How To Use Unsettle In A Sentence
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The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party
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It is arguably too tight now, making the car seem unsettled on small bumps and unpleasant on larger ones.
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Using 40 players has not helped and the change of manager unsettled the team.
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Children often feel unsettled if their parents divorce.
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The weather will remain unsettled for the rest of the week.
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Using 40 players has not helped and the change of manager unsettled the team.
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Not even big humps can unsettle the Hydractive suspension which also stops the car rolling severely in tight bends.
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Public opinion in March, 1861, was so unsettled, the popular mind so impressible, that a spirit of discontent soon began to spread over the loyal States on the part of those who had hoped for what they termed a vigorous administration.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
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That brief confrontation with Luke Calder had unsettled her far more than the incident in the garage, if she was honest.
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The corporate bond market remains unsettled, with junk spreads widening again this week.
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As Clifford Geertz has argued, in a witty and perceptive essay on Benedict, in itself the book is perhaps better seen as a kind of Swiftian satire, in which the alienness of Japan is used to unsettle US assumptions about the naturalness of their own society, than as a work of 'scienti c' anthropology (Geertz 1988; see also Lummis 1982).
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The legal rules are unsettled, and will cause some confusion with the advent of satellite television.
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Generous with encouragement for preservation, the Colonial Office was stingy with funds to pay for policing vast unsettled areas.
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However, with all the turmoil we've been experiencing in the past two months, the moving around and general unsettled life we've been leading we never quite managed the first schedule, let alone the second.
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He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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Things are very politically unsettled at the moment.
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The jet stream took a more southerly track again last week and low pressure brought unsettled weather.
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the richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty
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There remained various issues that lay beneath the smiles of the newly named Zimbabweans, unsettled problems that were left to fester deep in the hearts of many in the country.
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He was unsettled by the reaction to his initial internal inquiries about the legality of the flexible underfloor system on the new Ferrari.
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The phonetic form and spelling and the derivation are alike unsettled, the uncertainty of the latter involving that of the former.
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Added to this is a general feeling of economic uncertainty - with military action looming and Wall Street unsettled, Americans are adopting a cautious view towards non-essential spending.
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An urgent and then melancholy opening was unsettled by dark bass trills and a menacing fugal theme, only to be undone by the second movement's disarming simplicity.
Pianist Till Fellner ends Beethoven sonata cycle with restrained refinement
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They shuffled some more and looked about, uneasy, unsettled, on edge.
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And that such as have a great and false opinion of their own wisdom take upon them to reprehend the actions and call in question the authority of them that govern, and so to unsettle the laws with their public discourse, as that nothing shall be a crime but what their own designs require should be so.
Leviathan
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Britain's unsettled political scene also worries some investors.
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Will the weather remain cool and unsettled in the week ahead?
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But behind the picture-postcard facade, residents of the rural community of Bradfield, on the outskirts of Sheffield, have become increasingly unsettled.
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The earthquake unsettled the rocks up the mountain.
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These figures unsettle the whole society, and make us feel uneasy and worried.
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The ostensible ease with which he makes such jumps unsettles even loyal supporters.
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It's a minimalist sci-fi mystery about a Silver Lake couple who infiltrate a cult led by a charismatic woman Ms. Marling whose ambiguous identity unsettles the pair.
Visions of the Horizon for City Moviegoers
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They will smell her smells and could become unsettled and upset.
Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
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The forecast for the end of week and start of the half-term school holidays is for the unsettled weather to continue, but eventually improve as the wind changes direction.
Cold winds and snow forecast for UK
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Ó Rathaille continued to lead an unsettled life, spending periods of time in Kerry and Limerick.
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His effective rhetoric reassured a country unsettled by the tumults of the 1960s and 1970s and perceptions of American decline.
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Accordingly, the Respondent decided that the bank did not owe the appellant any money in unsettled bills.
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Children tend to get unsettled if you keep on changing their routine.
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For 800 of those 850 pages I was transported, absorbed, unsettled and delighted; but scunnered by the cop-out.
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These figures unsettle the whole society, and make us feel uneasy and worried.
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The employee arrives here unsettled and is unlikely to be able to devote full attention and energies to the assignment.
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This will continue into Friday, and next weekend looks very unsettled with further rain.
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If a legal question is not answered by standards deriving from legal sources then it lacks a legal answer-the law on such questions is unsettled.
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This unsettled and windy spell looks set to linger through much of this week.
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Harried by constant fire and unsettled by the universal presence of landmines - the main cause of casualties - the Russian army has been thoroughly demoralised.
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The date was postponed several times due to the unsettled issue of taxation.
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Police immediately called for backup feeling that the scene was becoming too unsettled.
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Meanwhile, Collins's case remains unsettled, and only chipping paint and crumbling steps indicate the havoc inside her house.
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It all added up to a sense of dislocation, a feeling of being removed from the ‘real’ world: isolated and unsettled.
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Claire Denis's "Trouble Every Day" is more unsettled mood piece than conventional blood bath, although its carnal interludes are some of the grisliest episodes in the entire genre.
Psychos and Suckers
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She is quick to point out that her childhood was not unhappy, just unsettled.
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The airline's decision to cut air fares is likely to unsettle the market.
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The weather is forecast to remain unsettled until the middle of next week.
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England was still deeply unsettled.
Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
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The Soviet world champion Mikhail Botvinnik used to get training partners to deliberately blow smoke in his face to prepare for opponents who may try to unsettle him.
Vishy Anand: I found Bobby Fischer surprisingly normal and calm
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They remain unsettled at fullback after releasing Henderson.
In Green Bay, they've got Favre and inexperience
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Nevertheless, the experience left me slightly unsettled and reinforced the knowledge that simply looking different would play a major role in how I am perceived and treated in Guyana.
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The state of the laws is still unsettled in Russia.
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There's something about that copse which unsettles me.
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We used very disturbing images and black comedy to unsettle the audience.
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United, for a time, were deeply unsettled.
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The weather is forecast to remain unsettled until the middle of next week.
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Britain's unsettled political scene also worries some investors.
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But going more than halfway to tolerate what look like disturbing cultural practices unsettles some historians, aid experts, economists and others with experience in developing societies.
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This may have arisen, not merely from their paucity, but from the unsettled signification of the term orange, as well as from improperly calling these pigments reds, yellows, &c. In these days, however, orange pigments are sufficiently numerous to merit a chapter to themselves; they indeed comprise some of the best colours on the palette.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Tragic events like the ones we are witnessing all over Gujarat shatter lives, unsettle moral convictions and unmake the fragile establishment we normally call society.
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I pitied the hapless patient and commiserated with the unhappy house officer, unsettled by the echoes of my own mistakes.
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Ski resorts across Europe are smiling with relief as the weather has turned colder and more unsettled.
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Recognition of such a project in his later poetry should begin to unsettle long-standard accounts of how Brecht (or Benjamin, for that matter) alternately models an exchange-value Left cynicism, and a mechanical-reproductionist, exhibition-value "Avant-Gardist anti-aesthetic" (both of which, in solidarity with radically-intended post-Modernist art and theory, oppose themselves to a more auratic, Romantically-derived Modernism) .26
Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
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His mere presence unsettled batsmen, who could be sure that the slightest mishit would be snaffled.
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Only the unmistakable lilt of his mid-European accent gives a clue to his unsettled past.
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The crew had its first training session in February, a four-day ordeal which was deemed a success despite windy and unsettled conditions, with winds getting up to 38 knots at times.
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As the aftershocks of an earthquake unsettle a city, the great memories trembled inside him and only gradually died away.
The Broken God
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It was also a very unsettled time.
A Channel of Peace
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The issue of illegitimacy of space that Eklavya has occupied in government schools though historical is now an issue that would be dangerous to leave unsettled.
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There are thirty years 'claims of escuage unsettled, and there is Sergeant Wilkins, the lawyer of Guildford, whom I will warrant to draw up such arrears of dues and rents and issues of hidage and fodder-corn that these folk, who are as beggarly as they are proud, will have to sell the roof-tree over them ere they can meet them.
Sir Nigel
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Will the weather remain cool and unsettled in the week ahead?
Times, Sunday Times
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Cyclonic weather with a depression centred over the UK can cause unsettled conditions in both winter and summer.
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He has enough venom to unsettle any top batsman.
The Sun
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Britain's unsettled political scene also worries some investors.
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Showbusiness gave the youngster a chance to escape into another world, away from the frustrations of an unsettled childhood.
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At night they lay on hard beds without pillows and, behind their closed eyelids, their unsettled thoughts ran in opposite directions.
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Rather than reflecting and reproducing the existing order, it can unsettle it by destabilizing the notion of identity and in particular gender identity, revealing its contingent, historical, and changeable status.
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Therefore, certification is an acceptable and conciliatory method for determining a state court's opinion regarding an unsettled or disputed question of law.
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They first unsettle our obedience by discovering what they call the iniquity of our governors; and indeed it is not difficult for those who look with a malignant eye on their conduct to perceive such errors, or, if you will, vices, as an artful and censorious temper may dress up into glaring enormities, especially if it deals in those exaggerations which people, who give up their understandings to the views of a party, call true representations.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
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These unstaid dimensions, argue unsettled dispositions.
The Gentlewomans Companion
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an unsettled lifestyle
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The employee arrives here unsettled and is unlikely to be able to devote full attention and energies to the assignment.
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But at least the unsettled theme does bring higher than average temperatures and limited frosts.
The Sun
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Your romantic life is probably unsettled during this period too.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seemed unsettled, as if trying to cover a lot of territory, possibly looking for a mate.
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In early modern Europe, conditions of daily existence were still very unsettled.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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Levi says his work is designed to 'unsettle' viewers by challenging preconceptions of certain materials and objects.
Archive 2009-03-08
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He had an unsettled childhood and, like many ambitious Egyptians of limited means, in 1937 he chose a career in the army.
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And in unsettled times, there's always the option of cheering oneself up by playing ‘who have I outlived?’
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Laid crops and unsettled weather put the brakes on harvest for many growers this week.
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By the weekend most areas will have unsettled and cooler conditions with the changeable trend extending to the end of the month.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Radio
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The first five terms above, included in the index, connote a feeling of being emotionally unsettled, off-balance or anxious, which are standard reactions to stressful events.
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Dr. Vincent, an old family friend, takes Paul fishing in order to help ease his mind, but Paul remains unsettled and decides to return home.
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We have a great balance within the team and what I bring is the physicality in defence and trying to unsettle teams.
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Martine says: ‘Twenty-five years have passed and we always said that in this very unsettled world, the spirit of Krashny is one of solidarity.’
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The other, tall, meagre, with long grizzled hair and a wild unsettled look about the eyes, was a man of science; had written works well esteemed upon mathematics and electricity, also against the existence of any other creative power than that which he called "nebulosity," and defined to be the combination of heat and moisture.
The Parisians — Volume 05
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Saudi Arabia mourns King Fahd, a traditionalist in changing times, and it pledges loyalty to Abdullah, heir to a stable government and an unsettled state.
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We are living through the juncture of eras, modern to postmodern, which unsettles our certainties and at the same time heightens our longing for certainty.
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The heat eases this week with more of an unsettled look across all parts.
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The weather is set to remain unsettled this week.
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The Met Office has predicted an unsettled period of weather with rain and wind.
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This turn of events unsettles Edwin, who is secretly in love with a colleague from the publishing house.
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She was about to lead the three-year-old in from the paddock when another horse in the yard unsettled him and he bucked, kicking Blanche under the jaw and knocking her unconscious.
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He summarized the state of deaconess issue as follows: The possibility of ordaining women to the diaconate is still an unsettled question in the Catholic Church.
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The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.
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The status of contract personnel on the battlefield and the guaranteeing of continuing service in combat are murky and unsettled questions.
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But the officers remained angry, unsettled, and ill-disposed toward his message.
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The boundary questions still remain unsettled.
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I never much liked it; I was always unsettled by its glaring untruthfulness.
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Birkirkara started the title showdown in great fashion, completely overcoming Flyers Depiro II who looked quite unsettled during the first set.
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In a journal entry about the coming exhibition, he aptly describes how his art has helped soothe a troubled and unsettled past.
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I found it a disturbing remembrance, and I shuddered a little to shrug it off, feeling distinctly unsettled and out of place, drifting without support for an instant, like the falling leaves.
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Lebrecht offers excellent broadbrush readings of the 10 symphonies, gives a full (at times too full) account of Mahler's career as a conductor – if he had never composed a note, his place in musical history would have been secure for this alone – and explores his unsettled private life as the child of a loveless marriage whose own young wife Alma then cuckolded him.
Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht and The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
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Added to this is a general feeling of economic uncertainty - with military action looming and Wall Street unsettled, Americans are adopting a cautious view towards non-essential spending.
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Unsettled weather will stretch from the middle Mississippi Valley to the southern Middle Atlantic States.
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The issues facing the Arab League summit in Algeria this month will remain unsettled until the key players define a common stance, reports Dina Ezzat
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Children often feel unsettled if their parents divorce.
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I met Brian just six months after he came out of captivity, and I was struck by how unsettled he seemed.
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The airline's decision to cut air fares is likely to unsettle the market.
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She has lived an unsettled life since then, though she does have a job and a relationship.
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An official approach will unsettle a player just as much as an unofficial one, so what is wrong with a discreet inquiry?
The Sun
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Finally: Successful reform requires having the stomach to ditch what doesn't work, follow through on what does and try what might, even when such action unsettles stakeholders.
DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 11, 2010
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Since then, interest in the question has continued with an undiminished level of unsettled contentiousness.
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The airline's decision to cut air fares is likely to unsettle the market.
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The employee arrives here unsettled and is unlikely to be able to devote full attention and energies to the assignment.
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Some reservations closely followed traditional Ojibwa boundaries, while others were established in previously unsettled areas.
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I needed to hear words that only he could say, words that would shake me out of my unsettled state of mind.
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The blurring/symbolic erasure (especially of the heads) in this one unsettles me.
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Whenever he came into a new territory, he established what he called his chamber of claims, a most convenient device, by which he inquired whether the conquered country or province had any dormant or disputed claimsany cause of complaintany unsettled demand upon any other state or provinceupon which he might wage war upon such state, thereby discover again ground for new devastation, and gratify his ambition by new acquisitions.
IV. On the Refusal to Negotiate with France
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That earlier activity ran parallel to the beginnings of modernism in French art, with artists like Manet and Degas responding to the anxious and unsettled urban environment they inhabited.
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The one assumption I hope to have unsettled in these pages is that any particular novelistic genre in itself embodies a metaphysical or transcendent approach to the real.
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Nevertheless, it enjoyed four successful series, providing a rich seam of satire and some much-needed light relief during a particularly unsettled period of Britain's recent past.
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The weather is forecast to remain unsettled until the middle of next week.
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With oil and gas priced in dollars, a stronger greenback unsettled energy companies.
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We operate today in an extraordinarily unsettled financial environment dominated by leveraged speculation and U.S. foreign liabilities of unprecedented amounts.
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The issue of optimum oxygen concentration for neonates in intensive care remains, even now, unsettled.
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Further north and northwest more unsettled and breezy weather will prevail with rain at times, but also some drier brighter interludes.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the aftershocks of an earthquake unsettle a city, the great memories trembled inside him and only gradually died away.
The Broken God
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Today will be unsettled in the north and west, sunnier in the southeast.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ski resorts across Europe are smiling with relief as the weather has turned colder and more unsettled.
Times, Sunday Times
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It made his stomach churn, already unsettled from the shifting g-forces of the shuttlecraft.
Archive 2010-04-01
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The last couple of days have been a much needed break from a hectic and unsettled work schedule, with time to make models, shop for some rather nifty new speakers with a sub woofer that makes the house shake, read, play some Animal Crossing, watch telly and squeeze in the odd snoozle or two.
La Dolce Vita
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When the light went on, a dozen or so large flies began buzzing around the room, which unsettled him.
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An unsettled weather forecast is unlikely to diminish the crowd any further.
Times, Sunday Times
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The exchange reveals much: first, people care for this "Wonder Woman of American letters" as friend and writer; second, misery unsettles identities and at this point Oates, author of more than 50 novels, does not see herself primarily as a novelist; third, she is honest enough sometimes to paint a quite unattractive self-portrait.
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates – review
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With the league backing off its demand to link revenues with player costs, the players responded by accepting a salary cap during negotiations that took place in nearby Niagara Falls, N.Y. Still unsettled is where to set the cap.
USATODAY.com - Players wonder what took so long for NHLPA to accept cap
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We accept the outcome of the inquiry, without prejudice to the unsettled question of territorial waters.
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But Friday looks to be increasingly unsettled with heavy winds and further lashings of rain right across the UK.
The Sun
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Sam took the award for his portfolio ‘Colombia on the brink - the escalating war’, a series of images documenting the current unsettled times in South America.
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The finding prompted the theory that the boy king was murdered by a blow to the head during the unsettled period of his reign.
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The afternoon of 2 February 1918 was humid and unsettled in Melbourne, with a slow-moving low pressure trough crossing Victoria.
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In Kleist, the notion that language can tell a coherent story about its own signifying capacities is unsettled as even the most rudimentary distinction between form and content proves to be at once too specific and too abstract.
Article Abstracts
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‘Workers were unsettled when it began vibrating and made strange noises,’ a spokesman for police in the eastern city of Chemnitz said.
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Today will be unsettled in the north and west, sunnier in the southeast.
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It distorts our inward frame, and unsettles the adjustments of our minds.
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That brief confrontation with Luke Calder had unsettled her far more than the incident in the garage, if she was honest.
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The strangeness that increasingly unsettles the reader does not appear to bother the characters, who act with an exaggerated ordinariness that comes to resemble insanity.
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Nevertheless, the controversies over literary openness are far from being resolved, and many related issues remain unsettled.
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He is an unsettled, jittery man who mostly speaks in fragmented sentences because his mind is like a chess board, it is always working on several things at a time and it is most often a few steps ahead of his conscious ability to recognize what his mind is doing.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » “How can I make a character with mental disorders work?”
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She uses the body's presence to unsettle and engage the viewer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lightness of his eyes unsettled her.
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And even the Soviet photographs, which were intended to depict an improving economy, leave the viewer unsettled, with so much left unsaid.
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About 1190 Bernard of Pavia uses freely the expression, which became classical, "impedit contrahendum et dirimit contractus", and further he enumerated the impediments: "sunt autem quæ matrimonium impediunt xiv", but his list is not definitive; the technical names of each impediment remain for some time longer unsettled.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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But even as this new impending crisis unsettles commercial lenders and borrowers, the story of its origins can shed new light on how we got into this larger financial mess in the first place.
Capitalist Fools
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In her first grand slam event since Paris she ran into the resurgent Polish-born German Lisicki, whose blasting serve unsettled China's new star, who was adjudged by some commentators to be still weary from her efforts in France.
Wimbledon 2011: Li Na loses way and husband as Sabine Lisicki triumphs
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Mass violence threatened to unsettle the very foundations of government.
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I have been overwrought & unsettled in mind by apprehensions, & that is a thing that is not helpable when one is in
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900
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By the weekend most areas will have unsettled and cooler conditions with the changeable trend extending to the end of the month.
Times, Sunday Times
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Further rain spread from the southwest and that set us up for an unsettled weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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United, for a time, were deeply unsettled.
Times, Sunday Times
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He blustered on about my trespassing gall, how I'd unsettled his half-starving cattle.
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The rest of December may also stay largely unsettled.
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The employee arrives here unsettled and is unlikely to be able to devote full attention and energies to the assignment.
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Finance Ministry to retain the stimulus package in the forthcoming budget, stating that its withdrawal may "unsettle" the industry LONDON -- European stock markets closed higher after data showed the U.S.
WN.com - Business News
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They should be playing their fab new single Everybody's Gonna Be Happy and, if we're immensely fortunate, our Dad will not appear in the doorway sounding a little unsettled.
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Whether Nixon was entirely serious or merely trying to unsettle Kissinger is not altogether clear and, in his thickly stentorian voice, Kissinger replied: ‘That, I think, would just be too much.’
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The other is indignation at some historians' recourse to contingency and the counterfactual to unsettle old certainties.
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My life is really unsettled, my friends have much more settled lives than I do at this point.
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Although you're under pressure from others and about unsettled situations, you feel the need to be alone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The issue of odd perfect numbers remains unsettled, however.
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Changing schools might unsettle the kids.
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The slightest disturbance was enough to unsettle the picture -- suggesting uncertainty beneath the calm exterior.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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However, one thing is certain, there is unsettled weather aplenty ahead.
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This unsettled and windy spell looks set to linger through much of this week.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boundary questions still remain unsettled.
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Battle on some unsettled disputes may need to be fought afresh
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The lecturers, who were seeking a 3.25 percent increase, had been withholding grades and were threatening rolling strikes while their dispute remained unsettled.
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An official approach will unsettle a player just as much as an unofficial one, so what is wrong with a discreet inquiry?
The Sun
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But on first night his bag of theatrical tricks did seem to unsettle the cast rather than show it off.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are in a transitional and liminal time: this makes everything unsettled and awkward, and most of us feel tremendous unrest and a sense of urgency.
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Sadly though there are times when even the neediest, one-sided relationship with an unsettled too-big-for-Big-Vase clogger reaches its tipping point.
A Robot Replica Of Fiona Bruce
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It is still raining and unsettled; applying crucial sprays like T2 fungicides and first blight sprays has been frustrating.
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In London, tech, telecom and media stocks were bearing the brunt of the sell-off as investors looked for safe havens in the current unsettled climate.
