Then there was the rider from California who wore high fashion boots with pointy toes and four inch spike heels. |
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Simple sugars, like those found in sweetened juices, sodas and fruit cups cause a spike in blood sugar. |
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Experts say, while it's unusual for prices to spike this early in the year, fuel refineries processing less oil is creating more problems. |
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A dry extension to the passage leads to a spike belay and the original 40-metre pitch. |
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Soft blue bell-like flowers are formed loosely in a spike that emerge from the center above the leaves. |
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The danger is that long-term US interest rates will not simply rise, but spike uncontrollably higher. |
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If oil prices spike upwards and inflation rises, interest rates will go up too. |
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They can make your blood sugar quickly spike up and then sharply drop, causing your mood to follow suit. |
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The study says the spike in storm intensity mirrors a rise in ocean surface temperatures which, in turn, may be linked to global warming. |
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The sensor can be attached to a spike that is pushed into soil or poked into a tree trunk, or it can be clamped to a plant stem. |
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Stalactites protrude from the ceiling, and stalagmites spike up from the floor. |
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Amid reports that the Department of Justice may spike the proposed merger, it is set to name two veterans to head its marketing forces. |
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The origin of the initial spike observed upon detection of singlet oxygen luminescence remains unresolved. |
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Two kernels per spike were collected for determination of dry weight and moisture content. |
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When you spike the tack shackle the pressure is completely released from the sail and the sail is blanketed behind the mainsail. |
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Was the decision to spike Sherman's story journalistic, political, or merely financial? |
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If, like mine, your lawn has soggy, poorly draining patches, spike it with a garden fork at six inch intervals. |
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We do not have to spike the trees, carry protest signs, or write angry letters to our representatives. |
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The chokepoint is patrolled 24 hours a day by armed guards, resulting in lower local crime but a sharp spike in vehicle traffic. |
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Drinking caffeinated beverages can temporarily cause a spike in your blood pressure. |
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The recent spike in oil prices seems to have ended as increased production has boosted supplies. |
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These have now been replenished to some degree, which in part explains the recent spike in base metal prices. |
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First, all sales and excise taxes feed directly into official consumer price indexes, so such increases create a sharp inflation spike. |
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Following the spike, the energy level rapidly decreases and reaches a low point barely 2 hours after eating. |
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The leaves of the acanthus are so famously handsome and glossy that their blue flower spike is almost an afterthought. |
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I think you're seeing something akin to what we saw in the 1970s when we had a similar kind of sharp spike in oil prices. |
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The girl in the black bikini served the ball high and Brett moved in front of Emily to spike the ball over the net. |
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Childhood obesity has tripled over the past 20 years, a significant spike in a relatively short time, he says. |
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And a sharp spike in interest rates would hurt some homeowners who have just got their foot on the housing ladder. |
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Alcohol is still the most common substance used to spike drinks, but spiking with drugs is on the increase. |
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Nowadays, we tend to celebrate those who can take a rusty rail spike to the forearm and come up smiling. |
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When your ice ax is stowed on your pack, place protectors on the tip, adz, and spike to prevent injury to you and others. |
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The names usually refer to the tall flowering spike which in medieval times was dipped in tallow and set aflame as a torch in the evening. |
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Or should we be on the lookout for a spike in all-night raves up on the Hill? |
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Gradually, his body settled around the spike of his spine, and a sense of agelessness found its way into his bones and strengthened them. |
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It had taken all her feminine wiles to seduce Pemberton, the butler, and then spike his drink with a sleeping pill. |
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She had insisted on all of them bringing their own water bottles, certain that the geniuses over in the football team would spike the punch. |
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Admittedly we hesitate on cold, wintry mornings when needles of rain spike the bedroom window. |
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It is a whip-like weapon with a serrated spike on the end of a metallic rope. |
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We zoom in for a brief moment to show the array of spike traps the police have laid in place to disable the car. |
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Experts watching a recent spike in volcanic activity say a lava dome in the mountain's crater is growing. |
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In coed football and volleyball, the sexes united to complete passes and spike balls in an overwhelming annihilation of Pierson College. |
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Once all the flowers on a stem have faded, it can be cut back and with luck, a new spike will be waiting to take its place. |
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There's no way to pick and choose which gets cut off when demand surges, prices spike, and supply gets tight. |
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That's because the female flower is a small terminal spike on the end of the current season's growth. |
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I polished my axe and the spike on the shield, put on my armor and went out of the tent. |
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A trainee doctor was admitted to the hospital where he works after impaling his leg on a metal spike. |
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This handsome plant has striking blue flowers in a spike on the stem and pleasantly aromatic leaves when crushed. |
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It looks like the spike is finally over and a kind of normality seems to have returned. |
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He was too scared to speak or move and began to shake uncontrollably as he was placed under the sharp spike. |
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He reached out his arm and felt a large spike protruding from a hard, scaled surface. |
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Mavale was about to spin around when he felt a cold spike of metal feel its way through his thin hair. |
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Most people think about energy only when gas prices spike or when heating oil is in short supply. |
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The price might initially spike up, but analysts predict it won't last long. |
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And just this week, it was announced that supplies are dwindling and prices are expected to spike as weather warms. |
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Also counted was the number of tassel branches of each plant, including the main spike. |
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Hollow out enough oranges to line your dining table, spike them with cloves and slip a tea light into each one. |
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In certain genera with a simple spike this is clearly proved by the structure of the terminal flower or spicula. |
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The U.S. imports nearly all of its coffee, and those prices periodically spike and have climbed steadily. |
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Sooner or later, it's likely that a bad harvest will occur and wheat prices will spike. |
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He's a bulldog competitor, but the key to his success is confidence in a spike curveball. |
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I was wearing a black tank top and low cut faded blue jeans and I had a spike belt, leather watch and silver chain. |
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If you repair a spike mark, the penalty is two strokes, or loss of hole in match play. |
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Once you have bunched four or five sprigs together, wind thin wire around the cluster, leaving a one-inch spike at the bottom. |
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Failing to spike the ball and then taking a sack was a not a confidence builder for the club. |
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The fruit is composed of a mass of berries on a spadix, the fleshy central spike first seen in the flower. |
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And with the summer holiday season coming on, prices could spike even further. |
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When the acetone enters the vacuum system there will be a spike in the pressure you will see on your vacuum gauge. |
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For this to work, however, the spike would have to propagate along the t-stem axon and into the cell soma. |
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A steel spike, cruel and merciless, no mere toy to project an image of courage and fearlessness. |
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The international community has nervously watched the spike in tensions in the country. |
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Despite the mortgage refi application index dropping back to almost 6,000 from May's record spike to 10,000, purchase applications remain quite strong. |
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That caused the rover's average solar energy to spike up 720 watt-hours, not much below the power level she had shortly after landing nearly two Earth years ago. |
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Not only does it confer the free-threshing character, but also it influences glume keeledness, rachis toughness, spike length, spike type, and culm height. |
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Mr Wells had hooked a large flatfish which he thought was a skate, but it turned out to be a stingray and it wound its tail round his arm and stuck a four-inch spike into him. |
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Male flowers are at the top of the spike and female flowers at the base. |
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He's found a tail bone from a meat-eating Allosaurus that shows a silver-dollar-size hole and a wide gash that a Stegosaurus' spike could have inflicted. |
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The golden centers of the aster flowers are repeated in the color of the Mexican Marigold-Mint, and spike flowers of salvia make wonderful cut flowers and garden displays. |
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The team would see a spike in attendance, and depending on how bad he is, could actually get worse without looking like they're tanking to get the top draft pick. |
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In a famous rant, spike Lee blamed hipsters for the gentrication of his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. |
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On Friday evening, a crowd of Hollywood luminaries gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the spike Lee classic. |
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I found a spike and bolt only and nowhere to belay a lead in rope. |
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He raised the pole above his head, drove the spike into a log at his feet, shinnied up the pole, and to a chorus of cheers, bowed as he stood upon the far side, triumphant. |
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Around the holidays, butter sales tend to spike when many people pick up a few extra pounds of butter for their annual run of cookies, pies and other sweet treats. |
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A spike in the misery index could put a spike in his campaign. |
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The spike in the rightmost bin of the series is due to the occurrence of an appreciable number of chromosomes without crossovers at that marker spacing. |
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Diesel fuel for fishermen is currently untaxed in many EU countries, but even so the costs for the industry have become prohibitive with a recent spike in the price of oil. |
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All fine, but to spike your odds of finding love, try going the direct route via online personals, speed dating, or outdoor adventure classes for singles. |
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I nearly died when I was 13 after I got impaled on a metal spike. |
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Gradually, the glowing red material is hammered into an elegant spike. |
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We are currently getting an enormous boost from increased military spending, tax cuts and a temporary spike in mortgage activity for new homes and refinancing. |
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That spike is followed by a corresponding crash caused by a flood of insulin, a hormone that clears sugar out of the blood and into the body's cells to be used for fuel. |
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The sharp spike in enrollment has somewhat tapered off, however. |
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Not only can a low-quality power supply cause instability, it can cause damage to components over time, namely hard drives, which can be killed by a severe voltage spike. |
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Sometimes, a mere shut down of power or an electrical surge that emits a strong voltage spike can even destroy highly sophisticated RAID storage systems. |
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If one were to have a voltage spike, the consequences could be disastrous. |
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And, if you're illuminating things away from the house, like your trees, get some outdoor floodlight holders that you can spike right into the ground. |
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Its voracious demand for raw materials has caused prices to spike. |
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And fears that gasoline prices would spike nationally proved unfounded. |
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We have got the posters and cards up everywhere, and my staff will be slipping drink hangers into unattended drinks to show just how easy it is to spike a drink. |
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They can use it to spike the drinks of their victims, leaving them disorientated and eventually rendering them unconscious and unable to remember past events. |
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A similar spike in temperatures would occur on November 15, 2016, and would last for several days. |
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Archaeomagnetic intensity spike recorded in high resolution slag deposit from historical biblical archaeology site in southern Jordan. |
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While Brian moved back behind me to call, I spotted a cow and a raghorn bull up near the spike. |
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Others picked oakum using a large metal nail known as a spike, which may be the source of the workhouse's nickname. |
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Rihanna's Rated R album released such content the very year dubstep saw a spike, containing three dubstep tracks. |
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The rest of this faction also all had the same thin moustaches, and wore a spike on their helmets, similar to those on Imperial German helmets. |
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Bromeliad inflorescences are always a spike or a raceme or represent a compound inflorescence. |
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Dr Pania said that many patients continued to use not just sugar but jaggery or honey, all of which cause a sudden spike in blood sugar levels. |
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Due to the 1973 spike in oil prices, the economy of Iran was flooded with foreign currency, which caused inflation. |
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Many teams think that you spike the ball whenever you want to call timeout but do not have one. |
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I've got my crocodilian spike back, that way I write lyrics about everything but nothing specific. |
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Yet the spike in attention has not translated into a more heightened regard for the quality and concinnity of Indian cinema. |
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There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment. |
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The dictyosome bodies were not detected in close proximity to the cell wall of smaller grains in almost the entire length of the spike. |
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Water milfoil and algae are also on their list, and they will seek out seeds of pondweed, smartweed, bulrush and spike rush. |
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The spike in unemployment during the last recession rekindled the debate over disincentives from unemployment insurance. |
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A spike of white bone peekabooed through the flesh of his wrist and blood spurted. |
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Labour is known to be worried about the Cameron effect and might attempt to spike his guns. |
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Before the spike in diversity, eukaryotes are thought to have lived in highly sulfuric environments. |
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Called sharkskin melt fracture, plastics engineers spike plastics formulations with processing aids to suppress these distortions. |
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We assume that a spike sequence processing is the one of the basic neural operations that is carried out in real neurons of live organisms. |
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The host-binding domain of the P2 phage tail spike reveals a trimeric iron-binding structure. |
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It wouldn't surprise me if employers have noticed a spike in staff sickness and the number of duvet days taken in the past fortnight. |
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And just as he did in October, Nade put a spike in Hibs' push to finish second even though Raith were outplayed. |
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Alternatively it could be hairy bittercress, which forms a little rosette of leaves and a tiny spike of delicate white flowers. |
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The spike typically contains many flowers, but can hold as few as one in some species. |
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Echium 'Red Rocket' is the result of cross-breeding to produce a dramatic spike of strawberry-red flowers, which will reach up to two metres in height. |
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In autumn, spike the lawn to aerate it, rake out old dead grass and topdress with compost then feed with low nitrogen lawn feed to toughen grass up for the winter. |
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Whole understory communities-sword ferns, sphagnum moss, salmonberry, salal, spike moss, huckleberry, Oregon grape, and young conifers-cover every square foot of ground. |
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Ask for kutcheela, a blend of coarse and fine seasonings used to spike any dish, and wash it, all down with the island's favorite brew, Carib beer. |
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When we put a stop to the overincarceration, crime did not spike and there was a remarkably low felony rearrest rate of 4 percent a year for people who completed probation. |
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The rising number of Zika disease cases in Brazil has corresponded with a spike in microcephaly cases, a birth defect resulting from incomplete brain development. |
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If you want to see a bull shark, or the related blacktip, simply drive to the beach any day this month, look for the heavy trolling rod in a sand spike with a kayak nearby. |
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A spike of eight Lycopodium spore tablets was added to each sample. |
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I think we'll see a spike in kids who want to become archeologists. |
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The Hallagan breaching tool is a modified crowbar made of non-sparking material with an extra spike and a wedge shaped adz at one end for additional prying and leverage. |
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Small skirmishes also took place, and the Afghans managed to seize a pair of mule-guns and force the British to spike and abandon two other precious guns. |
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The Army, making its first attempt to shoot the moon, had spent weeks fussing over the Juno II, a 60-ton Jupiter IRBM with a spike of high-speed rockets. |
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The subsequent pressure spike is strong enough to eject the missile out of the tube and give it enough momentum to reach and clear the surface of the water. |
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The coin recreates a popular image from the ceremony with steam locomotives from each company facing each other while the golden spike is being driven. |
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There was a spike in January which it is feared could become normal. |
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In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. |
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However, a spike in serious, violent crimes, such as murders or terrorist attacks, has prompted some countries to effectively end the moratorium on the death penalty. |
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The purpose of the metal is to speed up the precharge, and the reason for only 4 taps is to spread the precharge out over 15 ns to avoid a huge current spike during precharge. |
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These events occurring at roughly the same time caused a dramatic spike in the value of silver and made paying taxes nearly impossible for most provinces. |
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Speculative behavior, increasing global demand and peak oil have all been listed as antagonists in the upward trend and spike in crude oil prices. |
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While this might be effective for muscle building, the side effect is hair loss due to the conversion of the spike in testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. |
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The recipe above made five haggises and I tied each one up with string and punctured them with a thermometer spike to try and stop them exploding when cooking. |
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In their research, each time a large die off occurred, they found a spike in the number of fossil algae mats called stromatolites strewn around the planet. |
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And Faye Burton, founder of the Rural Policing Liaison Group, has blamed police cutbacks and a loss of specialist officers for the worrying spike in dog and cockfighting. |
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Echium 'Red Rocket' is the result of crossbreeding to produce a dramatic spike of strawberry-red flowers, which will reach up to two metres in height. |
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