It seems that the best intentions of young fighters get worn down by the pot of gold on offer if they remain unbeaten. |
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Those who had been reading the runes over the past few months knew that the Executive was being worn down by the lobby groups. |
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Days on the road together with bad food have worn down Nambiar's health and he now suffers from acidity and dyspepsia. |
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Usually, when you're on the trail for a year or maybe even two years sometimes, you really get worn down to a frazzle. |
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Once an area has been worn down, it is difficult to reseed into because of the increased temperatures generated from the crumb rubber. |
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He pointed to a spot on the weapon's surface which had been worn down a bit, as if someone had tried to scrape something off the surface. |
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She also had a set of worn down glasses, its lenses cracked as a result of successive collisions with the ground. |
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The heels have also worn down so far the shoes have become flatties, instead of the fashionable high heels they once were. |
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The stabbing was a desperate response to his behaviour, after she had been worn down by years of mistreatment. |
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When you say that your daughter's teeth have worn down, that implies that she might be grinding her teeth, probably at night. |
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Honoring the new code for soft sultry natural waves and curls worn down, Nicole matched her romantic coif with a glittering gown. |
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Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins like stones smoothed by a river. |
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Shoving my feet into a worn down pair of sneakers, I went out of my way to leave early. |
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Ilkley's powerful front five had worn down the Heath pack and were pushing the Heath scrum backwards. |
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The bluff's golden sandstone has been worn down by water and wind into stunning sculptures and patterns. |
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No need to discard the disc when the flap overhang is worn down to the backing. |
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The topography is the result of a very long erosion process, which has worn down mountains but has left valleys intact. |
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Tyres worn down below the legal tread-depth limit represent an immediate safety risk. |
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In most finches, the feathers are gradually worn down through use, resulting in a changed appearance by the time the breeding season arrives. |
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As customers, we will be worn down by them and the costly bureacratic system will turn out to be inefficient when dealing with applications. |
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If a rolling resistance improvement is made with the tread only, the improvement diminishes as the tread is worn down to 0 tread depth. |
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The ridges on top of the teeth which form a zig-zag line gradually become worn down until the surface is smooth. |
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And for my final middle finger flip to the country, I will only use this worn down felt tip pen someone's kid left in my car. |
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He even got his corvette back, albeit several months after the raid and, he says, with the tires worn down. |
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They are already worn down by the endless regulations and quota cuts spewing out from this institution and bringing their industry to its knees. |
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Depending on the season, the landscape rolling by is worn down by summer rain or frozen like a rock in the dead of winter. |
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All the teeth are gradually worn down during mastication and this process is accelerated if the diet includes much grit or woody material. |
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A latter-day case is the penny showing Queen Victoria, whose coiffure began to look like an elephant's head when the coin was well worn down. |
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One by one, the surfaces of the flags are worn down to give them a light movement, resulting in a time-worn look. |
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Do people get tired of doing that extra step and eventually get worn down and just carry the package with the labelling and the picture? |
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When the tread is worn down to where you can see a solid bar of rubber across the width of the tread, it is time to replace the tire. |
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If the tread is too worn down, safe use of the wheelchair cannot be guaranteed.werden. |
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However, evidence indicated that the ratchet lock had worn down and had lost its effectiveness. |
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Aboriginal people and communities are worn down by the persistence of these problems. |
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They struggle and get worn down by disrespect, they struggle to live and do their best. |
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After the rubber flaps have worn down, they can easily be replaced on the grinding wheel. |
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Before he could protest, Raylaa had already disappeared into the porch, where the hideous sidecar and the motorcycle with the peeling red paint stood, worn down and decrepit. |
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The nave of the church still stood and displayed amazingly beautiful carvings of animals and humans, though all had been worn down by the ravages of time and weather. |
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But as her closer association with Mr. Darcy had worn down her earlier prejudices, she had come to put a great deal of faith in his essential honourability. |
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The younger woman is constantly worn down by the older woman's negativity, Mag's abrasive personality pushing her to increasingly desperate little acts of rebellion. |
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Mr Johnston said officers had been worn down by staff reductions and the increase in workloads, as well as the imposition of pay awards below the rate of inflation. |
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After umpteen prosecutions for failing to display a UK motor tax disc, the authorities were worn down by his dogged challenging of their authority to levy tax. |
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Slightly battered and worn down, it was quite obvious that some of them had been reforged and repaired, judging by the varying degrees of tarnish upon them. |
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Today, when the footstreets have been worn down with shoe leather for almost exactly 15 years, it is hard to recall how radical this proposal must have seemed. |
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Too often worn down by sloganeering or lost in misquotation, the truths of this statement are delicate, and seldom receive the careful consideration they demand. |
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From then on, the Eagles looked a broken team, worn down by the heat of the day and the determined efforts of the Knights to match their powerful pack. |
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These were mere tracks worn down by the feet of humans and animals, and possibly by wheeled carriages. |
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Pavlov looked beseechingly at his father, but the old man, worn down by decades of living with Mrs. Pavlov, offered only a familiar look of resignation. |
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Eventually, Ratmansky, too, was worn down. |
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By a pile of rocks worn down by fire and a circular tent near the forest, an elder explains the rudiments and rules of the sweat lodge to a group of children sitting near the fire. |
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And those ridiculous strings that exposed more wax to use, when the thing was worn down to a little nubbin. |
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The snowshoe fur padding has always been present but, since foundation Maines actually walk around outside in Maine, going about their cat lives, the snowshoes get worn down. |
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An examination of the aircraft after the occurrence revealed that the outboard tire on the left landing gear had a bald spot, which had worn down to the tire cord. |
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Some actors can be sullen and resentful on interview days, worn down by hours of repeating the same thing over and over again, but Johnson is always aware of his role as a salesman and a performer. |
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In Haiti an impoverished population already worn down by decades of unrest now has to rebuild a nation after a cataclysmic earthquake, which came on the heels of two devastating hurricanes. |
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He was crib-biting and wind sucking, and all his teeth had worn down, so we were hand-feeding him. |
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Finally, the support they accorded for years to President Musharraf and their closeness to the Taliban were punished by a population which has been worn down by the political crisis and violence. |
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Initially, in a generalized outline of the Precambrian history of the region, the Vishnu Schist was upraised, folded, and metamorphosed and then slowly eroded and worn down to a flat surface. |
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A long grinding campaign six weeks long followed as American, British, and Canadian forces were slowly built up in the beachhead, and German forces slowly worn down. |
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Upped to six furlongs at Chester last time, Tamareen looked much more at home, going down by just under a length to Rutterkin after being worn down in the finish. |
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I submitted therefore without enquiry but it was a bold experiment on his part on the health of an octogenary, worn down by sickness as well as age. |
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The teeth continue to erupt throughout life and are worn down by grazing. |
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