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A further step imbeds images into the address, which thwarts the most persistent bots.
The internal hull is subdivided by transverse thwarts that provide hull strength and form compartments that serve to contain fish, nets and gear.
At this point the keel, frames, planks, thwarts and gunnels were ready to be re-assembled into an almost complete boat.
Infant mortality, health in general and education are still priorities in this region, and yet basic greed still thwarts solid progress.
The deal thwarts an Agricore United takeover bid launched late last year by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.
That is not a big thing in some people's minds, but again it thwarts an impartial boundary readjustment.
Or have the CRTC, or the courts, misinterpreted the legislation in a manner that thwarts or fails to achieve the legislative intent?
A second is 14 ft long with four thwarts, no built-in buoyancy, and it was powered by a 9.9 hp motor.
Villagers are too poor to buy fuel for the generator powering the water pump when bad weather thwarts solar power.
First, I believe it thwarts the purpose of Parliament in the electoral process.
Whether it occurs in the public or private sectors, it deepens global poverty and thwarts development.
She is used to the lip service, the feigned support, the photo ops and then the secret opposition that thwarts it all.
Significantly, this research suggests that this chameleon-like behaviour undermines engagement and thwarts potential.
This cycle of violence and retaliation impedes efforts and thwarts initiatives aimed at brokering lasting peace in the region.
It Nazifies the Hutus and thwarts all dissenting questions about the violence of the victims.
Critics go on to suggest that low-balling the surpluses thwarts Parliament's capacity to debate how the extra resources ought to be allocated.
This timber seems to have only been used on decked ships, spreading the thrust from the mast through the rowers' thwarts and from the ribs to the hull.
It thwarts efforts by the private sector to take advantage of business and growth opportunities and undermines economic competition.
One boat is 12 ft long with three wood-covered thwarts, built-in buoyancy and, at the time of the incident, powered by an 8 hp motor.
In short, homing in on the banal thwarts the fulsomeness that is an essential property of oral storytelling.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is the concomitance of the two, to the thought of which we are not yet used, that thwarts us.
Between a main clause and a relative clause, and or but thwarts subordination.
Beneath the planks he found a skiff which he had moored there earlier in the evening, and underneath one of the thwarts he hid the bundle.
The other members of the party were asleep upon the thwarts or huddled in cramped positions in the bottom of the boat.
Under the canvas flaps along the thwarts, ready to hand for the rowers, were laid five of the Lee-Enfields.
For, see you, it was our custom to lick the dew from the oar-blades, the gunwales, the thwarts, and the inside planking.
They had rowed steadily, rising from the thwarts at every stroke, up to the moment we passed them, when they recognized Charley and me.
On her thwarts two figures, dipping and rising, labored with the sweeps.
The thole pins were in place, and the oars laid lengthwise on its thwarts.
Don John thwarts the marriage of Claudio by his tale of Hero's unchastity.
They were lying very still on their sides on the bottom boards between the thwarts, curled up like dogs.
To his joy he found a pair of oars stowed beneath the thwarts.
I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly.
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