| If it is merely a hand-me-down legal basis taken over from previous directives, then it is a mistake to keep it. |
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| Twelve children stand in bare feet holding onto rickety chairs, wearing hand-me-down leotards or torn underclothes. |
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| Color consistency helps camouflage the furniture mix, which, for many young couples, ranges from blow-the-budget to make-do to hand-me-down. |
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| I'm almost always suspicious of hand-me-down wisdom, and irritated by stock phrases like this. |
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| With no money and hand-me-down charity, they still manage to look 100 times more chic and svelte than the rest of us. |
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| Back when every farm dugout was cleared of snow by mid-December and hand-me-down skates were laced up over hand-me-down boots. |
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| There is no self-expression in using hand-me-down procedures just because they conform to precedent. |
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| I wore hand-me-down clothes from my sisters. |
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| For Musgraves, though, the hand-me-down works just fine. |
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| Often their only equipment was a hand-me-down pair of skates, a hockey stick so worn it was more tape than wood, hockey socks knit by somebody's mother and a frozen horse dropping for a puck. |
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| From the time she first laced up her brother's hand-me-down skates at age five, this skater exhibited a unique on-ice presence of grace, speed and incredible jumping prowess. |
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| But it isn't exactly a hand-me-down Christmas panto dumbshow either. |
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| The heaps of gifted and hand-me-down pink frilly clothes and accessories grew far faster than we were able to sort and store them. |
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| This is why the children of the middle-class intelligentsia are the ones you see at playgroup in the hand-me-down jeans and the bobbly, seen-better-days cardigans. |
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| The fact that she herself had only one such dress, an organdy hand-me-down from Rockelle that was worn once a week to Sunday school, was disturbing. |
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| It was a bit embarrassing when I first went for a dip as I didn't have a swimming costume and had to wear a hand-me-down bikini from my half-sister. |
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| Well, at least there won't be any shortage of hand-me-down designer baby clothes. |
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| I don't want America's recovery and security to be sacrificed on an altar of discredited hand-me-down theories. And if you'll help us, they won't be. |
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| They sleep in hand-me-down cribs or on old sofa beds. |
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| We wore hand-me-downs, hand-me-down again and spruced it up to look good. Didn't look secondhanded or nothing when we finished adding the touch to it. |
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| The biggest beneficiaries of hand-me-down electronics were charities at 34 percent, friends at 28 percent and family members at 26 percent, according to the survey. |
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| Hand-me-down history usually points to mobsters as the primary movers of illegal liquor. |
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