Stiff penalties are to be introduced for people who make bogus insurance claims. |
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Stiff zoning laws, even when they're well-intended, result in unintended consequences. |
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Stiff cuticles are simple to recognize, and loricate genera can often be recognized based upon lorica shape alone. |
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If it's sandy or stiff with clay, dig in humus to improve water retention and aeration. |
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The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences. |
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Stiff cliched characters, unreal situations, and a bit too much autobiography. |
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Cadet Drew Callaghan nodded in return, and resumed his stiff stance, holding the door open for the two girls. |
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I'm now a bit stiff and have a big lump on my right foot where I caught a guy on the elbow. |
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The government could certainly go to employers and enact stiff penalties and cut that spigot off. |
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She asked Congress on Saturday to legislate stiff punishments for illegal loggers, stopping short of calling for the death penalty. |
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With a spectator's hat on, you'd need a stiff drink to even think about it. |
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Stiff competition in various categories of durables and among firms which make items of daily consumption, means that no great price hikes are anticipated. |
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The air was cold and a stiff wind had blown up, howling down corridors like a banshee. |
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Pressure is constantly applied on school administrations to attract greater numbers or face stiff funding cuts. |
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It broke down not because it met with stiff physical resistance from security forces but more because it was an ideological flop. |
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Stiff muscles and raw skin make basic movements extremely difficult. |
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The company is facing stiff competition from rivals that have launched new products such as DVD players and televisions. |
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She was dressed in a style I had only seen in old portraits, a stiff black dress with flaring skirts and a lace-ornamented stomacher. |
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It also has a tiny beak with a large gape, surrounded by stiff feathers called rictal bristles, which help the bird catch its aerial prey. |
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In winter I washed my clothes and put them on the line to dry and they got so stiff, I was shocked. |
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A woman in her mid-fifties stood on a ladder organizing books on a top shelf, her stiff, dark hair long since made limp by the humidity. |
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In a fashion shoot called Doll Drums, the model lies limp and stiff, draped over chairs as if she'd been thrown there by a petulant child. |
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You can then work over the wood surface with a stiff broom to further dislodge dirt, then rinse it off with a hose. |
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Stiff winds during the five-day cruise meant the guests felt the full effect of a traditional sailing ship pounding through the waves under full sail. |
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Stiff upper-lipped Brits aren't keen on PDA at the best of times and it'll be super awks if you drool over your manager only to get dumped a few weeks later. |
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In a traditional yurt, the framework is covered with felt mats and tied down with hair ropes to prevent the mats from blowing off in stiff winds. |
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But he wanted to be able to feel them once more, their less-than-perfect curvatures beneath her cold lids and stiff, rough lashes. |
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The dancers are competent but seemed rather stiff it's panto girls and boys, let yourselves go! |
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I've let this old carcass get as stiff as beef jerky on a cold winter morning. |
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I get up and stretch out my stiff muscles and take the bookmark and put it in the book on the page I was reading. |
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The recent snow and rain turned some of the peat hags into quagmires and a stiff westerly wind made the going tough. |
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This preserves function, especially in relation to the accessory nerve, which if sacrificed usually gives rise to a stiff and painful shoulder. |
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She is one of the world's most consistent javelin throwers but faces stiff competition from Russia's world champion. |
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Hopefully i wont be all stiff and achy since i might have done a bit too much today, but i was eager to get in and do some gardening! |
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I don't feel any better for it today, in fact if anything my body is really achy and stiff probably from lying down for so long. |
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Louise moves to the opening of the lounge, in stiff jerky movements as though hampered by the knitting of broken bones. |
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The more he kept moving the more he realized he still felt stiff so the injection's effect was wearing off. |
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Running as if in diving boots, his back looked stiff and his shoulder appeared to be giving him gyp. |
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All the others depend on jobseeker's allowance, which imposes stiff penalties on people who fail to seek work. |
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I was met with a stiff child, no answering or responsive hug, no acknowledgement and a blank stare into space. |
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The exercise will move stiff shoulder joints and stretch muscles in the waist. |
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A west wind blew stiff and steady all morning, so I never really warmed up. |
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They are scared stiff of what other people think, who in turn are scared stiff of what they think. |
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Some are scared stiff of losing their work, others are pressured by family members not to complain. |
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But the upper class is scared stiff of his rise, and plots to foil his attempts through fraud. |
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A brave businesswoman who is scared stiff of sharks is set to take the charity plunge into a tank full of the fearsome fish. |
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He handed over his passport to the ramrod stiff guard in the booth and waited. |
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I lay down beside him on my back, stiff as a ramrod, praying he wasn't going to do what he did. |
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Abruptly the old man wheezed and slumped back in his chair, one stiff, gnarled hand to his chest. |
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Using the whipping attachments, whip the sugar and cream until medium stiff peaks are achieved. |
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Beat egg white with a whisk or handheld mixer in a small bowl until just stiff. |
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With a clean whisk, beat the egg white till it stands stiff then fold into the mascarpone. |
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The grand pas de deux was danced in white with red trim and while Kitri's costume was beautiful the stiff tutu lacked grace. |
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The white chocolate is smooth, creamy and stiff with grains of proper Bourbon vanilla, not vanillin, the cost-cutting artificial flavouring. |
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Future revenue would be harvested from a single-rate flat tax on wages or, better still, a stiff sales tax on consumption. |
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As per your suggestion, I had a stiff Tom Collins, followed by some White Russians and a few shooters. |
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My limbs are stiff and painful, my nose is running like a tap, my throat feels like I've swallowed a razor blade, and I feel like I am drunk. |
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Punishment for those involved was sharp and painful in receiving half a dozen strokes across the bared back with a stiff cane. |
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Many of the relays doing very well up against stiff opposition and bad weather. |
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He signed and reclined in the tub, resting his stiff neck on the padded edge. |
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I wait for them at the top, dangling my feet off the side of the building, wiggling my stiff toes in the air. |
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Jacqui was too busy rearranging her skirts after her untimely fall to notice our stiff conversation. |
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I have some aida cloth that is so stiff it's hard to work with. How can I soften it? |
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The Cooper S holds the road well and although the ride can be a little stiff at times, that's only to be expected with something this sporty. |
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Arms and legs grow stiff in the chilly water, paddling becomes hard, wipeouts and swims brutal. |
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Julia, who had never set foot on a ship before, clutched the rigging in alarm when the ship first heeled over with the stiff breeze. |
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We were all admiring her British stiff upper lip as she gobbled down a witchetty grub as if it were a bar of chocolate. |
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The answers lie in stiff competition in their domestic markets, in woeful mismanagement, even the collapse of some businesses. |
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Using a stiff long-handled brush, scrub the stain with concentrated detergent suds. |
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But the car all comers have to beat is this one, and it's stiff competition. |
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The stiff and stylised human forms dominate, colluding powerfully with the resonant colours. |
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The most common cause of posterior heel bursitis is ill-fitting footwear with a stiff posterior edge that abrades the area of the Achilles tendon insertion. |
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In the 1950s, hand scrubbing required the use of rough brushes with stiff bristles that abraded the skin and frequently increased bacterial counts. |
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I am possessed, as much as the next man, of that stiff upper lip, steely resolve and adamantine backbone which make us British positively megalithic in the face of danger. |
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They have supported bands such as Rancid, Stiff Little Fingers, Spunge and The Dead Pets to name but a few. |
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Levy recounts how she herself went to a chiropractor in 2002 to seek help with a stiff shoulder she had developed in her sleep. |
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The Stiff Upper Lip tour was, if anything, a scrawny twin of the Ballbreaker trek. |
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Washing happened in an enormous sink on the rooftop or in the compound, scrubbed in cold water and using a special detergent and a stiff brush on a corrugated washboard. |
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There's a stiff breeze coming off the Indian Ocean and the surfies are clustered in groups, waddling around in their wetsuits like hipster penguins. |
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It was the mid-morning angelus and the chanting could be heard echoing throughout the halls and vibrating the stiff walls as the slow cries to the Virgin were heard. |
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My favourite memory of a tall ship is standing at the helm of the Lord Nelson under full sail, feeling her heel over in a stiff breeze until her port deck was awash. |
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Nelson stood and stretched his muscles, stiff from the prolonged still position and the rigidness of the chair, and went over to check on his sleeping son. |
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Her pallid young face, brow sweating with fear and pain, yet resolute and stiff with sorrow, makes you want to cry. |
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Stiff drinks had already been ordered from the bar before what became an inevitable result filtered through from Mr Blatter's lecturn. |
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The harness consists of two shoulder straps, made from a medium-grade webbing, which are comfortable and mould to your torso without being too stiff. |
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The story is all the more remarkable when you take into account the size of Europe's wine lake and the stiff competition in today's crushingly crowded fine wine market. |
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Coming back in the rider raised his sword and brought it down on the stiff wire, shearing it through to prevent the bandits from reeling it in to fire at him a second time. |
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McMordie, the bass guitarist and founding member of the punk bank Stiff Little Fingers, now runs his own Ali McMordie Tour Management business. |
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I turned around and marched away, my body unexplainably stiff and rigid. |
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The spidery construction looked like it would fall apart in a stiff breeze. |
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When I got out of bed this morning my back was stiff as a board. |
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Splints and slings, already described, are easily artificed out of small saplings or from stiff bark. |
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His portraits looked stiff and formal but his candids showed life being lived. |
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Try any fusibles you have on hand, making sure that they aren't too stiff for the project you have in mind. |
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The glabrous old head cranks round on him, stiff and slow, until the clouded eyes draw level with his own. |
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Despite stiff resistance from the East India lobby in parliament and from the Company's shareholders, the Act passed. |
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This law allowed stiff fines, increasing with the number of slaves transported, for captains of slave ships. |
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The Treasury rejected proposals for a stiff capital levy, which the Labour Party wanted to use to weaken the capitalists. |
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They looped ropes around the stiff legbones of the first cow and pulled her body toward the stoneboat, resting between spurts of hauling. |
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In Northern Europe, cooks created the pastry using fats like lard and butter to make stiff dough to hold an upright pie. |
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The thumb of a Mercurian has a tendency to be stiff, as they love money and may have difficulty sharing it. |
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I'm not much of a holiday merrymaker, but I do appreciate a stiff glass of eggnog while the others sing carols. |
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His singular and complex personality has provided historians and biographers with a particularly stiff challenge. |
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Bayeux was not captured the first day due to stiff resistance from the 352nd Infantry Division. |
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It met stiff resistance from the British 3rd Division and was soon recalled to assist in the area between Caen and Bayeux. |
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However, expansion into the hinterlands of both cities met with stiff resistance. |
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On June 7, an invasion of 6,000 men under Hessian general Wilhelm von Knyphausen met stiff resistance from the local militia. |
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The Zaydi highland tribes emerged as national heroes by offering a stiff, vigorous resistance to the Turkish occupation. |
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The collected laver is repeatedly washed to remove sand and boiled for hours until it becomes a stiff, green mush. |
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The arms of some stenurids are slender and flexible, but those of others are broad and comparatively stiff. |
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Small depressions on the upper jaw each contain a lone stiff hair, but are only visible on close inspection. |
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In upwind designs, turbine blades must be made stiff to prevent the blades from being pushed into the tower by high winds. |
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Like other petrels, their walking ability is limited, but they are strong fliers, with a stiff wing action quite unlike the gulls. |
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Members of Rajidae are distinguished by their stiff snout and a rostrum that is not reduced. |
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Old Cigfolla, who despite stiff joints could outspin any of them, drew out a fine thread of flax. |
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Beat egg whites with an electric mixer or a whisk until stiff peaks form, but do not overbeat. |
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They met stiff resistance from the British 3rd Infantry Division and were soon recalled to assist in the area between Caen and Bayeux. |
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The wings are stiff and cambered, with thickened streamlined leading edges. |
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Certain species of passerines have stiff tail feathers, which help the birds balance themselves when perching upon vertical surfaces. |
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The nature of the muscle is so stiff, it is almost as hard as bone to touch, as if it were the continuum of the skull. |
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One of his grievances was that he had to exchange his stylish Paris suit for a stiff uniform and pigtail. |
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Avoid stiff pocketings of 100 percent polyester. To reduce bulk, cut linings for patch pockets from lining fabric rather than self-fabric. |
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Especially in the first half of the century, portraits were very formal and stiff in composition. |
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Conditions deteriorate at the crossing of Buttermere Moss, followed by a stiff climb to the summit. |
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From here a stiff ascent up what may have been a landslip leads directly to the summit. |
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This can yield stiff and lifeless performances in slower more expressive cues. |
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The male, as Dr. Gunther informs me, has a cluster of stiff, straight spines, like those of a comb, on the sides of the tail. |
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She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him. |
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Whisk your egg whites until you have stiff peaks and then the bowl can be held upside down over your head and the egg whites stay put. |
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In typical British stiff upper lip fashion, the tournament organizers expected us to play into, and through, the menacing weather. |
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A man may go pretty near through his whole sea-life without any call to show a stiff upper lip. |
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I thought now the jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I determined to keep a stiff upper lip. |
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If he is lame in both feet the gait is stilty, the shoulders seem stiff, and, if made to work, he sweats profusely from intense pain. |
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A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake. |
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They disappear at once on slightly relaxing the air-pressure, whilst true incipient thickenings of the surface remain white and unpliably stiff. |
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The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands, the lid hurled back. |
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Tuco-tucos groom themselves to remove loose sand from their fur by combing with the stiff bristles that grow near the bases of the hind claws. |
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But Bernice, standing stiff and angry in the starlight, turned on her heel without a response. |
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I wipe away the tears of unjoy before they stain the hideous, stiff bedspread. |
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Revivalists often regard classic soul as a museum piece, stiff and untweakable. |
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The calyx, too, instead of being woollyish, is merely fringed with rather stiff hairs. |
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If athletes do too much too soon, they will be stiff and sore 24 to 48 hours after a new workout. |
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The disadvantage is the stiff watch strap from LG even though it is genuine leather and it looks cheap. |
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Combine a pressure washer or stiff yard broom with a path cleaner or algicide. |
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The jacket had all the figure-hugging shape of a wind sock and the stiff, unforgiving shoulders resembled American football pads. |
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The best way to attack this is with a stiff broom or wire brush and remove as much as possible. |
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Wormcasts are a problem for many and need removing from the lawn with a stiff broom before the first mow. |
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They create a nice, soft arc at low amperages and a stiff arc on the high end. |
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She is heading back to the UK in June for the British premiere of STiFF at the Questors Theatre in London. |
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Just as soon as the world is full of twisty stiff pseudo-nature, the Casa del Fascio will appear and dazzle us like we are apemen. |
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The jaws of leaf-cutter ants and locusts, for example, both contain high levels of zinc, making them particularly stiff and hard. |
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Fortunately, the man in the passenger seat had the stiff upper lip bit off to a tee. |
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Mud that's been churned up, or bioturbated, would be softer, freed of the stiff microbial mat that covered much of the seafloor. |
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They are dark green, stiff and leathery, and often scurfy underneath with yellow-brown pubescence. |
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Ms Roberts, a guide at the Whistlefish Gallery, saw off stiff competition from more than 90 entries from around the world to win the pounds 1,000 first prize. |
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Scrub your wastebaskets with a clean, stiff brush using soap and water. |
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A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake. Or rent a power rake or vertical mower. |
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He felt like a toss-up between a bindle stiff and a skid row derelict. |
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The rooms are larger than average and they are fully air-conditioned to ensure that our guests will be comfortable whether a bergwind or a stiff southwester is blowing. |
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This is the west-coast take on structured freedom, and it's a wonderfully far cry from the film soundstages where too many LA jazzmen grow rich and stiff. |
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At the southern tip of the island that was shaped like a letter qof they splashed up a stone embankment and clambered stiff and stumbling like unarticulated iron beings. |
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Some alternate terms for this missile have included the spear, but this term has fallen out of favour since in all other uses, spears are stiff enough to be used for stabbing. |
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This combines the best of the above, but is costly, heavy, and stiff. |
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Drummond, like Hearst, believed that the music programmes' presentation was too stiff and formal and he therefore encouraged announcers to be more natural and enthusiastic. |
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Males may speed up the process by rubbing their antlers on trees, so that their antlers are hard and stiff for the duels during the mating season. |
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Unlike birds whose stiff wings deliver bending and torsional stress to the shoulders, bats have a flexible wing membrane which can only resist tension. |
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The optimal caudal fin for sustained swimming is stiff, has a high aspect ratio, and a lunate shape that reduces drag produced by the wake of the fish. |
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Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied. |
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The fourth and fifth digits go from the wrist to the trailing edge, and repel the bending force caused by air pushing up against the stiff membrane. |
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This combined with stiff resistance led to the failure of their attack. |
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Burgoyne's pursuit ran into stiff resistance at Hubbardton and Fort Anne. |
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No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi' thy nesh sides. |
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Doesn't anybody recognize humor anymore, or have our faces gone completely stiff from thinking about good vs. evil or character balance or munchkin-zapping? |
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The Japanese successfully attacked over the Kawkareik Pass, and captured the port of Moulmein at the mouth of the Salween River after overcoming stiff resistance. |
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Reducing or reefing the total sail area will have the same effect and many boats will sail faster with less sail in a stiff breeze due to the reduction in underwater drag. |
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Every boy, or youth, who has not exercised before, is either entirely stiff, or if he possesses some limberness, he rarely understands to execute a regular movement. |
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Where was Uncle? Gone for a stiff one? Again? His hollow leg, you know. Ducking in the john to throw up on his loafers? Probably that. What did he have tonight? Anything good? |
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Would I go equipped? You can get a stiff sentence for that! I've got a couple of skeleton keys, I don't deny, but I hope we won't need them. There are other ways. |
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I woke with a stiff neck in slightly gasiferous sunlight, mechanically receiving a mug of lurid tea with a dash of petrol from one of my invincibles. |
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She faces stiff competition from cocksure northern rockers Arctic Monkeys, baby-faced crooner Jake Bugg, London dance duo Disclosure and evergreen pop icon David Bowie. |
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The tibial comb or forespur, on the front pair of legs, has about 65 teeth, stiff and elastic, and is deftly fitted into the tarsus opposite, which has about 45 coarser teeth. |
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It is a perennial and herbaceous plant, 30 to 80 centimeters high, with stiff stems and simple or compound lanceolate basal leaves with 2-3 teeth. |
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Under the plan, the AFL-CIO and network will pursue minimum wage campaigns, safety at construction sites and legislation to criminalize employers who stiff day laborers. |
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