From the outside the rope ran through the blade, through the round block and topsides and was fastened inside the hull. |
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A block grant introduced in 1948 helped the social services provided by local authorities. |
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The Egyptian forces were defeated, but they did block the canal to all shipping. |
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The IDF chief of staff General Moshe Dayan, first planned to block the vital Mitla Pass. |
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A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is called a graben. |
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An upthrown block between two normal faults dipping away from each other is called a horst. |
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In a block voting election, all candidates run against each other for m number of positions, where m is commonly called the district magnitude. |
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Parties in block voting systems can also benefit from strategic nomination. |
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The block voting system has a number of features which can make it unrepresentative of the voters' intentions. |
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While many criticize block voting's tendency to create landslide victories, some cite it as a strength. |
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Partial block voting is also used in the Spanish Senate, where there are 4 seats and each voter receives 3 votes. |
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Instead of a series of checkboxes, preferential block voting uses a preferential ballot. |
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The ability of upper houses to block supply also features in the parliaments of most Australian states. |
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As the block covers only home internet access, users may still visit the blocked websites from their office computers. |
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The new treaty deprived Russia of its right to block warships from passing into the Black Sea in case of war. |
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Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack. |
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The method is evaluated in conjunction with the multidelay block frequency domain adaptive filter. |
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This was due to the single's cover, which featured Copeland hanging himself over an ice block being melted by a portable radiator. |
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Winehouse joined a campaign to stop a block of flats being built beside the George Tavern, a famous London East End music venue. |
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Like other works of his and other Mannerists it removes far more of the original block than Michelangelo would have done. |
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The stick may also be used to block and to tackle, although a player may not come down on an opponent's stick, a practice called hacking. |
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It is also a founding member of the Mercosur block, having Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela as partners. |
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There were attempts to change the rules to block the formation of ITS, but they never came to fruition. |
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Thus initially neuroleptics may increase DA turnover and possibly even its action depending on the degree of postsynaptic block. |
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The French vanguard attacked a unit of English archers who had been placed to block the road. |
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Next, Surrey moved to block off the Scots' route north and so James was forced to move his army and artillery two miles to Branxton Hill. |
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Alpine tundra does not contain trees because the climate and soils at high altitude block tree growth. |
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The governing Scottish National Party indicated that it planned to block the bill. |
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Each band also has its own tie, which can match the kilt tartan, or is sometimes merely a block colour. |
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Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block. |
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This required a new block of offices to be built between the Arch and the platforms. |
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Magee points out that the masonry was carefully planned, and has neat block work even in areas not immediately visible from the ground. |
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Three operators submitted bids for the block of routes with CalMac retaining all its existing routes. |
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Of the remaining three, two portal stones form an entrance and the third, at an angle, appears to block the doorway. |
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The headscarf is a perfect tool to block the nonmoderns from participating in the class privileges that the modern state represents. |
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A motion at the NT's 2008 AGM to block the development gained much support, but was overturned by proxy votes cast by the chairman. |
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These buses have quickly become a heated topic of debate within the city, as protesters claim they block bus lanes and delay public buses. |
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The Clwydian Hills are formed from an upstanding block of Silurian age sandstones, mudstones and siltstones. |
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This is a Roman period altar that was hidden for centuries, being used as a stone block in the rebuilding of the medieval church. |
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Each corner contained a tower containing two additional floors beyond the five storeys of the main block. |
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The redbrick University Hall, built in a Queen Anne style, was the first substantial block. |
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The carriage and wagon works was redeveloped in the early 2000s, and now houses a Lidl store and a student accommodation block. |
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The central block, or corps de logis, was added by Charles Holden to a modified version of Greenslade's design. |
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The first block of series 2, consisting of episodes by Raynor and Tregenna, was directed by Andy Goddard. |
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In this plant, liquid wastes are mixed with glass and melted in a furnace, which when cooled forms a solid block of glass. |
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In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the Earth's crust bordered by parallel faults. |
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A graben is a valley with a distinct escarpment on each side caused by the displacement of a block of land downward. |
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Australia's government warned it would block moves to shift BHP's stock listing from Australia to the United Kingdom. |
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Nevertheless, neither the Alliance, nor the left block, chose to form a coalition with the Sweden Democrats. |
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This leads to extensive lobbying that can block or water down government policies intended to prevent overfishing. |
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Existing communities were relocated to tower block estates like Castle Vale. |
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Biasing building block debris away from amidates into thioates that are more easily removed by diafiltration would suppress short-mer formation. |
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Harmon's face beetrooted. He strode from the office, stared at the cell block, and swore with artistry. |
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You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year. |
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The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north. |
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Oh I'm such a block head, why didn't I figure this out sooner, this is embarrassing! |
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She was just a stupid block head who basked for attention and once Kristen realised this she came rushing back to Nicole. |
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Some airlines average more than twelve block hours a day from their long-haul aircraft. |
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No attempt in this direction has, as yet, met with the general favour which Dr. Kirk's block model analysis has secured. |
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After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality. |
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Before you start it's best to pierce the holes into the polystyrene block that will hold the cake pops. |
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The cutlery increasing on the drainer, chock a block, While the sink is overflowing as the dishes run amok! |
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Jim really put his head on the chopping block when he started flirting with the boss's daughter. |
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And, in the mid-late game, random 1-2 fighting guys get chucked out there just to get them out of hand and to chump block. |
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This is a bad Pacifism, as it allows the creature to stay around and at least chump block for a turn. |
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He's the new kid on the block and doesn't know the way we do things around here yet. Cut him some slack and let him learn from this. |
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Then simply hit a dead-handed chip, with the hands, wrists and arms all swinging together as if in a solid block. |
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I'm always happy to write some sappy Destiel one shot when writer's block is making work on Phoenix difficult. |
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He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky. |
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An extended basic block can show more easily when expressions have already been calculated. |
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After harvesting the first flush, clean up all the withered pinheads and debris on the surface of the block. |
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In the pretty, tranquil valley, elk were feeding just off the highway, creating a gapers block. |
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Only two exploration wells have been drilled so far, and there remain numerous undrilled targets in tilted fault block plays. |
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In one-step number two the defender does a knife-hand block. Then he punches with his right hand. And he finishes with a left heel-palm. |
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Up the block at Nananom, a tiny music and sundries store, all the hiplife CDs were sold out. |
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The battle ended a two-day siege of an apartment block, where the suspects were holed up. |
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The results of quality control checks and number of reports received hourwise for each synoptic hour for each WMO block are monitored. |
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The core of the Iberian Peninsula consists of a Hercynian cratonic block known as the Iberian Massif. |
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Each square marked off by four roads was called an insula, the Roman equivalent of a modern city block. |
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William advanced into Northumbria, defeating an attempt to block his crossing of the swollen River Aire at Pontefract. |
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A Norman lord typically had properties located in a piecemeal fashion throughout England and Normandy, and not in a single geographic block. |
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It was a warm night, Indian summer. The whole city seemed to be out of doors. It was like an enormous block party. |
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The tombstone is deeply incised with a cross, and consists of a rectangular block of white Swaledale fossil stone, quarried in North Yorkshire. |
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This included the construction of large tower block estates, such as Castle Vale. |
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As a result, bed occupancy is at dangerous levels and exit block is putting lives at risk. |
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Aguero was quick to block Hennessey's attempted clearance and the ball bounced kindly to Dzeko, who had the simplest of tasks to put City ahead. |
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The Australian senate had threatened to block the Government's budget by refusing to pass the necessary appropriation bills. |
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An airport cab starter threatened to knock Fiorello H. LaGuardia's block off when the New York Mayor parked his car across the taxi line. |
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Artificial levees block spring flood water that would bring fresh water and sediment to marshes. |
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With the introduction of the block 5 standard, the R2 retrofit programme began to bring all Tranche 1 aircraft to that standard. |
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He concluded that the rays were composed of very light, negatively charged particles which were a universal building block of atoms. |
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The first posters used a number of type fonts, as was contemporary practice, and station signs used sans serif block capitals. |
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They claimed the new building would block views of the Basilica from nearby Italian apartments. |
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The chapel is in the centre block of the west wing of the original Guy's Hospital. |
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The views to and from the front and rear of the main block were concentrated on, with the side approaches usually much less important. |
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Keyes did not wait for the hangman's command and jumped from the gallows, but he survived the drop and was led to the quartering block. |
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The sausage is produced in a rectangular block and individual portions are sliced off. |
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The pulp is then transferred to the cider press and built up in layers known as cheeses into a block. |
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Around AD 150 the villa was expanded and a heated bath block with hypocaust was added. |
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Moore's early work is focused on direct carving, in which the form of the sculpture evolves as the artist repeatedly whittles away at the block. |
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This gap led to press speculation that Rowling had developed writer's block, speculations she denied. |
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Limelight used a block of quicklime heated by an oxygen and hydrogen flame. |
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The Hall was constructed mainly of Fareham Red brick, with terra cotta block decoration made by Gibbs and Canning Limited of Tamworth. |
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Originally a medieval manor house, having a main block with forward projecting wings, it burned down in 1716 and was rebuilt by John Aislabie. |
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This rule, seen only in impromptu games, speeds the match up by removing the batsman's right to block the ball. |
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There are several basic maneuvers a boxer can use in order to evade or block punches, depicted and discussed below. |
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These designs have sometimes been hooped, one irregular hoop or just a block colour of blue. |
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The five permanent members hold veto power over UN resolutions, allowing a permanent member to block adoption of a resolution, though not debate. |
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An Executive has yet to be formed following the 2017 election, which saw the unionist block lose its Assembly majority for the first time. |
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As a Millerite living within one block from the beach, Miller Beach is truly a hidden treasure in Northwest Indiana. |
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Thirty minas of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both. |
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All Liberals were outraged when Conservatives used their majority in the House of Lords to block reform legislation. |
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Instead of the Wehrmacht attacking the French, the Luftwaffe with naval assistance was to block imports to Britain and attack seaports. |
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His orders were to reinforce the Italians and block Allied attempts to drive them out of the region. |
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Horace lost his forty-shilling Akubra hat and did not stop for it and the Elizabeth Street cable tram sliced it in half before he had gone another block. |
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His plans left open the whole area of what became Trafalgar Square, except for a block in the centre, which he reserved for a new building for the Royal Academy. |
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There lolloped only a besmirched and bedaubed and bedemoned Jack Neck, bustedly dragging himself down block after block, in search of Saint Fiacre. |
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A Scottish army, assembled under the command of David Leslie, tried to block the retreat, but Cromwell defeated them at the Battle of Dunbar on 3 September. |
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Each time you succeed in creating a hash, you are rewarded with 25 bitcoins, the block chain is updated and all the users on the network are notified. |
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Using block data from the 2000 census, Miller and Chambers have computed bizarreness for the congressional districts of Connecticut, Maryland, and New Hampshire. |
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The Whigs now moved into opposition and particularly decried the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, which they attempted to block through their majority in the House of Lords. |
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Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution. |
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This will block the supply of air to the engine, and cause it to fail. |
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There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through. |
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Their value as a block to invasion is doubtful, as their situation would have allowed supervision but they lacked the manpower to deter anything but cattle rustling. |
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Killer whales are popular with whale watchers, which may stress the whales and alter their behavior, particularly if boats approach too closely or block their lines of travel. |
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Block voting, or plurality block voting, is often compared with preferential block voting as both systems tend to produce landslide victories for similar candidates. |
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The Parliament may also block certain Commission decisions where there has been a delegation of powers to the Commission and may repeal such delegation of powers. |
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I'll need to block off a couple of weeks to refurnish my house. |
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Greenpeace is also critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block the oil sand operations at Athabasca, Canada. |
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An oak tree grew in Brooklyn once, on a pleasant, brownstoned block. |
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This then forms the block number for a particular development. |
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We walk around to central world plaza, navigating crowded pavements chock a block with street vendors selling everything from fresh fish to meat on a stick to Thai beer. |
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Which is exactly what I wanted because Mi-jami was chock a block full of smokin' hot 'ricans and Cubans and Caucasians and, well, men in general all ripe for the picking. |
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The field is located in a faulted block of Jurassic and older rocks beneath the Hampshire Basin, close to the steeply sloping monocline in the overlying chalk. |
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In the 2010 general election the Alliance contended against a unified left block consisting of the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Left Party. |
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While the Reform Party is the new kid on the block, its members who attended its first national convention this weekend acted like delegates to any other political convention. |
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Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important. |
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Go along that road for about a city block, and you should see an old barn. |
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A more likely explanation is that ancient crystal skull carvers first chipped piecees off a block of material that was destined to be shaped into a skull. |
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The ships were scuttled there in the 11th century to block a navigation channel and thus protect Roskilde, then the Danish capital, from seaborne assault. |
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A political battle erupted over the People's Budget and resulted in the passage of an act ending the power of the House of Lords to block legislation. |
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Convinced that Melas was about to retreat, Napoleon sent strong detachments to block Melas's routes northwards to the Po, and southwards to Genoa. |
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A block of apartments in Little Thurrock is named after him. |
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The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received. |
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When the tensional forces were strong enough to cause the plate to split apart, a center block dropped between the two blocks at its flanks, forming a graben. |
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This 'boys' club' attitude that girls can't be geeks is still a major stumbling block for feminerds and girls who want to break into geek culture. |
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Later, the oceanic plateau, together with the volcanic arc complex built on top of it, were accreted to and obducted onto the continental crust of the Vodla block. |
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Band members all had different visions for Radiohead's future, and Yorke experienced writer's block, influencing him toward a more abstract, fragmented form of songwriting. |
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However, Albert said in his audiotape and in his speech that a lever designed to release the lifeboat's block and tackle was gummed up with red paint. |
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The disastrous consequences of the fire were considered as the design included five broad avenues which divided the town into sections and each block was divided by alleys. |
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Mac turned to the bed and pulled a handful of Nokias from the bag. 'We need those charged,' said Mac as he headed off to find the communal shower block. |
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Mariano Rajoy told the meeting of the European Council that he was block any independent and separate deal put forward by Sturgeon and the Scottish Government. |
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Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block employs it for television spots and show intros, like the 1997 relaunch of SCI FI Channel segue music by the Jungle Sky label. |
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By using blocking DNA and pre-annealing to block homoeologous sequences, labeled genomic DNA probes from one parent could not hybridize to chromosomes from the other one. |
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In a controversial election campaign, the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, attempted to block Livingstone's nomination and imposed his own candidate. |
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The stick may also be used to block and to tackle, although a player may not bring their stick down on an opponent's stick, which is defined as hacking. |
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The road, collectively known as The Parade, has a different name for each block and it is on these parades and crescents that many of Llandudno's hotels are built. |
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The Saxons attacked Cerdicesford in 519, intending to cross the River Avon and block a road which connected Old Sarum and Badbury Rings, a British stronghold. |
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Alfred's ships immediately moved to block their escape to the sea. |
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His mental block is due to a childhood trauma which he will not confront. |
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After 1732, the King's Mews were divided into the Great Mews and the smaller Green Mews to the north by the Crown Stables, a large block, built to the designs of William Kent. |
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Woods, Forests and Land Revenues instructed John Nash to draw up plans for clearing a large area south of Kent's stable block, and as far east as St Martin's Lane. |
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Near the village of Patay, French cavalry broke through a unit of English longbowmen that had been sent to block the road, then swept through the retreating English army. |
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