There are many facts pointing to sweeping climatic changes in the Earth's distant past. |
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By their regular performance, the words are remembered from one generation to the next, and they convey beliefs and ideas from the distant past. |
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The urban folkways of New York City, for all its highly cultivated habits of historical amnesia, have strong linkages to the distant past. |
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If blame were to be justly apportioned, it would have to extend into the distant past of American foreign policy formation. |
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This little ditty oft quoted by my granddad while shaving with his cut-throat razor came winging its way from out of my dim and distant past. |
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Some wild tribes of the distant past no doubt did follow the practice of killing innocent people in revenge for the death of one of their men. |
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The ronin's distant past explores the conflict between an honorable samurai heritage and the financial worries of masterless ronin. |
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In the past, especially the distant past, the saints were venerated as prodigies, miracle-workers, intercessors, protectors. |
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A few were downright bloody-minded, seeing little difference between their call up and the press gangs of Britain's distant past. |
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Eggs hatching from diapause introduce to current environments species or genotypes laid at times in the distant past. |
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They are postcards from a very distant past, putting faces on people who lived centuries ago. |
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These stories could have come from any of the tabloids from the last few weeks, though actually they belong to the distant past. |
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It always returns as pangs of memories about mirth and joy veiled by a distant past. |
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Other planets and moons in the solar system have been volcanically active in the distant past. |
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However, if liquid water flowed on Mars in the distant past, the climate might have been very different from what it is today. |
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In the not too distant past, the best abstaining customers could hope for were coffee, tea, juice, a soda, milk and plain old ice water. |
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In the not too distant past social conventions rather than laws would have governed this process. |
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The events we are talking about did not take place in some dark, distant past. |
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That is all the truer where such information concerns a person's distant past. |
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Our work on this claim is a journey into the far distant past of our people. |
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Also, in the distant past it was usual for people to move in with their children when getting older. |
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This view might have served in the distant past as a simplistic, but convenient representation of reality, but is no longer justified today. |
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In the dim distant past, wasn't a pie eater an insult in Australian slang? |
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In the not-so distant past, passengers would find their hair matted and their skin a shade darker from the soot of the steam engine that was pulling their bogies. |
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Endothermy did evolve from ectothermy, and birds did evolve from dinosaurs, which we know came from ectothermic ancestors sometime in the distant past. |
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He visited the recent past, then the near future, then the distant past, and then the remote future. |
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A spot where the food is tempting and the stones tell tales from a distant past. |
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The melody, enchanting, heartrending, seems to come from the night of the distant past. |
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The origins of the Tibetan bowls and detailed history are lost in the distant past and certainly is a gift from the shamanistic Bon religion that existed in Tibet for several centuries before the arrival of Buddhism. |
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I will not bore you with the ghosts from the distant past, although it is with them in mind that I have never weakened in my resolve to fight any effort to stifle the voice of authors and creative artists. |
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The finding adds substantially to the evidence that human evolution did not grind to a halt in the distant past, as is tacitly assumed by many social scientists. |
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This group, set up in the dim and distant past in 1998, now needs to be adapted to deal with the increasingly urgent development of the internal market. |
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They also magnify the event to the detriment of context and duration, whereas any in depth reform requires thoughtful consideration of the distant past, and generally produces its effect only in the distant future. |
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Ressentiment is an aggressive act of memory, often buried in a distant past projecting markers founded on a badly assimilated history of misunderstandings. |
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While taking refuge in a dilapidated chapel, he senses that the building and the surrounding abandoned settlement are filled with painful memories from the distant past. |
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In the not too distant past Salzburg had been an Archbishopdom ruled by her archbishops. |
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Of contemporary society, because it is not a question of describing the history of a distant past, but rather of living a present-day story, of incarnating La Salle in the complicated bony structure of the world of today. |
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And science by Muslims was great in the distant past. |
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The arrangement was the distant past, upside-down. |
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The next puzzle the researchers plan to piece together is to determine whether a causal link between mergers and activity in the more distant past exists. |
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There is one further record that I think is kept and it is my understanding is still available even from the distant past and that is the transfusion records from the Red Cross. |
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The medieval-sounding horn flourish when the knight Gurnemanz invokes the dead king Titurel in his opening narration came out translucently soft, as if emerging from the distant past. |
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The air trapped in bubbles in the ice can also reveal the CO2 variations of the atmosphere from the distant past, well before modern environmental influences. |
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However, when been is used with stative verbs or gerund forms, been shows that the action began in the distant past and that it is continuing now. |
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The actress is a vampish dressmaker who returns to her childhood home in 1950s Australia to clear her name of a horrific crime from the distant past. |
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Further, progressive tenseless aspects in FID portray the present consciousness of the characters, while having some references to a distant past. |
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