Funny and cleverly written, this light-hearted and engaging story parodies the spy genre without sacrificing the reader's involvement. |
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Worst of all, when you try to make a light chowder, you end up sacrificing flavor and heartiness, and the soup becomes watery and bland. |
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They manufacture the best wood molding in the world without sacrificing affordability. |
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The allegro finale burns down the barn, without sacrificing musicality or a sharply-defined independence of voices. |
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By sacrificing simplicity and clarity they can avoid responsibility and accountability. |
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In order to cover up their own anti-democratic practices, they are sacrificing fundamental political rights. |
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Individuals will respond by sacrificing personal liberties for increased security, and by resolving that normal life must go on. |
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After sacrificing the animals, the liver and kidney were removed and cut into slices respectively. |
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To improve drainage without sacrificing nutrients, add sharp sand or perlite to a good sterilized compost-based mix. |
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Guests at Prestonfield can enjoy rural tranquillity, strutting peacocks and lowing Highland cattle without sacrificing access to the Royal Mile. |
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He learned from his father, Sandy, a player who made a career out of doing little things like sacrificing runners and stealing bases. |
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Imagine sacrificing your son for someone else's sake, and not getting any credit, any appreciation for it, even being scorned and mocked for it. |
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The thematic organization of the chapters is a powerful approach, but it means sacrificing any sense of chronological development. |
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Here, as in Harper's later volumes, musical rhythm replaces traditional metrics in the poetry without sacrificing craft. |
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This same concept is repeated later when the Torah explains the procedure of sacrificing doves or pigeons. |
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After the ceremony of sacrificing, sports activity such as toxophily, horse race, and wrestling will be held. |
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The Israelites followed this pattern by presenting sin offerings to cover their sins by sacrificing an animal life for their disobedience to God. |
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Indeed that's right, or putting it differently, not sacrificing the interests of the mortgagor, or the borrower, that's right, yes indeed. |
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I rather thought sacrificing virgins to their gods had gone out with the clothes boiler, but sometimes I wasn't too sure. |
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He is a conductor of bold gestures, not averse to sacrificing spontaneity for micromanagement of detail. |
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Players who are not prepared to wager that their cards are best can drop out of the betting, sacrificing any money staked up to that point. |
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Just as no player can capture the other side's king without sacrificing some important pieces, she is willing to give things up for chess glory. |
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In other contexts sacrificing oneself for one's family would be considered good. |
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This gave engineers the option of either creating a stiffer frame without adding heft or shedding weight without sacrificing strength. |
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The beauty of stretch is that you can wear your jeans a lot tighter without sacrificing comfort. |
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As a way of striking the difficult balance between liberty and security, sacrificing foreign citizens' liberties is undoubtedly tempting. |
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If Carlyle eventually succeeded in avoiding these consequences, it was only by sacrificing most of what was best in the work of his youth. |
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Distraught and depressed, the old veteran accomplishes this by sacrificing himself to an assassin he hires. |
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The Church has to set an example to the public by healing such an internal conflict without sacrificing lives. |
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As he takes out his dagger to do God's will by sacrificing his son as a peace offering to God, just then out comes a lamb. |
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There is also a strong message that vengeance is ignoble, and sacrificing oneself for any higher cause is honorable. |
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He eventually grows a conscience, to the point of sacrificing his fortune for every last human life he can save. |
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Through a complex system of lenses and mirrors the camera maintained compactness without sacrificing print size. |
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He was accused of sacrificing all, including justice, to his insatiable ambition. |
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Here, structural efficiency has produced clear volumes and expanses of delicate filigreed shell without sacrificing functional efficiency. |
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As with the sash fillister, Francis was attempting to provide the trade with a tool that was easier to use without sacrificing accuracy. |
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The motor is also instrumental in producing a rapid response rate in the hand without sacrificing pinch force. |
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But if it tries not to interfere in the affairs of another country it is seen as sacrificing a life. |
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His own appeal, he hopes, will lie in his ability to present a young, contemporary package, while sacrificing none of his classical roots. |
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Then, if you manage to take his weapon, it usually means sacrificing your one flail as well. |
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For instance, God did not tell Abraham to flay Isaac's skin and beat him mercilessly before sacrificing him. |
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But the cure for double standards is not to compound them by sacrificing yet another innocent to ideological correctness. |
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It has since clawed back market share, but only at the cost of sacrificing a good chunk of profit margin. |
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Such a channel bonanza, however, may come at the cost of sacrificing channel capacity. |
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But in their own way they give him the best they can even at the cost of sacrificing things for themselves. |
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I was able to improve the look of the game quite a bit without sacrificing the frame rate. |
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The hefty construction and fuzzy texture of felt lets you create structured shapes without sacrificing softness. |
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Additionally, with this new focus on sacrificing sustainable living for financial gain, natural resources were in greater demand than ever. |
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Well, no, it's just I need to prize myself from the Internet over the examination period and that means sacrificing blog updates. |
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Can we avoid this world of designer babies without sacrificing necessary medical progress? |
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Now the technology is there to boost fuel economy without sacrificing size or performance. |
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Mott's family started selecting sires for lower birth weights years ago, sacrificing some growth but reducing dystocia. |
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Equally suited for jazz or blues, her voice has fullness without sacrificing litheness. |
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We should ensure that the government does that work, rather than taking the easy way out and sacrificing justice to expediency. |
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Liszt developed a physical virtuosity for the instrument and transcribed for it, sacrificing musical subtlety to an astonishing mechanical technique. |
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It refined his gonzo style without sacrificing his remarkable eye for composition, resulting in a classical narrative as well told as any has been for years. |
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The French might be retreating to economic fantasy land, deluding themselves they could enjoy a 35-hour week without sacrificing living standards. |
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Black is sacrificing a piece, it is true, but all the rest of his pieces become active while white's king is still sitting in the center of the board. |
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After the February Revolution the Church saw an opportunity to break away from state control without sacrificing the privileges which cooperation with the state had obtained. |
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The paper gives guidance based on practical experience for strengthening the approach methodologically without sacrificing its fundamental characteristics. |
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In fact, even today, decades away from childhood, I can think of quite a few people whom I wouldn't mind sacrificing at the altar of wizardry and magic. |
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Fierce competition often provokes a rush to judgement, a sense of perpetual crisis and a frantic chase for stories, sacrificing the process of reflective maturation. |
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In the course of the struggle of our forefathers to achieve nationhood for us, they gave testimony to their national loyalty by sacrificing their lives for us. |
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One of the earliest and most helpful comments I received criticized me, basically, of sacrificing the truth at the altar of revisionist multicultural relevance. |
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His final act of selflessness was to dive on top of his wife, sacrificing his life for hers. |
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She decided to break her silence because she thought it was the only way the council would listen to her concerns even though it meant sacrificing her job. |
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This is done in emulation of Abraham's willingness to express his faith by sacrificing his son, who was then miraculously replaced on the altar by a ram. |
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And governments and voters need to be skeptical about sacrificing long established rights and traditional freedoms on the altar of the scientific dogma du jour. |
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Another example would be the case of a soldier who shields his fellow officers from a live hand grenade by sacrificing his own body to the explosion. |
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Vattenfall states that they bid unaggressively against strong competition without sacrificing margins. |
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Ultimately, however, Cromwell's failure to support his men, sacrificing them to his opponents, caused their demise. |
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In Hinduism, Kama is considered an essential and healthy goal of human life when pursued without sacrificing Dharma, Artha and Moksha. |
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There might be times when the general happiness can only be promoted by sacrificing the happiness of certain individuals. |
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He came to realise that when it came to sacrificing human lives, one was to think and act with extreme prudence. |
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So recently, when a ginger muffin craving hit, I decided to see if I could increase the textural contrast without sacrificing the cakiness. |
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Because they are of extreme value as the repository of knowledge, there are cultural taboos against sacrificing elders. |
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Despite sacrificing around 10,000 of his men, Alaric received little recognition from the Emperor. |
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Standardized boring allowed cannon to be shorter without sacrificing accuracy and range because of the tighter fit of the shells. |
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They have struggled to bring in enough prey for their young sacrificing the smallest owlet gave the others a muchneeded meal. |
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Pooch Hotel Santa Monica has taken steps towards achieving a smaller carbon pawprint without sacrificing service, safety and satisfaction. |
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Pooch Hotel San Diego has taken steps towards achieving a smaller carbon pawprint without sacrificing service, safety and satisfaction. |
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Yes, Michael, I am putting that in print and am sacrificing plausible deniability. |
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Formulated for high loadings without sacrificing physical properties and tensile of polyesters, vinyl esters, epoxies, and thermoplastics. |
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Traditional long-sleeve, button-down styles have improved comfort without sacrificing a neat dress shirt look. |
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Action set pieces, apart from the glorious opening salvo, lack power, sacrificing slam-bang thrills for ponderous exposition. |
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The new line, distributed under the EVGA label, contains zero percent sugar and no fat, while not sacrificing flavor. |
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Heidegger's Experiment more accessible to young adults without sacrificing the original vibrance of the story. |
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The Institute adds that seatback width can be reduced considerably to improve visibility without sacrificing support strength and antiwhiplash protection. |
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As a result, interceptors were designed with a large missile payload and a powerful radar, sacrificing agility in favor of high speed, altitude ceiling and rate of climb. |
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Gilmour's ability to use fewer notes than most to express himself without sacrificing strength or beauty drew a favourable comparison to jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. |
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But chef Dipna Anand is determined to prove there are healthy ways to enjoy all your favourites, from tandoori dishes to Bombay potatoes, without sacrificing flavour. |
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The omission of an aqueous recrystallization step leads to near-quantitative yields of the hydrolytically unstable chlorokojic acid without sacrificing purity. |
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A new digital machine-vision camera is said to bring high-resolution image acquisition to high-speed, moving applications without sacrificing image quality or performance. |
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Innovations such as this, fabricated with cotton, offer protection and comfort without sacrificing absorbency and other, important performance characteristics. |
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This no-compromise speed demon allows drivers to get the power they want with the efficiency they need, all without sacrificing any bit of style or handling. |
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He destroys the cauldron from within, sacrificing himself in the process. |
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Field tests are said to have shown a significant increase in the number of heats before touchup, while not sacrificing tool cleanliness, according to the company. |
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Seeing that the Irish are using the cauldron to revive their dead, Efnisien hides among the corpses and destroys the cauldron, sacrificing himself in the process. |
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Male athletes in smaller, nonrevenue sports like wrestling and gymnastics have criticized universities for sacrificing their teams in an effort to achieve gender equity. |
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The media is sacrificing truth to the appearance of evenhandedness. |
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Russell Martin led off with a single and pitcher Greg Maddux, instead of sacrificing, hit a grounder to short and was safe at first when Jose Reyes bounced the throw. |
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This will help KEA realize significant savings in its operating costs by maximizing the wind energy generated at Pillar Mountain without sacrificing grid stability. |
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The laws have been resisted and challenged by Democrats who argue that they exaggerate the dangers and incidence of voter fraud while impermissibly sacrificing voter access. |
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Plaxo adopted Schooner technologies, SchoonerSQL and Schooner Membrain, to dramatically increase performance and consolidate servers without sacrificing availability. |
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Because it focuses on higher margin parts, Eck Industries is able to provide a full service shop to its customers, even if that means sacrificing some efficiency. |
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The bunk bed furniture superstore decided to add a new line of bunk beds to better accommodate families looking to save time and money without sacrificing choice and style. |
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