How To Use Rust In A Sentence
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Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
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A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
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It was a beautiful wooden skiff, with a little outboard motor, perfect for his part-time second occupation of working a few pots to catch crustacea to sell to local pubs and restaurants.
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There has been a lot of teamwork and trust and that deserves to be rewarded by having new investment.
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Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
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Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
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The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
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Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? —
Clarissa Harlowe
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Remove all traces of rust with a small wire brush.
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Kahil was one of her men, yet he managed to insinuate himself into Fadawah's trust.
SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
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Committed by parents, teachers, priests or minders it undermines trust and dependency, disrupts relations with authority figures and can interfere with loving and learning.
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Still, for the medium term, either the government needs to scutinize refinery activity much more closely, adopt new regulatory authority and aggressively enforce antitrust laws, or it must intervene to deconcentrate the market.
Robert Weissman: What To Do About the Price of Oil
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How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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He looked up, anger and frustration still showing plainly on his expressive face.
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A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
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The partners' duties A vital component of a partnership is the mutual trust between partners.
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I think it frustrates adults when they cannot instill their ideas into teens.
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I trust this callous disregard for viewers' feelings will be put right as soon as possible.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do not want to see or smell your funky feet, crusty heels or unpedicured toes.
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The relationship between a woman and her clinician should be built on trust, and the benefits and the risks of a procedure such as an episiotomy must be openly discussed to ensure truly informed consent.
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But the main thrust of correspondence focused on the future of a particular medical practice.
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Private real estate trusts and partnerships may be smart plays for the long term
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My niece was left in my trust for the weekend.
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He deliberately paused outside the door, forcing them to wait in frustration before they dared erupt into excited comment.
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This investment trust has delivered exceptional returns over the past few years by riding a wave of mergers, acquisitions and innovation.
Times, Sunday Times
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A man might be cruel but if you show your trust he will relent.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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But it was the introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 that really thrust her into the public's consciousness, especially as she herself was a non-driver.
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The main thrust of my irritation comes from the fact that this was marketed in Previews as the issue that would tell us what Noh-Varr has been doing.
Review: Dark Avengers Annual #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Martha became a trustee because she wanted the perspective of a professional educator on the board.
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It's frustrating, and makes the game look unpolished.
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We have developed a very close, personal relationship, a relationship of trust.
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They are unencumbered trust funds pursuant to the Load Broker Regulations of the TTA.
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We placed our trust in the hospital which failed in so many ways so many times over.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its purpose is to gather sufficient information to answer questions about magma chambers in oceanic crust.
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Along the Leathad Riabhach gully, the Ben More Thrust steepens into a subvertical fault with gneiss to the NE and quartzite to the SW.
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The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
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As they go into battle, simultaneous armoured thrusts will be launched from Kuwait and Turkey.
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Doesn't that place restrictions on the "hards", creating frustrations for them?
Low floor, high ceiling OR low floor, wide walls?
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The political system has moved on to the automobile bailouts and the fiscal stimulus, but the original problem of trust in the financial system has still not been fixed.
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He was appointed to a position of trust .
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The established idea that granitoid magmas ascend through the continental crust as diapirs is being increasingly questioned by igneous and structural geologists.
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Trust the Irish to give it to you straight, with no blarney, when it's something as important as drink.
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He needed somebody to trust in this morass of intrigue and double meaning that was called the royal court.
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In the premise of quality assurance, product diversification, style fashion, and make our products sell well at home and abroad, and won the trust of our customers and highly praised.
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Brick with blurred colors or flecks of color in earthy tones of red, brown, black and buff appear completely at home in a rustic setting.
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Cut off the crust from one of the loaves and slice thinly.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the measure intended to foster democracy will result in all three party leaders imposing a three-line whip on their respective MPs – a move hardly likely to ease the public's mistrust of Parliament.
European Union: The referendum is an absurd sideshow | Observer editorial
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Holders of income shares got all the income earned from the trust, while holders of capital shares got all the capital gain.
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We passed ancient cottages embowered with climbing roses that Edward Elgar must have known as he cycled here on what he called his "trusty steed".
Country diary: Malvern Hills
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All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
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I trust you will take the earliest opportunity to make a full apology.
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The closely-packed _mitraille_ tore the icy crust into powder, fifty yards beyond the doomed bird, which settled, throbbing with a mortal tremor, upon the ice, shot through the head.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields
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Man, these people are just too stupid to be trusted with appointments - and too timorous to deserve to a university position from which to dribble out the contents of their weak little minds.
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All this mysticism promoted a general mistrust of alchemists.
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This thrust, though, is generally reckoned to grant sufficient dynamic counterplay.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the trustees do have a responsibility to ensure that the centre's income is deployed in the most effective manner.
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Truly, Ranald, my trusty friend," said Dalgetty, "I will not deny that the case may be soon my own; for I am so forfoughen (being, as
A Legend of Montrose
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Northern migratory species winter in the savanna, such as spotted sandpiper Actitis macularia, barn swallow Hirundo rustica and blackpoll warbler Dendroica striata.
Canaima National Park, Venezuela
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The city emerged from trusteeship under a new mayor, but he too cooked the books and monkeyed with zoning for his own ends.
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Although the number of rural ponds is decreasing rapidly, garden ponds are gaining in popularity and are becoming increasingly important habitats for toads, says the trust.
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But recently, he publicly crossed swords with Soi Lek, whom he described as untrustworthy and treacherous compared to former MCA president Ong Tee Keat.
SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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The organisation's shield consisted of a male forearm whose fist was thrusting the point of a spear into the jaws of a wolf.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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The buoyant mood of his audience was certainly out of kilter with the deep undercurrent of frustration evident elsewhere in Bournemouth this week.
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The airport runway is lined with the rusted wrecks of other planes cannibalized for parts.
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The heat touched off the Hi-Thrust which burst in a needle flame from the petcock.
The Stars My Destination
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Specter, who is in a tough primary race in the Rust Belt state of Pennsylvania, said Chinese subsidies and what he called dumping are "a form of international banditry.
The Seattle Times
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She hears nothing but the breeze rustling the curtains of her bedroom window, and the angry blare of the television coming from her father's bedroom.
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Some of his best mates are journalists, but generally he is sceptical and distrustful of the media and never saw his role as a background briefer to reporters.
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In the cephalopoda (as also in the crustacea) the same passage serves to void the excrement and leads to the part like a uterus, for the male discharges the seminal fluid through this passage.
On the Generation of Animals
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The trust would like to say thank you to all the visitors who offered their support.
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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Your mother's will most likely transfers property to the revocable trust, rather than the other way around, in case she failed to transfer something to the trust prior to her death.
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Today, because of that initial donation, we have been able to raise additional funding for the now formidable Salone Microfinance Trust to fund microcredits for over 7,000 Sierra Leonean women and men!
Tiffany Persons: The Never-ending Story of One Donation
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This used to be illegal but several states have now repealed laws against perpetuities which used to limit the term of any family trust to about 90 years, after which time the family members would own the property outright, and thus finally have to pay taxes.
Maxim Thorne: Giving Thanks for a Meritocracy Instead of Aristocracy
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But at last there came a Tuesday -- a gold-medal Tuesday for one frustrated amigo.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
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Thoroughly frustrated with the blindness of his countrymen, he resolved to establish a community in America.
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Professional rugby is a hard way to earn a crust - and an uncertain one.
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Simple, rustic meals, focusing more on quality ingredients, such as first-rate olive oil.
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Or, for a warm starter try the saltcrust tarts filled either with herbed mushrooms or barbecue chicken.
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Not for them your rustic kitchens and winsome acoustic soundtracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, the actual meal-ender: a tender, subtle Chinese snow pear deep-fried in a beignet-like crust. Magic.
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Stay, look at this, "continued he, replying by a thrust in" seconde "to a straight thrust;" if I had lunged, I should have spitted you like a lark.
The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental
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Not even his trusty silver medallion of St. Christopher could protect him against such overwhelming numbers.
Storyteller
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The fact that many crustaceans, being omnivorous, may act as scavengers and eat the corpses of fellow aquatic creatures need not be a deterrent.
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For the crust, stir the flour, cornmeal, sugar and baking powder together in a large mixing bowl.
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Another good thing about the loss of trust lies in its origins.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rocks are asymmetrically folded and overthrust to the west, with chaotic units and abundant evidence for coeval soft-sediment deformation.
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This requires that the public and lawmakers have confidence that those entrusted to uphold the law will comply with it themselves, both on and off duty.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Thinking, a crocheted openwork of rusted wire bursts from a metal drum.
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Ever so a person, can in order to my every move and happy or frustrated for a long time.
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He has brain-trusted the major corporation.
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The presence of extrusive volcanic rocks during the rifting stages suggests that a large volume of melt may also have been added to the crust intrusively.
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Epizoic barnacles are sessile, marine crustaceans and constitute a model system featuring the above conditions.
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The inundation at two spots on the Tangerang toll road this past week has been a major source of frustration.
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She screamed into her pillow, releasing her frustration into the creamy white sheet.
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The thrust of the campaign is to ensure that coming generations too experience Sabarimala just like their forefathers did.
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Traditional B-Western themes such as cattle and horse rustling continued, but they were war-related.
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At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
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It also required the merged company to maintain its existing negotiating practices and appoint a trustee to oversee its performance and report back to MOFCOM.
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But the extended prayer in unison is a metallic Procrusteanism, which absolutely defies the rationale of the whole business, which is the communication of meaning.
Leap Year -- Day
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Võibolla on siin süüdi see, et alustasin ulmega lähemat tutvumist Seiklusjuttude sarjast mille raamatud olid alati kobedalt illustreeritud aga minuarust annavad head illustratsioonid ulmekale väga palju juurde.
Hyperion Cantos – kanoonilised kaaned
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His left leg was going into muscle spasms of some sort and he clutched at his knee with frustration.
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Work-wise, it's good to trust your intuition.
The Sun
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It is probable, however, that M. Thoinan, who makes this statement, has not considered the possibility of the word _musette_ applying in this case to the small rustic hautbois or _dessus de bombarde_, also written _muse_,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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The arresting part of this photo is not her femaleness, although foregrounding her gender seems to be the intention, but the condition of her gun, which is old, chipped, and rusty.
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‘It is a fact that we have people in other firms trying to poach my staff telling them not to trust the big employer,’ he said.
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The rebeck, to whose loud and harsh strains the medieval rustic had danced, [Footnote: The rebeck probably had been borrowed from the Mohammedans.] by the addition of a fourth string and
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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The road was uneven, full of random stones and broken asphalt, thrusting themselves in all directions.
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Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran
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Bolts around exhaust manifolds or superchargers get hot and tend to rust.
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Many jurisdictions will look through the trust and tax the settlor or beneficiaries directly.
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He's torn between his distrust and dislike of the press and his need to galvanise voters.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was practically screaming with frustration.
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Wealthy people buy the houses from the Trust, employ builders to do the restoration and move in when all is ready.
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This wall was originally incrusted with rich marbles, and the great dome, adorned with deep coffering in rectangular panels, was decorated with rosettes and mouldings in gilt stucco.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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It frustrates me that I'm not able to put any of my ideas into practice.
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Now, whenever I go out on the porch I remember how rusty and pitted the railings used to look and how it bothered me, and the several hours I spent sandpapering it smooth, then the three coats of brown Rustoleum I applied, and now I'm watching it get whiter and cleaner with every new layer of paint I apply.
A Productive Day
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The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
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A shame since it includes the weapons, sabotage devices and other inventions which undoubtedly frustrated the German forces.
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Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
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But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
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I was accused of being stiff, spoiled, pompous, upper crusted, bitter, angry, negative, imbecilic, and even crazy.
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With a nod, Annie pirouetted around in a rustle of taffeta and left the room.
Etched in Bone
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England will be thrust straight on to a competitive footing.
Times, Sunday Times
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To help us "read" the messages which surround us and which are there to signpost the way, we have what some people call our intuition to trust.
Life Without Work
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Lofty numbers bedazzle authorizers and lure fat checks from foundations and trustees.
The Saint (and Scourge) of Schools «
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It could, for example, be used on rails in rural areas, which often get coated with a film of rust when not used at weekends.
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Under that scale, brown is measured as dark grey, whereas shades of rust and buff are lighter grey.
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An adjoining room is littered with mementos of more recent island history: a rack of antlers, a rusty plow, and an old dentist's chair.
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More problematic are the relationships of the four major groups, hexapods (including insects), crustaceans, myriapods (including centipedes and millipedes), and chelicerates (including spiders).
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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The fireplace really suited the rustic cabin setting.
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This circumstance makes this most recent vote doubly frustrating.
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He speculates about the personal stories of strangers in bars and offers up tales of his childhood with the ease of a trusted friend.
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To speak generally, if we take all animals which change their locality, some by swimming, others by flying, others by walking, we find in these the two sexes, not only in the sanguinea but also in some of the bloodless animals; and this applies in the case of the latter sometimes to the whole class, as the cephalopoda and crustacea, but in the class of insects only to the majority.
On the Generation of Animals
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Of course, the failed indicator light was frustrating our efforts to read the indication.
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He wooed me back and I know he struggled to trust me again.
The Sun
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Their trust was repaid with fierce loyalty.
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The focus of this paper is on the Crustacea, the class of Arthropoda that expresses both hemoglobin and hemocyanin.
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In frustration, she talked to a lawyer and settled out of court with her former employer.
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A focal area of hyperpigmentation with an associated crusted lesion was over the left midclavicular area.
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I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa
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People living in the community served by the hospital are able to become members and stand for election for the board of governors of the trust.
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All architectural projections and rusticated surfaces are of reconstituted stone.
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If at all, the Euro increases trust in sane long term policy just like the EU institutions in general for Italy, thus reducing investment risk which leads to more growth.
Matthew Yglesias » What’s the Matter With Italy?
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The same day's paper features a story "Is this a work of art or just any old iron?" about how the writer, broadcaster, doctor and polymath Sir Jonathan Miller asked a passing scrap metal merchant to remove a rusting bath from his front garden -- only to find his three metal sculptures had also been over-enthusiastically taken.
Media
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His overall appearance was that of a shifty man who couldn't be trusted.
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Mr. Jackson converted a rustic red barn into a herpetarium with displays for a dozen exotic and venomous snakes, including a Burmese python and a monocled cobra.
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Learn to trust the ankle support designed into a high cuff in-line skate.
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Would you trust this man to behave fairly, honestly, and ethically in his portfolio?
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In appearance place no trust.
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The trust claims both units are underused and costly to run but have not yet released detailed information about how much would be saved in closing the units.
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He was close to MacDonald and trusted him to respect the constitution.
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FORGET the image of an old wooden shack that is home to rusty bikes and spiders.
The Sun
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The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
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James then raced onto a long ball over the top of the defence, chipped the goalkeeper but could only look on in frustration as the ball rebounded off the post.
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The car industry in the rustbelt is miserable. Factories making thirsty pickup trucks are cutting back or closing.
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The volume expansion provides an excellent mechanism to expel and propel fluid products – including hydrocarbons – from the area of serpentinization to seep sites at the crust hydrosphere/atmosphere interface.
At it Again
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The manaesh, a slightly thicker bread crusted with sour crushed sumac and wild Armenian thyme, was pretty great too, especially when you toast it at home and have it with your coffee in the morning.
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The relative abundance of these elements is increasingly being used to trace chemical processes in the mantle, crust, and oceans.
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That which seemeth to me most likelie, I haue noted, beseeching the learned (as I trust they will) in such points of doubtfull antiquities to beare with my skill: sith for ought I know, the matter is not yet decided among the learned, but still they are in controuersie about it, and as yet Sub iudice lis est.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
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Remove rust by rubbing the affected area with super fine steel wool or a raw potato that has been dipped in whiting.
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The star ratings were awarded after all trusts were assessed against key targets from April 2003 to March 2004.
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He conquered the lands up to Carchemish, but an Egyptian-Hittite treaty signed in 1283, which divided Syria between them, frustrated the Assyrians 'westward movement.
E. The Kassites, the Hurrians, and the Arameans
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Until the cessation of bulk exports of port in 1997, crusted port was bottled in the UK.
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So it will prove in the future, for nothing can frustrate the evolutionary movement nor prevent humanity as a whole from attaining and achieving its purpose.
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Frustration, anger and desperation have led to a series of wildcat strikes.
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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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Obviously, then, the average romance reader is not the undereducated, uninformed, subnormal, frustrated housewife of recent mythology.
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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
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In its original form, this involved saints like Columba taking to his coracle (that bobbing teacup of a leather boat, without rudder or oars), trusting the waves to carry him wherever they might.
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Torque transfer is a function of the internal gearing, which generates frictional resistance to differentiation through the axial and radial thrust forces of the gears in the differential.
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The Sporting Trust is an independent body that organises sporting functions to raise money for cancer.
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This, however, is another reason for mistrusting the application.
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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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One of these fellows (now the highest financial officer of the land!) it seems had even "erred" (then endeavored to finesse the audit, then paid up just prior to ordering his new federal office furniture) in reporting his income tax, as did several other presidential nominees for high offices of trust.
Hope and Trust in Obama, or Renewed Vigilance?
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The meeting ended with the correct formalities, and barely concealed mutual mistrust.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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But this light relief could not obliterate the all-pervading sense of crisis, disillusion and frustration in the country.
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When we came up for the first time, there wasn't much made of rustication (being suspended from the university for a set period).
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Watching the boy toss, turn and slip in and out of a light doze, Laras wondered if he wasn't somehow picking up on his father's tension and frustration in some subtle way.
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You can just see the mental process by which they work out how many squat thrusts it will take to work off each pillow of dough.
Times, Sunday Times
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But our mistrust of language is only our misuse of language.
Times, Sunday Times
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They learned to dress and pack the catch, their clothes crusted with scales, the boards of the shanty slick with gurry beneath their feet.
AMAGANSETT
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This was achieved by 1876 and the property vested in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1891.
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A spokesman for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party called the cabinet shuffle "a futile exercise which inspires none and in no way dispels the gloom shadowing" Mr. Singh's government, according to Press Trust of India.
India Fires Environment Minister Who Held Up Projects
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The Consumers' Association and the AA Motoring Trust believe the test should be made more realistic by increasing the speed and including what would happen in a side-on crash.
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People are put off volunteering, he suggests, because of the increasing fear of litigation and frustration with the associated red tape.
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This program was a clunker from the get go ....... the government can't even get this right and they want us to trust them with our healthcare?
'Cash for clunkers' good through weekend, maybe beyond
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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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The resulting cake is golden, incredibly moist, light and fruity, with a slightly crusty edge, and it is very hard to stop at just one slice.
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Closely related in origin to manganese nodules are the ferromanganese incrustations found on exposed rocks of the mid-ocean ridge, seamounts, and other places in the ocean where bare rock is exposed.
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A blue tractor beam en-gulfed the runabout and thrust it away from the debris.
Demons Of Air And Darkness
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City of York Council has been chosen to set up a Children's Trust pathfinder project, which also aims to boost learning.
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The availability of much of distance learning is possible only because of the charitable funding of trusts.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't think that I could ever trust happiness. Then I met you.Happy Valenti ne's Day, Dear.
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Public trust in congressmen has been even feebler, averaging just 15%.
Why Everyone Distrusts Both Business And Government
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The idea here is that the person is fully capable of the task and can be trusted to complete it.
Christianity Today
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That he expressed the general feeling in our train was evidenced by the many women who leaned from the wagons, thrusting out gaunt forearms and shaking bony, labor-malformed fists at the last of Mormondom.
Chapter 13
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She grasped the hilt of her sword and thrust it at the stones, wedged it between the planks on the door.