The guy on the other end of the line wouldn't raise his voice above a whisper, which I couldn't make out at all. |
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His fellow crew men did not raise the alarm until the Monday morning as they thought he had stayed on the Spanish vessel. |
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It allows schools to build a centre of excellence, and use that specialist excellence and ethos to raise standards across the board. |
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When woollen cloth was woven on a handloom the nap had to be combed in order to raise it. |
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Will his violation raise questions about the validity of his case for a spot in the Hall of Fame some day? |
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Yet this must surely raise questions over the validity of the prize itself. |
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The legal reforms proposed in the Queen's Speech raise ominous questions about the future of the entire criminal justice system. |
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I want to raise one or two other things just as examples to assure the House that I have been keeping a close watch on its concerns. |
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The queen and half of the bees fly off to begin a new hive, and the remaining bees raise a new queen and continue reproducing. |
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Thus the Fed, far from maintaining its accommodative mode, is poised to raise rates at the end of this month. |
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With the aid of the community and its residents, we will raise the money to build a house that is wheelchair accessible. |
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Club captain Johnson and past captain Jacobs completed six rounds of golf in a day to raise money for charity. |
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In the old days, we used to meet weekly and ran bingo and beetle drives to raise money. |
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The liberal reaction was to raise the property qualification so as to limit worker participation. |
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Not before time, an organised effort is under way to raise the standard of management and leadership in Scotland's public sector. |
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The idea is that you raise the heart rate and time how fast it returns to normal. |
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But sceptics say he still has to cut spending or raise taxes to balance the books and could raise indirect taxes in next year's budget. |
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Brain abscesses are a medical emergency because they can raise the pressure on the brain to a point that may be fatal. |
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About 50 walkers of all ages joined the walkathon Sunday to raise funds for Steinbach's Grace Haven Pregnancy Crisis Centre. |
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A host of events were organised to raise the money, including a six-a-side football tournament, a walkathon and Indian dinner party. |
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When there was a terrible famine in Africa one year we did a ten mile walkathon to raise money. |
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Trax, in Sheppard Street, is holding a walkathon to raise money for four-year-old Brandon Humphries, who has cerebral palsy. |
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If someone has to raise kids above and beyond that they need all the help they can get. |
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This area is in my ward and it is my job to respond to the concerns of residents and raise them with council. |
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Today he cannot raise his arms above his head because his shoulders were dislocated so many times. |
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This is powerful, tender, big-hearted and dangerously exciting music that's fit to lift the spirits and raise parties from the dead. |
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She has the weight of the world on her shoulder and she also has to raise a 14-year-old son. |
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You could also join up with another group in the area to raise funds between you. |
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I raise what I consider to be quite a serious matter for your consideration. |
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I raise for serious debate and consideration the issue that we have too many judges. |
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Shoulder-joint abduction is an important action in all sports that require you to raise your arms or reach up. |
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Instructors actively recruit students who would benefit from the experience, allowing for lead time to raise the funds required for travel. |
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Thousands of people up and down the country are doing weird and wacky things today to raise money for Comic Relief. |
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They knew that complaining about her actions could raise questions about their conduct and did it anyway. |
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The legislation will raise further questions in relation to actions open to an employer if a drug test proves positive, he said. |
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Finally, after setting down a bundle of rebar, the crane operator did not raise the jib line all the way back to the top. |
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To raise the enrollment quota of aboriginal students, the new system will add 20 percent instead. |
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But sugar is less expensive in that country than in the United States, where critics contend import quotas artificially raise sugar prices. |
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The wonder-working tour on which the monks sent their new relics certainly helped raise funds for their new abbatial church. |
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A Sligo jeweller has agreed to sell up to 2,000 pieces of jewellery over the next year that will raise money for Concern. |
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They now raise 30 acres of irrigated sweet corn, 10 acres of pumpkins, and 7 acres of vegetables, everything from acorn squash to zucchini. |
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This may raise a few eyebrows, but it is not the fault of an individual to be a member of a weak team. |
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A single mum is quitting her job and going back on benefits so she can afford to raise her two-year-old son. |
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With one daughter already and another baby on the way, she is desperate for a bigger place in which to raise their family. |
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Now repeatedly raise and lower your heels for a strong stretch of the calves and Achilles tendons. |
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Usually when approached these spiky creatures stop and raise their quills in defence as they dig themselves into the ground. |
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Rain should be eased into the ground to raise the water table, which will give us healthier and more diverse parks, ravines and valleys. |
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It's said that as one herd crossed a river it would raise the water level several feet. |
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A football signed by Brazilian ace and World Cup winner Rivaldo is set to be auctioned off to raise funds for the York City Supporters' Trust. |
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However, in light of recent data many have started to question whether it will raise rates again so soon. |
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The final line of defence is to question the priorities of those who continue to raise Iraq, and dismiss the issue as a bore. |
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This would raise even more questions about the validity of the use of an MLAT, and the Home Office's involvement in it. |
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Two threads in the literature raise important questions about their validity. |
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The governor's repeated claim that he will raise the issue of capital punishment during the 2004 session may be no more than a bone tossed to his more rabid supporters. |
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But it was enough to catapult Davis into the national spotlight and raise immediate speculation about statewide office. |
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A child wearing an ordinary-looking glove and cap embedded with hidden sensors can raise her arms or waggle her head to make CosmoBot do the same. |
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Holding your left arm steady, raise your right arm above your head. |
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To quench the thirst for power, Datang Power has applied to raise up to 6 billion yuan by selling one billion A shares to fund expansion of 10 power plants. |
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Living on the edge of precipices, it will raise skeletons high into the sky, dash them onto the rocks, and then extract the marrow with its curved beak. |
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A carbon tax will raise the price of their energy inputs and thus the cost of their products. |
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Other forthcoming events planned to raise cash for the appeal include a sponsored abseil on May 1 from the 100 ft high WH Smith building in Greenbridge. |
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Good old Sir Bob Geldof stepping into the breach again to raise money for crisis-hit Africa? |
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These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity. |
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As a patron of Tusk Trust, a conservation charity, Williamtravelled to Botswana in 2010 to raise awareness of the issue. |
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Under the agreement, third-generation apiarist Steven S. Bernard is authorized to raise and sell pure-Russian breeder queen bees on a first-come, first-served basis. |
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The owner of one house was wakened in the early hours of Saturday morning by the flames and thankfully was able to raise the alarm and extinguish the fires. |
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Panovska said Celeste will reiterate what Turner advised, but he will raise the stakes with three additional provisions. |
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Johnson also accused Tea Party groups of bashing the GOP establishment to raise money. |
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Honeybees raise their larvae and pupae in individual cells on wax combs. |
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We're trying to raise money for a new school, and we're hoping that everyone will contribute. |
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At the end you want to rush out of the theatre into the sunshine, raise your arms to the heavens and wait for lightning to strike you, just to relieve the ache in your heart. |
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She had taken several years off to raise a family, so there was a large gap in her work history. |
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The sanctimonious, the puritans of all stripes, and the killjoys in general raise the issue annually. |
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In 1703 the provveditore of New Navarino noted that he would raise these from those villages not currently contributing to the quartering of dragoons. |
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We need some good falls before winter to raise the water table. |
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In any other civilized nation this effort at some kind of summer escape would barely raise an eyebrow. |
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Not only can it further raise the pressure on the warmongers, but it can also unite all those who oppose their attacks on pensions, refugees and the environment. |
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So with the doors of late night closed to her, Slate had to scale down her ambitions to raise her profile. |
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A group of citizens concerned about the erosion of Acadian culture in the Cheticamp area formed a non-profit co-op in 1992 to raise funds for a community-based radio station. |
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Yes, Akbar had put up a website at BomberSuesBloggers.com, and yes, it was to raise funds to defend against Kimberlin. |
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City academies are publicly-funded independent secondary schools, given more freedom than normal state schools to help them raise standards in disadvantaged urban areas. |
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Unexplained knee pain should raise the suspicion of hip abnormality. |
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You know, every time something happens and then the dust settles and they begin to raise their head over the parapet, they're then shot down again with yet more revelations. |
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It was hard to believe this modest little place was charity shop Barnardo's, once associated with sale of second-hand items to raise funds for waifs and orphans. |
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The spine-chilling saga of a young divorcee struggling to raise her daughter in a rancidly damp flat oozes atmosphere. |
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The company's tightfisted owner won't raise the workers' salaries. |
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All of these cases raise the issue of computer supportability and automatability of proof procedures. |
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At a stroke the bhangis will raise scavenging to a fine art and give it the status it should have had long ago. |
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If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat. |
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Some captioners will raise or lower the captions in the center by one row to add one more subtle differentiation, but this is uncommon. |
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When one decides to raise sheep, he accepts the fact that coyotes come with the territory. |
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The survey provided the King with information on potential sources of funds when he needed to raise money. |
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After four we raise our swords. One two three four... hup two three four... hup two three four. |
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The Assize of Ale is an annual event in the city where people in medieval costume take part in a pub crawl to raise money for local charities. |
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From very early on in its history, it would raise two armies annually to campaign abroad. |
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I'll see your defective gallbladder and raise you one heart murmur and a kidney stone. |
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Hostages from the Valois family were held in London while John returned to France to raise his ransom. |
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To raise still more revenue he sold the right to hold official positions, lands, and other privileges to those interested in them. |
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Henry VI needed money to raise an army and assert his rights over southern Italy and continued to hold Richard for ransom. |
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There were several ways through which the king could raise money for war, including customs duties, money lending and lay subsidies. |
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In February 1340, Edward returned to England to try to raise more funds and also deal with political difficulties. |
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While these hostages were held, John returned to France to try and raise funds to pay the ransom. |
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As kings continued to look for new ways to raise money, these fiscal surveys increased in number and scope over time. |
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Although a king could raise personal militia from his lands, he could only muster a significantly large army through the support of his nobles. |
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Unable to raise revenue without Parliament and unwilling to convene it, Charles resorted to other means. |
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At first, Charles II encouraged Montrose to raise a Highland army to fight on the Royalist side. |
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However, this forced him to call an English Parliament to raise new taxes to pay for the army. |
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Because of his financial weakness, he was forced to call Parliament into session in an attempt to raise funds for such a venture. |
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He attempted to raise recruits but was unable to gather enough rebels to defeat even James's small standing army. |
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Two bids to host the Olympic Games were part of a process to raise the international profile of the city. |
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The Ottoman Empire had failed to raise revenue and a monopoly of effective armed forces. |
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Initially, parliaments were mostly summoned when the king needed to raise money through taxes. |
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Henry obtained a papal bull in 1263 exempting him from his oath and both sides began to raise armies. |
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From 1265 onwards, when the monarch needed to raise money through taxes, it was usual for knights and burgesses to be summoned too. |
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On 20 September 2012 Clegg personally apologised for breaking his pledge not to raise university tuition fees. |
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The Supreme Court's focus is on cases that raise points of law of general public importance. |
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This protection applies to major development proposals that raise issues of national significance. |
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As stocks grew, with new companies joining to raise capital, the royal court also raised some monies. |
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Due to fears that borrowed money was to be called in and that foreign banks would demand their loans or raise interest, prices surged at first. |
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A stock exchange provides companies with the facility to raise capital for expansion through selling shares to the investing public. |
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Capital intensive companies, particularly high tech companies, always need to raise high volumes of capital in their early stages. |
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They saw us and ran for it like merry hell, trying to get there and plunder it before we could raise the alarm. |
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Rods hang from the outer end of the beam and operate pumps at the bottom of the mine shaft which raise the water to the surface. |
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A great fan of the music of Handel, Boulton conceived of the idea to hold a music festival in Birmingham to raise funds for the hospital. |
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It used condensing steam to create a vacuum which was used to raise water from below, then it used steam pressure to raise it higher. |
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The hope was the government would intervene to reorganize and rationalize the industry, and raise the subsidy. |
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This series also helped to raise the profile of many artists relatively little known outside Ireland. |
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He led two attempts at gaining the record for the World's Largest Orchestra, both designed to raise awareness of youth music in schools. |
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These were sensations on both sides of the Atlantic and in Australia and helped to raise the standard for what was considered a successful show. |
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Instead, the Bee Gees got together with Eric Clapton to create a group called 'the Bunburys' to raise money for English charities. |
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Adele was visibly annoyed and proceeded to raise her middle finger and the producers of the show came under fire on Twitter for the decision. |
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Clapton has organised the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 1999, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013 to raise funds for this centre. |
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In 2008, Winehouse appeared naked in an issue of Easy Living Magazine to raise awareness of breast cancer. |
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This did not raise much suspicion because she usually slept late after a night out. |
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In 2004 the school enquired if Emin would sign the work so that the school could sell it as an original to raise funds. |
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The trophy was intended to raise the standard of play and organisation of football in Wales. |
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The government's initial response was to float the rupiah, raise key domestic interest rates, and tighten fiscal policy. |
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On hearing of the invasion on 3 September, she ordered Thomas Lovell to raise an army in the Midland counties. |
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Managing to raise an army of 6,000 men, she met Moray's smaller forces at the Battle of Langside on 13 May. |
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In the colonial era, Americans insisted on their rights as Englishmen to have their own legislature raise all taxes. |
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The role of wives was to raise and nurture healthy children and support their husbands. |
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Concurrently, an American attempt to invade Quebec and raise rebellion against the British decisively failed. |
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It was later sold back to William by Richard I of England in order to raise funds for his Crusade. |
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Both stories related to Columba using his saintly blessing to raise people out of poverty and make them wealthier. |
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Status in early Ireland was not entirely rigid and it was possible for a family to raise its status. |
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The Scottish Government has the power to raise or lower the rate of income tax in Scotland by up to 3p in the pound. |
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When WO1 Stuart Bowie, himself a piper, became the RSM in April 2016, he began laying the ground to raise a new Regimental Pipes and Drums. |
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Student groups and societies build floats and parade in fancy dress through the city centre to raise money for local charities. |
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In February 2017, Biffy Clyro performed at the Shepherd's Bush Empire as part of Brit's Week to raise money for charity War Child. |
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Manson has used her and Garbage's profile to raise awareness and funds for a number of causes. |
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The event aimed to draw attention to the issue of youth suicide among men in the UK and to raise awareness and money for the charity. |
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Celtic was initially founded to raise money for the poor in the East End of Glasgow and the club still retain strong charitable traditions today. |
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Llywelyn was also finding it difficult to raise the annual sums required under the terms of this treaty, and ceased making payments. |
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As native lead is extremely rare, such artifacts raise the possibility that lead smelting may have begun even before copper smelting. |
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Civitates had a primary purpose of stimulating the local economy in order to raise taxes and produce raw materials. |
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The network of county sheriffs had collapsed, and with it the ability to raise taxes and collect royal revenues. |
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Pope Innocent IV's attempts to raise funds began to face opposition from within the English Church during Henry's reign. |
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His attempts to raise an army for Scotland collapsed and the earls suspended the collection of the new taxes. |
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To raise morale following the blitz, the King and Queen as well as the prime minister, Winston Churchill, visited Swansea. |
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act provided incentives to cut farm production in order to raise farming prices. |
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It encouraged unions that would raise wages, to increase the purchasing power of the working class. |
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In 1612, six years after the settlement of Jamestown, John Rolfe was credited as the first settler to successfully raise tobacco as a cash crop. |
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In the 1970s and 1980s comedian Frank Carson was appointed as a director and vice president in order to raise the profile of the club. |
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In 2008, Welsh was celebrated by the local council when it was decided to raise a blue plaque at his birthplace to commemorate his life. |
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A concert featuring the orchestra performing music from the first two series took place on 19 November 2006 to raise money for Children in Need. |
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Manipuris typically raise vegetables in a kitchen garden and rear fishes in small ponds around their house. |
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In July 2007, she performed live on Saving Planet Earth on BBC 1 to raise money for the BBC Wildlife Fund. |
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In 2012 the British Heart Foundation ran a series of adverts featuring Tommy Cooper to raise awareness of heart conditions. |
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Heat from nuclear fission is used to raise steam, which runs through turbines, which in turn powers the electrical generators. |
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Seabird tourism can provide income for coastal communities as well as raise the profile of seabird conservation. |
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Using supplemental firing will however not raise the combined cycle efficiency for most combined cycles. |
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A wide range of Dams may be built to raise the water level, and create a lake for storing water. |
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Charles was so unpopular that he could not raise an army to fight the invasion and instead fled to Burgundy. |
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Animal welfare advocates raise concerns about the possible suffering of fish caused by angling. |
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Because unless Jorie beamed down that Wookiee-looking one, none of the outer-space aliens looked outer-spacey enough to raise an alarm. |
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The photosynthesis is facilitated thanks to aerial vesicles which allows the algae to raise to the surface. |
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A respondent that does not wish to submit to the jurisdiction of the Court may raise Preliminary Objections. |
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The house is now owned by Miriam Margolyes, and both have hosted functions to raise funds for the new village hall. |
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Another important concession was that the King of France could not raise a new tax without the consent of the Normans. |
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Females are able to produce and raise two healthy litters of normal size and weight without significantly changing their own food intake. |
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To show interest they raise their ears, while lowering the ears warns others to keep away. |
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In many species, females give birth and raise their young in maternity colonies and individuals may assist others in their birthing process. |
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When attacked by dogs or sexually excited, badgers may raise their tails and fluff up their fur. |
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Despite being closely related to the domestic cat, wildcats have a reputation for being effectively impossible to raise as pets. |
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In 1746, an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college. |
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I was a computer programmer in a past life, but now I raise pigs and chickens. |
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Despite the efforts of middlemen and charities to raise money to provide ransoms, they were still very difficult to come by. |
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They worked to raise awareness about the evils of slavery, and to build support for abolition. |
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Most abolitionists tried to raise public support to change laws and to challenge slave laws. |
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Otariids, or eared sea lions, raise their young, mate, and rest in more earthly land or ice habitats. |
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Turtle farms in Oklahoma and Louisiana raise turtles for export to China as well. |
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Much of this pollution comes from the vast quantities of corn and soy used to raise meat animals for agribusiness companies, like Tyson. |
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One of the first recorded taxes on income was the Saladin tithe introduced by Henry II in 1188 to raise money for the Third Crusade. |
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Taxi companies claim that deregulation would cause problems, raise prices and lower service level on certain hours or in certain places. |
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Their king was a personal friend of Tostig, and Tostig's unpopularity made it difficult to raise local levies to combat them. |
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Brandon was so confident of success that he reassured the king that it would only be a matter of days before they could raise the Mary Rose. |
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Sunken ships, once being moving objects, were legally treated as chattel and were awarded to those who could first raise them. |
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After the decision to raise the Mary Rose, discussions ensued as to where she would eventually go on permanent display. |
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To bellow, males noticeably inflate as they raise the tail and head out of water, slowly waving the tail back and forth. |
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They may build nests and dig burrows to raise their young in, or feed and guard them often for a prolonged period of time. |
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The Romans used a special kind of enclosure, a glirarium, to raise dormice for the table. |
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This developed into the idea that walkers could be sponsored to raise money for charity. |
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Meetings were held with a representative of the Trustees and the committee believed it could raise the money to take over the school. |
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In walking he would raise the toes of his feet above the heads of the Phobians to a height of five hundred feet. |
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In Finland, there are about 6,000 reindeer herders, most of whom keep small herds of less than 50 reindeer to raise additional income. |
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A halyard, for example, is a line used to raise and lower a sail, and is typically made of a length of rope with a shackle attached at one end. |
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It became more difficult to raise barley, the primary cereal crop, and livestock required additional fodder to survive longer and colder winters. |
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If we all pitch in, we can raise enough money for the renovation of the church. |
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Similar facilities can be used to raise species with conservation needs to be released into the wild, or game fish for restocking waterways. |
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Efforts to raise and collect tax revenues were plagued by corruption and political scandals. |
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When feather fluffing, they contract their muscles to raise their feathers to increase the air space next to their skin. |
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Afonso granted public funding to raise a proper commercial fleet and ordered the first Portuguese maritime explorations. |
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The fund was created to raise local communities' stake in the legal diamond trade. |
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Once again the Pope was attempting to raise support for a campaign against the advance of the Turks. |
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Other political parties campaign and raise finances internationally, while activity within Cuba by opposition groups is minimal. |
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Incensed, the Arab merchants around the quay immediately raise a riot in Calicut and direct mobs to attack the Portuguese factory. |
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The Chinese Emperor also ordered the Malaccans to raise soldiers and fight back with violent force if the Vietnamese attacked them again. |
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The people in the borderlands had to raise local militias to protect themselves from hostile Native Americans. |
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Residential units were built on top of stone platforms to raise them above the level of the rain season floodwaters. |
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I wrote pressingly to Mr. Boone to raise men with all expedition to join capt. Floyd. |
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Arctic foxes form monogamous pairs during the breeding season and they stay together to raise their young in complex underground dens. |
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Both the mother and father help to raise the young which emerge from the den when 3 to 4 weeks old and are weaned by 9 weeks of age. |
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Venice is a city of small islands, enhanced during the Middle Ages by the dredging of soils to raise the marshy ground above the tides. |
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The aristocracy could raise rents to increase revenue and not face the full consequences of the Price Revolution. |
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The Americans, however, argued against the constitutionality of the act because its purpose was to raise revenue and not regulate trade. |
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Starting in 1776, the Congress sought to raise money by loans from wealthy individuals, promising to redeem the bonds after the war. |
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In 2013 an occupation of the island by explorer Nick Hancock to raise money for the charity Help for Heroes was planned. |
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Under section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 there are three requirements for the defendant to raise the defence of diminished responsibility. |
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The initial burden was on the defence to raise sufficient evidence of provocation. |
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General Benjamin Lincoln was obliged to raise funds from Boston merchants to pay for a volunteer army. |
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Companies generally raise capital for their business ventures either by debt or equity. |
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Illegal insider trading is believed to raise the cost of capital for securities issuers, thus decreasing overall economic growth. |
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These cartels were thus able to raise prices right away, sometimes more than doubling prices. |
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Thus, a party who does not raise an issue of fact at the trial court level generally cannot raise it on appeal. |
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The two of them turn to each other and raise an eyebrow each, their signal to slip into alternating raconteuring. |
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It controlled no Indian territory and was used only to raise troops for Japan. |
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If nothing happens when you ask nicely, raise a stink until something gets done. |
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The list is open for inspection for five working days, during which any other elector may raise an objection to an application. |
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The petitioners failed to raise the status of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom. |
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In 1794 Richard Sheridan used the reading of the bill to raise the subject of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. |
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Convicted felons may not be eligible for certain professional licenses or bonds, or may raise the cost of an employer's insurance. |
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Owen also adopted new principles to raise the standard of goods his workers produced. |
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While living in Barmen, Engels began making contact with Socialists in the Rhineland to raise money for Marx's publication efforts in Brussels. |
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The minder would stop the mule on the outward run, and raise his hands above his head. |
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Chains of buckets to raise water was a Roman technology had been used in various guises since antiquity. |
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The tendency has been to divest of timber lands to raise cash and to avoid property taxes. |
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It is a common additive in swimming pools used to raise the pH which can be lowered by chlorine tablets and other additives which contains acids. |
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Eventually the farmers agreed to raise wages, and the parsons and some landlords reduced the tithes and rents. |
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They were also able to mortgage future tolls to raise loans for new structures and for more substantial improvements to the existing highway. |
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Proteins may be administered intravenously to raise the level of serum proteins. |
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This enabled some convicts to resume a more normal life, to marry and raise a family, and to contribute to the development of the colony. |
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Often they sought to enlist local parish officials and occasionally magistrates to raise levels of poor relief as well. |
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In addition to training the Indians, Nicolls was tasked to raise a force from escaped slaves, as part of the Corps of Colonial Marines. |
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This ability to quickly raise potentially large amounts of capital from the marketplace is a key reason many companies seek to go public. |
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A relift pump would then raise the water to another concrete-lined canal on compacted fill. |
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A company can raise money by selling shares to investors and its existing shares can be bought or sold. |
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The verb monopolise or monopolize refers to the process by which a company gains the ability to raise prices or exclude competitors. |
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By European Union law, very large market shares raise a presumption that a company is dominant, which may be rebuttable. |
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Formed in 758, the Commission controlled salt production and sales in order to raise tax revenue for the Tang Dynasty. |
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Each year, on Easter Monday, a duck race is organised by the local mountain rescue team to raise funds. |
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Instead, the tall flower stalks probably help raise the flowers to a height where they are noticeable to pollinators. |
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This is crushed and sized, and the resulting graphite powder is mostly used to raise the carbon content of molten steel. |
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In April 2011, she collaborated with Tommy Hilfiger to design a handbag to raise money and awareness for the Breast Health Institute. |
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Just before his 90th birthday, he wrote a new story for a charity book, Gentle Footprints, to raise funds for the Born Free Foundation. |
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He was responsible for the campaign to raise money to buy Brandlehow Wood, the National Trust's first purchase in the Lake District. |
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The event was staged in order to raise funds for Pendleside Hospice, Burnley. |
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He knew that if he waited until springtime on the far side of the mountains, the Romans would have time to raise another army. |
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Failure to raise much of the capital resulted in another Act being obtained in 1887, with similar aims and similar results. |
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They acquired the waterways in 1895, but failed to raise sufficient capital for the major improvements they had planned. |
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The centre, which is not government funded, holds events to raise money, one being an annual Dog Show held in the summer. |
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The Screrefennae did not raise crops, instead hunting and collecting bird eggs. |
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He and Bruce cooked up a script together, and Bruce flew home to raise the scratch. |
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My taxes did not increase because the amount of my raise was set off by my losses in the stock market. |
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These risks in addition to the more serious problems of sleepwalking and even sleepdriving raise serious concerns about these drugs. |
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It is by manuring the land, with the dung of their cattle, that the Negroes raise pretty good crops of sorgho. |
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Even to raise the possibility of such research would be to invite the testerics in Congress to shut off the UN's funding. |
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Recently, however, scientists have found that trans fatty acids produced by hydrogenation actually raise blood cholesterol levels. |
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The quickest way to raise serotonin levels again is to send more tryptophan into the brain, because serotonin is made from tryptophan. |
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Tussah moths are harder to raise than Bombyx moths, which have been selected for thousands of years for domestication. |
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A BIRMINGHAM-based children's heart charity is hosting an abseil event to help raise money for poorly kids. |
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Just as it was sometimes necessary to lower the road to take it beneath an underline bridge, so in this case it might be necessary to raise it. |
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The food provided was unnecessarily generous, especially for an event meant to raise money for the hungry. |
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The school system cannot raise teachers' salaries, so they are providing better benefits as an effort to up the ante. |
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Works to raise public awareness and advance research on behalf of all those affected by food allergies and anaphylaxis. |
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The efforts and dedication of the WHO to raise the awareness of viral hepatitis and address the issues is applaudable. |
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In high doses, they have been shown to raise the arrhythmogenic dose of epinephrine in halothane-anesthetized dogs. |
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Go Walkies aims to raise money through sponsorship, and the charity's Charli Collins is asking locals to get involved. |
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A war widow, she has to raise her late husband's baby son on her own and tell him who his father was and how he died fighting in Afghanistan. |
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They began to raise money for bellflower in late 2007, but nobody bit. |
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If, indeed, he was the dirty old man they allege, then why didn't they raise their campaigning Lib-Dem knees into his wedding tackle sharpish? |
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They took part in a sponsored weight-lift to raise money for Alder Hey hospital. |
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Children at Netherthong Primary School enjoyed an aerobics session to raise money for the charity. |
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According to press reports, the AFL-CIO is asking the Bush Administration to impose quotas or tariffs to raise the cost of Chinese-made goods. |
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I used to have an old chest freezer that I used to raise red wiggler worms. |
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Ahimsa Haven Animal Rescue Picnic To raise funds for and awareness of the shelter. |
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Wine grower and distributor Boutinot hopes to raise pounds 6 million by floating on the London Stock Exchange later on this year. |
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This blow-up lovely feels like a real bed thanks to an air chamber mattress and legs that raise it off the floor. |
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Stephanie Carter, 26, will be trekking across the Yukon territory to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society. |
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To show their support, they've created animal cracker pins to help raise funds for the new animal shelter being built in Oxford. |
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Vice-president, Li Zhenjiang, said, 'We have been listed for more than three years and have not tried to raise any capital. |
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