| Nothing, of course, came of this, as his proposals foundered on the rock-like conservatism of his profession. |
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| Crack is a combination of cocaine hydrochloride, baking soda, and other adulterants which gives rise to a rock-like substance. |
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| He looked through the glass to see a large rock-like wall in front of them. |
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| Deeper into the barren city the polished buildings turn to dirty, smudged, rock-like towers, looking as if they were carved roughly out of stone. |
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| He thought that Alex and Dave Smith were unconvincing tacklers, whereas Coutts in his own central defence was rock-like. |
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| They discover a large, rock-like creature that burrows easily through the stone walls, as a mole might burrow through dirt. |
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| What is remarkable is that the bottle is firmly embedded in a solid rock-like mass. |
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| The grass was exactly level with the white rock-like borders around the edges, that were maybe twenty feet wide. |
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| Thus, you will be confined to somewhat small areas on which you can construct your base, generally represented by a hard red rock-like surface. |
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| The core mantle boundary is a complex and dynamic area that churns and chugs as the liquid iron core roils at the bottom of the rock-like mantle. |
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| Even a rock-like drop in the dollar during the last two quarters of 2003 has brought no relief from chronically high US trade and current account deficits. |
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| This seems to have its source in the rock-like stoicism projected by Cooper onto his native characters who are always ready for the worst that is coming to them. |
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| Rock wool loose-fill insulation is similar to fiberglass except that it is spun from blast furnace slag and other rock-like materials instead of molten glass. |
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| Never before had a protein been found to serve as a catalyst to promote chemical reactions to form the glass or a rock-like material of a biomineral. |
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| By etching into the rock-like data layer, a permanent physical data record is created that is immune to data rot caused by light, heat, humidity and more. |
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