They have a beauty all their own, a seductive, sexy, sinuous swiftness that puts everything else in the sea to shame. |
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With unprecedented swiftness, government lawyers cut through the paperwork. |
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They pulled on their packs, put on their boots, pulled up their hoods, and paid the innkeeper with silent swiftness. |
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Thus, with a swiftness approaching the speed of light itself, the luminiferous ether entered the graveyard of discredited scientific ideas. |
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The swiftness and irrevocability of the changes it had brought about left him with nothing he could use to rebuild his sense of being. |
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Perhaps more than anything else it was the swiftness of the company's demise that stunned so many onlookers. |
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The shark attacked with a suddenness and swiftness that took them all by surprise. |
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Welles liked the brevity and compactness, the swiftness and shock of a good short story. |
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The image has the swiftness of haiku, with its undetermined but focused looking. |
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The all-new 8-speed autobox shifts with the utmost swiftness and seamlessness, molding its action on the driving mode selected. |
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Such urbanization and globalization can take hold with remarkable swiftness. |
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Martlets do not have any strong meaning in heraldry, but some have commented that the bird, which is similar to the swift, connoted speed or swiftness. |
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There was praise from across the political spectrum for Harper's achievements and the swiftness of his resignation. |
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The legislature is making increasing use of conciliation so as to ensure the swiftness and efficiency of the judicial machinery. |
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Scientific research worldwide has clearly established that one of the best predictors of deterrence is the swiftness of the police response. |
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Sharing the same values allows us to enjoy considerable autonomy and swiftness of action without compromising our cohesiveness. |
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In any such situation, barriers would be created that would adversely affect the swiftness and cost of the procedure. |
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The swiftness of action has been a mark of the work of the Tribunal since its inception 13 years ago. |
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The process had a swiftness and a magnitude glaciologists had never seen before, and it created the largest movement of ice in a single event in recent times. |
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Occasionally, these recommendations may have to be developed with swiftness to ensure that an immediate need for education and advice is met. |
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While the fashionability of different areas within Manhattan changes with bewildering swiftness, the Lower East Side has plenty beyond magazine cover stories to recommend it. |
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With frightening swiftness, nearly all enemy agents inside Confederation borders were rooted out, systematically hunted down, and then eliminated. |
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The swiftness and high case-rate of Chikungunya is almost unprecedented in the annals of horrible viral outbreaks. |
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Presumably he realizes he could spend a fortune and still get fired by the electorate with Apprentice-like swiftness. |
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The ships were known for their incredible swiftness and maneuverability. |
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Board directors took a fair bit of criticism for the swiftness with which the proposed changes were unveiled, but Emmott says the board acted quickly and quietly so that there could be no opportunity for insider trading. |
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Enforcement is based on the principles of certain detection and conviction, swiftness of the proceeding and on consequences which are severe enough that most drivers would want to avoid them. |
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The Committee was thus able to appreciate the scale and swiftness of the operating measures taken by Imerys to reduce its fixed costs and maintain its ability of free cash flow generation. |
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I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves. |
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It was an ethnic clearance of Balkan swiftness, nastiness and comprehensiveness that shocked many Italians and prompted them to question their society's attitudes to race and colour. |
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Once, he takes her out for a walk, and she begins chasing rabbits, a skill she has perfected: She must engirdle the crafty, timid creature and confuse it with her swiftness so that it knows not which way to turn. |
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The grace and swiftness of the white harts exemplify the nurse's work. |
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His forceful version is freer, with shorter lines that increase the sense of swiftness and energy. |
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Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea. |
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Is there not a danger that, having rediscovered the swiftness of its terrible sword, America will turn too readily to the use of force in other conflicts? |
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This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find The harm of unscanned swiftness, will too late Tie leaden pounds to 's heels. |
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I want to compliment the chair for his swiftness on his feet in that circumstance, because chairing a committee in this place is often a very difficult thing. |
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The second point to be made with regard to responses to the crisis so far concerns the swiftness and scale of the support given to the financial sector. |
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In order to ensure the swiftness and efficiency of justice, a single judge was established to deal with offences involving the issuing of uncovered cheques and unauthorized building offences. |
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There is undoubtedly a positive side to this, which is the swiftness and efficiency of the reaction by the operators, who, by taking the appropriate measures, managed to solve the problem in just under an hour. |
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If such laborious step is feasible, we hypothesise that future anatomical visualisations could be processed relatively fast due to the swiftness in modern electronic data processing. |
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We guarantee you the maximum swiftness in the sending of orders. |
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The swiftness of ICT developments, their increasing spread and availability, the nature of their content and their declining prices are having major implications for learning. |
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In that connection, we are pleased to note that the response of the international community has also been unprecedented in terms of its swiftness and scale. |
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Under the terms of the constitution the president has the power to dissolve the government and many of the sacked ministers may yet return but Mr Kiir must show the same swiftness in laying out his plans for a new government. |
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The swiftness of the embarkations surprised all foreign observers. |
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