked as a jaybird, but for the brass-colored bobby-pins holding up her braids.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The classification was subjective, and families were torn apart when paler or darker skinned children or parents – or those with curlier hair (apparently as a test, pencils were placed in the hair and classifications were made based on whether or not it stayed there), or different features – were placed in separate categories.
2009 April 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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His skin was so pale white and atop his head sat a shock of hair as black as the night sky.
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1972 - Israeli Athletes are taken hostage by Palestinian Black September (group) at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich massacre.
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Until we can create a time machine that can take us back to directly examine past Earth landscapes, paleogeographic maps remain the best tool for reconstructing ancient Earth landscapes.
Durangoherald.com
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While sternwards whirled unstrungpale beads of foam,
Morning at Sea in the Tropics
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To create his trademark pale golds, Van Gogh mixed the bright yellow lead chromate pigment with the white lead sulphate, creating a combination that was subtler than the pure yellow but susceptible to a reaction that creates viridian, a darker shade of spring green.
Chemists Called in as Van Gogh's Pigments Darken
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Greaves achieves considerable intensity on this tiny scale through his mastery of infinitely subtle tonal gradations, often in black and brown or gray hues that evoke the palette of old photographs.
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Percentages can be misleading, however-only three times since 1926 have more than 10 publications dealt with stromatoporoid paleoecology.
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Her pieces feature groups of young pale-skinned models, often naked from the waist down and with a blank expression on their faces.
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Erica pleaded, tears streaming from her closed eyes, making thin watery tracks down her pale cheeks.
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Hamas put the targeting of the Palestinian National Authority.
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My new paint tubes are arranged in a neat arc, brushes and palette knife by their side, and an upturned white enamel plate ready to do duty as a palette until I can find an old one or buy new.
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For a few moments, the only sound was the heavy thud of the ball as it pounded, rhythmically, against pale walls.
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Pale linen suits and cotton shirts are as popular as lightweight suits for men.
Times, Sunday Times
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The United Nations said it was gravely concerned at the shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia.
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The moirée silk of the cassock, the cappa magna and the biretta was of a pale rose color.
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Lavishness of decoration, mastery of execution, expansion of palettes with mixed colours are some of the characteristics of Assam's manuscript paintings.
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Love that she was powerful enough to send Damon flying and impale him on a tree.
'The Vampire Diaries' recap: Damon's plan revealed | EW.com
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Both males and females have green-black specula, with pale blue patches on the forewing.
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Or rather, a medium-sized pile of long white tentacles tinged with pale green.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first turned deathly pale and shot a quick glance at the other.
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Our house in Ireland was really nothing more then a cottage with white shingles on the pointed roof, the outer boards a pale shade of green.
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A cast-iron open fireplace with a pale grey marble mantel provides a focal point.
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Her third piece, an arpillera, depicts in stylised, pale shapes, in a receding line, the children who are lost in war, enduring the trauma of fear and separation.
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I allude to the phase of the aura which presents the "pearly" appearance of the opalescent body, which we have just noted.
The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms
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Chickpeas are almost always sold in dried form, whether split or not, and are of an ochre or pale brown colour in this form.
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The respect in which the synedrial president was held rapidly increased; like Christian patriarchs under Mahometan rule, he was also recognised by the imperial government as the municipal head of the Jews of Palestine, and bore the secular title of the old high priests (nasi, ethnarch, patriarch).
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Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral - red pentstemon.
The Land of Little Rain
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The pale smoke from the cottage chimney pencilled up.
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The only painting of his to change hands in recent years was a Nativity, stolen in 1969 from a church in Palermo - where Caravaggio had painted it after having escaped from gaol in Malta.
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Fourth, the "quagga"; and fifth, the undetermined species known as the "white zebra," so called from its pale yellow, or Isabella colour.
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My makeup had taken Claire the longest because she was not accustomed to working on someone with such pale skin, and kept overestimating the colours.
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A Palestinian flag was unfurled at the site, and some of the demonstrators threw firecrackers at the building.
Egypt to withdraw ambassador to Israel over ambush