I would think it was a very tearful and desperate time for him and I think this has probably been the closest he has come to going under. |
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The wing back had been the Celtic player closest to Larsson when he collapsed in a challenge with Lyon defender Serge Blanc. |
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Right away an unofficial receiving line started as Amanda came face to face with all of her closest friends. |
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For sheer size and predatory power, the killer whale is probably the closest thing to a living Tyrannosaurus rex on Earth today. |
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Some of her closest relationships, most notably with her son and her loyal, self-sacrificing assistant, took a battering. |
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Its purpose is to ensure that the public authorities closest to the citizens are consulted. |
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The car door closest to Tyler banged open and a tall girl of 17 stepped out from it. |
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Macedonian is a South Slavic language in the Indo-European family whose closest relatives are Bulgarian and Serbian. |
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For the uninitiated, this book is the closest thing to getting one's sea legs without ever having to leave shore. |
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Gary Holt came closest of all when his strike from 25 yards thudded against the crossbar. |
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Dromaeosaurs, a group of small, fleet-footed dinosaurs in the theropod family, are thought to be the closest known relatives of birds. |
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Rebecca toyed with the edge of the thick blanket closest to her face, knowing her sickness would not allow her any sleep. |
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But it's maternity and motherhood that are the issues closest to her heart and first off her tongue. |
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These women are the closest equivalent it has to matrifocal heads of households. |
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He was my dearest and closest friend and I know that this is exactly what he would have wanted. |
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Ask those closest to the action if Scottish players get a better deal from the current boss. |
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Kirkby actually came closest to scoring when a thunderous long-range effort from Steve Chapman skimmed the crossbar. |
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Up until this season the umpire closest to any suspicious or contentious incident would review the game tape and lay a charge if warranted. |
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My dad's best man was his closest friend, Rocky, who was basically an uncle to me. |
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The identity of the mystery card is then revealed and the player with the card closest in the deck wins. |
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This should be one of the closest and most professional games of the round as the two sides try to position themselves for a home semi final. |
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Even the genome of our alleged closest evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee, is largely unmapped. |
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He sat crosslegged at the closest table to the door, closing the shoji as he went. |
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I don't necessarily identify as a Jack and Emily shipper, but they're the closest thing the series has to real honest love. |
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Manual typewriters with onionskin carbon paper were the closest many of us got to automation. |
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The closest they've come to an answer is that they don't believe that they could make money on it. |
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Canadian planes were ordered to land at the closest national airport, stranding thousands of air travellers. |
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The closest this sublime chimera ever came to being realized was during the days when his body lay on its bier. |
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A block of glass is silvered over the upper portion of the face closest to the laser beam. |
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While this new belt is the closest known match to our own, it is not a perfect twin. |
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Even the closest star to us is so far away that the sidereal day is the same, no matter what star you use to measure it. |
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His father, closest to him, grabbed the child while his mother raced to his side. |
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So a broad driving a Mercedes is bogarting her way across traffic to make that important turn into the entrance closest to Bloomingdales. |
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He was one of Dimitri's closest friends and the czarevich told him almost everything. |
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A learned council called a shura selected Abu Bakr, one of the prophet's closest friends and allies. |
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I spoke to one of his closest and most trusted advisers some 36 hours before the presidential vote, and he was a mass of nerves and frenzy. |
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Myomeres closest to the girdles are slightly different in shape and muscle fiber angle, but all of the intervening myomeres are nearly identical. |
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To tease out the details of the transition, other researchers recently turned to lancelets, vertebrates' closest spineless relatives. |
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And then, just when victory would be at its closest, the forces of evil would surround him. |
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For many, the next door neighbour is something of a distant figure, while others are bosom buddies with those that live closest to them. |
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One of the closest calls we had was actually when a Marine stepped on a bomblet from a cluster bomb. |
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Those closest to the lagoon entrance offer the best chance of finding a resting leopard shark or torpedo ray, especially early in the morning. |
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As the torpedo reaches the closest distance to the target, a magnetic proximity fuse and an impact fuse detonates the warhead. |
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It is the closest that the PGA Tour has come to links conditions, the ultimate test of a golfer's mettle and patience. |
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Megan's house was the closest, but when she called, the phone line was busy. |
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Despite their unusual features, it is generally believed that the closest relatives of scaphopods are the bivalves. |
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Copmanthorpe defeated their closest rivals North Duffield to retain their lead at the top of Division Three. |
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The problem is greatest at mitotic metaphase, when chromosomes are shortest and neighboring signals are thus closest. |
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I was brought up in the Northern Territory with Aboriginals, and many of my closest friends are indigenous. |
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I jammed my feet into the closest pair of sneakers and grabbed my back pack. |
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The closest he got to a black pepper was the capsicum peppers we call chili peppers, and the allspice plant, also known as Jamaica pepper. |
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The Coast Guard provides all of our waterborne and airborne transportation to our stations from the closest Coast Guard facility. |
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The closest railhead was hundreds of miles away and, in those early days of aviation, an air drop was out of the question. |
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His third wedding was quiet and private, with only his closest friends invited. |
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It also polls well under 5 per cent and could throw up the closest thing to a gerrymander if the previous election's turnout is repeated. |
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Andy Roddie went closest to scoring for Peterhead just before the interval, but his weak free-kick was easily held by Colin Stewart. |
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La Gitana is racy and complex and is probably the closest thing to the Fino style wines you drink in Spain. |
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With the ball lifted over his closest marker, he dispatched a powerful half volley. |
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If it had only one redeeming quality, it was that it was the closest railhead to Montana. |
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Even our closest allies in the US and UK were shocked and mortified, raising the ghost of the White Australia policy. |
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Apparently he wasn't able to bring 300 of his closest friends on his last international junket. |
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This 2001 set comes closest to capturing their kinetic, adrenalised live synergy. |
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Endless tributes, adulation and back rubs from his closest allies tend to obscure the truth. |
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In a twist of almost malicious irony, his home was the closest they had to neutral ground. |
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Brown will meet his closest lieutenants to retrench and thrash out some way of turning a deteriorating situation to his advantage. |
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He points left to face the closest mountain range and says that the mountains are in Ethiopia. |
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The closest related languages are Kumyk, Karachay-Balkar and Crimean Tatar. |
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I'm afraid that, when it comes right down to it, this is the one that's likely to be closest to the truth. |
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Describing her mother's reaction to the news, Harrold said she was unable to face even her closest friends. |
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My own closest call came when we were going over open ground when a whizz-bang burst behind me. |
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I vote for whomever is closest to my personal goal and not to what a particular party or view holds dear. |
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Once the system is in place, the fastest-moving vehicles will take lane closest to the footpath or kerbstones on the left. |
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The deceased's closest agnate, Amalyce, also claimed that he didn't know where they were. |
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Long ago, when he was just a schoolboy, his closest friend had gone by the name St. James. |
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The Prime Minister's closest aides are confident that their political master can ride out the latest storm. |
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My closest friends are my friends in recovery, because we can talk to each other about what we feel today and help each other through it. |
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Young children think that the world is defined and that everything in their experience and that of the people closest to them is knowable. |
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The closest you can get to fishing with a natural bait for these timid tench is with the humble maggot and redworm. |
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Rise debuts this month with a fat, full-colour mix of advice, service and fitness pieces for the knuckle-dragger closest to your heart. |
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It was true that Markhus's house was the closest of the three, and school did start in a matter of hours. |
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If she were to gossip, it would be with the closest of friends, not when there was a camera in her face. |
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This is the closest thing to a Soviet show trial that we are likely to see in our lifetimes. |
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Had he not been his brother and his closest relation, he would have murdered him in cold blood. |
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But despite the best efforts of his closest aides, it was not until two hours later that the Pope finally relented, the report said. |
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Guess what, gene expression produces the same nested hierarchy of relatedness, with chimps our closest relatives, as we find for genes. |
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The best clue we can give you is that these organisms are considered to be the closest living relatives of land plants. |
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Since I was the closest to the door, I was the first out, and hopped down the short steps and turned right to my bike. |
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They fly in low, up to two dozen pairs at a time, always along the edge closest to the sun and always facing into the wind. |
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Sounds simple, but because the medical center isn't our closest hospital, we can't get an ambulette to take her there. |
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The closest thing we've ever got to exercise from a videogame was a spot of repetitive strain injury. |
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Many Paleogene fossil birds of Europe have their closest modern relatives on southern landmasses today. |
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The latter event came closest to threatening the singer's customary composure. |
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It was time for a rest, so while Jack rested, I took some dirty laundry and headed to the closest Laundromat. |
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The closest thing he was capable of was mutualism and even that was a stretch and a rarity. |
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Mars will be closest to Earth in 2005 on October 29 or 30, depending on your time zone. |
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The closest I came to an accident all day was pulling out of an angled T-junction without being afforded a proper view of the road. |
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He lent his voice talent to many animated characters, but this one is closest to his own spirit. |
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Mike stood at attention until the closest sergeant reached him with handcuffs. |
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Back in the 19th century, Dilthey appears to have come closest to anticipating Buhler's classification of theories. |
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Winners can collect their tickets from the Daily Dispatch offices at the entrance closest to Station Street, through the revolving doors. |
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Although there was a great deal of scatter, the conservation index scores decreased with increasing distance from the closest exon. |
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Today those closest to our violent past seem to dominate the political landscape and many remain entranced by sectarian concerns. |
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He said a lifebuoy closest to the scene had been replaced three days before the incident, but was not there on the day. |
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Staff were busy refilling glasses as many informal toasts were made toward the two elves sitting closest to the noble on the end. |
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Though we had split up and gone our separate ways, we had remained the closest of friends, the sort who phone each other in emergencies. |
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The person once closest to Ryan had no scruples about using Ryan's weaknesses against him. |
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Because of people such as them, sports is the closest thing America has to a true meritocracy. |
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It was established that the East London crew was the closest helicopter team capable of landing on the rig. |
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This guy is the closest thing she has to a dad and is like father and brother all rolled into one. |
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The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an apocalyptic Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist. |
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However, for some people sports is the closest thing to religion they have, so it makes sense to me that Rome would explore an apostolate there. |
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The closest train station, the Telecom Center Station, is on the Yurikamome Line. |
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Rhuddlan was the closest approximation to a town in pre-Norman Wales during its brief periods under Welsh rule. |
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They may look weird, but they are the closest rock and roll has come to real art since Frank Zappa. |
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As far as menswear is concerned, nothing seemed too terribly impressive to make me want to run out and buy anything for my closest male friends. |
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The closest we have gotten to this genre in recent years are the various pirate turkeys and submarine films. |
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Peter, the apostle perhaps closest in friendship to Jesus, would have been present when the disciples saw Jesus ascend into heaven. |
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When a mass of players converges upon a loose ball, it is the closest official who must determine possession. |
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It was so horrible not only losing my father, but losing my closest friend too! |
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Customers, who lose their key, are asked to choose the closest model from the hundreds of samples. |
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It puts things in perspective. It's the closest I'll ever get to astral projection. |
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Still, he calmly slipped out of his thick green jacket and hung it on the hanger closest to the air conditioner. |
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At times I continue to experience those feelings of lowness and depression which at times is very difficult for me and those closest to me. |
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A vivid imagination is the closest we come to a time machine, but it works only by taking us away from the present. |
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The closest thing to a national tongue is Lowland Scots, which is what Burns wrote his poetry in. |
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The basic exposure is F16 and the shutter speed would be the closest to the film speed that you are using. |
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Still, he is the innocuous core that links a huge cast of eccentric characters, foremost his war buddy and closest friend Samad Iqbal. |
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The Dodge is the closest to the Titan in terms of macho styling and tough attitude. |
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The sanctity of human life is the closest thing our culture has to a basic value. |
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The family moved opposite to me in a modest semi-detached, and they soon became the closest thing to celebrity in our neck of the woods. |
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As you might know hydrogen is very common in our closest star, the Sun, which is a main sequence star. |
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He made towards the window and sat down in the chair closest to it, panting. |
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We spent most of our days sauntering down sunny beaches, eating romantic candlelit lunches, and singing songs with some of our closest friends. |
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The most likely destinations are the stars closest to Earth, such as Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, Tau Ceti, and Epsilon Eridani. |
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Before trials are approved for humans, the experiments first have to be done on species closest to us, monkeys, baboons and apes. |
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All in the party senior leadership save his closest guerilla comrades were purged. |
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Our genetic makeup is indisputably similar to the great apes, our closest relatives. |
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Common chimpanzees are very social animals, with males forming the closest bonds. |
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When the tendril closest to a fruit turns brown and dries up, the melon is ripe. |
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The ball was bobbled, and he picked it up and threw it to the closest guy he could find. |
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Therefore, any beneficial effect of reactor shutdowns may apply only to the closest downwind counties. |
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York played on the break and came closest to breaking the deadlock when Carter was thwarted by an excellent save. |
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The closest major one to the south is Swallow Canyon, which features a large cottonwood grove out on the bajada in front of it. |
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The closest things I had ever tasted to this were maple fondants, those cute soft candies shaped like little maple leaves, imported from Canada. |
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And he will have been delighted with the way his team kept battling to the end and came closest to scrambling a winner in both recent draws. |
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The closest thing to an upset came at The Gytes where Peebles and Ayr had met last week in the league with the undefeated borderers winning. |
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The first time I saw this animal, the closest name I had for it was a bandicoot before I learned it is actually a chipmunk. |
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Perhaps many young women don't see the relevance of a feminist struggle when their closest kindred spirits are men and not earlier generations of feminists. |
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According to Mitch Taylor, manager of Becker Surfboards in Malibu, milo shares one of the closest relationships with his father. |
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The wolds are the closest thing we have in this area to a hill, and those from hilly country would regard them as no more than casual undulations in the landscape. |
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Koalas and wombats are probably each other's closest relatives. |
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The closest we came to heat was the alleged philandering of the clownish Herman Cain. |
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London was famously charismatic, but to those closest to him, he could be vindictively cruel. |
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The closest thing my folks got to controlling me was called tough love. |
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Even at its closest, Sedna comes no nearer to the Sun than 76 astronomical units, each AU equaling the average distance of the Earth from the Sun. |
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The Church has labels that it attaches to each of Sundays closest to the full moons in a year, because all the moveable feasts are phased against Easter. |
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She kept news of her illness from all but her family and closest friends. |
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He cut down the closest two with a single slash, cutting both in half. |
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In some ways the poem is the closest thing he would write to the method and manner of Eliot, with its mysterious, fragmentary dialogue and allusive range. |
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The closest agents get to that in, say, cold and grimy New York is eating in their cars. |
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This closest of sky luminaries, a sphere as well as the Earth, casts its own shadows on its surface, tracing the shape that is then turned away from the sun. |
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The closest I can come to describing his psychosis is that Peter believes that he is a werewolf, without any of the lupine transformation normally associated with that legend. |
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The entire film consists of archival materials edited together into an impressionistic portrait of Nixon and his closest aides. |
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He knew the closest stretch of blacktop in that direction was Little Notch Road, but there were several gravel and dirt roads that led off from it. |
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She was often busy being the Queen's third cousin and closest friend. |
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They would travel by train, and the trains would pass through Dresden, the East German city closest to Prague. |
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We asked the closest vendor if we could have a beer, and two ice cold bottles appeared as if by magic, along with two large green plastic glasses and did we want any ice? |
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Since she had no burqa, the oversize veil was the closest Malika could come to following Taliban rules. |
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Fingering the pages she carefully composed, I replay the intimate record that she left behind, one that she may have shared with only her closest companions. |
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Nor was I at 19, skinny-dipping in the waters off Long Island with my closest college friends. |
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But which mammals are their closest relatives, and when did whales enter the seas? |
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Poussin's use of mirroring armor to encompass something beyond the representation is self-conscious and finds its closest parallel in another work by van Eyck. |
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The Saami and the Estonians are the closest populations, while the Finns are separate and the Latvians and Lithuanians are close together but somewhat separated from the rest. |
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Being the smallest person among us, I had the first seat on the sled, the one closest to the dogs. |
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If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were. |
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It is only about three quarters the size of Pluto, its closest neighbour. |
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Loved or despised by seemingly everyone, Elam is the closest thing the movement has to a rock star. |
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The calculation is to pick the most electable candidate that is closest to your political views. |
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A couple of hours later on, the prime minister came the closest he has got so far to a smack in the face when he won a division on a clause in the bill by a single vote. |
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Our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, the bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, and the gorilla share with us a common ancestry of genes and genome organization. |
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Rock fish, cod, or as Najmieh suggests, white sea bass or sea bass are the closest in taste and texture to this kind of fish. |
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We were in Mandir Niwas, which in the days of the royal shoots was the reception area for the visiting dignitaries because it was closest to the station. |
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Well, their closest relative has often been suggested as the petrels, albatross and shearwaters, but we don't know just how close these two groups are. |
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Meimad was perhaps the closest thing to the sort of religious party I'm envisaging. |
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And the closest he can get to his family at Christmas is an e-mail sent from his expedition computer, a short wave radio message or, at best, a brief call on his mobile phone. |
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According to informed sources, supervisors have instructed that the burial take place in the presence of his closest relatives, surveyed by security forces. |
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By mapping the face and focusing on features such as the eyes, nose and mouth, the system should be able to identify and help track down the closest match. |
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The Turkmens are perhaps closest to the modern Turks of today. |
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The Mallee is the closest thing Victoria has to the outback. |
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About the closest I could relate to it was my teenage days as a Goth rocker, when my girlfriend used to put some white face on me to take away my tan, and we wore all black. |
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Growing up in the 1920s, his closest buddy was Fats Domino before his family relocated to Portland, Oregon, where Lee took up featherweight boxing. |
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I managed to say goodbye to mam and my siblings by making myself think of something else as we hugged, but my dad, to whom I was closest, locked himself in the bathroom. |
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Then he picked up a bag, and offered it to the attendee who happened to be closest to him. |
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If scent is the sense physically located closest to memory in the brain, then surely the synapses that channel sound tickle the trigger of imagination. |
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Those closest to her thought she had lost her effectiveness as a campaigner. |
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I smiled before turning off the engine in the closest parking space I could find which wasn't too far from the main building, over by the portables. |
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The closest thing to a blot on the Private Eye editor's escutcheon seems to be his failure to seek planning permission for alterations to his 16th century timber-framed home. |
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Being an atheist, I feel vegetarianism is the closest I get to a religion. |
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For his closest friends and family his demise was shockingly adventitious. |
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Goats milk is the closest equivalent to human breast milk and I always take these in combination with oil of oregano capsules. |
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It also looked as if one of them at least, the one closest to the church wall, was of someone important as the grave was built of carefully mortared stone slabs. |
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Bristol West is one of the closest fought marginals in the country, and a rarity in that all three parties are within striking distance of victory. |
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He was closest to the situation, knew the risks, knew what they could gain from such a crime, and knew what they stood to lose if they were discovered, which was very little. |
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The closest linguistic relatives of the Hungarians are the Finns and the Estonians, but the Hungarians are also distantly related to the Turkic peoples. |
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The closest that he gets to acknowledging a political context for the motives and actions of his characters is in an appositive phrase early in the novel. |
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Ford Focus RS which makes its Irish debut in October is the closest you can get to a road-going version of Colin McRae's World Rally Championship contender. |
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Its horrific title aside, trophy Wife was the closest thing in style, tone, and humor to Modern Family that ABC had ever produced. |
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The line of apsides is a line which passes through both periapsis, Cassini's closest approach to Saturn in an orbit, and apoapsis, the farthest spot in the orbit from Saturn. |
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The stele is divided into three parts, the tetramerous proxistele closest to the theca tapering through the mesistele to the dimerous dististele furthest from the theca. |
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Eric glared at his former captor, the closest thing to a nemesis he could imagine, and suddenly, as the radiance from the torch touched his skin, inner fire consumed him. |
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In a party without a frontrunner, and seemingly rudderless, Bush is the closest thing the GOP has to a consensus candidate. |
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And Paul, probably, is the closest thing the party has to a responsible voice on foreign policy. |
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And so those closest to the ghastly virus remain deaf to hashtags, and silent. |
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It's the closest we get to seeing the more vulnerable side of her. |
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His closest aides were either blindingly loyal, or coolly pragmatic. |
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Perhaps the closest Senate race in the United States is the one pitting Bruce Braley against Joni Ernst in Iowa. |
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Your closest quilt shop is getting new bolts of fabric in now. |
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I was sitting in my usual seat in the fourth row of the lecture theatre beside one of my other closest friends, Natalie, or Tally, as I liked to call her. |
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The Fitbit, Nike Fuelband, and misfit Shine are its closest competitors. |
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He asked his two closest college friends to be his groomsmen. |
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He asked Jamie to run to the closest store and buy peanut butter, jelly, bread, milk, and animal crackers. |
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He and his closest friend at the time, Bryan Connon, both enjoyed listening to early radio comedy shows. |
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And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt. |
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How did a complete stranger know he was an empath? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy. |
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Their formatting and organization is far and away better than their closest rival. |
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Choanoflagellates and filasterea are considered the closest unicellular organisms to metazoan animals. |
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He laughed, but the comment stung. It always had. It meant that even his closest friends saw him as inauthentic, the fake McCoy, a Halfrican. |
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Its grammar was similar to that of modern German, and its closest relative is Old Frisian. |
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Old English is one of the West Germanic languages, and its closest relatives are Old Frisian and Old Saxon. |
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The closest relatives of the Proboscidea are the sirenians and the hyraxes. |
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In particular, criticism was directed at some of the king's closest advisors. |
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With the king so easily manipulated, power rested with those closest to him at court, in other words, Somerset and the Lancastrian faction. |
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Henry recovered in 1455 and once again fell under the influence of those closest to him at court. |
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He was the cousin and friend of Blanche Parry, the closest person to Elizabeth for 56 years. |
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He was William's closest agnatic relative, as well as son of William's aunt Albertine Agnes. |
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Their two football grounds, on opposite sides of the River Trent, are noted for geographically being the closest in English league football. |
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Hawking's speech deteriorated, and by the late 1970s he could be understood by only his family and closest friends. |
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Female descent studies show evidence of Norse descent in areas closest to Scandinavia, such as the Shetland and Orkney islands. |
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Liverpool John Lennon Airport is nearby, while the closest airport to the Pendle Borough is Leeds Bradford. |
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The Science Area, in which most science departments are located, is the area that bears closest resemblance to a campus. |
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The closest parallel to the script used is the inscription in the lead plate from Flixborough, dated to the 8th or 9th century. |
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Andreas is 1,722 lines long and is the closest of the surviving Old English poems to Beowulf in style and tone. |
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The plays themselves were in a version that Johnson felt was closest to the original, based on his analysis of the manuscript editions. |
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Orwell had requested to be buried in accordance with the Anglican rite in the graveyard of the closest church to wherever he happened to die. |
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Edith replied that she had already accepted the proposal of George Field, the brother of one of her closest schoolfriends. |
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The concertmaster usually sits to the conductor's left, closest to the audience. |
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Nolan has called Crowley one of his closest and most inspiring creative collaborators. |
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After Christopher Robin, his closest friend is Piglet, and he most often chooses to spend his time with one or both of them. |
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Australia won the championship by defeating England by 7 runs in the final, the closest margin in World Cup final history. |
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The final was the closest yet, Tigers defeated London Irish by a single point thanks to Jordan Crane's try and five points from Julien Dupuy. |
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Most scout districts host events on the Sunday closest to St George's day, often a parade and religious service for their members. |
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Its closest relative, Galician, has official status in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain, together with Spanish. |
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Disraeli, his closest ally, was his second choice and accepted, though disclaiming any great knowledge in the financial field. |
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The British, Washington's closest ally, ignored Eisenhower's pointed warning that the American people would not accept a military solution. |
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These states are sometimes collectively known as the Anglosphere, and are among Britain's closest allies. |
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It is driest in the east and warmest in the south, which is closest to the European mainland. |
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It saw as its models the Isle of Man, as well as Shetland's closest neighbour, the Faroe Islands, an autonomous dependency of Denmark. |
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The Caicos Islands are separated by the Caicos Passage from the closest Bahamian islands, Mayaguana and Great Inagua. |
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Barrie suffered bereavements with the boys, losing the two to whom he was closest in their early twenties. |
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Several of his closest friends spoke at his funeral, including Wilhelm Liebknecht and Friedrich Engels. |
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A mathematics undergraduate and descendant of David Hume, Pinsent soon became Wittgenstein's closest friend. |
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A Shire Commissioner was the closest equivalent of the English office of Member of Parliament, namely a commoner or member of the lower nobility. |
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The Steller's sea eagle, larger in both weight and total length, is the closest rival for median wingspan amongst living eagles. |
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Its closest wild relative is the bearded pig of Malacca and surrounding islands. |
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The closest town to the south of East Kilbride is Strathaven, about 7 miles away. |
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C that ones of the United States closest allies could separate and weaken the relation between the United States and the United Kingdom. |
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The closest entity in the world to a confederation at this time is the European Union. |
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The valley clubs also had no clubhouses, with most teams meeting, and changing, in the closest local public house. |
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What was still missing was the closest nonwhale ancestor, the animal that was the link to these early whales. |
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Cetaceans' closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses, having diverged about 40 million years ago. |
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Its closest and only surviving living relative is the African river martin, also very localized in central Africa. |
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Flatworms are acoelomates, lacking a body cavity, as are their closest relatives, the microscopic Gastrotricha. |
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Importantly, urchins act as the closest living relative to chordates and thus may shed light on the evolution of vertebrates. |
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The closest relatives to dinokaryotic dinoflagellates appear to be apicomplexans, Perkinsus, Parvilucifera, syndinians, and Oxyrrhis. |
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But other recent studies place gray whales as being outside the rorqual clade, but as the closest relatives to the rorquals. |
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Most molecular biological evidence suggests that hippos are the closest living relatives. |
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Under this definition, the closest living land relative of the whales and dolphins is thought to be the hippopotamuses. |
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Outside of Italy, according to one study, Greeks from Crete, Laconia, and Peloponese are genetically closest to Sicilians. |
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Fuerteventura and Lanzarote the islands which are closest to the African mainland are effectively desert or semi desert. |
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Most of the avian species congregate along the Iberian Peninsula since it is the closest stopover between Northern Europe and Africa. |
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In Norway and Iceland, the usage is closest to the Old Norse, with fjord used for both a firth and for a long, narrow inlet. |
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The closest living relatives of clawed lobsters are the reef lobsters and the three families of freshwater crayfish. |
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The hippopotamus and pygmy hippopotamus are the whale's closest terrestrial living relatives. |
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Usually the ibises and spoonbills of the Threskiornithidae were considered their closest relatives within this order. |
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The seven Beauforts at Thorney Island were closest to the Brest Group when it was sighted. |
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The Channel Islands were amongst the most heavily fortified parts of the Atlantic Wall, particularly Alderney which is the closest to France. |
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At about the same time, the city of Heracleion, the closest to the sea, became an important port for Greek trade. |
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But Representative Ron Paul of Texas, who calls himself a paleolibertarian, came closest. |
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Because of this, rocks closest to a boundary are younger than rocks further away on the same plate. |
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When the Moon is closest, at perigee, the range increases, and when it is at apogee, the range shrinks. |
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The Highest Astronomical Tide is the perigean spring tide when both the sun and moon are closest to the Earth. |
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In the French Republic, Affaires maritimes is the closest organization to Coast Guards. |
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But its geographic location and political distinctiveness isolated it from its closest neighbours, Canada and the United States. |
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The closest university to Wiltshire's county town of Trowbridge is the University of Bath. |
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The disaster left Henry with no legitimate son, his various nephews now the closest male heirs. |
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Its closest equivalents are the blockhouses built by Henry VIII on the River Thames. |
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At Cambridge, Tennyson met Arthur Henry Hallam and William Henry Brookfield, who became his closest friends. |
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Though field work gradually made Simpson's classification outdated, it remains the closest thing to an official classification of mammals. |
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It lies on the coast at Colwell Bay, which is the closest part of the island to the British mainland. |
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Among mammals, bats come closest to birds in terms of bone density, suggesting that small dense bones are a flight adaptation. |
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