The only tools used in the construction of the stave churches were axes, augers, primitive planes, and various knives and chisels. |
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I compromised my own self in order to keep the peace and stave off confrontation. |
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It alleviated the problem a little, but not enough to stave off looming financial disaster. |
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This editor permits single or double stave notation utilizing the treble, bass, tenor and alto clefs. |
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David Obuya was the man sent in to stave of the hat-trick but he was yorked by Lee with the most perfect of deliveries. |
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One way in which the government is trying to stave off this problem is by debt and interest payment rescheduling. |
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At the same time, governments have usually moved to stave off depreciatory, not appreciatory, speculation against their currencies. |
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Now research from France has shown a regular dose of Armagnac can also help stave off illnesses such as heart attacks and thrombosis. |
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In the meantime, the challenge will be to stave off complacency toward reform now that chances for a rout at the polls suddenly seem remote. |
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To stave off the ennui as I do my pain, I've started to go through my old video collection. |
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The city, hoping to stave off a touchy situation, tested the water, which turned out to be harmless. |
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For a while, I shaved my bikini line along with my legs and armpits, mostly to stave off ridicule during junior high gym class and swimming. |
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The theory is that a little something extra before bed might stave off the midnight munchies. |
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This consists simply of four notes written out on a single stave in breves. |
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I walked up and down Tottenhan Court Road with Mark at lunchtime in a vain attempt to stave off unconsciousness. |
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Even if those horns manage a gouge here or a nick there, a matador can always depend on antibiotics to stave off serious complications. |
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I initially hoped to stave off any broodiness by persuading my wife to take a job as a teacher. |
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How can we ensure success in repelling an invasion when our ships have to constantly stave off these little brush fires? |
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Her rapid vibrato, particularly above the stave, added a distinctive and not unpleasant color. |
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Now I'm sipping peppermint tea and munching on crackers to stave off the vomitous feelings and room swirliness. |
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I started the day off trying to stave off my hangover with the hair of the dog. |
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He used his stave like a walking cane, swinging it before him with a tap of his boot. |
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In his Alphabet des mouvements du corps humain he placed movement symbols on a special stave while recording the floor patterns above it. |
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As a group the stave churches are among the oldest wooden buildings anywhere in the world, quite distinctive from other churches. |
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Sogn is the only district in Norway to retain so many medieval stave churches and also stone churches from the same period. |
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Even though all the stave churches had structural differences but they have a recognizable general impression. |
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This may very well be one of the reasons why some stave churches have stood for over eight hundred years. |
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Urnes is the only stave church listed on the World Heritage List from the United Nations. |
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Most of the stave churches of this type were demolished, or extended and rebuilt. |
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The church in Urnes was built around 1050, and is generally agreed to be the oldest stave church. |
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It is one of the best preserved stave churches and it has not been added or rebuilt since it was new. |
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Hebrew poetry is not marked by metre and end-rhyme but by pictorial language, parallelisms and partly by rhythm and alliteration or stave rhyme. |
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As to verse and metre, modern Heathenry like its ancient counterpart has enjoyed the use of alliterative verse or stave rhyme. |
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In some cases, concrete and stone retaining walls and dikes are erected along banks to stave off overflow in heavy rain. |
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An increase in fees paid to care homes will not be enough to stave off a crisis, managers of residential facilities said yesterday. |
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In an effort to stave off and global homogenisation, Britain boldly maintained its tradition of driving on the left. |
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They should answer hyperbolic attacks with exaggerated speech of their own, if that's what it takes to stave off political annihilation. |
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In trying to stave off this fate of being dated, he has clung desperately to remaining youthful. |
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Britten's setting is mimetic and operatic, the piano part consisting of a stylisation of the boy's fiddling, notated on one stave only. |
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To stave off colds, she should combine it with aconite at the first sign of a scratchy throat or a congested feeling in the head. |
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It's a film that plumbs the emotional depths of the women as they struggle to find meaning in their lives and stave off madness. |
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Archaeologists think it may have been built in a forlorn attempt to stave off the effects of climate change 5,000 years ago. |
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If you need to stave off emaciation without blowing your budget, this unprepossessing little bistro is surely in the city's top ten destinations. |
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I started to crash to the stones of the courtyard, only to find myself being supported by Gareth, who had immediately dropped his stave to catch me. |
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He brought his stave up and I quickly dropped my left hand, dealing him a one-handed blow on the side off his arm before bringing my own stave up to block his blow. |
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You get an upvote to help stave off the incoming flurry of downvotes. |
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He could see long, curving horns attached where the pommel would be on a normal saddle, and the rider carried a shield and a long stave, and had a sword sheathed at her hip. |
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As he searched, he spotted a wooden stave laying in the dirt. |
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Moreover, he managed to stress those wishes by his choice of alliterating runes, f, and g, in stave rhyme verses, which seem not to be related to that topic. |
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They are made of steel, reinforced concrete, and concrete stave. |
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The recital of her crime too was read out as she knelt, and then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave and dealt a hundred blows upon her shoulder. |
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In the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, cooks, clerks and mechanics from different units joined together to fight well and stave off the German counteroffensive. |
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Firefighters and control staff now have a chance to stave off swingeing attacks on their conditions by employers who have reneged on an earlier pay deal. |
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The wood of the stave and arrow shafts was dark with moisture. |
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Young master Taft took the book with him to the swearing-in of his father, William Howard Taft, apparently to stave off boredom. |
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Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection. |
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Self-bows are those which are made fully of wood, either a single stave, or a pair of shorter staves, usually jointed at the handle, giving a single length. |
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While pundits think Morse is relatively safe in his effort to stave off recall, Giron is facing a much tighter race. |
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Sykes, a father-of-four, had been laid off from his job as a puddler at a Rotherham iron works in 1865, forcing him to turn to poaching to stave off destitution. |
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And how much do you need to sweat to stave off the disease that kills 500,000 people every year? |
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In the nineteenth century, Pietists in Norway burned some of the celebrated ancient stave churches as their grotesque timber carvings were, again, considered idolatrous. |
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Say buh-bye to hat hair with these simple styles to stave it off for good. |
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Many places in Scandinavia, however, still have these wooden buildings, and one of the most remarkable of examples is the stave church found in Borgund. |
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Japan had hoped that the resumption of talks in September would help the countries settle the issue and stave off mounting cries on both sides for further escalation. |
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Sure ASMR clips can put you to sleep and help stave off insomnia, maybe even get rid of that nasty headache you've had for days. |
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I saw a young woman in a little, flower print dress and slingbacks, tiny handbag held above her head in a vain attempt to stave off the rain and wind. |
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This may stave off some of the symptoms, but you'll have to face the head-clanging, nerve-jangling fate of the seasoned boozehound sooner or later. |
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The winning entry illustrates a blast furnace piping system composed of stave cooling, tuyere cooling and PCI piping. |
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Greenpeace bosses were last night desperately trying to stave off bankruptcy as all their UK assets were frozen in the injunction. |
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If the soldiers were well fed, they were healthier and able to maintain a high level of physical activity, as well as stave off disease. |
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Some companies have applied for and received several prefixes to stave off competitors, before they were needed. |
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Y are looking to hormone-replacement therapy to stave off the advance of the characteristic signs. |
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In the early Middle Ages, wooden stave churches were constructed throughout Norway. |
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During the fourth and fifth centuries AD Roman emperors did their best to stave off the advance of the Germanic tribes. |
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Rufinus, lacking adequate forces, enlisted Alaric and his men, and sent them to Thessaly to stave off Stilicho's threat, which they did. |
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One supposition is that it is a derivative of hoquet, a Middle French word for a shepherd's stave. |
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The slates on modern carom tables are usually heated to stave off moisture and provide a consistent playing surface. |
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The Bank of Greece tried to adopt deflationary policies to stave off the crises that were going on in other countries, but these largely failed. |
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On formal state occasions, he wears a distinctive scarlet court uniform and bears a gold key and a white stave as the insignia of his office. |
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Such a suggestion is scoffed at by Shimerians who maintain that they have the will to stave off institutional death. |
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He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office. |
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For sagittal suture synostosis, wedge and barrel stave osteotomies were made bilaterally to allow for biparietal and bitemporal expansion. |
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The room is bare, with only a black coal heater to stave off the winter chill. |
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A GERIATRIC gym has got pensioners pumping iron to stave off ailments and the onset of old age. |
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Ginkgo biloba, used to stave off mental decline after a ministroke can also interact adversely with blood-thinning medications. |
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Alternatively, cruise guests can take a fantastic trip to Grip Fisherman's Island, home to Norway's smallest stave church. |
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Then there are the medieval stave churches of Norway, so called from the Viking name for a timber post. |
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Both volumes are clad in dark stained timber, referencing traditional Norwegian stave churches. |
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Since then he has had regular checkups and his owners feed him codliver oil to help stave off crippling arthritis. |
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The industry's strategy is to stave off vocal opposition through these kinds of policy concessions, as well as a more accommodating approach to critics. |
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There were no fewer than three executives from the high-tech world, all welcoming an opportunity to dabble in the Old West to stave off fast-track flame-out. |
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A fine example, Urnes Stave Church in inner Sognefjord, is on UNESCO's World Heritage List. |
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Controlling erythropoietin levels or blocking its activity could help diabetics stave off complications or halt the progression of diseases already attacking eyes and kidneys. |
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Placement of RZD's controlling stake of TransContainer in an improbable state JV with the Kazakhs and Byelorussians seems intended to stave off privatization. |
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Adventurers will journey through ice-capped mountains, fjords and see the stave churches that shaped the landscape and architecture depicted in the hit film. |
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While for Alex McLeish's Blues, it's no longer just about getting one over the arrogant so-and-sos from Aston while attempting to stave off relegation. |
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Independent Stave Company is a family-owned, dynamic, global company, reaching customers in over 40 countries and cooperages around the world. |
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Past and present The open-air Norsk Folkemuseum contains 155 traditional houses as well as a Stave Church dating back to the 13th Century. |
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The trip will also examine the impact of acute mountain sickness, a debilitating condition often experienced on ascent to high altitude, on ability to stave off illness. |
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Next in order of troublesomeness is the corn-buttercup or stave acre. |
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DeBrum demanded new commitment and international leadership to stave off further climate disasters from battering his country and other similarly vulnerable countries. |
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Forms of antiseptics were also used in order to stave off infection. |
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Generally, the Goths were abused by the Romans, who began forcing the now starving Goths to trade away their children so as to stave off starvation. |
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The power and influence of these pirates during this time was such that nations including the United States of America paid tribute in order to stave off their attacks. |
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However Wilson's government had inherited a large trade deficit that led to a currency crisis and ultimately a doomed attempt to stave off devaluation of the pound. |
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The outdoor museum contains 155 authentic old buildings from all parts of Norway, including a Stave Church. |
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