So they decided to bombard me with personal questions about my best friend, and we hit it off at once. |
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Retailers will be falling over themselves to bombard people passing their doors with targeted come-ons. |
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When you bombard them with sophistries, wrong messages and show them only dead-ends, that is where you finally reach. |
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You send your camp's story into a veritable jungle of competing messages that bombard every parent and every child with whom you correspond. |
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The Pre-Parliament was an obvious failure and Lenin continued to bombard his lieutenants with demands for a forcible seizure of power. |
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One answer of course might be for the Allies to bombard the railway tracks leading to the death camps. |
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Shocked at this, it quickly shifted into relief that he was busy with her therefore couldn't bombard her with fake concern this time. |
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Phipps moved four ships in close to shore to bombard the town, but caused little damage. |
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But what about the TV commercials that incessantly bombard living rooms across America? |
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The antiproton was produced when protons from a cyclotron were used to bombard a copper target. |
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The meeting was very informal and the girls were able to bombard Claudie with questions on what life is like as an astronaut. |
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For a second night, the Marines called in a gunship to bombard insurgent positions. |
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During the activation process, they used steam to bombard the charred material to induce porosity. |
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Rosin feels that it's best to address the messages that bombard her students. |
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Government forces used mortars, helicopter gunships and airplanes to bombard rebel positions. |
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The media bombard the public with calls for more government spending and eager politicians scramble to help in the spend-up. |
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What I cannot deal with is mithering colleagues who constantly bombard you with their insane comments or ways of working. |
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Over the years, he has taken hold of his practical joke side to bombard me with as many tricks as humanly possible. |
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But the last thing I wanted to do was bombard her with millions of questions. |
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The union is calling on trade unionists to bombard the council with messages of protest. |
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They might bombard us with atomic rays, nerve gas, nuclear weapons, or they might send out attack vessels. |
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Anachronisms and nautical howlers bombard the reader like spindrift in a Force 10 gale. |
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During the Great Siege of 1779-83, the garrison under General Elliott resisted all attempts to bombard or starve them out. |
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They could bombard the city from the outskirts but could not occupy it without unacceptable losses. |
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Most Western directors seem so afraid of boring an audience or losing their interest that they bombard our senses with a blizzard of images and a cacophony of noise. |
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Everywhere your gaze settles in the street, textual and illustrated messages bombard you. |
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Everywhere, strategies are being developed to bombard target groups with messages. |
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The Hague Convention, Article Four, states that you are not allowed to bombard uninhabited villages or villages that are not occupied by defendants. |
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On that particular track, you can hear an accordion and a flute, and then a bombard or maybe bagpipes in the background. |
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The first genuine transuranic element was discovered at Berkeley, where Edwin McMillan used Lawrence's cyclotron in 1939 to bombard uranium with slow neutrons. |
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The last thing I want to do is bombard people with information too early. |
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Protesters fear the green light will be given to the proposal but have promised they will continue to bombard environment and health bosses with their concerns. |
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The worm has programmed infected computers to bombard the web site with corrupt data from this Saturday with the intention of forcing it to crash. |
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Intense emotions of fear, anger and jealousy bombard the once suave male. |
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They continue to bombard us with electrical appliances, safe in the knowledge that, when we see them on the shelves, we'll realise that we just cannot do without. |
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The phoney e-card is the latest scam in the eternal battle for online traffic, playing cynically on people's goodwill to bombard them with adverts or promote dubious websites. |
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The team used a linear accelerator to bombard lead-208 with nickel-62 nuclei. |
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Why didn't I bombard him with cruel, viciously callous words? |
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Assad reacts violently by giving the order to besiege the city and to bombard it with heavy artillery. |
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Elven archers and Republic ballistas that fired masses of mid-size rocks to bombard an area inflicted all the damage they could on the enemy ranged fighters. |
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The government, however, prefers to bombard us with the importance of military force to drive out the Taliban. |
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They not only got away with this, but managed to bombard and abuse our sensibilities to the nth degree, spending millions of dollars via radio, TV and newspapers. |
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It is obviously inappropriate to bombard the Presidency, because we know the Presidency, and we know it is doing its level best, as they say. |
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You can always tell when summer is almost over because ITV bombard us with blipverts for juggernaut talent search The X Factor. |
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They can also bombard you with unwanted solicitations and marketing. |
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A particle accelerator is a device that uses electric fields to accelerate ions or charge subatomic particles to high speeds in well-defined beams to bombard targets for research and isotope production. |
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Why bombard people with requests for such knickknacks? The answer seems to be an odd form of arbitrage akin to spam: the same mercenary intent, but a much lower level of fraud, malice and potential for identity theft. |
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It is safe because it does not bombard, overpower, or damage the cells. |
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And quite right, too: unlike so many shows of its ilk, First Dates doesn't bombard you with gimmickry, instead winning you over with unflashy authenticity. |
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In a truly chilling scene, the Prussian commander calmly announces to his generals the plan to bombard the Danish line with solid cannon fire for six hours and then send in 12,000 soldiers to finish the job. |
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Since Thursday hackers have been hijacking web traffic intended for Baidu, the Google of China, and redirecting it to bombard two pages run by GitHub. |
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If war were to break out, the British, with their naval superiority in the Pacific, would be able to hem the American soldiers in on the island and bombard cities in Oregon and California. |
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Fission bombs, often called atomic bombs, detonate when neutrons bombard the fissile material, uranium or plutonium isotopes, splitting the atoms into lighter elements and releasing vast amounts of energy in the process. |
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Early in the game, when southern television began to bombard the airwaves in northern communities, Canada's Aboriginal people made the connection between cultural survival and the ownership and control of media. |
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The Tsar Cannon, which is the world's largest bombard by caliber, is a masterpiece of Russian cannon making. |
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Then in August 1497, James laid siege to Norham Castle, using his grandfather's bombard Mons Meg. |
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The German bombardment increased during the day, despite attempts by Allied ships to bombard German gun emplacements. |
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There is reason to believe that the Germans would not attempt to assault the city but besiege and bombard it. |
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In 1695, during the Nine Years' War, King Louis XIV of France sent troops to bombard Brussels with artillery. |
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Cabral also ordered his ships to bombard Calicut for an entire day in reprisal for the violation of the agreement. |
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When they reached their ships, the Ming fleet gave up chase as the carracks out ranged them and proceeded to bombard their fleet. |
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In 1882, Gladstone ordered the Royal Navy to bombard Alexandria to recover the debts owed by the Egyptians to British investors. |
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Listen, suppose they got in, suppose they start to bombard Guantanamo? |
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Possibly the first such hypothesis was that high energy particles trapped in the Van Allen radiation belt could be liberated and bombard the Earth. |
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In Germany, Walther Bothe and his student Herbert Becker had used polonium to bombard beryllium with alpha particles, producing an unusual form of radiation. |
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The media, which bombard us with TV shows, movies, catalogs, ads, and magazines, serve as a kind of Home Depot of personas to draw from and put on. |
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Every effort was to be made to induce the British to reinforce their forward positions with infantry, where the German artillery could bombard them. |
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The Chinese used cannons and ships to bombard the Dutch into surrendering. |
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When I find out that a new thingamajig exists, I get really excited and go off to a shop and bombard the salesman with questions, while my son rolls his eyes in exasperation. |
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I stump down my field, not the lane past Mike's, and the ewes think it's feeding time. I let them bombard me, grateful for the noisy bleating of their cupboard love. |
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Thereupon the Russian army moved their headquarters to the far bank and proceeded to bombard, snipe and ambush the Germans throughout the ruined city. |
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There is no b in dummy, derived from dumb, or crummy, derived from crumb, and although b is not pronounced finally in bomb, medial b is pronounced in bombard. |
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