In paying homage to his political spoilsman and teacher, he had only narrowly been spared a potentially disastrous appointment. |
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Already, it has spared hundreds of dogs and their owners from bad encounters with rattlers. |
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Almost miraculously, these structures were spared the ravages of the 1906 earthquake. |
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For this Olympics, Taiwan spared neither money nor effort to win international recognition. |
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Graciously the Lord spared him for a further five years, during which he sought to witness to his family and show them the way of salvation. |
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No detail is spared and the squeamish can count on skipping huge wodges of forensic jargon, which is no bad thing. |
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No expense had been spared in the ballroom itself, where the tables had been laid for a lavish banquet. |
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Sara's husband and young daughter were killed in a car crash, which spared her. |
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Luckily enough, most of Scotland was spared shameful scenes of bacchanalian excess. |
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The president was spared removal from office but another crisis quickly surfaced, this one in Kosovo. |
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Lichtenstein's 30-foot-high, stainless-steel statue was spared, as was a bronze sphere by Fritz Koenig, both sustaining reparable damage. |
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The crew were always spared the task so they could save energy for the impending rescue. |
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Omar stated that the human rights abuses are going across the length and breadth of the state and even the womenfolk are not being spared. |
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When the Supreme Court reversed Newdow on narrow technical grounds, Kennedy was spared from facing the consequences of his own jurisprudence. |
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The merchant prince, rich off trade during the wars, had spared no expense when building his grand manse. |
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She walked over and leaned on the apron of the ring and watched as the men spared. |
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I was thus spared from being locked in a pigeon loft with a plate of mushy peas for the rest of the night. |
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Fortunately, I don't have time to take her up on her offer, so Amherst audiences were mercifully spared. |
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Hate is manifested in a whole range of insults in football and nobody is spared in an arena where the lowest common denominator rules the roost. |
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Worshippers hurried into the temple, praying to the gods to let them be spared. |
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Mr Hay said the hackers had spared no thought for his clients trying to trace old friends and colleagues. |
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We will be spared the horrors of greedy, selfish and self-serving individuals who trample over people so that they can get a million dollars. |
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The tank where that was effectively done ended up with twice the weight of fish compared to the one where the tiddlers were spared. |
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With no expense spared, the 10,000 white flowers, 45 chefs and beaucoup caviar were merely icing on the extravagant cake. |
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Although foot and mouth has mercifully spared Helmsley's farmers so far, they are worried about the potential for infection, he said. |
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There are gorgeous scenery locations and magnificent sets and a real sense of opulence to the production, as if no expense was spared. |
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This is a unique cut-stone mews where no expense has been spared on the high-tech features and striking interior decor. |
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But even this hawkishness hasn't spared him from set-tos with conservatives. |
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The biting bugs spared him an attack along their traditional battle lines beyond the waistband but left their marks instead on both forearms. |
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Thanks to the editor, you're spared from my weekly misspellings and grammatical errors. |
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But if he were truly sorry, he would have admitted his crime and spared Caroline's family the anguish of a drawn-out trial. |
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Barracks, garrisons, bivouacs and encampments thus far spared came under a blitz of laser-guided bombs first used in the Gulf War. |
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Not all voluntary muscles are equally sensitive to tubocurarine, and fortunately the respiratory muscles are the most spared. |
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But those states were spared when record-breaking monsoons brought heavy summer rains instead of the fierce fires officials had expected. |
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She is at least spared stereotypical depiction as drunken and raucous in her filthy skillion. |
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Jeter was spared an error for his bobble of a grounder by Michael Young, but not for the wild throw that followed. |
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But Irish motorists have been spared the worst effects of oil prices' skyward journey. |
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It has spared me of the kind of emotional and financial responsibilities that make one get bogged down with family life. |
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I'm being spared the chore of unpacking my suitcase this morning, as it's still in transit. |
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Maxine Carr was spared jail today after admitting she lied to get jobs and claim social security benefits. |
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Vauban never spared himself during the process, and was always on hand, muttering away in a Burgundian dialect littered with forceful neologisms. |
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So she spared only a glance in Martin's direction when he came breezing through the door. |
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Think of what the country could have been spared had that substitution not taken place. |
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The options menu spared me the torment of the looped piano soporific that they have passed off as background music. |
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Had he been in a good mood, he might have spared me some suffering, but I'm sure he was still sore at me for yesterday morning. |
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I can't thank enough my friends who spared the time to see me, or even offered me a night's bed. |
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And actually, I was honored that he spared some of his very valuable time to meet with me today. |
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The glance he spared her was only momentary before he refocused steadily forward. |
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His voice dripped with ironic sarcasm, as he spared a moment to glance at her. |
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Arlene spared some of her attention momentarily, to level a glance at her daughter. |
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And I have to say that my opinion is with the rest of my family that the fact that her life was spared was enough. |
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So how do we find, in this first written record, the prudence that spared until a later date so many lives? |
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The damage to his body from previous injuries had at least spared his voice. |
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Some people took the precaution of seeing their doctor in time and thereby spared themselves untold affliction. |
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We are spared most of the violence of the situation, and really only see its conclusion. |
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The city's historic center, which had been largely spared massive bombing raids until then, was almost completely destroyed during this attack. |
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Edward is a traitor, and it would be best if the future king was spared from any unfortunate incident that may occur. |
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I had hoped that we would be spared what happened here tonight until you all had been hardened by more experience. |
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The Committee recognise that by admitting all the heads of charge, you have spared Mrs. A the further distress of appearing before the Committee. |
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We would have spared ourselves both the agonising process and vicious product of our elaborate schemes. |
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At least this time the Patriots spared themselves that sort of crunch by building up an adequate lead that their defense protected. |
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Perhaps he spares some of his friends and colleagues in the editing, but he has not spared himself. |
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Apart from personnel relocation, Huang also spared no effort to improve the work environment for the design team. |
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Early last July, Economy Minister Nikolai Vassilev said the Government had spared no effort to help the owners immediately resume operation. |
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Private organizations promoting judicial reform also spared no effort to help. |
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It was all arranged by her husband Mattie who spared no expense for the lavish night. |
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Korda apparently spared no expense to achieve the scope and look he had in mind. |
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Encouraged to publish her findings, she spared no expense in preparing the original paintings for a volume on Surinam. |
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Owners of the Tokyo Prince Hotel Park Tower spared no expense in building the 33-story, 673-room luxury property in downtown Tokyo. |
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Conor was celebrating his wedding anniversary and told his wife, Mary he would treat her to lavish meal with no expense spared. |
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Mr. Harris had not spared any expense, especially now with his wife acting so strangely. |
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Given that much of the organisation is off at conferences this week I am spared speech-making at a farewell afternoon tea. |
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A pregnant mother was spared a prison sentence after she was bullied into drug offences by her estranged partner. |
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A vigilance committee hanged the three men accused of being the ringleaders, while the lives of the rest were spared. |
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As it was I was spared splatting straight into the ground by the fortuitous placement of a barbed wire fence. |
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His life was spared because his daughter Hypsipyle set him adrift in an oarless boat. |
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Could some expense be spared had the council taken account of what local concerns and objections are? |
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No expense is spared in an elaborate opening cancan number that makes an anachronistic use of today's popular music. |
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Like victims of the Stockholm syndrome, culturalists believe that if they love their captors their lives will be spared. |
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Briefly she spared a thought for the other customers around them, and was grateful they were speaking in Hebrew instead of English. |
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The rugby league world has been spared the sight of him streaking naked around a pitch for at least another year. |
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The judge gave him credit for pleading guilty which spared the girl the ordeal of attending court. |
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Most of the men who could be spared at once volunteered for service in the campaign against the Cayuses. |
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A Victorian ladies' fainting settee broke my fall from grace and spared me from death, but not from leaving me with two herniated cervical discs. |
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If only they'd all just hightailed to summery Alaska, or even their neighbourhood 24-hour 7-11, they might have been spared. |
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My home is beautiful and I have lovely children who have been spared such suffering. |
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The committee had spared no effort in trying to make the village look its best and the entertainment and other functions went with a swing. |
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I did think Marcie and Greg were going to get together in the closing scenes but thankfully we were spared the sunset Hollywood ending. |
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He could have spared a world of superannuated history, science, or politics, to have reversed better in waltzing. |
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From that point on, homophile magazines were spared censorship by postal or other authorities. |
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Muscle is probably spared the harmful effects of substances injected into it because of its abundant blood supply. |
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A shepherd or two could be spared, but the suffering of kings demands surcease. |
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The streets are spared from heavy through traffic by the squares, which provide monuments on axis that require slow-speed circumnavigation. |
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No region of the world has been spared it and very few people have clean hands. |
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Not even works of Methodism's co-founder and greatest hymnodist, Charles Wesley, were spared. |
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In patients with hyperpigmentation, the middle of the back is spared, resulting in a classic butterfly-shaped dermatitis. |
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As such, people from warmer climates will be spared the torture of subzero temperatures. |
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Most people believe that children should be spared from coercive power dynamics. |
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The lares, penates and relics of our sacred ancestors have been spared the impious axe of Jacobin tyranny. |
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China's diplomatic machine has spared no effort, making sure that African leaders do not view its interest as a passing fancy. |
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No expense is spared on costumes, which are lavish and made in-house, often to designs commissioned from artists and stars of the fashion world. |
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He also spared few people his assurances that just about no one was as powerful as he was. |
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The pain subsided more than usual and I was spared the pin cushion process of endless morphine injections. |
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I was persuaded that I had been spared an insolvable difficulty by declining to accept his gracious but unilateral appointment. |
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This is a great pity because if he had, we might have been spared the regrettable sight that assailed us earlier in the week. |
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That way you will be spared the house and still be able to introduce your folks to your intended. |
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The guidebook describes Logan as a plantsman's paradise, but no effort is spared in making less knowledgeable visitors feel at home. |
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The construction millionaire, however, will be spared partly because no other board member is currently ready to replace him in the firing line. |
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I would prefer them to have controlled themselves and spared us all the drama. |
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We were spared that dubious solemn expression he invariably adopts for such occasions. |
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On a different plane, Gramsci himself had not been spared the influence of some irrationalist trends. |
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We are at least spared the sight of these noise producers cavorting about the stage in a sort of corybantic frenzy. |
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Protracted proceedings in a forum that is both remote from and unfamiliar to the claimant can be spared. |
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Dashwood spared no expense in turning his new property into a garden of earthly delights. |
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He had said his clients should be spared the death penalty because they are mentally ill. |
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It is as if each pestilence required its own accountant who is spared in order to put down the death roll of the community. |
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This road is not spared even on holidays or weekends as it is the gateway to weekend getaways in that part of the city. |
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Just before I rounded the corner I spared the house one last glance in my rear view mirror. |
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When there is a lot of carbohydrate in the diet, protein and fat are spared. |
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No expense was spared and the kitchens cranked up to produce an amazing 1,150 meals in just under three days, all on a grand scale. |
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Jurors were spared much of the gory detail in the case, but the horrific nature of the crime and the grisly aftermath was hard to avoid. |
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The mandibular branch was very close to the tumor, but with gentle dissection was able to be spared. |
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By doctoring themselves, women would be spared the need to reveal embarrassing details to a doctor. |
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A motorist caught drink-driving twice in the same day has been spared prison. |
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For the resurrection of this Isis, the Simphonie du Marais spared no effort, bringing together some excellent players and the flower of French Baroque singing. |
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A Mongol army from Central Asia laid siege to Baghdad in 1401, calling on the Caliph to surrender and promising that if he did so, the city would be spared. |
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Even though God has spared me, I cannot be happy about what happened. |
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Many lives in Pacific states have been spared from earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and hurricanes in the last 50 years or so thanks to the system. |
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I'm just glad we will be spared the sight of this offensive spectacle. |
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No expense was ever spared in the celebration of a millennial reign. |
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Until now, criminals had abided by the common rule that children should be spared. |
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And when we have been spared such tragedy, it has happened precisely because presidents have stood up to the bully caucus. |
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A cherished soap opera star and her British ex-husband were slain in a carjacking that spared their five-year-old daughter. |
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Days ago, Yingluck told the nation the central city would be spared serious flooding. |
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Though austerity is the watchword for vital services needed by the city's working people, when it comes to profit interests, no expense is spared. |
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It is very comforting to know that our service is so well thought of and that future generations are being spared the real problems our refuse would generate. |
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No creature was spared, from the largest sauropod to the smallest raptor. |
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So Jim spared his blushes and asked him for a wee note on the subject. |
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I prayed that they might be spared the ravages of Ebola epidemics. |
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They were nude, but certain props and a sunflower spared their blushes. |
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I believe that, being quite perspicacious and witnessing his friends and coworkers being arrested, he understood clearly that he would not be spared for long. |
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Davy himself has said he was not spared land seizure and has given up 140,000 acres to the government. |
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They spared him a little before he went from hence and was seen no more. |
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Importantly, hirers of house keeping services are spared from the risk of appointing housemaids or servants, whose trustworthiness is a moot point now-a-days. |
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We are spared, thankfully, the standard liberal talisman of his saunter across the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. |
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He could have spared himself a major embarrassment by simply not going to Bogor, south of Jakarta, where the meeting was scheduled to have taken place. |
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By waiving his right to a hearing on Tuesday, the ex-coach spared his alleged victims the pain of testifying. |
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Other camels were spared a finishing bullet by compassionate handlers who unharnessed them into a harsh wilderness, feeling that Allah would provide. |
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Let's hope his public can be spared the sad, all too familiar sight of a once great former champion slogging his way round the circuit trying to recapture past glories. |
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At least they will be spared the callously quick handover of British prime ministers, with the humiliating exchange of removal vans on the day after the election. |
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I would have been spared that habit if we'd had dissolvable chewing gum. |
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Not having had children means I've spared the world another person and that's as environmentally friendly as it gets. |
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New Zealand has been spared, and now radiation has diminished enough to allow this shipload of scientists of all kinds to explore the remains of civilization. |
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My mother and father both subscribed to the idea that children, no matter how young they were, should not be spared from the reality of the situation. |
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Witnesses will be spared the anguish of having to see the suspect in the flesh, even through a one-way screen, in traditional line-ups at police stations. |
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Though the police spared him from physical assault on realising that they had arrested the wrong person, it took him nearly one month to secure his release. |
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The others, spared this fate, returned from their prisons and camps in the spring of 1956 as part of the de-Stalinization campaign that began under Khrushchev. |
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Because, well, I hate to say it, but if it really were all the same to him, he'd have accepted your gracious invite on the spot and spared himself the bother. |
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If Bush-Portman is the Republican nightmare ticket for Democrats, however, they may be spared. |
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Victoria and I were spared that, at least, but we were down to T-shirts and thin blouses. |
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I am also impressed by the response and hard work of Mayo Co Council, particularly the outdoor staff who have not spared themselves at this critical time. |
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Newspapers and radio call-in shows were awash with the rage of people who spared little thought for the judge's legal and scientific hair-splitting. |
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Larson does not explain that the Vice-Chancellor was spared in order to inculcate uncertainty. |
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He's got me twice now and a young woman who passed me on Sunday afternoon told me that only a fortuitously placed handbag had spared her an embarrassing and painful nip. |
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The island was directly in the path of the hurricane which devastated neighbouring Grenada, but was spared at the last minute when it suddenly veered off course. |
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Africa may have escaped the initial shock of the global financial crisis, but it is not being spared from its knock-on effects. |
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Given the radiantly musical performances for singers and instrumentalists alike, surely we could have been spared some of the unnecessary busyness. |
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She was a woman who spared no effort to further the cause she believed in. |
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No expense has been spared on the beautifully designed interior. |
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The object of incessant carping from the Workington ironmasters, it was not spared the grumbling of the shipping companies that carried ore into the Senhouse Dock. |
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From his isolated vantage point in chemical engineering, he seems to have been spared discussions on his campus that the new general education curriculum initially provoked. |
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Though the people were spared a life of slavery, many of them ultimately came to the Americas as indentured servants, bound by contract to a specific term of unfree labor. |
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He spared enough time for a smile at Em before returning to his homework. |
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In any case, with Beeching reluctant to play the game and with Marples determined to be tough, it was difficult to predict which lines would be spared in advance. |
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When they could be spared from household duties the two girls went berrying with their brothers and Philip, or to the hayfield to lend a welcome hand. |
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Over the last mile of rail trackbed there's a pond with alders, a wren squeaked in the scrub and then we walked a low embankment that has commendably been spared the plough. |
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What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves, and triflers of both sexes, might be advantageously spared! |
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A magistrate in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, spared a prosecutor's vocal chords last week by excusing him from reading out a local drunk's previous convictions. |
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The King had to reinstate the Whigs, but he was at least spared the humiliation of creating new peers, as the Duke withdrew his opposition to the Reform Bill. |
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His longtime friend and climbing partner, Chuck Maffei was spared from being pulled into the slide when their rope severed on a rockband. |
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The following season they finished in a relegation position but were spared the drop due to Banstead Athletic's resignation from the league. |
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Lucius and his army were spared, due to his kinship with Antony, the strongman of the East, while Fulvia was exiled to Sicyon. |
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But even these exceptional instances show that Rome was not entirely spared the horrors which usually accompany the storming of a besieged city. |
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During the Thirty Years' War, religious disagreements among the cantons kept the confederacy neutral and spared it from belligerents. |
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He was spared by Magellan and after five months of hard labour in chains was made captain of the galleon. |
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He also had two Macedonian princes from the region of Lyncestis killed, but spared a third, Alexander Lyncestes. |
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Alexander spared Arrhidaeus, who was by all accounts mentally disabled, possibly as a result of poisoning by Olympias. |
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He then headed south to Shiraz, a large, flourishing city spared the destruction wrought by Mongol invaders on many more northerly towns. |
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From 1940 in World War II the city again was occupied by the Germans and again spared destruction. |
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The Indians, however, spared the life of his son, who was the first Paraguayan mestizo. |
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Tidore was largely spared from the sectarian conflict of 1999 across the Maluku Islands. |
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His wife, Catherine the Great, was spared but fear of the virus clearly had its effects on her. |
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Those that were spared were shown mercy only because they agreed to pay a fine of 250,000 guilders, a sizable sum even by today's standards. |
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Barbados is often spared the worst effects of the region's tropical storms and hurricanes during the rainy season. |
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The lives of many settlers were spared from the initial warrior attacks through the warnings of Dragging Canoe's cousin, Nancy Ward. |
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The women were all spared but their screams on seeing their husbands and sons butchered, were most painful. |
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Typically, little distinction was made between enemy combatants and enemy civilians, although women and children were more likely to be spared. |
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The uncrewed platform was spared serious damage from the impact, although some equipment on deck will need to be replaced, according to Musk. |
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Had Corporal Jones produced his orders early on, we all might have been spared a lamentable squanderation of much-needed time. |
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MacLeod from Dunvegan, his tacksmen big with vengeance, caught up with the raiders by Ardmore Bay, and none of the MacDonalds was spared. |
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Gateway has plenty of company in having to deal with frustrated, sometimes irate, customers.... The natives are restless. Few vendors are spared. |
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When the Abbasids regained power in AD 905, Ibn Tulun's city was razed, but the great mosque at its centre was spared. |
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We might have spared ourselves the trouble, and our forty oxen remained unslaughtered. |
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Charlotte Haze is spared Quilty's fate because she is, from the beginning, not a mirage but an oppressive, dull, untransfigurable reality. |
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If they returned to their church, they would be spared a second attack. |
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Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace. |
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A SQUADDIE who was spared prison to serve in Afghanistan has deserted his regiment. |
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I was receiving teleprints daily from the War Office in London, to make available whatever could be spared. |
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A mother who left her two children near a dual carriageway after a row has been spared jail. |
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The phrenic nerve was completely engulfed by the mass and could not be spared. |
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It's a disgrace so many victims could have been spared their attack if their rapist had received a proper sentence the first time. |
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Cars spared from overheating are disabled by a heated fuel condition known as vapor lock. |
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But the one-term Republican could still be spared from rejection. |
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As a pediatrician, I am generally spared this kind of conversation. |
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The scrawniest chimps are spared by hunters and then domesticated to be sold on. |
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He also wanted the state government to be spared from the monitorial burden of building infrastructure. |
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The old curlicue of a route will he spared the constant pulse of traffic exiling 1-70 en route to Aspen, at least until you get downtown. |
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No one knows why the gunman shot some people and spared others. |
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Some are marked to be cut, others are spared as seed trees left to grow until the next cutting cycle. |
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Lee Allen opened the scoring for a battling Ghost side, with Mogul's blushes spared by late replies from Steven May and Liam Vogul. |
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A DRUNK teenager who used a garden gnome to break into the house of a disabled couple has been spared jail. |
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Somehow the storm spared our house while nearby buildings were destroyed. |
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The place smelled of old alcohol and fried onions, but the smokers stood out onthe sidewalks these days, so they were spared the fugg. |
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Constantine surrendered in 411 with a promise that his life would be spared, and was executed. |
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Under Mary, he had been spared, and often visited Elizabeth, ostensibly to review her accounts and expenditure. |
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When Richard executed those conspirators who had been unable to flee England, he spared Lady Margaret. |
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The prisoners destroyed much of the cathedral woodwork for firewood but Prior Castell's Clock, which featured the Scottish thistle, was spared. |
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Thomas Wintour begged to be hanged for himself and his brother, so that his brother might be spared. |
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Warwick was also condemned to death, but his life was spared and his sentence reduced to life imprisonment. |
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On 19 August, Richard II surrendered to Henry at Flint Castle, promising to abdicate if his life were spared. |
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In contrast, ships would quickly surrender if they knew they would be spared. |
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David, believing his life had been spared through divine intervention, founded Holyrood Abbey on the spot. |
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On 19 August, Richard surrendered to Percy at Flint Castle, promising to abdicate if his life were spared. |
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A man found guilty of attempting to commit suicide by hanging himself from a bunk bed has been spared jail. |
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The King spared Isabella, giving her a generous allowance, and she soon returned to public life. |
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Warrior was also hit badly, but was spared destruction by a mishap to the nearby battleship Warspite. |
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According to Jones, the chief spared his life when he heard Jones speak Welsh, a tongue he understood. |
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To diminish the odium the king insisted that if Snorri had submitted he would have been spared. |
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They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint. |
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Only Thailand was spared the experience of foreign rule, although, Thailand itself was also greatly affected by the power politics of the Western powers. |
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The uncrystallized floating charge is not good against a lien creditor nor is it spared from the invasion of claims given a statutory preference in a liquidation. |
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However, they were fortunate to still have 11 players on the field at half-time after Cortez Belle was somehow spared a second yellow card for a bodycheck on Kevin Squire. |
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However, he spared Richard's nephew and designated heir, the Earl of Lincoln, and he made Margaret Plantagenet, a Yorkist heiress, Countess of Salisbury sui juris. |
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While Uryankhadai travelled along the lakeside from the north, Kublai took the capital city of Dali and spared the residents despite the slaying of his ambassadors. |
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As a result, the city declined in relative importance, and was spared the rapid 19th century development that changed many historic European cities. |
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The Hart Union High School District's open-enrollment policy was a great benefit for Vernier, now 17, spared being totally uprooted by the family move. |
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His amicable nature spared him the fate of the other conspirators. |
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Look, no one was spared a hangnail, let alone despair, bitterness, the usual slate of sad abstractions, and you're sniveling over some irregular beats? |
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Rasul Khan consented, on condition that their lives be spared. |
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In addition to the Web server not having to restream the same data over and over to the clients, the database is also spared excessive connections and queries. |
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The Latino Film Industry spared no expense on Craft Services by hiring a globally recognized team of Chefs that just placed 3rd in a world championship. |
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Foley might have been spared his savage execution for a suitcase full of cash, but ransoming one hostage today guarantees another will be taken tomorrow. |
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The Stroganov chronicle says that On was killed by a chief called Chingi who spared Taibuga, sent him to fight the Ostyaks and granted him his own principality. |
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As soon as Miss Fairlie had left the room he spared us all embarrassment on the subject of the anonymous letter, by adverting to it of his own accord. |
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The Black Death, a plague that ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351 did not significantly affect Poland, and the country was spared from a major outbreak of the disease. |
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The city was spared for a negotiated ransom of 200,000 thalers. |
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