Many embraced Mohammedonism to escape slavery and at least some joined the xebecs, the swift three masted boats used by the pirates. |
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The frigates easily outgunned the pirates but had trouble blockading their swift, shore-hugging xebecs. |
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It took all my willpower to restrain from running to the harbor and instead follow Mr. Kenton at a swift pace. |
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His jaw clenched as he walked in two swift strides to the door and pulled it open, nearly yanking it off the hinges. |
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They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes. |
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Let's hope that those responsible for the proper use of State funds experience a swift reality check in the interim. |
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An hour out we came across a swift stream and found a good spot to wade across the icy water. |
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Her punishment for the previous night's little escapade had been five swift strokes with a cane, on her bottom. |
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All at once, Alex's flat hand had made one swift karate-chop to the side of the man's face, rendering him unconscious in seconds. |
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He glared up at the girl as he released her arm and moved away from the bed in a swift, fluid movement. |
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This was a unique terrain for warfare, where rapid advances and swift movements of armies were extremely difficult. |
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Lazarus managed to block a blade as swift as a darting snake, disengaged, and went into a series of jabs to ward away his enemy. |
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In a movement so swift that I hardly registered it until it was over, Andrei raised my hand to his lips and lightly kissed the back of it. |
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With a swift nod Hope accepted this as correct and began to help Faith once more. |
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If he hadn't made such a fuss about acceptable standards of behaviour, his fall from grace might not have been so swift and calamitous. |
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The brash but explosive back made life much easier for QB Jake Plummer, who acclimated to the Broncos' system in swift fashion. |
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The mood in security circles was one of watchfulness and preparation for swift but discreet action. |
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He was sure the cheerfulness would end when they got into combat, Swift had been a desk jobber until now, sorting Company papers. |
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Even the powerful moose knew to beware the swift javelins of avarii hunters. |
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You take swift decisions and make quick changes when situations are tense and demanding. |
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Swift and Company, the Chicago meatpacker, was the first to mass-manufacture rendered protein and fat as animal feed as early as a century ago. |
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Other highlights of the weekend were seeing Alison Lapper Pregnant, and a swift whizz around the National Portrait Gallery on Sunday morning. |
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When a church leader asked him to tone down his use of racy language in his columns, his answer was swift. |
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As he quickened his pace to a jog, he saw a swift shape dart up a curling stairway. |
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City of Spades is adapted for radio by Biyi Bandele and Directed by Toby Swift. |
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I hope he makes a swift comeback, but an injury like his will need plenty of rest and recuperation. |
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Her execution was swift and her body was laid to rest in the Chapel of St Vincula at the Tower of London. |
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Writers of fiction often use the same effect to present swift action, changes in thinking, and the like. |
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He threw me to the ground, finally releasing my hair, and delivered a swift kick to my stomach. |
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Signature is a typical form of authentication but there may be other avenues such as a PIN, a so-called electronic signature, tested telex, or SWIFT message. |
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A swift headbutt and a hard slam into my own solar plexus left me gasping for breath and I closed in for the kill so to speak. |
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The Koreans outplayed the Indian team with swift clinical and calibrated moves from the wings. |
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This will effectively help the swift drainage of rainwater during heavy downpours. |
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Brion pulled him up with a swift yank and continued to walk as if nothing had happened. |
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With a swift movement he snapped the little journeyer's head. |
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That was the playbook the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth used to discredit then-Sen. |
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Among the native birds, the whidah, weaverbirds, pigeon, sunbird, cuckoo, swift, heron, stork, pelican, and cormorant are some, which you would come across. |
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And so swift was the imposition of the curfew that some foreigners were taken by surprise. |
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Leave it to an Aussie to give American journalism a swift kick in its down under. |
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One swift knock to the head knocked the guy out, and we left. |
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But his timid foray into critical thinking brings swift and severe punishment. |
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The downturn in the technology sector put a swift end to IT recruitment trends characterised by inflated salaries and rampant job-hopping at all levels. |
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As my colleague Adrienne Vogt noted, the show is kind of like a Taylor Swift song. |
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A swift and amicable settlement to this dispute is needed now. |
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She knew what the best angle of heel was for a swift passage. |
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This would seem reasonable, since in that direction lay the only territory open enough for swift attack by armor. |
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The outer acts are swift and urgent, transcendental but never religiose. |
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The sharp and swift fall makes for a concise case study on the impact of reputation on a personal brand. |
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A swift low-pressure airstream takes some molecules from this boundary layer and reduces molecular impacts on that surface of the wing across which the airstream moves faster. |
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Survival in these games depends on the swift reaction time by the players. |
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The colonel responded with a swift kick that sent him sprawling. |
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Does it matter whether Taylor Swift wants me to inflate my Internet notoriety by doing a dumb thing where I lip sync to her music? |
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Taylor Swift just used a calculated business decision, cloaked in artistic integrity, to pave the way for a digital music war. |
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As for getting swift action, our 30-year wait speaks for itself. |
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Fey and Poehler joked during the January telecast about seeing Swift chat up Michael J. Fox's son, Sam. |
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He sustained grave internal injuries and his swift recovery was put down to the rapid response of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance, which got him to intensive care without delay. |
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It must be noted that, in 1709, Jonathan Swift found little discipline at the universities and little learning amongst the gentlemen of high quality. |
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A quick response by police resulted in the swift arrest of two youths. |
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He says species threatened in the forest include the extremely rare Wielangta stag beetle, the swift parrot, Tasmania's wedge-tail eagle and the tiger quoll. |
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Behind that coming-of-age innocence and strong-will of Swift is an intense artistic decision. |
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At least he isn't pulling a Taylor Swift and trying to be coy about who the song is about. |
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The fancy and the swift are the only rollers in the carding process that actually touch. |
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The slowly turning doffer removes the fibres from the swift and carries them to the fly comb where they are stripped from the doffer. |
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A Coast Guard station oversees boating activity, especially in the swift tidal currents of the Merrimack River. |
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Because of the steep slopes, the streams are swift and straight, with very few tributaries, and all flow in the same direction. |
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Relatively long legs and sharp claws enable them to hold on to rocks in swift water. |
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A mile further along he passes us, the horse, archnecked, reined back to a swift singlefoot. |
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Then there was much mirth and banter over the swift sneakings for home of certain men carrying large portions of puarka. |
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Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others. |
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If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions. |
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In Australia the swift parrots and in Hawaii the 'I'iwi honeycreepers have convergently evolved nectarivory, and coexist with honeyeaters. |
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A striking example of the risks of ignoring temporal processes comes from work on the endangered Swift Parrot in north-eastern Victoria. |
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The showing made by this swift water bug so impressed the Admiralty that they took steps to turbanize the British navy. |
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He had a whoopingly joyful time for several miles, with his swift thoroughbred racing just behind or at the side of the big Plains animal. |
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But a birder understands that the swift flight of a rare breed trumps all. |
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Tom Swift, the hero in a series of pre-World War II action novels, was the genius inventor of whizbang technology. |
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These conical teeth are used to catch swift prey such as fish, squid or large mammals, such as seal. |
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Swift quickly realized that Massachusetts was centrally involved. |
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With a swift chop of its beak, the terror bird could have whomped its prey, a new fossil find confirms. |
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As David Woolley has shown, Swift engineered an advertisement for the Tub, in the Morning Post, as an antisplenetic volume. |
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Osmunda swept a curtsey, that yellow hair falling cloudwise to her feet, then turned swift to disappear in the shadow of the turret stair. |
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My informant seemed to look upon the swift as an uncanny bird, and called it by a name I had never heard before, devil-screecher. |
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The honeymoon period came to a swift end when the legislation was introduced. |
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The Spectator went far in working the change desired by Swift, a stop having been put to the inflood of Latin words. |
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Men in shorts and navy Jacky Howe singlets were building a causeway across the spill of swift, shallow water. |
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You just don't steal a man's gun and not expect a swift kick in the jewels in return. |
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He was the oldest of six children born to Mary Swift and Jonas Priestley, a finisher of cloth. |
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In 1641 Wilkins published an anonymous treatise entitled Mercury, or The Secret and Swift Messenger. |
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They are part of the Flexity Swift range of light rail vehicles, and have a design similar to the K5000 vehicle used on the Cologne Stadtbahn. |
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But with the home side likewise unable to make the most of a period of first-half ascendancy, Villa were swift to make amends on the restart. |
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In some more recent portrayals, like those of Jonathan Swift and Roald Dahl, some giants are both intelligent and friendly. |
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The play has frequently influenced popular music, including works by The Supremes, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, and Taylor Swift. |
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Jonathan Swift would use the Hudibrastic form almost exclusively for his poetry. |
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When he was in office, Harley promoted the careers of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Gay. |
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If Addison and Steele were dominant in one type of prose, then Jonathan Swift author of the satire Gulliver's Travels was in another. |
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In A Modest Proposal and the Drapier Letters, Swift reluctantly defended the Irish people from the predations of colonialism. |
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Modern Irish fiction began with the publishing of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. |
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Walpole's other enemies included Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Johnson. |
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The Act revealed a disdain for Swift, Pope, Fielding, and other literary figures who had attacked his government in their works. |
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The unexpectedly swift defeat of France resulted in an upswing in Hitler's popularity and a strong upsurge in war fever. |
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The invasion was swift, leading to the collapse of the Iraqi government and the military of Iraq in about three weeks. |
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His uncle Thomas Swift married a daughter of poet and playwright Sir William Davenant, a godson of William Shakespeare. |
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In 1690, Swift left Temple for Ireland because of his health but returned to Moor Park the following year. |
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In February 1702, Swift received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity College, Dublin. |
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Esther followed Swift to Ireland in 1714, and settled at her old family home, Celbridge Abbey. |
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Before the fall of the Tory government, Swift hoped that his services would be rewarded with a church appointment in England. |
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However, Queen Anne appeared to have taken a dislike to Swift and thwarted these efforts. |
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Swift returned to England one more time in 1727 and stayed with Alexander Pope once again. |
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The visit was cut short when Swift received word that Esther Johnson was dying, and rushed back home to be with her. |
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Swift could not bear to be present at the end, but on the night of her death he began to write his The Death of Mrs Johnson. |
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However, it was long believed by many that Swift was actually insane at this point. |
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Swift crater, a crater on Mars's moon Deimos, is named after Jonathan Swift, who predicted the existence of the moons of Mars. |
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Perhaps he stands most clearly in that distinctively English satirical tradition which stretches back to Jonathan Swift. |
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Swift said generously that he did not grudge Berkeley his inheritance, much of which vanished in a lawsuit in any event. |
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The new emperor had to seek a swift acknowledgement of his status and authority to stabilize the political landscape. |
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Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims. |
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They are swift fliers and skilled hunters who specialize in preying on small birds in the size range of sparrows to quail. |
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Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. |
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The swift move to the north bank prevented the Sixth Army from crossing the Ourcq but created a gap between the 1st and 2nd armies. |
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Following the unexpected swift victory, Hitler promoted 12 generals to the rank of field marshal during the 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony. |
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The US advance was swift and by 8 August, Le Mans, the former headquarters of the German 7th Army, had been captured. |
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Anticipating a swift victory over Britain, the occupiers experimented by using a very gentle approach that set the theme for the next five years. |
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He was campaigning against Metellus's apparent lack of swift action against Jugurtha. |
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Although an armed carrack carried more firepower than a caravel, it was much less swift and less manoeuvrable, especially when loaded with cargo. |
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He's been harsh, too, reacting with the swift kick of a poison-pen reviewer when he doesn't like what he sees on his stage. |
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Swift streams radiating down the mountains through lush forest and cropland to the sea cross both islands. |
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They feared quick retaliation and swift retribution against the separatists. |
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Mostly unnavigable, many originate as swift highland streams, meander in valleys, and form coastal deltas. |
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The key invention to their exploration was the outrigger canoe, which provided a swift and stable platform for carrying goods and people. |
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The idea of a calm, swift Parliament foundered on the rocks of religious conflict. |
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A series of small steps toward an agenda would be less likely to be questioned than a large and swift change. |
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In Swift, Justice Joseph Story had sought to interpret the Rules of Decision Act. |
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With Swift, Story gave federal courts the freedom to depart from the existing body of state law if they so desired. |
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Therefore, the Court felt it was time to overrule the doctrine of Swift as an unconstitutional extension of its own powers. |
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He pointed out that no one in this case had directly challenged the Swift regime, which the Court had adhered to for so long in so many cases. |
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Writers such as Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift flourished. |
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As they are transferred to the swift, many of the fibres are straightened and laid into the swift's card cloth. |
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The stripper, which turns at a higher speed than the worker, pulls fibres from the worker and passes them to the swift. |
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The stripper's relative surface speed is slower than the swift's so the swift pulls the fibres from the stripper for additional straightening. |
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They know they will face either a swift backlash or deafening silence. |
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North American birds the laughing gull, Franklin's gull and the chimney swift have also been spotted recently. |
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The Internet cool kids are, of course, rallying against Swift en masse. |
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Their most cherished ambition thereafter is a swift, exciting falling-in-love, a rapid courtship, a sackful of sentimental sloppery and then, then marriage. |
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A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. |
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Relative to the surface speed of the swift, the worker turns quite slowly. |
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In 1428, at the command of Pope Martin V, Wycliffe's remains were dug up, burned, and the ashes cast into the River Swift, which flows through Lutterworth. |
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Shortly thereafter, he was appointed by then prime minister Jean Chretien to the red chamber and served in the Senate until 2004, when he retired and moved to Swift Current. |
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Cabral sends Coelho's swift Anunciada ahead to Lisbon to announce their return, while the remainder rest and wait in Bezeguiche for the remaining two ships. |
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The next phase is the amarg, or sung poetry, and then ammussu, a danced overture, tammust, an energetic song, aberdag, a dance, and finally the rhythmically swift tabbayt. |
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Frustrated at his inability to catch up with his swift opponents, Yongle fell into a deep depression and then into illness, possibly owing to a series of minor strokes. |
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Later in 1944, Larsen's return trip was far more swift than his first. |
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It was a swift, one-sided fight, all over in the second round. |
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From March 2015 to June 2016, Harris dated American singer Taylor Swift. |
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John Arbuthnot, a friend of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. |
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A story that Berkeley and Marshall disregarded a condition of the inheritance that they must publish the correspondence between Swift and Vanessa is probably untrue. |
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Swift followed up with a pamphlet issued on 30 March claiming that Partridge had in fact died, which was widely believed despite Partridge's statements to the contrary. |
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In 1711, Swift published the political pamphlet The Conduct of the Allies, attacking the Whig government for its inability to end the prolonged war with France. |
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Swift became increasingly active politically in these years. |
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She presumably refused, because Swift left his post and returned to England and Temple's service at Moor Park in 1696, and he remained there until Temple's death. |
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But Australian Rules Football, popularly known as ' Footy', hopes to make swift inroads into the Indian market, especially now with an Indian team on board. |
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Swift appears to have been miserable in his new position, being isolated in a small, remote community far from the centres of power and influence. |
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Spain were provoked into a response and Villa almost provided a swift equaliser when he rounded Hart but found the angle too acute and could only hit the side-netting. |
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Jonathan Swift was born on 30 November 1667 in Dublin, Ireland. |
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Serena's transformation from sexy executive to momzilla had been swift and ugly. The more involved she became with the children, the more she squeezed him out of their lives. |
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One of the more successful of these ships was the Prince de Neufchatel, which once captured nine British prizes in swift succession in the English Channel. |
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Swift and Wilson are both attacking the problem of commodity meat head on. |
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The music for Messiah was completed in 24 days of swift composition. |
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This proved so successful that he was later to employ both Delarivier Manley and Jonathan Swift to pen pamphlets for him for use against his many opponents in politics. |
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Around 1711, Pope made friends with Tory writers John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Parnell and John Arbuthnot, who together formed the satirical Scriblerus Club. |
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Also, The Athenian Mercury published poetry from contributors, and it was the first to publish the poetry of Jonathan Swift and Elizabeth Singer Rowe. |
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The rebellion did not last long, however, as Charles's military response, with reinforcement from the Duke of Alba, was swift and humiliating to the rebels of Ghent. |
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Welsh nerves continued to jangle as Blake let a long ball bounce over his head and only Wayne Hennessey's swift advance from his line prevented Mirko Vucinic sneaking in. |
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In 1998, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott asked Rail Regulator John Swift QC to investigate the operation of the market and make recommendations. |
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Swift Group in Cottingham are the only UK manufacturer of caravans. |
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Although the Axis victory was swift, bitter partisan warfare subsequently broke out against the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, which continued until the end of the war. |
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This instantaneous motion is supposed by you, to be infinitely swift. |
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Current Jelly Belly Art in the series are the Great Green Macaws, a Hawksbill Sea Turtle, a Rockhopper Penguin, the Swift Foxes, and a Grizzly Bear. |
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She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out. |
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The novelties of fenocchio and broccoli seeds Swift probably got from Pope, who in turn may have had them recently from Italy by way of the Earl of Peterborow. |
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Up in the canopy of the big eucalyptus swift parrots made a noisy start to the day and both green rosellas and black currawongs were Tasmanian endemic specialities. |
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With routinization comes a swift loss of the freedom of self-expression. |
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Residents of Fukushima, 240 km north of Tokyo, overwhelmingly backed the zero option, with all but one of the 30 who were picked in a draw to speak backing a swift exit. |
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Championed by many fellow musicians like Taylor Swift, their first album went gold and they won four Grammy Awards before personal differences ended their partnership. |
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Rising softly and throwing my flashlight on the switch, I sought to light the bulb over my bed in order to choose and pocket some belongings for a swift, valiseless flight. |
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