That news will come as a relief to those who despaired as he took an age standing over the ball waggling the club before putting it into action! |
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She despaired at the thought of finding the several thousand dollars per year to pay for fees. |
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Tall and gangly, with a long nose and beady eyes, he was self-conscious about his appearance and despaired of ever being loved. |
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The Karen long ago despaired of any justice from the Burmese, and declared themselves autonomous. |
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Very often we were chased by an irate farmer, but we never despaired and always tried again, somewhere else. |
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There can be little doubt that she had despaired of making headway in an old-fashioned world. |
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Whoever despaired of the world, he, at least, kept the lamp of hope burning brightly in his soul. |
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He was far too young to die and I despaired that I was his only hope. |
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If you've ever despaired over the misuses and misunderstandings, and just plain apathy around punctuation these days then this book will delight you. |
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Some of us have despaired of the downward spiral of the public debate on immigration in both political parties. |
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They despaired of a country in which many residents still don't have access to basic services. |
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Many close to the process despaired, arguing that announcing an agreement reached by a small group of countries was not democratic or diplomatic. |
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Many out-of-school children were or are associated with armed groups and many, particularly girls, have despaired of ever getting an education. |
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There have been times in this long journey when I despaired that this would ever happen. |
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She described a visit there as a visit to the 15th century and despaired of anything but a steady worsening of their plight. |
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But security analysts have meanwhile despaired at the unpreparedness of India's security agencies to counter a domestic Islamist threat. |
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All these years later, the carnage continues and many of us have despaired at ever ending it. |
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Darkly pessimistic towards the end, he despaired of ever liberating art from the art world. |
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On Monday, members of the town council recreation and amenities committee despaired over the number of owners who continue to let their dogs foul public places. |
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Always outgoing and generous, he sometimes despaired of the media. |
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And she despaired of ever living up to his most urgent request: that she share her innermost feelings with him. |
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From the start, however, bin Laden's lieutenant Zawahiri despaired of Zarqawi's bloodthirstiness and his fixation on the Shiites. |
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I do believe that we must pay tribute to the Commission for not having despaired but for having reopened a necessary and useful debate. |
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It includes about 571,000 people who dropped out of the workforce last month, presumably because they despaired of finding work. |
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Many of his supporters had despaired that the regime would ever let him out. |
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The landlords despaired of this campaign because it foiled their plans to relet the evicted holding to a solvent tenant or stock the farm with their own cattle. |
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In view of the strong links between torture and enforced disappearances, this treaty brings hope to many who have despaired of the fate of their loved ones. |
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It doesn't mean that it changes immediately, but after a while it sometimes happens like this, although it can take sometimes so long that we get despaired. |
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God, himself, has never despaired of our humanity. |
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As orange trees started to show signs of infection, producers despaired, because they weren't sure of the correct procedure to follow and they faced a threat to their source of income. |
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Alberione fell gravely ill and the doctors despaired of his recovery. |
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During the period when my own country had just emerged from 50 years of Soviet-imposed backwardness, I despaired over how long it would take to build the infrastructure needed throughout Estonia. |
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They despaired of many officials who were simply corrupt, or unaware or unwilling to accept that they have a responsibility to serve their people and protect their social and economic rights. |
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From immemorial time, everything evolved, and our present was the future of our ancestors, who certainly believed that their contemporaries did not respect the past and who despaired of the future. |
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As for me, I could have decided to keep her in my family but the last time I saw her she was almost crazy from despaired and didn't allow any discussion of the matter. |
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Tories despaired at a move that saw them retoxified as the nasty party – not 24 hours after they had been defending the super-rich tax avoiders formerly known as non-doms. |
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She nearly despaired, because it was more than she had ever imagined. |
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According to Carpenter, although the earl was amply compensated, he despaired of any possibility of advancement under Richard. |
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That will reassure South Korea and Japan, which despaired that Mr Bush's negotiations sometimes allowed North Korea to drive a wedge between America and its allies. Mr Kim's belligerence has backfired in political terms too. |
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How many times in my life have I despaired, envisioning a goal that seemed far too distant and monstrously difficult, before remembering that lesson learned so long ago in the old oak tree? |
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Over the years, I have heard many stories of the hardships of Aboriginal peoples and I have despaired at the seemingly neverending cycle of poverty and suffering. |
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Returning to his house in the New Town one day in 1769, Hume, monstrously fat by then, fell into a bog and despaired of extrication until an old fishwife happened by. |
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Khosrow, a teenager in Iran, despaired of life itself. |
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His life was despaired of and when recovery began, it seemed unlikely that he would be able to undertake the heavy work of preparing for the first General Conference, then only a few months ahead. |
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