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  • He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
  • However, we still rely entirely on the generosity of the public for funding.
  • Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
  • For except it be treacle and mithridatum, and of late diascordium, and a few more, they tie themselves to no receipts severely and religiously. The Advancement of Learning
  • Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar 
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  • It's not entirely accurate - the book is a bit darker than that, but there is a fair bit of lovable eccentricity to the characters.
  • They surely know they are going to be targets for abuse, so why do they do it?
  • A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • From a pure box-office point of view, all of us can surely relish the sort of muscular macho, the one-on-one confrontation on view when a Phil Vickery meets a Christian Califano.
  • The bad weather severely handicapped their performance in the race.
  • Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
  • We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused. Times, Sunday Times
  • One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely. Hype Hype Hoorah!
  • I don't think you're playing devil's advocate (a word every/filmer seems to want use) simply by making entirely senseless comparisons between films like Transformers and There Will Be Blood, and ranting on with points of view that even someone in defense of Transformers would never use. Things I Noticed While Watching 20 Minutes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek | /Film
  • Relying too much on markets for either input supplies or sales outlets places the low unit cost of production that comes with economies of scale at risk.
  • Surely you appreciate that for those who regularly attack Israel and its suporters, “Likud” is a label fraught with negative implications that have nothing to do with the political realities within Israel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Update
  • Before one embarks on this high flying experience, the organisers supply a crash helmet, and a safety waist belt which is securely tied with a long and strong rope to the huge multi-coloured parasail.
  • Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle.
  • Most teachers, in colleges that don’t restrict it, will be delighted to have an interested, if unmatriculated, student in their class who sincerely wishes to learn. Letter to the St. Petersburg Times on ID Poll - The Panda's Thumb
  • To believe that Obama is a socialist merely assumes his continued commitment to a world he has long described as his lodestar. Radical-In-Chief
  • Grim, sure, but true - not to mention ruthlessly egalitarian, which is why people rarely lob the P-word at those whose answer to life is, "Who knows? Why I love Carolyn Hax
  • Times when the range is not used are increasingly infrequent and rarely coincide with ideal surfing conditions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
  • I was merely commenting how superior the Assos jersey seemed, compared to the other jerseys in my burgeoning collection.
  • This so-called ‘prop it’ is a dummy subject, serving merely to fill a structural need in English for a subject in a sentence.
  • Betty, aged 43, was severely depressed when I first met her.
  • I rely too much on convenience food.
  • Some menswear shops do sell more imaginative clothes - but the assistants have rarely met any customers over the age of 36.
  • The German military party -- which, as everyone knows, holds the reins of policy in Germany entirely -- have, as far as I can see, done all they could to overthrow Kerenski and set up Im Weltkriege. English
  • 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.
  • By the end of the winter the supply of grain was severely depleted.
  • As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.
  • This has purely been a casual meeting in the street.
  • If you think spaceflight is a bad thing, shouldn't we eliminate it entirely? Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch
  • Without these sagacities, the brickwork of the tambour, in addition to taking a very long time so that the concrete could dry up and solidify, would surely have been too heavy to support the dome.
  • You can be morally unimpeachable for entirely selfish reasons. Times, Sunday Times
  • This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.
  • In his abstract ballets or interpretations of music, he rarely worried about the mood or emotional content of the music.
  • Despite serious technical obstacles, space agency officials are considering whether to launch a Jupiter space probe powered entirely by sunlight.
  • According to FDA officials, the herb stevia can be ‘adulterated’ merely by being in the presence of information that reveals its sweetening property.
  • Little analysis was apparent in many of the early Programmes - a defect that was never entirely overcome.
  • The two merchants didn't look entirely pleased to have the players mooching off of their business, but it was obvious to the eyes of an outsider that the music was actually attracting customers.
  • You merely assumed that was the homophone I meant.
  • They had barely been fed and their heads were shaved. The Sun
  • The failure of the monsoon would destroy harvests on which 1000 million people rely.
  • It was battery operated, and would not rely on a malfunction in the main power supply.
  • They are not the suits you would actually use: the aim here is simulation, not replication, so they are merely very cumbersome, which is what the real suits would have to be. Home | Mail Online
  • After all, the impulse for political grandstanding is not purely an American one … Soft, Geeky Power
  • Politically active conservative Christians rarely use the term dominionism as a self-description; many feel it is a loaded or pejorative term.
  • Still, the crêpe was even oilier - thick, flabby and barely hot, with the flavour of an onion-soaked flannel. Times, Sunday Times
  •  Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Like any 'capo' (mob head), he merely orders the killing. American Mob: Bush's Guns, Goons and GHOULiani In The Wings
  • All of these documentary specials rely heavily on source material for visuals and even sound.
  • Spaghetti carbonara and giant, ricotta-stuffed ravioli in an earthy sauté of porcini mushrooms, barely touched with tomato, both did credit to the pasta roster.
  • And also barely functioning as an able-minded human being. IN ODDER NEWS: Kathy Griffin’s Emmy Speech, Uncensored | Best Week Ever
  • Rather than a traditional neoliberal who tries to extol the virtues of trade, he prefers to just ignore its impact entirely. Matthew Yglesias » The Case for Ever-Bigger Government
  • Those qualities were instead projected on to a father he had barely known and a figure he invented in fiction. Times, Sunday Times
  • They decided to close the museum purely and simply because it cost too much to run.
  • Whether wanting is measured in quality or quantity depends entirely on the individuals concerned.
  • We may look like lobsters, or tuna fish, but that is purely coincidental. Times, Sunday Times
  • Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says.
  • At worst the disinfectant is prematurely exhausted, an effect known as organic overload, allowing large numbers of micro-organisms to survive.
  • I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season? Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
  • At my cousin's wedding some five years back, the most popular dish was a mixed vegetable fry prepared entirely on the 'tawa' griddle. Musical Cooking - Paneer Tawa Masala
  • Lightning raids in class are entirely justified. The Sun
  • With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
  • The poor litigant will wait for the somnolescent process and leisurely pronouncement and the wealthy litigant will have his case speedily terminated. The Hindu - Front Page
  • He is entirely unapologetic about the violence in his movies.
  • It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • [4] The translator's word 'relieve' (relyuue) represents Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • Luminescence is rarely more than 1% efficient and thus of comparatively low intensity.
  • And this groove isn't merely about the young and the funky. Times, Sunday Times
  • His voice sunk to a barely perceptible level.
  • It is doubtful if he realized that a parasol is a purely feminine adjunct; -- although the Mistress always declared he did. Further Adventures of Lad
  • Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
  • Galileo was attracted by the implicit contrast between physical propositions that were demonstrated and those that were merely affirmed.
  • She was rarely astir later than 7 o'clock.
  • While President Obama swore fealty to free trade, he also called for "balanced growth," which is diplo-speak for U.S. efforts to get China to spur domestic consumption and rely less on exports. Will Marshall: Does America Have a China Policy?
  • Our country has not yet passed the test of a severely-dichotomized nation. Dr. Leo Rangell: Cool
  • Unlike other porpoises and dolphins, belugas are quite leisurely.
  • In this agent-dominated world, brands will be quickly disassociated with visual trademarks, since people will rarely see them.
  • Under her they merely turn from pointillistic snapshots into abstract expressionism.
  • The wild subspecies that gave up their DNA for these tests still exist, though barely.
  • He believes many "psychics" are frauds who rely on perception and subtle deception.
  • Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Prayer, and receive the Sacrament every day; because they do not subject and submit themselves wholly and entirely to him that hath Light, nor deny and conquer themselves, nor give up themselves totally to God, with a perfect divesting and disinteresting of themselves: In a word, till the Soul be purified in the Fire of Inward Pain, it will never get to a State of The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland.
  • Kipling's low opinion of English rugby has rarely seemed more apposite. Times, Sunday Times
  • The waste water is kept entirely separate from the rainwater.
  • And the intention of the work is purely propagandistic - it is not to stimulate thought, but to close it down. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fitness instructors rarely explain the theory behind their routines. Times, Sunday Times
  • The synagogue is renowned for its bright white exterior and lion-headed gargoyles, which are unusual because animal forms are rarely used in Jewish art.
  • But now it is reported that your Englishmen (whom I may almost call the lordes of the Ocean sea) make yeerely voyages vnto Gronland: concerning which matter if you please to giue me further aduertisement, you shall doe me an especial fauour. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • For the tumblebug was sincere in his insane doings, and all Philistia honored him sincerely, so that there was nowhere any hope for this people. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
  • After a cut on the face or an exudation into the lungs, the loose tissues and multiple vessels allow the proliferating cells to obtain rich nourishment; absorption can take place readily, and the part regains its normal condition entirely, while a bruise at the heel or at the withers finds a dense, inextensible tissue where the multiplying elements and exuded fluids choke up all communication, and the parts die Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Surely at some stage in her life she will have medical or dental treatment? The Sun
  • His brave words are merely a pose.
  • The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
  • The key to the successful management of patients with severely elevated BP is to differentiate hypertensive crises from hypertensive urgencies.
  • Surely, no flame of piety, idealism, or self-sacrifice could burn in the cold hearts of its citizens.
  • As possibly the sole surviving remnant of the Dragon empire it surely deserves some backing from the industry.
  • Even two songs cut with hot producer Gavin Brown and ace keyboardist Richard Bell are merely passable.
  • The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
  • The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. 
  • This may be because the credulousness that goes hand in hand with little experience allows one to fall in love merely with appearances, and winter is beautiful. The Fire We Tend Against Winter
  • The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
  • “But suppose, Maggie, —suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments——”15 IV. Another Love-Scene. Book V—Wheat and Tares
  • Dahl came to admire him, although he described him as “quite an erk,”** and was shocked to discover that he could barely draw. Storyteller
  • Surely your computer isn't down again?
  • During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
  • Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years. Apologia Diffidentis
  • In this domain it serves, to use the unavoidable cliche, merely as a rubber stamp.
  • The dodder is what is called a parasitical plant; that is, a plant that lives entirely on another. Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.
  • But surely, I say, there are some people blessed with sunny dispositions - it doesn't necessarily mean they're valiantly trying to stop themselves from sliding into despair.
  • Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
  • The discharge of sewage water into the river severely contaminates the river with coliform bacteria.
  • After World War I its activities were severely limited by lack of funds and its inability to recruit good personnel.
  • Find supermarket shopping almost impossible now, barely able to walk let alone push a trolley so did my first internet shop last night. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • S2 Surely if gloves will not stand up to basic detergent, what use are they? The Sun
  • Relying on their well-established formula of eerie melodies, pastoral soundscapes, babbling children and rhythmic clamour, their sophomore effort rings true.
  • we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles
  • I contented myself with merely trying to become a migrant worker, a plan that fizzled because nobody in my family would advance me the cash necessary to go out west and meet my fellow migrants.
  • The gossip about her later proved to be entirely false.
  • Organised self-help groups also rely on the beneficial effects of talking and discussion.
  • The haircut is merely the latest stage in his curious and unusual battle to avoid overexposure.
  • How much the world revolves almost entirely around the male gaze. Times, Sunday Times
  • Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
  • Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. Paulo Coelho 
  • It has barely issued a reprimand or fine in years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Inflation did eventually accelerate, and tight-money measures have barely begun to halt it.
  • Good fishing for sportsmen and women also means good fortune for those who must feed their families almost entirely by fishing - loons, ospreys, bald eagles and cormorants.
  • Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The entrepreneur of eye avant-courier has been her lock surely in eye shot.
  • And workers 'wages barely budged, meaning consumers will probably stay somewhat cautious in the months ahead. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
  • It's beautiful, stark and entirely original. Times, Sunday Times
  • Surely this would be the ideal place to locate these stall holders - still in the town centre but not causing obstructions.
  • Believers, regenerate persons, who believe in Him, and rely on Him, have put on Christ.
  • The regulator said the proposed undertakings also rely on third parties completing certain actions, and involve complex and long-term behavioural obligations that present risks, creating uncertainty that IOOF could become an effective competitor to the combined NAB-AXA. NAB's Bid for AXA Asia Dealt a Blow
  • The bills are entirely regular, as impossible to impersonate as lifelong acquaintances. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • Stop putting words in my mouth - I didn't say you looked fat in the red dress - I merely said you looked very slim in the black!
  • I'm not sure the term insufferable boor is quite adequate here, I'm not saying that he's entirely without humor, but it's the sort of humor that is always tempered by a reminder of how much money he has and how he is holding it over his adult children. Outfoxed Diary Entry
  • Of course, it's not all about the image and the looks (except that, in the case of this particular preening bunch of fops in their heyday, it was almost entirely about the image and the looks).
  • On a purely practical level, it is difficult to see how such proposals would work.
  • Serious allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, occur rarely, but timely intervention is crucial.
  • It remains to be Seen if that is a genuine , substantial shift, or merely Aeon propaganda.
  • The success of the operation was entirely due to his example and his rapid appreciation of the situation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize _one_ individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • Your bank balance depends entirely on your salary but your happiness balance depends solely on you.
  • Surely the time for karaoke cover singers is finished? The Sun
  • The streets and buildings display barely no signage. Times, Sunday Times
  • They always reward those who have practiced sincerely and dedicatedly. Tao I
  • But in the context of the American culture wars in the political arena, it's an entirely apt and appropriate choice.
  • But it is no longer entirely ad hoc. Times, Sunday Times
  • Animals surely greet the best parts of their lives with enjoyment: and surely actively seek out pleasurable things. Times, Sunday Times
  • Often they work in the fields and have to rely on houseboys, who have easy access to vulnerable children left on their own.
  • Families expressed an increased desire to save but savings rarely increased. Times, Sunday Times
  • They have no hope, merely a mindless shriek of hatred they believe might bring down destruction on all so they can scavage the corpses. Obama Discusses Wright Controversy In New Web Video
  • Check that the boards are all securely fixed.
  • Journalists are rarely admitted to the region.
  • It is entirely possible to drink any wine with any dish, and anyone who says otherwise is talking bunkum; a respected gastro-bore friend of mine likes to drink white burgundy with stewed lamb, as he finds it brings out the texture of the meat.
  • It is early evening, but the sky is prematurely dark; thunderheads have blocked the last rays of the sun.
  • A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
  • What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government. Ivory Coast's descent into madness
  • Wherever in the world a people knows desperate want, there must appear at least the spark of hope, the hope of progress--or there will surely rise at last the flames of conflict. 
  • Might it not be some terrible avenger, out of the mystery beyond life, placed to beset him and finish him finally on this road that he was convinced was surely the death-road? CHAPTER XXXVI
  • Most importantly, if mutations have no effect on organismal fitness, the genealogy of a sample can be separated entirely from the mutational process.
  • He seemed a really genuine guy and sincerely appreciated that we had been following the tour.
  • Who will feed those kids if they go to school and their parents are working in the dingiest of atmospheres to gather barely enough food to feed themselves?
  • We do not think that something is beautiful merely to me, in the way that we might say that some things just happen to give me sensuous pleasure.
  • In winter it's a wildlife haven; even in the harshest weather it affords a rarely failing food source.
  • Obama would surely be careful in innovating his plan since the opposition will be attacking him even if he is successful. Times/CBS Poll: Iraq Still a Dividing Line - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • I establish, since it is clinically relevant, that you have not, in fact, had the penectomy and vaginoplasty yet, and are merely scarfing down hormones and getting all your facial hair yanked out. M.D.O.D.
  • The union of Christ and the Father within the Godhead is that which we are to believe and rely upon for the certainty of our salvation.
  • But it is a tricky lesson to teach when the banks and building societies are paying barely any interest to savers. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was barely even seventeen yet and so I could not get a job as a schoolmistress or a governess.
  • And while you might think that you have all the right in the world to lead Orlath, I am not fighting merely to replace a madwoman with a fanatic.
  • Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
  • She could barely pay the rent off of the measly tips that the patrons were giving, and her wages were too low to provide her with any material comfort.
  • She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings. Maid in Waiting
  • They are merely exercising their right to free speech.
  • The public rarely gets a glimpse into this world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
  • This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
  • a severely impaired heart
  • It lives subtidally (from the high water mark, which is rarely inundated, to shoreline areas that are permanently submerged), or occasionally intertidally (the area that is exposed to the air at low tide and underwater at high tide). CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • His hand was frozen, suspended in mid-air, the necklace barely dangling off it.
  • Two departments rely mainly on a single source for their forecasts with perhaps slight alterations to incorporate their own views.
  • These immortal ideas, things barely perceptible are the most precious things of life.
  • It is not merely that she is eloquent and articulate; she is also unusually shrewd and intelligent.
  • Surely he would win with this audacious plan. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fact that so many people were terrified of this activity must surely prove there was something wrong with it after all. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trail becomes more precipitous as we plod steadily across a long ridge that is barely discernible from the fog folding around us. Times, Sunday Times
  • It would surely be progress if significant discourse on tolerance were incorporated into educational curricula, religious sermons, and public speech.
  • The islanders could barely survive without an export crop.
  • Both rely on something lost being found, a sheep in the first parable and a silver coin in the second.
  • Pain may create misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it surely comes but never stays. RVM 
  • Such bigeneric cross plants do occur rarely in nature, and have at times also been artificially created in the horticultural field.
  • He approaches each film in a leisurely and mechanical fashion, like a round of golf. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the time has surely come to blow the whistle on these jokers.
  • It's purely coincidental that most of the people I know are from the same background.
  • Merely uncoil the roll of mesh so there are 3 feet or so between each coil.

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