| The cloak he wore bagged over his body, making his frail stature appear sturdier. |
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| Cloth bags are sturdier and more durable than either plastic bags or paper bags, and are also very environmentally friendly. |
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| Large varieties of sweet peas will need a sturdier form of support, either a wigwam or a row of garden stakes. |
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| Possibly this room had a very meaningful purpose, and the tower was built sturdier than the others to ensure its protection. |
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| These images, however, with their human figures, faces, trees, and other forms boldly outlined in black, seem sturdier and less sentimental. |
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| We use wheels made out of vulcanized rubber, which are much sturdier and more durable than wood and easier on the environment than steel. |
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| The higher the denier number, the larger the yarn and, therefore, the heavier and sturdier the fabric. |
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| By the 1920S, the Army Corps of Engineers built sturdier dikes, and valley flooding virtually ceased. |
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| On balance, however, the link between aggregate household wealth and spending has remained one of the sturdier relationships in macroeconomics. |
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| In pipes, Alphacan's strategy is based on maintaining its positions and its competitiveness, while at the same time developing sturdier pipes. |
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| A plastic colander is fine to start, but upgrade to a sturdier metal model when you can. |
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| The ESM has a sturdier set-up because it is backed by paid-in capital contributed by euro-zone members. |
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| On the other hand, even though old-fashioned knobs and dial-controls are sturdier, they are harder to maintain as dirt can easily accumulate in them. |
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| Thanks to the Bernie Madoff swindle, investors want to see sturdier back-offices staffed by compliance types. |
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| A sturdier lid would probably not have deformed as much nor would it have contacted the eduction valve stems or the gauging device rod cover. |
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| Due to its conspicuousness, a drum-type device was found to be safer and sturdier than the metal tubing barricade. |
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| Taller towers and attendant higher-capacity turbines naturally require sturdier bases. |
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| The shoebox may have given way to a more practical red carry-case design, but something sturdier still may be requred. |
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| Metal frames are sturdier, giving you a more masculine appearance. |
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| Laminating these pages or having the students glue them to card stock or card board will make them sturdier. |
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| The AFG innovations should pay off thanks to greater comfort at work, more elegant and sturdier constructions and savings in energy and costs. |
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| In regions subject to high snowfall, roofs are steeper and have sturdier frames to prevent snow from building up. |
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| Plate fasteners are used to attach 2 tire shelving units side by side, forming a sturdier tire storage system. |
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| The whole range of low-profile wheels have an asymmetrical rear rim that helps improve wheel dish, hence making the wheel much sturdier. |
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| Then his blows were blocked by a taller, sturdier man whose face was achingly familiar. |
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| In subsequent years they consisted of sturdier structures with cane being replaced by chestnut stakes and a deal frame. |
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| The shrine was then transferred to a sturdier, probably wooden, building known as the White Church. |
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| So what this community would request for its funding is to at least start off with the approved location to make it sturdier for our inshore boating. |
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| Dragonflies are usually larger and sturdier than damselflies, and tend to spread their wings horizontally at rest, whereas damselflies hold their wings pressed together over their back or only partly spread. |
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| These factors stimulated developments such as angled decks, steam catapults, stronger arrester gear as well as sturdier flight decks and elevators. |
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| The flowery plain was scattered with caribou antlers: the delicate backswept branching antlers of female caribou, the sturdier antlers of male caribou, sometimes with mosses growing on the older ones. |
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| With relatively diverse types of bills, the jacamars, puffbirds, and barbets excavate nesting cavities, as do the sturdier billed woodpeckers, although the former utilize a softer substrate such as earth or dead trees. |
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| With the first record we'd be freaking out saying 'Oh my god we need to water it more, we need to protect it from the wind!' But this time the plant is a bit sturdier and maybe it will just take off. |
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| The president is to be limited to two four-year terms in office and his powers checked by a sturdier parliament, though there will be no prime minister. |
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| Now the minimum wage rule appears to increase this deficit. And yet the truth is that, by a mixture of design and luck, Mr Reed's reforms are actually getting sturdier. |
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| These shelters, sturdier and better adapted to the climate, are a priority for Tdh, which is exploring the possibilities of funding at various levels. |
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| Kitchen scissors are sharper and sturdier than the regular kind. |
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| In one case, the victim had probably a normal constitution and, in the other one, the victim had a sturdier constitution and resisted to the poison. |
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| The steel spokes feature aero geometry and differentiated thickness, and are different sizes depending on their function: more slender in the less critical positions, sturdier in the most critical ones. |
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| While sturdier and larger than the ladies' watches, Ref. 388 for men retains their key attributes: sophistication, a play on curves and pure lines. |
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| Also, the metal type pieces were sturdier and the lettering more uniform, leading to typography and fonts. |
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| He then returned to Acla, to continue the construction of sturdier ships. |
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| It also comes with a choice of one steel and three variations of alloy wheels in flangeless designs for a stronger, sturdier appearance and a neat, clean finish. |
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| Sturdier ones, such as lavender, can be stuffed into chicken or rabbit before roasting, and then discarded later. |
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