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  • But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
  • It had multiple shooters, multiple locations, mobile threats, willingness to fight the first responders and follow-on SWAT/commando units, well-equipped and well-trained operatives, and a willingness to die. Cliff Schecter: The Terrorist and the Terror Watch List
  • There is much to ponder in Evans's paper that resuscitates many ideas from Arthur Holmes of a generation ago.
  • Once all that is figured out, the most confusing factor in the equation must be pondered: playing time.
  • Similarly, when the starter button is pressed, along with the clutch pedal, the system recognises the transponder signal, releases the engine immobiliser and the steering lock, and the engine starts.
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  • I spotted Adrian later in the afternoon staring at the distant tree line with a look of pondering in his eyes.
  • Morris Goldsworth came out of the central room accompanied by a well-suited, ponderous young man in his twenties, marking his catalogue. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
  • After a half hour of ponderous, laugh-free, heavy dialogue, I reclassified Prizzi's Honor as a serious mob movie.
  • His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his _Comedie Humaine_. Balzac
  • The delectable little Dutch songs with which she used to dulcify the house grew less and less frequent, and she would forget her sewing and look wistfully in her father's face as he sat pondering by the fireside. Tales of a Traveller
  • Ian went away, pondering on my replies - but one thing was certain: major changes were in prospect.
  • These are all imponderables and much of it is down to luck in running, in the words of that immortal phrase.
  • The role of veterinarians as first responders to outbreaks of animal disease is central to national efforts to defend against agroterrorism.
  • An unidentified pilot could be no more than a private aviator who unknowingly sends out a wrong signal on his transponder.
  • In dealing with the Soviet Union, in trying to analyze its objectives and capabilities, we continue to tread, as George Kennan wrote in his diary in 1950, “in the unfirm substance of the imponderables.” Interpretations of American History
  • The book is ridiculously baggy and poorly paced: my paperback is practically cuboidal but in its 700 words pages big events are often compressed whilst minor ones are leisurely pondered. Revelation, Redemption and Absolution
  • Result: Uncertainty in each ponderance were analyzed and put forward combined standard uncertainty resides of the method.
  • Pondering on how this was possible, Abrahams asks, ‘Where did he get this sense of the inviolability of his own person, of his own mind?’
  • He may also be pondering moving overseas or buying rivals. Times, Sunday Times
  • I then wandered down Whitehall, passed the great Offices of State, to view the Mother of Parliaments and ponder the fact that 70 years on Britain has a Government led by a Prime Minister never elected to that Office, who has refused to consult the People for fear they oppose him and happily transfered that once so precious prized sovereignty to a new European Superpower. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • And in his stable at Ascot the son of Sleeping Dove, from home for the first time, pondered on the mutability of equine affairs, closing and opening his eyes, and breathing without sound in the strawy dark, above the black cat he had brought to bear him company. Swan Song
  • Pondering the wisdom of basing a key joke on an obscure music reference that most people won't understand, I wander back downstairs to the lounge.
  • New York was left pondering whether to install a more modest moving sidewalk between Times Square and Grand Central Station.
  • A cold fear rose in my throat as I pondered the possible origins of such evil.
  • Furthermore, if the moneymen in Beijing, Tokyo, Berlin, and the other nations currently running trade surpluses against the U.S. start to ponder exaggerated retaliation against the U.S., they will soon discover the advantage is with us, not them. Ian Fletcher: Why Donald Trump Is Right on Trade
  • I circled my original idea pondering the elasticity of fiction and the nature of narratology.
  • It did not allow enough for what we may call the imponderable elements. The Unity of Civilization
  • And I think that if Mr. Sidgwick had pondered the strange words of Ulysses, com 'altrui piacque, he would not have said that the preacher and prophet are lost in the poet. Dante
  • There are flowers to watch, a few leaves still wind-dancing in the garden, toes to toast in front of the fire, and thoughts of the future to ponder.
  • Something for all to ponder is this …. that no matter which "party" one is supposedly affiliated, we live in a democracy (at least last time I checked) and we have the ability to vote for whoever we feel is the best candidate that will represent our ideals. Schneider: A clear rift in the party exists
  • I tend to be a late replier rather than a nonresponder, but even this shows a creeping lack of respect. Times, Sunday Times
  • We also elaborate the strict technology assessment procedure, persist the technology assessment standard, conform the technology assessment method and initiate the deep level from this ponder.
  • Did nobody stop to ponder three obvious questions to put this claim in context? Times, Sunday Times
  • Products include disposable gas-detection tubes, single-gas personal monitors, multi-sensor chemical-detection monitors, photoionization detector (PID) monitors for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), wireless gas-detection systems, and radiation monitoring networks for energy production and refining, industrial and environmental safety, and public and government first responder security sectors. Engineering Hardware-Software
  • Fire suppression has transformed open stands of old-growth species such as ponderosa pine to dense stands with understories of small-diameter conifers. Beyond Old Growth~ Chapter 5
  • Talese, or at the very least "Talese," should have pondered his actual achievement as a journalist here. Mr. P, Mrs. V, and Mr. T
  • Fans will enjoy the aptly titled A TWISTED LADDER as the heroine ponders nurturing vs. naturing with her DNA and her childhood tainted in this terrific refreshing character driven thriller. A Twisted Ladder-Rhodi Hawk « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • The thing Matt hasn’t pondered is this: had prosecutions been pursued, then Obama’s policy of massive drone bombings in Afghanistan – that kill civilians right and left – would have led to prosecutions after his team leaves office as well. Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
  • a preponderance of evidence against the defendant
  • Mr. Pike looked at me ponderingly, and waited until the Elsinore had fairly righted for an instant ere he took his departure down the hall. CHAPTER XXIX
  • I guess these aren’t trendy enough or an easy slap at someone (did anyone find it ironic that one year [the annual contest] C’ville said that the place for peoplewatching was at Golden Corral and in the article slammed every person in there for being an obese porker from a surrounding county and THIS year, the place to take your folks in C’ville Annual Contest was Ponderosa? The Dec. on C-Ville and The Hook at cvillenews.com
  • If we historians were to devote all our attention to the collection of facts and the collating of evidence and to nothing else at all, if we were to neglect the imponderabilia, the spiritual and human sides of life because we have no scientific scale to weigh them in (as indeed we cannot have), we should cease to attract the ablest minds of the rising generation into the army of historians. History and Literature
  • If you ponder or intellectualize, the film slows down.
  • Their thirty and forty - thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles offshore and maneuvered in ponderous evolutions, while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funneled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks. Goliah
  • And yet it is in France that the people of the communes, the burgherdom, reached the most complete and most powerful development, and ended by acquiring the most decided preponderance in the general social structure. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
  • The final line, transferred here from Frankford to Susan with venomous impact, makes us ponder the title anew. Evening Standard - Home
  • Two friends of mine were watching close by as he pondered his second shot. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not only that, the filmmakers created a provocative action film that ponders the essence of reality and identity.
  • He continued to ponder the problem as he walked home.
  • I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge.
  • The dream is not a dream, the difference between the two usually have a very worth pondering the distance.
  • Radar is the vital part of the IFF system, interrogating unit-based transponders and reading responses.
  • She pondered her plan while she stood at the luggage carousel and stared blankly at the conveyor.
  • [11] But in this instance, perhaps, distance of space, combined with the unrivalled grandeur of the war, was felt to equiponderate the distance of time, Susa, the Persian capital, being fourteen hundred miles from Athens. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
  • It is a question that China itself is also beginning to ponder. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then I too am aware of a rather ponderous crashing about. Times, Sunday Times
  • Foreman was thought to be slow and ponderous heading into his title fight with Frazier.
  • Music does not play a very preponderant role in the school's teaching.
  • We can ponder over the ways and means for raising funds before the construction work starts.
  • It will also be ensured that transponders, which signal the plane's whereabouts, cannot be turned off as they were in the planes that were hijacked.
  • But there are still issues worth pondering. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had a place lined up, I thought it over, I mused, I pondered, I decided to go with it.
  • In fact, the Forest Service created Smokey Bear to protect forests, water supply and merchantable trees like ponderosa pine.
  • The ghost of a gist of an explanation for at least a few previously impenetrable imponderables began to agglutinate amongthe eddies of the Inspector's thoughts. The Mocking Program
  • The nation, moreover, continues to enjoy the preponderant influence among national actors in determining what issues do and do not dominate the organization's agenda.
  • Look at today's news about the vomiting crusie ship up at the Cromarty Firth and ponder when was the last time the Govan yards built a cruise liner? Loose lips sink ships
  • Who can articulate a discomfort with the subliminally retro Betty Crocker ideals about femininity (the gyno/Easy-Bake Oven connection!) or ponder the limited entrepreneurial choices for women, even in 2010, when your mouth is full of chocolate ganache? TV Preview: What's new in 'D.C. Cupcakes'? Too little.
  • As per the vehicle's steering and handling, it is generally ponderous and has a slow response to steering inputs.
  • Following a path without caring where it led as he pondered, he was brought up short when a doe and her young fawn scrambled quickly to their feet and bounded off.
  • I pondered all that Chade had wrought, and why he had deliberately withheld this threat to me from my knowledge. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • That didn't stop him lying awake on Monday and Tuesday night pondering the imponderables.
  • Their apparent preponderance may be due to the fact that they have been the most commonly used corticosteroids.
  • The effect of his new method is imponderable.
  • We think it would be found that among women conversions from Protestantism to Catholicism preponderate, and that among men the preponderance is the other way about. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
  • But there's, uh, still a preponderance of evidence against him.
  • From most silly novels we can at least extract a laugh; but those of the modern-antique school have a ponderous, a leaden kind of fatuity, under which we groan. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
  • For the transcriber, the collection is a treasure trove of little discoveries -- the antiquated use of "farinaceous" instead of today's "pasta"; the remarkable preponderance of oyster dishes; the revelation that steaks cost twenty-five cents, not twenty-five dollars. The New York Public Library: All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections
  • There are so many questions, imponderables and what-ifs.
  • Ricks' piece in the Post suggests that there are too many imponderables to predict at this point how these developments will play out.
  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Democrats consider Superdelegate pre-convention \'mini convention\' to pick between Clinton and Obama '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Democrats, looking for a way out, are pondering a new idea: an unprecedented "mini convention" to bring their punishing presidential season to an early close. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Democrats consider Superdelegate pre-convention 'mini convention' to pick between Clinton and Obama
  • This is just another case where you have to ponder where to place the pushpin on the Evil/Stupid graph. Talking Reckless | ATTACKERMAN
  • My perception is that many people feel that the adoption process in this country is ridiculously ponderous if not downright laughable.
  • The final episode of the series sees them ponder their futures. The Sun
  • His ponderous declaration: “I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy,” was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his Balzac
  • We live in an age where many authors ponder their own experience over and over in styles that can be impenetrable, but Vargas Llosa looks at the world and writes about it with such wisdom that he doesn't fear being understood (there I go again, half-joking). Jane Smiley: Noble Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa
  • That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory.
  • More than once he keeps matters from becoming too ponderous, especially during a recital of crimes his daughter committed, long and surreal and made deeply funny by his air of consternated frustration.
  • While those trapped within ponder the reason for the quarantine, work progresses as usual. REVIEW: Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson
  • If we take into calculation the imponderabilia, whose weight can only be guessed at, the scale is inclined slightly in favour of the Triple Germany and the Next War
  • He invested in an essentially Russian company at a time when other big minerals groups were pondering massive takeovers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The very slow action and scene progression of Rainmaker may appear overly ponderous, but is quite effective in conveying the desperation of the characters.
  • A prodigious amount of backcombing and a preponderance of blondes created a fair few leonine manes but the effect was more catwalk queen than Lion King. Has the Little Black Dress finally fallen out of fashion?
  • And then he sped away. leaving me alone to ponder why the landscape was strewn with dead animals for as far as the eye could see.
  • The church was cold that day; most probably because the heating had broken down, but the insanities of the Church were not to be pondered on.
  • In ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and Sitka spruce, dimpling sometimes occurs as numerous small, conical indentations of the plane of the growth ring.
  • Of course, all my ponderings are purely academic, what with my confirmed bachelor status.
  • She ponders for a moment and then stresses that she does not consider it to be a stepping stone to anything.
  • There, too, ranged species beyond species, are the extinct elephants; and there the ponderous skull of the dinotherium, with the bent tusks in its lower jaw, that give to it the appearance of a great pickaxe, and that must have dug deeply of old amid the liliaceous roots and bulbs of the Tertiary lakes and rivers. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
  • You are a social worker but you are also a first responder. Times, Sunday Times
  • The midwesterners who composed Canby's army were probably among the more racist members of the Union army, but in diaries and letters home they reflectively pondered the performance of their fellow soldiers as peace loomed.
  • Those who want skill to use those evidences they have of probabilities; who cannot carry a train of consequences in their heads; nor weigh exactly the preponderancy of contrary proofs and testimonies, making every circumstance its due allowance; may be easily misled to assent to positions that are not probable. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • In these queries he still clings to the idea of Encke, that the resistance is confined to the neighborhood of the sun and planets, like a ponderable fluid. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
  • Looked slow, ponderous and still like a bodybuilder. The Sun
  • He lay down on his pallet still pondering, but the exhaustion from his long vigil the previous day swept him off almost at once into a dreamless, leaden sleep.
  • They pondered the question :'What if food had feelings? The Sun
  • Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.” Waverley
  • I haf ben pondering 4 menny daze upon deh name uv ur Tywonese soup plier, Mr He si? si? U must know passwurd - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • He was instinctive with his goal but before that, his lack of speed and movement encouraged a ponderous build-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet the whole itself must remain conjecture, as imponderable as accomplished facts or as forecasts of the future. Translated Texts
  • Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.” Waverley
  • Garang had a broad impassive face; he cultivated a ponderous dignity that often cowed his opponents.
  • The mother needs to ponder these questions and think hard about what the answers might be. Times, Sunday Times
  • The book's long, ponderous descriptions of southern landscapes and sub-Faulknerian dialogue led some readers to suspect that the hero was in no hurry to see her again.
  • This is used to reprogram a blank 'key', essentially a piece of plastic with a transponder inside. Times, Sunday Times
  • Amid these life-retrospective ponderings blooms a story of young love and lust.
  • Social historians of the future will probably ponder the issues raised in the belief that light will be thrown on the most vital concerns of our age. Times, Sunday Times
  • Watch as, in a glib aside, he patronises a culturally-hungry bevy of 50,000 people and, in the aftermath, ponder the unspoken insinuation that popular music is just a cacophony that only appeals to thickos.
  • Given in his oscillations of mood to a lugubrious woebegoneness ” "He could be just the saddest-looking thing," remembers Roger Wilkins, one of his administration deputies ” Johnson while president brooded ponderously over how he was discounted by the intellectual left as a blustering boor. The Big Guy
  • He constantly pondered upon the possibilities through which his friend might be freed from the shackles that bound him to the effeminate serfdom of idleness; but the magic that could unrivet those fetters had not yet been revealed. Fairy Fingers A Novel
  • Below the Douglas-fir belt, ponderosa pine is dominant to the west of the continental divide, constituting a xerophytic forest. Middle Rocky Mountain Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
  • If we ponder this thought, we shall perhaps discover the reason for the mysterious accord between works of Catholic inspiration, like those of my friend Graham Greene, and the vast dechristianized public that devours his books and loves his films. François Mauriac - Banquet Speech
  • Time has come for introspection by them who owe allegiance to Advanian hinduism, and pondering by political population, that what the country has achieved till date by destabilising the settled communal harmony of this country by hurting the sentiment of a community – and more so, in this sub-continent, where helpless hindus have been suffering continuously since Dec 1992 in the name of retaliations. -- from bijan ghosh date 5 March 2009 14:44 subject india New Lawyers Chambers Supreme Court Buildings New Delhi 110 001 1:20 PM Archive 2009-03-01
  • Down goes the heavy lance; down goes the ponderous shield, suspended by a _telamon: "Ohitarge grant cume peises al col_!" down goes the plated byrnie, "_Ohi grant broine cum me vas apesant_" [Footnote: _La Chancun de Willame_, lines Homer and His Age
  • She pondered for a second but then she realised that it was the panther.
  • Matching the words of the song to the images, we begin to ponder a possible explanation - from a ‘crime passionelle’ to a ghastly workplace accident, or even a bizarre suicide.
  • Social historians of the future will probably ponder the issues raised in the belief that light will be thrown on the most vital concerns of our age. Times, Sunday Times
  • The young couple are pondering moving their house.
  • The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
  • He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals. Chapter 29
  • Outside Bend, residents and tourists fish, hike, bicycle, mountain climb, ride snow-machines, and ski in beautiful forests of Ponderosa pine.
  • Let's begin pondering briefly a primitive barter economy where goods are traded for goods.
  • In the course of this lavation, it was discovered the extraordinary flow of blood and brains had been produced by the infliction of a deep wound on the back of the head, by the sharp and ponderous tomahawk of an Indian. Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1
  • Their lawyers are said to be pondering the matter of copyright infringement at the moment.
  • Not to put too fine a point on it, it pongs to high heaven and it's now outside The Ponderosa.
  • These words did indeed whet his curiosity to the utmost; but the shame of acting the part of an "eavesdropper" was so great that, by a strong effort of will, he drew back, and pondered for a moment what he ought to do. Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific
  • The advice isn't entirely remiss, but over the years, such glib counsel has resulted in a preponderance of breezy, aimless books long on episodic family humour but short on meaning.
  • LaGamma's essay in particular is informative without being ponderous.
  • The guy paused in his speech, mentally marking the place he was up to and pondered the question for a moment.
  • We don't advise you pondering it too carefully at home. The Sun
  • Scilicet hic illi meditantur pondera mores; hic premitur fecunda quies uirtusque serena fronte grauis sanusque nitor luxuque carentes deliciae, quas ipse suis digressus Athenis mallet deserto senior Gargettius horto; 95 haec per et Aegaeas hiemes Hyadumque niuosum sidus et Oleniis dignum petiisse sub astris, si Maleae credenda ratis Siculosque per aestus sit uia: cur oculis sordet uicina uoluptas? hic tua Tiburtes Faunos chelys et iuuat ipsum100 A Villa at Tibur
  • In the middle part of this one-movement work there is some ponderous yet colorful music, that features some very interesting and delicate writing in various passages for reeds, horn and celesta.
  • Thus thought Maria — These are the ravages over which humanity must ever mournfully ponder, with a degree of anguish not excited by crumbling marble, or cankering brass, unfaithful to the trust of monumental fame. Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
  • At this time of year, I hope it isn't irreverent to quote the Bible and say - I have kept all these things and pondered them in my heart!
  • Daniel pondered for a while and brooded over his coffee.
  • Looking at the footprint of the conus transponders, it is likely that the signal for some or all transponders will much more focused. Dish Network USA Viability in Mexico
  • The fact that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition is also inferable from the time it took the buildings to collapse (around 8 seconds), and corroborated by reputable architects, engineers, emergency responders, and demolitions experts. To Muslims of America, I Apologize
  • It is quite enough to ponder the sin of gluttony. Times, Sunday Times
  • If during this process negative electrons hold the preponderance in the body, the fever is of a feeble, adynamic type. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
  • Being slow and ponderous, it always took him a long time to reach a new idea. Little Lord Fauntleroy
  • It is a question most parents ponder but rarely consider seriously. Times, Sunday Times
  • The preponderance of French names in those early pioneering days is perhaps not surprising, as eccentricity has always been a hallmark of the French.
  • Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
  • As the buckboard bounced on its way to the Ponderosa, Hoss and Joe rode close to the buckboard so all four of the Cartwrights could talk.
  • Those sorts of imponderables do occasionally impinge, but not often.
  • Before we review our final round of polling forecasts based on whatever final polls straggle in this morning, let's take a few minutes to ponder that question a little more carefully. Could The Polls In Election 2010 Be Wrong?
  • We will return to the propagation of light in ponderable matter. Hendrik A. Lorentz - Nobel Lecture
  • There are hot keys (quick cuts) and more ponderous slow keys. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
  • However, a lot of people who know from polls are saying that it's extremely difficult to come up with a sample here because these caucuses have too many imponderables involved.
  • In spite of a host of imponderables it is possible to speculate on the composition of some of the smaller properties.
  • The list of parrying beliefs is ponderous and long-standing. Ronald Thorpe: Become a Teacher
  • He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic. The Collectors
  • Cotton says the radar used by air-traffic controllers reads signals emitted by transponders in the airplanes themselves.
  • He also ponders how we will remember the dead over the next 100 years. Times, Sunday Times
  • With speculation gowing on Speaker Michael Martin's future, pundits have started to ponder the prospects of an early by-election in his Glasgow North East (Springburn) constituency Archive 2009-05-01
  • The final episode of the series sees them ponder their futures. The Sun
  • I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?
  • I mean, they said, listen, we were raised as firefighters, and we're taught to be doers, we're taught to be quick responders.
  • He has been a clumsy, flatfooted and ponderous at times. Times, Sunday Times
  • Religions are large, ponderous collections of memes, while a fad is a light, fast-moving (but short-lived) meme. Un-meme
  • I think I like her better when she's pondering out loud.
  • United are also pondering a £12m move for Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, with their vastly wealthier rivals Manchester City and Chelsea likely to gazump any effort Alex Ferguson makes to secure the signature of the 26-year-old German international. Football transfer rumours: Liverpool to sign Johan Elmander?
  • Given the proximity of the interviews, there are still many imponderables that make predicting an outcome near impossible.
  • He also ponders how we will remember the dead over the next 100 years. Times, Sunday Times
  • The text as a whole has a power we may miss when pondering just particular passages or sections. Times, Sunday Times
  • Again, if the shortening of the central axis in the successive stages of hypogynous, perigynous, and epigynous flowers were an indication of preponderant reproduction and diminished vegetation, we should find everywhere some clear indications of this fact. Darwinism (1889)
  • Train operators and conductors, both of whom carry portable radios, are the first responders to any disaster in the subway.
  • While I was thus mutely pondering within myself, and recording my sorrowful complainings with my pen, it seemed to me that there appeared above my head a woman of a countenance exceeding venerable. Consolation of Philosophy
  • Looked slow, ponderous and still like a bodybuilder. The Sun
  • What he has proved to be is a shrewd tactician and an astute responder to the public mood whose easy-going manner disguises some ruthless populism.
  • We are nearing the end of our series on responder. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet this play goes beyond the personal, helping us all to ponder how science may change our lives and choices in the future. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, while this opportunity to hook up to broadband sounds appealing, it also underlines one of the imponderables of the current situation; exactly how much demand is there for broadband?
  • It finally reads and sounds good enough to stop pondering the alteration of either. btw, in my recording I pronounce Wissant "WESson" and Bruges "BREW jiz," as I believe once, across the Channel, their names were spoken. Enciclopedia dantesca, gen. ed. Umberto Bosco, 6 vols (Treccani, 1970-1976)
  • He had a dense, ponderous style.
  • The administration pondered the question of making Saddam’s ouster a war aim, but the more it did so, the leerier it got. How Wars end
  • • From Genesis to Revelation, the preponderant biblical voice condemns the vast disparities of poverty and wealth that conservative policies cause and actively maintain. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the Sins of Ideological Christianity
  • I respect them mucho and would carefully ponder what they had to say.
  • Vet parcius ferrum quantitatem intelUga, qux cuprum non fuperat, uti per ferrVim uberius, quae cuprum ponderc excedit. Torberni Bergman, ... sciagraphia regni mineralis: secundum principia proxima digesti
  • The Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and sugar pine planted in this area will help regenerate an ecosystem inhabited by wildlife, including bald eagles.
  • Moreover, as before remarked, the apparent imbecility resulting from confederacy and municipalism combined was for a season remedied by the actual preponderance of Holland. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
  • A preponderance of evidence suggests a causal link between HPV infection and cervical neoplasia.
  • They are only intended to add ponderous weight to Eastwood's simple, plodding narrative, which might as well be a 45 minute episode of a cop show.
  • By a strange misadjustment, according to the Constitution, in those counties where the negro population so heavily preponderates, third grade teachers receive higher pay than first grade instructors in the counties where the white people are in excess. A slaveholder's daughter,
  • Check it out to see which she liked best at Fair Weather and The Devil in the White City: Book Review posted at the imponderabilia of actual life. Archive 2007-06-01
  • He had a dense, ponderous style.
  • something ponderable from the outer world--something of which we can say that its weight is so and so
  • All the driver has to do to unlock the car is to pull the door handle, the system already having recognised the signal from the transponder signal.
  • He had a rather slow and ponderous manner.
  • Now the songs are longer, the beat is more ponderous and the message largely humorless.

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