How To Use Ramp In A Sentence
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Not everyone was so lucky, and a lot of people, as always, took the off-ramp from Life.
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses
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Rampant Victoriana tends to be a bit too fussy for me, but there were some lovely bits of jet and marcasite jewelry that called my name.
Runaway, Jersey-style
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My dad, despite his rampant hypochondria, had always been healthy.
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He was trampled to death by a runaway horse.
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Speed ramps along College Road, put in to try and dissuade boy racers who use the road to cut from one side of the town to the other, have been branded useless.
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‘There were many times when I felt faint at matches because of menstrual cramps,’ Susan says.
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Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata.
Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
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But physical discomforts during the third trimester, such as heartburn, leg cramps, fetal movement, shortness of breath and sinus congestion, can again interfere with sleep.
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Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
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Staff vehicles enter at the rear of the building by means of a ramp that leads down to a subterranean car park.
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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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In one media report, a ramp worker was even caught with a duffel bag of ammunition and a gun at work.
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Because today's a public holiday, Sunday night was without that familiar cramp in the neck from thinking about Monday's workload, even though I actually have to work later in the arvo today.
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The cramps possibly were a side effect of a pulled muscle suffered in winter ball last year.
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I was kneeling on the floor beneath his feet and nearly got trampled to death in the scrum.
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We have to be alert to the warning signs that our egos are running rampant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ramping up the subsidies is a relatively cheap way for the French to go as it usually falls to the UK, as a net contributor to the EU, to have to fork out to keep French politicians in office.
The French Protection
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The mock-up design featured access by ramps to all raised spaces, including the judge's bench, witness stand, jury box, and clerk stations.
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The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
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Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
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The letters were carved in a cramped scrawl, moonlight etching the crevices and staining the shadows silver.
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The mini-trampoline rebounder gets amazing results for almost anyone.
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Is adebayor back tomorrow? is rsc injured again after going off or what is just "cramp"? id keep the same side as fulham but id rest vieria and play de jong and bring adebayor in for rsc if he is injured! if rsc is fit, and keep with him, because he wins far more balls in the air than adebayor.
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He got into the left turning lane and drove onto the on ramp and onto the freeway.
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We raised the level of the veranda to the first floor level and incorporated ramps into the new veranda's design.
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Now, more than ever before, the study of battles will involve a literal trampling upon dead men's bones.
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Calderon sat out the final quarter with what he called a hamstring cramp in Wednesday's loss to the Sixers in Philadelphia.
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Native Americans have long used cramp bark, an aptly named antispasmodic herb, to relieve menstrual cramps.
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The rest of the book is a rampant cornucopia of sickness and murders as the noble hero, Dr. Alex Cross, attempts to find Casanova's victims, hidden deep in Casanova's sex caves.
It's A Good Thing He Can't Blow My Mind
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Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
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The three rivers can become impassable after rain, and trampers usually traverse west to east, so that the river wades are predictable at the time of departure.
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It's even better when the story is riveting from the get-go and manages to ramp up the tension with each chapter.
My Five: Books on my Unofficial Summer Reading List
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Many in southern Europe refuse to pay taxes, and rampant corruption in government and the public sector is the norm.
Times, Sunday Times
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We sit cramped up at a desk and breathe little shallow breaths with the top of our lungs.
Repetitive Strain Injury
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We tramped across the wet grass to look at the statue.
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The vessel could be manoeuvred with its bow thrusters to bring the stern ramp very close to the two men to whom life belts and/or ropes were thrown.
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In a world with a chronic 'globesity' problem spreading beyond western shores to places like India and China, products that promise to help individuals manage their weight via calorie control, fat burning, satiety, or some other mechanism, enjoy rampant demand.
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Fragmentation is rampant in the entertainment business.
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Am I the only one who's embarrassed to admit that I don't trust that every guy with a card board sign at the freeway off ramp is really a veteran?
Senator: 131,000 homeless vets a 'disgrace'
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It was a broken economy, rampant inflation, ineffective industry, overdominant trade unions and high taxes.
The Sun
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He stood up, stretching limbs that had become stiff from the cramped surroundings.
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The Getty Center is a multi-use complex made up of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Conservation Institute, the Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Education Institute for the Arts, the Information Institute, and the Getty Grant Program, as well as offices for the Getty Trust, an auditorium, a restaurant pavilion, and a stone-ramparted helicopter landing pad.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
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I was at home with herds and tramps and roadmen, and I was sufficiently at my ease with people like Sir Walter and the men I had met the night before.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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Would you be "boggled" if I suggest that the characterisation of blacks here as a mob of rampaging gang-rapists is a product of prejudice and, in its emotional manipulation, serves to reinforce prejudice?
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
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But well before the latest murderers struck — well before another "antigovernment" Obama hater went on a cop-killing rampage in Pittsburgh in April — there have been indications that this rage could spiral out of control.
Frank rich on fox news, responsibility and domestic terrorism
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(Anger's poisonous energy is intensified in cramped spaces).
Judith Orloff MD: How to Cope with Personal Space Intruders (VIDEO)
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cramped quarters
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This is a wonderfully nourishing cake to take on a winter tramp or to a working bee.
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The building exploits the drama of this interlocked matrix of mass and light as stepped ramps zigzag through the atrium, revealing the sheer concrete wall and the great tottering stack of galleries.
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The best way to avoid infections of this kind from A. buntonensis is to apply antibiotics such as gentamicin, amikacin, chloramphenicol and tetracycline to the wound immediately after the leech has released itself.
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This book is also about hog-killing and smokehouses, about making lye hominy and gathering wild greens, about ramps and cushaws and leather-britches, about cracklin’ bread and corn-cob jelly, whistle pig and poke sallet, apple butter and stack cakes.’
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The whale will be dragged up its main ramp and butchered.
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There's even more proof in the new duets album: While the pairings add to the jollity Lady Gaga is amazingly likable, and not at all trampy, on "The Lady Is a Tramp", the real attraction is Mr. Bennett himself.
Ready for His Autumn Waltz
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Don't trample mud from your shoes on to the floor; I've just this minute swept it.
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China's insatiable demand for commodities to feed its fast-growing economy has led to rampant global demand for most metals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The funds will be used to develop the area at the back of the community hall into a recreational area incorporating ramps for wheelchair users.
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I grabbed an ice pick off the sledge and tramped away from the camp towards the face of Portal Mountain.
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They had secured a bonus point by the 25th minute, and eight more scores followed in a rampant second-half performance, with Will Greenwood and Ben Cohen both grabbing a brace of tries.
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An enlisted aircrewman directed them to seats in the middle of the aircraft, then trotted back down the ramp to check for any more late arrivals.
Joint Operations
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She circled back and settled gracefully to earth at the spot where the trampling began.
A Time of War
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Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
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She frequently had abdominal pain and cramping, hard stools, and rectal pain and pressure.
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So does she not feel at all claustrophobic and cramped?
Times, Sunday Times
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A. P. D. Detective in Oren Moverman's Rampart is known as Dave "Date Rape" Brown, because years ago he killed a man suspected of being a sexual predator.
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My initial concerns with the cramped interior of the car were alleviated a little by its good road manners.
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His supporters, however, were enraged by the verdict, and went on a rampage, setting fire to the state buildings.
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He has been at pains to assure a sceptical public of various other safeguards to check against the rampant abuses of the disinvestment process.
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While you're slaving over the code, cramping your thumb on your trackball, and squinting your eyes at the pixels, remember what it is you are doing this for, and never ever forget.
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This definitely is a bane as complaints of constipation, acidity, obesity, indigestion, etc., are rampant among the youth.
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During the phase ramp, fringing field effects smooth the phase profile.
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That was in the bad old days of rampant inflation.
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Once, on a one lane cloverleaf ramp, going from one freeway to the other (the two ran perpendicular to each other, if you don't know what I mean by "cloverleaf"), a car passed me.
Adventus
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To see their team go down without a fight, to see the good name of their club trampled underfoot, to see the game laughing at them.
The Sun
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What causes the balls to fly off these bats is a nifty bit of physics called the trampoline effect.
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The buildings began to thin out as they left the industrial sector of the city and entered onto a ramp that would take them to the freeway and towards Chris's house.
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Crystalline hyenas ran rampant through the bailey and feasted on the fallen.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind.
Flowers in the Desert
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In the final scene, the young woman with her sight restored recognizes Charlie, the down-and-out tramp, as the rich and princely hero of her imagination.
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I think the Nobel Prize commitee is sending a clear message to the world about the corruption rampent in our current administration.
Think Progress » Generosity.
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While some of the group are consigned to cramped, noisy, airless basement cells, we languish in our very own mini-suite, with polished panelling and heavy traditional furniture, all in rich dark woods.
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I can hardly blame the engineer who designs the hydraulic dredger, nor the driller at Exxon who mines oil for his boat, nor the construction woman who paved the ramp where the clammer launched his boat this morning.
Industrialism and clams
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So I was driving my gramps to the clinic, I dropped him off at the entrance and proceeded to parking the car.
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February 4th, 2009 at 4: 24 pm it drives me nuts when women say "contractions aren't that bad, they're just like bad cramps" …. please. i'm happy for women who experience relatively fast, "crampy" labours, but i think the reality for most women is a little more intense …. maybe it's just me? who knows?
Celebrity Baby Blog
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These committees will be looking at infrastructure security issues as well, including marinas, boat ramps, docks, anchorages and major marine or special events.
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By day, watch your step, obey the rules or they may call you castrater, bitch, slob, pig, cow, slut whore prostitute chippy tramp.
The Women’s Room
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I groaned in pure bliss, feeling the countless muscles that cramped when I slept in the Shadow Hall start to relax.
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Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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The wounded were trampled and drowned in the shallow waves.
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The training venue may need to have ramps for wheelchairs, lifts and reserved parking spaces.
Training with N.L.P.
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“Pshaw, Peterkin,” answered his principal, “thou art ever such a frampold grumbler —”
Quentin Durward
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A short walk up a stairway to the top of the north rampart affords a view of the construction.
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The room's alcoves ensure that plenty of storage units could be installed without creating a cramped feeling.
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Britain's teenage rampage looked tame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Often caused by a hormonal imbalance, menstrual cramps are common in teenagers and young women.
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This material is unsorted and is usually mixed with other transported material from the same sources including slopewash, solifluction, or trampling.
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She had been alerted online to the product by an Indian citizen appalled at the prospect of people trampling over or wiping their feet on the emblem.
Times, Sunday Times
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A colporteur, known to me, when engaged selling Bibles in a Brazilian town, reports that the fanatical populace got his books and carried them, fastened and burning, at the end of blazing torches, while they tramped the streets, yelling: "Away with all false books!
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
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Flights in close quarters can also lead to back pain, swollen ankles, leg cramps and psychological distress.
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He began to spasm from cramps at the end of a 90-minute practice.
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Dennis M. Sabangan/European Pressphoto Agency Filipino children offered candles for flood victims on Tuesday during a mass burial in a village that was devastated by rampaging flood waters in Iligan City, southern Mindanao, the Philippines.
Asia in Pictures
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I don't know what you're rambling on about, Flinx," she finally declared, "but either you ride the grizel or it tramples you.
Orphan Star
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Don't trample on grass.
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Don't trample on the grass.
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The carcinoid syndrome is classically described as flushing, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps, but borborygmi, cyanosis, telangiectasis, pellagra like skin lesions, wheezing, dypsnea or palpitations may also occur.
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It involves breakdancing, acrobats and, you guessed it, a trampoline.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps I am a farmer myself — an innocent colonus; and instead of being able to get to church with my family, have to see squadrons of French dragoons thundering upon my barley, and squares of English infantry forming and trampling all over my oats.
Roundabout Papers
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They have been entombed in a cramped steel cage almost a kilometre beneath the surface since April 25 when an earthquake in the southern state of Tasmania triggered a rockfall.
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He easily cleared the wall by five feet and agilely landed on the ramp lining the inside of the walls with a hollow ‘thud.’
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To the banking public, the last few months must have driven home the ugly face of indiscipline which is rampant in our economy," he said in the statement.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Despite the Cylons being redesigned, the story changed a little, and the complexity ramped up a thousandfold, the new Battlestar Galactica won legions of new fans for a franchise many thought long since dead, and through extras such as the spin-off project Razor (plus other forthcoming films) and the upcoming prequel series Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica story will continue to echo in the science fiction pantheon long after the series has ended.
Galactica Original | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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He would sometimes suffer from writer 's cramp, which he would treat with a bucket of ice or bag of frozen peas on his wrist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Muscle cramps often happen when you exercise in hot weather.
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After the cold war, a trend of "New Nationalism" thoughts went rampantly in the Japanese politics, which sought for a big power position in the international politics.
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Wooden levers were used to move loads over short distances, but for longer hauls it was necessary to construct ramps to bring blocks of stone up to the higher levels of the structure.
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When fighting out an epic duel with Courier in the Australian Open a few years ago Sampras appeared on the verge of collapse from cramp.
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When you feel bloated, cranky, pimply and crampy on a monthly basis, it's tough to be all that grateful.
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Professor Weiss, a psychologist at Jena University, believes the brain quickly learns to connect words like 'crampy' and 'nipping' with sensations of pain.
Home | Mail Online
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But the highlight is the skate park, which has ramps and bowls to glide across.
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The Romans were fond of building enormous ramps to allow them to walk over the walls of an enemy's strong point.
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In a cramped conference room known as the "submarine" inside the fortresslike New York Fed, more than a dozen employees who constituted the institution's AIG task force were working marathon days, crammed elbow to elbow around a long wooden conference table.
AIG, a symbol of financial crisis, repays bailout loan and finds new foothold
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Yes, you may hit him fair, and make him bleed, too; but, for all that, he is a lion — a mighty, conquering, generous, rampageous Leo Belgicus — monarch of his wood.
Roundabout Papers
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The big complaints are delays and cancellations, cramped seating, and overall poor in-flight service.
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She alleged that there was rampant drug use among the male members of the group.
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He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification.
USATODAY.com - Bells, white smoke to announce new pope
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He jumped off the table to the mattress, trampolined off that to the Gold Mountain trunk and onto the chair.
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She had to limp through the final stages of the epic encounter, warding off cramp.
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One suggestion I've heard is to run the race along Aotea Quay between the highway off-ramp and the railway station.
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Rampant futurism used to be an integral feature of theme parks, often sponsored by industry giants as a means of promoting their products.
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They rocked the world with Fantasia and Snow White and Lady and the Tramp, but Mulan and the Lion King and Beauty and the Beast were rather lame as far as I've heard.
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Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
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This narrow headland was defended as a cliff castle with three stone ramparts across its neck.
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As he tried to separate two bulls that were fighting, he was knocked over and trampled, receiving multiple injuries including fractures to his ribs and spine.
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He argues that the Congress and President Clinton trampled the constitutional rights of legal immigrants in the new welfare reform law.
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The warriors remained calm and relaxed, listening to the trample of the demonic horde just feet in front of them.
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The traffic on that highway was busier than ever now, but the off-ramp that served the Grove was seldom used.
EVERVILLE
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The deep-rooted bad habits and many temptations of objective condition grow rampantly like the weed in heart so that pain, illness, and annoyance come to us.
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When I see the faces of families burying their dead, victims of rampant crime, I can only wonder how they must feel to lose loved ones in such circumstances.
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They came tramping through the kitchen leaving dirty footmarks.
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Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.
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No. 12 Marat Safin outlasted Andrew Ilie, who trailed 5-0 in the fifth set when he retired because of cramping.
Agassi, Kournikova out in second round
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Away, * you fcullion! you rampallian! you fbf - tilartan!
The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes
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Watch eagles and vultures flying from the castle ramparts and the world's largest working catapult launching a fireball 150m into the air!
The Sun
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In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
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Put one on the off-ramp from the highway near your home, if you can.
How To Succeed At Any Garage Sale | myFiveBest
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In more distal positions within the ramp, the ‘background’ sediment is a fine- to medium-grained floatstone to rudstone with abundant, small fragments of delicate-branching bryozoans and branching coralline algae.
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They can go up steps and ramps but are most suited to smooth floor surfaces.
The Sun
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Know that thou shalt not escape unstung, after trampling on the head of a venomous snake, licking the corners of its mouth with its tongue, and who hath been hurt by thy foot.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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The increase in overall credit comes at a time when U.S. consumers have been ramping up their purchases of big-ticket items such as new cars, encouraged by extremely low rates on financing.
Consumers Ratchet Up Borrowing
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Everyone knows about calf cramps, but these muscle spasms can cause trouble elsewhere - such as your hand.
The Sun
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Politicians have a limited emotional range - normally just rampant egomania or self pity.
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Companies that trampled over shareholders' right of first refusal over new stock would do so at their peril, they muttered darkly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frampton was fascinated by these inside glimpses of a world he had never known.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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When the plant is ramped up to full speed by the end of 2002, it will take in 45 tons of coconut fiber and 35 tons of natural latex per month and transform them into 80 tons of finished products.
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Bigelow ramps up the visceral tension with help from cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, who also lensed the terrifying docudrama “United 93.”
Deceptively simple story works for visceral “The Hurt Locker” » Scene-Stealers
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Even after thirty years living in the country, I fear I am not a proper countryman. I don't farm for a living or go tramping across drenched fields, gun in hand.
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The whales had beached near the Dolphin Bay boat ramp and another larger pod had come ashore near a caravan park on Mandalay Beach, four kilometres west of Busselton.
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So when the earth-and-timber ramparts of Sulla's camp began to trace lines across the rolling Campanian horizon, Quintus Sertorius bade his cousin-in-law a grave goodbye, geed up his horse and departed.
Fortune's Favorites
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IT sounded like the roar of 50,000 rampaging bull elephants and didn't let up all afternoon.
The Sun
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The name, “ramp,” is from “ramson,” which is a survival of archaic British dialect, which is one of the roots of Appalachian dialect that peppers the speech of folks native to that region.
Tigers & Strawberries » Appalachian Wild Leeks
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The physics of the venue make for an intimate and busy, buzzy atmosphere and, let's face it, a rather cramped stage.
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As news of the shocking rampage spread, heartbroken relatives arrived to inspect their loved one's graves.
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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. George Washington
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It will recommend that schools introduce new exercise classes such as boxercise, trampolining, aerobics and yoga to lure teenagers off the couch.
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Now I know not whether Shoaib is the fastest ever (and this is not a forum for that chestnut) although I reckon that when on the rampage, before he let the ball go, he would have overtaken in his run-up anything bowled by Paul Collingwood, and know that the fastest single delivery I ever saw castled the New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming in the semi-final of the 1999 World Cup.
Shaun Tait is certainly very fast, but 100mph?
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Today I went over to my gramps ' place to have dinner with them, and this uncle was staring at me.
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Reid said Wednesday he is taking aim at the “blatant and systematic crime that is rampant” in polygamous groups with legislation that would create a federal task force to combat crimes associated with polygamy.
Polygamy in cross hairs of Senate panel
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The days of rampantly commercial, craftless, contentless, corporate-driven pop, especially as practiced by artless teenage girls, are here.
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The Chinese also have risen recently in trampoline, enough to push the country's gymnastics medal haul to double figures.
2008 Olympic medal projections
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Beginners are often plagued by this cramp, which strikes like a boxer's body blow and happens when an overworked diaphragm begins to spasm.
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They dashed through the entrance, nearly trampling the stout guard in the process.
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In real life, my family and I were shuffled off to a cramped, airless, plasticky holding area and offered cheap pastries and instant coffee.
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Starting out, I spent a lot of time on the trampoline getting comfortable landing on my back.
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Rather than expanding our understanding of national phyches, the shows tend to confirm commonly held stereotypes - of Swedes as rampantly egalitarian minimalists, for example.
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I never expected that to happen because I'm not a big cramper, said McCargo, selected 26th overall out of North Carolina State.
USATODAY.com - Notes: Falcons' Finneran out for year; Titans lose Long; Nall out a while
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As I sat there, the china spewed forth from the open door and cascaded down the ready-made ramp into my lap.
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The bus had a space for wheelchairs and was equipped with a lowering platform and a wheelchair ramp.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is effective as an antispasmodic for muscle cramps, stiffness, aches, overuse, sprains, bruises, sciatica, rheumatism, gout, neuralgia and poor circulation.
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The exit ramp from the motorway took me down to a set of lights, sadly however it took everyone else down too and a queue of vehicles was waiting to get through the lights.
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At least this time it seems like the cost side of the business won't be ramped up in advance of the increase in demand, if it comes at all.
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When he was finished, Rampart Dam lay pretty much in ruins.
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The 44-year-old man drove the wrong way on an off-ramp to State Route 60 in Glen Avon and plowed into the bus carrying seven students, Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. Joe Borja said.
5 Hurt As Driver Intentionally Plows Into School Bus
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The lady was blue, and in great pain from cramp, and the poor unweaned infant was roaring for the nourishment which had failed.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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In this section, the string parts are filled with acciaccaturas, whereas the brass section and the timpani are rampant and adrenaline-pumping.
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Kids were jumping on the trampoline, shooting baskets and playing manhunt, a variation on hide - and - seek.
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International soccer authorities and law enforcement officials are struggling to combat rampant match-fixing by what they describe as sprawling networks of organized crime, a problem that has plagued the sport for decades but appears to have intensified recently.
NYT > Home Page
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I saw a group of skateboarders I knew from Austin and asked them directions to the vert ramp.
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It must provide an answer to the lack of policing, and the rampant criminality and corruption.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tramp of those pale feet might interrupt the flow of his patronising patter.
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Or would she trample it underfoot in the slush where our love lay?
Times, Sunday Times
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In size there is the difference between the huge _terminalia_ towering up 200 feet high and the tiny little potentilla; between the atlas moth 12 inches in spread and the hardly discernible midges; between the elephant, massive enough to trample its way through the densest forest, and the humble little mouse peeping out of its hole in the ground.
The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty
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A little 'calk' all round won't hurt us after that tramp, Sergeant!" he observed kindly.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
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I walked up and down the aisle to stretch my cramped muscles.
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There was no flying, of course, as the ramps, runways and aircraft were also ice covered.
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Lucas couchant, and became Lucas rampant, fanged and langued gules.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
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It seems that the source of Herman's queasiness is rooted in concerns about the property market in Southern Europe, many having holiday homes in the Med; growing commentary on the decline of Southern Europe's economies; a growing crescendo of remarks from Southern Eurpean politicians that are perceived as threatening the independence of the European Central Bank, a sine qua non for Germans to give up the Deutschmark; and a sudden ramping up of German inflation to an official 8.1% (which, if our own experience is anything to go by significantly underplays the reality).
Archive 2008-06-08
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My arm muscles were cramped up and felt like they were made of lead, my eyes were swelling and my cheeks felt puffy and warm.
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There are, of course, more conventional walks that don't involve the donning of crampons.
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Those poor returns may prove no more than a blip for one whose string has been rampant.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have to be alert to the warning signs that our egos are running rampant.
Times, Sunday Times
