How To Use Tilt In A Sentence
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Mr. SOARIES: Robert Tilton, Robert Tilton is a so-called televangelist who was discovered to have gotten prayer requests accompanied by money and then when an investigative reporter went behind his church he found all of those prayer requests dumped unopened.
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The casuistical subtilties may not be greater than the snbtilties of lawyers, hinted at above; but as the former are pernicious, and the latter innocent and even necessary, this is the reason of the very different reception they meet with from the world.
An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
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Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
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Sometimes when you think the sky is about to fall down, you might be standing tilted!
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A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away.
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Due to their design, these slewing rings can transmit radial and axial loads as well as tilting moments.
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You stay in simple but comfortable thatched wooden houses, built on stilts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
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Crop residue has a nutrient value and will catch snow, reduce evaporation, increase infiltration, and improve soil tilth.
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At a glance, the house seems relatively liveable, but on closer inspection, the structure is tilted to one side and the floor has completely collapsed.
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The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor.
Main Street
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At the same time one must not miss the subtilty of the context, nor the unpleasant messages that can be conveyed in the humblest of fashions.
Not only are they better capitalists, but better peacemakers too? « Antiwar.com Blog
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They also can be washed to ensure that the next slab or tilt panel has a clean edge.
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The natives congregated in front of the main gate, or would peer over the walls, standing on makeshift bamboo stilts.
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The use of the word tilted in the sentence "Thinking caps tilted at a jaunty angle".
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After some judicious pruning, trim the rootball to size with your shovel and tilt the tree into the hole.
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And it took them three years to construct their own crannog, a timber dwelling built on stilts over the water, which links the way of life of people in 600BC with ours today.
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In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon.
Banking On the Future
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The word-play grazes against rhyme, the lilt of the language tilts readers into lineated juxtaposition.
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One pretty little wader, an avoset, appears as if standing on stilts, its legs are so long; and its bill seems bent the wrong way, or upward.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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July fireworks into a bursting full tilt, hi-def, fruit loop weird-plosion.
John McNamara: Palin: Idiot? Genius? Or Something Else?
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David Hagerman for The Wall Street Journal The characteristic colors of Pulau Ketam's stilt structures might be described as "beachy" -- the likes of bottle green with electric blue, salmon pink and violet, carrot orange and gold.
Island Living
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The country here is an expanse of smoothish tilted slopes, big, empty, and lonely, and crossed (at about the middle point) by a strange narrow gut or gully, up which the railway once ran to Montauban.
The Old Front Line
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However, tilting downlights or installing a series of lights on a frame which swivel at will (called a gimble) offer more flexibility.
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So this exercise in tilting at windmills can't even be described as quixotic, since that would imply some expectation of success, however delusional.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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Our ability to foresee and avert techno-terrorism or bio slip-ups may be more like Skating on Stilts over ball bearings in quicksilver.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Smallpox in the garage
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I also remember an issue of Champions where the team discovers Black Goliath poinding on Stiltsky.
DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
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The section of the island inhabited by the women is finely manicured and dotted with wooden houses on stilts.
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Odin walked stiffly, like a head hung between two heavy stilts draped in striped Viyella and white towelling.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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But he's already tilted at, and failed to land, Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria and Germany's Commerzbank.
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The tower rises to a height of 179 ft but despite the head-scratching of scientists, engineers and architects the tilt is still pronounced.
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The group's send-ups of Latin American soap operas on stilts and unicycles have also drawn attention.
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After some time, I let myself lean back in the chair, tilting my head back slightly.
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It will include floats, vintage cars, majorettes, stilt walkers, dancers and music.
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As a career diplomat, one might well expect him to tilt the British way.
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It's wonderful to work with someone whose changes and ideas for the art are obviously concerned with the success of the illustration itself and how it works in the book, and not simply one-sided fiddling and rearranging based on individual preference or a stilting focus on the exactness of how a scene was imagined originally.
The art of Leviathan, Part Two: An interview with Keith Thompson
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There is the further expedient of "stilting" the cross arches, that is, making the real arch spring from a point above the impost and building the lower portion of it vertical, as shown in Fig. 98.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
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Yet it is not difficult to understand why the balance has tilted towards athletics.
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In fact, since 1999, the Lakers have appeared in a Christmas Day game each and every year, starting with a tilt vs.
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The tire's tilt so it can be flush with the track surface.
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Square back pockets that aren't tilted make your bottom look peachy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boat struck the bank full tilt.
The Wind in the Willows
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His delivery is stilted, stiff, uninflected - except when he's permitted to shout, at which point he relaxes and seems to forget to be inhibited.
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Because Ganymede's orbit is tilted nearly edge-on to Earth, it routinely can be seen passing in front of and disappearing behind its giant host, only to reemerge later.
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In all, more than two dozen tilt stations, GPS stations and seismometers will cover the Three Sisters area if the mission goes as planned.
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C'est en la regardant et en regardant ensuite l'heure sur la pendule que ca a tilté!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Pockets that tilt slightly inward are good, since they draw the eye toward the center.
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Marvellous actors have to deliver stilted, arch and laughably clichéd dialogue.
Times, Sunday Times
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You might call it tilting at windmills, but don’t say that to Neal Saiki, who holds a masters degree in aeronautical engineering and worked as a project manager at NASA developing high-altitude research vehicles, before founding Zero Motorcycles.
Zero Motorcycles Electric Offroad Motorcycle
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Crossbow makes sensors that can report on vibration, tilt, acceleration, temperature, and other factors.
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There were a dozen black-winged stilts, two spur-winged plovers, a common sandpiper and my new life bird, a great snipe.
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Don't tilt your chair or you'll fall over!
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Change the monitor location or tilt it to eliminate glare from lights or windows.
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Each time, Macdonald was able to recover by pushing the thumbwheel switch to tilt the nacelles forward and put the rotors into undisturbed air.
The Dream Machine
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The door opens, the shaven head behind it tilts pensively.
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The boat instantly tilted, filled and sank.
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(A hootch is a long, single-story, stilted wooden building of typical Thai rural design.
Thud Ridge
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Using the tilt of the Sixaxis, you stir the petal of a flower on the breeze, and as you touch other opening blooms on your way, your single pale curl is joined by gradually more colorful petals, eventually assembling the sort of floral cloud seen in artful visions of springtime cherry blossom breezes.
Flower's Lawful, Logical Wind
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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Her head was tilted up, checking the luff of the mainsail, and she didn't notice him.
CORMORANT
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Typical projection optics designs feature NAs of around 0.25 and consist of at least six aspherical mirror surfaces, with reflections tilted off-axis.
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In those days, his stilted style, forced delivery, and wonky timing were virtues, reinforcing our sense of his hypothetically heartwarming kidness.
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She just tilted her chin and looked deep into my eyes, just like her mum does.
The Sun
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Axial radiographs can demonstrate the presence of trochlear dysplasia, patellar tilt or subluxation, and the extent of patellofemoral arthritis.
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He is interested in tilting the tax burden even more toward those who produce and less on those who don’t.
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Khaddad dismissed as an unproven assumption the notion that the final status referendum would be tilted in Morocco's favour.
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Indeed, almost as wide and as deep as the car it sits on, the slide-and-tilt sunroof is so spectacularly capacious that the interior could, given a wicker chair or two and a magazine tidy, usefully double as a conservatory.
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A proposal to raise Luas onto stilts at an additional cost of €20 million is unlikely to go ahead due to planning problems.
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And it was a magnificent, entertaining and exciting game of football played at full tilt by both sides.
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The story of Tilth's remarkable birth also charts the beginnings of the sustainable agriculture movement
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* Because the axis on which our planet spins is tilted relative to the axis of rotation around the sun, we experience longer days and shorter nights during the half of the year when the hemisphere on which we happen to live is tilted sunwards, the period that climaxes in summer.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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A bright half-moon clung to the side of the main house like something unfinished, and Neal could see the fever trees that lined the drive, thick with roosting vultures, bald-headed and silent, and the rolling tilt of the hills that clustered on the horizon and then dropped off into Ngorongoro.
The Laugh
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Mud was piled everywhere, over the splintered and broken planks that had once formed the deck of the piers and been cast against the rabbled river walls, up almost to the top of the tilted and shortened stone pillars that had comprised the base of the piers.
Colors of Chaos
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No one runs; they walk tilting into the wind at comical angles, like a bunch of Charlie Chaplins.
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This reduced its helicity and increased its average tilt, thereby presumably reducing fusion efficiency.
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Besides their historical interest Cicero's letters are models of what good letters ought to be -- the expression of the writer's real thoughts and feelings in simple, unstilted language.
Early European History
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Worldwide, stilt bugs are a relatively small group of unusual hemipterans, or true bugs, in the family Berytidae.
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More important than the tilt of the oarlocks are the relative positions of the thwart (seat), the oarlocks and the footbrace.
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The Alphonse hotel complex is a recently-built collection of ‘A’ frame chalets on short stilts.
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Government tax policy has tilted toward industrial development.
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He was taken entirely into her confidence, as will presently be seen, and she even called him in to assist her when she was conducting an elaborate and stilted epistolatory flirtation with Lord Peterborough.
Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
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The exercises include the pelvic tilt, partial sit-up, and drawing the knees to the chest.
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‘See,’ he whispered as her bra followed the path of her dress and her creamy tip-tilted breasts swayed and settled high against her slender ribcage.
Mistress for a Weekend
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But this seems to me a subtilty that is not discoverable in nature.
On the Sublime and Beautiful
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And Call Me Conrad; once again spotted by my German visitor (could it be Mrs Tilton?).
Book meme - the answers
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Might TV news tilt in favor of prescription benefits for senior citizens because the producers know many of their viewers are codgers?
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The seat tilts forward, when you press this lever.
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The tape is registered against the lower support guide by tilting the bearing less then a degree outward.
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The knight tilted at his opponent.
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The tilt sensors were comprised of 4 levels of unidirectional fixed inclinometers, used to measure the angular displacement between the levels.
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Their policy is to align themselves with powerful moneyed forces to tilt the playing field in their favor and let everybody else fend for themselves.
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He also said something about a stilt walker on loan from the Big Apple Circus, two beggars at a butcher shop, even a bear.
Suiting Up for the Met
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The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes.
The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
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Her laugh purred gently, her throat bobbing back and forth to expel the light sounds from her gaping mouth, her head tilted back and up.
Pectoralis Minor
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And if you wear bifocals or trifocals, keep in mind that you may have a tendency to tilt your head backwards so that you can see through the lower portion of your glasses.
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Let's take a tilt at it anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
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Complete with a suction-cup transducer, gel-cell battery, charger and soft-sided case with tackle storage. Tilt-and-swivel quick-disconnect bracket.
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Following his instructions, we resealed the barrels and tilted them on their sides, Parker climbing on one and I on the other.
Odd Girl In
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Stilton or a very mature Cheddar have enough of a tang to be interesting, Caerphilly or Wensleydale slightly less so.
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I shall type in stilted sentences, where humorous.
September 5th, 2005
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The world has tilted on its axis this week.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're likely to see waders as well as a variety of herons, stilts, and even the endangered West Indian whistling duck.
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The latest addition to our successful twin-colour Designer Range of Tilturn and Casement windows offers endless colour combinations, inside and out.
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Empirically speaking, a governor's career is far better suited than a senator seat to have a tilt at the presidency.
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She closed her eyes tight and tilted her face towards the sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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At higher levels, and with greater dexterity, stilts have been used as entertainment props since the fairs of the Middle Ages, and probably long before then.
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As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast.
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Our foreign policy tilts toward the third world.
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Tiltass, but are you solarly salemly sure, beyond the shatter of the canicular year?
Finnegans Wake
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he was so tall I thought he was on stilts
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I worked the carousel and the bumper cars and the Tilt-A-Whirl.
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We're in a dangerous spot, " said Andrew Tilton, an economist at Goldman Sachs. "The big threat is more capital losses.
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Its seat was tilted up on hinges to reveal a narrow passage down into the bowels of the ship.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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Among the hot dishes on their menu were seared loin of pork in honey and thyme, with Stilton and pistachio sausage.
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Continuous cropping on these soils has meant declining organic matter and tilth, and increased susceptibility to drought and other adverse conditions such as erosion.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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Whether a paragraph is included or omitted can tilt the report towards particular political interests.
Times, Sunday Times
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He suggests that Unitarian Universalism is not so much afflicted with its own orthodoxy or even "orthopraxy" a favorite neologism among seminarians, but that it is tilting heavily toward "orthopatheia", a fixation on feeling the right things.
Philocrites: August 2003 Archives
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His voice sounded unnatural and stilted, but I barely noticed as I thought about making out with Dmitri against the rough bark of the tree in the forest.
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The unidentifiable objects mouldering in the fridge were successively replaced by jars of pickled onions, Cheddar cheese and Stilton.
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In short, Kirmani tries to quantify the unquantifiable, and ends up looking like Don Quixote ferociously tilting at the scientific windmill.
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It's all complemented with the serious pathos of Hattori's sickly and melancholy wife and naturally the full-tilt violence with numberless ruffians and no-account villains feeling Zatoichi's cold steel.
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The action scenes were cheesily done, preposterous, and stuck together in a stilted fashion.
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Witnesses told how they saw the cab of the truck tilt forward which sent the net tumbling down.
The Sun
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This new evidence may tilt the balance of opinion in his favor.
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I have done almost no birding, except yesterday when I saw a Hooded Butcherbird sitting on a coconut frond, tilting back its head and ruffling its pied plumage as it whistled its loud, musical song.
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The intercalation of the drug test between application and hiring tilts the playing field even further, establishing that you, and not the employer, are the one who has something to prove.
Nickel and Dimed
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Looking to his host for consent, Cornell tilted the demijohn over his arm and partly filled the four tin mugs and an empty jelly glass.
CHAPTER 20
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Family groups of black-necked stilts chatter, the calm water reflecting their long red legs and black-and-white bodies.
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The full mouth and tip-tilted nose gave her a provocative air.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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Electrically adjustable windshields tilt to direct the wind or to channel the rain.
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That's what comes of trying to satisfy them fellows," one City Father observed, in an indignant and unstilted speech to his colleagues.
The Philistines
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Not unless you want to stagger around all summer in stilty shoes, which tends not to look fabulous or relaxed.
Times, Sunday Times
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These roots, dropping into the surrounding mud, also become stilts that support more stilts and new trunks nestled in the tangled mass.
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In addition to stilts duties at Universal, he was a greeter at the Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios and a "grouper" - as in, "How many in your party?
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The Delphi computer is fed data by sensors and gyroscopes that can sense the slightest tilt in the scooter.
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We know that the world will not end like a pinball machine on tilt.
Christianity Today
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Another possible explanation for the tilting is the waxing and waning of ice sheet loads.
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At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space.
A Monumental Moment
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The helical axis was tilted by an angle of 35° with respect to the central plane.
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Its seat was tilted up on hinges to reveal a narrow passage down into the bowels of the ship.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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‘Yeah,’ she said, leaning back into the chair and tilting her head back towards the wall.
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He recognized that all of the beaches had been tilted by postglacial uplift (now attributed to isostatic rebound).
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Like the 1939 classic it adores, Australia is stiltedly comical, sweepingly starry-eyed, and melodramatic in its approach to war and racism.
Buzzine » DVD Roundup
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Up and down, shifting and tilting, suddenly spinning when I least expect it -- at no time have I even had the chance to sit back and enjoy the thing without worrying what may be coming with the next gyration.
The Challenge of A Bend in the Road
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The ground tilted sharply downwards.
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What began as a group of shaggy street performers and itinerant stilt-walkers now commands huge audiences and premium prices in Las Vegas.
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The crest they use is also nearly the same, viz., an armed arm, embowed, grasping a broken tilting spear.
Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850
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Other spectaculars include a fire-breathing songololo (centipede), fire dancers, soccer mobiles and puppets and stilt walkers dressed as African animals.
IOL: News
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In fact, it is the lipid tilt degree of freedom that allows a fusion stalk to exist without the formation of a void region inside.
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She tilted her head, her gaze cool as it locked on Kai's.
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His landscapes offer a tilting perspective, often a view over rises or down a slope.
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Alsop likes buildings on stilts, that start a long way up in the air and allow landscape to flow beneath.
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The sewer system runs from west London to east, on a downward tilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Officials tend to tilt toward secrecy from a parochial view of their responsibilities.
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At the same time, the cable wrap problem caused by rotation of feed switching mechanism at different elevations is solved by using tilting cable wrap mechanism.
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When holidays came , there were Yangko and stilt shows with people eager to participate.
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Sonny tilted back in his chair.
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In the run up to special occasions, I always buy a large Stilton and stand it on a dish in the fridge.
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His hat was tilted slightly at an angle.
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But dissidence in both the parties is likely to tilt the fortunes marginally in Naidu's favour.
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DRB: Do you see internet as an empowering or stilting creative force?
Exclusive: Interview with Nancy Kress
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She watched as he tilted his hat back on his head and drew on his cigarette.
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The dash is neatly laid out and a pop-up panel houses the screen for the sat nav which can be tilted to remove glare.
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Now free gospel music ringtones royale stakes rundown free polyphonic ringtones for siemens martingale tilt pot pairs parlay equity sonneries et images airfares jolly shuffling diamonds. ringtones maker motorola cell phone Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Enforcement
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She just tilted her chin and looked deep into my eyes, just like her mum does.
The Sun
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Augusta-Tiltgen 5 (Soling; Nylander) 5: 02. 2,
East Coast Hockey League - Tallahassee vs. Augusta
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Inhale as you squat down as if you were sitting in a chair, tilting your hips back slightly while keeping your chest up.
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He is considering tilting him towards the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup next month, in which case Strong Flow will need to win with some authority here.
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Insert the fork vertically into spaghetti, tilt to thirty degrees. 3.
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However, as the paraboloid becomes narrower, it tilts, then abruptly tumbles onto its side.
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'I would like to have a round wi' you, that's certain; -- but a farmer, and with a hand that never held pleugh-stilt or pettle, that will never do.
Redgauntlet
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Remove from the heat and slightly tilt the pan so that the toffee runs to one side.
The Sun
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The problem, again, is the ship is canted over at such an angle, they may not even be able to use their escape trunks because, you know, because the degree to which the ship is tilted prevents the hatches from opening.
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The horses were idling around - how she loved to watch them their shiny coats, lissome bodies, the graceful tilt to their heads.
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She aims to have a tilt at the world championship next year.
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You can stay in a grass hut with sunset views for a few pounds and it's wonderful, but for just shy of £50, you get into Bon Ton, a beautiful resort of antique stilted fishermen's houses overlooking a water-lilied lagoon.
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The Mesozoic layers, probably SW-tilted after the Mesozoic extension, were also folded.
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His Russian prose, too, though full of ironic tricks and intricate detail, tilted toward the sentimental.
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Then, leaning over, tilting her chin slightly with my free hand, I kissed her.
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These canids were certainly attractive, but we wanted the red fox on stilts, the maned wolf.
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Among the myriad of skills to be mastered, was tilting at the quintain.
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The large granite bowl was perfectly balanced on a rounded bottom, the slightest touch would tilt it one way or another.
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I nodded, wiping my dry mouth on the back of my hand before I bent at the waist to pick up my bag and my text book, tilting my head when it tipped dizzily to the side.
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Chest out, glowing with pride we return to base with labrador on lap and conversation stilted.
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O, thats a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose.
Act III. Scene IV. As You Like It
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The mountain field is tiptilted.
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She tilted the mirror and began to comb her hair.
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One is the quasi-Democratic tilt of the screenplay, with bad guys bellyaching about taxes on the rich and encroaching Socialism (gee, that sounds familiar).
2009 September : Scrubbles.net
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As tragic events unfolded in Europe, Luce ran his thriving magazine empire with an odious tilt.
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I tilted my head backward from its position on his shoulder and looked upward at his strong suntanned face and intoxicating blue eyes.
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Because of a tradition of teaching English formally through grammar, translation, and literature, spoken usage is often stilted and bookish.
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Arab governments interpreted her comments in Jerusalem as a tilting of U.S. policy toward Israel, but on Monday in Marrakech, Clinton issued what she called a clarification, saying her words in Jerusalem were meant as '' positive reinforcement '' for the Israelis.
Undefined
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‘I can't remember when I got my very first pair of stilts, but I was very young, and I just went from there,’ she said.
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Other more localized areas appear to have melted over broad regions and blocks of ice have foundered, tilted, and become refrozen.
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There are 91 villas at this new spa hotel, half on stilts built around a long jetty.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've been reading some Mexican newspapers on line and on paper lately, and I find that their language is a sort of stilted, circumlocutious style.
Mexican Newspaper Language
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But as philosophy was widely spread over the world, at the time when Christianity arose, the teachers of the new sect were obliged to form a system of speculative opinions; to divide, with some accuracy, their articles of faith; and to explain, comment, confute, and defend with all the subtilty of argument and science...
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