A lifeline is Long Tall Sally, the first retailer to provide clothes exclusively for tall women. |
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As he was exhaling his last breath, he was struggling to live, trying to hang on to the lifeline that he had. |
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The centre is a place of refuge and a lifeline to the many service users who regularly attend. |
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When Sophie fell poorly with glandular fever and then chronic fatigue syndrome her home computer provided a lifeline to the outside world. |
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This has upset many who argue pay phones are an essential local facility and a lifeline in times of emergency. |
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The Swindon and District branch of Headway, based at Victoria Hospital, provides a lifeline to Swindonians after they leave hospital. |
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As numbers grow this service can be a lifeline to people initially unfamiliar with the Irish way of life. |
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There have been times in my life when it has been the lifeline keeping me afloat in a very chaotic world. |
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These days the boat takes tourists up the river, but in its past life the vessel was a lifeline to people living on the banks of the upper Mokau. |
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The club should lie across the fingers, not in the palm, and the lifeline of your right hand needs to be firmly placed on top of the left thumb. |
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It starts at a point halfway along the main lifeline, and goes right off the palm and up onto the side of my hand. |
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Your left thumb should meet your right hand where your lifeline and heartline intersect. |
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In a country where corruption is rife and mafia rules, throwing a lifeline to these children is no easy task. |
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And there are many individuals and businesses keen to donate much needed cash to throw a lifeline to these communities. |
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The cash will throw a lifeline to the charity, which survives on donations from the public. |
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The council has refused to throw a lifeline to a children's football club facing bankruptcy. |
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The introduction of aviation to remote islands did more than just provide a link to the mainland, it threw a lifeline to the whole community. |
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As happens so often when a side fails to take its chances, it throws a lifeline to the opposition. |
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Every able-bodied man is essential on Pitcairn, especially for the island's lifeline, the longboats. |
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Rather you want to throw out a lifeline to the subjects, who are clearly confused and all at sea. |
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Since it was set up its service has expanded until it has become a valued lifeline for people throughout the area. |
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He said the car was a lifeline because he was disabled and his wife was the main driver. |
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For anyone with an underdeveloped sense of self-esteem, this is a lifeline, providing a short cut to coherence and purpose. |
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Our hero sat once more below the faithful tree, his trusty vial of pills in his hands, a prescribed lifeline. |
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She says the chronically underfunded centre is a lifeline for the 60 men and women who use it every day. |
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With a circulation like that it could pay quite generously and it could be a lifeline for promising but unestablished writers. |
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Having been in a room while doctors struggled to keep my child alive, I can vouch for the fact that trust is often the only lifeline to sanity. |
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The stay-at-home spouse sees the returning hubby or wife as a lifeline from permanent brain damage. |
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It is the duty of those able to throw a lifeline, to do so, so that some strong swimmers will survive. |
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I was his lifeline, his manager, and he was my way up and out of a little hick town in the middle of nowhere, he was my ticket to fame. |
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Ian Fairhurst was a happier chappie this week as City have won two consecutive games throwing them a lifeline in the fight against relegation. |
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Reaching up, I tied the painter to her stern, attaching my lifeline, my umbilicus, to my own boat. |
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A person who is drowning doesn't care at all if the person throwing a lifeline is wearing a clerical collar. |
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In the volatile economic climate of Georgian Britain, even this slender lifeline might preserve a broken old redcoat from pauperdom or worse. |
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Addicts fear that they will be left out in the cold by a decision to move Rochdale's lifeline drug rehabilitation centre. |
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From this perspective, culture is seen as the lifeline of communities with a common tradition. |
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Carers see us as a lifeline and many professionals have said they find the carer support service invaluable. |
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The flourishing black market, which the Germans found impossible to suppress, was a lifeline for many. |
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If it was allowed to fold these women would lose a lifeline and this would put a greater burden on other statutory services. |
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A credit union is generally set up to offer a financial lifeline to people who are outside the mainstream banking system. |
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Silsden were given a lifeline when Hoyle was fouled and Rhodes dispatched another penalty. |
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Her children are her lifeline, and she constantly preaches togetherness to them. |
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During its heyday, from about 1880 to the Second World War, the Clyde puffer was the lifeline to remote communities along the West Coast. |
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Then the dodder snakes around its new host, grows into a large stringy mass, and ultimately chokes and kills its lifeline. |
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The lifeline is a long, heavy, braided rope that is resistant to abrasion, sunlight, and moisture. |
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Chessington and Hook United Football Club has been thrown a lifeline to help recover from debts threatening to dash promotion dreams. |
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Mrs Handley, of Highfield Avenue, Wortley, said the job became a lifeline after she was widowed five years ago. |
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A pensioner has slammed vandals who wrecked his car, cutting off his disabled wife's lifeline to the outside world. |
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We knew we had to bring the lifeline of communications to everyone, and this animated our entire response. |
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After nearly half an hour they were spotted by the crew of a passing boat, and a lifeline was thrown to Rachel who was pulled aboard. |
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At least two people had to be rescued using a lifeline and life jackets as they were pulled through the fast flowing water. |
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Al snatched at a fleeting memory like a drowning sailor grabbing a lifeline. |
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Eventually, a lifeline arrives from the surface allowing fresh oxygen and limited communication. |
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While the lake was ice-free, surface vessels kept the lifeline in operation, and pipelines and electric cables were laid under the water. |
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The tender operated or supervised the hand or kerosene-powered air pump and controlled the rope lifeline to his diver. |
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My wife tied the lifeline, we repeated the signals, and I was in the water. |
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The livestock contract has now been included as part of the lifeline ferry services which are currently out to tender. |
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This service is a lifeline to 50 users every week and it would impact on a lot of people if it had to close. |
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New Yorkers took to the web as a lifeline when their phone service went out. |
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More than 80 pensioners use the service and see it as a lifeline to services in the region. |
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The online service will be a lifeline for rugby league fans across the country. |
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The link service is a lifeline for people without transport who live in villages to the north and west of Chippenham. |
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Roinsard fielded questions in a heavy French accent, frequently mixing up his tenses and appealing to a translator for a lifeline. |
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The deal threw a lifeline to more than 150 employees as well as thousands of customers who hold vouchers for activities such as hot air balloon flights and bungee jumping. |
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Their hands, mostly left clasping right, or right clasping left, holding the odd newspaper or the odd trash tabloid, grasping the odd book like a lifeline. |
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And then, miraculously, I felt my lifeline pulling me to the surface. |
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Public transport is a lifeline for people living in villages and it is essential that we try to provide them with as comprehensive a service as possible. |
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The threatened York rail manufacturer has been thrown a much-needed lifeline by rail freight company EWS, which has ordered a further 220 coal wagons. |
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Lottery funding has provided a lifeline to the only theatre in Trowbridge. |
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It was a lifeline of accurate news and information for millions. |
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They severed the last railroad lifeline into Atlanta, making the citadel of the Confederacy as it was touted no longer tenable. |
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As a young man he lived briefly in a homeless shelter and learned to view a steady paycheck the same way that a drowning man might view a lifeline. |
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Specifically, the International Monetary Fund made a decision to provide Ukraine with a multi-billion-dollar lifeline. |
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These images, videos and messages became a lifeline between two worlds and a stark record of the distance between them. |
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This is for Joyce, since I have been largely unable to determine the answer to her question about mysteriously getting a cut on the lifeline of your palm. |
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To step inside Madison Square Garden was to grab hold of a lifeline to an alternate world of harmonic order and balance. |
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An early version of a self-propelled train, the rail motor provided a vital community service and a lifeline to all the towns and people in the area. |
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Its smugglers are a vital lifeline between that Hamas-ruled enclave and the outside world. |
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She studied his palm and was dismayed at his brief lifeline. |
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It would also throw a lifeline to neoliberalism south of the border. |
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Having used this service for more than 30 years, I know how much it is a lifeline for many older people who wish to travel to the south coast to visit relatives, etc. |
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The Kingdom were on their way to victory until Donaghy's miskick resulted in a penalty that handed Mayo a lifeline. |
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Hundreds of these were built throughout Europe and elsewhere, and along with flour mills were considered the lifeline of the Roman Empire. |
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They would help regain control of Vanderbilt's steamboats which had become a logistical lifeline for Walker's army. |
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Shetland producer Aquafarm faced collapse this month but has been given a lifeline by Shetland Islands Council. |
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Mother and toddler groups can be a lifeline, you have other mums to off-load on and the kids keep each other occupied. |
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The Arctic Umiaq Line ferry acts as a lifeline for western Greenland, connecting the various cities and settlements. |
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Liam Craig last night revealed he was two weeks from the scrapheap before St Johnstone offered him a lifeline out of the blue. |
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He added that KZN DARD had started a while back, searching within its own coffers for funds to roll out a lifeline for farmers. |
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Barcelona are galavanting forward and they've caught on the break as Real give themselves a very, very late lifeline. |
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Tactical voting and local popularity will throw a lifeline to a handful of Jim Murphy's general election candidates. |
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For many blind and partially-sighted people, the talking book service is a lifeline. |
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No total victory for the antibedroom taxers but fairer treatment and a financial lifeline for many families. |
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Stuart McKay could have given the visitors a lifeline but saw his snap shot saved by Zander Cowie. |
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Public transit services are a lifeline for many elderly, low-income and disabled Arizonans, providing them mobility and connecting them to their community. |
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They may be back at work now but their decision to continue their wildcat strike action left the most vulnerable people in society without a valuable lifeline. |
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No longer her lifeline, Carson's glasses and all the spare pairs that have cluttered her bedside table drawer for years will now be someone else's salvation. |
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Reductions in funding for concessionary bus fares continue to impact on many services for the elderly, disabled and commuters, for whom bus routes are a lifeline. |
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But, in the 21st minute, Mark Schwarzer failed to hold onto an eminently saveable Kevin Davies drive, allowing the ball to squirm into the net and handing Bolton a lifeline. |
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Each clings to his pale attempt at a colorizing lifeline theme. |
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Then in February last year, John was offered a lifeline by doctors at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, who carried out a lung volume reduction procedure. |
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With unemployment twice the Belgian average and its traditional industries in terminal decline, Charleroi saw the arrival of low-cost airline Ryanair as a vital lifeline. |
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The ferry services are run by Caledonian MacBrayne and by Western Ferries and many of the routes are lifeline services for communities living in remote areas. |
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While I was being menopausally miserably, challenged by childhood chaos and fraught with feelings of failure, Women Writing was the lifeline that pulled me trough. |
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This includes a high proportion of lifeline services to island communities and as such most of the routes are heavily subsidised by the government. |
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