We have to recognise that we have laid most of the building blocks already and that it is too late to win a battle of wills. |
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In one of these pieces concrete labyrinthian housing blocks replace the green slopes of Puncak, a favorite mountain retreat for Jakartans. |
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The drug orlistat, or Xenical, which blocks the body's ability to absorb dietary fat, also shows promise. |
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Typically Muscovite yellow render is used extensively on the residential blocks, while the chancery is clad in stone and glass. |
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The blocks of limestone in the forest's ravine are covered with lush growths of mosses, lichens, liverworts and walking ferns. |
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Kokhi's parents' place is a tiny top-floor walk-up in one of the slummy blocks that line Hebron Road on its way out of town. |
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So the new blocks are built around quadrangles in the style of a Victorian school. |
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After five blocks he went through the door of the hotel and climbed the stairs two at a time. |
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A dark nebula, or absorption nebula, is a cloud of gas and dust that blocks light coming from behind. |
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Other more localized areas appear to have melted over broad regions and blocks of ice have foundered, tilted, and become refrozen. |
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They have also found evidence of Spanish jacales, room blocks in an octagonal pattern within the stockade wall. |
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The paradigm for the recognition test was designed using alternating blocks of trials. |
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She described it as similar to the New York Marathon, the solid blocks of people streaming across the bridge. |
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Put the ladder feet on blocks and then drive a stake into the ground so that it is right behind the ladder feet. |
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Huge iron pegs were driven into the rock before the base blocks were put in place, and the first 14m of the tower was solid. |
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The large blocks of relatively soft limestone could be quarried with hard stone tools. |
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Smaller blocks are still split with hammers and wedges just as quarrymen did a century and a half ago. |
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In bright sunlight, the blocks and shadows play curious visual tricks on the eye as you view the structure from different angles. |
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The individual building blocks of words are in themselves of little account. |
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The call blocks until events are ready and then returns all available events once any event is queued. |
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The engine blocks have no water and the water jackets are sometimes filled with concrete to make the engine bores more rigid. |
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Despite a two-and-a-half hour rain delay, Williams was quick off the blocks, racing to a 4-lead in the first set. |
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Knowles recommends waterproofing the blocks by troweling on two coats of stucco. |
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Occasionally, a stenciled bedcover was pieced with traditional quilt blocks but was not quilted. |
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Unfortunately, Earth's atmosphere blocks almost all wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. |
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In a beautiful sequence, women balanced on tiny blocks, flexing their bare backs and arms, revealing the elegance of contour, spine and muscle. |
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They'll be off the starting blocks in jig time on Sunday and it will be important for Ardmore to contain them in those vital early sequences. |
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After breaking through my emotional blocks, I was ready to confront the antagonists in my life who contributed to my problem. |
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The members of the first of these blocks are called the lanthanide elements, and those in the second are the actinides. |
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Characteristic branching ossification was identified in 7 of the 8 cases by radiographing the paraffin blocks or the wet tissue. |
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One could sense the drama welling up blocks away from the auditorium at Sacramento State. |
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When I was about eight or nine they levelled it off and built blocks of flats there. |
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Any disorder that blocks the flow of spinal fluid between the brain and its route to the blood, the jugular vein, can cause raised pressure. |
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Digestive problems may occur if the cancer blocks the release of pancreatic juices into the bowel. |
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In some cases, such as when the swollen epiglottis blocks the windpipe, a tracheostomy may be performed. |
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The suburb of Larapinta will expand westwards again this year, first by 30 blocks and ultimately by 260 blocks. |
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Prehistoric tribes experimented with the first sun-dried bricks or adobe, mixing mud with straw into manageable building blocks. |
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The new structures consist of a steel frame and either compressed earth blocks or rammed earth and a tiled roof. |
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Not long ago, teams fashioned their engines from junkyard castoff engine blocks, and a good length of plumbing pipe made a nifty set of headers. |
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The print blocks, with their justified margins, look like squares and are placed in the upper part of their respective pages. |
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When it comes to cheese products, wheels, wedges and blocks have slowly but surely given way to dices, slices and shreds. |
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The law requires that television stations provide free airtime to candidates, and ratings for these advertisement blocks rival the World Cup. |
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He pointed out the window at Leon's wheelless car, which was still supported on Bill's concrete blocks. |
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These set boundaries of a sort, but the blocks could, at least in this caricature, be assembled and reassembled in fluctuating patterns. |
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The embedding of bits in valid blocks in a particular text line is done in a column-wise raster order. |
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Combining documentation with the aestheticism of abstract colour, the work transfigures even the drabbest residential blocks. |
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Future years will see 23-storey office blocks, supermarkets, arts buildings, more flats and housing. |
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Plans had been submitted to City of York Council to build four flats in the building, and another 20 in newly-built blocks in the grounds. |
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The blocks were set well back from the road, surrounded by large lawned gardens behind black spiked railings and heavy iron gates. |
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If furthermore the impression is lousy with broken lines from worn blocks, you can be sure that it is a late edition. |
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It was used in the days before refrigerators to keep food cool and store ice blocks gathered in winter. |
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My mother keeps me well in stock of incense, candles, charcoal blocks, and altar covers. |
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The drug blocks reuptake of noradrenaline and serotonin, promoting satiety. |
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Pili is a widebody who can eat blocks and stuff the run, but is not going to generate much of a pass rush. |
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Cupola domes and widow's walks sprout from the roofs of buildings, while ornate, old apartment blocks bear names like Haus Hohenzollern. |
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New York is set up as a strong grid system, with blocks being equal in width and length throughout most of the city. |
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Typical blocks were fabricated to measurements of three feet in length and 1.5 feet in width and height. |
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The official line is that the blocks will stop a truck driven by a suicide-bomber. |
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All that remains to Kaplan's industrial laborers is the nostalgia that blocks every aspect of anamnesis, even the capacity to forget. |
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Newer houses have walls made of adobe blocks or bricks, with roofs of corrugated zinc or cement. |
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Elderly residents from sheltered accommodation blocks are being temporarily housed in a day care centre. |
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The terraced square of rough stone blocks follows the terrain, suggesting an odd reminiscence of prehistoric megaliths. |
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Elegantly curved walls can be achieved using wedge shaped blocks with an internal curve. |
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This space was ornamented with low relief sculpture of winged sun disks and wreaths located on the pedimented impost blocks between the arches. |
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In the past this sort of information was encoded within blocks as block attributes. |
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The 208 apartments in the Tramyard will be laid out in eight blocks arranged in clusters around a landscaped courtyard. |
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Toys such as fire trucks, ambulances, building blocks, puppets and dolls encourage play reenactment of children's experiences and observations. |
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Compact herbs such as chives, dwarf basil, lavender, and oregano fit nicely into the openings of concrete blocks. |
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Official blocks mostly start at the first working day of the month and stay in place for a longer period of time. |
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You can use the comments to place facilities like chairs, vending machines, toilet blocks and new displays like a reptile house. |
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If there's something going on in that crowded four blocks of shops and restaurants, he knows the score. |
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The best-quality reproductions come from lithographic prints, which contain blocks of solid color. |
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They take the reductionist position that the fundamental building blocks of any organization are individuals, not the groups within it. |
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Occupying several blocks on two of the most beautiful canals in the very centre of the city, the red-light district is pretty much unavoidable. |
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Santa Fe was laid out as a series of blocks around a plaza, with the government buildings on its north side. |
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If double-entry accounting is the basis of a true accounting system, then the ledgers are the building blocks. |
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Sarah has emptied a bucket of blocks in front of the television and Ruth is on her back on the floor, red-faced, screaming. |
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More than 120 blocks were sold that day, mostly to land agents who would later re-sell them hoping to make a good profit. |
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He applied various amounts of resin to small blocks of Southern yellow pine that he had placed in a pressurized chamber. |
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When only woodcuts, etchings and engravings could be printed, the images would get worse and worse over time as the blocks or plates wore down. |
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These components are reusable building blocks for constructing software systems. |
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The plastic blocks are lighter, lending themselves to more applications, and easier to install. |
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These patchwork blocks are sewn into strips, then joined with plain-fabric strips. |
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Fortunately for life on Earth, the atmosphere blocks out harmful, high-energy radiation like X-rays, gamma rays and most ultraviolet rays. |
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Eggs hidden inside the cab of a toy truck or amidst the set of wooden blocks will add to the excitement of the search. |
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They created a network of more or less typical city blocks, some with alleyways and private drives. |
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Once in place the dock will be emptied, leaving Courageous sitting on support blocks. |
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All along the middle of these blocks are kiosks selling various wares of t-shirts and handbags and jewellery etc. |
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Remain balanced and centered within, go around blocks and do what you want. |
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Pedestrian traffic on the boardwalk dwindled in the wintertime, leaving the city's hotels with large blocks of empty rooms. |
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Blocks and blocks of homes are being rehabbed and spiffed up, which is breathing life into many once-forlorn districts of the city. |
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I was going to hop the train, but it was four blocks away, a distance any respectable New Yorker would walk. |
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He said the town's essence was encapsulated in the sounds echoing around the air shafts of the tenement blocks. |
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This lineup will segue into fully scripted Friday night programming blocks in November. |
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Jackson was quick out of his blocks and, unlike the Commonwealth Games final where he clattered the first barrier and wrecked his gold chances, he was cleanly into the race. |
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Under a process known as vector quantisation, tiny blocks of images are placed in the videophone as code and then assembled together by the software. |
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Residents in blocks of flats had begun to club together to buy generators. |
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On the Panamanian side, city blocks were plotted along radial avenues. |
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I am with a few friends at a pizza spot in D.C., on Mass Ave., just about 10 blocks from the White House. |
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Water has to be pushed through a semipermeable membrane that blocks the salt and other impurities from going through. |
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The F4 twister cut a long swath of destruction that crossed just four blocks from my house. |
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After seeing this trick with blocks and toys, children saw it performed with a hamster. |
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One day, as I sat in our driveway in Long Island playing with blocks and buckets, my curiosity got the best of me. |
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One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie. |
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Sheppards House is one of those labyrinthine '60s blocks where the steps are always damp and you can live next to your neighbours for years without ever bumping into them. |
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Further liveliness was achieved in all the blocks by special treatment to the ends, and by varying the cladding between timber boarding and painted render in strong colours. |
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He is scoring less but doing a nice job on the boards and blocks. |
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Many are already on the starting blocks, either in an advanced stage of research and development, or with their first commercial power stations already under construction. |
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The cheese might be intended for individual slices, blocks or loaves for shredding, spreads, sauces, fillings, pastes or as industrial food ingredients. |
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The screen or mesh area is covered with a resist, such as wax, which plugs or blocks all of the screen openings, except in the area of the design image. |
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The uneven topography alternated between blocks of ice mesas, deep ice craters, bony ice ridges, and rolling ice dunes glowing an otherworldly sapphire-blue. |
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On the other end of the phone was my Grandma Rose, a can-do matriarch calling from her home on Avenue U, six blocks away. |
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Carving single blocks of beech, ash, wild cherry or oak, he darkens the figures' surfaces by lightly charring them, after which he polishes them so that they seem to glow. |
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In addition, ancillary studies, including immunochemistry stains, can be performed on cell blocks and furnish very valuable and critical evidence for a definitive diagnosis. |
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A few blocks away, dignitaries, including Tony Blair, held court in the upscale Serena Hotel. |
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Huge blocks of pale turquoise were set off by strips of lemon yellow hems or belts, and oversized rainbow stripes crisscrossed the body on dresses and shell tops. |
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It took practice to learn how to be productive in these circumscribed blocks but, over time, I developed some rules. |
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Let me know if this blocks you and I will put it in the white list. |
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Volunteers from Lafarge set the Styrofoam blocks to form the exterior walls, and the company donated all the gypsum wallboard used in the home's interior. |
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They are signed, dated and numbered by the artist and were made in woodcut technique with multiple color blocks and personally printed by the artist on offset paper. |
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The disputes have been major stumbling blocks for Croatia's accession into both NATO and the European Union. |
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Most walls can be constructed simply by stacking the blocks up, while others that will be tall or have to restrain heavy loads may require special reinforcement. |
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At a Chinese restaurant several blocks away, and out of earshot of the protests, the conversation had carried. |
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I may have looked a wally charging along wearing a cycling lid and rucksack, but it didn't slow me enough not to catch the villain within a couple of blocks. |
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For the blocks only wood from cherry, magnolia and katsura trees is used. |
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In reality, they are strictly orchestrated marches through blocks of airtime precisely laid out between commercial breaks. |
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The apartments will be situated in two blocks, one of which is five storeys and the other three, and will be set in lawned and paved landscaped gardens. |
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These were supplanted by blocks into which metal was inlaid. |
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Moments later, police caught up with two teens about two blocks away in a Pasadena alleyway. |
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It is two blocks away from our apartment in New York and has the ambiance of a Sunday night diner with simple and great food. |
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He instinctively knew it was coming from the 50-year-old fertilizer plant and ammonia storage facility a few blocks away. |
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Freshly hewn laterite blocks lay piled up one side of the courtyard. |
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Out of these 350 designs, 30 come from old blocks that could be saved intact and 240 are woodblocks that were recarved after patterns of old ones. |
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The path may be there, but current travelers to Sudan face a bureaucratic nightmare of permits and road blocks. |
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But ironically the family's decision to opt for Majorca the following year had nothing to do with the quality of the redcoats ' entertainment or even the shared toilet blocks. |
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The company made logging tools and parts, maple handles, loading blocks, shackles, chain hocks, load binders, neck yokes, whiffletrees and steel fittings for these. |
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Two tall, rectangular blocks landed on either side of the ensemble. |
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Unfortunately, the Standard Embassy Design is producing buildings that are little more than horizontal blocks or interlocking agglomerations thereof. |
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More recently, the rows of red and gray cement housing project blocks that sprouted up in the 1980s dominate the view. |
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They moved north and east forcing the government to resume pastoral leases and resurvey and subdivide them for agricultural blocks and new towns to service them. |
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His care for well-defined blocks of color is almost lapidary, like the intricately wrought components of stained-glass windows or a jeweler's cloisonne. |
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Work has just been completed on replacing toilets and showers, re-roofing the blocks, providing electricity and generally cleaning up the six-bay compact site. |
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Brits also appear to have an long term fascination with types of paving surfaces, so you could find yourself tripping on stone, brick, aggregate, concrete, rock or blocks. |
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When they returned, many came to this small building with arched windows only a few blocks from the grimy Caspian beach. |
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The robots can slice through stone and rough out vast blocks of stone while the artisans are sleeping. |
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After sticking our heads into various hostels to inquire about prices, we picked one a few blocks from the square which was very clean, as hostels go. |
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The West denounced the East as a desert of slab blocks, shabby, inferior and authoritarian, and feared a 'rehabilitation' of the rigorous social agenda. |
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Early on, we had been conscientious about providing them with gender-neutral toys like blocks, balls, and puzzles. |
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Heroin blocks this automation so that when you fall asleep, you stop breathing. |
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I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th avenue in lower Manhattan. |
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We walked back to the car and drove down beale Street, past the faded blocks of pawnshops, liquor stores and poolrooms. |
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The kidney bean extract further blocks starch breakdown and sugar absorption. |
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It intercepts and blocks attempts to transfer sensitive information by silently redialing modems, or by stealthily sending e-mail. |
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The Navy was in a state of expansion that required 100,000 pulley blocks to be manufactured a year. |
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Those in charge of factories, offices and apartment blocks were to appoint and train air-raid wardens. |
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Dividing the code into basic blocks makes analysis of control flow much easier. |
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The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north. |
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When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable. |
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Then the bookie leaves the site of the phone and stations himself blocks away in another room with a phone attached to a similar cheese box. |
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In Lawrence, a mile is generally 12 city blocks east-west or 8 blocks north-south. |
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The water pushed large blocks of tepid air about around his chair, giving the faint illusion of freshness and coolth. |
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Billy Suggs spotted Sam standing outside the cop shop when he still was two blocks away. |
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New Orleans holds us on downs, and Malley goes in to punt and that little crackerass No. 28 slices through and blocks it. |
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The center had 11 assists and 10 blocks tonight for a very unusual double double. |
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At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets. |
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The crowd wandered out to a huge party on the ersatz city blocks of the Paramount lot. |
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At the end of a short side-street a narrow ginnel with concrete bollards led into the surprisingly wide area in which the blocks of flats stood. |
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We eat the double greaseburger at the Elkhorn in Pagosa Springs, and then stop just a few blocks away, at the hot springs. |
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He was engaged to build the machinery for making ships' pulley blocks for the Royal Navy in the Portsmouth Block Mills. |
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The valleys break the mountains up into separate blocks, which have been described by various authors in different ways. |
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The vast majority of the population lived in the city center, packed into apartment blocks. |
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The statue is placed on a pedestal consisting of two immense blocks of gray Cornish granite. |
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John Nash eventually completed a design that saw Carlton House turned into two blocks of houses, with a space in between them. |
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Limestone is readily available and relatively easy to cut into blocks or more elaborate carving. |
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It is used as a facade on some skyscrapers, but only in thin plates for covering, rather than solid blocks. |
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Naive methods and resolute laymanship go hand in hand, both obstructions in the pursuit of truth, blocks in the road of inquiry. |
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Aircraft capabilities are being increased incrementally, with each software upgrade resulting in a different standard, known as blocks. |
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He thus concluded that atoms were divisible, and that the corpuscles were their building blocks. |
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Heaviside also reportedly started painting his fingernails pink and had granite blocks moved into his house for furniture. |
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In the stretch around Milecastle 50TW, it was built on a flat base with three to four courses of turf blocks. |
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This residence, built of brick covered with Norwegian marble, was composed of geometric blocks, wings and a tower. |
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Many deploy broad blocks of harmoniously arranged colour and are symbolic rather than narratival. |
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Before the First World War, pubs in the United Kingdom had dartboards made from solid blocks of wood, usually elm. |
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Within the central complex are subsided blocks of Triassic sandstone and marl, Jurassic shale, and even a rare example of Cretaceous chalk. |
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This involved the mass demolition of the city's infamous slums and their replacement with large suburban housing estates and tower blocks. |
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The engine was placed on blocks and reverted to its original stationary job of driving hammers. |
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Bell's own home used a primitive form of air conditioning, in which fans blew currents of air across great blocks of ice. |
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The architecture is characterized by its monumental structures, built with large stone blocks, lintels and solid columns. |
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It was also stated that it could be used to detect TVs in 'individual flats in blocks. |
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During the day, the surrounding blocks are no better, full of cheesy bars, tacky shops and brash, neon nastiness. |
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These form where sediment from the main river blocks a tributary, usually in the form of a levee. |
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On average the stone is available at depths of 1m on bed although some larger blocks are obtainable. |
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The resulting blocks of colour repeat vertically and horizontally in a distinctive pattern of squares and lines known as a sett. |
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What had been an orderly, nondrunken set of blocks became gradually disorderly, openly police-defying. |
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As glaciers flow over bedrock, they soften and lift blocks of rock into the ice. |
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Most are circular in shape because the blocks of ice that formed them were rounded as they melted. |
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A waterwheel fed by a mill race is shown powering two frame saws via a gear train cutting rectangular blocks. |
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Sometimes people living in cities with a regularly spaced street grid will speak of long blocks and short blocks. |
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On the Columbia River the Chief Joseph Dam completed in 1955 completely blocks salmon migration to the upper Columbia River system. |
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One of the blocks in the forecourt of the Castle houses the Cheshire Military Museum. |
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One of the blocks in the forecourt of Chester Castle houses the Cheshire Military Museum. |
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Filming began in January 2011 and unlike the previous series, this series' directors did not direct in blocks but in specific episodes. |
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Four new idents, filmed by Jonathan Glazer, are used to introduce programmes and feature various elements of the blocks within them. |
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A fifth ident, in which hundreds of the blocks form what appears to be a clock face, is used to introduce the Channel 4 News. |
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Retia mirabilia form blocks of tissue on the inner wall of the thoracic cavity and the body periphery. |
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It cools the burning material, acting as a heat sink, and also blocks off oxygen. |
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This sedimentation often includes very coarse debris such as huge blocks from rock falls, as well as fans of sediment from the basin wall. |
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Precast concrete saddle blocks may be used to provide lateral support and hold the pipeline down more firmly. |
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Autonomous communities are subdivided into provinces, which served as their territorial building blocks. |
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The part of the city built starting in 1624 is now often called Kvadraturen because of its orthogonal layout in regular, square blocks. |
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In 1686 a new great fire hit Strandsiden, destroying 231 city blocks and 218 boathouses. |
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The fire of 1855 west of Torgallmenningen led to the development of regularly sized city blocks in this area of the city centre. |
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Windows cracked in the cathedral of Notre Dame at Pontoise, and blocks of stone dropped ominously from the vaulting. |
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A video showed the blocks bouncing off the coral in the current, killing whatever they touched. |
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According to the European Commission, the North Sea Offshore Grid should become one of the building blocks of a future European super grid. |
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These plans involved the development of new neighbourhoods consisting of housing blocks for all social classes. |
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On the heights, seven HLM tower blocks are intended for demolition to improve social housing. |
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The light was produced by a furnace at the top and the tower was built mostly with solid blocks of limestone. |
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In this area, many subplates or crust blocks have been recognized, which form the Central Asian and the East Asian transit zones. |
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The Northumberland and Gainsborough Troughs lie to the north and south of these two blocks. |
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Thus, Evans constructed the Mars Works on a large site a few blocks north of his store in Philadelphia. |
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The ozone layer blocks ultraviolet solar radiation, permitting life on land. |
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In the basin on the eastern side of the MAR the Walvis Ridge blocks the northward passage. |
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Spreading is generally not uniform, so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different, massive transform faults occur. |
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The walls are built with basalt blocks that have been weathered and broken up and stacked without mortar. |
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It blocks the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, creating the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary. |
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The ash cloud blocks out some of the incoming solar radiation, leading to worldwide cooling that can last up to two years after an eruption. |
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Menkaure's Pyramid, likely dating to the same era, was constructed of limestone and granite blocks. |
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As the granite erodes further, blocks of eroded granite known as clitter are left. |
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The three towers proposed will stand 23 storeys high and will be surrounded by smaller apartment blocks, office blocks and shops. |
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Houses have been demolished and replaced with blocks of flats and retirement homes. |
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Stone was removed from the cliff quarries either by sea, or using horse carts to transport large blocks to Swanage. |
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Crocodiles have a palatal flap, a rigid tissue at the back of the mouth that blocks the entry of water. |
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The piercing noise of the children could be heard two blocks from the elementary school. |
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These main intersecting roads formed 108 rectangular wards with walls and four gates each, and each ward filled with multiple city blocks. |
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Silk fibroin contains hydrophobic Beta sheet blocks, interrupted by small hydrophilic groups. |
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In most Arab countries, incense is burned in the form of scented chips or blocks called bakhoor. |
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The prime Inca structures were made of stone blocks that fit together so well that a knife could not be fitted through the stonework. |
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For ease of reference, epigraphers refer to glyph blocks from left to right alphabetically, and top to bottom numerically. |
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Although hieroglyphic text may be laid out in varying manners, generally text is arranged into double columns of glyph blocks. |
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The most heavily affected district was impoverished El Chorrillo, where several blocks of apartments were completely destroyed. |
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Sequential staining is critical as Pyronin Y can also bind DNA and the prestaining of DNA with Hoechst 33342 blocks this. |
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The first settlement in what would become Lima was made up of 117 housing blocks. |
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Humans and certain other animals require vitamin C in their diets to make the building blocks for collagen. |
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This may be due to the phenomenon in which pycnogenol at high concentrations blocks the filter channels. |
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Urban politicians bought large blocks of poll tax receipts and distributed them to blacks and whites, who then voted as instructed. |
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Roads were widened and entire neighbourhoods pulled down to make room for modern housing, some of it in tower blocks. |
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Bentham had devised some machines for making blocks, but did not develop them and details of how they worked are now obscure. |
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In 1802 Marc Isambard Brunel proposed to the Admiralty a system of making blocks using machinery he had patented. |
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With these machines 10 men could produce as many blocks as 110 skilled craftsmen. |
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From what I recall, I think the library is two blocks down on the left. |
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A total of 45 machines were required to perform 22 processes on the blocks, which could be made into one of three possible sizes. |
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The machines would make markings and indentations on the blocks to ensure alignment throughout the process. |
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It is significant that Joseph Aspdin was twice prosecuted for digging up whole paving blocks from the local roads. |
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The terms also refer to personnel who use blocks to construct blockwork walls and other forms of masonry. |
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A stone mason is one who lays any combination of stones, cinder blocks, and bricks in construction of building walls and other works. |
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Brunel quickly produced an outline design of a machine that would automate the production of pulley blocks. |
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Altogether 45 machines were installed at Portsmouth, and by 1808 the plant was producing 130,000 blocks per year. |
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They can intersect at various angles, especially under the nose of a ridge, and create massive blocks or wedges of roof prone to failure. |
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He recognized that some of the road problems of the French could be avoided by using cubical stone blocks. |
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Telford kept the natural formation level and used masons to camber the upper surface of the blocks. |
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Between 1840 and 1870 about 150 workhouses with separate blocks designed for specific functions were built. |
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Considerable erosion to this path has been repaired by laying stone blocks along much of its length. |
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The more viscous lava forms tend to show sheeted flow features, and blocks or breccia entrained within the sticky lava. |
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The ashes vary in size from large blocks twenty feet or more in diameter to the minutest impalpable dust. |
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Existing joints are subsequently exploited by the action of chemical weathering carbonation to form deep grykes and rounded blocks called clints. |
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The Incas were masters of this technique, in which blocks of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. |
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Graphite blocks are also used in parts of blast furnace linings where the high thermal conductivity of the graphite is critical. |
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Where joints happen to be unusually widely spaced, core blocks can survive and escape above the weathering surface, developing into tors. |
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These stacks are vulnerable to frost action and often collapse leaving trails of blocks down the slopes called clitter or clatter. |
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Then they continued firing at the prisoners, many of whom were now struggling to get back inside the blocks. |
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In Manhattan alone, you should not be able to walk two blocks Thursday night without a shopkeep handing you a glass of Champagne. |
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In the more slaggy parts of the sheet pale yellowish natural porcelain is found both fused to blocks of basalt and as large lumps in the filling. |
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Others were off at the shops getting ice blocks or squizzing at the boats down at the wharf. |
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The upright blocks or stelas are among the most curious parts of the present ruin. |
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No food can pass through the system and a mechanical obstruction called a tappen or plug blocks the passage. |
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I don't know about you, but I don't want to grovel through a bunch of code blocks to track down a typo or thinko. |
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It blocks signals involved in both cell proliferation and angiogenesis. |
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Lemminkainen is constructing apartment blocks for the VVO Group in Helsinki and Vantaa. |
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A SIX-MONTH ban on building apartment blocks in parts of the Southern Governorate could be extended indefinitely. |
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A Sunday ECHO investigation has found a multitude of apartment blocks have not got a single recycling bin in their communal waste areas. |
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Empty are also hundreds of apartments in the numerous apartment blocks just recently put up in Skopje. |
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In view of the number of fires in apartment blocks, I am a bit paranoid about things like unattended naked flames. |
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Several buildings have collapsed in India in recent months, many of them apartment blocks in the financial capital Mumbai. |
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Such days as there was no window-dressing there was a mighty carrying and lifting of blocks and bales of goods into piles and stacks. |
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The latter, famously, built blocks of 19th-century New York on an Italian studio's backlot. |
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Cairn said it was currently running a 3-D seismic programme to survey blocks in Baffin Bay and southern Greenland. |
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He often talks about the building blocks of our stories and how we need to move them beyond lazy, webified formats. |
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Studies on link blocks have a long history and many webpage blocking or extraction methods have been proposed. |
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But the bouncer catches up with you a couple of blocks away and pops you. |
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But as the airfoil plate thickness increases above 10mm, it may be blocks the flow of the air fuel mixture. |
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To determine whether subjects also experienced any akinetic blocks or freezing of gait, we also had them complete the FOG questionnaire. |
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A wispy altostratus cloud blocks light of the setting sun as seen from the summit of Mount Pisgah. |
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Icy comets colliding produce amino acids, the building blocks of ice, potentially shedding light on how life on Earth started. |
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The researchers also found that injecting amniotic fluid with an antibody that blocks SP-A delays labor by 1 day in mice. |
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By omitting blocks of narrative time and inserting anachronous scenes, Carter also marks lost time for the region. |
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The topics include basic object commands, modifying objects, linear and angular dimensioning, dynamic blocks, and annotative objects. |
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Quarks are the building blocks of protons, neutrons, and more-exotic entities, whereas gluons are massless particles that glue together quarks. |
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The ability of lumbar medial branch blocks to anesthetize the zygapophysial joint.Low back pain and the zygapophysial joints. |
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Patients with pathological Q-wave or history of Ml, typical bundle brunch blocks and incomplete right BBB were excluded from study. |
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