She replaced foreign minister Peter Carrington with Francis Pym and rounded up diplomatic support. |
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In 1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and became the first European to sail to India and later the Far East. |
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In contrast, a weathered ridge is one with a rounded crest and with sides sloping at less than 40 degrees. |
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Emma sat with her rounded knees collected up to her ample chest and held her bottle of Passion Pop in her outstretched hand. |
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A fuselage is a long, thin body, usually with tapered or rounded ends to make its shape aerodynamically smooth. |
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This term is specifically applied to shallow marine sediment, that contains noticeable quantities of rounded greenish grains. |
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Because lip rounding is easily visible, vowels may be commonly identified as rounded based on the articulation of the lips. |
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Acoustically, rounded vowels are identified chiefly by a decrease in F2, although F1 is also slightly decreased. |
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Thus, the placement of unrounded vowels to the left of rounded vowels on the IPA vowel chart is reflective of their position in formant space. |
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The platen must have rounded edges and corners to prevent the vacuum from tearing the bag. |
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Examples include seashells moved inland, or rounded pebbles placed away from the water action that made them. |
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Hinged terminations are the result of the force rolling away from the core, resulting in a rounded distal end. |
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Most Swiss German dialects have rounded front vowels, unlike other High German dialects. |
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Davis rounded Greenland before dividing his four ships into separate expeditions to search for a passage westward. |
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By 6 May 1522 the Victoria rounded the Cape of Good Hope, with only rice for rations. |
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It had a high rounded stern with large aftcastle, forecastle and bowsprit at the stem. |
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In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and in 1498, Vasco da Gama reached India. |
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Survivors were rounded up and forced to the docks where they were kept for the several days while further demonstrators were caught. |
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Ocellated turkeys were unsuitable for domestication, but were rounded up in the wild and penned for fattening. |
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Pigs, particularly those with rounded tusks, are considered a symbol of wealth throughout Vanuatu. |
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Eendracht then rounded Cape Horn, proving that Tierra del Fuego was not a continent. |
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On 29 January 1616 they rounded Cape Horn, which they named for the Hoorn, which was lost in a fire. |
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The mountains of the Polar Ural have exposed rock with sharp ridges, though flattened or rounded tops are also found. |
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Sometime in September he rounded the northeastern tip of Asia and entered the Pacific Ocean. |
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Nowhere did he claim to have discovered the eastern tip of Asia, merely that he had rounded a great rocky projection on his way to the Anadyr. |
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The flat or rounded bottom made them maneuverable when dodging ice floes, but probably unstable in a severe storm. |
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The pointed form 'v' was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form 'u' was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. |
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Robinson appears bland from Buttermere, smooth rounded slopes curving up from the valley floor. |
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The top is rounded and mainly of grass, but there are two low outcrops of rock with loose stones between. |
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It is rounded, grassy and fairly unassuming, occupying a large amount of land. |
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They may be of considerable size like the grey, rounded leucite crystals found on the sides of Vesuvius. |
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The frequent presence of rounded corroded quartz crystals, such as occur in rhyolitic lavas, helps to demonstrate their real nature. |
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Existing joints are subsequently exploited by the action of chemical weathering carbonation to form deep grykes and rounded blocks called clints. |
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Its toes are of equal length, its tarsi are reticulate, and its talons are rounded, rather than grooved. |
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Smaller stones may be used as chocks in areas where the natural stone shape is more rounded. |
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The rounded hill tops are millstone covered with shallow soil or peat above 400 metres. |
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Limestone pavements that develop beneath a mantle of topsoil usually exhibit more rounded forms. |
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The ground floor windows have rounded heads and those on the floors above are square. |
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Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger. |
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The cobby cat is a solidly built animal with short, thick legs, broad shoulders and rump, and a short, rounded head with a flattish face. |
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The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs. |
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They are comparatively large, without outgrowths, of a rounded shape, with a flattened ventral surface and cryptostomy or plagiostomy with a lip. |
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A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. |
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I designed clothes for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts. |
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The fells in this area are rounded Skiddaw slate, with few tarns and relatively few rock faces. |
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The surface of the holotype bears seven rounded annulations which slope very slightly orad from the venter. |
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Their style was characterised by rounded arches, particularly over windows and doorways, and massive proportions. |
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When we rounded the corner, Peter was in sight at the other end of the road. |
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The body shape of diving ducks varies somewhat from this in being more rounded. |
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The plot, known as the Dudley conspiracy, was betrayed, and the conspirators in England were rounded up. |
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The decoration found on the stems are perpendicular ribbings, ordinary rounded mouldings, and perpendicular lobings. |
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Estimates of the usually resident population of Scotland rounded to the nearest thousand, broken down by age and sex. |
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An estimate of the total population in each council area, rounded to nearest thousand. |
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He spent the next four hours in the back of the sweltering NYPD meat wagon as police rounded up other young men. |
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She rounded off that year's Wimbledon by winning the mixed doubles championship with Australia's Fred Stolle. |
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The design was later revised to reflect the more rounded lines of the brand's new styling cues. |
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These are more rounded and undulating, clad in moorland and rough, tussocky grassland. |
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The summits of Snowdon and Garnedd Ugain are surrounded by cwms, rounded valleys scooped out by glaciation. |
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The rock forms are generally quite rounded, thus often depending on cams for protection, but with good friction. |
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Civil rights activists in some cases have objected to people being rounded up, stripped and showered against their will. |
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Often one sees, on surface view, a distinctly rounded vacuole, occupying a position in the cell occupied in others by a large nematocyst. |
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The northwestern parts of the plateau consist of broad, rolling terrain broken by low, rounded hills. |
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The Cairngorms consist of a large elevated plateau adorned with low, rounded glacial mountains. |
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They are mainly composed of granite that has weathered into more rounded hills with many long scree slopes on their flanks. |
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Western capercaillies are not elegant fliers due to their body weight and short, rounded wings. |
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The European wildcat is striped, has long fur and a bushy tail with a rounded tip, and is larger than a domestic cat. |
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They have small rounded, highly sensitive ears and sharp teeth adapted for eating small mammals, birds, insects, frogs, and carrion. |
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Furthermore, the foramen magnum is rounded in the Eurasian beaver, but triangular in the North American beaver. |
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However, the brain case is quite rounded and distinct from that of the Neanderthals and is similar to the brain case of modern humans. |
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Most are circular in shape because the blocks of ice that formed them were rounded as they melted. |
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The Tariff Bill was rounded into shape for final passage by the House last week. It was not a pretty sight for soft-hearted political theorists. |
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The liver was enlarged, flabby, and nutmeggy. The edge of the right lobe was thick and rounded off. |
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Stem shape depends on the species, some are highly compressed with a visible seam, while others are rounded. |
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Calzaghe rounded off the year with victories over two experienced opponents in Warren Stowe and Pat Lawlor. |
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Other Celtic words for violin also have meanings referring to rounded appearances. |
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Sand that is transported long distances by water or wind will be rounded, with characteristic abrasion patterns on the grain surface. |
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The plates are covered in rounded tubercles, to which the spines are attached. |
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The two valves are roughly triangular or bluntly oblong with rounded umbones near the anterior end. |
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These are initially elongated, but quickly develop into a more rounded form. |
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Killer whale pectoral fins, analogous to forelimbs, are large and rounded, resembling paddles. |
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This formation stretches from Bideford to Bude in Cornwall, and contributes to a gentler, greener, more rounded landscape. |
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Just before 4pm the battered Formidable surrendered to the Resolution, just as Hawke himself rounded The Cardinals. |
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Short radio waves reflect from curves and corners in a way similar to glint from a rounded piece of glass. |
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Clothing au ballon was produced with exaggerated puffed sleeves and rounded skirts, or with printed images of balloons. |
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Conglomerates are dominantly composed of rounded gravel, while breccias are composed of dominantly angular gravel. |
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They have corpulent bodies with a rounded snout, webbed feet and long hind legs adapted for swimming in water and hopping on land. |
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Both sexes have orange bellies, although paler in females, which is covered in rounded black spots. |
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The scales of the staminate aments when mature are broadly ovate, rounded, yellow or orange color below the middle, dark chestnut brown at apex. |
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Another spruce with smoothly rounded cone scales and hairy shoots occurs rarely in the Central Alps in eastern Switzerland. |
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The firelight flickered on her rounded cheeks, ambering the pale skin. |
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The most notable was the 1596 expedition led by Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz, who discovered Spitsbergen and Bear Island, and rounded the north end of Novaya Zemlya. |
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The lovable dope admitted stealing glimpses of her as she rounded the table shooting. He went on to compliment that her hair was lustrous. The cherriest lips he had ever seen. |
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The ears are short, rounded and lie almost flattened against the skull. |
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The conspirators were rounded up by the police and arrested. |
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These victories rounded out the borders to the Dutch Republic, solidifying the revolt and allowing a national state to develop behind secure borders. |
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While the accents in northeastern New England, such as the Boston accent, also remain unmerged, lot remains rounded, and merges instead with cloth and thought. |
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Small and rounded spots cover the entirety of the species' upper body. |
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The articular facet for the ectomesocuneiform is oval and slightly convex, and the facet for the entocuneiform is much smaller, rounded to elliptical and concave. |
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Spain were provoked into a response and Villa almost provided a swift equaliser when he rounded Hart but found the angle too acute and could only hit the side-netting. |
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The ears are short and very rounded, and both sexes lack antlers. |
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From north east of England, the cliffs become lower and are composed of less resistant moraine, which erodes more easily, so that the coasts have more rounded contours. |
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They have feathered feet and nostrils and short, rounded wings. |
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Most notable in the Middle Dutch vowel system, when compared to Old Dutch, is the appearance of phonemic rounded front vowels, and the merger of all unstressed short vowels. |
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They were certainly the more rounded team and it was unusual, to say the least, to see Chelsea with home advantage being pinned back into their own half. |
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These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other edible clams, which are often more or less rounded or oval. |
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It is a compact bird with a full chest and a large, rounded head. |
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Beneath Red Screes is the lower, rounded, grassy hill of Threlkeld Knotts. |
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After the firing ceased the survivors were rounded up and the men shot. |
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Other units of measure were rounded in a similar manner prior to the definitive introduction of the metric system across parts of Europe in the middle of the 19th century. |
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The ponies are rounded up once a year to be marked and checked over. |
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Skiddaw's slopes are generally rounded and convex, looking from a distance as though a thick velvet blanket has been draped over a supporting frame. |
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They can form prominent rounded protuberances, such as at Valles Caldera. |
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It was described as a tall, rounded mountain arising from the ocean. |
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On hatching, each larva is surrounded by an integumentary envelope and has a large, rounded head, fully formed fins, and eyes with double notches. |
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A boxer must be well rounded to be effective using this style. |
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The tail, coloured like the back but with thin clean bars, is long, narrow, and rounded at the end with a black tip and a white band at the very end. |
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The year was rounded out by the news of Wolfe's victory at Quebec. |
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Figures used in this chart are based on the most up to date estimate or projections by the national census authority where available, and are usually rounded off. |
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Numbers above 95 million are rounded off to the nearest 5 million. |
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The rounded moorland hills of the West Pennine Moors are generally lower in height than the higher moorland plateaux of the main Pennine range to the east. |
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In the Almanac, his estimates for numbers of language speakers were rounded to the nearest million, thus the number for Esperanto speakers is shown as two million. |
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After taking on supplies of wood and water Ulloa rounded the tip of the peninsula with great difficulty and sailed northward along the western shore in the Pacific Ocean. |
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Its large, rounded, radial folds are often extremely rough and sharp. |
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Vowels can be grouped as back rounded, front unrounded and front rounded. |
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The rounded sections gave maximum displacement for the lowest wetted surface area, similar to a modern narrow rowing skiff, so were very fast but had little carrying capacity. |
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On 28 June they rounded the northern point of Prins Karls Forland, which they named Vogelhoek, on account of the large number of birds they saw there. |
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