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In modern usage, an artesian well is any well in which the water level rises above the top of the confined aquifer to which the well is open.
I blinked furiously, quite fascinated by the fact she's being so open with me.
At this time, the patient is open to suggestion, and can be desensitised towards fears, phobias, pain and personal issues.
She could pour pink champagne in her CPU and I'd open it up and take a blow dryer to it without a grousing word.
Patricia LaMarche was even more open in conciliating with the Kerry campaign.
However a US government study has concluded armed terrorists could get at a nuclear cargo by using explosives to blow open the transport casks.
They cleared forests to encourage grass for particular animals, to open fields for crops, and to increase growth of particular plants.
Whatever the dangers of open fields and common pastures, enclosure movements are premature.
The great expanses of the open fields were replaced by hedges, fences, and, in upland areas, dry stone walling.
Roads will be removed or tunnelled and ploughed fields returned to open grassland.
Other situations may also exist where there is an open gap in the field due simply to the positioning of the fielders.
All of these foliage forms are planate pinnate fronds, frequently with open venation.
Slit open the belly of the fish and use your thumb and your fingers to draw out the remaining innards.
No longer will the wealthy traveler have to endure the hardships of airport concourses open to anyone able to buy a ticket.
The sternum had been split open, the innards eaten, the legs pulled inside out, and the bones picked clean, ribs snapped off at the spine.
It would open up a can of worms to make the previous strike talks look like pinochle.
Eighteen urban youths share their innermost feelings in their class's open mike poetry presentation.
It is always open to the judge or the jury, if there is a jury, to accept an interpretation of the facts consistent with innocence.
Until a week ago, their food was prepared in pots on open fires because no field kitchen was available.
He was always open to new ideas and innovations and increasingly his life became the canvas on which he plotted his art.
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It should be open to innovative ideas and must be able to deal with urban reform issues from time to time.
Since 1991, more than 300 field trials of such crops have taken place in the open environment, most over the past three years.
A rescue plan to keep Warminster Community Hospital open to inpatients is expected to be announced to staff today.
There are plans in the pipeline to open a shop in Shanghai and perhaps expand to Beijing.
The benefits of an open internet, free from clumsy regulation and inquisitive authorities, have been huge.
Up to this time the appellant's conduct in relation to the fire was not open to criticism.
Now Councillor Nigel Francis is conducting a survey among businesses in the town to gauge reaction to options open to them.
He conducted us to an open rail car attached to an ancient, rusting electric engine.
Boundary layer conductance may also be lower with a more open crown, thus further increasing transpiration.
At negative voltages the open channel conductance is higher than at the positive side.
The wise sage asked the student to pick a fig from a large tree and open it.
The lowest tier is decorated with royal heraldry and with open books, presumably once with painted inscriptions.
Their musical and personal relationship is at the same time completely open and completely inscrutable.
Beginning at the hem, cut the jeans or corduroys open along the inseam or the side seam.
But the piston restricts the amount the gate can open, so the gate is be propped open halfway by a bright orange traffic cone.
Sections of the roundabout's roads will be coned off but it will remain open to traffic.
In the long run, there is no doubt we must all open up and develop the necessary institutions which will enable us to have a fighting chance.
Education and skills training were identified during individual performance reviews, and in-service training is held weekly and open to all.
It's finished to a very high standard and one of the main features is an open plan roof with a timber inset, and a raised fireplace.
Josh tucked the flashlight back into the inside pocket of his open jacket and pulled out his set of keys.
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I open the door and walk inside, setting down Manne's shirt on the chair by the bed.
Caroline had moved to where his tent stood open, the flaps pinned back to allow easy entrance.
Though the checklist might not say it, open your aircraft's cowl flaps on short final.
The sun is shining on Alpine pistes and resorts are relying on artificial snow cannons to keep slopes open.
The plan is to let five players compete for two open starting jobs in training camp, but Claridge should have the inside track for one position.
Eleven small groups reported key points in their discussions when the conference reassembled in open session.
The curators have figuratively thrown open the doors to the tomb, let in the light, and shaken out clouds of ancient dust.
With hand tools we worked into the banks of the broad, shallow, open pits that exploited the deposit.
We launched a campaign to persuade the Government and UK Coal to keep the pits open, but it seems to have failed.
Chefs suggest pressing on the olive with your thumb firmly to split open the olive and loosen the pit.
It becomes an open diary or confessional booth, where inward thoughts are publicly aired.
That's why it's a great protection to have a good confessor or spiritual director with whom you can be open and honest.
Ours must be that first painful step of open and courageous defiance against an arrogant and insolent tyranny.
Sarah's boss sat at his large cedar desk, an open file cabinet was at its side.
From Scottish Opera to Hampden, from the schools inspectorate to the civil service, windows are being thrown open to let in the light.
This year there are seven plays on offer, four in the confined section and three in the open section.
While in the open desert the tank is king, in the confines of city streets the guerrilla fighter comes into his own.
Be sure to factor in all the plug-ins for databases, as well as open file managers.
I glanced across the office and noticed that the second drawer of her filing cabinet was open.
The sides of the pit contained open spaces where the pitman could stash small pots of oil and wedges.
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Bennett gets open because he is instinctive, makes good decisions and runs great routes.
The sale will be open to both institutional and individual investors, Great Wall said, giving no date for the proposed issue.
Once a fateful decision has been taken, an open mind becomes a luxury because any reappraisal may result in confused orders and demoralization.
He ends his book, rather confusingly, by suggesting that the existence of globalization is still open to doubt.
In other words, his life, which was open to infinite possibility, congeals into the closed shape of a Destiny.
The cafes serve up cheap food like noodles and congee with customers sitting on plastic chairs in the open air to eat it.
Ladders, tools and sharp instruments should not be left lying around in the open.
The main disadvantage of an open trial is the possibility of a placebo effect favouring antibiotics.
Just as he started the incantation of the escape spell, the door swung open.
But most cones wait patiently for a fire before they open, drop their seeds, and rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
If a bowler could figure out the combination, he could open up the safe and get the money.
Turning the dial and entering the correct combination, he pulled open the metal safe door and peered inside at the Manila folders it contained.
It must be a hidden safe, one that will only open if the right combination was dialed on the phone.
She reached her locker and casually flipped it open, using her combination lock.
The combination lock clicked open, and he shoved his schoolbooks in messily.
We called every Swindon pub listed in the phone book and most are planning to stay open an extra hour or two at weekends and special occasions.
When the time comes, settle yourself in front of the area, light the candle, and open the bottle of perfume or light the incense.
Incensed with her forever indulging sister, Maggie zealously knocked on room 305, hoping Olivia would open the door.
The bill seeks to offer incentives for farmers to open their land for hunting.
Holding open the prospect of incestuous marriage would devastate family life by, effectively, legitimizing sexual predation within it.
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The Velcro fastenings on my wallet made their characteristic ripping sound as I pulled it open.
If the plug enlarges and is on the surface of the skin, exposed to the air, it is called an open comedo, or blackhead.
The cut wall of the bowel heals to the edges of the surgical incision, which is thus kept open.
The administration says it is open to changes so long as the legislation is put on a fast track.
Fat camps should be open to the widest range of youngsters as possible, and must be affordable to everyone.
The open space around the blocks of flats was divided into semi-private areas that were enclosed with railings and gates.
As England's open grasslands began to be cultivated and enclosed by farmers, even birds which escaped the hunters gradually died away.
The burgesses, however, refused to enclose the surrounding open fields, and overcrowding became desperate.
In the middle Iron Age, open settlement was superseded by a large enclosure surrounded by a 6m-wide ditch, with an associated field system.
Because we've become such an open society, people are more comfortable expressing their heritage.
She hugged her pillow and snuggled under the warm comforter, but the sound of running water pried her eyes open again.
The bath is open all day, making it possible for me to go swimming with a disability, not inconveniencing others.
Before working on any faucet turn the water off and open the lines to drain into the sink.
The press just gaped with their jaws open and tongue hanging out in utter incredulity.
The latter, while famously devoted to the Eucharist, was relatively indifferent to liturgical matters and surprisingly open to inculturation.
This phraseology is open to numerous interpretations, and hopefully the yet-to-be published regulations will provide assistance to employers.
I am highly indebted to more than 150 young students who have given me honest and open account of their life.
In the early 1850s, the photographic medium was new, open, and free from commercialization.
Some legume pods, such as carob and mesquite, are indehiscent and do not split open.
The fair will be on till August 17, and open on all days, including Sundays and the Independence Day.
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We berate those who cross the line and leave the immature and underdeveloped open to the physical abuse of contact and collision sports.
In such proceedings, the prisoner may challenge the lawfulness of his committal to prison on any ground open to him.
He had lived so long in the open air, and led so active a life, imprisonment was telling fearfully upon his strong frame.
Today, some restingas still suffer man-made impact through fire or cattle, but even apparently pristine areas display an open physiognomy.
One thing he's learned is that common weeds can treat everything from stomach aches to open wounds.
If you open up the commons for everyone to graze their sheep, one person is going to go get their whole flock.
It will be designed to protect its amenities and preserve its open nature as a public common.
Fisheries and common land grazing are overexploited because they are either common property, or open access, owned by all.
The building is situated next to the legislature and very close to a bushy open commonage, where various species of snakes have found a haven.
Her mother stood next to an open doorway and sobbed yesterday as the undertakers brought down her common-law husband's body.
An exchange of land was agreed and outline planning consent was granted in March 1962 for two towers facing on to an open piazza.
We will work to define and achieve a wireless commons built using open spectrum, and able to connect people everywhere.
Their liaison takes place, strangely and indiscreetly, on a bed in a vast open gallery.
I can categorically state that we did not indiscriminately open fire, he said.
She tried to pull it open even though she knew that there was no way it was going to come open by her feeble strength.
This extensive effort to keep communications lines open is one thing that is a major difference from the storms that happened earlier this year.
At the moment, Smart is being open and communicative, signs that she has coped well.
Sure enough, underneath the grill inside the restaurant, sacks of mesquite charcoal stand ready to feed the open fire.
On the prepack line, a roll of pouches is fed into the filling machine, which blows each pouch open with a puff of air.
Windows open to an effusive flower garden, which is divided into quadrants by brick paths and enclosed with a white picket fence.
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He then turned away to pick a dusty old book off of his shelf and open it indolently.
Clearly, the table indicates that open admissions continues to be a central function of the community college.
Cooking and heating with such solid fuels on open fires or stoves without chimneys leads to indoor air pollution.
The albacore is a fish of the seven seas, but is most abundant in the open waters of the Indo-Pacific, and in the Atlantic.
It sat in an open glade along with two other vehicles, a red pickup and a blue sedan.
However, luckily for May, it seems possible profit was inducement enough to persuade them to open the door.
There is easy access to companionways and cabins, with open hatches and large windows to swim through.
Belborough had been forced to open Winkstead Hall to the fee-paying public.
How you actually achieve such a company-wide customer focus is open to question.
The institutional investors get the shares at a comparably low price, the value of which pops upward once the shares hit the open market.
What they need instead is an open marketplace in which to compete using their comparative advantage.
Brussels wants the projects to open up new sites for businesses such as industrial parks and to produce innovative and competitive enterprises.
Their front canine teeth are large and feline, perfect for grasping prey and slashing it open.
Consecutive governments have insisted on a completely inept policy of open immigration.
They usually become more open, understanding, compassionate and reasonable.
Its purpose is fellowship and fun and, as with the youth club, is open to all young people of post-primary school age.
This, in a real sense, is not open to the applicant because what she seeks is not compensable in monetary terms.
From television pictures, I note that his body was found in an open area a few feet away from a heavily wooded area.
A large open fireplace with a marble surround is the focal point of this room, which also features a picture rail and dado rail.
The first of these has a large living area to the front with timber wall panelling, a picture rail and an open fireplace.
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The black and white art greatly contrasts with the open and expressive looks of Sana and the inexpressive looks of Hayama.
People are open to the greatest health risks during infancy and early childhood, and in Egypt and Nubia there was a high infant mortality rate.
There is currently an open invitation for composers to write pieces for the bells.
Nor is it open to the court to infer dishonesty from facts which have been pleaded but are consistent with honesty.
Concrete piers support open space above the base, making the top seven stories seem to float.
However, as I like being in the open, later on I return to the stern, which was the only place to escape the piercing wind.
Our landlord had neglected to provide screens, and I was unable to open the windows, lest flies infest the house.
But, over time, this control diminished, spurring the conflict between the old and new leadership out into the open.
But intense pressure for instant e-business success has led many companies to open their doors before the paint's dry.
The open pores of walnut must be filled before a final finish is applied and traditionally, applying commercial wood filler was customary.
How about putting a taste of open and honest debate about everything on the menu instead?
While QAS was open to new technologies, he encouraged classical methods such as pixilation, claymation and paint on glass.
The open sores had been festering unnoticed and to this, he applied some poultices.
Your stance should be open, and you should play the ball off your left instep.
Principal Curtis' mouth promptly dropped open, exposing his silver fillings.
I must be open about the fact that I am relying heavily here on motifs that loom large in my own tradition of Calvinist pietism.
However, Galileo avoided open speculation about its possible infiniteness, as that question had been used to persecute Giordano Bruno.
Half an hour later I managed to force my eyes open to comply with his request.
My German Shepherd got up the duff with the big, brutal pig dog from over the paddocks due to the ex leaving the gate open.
I heard similar comments as I waited in the long line for the complimentary drinks when it did open.
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Whether these measures or a general economic downturn helped ease inflationary pressures in the housing market is open to argument.
As if on cue, her bedroom door burst open and Jeremy, the stubborn pig-headed nurse strode in, followed by the rest of his crew.
The open circles indicate variation of pigmentation inside the phenotypic class.
William was informally dressed, the collar of his shirt was open, and he had a brandy glass in his hand.
The sunlight dripped through the open window, casting its golden rays over the pigsty.
Chusovitina's full-twisting front somersault vault in open pike position earned her first place on that event.
In effect, there's no need to think of the world as an informationally open system.
The twelve-panel front door is surmounted with a transom window and framed by fluted pilasters supporting an open pediment.
This summer it was compressed into cakes which were also stored in the open.
If we open up for this infrangibly flowing, divine light energy nothing but good will come to us.
Galleries flank the terrace, and on festal days in summer the whole can be thrown open for large receptions.
Where open wounds festered, the flies were so thick as to make the wound seem to be a writhing metallic black mass.
Can the Metropolitan Opera open a new season festively and still make an artistic statement?
Evan flagged down a taxi and held the side door open while Alex took a look around them at the festively lighted streets.
A variety of applications to extremal combinatorics and computational complexity are discussed, in addition to a number of open problems.
The worm attempts to copy itself to the Windows folder on networked computers with open shared drives.
But what he might have made of the long-term consequences of his victory over Comstockery is open to question.
Perhaps when it gets colder we will once more open the door to the central heating with its elusive pilot light and give it all another shot.
The bitter disagreements and feuds within the British establishment surrounding the vexed issue of foreign policy are seeping out into the open.
He tore open the package and produced the inhaler, a device he would get very used to in the coming years.
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It is an open area where the concentration of shops means that people congregate.
Danni's eyes fluttered open and she saw Kevin's blue eyes full of concern and worry.
The network host tweeted her disgust at the open victim blaming and concern trolling by her male colleague.
Classically trained Amos plays her personal 9-foot Bosendorfer concert grand with its lid open on the tall stick.
They pulled open the warped wooden door and stepped into the inky dark of the carousel.
Dusk was past, a heavy overcast blocked the starlight, and outside of the incandescent glow that spilled from the open door, the darkness was complete.
Landscape designers Diana Stratton and Brian Columbia removed the fence to open up views, then created terraces supported by retaining walls of local fieldstone.
The maintenance team failed to follow proper procedures outlined in the loading manual, which required them to open the filler cap and to visually check the fuel level.
Brazil made some news last week for its strong support of open source software as a way of helping to inexpensively push computer literacy throughout the country.
I am open to so much more communion with the Lord and Lady this way.
She held open the picket fence for Jack and she took his arm.
Endless pitchers of beer are slopping at us like the tap is stuck open.
In 1979 he successfully piloted the same helicopter on an open sea rescue mission in gale force winds, for which he was awarded the Air Force Cross for his skill and bravery.
The deputy mayor added that there will be games, including a tug-o-war on the beach, eating contests and numerous other events open to residents and tourists.
On the other hand, bronchodilator inhalers that open congested airways are a big part of asthma treatment, though they aren't used to treat allergies.
The buds are picked before they start to open, and pickled in vinegar.
Soon enough, that road came to an end and I turned right onto a long, straight road heading out towards the open fenland, running parallel with my normal outward route.
The decision came despite fierce opposition from local people, hundreds of whom signed petitions and wrote letters to the company demanding the counter remain open.
This was a perfectly nice Polish neighborhood before you guys decided to move in, open up your hip bars, and generally make the area more inhabitable for the Yuppies.
Is the user expected to open the files irregardless of warnings?
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An initial inquest on the island returned a verdict of accidental death but a second inquest held at Bromley Magistrates' Court recorded an open verdict.
When you feel comfortable on one foot with your eyes open, close them.
Yesterday an explosion ripped open an oil pipeline north west of Kirkuk.
In the summer, the most popular forms of relaxation are trips to the beach and picnics in the countryside, where they roast meat and vegetables over open fires.
In a gliding dive inclined at an angle to the horizontal the bird must keep the wings partly open to provide the lift needed to maintain a constant glide angle.
He strung it up by its ankles from the branch of a pine tree, placed a five gallon pickle bucket under its snout, and deftly sliced open its jugular veins.
Black diamonds outlined by stringing and a cross-banded mahogany-veneer border highlight the doors, which open to reveal additional pigeonholes and drawers.
Highly inflammable methane gas, pumped out harmlessly when mines were open, is building up in abandoned shafts and posing a potential threat to people living on the surface.
We are in furious agreement that it is a full fee simple, but what price would it fetch on the open market and what terms must one attribute to the hypothetical sale?
Each enclosure had three walls and was open on the forest side.
From Philadelphia to San Diego, new construction brought us open concourses, more leg room, luxury boxes, video scoreboards, retractable roofs and higher taxes.
The competition is open to those aged 16 to 24 and has categories for light and classical Hindustani and Carnatic vocal, instrumental and devotional music.
The vast majority of tourists enjoyed Shenandoah National Park through the Skyline Drive, campgrounds, comfort stations, scenic vistas, and open grasslands.
If some of the photography on view is open to the charge of being photojournalism rather than art, the work of Jeff Wall clearly stands apart from reportage.
She worked to the eighth month and it tricked her into thinking she was in control, that she could open and shut the drawers of the different compartments of her life at will.
Now two companies have introduced nanomachining systems they say will open up the ability to deal with tiny technologies like quantum dots and photomasks for lithography.
He raises an inquiring eyebrow as I stab a series of winking buttons in the armrests, attempting to raise shields, open a channel or simply fire some phasers.
The park is open year-round, with activities that include self-guided hiking, interpretive tours, picnicking, canoeing, fishing and wildlife watching.
We turn kitchen scraps into our open compost pile to discourage creatures.
The environment of this particular limestone during the Pliocene was shallow open marine and was probably near a point where constant influxes from a river were common.
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Because we were in the open without any facilities around, the detainees were temporarily being held on a patch of desert closed off by concertina wire.
I'm referring to the actual members of the local congregations, fellowships and brotherhoods that open their hearts and wallets regularly for their faith.
An open public meeting was held in the Community Centre on Saturday night and this was followed by closed meetings of both fellowships on Sunday morning.
My car was concertinaed and the doors wouldn't open, so I wound the window down and jumped out while there were still cars skidding and coming to a standstill.
Early pictorial representation, using graphic symbols, reads both horizontally along register lines and vertically in an open field in the picture surface.
But, welcome though the decision to keep it open is, ministers have not made it more affordable or committed the extra resources required by their decision.
He admitted all the charges and district judge Simon Cooper committed him to the Crown Court for sentencing, warning that all options, including custody, were open.
The negative attitude towards chatting is generally characteristic of older informants while teen informants were generally more open to chatting.
He was pictured as a leopard skin-clad dwarf with a huge head, prominent eyes and cheeks, a curly beard and an open mouth with his tongue sticking out.
It features great ski touring, with a scenic 44 kilometer trail system that runs along Lake Itasca and nearby Mary Lake, through piney woods and open meadows.
The rest of the furniture included a commode, two small pairs of open china cabinets, eight fretwork armchairs, four side chairs, and a pier glass.
He realized that they were coming from his bathroom and he opened the door slowly to see that the window was open and there was a big, black feather on the floor.
The piney woods open up to a sort of prairie, and then I am almost there.
The council is responsible for maintaining more than 100 parks, open spaces, commons and woodlands which attract around five million visitors a year.
Miller was tacitly in favour of the open landscape, if his vivid and often sentimental descriptions of the surrounding open fields, commons and wastes are anything to go by.
My mouth was hanging open when I saw your avatar, that ink is amazing!
Luckily it still was open and I proceeded to enjoy a very filling dinner.
At the balloon stage of flowering, petals were peeled away and the swollen anthers were removed from the filaments by rubbing the open flower on wire mesh.
A compromised immune system leaves the door wide open for disease.
If your lunge is powerful, the game of fencing will open itself up to you.
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Acting Sergeant Paul Evans from Skipton Police said that residents needed to be mindful about leaving their doors and windows open or insecure in the warm weather.
The rear piazza is inset between small rooms which flank and open onto it.
But I think it would be for the best that we wait until she is confined in a jail cell, it may be too hard to keep her under control in the open like this.
The tank in front moved forward and engaged the convoy in the open area.
Some journalists popped into Alexander during the opening night's kick-off party, taking pictures indiscriminately, frightening some of the less open guests.
It was no use to undertake to try conclusions with the foe in open fight.
There was nothing more intimate and secluded than that celebration in the midst of an open field, a simple place within which people communed with grace.
As my parents warned, you couldn't indiscriminately open the packaging.
The cloth flaps were open, invitingly, yet forebodingly, as well.
Also in London, Italian architect Renzo Piano breaks open the normally closed body of the tower, with surface planes that pinwheel out from the body into turning facets.

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