| Jacob steps forth to meet him halfway, alone, before an army, halting and limping and bowing down to the ground. |
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| The group has been calling for temporary halting site facilities for transient traders. |
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| Some of the players have also been deeply unhappy about the media coverage of last Sunday's halting 36-11 victory over Japan in Townsville. |
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| We had a predictably halting start, but there were no shockers or disasters. |
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| The answer is normally a halting yes as the voter tries to work out if it is a trick question. |
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| It also has some of the most tender passages Brahms ever wrote and a concluding series of halting triplets that is mesmerizing. |
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| While the European Community could still stop it, the legal case for halting this shotgun wedding is looking weaker by the day. |
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| Equally halting, the ants simile in canto XXVI represents the occasional conflict between narrative clarity and structural exigency. |
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| The first step taken in halting spending running out of control is to call a halt to the hiring of staff. |
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| He said he has grown increasingly pessimistic about halting black-on-black violence. |
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| In one of the dozen or so times this act has played over the last decade, bleacherites pelted the field with trash, temporarily halting the game. |
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| The output reductions would be made with a view to halting the downward spiral of DRAM prices, itself caused by supply vastly outweighing demand. |
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| Both drivers realised they were on collision course and applied their emergency brakes, halting the vehicles around two tram lengths apart. |
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| The Jubilee arouses uncertain feelings, halting thoughts, though it's in our town. |
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| Pundits say that the timing of the National Stabilization Fund share disposal is the key to halting further losses. |
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| I tried conversation with our host, but with the barrier of language and Mohammed slowly, punctiliously translating, it was halting. |
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| In a halting voice, recollecting events from the past slowly, Master Willie recounted his life. |
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| From there the route heads in a north-westerly direction running along the western side of the Oakpark halting site. |
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| The route heads in a north-westerly direction running a corridor along the western side of the Oakpark halting site. |
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| She could hear every halting breath, every tear drip off his chin, and every soft moan a painful lament. |
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| Yet, given more time, the halting experiment with political pluralism might have evolved in a more positive direction. |
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| Her shaking hands cover her mouth and she walks backwards in slow, halting steps. |
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| The agriculture and forestry minister tendered his resignation in protest of the halting of the ministry's project. |
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| As the Union retreat continued, a mammoth bottleneck developed at Frayser's Farm, halting the withdrawal. |
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| I suggest the initial step to halting this demoralising slide toward an anti-life state philosophy is available to us today. |
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| Across the country, companies are halting projects and dropping product lines. |
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| There was a halting, desultory conversation, and he never mentioned the script. |
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| Gopinath's words are slow and halting, as he reconstructs for us the sparse and humble details of his life. |
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| Look for droopy eyelids, slow and deliberate movements or a loose-limbed walk, slow or halting speech, and nausea. |
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| The railroad won an injunction to freeze Dringer's assets, halting his lucrative business. |
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| He has so confused the issue we would have to be complete idiots to imagine that we would get anything useful out of halting legal action. |
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| Better a halting dialogue between the right and left hand, full of gaping pauses and impasses, I suggested, rather than a glib ambidextrousness. |
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| The distress off camera contributed to the tenor of Taylor's scenes, especially the halting monologue that climaxes the film. |
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| His own breathing had been so halting in the last few hours that I thought at first it was probably another false alarm, but no, that was it. |
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| The province is halting the production of any new books-on-tape for public circulation, while existing material is still available libraries. |
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| The expansion or quality improvement has, however, been halting and has generally lagged behind demand and the population growth rate. |
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| My thoughts were dismissed as I lurched forward, the taxi veering to the side of the avenue and halting quickly. |
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| His delivery was choppy, halting now and then, as if he were choking up, on the verge of tears. |
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| Naturalist Gloria Caminotti describes the mangroves in halting English, and points out some elusive lizards sunning themselves. |
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| Most skeptics are homing in on what looks like a halting drive to beef up domestic defenses against terrorists. |
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| Ian thought he had offended her, until she began speaking, in slow, halting tones. |
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| Despite their high-sounding rhetoric, however, initial reforms were halting, and throughout the 1990s Ukraine endured severe stagnation. |
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| Putting a halting site beside a dump was unfair in the first place. |
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| Nonetheless, he has taken some solid hits, and there is a drunken, halting roll to his steps as he staggers towards the prize, tugging at the webbing of his uniform. |
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| These will include the halting of further development along the main fracture zones, along the foothills of the Auas mountains in the main recharge areas of the aquifer. |
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| Many natural and chemical agents have been employed with the aim of halting or blocking angiogenesis, in an attempt to arrest malignant growth, development and metastasis. |
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| The mass sackings led to sympathy action by 1,000 British Airways ground staff and the halting of all BA flights at Heathrow Airport for more than 24 hours. |
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| The regime, meanwhile, has its own incentives for halting the violence in the city. |
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| In the longer term, she sees big strides in preventing tartar build-up and halting receding gums. |
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| After four years of a halting recovery, Bernanke said, things are looking up. |
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| So the Treasury Department did some fancy footwork and found some headroom by halting payments into government pension plans. |
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| Nonetheless, it would have been better if the Supreme Court had not raised this spectre by halting the process. |
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| With Ambassador John Negroponte in place, halting dialogues could begin to splutter, and stutter, and stumble. |
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| However, Sligo's defence was heroic, with the pack halting mauls on the line, and when the ball was released, the Sligo wing forwards and backs tackled tigerishly. |
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| Bernanke was nursing the traumatized economy through a halting recovery when he was re-upped. |
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| The new move, which comes with the breeding season at its height, is aimed at halting the persecution of birds of prey such as peregrine falcons and goshawks. |
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| His mind was muddled most of the time, his speech sometimes halting. |
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| All was silent for a while as the pair of them watched the rain sleeting down from the cloudy sky above, not halting once on its flight to the ground. |
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| In particular, he proved the unsolvability of the halting problem. |
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| I nodded at the vague words I captured from her answer as I headed towards the door, only halting when I realised that she had replied in the negative. |
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| His speech is staggered and halting, hers an energetic staccato. |
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| The silence was broken as the warder hung the notices, the crowd rushed forward, blocking the road, halting the traffic, and sweeping the police aside. |
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| And so the group made their slow and halting way back to Kathor. |
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| And this is an album awash with effortless, halting, careless wordplay. |
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| Kelly was then called before a parliamentary committee, where, in halting, hesitant testimony, he neither fully confirmed nor discredited the BBC story. |
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| Both as a product and a cause of the indecisive nature of combat, the operational tempo of war-as-process generally moved at a slow and halting pace. |
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| Women 57's progress in Irish politics is still slow and halting. |
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| But given the political economy of which he was a beneficiary, whatever steps he took to deal with the problem were bound to be halting and contradictory. |
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| Among other drawings are four individual pots outlined in red conte on Somerset cream paper, in each of which the line is not flowing but halting. |
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| However halting, impaired, almost uncommunicative the poem, I still have the perverse sense that the station to which it is tuned, however low, is merriment. |
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| Technicians and stationmasters at Sri Lankan Railway took 48-hour strike action a day earlier halting 90 percent of rail services over the same issue. |
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| In halting English his campfire host told about his dream of settling there amidst the oaks and chaparral, irrigating a vineyard and harvesting honey. |
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| Pelvic floor exercises help to firm and strengthen the pelvic floor muscles thus improving bladder control by reducing urine seepage, or even to the extent of halting leakage. |
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| D' Onofrio and Zellweger deliver their dialogue in a manner that is too choppy, too halting, with just a beat too much dead air between each line. |
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| There is no doubt that billions could be saved by slashing the number of deskbound brass hats and halting massive out-of-date arms contracts. |
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| Penrose uses a variant of Turing's halting theorem to demonstrate that a system can be deterministic without being algorithmic. |
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| Frank Bruno bill the following month, halting 23 fight veteran Paul Hanlon in one round. |
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| Some leap to the strains with unapt foot, and make a halting figure in the universal dance. |
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| They created firebreaks by blowing up houses on a large scale in the vicinity, halting the advance of the fire. |
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| Punka immediately launched into another glacial speech, both longer and more halting than the last. |
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| Forest Service employees acted as flaggers, halting the engines as they came to rows of orange traffic cones designating a construction zone. |
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| X deactivates bacteria and prevents the release of toxins, halting the infection in its tracks. |
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| News of the treaty arrived shortly thereafter, halting military operations. |
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| This is a factor in remaining steady to shot or halting on command, when temptation or orneriness overcomes their training. |
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| After 1433, the civil officials succeeded in halting subsequent maritime expeditions. |
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| When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election on a platform of halting the expansion of slavery, seven states broke away to form the Confederacy. |
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| From 1715 to 1728, pirate activity created problems for merchant ships along the trade routes, thus halting growth during that period. |
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| Coleman, who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for single-handedly halting an enemy column. |
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| The Middle East's largest airline is halting flights to the northern Iraqi city of Irbil as the country struggles to confront a destabilising insurgency. |
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| On the other hand, limonoids, like limonene, are showing remarkable effects by halting cell multiplication in breast, pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells in animal trials. |
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| The steelworkers and electricians went on strike, halting construction. |
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| In the 20th century air power has also been used to enhance the effectiveness of the blockade by halting air traffic within the blockaded airspace. |
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| One of the important trade routes of the world, this road has been a strategic artery with fortresses, halting posts, wells, post offices, milestones and other facilities. |
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| Kung emphasized that halting the GDR issuance does not influence Fubon's future development and the company would keep expanding operations at home and abroad. |
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| Stopgaps may be found to slow the half-century-long decline but, sadly, neither farmers nor policymakers have yet devised a long-term strategy for halting it. |
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| Now halting a few paces before the Captains of the West he looked them up and down and laughed. 'Is there any in this rout with authority to treat with me?' he asked. |
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| It was later shown that the main reason for halting shipments east was not the behavior of the USSR but rather the recalcitrant behavior of France. |
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| In addition, halting or reversing disease progression is only possible by using remyelinating and neuroprotecting agents, which does not occur in current treatments. |
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| The building bearing the wall-paintings is a caravansarai, one of numerous halting stations built along the route, most of them during the 17th century. |
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| A 100-metre section of the highway was washed away by flash floods four days ago in the Tashqar Ghan Tangi area of Khulam district, halting traffic flows. |
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| The drugs, by halting or slowing growth of some cancer cells, may have left room for small groups of already mutated or newly mutated cells to take over the tumor. |
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| The complaint also seeks a cease and desist order halting the sale, offer for sale or distribution within the United States of gray market cigarettes already imported. |
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