Scientists soon realized that the water strider's hydrophobic legs and undersides, coupled with its small size, are what keep it from drowning. |
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They said the intent is not to use that as an opening for possible use of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. |
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The manual explicitly prohibits threats, coercion, physical abuse, and waterboarding, which creates the sensation of drowning. |
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But the voices lifted, and hands gestured for me to start, drowning out my own movements. |
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Every once in a while, a rat-a-tat of heavy rain would pelt the windows, drowning out the demanding drone of wind. |
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She was wobbly from her near drowning, but managed to stand after a few attempts. |
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Rae snarled wordlessly and kick-started the bike, the engine noise drowning out her rantings. |
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The changes are simply a stopgap measure to prop up a program drowning in red ink. |
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She was awkward as all get out, relentlessly drowning in unimportant details and entranced by the most ordinary of things. |
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When a mother yapok dives underwater, her baby is saved from drowning by a waterproof pouch. |
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Equally at home in water or on land, the Newfoundland was large enough to pull in a drowning man or to break the ice to retrieve him. |
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What makes people risk their lives to rescue someone trapped in a burning house or drowning in a river? |
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Al snatched at a fleeting memory like a drowning sailor grabbing a lifeline. |
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There are situations so serious that the rescue of the drowning person cannot be accomplished with a rope, a life preserver, or a boat. |
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Combined efforts by lifesavers helped save a British tourist from drowning at Nielson Park on Wednesday. |
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A life vest, such as this one, can reduce the risk of drowning in a boating related incident by 85 percent. |
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Last November, 400 villagers were at risk of drowning as the waters rose around them. |
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The film has an austere and bittersweet beauty, but this could easily be interpreted as excessive, like drowning in rivers of despair. |
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We're drowning under vast quantities of ropey information, and none the wiser for the experience. |
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In old times it used to be given as an injection for such conditions as cerebral concussion and asphyxia from drowning. |
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Her ears were assaulted with the sounds of chattering guests and tinkling glasses, practically drowning out the background music. |
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When given the choice between swimming or drowning, choose swimming every time. |
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My spinach, bacon and egg salad was delicious with just enough dressing to make it glisten without drowning it. |
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But some think the story of a drowning marsh and a heart-warmingly functional Mormon family is too tame. |
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My thoughts cling to the tangible memory of you and your every little gesture and movement like a drowning person clings to their saviour. |
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Mr Goldsmith suffered loss by the drowning of fourteen ewe tegs, and Mr Jones by the drowning of eight little pigs. |
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The big sounds of Brahms go out in smudges, the pedals drowning them in an effort to be loud and large. |
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A less media-savvy organisation might have sat back and waited for the lurid headlines of a nation drowning in borrowing to be written. |
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An Oxford medical student has described his desperate efforts to rescue a drowning man from the River Thames. |
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I'm sitting here almost in tears, drowning in a sad mixture of melancholy, confusion, hopelessness, and self-pity. |
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I highly recommend putting some nut butter on top of your oatmeal and drowning in the melty deliciousness of it. |
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General Vandamme was heard to shout that they would be masters at Tombigbee and menaced them with his sword and the threat of drowning. |
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It would seem impossible to do this without drowning in sentiment, or exaggerating a delight in Beverly Hills excess. |
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There have even been a few documented cases of dolphins supporting drowning swimmers to shallow water. |
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His hair had been shaved off but his eyebrows were black, or dark brown and his eyes a deep, drowning blue. |
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Emotions ran high in packed taverns and shebeens with some fans literally drowning their sorrows to get over the disappointment. |
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Royal Navy minehunter HMS Berkeley saved two men from drowning when their fishing boat began to sink in waters off Torbay. |
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It was only last month that his mood got black enough to merit drowning himself in spirits again. |
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Sets of fans from either side are roaring on their team, the tumultuous noise drowning out the chill. |
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The sight of Midge shot blood to every corner of his being, drowning his pain further with each heartbeat. |
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This is perfect for business trips or for drowning out the monotonous sound of that copier next to your cube. |
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I mean, a nuclear attack would suck big time, but honestly, why is my dog obsessed with practically drowning me with his slobber? |
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By the sound of it, Hylands will be drowning in paperwork for the next two years. |
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I passed plunging gorges, streams in spate, riverbanks ripped open, fields flooded, a brown soup drowning the track. |
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They crowded around the counter drowning themselves in glass after shot glass of viscous liquid. |
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They claimed that the hammerkop would make the rain stop to prevent itself from drowning. |
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And those animals were caught, and as the elephant was drowning, the decision was made to destroy the elephant and also the hippopotamus. |
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As her hand almost touched the pile, a sharp hiss filled the air, drowning out all other sounds. |
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I heard no drowning of dialogue under the effects of music, and overall there was no hiss or distortion. |
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We are drowning in floods of consumer goods and are drenched in showers of media images. |
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A person who is drowning doesn't care at all if the person throwing a lifeline is wearing a clerical collar. |
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Her eyes, her beautiful coal-black eyes, were drowning in their own tears, her raven-black hair flying behind her as she came closer and closer. |
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Jumbo shrimp served on a bed of crushed ice and drowning in a spicy cocktail sauce was our first course. |
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A drowning sensation began to come over me, purely as a result of the way my throat began choking up, and my eyes became glazed over with liquid. |
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An officer who plunged into the surf to save a drowning sailor has been awarded a commendation for his bravery. |
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While the floods are drowning crops and livestock, and damaging property, they are also fertilising the soil in the form of silt. |
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For fifty hypnotic minutes, we immersed ourselves in noise, drowning out even our very innermost thoughts. |
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Sunday's 9.0 magnitude megaquake under the Indian Ocean shot concussions of water on to coastlines from Indonesia to Somalia, drowning thousands. |
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She should be at the bakery, serving finicky customers and drowning in flour. |
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But the torrent of brown water, which was already flattening buildings, wiped out the jeep, drowning her grandchildren. |
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Isabelle is Bertolucci's confused coquette, the question mark drowning in repressed opprobrium. |
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Howard's mind clung to her voice as a drowning man clings to a piece of flotsam from a ship-wreck. |
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Suddenly, the black shadow burst into coruscant life, amethyst shields erupting into shimmering life, drowning the blue radiance. |
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Deaths by unintentional violence were those by accidental means, such as drowning and aircraft crashes. |
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He nodded, drowning a French fry in ketchup before sliding it into his mouth. |
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While the young drifter proves he's not so heartless when he saves one of the kids from drowning, he is certainly not above cuckolding Les. |
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But for aphids living inside plant galls, the risk of getting stuck or even drowning in their own sticky waste is quite real. |
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Now I try to ride the crest of the wave more, but I got a lot out of almost drowning a few times. |
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A bath had been drawn so I could cleanse myself of the dirt of traveling, which I gratefully did, drowning in the aroma of mint. |
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A generation ago, by far and away the most common cause of death among Eskimo men was drowning. |
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Police are calling time on pub-crawling youngsters out celebrating the results of their GCSEs or drowning their sorrows. |
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Amazingly I managed to avoid stepping in any really deep puddles and drowning. |
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Metal decking grids rang under his feet when he stepped from the lift, drowning the hum as the door closed. |
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At least 29 people were reported to have died from drowning, electrocution or disease. |
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They sang in discord, their disharmony drowning out the sobbing, travelling to the ears of those who lingered in the church's car park. |
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They upset one woman because they had made her fear a dreadful death through drowning. |
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Perhaps breathing in the water and drowning quicker would be the better choice, for she would be put out of her misery. |
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Last November, 400 villagers risked drowning as the waters rose around them. |
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Buried under tons of rock, drowning in water, losing air, all they had left was the will to survive. |
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He took a deep breath, then let it out slowly, forcing all thoughts of boats, water, and drowning to leave his mind. |
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Parents should not feel that their child is safe in water or safe from drowning after participation in such programs. |
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Police and firefighters saved a motorist from drowning after his car left the road and plunged into a water-filled ditch yesterday. |
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And leaving a fish to die in an empty bucket was like drowning a kitten in a bucket of water. |
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They were calling for the killing to start immediately, by drowning the sheep if necessary. |
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As for the shooting war, some military commentators have compared its ease to drowning puppies. |
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He had been jailed for life at York 10 years before, for drowning his wife in the bath at their home in Beverley. |
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First, it is an ecological area and the member needs to decide whether he thinks drowning ecological areas is a plausible idea. |
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Police are today warning landlords to be on the lookout for under-age drinkers celebrating their exam success or drowning their sorrows. |
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Mortgage borrowers will be celebrating a cut in home loan bills from next month, but savers may be drowning their sorrows. |
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Whereas once we were drowning our sorrows in Kilburn, now we're celebrating our shiny new jobs at Intel. |
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Oulson can be heard gurgling, gasping, his lungs crackling, the sounds of someone drowning in his own blood. |
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While traveling west with his family on a flatboat in 1817, he noticed through the cracks in the deck the arm of a child who was drowning beneath the raft. |
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Because too often, YouTube fame is as fleeting as a thirty-second video of a pig saving a goat from drowning. |
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The circumstantial evidence all pointed towards cold as the precursor to death, but despite this the official inquiry gave drowning as the cause of death in every case. |
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The further I sunk into that hole, the deeper I went into my dreamworld, until I felt as if I was suffocating, maybe drowning, and I tried to wake myself. |
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As a young man he lived briefly in a homeless shelter and learned to view a steady paycheck the same way that a drowning man might view a lifeline. |
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The death of most of these turtles is due to drowning in trawl nets. |
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Still, it seeps in like water and before you know it you are drowning. |
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Set in a Glasgow slum 30 years ago during the binmen's strike, Ratcatcher focuses on the aftermath of a drowning in a canal and its effect on a 12-year-old boy. |
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This was our friend for the evening, the forlorn type who watches television with a thousand-yard stare, the rustling of his cagoule drowning out the voices in his head. |
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Most of today's estuaries formed because the sea level has slowly risen during the last 18,000 years, drowning river valleys and filling in glacial troughs. |
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This excess floatation capacity may allow the insects to bounce on water surfaces, much like a rubber ball on a cement sidewalk, to avoid drowning during a downpour. |
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These dogs specialize in structural collapses and drowning victims. |
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If saving human lives is the great desideratum, then there is more to be gained by prevention of drowning and auto wrecks than by the abolition of war. |
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I never imagined I would be laying here, with the scent of incense and jasmine filling my nose, lying this close to anyone, nearly drowning in them. |
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Like helpless bods clinging to a leaky wreck somewhere between Indonesia and Australia, we were willing to grasp any straw floating past, as drowning people are wont to do. |
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I had conquered my fear of drowning very early in my childhood by recklessly throwing myself into the deep end of a pool and being dragged out unconscious. |
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They want to hear, even as smaller artists are just dying to be heard, drowning in the streams. |
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Dr. Neal is a spine surgeon who made a trip to heaven while drowning in a kayak accident in South America. |
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The technique, which is said to simulate drowning, has been considered a war crime in the past. |
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You'll be glad to know that the story has a happy ending, with only several thousand Londoners drowning horribly in the rising floodwaters as a surge tide invades the capital. |
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The trip was uneventful as he was used to the drowning sounds of the crowd, the beeping horns of vehicles and cell-phones, to the suffocating smoggy air. |
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Each plaque tells the story of a life lost to selfless civilian valour, be it by drowning, through fire or as a result of some obscure industrial accident. |
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There was no drowning of sorrows, just a drink to the future. |
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Here the texture is comprised of rushing chromatic sextuplets in the strings, an approach which is strongly reminiscent of the drowning music heard in Act 3 of Wozzeck. |
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Yet if he were to die tomorrow in a jeep accident, drowning in ditch water as Mike did, it would be fundamentally indecent and mean-spirited of me to sketch such a portrait. |
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Striking firemen left their picket line to save a drowning horse. |
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At the age of seventeen, Whitehurst jumped in a lake to save a man from drowning. |
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But Arctic Bay residents have received little help and support in advancing their proposal, and their aspirations are now drowning in bureaucratic inertia. |
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A quick thinking Samaritan jumped over the wall and threw the drowning man a lifebuoy but he was unable to hold on due to the strong waves and cold water. |
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Their nostrils, one should understand, must be tightly clipped to avoid accidental drowning and since they surface only briefly they must perforce gulp air. |
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Heather has coped with a genetic disorder which thickens and hardens her bones and Tom gained his award for rescuing his toddler sister from drowning. |
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At night, he would crawl to the riverbank to keep from drowning in his sleep. |
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This notion has undoubtedly partly arisen because of Doctor Johnson's famous observation that going to sea was akin to being in prison, with the added danger of drowning. |
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Killing a large whale is too dangerous for the calf, but as a spectator, it picks up lethal techniques like ramming, drowning, and biting the prey. |
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It appears to be a case of thermotropism, where the flower buds sense the cold downdraft of a thunderstorm and constrict before the drowning rain arrives. |
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But he added that the same lack of findings meant he also could not rule out other possibilities, such as strangulation, sexual assault or deliberate drowning. |
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On a cold January night, he decided to end it all by drowning himself. |
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It's mothers drowning their kids and husbands shooting their wives. |
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Not long after, Gerasim finds a young puppy drowning in a muddy creek. |
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The drowning of river valleys along a stretch of coast and formation of rias results in an extremely irregular and indented coastline. |
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The web-footed hound can now take life rings out to drowning people, pull boats in to shore and drag a boat full of up to seven people. |
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California died in 1997 while rescuing his son from drowning in Hawaii. |
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Somatically immersed in water in her own bathtub, she plays out the role of Ophelia's madness and drowning in her imagination. |
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Drunken duvet day Woolpack to take her mind off things where she finds a morose Adam also drowning his sorrows. |
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Many will abhor the noisy fashion in which he went about his business, drowning out daily life with chants from his loud hailer. |
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A MYSTERY surfer has been hailed a hero after saving two teenagers from drowning in chilly waters. |
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Not really waving, you see, but drowning, as the figure in the beaver coat scissor-strode away in clackety peerie heels. |
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These are sordid customs of dying Western culture which we are embracing and drowning in howls and shouts brazen facedly. |
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Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness. |
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Thirty thousand Frenchmen were vomited on to our shores, drowning the throne of liberty in waves of blood. |
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Thus, failing to rescue a drowning child counts as a harmful act, as does failing to pay taxes, or failing to appear as a witness in court. |
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He who saves a fellow creature from drowning does what is morally right, whether his motive be duty, or the hope of being paid for his trouble. |
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Eight men were saved from drowning by rowing boats positioned in the river under the working areas. |
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After the death by drowning of ten children and adults it was filled in by using it as a rubbish tip. |
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Eventually, they separate the pair and surround the calf, preventing it from surfacing to breathe, drowning it. |
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In the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous a sea level rise led to the complete drowning of Scania. |
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The pelican, formerly a black bird, made a canoe during a flood in order to save drowning people. |
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Water quickly rushed through the defeated cruiser, eventually drowning her boilers and forcing her down by the stern to the bottom. |
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On every voyage a sailor would face the risk of falling overboard and drowning, starvation, disease, abuse, accidents in the rigging, and attack. |
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The sea brought additional isolation by rising rapidly and drowning the entire coast. |
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Wanda however committed suicide, drowning in the Vistula river, to ensure he would not invade her country again. |
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On the voyage the Flor De La Mar was wrecked in a storm, and Afonso barely escaped drowning. |
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His army crushed the weak defenses of Zutphen and put nearly every man in town to death, hanging some by the feet while drowning 500 others. |
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Reports suggest that some of the missing might have been murdered en masse by drowning in the White Sea. |
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There was the occasion when two islanders in their fishing boat encountered a great skua holding down and drowning an eider duck. |
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Most of the eleven tunes on Songs are absolutely drowning in effects. |
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By now near to drowning in complicity and subjection, I obeyed. |
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Under attack by Japanese fighters, he orders the vessel to crash-dive while the commander is still on deck, drowning him in the process. |
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It was a feeling of drowning within the incomprehensibleness of what the diagnosis meant. |
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I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life. |
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The lairiest, and oldest, among them returned the oaths, his slurred voice drowning out the noise of the main road's heavy traffic. |
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A report from Dr Faraj Smew said Mr Garner had suffered from recent depression, and that his death was due to drowning. |
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I wind up driving into a lagoon of some kind and presumably drowning. |
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It is a great chance to review roles and responsibilities by discussing what-if scenarios, like a fall at a climbing site or a whitewater kayaking drowning. |
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We heard the drowning woman's cries for help and ran to assist. |
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Because of their intelligence, they rescued multiple people from drowning. |
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The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention. |
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After the liner Lusitania was sunk in May 1915, drowning over 100 American passengers, protests by the United States led Germany to abandon unrestricted submarine warfare. |
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This product prevents drowning and disembowelment due to suction drains. |
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Because of the eventual English victory at sea, the Army of Flanders escaped the drowning death Justinus and his men had in mind for them, ready to fight another day. |
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Following the gales it is reckoned that 5,000 men died, by drowning, starvation and slaughter at the hands of English forces after they were driven ashore in Ireland. |
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I am keen to raise as much awareness about secondary drowning as possible. |
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Among other atrocities, he had instituted a new version of republican marriage, which involved tying a naked man and woman together and drowning them. |
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They have claimed such people are at risk of potentially fatal secondary drowning and are calling for warning signs to be put up at the spot to prevent further incidents. |
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We gave him thermal blankets and the rescue team at the scene believed he needed to go to hospital in case of secondary drowning which can happen in seawater incidents. |
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A further 825 patients had sustained an array of injuries, which included mainly burns, sjambok injuries, genital injuries, near drowning and poisoning. |
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However, both left and right deserve blame for infantilizing political discourse, undermining serious debate and drowning out reasoned conversation. |
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Toulmin grieved over the drowning death of his daughter Jane. |
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This prevents the baby from drowning either upon or during delivery. |
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Unusually, the territory has one of the highest drowning mortality rates in the world being higher than other high risk countries such as China and India. |
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It is hard to read this book without drowning in it, because Farrier is so fervent in devising a political phenomenology to expose the aporia of legal sovereignty. |
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Most of the crews were rescued by nearby vessels, but some perished, either drowning in their attempt to reach shore or dying of cold, hunger, or illness. |
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Other anthropogenic causes of death include drowning in fishing gear. |
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A dolphin rescued the poet Arion from drowning and carried him safe to land, at Cape Matapan, a promontory forming the southernmost point of the Peloponnesus. |
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Some Spaniards lost their lives by drowning, loaded down with gold. |
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The White Ship disaster initiated fresh conflict in Wales, where the drowning of Richard, Earl of Chester, encouraged a rebellion led by Maredudd ap Bleddyn. |
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