By contrast, the authority's expert witness was emphatic, even dogmatic, in his evidence. |
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To be effective, the work requires a seamlessness and pliancy that could have been at odds with emphatic articulation and step-by-step precision. |
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It's not that veeries are especially handsome thrushes, but I thrill to their song that rolls down the scale in an emphatic and ringing manner. |
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I cannot be emphatic enough in condemning these tohunga, for I have seen the result of their work. |
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. |
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The display would likely be greeted by pandemonium, emphatic shushing, or shocked silence. |
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Kill maintained their unbeaten home record with an emphatic victory over a gallant Ballyteague. |
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Mr Grey gave an emphatic and unequivocal assurance that the names of all the donors would remain totally confidential. |
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The exclamation mark suggests her fear is ungrounded, but the grandfather's answer is emphatic and direct. |
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Marx was emphatic about the need for abundance, for he thought that scarcity made conflicts unresolvable. |
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Snaked earth, crow-spotted through the sun-leagues, coils in their fierce emphatic eyes, cleansed by the flicker of the lids' nictation. |
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The emphatic verticals of sheet metal piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park. |
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Instead of underlining the drama with music or emphatic cuts, the film takes a dry, laconic approach. |
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Like Molly, she is an emphatic and convincing spokeswoman for the Iroquois. |
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His official spokesman said that he was emphatic that the incident should not be be allowed to damage community relations in Britain. |
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At Claremorris on Sunday afternoon, the visitors overwhelmed the home side with an emphatic victory. |
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His pen-and-ink medium now includes heavy doses of watercolor, making painterly qualities more emphatic. |
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The emphatic verticals of piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park. |
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The conclusive victory was narrow, but Celtic's command of the championship utterly emphatic. |
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He had made a 15-foot birdie putt, getting within a stroke of the lead, and punctuated it with an emphatic fist pump. |
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The postmistress at the sub-post office was emphatic that small packages to Europe no longer required green customs slips. |
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New variants often appear first in casual speech, while older ones remain in more emphatic formal styles. |
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It was an emphatic victory and formidable testimony to his talent and determination. |
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He throws in an emphatic backhand volley and a fine cross-court forehand as he holds without dropping a point. |
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He is equally emphatic in his opposition to genetically modified food which he thinks is being propelled by the multinationals. |
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There was something emphatic, even challenging, in his pronouncement that discouraged questioning. |
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But this month's emphatic rejection of limited devolution powers by the people of north-east England appears to have put that plan on hold. |
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Later on, there is an emphatic call for people to vote in the scheduled elections. |
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She punctuated her statement with emphatic head gestures which again caused her hair to fall in her face. |
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He was particularly emphatic about the importance of keeping the public informed of these developments. |
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Despite his emphatic denial, the impression still persists that he and Santini scarcely saw eye to eye. |
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A U.S. Congressional delegation made an equally emphatic statement in late August. |
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She has been particularly emphatic about how much she is looking forward to it, on Tuesdays. |
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A slave appeared in the half-open doorway and scurried away at Adriana's emphatic gesture. |
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The American media was equally emphatic and called the attack inexcusable aggression and state-sponsored terrorism. |
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She decries the decline in regional theatre and is emphatic about the importance of theatre in our cultural lives. |
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In fact, the women were emphatic about the necessity of making the stories available to young people as part of school curricula. |
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Both of them are emphatic that they are not passing any judgment on technology. |
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When we moved in she was emphatic that she wanted the top floor to herself. |
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In the last of the two games before the quarter-final stage, Grange's emphatic win sees them go through to meet premier side Parkville United. |
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Ilkley's second fifteen continued their winning ways with an emphatic victory at Salem. |
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However, World Champion Steve Goacher fought back in the second race to record an emphatic victory for his Windermere Sailing Club. |
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The finish was equally emphatic and the Derby fans celebrated without reservation. |
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When the counties squared up in the championship in Killarney, the outcome was an emphatic win for Kerry. |
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Paul Botterill had given Volunteer an excellent start, but solid scoring from all the Britannia team ensured an emphatic result. |
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This time the result was more emphatic as this excellent college extends its reputation as one of the finest in the college football hierarchy. |
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A determined Midleton had an emphatic 27-8 win away to Portadown and they are now up to fourth in the table. |
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I can think of many games where Anil has engineered emphatic wins for India. |
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The results are more emphatic than I was expecting and this is extremely good news. |
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Hendry said he had plenty of room for improvement despite the emphatic result. |
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The emphatic result was testament to his ability to challenge and expose the political classes and take the people along with him. |
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A win is a win, but this was hardly the emphatic result needed to banish those Danish blues. |
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Which is expressed by the most emphatic word in the interrogative sentence? |
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He finished his display with a drop kick to put his match total to 22 points and ensure an emphatic win. |
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Tempos tend to be driving, and accents tend to be emphatic, strengthening the similarities between Schumann and Beethoven. |
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Initially speechless, the Colonel quickly regained his composure and responded in a most emphatic affirmative. |
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As the CEO of the laggard portal company, Lansing has faced his share of critics, and most of them are emphatic that his ideas won't work. |
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One coolly abstracted the city, taking what he wanted and discarding the rest, reshaping it to his liking with emphatic yesses and nos. |
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Even more emphatic diplomatic gestures, like the summoning of ambassadors, have so far been ignored. |
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The parenthetic principle functions as appositional, alongside, but also foundational, rendering a more emphatic assertion unnecessary. |
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Now she rustled in with an emphatic announcement of stiff brocade, and enveloped the spectral Angela in an embrace of comfortable arms and bosom. |
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He was emphatic that chickenpox was not a milder version of smallpox and that the two were distinct maladies. |
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Borat's mankini loops around the neck and plunges down to an emphatic pouch. |
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The flat fourth story is crowned by an emphatic cornice, above which is a tall mansard roof sheltering two more stories. |
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He is equally emphatic about the need to promote Maori language. |
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Matlock spurned several easy chances to secure an even more emphatic win. |
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It has the right to regard the threat that Hamas poses as an annihilating one, given the emphatic language of its covenant. |
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Following their emphatic win in the Sunday Quiz League, they needed to win their last match of the season in the Wednesday Quiz League to ensure the double. |
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Sandeep was emphatic that the print media had its place in advertising. |
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But he's been very emphatic about getting back his little dog. |
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The emphatic if irregular end rhymes work in a similar way and reflect the claustrophobia of the situation with all three participants seemingly trapped in a hall of mirrors. |
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But Dr. Prause is emphatic that her research finds no evidence of psychopathology in asexuals. |
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The leg-spinner did so in emphatic fashion with the middle dismissal in a stretch of three wickets in four balls which culminated the England innings. |
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Sometimes an asyndetic list is useful for the strong and direct climactic effect it has, much more emphatic than if a final conjunction were used. |
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Anne's cool demeanor immediately calmed her but not her emphatic reply. |
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The performance of the younger members of the team has become a feature and the combination of Ross and Joe responded well to the challenge with an emphatic win. |
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With the emphatic repetition of this line at the end of the book, the image of the omnipotent deity has been exorcized from Vallejo's poetic imagery. |
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This emphatic analysis, along with many other stubbornly negative trials, signals the end for vitamin E as a general prophylactic against cancer and heart disease. |
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In addition, they might also be seen as a hybrid of painting and bas-relief, so emphatic are their materiality and objectness, their presence as things in the world. |
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Jen wants us to take her mother there, and was rather emphatic about it. |
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Then we turn into a driveway-width water-lane, drifting along under arching tupelos and willows in new leaf, startled only by the emphatic song of prothonotary warblers. |
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Their usual intonation pattern is a rising tone on and after the tonic syllable, but, when rhetorical or emphatic, they are said with a falling tone. |
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They were emphatic about the mismatch between their non-nuclear family structures and the conditions they are required to meet under family assistance payment arrangements. |
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It was a phone-in poll, so unscientific, but it was the largest vote they've ever recorded and the results were so emphatic it must be indicative of something. |
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I must have had an expression of absolute incomprehension, because she looked away from me and repeated the question in a slightly less emphatic tone. |
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His voice is a harsh, nasal, confused, emphatic bleat, clamping down on certain words and rolling tricky internal rhymes around in his mouth until they come out all broken. |
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The answer is emphatic, the expression on the face is mournful. |
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Using the emphatic pronunciations of the and a in these poems would not only sound bizarre and unnatural, it would also would also spoil the rhythm. |
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I tried to make that clear in the author's note at the start of the novella, but it seems that I was not emphatic enough. |
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True, Roth seems more topical today, owing to the broad range of contemporary arts emphatic of atomized, decentered structures. |
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The objective form of ye was you, its possessive forms are your and yours, and its reflexive or emphatic forms are yourself and yourselves. |
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But to bounce back with a performance this emphatic was probably not something we thought was on the cards. |
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Most memoirists are very emphatic in rejecting home-front claims that they were fighting for country, king and God. |
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Pound has shaken the dust of London from his feet with not too emphatic a gesture of disgust, but, at least, without gratitude to this country. |
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A BABY-FACED Tranmere line-up emerged with some credit from an emphatic Puma Youth Alliance defeat at Wigan Athletic. |
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The distinction between emphatic and unemphatic pronouns is very important in Dutch. |
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Meanwhile, di Stefano reacted calmy to the news of the Marrs' apparent emphatic rejection of his bid. |
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Cicero is also generally disdainful of myth, but, like Varro, he is emphatic in his support for the state religion and its institutions. |
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At the 92Y talk, de la Renta was emphatic about the future of his label. |
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But bipartisanship disappeared early, with Republicans sitting stone-faced through several rounds of emphatic Democratic cheering. |
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It is an emphatic Ai Weiwei statement that is emphatically true of his work where the two are not just inseparable but co-dependent. |
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The emphatic forms can also be used to make adverbial clauses, as in Whoever you choose, I'll be satisfied. |
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In this work, one of his most emphatic statements on faith, he argued that every good work designed to attract God's favor is a sin. |
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It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion. |
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The CDC too, has been emphatic in their promotion of the technique. |
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However, Team Jacob members on the Anglophone boards were even more emphatic in their dismissal of Edward, and several posters argued that his behavior was abusive. |
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This was arguably a more emphatic win than that Old Trafford thrashing, without the freakish element and simply the result of City's vast superiority in all areas. |
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The rhythm in metal songs is emphatic, with deliberate stresses. |
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The West Riding dialect of Hughes's childhood remained a staple of his poetry, his lexicon lending a texture that is concrete, terse, emphatic, economical yet powerful. |
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Third Division favourites Taylors Arms eased home 3-0 against The Blobber, and Coronation's emphatic 10-2 eclipse of Alex included a five goal blast from Chris Burns. |
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This rhymes the way in which the plinths' incredibly subtle angle of incidence competes with their emphatic physical entrenchment in the concrete floor. |
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Surely no young chippy was ever so stout and so emphatic as this bird. |
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The Doge is one of the popular barytone's most weighty performances, and we do not remember to have heard his voice more powerful, his acting more beardy and emphatic. |
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However, in all of these contexts he is emphatic that gods are never bad or irrational, so whatever the psychic source of disorderly motion, it must be subdivine. |
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The Red River hog, from sub-Saharan Africa, can make an emphatic claim. |
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Elsewhere, Safa put the gloss on their stellar campaign so far with an emphatic 8-0 win over Tajikistani side Ravshan in their final match of Group A Wednesday. |
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Rich Green, managing director at GE Fleet Services, said, 'The emphatic nature of the shift back towards company cars is evident from this research. |
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