How To Use Pitta In A Sentence
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The hummus was creamy with tahini and lemon, although the pittas were a bit dry.
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It's a sweet deal for General Motors, which snags 2% of world market share for a pittance.
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This our last answer we send unto hir with the Lord Ruthven and Laird of Pittarrow; requiring of hir Grace, in plane wordis, to signifie unto us what houpe we myeht have of hir favouris toward the outsetting of religioun.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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Salad sarnies, hummus and pitta bread and cheese on toast (only OK for lacto-vegetarians anyway) can get really boring.
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Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.'
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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With a pittance of a salary, how could they be enthused to become proactive people?
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My companions fell for the chicken and mushroom vol-au-vents served with salad and the chilli in pitta bread clicked with our photographer.
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Even though pittas are often very brightly colored, the color is usually located either on their undersides or on areas that can be covered when the wings are folded.
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Like superposh toasted pitta with tarama.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cram the lumps of chicken into hot pitta bread with the spiced yoghurt and some shredded crisp lettuce.
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In yet another print, he grovels avariciously for a pittance at the feet of Prime Minister Pitt as the latter grinds John Bull through a mincing machine to produce gold coins.
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Pitta and naan are two types of flat bread.
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Use a slotted spoon to fill each pitta bread with the bean mixture.
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A filled tortilla wrap or pitta are also great, tasty choices.
The Sun
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For the pittance they're paid, adjunct profs at our colleges might as well be sweatshop workers.
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Although chick peas are classic for hummus, any canned bean will convert into a delicious purée for dipping toasted pitta, flat bread or raw vegetables; my own favourite is made from butter beans.
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I like real food; pitta bread not garlic pitta bread.
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The fairy pitta is one of the most precious birds in Linnei Township and is listed as a critically endangered species.
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I could identify by sight just about 500 of its species -- a pittance of its total diversity.
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Of course, in its new incarnation, the book is no longer "real" pulp - printed on the cheapest paper, sold for a pittance - but a kind of canonised and reified pulp, beautifully produced and, at Rs. 195, priced the same as an average paperback.
The Middle Stage
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People everywhere in the city walk around munching on shawarma, a species of doner kebab: chicken or lamb sliced off a hot rotating cone, wrapped in either pitta or flat Georgia lavash and dipped in spicy yoghurt.
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Serve with a small toasted wholemeal pitta cut into strips.
The Sun
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Serve with warm pittas for dunking.
Times, Sunday Times
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Savers see their interest reduced to a pittance.
The Sun
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Apparently this antpitta is much like Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition; nobody expects it!
10,000 Birds
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She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension.
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The marital crisis coincides with a miners' strike in which the men are forced to live off a pittance while blacklegs take over their jobs.
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Since the start of the industrial revolution people have been paid a pittance for manual labor.
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Ihave about a hundred english murder mysteries from agatha christie to ngaio marsh to ruth rendell to p. d.james, ect … i would trade them in or sell them for a mere pittance so that i might be able to aquire some new titles.
Introducing BookHints « Reading Copy
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My companions fell for the chicken and mushroom vol-au-vents served with salad and the chilli in pitta bread clicked with our photographer.
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However, the plantations are unattractive to local people, not because the people are 'choosy' but because they can't live on the pittances offered as wages.
Malaysia independent news
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Armed with 18th century maps he showed me the straggle of ruined cottages once occupied by poor country folk who worked for a pittance on local farms.
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At the end of the day, after paying the rental, the pittance that we earn is not enough for day-to-day expenses.
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The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the
Burlesques
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Hotels are a pittance, the national park is free, and there's mini-golf, ice cream cones and bowling to boot.
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The pittance paid out in compensation for retrenchment has provided barely a few months subsistence, with former employees being thrown into abject poverty.
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Reverse splits make a stock appear more expensive and can attract buyers who will not purchase shares that sell for a pittance.
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In 1998, four American bird-watchers looking for the rare Cundinamarca antpitta instead encountered a FARC comandante named Romaña, who took them prisoners.
With Rebels on the Run, Colombia
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For supper they are given pitta bread, tahini and stuffed vine leaves, which they poke at mistrustfully with their fingers - there is no cutlery.
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Baked beans on wholemeal pitta with salad.
The Sun
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The incumbent is paid a pittance to give a series of lectures on the art of poetry.
Times, Sunday Times
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CARILLION IS raking in profits while paying its workers a pittance.
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Why should those with bank deposits earning a pittance be subject to taxation, but much wealthier equity investors be exempt?
Times, Sunday Times
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The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire.
Burlesques
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Asities' closest relatives are actually pittas and broadbills (Eurylaimidae).
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Native gambusias are the best choice for mosquito control; those desiring underwater color should invest a pittance in dime-apiece ‘feeder goldfish.’
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Because I haven't got the readies to hand, I could offer a pittance now and promise to pay the rest at a date more to my convenience.
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The Old World has only about 50 species of suboscines, and these fall into three small groups: the outrageously colorful, short-legged, plump pittas; the broadbills; and the asities.
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The parcels were then served on a bed of lettuce with toasted pitta bread.
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At Moro we serve them with triangles of crisp pitta bread.
Choice cuts from Moro
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Pittards have developed a new chamois leather.
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Pittaway is a well travelled lepidopterist with a passion for sphingids.
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Called Vata, Pitta and Kapha, the forces are present in varying amounts in each of us, but one usually predominates.
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Pitta enjoyed initial success, his modest fleet savaging Grunger's armada amidst a devastating fusillade of proton torpedoes.
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The graveyard was owned by the County Council who paid old Mr. Deegan a pittance to caretake it.
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With a pittance of a salary, how could they be enthused to become proactive people?
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Many of them are sold for a pittance though, some of the jewels are worth tens of thousands of pounds and the farmers get enough for a transistor radio.
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Why do we tithe hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year to a sport to earn an occasional pittance in a field sprint?
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Or try the shawarma — meltingly soft lamb and crispy salad inside a warm pitta.
The Sun
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Pitta and vasha, by the way, are two of the three body types which form the basis of Ayurvedic treatments.
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The peasant laboured for a mere pittance.
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Pittard can be harrowingly wise about the melancholy process of growing up, of moving from the horny days of high school to the burden of protecting our own children.
A missing girl's long shadow
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Reverse splits make a stock appear more expensive and can attract buyers who will not purchase shares that sell for a pittance.
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One wrap or pitta in a lunchbox can be made spillproof by encasing firmly in clingfilm.
Times, Sunday Times
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I will not applaud the clarity gained when the U.S. refuses to ante up more than a pittance for the damage wrought by tsunamis in Southeast Asia.
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Lunch could be something such as lean chicken or another meat and salad in a pitta or tortilla wrap, with a yogurt and apple to follow.
The Sun
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Split each pitta in half horizontally, and spread each with one level tablespoon of passata.
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Serve the lamb in toasted pitta breads with the piccalilli and salad leaves.
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Sadly, a big chunk of this money mountain is rotting away in obsolete accounts that pay a pittance in interest.
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Pittas and broadbills are found primarily in southern and southeastern Asia, but a small number of species from both groups are found in Africa, and two species of pittas have reached Australia from the north.
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Since the start of the industrial revolution people have been paid a pittance for manual labor.
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‘In the Fall’ tells of an old horse being sold to the knacker by a family who lack the means to feed it through another winter and who need the pittance it will bring.
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Wholemeal, ciabatta, bagels, pitta bread or tortilla wraps will be a welcome change.
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The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the
Burlesques
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There would be no homes sitting on the rims if we had visionairies back in 1970 when the person who owned most of the rims from the Airport to Zimmerman trail wanted to sell all that land to the City for a pittance.
Gone with the Wendy's
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Use some of the shredded little gem to half fill each pitta then fill up with the lamb and salad mixture.
The Sun
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Restricted range species however, are thought to include olive-chested flycatcher (Myiophobus cryptoxanthus), brown nunlet (Nonnula brunnea), and Ochre-striped antpitta (Grallaria dignissima) to name a few.
Napo moist forests
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Chesser examined the molecular systematics of the New World suboscines and included three antpitta genera (Grallaricula, Myrmothera, and Grallaria) and one antthrush in the study.
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I could identify by sight just about 500 of its species -- a pittance of its total diversity.
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They pay a pittance into the state pension system and then rob workers over company pension plans.
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The word 'pizza', meaning a food item, is obviously identical to 'pitta' - flat unleavened Greek bread.
Languagehat.com: LA PIZZA.
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Pitta governs bodily functions concerned with heat and metabolism, and directs all biochemical reactions and the process of energy exchange.
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They are the perfect addition to a pitta pocket, a nutritious but filling meal suitable for all the family.
The Sun
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My father would be furious to know that his investment was earning pittance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Keep a packet of pitta bread in the freezer, heat up under the grill from frozen and cut into fingers.
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Its fruitpulp is used as mild laxative, against fevers, arthritis, vatavyadhi (nervous system diseases), all kinds of rakta-pitta (bleeding, such as hematemesis or hemorrhages), as well as cardiac conditions and stomach problems such as acid reflux.
Find Me A Cure
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Merriam-Webster offers another theory; that pizza is related to the modern Greek word pitta meaning "flatbread.
Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
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A mere pittance, a crust.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is followed however by pitta bread, a cheese sandwich, crisps and a midnight bowl of porridge.
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Amalaki is considered to be a Pitta rasayana, with astringent, stomachic, carminative, alterative, immunomodulant, adaptogenic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antipyretic, and trichogenous properties.
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Use to fill a small pitta or a tortilla wrap.
The Sun
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Pensioners and workers are hammered by this Tory tax while the wealthy pay a pittance.
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Mix together all ingredients and pile into a wholemeal pitta or on to a slice of wholemeal bread.
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In sandwich bars, ask for granary bread, and in supermarkets choose granary rolls, pittas and tortilla wraps.
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Kofta with yoghurt and pitta bread
Times, Sunday Times
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One only had to look at the vast amounts of war medals sold for a pittance by impoverished and embittered veterans at flea markets.
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Serve with half a pitta bread and 1tbsp of tzatziki.
The Sun
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Salad sarnies, hummus and pitta bread and cheese on toast (only OK for lacto-vegetarians anyway) can get really boring.
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For larger food products in excess of 457mm (18 ") in diameter, such as pitta bread and pizza crust, Forpak has rolled out the GS II version, which has the same capabilities as the GS model.
FoodProductionDaily RSS
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Squeeze on fresh lime at the last minute, and pile into warmed pitta with sour cream, guacamole and fresh coriander.
Times, Sunday Times
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Orange headed thrush, Indian Pitta and resident birds such as oriole, spotted owlet and hoopoe can be sighted on this campus.
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Nowadays, though, there is a huge variety of rolls, bagels, pittas, flatbreads, ciabattas and baguettes to choose from.
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They were rewarded with more antpittas (at the Jocotoco antpitta feeding station) and other fun birds, while I tried not to let my pantlegs touch the filthy floor every time I used the toilet.
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Now, the agencies pay them only a pittance and pocket part of the amount collected from those who want to engage home nurses.
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To get a pittance of a welfare subsidy, you must work 4 hours a day.
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By earning a pittance as a contributor to learned periodicals, she managed from time to time to share rooms in London with friends.
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They basked in the sun on a park bench and bought souvlaki sandwiches - chunks of lamb in pitta bread - from a pushcart.
JANAKY AND THE GIANT
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Since dry skin is caused due to vata or pitta vitiation, the diet should be designed to reduce these vitiations.
Do you think Dietary Treatments is good for Dry skin
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Tea and wheat products such as chapattis or pitta bread adversely affect iron absorption
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She is also fond of risotto, mild goat's cheese, olives, breadsticks and pitta bread, especially if she can dunk them in some creamy hummus.
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I found some Western Sierra wholewheat pitta breads in the freezer.
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We heard our first antpitta and spent ages trying to call it out, but to no avail.
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Sometimes he contrived, in defiance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tenants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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We even pay taxes on most of our Social Security earnings, if our household income rises above a pittance.
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Nobody can understand you are making a pittance on the rent.
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Serves 6-8 as a mezze or 4 as a starter or light mealorganic carrots 750g, scrubbedextra-virgin olive oil 4 tbsp, plus a little extra for drizzlingsea saltblack peppercaraway seeds 1 level tbsp, roughly ground in a mortarfresh mint 2 tbsp, roughly chopped feta cheese 100g For the crispbread:butter 25gpitta breads 2Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4.
Choice cuts from Moro
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This is followed however by pitta bread, a cheese sandwich, crisps and a midnight bowl of porridge.
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She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension.
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She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension.
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He works hard but he's paid a pittance.
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Why should those with bank deposits earning a pittance be subject to taxation, but much wealthier equity investors be exempt?
Times, Sunday Times
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My companions fell for the chicken and mushroom vol-au-vents served with salad and the chilli in pitta bread clicked with our photographer.
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Lightly toasted pitta and a green salad on the side would be perfect complements.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gold is associated with sulphides, sericitic alteration and minor quartz veinlets although the open-pittable resource is largely oxidised.
Reuters: Press Release
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Split each pitta in half horizontally, and spread each with one level tablespoon of passata.
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For lunch, a pitta or tortilla wrap with a lean filling such as chicken or hummus was a good choice.
The Sun
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These are closed to new applicants but will have some savers unknowingly earning a pittance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Serve two pitta halves per person alongside the shredded iceberg lettuce.
The Sun
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And no wonder new purchases of bond funds are a pittance compared with what people shovel into stock funds.
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I have nothing but praise for Trevor Schmidt's direction and Raymond Spittal's design, but do wonder about the lighting choice for the protracted nude scene.
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Item, the pittancer is to serve out mashed beans to the servants of the convent during Lent as well as to those who are in religion, and at this season he is to provide the prior of the cloister and the hebdomadary with bruised cicerate; 58 but if any one of the same is hebdomadary, he is only to receive one portion.
Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
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Of course, Italians can't take all the credit for what is quite simply the world's best snack; as the Oxford Companion to Food points out, the linguistic link between pizza and pitta is surely no coincidence – topped breads have been popular around the Mediterranean since classical times, and Etruscans were baking schiacciata in the Tuscan region over 2,000 years ago.
How to cook the perfect pizza
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I am not up to speed on the identification of antpittas, Eurasian emberizids and finches, or broadbills.
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Use some of the shredded little gem to half fill each pitta then fill up with the lamb and salad mixture.
The Sun
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Eat too much of a pitta-promoting food such as fast-food burgers, ayurvedics say, and you might find yourself feeling hot and acting rude and domineering.
Undefined
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As it is melting, warm the pitta in the oven for a couple of minutes, then carefully split the pitta in half lengthways and brush the butter on both sides.
Choice cuts from Moro
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The gray-naped antpitta (Grallaria griseonucha) lives in the montane evergreen forest.
Venezuelan Andes montane forests
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Pitta's critics concede that many quarters share the blame for Sao Paulo's afflictions.
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Lightly toasted pitta and a green salad on the side would be perfect complements.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the dry skin is a result of pitta vitiation (dry skin in hot weather), then eat light foods that are easy to digest.
Do you think Dietary Treatments is good for Dry skin
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The incumbent is paid a pittance to give a series of lectures on the art of poetry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reverse splits make a stock appear more expensive and can attract buyers who will not purchase shares that sell for a pittance.
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Meanwhile, the welders and vessel fitters were working long hours for a pittance - all the while being charged $50 per month for their board.
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There is a good range of snacks too: smoked haddock and cheddar tart, chicken, red onion marmalade and Brie panini or moreish extras like the olives and hummus served with pitta bread.
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The rest of the day was spent birding with a guide in and around the fort looking for green avadavat, Indian pitta, jungle bush quail, thick billed flowerpecker etc.
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Tea and wheat products such as chapattis or pitta bread adversely affect iron absorption
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The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire.
Novels by Eminent Hands
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She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a pension.
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I also knew that I could not be appeased with a pittance in dividends simply because everyone was focused on share price growth.
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Shamas, barbets, dollarbirds, bee-eaters, coucals, parakeets, pittas, shrikes, bulbuls - birds of every shape and variety, common or rare are to be found in some part of Pulau Ubin.
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Then experience the completely different habitats of El Valle, searching for orange - bellied trogons, black - crowned antpittas, white-tipped sicklebills & the like.
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Wholemeal, ciabatta, bagels, pitta bread or tortilla wraps will be a welcome change.
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She is also fond of risotto, mild goat's cheese, olives, breadsticks and pitta bread, especially if she can dunk them in some creamy hummus.
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These workers are paid a pittance for doing vital work in hospitals.
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For lunch, a pitta or tortilla wrap with a lean filling such as chicken or hummus was a good choice.
The Sun
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Sprinkle with paprika and serve with pitta or on grilled lamb chops.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nowadays, though, there is a huge variety of rolls, bagels, pittas, flatbreads, ciabattas and baguettes to choose from.
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Serve two pitta halves per person alongside the shredded iceberg lettuce.
The Sun
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Ring the changes with pitta bread or sesame buns, instead of the usual sliced bread.
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Her husband, after incurring losses trying to run a business, is now employed in a private firm for a pittance.
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The Turks serve this as a meze with strips of warm pitta.
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Spread the pitta breads with ricotta and top with spinach, lemon zest, thyme, bocconcini and pancetta.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crop was sold for a pittance.
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Mix together all ingredients and pile into a wholemeal pitta or on to a slice of wholemeal bread.
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Alternatively, open up the pitta and fill it with the hummus and the salad.
The Sun
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We were rewarded for our endurance on the way down, when we finally saw our first antpitta.
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This is followed however by pitta bread, a cheese sandwich, crisps and a midnight bowl of porridge.
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If every action, which is good or evil in man at ripe years, were to be under pittance and prescription and compulsion, what were virtue but a name, what praise could be then due to well-doing, what gramercy to be sober, just, or continent?
Areopagitica
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Serve two pitta halves per person alongside the shredded iceberg lettuce.
The Sun
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About a year and a half after Endor, Pitta obtained a torpedo sphere from an unknown source, and set about procuring the thousands of proton torpedoes necessary to render the sphere militarily useful.
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they work all day for a mere pittance
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Mr Augustine will be keenly aware that this expense is a pittance compared to the costs of sticking with an overly ambitious requirement that is such a huge cost driver.
Dear Mr. Augustine - NASA Watch
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Why should those with bank deposits earning a pittance be subject to taxation, but much wealthier equity investors be exempt?
Times, Sunday Times
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Soak up the atmosphere along with copious quantities of mezze, from tzatziki to spanakopitta.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government knows older people will be forced out of decent jobs and forced into menial jobs like filling supermarket trolleys and opening doors for a pittance.
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I would eat foods that were made famous thousands of years ago such as hummus, tahini, pitta bread, olives from the Holy Land, dates and figs.
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The new Nazi government decreed a forced sale, for a pittance, of the main Alt Aussee house.
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No one will thank you for that mean little tub of hummus and packet of pitta bread you bought at the corner shop.
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So I'll have at least a tiny pittance of spending money for a few days, before it runs out again.
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Two of the world's richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, say they'll leave what amounts to a pittance to their children.
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Spoon the filling into warmed pitta breads; drizzle with tzatziki.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are three birds listed by IUCN as vunerable (Tyto manusi, Pitta superba, and Rhipidura semirubra).
Admiralty Islands lowland rain forests
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Hylopezus berlepschi, Amazonian Antpitta an antbird
Who Was Berlepsch?
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Cram the lumps of chicken into hot pitta bread with the spiced yoghurt and some shredded crisp lettuce.
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Yet we pay these workers a pittance for work that is often physically and mentally demanding in the extreme.
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Use a slotted spoon to fill each pitta bread with the bean mixture.
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‘Spells to find wedding rings dropped down wells or misplaced keys can be bought for a pittance,’ he said.
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Birds include rare white-bellied black woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis), fairy pitta (Pitta nympha), and ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus torquatus).
Southern Korea evergreen forests
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Labor's election promises, which amounted to a pittance spread out over a number of years, convinced few voters.
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The incumbent is paid a pittance to give a series of lectures on the art of poetry.
Times, Sunday Times
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She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a pension.
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Pittas are small to medium sized birds (15 to 29 cm long, 42 to 210 g) with long legs, short tails and strong, downcurved bills.
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The church itself was impropriated to the Abbey of Inchaffray, founded by the Earl of Strathearn about the beginning of the twelfth century, and was served by a vicar, to whom that monastery delegated the clerical duty, doubtless on the usual pittance of stipend.
Chronicles of Strathearn
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I don't think you need the olive oil Nigella adds either; I prefer to keep mine as a topping, to be soaked up by the pitta – but one innovation I will be keeping is her pinch of cumin.
How to make perfect hummus
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Orange headed thrush, Indian Pitta and resident birds such as oriole, spotted owlet and hoopoe can be sighted on this campus.
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If Mrs Dalnaspittal had gone, there was every possibility that gravity had failed across the board.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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Its falafel incredibly light and delicate, encased in perfectly crisp shells, beautifully spiced and seasoned, long on savoury flavour live up to the billing, served with a fresh minty tzatziki, so-so standard pitta and salad.
Lancaster's 10 best budget restaurants, pubs and cafes
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We are not ungrateful to friends, but feel that our toil has made our friends able to contribute the stinty pittance which we have received at their hands.
Defense of the Negro Race----Charges Answered. Speech of Hon. George H. White, of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1901
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On our way thither, between six and seven o'clock in the morning, we passed many a long queue waiting outside butchers 'shops for pittances of meat, and outside certain municipal dépôts where after prolonged waiting a few thimblesful of milk were doled out to those who could prove that they had young children.
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
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Old Chinese boneshaker bicycles can be hired for a pittance, and the area is less hilly than much of Xishuangbanna.
