How To Use Retained In A Sentence
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B.C. 117) is already indicative of the "fossilization" of Chinese writing, Huan K'uan at least in his liberal use of the binome retained touch with the spoken language.
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This gas absorbs visible light so well that plants could not photosynthesize even if they somehow retained their leaves.
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Trip steels have a microstructure with retained austenite, ferrite and martensite.
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State officials retained considerable economic control and allowed uneconomic factories and mines to continue operating.
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‘I'm sure the retained men are not valued as highly but they work 12 hours and then are on call - if those bleepers go then they have to race to the station, perhaps to save someone's life,’ he said.
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The Stabat Mater has been retained as an optional Sequence for September 15 in the reformed Roman Missal and as the hymn for the Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, and Evening Prayer in the new Liturgy of Hours.
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My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty.
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This soft retained austenite can accommodate impact stresses better than the harder constituents.
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Much of this additional nitrogen is retained or denitrified in the watershed, but a substantial amount enters groundwater and rivers and eventually is delivered to estuaries and the ocean.
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Special platforms were built for the leadsman, but the term chains was retained.
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As far as possible, the essential meaning or substance of each oath, and the formality and solemnity of the oaths, are retained.
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Unfinished hems and bulky vertical exterior seams retained an air of elegance, their rough finish somehow marrying perfectly with the slinky lines of dresses and skirts.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the present rules were retained, the entry of many relatively smaller and economically weak countries would either paralyse the EU completely, or the smaller countries could outvote the larger ones.
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The four stresses of the Anglo-Saxon verse are retained, and as much thesis and anacrusis is allowed as is consistent with a regular cadence.
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
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The longer the time elapsed, the less likely that the informant has retained freshness of recollection or can offer new information.
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Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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It is always a good idea to take your mom to the vet shortly after whelping to be sure she has not retained a placenta or even a dead puppy that will need to be expelled.
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For now there are two rival triumvirates - main owner, dedicated trainer and retained jockey - fighting it out for supremacy.
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The group also retained an attorney and filed two lawsuits challenging the evictions in the two counties.
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She was a good hand at the baking, something which she retained a fondness for up to the last year of her life.
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The classics are retained as a subject in which all must qualify; and the education provided for the ordinary passman is of a contemptible, smattering kind; it is really no education at all.
From a College Window
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Banc of America Securities reportedly is advising nonemployee members of the Busch family; the bank says it hasn't been officially retained.
How Bankers
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Some decisions in tax court determined that the only retained earnings that could be subject to tax would be "those held for no reason" or the "unappropriated" retained earnings.
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During pregnancy increased amounts of sex hormones are given off, while in jaundice the bile acids are retained in the body.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 - Presentation Speech
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I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book.
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A sexually driven humanity retained the instinct of pugnacity as part of what it meant to be huaman.
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They retained a devoted following long after they ceased production.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was made chief whip, a position he retained after the 1992 election, having been one of the negotiating team that hammered out the coalition deal with Labour.
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She was able to tell them that he was an unenthusiastic convert to Shintoism. He retained his Buddhist beliefs to the extent that he forbade his servants to kill flies.
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She retained her composure
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Part of the posterior rhinal fissure is always present in the 'incisura temporalis,' and sometimes, especially in some of the non-European races, the whole of the posterior rhinal fissure is retained in that typical form which we find in the anthropoid apes.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
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It retained water and yet had subtle membranes which permitted air to penetrate and facilitated waste disposal of the embryo.
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Macroalgae benefit from this relationship because fertile drift plants are retained in the photic zone where they continue to contribute to the gene pool.
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The belemnites sampled in this study were mostly translucent and retained the primary concentric banding that characterizes belemnite rostra.
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He became a manual laborer and later a postal worker, a position that he retained until his retirement.
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French, having retained more of its Indo-European morphosyntax, makes use of noun gender and verb conjugation.
French English Translation: the Clash of Roots and Grooves « Articles « Literacy News
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Many of the period features have been retained and there is off-street parking available to the front for three vehicles.
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Silsden retained a their 4-4 - 2 system which allowed fullbacks, Adam Reed and Michael Rhodes to attack down the wings.
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The Mordvins have retained a rich body of oral literature and music, much of which was recorded in the Soviet era.
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He gave up racing cars after an accident, but he has retained a compulsive desire to win.
Times, Sunday Times
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In keeping with a project goal to make greening strategies visible to the public, the rainwater not retained by the vegetated roof is directed via surface runnels to water storage.
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The auctioneers retained possession of the car.
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Britain retained their loyalty and affection by progressively conceding their demands for greater freedom and autonomy over a period of more than a century.
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Although much of this heat was radiated back into space, a significant fraction was retained by the growing planet.
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He had delivered unto them the keys of the kingdom of heaven, promising them that whatsoever they bound on earth should be bound in heaven; whatsoever they loosed upon earth should be loosed in heaven; whosesoever sins they should remit should be remitted, and whosesoever sins they should retain should be retained.
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A fern-grass-sedge pampa covers the summit areas of the larger islands where moisture is retained in temporary pools and sphagnum moss.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
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When used singly, the acutus, too, retained its shape fairly accurately and from its shape received the name virga (virgula).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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It is important to limit nickel content to the level needed for control of pearlite; excess nickel increases the amount of retained austenite and lowers hardness.
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Ultimately, if America is going to dissave to this extent, there are only a few ways to make the equation work — we will either need to accept a lower level of investment or rely on an increase in personal savings, higher levels of retained earnings by corporations, or greater foreign purchases of our debt.
Treasurys and the Danger of Short-Term Debt
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Those who saw him then say he seemed to shrink into himself and lose what ever vestige he had till then retained.
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The company's signature desmodromic valve operation is not only retained, it's this which facilitates the use of the huge valves with their massive potential gas flow at the high revs an engine with a stroke as short as this can achieve.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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Essentially, the colleges retained for the next biennium the state aid they had in the current biennium, a condition that did not exist under the old formula.
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Secondly, they retained 25 percent of capitation monies outside the formula system for discretionary allocations.
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While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (` a marshy place ') as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as "a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
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The inherited interior – also previously an office – was not particularly grand, but any standout details were to be retained (such as marble mosaic floor tiles in the entrance area, a number of marble-inlaid fireplaces and highly detailed ceiling cornicing).
Manchester Square Interior by SHH
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Willen covenanted with the town for the benefit and protection of the retained land.
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While the vast majority of films disappeared without a trace, a few ones survived the passage of time and retained their appeal.
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The cruciform church has huge Perpendicular windows, which until the C18 retained their medieval stained glass.
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The ex-chief retained the loyalty of the rank-and-file, however, and the result was a successor who would find his own directives being countermanded by his predecessor.
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Cs ~ + can enter crystal lattices of hydrate products of AASC and be retained.
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This measurement is generally accepted as the cost of the retained earnings portion of equity capital.
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He retained archaic word choices and used footnotes to explain the meanings of those words.
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The building does not construct modern office space behind a retained facade but around it.
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A sexually driven humanity retained the instinct of pugnacity as part of what it meant to be huaman.
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Stalin retained control through the continuous flow of information, his monopoly of secret intelligence and his immense authority - in these years his cult of the personality reached its apogee.
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The latter was his mentor and friend, for whose editorial skills he always retained sincere admiration.
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Queen Milena possessed great beauty, which she retained unimpaired in advancing years.
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“It is really a matter of necessity,” said the younger counsellor, retained for her sister; and Jeanie reluctantly followed the macer of the Court to the place appointed.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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She accused her husband of fucking around and retained me to prove it.
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This pattern was retained in early therapsids.
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The faecal casts retained their original coiled form on the sediment surface for several days but then gradually collapsed into a featureless mound on the sediment surface.
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Loup de Fages describes it as `a massive building, white and cold, in Germanic style, isolated in the woods at the edge of a lake which even to this day has retained a beauty that is wholly wild'.
Edith Södergran: a biographical profile - 3
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He also retained a belief in predestination and in an unfathomable Providence overseeing the affairs of the world.
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Now worn with a tweed cap for domestic tasks, it is the only item of uniform I retained for future use.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this use, they have retained an original and etymologically correct meaning.
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Politics was an abiding passion and he retained a constant devotion to his father's Liberal Party.
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Still wrecked tired, but got word today I'll be retained for Monday and Tuesday, so that's an extra 500 smackers.
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The Osteopaths retained a fledgling distinctiveness until 1960 when they began to more clearly model the allopaths.
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However, their vertebral structure appears to have retained the primitive undulatory movement of the axial column.
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The atoms were manipulated to form tidy bundles of waves, called solitons, which retained their shape and strength.
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_Lentibularia_ is an old generic name of Tournefort's, which has been superseded by _utricularia, _ but, oddly enough, has been retained in the name of the order _lentibulareæ_; but it probably comes from _lenticula_, which signifies the little root bladders, somewhat resembling lentils.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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A rarity among demons , he has retained tracts of his original personality despite his demonic transformation.
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Trip steels have a microstructure with retained austenite, ferrite and martensite.
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For most of the 20th century spontaneous miscarriage was managed by evacuation of retained products of conception.
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retained a few bulls for breeding purposes
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The government retained the monopolies on salt and iron, but it became clear that many of the Confucian literates saw his actions for what they truly were.
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The European states retained a latent capability to menace Britain's own security.
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No change in Verio's management personnel is anticipated, and the Verio brand name will be retained.
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Despite its five stars, it has retained a community feel, with an embracing, bighearted vibe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cigar-clenching pulp writer Carradine is the obvious directorial alter-ego, but this amounts to little added depth, as hambone Fuller's public persona has always retained a comic-strip element.
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Serving pots for coffee retained the tall tapered look of their Arab counterparts, while tea pots retained the squat, rotund shape initially seen in China.
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There will be sanded floors, optimum use of retained features such as doorframes and skirtings, all of historic quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether these odoriferous particles attend the perspirable matter in consequence of the increased action of the capillary glands, and can properly be called excrementitous; that is, whether any thing is eliminated, which could be hurtful if retained; or whether they may only contain some of the essential oil of the animal; like the smell, which adheres to one's hand on stroking the hides of some dogs; or like the effluvia, which is left upon the ground, from the feet of men and other creatures; and is perceptible by the nicer organs of the dogs, which hunt them, may admit of doubt.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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This measurement is generally accepted as the cost of the retained earnings portion of equity capital.
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Punic names were characteristically theophoric, and the Romanizing upper classes of North Africa typically assumed Latin names that retained the religious or moralistic connotations of the originals.
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It was possible for these industries to undergo corporatization, but only on condition that the state retained a controlling share in the company and that foreign investors were excluded from share ownership.
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Another cause is, for that it is briefer & more compendious, and easier to beare away and be retained in memorie, then that which is contained in multitude of words and full of tedious ambage and long periods.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Only the nobility's works of reference retained a certain decorum.
Times, Sunday Times
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In that case, the plaintiff retained an agent to find a warehouse property of approximately 50,000 square feet.
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Air superiority over the battlefield was retained at all times and the Air Force flew effective army co-operation and tactical reconnaissance missions.
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They retained only one direct tax, the tithe on agricultural produce (decima).
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Football retained tenacious local loyalties, overlaid by denominational and social rivalries, mediated by the search for success and corresponding reward.
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But still a shadow and resemblance of it was retained; and in the papal church itself to this day, particular confessors are esteemed competent judges of the meetness of their penitents for an admission unto the sacraments of their church.
A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
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Amongst orchids, where the pedicel of the flower or the ovary is normally twisted, so that the labellum occupies the anterior or inferior part of the flower, it frequently happens, in cases of peloria and other changes, that the primitive position is retained, the twist does not take place, and so with other resupinate flowers.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The transitory and singularly small and simple denticle in the horse exemplifies the rudiment of an ancestral structure in the same degree as do the hoofless splint-bones; just as the spurious hoofs dangling therefrom in hipparion are retained rudiments of the functionally developed lateral hoofs in the broader foot of palæotherium.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
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The idiosyncrasy of the Miss World contest is that despite being a truly international competition, it has retained much of its Englishness.
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Only the nobility's works of reference retained a certain decorum.
Times, Sunday Times
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_ Prof. Clay, it should be added, clings to the older reading, Hammurabi, which is retained in this volume.
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
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He retained a plebeian taste in food and drink.
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There is ground to conclude that they came down from mountains in the fact that the name "Accad" means "Mountains" or "Highlands," a name which they could not possibly have taken in the dead flats of Lower Chaldea, but must have retained as a relic of an older home.
Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
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Two days later, the professors found themselves confronting another polar bear, two mandrills, two agoutis, a tiger, a vulture, two eagles, and two more animal proprietors, who, like the first, were retained to care for the animals.
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While happy to mingle with aristocracy and royalty, he retained pride in his middling origins, claiming that the name Franklin itself echoed the status of his long line of freeholding ancestors.
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Unlike the sultans of Malaya, who retained a constitutional position after the British left in 1957, India's maharajahs could retain only their titles and personal assets.
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The hand axes are mostly pointed, including well-made ‘ficron’ and ‘cordate’ forms, in some cases partly unworked with the outer cortex retained as a convenient handle.
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The coloured blockwork of the first style was retained, but the impression of relief was supplied by painted shadows and highlights.
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Representatives from the company or the law firm it has retained could not be reached for comment this afternoon.
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Still, an experienced securities lawyer should be retained to advise on deal terms.
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Subjects retained many Web skills from the computer skills workshop.
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Leading commercial barristers Michael Cush SC and Bill Shipsey SC have been retained to act for the plaintiffs in the case.
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But once these companies had attained their controlling position in their specialty skill niche, they retained it.
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
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He had also clocked up 34 years as a retained firefighter when he retired from that job two years ago.
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Products are then sampled for quality control; batch samples are retained to check in case of customer complaints of milk spoilage.
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It had two summits; that on the south retained the name Tarpeian; [12] the northern was properly the Capitol.
Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquiti
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He has also retained his predecessor's "excision" policy, under which asylum seekers on islands like this one are barred from the mainland's refugee review system.
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Normally, the drug itself is retained by a protective coating which conceals its taste.
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The English army then, to distinguish themselves, assumed a black rosette on their hats; which, from its position, the Scotch nick-named a "cock'ade" (with which our use of the word "cockscomb" is connected) and is still retained.
Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851
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Throughout the crisis he retained his composure.
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In my judgment, the exception and reservation was probably an instinctive reaction of a conveyancer who was providing for the transfer of one part of a site, the remainder of which was being retained by the vendor.
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Neither country has retained the Ashes by levelling the score at The Oval.
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While his journey to the region last month lacked the sheep, cattle and stockmen of his previous visit, he said the place had retained its charm.
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In the end the "Reindeer" retained it, and the action began with both on the starboard tack, closehauled, the
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2
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Under the scheme, retained firemen answer medical emergency calls to deliver advanced first aid.
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As above, birds retained access to water throughout the duration of the fast.
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Several samples were collected, most of which desiccated and crumbled to powder within a day or so, but one sample retained its glassy, bright blue character for more than a year.
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However , some of the meat juices and fat may be retained in pan drippings.
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They retained that position for more than 500 years.
Christianity Today
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The concrete was damaged to depths of 3 feet or so; nevertheless it retained its functional use and was repairable.
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We were the first to get alarm bells in our houses, to carry defibrillators and we got our bleepers before the retained firemen.
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He always retained his interest in literature and poetry.
SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
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It appears that solicitors Matheson Ormsby Prentice were retained to provide advice on the framing of the legislation.
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He delegated to junior ministers, but retained a formidable grasp of the policy details.
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This was to have an impact on his political strategy: though sympathetic to some of the aims of both the French Revolution and the United Irishmen, he retained a strong aversion to political violence.
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The French have largely retained their ancient sober habit (save for the unhappy introduction of the afternoon "aperitif"), but the English have shown a tendency to abandon their intemperance of excess in favour of an opposed intemperance, and instead of drinking till they fall under the table have sometimes developed a passion for not drinking at all.
Impressions and Comments
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While plans were drawn up in case the raider was a pocket battleship and not just one of the many German merchant ships which had sneaked out of the sanctuary of a South American port and armed herself, the Admiralty signalled to Admiral Lyon and Commodore Harwood that the order recalling the 4th Destroyer Division was cancelled and they were "to be retained in the South Atlantic for the present.
Graf Spee
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How many films are retained in our minds as simply a memory of having seen them, of a reaction to them and perhaps a generalised sense of atmosphere, an emotional or aesthetic texture?
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The air which fills the lungs is soon again expired, whilst the ingesta of the abdominal viscera are for a longer period retained; and as the space, which by every inspiration the thorax gains from the abdomen, would cause inconvenient pressure on the distended organs of this latter cavity, so we find that to obviate this inconvenience, nature has constructed the anterior parietes of the abdomen of yielding material.
Surgical Anatomy
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Beers of the German type are less heavily hopped and more peptonized than English beers, and more highly charged with carbonic acid, which, owing to the low fermentation and storing temperatures, is retained for a comparatively long time and keeps the beer in condition.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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From 1960 to 1962 he was president of the Society of Chemical Industry, and he retained his directorship of the Midland Bank, to which he had been appointed in 1955.
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It also shows that regardless of all her suffering she has retained some of her charm and kind personality.
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Some of the older white Cubans retained racist feelings that were conveyed to us with a certain condescension and stiffness.
Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White
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Because of his success at so-called remotivation reorienting long-term mental patients toward the outside world, Greenland was retained by the Ontario government between 1960 and 1966 to plan how to empty the province's crowded psychiatric hospitals.
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To be truthful I find it astounding that Bali has retained its unique character.
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Owens also said he intends to end what he calls the attorney general's "slush fund" -- back taxes, fraud and other collections pursued by the office, a portion of which are retained by the office for its uses.
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We have retained a healthy share of middleand upper-class readers, an affluent audience attractive to advertisers.
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The law, whose stated purpose was to suppress pornography while protecting literature, retained more or less the previous definition of obscenity, as that which, taken as a whole, tended to corrupt and deprave.
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Voucher will be retained by cashier at time of redemption.
The Sun
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In the chapel, a room sadly truncated by the new entrance hall, the physical evidence of Catholicism had been ruthlessly excised, but the cloister retained its tranquillity, and the large, undecorated dining hall could still properly be described as a refectory.
The Blackstone Key
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They retained that position for more than 500 years.
Christianity Today
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These observations from other representatives of both the chromist and alveolate groups support the hypothesis that the diatom's ability to generate animal-like action potentials was acquired and retained from the ancestral eukaryote protist host.
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At our hotel, the Park Hyatt, syrniki arrived at the table studded with raisins and thick with cheese that retained its natural, curdy consistency, while at Vogue Café they were raisin-less, whipped and smoothed into delicate discs few Russian babushkas would recognize.
Beyond Blini
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The European states retained a latent capability to menace Britain's own security.
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Commercial applicators hired to spread manure must be certified and consultants retained to prepare manure management plans must be professional agrologists or Certified Crop Advisors registered in Manitoba.
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Her counsel told Mr Justice Park she ‘retained Max Clifford to market the media interest in the fact that she had become pregnant with octuplets.’
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A few modern fishes, including the coelacanth, the African bichir Polypterus, and three genera of lungfishes, retained lungs … In two major lineages of derived bony fishes - the chondrosteans and the teleosts -- lungs evolved to swim bladders by atrophy of vascular tissue to create a more or less empty sac and, in some cases, by loss of the connecting tube to the esophagus (called the trachea in humans and other creatures with lungs).
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Thus the theodolite was the only instrument retained, and the camera, photographic films (exposed and unexposed), hypsometer, thermometers, rifle, ammunition and other sundries were all thrown away.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Military resources of the crown: (1) (nonfeudal) the old Anglo-Saxon fyrd (including ship fyrd) was retained (i.e., a national nonfeudal militia, loyal to the crown, was used, as against the Norman rebellion of 1075); (2) (feudal) about five thousand knights 'fees owing service on the usual feudal terms.
B. The British Isles
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Throughout these long years of public service he retained his modest, unassuming and kindly manner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Employees were kept informed well ahead of the changes and as many warehouse staff as possible were retained.
Times, Sunday Times
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They noticed the cashpoint slot was narrow, and when the card was retained they remained by the machine for further instructions - but nothing happened.
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We know actually very well, studies have been done showing that interestingly enough when service members come in for treatment their likelihood of being retained on duty and maintaining their deployability status actually increases and actually remains very high.
Psychologist Craig Bryan: Treating Vets For PTSD
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Factories only slowly developed from outwork and workshop production in the first half of the nineteenth century, and they retained many features of the earlier method of production.
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These men have all sustained unreproached reputations, and retained through their long lives the full confidence of the people of their respective States.
The Memories of Fifty Years
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The younger the child and the sooner the replantation, the better the success; teeth replanted within 15 minutes stand a 98% chance of being retained after further dental attention.
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Laidlaw kicked a 22nd-minute penalty from close range but Halfpenny, retained as first-choice goalkicker following his late heroics in Dublin, drew Wales level 10 minutes before half-time through an effortless strike from 40 metres.
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Linnaeus himself retained a dispersal of all species from a single mountain, formerly surrounded by sea.
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Gogarty retained the cheque uncashed until it became the first exhibit to the Flood Tribunal in January last.
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To minimize redundancy, short sequences of fewer than 20 amino acid residues were excluded, and only one such sequence from each set of homologous alternatively spliced genes was retained.
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It will not be here amisse to adde this one observation further; That it is better to drinke this water once a day, then twice, and that in the mornings, after that the Sunne hath dryed up & consumed the vapors retained through the coldnesse of the night, &c. as is formerly declared.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain
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The wooden walls were retained from the original dacha, she tells me.
CHAMELEON
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He gave up racing cars after an accident, but he has retained a compulsive desire to win.
Times, Sunday Times
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She refused to eat dinner with him while he retained his ghastly aspect, and he could find no countercharm he felt competent to use, but fortunately the spell wore off in time.
With a Single Spell
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These retained bullets often gave rise to remarkably little trouble in this situation; thus I have a skiagram of a shrapnel bullet lying in the deepest part of the subscapular fossa, which did not inconvenience its possessor.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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The county within which the sheriff exercises his jurisdiction is still called his bailiwick, while the term bailiff is retained as a title by the chief magistrates of various towns and the keepers of royal castles, as the high bailiff of Westminster, the bailiff of Dover Castle, &c.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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Illness was said to occur when one humour was retained in excess - 'becoming plethoric' - or putrefied.
Times, Sunday Times
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A probationary faculty member was notified in December that he would not be retained.
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Trip steels have a microstructure with retained austenite, ferrite and martensite.
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On average 800,000 pigs are slaughtered every year in New Zealand while some 50,000 sows are retained for breeding.
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This retained a lot of the edginess that you might associate with the band whilst adding the elements that was required from the original brief.
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His bedroom has retained its working gaslight.
Times, Sunday Times
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American religious liberty, American tolerance of open-mindedness, and American social action were among the few aspects of American life for which he retained an unstinted respect.
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Is it right that a lawyer is retained to convey a property and their client ends up with nothing?
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On young trees ‘temporary ‘branches may be retained along the stem to encourage taper and protect trees from vandalism and sun scald.’
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Staff deductions such as income tax had also been allegedly retained.
The Sun
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She retained her mental faculties until the day she died.
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News anchors of color gave viewers the impression of diversity while more influential roles were retained by a less heterogeneous group.
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SHAH ALAM: Nasharudin Mat Isa retained the post of PAS deputy president and Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man won one of the three posts of vice-president as the party maintained its tradition of electing "ulama" (Islamic scholars) to its top posts.
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Our institute retained a pole position in scientific research.
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The fee is accrued over the duration of your tenure in the property and is usually retained from the proceeds from the resale.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Archbishop lost control of the city in 1288, but retained the right to crown German kings and was acknowledged as one of the seven imperial electors by the Emperor Charles IV in 1356.
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Particularly did it differ from the Roman vault in that, while the latter had a level crown, obtained by using semicircular lateral and transverse arches and elliptical groin arches (naturally formed by the intersection of two semicircular barrel vaults of equal radius), the "Lombard" vault was constructed with semicircular diagonals, the result being that domical form which was always retained by the Gothic builders of France because of its intrinsic beauty.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
