| He has now produced another massive and lavishly illustrated volume of the minutiae of the club, called Everygame, and, by jings he means it. |
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| With hindsight it was a massive challenge for which there was no preparation as a journalist. |
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| Editors at the New York Times did not need to be clairvoyant to adduce the massive evidence to that effect. |
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| The B17s flew in a wedge formation that should have given them massive fire power against any attackers. |
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| The council promised to mount a massive clean-up job and renew lighting panels at the subway on Friday. |
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| Techniques for generating massive amounts of downforce from the bodywork of a single-seater racing car have limited practical application. |
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| His nerves jittered a little to see the massive beast pounding straight at him, but Dervek kept his hand steady and aimed. |
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| The former banker who became a whistle-blower, triggering a massive investigation of the Swiss bank. |
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| To him, she was a precious jewel among thousands of massive and useless rocks. |
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| Huge eddies pulled the waves into massive waterspouts that devoured the flotsam and survivors on the river. |
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| There are no massive mounds or outlandish waterscapes to divert attention away from the natural splendor. |
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| This tornado comes on the wake of a massive twister which struck the town of Jonesboro just a few hours ago. |
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| Combining the two types of water cure under the label of health tourism is going to require a massive injection of capital. |
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| Finally, the bucking pipe is gripped by the mechanical jaws of a massive clamp. |
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| The thick skin, massive strength in the shoulders and neck, and vice grip jaws are there for a reason. |
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| Under the watchword of making Australian industry competitive, successive governments have backed corporations in undertaking massive downsizing. |
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| This is a massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for and is capable of killing millions. |
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| So, well done to Gary who ended the month with a massive lead and is accordingly crowned Bloghunt Champion. |
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| These estimates are based on a massive and meticulous use of primary and secondary sources that are well documented in the volume. |
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| It features pit props for roof beams, bricks from wash houses, a massive lump of coal for an alter and a half winding wheel on a wall. |
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| In 2001, the students replaced a dilapidated concrete and tin wash house with a more traditional structure complete with a massive stone roof. |
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| The service comes six months after the fountain was opened to massive public acclaim. |
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| Astronomers believe that quasars are galaxies with very massive black holes in the center. |
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| Meanwhile, optical measurements suggest the quasar is a billion times more massive than our sun. |
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| Radio astronomers found pulsars, quasars, and massive molecular clouds dotting the celestial landscape. |
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| Adjacent to the gray quartz with acanthite and gold is sugary white quartz with massive galena. |
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| Dude, Kareem Campbell was skating and did a massive kickflip fakie on a quarter pipe. |
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| It depicts a massive Cape buffalo quartering through low scrub and staring at the viewer. |
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| On my own, I don't buy massive quantities of groceries like we did for the family. |
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| The following day massive actions by hundreds of people began against supermarkets, warehouses, and any shop whose doors were open. |
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| The WCTU conducted a massive drive to get women of all classes to enrol and vote. |
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| The controversial move is one aspect of a massive drive to get doctors to intervene with heavy drinkers before they become chronic alcoholics. |
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| A massive recruitment drive to bring more than a thousand jobs to east Manchester is being launched next week. |
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| He believes the Maine Road star's drive and energy would be a massive asset in the Foxes' relegation dog-fight. |
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| The massive corporate wave of crime, fraud and abuse rolls on, is undeterred by regular exposes in the business media itself. |
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| Sauropods were long believed to be semi-aquatic swamp wallowers, relying on the buoyancy of water to support their massive bodies. |
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| We have had a massive rejection of the pay offer and there have been unofficial walkouts. |
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| A few hours later, a suicide bomber detonated a massive bomb, killing himself and at least three others. |
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| When you open it, you discover that half the space in the box is taken up with a massive wad of cardboard. |
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| If this project is carried out on a large scale, it will add up to a massive amount of human alteration of the course of nature. |
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| A massive jolt of turbulence shook the plane, and there were a few audible gasps. |
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| If there is a winner it will give this team a big impetus and a massive lift going into the final four games. |
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| Knowing we have now got a match with Fulham to look forward to gives everyone a massive lift and it can only be good for your confidence. |
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| The walls are columnar jointed and aphanitic, and internally the massive core is texturally zoned. |
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| The massive walls work well as heat sinks, but the beautiful timber walls, with all their complex joinery, are too porous to hold heat. |
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| It was so massive that the floor sank several feet downward under its weight. |
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| A massive crowd packed into the Currane venue and they were entertained wonderfully by the excellent standard of the competitors. |
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| Its massive domes reflected the light with painful radiance, blinding any unsuspecting viewers. |
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| As I now exited my fighter, its radial engine slowing down, I could see our massive fleet. |
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| We had snails, a massive raclette cheese that was cooked at the table, a hot stone to fry the beef on and table fireworks which were alarming. |
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| Our website has had millions of hits, our books are selling as never before and their is a massive demand for people wanting to join the Raelians. |
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| Following the massive second song, Hecker calms thing down with some shorter minimal sketches, but they have the same seasick quaver as what came before. |
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| With none of his opponents on the airwaves, Wolf has shot to a massive lead for the May 20 primary. |
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| The present book is an abridgement of Congar's massive two-volume work on tradition, and is highly recommended for both personal study and classroom use. |
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| Instead, he chafed underneath the corporate umbrella of LVMH, the massive luxury conglomerate that owned the label. |
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| It catalogues a massive but doomed police investigation through its agonizing near-misses and mistaken hunches. |
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| Creating a massive weighty object that not only flies, but hovers and takes off vertically is an amazing innovation, a marvel of modern engineering. |
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| For a Jane Doe such as myself the sight of all this hardware with massive antenna extended and satellite dishes pointing to the heavens was staggering. |
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| Their massive jam band sound pulls from some of the all-time greats. |
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| In collecting these massive amounts of data and all those minute fluctuations, however, cense needs human oversight. |
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| But on Monday a massive bomb hit a bus terminal on the outskirts of the capital Abuja, killing at least 71 people. |
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| Meanwhile, says brunet, the police are launching a massive criminal probe into the explosion. |
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| While from the outside it seems like a massive battle is brewing, not all Republican leaders agree. |
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| A massive sandstorm swept into Tehran Monday morning, blanketing the streets in a dark and dreamy haze. |
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| Koenig makes a big deal out of this call and frames it as a massive red herring. |
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| Customers seem fed up with lugging around massive lap warmers. |
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| Yet, relative to the massive amount of attention, shock, and criticism, I can only muster a shrug and a plea to chill out. |
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| Unconventional warfighters like terrorists are by definition immune to the massive concentrations of power that are the traditional object of a mobilization. |
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| When you look at what has happened in the last eight years to the criminal law, there's a massive shift in the balance of power from defence to prosecution. |
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| As we turned off the road and headed towards the main gate, we were confronted by a massive pair of wooden gates, set in a very old weather-beaten gate lodge. |
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| Above a small clearing the stream cascaded down a series of massive stone steps to fall into a deep, broad pool lined with raw rock worn smooth by the water. |
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| We haven't used the massive resources that have been made available by mineral and petroleum wealth over the last 15 years, and those projects are all coming to an end. |
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| The plane bore a massive blue-and-gold image of atlas balancing the globe on his back. |
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| A calmer Maracas Bay enticed these men into its waters yesterday, even though two days before bathers scampered for safety as massive waves crashed on the shore. |
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| The BBC have a massive web presence which even extends north of Watford. |
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| Then there are those who have strong vocals, but have yet to ascend to massive career success or freakish mainstream popularity. |
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| If you're a skeptic like me, this entire process sounds like one massive shake of the head from start to finish. |
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| Slavery, segregation, and abortion led to civil war, vigilante violence, and massive protest movements. |
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| I did not answer, but took the circlet from his hands, and placing it in the safe shut the massive steel door. |
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| Sometimes democracy and liberalism are about speaking up about the great issues, like a massive foreign war. |
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| In anaerobic digesters, organic material is mixed on a huge pot with massive quantities of tiny bacteria. |
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| Well-paid quants build their massive multi-variable models and Monte Carlo simulators only to have them riddled with a thousand random bullet holes from the real world. |
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| On four dives there we would see a hawksbill turtle, huge parrotfish, various morays ranging from massive to tiny, jack, snapper, batfish and numerous other species. |
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| The allusion to Prime Suspect, a massive hit on both sides of the Atlantic, is well founded. |
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| Now Jena Malone is 30, and with roles in Inherent Vice, The Hunger Games, and a massive superhero film, all the rage. |
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| The surface was that of desert and wastelands separated by massive oceans. |
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| They built massive multi-storied ziggurats and constructed canal systems to irrigate their land and control floods. |
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| A massive transfusion protocol is used for massive trauma resuscitation, when more than ten units of blood are needed. |
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| If successful, such a blood substitute could save many lives, particularly in trauma where massive blood loss results. |
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| The massive military expenditures from the Severi caused a devaluation of Roman coins. |
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| This not only changed the face of the county, urbanizing much of it, but also led to expansion on a massive scale. |
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| In 1970, a massive cyclone devastated the coast of East Pakistan killing up to half a million people. |
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| A massive civil disobedience movement erupted across East Pakistan, with open calls for independence. |
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| He was a prize male with the sexual aura of a massive hunk with low hangers. |
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| These developments were unrelated to the massive educational expansion that took place at the same time. |
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| Gradually, in the early Middle Ages there emerged the massive Romanesque churches, which still kept the fundamental plan of the basilica. |
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| In 1488, shortly after succeeding to the throne, he held a massive feast for the Order of the Garter at the castle. |
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| These horizontal projections are visibly balanced by the strong verticals of the massive towers, which may be one, two or three in number. |
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| The remains of the Norman crypt indicate that the older building must have been as massive and ornamental in its architecture as Durham. |
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| It featured elongated shapes like stalagmites hanging down from its gigantic dome, and lights on massive columns in its foyer. |
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| He also constructed the IG Farben building, a massive corporate headquarters, now the main building of Goethe University in Frankfurt. |
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| Demand has increased for this massive breeding programme to be scaled back. |
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| Then we would start a massive international ad campaign to lure tourists and rich old settlers. |
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| The show, entitled The Red Piano, was a multimedia concert featuring massive props and video montages created by David LaChapelle. |
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| In 1867 Barry's son Edward Middleton Barry proposed to replace the Wilkins building with a massive classical building with four domes. |
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| The black carbon concentrations are highly impacted by the truck traffic due to the traffic congestion during the massive construction. |
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| The 2012 games were a unique operational task and a massive challenge for Heathrow airport. |
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| On 8 December, a national day of celebration took place in the form of a massive victory parade in the streets of London. |
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| Hamed's boxing career was seen by many experts in the sport as one of massive potential. |
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| Red Bull's first year in Formula One was a massive success compared to their predecessors, Jaguar Racing. |
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| The most recent massive naturalization case resulted from the Argentine economic crisis in the beginning of the 21st century. |
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| In parallel with the creation of the homelands, South Africa's black population was subjected to a massive programme of forced relocation. |
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| He instead endorsed the Piast Concept, which justified a massive shift of Poland's frontiers to the west. |
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| The Isle of Man and the Manx people also came under massive Gaelic influence in their history. |
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| Howe then conceded most of New Jersey to Washington, in spite of Howe's massive numerical superiority over him. |
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| With Gladstone conducting a massive speaking campaign, his Liberals bested Disraeli's Conservatives in the 1880 election. |
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| The election was a massive defeat for the Whigs across the country, and Peel became Prime Minister. |
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| The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. |
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| On 15 September, two massive waves of German attacks were decisively repulsed by the RAF by deploying every aircraft in 11 Group. |
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| They increasingly suffered unsustainable losses in daylight raids, and the last massive daytime attacks were on 15 September. |
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| Once this massive credit crunch hit, it didn't take long before we were in a recession. |
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| Six of the Krabben's massive tentacles had wrapped themselves around the mizzensail. |
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| The massive demand outstripped new building and many, originally fine, tenements often became overcrowded and unsanitary. |
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| Amory Lovins led the successful 1970s opposition to stop Rio Tinto digging up the area for a massive mine. |
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| The ensuing period saw an economic recovery, a massive growth in exports and an expansion of the colony's frontiers. |
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| All these controls and screens are monked on to a massive network of computers that coordinates the sights. |
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| In 1867, the Al Khalifa, along with the ruler of Abu Dhabi, sent a massive naval force to Al Wakrah in an effort to crush the Qatari rebels. |
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| This March 5, 1998 event provoked massive condemnation from the western capitals. |
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| Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. |
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| According to Network Rail, these options would cause massive disruption to passengers for limited improvement. |
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| Meanwhile, as an article in the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences pointed out in March 2010, UCG could result in massive carbon emissions. |
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| As of 2013, massive hydraulic fracturing is being applied on a commercial scale to shales in the United States, Canada, and China. |
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| Britain responded by a massive building program launched in 1904 by the highly controversial First Sea Lord, Sir John Fisher. |
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| He was disgusted by the massive loss of life during the war and was unable to reconcile himself with it. |
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| Despite massive industrialization, folk music traditions have persisted in many areas until today. |
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| I've always got a massive list of titles, of ideas for shows, and of works without titles. |
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| The sculpture was placed at the very front edge of the massive plinth, emphasising its vulnerability and relative smallness. |
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| We show that all these ultra-thin nanomasks can be used for high-contrast quantum diffraction of massive molecules. |
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| Smuggling is also reaping huge financial dividends to criminal groups who charge migrants massive fees for their services. |
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| Ethiopia recovered it after it began receiving massive military aid from the USSR, Cuba, South Yemen, East Germany, and North Korea. |
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| A massive exodus to the cities ensued as their ability to provide a living from the land dwindled. |
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| Soon afterwards, a massive influx in immigration into the area resulted, as prospectors and miners arrived by the thousands. |
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| His liberation was forced by a massive popular demonstration, and he went on to win the 1946 election. |
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| A massive capital flight was responded to with a freezing of bank accounts, generating further turmoil. |
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| The color is usually considered as due to trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese, in the massive material. |
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| On 31 January 1919, a massive rally, organised by the trade unions, took place on George Square in the city centre of Glasgow. |
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| Moreover, the massive demand for men to fight in the war meant that few Glaswegian families escaped personal loss of some kind. |
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| Evidence for this lies in older rocks that contain massive banded iron formations that were laid down as iron oxides. |
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| This involved massive and sometimes controversial development of the old parts of the town. |
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| We consider generic linear perturbations of a nonbidiagonal class of static black-hole solutions in massive gravity. |
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| Steelmaking has existed for millennia, but it was not commercialized on a massive scale until the 19th century. |
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| Poseidon offered a massive MIRV capability of up to 14 warheads per missile. |
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| It was this massive emigration from the Middle East that would later help distribute these animals to the rest of Afroeurasia. |
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| By January 1283, Edward I of England had the heartland of independent Wales ringed with a massive army. |
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| The English campaign against Scotland was planned on a massive scale, with a force of around 23,350 men. |
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| This coalition of unions is often very effective as it causes massive inconvenience to the country. |
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| Certain disease states, eg, high-output fistulas or massive diarrhea, will increase the amount of nonurinary losses for nitrogen. |
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| The markers are consistent with a mass extinction, or with a massive warming resulting from the release of methane ice. |
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| In comparison to other similarly sized mustelids, the polecat's teeth are very strong, large and massive in relation to skull size. |
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| Their bodies rapidly deteriorate right after they spawn as a result of the release of massive amounts of corticosteroids. |
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| Falling export demand and commodity prices placed massive downward pressures on wages. |
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| A massive increase in opium smoking in China was more or less directly instigated by the British trade deficit with Qing dynasty China. |
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| The economy also boomed due to the agricultural development programs instituted by the kings who promoted massive cultivation of palms. |
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| Originally this bridge had four arches, but in the 18th century a massive flood washed two of them away. |
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| The discovery of coal in the South Wales Valleys north of Bridgend had a massive impact on the town. |
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| Richard Barrett, who includes the instrument in the diverse ensemble of his massive multipartite work, Construction. |
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| Hopefully by now people realise that Wales is brimmed full of talent and we're great people with massive brains. |
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| Phocids have thickened mastoids, enlarged entotympanic bones, everted pelvic bones and massive ankle bones. |
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| They also argue that binding massive amounts of investments on nuclear energy would take funding away from more effective solutions. |
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| From the magnitude of deflection, it was clear that alpha particles were much more massive than beta particles. |
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| Some volcanoes have rugged peaks formed by lava domes rather than a summit crater while others have landscape features such as massive plateaus. |
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| In the area that is now India, massive lava beds called the Deccan Traps were erupted in the very late Cretaceous and early Paleocene. |
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| In the second half of the 19th century, the explosive harpoon was invented, leading to a massive increase in the catch size. |
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| Eventually, in October 1918, the Italians launched a massive offensive, culminating in the victory of Vittorio Veneto. |
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| Hermitages on the islands became centres of communities which later became monasteries with massive estates. |
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| If the first part to arrive at shore is the ridge, a massive breaking wave or sudden flooding will be the first effect noticed on land. |
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| During World War II, the Germans built massive bunkers along the coast in preparation for launching missiles on England. |
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| In 1943 they built massive bunkers along the coast in preparation for launching missiles on the southeast of England. |
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| The massive bricks and low arches of this hall make it dungeonlike, even ovenlike. |
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| This massive flood scoured the former river systems to form the Hurd Deep in late Quaternary times. |
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| The Lake Toba event, approximately between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago, caused a massive drop in sea levels. |
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| Cement came to the fore in the 19th century when massive building projects were undertaken. |
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| This station is in addition to the existing station at Ashford International, which has suffered a massive cut in service as a result. |
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| With the advent of the steamship, it became possible to create massive gun platforms and to provide them with heavy armor protection. |
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| The Soviets had intelligence of what was to come and prepared massive defenses in huge depth in the Kursk salient. |
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| Robinson argues that the massive superiority of the Royal Navy over the Kriegsmarine would have made Sea Lion a disaster. |
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| In spite of the ideological enmity, the Home Army did launch a massive sabotage campaign after the Germans began Operation Barbarossa. |
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| A massive prehistoric stone wall surrounded the ancient temple of Ness of Brodgar 3200 BC in Scotland. |
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| The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks and naval bombardments. |
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| He personally saw the massive statue of Nero in Rome, which was removed after the emperor's death. |
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| The ice sheets at the last glacial maximum were so massive that global sea level fell by about 120 metres. |
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| When sedimentary rocks have no lamination at all, their structural character is called massive bedding. |
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| This dramatic rise in diversity was marked by periodic, massive losses of diversity classified as mass extinction events. |
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| However, in Thailand, urbanization has also resulted in massive increases in problems such as obesity. |
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| Females tend to have narrower muzzles and foreheads, thinner necks, slightly shorter legs and less massive shoulders than males. |
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| Large prey, such as moose, is killed by biting large chunks of flesh from the soft perineum area, causing massive blood loss. |
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| The logistics of a pansolar society must take massive distances and speeds into consideration. |
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| The major stumbling block in the project was a massive geological intrusion known as Elderslie Rock. |
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| Russia and Qing Dynasty China failed to keep pace with the other world powers which led to massive social unrest in both empires. |
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| Nine months later, on June 22, 1941, Germany launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, which promptly joined the Allies. |
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| Discovery of the new, massive oilfields in the area stimulated an influx of foreign investments. |
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| Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system. |
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| Spreading is generally not uniform, so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different, massive transform faults occur. |
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| This collision of plates is responsible for lifting the massive Andes Mountains and causing the volcanoes which are strewn throughout them. |
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| Now consider the effect of massive external bodies such as the Moon and Sun. |
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| Thomas dealt Hood a massive defeat at the Battle of Nashville, effectively destroying Hood's army. |
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| When so much of Earth's water was locked up in massive ice sheets, the sea level was lower. |
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| According to any reasonable analysis, the collapse was first due to massive overfishing. |
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| Addition of iron to surface waters in these areas induces massive phytoplankton blooms dominated primarily by pennate diatoms. |
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| The Billiard Room holds a massive porcelain vase that was a gift of the Russian Tsar. |
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| Following the end of the war, in 1945 Southsea and the rest of Portsmouth embarked on a massive clearance and rebuilding scheme. |
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| When news of the Braddock disaster reached Britain it caused a massive public outcry over the government's poor military preparation. |
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| This was to be achieved by the deployment of a massive force up the St Lawrence River. |
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| Some abandoned chalk mines remain tourist destinations due to their massive expanse and natural beauty. |
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| Mountain caribou are typically the most massive with the largest circumference measurements. |
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| It is one of three distinct physiographic provinces of the African massive physiographic division. |
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| In the 20th century, World War I, and World War II resulted in massive numbers of deaths. |
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| His influence on philosophical thinking lasted until the Middle Ages, as is shown by citation in the Suda, the massive medieval lexicon. |
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| The Bastarnae first appear in the historical record in 179 BC, when they crossed the Danube in massive force. |
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| A large force of Bastarnae chased them up the mountain, but were driven back and scattered by a massive hailstorm. |
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| He deified three of his family members and erected massive structures to commemorate the Flavian achievements. |
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| This loss was mainly caused by a massive evacuation of the people to more rural areas. |
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| The massive Arch of Peace, situated at the bottom of Corso Sempione, is often compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. |
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| With such massive population drops caused by the Black Death, the tax revenues from this industry greatly diminished. |
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| The Stolypin agrarian reform led to a massive peasant migration and settlement into Siberia. |
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| In 2006, Russia repaid most of its formerly massive debts, leaving it with one of the lowest foreign debts among major economies. |
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| During the war, the Soviet economy and infrastructure suffered massive devastation and required extensive reconstruction. |
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| Soviet authorities proved their commitment to Lenin's belief by developing massive networks, research and development organizations. |
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| The Helvetians were forming a massive migration straight through the provinces. |
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| In addition to committing genocide the Cossacks also devastated the wildlife by slaughtering massive numbers of animals for fur. |
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| In the summer of 1071, Romanos undertook a massive eastern campaign to draw the Seljuks into a general engagement with the Byzantine army. |
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| For Roger it was inscribed on a massive disc of solid silver, two metres in diameter. |
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| The great Sahel droughts of the early 1970s caused massive devastation in Mauritania, exacerbating problems of poverty and conflict. |
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| This included a massive purge of the Confucian scholars in Nanjing and grants of extraordinary extralegal authority to the eunuch secret police. |
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| The emperor planned to build a massive network of structures in Beijing in which government offices, officials, and the imperial family resided. |
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| The massive project's goal was to preserve Chinese culture and literature in writing. |
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| From the 13th century onwards the country saw a massive migration of the Banu Hilal Arab tribes. |
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| This policy ultimately created the conditions for a massive rebellion against Xuanzong. |
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| Following China's defeat in the Second Opium War in 1858, China was forced to legalize opium and began massive domestic production. |
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| Christopher Columbus and the conquistadors, through their travels, were indirectly responsible for the massive depopulation of South America. |
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| In some locations, early cultures assembled massive artifacts that possibly had some astronomical purpose. |
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| The more massive the star, the greater its luminosity, and the more rapidly it fuses its hydrogen fuel into helium in its core. |
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| Very massive stars can also undergo a series of evolutionary phases, as they fuse increasingly heavier elements. |
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| The arms are dusty regions of star formation within which massive young stars produce a blue tint. |
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| Since the end of hostilities in January 2002, massive infusions of outside assistance have helped Sierra Leone begin to recover. |
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| The massive decline in sea ice during the Medieval Warm Period would have had a devastating impact upon their way of life. |
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| Below the supergene zone is found the unaltered massive sulphide mineralization. |
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| Collars are usually massive reinforced concrete structures with more than one level. |
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| On September 24, 1493, Christopher Columbus departed on his second voyage to the west Indies, with a massive new fleet. |
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| Gradually, this inland sea became a massive swampy, freshwater lake and the marine inhabitants adapted to life in freshwater. |
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| The tensions of the massive strikes and protests led to the Shakee Massacre. |
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| Amid a massive exodus to Hong Kong and Macau, the Nationalists blew up the Haizhu Bridge across the Pearl River in retreat. |
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| The local water supply being inadequate, a massive distillation plant was introduced to make sea water fit for drinking. |
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| The oldest parts of the district of Old San Juan remain partly enclosed by massive walls. |
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| The most massive structures ever erected by the Maya were built during the Preclassic period. |
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| In June 1690, a massive earthquake opened a bedrock fault, forming a rift or a graben that permitted the water to flow into the Rio Branco. |
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| Impressed by the massive support for the compromise, she suspended the placards, awaiting Philip's final ruling. |
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| In the century after 1541, however, the city's economy and population declined dramatically, while rival Amsterdam experienced massive growth. |
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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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| Dozens of Chinese sugar traders went bankrupt which led to massive unemployment, which in turn led to gangs of unemployed coolies. |
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| In 1127, Kaifeng was sacked, a massive catastrophe known as the Jingkang Incident, ending the Northern Song Dynasty. |
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| After the massive naval engagement at Lake Poyang, Zhu Yuanzhang prevailed over other rebel forces in the south. |
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| During early modern Europe, a massive moral panic regarding witchcraft swept across Europe and later the European colonies in North America. |
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| As opposed to English common law, which consists of massive tomes of case law, codes in small books are easy to export and for judges to apply. |
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| Despite the Liberals's massive majority in the House of Commons, the Tories had overwhelming support in the unelected upper chamber. |
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| The invention of the cotton gin caused massive growth in the production of cotton in the United States, concentrated mostly in the South. |
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| The economic boom in China and India has caused a massive increase in the demand for steel in recent years. |
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| Extended exposure often leads to massive discoloration usually reducing the colors to white and typically very faded blue spectrums. |
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| They can intersect at various angles, especially under the nose of a ridge, and create massive blocks or wedges of roof prone to failure. |
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| The massive size of these armies required a large supporting force of administrators. |
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| As any man could be quickly trained in the use of a musket, it became far easier to form massive armies. |
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| On 7 March 1936, Adolf Hitler took a massive gamble by sending 30,000 troops into the Rhineland. |
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| The third quarter of the 20th century witnessed massive growth of the global steel industry. |
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| There have been famous stock market crashes that have ended in the loss of billions of dollars and wealth destruction on a massive scale. |
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| In the last few years it has seen a massive house price boom, with many properties more than doubling their value over a couple of years. |
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| The clinkery surface actually covers a massive dense core, which is the most active part of the flow. |
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| The centre of a lava flow is commonly massive and crystalline, flow banded or layered, with microscopic groundmass crystals. |
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| The massive weight of these sediments could be softening the underlying rocks, making them pliable enough to plunge. |
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| The swine depopulation was a massive undertaking, with the military contributing substantial manpower. |
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| The group subsequently discovered a way up through the massive boulder pile and arrived at the foot of Titan. |
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| Despite attempts on the part of the police to prevent the trespass from going ahead it was successfully achieved due to massive publicity. |
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| Unfortunately, despite the massive humanitarian efforts of many Americans, New Orleans has not been deemed saveworthy by all. |
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| After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation. |
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| Under a smaragdine canopy of beeches, whose trunks, massive and fantastick, were sheathed in iron grey mail, the afternoon was warm. |
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| When the wombat-riding chimp jumped onto the bar, Smith, who had been enjoying a beer, did a massive spit take. |
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| Helped by massive tax increases piled on to the electorate by the Tories in their first post-election budget, we slowly began to win the battle. |
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| The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up. |
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| The massive vascularity of the big blood vessels was invoked by her strong fingers in their apt progress. |
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| A massive drive is to be launched to catch arsonists who cause millions of pounds worth of damage every year in the West Midlands. |
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| Today, India always has a massive audience and it brings along a massive bank cheque. |
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| York tomorrow looks easier to crack than Salisbury and, while neither Abhisheka nor Prince Namid will start a massive price, both are rock solid. |
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| The second movement, which is a single massive accelerando, takes more time before its quality is fully appreciated. |
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| A massive air and sea search was launched at around noon on Tuesday after the 16ft fishing boat Water Rail was reported overdue. |
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| He explained that the harvest has expanded in recent years, but it has only happened because of massive overpumping from the water table. |
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| They believe that it consists of a proposed particle left over from the Big Bang called the WIMP, for weakly interacting massive particle. |
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| And the grand finale is the Birmingham Weekender, when the worlds of sport, shopping, arts, fashion and food collide for a massive event. |
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| But massive paradigm shifts have rendered the NYSE a bit player. |
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| The sub is rolled under the massive A-frame at the stern of the research vessel Atlantis. |
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| Particle physics theory points toward weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, as one of the most likely candidates. |
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| A massive shockwave raced up the shaft blowing the vents off air shafts 100ft high. |
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