This, the original, was an enormous hit in its native Hong Kong and has already spawned a prequel, with a sequel on the way. |
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No one was more savagely satirical of small-town Scotland and the Kailyard literature it spawned than he was. |
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Huaqing applied this technique to radar data of five mesocyclones, three of which spawned tornadoes. |
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It was often between 105 and 110 degrees, and the copious sweat spawned yet more bacne. |
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This boy band saga series is the latest in an MTV cottage industry spawned by the net's first telepic of the same name. |
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When Chris Evans and Oasis hit their peaks in the summer of Britpop, 1996, they spawned a wealth of imitators and copyists. |
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Thus a potentially useful bargain spawned a serious crisis and test of strength and will between opposed alliance systems. |
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Yet somehow he forgot all the truths of his younger days and bought into the self-delusions spawned from his megalomania. |
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The birth of the wireless Internet has spawned mobile commerce, or m-commerce. |
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A great wave of innovation spawned by World War II-era military technology helped put thousands of police departments on the air. |
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The two are linked by Heinrich Heine, the German poet whose writing spawned them. |
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The late 60's and early 70's spawned an array of fistic talent in the heavyweight division. |
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The evil that was spawned from Cain became spirits, monsters, fiends, goblins and giants, forging the blood feud between mankind and monster. |
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The show has spawned a radio series in nine languages and a mass of literature, some in comic-strip form. |
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The impeachment was spawned by an accusation by his estranged drinking and gambling buddy. |
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The patriarch of stock car racing's No.1 family, Lee spawned Richard, who fathered Kyle, who fathered Adam. |
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The problem is not the meddlesome mom but the compliant son her overprotection spawned. |
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Once the fish have spawned they will gradually work their way back to old haunts but if the summer stays red hot, they stick to the weirs. |
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The success of Angela's Ashes spawned a spate of memoirs-by-nobody-in-particular, most of which, frankly, stunk. |
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Indeed, 100 years of germ theory has spawned impressive germ-fighting offspring. |
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Certainly there was no shopping centre along with the myriad offshoot of shops that development has spawned. |
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Long before the hamburger and the fried chicken, colonial circulation spawned a popular staple which Cairo made its own. |
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Combined, these influences appear to have spawned something that is far less original and entertaining as these artists. |
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His ideas have led to many significant publications and have spawned numerous research efforts on many new frontiers. |
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They were pivotal films of the decade, and both have spawned a thousand and one imitators in their wake. |
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A human half my age has spawned ten children who all have four or more of their own. |
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This provides the recently spawned player with a brief respite to get orientated with his or her surroundings. |
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He talks about the class interests that spawned the early pamphlets and broadsheets and those who did their best to censor and destroy them. |
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Fired by this discovery, they made various records, including this Christmas one that spawned many soundalikes. |
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Several had already spawned horrid brats, who they brought with them to meet their new mommy. |
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Adventure racing was spawned in the early Eighties among those hardcore communities with an unslakable thirst for danger and hardship. |
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Heavens, it was so good, it spawned an unprompted comments thread here, which I've tacked onto the bottom of this post. |
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Not only did the book become a must-read for anyone interested in movies, but it spawned a film. |
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Men's blazers have taken on a life of their own and spawned a stylish breed of formal-turned-sporty jackets that go with virtually anything. |
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After any length of time in the surf you will see why this city has spawned such great surfers and bodyboarders such as Andre Botha. |
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Relief workers arrived to find devastation in the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned the killer tsunami. |
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The great African-American exodus from the south during the first half of the twentieth century spawned a new form of urban electric-based blues. |
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Just before logging out, I noticed a level 60 Mage without a guild tag pulling newly spawned dwarves from the camp. |
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It has spawned a generation who look back upon a single act, abstracted from its consequences, as determinative of salvation. |
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He disposed of his rival claimants, and quelled various rebellions that the succession crisis had spawned. |
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Britain has spawned some of the industry's most powerful behind-the-scenes movers and shakers. |
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This is when the ugly head of terrorism, spawned from the putrid heap of human rejects, knocks on the doors of civilized people. |
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Following the path of the red Aids ribbon, Armstrong's band has spawned a rainbow of imitators. |
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It has spawned hundreds of essays discussing Edna's role as a possible feminist, painter, adulteress, and more. |
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The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface. |
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Mirador was chaired by Jonathan Mills, who was also a founder of Trinity Technology which spawned the failed e-business consultancy Ebeon. |
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Furthermore, the knowledge-based economy has spawned the knowledge worker who is prepared to go anywhere in the world to sell her or his skills. |
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It is presumed that the very creation of life spawned from the song of its constant aleatoric mutations. |
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This massively influential music producer has spawned a whole motley of lesser soundalikes with his pioneering electronic sounds. |
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The show has spawned numerous regional imitators, if not an entire alternate entertainment universe. |
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The dot com revolution spawned a whole new generation of savvy, job hopping free agents who each said proudly they were their own security. |
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The advent of the Internet and e-business has spawned new companies with a different mindset. |
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The lawsuit spawned a series of motions for various forms of interlocutory relief. |
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Our material ease and the freedoms it has spawned are dangerous illusions, and now comes the reckoning. |
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But these non-newsworthy-factoids have spawned appallingly simple-minded reflections. |
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While graphic letterforms and type effects were happening, a new minimalism was spawned as well. |
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Model aircraft flying is a training ground for serious pilots and the Lismore club has spawned a number of full time aviators. |
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The fact is that the X Prize has spawned a new part of the aerospace industry that may yet revolutionize the whole sector. |
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The record became a sleeper hit and in 2003, it spawned a second and third volume, featuring Langford's own artwork. |
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But human rights, a key concern in the country that spawned the declaration of the rights of man in 1789, overshadowed the official agenda. |
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While it lacks the mock seriousness of the film that spawned it, it more than compensates with some preposterously appealing action sequences. |
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Although this great land spawned Rupert Murdoch, the choice of television channel is extremely limited, or at least it is in my billet. |
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In truth, they stalled as the second half spawned something of a role reversal and Lincoln had the better of what followed. |
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Just recently Arminianism has spawned a movement which embarrasses even Arminians by its distortion of the character of God. |
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The Crusaders mistook the Nizaris' association with political murder with hashish addiction and spawned the Assassins legend. |
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We fear boredom, yet it is from boredom that real and productive imaginative play is spawned. |
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The Scottish independent television market was spawned, mewling and puking to begin with, by Channel 4 and its regional disbursement of funding. |
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Corruption has spawned popular anger and instability lurks in the world's most populous nation. |
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A lot of our legendary begrudgery was spawned by the fact that material success was such a rare bird. |
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Hunger and oppression have spawned an epidemic of violent crime. |
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Sweet Valley spawned seven spinoff series, a TV show, a board game, and dolls. |
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It's a tidy, well-kept neighbourhood of historic homes and the location of the Second City Comedy Club, a place that has spawned so many comedic talents. |
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The magic lantern and the cinema spawned the microfilm reader. |
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Using chemical signals in larval mussel shells, the scientist will differentiate juveniles that were spawned locally from those from other places. |
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Here too the theory spawned infinity, in what turned out to be more virulent ways than in the electromagnetic case. |
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The alligator shirts and wood-framed handbags are a pure fashion revival, though, with little reference to the original subculture that spawned them. |
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Indeed, the Camorra spawned one of Italy's most notorious female criminals, Pupetta Maresca, who became famous in 1955 after she personally avenged the murder of her husband. |
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Indeed, one has to wonder for a community that has spawned scores of spelling bee champions and science finalists, but has painfully few athletes, runners and players. |
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The paranoid anti-communism of the Palmer Raids, in other words, represented an inversion of the jingoism spawned by war. |
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It's forum has spawned many memes and more than its fair share of trolls. |
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The series, so very loosely based on the Eastman and Laird comic book creation, spawned a cornucopia of merchandise, some feature films, and a live action TV show. |
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They have spawned an Italian version of their low-class reality TV train wreck called Tamarreide. |
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While the strange story was a once in a lifetime scandal, the media circus it spawned has become commonplace. |
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The move spawned rampant corruption and misrule and led to a bitter civil war that ended with the victory of the genocidal Khmer Rouge communists. |
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The film was a sleeper hit and even spawned a low-budget sequel. |
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The corporate crime wave that followed the great bull market of the '90s has spawned a tsunami of its own in books and movies, critical of capitalism's greed. |
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But it seems he's saying the president unloaded on him right about the time the story blew up into a serious scandal and spawned a Justice Department investigation. |
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The program was spawned from the Horse Race Law, which provides for health funding to jockeys and their dependents through the uncashed mutuel tickets. |
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He has revolutionised Test cricket with his policy of scoring runs fast, yet on a dodgy wicket he is perhaps the most unremovable batsman spawned. |
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In 1908, it became the Australian distributor of Marmite, a vegetable extract which became extremely popular and spawned an even more famous imitator in the 1920s, Vegemite. |
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Despite this, White Teeth has already spawned its own genre. |
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His prose has spawned many imitators, but few, if any, equals. |
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Jeremy had eagerly donated to the Nobel sperm bank, and spawned many, many children with various wives, because he wanted to spread his seed as far as possible. |
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I try not to be conscious of music philosophy, but to stay tuned to attitude and phraseology and the musical vocabulary of the area that spawned me. |
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The gently mocked iPhone commercial featuring Zooey Deschanel quizzing Siri spawned a wildly popular Twitter spoof. |
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Naked ambition, of course, has spawned many other candidacies. |
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The group was spawned eight years ago when a bunch of friends got dolled up for a concert, and discovered a set of harmoniously blended vocal cords. |
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That spawned a group two years ago called Barrier Breakers, students and faculty who stage events like poetry coffee houses that appeal to all students. |
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The picture spawned several sequels aimed at the teenage horror market. |
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After a period of time in which the dinosaurs could comfortably have spawned, lived, and been eliminated by space aliens, the door opened, and I gained ingress. |
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Forced to live a life on the run, he seeks counsel from an old mystic, who explains that his actions have spawned an immortal incarnation of Fate, known as the Dahaka. |
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That dalliance with the truth about why sport actually exists spawned a little hybrid that would grow to take over the game, mostly because of its novelty. |
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This area will be reserved for shorter, more gnomic utterances, hopefully enigmatic and curt enough to conceal the arrant imbecility that will have spawned them. |
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The day after the bluegills spawned, Neff dangled a container with a pumpkinseed sunfish, which preys on eggs and fry, and scored the ferocity of the dads' defense. |
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Since the 1960s, the gridiron, baseball field, basketball court, and boxing ring have spawned legions of entrepreneurs who sought to compete in the business arena. |
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Yet 20 years on, their skeletal electro-pop has spawned a monster. |
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The Get Up Kids' early brand of pop-punk somehow spawned a wild world of young musicians who wouldn't be caught dead without their guyliner and asymmetrical black hair-dos. |
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Photocopying led to Xerox, which spawned a whole new industry. |
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Wealthy since an early age and surrounded by yea-sayers, it's easy to see how her dark side was spawned. |
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A drug operation housed in an apartment complex across from an elementary school spawned frequent shootings, assaults, and robberies. |
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Adoption of the accessory has even spawned its own fashion subculture. |
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The Turner Prize has spawned various other prizes in reaction to or ridiculing it. |
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The gametes begin to mature in late spring and then, from June to August they are spawned into the water column, where fertilization occurs. |
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Tornadoes can also be spawned as a result of eyewall mesovortices, which persist until landfall. |
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The Wall concept also spawned a film, the original idea for which was to be a combination of live concert footage and animated scenes. |
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Dollarwise, I probably lost out by at least 100 percent, but it spawned a career. |
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Comedy about a preop transsexual who discovers an affair many years earlier had spawned a child. |
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The move spawned significant criticism because it forced many children to travel to school before sunrise. |
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These optimists have spawned a movement of like-minded life extension enthusiasts who call themselves immortalists. |
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A degenerative process called follicular atresia reabsorbs vitellogenic oocytes not spawned. |
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As well as using some other cheeses, Sicily has spawned some of its own, using both cow's and sheep's milk, such as pecorino and caciocavallo. |
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A Midland mum's toilet training trauma has spawned a business now making its mark on Britain's supermarket shelves. |
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Sci-fi adventure, which spawned a long-running TV series, starring Kurt Russell and James Spader. |
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However, its ease of use and portability quickly made it a must-have device for technophiles, and it soon spawned imitators from other companies. |
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Senseless bureaucracy is part of what spawned the tea Party. |
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Home Alone made Macaulay Culkin a household name and spawned four sequels. |
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It's a book which spawned some more books which went on to work its way into the national consciousness and become a watchword for dodgy nookie. |
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In the city that spawned Amazon, it's still possible to celebrate the indie bookmonger. |
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It was the campaign to free him from prison which spawned the political party called the Levellers. |
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That's spawned a rash of magazines probing previously untalked about 'men's things' which let's face it, can't be bad. |
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In Hoonah, Prince William Sound and Bristol Bay, some harvesters go after Macrocystis kelp after herring have spawned on it. |
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The success of the films has also spawned numerous video games and many other kinds of merchandise. |
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The speculative market for slaves, rum and mahogany spawned a frenzy that had ramifications throughout Europe when it collapsed. |
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These crusades also spawned a military order, the Order of the Sword Brothers. |
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These included immune-linked tracers for insulin, studies that spawned today's radioimmunoassays for trace hormones and other molecules. |
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The chorus spawned an earworm so potent that women still mutter it as they exit for a bathroom break twenty years later. |
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It spawned a '60s TV show, animated cartoons and hit movies with Anjelica Huston and the late Raul Julia. |
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In 1978 Pastiche was released and spawned two more big hits, Walk In Life and On A Little Street In Singapore. |
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It has had a considerable influence in literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films and plays. |
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Their owners spawned equally ornate bank and office buildings providing loans for the production of cotton and associated industries. |
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So lucrative was this market that it spawned an economic boom in central and western Europe, today known as the Carolingian Renaissance. |
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The economy stagnated under the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos as the regime spawned economic mismanagement and political volatility. |
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The original production of Doubt, which premiered last fall off-Broadway, spawned a West Coast production that ran March 4 through April l0 at California's Pasadena Playhouse. |
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Light-hearted burgernomics has become a matter of increasing academic interest and has spawned many articles and even a whole book by Ong of the International Monetary Fund. |
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In modern times, the fanciful concept of a mummy coming back to life and wreaking vengeance when disturbed has spawned a whole genre of horror stories and films. |
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Apple iPOD's popular commercials have spawned many hundreds of parodies and spoofs from different enterprises, pop-groups, film studios and even from talented individuals. |
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California birthed both the property rights and conservation movements, and spawned such phenomena as the Taxpayer Revolt and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. |
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Role Models pays homage to Baltimore, Waters's muse and hometown, whose culture spawned many magnificent oddballs, as well as the bars and barkeeps who nursed his imagination. |
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The 1984 Rose Bowl prank has spawned many legends. Here's the real story. |
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Of central interest in this February 7 report were vapor trails spawned by engine exhaust and the atmospheric conditions that would permit their formation. |
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Concern over the treatment of consumers by large corporations has spawned substantial activism, and the incorporation of consumer education into school curricula. |
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The episode spawned a personal friendship between the two men. |
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Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the goth and emo subcultures. |
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Opium smoking later spread with Chinese immigrants and spawned many infamous opium dens in China towns around South and Southeast Asia and Europe. |
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In 2005, the Festival spawned the Reading Fringe Festival in the town. |
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After the female capelins have spawned, they immediately leave the spawning grounds and will potentially spawn again in the following years if they survive. |
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New Jersey spawned five Top 10 singles, a record for a hard rock act. |
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This new house is clearly informed by UN Studio's ongoing formal and conceptual experiments with Mobius strips that spawned the eponymous Mobius House in the Netherlands. |
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These in turn spawned many others in various European languages, such as the first printed English book, the 1473 Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. |
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The lack of parental supervision and guidance spawned personal insecurities similar to those found in skinheads who come from dysfunctional, single-parent environments. |
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The headmasters' close friendship spawned the Hennessy Scholarship, an annual prize established in 2005 and awarded to a graduating RL senior for a year of study at Eton. |
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It's not difficult to imagine that Bjork's quixotic auralscapes are spawned from the icy blue Atlantic that relentlessly engirds her native Iceland. |
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Apart from the fact it has stopped countless women accusing their husbands of assault with a dead weapon, the famous love drug has also spawned a million jokes. |
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More recently, the new Intel Core Microarchitecture has spawned a host of products such as Intel Core 2 Duo processors that lead the industry in energy-efficient performance. |
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The revival of luxury goods, spawned a passion for shoulder bags and now everyone from model James Gooding to tennis player Boris Becker, has one,'' continues Darren. |
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Since the game was introduced by Martin Gardner in Scientific American in 1970, it has spawned hundreds of computer programs, web sites, and articles. |
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The war also gave rise to Fascism and Bolshevism, spawned World War II and the Cold War, and transformed politics, economics, art, music, literature, and culture. |
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The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies together spawned other Puritan colonies in New England, including the New Haven, Saybrook, and Connecticut colonies. |
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