How To Use Rag In A Sentence
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Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
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Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
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In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
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Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
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A lot of schools don't really encourage team sports .
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He came back hours later clothes ragged, an excited look on his face.
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The series ended with a battle between a door car and a dragster.
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The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
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Epsom showed a great deal of heart considering their lowly league position but there are days when courage counts for naught and this was one of them.
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Thell Torrence's name may not be familiar to the average fight fan but he, along with a couple of others, is the premier teacher of the manly art in the USA.
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When Connor sees that Michael's teenage son has witnessed the crime, it spells tragedy for the O'Sullivan family.
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Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
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After such a long time in storage, all the oil will have drained to the sump.
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The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
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He had just received my check and was apoplectic with rage, declaring he never wanted to see or have anything to do with ‘that woman’ - meaning me - again.
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To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
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Often the parent feels helpless and very discouraged and may also give up on the child which reinforces the child's feelings of inadequacy and may cause the child to retreat or regress further.
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When fishing the ocean you need a good quality reel that is corrosion proof and fitted with a good quality and workable drag system that won't seize up when you hook that big one.
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The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
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Each paragraph begins on a new line.
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It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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So, while the average cup of decaf contains between 6 and 10 milligrams of caffeine per serving, the regulation allows for "decaf" coffee to contain much higher levels of the stimulant, at least 30 milligrams in some cases, according to
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Therefore, at the state that the body is fixed with a plate shape, the cover-used outer swinging cover can be stored in the box-shaped article storage box with a same side.
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I mean, who doesn't want a product that is easier to use, has less locking contention, minimizes storage administration, makes access to administrative data easier, and so on?
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Its independence may encourage it to pursue a course of narrow self-interest rather than the public interest.
Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
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So the girl was out of bondage, but Cadwaladr, sick with humiliation and rage, must come under guard to be handed over for a price to the brother who discarded and misprized him.
His Disposition
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A third-party group headed by a GOP operative is out with a new Nevada ad spot encouraging Latinos in the state not to cast votes in this year's midterm elections.
GOP-Linked 'Latinos For Reform' Airs Nevada Ads Urging Hispanics Not To Vote (VIDEO)
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Tweed sports jackets are all the rage, and the best part is that you don't need to worry about matching patterns when it comes to blazers and button-down shirts.
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Ray was knocking them down one by one, unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down.
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It took yards of line off a hard-set drag, and it all but pulled me off my ledge.
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The pacing was uneven, and the early second act dragged.
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Her expression masked, she nodded toward the remaining stragglers veering toward their cars.
Captured by Moonlight
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After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point.
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The flow of assistance to Vietnam's fragile economy from its ideological allies has virtually halted.
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I didn't move until I heard slow footsteps and peaked over the top of the gold to see Garren warily approaching the dragon, favoring his left leg.
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This is a case of simmering rage and resentment at the stick from outsiders, which will come nicely to the boil at 8pm tonight.
The Sun
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Packed with the same computing power as some laptops, wearables are still too expensive for average consumers.
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Though the population is still fragile, today as many as 1,000 birds overwinter in the state.
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I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
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I got off it and he was incandescent with rage, much of which was to impress the owners.
The Sun
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Beautiful, green, the remoteness of Exmoor counterpointed by the glorious surf of the Atlantic beaches, coast roads with views of the craggy shoreline.
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One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
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Direct Mail One of the most effective ways to recruit and encourage members and supporters is by direct mail.
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It has also been claimed that part or all of the device's memory can be mounted on a host computer's desktop as a removable storage device.
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Owner Jane Organ said it was tragic for the pup to be taken from its mother at such a young age.
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If the rivalry pwnage wasn't at tragic levels going into last year, it certainly is now.
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But I now understand how fragile its mighty wilderness really is.
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Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion.
Postmodernism
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The bereaved are normally anxious for a speedy conclusion in these tragic cases.
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If you have bought modern 'remontant' varieties that flower again, give them a good feed now to encourage them.
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An early season bloomer, about 18-inches tall, its subtle fragrance has been described as elegant, sweet, and tartly fruity.
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A terrible outrage was committed here last night.
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his face turned red with rage
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For more than two decades, the United States government has been attempting to develop a plan for the storage of high-level nuclear wastes.
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In her new role she will help to develop the midwives' public health role, with increased support for breastfeeding and encouraging mothers-to-be to stop smoking.
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Adjacent to the restaurant is a bar, which is well stocked with an assortment of alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic drinks.
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Yes , sure. This line of products is fragrance - free. We have facial mask, moisturizing lotion and eye - cream.
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Christopher Rees is another self-taught value investor but runs a concentrated portfolio of only ten stocks; his average annual return for the last decade is 24%.
Tap Your Inner Buffett
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He bragged that he had passed the exam easily.
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Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
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Christie knows that the continuity in playing personnel is a major strength and it's not one he plans to undermine with a cut-price garage sale.
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Improved safety measures in cars can be counterproductive as they encourage people to drive faster.
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the early sets ran on storage batteries
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The currency fund can be leveraged up to five times the value of its underlying assets.
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The artificial DNA might be applied to a future extra cellular genetic system with information storage and amplifiable abilities.
Artificial DNA Created
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This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
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Or a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem that has dogged homebuyers for decades?
Times, Sunday Times
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At the top end of the glen darts of sunshine poked through the billowing clouds and encouraged us to go for it and, fully rigged up in waterproofs, we were soon splashing our way up into the Lairig Eilde.
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It is politically safer – yes, even pragmatic – to describe one’s values as "commonsensical" or "middle of the road.
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
The Waverley
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In many ways, dragging is to gravity what magnetism is to electricity.
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Police recovered what was later identified as a charred right human foot in the backyard and documented a fire pit with drag marks leading to it.
Edmonton Sun
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Yes | No | Report from TheEasternShore ... wrote 1 year 1 week ago no, just drag them into the middle if it is iced over then just wait until the pond unfreezes
I have started a new pond. I have alot of old christmass trees.
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Racism is a tragedy beyond socioeconomic deprivation; it speaks of the total deprivation of the church today.
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Murder, rape, road rage, dacoities and rampant acts of terrorism have become an everyday affair in all the provincial capitals including the federal capital.
Whether A Dictator Or Democrat: Please Explain
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She'd forgotten that for the next few weeks she'd be sleeping only feet away from the man she'd mistakenly raged at earlier.
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Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
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It was a throwaway remark that proved tragically prophetic.
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Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
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The Slow-worm (_Anguis fragilis_) is limbless, and so are the members of the sub-class Apoda among the
Hormones and Heredity
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These studies rely on the model that the likelihood of two sequences recombining with each other depends on the average amount of space separating them.
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About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
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I was too much at risk from the smoulder of his irritability, sudden blazes of rage, to see his deep disappointment with life.
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The most important thing is to consider television and radio broadcast needs and any other issues that address coverage of the debate.
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Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
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Contrary to popular belief , he was not responsible for the tragedy.
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An encouraging aspect was that each of the three new caps in the squad contributed to the victory.
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His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety.
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Some paragliding pilots liken their sport to paddling a Class V river while blindfolded.
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Forage crops, pasture, and rangelands are important in feeding ruminant animals tied to the meat and dairy industries.
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If a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. - Woodrow Wilson
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Alex was almost speechless with rage and despair.
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The cap or diaphragm had been developed in the 1880's but its availability had been very much limited as people were kept in the dark as to its very existence.
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Once on the storage server, a photograph can be displayed on any TV screen or monitor in the house via a simple video client.
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As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain.
Guanajuato restaurants
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The joke got a big laugh, which encouraged me to continue.
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If only the local toerags sitting opposite knew what thrills these cardboard tubes contained.
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Another steel trunk provides ample storage at the foot of the bed, and holds smaller items.
Times, Sunday Times
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A mummy's pinkie turned out to be pilose asiabell, which she said was good for breathing, provided it was cooked with astragalus (those were the white sections of tongue depressor).
Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
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The lack of a back-and-forth "us-verus-Nasdaq" makes it hard to imagine what the exchanges, and the fees, will look like, said Neil Catania , co-founder of agency-only brokerage firm MND Partners, located on the NYSE floor.
Stock Traders Fear Fee Hit
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The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
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His other films included Richard Fleischer's "Mandingo" (1975), Milos Forman's "Ragtime" (1981) and John Wayne's final movie, "The Shootist" (1976).
Prolific director Dino De Laurentiis dies
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He loved all Jenny's children deeply-especially Ian, the wee gowk whose mixture of foolishness and pigheaded courage reminded him so much of himself at that age.
Drums of Autumn
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Interest rates would then rise as the central bank increased its discount rate to discourage borrowing and the demands for legal tender.
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I tried both the delicate, unsalty gravadlax and a tartare served with the roe and a very lemony asparagus salad.
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The media coverage was shocking.
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She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions.
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Baf, Bafilomycin A1; BH, Bcl-2 homology; CHX, cycholoheximide; GFP-74Q, GFP-tagged exon 1 mutant htt fragment; htt, huntingtin; MEFs, mouse embryonic fibroblasts; 3MA, 3-methyl adenine; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; STS, staurosporin; TNF -
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The grass looked like an old worn carpet, faded and ragged; the horizon was pressing against the cliff.
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We do not wish her to grow up dumb like the average doll.
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The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
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The clinical studies were carried out on 245 patients with fascioliasis in 6 trials, and on 261 people with paragonimiasis in 3 trials.
Chapter 2
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Leaving aside the forgettable Mirage, FM's next most significant moment was 1987's Tango in the Night, the album that Buckingham rescued from the band's coked out indifference, at the cost of his own departure.
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Environmental health officers hope the cotes will keep pigeons off the streets and discourage them from feeding on waste food and titbits offered by tourists.
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My little daughter started jumping up and down with rage when she heard she couldn't go.
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I'm gonna drag you home tonight and we're going to explore this concept of evolution.
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In the simplest case, the wires carrying the electrical signals are used to form an electromagnet which attracts and releases a metal diaphragm.
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A group of mums are using a secret weapon to encourage parents to walk their children to school - pester power.
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There was Patch after was drowned out of a curagh that turned over.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
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Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”
George Washington’s First War
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That lesson has been read as an encouraging one.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The bodies or severed heads of 67 "patients" lie in cryogenic storage at the site.
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Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too.
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Unfortunately, many contaminants remain unbanned, and an average of seven new chemicals are put on the market daily, most of them not tested for toxicity.
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According to him, ‘In Europe the farmers throw dirt around the asparagus in order to blanch it.’
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Starting this month, rival United Parcel Service Inc.'s freight division is raising average noncontractual shipping rates in North America by 6.9%, as the industry copes with rapidly rising fuel costs.
FedEx to Raise U.S., Canada Freight Rates 6.8%
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These two transaction costs discourage foreign investment and borrowing.
International Finance: The markets and financial management of multinational business.
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The art installation suggests the continuity and fragility of Mediterranean civilization, reminding us of the simultaneous remoteness and seamlessness of the past.
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Add the asparagus and mint about 5 min before the rice is ready.
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But there was understandable outrage when sundry fund managers and regional stockbrokers were confronted with the hat.
Times, Sunday Times
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But while the mysterious circumstances of the tragedy keep on adding up, the ghostly presence of her partner seems intent on having his say.
The Sun
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If the cells or islets were not synchronized we would observe a flat, averaged signal even though the single cells and islets released insulin in pulses.
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The first miles took us along the side of a dried out creek bed and then along the appropriately named Crags Road, so called due its "cragginess", basically a it's a dry river b ...
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Why do you have to drag that up again?
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They loved his humour, his way of pronouncing foreign names, his indomitable courage.
The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III
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The place has its own state-of-the-art winery, its own cooperage to ensure flavour and complexity, its own chef to educate consumers on the perfect blend of food and wine. It's all part of a worldwide trend.
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The surge in commercial vehicle production was regarded as a particularly encouraging pointer to an improvement in the economy.
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On a more encouraging note, the Democratic front-runner is out-earning her.
Think Progress » Bachmann Accuses The Media Of ‘Treason,’ Claims Use Of ‘Deem And Pass’ Warrants ‘Impeachment’
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Scented candles, especially the industrial strength and size that many people light around the holidays, give off more than fragrance-studies show they produce tiny bits of pollution known as particulates that can inflame the respiratory tract and aggravate asthma, Dr. Sublett says.
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Besides its aesthetic qualities, the all rag paper has the solidity and the homogeneity needed in bibliophily.
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The television coverage of the event was rather sparse.
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After winning the TAFC title moments earlier, Austin's dragster, which he purchased from the estate of the late Gary Ormsby, broke at the start of the burnout in the Top Fuel final.
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But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for.
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Worse, as the streams bend to equalize pressure behind the foil, and may set up a turbulent gyre further slowing the foil by induced drag.
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The principles underlying political speech apply in the Internet context just as easily as they did when parchment was all the rage.
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There was a raggle-taggle look to Smith's team just as there had been on his debut as manager against Italy in Milan.
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Being victims of their own success, many dime novels and yellowbacks are fragile or in poor repair.
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All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages.
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Have the courage to be honest with yourself and about yourself.
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As each hoplite was unshielded on his right side, he relied on the man next to him for protection, encouraging by necessity a strong sense of unity in battle.
Alexander the Great
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The interface between syntax and pragmatics may in general be summarized in a Kantian apophthegm: pragmatics without syntax is empty; syntax without pragmatics is blind.
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He discovers he is aroused by jealousy, so he encourages the young doctor to flirt with his wife.
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His work has been dragging behind recently.
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Electoral victory is just a distant mirage.
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No sooner had he his feet under the table, though, than he was being ballyragged at county board meetings by suits who knew better than he who should be playing.
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Point guard DiJuan Harris led the conference in assists with 4.5 a game, and guard Derrio Harris, a junior college transfer, had a 13.1 scoring average.
Atlantic 10 Conference
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Fragrant blossoms like plumeria and gardenia are especially nice.
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Outside one residence, a member of the squad lobs a frag grenade over the wall.
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Aragon's writings circulated anonymously or under pseudonyms.
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Their courage was an example to all of us.
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Drug companies encourage the idea that people can diagnose and medicate medical conditions themselves.
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Dicentrics, rings, acentric fragments and asymmetrical translocations were recorded separately.
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The boy's ball ended up on the garage roof.
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The litter on the boreen in Tullyvarraga, black bags of household rubbish thrown in over the wall, is a shame, a black spot in the quest for Tidy Towns glory.
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Are you talking about multiaxial loading close to the axial fatigue limit? or the multiaxial fatigue limit itself? pragtic on Wed, 2010-03-17 12: 17.
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PERRY: There's no question about it, parents who are comfortable with a child who gets a C or D, parents who are comfortable dropping their child off at a school that they no is ragged -- they have watched that school undereducate a generation or two -- parents who are willing to go down and fuss and fight when their child doesn't play on the basketball team, but are unwilling to go down and fight the same way when that child is not being served in -- in the classroom.
CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009
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This may have the advantage of dragging the opponent onto unfamiliar territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The griffin is also used by Saab, and other mythical beasts goaded into service on motor cars must include Alfa Romeo's serpent, Talbot's hunting dog and the Gilbern's Welsh dragon.
Badge Engineering
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At least one type of signal in the set of signals is synchronously averaged to provide an unisonous output.
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Profoundly discouraged, we ride on after this in mournful silence.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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Heat the olive oil over a medium heat in a heavy pan big enough to hold all the asparagus in one layer.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the combined results Thomas's group estimated an average particle size of 100 for the copper metal aggregates.
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As the tragedy unfolded, the eyewitness tried to find a lifebuoy.
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One area that is often overlooked in the health center is a central storage location for archival of health charts.
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It is one of those biases, all the rage in academic circles right now, that explain many of the eccentricities of human behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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However even currently available estimates already show encouraging results in the case 2 scenario described above.
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Lezinka, a boisterous dance in a raging tempo, drums ablaze, that is popular in the
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There was no water to drink or wash in and children were begging, dressed in filthy rags.
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It is dreadfully sad to reflect that he grew up in such a short time and in such tragic circumstances.
Times, Sunday Times
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C.N), the largest U.S. bank and a major casualty of the crisis, could fall below $10 a share, less than a third of its 150-day moving average price of $32.82, as the credit crisis unravels further.
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A launch angle of about 12 degrees and a spin rate of 2,000 revolutions per minute is ideal for an above-average swing speed.
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Ma il coraggio di buttare il sasso nello stagno non è di tutti.
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A new neutral mutation will fix with a probability of 1/(2Ne), where Ne is the effective population size, and it will take 4Ne generations on average to do so.
Death of a popular anti-ID argument
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Keep the seeds in warm, damp conditions to encourage germination.
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They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river.
Darkness and Dawn
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It might have been her outpouring of love and grief, it might have been her courage in driving away the wild animals, the length of her lonely vigil on the mountain, or a combination of these.
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The shadow of this early tragedy has affected her whole life.
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Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
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Feed the plants to encourage new growth.
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At the root of the problem is nothing so mundane as access to the hills and glens but the booming industry in Scottish barony titles that sell on average for £55,000 each.
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The men's courage and faith is a lesson to us all.
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Car ownership rates are higher in rural areas than the national average.
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She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities.
Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
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The calorie counts are given after each item, and all the portions are average size unless exact measurements are stated.
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But considering how much time we spend on that time of the month - from puberty to menopause, the average woman menstruates almost seven whole years - many of us know surprisingly little about it.
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I have found among my old papers a kind of congratulation and exhortation which I made to myself on dying at an age when I had the courage to meet death with serenity, without having experienced any great evils, either of body or mind.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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It was said that national crimes can only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by _national punishments_, and that the continuance of the slave trade, and thus giving it a national character, sanction, and encouragement, ought to be considered as justly exposing us to the displeasure and vengeance of him who is equally the Lord of all, and who views with equal eye the poor _African slave_ and his _American master_! [
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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In addition, small chondral fragments are radiolucent and not evident on standard radiographs.
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And four dragger captains fined two thousand apiece for fishing redfish in closed waters.
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