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The next day an email was waiting for Gambill from the honor system, alerting her that she may have broken its code.
Ties were broken according to each institution's multiyear APRs, which represent the APR scores from the preceding four seasons.
Their tryst, however, is broken up several times by messages playing from the answering machine and never comes to fruition.
We aren't going to fix our broken job market, or our government finances, with this kind of anemic growth.
He threw off his helmet, released himself from the belts, straps, hoses and wires and climbed down from the broken bird.
But the proposition had eventually broken apart in the churning, acidic stomach of Washington politics.
In nearby Mentor, Ohio, outside East Cleveland, broken children like Sladjana abounded.
Almost six years after the deadly quake, little of the money pledged to rebuild the broken city has been anted up.
The overall record for the team was also broken that night when the Royal boardsmen grabbed 71 bouncebacks.
Gaddis found that with his broken arm, he couldn't climb the wall. Josh grabbed his foot and boosted him up.
The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me as the breach of waters.
The lifeguard said he would call animal control and I went back to stand watch over the broken bird.
Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone, and suchlike sweetmeats.
Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
He was shunned by the entire community, and died shortly after, a broken bird.
This is a society at war with itself and heightens the impression of broken Britain.
In spite of reading all the materials on the Steps, talking to my sponsor, sharing at meetings, I felt like a broken record.
Many of the big estates survived. Nor was the peasantry a broken reed in terms of demand for manufactured products.
Cook's concentration may have been broken by a call of nature a few minutes earlier, when he held up play to visit the bathroom.
The excavation turned up one small femur, one broken calva, and one jawbone.
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Crawling on your knees to the real Graceland over shards of broken glass would be less painful than sitting through this cinemuck.
The guard entered the room and before I knew it Sarah had left, I felt gutted and a broken man.
It looks like somebody finally clued them in that the intercom was broken the whole time.
Limestones occur in southern Ayrshire and in a very broken band running northeastwards through the Pentland Hills towards Edinburgh.
The dishes were broken when they were delivered, so I had to return them.
Had you not been wearing such a fine boot, your leg probably would have broken. As it is, the bruise is a deep one.
Farmer Jones is in straits because his baler is broken down and he's got three fields of hay ready to bale.
We all liked a bit of biffo and gunplay, so when the telecast was broken for a newsflash, everyone groaned.
Even with a broken finger, Wach put on his big boy pants, wrapped his hand, and dominated on the offensive line all game.
At the top of each is a piece of broken glass embedded in a blop of concrete.
It had been struck by some heavy blunt instrument, but the skull was not broken.
Gunn's nose was not broken and most observers at ringside thought the fight was stopped prematurely.
The record was broken with 1,224 Joneses filling the Donald Gordon Theatre.
However, some seabirds, particularly, the albatrosses and gulls, have broken into popular consciousness.
The largest icebergs recorded have been calved, or broken off, from the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica.
Earth's volcanoes occur because its crust is broken into 17 major, rigid tectonic plates that float on a hotter, softer layer in its mantle.
Line type refers to whether the basic contour line is solid, dashed, dotted or broken in some other pattern to create the desired effect.
This had broken out in 1282 between the Capetian House of Anjou and Catalans over the possession of Sicily.
There was no furniture in the abandoned house, other than a broken bedstead.
In most cases the heavy influence of the standard language has broken the dialect continuum.
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Each horn contained a glass ampule of electrolyte which would connect an open circuit if an ampule was broken by bending the soft metal horn.
They felt as we should have felt had German destroyers broken into the Solent and their battle cruisers penetrated as far as the Nab.
He had recently visited Berlin, where the German navy had scoffed at how British shells had broken up on their ships' armour.
Many trees produce resin, but in the majority of cases this deposit is broken down by physical and biological processes.
The number of finds of axes and broken rapiers is thought to be due to religious offerings where valuable items were thrown into the water.
His only injuries were some minor cuts on the face, caused by fragments of glass from his broken goggles.
Later, some ships survived mine blasts, limping into port with buckled plates and broken backs.
The Belgians launched considerable counterattacks which were broken up by the Luftwaffe.
The morale of the troops of the 55th Infantry Division further back was broken by the air attacks and French gunners had fled.
The French resisted the approaches to the capital strongly, but the line was broken in several places.
Distribution of rations and ammunition was difficult and after the water mains were broken, water could only be taken from derelict wells.
The German success was costly and French troops resisted from woods and other cover, where the Germans had broken through.
The Tenth Army was broken through and retreated to Rouen and southwards along the Seine.
On 13 June, the RAF made a maximum effort to help the French armies that had been broken through on the Marne.
The enemy could not only have broken through, but he might have trampled Patton's position in the onrush.
I much preferred a solid shoulder at Argentan to the possibility of a broken neck at Falaise.
The paths through the minefields were very congested and broken up, which delayed matters further.
There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems. There were padas that she had started and scratched out.
Finally, May arrives in a Peugeot 304 S Cabriolet which arrives already broken down.
Edward had effectively broken the military strength of the Lancastrians, and he returned to London for his coronation.
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Coquina, a rock composed of clasts of broken shells, can only form in energetic water.
In some species, the tail is capable of regeneration if a part is broken off.
It is suggested that in subterranean mammals vision is used to detect predators that have broken into the tunnels.
Protein intake, for example, causes an excess of toxins of amine groups when it is broken down for energy.
Like many other species of Papaver, the plant exudes white to yellowish latex when the tissues are broken.
The marketer's task, therefore, is to manage this tension, this broken soul, this bifurcated core, this paradessence of a product or service.
On time scales lasting hundreds of millions of years, the supercontinents have assembled and broken apart.
It should be noted that these hotspot tracks have been broken by the still active spreading ridges mentioned above.
The Greeks are overwhelmed and routed, the wall's gate is broken, and Hector charges in.
In the actual syntax, however, some idioms can be broken up by various functional constructions.
The walls are built with basalt blocks that have been weathered and broken up and stacked without mortar.
In 1779, Ludd is supposed to have broken two stocking frames in a fit of rage.
An iceberg or ice mountain is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.
His power base in England broken, Robert accepted Henry's offer of banishment and left the country for Normandy.
After Edward's death, the Normans were quick to point out that in accepting the crown of England, Harold had broken this alleged oath.
This, added to the broken promise of Charles, only increased hostility towards the king.
However, Crowther at the time was not living in Goa, nor was he a broken man, instead he was living in the rainforests of East Coast Australia.
As Ronnie approached him, he let loose a barrage of verbal abuse and cut him below his eye with a piece of broken glass.
Other hoards contain either broken or miscast objects that were probably intended for reuse by bronze smiths.
By soaking the batter overnight the grain is broken down, which results in a softer and more digestible pancake or pikelet.
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In 87, Vestal Virgins were found to have broken their sacred vows of lifelong public chastity.
He had reigned for 19 years, longer than anyone since Tiberius, which would be broken by Hadrian.
In 173, the Romans campaigned against the Quadi, who had broken their treaty and assisted their kin, and defeated and subdued them.
We couldn't take the boat into the shallows near the reef because our sonar pinger was broken.
Moreover, the Hermunduri were broken in the Marcomannic Wars and made a separate peace with Rome.
With the change in values imposed by communist ideology, the tradition of preservation was broken.
The murder of children is broken down by age and gender, and so is the murder of women.
Mexican society is broken up into a three generational units consisting of grandparents, children and grandchildren.
When Tsar Samuil saw the broken remains of his once formidable army, he died of shock.
The following decade saw much wrangling over a proposed referendum on the future of the territory but the deadlock was not broken.
The calf emerges head and front legs first, having broken through the fetal membranes, and falls to the ground, severing the umbilical cord.
By late 1958 the rebels had broken out of the Sierra Maestra and launched a general popular insurrection.
Historically, politics are a source of tension in the country, and violent riots have often broken out during elections.
Then were the horse hoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.
It was broken up by police but the following month 30,000 marched on Villahermosa to protest.
Now the formal negotiations were broken off, however, and Maurice was authorised to conduct further negotiations in secret.
Continuing westward, the shallop's mast and rudder were broken by storms, and their sail was lost.
The ship stayed in the area about ten days, the crew replacing a broken mast and fishing for food.
As a result, Cossack units were frequently broken up into small detachments for use as scouts, messengers or picturesque escorts.
Those who do not speak Mandarin Chinese tend to speak either broken English or Singlish, which they have learnt from the locals.
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Some of the communities were broken up and the British deported Maroons to Nova Scotia and, later, Sierra Leone.
A typical practice is to have small cups of juice and plates of broken bread distributed to the seated congregation.
The organist of the People's Church in Zurich is recorded as weeping upon seeing the great organ broken up.
Over the years, various parallel Anglican denominations have broken with Anglican Communion churches over many, sometimes transient, issues.
Their marriage having broken down in 1604, his wife Elizabeth went on to become a formidable protagonist and thorn in his side.
The surface of the peninsula is generally level, broken by conical hills and glacial moraines usually not more than a few hundred feet tall.
Causation is not broken simply because a victim is particularly vulnerable.
Ancient Egyptian law, dating as far back as 3000 BC, had a civil code that was probably broken into twelve books.
Agency adjudication was broken down further into two distinct phases of formal and informal adjudication.
The mountains are broken by the canyons of three rivers, the Ngwavuma, the Usutu and the Mbuluzi River.
Strong peasant links with the land through private ownership were broken and many young people left for careers in industry.
Did you also employ them to ratten people if they had broken any rules of your society, for instance, by having too many apprentices?
Bonar Law then took the resolution to Asquith, who had, unusually, broken his weekend at Walmer Castle to return to Downing Street.
Marx mistakenly thought that Engels was still associated with the Berliner Young Hegelians, with whom Marx had just broken off ties.
Should the warp thread be broken, the tells will drop and cause the machine to stop working.
Exhaust gases from the chambers are scrubbed by passing into a tower through which some of the Glover acid flows over broken tile.
At Hartley there was no explosion, but the miners entombed when the single shaft was blocked by a broken cast iron beam from the haulage engine.
During wartime the high dikes of the Yellow River were sometimes deliberately broken in order to flood advancing enemy troops.
To finish the road surface he covered the stones with a mixture of gravel and broken stone.
Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused.
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Some economists contend that since the industrial revolution, mankind has broken out of the trap.
Thus, when fatty acids are being broken down for energy, all of the remaining glucose is made available for use by the brain.
Supreme Court ruled in 1911 that antitrust law required Standard Oil to be broken into smaller, independent companies.
The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.
The surfaces of these routes can vary from broken tarmac and gravel to only grass, often having the appearance of byways.
Trees may be browsed or broken by large herbivorous animals, such as cattle or elephants, felled by beavers or blown over by the wind.
When Grisedale Hause is reached it is a steep climb to the summit following a broken wall.
The result is inspected for broken tablets, and the percentage of tablet mass lost through chipping.
Flows often crack deeply, forming dangerous chasms, and a fall against 'a'a lava is similar to falling against broken glass.
With the change in values imposed by communist ideology, the tradition of preservation of cultural heritage was broken.
When broken, slate retains a natural appearance while remaining relatively flat and easy to stack.
It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.
Hannibal marched his men back to the point in their path prior to their detour, near the broken stretch of the path and set up camp.
By means of the rheotome, the primary current is broken and closed rapidly, so that the induced current seems almost like a continuous one.
The term 'sea coal' likely originated from chunks of coal, found washed up on beaches, that wave action had broken from coastal outcroppings.
The great expanses of moorland around Bleaklow and Black Hill and fringed with broken outcrops of gritstone are characteristic of the area.
The dale widens below Cauldron Snout, and trees appear, contrasting with the broken rocks where the water descends over High Force.
However, he did locate nine out of the twelve stones that had made up the pedestal, as well as the broken socket stone for the cross.
The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.
Abigail taught her the use of the samp mortar. Samp was corn broken into coarse grains and boiled as porridge.
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So many people's lives have many broken relationships that have left behind psychological scar tissue.
The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.
When I lurch back toward where I can make out what CNN is saying, CNN has broken for commercial. Shazbot!
The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden.
The bolster to solebar weld on one side, and the weld between the solebar and the front headstock on the other side had broken completely.
The ocean waves are broken up by wind, ultimately producing the storm wrack and spindrift of the tempest-tossed sea.
As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.
The thick-bedded dolostone's straticulate character was brought out as fine etched parallel grooves on the broken surfaces by weathering.
The quest is broken down into a number of episodes that progress in a linear sequence, each with its own subquest and major challenge at the end.
A warm and broken December had been succeeded by a still warmer and more thawy January.
Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea, her fingernails black and broken.
The broken window and overturned plant pots were a tip-off that something was wrong.
Blood dripped from every finger-end, while the nails were broken to the quick.
If you think that this loss has broken my heart undeceive yourself, for such as I live years in an hour and show no sign.
Breast feeding is broken off and, although the mother blames the child, she just as unfoundedly feels guilty herself.
Sometimes its sky line was broken by an uptoss from some one overpowering blast.
His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.
All frames found to suffer from warp should be broken up straight away before the printer is tempted during a rush to make use of them.
The carrot seed is first put through a despining machine, where the spine is broken through some sort of rubbing action.
All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken.
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The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water.
Generally orthodox teas have four grades, namely whole leaf, broken leaf, fannings and dust.
The only thing that might make me play is if you get bonus points for either broken pelvises or fatal rodeo-clown gorings.
Yer can't even fight unless you've got a knife or picket or broken bottle, yer gutless wonder.
The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds.
Over life's long trail a-winding, We wend our onward way, Sometimes with spirits broken, Sometimes with heartsongs gay.
Mid and open vowels were raised, and close vowels were broken into diphthongs.
Shop windows were broken and houses sacked, men were harassed, and women's heads were shaved.
There the oak and hiccory grow tall and beautiful, but the general appearance of the country is poor, broken, and rugged.
Henry had broken away from the Holy See and declared himself the head of the Church in England.
Had war broken out, the Polish navy was prepared to invade the Danish isles.
The extant works of Aristotle are broken down according to the five categories in the Corpus Aristotelicum.
Counties Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and Tipperary have been broken up into smaller administrative areas.
It turns an almost square sectioned furrow and leaves a more broken surface finish.
If the engine does not rotate, it may be seized due to its being operated with no oil, broken engine components, or hydrostatic lock.
The first betrothal was to his distant cousin Aemilia Lepida, but was broken for political reasons.
The broken bones were able to heal, thanks to the immobilization of her leg in a cast.
When the hostages escaped back to France, John was horrified that his word had been broken and returned to England, where he eventually died.
However, when the treaty was broken in 1369, both these English claims and the war resumed.
Your friends tell you rumors about your girlfriend's infidelity or you remember being broken up around the time the baby was conceived.
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The mothers likened his behaviour to the last days of Control, who had died in harness, thanks to Haydon, of a broken heart.
Once the sore was broken, the physician would apply Mellilot Plaister with Linimentum Arcei and heal the sore with digence.
However, the engagement was broken off within a few years by Charles with Henry's agreement.
Rare instances of misconduct or instances of irreproducibility are translated into concerns that science is broken.
In 1702, William died of pneumonia, a complication from a broken collarbone following a fall from his horse, Sorrel.
Ye had to watch no to step in mud or a puddle or else in jobby, dogs were aye doing jobbies, or else ye watched for broken glass.
The stalemate was broken in the summer of 1794 with dramatic French victories.
By 1803, however, war had broken out again between Britain and the new First French Empire under Napoleon.
This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter.
In July he oversaw the occupation of Elba, but by September the Genoese had broken their neutrality to declare in favour of the French.
But people dying after long spells in hospital corridors shows that the NHS is now broken.
Despite problems with internal IT programmes, the NHS has broken new ground in providing health information to the public via the internet.
Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.
And now the drought is broken, let's be joyful in our gains. Let's kyoodle, whoop, and holler for these miliion-dollar rains!
From 1649 to 1660, the tradition of monarchy was broken by the republican Commonwealth of England, which followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
By 1541, King Henry VIII of England had broken with the Church of Rome and declared himself Supreme Head of the Church of England.
Throughout the early Paleozoic, that landmass was broken into a substantial number of continents.
Information about the area of England, the largest country, is also broken down by region.
Upton Park protested that Preston had broken FA rules by paying their players.
Lead from the roof was used to make bullets, windows were broken, the organ smashed and horses stabled in the nave.
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Where data is broken down by geographical area, this is usually done by the areas defined in the ONS geographical coding system.
In 2000, Rover Group was broken up by BMW and Land Rover was sold to Ford Motor Company, becoming part of its Premier Automotive Group.
Accessibility features also help people with temporary disabilities, like a broken arm, or ageing users as their abilities change.
A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.
The design is such that the mouse's neck or spinal cord will be broken, or its ribs or skull crushed, by the force of the bar.
The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
Unemployment can be generally broken down into several types that are related to different causes.
Three years earlier, while a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, he had broken his ties with the Church of England.
Estimates of the usually resident population of Scotland rounded to the nearest thousand, broken down by age and sex.
These are broken into 5 streams of around 80 students who take all core courses together.
The river, once an unnavigable series of braided streams broken up by swamps and ponds, has been managed by weirs into a single channel.
In 1974, 7,000 people turned up but it was violently broken up by police, who made 220 arrests and the festival was banned.
He was lying on the table with head pillowed on the broken concertina and body sheltered with the Federal Flag, looking like a martial corpse.
Laertes and Hamlet fight by Ophelia's graveside, but the brawl is broken up.
He states that during times of carnival and festival, male power is broken down.
The former are unanalysable, and are broken down into primary and secondary qualities.
She asked in what sort of accident I had broken my back, and when I told her that I had been shot down she became much more matey.
A defining incident of young Wells's life was an accident in 1874 that left him bedridden with a broken leg.
They have bright colour, but are like a broken stained glass window reassembled without design.
When your flat has been broken into, and you cannot afford a locksmith, it is the money.
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They became engaged in the summer of 1883, but for unknown reasons the engagement was broken off the next year.
On Broadway, Cats ran for 18 years, a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera.
She'd have crawled over broken glass if she thought it would help her performance.
Outlawed in England and much of the United States, prizefights were often held at gambling venues and broken up by police.
After the Oval, Crystal Palace hosted 21 finals from 1895 to 1914, broken up by 4 four replays elsewhere.
Sky's monopoly was broken from August 2006 when Setanta Sports was awarded rights to show two out of the six packages of matches available.
It is further broken down into fourteen events for men and four events for women, each representing a different weight class.
The match was a physical encounter, and Australian captain Wally Lewis played part of the match with a broken arm.
Hatton later claimed that 4 of Castillo's ribs were broken with this one punch.
With the Lancias broken by the Brit, the rest of the podium was taken by the Connaughts of Archie Scott Brown and Desmond Titterington.
He held the record for the most number of poles set in a single season, which was broken in 2011 by Sebastian Vettel.
He managed 14 pole positions that year, a record only broken by Sebastian Vettel in 2011 in the Brazilian Grand Prix on 26 November.
He lost the chance at winning a fourth race when his 350 AJS failed with a broken gudgeon pin whilst leading.
Their alliance with the Scottish Covenanters had also broken down, and the Scots crowned Charles II as king.
Total GDP can also be broken down into the contribution of each industry or sector of the economy.
Comyn, it seems, had broken an agreement between the two, and informed King Edward of Bruce's plans to be king.
The Congress was ineffective, the Continental currency worthless, and the supply system was fundamentally broken.
He had broken off the relationship in late 1836, distraught that she had taken yet another lover.
Felmy noted the alleged panic that had broken out in London during the Munich crisis, evidence he believed of British weakness.
Instead political will was to be broken by destroying the material infrastructure, the weapons industry, and stocks of fuel and food.
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British morale was to be broken by destroying infrastructure, armaments manufacturing, fuel and food stocks.
The Imphal operation was finally broken off early in July, and the Japanese retreated painfully to the Chindwin River.
His misplay in the bridge tournament was penalized when it was noted he'd broken the rules.
In the wake of the rebellion, the clan system was broken up and islands of the Hebrides became a series of landed estates.
The majority of the climbing is on good quality granite, often slabby and sometimes a bit broken in nature.
The party used the Freedom of Information Act to see whether the BBC could have broken its own rules.
Dietary TG are first broken down into monoacylglycerides and fatty acids by a host of pancreatic lipases.
Britain declared formally war to France with a declaration signed on 17 May, nearly two years after fighting had broken out in the Ohio Country.
Some attribute the phenomenon to new tactics used by the NYPD, including its use of CompStat and the broken windows theory.
The remaining shell is cut into pieces and broken down by an industrial shredder so that the aluminium can be melted down.
As hydrogen bonds are not covalent, they can be broken and rejoined relatively easily.
At the time, the OFT stressed that it should not be assumed that the parties involved had broken the law.
The study also found that oil already broken down by wave action and chemical dispersants was more toxic than fresh oil.
In 628, the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah was signed between Mecca and the Muslims and was broken by Mecca two years later.
By breaking His laws people have broken contact with God, and damaged His good world.
But by the end of the winter, his health was broken again and he found himself at death's door.
Shaw's explanation of why his mother followed Lee was that without the latter's financial contribution the joint household had to be broken up.
The second, in 1998, did succeed and the record held at nearly 4,000 musicians until it was broken in 2000 by a group in Vancouver.
Noel suffered three broken and dislodged ribs as a result from the attack, and the group had to cancel several shows while he recovered.
Since then, ties have been broken by considering the points difference of the teams.
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Fellow rider Darren Burns was following immediately behind and collided with Robert, suffering a broken leg and suspected concussion.
The northwestern parts of the plateau consist of broad, rolling terrain broken by low, rounded hills.
Afterwards the King merely expressed regret that he had broken the shaft of his favourite axe.
The treaty was broken in 1513 when James declared war on England in support of the French who had lately been attacked by the English.
Peace may have broken out but it was perfectly clear that Margaret was still not fully trusted, and access to her son was strictly limited.
The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.
After this rebellion the clan system was broken up and Skye became a series of landed estates.
The shell is then broken with a wooden club and the nutmegs are picked out.
In the wake of the rebellion the clan system was broken up and islands of the Hebrides became a series of landed estates.
He worked out that shell fragments are rolled by waves towards the shore, where they are broken up further.
After the first chip is broken off of the egg, there is no activity for around 27 hours.
After this period, the hatching activity accelerates and the shell is broken apart in 35 hours.
In 1886, the Liberal Unionists had broken away from the Liberal Party in opposition to William Gladstone's proposals for Irish Home Rule.
The originator's seal was attached pendent from the document, so that it did not have to be broken in order for the document to be read.
However, time and tide has washed broken pieces of ships' pottery and glass bottles into shallow waters and onto beaches.
The southern hemisphere's dominance has been broken only in 2003, when England beat Australia in the final.
During Cyclone Bodil in December 2013, the glass roof of the station was broken by flying debris.
While Gwynedd grew in strength, Powys was broken up after the death of Llywelyn ap Madog in the 1160s and was never reunited.
The estate was broken up and sold into private ownership in 1981, and present ownership of the village is unknown.
Glaciers are broken into zones based on surface snowpack and melt conditions.
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Ogives are formed when ice from an icefall is severely broken up, increasing ablation surface area during summer.
In 1944, it was disbanded and its units were either deployed or broken up to reinforce the 21st Army Group in Normandy during Operation Overlord.
During April, the Fourth New Army was broken up to provide reinforcements for deployed combat units.
Tradition was broken again when Charles proceeded straight from secondary school into university, as opposed to joining the British Armed Forces.
If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it.
It commonly has broken teeth and, on rarer occasions, fatal abscesses on the jaw, head and neck.
It might seem that the prominent stripes on the back of mackerels are there to provide camouflage against broken backgrounds.
The University is divided into five Colleges and these are then broken down into Schools and Research Institutes.
Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness.
Great Paul has not been rung for several years because of a broken chiming mechanism.
It was the third time that summer that the national transfer record had been broken.
Giggs later said he was amazed by the situation, as no rule had been broken.
The clocks lining the dream hallway in her mind taunted her with their twisting hands, their broken faces, and some of them, with a cringe-worthy coo-coo, coo-coo squall.
Be careful now, for auto crankers sometimes get broken arms. You take a firm grip on the crank, pull the choke wire and whirl the crank like the very devil.
Yet their broken and ruined towers and walls still look creepsome.
The grains are then broken up in the degerminator, usually an impact mill.
On the south and west facing slopes of Cross Fell the rock faces have been broken up by frost action to give a scree slope made up of large boulders.
Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.
That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.
Threshing machines would be broken, workhouses and tithe barns would be attacked and then the rioters would disperse or move on to the next village.

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