Together they stood athwart any measure that smacked of political centralization. |
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I glance in the mirror and find, to my disappointment, that she's still athwart the bike. |
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As Harry made clear, being different meant neither better nor inferior, but athwart. |
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Grenada lay athwart vital US sea lanes, thus threatening all transatlantic trade. |
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The solar flares and the corona of the sun danced athwart the planet's silhouette. |
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While Matsya lay athwart the route from the northern lands to the ports on the western coast, it was not a place of great enterprise. |
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They can, however, have happier endings once enough people stand athwart the system, and yell stop. |
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To the south, athwart the mountain's lower slope, was a maze of byways and ramshackle housing for the native population. |
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But to place that tribute athwart the vista of the mall would be the act of a country that no longer understands its own history. |
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He took his hand off the hilt of his dagger at last, though still his eyes were fixed athwart the city. |
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That was part of the necessary pattern, as was that he would stand athwart her when that time arrived. |
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She tells me they're giving an award to the senator because he stands athwart conventional wisdom on many issues. |
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Ultimately though, what is more intriguing about this work is the manner in which it runs athwart of some contemporary photography to instead de-emphasize overt expressivity. |
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A swing to port was begun but, as the vessel was too far athwart the current, a swing to starboard ensued. |
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In air transportation, Canada is a major world crossroads, lying athwart the shortest route from the United States to either Europe or Asia. |
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If the vessel is placed athwart the current, the swing will be even greater. |
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Conventional tugs with a low bollard pull are unable to maintain a vessel on heading when the vessel is athwart the current. |
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Onan generator was fitted in a rectangular box athwart ships against the aft bulkhead of the engine room. |
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The fields of the A loops primarily counteract the ship's athwart ship magnetization. |
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The New York governor was the foremost democrat to stand athwart the Reagan Revolution. |
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The Island of St. Germain, the objective of the action, is a low mound of earth surrounded by swamps and was athwart the division zone of advance. |
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Appleby, the county town, suffered greatly from Scottish raids, since it was athwart an easy line of advance across Stainmore towards Durham and York. |
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Like other empires of the past century, it has chosen to live not prudently, in peace and prosperity, but as a massive military power athwart an angry, resistant globe. |
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A recent poll by the Lowy Institute, a think-tank, found most Australians do not see China as a possible military threat. Cultural hurdles stand athwart the paper's aspirations for Asian integration. |
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We placed one log on the ground, and another athwart, forming a crude cross. |
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The line puller is mounted on an axis which runs athwart ship, thus it is able to pivot so that the plane of the unit remains parallel to the line as it leads aft of the vessel during recovery. |
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Universities lie athwart these two worlds. |
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It is the voice of human experience within us, judging and condemning all gods that stand athwart the pathway along which it feels itself to be advancing. |
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He would see himself the image of the ageless one as, athwart and abrazened, the tally-caster coast of crimson breeze bespoke its truthsome squeal. |
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