| Instead, ground crews cannibalized what they needed to keep other planes in service. |
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| This underwater fleet rapidly surfaced and diminished as vessels were cannibalized to keep their sister craft operational. |
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| The airport runway is lined with the rusted wrecks of other planes cannibalized for parts. |
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| Twelve thousand were cannibalized for spare parts, leaving 8,000 for reconditioning and resale or rental. |
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| Instead, males that mate with mated females increase their fertilization success by being cannibalized. |
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| To sustain operational tempo in the near term, spare parts are cannibalized from working equipment. |
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| Additionally, larger males may be more attractive prey items than smaller males, and hence more frequently cannibalized. |
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| No male was cannibalized during the experiment, although the female had several opportunities to do so. |
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| If the first male was cannibalized and thus could not guard the female, the second male always reached the female and was significantly more likely to mate. |
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| Is there an inventory of what's in that particular graveyard or of what's being cannibalized? |
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| Some of it's been taken out by IEDs, and some other equipment has had to be cannibalized for parts. |
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| The first partially manufactured Iraqi SCUD engines comprised a combination of cannibalized, indigenously produced and imported parts. |
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| For four hundred years, rumors have persisted that when all other options were exhausted, the settlers cannibalized the dead. |
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| The Mission explained that salvaged spare parts of cannibalized vehicles were used to repair other vehicles. |
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| And structurally, a jobs rebound in the developed world is also being cannibalized by more competitive emerging economies. |
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| The team's old minicomputer is gone, long since cannibalized for parts, but Hulse does retain his original printouts, on newspaper-like green paper. |
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| As a spare parts resource, the mechanics cannibalized a Ju52 built for Lufthansa during the war and used as a military transport aircraft in Norway. |
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| Over the past decade, the Iraqis have improvised and cannibalized their obsolescent aircraft, tanks, armored personnel carriers, and air defense network to keep them going. |
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| After this, the agnate can be cannibalized to provide spare body parts for the sponsor. |
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| If writings and comics that depict children being stalked, kidnapped, tortured, raped, sodomized, murdered and cannibalized are not hate literature, then what is? |
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| The reserves, which should be there to back up the regular forces and to do their bidding when the time comes and fill in, instead are being cannibalized. |
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| The Atari 5200 console, released in 1982, thus cannibalized sales of the older Atari 2600 but didn't offer enough technical improvements to persuade many people to trade up. |
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| The nurse ants killed and cannibalized the last of the larvae and pupae, their own baby nest mates, and regurgitated their liquid and tissue to other adults. |
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| These were the promises made to the commercial fishing fleet in British Columbia when we cannibalized our fleet and sent a lot of guys who weren't ready to retire off to look for new jobs. |
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| This means that more than half of the entire brigades combat assets must be cannibalized and augmented by reservists to form one powerful combat ready battle group. |
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| His men survived on a diet of pine bark, stolen food, stray forest animals and native captives whom they cannibalized. |
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| When you look at these numbers, and you examine how the Internet actually works, you have to conclude that it is highly unlikely that TV broadcasters will be cannibalized by the Internet or mobile TV in the next few years. |
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| Finally after a dirt track I discovered the temple of Banteay Srei within fine sculptures which held the attention of Andre Malraux that he cannibalized in 1923 what was worth to him disentangled with Kampuchean justice. |
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| Grain fill was hampered by a lack of rainfall and many corn fields became so dry that the plant cannibalized much of its stalk and leaf resources to fill the grain. |
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