Heavy velvet drapes in blood red, cut a vertical moat from the outside world, and bathed the room in candle glow orange. |
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The outside world may see a Kenyan, but the person, if asked, would consider himself a Luo first. |
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I've seen more awareness of the outside world, more awareness of Third World issue. |
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India grows more prosperous, the outside world enters willy-nilly, old buildings are torn down. |
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Businesses are hungry to get on the Web to market their products both in Iran and to the outside world. |
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It was therefore the first part of that country to have contacts with the outside world. |
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When it came to training camp, he was methodical in his preparation often going away and secluding himself from the outside world. |
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The government has a legitimate, compelling interest in secluding these men and denying them access to the outside world. |
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Yet Zev had not returned her to the outside world as most Wolves did when their women were not able to bear them heirs. |
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It also represents the Min-Yue culture characterized by its contacts with the outside world and great emphasis on mercantile entrepreneurship. |
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The fourth face of Algeria is that which is best known by the outside world. |
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Men should travel to associate themselves better with the outside world and to find their place within it. |
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The outside world sees what is, apparently, a child misbehaving or throwing a tantrum. |
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Everything was censored and she relied on the BBC, broadcast through her short-wave radio, for real news from the outside world. |
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She took the four teenagers to live in the depths of Norfolk, with no communication from the outside world for three and a half weeks. |
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But then the truce is broken and one of the villagers may have to venture out of the community and into the outside world. |
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Against the advice of his lawyers, he appears poised to keep his beloved BlackBerry, a link to the outside world. |
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Both the rear door and two side entrances were shut off from the outside world by neck-high wooden swing-doors. |
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One node is designated as the master node controlling the scheduling of the slave nodes and all communications with the outside world. |
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Hannah rubbed her with a linen cloth and a skin unguent to remove the grime of the outside world. |
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The outside world also takes them seriously and they haven't had problems with the theatre box offices, for instance. |
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Their ancient way of life is still virtually untouched by the outside world. |
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Virtually untouched by the outside world, these islands have only a handful of residents. |
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Only mouldy heels to be found in the bread bin, so I have no choice but to venture into the outside world unless I want to wither away. |
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The diary sent to the storage vaults of the museum, hidden from the outside world, all but forgotten. |
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To reach the outside world, you have to drive 50 miles of vertiginous, winding canyon roads, where cell-phone service is dodgy at best. |
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Contact with the outside world was non-existent during his month-long ordeal. |
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We allow it to consume us until it is not our place in the world that matters so much as how the outside world fits into what we think we have. |
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These monks and nuns live in their monasteries or nunneries all the rest of their lives, with no contact with the outside world. |
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Over this 1,800-mile trail came yearly caravans carrying not only tools, seeds, and other worldly goods, but also news of the outside world. |
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As I move away, the incredible house with its dazzling colours disappears again behind the hedge and the bushes, invisible to the outside world. |
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With new jamming technology, cellphones can be completely blocked in a bid to keep the outside world at bay. |
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The hidden place, where expression becomes impression and the outside world folds inward, is still here. |
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Or for those few wealthy or talented enough, it's a hermetic fraternity dissimulating itself to the outside world through art and culture. |
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The girls were starved for news of the outside world, so Abbey told them all about the new celebrities, styles of clothing, and types of music. |
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As mentioned before there is a symbiosis between the insides and the outsides, between our inner selves and the outside world. |
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The threshold takes the position of a border between the home and the outside world. |
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The affairs of the town, the country and the outside world meant little to them. |
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Elsewhere in the world, hostage-taking still continues virtually unnoticed in the outside world. |
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Your husband's breakfast is vital if he is to face the outside world in a positive fashion. |
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So events in the outside world don't really impact on things that are going on in the house. |
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Goalies are a breed who do not like to be told by the outside world how they should behave. |
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Usually people would gather around the set, eager for their one point of reliable contact with the outside world. |
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When I went to interview him three years ago, he was, in the eyes of the outside world, a remote and beleaguered figure. |
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The outside world usually stays outside or confined neatly in the TV box in the corner. |
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Apart from a small team of other ice-bound colleagues, his only contact with the outside world for two years was a single visit by a supply ship. |
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Social contact with the outside world was absolutely crucial to maintaining the power of paramount chiefs. |
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The police spokesman said whenever there were problems with the swing bridge, it cut the town off from the outside world. |
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The county is notorious for clannish thinking when it comes to the outside world. |
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But these letters aside, Brick Lane is a cloistered domestic drama, unperturbed by the outside world. |
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Ultimately, the child loses self-esteem, leaving an impression to the outside world that he is impervious to rehabilitation. |
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But while, to the outside world, he appeared as phlegmatic and calmly in control as ever, behind the scenes it was a different story. |
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Upon reaching the top, Shield once again chanted an incantation and opened the doorway to the outside world. |
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Radio and satellite phones allow easy communication with the outside world. |
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To the outside world, Chernobyl stands as a fearful accident and a catalogue of gross errors. |
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In the month I was trekking, I was in unable to communicate with the outside world, and no news got to me. |
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In such isolated instances of settlements, news from the outside world was inevitably at a premium. |
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This has confounded the expectation that increased affluence, education, and contact with the outside world would reduce the preference for boys. |
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With candles all around the bathroom and a glass of fizz in hand, it was the perfect place to drift off and forget about the outside world. |
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They were in Westminster, safe from the eyes of the outside world and London's many drinking dens and fleshpots. |
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During the last two to three decades, we were practically isolated from the outside world. |
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For about 10 years Bacon had no personal contact with the outside world although he was able to correspond by letter. |
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Wireless technology is the cheapest and easiest means of connecting the country to the outside world. |
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It's nice not to be bound by social norms, but you'll truly be free once you open up to the outside world. |
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The pram was full of cuddly toys, its interior completely sealed off from the outside world by a protective plastic covering. |
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In the eyes of most of the outside world, they are akin to genocidal murderers. |
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He touches on the territorialism that occurs when the local's secret gets out and a treasure is discovered by the outside world. |
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When the light goes out, the glass reveals the outside world, transforming the light of a street lamp into a prismatic rainbow on the wall. |
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This is an honest editorial and gives a very good impression to the outside world of the Korean press. |
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We project them on to the outside world, but in truth they are only reflections of our internal world. |
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You can write your blog using your real name or under a pseudonym if you prefer not to reveal your true identity to the outside world. |
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There is no sense of self-pity or desperate longing for the outside world, tempting as that must be. |
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This immediately enabled all services on that network to the outside world. |
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With the boats gone, the outside world vanished, and the enchantment was complete. |
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They defended their villages fiercely, and remain deeply distrustful of the outside world. |
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Staying at home does not mean that one divorces oneself from the outside world. |
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The country was isolated from any contact with the outside world, with the exception of China. |
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During his abbacy, he kept the Buckfast community abreast of changes in the outside world. |
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The panic room has a four-inch straight pipe leading right to the outside world. |
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Perhaps, too, the academic environment is just too rarefied, too unrelated to a recognisable outside world, to be satirically relevant. |
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After three months, the developed joey emerges from the pouch to make short trips in the outside world. |
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He was still yelling and raging when we reached the tomb and escaped into the outside world. |
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A climb out of the woods brought the shock of the raw, cold, outside world, and a bracing but easy track back. |
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The outside world sees them, reasonably enough, as a single unit, acting in concert. |
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They are a genuinely friendly people, full of interest in the outside world and consummately wise in the ways of the desert. |
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The child must now start its life in the outside world without parents at its shoulder. |
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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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Given that he has spent much of his life in reformatories and prisons, he is, we're led to believe, somewhat naive about the outside world. |
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After all, home and family should provide a refuge from the clamor of the outside world. |
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While this message was hugely popular among Russians, it was a tougher sell in the outside world. |
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Day over, then I could just zip home and zip straight onto the computer where I could just lock myself away from the outside world. |
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Livia retreated from the outside world more and more, even shutting out the company of Sarah Buckner. |
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Their only contact with the outside world is through a transistor radio, its signals fading in and out. |
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I can locate all the ingredients of a painting in the richness of the outside world, the world of perception. |
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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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The problem is, I can't tell what's okay as part of rumspringa and what is illegal in the outside world. |
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Of the lumpen masses, 1.5 million died in concentration camps and 1.3 million in the war against the outside world. |
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I was put in a solitary confinement completely cut off from the outside world without even enjoying basic prisoner rights. |
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Its smugglers are a vital lifeline between that Hamas-ruled enclave and the outside world. |
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During the first 17 days of entrapment, with no contact to the outside world, the men built a unique underground society. |
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Elsewhere, in the outside world, sad, horrid times are upon us, with a fearsome outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among sheep and cattle right across the Kingdom. |
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While it does service the community, it also gives them a place to call home and exist without any stigmas from the outside world. |
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Once underwater, the pair let the outside world disappear, communing with the natural elements beneath the sea's surface in an attempt to banish their worries forever. |
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The idea of the body as a barrier to the unreachable outside world is an interesting one, but we learn so little about Esther that sympathy turns finally to revulsion. |
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The second generation, as native speakers of the local language, are often the interpreters and intermediaries between the family and the outside world. |
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Adding to the rosiness of the outside world is an unexpected rise in the friendliness of the vet whom I was apprehensive about seeing earlier in the week. |
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The outside world is about to rudely intrude on his quiet existence. |
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Neither parastate had a shred of official recognition from the outside world, but they believed that their manoeuvring would be rewarded in the end. |
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Their contact with the outside world is limited to the annual festivals to which the public is invited, and the reading of sacred texts at funerals. |
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You seem to be the only one here with a view of the outside world. |
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When the massive inner earthworks were added, with only two entrances, they enclosed an arena separated from the outside world by an imposing barrier. |
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Since the mid-1970s, Samoan and Gilbertese have declined in importance and English has become the prestige language and the medium of communication with the outside world. |
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I don't mind if the archives are googleable to the outside world. |
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He foresees its thousand inhabitants as communicating with people in the outside world. |
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From this point of view, the confederate model will consolidate domestic solidarity and unity toward the outside world, and this of course carries positive significance. |
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Still, after nearly a month at sea, I imagine they are eager to recharge, ready for interaction with the outside world. |
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From there they can be planted out into the garden, though I usually check the weather forecast for imminent cold snaps before I risk my plants to the outside world. |
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We were literally forbidden from contact with the outside world. |
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It is possible to listen to the music of many Basque composers, both contemporary and classical, and feel that the influence of the outside world has been paramount. |
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The castle was an isolated island which did not need the outside world. |
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At this moment, Sakineh sits in her cell in Tabriz, cut off from the outside world after a horrific four-year ordeal. |
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Like with Don, a lot of this episode was thematically about how you are perceived by the outside world. |
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While some Shakers made only enough boxes for their own needs, communities in Maine, New Hampshire, and New York produced thousands for sale to the outside world. |
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While state security forces besieged the village and cut phone lines to prevent communication with the outside world, he sent in trucks full of hired thugs to take control. |
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The outside world has achieved remarkable success delaying and thwarting the Iranian nuclear program. |
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Mammals hear sounds after they are transmitted from the outside world to their inner ears by a chain of three bones, the malleus, incus, and stapes. |
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With the soothing sounds of the sitar in the background the troubles of the outside world melt away as you tuck in the huge range of authentic Gujarati dishes. |
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It's like Mother Nature provided us with a shield from the outside world. |
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But they have also endeavored to secure it against the outside world. |
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They're all pretty good kids, but misfits in the outside world. |
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So when you were ensconced in the law firm, looking out at the world of journalism and cartooning in particular, what did you make of the outside world? |
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A parallel, insular society evolves, dependent on the outside world and contemptuous of its values. |
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This is why Rastafarians refer to the repressive outside world as Babylon. |
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Maybe it's an escape from the outside world where many of us do battle with the small inconsiderations of strangers and the big ones of colleagues and businesses. |
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A syndrome known as hikikomori, in which the outside world is shunned, is wreaking havoc on young people in Japan, a country known for its communal values. |
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We were drawn to music from the outside, so we are able to relate to the outside world. |
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Many were also indulging a healthy curiosity about the outside world. |
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In the 54 years since they departed, Belgika has been forgotten by the outside world. |
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With commitments to friends and work groups within the League, it's just another tie that binds me to the outside world and keeps me from retreating into a shell on the couch. |
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I expect world-weary people, who show the physical and emotional scars of time on the inside and hold a high level of cynicism about the outside world. |
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Indeed for two days Mayor Nagin and his aides were utterly cut off from the outside world by the failure of both their land lines and cellular phones. |
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There must be a few liberal moles toiling anonymously inside the conservative news channel who can smuggle these things to the outside world, right? |
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When it comes to the outside world that has intruded so rudely on his pet domestic projects, he just. |
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We all have backstage selves and selves that we cultivate and present to the outside world. |
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In common with many of the finest competitors, she says that she is able to blinker herself, block out the outside world at times of great anxiety. |
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Widespread state intervention and regulation largely walled the economy off from the outside world. |
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When, however, it becomes exposed to the outside world, the dosas fall out of balance and the individual becomes subject to health disorders. |
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Stoic epistemology generally emphasized that the mind starts blank, but acquires knowledge as the outside world is impressed upon it. |
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Renaming it for the outside world is money for old rope and a new neon sign. |
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As Cuba's main airport, HAV offers domestic routes to the largest cities on the island and is Cuba's most important link to the outside world. |
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During deliberations only limited contact is permitted with the outside world, always via the usher. |
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The sea was the easiest way of communication between the Norwegian kingdoms and the outside world. |
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Men were sealed into their marshalling areas at the end of May, with no further communication with the outside world. |
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Foreign trade and other contacts with the outside world, particularly Japan, increased considerably. |
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Through this time, Iceland had relatively little contact with the outside world. |
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The culture of Japan developed with limited influence from the outside world and had one of the longest stretches of peace in history. |
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The Qing government attempted to limit contact with the outside world to a minimum. |
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The export of yerba mate and valuable wood products maintained the balance of trade between Paraguay and the outside world. |
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However, in July 1999, a new airport opened Socotra to the outside world all year round. |
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During the 1980s, health statistics, including life expectancy and causes of mortality, were gradually made available to the outside world. |
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She used to safen me when I was smaller, when I came here first. Her long, dark hair was my hiding place from the outside world. |
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In Ieyasu Tokugawa's time Japan was made up of the domains of some 250 daimyo in a country largely isolated from the outside world. |
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The Qing empire played a heretofore neglected role in both types of unequal coercive relations between Korea and the outside world. |
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From the age of 5 or 6, daily life for many kumaris is highly ritualized and they have little contact with family, friends or the outside world. |
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Why would they listen to the radio when they can see the outside world? |
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The new measure further infantilizes women and is designed to restrict their movements and limit their contact with the outside world. |
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All the colors of the rainbow shower me as if I were privy to the ancient wonders of a time lost to the outside world. |
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Many of our people are confined at home, and the only connection they have with the outside world is through our monthly newsletter. |
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When the group is not in session, the officer's duties often include acting as its head, its representative to the outside world and its spokesperson. |
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They float hundreds of kilometers across the border carrying news from the outside world, illegal radios, foreign currency and gifts of personal hygiene supplies. |
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These radio amateurs provided radio communications for 10 days and nights, and were the only people able to maintain contact from affected areas with the outside world. |
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Nonetheless, they open the desert to technology and to the outside world, and the Bedouin protagonists strive to keep their autochthony without being xenophobic. |
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The simplicity of these vessels and their shallow draft made them indispensable to pioneer communities that were otherwise virtually cut off from the outside world. |
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