He sounded matter-of-fact when he told us good news and somehow sounded very convincing when he came out with the not so good news as well. |
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In a conversational style, Dale Carnegie offers practical advice and techniques on how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. |
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No one is proposing to make bombs out of the small amount of plutonium produced. |
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Daniel, whom Alicia had made out to be such an entertaining conversationalist, had been silenced by the scope of William's achievements. |
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Each year we have them out in front of the house and it is a conversation piece. |
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They were, as usual, conversing loudly, but I somehow managed to drown them out in my sleep. |
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He picks up a throw 30 yards out, spins sharply, and hits a fizzer narrowly wide. |
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People associated with the tourist trade say that the tourist boom has fizzled out and occupancy rate has fallen to eight to ten per cent. |
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But Scotland's hopes of mounting a meaningful revival and posting a challenging target fizzled out when they lost four more quick wickets. |
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During the final half-hour, it fizzled out as a contest, neither side able to break the deadlock. |
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Only two more scores were to be had in the remaining 30 minutes, as all life fizzled out beneath a haze of rain and the glaring floodlights. |
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Following a meeting with threats to withhold council tax payments, the protest fizzled out in the face of an uncompromising council. |
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A golfing boom in one of Europe's richest countries has fizzled out, with half the newly-built Swiss golf clubs crying out for members. |
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However, those protests lacked co-ordination and, once their leaders were arrested, quickly fizzled out. |
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The two sides remain sharply polarised, and periodic attempts to bridge the wide gulf between them have fizzled out. |
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Let's assume that our team has the responsibility to build out a Web service supporting currency conversion. |
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Me and my dad and my buddy Phil all work out together, doing plyometrics, running, weights, stuff like that, just staying in shape. |
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But the grand ambition to shed festive season flab is likely to be quietly ditched by two-thirds of people before winter is out. |
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I hated how I looked so I spent the summer working out and doing everything I could do get rid of my baby fat and flab. |
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Sea cucumbers, invertebrate animals of the phylum Echinodermata, might hold out some hope for the afflicted. |
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Our idea is to take the output through the inverter to a storage battery and out to a pair of hub motors. |
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Watch out for other words that are used to describe added sugar, such as sucrose, glucose, fructose, hydrolysed starch and invert sugar. |
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In 1910, the pensioners were moved out of London to the country and the building was converted into a museum. |
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Anyone investigating me could find out that my immediate boss was named Jill. |
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The club would like to thank all those who helped out and contributed to the recent flag day. |
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The site is laid out with mature shrubs, trees, and lawn, while there is also a flagged patio at the front and the side of the house. |
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Two other major investigations of Glasgow City Council employees are still to be carried out. |
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It was a good piece of investigative work but would it not have been better for the relevant authorities to have carried out the undercover work? |
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We sent award-winning investigative journalist Gregory Smith to ferret out the answers. |
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We have had our cows out since March but we have had to take them in again because they were poaching the land. |
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These poachers are confident that nine times out of ten, they'll smack that ball into the net, taking the glory and confirming their attitude. |
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They are all good players and all have their different strengths but we just haven't had an out and out poacher since Stuart Barlow left. |
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Swiss investment bank Vontobel came out against the deal, saying it made little strategic sense. |
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The investment banker, as compared to the local loan officer, specifically seeks out ventures that burn cash. |
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The content is out there, and he brings it together in a manner that conveys his view, and he does so extremely well. |
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Teenagers have always used text messaging not so much to convey information as to hang out electronically with friends. |
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This invigorating full body treatment is carried out by two therapists simultaneously. |
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I find myself in the invidious position of having to go out and ask whoever it is if they would mind waiting five minutes. |
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And whenever I have a new thought, an original idea, I just whip out the pocket book and I write it down. |
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My mother used to keep a bib in her pocketbook for when we ate out when I was so small they had to go get a high chair and later a booster seat. |
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In response to Dad's request, she pulls out her checkbook from her pocketbook and a pen and writes out a check for eight hundred dollars. |
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She pulled a cigarette out of her pocketbook, a bent, half-crushed one she stole from her older brother. |
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For out of all the years she had known Lord Blackthorne, he had never acted invidiously. |
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While invigilating the test, the examiner walks out of the room for several minutes. |
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Day in and day out, he violates welfare laws and flagrantly violates building codes and regulations. |
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One of the most famous names in RN history has bowed out, handing over the title of the nation's flagship to her sister. |
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Aboard his flagship, he stared coldly out the window as the vessel slowed to a halt. |
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Another reason people do not take out income protection insurance is because they see themselves as being invincible. |
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Being interested in culture and music, he has brought out a pocket book on French rap. |
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He reached into his bag and pulled out three cups and a flask of some greenish blue liquid. |
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A street stretches out in front of me, stone flagstones spreading ahead of me like a carpet welcoming me into the town. |
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As we came closer we could make out two men in a life raft with dye marker showing and flailing their arms wildly in the air pleading to be seen. |
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In his hurry he almost tripped on the stairs to the porch, but managed to keep his balance by wildly flailing out his arms. |
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The Russians called out in dismay and collapsed each in turn, flailing about as if held by a hurricane. |
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This vibrant documentary sets out to rectify the studio band's invisibility. |
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Against a dark backdrop, invisible footlights pick out Paganini's lithe silhouette, sheathed in a formal black suit. |
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Jonathan pulled out a small flask, and shook it a bit and heard liquid sloshing around. |
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She turned around on her stool with a bright smile on her face holding the flask and a test tube out to the confused young man. |
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So, I made a flask of tea and a knocked together breakfasty lunch to take out in the car. |
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Every year, Maria goes out to Lourdes to help invalids on the Limerick pilgrimage. |
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You agree that all use of the Logo, and all goodwill arising out of such use, will inure to the sole benefit of the association. |
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He walked down the stairs to the wet bar and fixed himself a drink, then proceeded out to the deck that overlooked the calm Pacific. |
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She has her saddle and bridle on as though she was fixing to be ridden out. |
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The department was in a fix about the problem, as it had to figure out the exact amount spent by the subscribers. |
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Do not get yourself into the fix I experienced, that of running out of money before finding a job. |
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Police say most burglaries are carried out by drug addicts to pay for their next fix. |
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In fact, more than plunging into new newspaper ventures, Black appears to be getting out of the business. |
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Suddenly reminded, Alexia plunged her hand into her apron pocket, and drew out a small jam-jar wrapped with paper. |
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He tipped the vial over and plunged the needle into it, sucking out the liquid. |
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His legend was born out of the Battle of Badon Hill, a battle which devastated the invading Saxon army. |
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Invert the syringe and slowly press the plunger to a level that pushed out any large air bubbles that may be present. |
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I could instantly see how the tea was progressing, and the plunger kept the leaves out of the way until the pot was drained. |
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She then dug around in it until she found a medical box and brought out a needle with a plunger, filling it with anesthetic. |
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For the patients of Oregon State Mental Hospital, the experience of having the cast and crew invade their world turned out to be a positive one. |
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After the war he was invalided out of the Army because of back injuries suffered through beatings by German soldiers. |
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But he was invalided out in 1991 with knee problems which doctors blamed climbing ships' ladders. |
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Sir Frederick served in the Royal Ulster Rifles until 1941 when he was invalided out following an accident. |
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The war years were marred only by Warnie's absence on active service until he was invalided out as a hopeless alcoholic. |
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They married in 1918, after MacDiarmid was invalided out of the army with cerebral malaria. |
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When Anna returns from digging trenches on the Luga line, and her father is invalided out of the army, they all settle in together. |
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After being invalided out of the army, he became an Official War Artist in 1943, concentrating on the everyday life of the troops. |
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Smith had been invalided out of the army in 1949, and joined the family shipbreaking company. |
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I'd been to Ascot in the 1930s and in 1944 I'd just been invalided out of the rescue service and answered an advert in the Sporting Life. |
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He had a helicopter accident and fell 30 metres to the ground, injuring his knee and invaliding him out of the service. |
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He was invalided out of the agency after a violent incident, in which he should have died, and is reluctant to be drawn back in. |
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And they are anxious about dismal public transport, dirty public conveniences, rip-off days out and restaurants that are anti-children. |
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Logan pulled out of the parking lot and drove to a nearby convenience store. |
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His character conveniently blacks out every time something terrible happens. |
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A further group of craftsmen carried out the more menial tasks of glass cutting, firing, leading, and fixing of the windows. |
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In my view, it was someone inexperienced who carried out the fixing of the spool to the spindle, which is why it was not properly fitted. |
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Small pieces of veneer were cut out to reveal the fixings inside the drop-front and the lower doors. |
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It turned out that a teenage girl was fixated with the idea of vampires and she gained a following in the area of other like-minded teenagers. |
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High achievers can easily fixate on their flaws, obsessing about minor problems until they've blown them out of proportion. |
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These grass species carry out C4 photosynthesis, an important adaptation that increases the efficiency of CO 2 fixation in plants. |
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I rushed to the mouth of my garage and stood next to Will, who was looking out with a fixed expression. |
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Most of her paintings were self-portraits showing her with a fixed, expressionless face staring out at viewers. |
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Pioneering work in the diocese at this time was extremely difficult, setting out lands for the building of schools, convents etc. |
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Since she is relatively young, she should be more growth oriented and get out of the fixed-income end. |
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They may also be missing out on valuable life assurance protection, invalidity and other benefits. |
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Cars can be rented locally, but if you want to get the most out of any experience, the services of a guide are invaluable. |
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In a system based on plurality, the party that comes out on top needn't win a majority of the total votes cast. |
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Any group that could turn out its members on election day might produce a narrow plurality for a candidate with multiple opponents. |
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The meal was invariably gone when he got back, however, and no-one ever worked out how. |
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It turns out you don't know them at all because orang-utans show incredible invariability across their range. |
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They walked in and sat down in plush chairs next to a fireplace, looking out the window. |
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She took out a picture frame, made of plush, and shaped like a funky flower. |
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You go out, you report, you come back, you write. Veteran conventioneers know this well. |
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Speaker after speaker inveighed against their inability to speak out against the Tesco plan. |
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In truth, they were supposed to be stationed at every twenty metres along the wall, but they all converged together out of sheer boredom. |
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Squatters had occupied the building earlier that morning, but were cleared out within 15 minutes of police converging on the scene. |
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Instead we spilled out of the coaches earlier and joined the throngs already converging on the city centre by foot. |
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Eventually, both stories converge in an action-packed finale straight out of the Hollywood playbook. |
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The literature laying out the case for convergence likewise deserves critical scrutiny, however. |
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You see, my plus one was visiting from out of town, so I had to take care of her. |
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Check out this website for invaluable information on plus-size women and pregnancy. |
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A curvaceous size 18 herself, she has made a business out of catering to plus-size women in a way that no department store can match. |
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They pointed out that a country ruled by the very wealthy is actually a plutocracy, not a democracy. |
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Whenever someone invents something there are always going to be people out there trying to exploit that invention for evil intent. |
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I am simply not used to being required to carry out conversation at all hours of the day. |
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Kitchen cabinets, light fixtures and switches had been removed and thrown on the floor, and a window had been knocked out. |
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July 16 was one of the first dates he circled on his calendar when this season's fixture list came out. |
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Looking at the remaining fixture list, I've come up with a blueprint for survival and worked out where the points are going to come from. |
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When it turned out that the motorcycle story was an invention, they were even less pleased about this fantasy Web site. |
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Soon the researchers will be cranking out large numbers of diagnostic probes to inventory microbes in manure samples from different environments. |
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After seven years in the firing line with Rangers and three-and-a-half years prising out body pellets at Goodison Park, Smith is inured to criticism. |
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Such cloud as the morning warmth develops is bumping into an upper inversion layer, spreading out and then evaporating as the surface-generated convection dies away. |
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If those clubs are out of Europe by then it would be no surprise to see a hastily arranged tour of the Far East after Christmas to fill in the gaps in the fixture list. |
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Finally he finished and came out of his bedroom and fixed himself coffee. |
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Danny reached out and caught her just as she was fixing to hit the floor. |
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As Isaac was fixing to go out the door his mother called out to him. |
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Around noon we head out for either an invigorating hike or rock climbing. |
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I was fixing to go with him when she pulled out her cell phone. |
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Pluralists note that if a majority of people do not like what their representatives are doing, they can vote them out of office at the next election. |
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The foetal stem cell therapy is not only being used to smooth out wrinkles, but is also being injected into other parts of the body to get rid of cellulite and excess flab. |
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In the past Italian governments got out of this kind of fix by devaluing the lira to stimulate exports and growth, but this option is closed by membership of the euro. |
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But it turns about out of the 900 government and subsidized schools, there are still about 60 which do not have flagstaffs and therefore cannot raise the national flag. |
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He points out the statistical invalidity of a study of a mere nine cases. |
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He got as close as he could before plunging his gloved hand quickly into the center of the smoking embers, and drawing out a long blackened object. |
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When I found out that I'd got the part I was absolutely flabbergasted. |
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Learning how to control disaster when it breaks out and how to minimize damage resulting from it is a synonym for learning the invaluableness of life. |
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Starting from the ground up is the way 90 percent of the coaches in this league made it as far as they have, and that's one way to weed out the diligent from the inutile. |
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But, and there is the rub, every member of the Cabinet is expected by acceptable social convention to then go out and promote and defend what has been pronounced. |
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For half a century they held out against the invading Romans. |
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An absentee pluralist on a grand scale, he farmed out his livings, usually for much more than their nominal value, and supervised them through agents. |
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As the Marxist creed dissolved, the other two religions have embarked on a process of mass conversion sending missionaries out to the four corners of the globe. |
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We are not into churning out pupils like sausages on a conveyor belt. |
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Force as much water as possible out of traps with a plunger. |
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He looks broader than ever but these days it looks less like flabbiness and more like someone who works out, which is more in keeping with the character. |
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Medical science still couldn't create an artificial limb that could be controlled like a natural one and Alex's father had been invalided out of the service. |
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For me fizz, preferably champagne and preferably drunk out of doors, takes the place of lager and there is still plenty of cut-price choice around. |
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If we went in at too high a rate, we could face permanent deflationary pressure, taking the fizz out of what is currently the most buoyant large economy in Europe. |
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By the time he reached the safety of a dressing station his wound had become infected and he was invalided out of the war and away to a convalescent hospital in Ireland. |
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In 1979, when the Three Mile Island nuclear power disaster occurred in Pennsylvania, President Carter went out of his way to flack for the atomic-energy industry. |
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He was invalided out before he was posted to overseas service. |
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Like World Series Cricket itself, the game fizzled out to a draw. |
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The Pentagon has put out another batch of official photographs of flag-draped coffins and honor guards, having long resisted, claiming invasions of family's privacy. |
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The war veteran this year won a landmark case against the Ministry of Defence because his pension had been wrongly taxed for 45 years after he was invalided out. |
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The anarchist movement fizzled out, so why do they even try? |
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Rain lashed from the angry sky, icy scourges flailing Alex's head and shoulders as soon as she stepped out of the Gate she had used to escape the tunnels. |
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A flagstoned path led from the gate into a formal garden that had reverted to tangled wilderness, but if there was a guard out here, people still used that gate. |
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He first appeared in Wigtown in about 1943, after being invalided out of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, where he'd served as an officer on a sister ship of the Titanic. |
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The former Oldham Athletic defender was invalided out of the professional game shortly after making a dream move to Premiership giants Newcastle United. |
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At his trial, a jury spent 24 days considering a verdict before convicting him of conning thousands of Britons, many of them elderly, out of their savings. |
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The mathematical modeling of the process of a supersonic oxygen jet interaction with the surface of a liquid metal in a steel-making converter was carried out. |
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Eventually it fizzled out in most of Europe and the US, but the tradition has been kept alive in the Western Isles, as it has in the rural areas of the Deep South. |
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By investing energy into trying out different possible approaches, you improve your understanding of the problem, and get closer to a reasonable solution. |
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We all filed out of the car and made our way inside the convenience store. |
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange will relax its rules on issuing convertible bonds to prevent the hollowing out of the domestic market, a press report said yesterday. |
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Asimov pointed out the flaw in most invisibility plans, which is that being invisible would mean that light cannot affect your retinas, so you are automatically blind! |
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Since most people don't want to admit out loud that they live in a plutocracy, successful politicians have, until now, worked hard to keep up an illusion. |
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He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass. |
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That might not seem like a lofty goal, but after the plans last year fizzled out and the hoped-for inaugural festival was cancelled, it's a realistic one. |
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Other plans involve an early dinner with G. in honor of my birthday tomorrow and then on the day itself I'll be up and out to get the fixings for beef barley stew. |
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World Cup fever in Argentina fizzled out into muted silence as England claimed victory in the latest chapter of a fierce soccer rivalry stretching back decades. |
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The man pulled a pocket book out of his jacket and opened it. |
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Even during casual conversation he plunks out impromptu background music. |
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I remember struggling to plunk out the tunes on the family piano. |
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And she is slowly plunking out the melody now, a pretty thing. |
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The tune plunked out on the pianoforte was ridiculously simple, and even then, Clara made many obvious mistakes, creating chords that were hurtful to the ear. |
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Plunket congratulates the fathers out there who are doing good work. |
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Suddenly oblivious to my presence, she dropped her purse on my desk, pulled out a flask and a small jar of olives and made herself another strong one. |
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It seems to default to either redrawing the menu or logging out if you select an invalid menu option, which again can be confusing if you're not in a harmless text editor. |
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It is worth looking around, as you descend, to work out how on earth the original explorers managed to have fixed iron ladders meandering up the pitch. |
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