He's just going through the motions, like a high school senior who's already been accepted to college. |
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Maybe there's some reluctance and weariness about going through all the motions we require a person to make before he can be President. |
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Whatever the size of the vessel, there is little worse when at sea than those disconcerting and queasy rolling motions. |
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Judging from his jerky motions and his giddy expression, he is still as high as a kite on adrenaline. |
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Evelyn's body writhed, trying to escape her sister's insane tickling motions. |
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In Monday's votes, Labor legislators abstained, allowing the motions to be defeated. |
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Main motions must be prepared in quadruplicate so the President, Secretary, executive assistant, and author of the motion have copies. |
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The main motions must be prepared in quadruplicate so that the President, Secretary, executive assistant, and author of the motion have copies. |
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Such simulations can, however, display rapid small amplitude motions that modulate the quadrupole interaction about its average. |
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He does a weird pantomime suggesting a dance, his hands making pinching motions in the air. |
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Dissecting out these small motions from thermal noise, already of amplitude a few angstroms, remains a challenge in simulation analysis. |
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Backbone kinks induced by Pro residues can lead to characteristic motions of the nearby region. |
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Eggs and fish often cause problems with bad smells, and fizzy drinks and beer produce excess wind and runny motions. |
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Like I said, all the acting is terrible the actors seem to be going through the motions. |
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The lawsuit spawned a series of motions for various forms of interlocutory relief. |
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Do you ever lose control of wind or bowel motions from your back passage between visits to the toilet? |
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He remarks that the passions are also called affections or perturbations of the mind, as well as motions and affects. |
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The effect is due to the limitation of the instrumental resolution regarding the measurement of hydration water large-scale motions. |
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Dawn went through the motions of squeezing a lemon wedge into her iced tea. |
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It is conceivable that the channel is not a rigid conduit but is subject to motions that form pockets separated by labile constrictions. |
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Rather, the motions judge exercised his discretion judicially on proper principles. |
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Its four legs, and reptant motions show that it is most nearly connected with the Reptiles. |
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However, the issue reignited when the meeting moved onto councillors' motions. |
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The CO band thermal broadening stems from the anharmonic coupling with motions of the heme environment, which, in the glassy state, are frozen in. |
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Suddenly, you are crying, breathless, raging, and on quieter days just going through the motions. |
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What could audiences possibly gain from watching Hollywood personnel go through the motions of adhering to an Asian precursor? |
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Fortunately, the brain is suspended in cerebrospinal fluid designed to buffer the motions of every-day life. |
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That case held that the motions judge made no error in concluding that the limitation period had run, given that the material facts were not in dispute. |
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And her denials and legal threats are faithfully modeled after the de rigueur motions of past sex-tape shock-feigning stars. |
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No wonder Dracula presents itself so well to the motions of the likes of Bela Lugosi. |
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He comes quite near and I swim up towards him, but my buddy makes biting motions, so I back off and the leopard shark swims zigzaggedly on his way. |
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However, diffusive motion is present at all hydrations and temperatures studied, and the hydration-induced anharmonic motions are not required for activity. |
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Every Tuesday and Wednesday three hours over the two days are given to the debate of opposition motions. |
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This way the number of weaving motions across lanes is reduced, and the traffic capacity per lane of the road is optimised. |
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The motions of the ocean surface, known as undulations or waves, are the partial and alternate rising and falling of the ocean surface. |
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It explained geometrical models of the planets based on combinations of circles, which could be used to predict the motions of celestial objects. |
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Magnetic stripe patterns provide a reliable guide to relative plate motions going back into the Jurassic period. |
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Both of these motions are caused by the varying attraction of the Sun and the Moon on Earth's equatorial bulge. |
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Such motions are constrained by the surface of the Earth, so only the horizontal component of the Coriolis force is generally important. |
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Instead of flowing down the gradient, large scale motions in the atmosphere and ocean tend to occur perpendicular to the pressure gradient. |
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Such information in turn is helpful in studying the motions of continents and ocean floors in the process of plate tectonics. |
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In an ideal monatomic gas, the kinetic energy is found exclusively in the purely translational motions of the particles. |
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In other systems, vibrational and rotational motions also contribute degrees of freedom. |
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Posidonius's orrery, according to Cicero, exhibited the diurnal motions of the sun, moon, and the five known planets. |
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The animal relies on the forward and backward motions of its head and neck to maintain balance and the counter momentum while galloping. |
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In early times, astronomy only comprised the observation and predictions of the motions of objects visible to the naked eye. |
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It was left to Newton's invention of celestial dynamics and his law of gravitation to finally explain the motions of the planets. |
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And though every one runs into high motions, and extravagant postures, they cease not continually to intermix some word. |
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He had corresponded with Leonhard Euler, who contributed information and equations to describe the motions of the moon. |
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At this point the parties may also engage in pretrial motions to exclude or include particular legal or factual issues before trial. |
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These motions can be granted, denied, conditionally granted, or conditionally denied. |
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The passage of these motions, bills or amendments to government bills requires double majority in both groups simultaneously. |
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However, the majority of Ten Minute Rule motions are not objected to, and are allowed to proceed without any debate at this stage. |
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This results in any additional motions receiving less time for debate by Councillors instead forcing a vote by the Council under closure rules. |
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In the end, all motions to amend the bill were defeated and the Bill was passed. |
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Crompton's machine was largely built of wood, using bands and pulley for the driving motions. |
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To produce a taper, the tool may be fed at an angle to the axis of rotation or both feed and axial motions may be concurrent. |
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Such upward motions decrease the mass of local atmospheric columns of air, which lowers surface pressure. |
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He's been the seconder on many motions, but I don't think he's ever made a motion himself. |
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He was standing as he spoke, emphasising his periods with semaphoric motions of his right arm. |
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She motions with the needle across the station to the paralysed, slack-handed clock. |
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Beak motions are not necessarily the only means by which birds might vary the acoustic properties of the vocal tract. |
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A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre. |
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In addition to this, a network of 40 Strong Motion Accelerographs is also established to record strong ground motions. |
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These forces create corresponding motions or currents in the world's oceans. |
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When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex. |
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We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. |
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For, it seemeth there are certaine motions in these vast bodies, some naturall, and othersome febricitant, as well as in ours. |
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As Savilian Professor, Wren studied mechanics thoroughly, especially elastic collisions and pendulum motions. |
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The area between her eyebrows wrinkled with the increasing circular motions her two fingers made on her jewel. |
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Until 2001, the election of a Speaker was conducted as a routine matter of House of Commons business, as it used motions and amendments to elect. |
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In it, Thomson mathematically described the motions of William Thomson's vortex theory of atoms. |
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This allowed a description of the motions of light and mass that was consistent with all available observations. |
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The chain has a whipping action-like many of the loose-handed whipping motions of the Northern bare-handed styles. |
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The Legislative Council, set up in 1843, debates policies and motions before voting to adopt or rejecting bills. |
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There are two motions which have grown up through custom and practice and which govern questionable conduct within the House. |
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Charles I dissolved parliament in 1629, after it passed motions critical of and bills seeking to restrict his arbitrary exercise of power. |
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The results of such motions show how much support the government currently has in parliament. |
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In 1980, the party conference was dominated by factional disputes and what Callaghan regarded as Bennite motions. |
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Heavenly motions no longer needed to be governed by a theoretical perfection, confined to circular orbits. |
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For, as the motions are equally changed, the changes of the velocities made toward contrary parts are reciprocally proportional to the bodies. |
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The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint. |
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Their motions came after Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina suggested the idea while addressing the UN General Assembly that year. |
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Rodgers and Hammerstein hired ballet choreographer Agnes de Mille, who used everyday motions to help the characters express their ideas. |
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Since the parliament can conduct inquiries into government actions and pass motions of no confidence, checks and balances are robust in Kuwait. |
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Socialist leader, Pauline Green MEP, attempted a vote of confidence and the EPP put forward counter motions. |
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The General assembly appoints 'corresponding members' who may speak and propose motions but may not vote. |
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The waveform response comes from the underlying cyclical motions of the planet, which eventually drag all the transients into harmony with them. |
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Evidence of the details of plate motions and other tectonic activity in the Precambrian has been poorly preserved. |
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When these bends or discontinuities are in the same direction as the relative motions along the fault, extension occurs. |
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Chapter 9B of the Scottish Parliament's Standing Orders specify the procedure for considering Sewel motions. |
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Following the review, the motions were retitled Legislative Consent Motions and the procedures enshrined in the Parliament's Standing Orders. |
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Still another icebreaker is shivering, the automatic, noncoordinated activation of muscle motions for the sole purpose of generating heat. |
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Nonvoting members of the association, in addition to not having their vote counted, also cannot participate in debates on motions. |
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They come nowhence, and they go nowhither. But now I see them and all things as ever moving symbols of the motions of man's spirit and destiny. |
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A mild dose of a warm active aperient to obviate costiveness, or to produce two motions daily, is generally very beneficial. |
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Storm systems, anticyclones, and weather fronts came to be identified, their motions charted and eventually predicted. |
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Invariably, the disappointed client asks if anything can be done to fix the situation, and motions for rehearing on appeal are discussed. |
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In other words, rhythmic motions or bimanual coordination motions have been less used in studying the effects of attentional instructions. |
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Nearly all of these involve caudal luring whereby tail motions mimic invertebrate larvae and serve as lures, typically for lacertilian prey. |
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The sophistication of CNC controls gives the ability to link motions together, says Mass. |
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For this reason, sagittal plane motions of flexion and extension occur freely in this region. |
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The atmospheric mixed layer results from convective air motions, typically seen towards the middle of the day when air at the surface is warmed and rises. |
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Combining poles of different ages in a particular plate to produce apparent polar wander paths provides a method for comparing the motions of different plates through time. |
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In the same paper the authors admit, however, that relative to the lower mantle, there is a slight westward component in the motions of all the plates. |
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It may cause violent swaying motions and even catastrophic failure in improperly constructed structures including bridges, buildings, trains, and aircraft. |
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The European Commission is accountable to Parliament, requiring its approval to take office, having to report back to it and subject to motions of censure from it. |
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Helioseismology, like terrestrial seismology, provides information about the interior of the body under study by using observations of slight motions on the surface. |
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Hence the construction of an androides, in such a manner as to imitate any of these motions with exactness, is justly considered as one of the highest. |
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Where a fault breaks into two strands, or two faults run close to each other, crustal extension may also occur between them, as a result of differences in their motions. |
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They went through the motions of living, but they didn't live. |
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Ergometers do not simulate the lateral balance challenges, the exact resistance of water, or the exact motions of true rowing including the sweep of the oar handles. |
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The proper motions of stars near the center of our own Milky Way provide strong observational evidence that these stars are orbiting a supermassive black hole. |
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In the Report stage, the debate is on the motions for specific amendments. |
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However, human motions such as climbing stairs are difficult to mimic with a machine, which ASIMO has demonstrated by taking two plunges off a staircase. |
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He uses Navier-Stokes equations that achieve linearizations for the case of non-stationary and harmonic motions, as mathematical tools to study real classes of problems. |
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However, both fore-handed and back-handed cutting motions were effective for reaping dry wheat, as the stalks partly broke and partly were cut by the blades. |
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The second part is written for probabilists and it studies the case where fast motions are certain Markov processes such as random evolutions and, in particular, diffusions. |
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It is enough that gravity does really exist and acts according to the laws I have explained, and that it abundantly serves to account for all the motions of celestial bodies. |
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Over the course of a year, the Weil team spent countless hours devoted to drafting motions, preparing witnesses, litigating at trial, and drafting two appellate briefs. |
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This expedient has since been generally considered satisfactory for most purposes and makes possible the use of the simpler Stephenson, Joy and Walschaerts motions. |
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Previous surveys had compared the motions of the local group of galaxies, including the one in which we live, to farily large reference groups of spiral galaxies. |
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To prevent illegal code motions past jumps and undisambiguated memory references, new edges are introduced to prevent one node from being evaluated before another. |
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Tiberius turned down both motions, but the sentiment remained. |
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The simultaneous presence of fluid motions and abundant particles in the solar nebula make charge separation a likely but at the present time speculative phenomenon. |
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Other main motions may also be considered by the committee of the whole. |
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Title III covers pleadings, motions, defenses, and counterclaims. |
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From these observations, early ideas about the motions of the planets were formed, and the nature of the Sun, Moon and the Earth in the Universe were explored philosophically. |
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