How To Use Situation In A Sentence
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She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor.
The Italian
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There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner?
Canada and the Empire
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There were a few awkward social situations.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were a few awkward social situations.
Times, Sunday Times
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A lot of teachers expect the situation to worsen over the next few years.
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On Tuesday, guard Jaymes Brooks was discussing how Smith has become the player who "fusses at us a lot, tries to get our spirits up, tries to tell us not to get our heads down in certain situations" when he also alluded to a speech Smith gave at halftime of that East Carolina game.
Did Andre Smith save the Hokies' season?
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Her mother has written to him explaining the situation but has not heard back.
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He judged the present situation badly.
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No, but they more or less remained together, I hate to use the word ideologically, but I guess for want of a better word, they seemed to always react, more or less, the same way to political situations and to political candidates 'platforms.
Oral History Interview with Lindy Boggs, January 31, 1974. Interview A-0082. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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There have been a number of situations with the young Belgian where had he not taken evasive action he would have been clobbered.
The Sun
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Firstly, the board excerpt below represents an endgame situation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your situation is not unlike the girl who permits everything but the textbook definition of sexual congress so she can say she's a virgin.
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The present crisis is analogous with the situation immediately before the war.
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It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition.
Our Frank and other stories
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The situation reminds of other art items like netsuke or tsuba in the 50s when these items where collected only by a small minority.
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How do you see his current situation?
The Sun
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It bemuses me that I need a face-to-face situation in order to be able to construct my own argument without feeling overwhelmed.
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It has since reassessed the situation and reckons that 0.25 per cent is possible.
Times, Sunday Times
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A client who uses aggressive tactics against you to get their way is a real liability, and you should extricate yourself from the situation as quickly as possible.
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We clearly need to replace the name ascribed to those whose ideology got us into this situation in the first place: the Neoconservatives.
Making Sense of the News: Time To Update Some Terms
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Brown begins to remedy this situation at the outset.
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More troubleshooting is attempted none of which remedies the situation.
Xbox Live Won't Refund Points For Game They Can't Deliver - The Consumerist
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She got married when she was twenty and had two children but was increasingly unhappy about the political situation in Southern Rhodesia, particularly the racism of the white ruling class.
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Other situations affecting power quality are transients or spikes, surges or over-voltages, noise and sags or brownouts.
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She was not very hopeful about her situation.
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Can they grapple with the complex situation?
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But the situation is, frankly, in a muddle right now.
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In view of the publicity already given to these subjects, it is necessary to note in fuller detail two matters connected with the health of the Canadian troops at Salisbury Plain – namely, the outbreak of cerebro-spinal fever and the veneral situation.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
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To be honest, we might be dealing with a hyphen situation here.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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The situation reminds me of the commonly held view that anything ‘local’ is inferior to that from ‘foreign.’
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Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show?
Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
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The decision on the terminal point for retreat should depend on the situation as a whole.
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Solicitors taking a confrontational approach can often inflame the situation rather than calm it.
Why Am I Afraid to Divorce?
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Festivals that provide a forum for Arab and Israeli art and culture, and universities and academies that offer joint courses in the Qur'an and the Bible, midrash and tafsir, cabbalah and Sufism, thereby placing them in their original relation to one another, are today only feasible in exile -- in the West, of all places, which bears part of the blame for the present-day impossible situation.
MRZine.org
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Bulgarian cigarettes production and Bulgarian tobacco deliveries will depend on the market situation.
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I unconsciously manipulate situations to my advantage
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The situation calls for drastic action.
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When I was a child, I would lie my way out of any situation.
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Lets meet with the government and see how we can settle this problem so that it is a win-win situation for all.
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It's a very stressful situation for everyone concerned.
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But the use of hanja took much longer to go away, certainly, and you'll still sometimes see it in certain situations in the ROK though not in newspapers, though it was banned in the DPRK.
Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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Workingparent guilt can assume draining proportions in such situations.
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He falls into a stupor, into utter oblivion of the world about him, becomes in turn excited and confused, his senses begin to functionate in a fallacious manner, and he thus succeeds in shutting out from consciousness, for the time being at least, the entire unbearable situation.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
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While a great comfort on long or rough rides, there are some situations where a fully locked differential is a benefit.
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Ellen seemed amused by the whole situation.
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The best way of summing up the situation in our office is to say that it is 'absolute chaos'.
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This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.
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In some areas the situation is particularly acute and the problems are only going to get worse.
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The success of the operation was entirely due to his example and his rapid appreciation of the situation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It helped her defuse a life-threatening situation in the Himalayas, when she and her friends were confronted by knife-carrying attackers.
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Today the situation is complicated by the fact that there's just so much out there.
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First, peoples' idea affects their propensity to save and consume and invest, and difference attitude on risk, which are impacted on the economic situation.
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Here he connects to that discussion the situation of the wretched offspring who are undutiful toward their parents.
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The "logic" underlying the sacred cosmos is taken for granted because it is equally applicable to different social situations.
Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
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Mars helps you to do the straight talking that will resolve a family situation.
The Sun
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The situation is not good but we live in hope that it will improve.
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Despite some ongoing resistance (a subject to which I will return), the situation for people involved in interracial intimacy has never been better.
Interracial Intimacy
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Can you help to clarify my situation?
Times, Sunday Times
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It's an absurd situation - neither of them will talk to the other.
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However, he conceded that the Government was yet to get a handle on the situation, as younger offenders were getting their hands on illegal guns.
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He might have believed the pain he'd felt had been imagined if not for the mysterious situation he now was in.
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These situations are not hypothetical; they are based on real stories from faculty members across the country.
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Her insight into clinical situations was combined with an unusual capacity for personal support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Being pictured as he was might be a bizarre situation but it's par for the course.
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As we put them into high-octane situations, they need each other to survive.
CSI: Miami Producer: "You're Going to Meet a New Horatio Caine"
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The contingency approach isolates situational variables that affect managerial actions and organizational performance.
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The second point is that in situations where it is needed there is no unappropriated land available.
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Too frequently the stories seem to settle for, at worst, an indulgence in superficial whimsy, at best, a cultivation of the bizarre in situation and event that, at least as I read them, can't bear the weight they're asked to bear when left to provide the primary source of dramatic interest.
Genre Fiction
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Tedious and predictable, it employs obvious situations and clichés instead of genuine suspense-building elements.
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Users visualize the Undo facility in different ways, depending on the situation and their expectations.
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Holiness answers audience questions addressing the situation of Tibet, goal of bodhicitta, nature of enlightened mind, future of the Dalai Lama institution, compatibility of Buddhist practices with theistic faith, universal purpose of human life, practice of patience towards harm-doers, subtle energy and mind, and the Heart Sutra mantra.
Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
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He asked me to put myself in his own situation, not married and being accused of all these things.
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Should the English hoist their flag here, a new factory must be erected; the most eligible situation for which would be where the mosk now stands, or the mosk itself might be converted into one, and another rebuilt elsewhere; but to this the sultan has insuperable objections.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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It was a perilous situation.
THE GUARDSMEN
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I'm afraid I can't give you a general overview of the situation.I can only offer you a worm's-eye view that is based on my own experience.
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We will review your situation and decide how we can help you.
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In no other situation is the contemplation of living and dying so intertwined with love and sex.
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Training crossing guards to spot and defuse volatile situations is one of the options being explored.
Times, Sunday Times
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He oversaw the work and left to return north on Friday satisfied that the situation had been stabilised.
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Why, amidst all the proposals, have we never reached a situation where schoolgoing children, at least, can attend the doctor and receive medication free of charge?
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It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health — the truth is — for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility — the truth then is, that Mr. Richard
Waverley
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He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches.
Almayer's Folly
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Humor can be a safety valve in high pressure situations.
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The other passengers felt confident enough to laugh about and comment on the situation now.
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In general terms, what we're talking about here is a situation where A and B have a contract or agreement to which C is not a party, whereafter B and C engage in activitity forbidden to B by their contract ot agrement with A, giving rise to the question of whether A has any claim against C.
"An act of adultery between the defendant and the spouse of the plaintiff..."
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Funnily enough, I was almost caught in a compromising situation earlier by one of the engineers.
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It is prudent we pause further reductions while the current situation is unfolding.
The Sun
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The line should allow the Seahawks to play smash-mouth football when the game situation or weather dictates.
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We came perilously close to a situation in which newspapers would have stopped carrying racecards.
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Don't keep telling yourself that a particular situation is bound to make you blush.
Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
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The laboratory experiment is an obvious case of control, since a complete situation is created by and for the observer.
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What's important is to discover why doctors find themselves in this situation and really look at the conversations doctors have with their patients.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the situation with Morgan LeFay had not struck such terror into the creature.
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The band were created to be this situationist thing.
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I can't get a job because I haven't got anywhere to live but I can't afford a place to live until I get a job-it's a catch-22 situation.
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Officers should also be trained to deal with such situations so they don't continue to handle them in this manner.
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He believes that from a military standpoint, the situation is under control.
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Above environment of competition of the current situation of passenger liner industry, network and development anticipate.
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But all of that stands to be snuffed out, they say there, if this security situation is not brought under control rapidly, and if the reconstruction is not sped up markedly and very soon.
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It is a highly combustible situation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The political situation in southern India was somewhat different.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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Then your doctor should be able to give you a clearer idea about your particular situation.
The Sun
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The common thread in both situations is the communication of information in confidence to an adviser or therapeutic counsellor.
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For the rest of us, it has been six months of adjustment to a new family situation, tough occasionally but generally an improvement: far fewer messes to clear up, no constant vigilance on the bathroom and kitchen, much greater freedom for us to go on family outings (most often, of course, to see B up in Limburg).
Six months on
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They have tried to put a positive spin on the situation.
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The present situation, of periodical outbursts in the press, is an inadequate way of fostering good relationships with the Asian community and does not encourage change and communal harmony.
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There were lots of times when people were very uncertain about the situation there.
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I was notorious for talking myself straight into a proverbial brick wall, and that was something I certainly didn't want to do in this situation.
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He believes that from a military standpoint, the situation is under control.
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Lamy warns trade finance situation deteriorating www. wto.org 12.11.08 Director-General Pascal Lamy reported to WTO ambassadors on 12 November 2008 that his meeting with experts earlier in the day confirmed that the market for trade finance has severely deteriorated.
WN.com - Financial News
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I'm not entirely sure that if I was in a frightening situation, that I would like Spiderman to come zinging to my rescue.
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Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation.
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Her speech sliced through all the confusion surrounding the situation.
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This will in the future be a major factor in the evolution of the geopolitical and geostrategic situation in different parts of the world.
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She found a flat rock, in midstream, to perch on, and from there made an assessment of her situation.
GALILEE
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When the troops actually got into this situation and found, you know, these hills denuded by naval shellfire and things like this, basically only then did they actually discover what the true nature of the terrain was.
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Electrical devices on spacecrafts, satellites, and aircraft must work reliably and efficiently in situations where they can not be easily repaired.
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If you start with one small, positive thing and repeat it during the course of your day, you will begin to move into a more positive situation: positive thoughts, feelings, opportunities and people will start showing up in your life. With practice, you will find that over time, you will change your outlook and choose to be happy, irregardless of the events around you.
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People were responding to their situation in the only way they could.
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In theory, PLS is applied in situations of multicollinearity, but the MBH network has many series that are essentially white noise and thus the proxies are surprisingly close to being orthogonal in the early networks and there are blocks of orthogonal series in the later network.
More on Bürger et al 2006 « Climate Audit
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It points out that stations where the situation is particularly acute include Crewe, Preston and Carlisle, but the situation is also serious at Oxenholme.
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What is possible for a large suburban congregation is out of the question for a tiny congregation in a rural situation.
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The reader's conception of the text in this case is the worst possible communicative situation.
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This situation was detestably rectified, as could be clearly seen in face as she jarred forward.
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They will try to control the situation in such a way that the person who was gaslighted is kept away from other associates.
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The girl he talked to was a listening ear, someone willing to share in his anxiety about an undeniably unsettling situation.
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Belliard's October success hasn't surprised manager Tony La Russa, who said his second baseman is accustomed to playing in pressure situations because he does so every winter in the Dominican Republic.
Belliard plays up to Cards' expectations
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I like busch light. but lemonade is good too! ya know you take a sour situation and make something good out of it. a great idea.
Beer choice at Obama meeting touches off new debate
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How could it be that in a situation as artificially contrived as a television studio, you could get this frank and free discussion between two people?
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A . Well, there's a new situation comedy on Channel 4.
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The garden is in a beautiful situation on top of a fold in the rolling Hampshire landscape.
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String theory is a complete description of reality even though we don't understand its predictions in some extreme situations, especially those that have something to do with the ultratiny expanding universe.
The Reference Frame
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Although she was lucky not to have been separated from her son, Noreen was shocked by the situation they found themselves in.
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situations of measurable and surmountable danger
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This situation can only be overturned if power is instituted from below.
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I can't say it makes a lot of sense, in a lot of situations it's the intimidation factor not the number of rounds that an armed robber is going for.
Michigan Hunter Rescued, Then Charged
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Fictional situations are related anecdotally to life experiences.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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A single-pointed approach is important when situations get complicated, confused or out of hand.
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This is a desperate situation which requires a truly radical solution.
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This was a significant achievement in the highly competitive situation to which I have referred.
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Understandable, but your example seems disanalogous to the present situation.
"'I guess it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is,' observed one of the justices, a sly reference to Starr’s previous job."
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You're too emotionally involved with the situation.
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In this case we deal with the situation of a local tangential force applied to the surface of a large body.
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The situation was fraught with difficulty.
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In the one-step ahead forecasting situation, we assumed that the industrial practitioners updated their data quarterly.
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A situation might call for an Arclite barrage from a division of siege tanks or a deadly battleship salvo of a targeted area.
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To a certain extent, we are all responsible for this tragic situation.
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That was a difficult and nerve-racking situation.
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Anger triggers are situations in which expectations of fair play are violated.
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By then the situation was beyond retrieval .
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These situations have become familiar and common to most of us.
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Thus we musy consider the situation of the concept of a quasi-particle is applicable.
The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG
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Often the best way to convey something comedic is to not try and be funny but simply let the viewer relate to the situation and see the humor for themselves.
New Variants Episode arrives, PvP’s Scott Kurtz guest stars | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Placed in that situation I have felt honour-bound to reply frankly and at some length.
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His kicking game in tight situations is unbelievable and his positional play has been superb in the championship this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Former squaddie D'Arcy learns the ropes, takes the shivs and gets into painful situations.
This week's new films
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The situation remains muddled in center field.
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That's the most worrying aspect of the situation.
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The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing.
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The result of this legal battle sends an important message to people in similar situations.
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They took cover in a farm house but arrival of an enemy platoon made the situation hopeless.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that a similar situation could arise again.
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In his words “We aren’t going anywhere” and using the term masked the situation.
Can we find a better term for “Marginalized” People?
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But the overall effect of the poem is one of denial, fabricated intimacy and an insulting treatment of a situation that in our culture has already been spiritualized and depersonalized to death.
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There are also moments when the emotional responses of key characters in key situations completely fail to ring true.
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It usually involves constructing imaginary walls around minorities and euphemizing the situation by describing it as a mosaic.
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In the latter situation stress can build up in the absence of any form of physical release which could diffuse the situation.
Healthy By Nature
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It was a pity he would have her blood on his hands - if someone tried to connect her untimely death to him, it would be a messy situation indeed.
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These include agoraphobia, the opposite of claustrophobia, when sufferers fear public situations from which escape may be difficult or embarrassing or where help will not be at hand in the event of a panic attack.
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The Social Services are anxious that women in such situations should know that help is available.
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These situations often call for special schemas defining information for every specific error, thus effectively extending domain semantic model to describe failure scenarios.
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The idea of our intelligence operation here is to make those situations safer, not to exacerbate them with thoughtlessness.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The situation is much more interesting when there is a mixture of solids that are suspended in a liquid (a slurry).
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Physicians should choose the route of administration based on each patient's financial situation and the risk of noncompliance.
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Commercial search engines practice automatic metadata generation in two situations.
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Take as an example a situation where you've created a keyboard hack for your arcade controls but still need to be able to operate your computer for non-gaming functions.
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The two groups will meet next week to try to defuse the crisis/situation/tension.
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Essentially, you can use the same formation or attack pattern in any situation, which even includes (with some unmentionably minor differences) battles with bosses.
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The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book
The Ambassadors
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The whole situation is exercising our minds greatly.
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Please can we have some honest answers which really address the true situation?
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It is an instinctive action on the part of the dog and it applies equally to the domestic situation.
THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
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If obsession is about repetition and patterns of behaviour and often a means of gaining control in uncontrollable situations then the order that Jude aches to find in her life is being cleverly reflected visually in the unusual use and placing of words on the page.
In Search of Adam
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This one reminded me of Louise Bagshawe or one of the other British bonkbuster authors - quite European though it's set in LA and New York as well as France and revenge-oriented rather than Phillips' usual football-player types being thrust into situations with quirky heroines.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Convention dictates that a minister should resign in such a situation.
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He has a good sense of humor about his situation, but it makes it nonetheless a travesty of justice and humanity.
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Not always smoothly — Peirce himself parted ways with his fellow pragmatist William James, largely over the idea that truth was mutable, that is, what is "true" can become not true and even then true again, depending on the situation.
Archive 2008-08-01
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The situation is more pronounced in the area of cyberstalking, where even the most basic information is lacking and where relatively little research is taking place.
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This is an expectation which may well have been frustrated in the experimental situation.
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This kind of situation was all too familiar to John.
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Newsweek's editor was targeted this spring by an internet campaign that used surreptitiously recorded footage showing him, as well as opposition politicians, in compromising situations.
Publisher Shuts Russian Weekly
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What he did was wrong, but ok, its over, let them move on. rihanna is constantly saying how she wants to be a role model for these girls, buttruth is that if the get out of the situation of domestic violence, theyll sink right back in. she dresses half naked (her white bandaged body @ the award show) and she has gun tatoos and has guns in her her music videos. so shes promoting fire arm then. shes tryign to make him look like a monster, he is just a man. she played her part in the situation, and i just think its time people stop talkin about this. theres no progress in regressing!
ABC Yanks Chris Brown “Good Morning America” Performance
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Anyway, his list of observations could apply to so many situations, so here it is, cut and paste it now.
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We were a little bit unlucky in one or two situations, then the goalkeeper saves and it is 0-0.
Times, Sunday Times
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He added that the situation in the southern lowveld where Save is located ‘is nowhere near as bad as in the central and northern highveld.’
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That reaction demonstrates the ticklish situation the press finds itself in during wartime, when the interaction between press and government comes into stark relief.
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I can only conclude by saying that I am sorry the situation has developed the way it has.
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Dante would usually take over and spoon-feed me, making my situation all the more degrading.
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Having studied the Palestinian refugee situation in detail during her Masters Degree in Forced Migration at Oxford, she is looking forward to returning to the Middle East to work in an advocatory capacity.
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