| The word Indian is not the term by which the people first encountered by Columbus, the Taino, called themselves. |
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| His stay in Italy, where he encountered Caravaggesque naturalism and tenebrism, was decisive for his art. |
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| The capital encountered severe drought this year due to a sharp decrease in rainfall. |
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| While we've encountered quite a few bird bloggers on the web, avians aren't the only critters being blogged about. |
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| Every blade of grass and bush had the scents of other animals that had encountered it. |
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| We've encountered these people, or at least those who are similar, in countless other road movies. |
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| In loxodromic navigation two characteristic problems are encountered when calculating the necessary navigational parameters. |
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| Crooks refused to put too much emphasis on the club's lowly league position after all the problems they have encountered this season. |
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| Her 10-year-old son kept pestering every crew member he encountered, begging for a chance to drive the massive ocean liner. |
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| The battle began accidentally when the two armies encountered each other on the march at the pass of Cynoscephalae. |
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| Recipes for using rabbit meat in cold dishes such as brawn or rillettes and galantines are also encountered. |
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| But they encountered a parade of overpriced dumps with filthy carpets and features such as tangerine linoleum and avocado appliances. |
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| Internally the decoration is of a type and standard more usually encountered in abbeys and cathedrals. |
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| The white men who first encountered the Apaches incorrectly looked upon the Apaches as devil worshipers. |
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| It encountered losses from industrial action, strikes and absorbed a lot of resources. |
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| Similarities across actually encountered expressions allow the extraction of schemas of varying degrees of abstraction. |
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| The U.S. military needs to know whether a person encountered by a warfighter is a friend or foe. |
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| On our way out, we again encountered the Warholians, who, unlike their leader, had not left after all. |
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| The guy was effectively putting his shirt on a horse, and it was the first and only time I have encountered life imitating a figure of speech. |
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| It's probably one of the most unusual jailbreaks authorities have ever encountered. |
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| What had actually happened was that she had encountered an unseen, unmarked washout across the road more than three feet wide. |
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| In experiencing uncanniness, the ruination and questionability of life are encountered. |
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| And like most people I've encountered there, I don't recall the specifics of making his acquaintance. |
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| The first night at sea began calmly and William slept soundly but as the night wore on, the ship began to roll as she encountered a fair swell. |
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| The primary problem I encountered was having the pastry shrink a considerable amount while baking them blind. |
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| I remember Auntie Mame as having the first jockstrap joke I ever encountered. |
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| This is the first time we have encountered such radical differences within one lot. |
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| Throughout the period of conquest and migration Turkic peoples appropriated and assimilated the new cultures they encountered. |
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| Something was going on with railroading, something I had not encountered in my own research on the pre-World War II era. |
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| He only encountered a problem on the penultimate stage of the rally, when his gearbox seized. |
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| It is widely known that cannabis is the most effective anti-emetic drug ever encountered. |
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| Pulmonary disease due to talc, a group of hydrous magnesium silicates, is almost exclusively encountered after occupational exposure. |
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| Their hopes were soon dashed by the many waterfalls and rapids encountered on their journey upstream from Saigon. |
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| The two aircraft encountered terrific up and down drafts, along with whirlwinds, frequently driving the planes to within 25-ft of the ground. |
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| The most commonly encountered are Russell and butcher bodies in lymphomas, multiple myeloma, and some reactive or immunologic diseases. |
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| Meanwhile, wilding white youths combed the area terrorizing any black people they encountered with racial slurs and threats. |
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| Do not depart without sampling the thrillingly puckery Key lime pie, the best I've encountered locally. |
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| Ms Selby has received a very positive reaction from the vast majority of employers she has encountered. |
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| Runners encountered wintry and snowy conditions on the summit although it was mild and calm in Kirkby Stephen. |
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| Before that, fluorite encountered in mining was considered waste and used as backfill or dumped. |
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| The next morning, I reached down to stroke my sleek calves and recoiled in horror when my fingers encountered a disgusting prickliness. |
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| Naive monocytes and macrophages are the primary cell types encountered by the bacterium during the invasion process. |
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| The first native trees encountered are some koas that form a canopy over the trail. |
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| I confess to the herder that I don't really know what a houbara looks like, having only encountered the kori bustard of the savannah. |
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| This returns us to the themes which Jung encountered in the two fish of Pisces, the fish of Christ and Antichrist, spirit and matter. |
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| Descending for the first time, I encountered a thermocline so intense that I thought something was wrong with my eyes. |
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| Opportunistic feeders, they surface-feed, gulping small schooling fish, pelagic crabs, and swarms of krill when encountered. |
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| Such information is often sorely lacking in many accounts, although one mistake was encountered. |
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| The brothers hope to alleviate the problems they encountered during their school days. |
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| They methodically removed all of the introduced mammalian predators that they encountered. |
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| Happily, we encountered not one yodeller, nor a single soul wearing lederhosen. |
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| The typical stellate reticulum and microcyst formation often seen in follicular ameloblastoma, however, was rarely encountered. |
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| Occasionally, patients may present with rapid onset of hoarseness of voice similar to that encountered in acute viral laryngitis. |
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| Litanies of this type are frequently encountered in the services of the Orthodox Church and in the non-Roman rites of the Latin West. |
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| Few problems were encountered until two of the engines started backfiring and within two minutes had quit. |
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| The attractive force experienced is easily sufficient to break the lattice structure that sodium chloride is normally encountered in. |
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| Many obstacles are encountered when asking and answering questions about how to care for patients. |
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| The plasma membrane is the first biological barrier encountered by the ODN carriers on their way into the cell cytoplasm. |
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| They encountered considerable resistance on the part of small farmers and others, particular in mountain communities. |
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| Sanna hadn't even considered what she'd do if they encountered armed resistance. |
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| However, there was no information on whether security forces had encountered resistance as they retook the town. |
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| Ridiculing all gender battles encountered by their urban counterparts, the Dangi women are equal in all respects to their men. |
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| Even before the game they encountered problems when they emerged, resplendent in their new jerseys. |
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| But the setbacks encountered in Arizona suggest the idea may only have legs in certain states. |
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| Marie-Louise took the baccalaureate in elementary mathematics and at this stage encountered a particularly good piece of luck. |
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| Stacking round shot on deck would also create danger whenever the ship encountered rough seas. |
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| Garnets and schorl are the most likely collectible minerals to be encountered. |
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| At the top I encountered my first daffodils on the grassy bank in front of a house. |
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| Very difficult ground and artesian water conditions were encountered as described in a paper by Albert H. Fay. |
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| Supposedly lock-ups and graphical flaws run rampant, but I only encountered one small bug throughout my playing the game. |
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| The drug Catlin encountered last year is an anabolic steroid called tetrahydrogestrinone. |
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| I wonder if he is physically up for playing one of the biggest badasses I've ever encountered in my comic-reading history? |
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| When I was locked up as a political prisoner in Taiwan, I encountered a middle-school student. |
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| It proved unsuccessful as no enemy was encountered although Sabres were scrambled. |
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| The problems encountered include low seating, seats are too soft and the chairs don't have armrests to help people get out of them. |
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| He had stunning screen-printed posters made to attract attention but has encountered an unforeseen problem. |
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| However, one problem encountered during the test drives was the closeness of the indicator stalk with that controlling the cruise control system. |
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| Close up, they didn't look at all like the vicious savages she had encountered when she first came here. |
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| We have been encountered by fierce infantry resistance, yet our superior weaponry and armor has allowed us to crush this resistance. |
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| We encountered many of them during the walk, along with the plethora of round Martello tower fortifications and Jersey's impressive castles. |
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| But rather than the racial and gender melting pot that he expected, he encountered a world of gangsters, thieves and back-stabbers. |
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| How many other divers have encountered live munitions while pursuing their sport. |
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| It was on this leg of the voyage that they encountered the largest field of manganese nodules they had yet chanced across. |
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| Azures have a slow, fluttering flight and are often one of the first butterflies encountered when the first warm weather of spring arrives. |
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| Near the end of a trip down the Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories 30 years ago, my former wife and I encountered a lone man in a scow. |
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| The project has encountered some objections prompted by concerns that the extension and alterations will ruin the listed building's image. |
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| I encountered a badling of common eider on a northern island of Iceland. |
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| An Ozzie traveller complained to me that the only theft he had encountered was in youth hostels, and even then it was a piece of cheese from the fridge. |
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| Troops were razing buildings and killing people as they were encountered. |
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| I first encountered Wright when I was a nerdy teenager, and thought his unique style of clever deadpan absurdism was just about the coolest thing ever. |
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| While in Paris during the early nineteen-fifties, McEwen encountered Abstract Expressionism, which introduced him to tachisme and colour-field painting. |
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| I encountered no glitches in my testing, and found it fairly easy to use. |
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| The alto clef encountered when reading the viola part poses a challenge. |
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| The classes will be taught too fast for you, glossing over concepts that you may not have encountered before. |
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| Three years ago, she moved to New Orleans, where, she says, she encountered a great culture of indulgence. |
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| Laboratory-trained personnel were used because pilot studies showed the need for tabulators who could understand unique situations encountered in each site. |
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| Those lucky enough to have encountered a few shavings of fresh white truffle know they are amazingly, hauntingly delicious. |
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| Rutile is widespread in Canada as an accessory mineral in many varieties of crystalline rocks, although good specimens are not commonly encountered. |
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| I've long ago learnt that the breed I encountered today is atypical. |
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| He carried it everywhere, snapping photos of nearly everything and everyone he encountered. |
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| She continued to encourage me, with a serenity and strength that was like nothing I had encountered. |
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| En route they encountered 14 ditches, all cleared without accident. |
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| In the west at Utah Beach the U.S. Fourth infantry Division encountered almost none, lost 12 men killed in the first 24 hours. |
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| We have no information yet on what other flights were in the air then, and what they encountered. |
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| Early this afternoon, my business associates were on the way to an appointment at a primary school when they encountered something quite horrible. |
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| The modern era of the circus is inseparable from several names you may have encountered. |
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| That was a concept I hadn't encountered until I saw the Luba pieces, and it thrilled me, the idea of woman's body, abstractly replicated as a lukasa, a memory board. |
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| While travelling on the buses, I encountered a very talkative bus driver. |
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| He encountered struggles that many foreign newcomers face upon beginning a new life in America. |
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| Medians were also calculated because they are less affected than arithmetic means by the extreme values often encountered in skewed distributions of dietary variables. |
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| Rivera encountered Steinbrenner in the clubhouse, and the owner asked the closer whether they were going to win. |
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| It seems that when magnesium is brought to temperatures like that encountered in engines and transmissions, there is a tendency for deformation under load to occur. |
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| In one incident, a U.S. Special Forces A-team, accompanied by a Canadian reconnaissance squadron, encountered a group of Somalis who had been wounded in an earlier clash. |
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| But as Challenger approached the West Indies the crew encountered a phenomenon that dwarfed in importance even the discovery of manganese nodules. |
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| But lack of customized sexual preferences is just one of the problems the team initially encountered. |
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| The excavation of lithic quarry sites presents archaeologists with logistical and analytical problems that are often not encountered at other site types. |
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| This method of production is still used although oxidation of methane, pyrolysis of alkanes, and cracking of hydrocarbons are more commonly encountered. |
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| Then I realized that any of the the various small stories of treachery and betrayal I had encountered could form the thews and sinews of a mystery novel. |
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| My foot encountered a twig, and it snapped loudly in my hearing, causing a flock of black creatures that had been roosting in a neighboring tree to take wing. |
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| In complete contrast, the overactivity encountered in Graves' disease is due to the aberrant production of autoantibodies, known as thyroid stimulating antibodies. |
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| In fact no Marines had actually encountered an enemy yet, spokesmen said. |
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| The most frequently encountered secondary sleep disturbances are night awakenings and bedtime resistance, which occur most commonly in toddlers and preschool-aged children. |
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| For their part, landlords resented the tendency of British governments and rational commentators to fail to recognize the difficulties they encountered. |
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| The distinction between the old grave and acute accents were a help to children and learners to help them pronounce a word which they encountered for the first time. |
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| For the more commonly encountered methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci, a combination of vancomycin, rifampin and gentamicin is indicated. |
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| Simpson also encountered similar situations during his tenure at the Center. |
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| We have encountered no false positives at the time of surgery and used clinical features and radiology alone to make the diagnosis in three of our patients. |
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| Then there is any person who encountered or spoke to the complainant in the aftermath of the supposed liaison. |
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| Yet, to many who encountered him outside his dungeon, he seemed generally cheery. |
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| On the way they passed by the schooner Tavern, where they encountered Dean Schmitz and Molly Flaherty. |
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| I had to go back and remember how awestruck I felt when I encountered it for the first time. |
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| Might Stevens have encountered spores of bacillus anthracis during a recent hike through woods in North Carolina? |
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| His later books drew heavily from experiences and people he encountered at the bar, including the cruel captain in The Sea-Wolf. |
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| However, the difficulties encountered with this approach are one of the major reasons justifying the retention of the Fair Trading Act provisions discussed below. |
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| The Slow-worm is probably the most commonly encountered British reptile. |
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| Rather, in his new novel, bleeding edge, Pynchon has encountered a subject that resists even his ample literary capacities. |
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| Driving from the Denver airport to Wyoming, I encountered an almost-otherworldly whiteout of a blizzard. |
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| Pvt. Eddie Slovik was the bravest soldier that one World War II veteran says he ever encountered. |
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| Cops said that this weekend was calmer than most of the shows that they encountered at Frontier Ranch. |
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| It could be argued that the great array of different scarf joints encountered in timber-framed buildings should make the author's point about complexity. |
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| Once or twice I almost jumped as we encountered startlingly lifelike mannequins standing in rooms, recreating historical characters from the castle's past. |
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| This foraging profile overlapped with those of all anthophilous insect families, all bee subgenera, and all species of nectarivorous birds that were encountered. |
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| When he had gone a little way he encountered a fair and lovesome maiden. |
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| During the Vietnam war, conversion disorders were seldom encountered as repressed memories, and abreactive treatments became a quaint historical artifact. |
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| I encountered The Mysteries of Udolpho when I took a gothic novel course as a student at St. Andrews in Scotland. |
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| Often they never even encountered the presumed anthropophagi. |
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| Although fever is the most commonly encountered disorder of thermoregulation, hypothermia has played a major role in shaping history and medicine for millennia. |
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| I insisted the Empress come out in the rain and see this because she stoutly defends the yardmen who are the laziest bunch of louts I've encountered in a long time. |
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| Probably every person who has ever encountered a lithophane for the first time believes that he or she has discovered a lost Victorian art form. |
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| When I was internet dating three years ago, the men I encountered were incredibly lookist. |
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| The most commonly encountered single suture synostoses are the sagittal suture and the coronal suture. |
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| After discovering Spitsbergen, the ships encountered pack ice blocking the way. |
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| The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you. |
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| Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered. |
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| Jordan's records were the first time many whites encountered the nuances of hip urban blackspeak. |
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| In these areas, wherever domestic conenoses are encountered, they should be exterminated. |
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| We encountered an abandoned boat at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. |
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| Unlike Mr. Daniels, Ms. Harden had previously encountered Mr. Gandolfini, whom she almost cooingly described as soulful. |
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| As I continued down the educational path to doctordom, I became frustrated with all the red tape I encountered. |
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| The one thing everyone agrees on is that they've never encountered a band that claimed to be emo. |
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| When an obstruction is encountered the spring release mechanism in the hitch permits the plow to uncouple from the tractor. |
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| When an obstruction is encountered the entire bottom is released and hinges back and up so as to pass over the obstruction. |
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| Other factors commonly encountered in animals with peritonitis may also predispose to adynamic ileus. |
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| It did stimulate some trade and industry, but the trading opportunities encountered were limited. |
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| The ABDA fleet finally encountered the Japanese surface fleet at the Battle of Java Sea, at which Doorman gave the order to engage. |
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| I began drifting and presently encountered a man sitting on a khatiya, gazing passively into the scorched fields across the road. |
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| These early works were encountered more than a century later during the TML project. |
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| His pioneering efforts encountered specific difficulties, and the treatment of addition was an obvious difficulty in the early days. |
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| Several inventors followed Sturgeon in the development of DC motors but all encountered the same battery power cost issues. |
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| It is often useful, because many commonly encountered forces are conservative. |
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| Begun in 1957, the project encountered considerable technical difficulties making the shells and getting the acoustics right. |
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| In the process, Europeans encountered peoples and mapped lands previously unknown to them. |
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| This variety of sausage is often encountered as yam naem and naem khluk, both of which are Thai salads. |
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| In combination with the spread of Roman roads, the invading crusaders encountered the dish and brought the recipes to Medieval Europe. |
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| During late-season skiing, I have encountered ice in the morning and mashed potatoes in the afternoon. |
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| Everyone he encountered, every event that occurred were material for his insight and his wit. |
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| In May 1896, an inebriated Beatty encountered Kipling on the street and threatened him with physical harm. |
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| He spent much of the time on a roof, with a stack of novels, but encountered Jon Kimche from his Hampstead days during the stay. |
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| With a metonymic expression encountered in almost every sixth utterance, an uncontroversial need for dealing with this problem is demonstrated. |
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| The British attempted to cobble together a relief expedition, but encountered numerous delays. |
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| The Orcadian word most frequently encountered by visitors is peedie, meaning small, which may be derived from the French petit. |
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| A universal problem encountered by lawmakers throughout human history is how to organize published statutes. |
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| Corrosion, metal fatigue, and low availability of new spare parts are problems encountered in greater frequency the older a machine becomes. |
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| I recently received a note from a young man named Austin who had encountered Spartan Race after trying a mud run put on by another promoter. |
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| While out on assignments supplying oil to customers across Tanganyika, he encountered black mambas and lions, among other wildlife. |
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| It was here that Grieve first encountered the work of John Maclean, Neil Malcolm Maclean, and James Maxton. |
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| Although often encountered, it plays a fringe role in Irish Traditional dance music. |
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| Tommy Smothers had first encountered the band on a trip to London, and became their friend as well as a fan. |
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| Niven returned to Hollywood, and encountered tragedy when his first wife died after falling down in an accident at a party. |
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| Edward continued his advance the following day, and encountered the bulk of the Scottish army as they emerged from the woods of New Park. |
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| The poll tax when implemented encountered a number of administrative and enforcement difficulties. |
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| Further north, walruses and bearded seals can be encountered on the Pacific side, and ribbon seals reproduce on the ice of Karaginsky Bay. |
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| Although both males and females disperse locally, they move outside the range where genetically related individuals are likely to be encountered. |
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| The creation of the Royal Regiment of Scotland encountered considerable opposition amongst former soldiers, conservatives and nationalist groups. |
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| St Andrews is about the furthest north annual levels of above 1500 hours are encountered. |
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| Where concrete bunkers were encountered, the troops worked their way around them, cutting the German troops off and forcing them to surrender. |
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| Many of these English language group names originally referred to particular species encountered in Britain. |
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| It is encountered in Ohio as a passage migrant and rarely as a winter guest, though two recent nestings have been confirmed. |
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| The following are commemorative issues and are seldom encountered in normal circulation due to their precious metal content. |
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| Though they are legal tender in the UK, they are never encountered in circulation. |
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| Some of the most frequently encountered place name elements in Wales are shown in the table below. |
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| In addition, the Doctor has occasionally encountered himself in the form of his own incarnation, from the near future or past. |
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| Sea turtle blood can deliver oxygen efficiently to body tissues even at the pressures encountered during diving. |
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| The principal radiations which will be encountered are alpha, beta and gamma, but these have quite different characteristics. |
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| There are several historical subdivisions and regional names, some of which are still occasionally encountered today. |
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| On the afternoon of 31 May, Beatty encountered Hipper's battlecruiser force long before the Germans had expected. |
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| On November 5, 1940, the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer encountered the convoy. |
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| During the next three weeks, far from the easy advance the Wehrmacht expected, they encountered strong resistance from a rejuvenated French Army. |
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| As carcasses are often solidly frozen when encountered, brown bears may sit on them to thaw them sufficiently for consumption. |
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| American beech is rarely encountered in developed areas unless as a remnant of a forest that was cut down for land development. |
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| Some can survive the intense UV and cosmic radiation encountered during space travel. |
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| It was known for a long time and was encountered by Fridtjof Nansen but was only fully understood with the advent of satellite imagery. |
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| Based on this evidence, the study concluded that human populations encountered novel selective pressures as they expanded out of Africa. |
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| The indigenous people he encountered in their homelands were peaceful and friendly. |
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| There he encountered another Spanish expedition led by Lepe, which would reach as far as the Oyapock River in March. |
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| Cod actively feed during migration and changes in shoal structure occur when food is encountered. |
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| In some cases granitic bodies have been recognised from the mineralization above them, even if the intrusion itself has not been encountered. |
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| The BBC's more popular stations have encountered pressure from the commercial sector. |
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| Raising the Mary Rose meant overcoming a number of delicate problems that had never been encountered before. |
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| Very likely, they had been in part the Boii, who were a strong force on the Danube until they encountered the Marcomanni and Quadi. |
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| Fritigern brought most if not all of his fighters to the battle, and appears to have led the force the Romans first encountered. |
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| By 1700, the major tribal settlements Soto and his men had encountered were no more. |
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| The Soviet Red Stars are also encountered, often on military equipment and war memorials. |
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| Saint Columbanus in the 6th century encountered a beer sacrifice to Woden in Bregenz. |
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| When these colonizers entered North America they encountered a fully established culture of people called the Powhatan. |
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| However, the settlers encountered resistance from natives living in the area, who used poisoned weapons, and de Ojeda was injured in the leg. |
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| However, when they first reached the Chinese border they encountered people that were equipped with artillery pieces and here they halted. |
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| After their movements from their original homeland in West Africa, Bantus also encountered in central east Africa peoples of Cushitic origin. |
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| Moving across, the Mongolian army encountered no resistance and ravaged the area en route. |
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| Book One describes the lands of the Middle East and Central Asia that Marco encountered on his way to China. |
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| During his first trip he had encountered a holy man who prophesied that he would only reach Mecca by travelling through Syria. |
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| It was during this journey that Ibn Battuta first encountered a hippopotamus. |
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| Merchants also helped to establish diaspora within the communities they encountered, and over time their cultures became based on Buddhism. |
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| An Arab Damascene girl was a slave to a king in Mali who was encountered by Ibn Battuta. |
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| It was in Mali where the Damascene slave Arab girl was encountered by Ibn Battuta. |
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| After disembarking with about 70 men Ojeda encountered a number of indigenous tribes. |
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| Issues often encountered by foreign tourists include scams, overcharging and dual pricing. |
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| It was during this expedition that the Portuguese first encountered the Kingdom of Kongo, with which it soon developed a rapport. |
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| Before he could continue his voyage north his ships encountered a storm, and were blown well to the south of Tierra del Fuego. |
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| On April 8 they encountered a current so strong that it pushed them backwards and forced them to seek anchorage. |
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| A substantial Maya trading canoe was encountered off Honduras on Christopher Columbus's fourth voyage. |
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| The Aztecs, meanwhile, had not encountered Castilians in battle, despite their long exposure to them during the Spaniards' time in Tenochtitlan. |
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| Using borrowed money, Pinto bought passage to Siam where he encountered the King of Siam at war. |
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| In New York Bay, he encountered the Lenape and observed what he deemed to be a large lake, which was in fact the entrance to the Hudson River. |
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| A few days out of London, the nine ships of the third supply mission encountered a massive hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| The progress of his small ships was hampered by the fierce winds and high seas he encountered, eventually forcing him to turn back to New Spain. |
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| The Brethren were renowned for their scriptorium and here Mercator might have encountered the italic script which he employed in his later work. |
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| In early 1606, Janszoon encountered and then charted the shores of Australia's Cape York Peninsula. |
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| But Nikon encountered opposition among the many Russians who viewed the corrections as improper foreign intrusions. |
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| He soon encountered the Ostyak prince Demian, who had fortified himself in a fortress on the banks of the Irtysh with 2,000 loyal fighters. |
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| The term is also used to denote the climate encountered in regions too dry to support a forest, but not dry enough to be a desert. |
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| At one point he encountered another force of 6,000 Chinese, but was able to slip around them under cover of fog and darkness. |
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| Olaudah Equiano accounts his experience about the sorrow slaves encountered at the ports. |
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| In the Viking era beginning circa 793, the Norse raiders often captured and enslaved militarily weaker peoples they encountered. |
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| Commonly encountered moods include the indicative, subjunctive, and conditional. |
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| This is also encountered in South African English, especially among Afrikaans speakers. |
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| Commonly encountered cases include nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive. |
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| A similar contrast has been reported in parts of south and west England, but it is now rarely encountered there. |
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| Estuary English is widely encountered throughout the south and the southeast of England, particularly among the young. |
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| His expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline of Australia. |
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| However, Crusaders often encountered refusal to hand over the property upon their return. |
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| Some calls for reform stress the difficulties encountered by potential claimants. |
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| This practice encountered opposition from many justices, who cited the difficulty of travel. |
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| Congress is a political body and political disagreements routinely encountered should never be considered as treason. |
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| Blair was pelted with eggs and shoes, and encountered an attempted citizen's arrest for war crimes. |
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| Only a few representatives are given, as the number of polyatomic ions encountered in practice is very large. |
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| Pure sulfuric acid is not encountered naturally on Earth in anhydrous form, due to its great affinity for water. |
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| In 1807 the tunnel encountered quicksand and conditions became difficult and dangerous. |
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| The airport held numerous airlines from the 1950s through the 1990s, but it has encountered years of spotty commercial flights. |
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| Sarracenia is the pitcher plant genus most commonly encountered in cultivation, because it is relatively hardy and easy to grow. |
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| This plant is usually encountered as a liana, but in its juvenile phase, the plant is carnivorous. |
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| This force encountered 300 mounted Romans who had been sent up the river for the same purpose. |
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| The Carthaginians continued their march and at modern Albertville they encountered the Centrones, who brought gifts and cattle for the troops. |
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| The latter were cut through shale, and water was encountered in the first eight feet. |
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| When William Crossing first encountered this cross it was lying on the ground. |
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| Good luck and goodbye to the most sick-making,hypocritical bunch of shitgibbons i've yet encountered on the Web! |
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| All of us who have been to the beaches this year have encountered tarballs that stick to our feet and mess up our rugs. |
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| They were doing fine until they encountered a bunch of toughs from the opposition. |
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| Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches. |
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| The first stretch of Vectesian railway to be encountered by most visitors from London belonged to none of the island railways. |
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| Agenesis of the sphenoid sinuses is a very rarely encountered anatomic variation. |
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| It was neither the best nor worst pickup line I encountered that evening. |
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| The number of species preferring dry desert habitat is small compared to the above but several species of lark and wheatear can be encountered. |
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| Eccentric that I am, my Yeatsian reflection was sparked by a single word, one that I had never encountered. |
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| During his hour long dive to 18m he encountered a 4ft turtle, conga eel and an array of fish including angel fish, parrot fish, hammerhead fish. |
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| Art in the service of religion, those pieces that would be encountered in mosques, is indeed aniconic. |
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| Ankylosing spondylitis is the most frequently encountered disease in the spondyloarthritis group. |
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| Next we encountered the three Australian q-marsupials, the quokka, the quoll and the quenda. |
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| It has developed estimates of exposure for ionizing radiation and antineoplastic agents, both of which are encountered in veterinary settings. |
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| For all plots, ramet density was calculated by counting the number of stems of each plant species encountered in each subplot. |
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| On December 26, 1914, Horn travelled to New Orleans and then to New York where he stayed in the Arietta Hotel and encountered Captain von Papen. |
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| The Khoikhoi encountered by European colonists at the Cape kept fat-tailed sheep. |
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| No army cook had encountered anything like Norman cream and eggs. |
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| Primary laryngeal localization of Aspergillus infection is seldom encountered. |
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| Repatriates often experience problems similar to those encountered in initial cross-cultural entry into a foreign environment. |
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| I don't know anything about Botox and I have never encountered it, as anyone who has seen my laughter lines will know. |
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| Beaked whales and several other species of delphinids were encountered too infrequently to estimate abundance. |
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| We encountered a patient with a tongue base lymphoma that we initially diagnosed as a lingual tonsil in view of its benign appearance. |
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| Venous accesses were straightforward in all cases, and no hemolyzed or lipemic specimens were encountered. |
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| Second, during transects we also regularly encountered desert iguanas which occasionally scavenge carrion. |
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