There is no doubt manners and social graces are essential pillars that hold up our society. |
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His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. |
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The former asylum opened in 1816 is a stately quadrangular building of stone with pillars of the Doric order. |
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Wonderful period detailing, including gothic windows, sandstone quoins and pillars, with access to the clock in the bell tower via a hatch. |
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Peace in Europe during the Cold War rested on two pillars that made up the balance of power between the United States and the Soviet Union. |
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There are sleeker body frame pillars, a steeply raked windscreen and a slicker, sportier back-end with rear spoiler and clutter-free hatch door. |
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The car's striking, swept-back rear window pillars also contribute to its more muscular appearance. |
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Two stone pillars held an arched roof up, which itself was engraved with runes and other types of symbols. |
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The rooftop of the stables was a flat sheet of metal with wooden pillars to hold it up. |
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Since the entire palace was made of alabaster, it hardly needed pillars to hold it up. |
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Suddenly the heroes felt the floor beneath them shake and they hid behind the pillars that held the ceiling up. |
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White pillars towered above him, and marble guards lined the aisle, stone spears held at the ready. |
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The aisles and nave of the church are connected by arches which are held up by 18 imposing stone pillars made from well chiselled limestone. |
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On top of each pillar, however, a large rectangular stone was placed, with each side resting on neighboring pillars. |
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As one of the pillars of democracy, they have the right to question every word and deed. |
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The pillars are wrapped in new reflective material which allows light to bounce off the stone and create a natural light in the building. |
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The minarets, columns, and pillars that make up the skyline are a mixture of recognizable Alexandrian landmarks and the Bellinis' own invention. |
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Between the pillars, just beneath the roof, alternating crests of the football club or cricket club are suspended by wrought-iron lacework. |
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By combining narrow pillars with a large glazed area, the cab offers an excellent all-round field of vision. |
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Real had the pillars removed from the main venue and the ceiling reinforced with steel. |
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How does one begin to approach teaching these pianistic pillars upon which the entire body of piano repertoire is built? |
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Even as the Continent's economy revs up, one of the pillars that supports Europe's monetary union is looking distinctly shaky. |
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The two major pillars for revitalizing the dormant economy are corporate capital spending and private consumption. |
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They are modern and stylish additions to an older building that has grand pillars and a sweeping stone staircase at its entrance. |
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Substantive stone pillars absorb that heat, radiating it out throughout the night. |
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Most of the rooms were large and empty, like a monument, supported by tall, white pillars. |
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Ornate pillars with stone carved towers stand as monuments of glory to their builders. |
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There were a number of tall metal pillars and beams spread out to hold up the massive weight of the city above them. |
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Confining roses to pillars or other vertical structures may be a better option. |
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A metal fence post was found nearby and it has been used to chip chunks of stone from the other pillars and the monument itself. |
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The lower storey disappeared in 1889 when the building was modified and the distinctive stone pillars supporting the upper storey were added. |
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Every bungalow is supported on stone pillars, which permits us to maintain the natural terrain and vegetation. |
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The pillars supporting the building were of smooth white wood, the pews solid oak. |
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During a routine sale of U.S. Treasury bonds in early September, one of the essential pillars holding up the economy suddenly disappeared. |
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They're quite willing to mess around with essential pillars of freedom without understanding what they're doing. |
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I've often heard people wondering how these students, notoriously wild, turn into pillars of responsibility and reliability. |
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Thirty grayish white pillars surrounding the building rose so high that I couldn't help but wonder if they'd used magic to set them up. |
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Various Aokan emblems, such as the lion capital found on his pillars, have been adopted for official use by the modern state of India. |
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As it was dark, the storks were sleeping safely in their high roosting places on the tall pillars of the aqueduct. |
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The pillars and archways supporting the ceiling were black marble swirled with silver. |
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Within the next meadow only a few hundred feet away from Ysban's settlement was an arrangement of stone pillars. |
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Four pillars stood in the four corners and in the center was a stone altar adorned with strange runes. |
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At first it appeared to be nothing more than a rusty, unsightly, metal wall with several tall pillars guarding the front. |
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Representations of votive tablets on pillars, however, also occur on a number of regular votive reliefs. |
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The remnant ore inside the old stopes, pillars and tailings used as backfilling are being leached with mild acid solution. |
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Four stone pillars with bronze urns on top were inaugurated on Constitution Hill, near Hyde Park Corner. |
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As she spoke, a shaft of light shone through Sir Eduardo's window, illuminating in technicolour the Cathedral's chilly pillars. |
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The second type is similar to the first in having laminae and possibly pillars, yet it lacks the mamelons. |
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Internally there is a mosaic tiled floor, stone and marble pillars and part marble-clad walls. |
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The main hall has stone pillars and gives access to a ballroom, drawing room and library. |
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Even to the pillars of our society, the days of hiding behind civil law, martial law and cannon law are gone. |
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The doors led into a large throne room, decorated with marble pillars and stained glass windows. |
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Ashoka is famous for the edicts he ordered to be carved on rocks and pillars throughout his kingdom. |
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You may enjoy short-term TV exposure and media headlines, but even the media are pillars of the polluting society. |
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Making his way to one of the deep blue glass pillars that adorned the laboratory, he gently swept some beads of condensation off the surface. |
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The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and buttresses. |
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Repairs to the plasterwork, timbers, roof and pillars were carried out and the structure was also lime washed. |
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Paintings of fleshy nudes line the walls, and pillars are plastered with pictures of a chubby comic book character. |
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In kanyu, these energy outbursts are called regulators, and the most powerful of them take the form of mesas, buttes, and large rock pillars. |
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All three pillars of the global economy have not tottered simultaneously for a decade. |
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The brick pillars supported the floor of the bathhouse and allowed the hot air to circulate beneath. |
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The castle was a pure sandstone building with enormous towering pillars and high arches and courtyards. |
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Even such pillars of Berkeleianism as the likeness principle were anticipated by the skeptics. |
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The concept has a glass panorama roof that slides open, and both side pillars slide inward, like in a T-top configuration. |
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The side pillars can then be moved to the middle, creating the look of a car with the T-tops removed. |
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Silver mining and agriculture in the highlands have historically been the twin pillars of the economy. |
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There is barely a scrap of bare metal on the stanchions, pillars, posts, railings, and decking ribs. |
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The pillars twisted around each other then spread out at the top to support a long, triangular roof that had strange runes carved into it. |
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It had a terribly high ceiling, and vines of morning glory were growing around the pillars. |
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As the waves smashed against the pillars of the floating barge, I noticed the driftwood that was totally at the mercy of the current. |
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Inside too, it was difficult to separate the lovely dance-carved pillars from the grime, plastic litter and the week's unswept pooja debris. |
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Or perhaps cities will become adorned with neoclassical colonnades, with 4 foot gaps between the pillars. |
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Thick wooden pillars extended from the bottom of the bridge to the river base, holding it steadily. |
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The Basilica dates from the sixth century and contains forty eight pillars hewn from the while veined stone of the surrounding countryside. |
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In the drizzling rain the gargoyles which jut out high up on the pillars vomit water down onto our heads. |
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You can expect the same vulgarity and crassness you have come to love from these fine upstanding pillars of society. |
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They saw huge caverns, their roofs supported by great natural buttresses and pillars of rock. |
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The trustworthy parson and the trustworthy squire are the twin pillars of rural life. |
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The place was shaped like an octagon, the second floor merely a balcony over the first, large fiberglass pillars supporting the platform. |
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The hall door is very fine, having outer casings and massive pillars supporting an ornamental canopy all of cut stone. |
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But it does take me a while to work out that the canted pillars with cups on top and pistons on the side are depth-charge catapults. |
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Almost perfectly intact, it was a circle of pillars capped with an ornate dome. |
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A structural urban development plan for the capital divides the city into five areas that will function as pillars for the development work. |
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The room was decorated with silk blue hangings, white pillars and floors, with crystal blue railings on the sides of the terrace. |
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The hall has highly polished, lathe-turned stone pillars, with capitals supporting brackets intricately carved with figures from Hindu mythology. |
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The device is about nine cubic inches in size and looks somewhat like a miniature oil rig, with four pillars on a table. |
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They pull the car into the carport with pillars and a crumbling stucco facade. |
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It is stomach-turning to realise that my parents, my pillars of strength and support, are victims of my wrongdoing. |
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In the early 3rd millennium bc a stone circle comprising thirteen pillars of local gneiss was built with a single large pillar in the centre. |
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At its entrance are cast iron gates within stone pillars which open to a sweeping gravel driveway leading the front of the house. |
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Certain types of standard roses or pillars require special techniques. |
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Steel washers beneath the action screws and steel pillars in the stock keep the synthetic material from being compressed when the action screws are torqued into place. |
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Mother and daughter Roberta and Michele Combs are pillars of the Religious Right. |
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The nave of three bays has on its south side an arcade of the end of the 13th century with pillars of four engaged filleted shafts and a bench-table or seat round the bases. |
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In the middle of the two sides of this are large domes built on pillars of the same height as those of the outer arcade and an upper gallery runs all round it. |
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The Crenosphere also offers significant interior design flexibility because it has a clear span with no support pillars or posts to obstruct views. |
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They carve memorial pillars in wood and stone for their dead. |
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The Tower with its rectangular shape perfectly fits between the two adjacent buildings and it raises on the arcade's trabeation which is supported by columns and pillars. |
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The Sikh Coalition would like to thank the Hate Free Zone for helping to protect the pillars of our democracy by exercising the voice of the people. |
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The science of biochemistry, nowadays regarded as one of the fundamental pillars upon which the study of medicine rests, is something of a newcomer. |
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The religious pillars, of course, are the clergy and monastic orders. |
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The buildings were reduced to rubble, a few sorry pillars left standing. |
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He confirms that the pillars are those of a burnt house in a burnt village, which the villagers allege was torched by lowlanders and forestry rangers. |
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Inspired by a trip to England, Pat's son Brian built the gate pillars with salvaged bricks and concrete blocks, made rustic with patches of mortar. |
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The occurrence is in coarsely brecciated dolomite at the margin of a previously mined-out area in pillars and on the walls of a stope where the early work had ended. |
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The designer's simple but effective set has an Egyptian court, denoted by familiar golden iconography, standing opposite silvered pillars of Rome. |
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The collector, emitter and gate conductive pillars are respectively connected to the external collector, emitter and gate electrodes with calking. |
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Graffiti was borne out of the South Bronx streets as one of the key pillars of the hip-hop movement. |
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Mill Lane is accessed through wrought-iron gates flanked by stone pillars. |
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The entrance is enhanced by plants such as ready grown, trees, magnolias and other plants suited to the acid soil of the area with ready grown creepers lining the pillars. |
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The bridge is balanced on seven pillars, the tallest one 16 metres higher than the Eiffel Tower, and is hailed as a new wonder of French engineering. |
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I found a great place to watch it happen, where I was first entertained by scores of fire spinners and dancers, then by great pillars of fire being shot into the sky. |
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Testino was commissioned to create a unique piece of work inspired by the six pillars that define The Macallan. |
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This is another well-preserved old town full of beautiful houses, and has a quaint little yachting harbour guarded by stone Bavarian lions on pillars. |
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Along with healthcare and welfare transfers, the politique familiale is one of the pillars of the French welfare state. |
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Stylistically, the estate version is by far the most pleasing to the eye, as the body profile has been redesigned more or less from the windscreen pillars rearwards. |
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While most people her age are busily engaged in the activity of digesting brisket, the modernist screecher is still among the living, shaking the pillars of heaven. |
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The neo-classical house features a main doorway framed with Ionic pillars and topped by a balustraded balcony complete with carved stone coat of arms. |
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Lengthening shadows cast by giant stone structures, like obelisks or the pillars of Stonehenge, were used by ancient civilizations to measure time. |
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The waiter greeted her in a perky voice and gestured to a sign with the menu written on it hanging from one of the slender stone pillars that held the cloth roof up. |
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Those tall pillars of mingled lilac, mauve, purple and white flowers rising above square planters are spectacular, as are the matching hanging baskets here and there. |
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As Testino explains, he decided to interpret each of the pillars via six unique characters. |
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The pillars roared upward like towering giants made of white alabaster. |
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But these two pillars of support for lethal injection have always been based on a form of deceit. |
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Silent as stones like two black pillars carved from obsidian rock. |
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Its pillars bore decorative medallions of crowned heads, friezes of vines with grapes, and corbels of women in flowing garments playing musical instruments. |
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It will wean us off the dying pillars of tourism and financial services. |
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Morganite are manufacturers of heavy industrial and domestic carbon brushes, electric panels, Zesco feeder pillars and fan stators for underground mining. |
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This underfloor heating system was present in the tepidarium, the caldarium and the laconicum where the floors were supported on pillars of tiles or pilae. |
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There were towers and pillars and Elizabeth had heard tell that there were hundreds of rooms, even though the glorious abode accommodated only one occupant. |
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The Bronze Age mounds of Sistan, also strongly reduced in their size by aeolian action, rise on the takyr as isolated pillars, not unlike the yardangs around them. |
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The last lava flow from the volcano were recorded in 1007 and the mountain contains many tunnels, pillars and other unusual features that formed as the molten basalt cooled. |
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It was the first London theatre to have carpeted floors and tip-up seats and was built without pillars so that there was a clear view from every seat. |
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The floor was a stunning green marble with veins of vivid gold, dotted with massive pillars of white marble that supported a soaring dome ceiling. |
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At the other end of the cone shaped island was a two mile long causeway with tall stone pillars as markers connected to the mainland near Strandhill. |
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Up the road in High Street is a set of old semi-detached houses, with attractive moulded pillars supporting the tin roofs over the verandah, with a gable at the end. |
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Well maintained buildings, gates, pillars, old stone walls and styles add to the visual appearance of the farm and help it blend into the landscape. |
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These pillars are the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law. |
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The Community institutions became the institutions of the EU but the roles of the institutions between the pillars are different. |
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Put a few spoonfuls of syllabub in the centre of the biscuit and surround with the remaining strawberries, halved lengthways to make pillars. |
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Sometimes the atrium is a tetrastyle in which pillars at the four corners of the impluvium support girders or main beams of the roof. |
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This was the Carnegie Library, complete with large imposing stone pillars, stone steps, and an expansive lawn surrounding it. |
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As if to physicalize the sense of exhaustion, Kent slumped against one of the stage pillars in utter submission. |
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About 10,000 years ago, long after the sea had receded, a glacier scanted the region and carved odd formations, like pillars and buttes. |
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The most common sites of fish bone impaction are the tonsils, tonsillar pillars, tongue base, valleculae, and piriform fossa. |
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The pillars are created photolithographically on a silicon wafer chip and are arranged in groups of 200 in microchannels on the chip. |
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But because the four pillars are grounded in the foundation of positive habit-forming, each one includes baby steps for action. |
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Perdikis also suggested that the Electricity Authority of Cyprus' mobile phone power lines and pillars also constituted a health hazard. |
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The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. |
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Under the portico, with its grey sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over. |
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It bears the motto Plus Ultra, Latin for further beyond, implying that the pillars were a gateway. |
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The image was based on the use of the pillars in Spanish and Habsburg propaganda. |
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Stone tools were used by perhaps as many as hundreds of people to create the pillars, which might have supported roofs. |
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More daring buildings soon followed, with great pillars supporting broad arches and domes. |
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One of the central pillars of the Scottish Enlightenment was scientific and medical knowledge. |
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A typical Great Council would consist of archbishops, bishops, abbots, barons and earls, the pillars of the feudal system. |
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The architecture of the Bengal Sultanate saw a distinct style of domed mosques with complex niche pillars and no minarets. |
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The large supporting pillars at the corners of the spire are seen to bend inwards under the stress. |
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The shrine was supported by three pairs of pillars, placed on a raised platform with three steps. |
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The roofs were supported by pillars that obstructed many fans' views, and they were eventually replaced with a cantilevered structure. |
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The primary pillars of government are the Executive Council, Legislative Council, civil service and Judiciary. |
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The Union superseded and absorbed the European Communities as one of its three pillars. |
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The interior was constructed around four large pillars, upon which crossbeams supported the roof. |
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A feast inside a Mandan lodge, art by George Catlin, showing the four pillars supporting the roof and the smoke hole, ca. |
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The pararectal space is bordered laterally by the pelvic sidewall, anterolaterally by the cardinal ligament, and medially by the rectal pillars. |
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Most of the paintings are located on the shelter's ceiling, but many are found on the walls and pillars of the site. |
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According to the story, he threw two carved pillars overboard as he neared land, vowing to settle wherever they landed. |
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He then sailed along the coast until the pillars were found in the southwestern peninsula, now known as Reykjanesskagi. |
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The Landsgemeinde forms one of the pillars of the direct democratic core of the Swiss political structure. |
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Another notable formation are the Meteora rock pillars, atop which have been built medieval Greek Orthodox monasteries. |
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Rugby in particular is considered one of the central pillars of the Afrikaner community. |
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The oldest mosque in town, its minaret was built in the 13th century, and its pillars date back to Ottoman rule. |
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Also called the Ebony Mosque because of its two ebony pillars, it was mentioned in the writings of Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jubayr. |
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An ornamental gilt balustrade extended round each end of the carriage, and united with one of the pillars which supported the roof. |
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Miners remove the coal in the pillars, thereby recovering as much coal from the coal seam as possible. |
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After the large pillars of coal have been mined away, the mobile roof support's legs shorten and it is withdrawn to a safe area. |
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Insisting that it be made known and applied equally to all, posting it on pillars erected in the new capital. |
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Many service reservoirs are constructed as water towers, often as elevated structures on concrete pillars where the landscape is relatively flat. |
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Dovedale's attractions include rock pillars such as Ilam Rock, Viator's Bridge, and the limestone features Lovers' Leap and Reynard's Cave. |
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It was a flat, plain slab of dark gray stone, placed on pillars tablewise, that stood solitary above the turf, commanding attention. |
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The three PMR pillars of strength that have helped us win clients for years are Quality Research, Quick Research, and In-depth Research. |
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We talk about four pillars of an airman in comprehensive airmen fitness. |
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Another source of weight damage is from unblasted pillars or stubs left in the undercut area. |
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A FUTURISTIC band stand with sweeping curves and slanting pillars could be installed in Coventry's War Memorial Park. |
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The pillars of trust that enable secure e-commerce include authentication, authorization, data integrity, privacy and non-repudiation. |
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Sufferance and Forte erect and underset pillars against the winds of anger and strife. |
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The Commission, Parliament and Court of Justice are largely cut out of activities in the second and third pillars, with the Council dominating proceedings. |
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In the same realm, carved unicorns were often used as finials on the pillars of Mercat crosses, and denoted that the settlement was a royal burgh. |
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Modern Ordnance Survey maps are largely based on aerial photographs, but large numbers of the pillars remain, many of them adopted by private land owners. |
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From around 1670 the most prominent feature of a house front was its entrance, with pillars on each side and possibly a balcony above it, but no further decoration. |
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As in Arab waters, where salt has punched to the surface, the diapirs produce small islands and the salt pillars have caused minimal disturbance to the over-lying strata. |
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The EU absorbed the European Communities as one of its three pillars. |
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The building, from the tenor of the whole description, was in the style of the Renaissance, and the pillars probably supported the hanses, or spring of the arch. |
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Further along the road to the south near the old waterworks there are identical pillars from the former Knighton Gorges upon which the owner has placed modern gargoyles. |
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They created a polymer whose external structure is 100 micrometres-high pillars, topped by a thin 40 micrometres wide discs, upon which tiny mushroom-shapes sit. |
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In the 1980s pillars of Swedish industry were massively restructured. |
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Here the design concept is placed at the centre of the nexus of the meaning of cultural production that rests on the three pillars Segno, Mythus, and Techne. |
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The main institutional pillars of the old regime had vanished overnight. |
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The megaliths of the Senegambian area near the Atlantic coast are characterised by upright blocks or pillars of laterite, carefully worked to a smooth surface. |
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The floors are then extracted by underhanding, and finally the pillars at the levels are trimmed to the minimum size necessary to support the walls. |
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As predicted, because the framework's pillars were curved like bananas, they distorted the crystal and caused an uneven distribution of electric charge, Ward explains. |
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The volcanic activity which created the Antrim Plateau also formed the eerily geometric pillars of the Giant's Causeway on the north Antrim coast. |
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It is also very cleverly supported by pendentives, which act as upturned buttresses, bearing the heavy weight and spreading it evenly on the pillars and supporting walls. |
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Apart from a few sandy beaches, the coast is mostly steep, with high cliffs and notable signs of erosion such as caverns and isolated rock pillars. |
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The slave trade was one of the pillars of Norse commerce during the 6th. |
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When business ethics prescinds from these two pillars, it inevitably risks losing its distinctive nature and it falls prey to forms of exploitation. |
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In deep mining, the room and pillar or bord and pillar method progresses along the seam, while pillars and timber are left standing to support the mine roof. |
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The bill describes a bed with Corinthian pillars and a richly carved cornice, the frieze enriched with modillions and flowers, all of which is minutely described. |
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The Marca Pais strategy worked in five strategic pillars, to highlight strengths in areas including tourism, culture, economy, investment, and sustainability. |
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