So when she encountered her first funnel cloud in the midst of a bike ride in 1998, the professional athlete wasn't content ducking into a ditch. |
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The village stocks and the ducking stool provided a suitable deterrent for the twerp who insisted on invading our space and time. |
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The waiting drivers clap and cheer appreciatively, ducking the occasional piece of burning debris raining from the sky. |
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Is the closure of Internet chat rooms more about ducking responsibility than child safety? |
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The other word I've been pondering recently is cucking-stool, the original form of what later became called a ducking stool. |
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Raine covered her ears at the shrill sound, ducking away from the delirious crowd as best as she could. |
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My friend was having problems of her own, every few moments ducking her head to furtively expunge small pieces of gristle into her napkin. |
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Boxing has been through periods when it seems all the top fighters are ducking each other, but this isn't one of those periods. |
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I smile, appeased and amused, when I realize that he's actually ducking, and his broad shoulders are hunched over. |
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Dressed in black the person was creeping toward the house, ducking behind bushes and hedges. |
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I tried to stay in the shade, ducking beneath the delicate brown flower heads of the Spanish moss. |
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Enemies take cover, sometimes knocking over tables and ducking behind them. |
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Someone who is ducking responsibility for his own actions is hardly in a strong position to call someone else to account. |
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He walked under the trees, ducking under some particularly saggy branches, until he came to a ridge. |
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Morton began trailing him and ducking behind shop windows with Catherine when the man turned around. |
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Galorea shot off, ducking under the decaying beams that slanted over the wooden shanties. |
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Just as she prepared herself to speak, Ronnie sauntered into the little box room, ducking a little as she came through the open doorway. |
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Then the apparatus of power comprised stocks, ducking stools, branding irons and the omnipresent shadow of the gallows. |
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We continue through the brush, ducking under low tree limbs and heading more or less in a southerly direction where the canyon should be. |
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He then has to spend the summer ducking the paparazzi when all he really wants to do is go out in a pedalo with his girlfriend. |
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Only seconds after removing the vent cover and ducking inside, nearly a dozen powerful beams of light swept the area in search of the intruder. |
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During dinner downtime, chef David Levecchia greets customers at the bar before ducking into the kitchen to fill their orders. |
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He made a move, rushing to the left and ducking around Jim's outstretched arm. |
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In fact I hope I don't end up ducking out of saying a name on the phone, too. |
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The climbs will sort it out, so it's not going to be a case of hanging on the flat and ducking and diving in a sprint finish. |
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She could tell that Hannah had been looking for her but she had been avoiding her, ducking into large groups of people or ignoring her. |
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They tried to escape the heat yesterday by ducking into the coolroom of a Bondi store. |
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All six of us grabbed handfuls from the box and ducking and diving behind tables, we started full-scale cream cracker warfare. |
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No one since Garbo has been so deft at ducking fans, especially most of the writers and critics prophesizing with their pens. |
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It is no more a proper trial than ducking witches used to be. |
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Instead of ducking out of the way, Woody slipped inside my flailing offense a bit too far, stabbing his foot on the little toe of my pivoting foot. |
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She stepped to the side, away from him as he made to grapple her from behind, and ducking under his massive arms, moved back quickly until she was behind him instead. |
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There was no way of ducking the cameras, we had to grin and bear it. |
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Not one word about being cellophaned to a ducking stool in the former eastern bloc. |
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There is no reason for Canada to continue waffling, and ducking and dodging on whether we will support our allies. |
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When ducking into darkness beneath the deck, the savvy pirate would simply switch his eye patch from one eye to the other. |
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With that retort, Will shoved Mark into a table, but Mark countered, ducking from a roundhouse swing and taking Will's legs out from underneath him. |
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Trains race between dense cities and remote regions at high speeds, often ducking under tunnels along the way. |
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Why would we use this kind of legislation to facilitate ducking those charges? |
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He is ducking the issue and will be absent for the vote, and his fellow Liberals will vote against this bill. |
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We must avoid wishful thinking and we must avoid ducking the difficult questions which I have addressed during these remarks today. |
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Will he stop ducking his responsibilities and will he take real steps to deal with the problems of his executive and his cabinet ministers? |
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Is it in a position to prove its credentials in fighting international terrorism, or is it only interested in ducking its responsibility? |
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Identifying causes moves management a step closer to a solution and makes ducking the problems more difficult. |
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Now even the Liberals are ducking out, despite the fact that they were in agreement with those recommendations. |
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The higher this value is set, the louder an input signal must be for the ducking to take place. |
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The Digital Delay is the cleanest, most accurate of the delay programs, with up to 5 seconds of mono delay and the built-in ducking feature. |
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The ensign at tactical reported ducking as the panel behind him exploded. |
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He thought about ducking out when Barry went to get another round in. |
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Shunning the media and ducking a direct interaction will only cause more damage to the system, if it has not already, with the athletes flopping badly. |
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Get off your bike and obambulate down this quaint Edo Period street, ducking in for a coffee or hot homemade ginger ale at Cafe and Bar Shiomachitei. |
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Abruptly he bounded away, ducking into his house without explanation. |
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Everywhere I saw helicopters jukeing and jinking, ducking and dodging. |
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We surged forward, hearts thumping, ducking to avoid water bombs and grasping hands, until we were disgorged at an open green beneath the city walls. |
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Only in Washington would you get dinged for trying to solve problems instead of ducking them. |
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He instead flew off to Denver for fundraising and a speech some of his fellow Democrats are ducking. |
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He was in fine form, ducking and jabbing on a number of tough questions and even getting laughs on some of his wry responses. |
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So no ducking under the duvet, then, when your little monster threatens to waken the neighbours, if not the dead, with his wee-small-hours wake-up call. |
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A ear-splitting neigh jolted him back to his senses, and a sudden flash of white shot towards him, ducking underwater for a split second to lift him up beneath it. |
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One of the last ordeals by ducking stool took place in Leominster in 1809, with Jenny Pipes as the final incumbent. |
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I went into my own version of Ali's rope-a-dope, ducking as many of the heavy blows as I could, and waiting for some kind of idea to come to me. |
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Mr. Jim Pankiw: Mr. Speaker, he is ducking the question. |
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On the other, he just looks a total tool when he accuses politicians and the media of obfuscating and ducking questions when he then does precisely the same, and with added bully-boy petulant aggression. |
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Congress even now is considering enlarging that deficit by cutting those taxes.... It means ducking out of the basic Social Security problem. |
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Mr Gorbachev, ducking, weaving and waffling at the top, played a part. |
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Is a quiet word called for, or the ducking stool? |
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They are tired of the procedural games and the ducking of responsibility. |
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Only Mr Mandela could lead the blacks into talks with the government. On February 11th the myth stepped outside his prison gate and walked a few steps before ducking into a car to escape the shouts of the world's press. |
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Choices that result in winners and losers or in reduced levels of service are understandably difficult to make, but ducking them only increases the difficulty. |
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Again the government is ducking the real issues. |
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The time for making excuses and ducking the issue is over. |
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Mr. Speaker, once again, the Prime Minister is ducking the issue. He is not answering my question, which was also asked yesterday by the leader of the Bloc Québécois. |
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He ducked the aboriginal health issue and he is ducking everything else. |
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Volume reduction under ducking control is also set here. |
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Skilled cataphiles elude police by ducking into corridors or moving in the dark. |
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However, at a United Nations climate change conference in Germany, environment groups believe Australia has embarrassed itself by ducking questions. |
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Tegen followed the sound, ducking and weaving between the crowding trees until she felt the soft squishyness of mud under her clogs and her feet were cold and wet. |
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Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. |
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They are prohibited from holding the ropes for support when punching, holding an opponent while punching, or ducking below the level of the opponent's belt. |
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