How To Use Virtu In A Sentence
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Deefer took others off to see if there might not be a few plump wherries in the hills; they would make a nice change from the tough herdbeast meat, the supply of which was now virtually ex - hausted.
Nerilka's Story
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For a few odd and unsettling moments, the song hovers on its own, left virtually untouched except for the subtle fuzz of static in the background.
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Her own valuers had estimated that the property was worth £150,000 on the basis of agricultural use of the surrounding land, and virtually nothing on the basis of mining and/or landfill operations.
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On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ...
Curious Virtual Community Procurement - NASA Watch
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As such, hemp is legal in virtually every country on Earth except the United States.
Harvey Wasserman: Legal Pot or Bust!
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Without a wheelchair, she is a virtual prisoner in her own home.
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At least Kant had the virtue of rigid consistency and did not make casuistic exceptions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Official: Kinder, Gentler Military Commissions:
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There were weighty arguments against this theory, in particular the fact that people with great muscular strength and a welldeveloped panniculus adiposus were often attacked by the disease; and also that European crews, on a diet containing sufficient protein and fat, were not immune, even when they were given virtually no rice at all.
Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture
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He said McCain has been critical of so-called 527 groups — named for the tax code section under which they operate — and argued that "virtually every attack-style 527 group on the airwaves" is aiding Democrat Barack Obama.
Price of Power: McCain accepts ex-Swift Boaters' donations
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Their vices and their virtues and their music, and their greed and their fairyism and their militarism, all seem to have been roasted in a hurry, and to contain, like red meat, the natural juices to an extent that seems to us excessive.
This Is the End
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The gunner virtually always sees the target directly through the gunsight or other sighting devices.
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Typically the characters of a masque would be classical deities or abstract qualities such as a Virtue and Beauty, contrasted with rustic figures, and the story would represent an archetypal conflict proceeding to resolution.
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The anchor sergeant is shot against a blue screen, and chromakeyed in post over the virtual set, which we created in Strata 3DPro.
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Arm an able-bodied person with a bike and give them access to a reliable train service and virtually any conceivable journey is possible.
Times, Sunday Times
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To let his brain swell and keep the blood flowing, thereby preventing the damage from worsening, doctors removed virtually the entire left side of his skull, a procedure known as a craniectomy.
Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound
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They show the star sometimes rambling and at other times virtually incoherent.
The Sun
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Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
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The flow of assistance to Vietnam's fragile economy from its ideological allies has virtually halted.
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Virtually any UNIX or Linux system will compile SISAL code in single processor mode.
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On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, you can not only take a virtual spin in an Express LT - you can also drive the real thing.
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Virtually everyone in the sport suspected that he was on the juice.
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Wilkins is now extolling the virtues of organic farming.
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Virtually foolproof to use, it flattering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two-gig Pents, virtual keys, mondo bandwidth... seriously rad, my man.
T2: INFILTRATOR
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We are so strict with our physical intactness . It is certainly more important that a man to keep his intact virtue.
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We have virtually no fossils of tropical fleshy algae, especially the small soft epilithic species that characterize primary productivity on modern reefs.
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Rather than a traditional neoliberal who tries to extol the virtues of trade, he prefers to just ignore its impact entirely.
Matthew Yglesias » The Case for Ever-Bigger Government
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Virtually all of the clergy are portrayed as venal and conspiratorial.
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In the early 1980s, the term telepresence was coined to refer to the use of remote control and the feedback of sensory information to produce the impression of being in another place, an idea which is now part of virtual reality.
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Two independent investigators have reached virtually the same conclusions.
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While it's no surprise that this script is based on Nelson's own play, given the perfectly measured arguments, the film is never short on cinematic virtues.
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'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Since this difference of aspect in the object differentiates the species of virtue, it seems that dulia is divided into specifically different virtues.
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Every man has the defects of his own virtues [his qualities].
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Therefore _synesis_ extends to all matters of judgment, and consequently there is no other virtue of good judgment called _gnome.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Your advertisers saw your terrific ratings that spanned across the board -- your demo being virtually every demo -- so they hawked everything from Viagra to gaming and condoms to candy bars during your time slot; those ratings were due partly to the Sci-Fi Channel's smartly treating you like its golden child, not emaciating your following by constantly changing your air time (did someone say, "Fascape"?).
Mike Ragogna: OMG! No More BSG!
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Faustianism, in the modern sense of endless questing, had come to be regarded as a virtue.
MOTIF
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Featuring Simpson's virtuosity on guitar, banjo and ukulele, this collection of songs and tunes, mainly recorded in New Orleans, is a homage to the American South.
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This has rendered virtually unenforceable the few remaining rules intended to further grand jury independence.
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Supported by an angelic chorus and lush orchestration, Gibb extolled the virtues of "fingering foreign dirty holes," arguing that while love may be grand, he'd rather "let 'coupledom' die
Spinner
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Reuersus in Angliam, ac visis sui seculi malis, vir pius dicebat, nostris temporibus iam verius quàm olim dici potest, virtus cessat, Ecclesia calcatur,
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Virtue is the only true nobility.
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Indeed, when you factor out variables like having children, the wage gap virtually disappears.
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At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible to see.
Les Miserables
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Bitterns are virtually invisible as their plumage provides perfect camouflage.
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Directed by Robert Egan, the players are virtually doing solo work as opposed to creating a fluid ensemble.
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Yet at the other end of the bay, away from the town and its sewage outlets, the water is virtually uncontaminated.
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Members in Ireland have tracked down the original carriage; it was acting as a holiday home, and was virtually intact!
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Compare this with the book's ingram and you will see a virtual sentence-by-sentence rewording.
Review Hokum
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From those two virtues derive the tranquillity, comfort, and content of domesticity.
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The status of a character trait as a virtue need not be a fixed matter, but a matter complexly interrelated with the sort of society in which it appears.
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This was virtually unheard of from a woman of her upbringing and her family were horrified.
The Sun
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Fortunately the technology of the food processing industry is now so sophisticated that infection from this source has been virtually eliminated.
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The policies and attitudes of the autocracy virtually ruled out the emergence of a moderate, reformist labour movement.
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We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination.
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
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A sword is not, however, in virtue of the meaning of the word ˜sword™, a phase of anything, and to use the term to name a phase of something in a given case, when it suits, is ad hoc.
Substance
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Would there be any virtue in taking an earlier train?
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The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd - who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters.
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He grabbed the points race lead for good in late April and virtually never looked back.
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Guardian | Nazi eugenics, Virginia Woolf and the morality of designer babies A grande virtude do nazismo está em ter enterrado de vez com os ideais de eugenia.
Leituras
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It assumes that the virtual is a substitute for the material realm, rather than an adjunct to it.
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And they can meet online with a Quinn Draftsperson to discuss and review drawings, markups , photographs, or anything else you may need at virtual meeting room.
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He had been diagnosed as cortically blind and virtually the only vocal sound he was capable of making was a ‘clicking’ in his throat.
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Techies are used to spending an ungodly amount of time mining virtual coins in online games.
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He'd seen this face dozens of times, smiling out from the TV screen, extolling the virtues of shampoo.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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I'm virtually broke
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Their ability is measurable and is virtually irreplaceable.
Times, Sunday Times
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When this happens, we will encounter a strange blurring of the edges between virtual and true realities.
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She makes writing a book sound like busywork ... the strain is as palpable as the voice is cute, and the drama is virtually nonexistent.
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert: Book summary
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Finally, the citizen must, if true to his quality, be possessed of some civic virtue.
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But I never thought of him as anti-violent until Uma Thurman's father came on my "Con Games" radio show in Aspen to lead me monkishly down the path of virtue.
Michael Conniff: CON GAMES: Violence On The QT With Quentin Tarantino
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To celebrate, Facebook is giving its 150 million-plus users a mystery virtual gift, such as bongo drums and beer.
Macworld
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The flip side of virtue is pride.
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If there was an element of good fortune about his batting then, this was a virtually faultless performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How has the UK moved from being a nation that held up thrift as a virtue and considered debt a vice, to owing a trillion pounds on mortgages, credit cards and other loans?
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The outlay to make forged clay bullae -- clay lumps used to seal papyri and packages -- and add a biblical name to them is virtually nothing, and these things go for anywhere from $100,000 on up depending on what is on the bulla.
Conversations: Forgery Fallout
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The on-site test results indicate that energy meter's neutral point virtual connection has a great effect on PT secondary voltage drop.
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Like virtually everyone else in rural North Yorkshire my business depends for its livelihood on people in motorcars.
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Virtue does not consist in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.
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After listing products on the generic page, it set up its own virtual store within the site.
Times, Sunday Times
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VisiCalc defined the term killer app and kicked off the personal computer industry, will there be a similar program for virtual worlds?
Undefined
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Athlete behavior is meant to be exemplary and virtuous and sustain the rags to riches myths of successful sports stars from humble origins.
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not everyone regards humility as a virtue
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He said they were very good and D agreed, which just shows that virtue is its own reward.
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We outsource our memories to the cloud and virtualize our friends.
The Times Literary Supplement
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So sought-after are high-ranking characters and the virtual trinkets that they amass that extraordinary amounts of real-world money are changing hands as they are traded.
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Mr Koizumi is the centre of a virtual personality cult in his homeland, with support ratings of almost 90 %.
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But fixture congestion would make that proposal virtually impossible.
The Sun
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This game is superior in complexity to English draughts by virtue of the fact that it is played on a board ten squares by ten squares and that capturing moves have an extended scope.
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It's a virtual community, united by rah-rah chat groups in which program participants dish training tips and offer encouragement.
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Very starchy foods such as cassava contain virtually nothing but carbohydrates and water.
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The country has become virtually ungovernable.
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The sultan is the virtual editor, and consequently the papers are popular, as containing opinions on state policy _ex cathedra_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
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One of the big trends in Las Vegas was the virtual reality headset.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most bothersome is during this week of Kanye, Serena and Wilson with virtually every news site asking are we rude/have we lost our civility, is that people from the stature of James Carville to presumably educated people writing comments, are ranting, raving and name calling.
Carville takes aim at latest tell-all on Bush
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Kindness is an underrated virtue altogether in my humble opinion.
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Theology has often ‘used eschatology to move into speculations about a virtual reality, something that science will not readily accept.’
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Deefer took others off to see if there might not be a few plump wherries in the hills; they would make a nice change from the tough herdbeast meat, the supply of which was now virtually exhausted.
Artichoke
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Beats me, but I guess it means a figure of that stature and not, as you say, someone who invented a genre out of his own protean imagination and virtuosity, all of which is just so alien to the idea of electronica to begin with.
Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.
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Virtually every high-horsepower racing engine that is built at a professional shop is tested and tuned on a dyno before it is delivered.
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And so the virtuous circle should continue.
Times, Sunday Times
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They browbeat my sister to order my execution, virtually to the moment of her final breath.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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Even though I have found it virtually impossible to 'change' somebodies morals after a certain formative period in their lives.
Child Abuse Alert
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They proved that fungi can be identified in virtually all patients with chronic rhinosinusitis if meticulous, painstaking efforts are taken to procure samples.
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There is a lot to be said for the manly virtues - courage, stoicism and strength.
The Sun
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DiDonato took a broader and more dramatic perspective in two Rossini numbers, Desdemona's haunting "Willow Song" from "Otello" and a dazzlingly virtuosic encore of "Tanti affetti," the final showpiece from "La Donna del Lago.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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She found his accent virtually incomprehensible.
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It introduced the world to capacitive touchscreens and virtual keyboards and autocorrect and a real mobile web browser.
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The sacerdotal role of the Christian laity, whose spiritual sacrifice and virtuous life makes a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, is placed in complete opposition to the formal procedures of the Roman clergy.
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The two rooms were virtually identical.
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Roman Catholic Church. immune from fallacy or liability to error in expounding matters of faith or morals by virtue of the promise made by Christ to the Church.
The "Infallible" Shoulder Shot
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Ready availability being the most precious of Prohibition virtues, gin was lifted above the historical pedigree that led Willa Cather to call it “the consolation of sailors and inebriate scrub-women.”
LAST CALL
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It combines knowledge and technology of many scientific fields such as computer technology, computer graphics, sensor technology, biodynamics, clinical medicine and Virtual Reality.
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As fire tries gold,so does adversity try virtue.
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There are virtuosic moments, but too much airtime given to minor characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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That so forbearant a people as Canadians have virtually destroyed two of their three parties is convincing evidence that they realize that that policy has failed.
Post-Election Prospects in Canada
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Oh, did I mention the mausoleum is a virtual granite resume, since Mr. Burris has etched in great detail his every job title, accomplishment, award, and entire life as a permanent monument to ... himself?
Blago Has Been Impeached
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Less talked about is the way fame can make virtually all aspects of your life faintly ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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They would at the very least hold on to their 13-point lead and with a game in hand over most of their rivals they would be virtually untouchable with just four matches still to play.
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Pheasant has virtually no fat so you will need to put fat bacon over its breast.
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The council had no legal obligation to buy back the property and previous repurchases were virtually unheard of.
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Leo has Parkinson's disease and is virtually chairbound.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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I do agree with you in that "the Dogma of Faith that Christ has constituted the Catholic Church indefectible, by His Own Virtue".
Modern world: a desert of God
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The game was delayed by more than an hour after a torrential downpour made the pitch virtually unplayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Virtual tests manifested that running stability of the special tractor - semitrailer satisfy the design requirement.
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She succeeded by virtue of her tenacity rather than her talent.
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But a psychomachia seems virtually the perfect vehicle for satire.
Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses
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Once we learnt about this virtuous cycle, we were hooked.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are con-trolling so much cocoa that they are virtually monopolizing the market.
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Patience was not one of her virtues.
Times, Sunday Times
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The story that I want to tell is the story of liberty, equality and fraternity, which seemed to me to be the governing virtues of the order today.
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He provides a degree of unity to the piece, by virtue of his repeated appearances.
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Classical music, 14-18sNational Youth Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 7 August by Sasha Millwood, 18The magical and mysterious quality imbued to the Dukas never came at the expense of the clarity of the virtuosic lines.
Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries
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The Romans had built a virtually impregnable fortress there.
Christianity Today
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In much of today's Western culture, virtuousness is primarily associated with exaggerated propriety, but in past centuries virtue was of immense importance as a pivotal principle of religious, ethical and political thought.
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We use Vizard Virtual Reality Software and datagloves to interact with the NPCs, developing a gesture and speech based interface.
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Jaron Lanier coined the term "virtual reality" and pioneered its early development.
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He had by a second will bequeathed all his possessions to the Church, reserving in them a life-interest for his virtual wife; and when the cousinry swooped down on what they thought their prey, Madame Mulhausen could receive them and their condolences with the indignant scorn which their greed and cruelty deserved.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
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During the National Civic Virtues Month, all the cities should and banish disarray and discourtesy.
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What offends me violently is when a character is represented as a Good and Upright and Virtuous Hero, when almost his every act betrays him as a villain of the most heinous kind.
Death carries a camcorder
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And the action, therefore, which Pliny denominated obstinacy, would, if it had been left to us to name it, have been called inflexible virtue, as arising out of a sense of the obligations imposed upon them by the Christian religion.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3
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The alternative route down the locks became virtually impassable as the locks were allowed to deteriorate.
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Those that submit and accord with you, treat them generously and virtuously . Those that oppose you, break with force.
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This means that if the voluntary sector does not take action, virtually nothing gets done.
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The usually industrious midfielder was virtually anonymous throughout.
The Sun
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The proper external conduct of the body - such as the wearing of the robe neatly, good deportment, downcast eyes, and observation of good behaviour - is frequently seen as evidence for a state of virtue.
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The most cherishable of Jay's recordings are two-disc sets which permit inclusion of virtually every bit of the show's score, as well as snippets of dialogue, overtures, entr'actes, incidental music, and underscoring.
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It locks in virtually all the improvements in longevity over the past half-century as additional time in retirement.
Times, Sunday Times
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`Open, sesame," Rhodes said stolidly, and Virtual One began to disgorge streaming ribbons of data into the air.
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A similar reorganization is taking place in virtually every state Party.
A heads up...
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The positive virtues are those of many a New England area: clear air, swimmable sea, home-grown tomatoes.
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They show the star sometimes rambling and at other times virtually incoherent.
The Sun
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* An online group called the Ellipsiiis Brain Trust picked virtually every bootee and challenge winner during the second half of Survivor: The Australian Outback, leading many to believe the group had a source inside the show.
Spoiler Sports | PopPolitics.com
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Quite a few of them would even stub out their cigarettes so enraptured, and intimidated, would they be by the blizzard of technical virtuosity that we, today, take for granted.
Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15
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He thought they could be beaten-that their virtual monopoly of the running shoe market could be overthrown.
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The Internet has opened up a marketplace where sellers and buyers are virtually unknown to each other.
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− 92-95% of heifer calves born to twin to a bull − Female organs develop, but are male-like − Commonly seen with enlarged vulva, and long vulva hairs; but some born with no external clues − Virtually always sterile Genetic Upsets − Most common is "hermaphroditism" −
Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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His placing of the location of numerous Gothic, Celtic, and other early manuscripts is a virtual travel guide to Old and Middle English biblical manuscripts.
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Less than a year before the convention, it is hard not to find political overtones in virtually everything the president says and does.
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By applying the set of arc, the key role the transitive closure played in contractual relationship model was proved, and the recursive and reflective roles in virtual enterprise system were validated.
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Virtually every Native American organization has condemned the use of demeaning images or mascots.
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The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
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Behind this kind of ethic stands the Aristotelian notion of entelechy: humans have a natural potential to develop rationality and through it acquire virtuous character.
Guess Who Was At The Party?
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There's a vast and virtually unexplored area where the two overlap.
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However, it is generally recognized that this assumption is applicable to virtually no solid tumor growing in vivo.
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Two people can meet in virtual reality even if physically located in different continents.
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But the reason it's virtually indestructible is that it won't take off.
Times, Sunday Times
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The antennas combine high gain with a directional beam and virtually no backscatter, the company said.
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The “market” for integrated high-end dining is virtually non-existent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities
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Such appeals were virtually impossible before an order in April 1996 by now-Chief of Naval Operations Adm.
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It also virtually freezes funding for domestic discretionary programs other than homeland security.
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Soong was virtually placed under house arrest.
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The dilemma, like all ethical dilemmas, arose by virtue of a conflict between values.
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I thought I was an expert at "pilling" virtually any cat -- until last week!
Two Humans, One Cat, Half a Benadryl
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Thus, it is through delegation a jure, that is in virtue of jurisdiction granted by the Council of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The same apprenticeship ought to make a man both capable of virtue and capable of exercising power.
Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
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There's little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory.
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The virtuous conduct of life which follows is a reward in itself.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Best of all, Germany's crackerjack Ensemble Modern played the luminous score with extraordinary virtuosity.
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The core of DM 3 - ADB rule execution module is to construct a virtual machine.
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The lowest income communities in America have become virtual matriarchies nearly devoid of men.
Wendy Sachs: Why Men Matter
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The story might have him playing an effete easterner converted into a "real" American by the Old West, or demonstrating manly American virtues in decadent Europe or corrupt Latin America, or good-humoredly asserting American common sense in response to vogues like health faddism or pacifism, but in all these plots he was the exact same wholesome, attractive fellow he had always been.
The Silent Superstar
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With so-called grid computing, even personal computers can serve as a virtual supercomputer if enough of them are linked together.
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Not every company needs to virtualize their disks.
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Gradually, as the years went by, Abercrombie and Gibson slipped into virtual oblivion.
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But I know right from wrong, as perhaps only a scoundrel can, and I'll say that there was great virtue in the notion of Taiping - if it hadn't somehow been jarred sideways, and become a perversion, so that the farther it went, the farther it ran off the true.
Flashman and the Dragon
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In the ancient world, courage, moderation, and justice were prime species of moral virtue.
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Intrigued, he attended a recital by the virtuoso lutenist Joseph Iadone, a member of New York Pro Musica, whose work helped bring wider attention in America to early music.
James Tyler, luntenist and master of early instruments, helped preserve music of ancient era
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Its great virtue is that it does not flower, making its silver, filigree foliage effect particularly clean and telling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Submitting to the Lord's will, the mortal is blessed with all virtues and gnosis and he obtains honor in the Lord's court.
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This virtual university will house tutorials, lecture rooms, libraries and other resources as well as providing continuing conversations and dialogues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fan has said Citic supports challenging the virtual monopolies enjoyed by Cathay and Telecom.
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There's a new exit on the information superhighway-a virtual voter registration booth.
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Virtually all the guards carried at least a side-arm and, usually, a semi-automatic rifle.
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The upwardly moral children of the bourgeoisie are obsequiously, uncompromisingly virtuous.
Enough About Me. Now, About My Kids...
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And many work units are virtual disaster areas in terms of fairness and worker satisfaction.