The time is at hand to correct all of these shortcomings as a matter of urgency. |
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Getting back to the task at hand, he scooped visible wreckage away, wary of the glass shards and smiled in triumph as he spotted his quarry. |
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My interest quickly wavered from the conversation at hand and with a soft yawn I let my gaze fall back onto the printed words of the book. |
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If one wanted a different look, perspective or elevation, it's done in a jiffy on readymade steel frames by hundreds of skilled workers at hand. |
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Designers themselves lift for different purposes, depending on the work at hand. |
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If your addled brain cannot focus on the real work at hand, busy yourself with menial tasks like cleaning, filing and arranging. |
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Gently brush aside students' anxiety about not getting the answer by refocusing their attention on the problem at hand. |
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How does this play into the subject at hand, which is the Supreme Court and justices? |
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Bags are a girl's best friend, allowing women to keep their must-have possessions close at hand. |
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Hence time becomes worldly, world-time, a time within which everything present at hand or ready to hand has its place. |
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Against all this, Montanism called the Church to tighten the reigns and repent, for the kingdom of God was now finally at hand. |
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The commanding general wishes to talk to her himself, but it is of low priority, with the fight so close at hand. |
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But this advice comes too late for you, my dear woman, and we must deal with the situation at hand. |
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It isn't easy being a red-hot lover these days, but take heart, help is at hand for those with a penchant for penning a love poem. |
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She was gazing into the mirror, not really paying attention to the task at hand when a knock sounded at the door. |
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I at least had the satisfaction of startling the idiot out of his numb trance before I knuckled down to the task at hand. |
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I love having plenty of little game devices and utilities at hand, you never know when you might need plastic bags, spare dice or writing pads. |
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Even at this hour there were usually at least two secretaries at hand to take down the words in relays. |
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The weaponry used also has to be seen in terms relative to the conflict at hand. |
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Because in proceeding thus we are only collecting by historical methodology the definitions at hand and resolving them into a general formula. |
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Considering the artful subtlety found elsewhere, this is a let-down, stripping the film of any resonance with the issues at hand. |
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Well-prepared with umbrellas and caps, spectators waved fans or improvised from whatever was at hand to fight the heat. |
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The transfer was valid at the time the document was signed and this has no bearing on the matters at hand. |
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It is a state of mind that inspires and arouses us to put action into the task at hand. |
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Though rarely seen, it appears always to be close at hand and never at a loss for means of locomotion and transport. |
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She likes the cafe and restaurant scene, but she especially loves the proximity of the great outdoors so close at hand. |
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There is a good selection of shops, restaurants and bars close at hand and the city centre is within walking distance. |
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Quanta's efficiency is helped by its system of maintaining clusters of component suppliers close at hand. |
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No sound at all and you'd better curl yourself into a closet or head for a cellar if there's one close at hand. |
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It's beside rivers and numerous streams close at hand for fishing for trout. |
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Close at hand there is a table-tomb with an inscription which could still be read at the turn of the 20th century. |
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The M50 is also close at hand, and there are several primary and secondary schools within the vicinity. |
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She has at hand the most current available data on plants, insects, and diseases. |
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I have a whole lot of little yellow slips of paper close at hand at all times. |
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It makes me want to gouge out my eyes with whatever office implements I have close at hand. |
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So you can put your passport and boarding card in there, conveniently at hand at all times. |
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The notional addressee is likely to want to use materials readily at hand to make essentially the same thing as is disclosed in the prior art. |
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And the technology and the means of making that a reality is close at hand. |
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And it does seem sometimes that no matter how well things are going heartache is often very close at hand as well. |
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The current relative quiet on the Israeli-Palestinian front shouldn't lull anyone into believing that peace is at hand. |
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For Toly Kouroumalis, who counts the author as an inspiration, chaos always seems close at hand. |
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Thanking the protective services for their quick response, Aboud said he hoped that success was close at hand. |
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I have decided to take today off, a very arrogant attitude, you might say, with public exams so close at hand. |
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The crowd cheered wildly as she shimmied her way back in to the saddle and patted her horse for keeping his mind on the job at hand. |
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While New York City burned, Federal officials acted too slowly to meet the threat at hand. |
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September is one of the busiest months of the year, with a range of different tasks at hand. |
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Although a dynamic dual model is theoretically preferred, the required data do not exist for the problem at hand. |
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His mind drifted away from the situation at hand as he allowed himself to feel the extent of her devotion. |
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Your attention drifts away from the task at hand just as a car comes around the corner with its high beams on. |
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If we've gotten line matchups or individual player matchups from the coaches, then I focus on the task at hand. |
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The world, Heidegger says, is not the mere collection of the countable or uncountable, familiar and unfamiliar things that are at hand. |
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He became the impeachment maven even though he had no clear expertise related to the questions at hand. |
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However, in the case at hand, were Chen's remarks so farfetched that they warrant this kind of public bashing of his credibility and authority? |
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The radius of circle or arc you can make with this beam compass set is limited only by the ledge you have at hand. |
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At the depths of a bear market, when the market is down and dirty, it is hard to make people believe that an upturn is at hand. |
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Dobbs' task will be to stem the viewership drain, and he says he harbors no illusions about the difficulty of the job at hand. |
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Again Alex berated herself for wool gathering, and bent back to the task at hand. |
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It was somewhat with surprise that she heard the acolytes singing the benediction, and she brought her full attention back to the matter at hand. |
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Knowledge is best gained through an intimate association with the matter at hand. |
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But eventually everyone focused back on the subject at hand when the tremble in the arbitrator's voice hinted his conclusion. |
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But short of tearing up the city and starting again, there is no comprehensive fix at hand. |
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Remove your safety net and truly commit to the task at hand. Congratulations my friend, you’re ready to burn your boats! |
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Or should they rebut the Democrats' black smear campaign with the evidence at hand? |
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The task at hand now for international peace monitors is ensuring that the process gets back on track. |
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With the jurisprudence in mind, I turn to the application of the factors to the case at hand. |
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The audio is the same Dolby Digital 2.0 mono format as we heard in the previous boxed sets and, for the material at hand, it's fine. |
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He cautiously poked the first node, concentrating solely on the object at hand so that he didn't hear the loud blare of ambulances approaching. |
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Is it possible for a sitting member of Parliament to be objective and conduct the tasks at hand on behalf of the people? |
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As we sailed on a light wind, small islands close at hand slid quickly past and behind them ranges stood immobile on the skyline. |
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It's nice to think that there are a few places, close at hand, where the natural world can live unhampered by man. |
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On opening the hardbound, heavy book, one unmindfully feels one more souvenir is at hand. |
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As she labored on she, every once in a while, would glance over to the unmoving form behind her then return to the task at hand. |
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Here the air is so thin that bottled oxygen is at hand in case construction workers faint. |
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Although she would not look at him, she was always near at hand, so close that he felt he could feel the quickened beating of her heart. |
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Her voice was a grand thing near at hand, but Elary couldn't help noticing that it died away quickly against the high ceiling of the cavern. |
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I thought of her as I wrote it, enjoyed imagining her having it always near at hand, lying on the wicker stool by her armchair at home. |
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In whatever vehicle he was driving, a double-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun resided somewhere near at hand. |
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He turned, smashing his fist into one of the statues that were near at hand, causing it to explode violently. |
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When they were all finally seated around the tables, drinks near at hand, Jerusha started the conversation. |
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Michael was very popular in Bohola and had a witty word always near at hand. |
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Penny now had playmates near at hand and there was always someone for me to talk to. |
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That rifle had been near at hand for so long it had almost seemed a part of me. |
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Addicts need to go through rehab and detox near their families, or have those facilities near at hand. |
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Since these came from islands where the sea is always near at hand, they took root most easily in the coastal strips. |
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They'll use letters, postcards, telegrams, cars and whatever other technology is at hand to snare the unwary. |
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As the Olympic Games return to the land of their birth, a revival of the ancient Greeks' other brainchildren seems to be at hand as well. |
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The clash of civilizations sought by the Bush administration's neoconservatives appears to be nearly at hand. |
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The basic issue at hand is whether computer software can or should be entitled to a patent. |
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As we shall see the grazers, browsers, and mixed feeders all learn to make do with what's at hand. |
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The real task at hand is to enjoy the holidays, then buckle down once again on a realistic set of New Year's resolutions. |
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Why else, then, do I hang out in the vestibules of trains, when a comfortable seat is at hand in the car behind me? |
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Each is rendered in a garish expressionist style at odds with the subject matter, as if the artist were completely oblivious to the drama at hand. |
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However, the process of learning in groups can be a rocky experience for both learners and teachers, no matter how interested they are in the topic at hand. |
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Johnson was seconded by futurists and utopians for whom a society of spontaneous pleasure seemed at hand. |
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Burton's flair for image seems always at odds with the story at hand. |
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I've got the usual collection of writerly type books that I keep at hand. |
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Lorna set the knives near at hand, then stood ready with a lamp. |
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And it lists all the towns and cities which it claims are near at hand. |
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These data can only be explained if one assumes that the affective valence of the prime is processed, even though this is not necessary for the task at hand. |
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They can only watch it end in the disaster which appears so close at hand. |
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Some long-awaited good news on Laybourne Lakes, Hessay, is at hand. |
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The governor did just fine on the question, but it could have become a defining moment had he put a face to the question at hand. |
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Why chase non-issues when there are much more serious matters at hand? |
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By this point, everything you need to make a turducken is at hand. |
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Why bother to curb your appetite with a cure so close at hand? |
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While many may find the author's above comments relevant to the issue at hand, branding products as a method of securing their computer strikes me as one-upmanship. |
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The Dalai Lama regaled the crowd with stories, not all pertinent to the subject at hand. |
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If they were too rowdy, there were brass knuckles, chains, clubs, knives and guns readily at hand, and the less lucky soldiers might be severely beaten. |
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These urban dwellers wanted their recreational sites near at hand. |
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He happened to have a copy of the 2009 paperback at hand, glanced through it, and again overlooked the footnote. |
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With first graders on hands and knees, eyes peeled on the tarantula at hand, Trevino goes into his spiel on the life and times of spiders and other creepy crawlers. |
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For instance, if the banks issued dollar notes, silver dollars ceased to circulate, and no one paid with a gold eagle if a ten dollar note was at hand. |
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Sometimes, the sheer volume of data can present problems with the management of the information at hand, and, again, a period of acclimatization may be required. |
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All of the amenities are at hand, including tennis courts, squash, minigolf, windsurfing, pedal boats, kayaks, water-skiing, parasailing, scuba diving and fitness areas. |
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Their disagreement is just a political sideshow when compared to the real issues at hand. |
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It made sense with so many suspects at hand, less so with the tower entrance separated from them by a forty foot wall. |
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Hawks began at the double and applied themselves to the task at hand with vim and vigour, taking all the early ball and constructing an effortless try in the process. |
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For this vile end the bagnios and lodging-houses are near at hand. |
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He had to keep his mind sharp to focus on the problem at hand. |
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I bit my trembling lip and twisted a stray lock of coppery hair around my finger as my mind frantically scrabbled for some way out of the problem at hand. |
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Well, despite the litany of issues at hand, this is an absolute win-win for Jackson. |
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Condi, as she is always known, had conned Linda into thinking the President needed to have his medical doctor close at hand. |
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Now this did not one jot move the orange till she saw a man at work with an incision-knife, upon a balm-tree there at hand, to let out the balsam. |
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Typically, these are at least as starved for funds as the province, and the job at hand inevitably has to be picked up by groups of unpaid volunteers. |
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But salvation is now at hand for lovers of the noble grape who previously had no option but to pour away their expensive and lovingly laid-down bottles. |
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The two were seated around Mia's desk, cups of cocoa near at hand. |
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The cook, who was not only well versed with family recipes and personal favourites, but also agreeable to being the sole, general body at hand for all contingencies! |
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Amphris was a little untrusting some times, especially when issues of trust revolved around such important and delicate matters as the one at hand. |
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But MacLennan keeps slipping into the familiar, sparkling context of the decadent era, losing sight of the historically neglected relationship at hand. |
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Come Sundayby Isla Morley Isla Morley's first novel should not be attempted without a Kleenex box at hand. |
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The action is close at hand with heavy shelling and night bombing. |
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She gave herself a mental shake and turned back to the task at hand. |
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Morley is a stunning storyteller, although Come Sunday should not be attempted without a Kleenex box at hand. |
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Loyola said Allen never discussed his personal life or his family, but focused on the job at hand. |
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Measure the brandy, sherry and cream and have everything close at hand. |
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Some of the best in the bond market say a bond bear could be at hand. |
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The pair came off, for all intents and purposes, as passionately opinionated amateurs on the subject at hand. |
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The more posterior parts of the zygomatic arch are not preserved, and the presence of zygomatic ridges cannot be determined from the evidence at hand. |
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If it is an important call, make sure to make a list of all the things you want to say and keep it close at hand and then tick off each item as you progress. |
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He is pragmatic and transactional, doing whatever is needed to solve the problem at hand. |
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The other result was that Bob became skilled at hand setting lines of display type, locking up printing formes and hand feeding both treadle and motorised presses. |
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High up and near at hand a deep bell sonorously tolled the hour. |
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A small thing at hand is greater than a great thing remote, and Lilia, misconducting herself upon a mountain in Central Italy, was immediately hidden. |
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So he resigned himself to just thinking about the matters at hand. |
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An analogy achieves its purpose insofar as it helps solve the problem at hand. |
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Picasso's area providers include several farms, a dairy and Hardwick Sugar Shack, whose maple syrup is close at hand. |
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These antennas will help ensure the user maintains accurate and consistent gain and directivity for the application at hand. |
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It is intolerable that this grindingly slow process should eat into the country finances when a simple resolution is at hand. |
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Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees. |
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When she moves from anthropological classification to fantasy, her figures adapt, evolutionlike, to the tasks at hand. |
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A day in April never came so sweet To show how costly summer was at hand As this forespurrer comes before his lord. |
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Luckily for Wellesley, Pirch I's and Zieten's corps of the Prussian Army were now at hand. |
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Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted to lord it over them his triumph was at hand. |
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The usable model at hand, when Constantine wanted to memorialise his imperial piety, was the familiar conventional architecture of the basilicas. |
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When building in stone a prominent concern of medieval builders was to have quarries close at hand. |
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The crop season was at hand and the sugarcane fields, managerless, were open to the malice of those who bore the Tulsis grudges. |
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Early bilingual learners showed that they simply responded most efficiently to the task at hand. |
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We search for God and feel Him near at hand, only then to blink and find Him gone. |
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The furnace was established on the hillside above Merthyr, not an ideal location, but all the elements for production were at hand. |
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Additionally, the land belonged to the army and a base with men and workshops was at hand. |
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The goal at hand was to develop an international agreement for controlling general environmental contamination by ships when out at sea. |
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They concluded that the cheapest van for the task at hand should always be used. |
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The island had a town and a fortress, so some stock of supplies was usually at hand. |
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Judges will try to identify a provision whose purpose applies to the case at hand. |
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Then, there are compared instances to which a given rule applies with ceratinty with the facts of the case at hand. |
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The judge can then consider the Restatement section and make an informed decision as to how to apply it in the case at hand. |
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The exact tool and parts are always at hand, having been moved down the assembly line consecutively. |
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Carlyle had quite a few unusual definitions at hand, which were collected by the Nuttall Encyclopedia. |
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It was here that Hanno decided to cross, and ordered that boats and rafts should be constructed from materials that were at hand. |
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But I have spoken long enough. There are times when silence is golden, and one of those times is at hand. |
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Students can collect textures by pressing the foam onto shoe soles, watchbands, spiral notebooks, and objects close at hand. |
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We create this protective cocoon around the worker in the workplace and allow them to deal with the workplace and the work at hand. |
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The data at hand match estimated levels of xenon produced by sporadic fission of curium-242 and curium-244 inside melted fuel, it said. |
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This is a shortcut to meaning, even less than a half-truth of what is actually at hand. |
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Well, old Knickerbocker hisself, think we have a game at hand today, Johnny Reb don't make a perfect mess of this day. |
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It is Lewis' cold-eyed conviction which convinces me that the day of atonement is at hand. |
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But the real issues at hand are oversharing and commodification. |
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Truly the Kali Yuga seemed at hand, and, as with the last fin de siecle, there was a revival of occultism. |
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Australia's day of judgement is at hand when they take on South Africa in a three-Test series today. |
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There are two metal kissing gates on the next section before the path veers to the left with Foster Beck close at hand on our right. |
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Respite is at hand with the customisation of the Saddam Spider Hole,offering respite from the jibes of Evertonians. |
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Keep an armoury of smell banishing products at hand like wet wipes, air deodoriser and spare nappies. |
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First, the essential facilities doctrine should be applied when the market at hand demonstrates tendencies of natural monopolies. |
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But help is at hand as Ireland's first Digital Detox Retreat opens its doors to wean us off the web. |
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As though a signal has been given, the lutanists strike up a plangent tune-and all who witness the wonder know The Moment is at hand. |
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You may wonder if they are not all much of a much-ness but in my experience it's vital to pick the right sealant to suit the job at hand. |
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A SUCCESSFUL photographer resorts to murder as a means of solving his marital difficulties, unaware that retribution is at hand in the shape of astute cop Columbo. |
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This means muddling through the issues at hand based on importance. |
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This idea is maintained by the theory that the play is meant to affect the viewer or reader scene by scene, with attention being only focused on the section at hand. |
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The first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand. |
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Alan Swinbank's gelding showed little aptitude for the task at hand on his debut at Carlisle, but his performance at Thirsk a fortnight ago was almost revelatory. |
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If you start getting hot under the collar the minute you enter the lingerie department, or if basques, balconettes and bustiers bring you out in a cold sweat, help is at hand. |
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Of course, an armada could not just sail into an Indian city and expect to find enough supplies at hand in the city's spice markets to load up five or ten large ships at once. |
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In sync with both Joss Whedon's Serenity and HBO's Deadwood, Meadows images and discombobulates contemporaneity as a Wild West making do with what's at hand. |
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In a RISC machine, a small set of built-in instructions allows plenty of extra room on a chip for temporarily storing data close at hand rather than on separate memory chips. |
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This might mean an impasse to those with unwillingness to edify the dogma they see as untrue and those who decline to refer to sacred matters on the subject at hand. |
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However their orders were not to explore there, as winter was at hand. |
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Fluxus artists preferred to work with whatever materials were at hand, and either created their own work or collaborated in the creation process with their colleagues. |
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While there was little doubt that Taylor had solidly won the first three quarters of the fight, the question at hand was whether he would survive the final quarter. |
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The usable model at hand, when Emperor Constantine I wanted to memorialize his imperial piety, was the familiar conventional architecture of the basilica. |
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She interacts personably and effectively with teams to ensure client needs are met through consistent interaction and a thorough understanding of the task at hand. |
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A cluttered virtual desktop is as bad as a cluttered physical desktop. It's visually distracting and makes it easy to get derailed from the task at hand. |
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For those, including us, who had come to the sale hamperless, relief was at hand in a refreshments marquee that had been put up near the thatched cottages. |
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While working they manage to reach a level of what Goleman calls 'flow', which is a state of 'self-forgetness' as a result of being engrossed in the task at hand. |
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Given that the topic at hand in Calma was compensation awarded to directors by directors, the case for self-interest was fairly easy for the plaintiffs to make. |
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He keeps close at hand the Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane, an alphabetized list of abbreviations frequently used by medieval scribes. |
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For already close at hand the Argive host in full array marches and scours along, and the whitening foam beflakes the plain with drops from the deep breath of the steeds. |
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He felt it, as did the other dogs, and knew that a change was at hand. |
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As a communicative approach, the orientation stage is where the members involved are becoming acquainted both with themselves as well as the problem at hand. |
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But must the motivated kids, with parental unit close at hand, be denied access to the hardware and software that shape the world, possibly even their career choice? |
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