Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand. |
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Short bursts of electrical current are send through a coil of wire, causing a magnetic field. |
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Anguished reminders of how his professional football career ended flooded back at the double for Chris Short this week. |
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A revoke counts the same as at Short Whist, but the exposed hand cannot revoke. |
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Short line rails are today being threatened due to the use of new, heavier 286,000 pound railcars that have become the industry standard. |
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Short serviceable indexes of names, places, and selected subjects complete them. |
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The Short Empire flying boats were extremely successful aircraft that helped extend the airways to all corners of the British empire. |
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Short term treatment with antipsychotic drugs carries a significant risk of sedation, acute dystonias, akathisia, and parkinsonism. |
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Short texts were written on scrolls or wax tablets as an aid to memorization and oral recitation. |
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Her erstwhile colleagues in Cabinet report that Ms Short was never timid about ventilating her opinions. |
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Short of being caught red-handed stealing clients' money, accountants were rarely disciplined. |
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Short speeches, multiple refills and not much to eat saw me sloping off home with a headache as the group split up. |
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Short term use of antidepressants and lithium and hypnosis offer limited help. |
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No doubt he is right, although perhaps its value to the plaintiff is slightly more limited than Mr Short appeared to acknowledge. |
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Short but recurrent attacks of vertigo are often caused by benign positional vertigo. |
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Short term fixed rate mortgages were often sold at or just above the lender's own borrowing cost. |
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Short of the fall of the iron curtain, few world leaders have ever about-faced so fast. |
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Short Books' excellent series of biographies has shown that accessibly delivered narratives can attract an enthusiastic readership. |
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Short correspondence like thank-you notes can be handwritten if your handwriting is legible. |
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Short excursions from the city take you to the ancient cities of Lindos, with its temple of Athena on its acropolis overlooking the sea. |
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Short and portly, with close-cut blond hair and a voice that can knock your jockey shorts off, Dee often appears as the romantic lead. |
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Mail that tells her that Harrison, who was played by fired actor Columbus Short, has been killed. |
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Short fables and wise sayings are mingled with recipes, lists, and jokes. |
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It is always interesting asking people about their parents, but rarely does someone come across as such a perfect amalgam of their mother and father as Short. |
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Short and plump, with a dimpled chin, Griselda Blanco might have been the grandmother next door. |
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Short trials produce convictions and sentences, but the time is often run concurrently, not adding any time to the sentence. |
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We were standing outside the Monitor's office in the harsh afternoon sun and now Short, a compact woman with a ruddy complexion, took a drag on her cigarette. |
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When I tried to persuade him to drop the title The Short Night, I proposed calling the picture Pursuit. |
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The exposure and buzz from Short Term have raised her profile considerably. |
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In the air, the Short Empire could be loaded with more fuel than it could take off with. |
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Ansett Australia operated a flying boat service from Rose Bay to Lord Howe Island until 1974, using Short Sandringhams. |
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The shape of the Short Empire, a British flying boat of the 1930s was a harbinger of the shape of 20th century aircraft yet to come. |
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Luxembourg won an Oscar in 2014 in the Animated Short Films category with Mr Hublot. |
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Zachary's successor, Pope Stephen II, confirmed and anointed Pepin the Short in 754, beginning the Carolingian monarchy. |
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Charlemagne was the oldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, having been born before their canonical marriage. |
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Charles was succeeded in 741 by his sons Carloman and Pepin the Short, the father of Charlemagne. |
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The popes finally defeated the Lombards with the aid of two Frankish kings, Pepin the Short and Charlemagne. |
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Although the Calendar Round is still in use today, the Maya started using an abbreviated Short Count during the Late Classic period. |
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Pepin the Short subdued the Lombards and donated Italian land to the papacy. |
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Short term complications are twenty times less likely from a vasectomy than a tubal ligation. |
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This statute was repealed and replaced by the Short Titles Act 1896, which conferred short titles on about 2,000 Acts. |
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Short reports of all Irish superior court decisions from 2011 can be found on the web site Stare Decisis Hibernia. |
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Sadler's Bill when introduced indeed corresponded closely to the aims of the Short Time Committees. |
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Short Films, Big Ideas was launched at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival in partnership with cinelan. |
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In 2017 his story 'Murder and its Motives' was longlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger. |
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Today, Leeds International Film Festival's International Short Film Competition is named after Louis Le Prince. |
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Selected Short Stay Group locations will be repositioned under BridgeStreet's ApartHotels, Living, Places and Studyo brands. |
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On the other hand if Labour is to readmit Ken Livingstone, Clare Short will have at least one ally in the House of Commons. |
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Top money of pounds 568 went to Steve Ianson, from Yorkshire, with David Ayrie, of Newcastle, second and another Yorkshire, Paul Short, third. |
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In 1640 Blake was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bridgwater in the Short Parliament. |
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We propose a novel single-channel method of dereverberation based on a linear filter in the Short Time Fourier Transform domain. |
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His son, Pepin the Short, inherited his power, and used it to further expand Frankish influence. |
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A new penny, called the Short Cross, was introduced, and the number of mints reduced substantially to ten across the country. |
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The Long Parliament proved just as difficult for Charles as had the Short Parliament. |
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Cromwell was returned to this Parliament as member for Cambridge, but it lasted for only three weeks and became known as the Short Parliament. |
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Short of supplies and doubting their ability to defend themselves, the city authorities requested that Hood take it under his protection. |
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The RAF's first heavy bomber, the Short Stirling, entered service at RAF Leeming with 7 Sqn. |
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Roe and the Short Brothers had a training in engineering and their companies were usually privately financed. |
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Stansted has a variety of car parking including Long, Mid and Short Stay options along with Valet and Meet and Greet Parking services. |
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In 754, at the urgent request of Pope Stephen, the Frankish king Pepin the Short conquered the Lombards. |
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However, by the end of the Short Parliament in 1640, he had written a short treatise called The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic. |
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In 1959, he was Peter O'Toole's understudy in Lindsay Anderson's West End staging of Willis Hall's The Long and the Short and the Tall. |
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From Singapore they made the final leg of their journey in a Short Sunderland flying boat. |
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The Short Titles Act 1892, and its replacement the Short Titles Act 1896, gave short titles to many Acts which previously lacked them. |
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Short term debt is generally considered to be for one year or less, long term is for more than ten years. |
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Short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the Strand Magazine. |
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Short and zoftig, she wore muumuus and rose-tinted, oversize glasses, was loud, abrasive, and very funny. |
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The short won the Best Documentary Short Subject at the 35th Academy Awards ceremony. |
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Only UK films are eligible for the categories of The British Short Film and British Short Animation awards. |
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Short dated licences are set to expire 12 months after the previous expiry date. |
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Short stories such as Ficciones and The Aleph are among his most famous works. |
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Henry reformed the system of silver coins in England in 1247, replacing the older Short Cross silver pennies with a new Long Cross design. |
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His son, Pepin the Short, seized the crown of Francia from the weakened Merovingians and founded the Carolingian dynasty. |
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Short of survival, human concerns include the range from quality of life to health hazards. |
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The future was heralded when the seaplane carrier HMS Engadine and her Short 184 seaplanes joined the battle. |
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Short radio waves reflect from curves and corners in a way similar to glint from a rounded piece of glass. |
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Short astronomic cycles can be the difference between the tides or the spring tide every two weeks. |
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Short of high treason, the gravest form of breach of the peace known to British law is riot. |
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Short touchdown runs by running backs Matt Devlin and Arinze Ikemefuna put Calabasas ahead 13-0 at the half. |
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Another specialist in this genre, Catharine Mee, who writes as CS Mee, won the new Clare Swift Short Story Award for her story Metaphrasis. |
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Support organisation Carers UK has launched the Real Change, not Short Change campaign. |
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A Reading of Zoomorphism in 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macombed. |
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The Marie Short House evokes the woolsheds of New South Wales. |
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In 1643 there appeared Ivan Uzhevych's Grammatica sclavonica and, in 1762, the Short Introduction to English Grammar of Robert Lowth was also published. |
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In 743, Pepin the Short and Carloman waged a campaign to reduce Alamannia and in 746 Carloman began a final thrust to subdue the Alamannic nobility. |
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Short diphthongs were monomoraic, taking up the same amount of time as short vowels, while long diphthongs were bimoraic, the same as long vowels. |
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Short stems grow up from extensive, white branching rhizomes. |
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Also in 2004, Sheen played a pompous rock star in the romantic comedy Laws of Attraction and produced and starred in The Banker, which won a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. |
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That year, Labour MP Clare Short attempted in vain to persuade Parliament to outlaw the pictures on Page Three and gained opprobrium from the newspaper for her stand. |
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When in November 1640 the Long Parliament succeeded the Short, Hobbes felt that he was in disfavour due to the circulation of his treatise and fled to Paris. |
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Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company based in Belfast. |
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Short shafts of dying sunlight mingled with the deepening grey, lavendering the horizon, and all nature seemed to hush as though waiting to welcome the night. |
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With our added food offerings and new Short Stop concession stand, Sportservice has built on the already great family experience at the Little League World Series. |
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The film entered the festival circuit where it was named Best Short Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival, in addition to obtaining other awards. |
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Short lead times generally are linked to faster-growing tumors and long lead times typically are associated with non-aggressive cancer that can go undetected for years. |
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Most notable are Jane Short and Fred Rich, both Liverymen of the Goldsmiths' Company, together with Phil Barnes, Vladimir Bohm and Stephen Bottomley. |
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Near the end of his life, Hitchcock had worked on the script for a projected spy thriller, The Short Night, collaborating with James Costigan, Ernest Lehman and David Freeman. |
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