How To Use Stopping In A Sentence
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Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers.
Little Women
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After a bit of a stickybeak at the Queen's Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse, we made the most of the remaining daylight walking the length of the Royal Mile through the Old Town back to the castle, stopping by the Heart of Midlothian.
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A couple of times her footholds cracked and she plunged a few heart-stopping feet, but luckily she grabbed another hold.
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This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt.
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I imagined the Tasmanian tiger stopping here en route from one primeval forest valley to another.
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It was warm and sunny, and we followed fields and footpaths, finally stopping in a wood.
Times, Sunday Times
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No issues with anything stopping working, and while the trackpad is small (hi, it's a computer that is less than half the sixe -- sideway -- of a MBP 17 ), it's extremely usable, and I haven't had a lick of trouble with it.
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Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
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The cop said he'd have to write me up for not stopping at the red light.
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Army, 'the professors said one to another, as, hardly stopping for a moment at the stranger's entrance, they continued to' jangle 'among themselves.
A Book of Quaker Saints
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I didn't want to talk to Rachel about why I was stopping her and I didn't want her to continue.
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Vans carrying publicity materials are stopping at junctions across the State.
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Modernisation of the beach will include stopping through traffic to Blackgate Road.
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What's stopping assistant coach Patrick Ewing from clobbering him in practice.
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There's no quick fix for stopping pollution.
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The commentators were discussing defensive match-ups while the camera was panning over the crowd, occasionally stopping on a celebrity.
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Stopping distances for cars vary with the speed they are travelling at.
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What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket").
How to Sound Presidential
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Any drift starting or stopping within the experiment may create artifacts, although the trials are randomized in a balanced order.
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The sound of a car stopping outside the hotel drew me to the window as the waitress left me, and I was in time to see an old gentleman with a long white beard step from the interior of a Daimler landaulette, the door of which was held open by a dignified chauffeur, whose attire seemed to consist mainly of brass buttons.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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Commander of the Faithful, Abd al-Malik bin Marwan, who hath heard tell of the lord Solomon, son of David (on whom be peace!) and of that which the Most High bestowed upon him of supreme dominion; how he held sway over Jinn and beast and bird and was wont when he was wroth with one of the Marids, to shut him in a cucurbite of brass and, stopping its mouth on him with lead, whereon he impressed his seal ring, to cast him into the sea of Al – Karkar.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The game was stuck in the middle of the pitch for long periods as both teams cancelled each other out and the referee constantly whistled for minor offences stopping either side gaining momentum.
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Gosh - there's no stopping these boys when they've got a bellyful of fruit-based cocktails.
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Soaring debt - which at one stage was predicted to reach £11m - has led to a series of cuts ranging from ward closures to stopping snacks for patients.
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That is not stopping companies from trying, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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All women can benefit from early advice on good nutrition, as well as about the importance of stopping risky behaviors, especially smoking, drinking alcohol and taking unprescribed drugs.
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If a fuse is in the supply circuit, it will do its job and blow out, opening the circuit and stopping the current flow.
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If you were all to work together, he'd have a difficult time stopping you, and he might even be defeated.
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Be brave and you'll be able to come to a stop in top, dipping the clutch just before stopping.
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It's like a countdown to a blast-off of a rocket ship - like there's no way of stopping it.
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It's a show-stopping performance combining repulsive extremity with utter conviction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bangladeshi water engineers say that Indian barrages, canals, reservoirs and irrigation schemes are slowly strangling the country and are stopping its development.
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The old horse jogged along without a moment's stopping.
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Suddenly, my cell phone rang, stopping me from making a smart remark.
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He hopes to spread his enthusiasm by offering bigger discounts to staff who hit targets for losing weight, stopping smoking or reducing their cholesterol or blood pressure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of stopping at the top as you normally would on a squat, perform an upright row by pulling the dumbbells up to your collarbones as you pronate your hands - then push off the balls of your feet as the weights reach their maximum height.
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Almost three years old, this Little Italy resto (named for the town in Tuscany, not the Suzanne Vega tune) offers hearty food at heart-stopping prices.
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Certain people were responsible for stopping conflicts, and there were ways to deal with provocations and ways to make peace.
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One suspects that he will take some stopping.
Times, Sunday Times
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An example is the nonanalytical stopping of arriving at work today by car when you have arrived today by bus.
The Two Truths in Vaibhashika and Sautrantika
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The photograph was about halfway down, but he took his time getting there, stopping as I knew he would to peruse a seed catalogue.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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These supplies were the last hope of the U.S. forces for reinforcing their depleted divisions and stopping the enemy's imminent breakthrough.
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Heaven bliss the owld gintleman -- he had a habit of stopping in the middle of an exciting part and lighting his dudheen, and then when he'd begin again, he'd skip over a part on purpose to make us ax him a question ----
Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys
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Try out your own stopping distance on a stretch of clear road.
The Sun
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He stresses that goalkeeping is about more than pulling off show-stopping saves – or making the odd misjudgment.
Lukasz Fabianski ready to unseat Manuel Almunia as Arsenal No1 keeper
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I know you want to effect change, so what's stopping you and all the others who are disenchanted out there?
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He would mock and deride them relentlessly, not stopping until they cried.
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Caution when stopping and starting an IIS application pool with appcmd
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In Mr Smith's letter he pointed out that many well-known coach tour operators were passing through Sligo without stopping.
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This includes stopping cash payments to most claimants and paying for rehab treatment instead.
The Sun
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It means the cancer has not grown like crazy, a big fear since stopping chemo.
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Officers are not only setting up static sites for stopping drivers, but are also conducting random stops in rural villages around the county.
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During his fever he babbled without stopping.
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Because right now, it appears that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government is essentially insuring - "backstopping," as they call it - every kind of debt, because nobody is willing to invest in anything that does not have the full backing of the United States government.
CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2008
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Yesterday, he also laid out an intricate plot to implicate him in his former wife's murder, stopping short of calling it political interference.
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Then we began the second half the walk through countryside, stopping to marvel nervously at an enraged bull bellowing from a field.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hers is a one-in-a-million case which results in her turning blue and stopping breathing whenever she becomes excited or agitated.
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They "rustled" and "cached" and "packed" things without even stopping to think, and _r's_ were unmistakably creeping into Priscilla's strictly Bostonian speech.
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
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We don't usually get knocks at the door in the night when stopping in hotels.
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The whole crowd of people were entranced by their music and even some of the performers were stopping in front of them to watch.
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Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies.
Important Notice!
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Though one has to be careful of the term stopping the march of the supermarkets.
The Decline of the British High Street
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But can she avoid the detour she meant to miss, stopping near their old California house?
Times, Sunday Times
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Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs.
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So this year, consider creating an interior file in your soul called Pajama Day, and when things get crazed, out of nowhere, declare a blustery March Saturday Pajama Day, or a blistery August Sunday Pajama Day or any blessed day you feel like stopping and hanging out in your own holy wholeness.
Dr. Susan Corso: Pajama Days: Holiness For The Rest Of The Year
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Other offences considered more serious include parking more than 50cm from the kerb, parking adjacent to a dropped kerb and stopping outside a school.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nothing but meanness is stopping us having homes like the Jetsons.
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Merlin almost effortlessly blocked her bolt barehanded, but stopping her second one took considerable effort.
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It's such a pretty place, and we really enjoy stopping by the various vineyards and tasting the local product.
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the violinist's stopping was excellent
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For me, it was a heart-stopping moment, and an interesting demonstration that my reflexes in these situations are to protect Rebecca at the possible expense of damage to myself.
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But the strategy we have to use in stopping them is shaming and brow-beating the fat, retarded knuckle-draggers who buy every single issue of the "Summer Event".
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This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments.
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To add insult to injury, it is legal wrangling over the controversial Spanish home that is stopping stalling a settlement.
The Sun
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He clambers confidently ahead of me, keeping the rope between us tight, stopping at each awkward step to see me safely over.
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Despite a thriving democracy, the justice system has not always been successful in stopping fascist thuggery.
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They walked across the drawbridge and round the walls, stopping to examine the bailey.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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This factor alone is a great deterrent to stopping medication in many instances.
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The government put the skids under the plan by stopping their research grant.
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There's snowbirds coming from Canada and Washington, they're stopping in, picking up cheese and taking it down to Phoenix and Southern California.
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A strategic bucket was stopping the drips of water plopping on their heads.
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Next, with the mayor's encouragement, the NYPD moved 300 officers to a new task force charged with stopping the attacks.
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The most commonly cited reasons for stopping the treatment were lack of efficacy and side effects.
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There is information on rainwater harvesting, roof water collection, a chart of wastage caused by unintentional use of water, and how to prevent this by simple methods such as stopping a faucet from leaking.
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My fave was a deeply elegant emerald trouser suit, but there was much love in the room for his show-stopping dresses.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was having trouble with her windshield wipers and pulled over to the right shoulder, stopping between the Avenue Road and Bayview Avenue exits.
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The sound of horses stopping and the jingle of the reigns is all she hears.
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Without stopping, as soon as the sun rose Banastre Tarleton ordered his unrested Legion and dragoons to charge into the American militia in the center.
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Although they are called ‘weak’, they are amazingly strong - they can pass through solids without stopping.
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One of these days, you'll see me on the news, wandering around downtown Baghdad with a dazed, desperate look in my glinty eyes as I stumble down the streets stopping the passing terrorists as they prepare for a fun-filled day of setting off improvised explosive devices.
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By most all accounts the evening was a success, with one local critic lauding the orchestra's exciting accelerandos and heart-stopping rubatos.
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We headed back, stopping to watch the area's famous pink flamingos in the silvery moonlight.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a heart-stopping moment, the heel of her boot ground against a rock, but the mantid didn't sense the vibration.
MINUTES TO BURN
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These essential fatty acids have a depressive effect on inflammatory cytokines, thus stopping the domino nature of the inflammatory response.
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She was a beauty at Nineteen with long black ebony hair, with silver high light that flowed down the center of her back stopping with a neat trim at her waist.
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They have a large dewlap or fatty lump on the back of the neck which, among other things, is useful for stopping the yoke from slipping off.
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Despite their joy at becoming parents again, the couple are buckling under the strain, with Ellie stopping work to care for the babies and Joe struggling to run the firm alone.
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November is also the month of seat sales and while there are people who cannot walk past a shoe store without stopping to browse, I cannot pass up a bargain flight.
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Buds appeared in March and from then there was no stopping the growth of several soft, pale green stems climbing up the supporting branches of the cornus.
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Then he told the crowd: 'I thought of stopping off on the way to the stage to build myself a snowman!
The Sun
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To determine how many natural clusters exist within a given sample, various stopping rules have been developed.
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He was behaving normally, and did not vault the barriers, even stopping to pick up a free newspaper.
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Once he becomes a better putter, there will be no stopping him.
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Surveys conducted earlier this year indicated that many motorists just ‘forgot’ to buckle up after stopping for a short time, in car parks, at waste drop off centres and even at fast food outlets.
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If a fuse is in the supply circuit, it will do its job and blow out, opening the circuit and stopping the current flow.
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Will brides-to-be Kate Middleton, Zara Philips and Charlene Wittstock top some of these show-stopping royal wedding gowns?
Yvonne Yorke: PHOTOS: Bad And Beautiful Royal Wedding Dresses
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The lawsuit here had nothing what-so-ever to do with installing a shower at the jetty, it had to do with stopping the illegal dumping of pulpmill effluent toxins into the ocean. beel:
North Coast Journal Comments
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They say the others were driven discreetly from the hospital Friday in the northern mining town of Copiapo without stopping to speak to the hordes of journalists waiting outside.
All But 2 Chilean Miners Back Home
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'O Edgar!' exclaimed Camilla, stopping the reading, and putting her hand, as in benediction, upon the paper, 'do you deign to talk of disappointment? do you condescend to intimate you are unhappy?
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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We fly around taking gear and people from one place to the next, sometimes all night long, just stopping to refuel.
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Cumbrian gamekeepers and stalkers have embraced Government plans to scrap archaic laws stopping the sale of game all year round.
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People were regularly imprisoned, tortured, or killed for literally any reason: not stopping in front of the Palace for the daily noontime playing of the national anthem; speaking -- if you were a man -- to the girlfriend of a government henchman; protesting that a cow got into your garden, if that cow's owner had a friend in government.
Beverly Bell: In Haiti, "We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting"
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Britain could fashion internal controls based on compulsory apprenticeship training, or stopping unscrupulous employers hiring workers from abroad without advertising jobs in Britain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Bush campaign shipped in several busloads of well-dressed preppies to cause a scene outside the Board of Elections and succeeded in stopping the recount.
How Revolting
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You can say that coaching wins over everything, or stopping the run is essential - time-worn lessons we have embossed into our minds - but the key is to look forward.
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It was breathtaking, heart-stopping stuff with an ending to send the York City faithful into ecstasy.
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Nothing too wrong with that you may say, but he insists on stopping outside my house to allow his dog to evacuate its bowels.
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I donned this ensemble and went to dark, smoky clubs where I thrashed around to ear-ringing, heart-stopping music.
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For one heart-stopping moment, we thought she was going to fall.
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The public can help by getting their pets spayed and neutered, which is the key to stopping pet overpopulation and ending unnecessary euthanizations at the shelters.
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By stopping these permits we will ensure that the wasteful practice that sees fins cut from sharks and the bodies left at sea does not happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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The laboratory, which is designed to cover the entire South Caucasus region, will be the first line of defense in stopping zoogenic diseases, such as anthrax, foot and mouth disease, and brucellosis, which can easily spread from animals to humans.
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Of course there nothing stopping mum and dad enjoying the challenge of draughts, snakes and ladders or constructing a Duplo design.
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They objected and planners have issued an enforcement notice stopping him.
The Sun
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Banks of snow cut them off; snowshoes sank in air pockets -- holes made by protruding limbs of the short, gnarled trees of timber line, -- and through these the man fought in short, spasmodic lunges, breaking the way for the woman who came behind, never stopping except to gather strength for a fresh attack, never ceasing for obstacle or for danger.
The White Desert
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It prevents people from stopping and loitering there for all hours of the night and deciding what mischief they're going to get up to.
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Stopping smoking is hard, but a variety of methods can help even though none is a panacea.
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Stopping staff having a quick surf on the Web will probably only result in more chatting around the company coffee machine or extended loo breaks.
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The heart-stopping chases and elaborate killings are the main assets of the film along with a couple of new entries in the dinosaur catalog.
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You just potter about quite normally, completely unaware that the engine is starting and stopping constantly.
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I cannot think of a sensible reason for removing measures such as stopping shops placing junk food next to the tills.
Times, Sunday Times
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To think that he's got a content-free gasbag like Biden "backstopping" him is depressing, actually.
Barack Obama appears -- simultaneously -- on Olbermann and O'Reilly and I have some advice for Obama.
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She wasn't in his way, she wasn't blocking him or stopping him, she was just a little girl that had tried to stand up against the big bad wolf.
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My clever wee dog was for dashing off, the same as when he's smelt a rabbit, so we caught up our plaids and came away after him, only stopping to snatch a brand from the hearth and smoor the fire.
Drums of Autumn
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By fencing our gardens off we are stopping them doing what they need to do.
Times, Sunday Times
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Direct action casework has brought victories in winning social benefits, fighting evictions, stopping deportations and winning back pay.
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This form of anesthesia was easily controlled by stopping the gas, and the patient would revive quickly.
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Britain could fashion internal controls based on compulsory apprenticeship training, or stopping unscrupulous employers hiring workers from abroad without advertising jobs in Britain.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the most difficult parts of the exercise was stopping about halfway to refuel the vessels, in seas of about one and a half metres.
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A horse and his rider last week achieved a perfect nose-stand after a heart-stopping synchronized fall at the Bramham International Horse Trials in West Yorkshire, UK, according to the Daily Mail.
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The final twelve, heart-stopping minutes proved to be scoreless.
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The lake abutted the road down at the bottom of the hill so closely that it sometimes flooded after a hard rain, stopping traffic.
The Swans
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In experiments over the past 2 years, physicists have been slowing laser light to a crawl, sometimes even stopping it cold within certain frigid gasses and solids.
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She calls on us to be more mindful consumers, but she notes that: ...individual actions alone are unlikely to bring about change on the scale that is now required -- whether the task is stopping the plasticization of our oceans, protecting our children from endocrine disrupters, or curbing the carbon emissions that fuel global warming.
Kerry Trueman: You May Not Be Into Plastic, But Plastic Is Way Into You
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They walked across the drawbridge and round the walls, stopping to examine the bailey.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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Indian army is stopping the violence which you all call suppression then so the Pakistan army is in the same boat.
Arabnews - frontpage
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He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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So they were stuck for an actor to do two sketches: they were practically stopping cleaners to ask them to do them, but then some kind soul suggested me.
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Here, you can ski the steep terrain at your leisure, always stopping to enjoy the views, and then coming out again at night for some night skiing.
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Then we'd have to make sure the brakes would work, stopping before the end of the runway.
Times, Sunday Times
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We kept to little-used footpaths and half-deserted streets, always stopping to look around corners before venturing forward.
The Book of Unholy Mischief
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We struck out in a northerly direction, passing through Norwich, and stopping for coffee in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Sileo suggests stopping the receipt of information the enemy seeks such as preapproved credit applications.
'Think Like A Spy' - SpouseBUZZ
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Note that someone does not need to validly cognize the ceasing of “something that never happened” in order to attain on his or her mental continuum a parting and a nonanalytical stopping of valid cognition of that something.
What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Six: Using Analogies with Quantum Mechanics, Clearing away Doubts That Might Arise
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There are heart-stopping ballads, squeezebox folk songs and all the vamping jazz and Latin dance tunes you would have heard so close to the Mexican border.
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Seriously it’s totally nuts that someone could get shot for wearing a padded coat, having a belt with wires (he was an electrician! fancy that?) and not stopping for plain clothed police with guns.
Tips for tourists in London
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The shuttle had flown 24 times without any major, show-stopping events.
Space Shuttle Challenger Loss Still Felt, 25 Years Later
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The government appears intent on stopping the development of the chapter in Santiago de Cuba, which is Cuba's second largest city, as the dissident group tries to expand.
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Both of these can be controlled to some extent by stopping regularly and by having others near by to keep a lookout for you.
Times, Sunday Times
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I pulled over, noted the NO STOPPING sign, and bade the family to exit quickly.
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Not even stopping to brush itself down, the panicking apeman dived through a window and lumbered off.
Times, Sunday Times
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She guided us into the nurse's office, stopping for nothing, and sat us both gently down on a cot in one of the darkened sickrooms which was thankfully vacant.
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In addition to stopping the request processing at the right time, the listener prints the component tree using a recursive method named printTree().
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ain't nothing stopping crookers. their remix for kid cudi finally got picked up by the sleepyheads in the industry after they discovered this crazy new thing called fidget-house. in the meantime, crookers are already busy on pushing their sound further and this remix for 'boom da' by mixhell featuring jen lasher and oh snap!! will definitely bring some booty shaking galore to the floors! check it out right here! mixhell - boom da
DISCODUST
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I always buckled my safety belt and drove below the speed limit, stopping for school buses, pulling over for sirens.
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‘Bet I can beat you back to the hotel’ she teased him before taking off in a run, stopping only long enough to pick up her towel and then continued running back towards their room.
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There is, indeed, no surer way of checking or of stopping a metrorrhagia than by curetting the womb during the very flow.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
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That parting and nonanalytical stopping last forever and never change.
What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Six: Using Analogies with Quantum Mechanics, Clearing away Doubts That Might Arise
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He rode the bike at speed along the platform, stopping only at the furthermost bench, where he dismounted, to sit.
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The ligature is a most satisfying immediate resource in stopping bleeding from an artery, but a septic ligature inevitably causes suppuration and almost inevitably leads to secondary hemorrhage.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
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The only think that's stopping me is fear, cowardice, a reluctance to take risks and look dumb.
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He went off at a hand-gallop, and then pulled back into a long darting kind of canter, which Bilbah thought was quite the thing for a journey — anyhow, he never seemed to think of stopping it — went on mile after mile as if he was not going to pull up this side of sundown.
Robbery Under Arms
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Mosquito bites line the insides of my legs only stopping at the brief cloth on my lower body that some would call shorts.
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We trotted on in silence for most of the day, stopping under the shade of a lone tree to take a quick rest from the hot noon day sun, before pressing on again.
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In movies like Shakespeare in Love people are scribbling away using a feather, stopping every so often to dip it into an inkwell.
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In summer we spend our days climbing on foot or by bike, stopping off at mountain huts along the way.
The Sun
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A green turtle sculled towards us, stopping only a metre away.
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The pong may also prove a bit of a deterrent for anyone thinking of stopping for a picnic at a nature reserve, which is also being created nearby.
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A white van with flashing lights mounted on its roof screeched around a corner ahead of them, barely stopping before armed and armored Watch officers tumbled out of the side doors.
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In fact, however, things are a bit glummer than they were – I had misremembered and thought I had to do only 12 repeats and then find a good stopping-place in the 13th.
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She slowed when she neared the tree where he'd carved their initials and carved a heart around them, stopping to trace it with that little light the moon allowed her.
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Cissy Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, had fresh flowers brought aboard at stopping places along the way.
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After stopping for a quick pint, they arrived home flushed and happy.
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Stopping a horse winning in the old days usually required the involvement of an old-fashioned bent bookie, a breed that has become rare since betting became corporatised.
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Stopping the epidemic is of paramount importance.
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Sometime in the next few decades, assuming civilization is still here yadda yadda, a company will manufacture and market a cleaning robot capable of “stopping messes before they start,” including learning and self-initiative.
Matthew Yglesias » The Rise of the Machines
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After stopping to rest, they proceeded up the hill.
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The best chance at a true whopper is to slowly still-hunt up the stream, stopping and glassing large pools and small open areas among the lush old-growth forest.
Dream Hunts
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By accident, she drops her lipstick, and the silver tube rolls on the floor, stopping at my feet.
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As often happens, it wasn't clear that the bad guys 'conspiracy made sense (and even less clear how the Doctor had got involved in stopping it; or for that matter where the cat's cradle of the title comes into it) but I very much enjoyed the ride.
February Books 6) Cat's Cradle: Warhead, by Andrew Cartmel
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We went on, stopping occasionally to browse, and I was successfully dissuading myself from buying anything when I saw it.
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The only thing stopping this from happening now is that the majority of Israelis are afraid of their safety. tg Says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence
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Social service is important, but not to the extent of stopping a bullet.
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The elder man spoke in a weak, plaintive tone, constantly stopping to wheeze and gasp for breath.
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It's got to be better than stopping people in the street who'll quickly make up any old tosh just to get away and get on with their daily duties.
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They cited uncertainty about the discredited allowance system for stopping their claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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Get on my imaginary cross-country, whistle-stopping train, President Obama, and remind people it was the railroads that fostered the nation's economic progress a century ago.
Murray Fromson: Some Inescapable Truths
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Barnaby, quite unable to think, or to speculate on what would be done with him, had been lulled into a kind of doze by his regular pace; but his stopping roused him; and then he became aware that two men were in conversation under the colonnade, and very near the door of his cell.
Barnaby Rudge
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You'll sail along Alaska's exquisite Inside Passage stopping in Ketchikan,
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Stopping in his tracks, Kaylun Looked around, and, out of the shadows, stepped a long, serpentine, dragon.
