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So, what has the dizzy blonde been doing, besides the usual clumsy bumping into things, talking rubbish and general silliness?
The apartment was on the first floor of a six-floor building and as usual it was a mess.
As I gazed in the direction of his usual path, I saw fishermen bring back their catch of the day.
Market contrarians know that traditionally, these kinds of occurrences are the usual hallmarks of a major top in the oil market.
It has started preparing next year's budget weeks earlier than usual to ensure it plugs the budget gap in time.
But it is not the usual type of textbook that presents how a discipline currently sees itself and introduces its subject matter to beginners.
It's probably because of all the usual inundation of news reports on flu this season as well as mention of illness in several people's blogs.
In this sense, I think my approach to course planning inverts the usual model.
The jerkiness of their sound was rougher than usual and their trademark flamboyancy was a little deflated.
My usual mode of dress for cooling out around the house is shirtless because of the warm ambient temperatures that this country usually boasts.
I undid my seat belt and hopped out of the car in my usual two point nine seconds.
As usual please bring your cameras, tripods, flashguns, etc for what promises to be a most informative and enjoyable session.
My feelings of anger and disgust, but even stronger emptiness, stopped me from poking fun at all my usual subjects.
As usual with cladistic analyses, the vast majority of anatomical traits are scored as a present-absent polarity in each organism.
Peter combed his dark brown hair, trying to flatten the back and sides, but as usual it remained up turned.
As usual a great time was had by all except for an outbreak of gratuitous flatulence.
What a pleasure it was to see an intelligent, meaningful editorial instead of the usual monthly brain flatulence.
And these US marines smoking more than usual under the stress of battle conditions are becoming increasingly irritable.
The text was extensively altered for the second edition of 1875, and the format was reduced to the usual crown octavo.
And in winter, they sometimes irrupt, or move south of their more usual range in large numbers.
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My usual idea of political activism is defacing the candidate's photos in their election literature.
A far cry, I suggest, from the usual fleapits he inhabits, such as the Hotel Tivoli in Luanda.
The latter case presumably would be the more usual diagenetic history of fossil corals.
A superior cord trouser, not in the usual cotton, but in a wool-rich cord, for a more natural feel and extra warmth.
His parents are putting his little sister to bed with the usual Christmas Eve flimflam about Santa not coming to awake children.
Fayette was dressed in an even flimsier dress than usual that left nothing to the imagination.
Pete's cousin had died from an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy and, with his usual enthusiasm, Pete flung himself into setting up this new charity.
News items for inclusion in next week's issue can be forwarded to the usual phone number or address.
I'm only surprised he didn't raise his usual point about weak post-war Pommy sides.
The oysters, fried in a fine-textured breading instead of the usual Gulf Coast cornmeal, fairly popped with juices.
The usual hangers and floggers on the right will no doubt take the view that our first priority must always be the victim.
Control participants received no intervention in prison other than usual correctional programming.
He was wearing his usual black framed glasses, with his hair flopping down to his face.
The entertainer sported a curled bob, a far cry from her usual flowy locks.
Well, hang on to the remote because there are a couple of good programmes on and they're not the usual light fluff either.
We had the usual conversation about life here, and he was just flummoxed by the place.
While the actors wore the cothurnus, the chorus appeared in their usual sandals.
Ignore all the usual advice about careful writing and proofreading given by every job counselor you know.
A higher than usual number of postal voters in this election in Scotland did not receive their postal ballots.
Not a jellyfish appeared, of course, but the day was chilly and breezy, and the shoreline countercurrent was running at double its usual force.
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Inside they found what a usual hotel room usually had, one queen-sized bed and one slightly smaller fold-out bed in the couch.
Along with the usual ads and bills was a letter addressed to her, postmarked New York.
A popular solution is to spread the gear sets over three, instead of the usual two, countershafts, trading length for width.
His spending blazed a new path through the county's usual political circuit.
Copy me in and as usual I will do what I can to give your complaint a following wind.
If the auditor-general hadn't forced their hand, it would be business as usual in the Liberal camp.
Looking up, I could see the foremast as usual surrounded by clouds of baitfish and, hanging ominously among them, barracuda.
His efforts to explore the ethical basis of legal rules goes along with a more crabbed style than is usual with Roman lawyers.
Less usual native trees are scattered throughout the woods and include wild cherry, aspen, and crack willows.
They will also be taught about diet and nutrition, first-aid, button stitching and the usual fare of painting, craftwork and so on.
The would-be cragsman must also bear in mind that these are large mountains with the usual dangers of rain, snow, lightning and rockfalls.
She wrote, not in her usual flowing script, but in Doyle's somewhat cramped print.
As is usual in the case of an aircraft crash, many unidentifiable small pieces of aluminum and steel also surfaced.
When swimming front crawl, to which side do you breathe, and what is your usual handedness?
Householders will have their waste glass, paper and cans collected fortnightly, alongside usual refuse collections.
What makes the usual and expected standards of physical well-being and creature comforts unimportant to so many people at the same time?
There are a wider variety of tax deductions and credits, plus the property earns a higher income flow and the usual equity increase.
The usual Jamdown production crew attempt to make hip-hop beats and fail miserably.
Now, we know that all the usual suspects have been hitting the airwaves on this one, with the crib notes in hand.
Although criminally underused, he brings his usual sense of dignity to his role.
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But Hope does more than his usual shtick of self-referential gags and breaking the fourth wall.
The standard menu contains the usual range of toasts, hot croissants, bread, scones, open and closed sandwiches.
Having a baby is a joyful but potentially stressful time as mothers and fathers have less sleep than usual and nerves can become frayed.
The broadcasting media are telling us that he is captured, without the usual cross-examination about independent confirmation that it is him.
All the usual mixing tools are present, with pitch control, crossfader effects, and levels.
When you hire a private jet, you get complete flexibility and freedom from the usual constraints of flying.
Michelle wondered how to crowbar this conversation around from their usual brand of easy banter to something with a little more bite.
For the West Indies, Gayle got a century, not made at his usual frenetic pace.
The usual crucifixion began with the victim being flogged and severely beaten.
Aside from the usual setup of guitar, bass, and drums, the album is home to lots of strange, squeaky, and crunchy noises.
With her usual perfection, Keaton plays an uptight frigid woman who is quietly appalled by her daughter's romantic liaison.
This year we have a white fritillary as well as the more usual purple ones.
I wandered out the back as usual this morning, and see that there's a dollop of frogspawn in the pond.
As usual I'd picked out one of the veggie meals, a bowl of salad, a cube-shaped green jello, and a crimson glossy apple.
It's hard to square our usual image of Stevens as a doggedly conscientious master of surety and fidelity with this carefree frontiersman.
Her treatise has the usual cumbrous apparatus of scholarly citation, though I did wonder about her methods of research.
She did take a moment to glance at what Lisa was wearing though, and wasn't surprised that it was one of her usual dull, frumpy outfits.
I eventually made it into the kitchen to make my usual cuppa tea and had Daddy wish me Happy Birthday.
Thanks to its CDI electronic fuel injection, even the usual diesel engine sound is muted.
No doubt that theory is also gaining currency amongst the usual apologists.
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This Thursday sees Sean Keane return once again to this popular venue and a full house is expected as usual for this artist.
Jed certainly reacted well, though, putting together a few nice phases while continuing to be their usual cussed selves in defence.
The camp is back with all the usual mix of fun, activities and medical treatment as in previous years.
There was plenty of fun and games for all with all the usual Halloween games as well as a disco to keep everyone occupied.
When bleeding is not controlled by this manoeuvre, the usual cause is fundal bleeding, and angiography is performed.
Do not put more that one cake in each pan, the usual funnel cake is the size of the plate it is served on.
The road wears the usual spring potholes, but the new upper road is holding up well.
Bruce Sterling spent some time at the recent SXSW conference chatting about futurology in his usual entertaining style.
There was exquisite pottery, clay figurines and animals, beads of lapis lazuli, silver and shell, as well as the usual weights and seals.
The usual merits of Koopman's no-nonsense way with such works was in evidence but the performance remained disappointingly earthbound.
As usual in this part of the country, roof coverings are galvanized corrugated steel.
The game starts out innocently, with the usual childhood pranks and mayhem.
Social life, as usual with Dickens, is just a bewildering assortment of eccentrics, grotesques, amiable idiots and moral monstrosities.
It would surely be cheaper and more effective to release a precis as a press release for the media to report on in the usual way.
To precis the plot is even more distorting than usual since Churchill works in non-linear fashion.
It is usual for stags to be retrieved off the hill in the traditional way with the use of garrons.
The usual proposal for getting people to buy more fuel efficient cars is either a tax on gasoline or a tax on gas guzzlers.
The gem's usual glow and hum was dead, and it looked to be nothing more than a piece of old, tasteless, gaudy jewelry.
This weekend Australians will be changing their clocks to daylight saving time, with the usual ensuing confusion.
It uses preposterous science fiction to delve into deeper human emotions than the usual fluff with which we are served each spring.
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He has been such a bright and consistent light amidst the usual gathering glooms.
So how disappointing, how gloomily predictable, that the proposed new footbridge is being greeted with the usual grumbling hostility.
A source at Mataram airport said flights continued as usual and the last flight departed for Bali with several empty seats.
Halle would be sure to hear the usual excuse, that it was necessary to feed the goldfish.
But this does not lead, in the usual modern manner, to images of despair or deracination.
We chose a pub crawl instead of the usual coffee morning or raffle because it's a bit of fun and basically, this is us.
Her parents were gone that weekend, so she was home alone as usual with her siblings away at boarding school.
It greeted me with the usual initialization screen that calibrates the touch-screen, and it was good to go.
On Good Friday, a religious day, I walked my dog as usual in our local park.
As usual we had our normal snacks after as Paul Kraft supplied the goodies for the week.
Sport will remain on the back page, except on Mondays and Saturdays when there will be the usual pullout sections.
Mrs. E., the only gori present, intervened in her usual quiet, efficient way.
As usual in February the weather was desperate with a blizzard and white out conditions as we arrived at car park.
He was his usual gorgeous and good looking self, carrying his shoulder bag full with books.
While the film was not the director's usual sci-fi, gory, effects driven fare, it still provokes a great deal of thought.
My point isn't the usual hypocrisy gotcha, though that's certainly worth pointing out.
It detours the usual ways that you think about exercise and tunes in to what you really need.
The molecular weights and boiling points display the usual gradations observed in other series.
I made the usual rounds of Hindu temples, dharmashalas, meditation centers, pathasalas and soaked up all I could about the Hindu dharma.
I was in my usual spot in the library, graphing an inverse parabola, when a shadow fell over me.
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Gagging the mouth, blindfolding and burning effigies are some of the usual forms of protest.
There will be eager eyes to spot the errant hen's nests and collect the eggs as well as help with the usual chores.
This differs from the usual approach, which embeds the side chain directly within the protein dielectric.
It enjoys good views of the hills to the west, but the local context is grimly suburban, with the usual extensive car parks.
With this film, Loach digresses from his usual gritty themes of social realism to pose questions of culture, race and religion.
The next morning I went for my usual Australian dingo's breakfast and noticed the loo wouldn't flush.
Parents however were thin on the ground except for the usual dedicated few.
Although the usual practice is to dip into such reference works in any order, most of the content for most of us will be new.
We specifically avoided the usual low-frequency reactions to a dip in the road by providing highly controlled ride motions.
Business as usual is what has driven the greater sage grouse to its precarious brink.
These are heady moments for readers accustomed to Fitzgerald's usual elusiveness, deflection, or silence about herself.
The newly revamped quarters are a refreshing change from the usual grungy and sometimes intimidating British unemployment offices.
Normally she was grunting and complaining about one thing or another in her usual mocking tone.
This is aggravated by the usual level of emigration of young people leaving for higher education and not returning.
There's a clue in the painting above as to my destination, correct guessers will receive the usual part-furnished bedsit in Tottenham Hale.
A plot of the number of points as a function of elevation will exhibit the usual straight line plot on log-log axes.
Now here I need to insert my usual disclaimer about not being in any conceivable sense of the word a military expert.
He examines my certification card carefully and asks me to sign the usual disclaimers.
His vin chaud is the usual gut-rot, but who cares at the end of a day in the largest ski area in the world?
I am struck by owner Eddy's softly spoken Swedish, in contrast to the usual more guttural pronunciation.
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He finally appeared from the depths of the dismal room dressed in his usual black turtleneck and blue jeans.
The energumens, who were exorcized daily, were prevented by the daily exorcisms and sweeping duties from pursuing their usual callings.
To her surprise, instead of Yelena's usual look of irritation and displeasure, their mother had tears running down her face.
The look of astonishment faded though, and all that was left was her usual look of grim disgust and displeasure.
After the usual formalities of enquiring after their welfare, he broached the reason for his arrival.
If they were surprised to hear these enraged words from their usual docile sister, they didn't show it.
The usual conversation followed and we explained we were en route to the Auckland Islands.
From the usual tangency can be read the consumption choices and present saving or dissaving.
Thus, the usual pattern of Greek films being dubbed into English for American distribution was reversed.
The voice work for the American dub is pretty good, at least compared to the usual quality of American anime dubs.
With the usual eerie vocals and bassy dubstep backing from these nihilistic Michigan electroids, what's new with this track is the energy.
There is the usual huge range of agricultural-related events for the day, as well as many family entertainments at the occasion.
The schedules provided for detailed enumeration of the husband's usual occupation.
Noodle dishes and soups are popular, as are boiled dumplings, shuijao, prepared with crabmeat in addition to the usual pork and leek stuffing.
The usual response to laryngeal obstruction usually caused by epiglottic or pharyngeal swelling is to sit up and forward.
The salmon, served with the usual cream sauce, was described as simply divine.
Their usual response is to say that it's minor, just a gloss, exaptations are rare, they're just nooks and crannies, they're not important.
No, I'm not talking about the usual typos and errata, but rules with no examples and written in micro print.
He reverses the usual humancentric perspective, asking what domestication has meant to the apple tree, the potato, and the tulip.
At least it exonerated them from their usual role in being unable to hold on to leads.
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Some years ago, I witnessed a glorious soap opera in my balcony, the eternal triangle being the usual cause of it all.
This fiction is a slight departure from my usual writing style and is an experiment in itself.
Patients continued using their usual maintenance dosage of inhaled corticosteroid treatment throughout the study.
We landed on top of what was left of the wreck and, after the usual checks, headed off to explore this unfamiliar site.
This wasn't the usual daily chaos of ScotRail, this was an Amtrak express leaving Penn Station.
That authority may be either actual or apparent, and it may be express, implied, usual or ostensible.
He plays not only his usual double bass but also a viola da gamba which strangely matches the moody quality of the Russian tunes.
Rather, he is keen to defend football from the usual allegations that ticket prices are extortionate.
Suddenly everything is confined to exposed planters, removed from the usual moisture and nutrient sources, and subject to climatic extremes.
I want to fill you in on a few of the details so you won't think this is the usual election year eyewash.
Too bad this engrossing drama wasn't given the usual flawless dramaturgy of the series.
At the control site, the nurses used their usual method of transferring patients from bed to stretcher and from stretcher to bed.
The boxes expanded from their usual spots on city street corners to motel lobbies, resorts and fast-food drive-throughs.
Some mornings you need something stronger than the usual drive time chatter.
The sea was its usual calm blue, a glassy liquid surface stretching till it fused with the horizon in a spectacle of colour.
I'm deeply grateful that my usual routine is still there, waiting for me to return.
Aside from the usual babysitting gig, there are other ways to rake in the bucks you need to buy a new computer.
As usual the ladies committee served a beautiful tea and the lucky winners of raffle prizes were well rewarded for their investments.
Apart from the usual salutations and dedications, the book starts with an introduction in conventional German.
His descendants, however, fought each other with the usual courtly relish of medieval princelings.
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The guys he got in with were not your usual drug ridden thieves they were professional hard men, they carried guns.
The usual pretexts for war were used, which resulted in profits for the privileged few.
They'll put on the usual pretenses of being happy to be there, and all, but I know it's all a facade.
We are permitted, defeasibly, to adopt the usual and mutually expected presuppositions of those around us.
Patients were given general anesthetic agents in the operating room in the usual fashion according to hospital policy.
His wood brown hair was gelled into spikes as usual and not a hair dared to venture out of place.
Booking is handled online and requires weight details as well as the usual personal info.
At the laundry pond in addition to the usual species I saw another new species, a group of three ferruginous ducks.
Jim, in his usual inimitable way, kept everyone entertained by his repertoire of jokes and stories.
The pain subsided more than usual and I was spared the pin cushion process of endless morphine injections.
There will be the usual field day events such as bottle stall, wheel of fortune, goldfish, throw the dice, book stall etc. etc.
He can feel about two-thirds of the normal sensation of being touched and half of the usual intensity of pinpricks.
He brought the cigar to his mouth and sucked on it, the orange tip growing a fiery hot yellow, then returning to its usual dullness.
The 2002 triathlon season began with the usual pipe-opener, the long-established Liam Ball Triathlon in Derry.
It has a cooperative ownership structure, which differs from the usual condominium or planned-unit development setup.
It would admittedly not be the usual case of subrogation to security rights in rem and in personam.
In February 2003, my wife and I began our year as usual by hooking up our fifth-wheel trailer and travelling south for some winter sun.
His usual sullen insensibility is disrupted by unpredictable explosions of rage.
The usual choice is a solid-color opaque fabric, but you might consider a print lining under a plain color or even a patterned sheer.
Therefore, this involves interacting with all the usual suspects who I need to get my car on the road.
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The most usual combinations are a collection of cards of equal rank, or a sequence of cards of consecutive ranks in the same suit.
That was when the idiots decided to test the fire alarm without the usual warning over the speakers.
These bits are interlaced with the usual interview cuts from Lawrence, director David Raynr, and the production team.
Patients were recruited through screening and referral, with 1,801 depressed or dysthymic elderly patients randomized to usual care or to the intervention.
The usual problem of samples sticking at the probe dip during powder measurements is avoided by a special probe design.
I would like to request that Elizabeth be excused from her usual duties.
Bureaucracy plays its usual doleful part in the process, of course.
The solution to it is paradoxically, you eat more, not the usual thing that we do to keep our cholesterol down.
With his arrest, the gutter press reeled off the usual headlines.
For the past 20 years she has operated a domiciliary eye service in and around York, visiting patients at home or in care who cannot get out to visit their usual optometrist.
Can you give us an idea of how it compares to the usual thing we see in Canada every year?
It will be an alternative to the usual football, guff and nonsense.
I listed at the beginning the most usual procedures used to provide assistance in conception, but deferred discussion of the two methods that are most morally dubious.
Around his wide waist was a braided leather belt which held the usual pirate's weapons of a cutlass and pistol as well as an ax and two smaller daggers.
House members planned a cleanup day on Monday and planned to begin business almost as usual on Tuesday.
The letters run from right to left, as usual with Etruscan inscriptions.
He also demonstrates his usual fairness and balance in explicating the theological opinion to the effect that there is a possibility that all may be saved.
He guessed that the original cutting stylus was defective and so he tried a custom-made reproducing stylus, instead of the usual conical or elliptical styli.
Teachers who earn extra money for marking scripts in the summer have been asked by the Joint Council for General Qualifications to take on double their usual load.
Instead of creating the usual digital effects, Jennifer Carpenter, the daughter of film director John Carpenter, convincingly distorts her body to portray the possessed girl.
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The usual method of propagation is by leaf cuttings during the spring.
This option is the usual course of action where an error or omission is identified in one or more areas of the assessment.
The place of work of those mostly working at home is the same as their usual residence.
Although there were the usual cyclic downturns, the rural economy on the whole rapidly improved in the twenty years succeeding the suspension of cash payments.
This manifests itself most obviously in the absence of footnotes or endnotes, making the book subject to the usual advantages and disadvantages of this form of presentation.
So we're back to the usual campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Even though gun shots resound in the streets at night, a usual thing in Haiti, peace is slowly returning.
Since 9 October we have had the usual stream of election post-mortems.
I dreamed about Bali last night though as usual it was not the real Bali, more some sandy, watery oceanic island with elements of the South of France about it.
But kids talk a lot, and as well as the usual gossipy drivel, I can't help but hear them spill a remarkable amount of private information that would horrify their parents.
The usual remedies for unwanted hair include plucking, shaving, waxing or chemical depilatories, but all of them are temporary, as none damage the hair follicle.
Oxford's two teams performed well during the day, with Oxford 1 beating New Forest Pirates, and Oxford 2 winning against Oxford 1 in the usual grudge match.
I dropped my bag next to my usual seat in the back and sat down.
That doesn't stop him from dropping the usual snide comments.
Her adventures as junior PI, the well-written dialogue and storylines apparently mark the series out from the usual teenage dross that populates our screens.
She comes to reason, rejects her earthly possessions and opens the ointment jar, her usual attribute.
As is usual during the evening meal, ambient music is heard the moment the dining room lights go down to enjoy a candlelit dinner.
The sardelki, my favorite food, had hard skin and tasted better than the usual franks.
Boss-eyed gurns marginally less grating than the usual model selfies in yoga that clutter up social media.
He had the usual faceful of scruff and the crooked smile that soften his stockiness.
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They have come into operation much more smoothly than is usual for highly complex particle detectors.
A success in that same vein, though, was the treacle tart that came with my tea-less tea — a real step up from the usual disk of sugariness.
Disorder due to excessive secretion of pituitary growth hormone, the usual cause being a benign adenoma or hyperplasia of the adenohypophysis.
Still, many rivers such as the Bow, Oldman and Red Deer were engorged, flowing 10 to 30 times their usual volume.
As well as the usual hiking and biking trails, Verbier is also one of the country's best sites for hang gliding and parascending.
The usual refreshment stand selling miscellaneous snacks will also be available during classes and evening socials.
I expect better from The Economist than I get from the usual feather-brained and fashion-addled stuff I read in Time or Newsweek.
Since his death, the usual clichés about Eric Rohmer are once again pullulating on the Internet.
But unfortunately the member is wrapped up as usual in cheap, partisan, political shenanigans.
Finally, the usual lot of TV promos and trailers are included as well.
The glassiness was quickly disappearing and the usual gleam was returning.
For those that linger upon the spool of noodles and ponder its texture longer than the usual diner, it is because we savor it.
Although Lees hints at the programmatic, his usual care and thought have gone into symphonic construction and the music can be enjoyed without reference to external events.
A congregation of several hundred people attended the usual evening mass at St Mary's and said the rosary after the statue was brought into the church in procession.
Lawyers acting in the usual course of the practice of law, and insurer representatives, are exempt from these requirements.
Mr. Speaker, I was happy to allow the House leader for the Bloc to go ahead of me in the usual order.
By the usual convention, the element he obtained became known as cerium.
But what do you do if your usual training programme on land gets too monotonous or your joints actually start to ache?
In 1982, Italy survived with three straight draws in the first round with its usual agità, before jelling to win the title.
It is common that malware cannot be removed by means of a regular uninstall by the usual means, at best leaving software fragments in the system.
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This is not an unusual occurrence and the usual procedures will, presumably, be followed.
Chronic caloric over-consumption and sedentariness are the usual suspects driving the obesity epidemic.
Last Fathers' Day, in his usual unfunny wail of a pooh-bah, Mr. Bouchier took on fathers who conveyed feelings.
Despite suffering what must have been a hurtful rebuff for a young academic, she spoke of him in very respectful terms, characteristic of her usual grace.
It turned north for some distance, then curved right around to flow back south, before finally returning to its usual easterly course towards the Great River.
Most of us are indulging in the usual gallows humour we use to get us through the general round of threats and attempted assaults that are our daily lot.
Returning to Edinburgh last year after nearly two decades living and working in London, I went through the usual phase of seeing my country in new light, as an outsider.
If evidence is to be called on factual issues, it is likely to be mainly about the usual industry practice relating to installation of blow-out preventers.
The purchaser is entitled to process and sell the reserved-title goods in the usual course of business provided it is not in default.
Full-time students are enrolled in 60 per cent or more of the usual course load.
The vessel had completed the discharge of a full load of barges and was then deballasted to her usual seagoing condition of 4.25m draught even keel.
All we are trying to do is to avoid the necessity of having to do the paperwork immediately rather than in the usual course in June.
The extras are little more than the usual electronic press kit, with a couple of featurettes with brief interviews and many clips, and too much duplication between them.
When symptoms develop gradually, people may begin to lose interest in their usual pursuits and to withdraw from friends and family members.
She looked absolutely beautiful, and it was more than the usual overly styled hair and huge puffy dress that girls usually wore to the spring formal.
A pretty big store stocking the usual range of Morgan's funky and inexpensive outfits for teenagers and young women.
Every such person shall, so far as possible, be kept in his usual place of employment.
The terms sardine and pilchard are not precise, and the usual meanings vary by region.
My computer had the usual surge protector, but the modem was still demolished.
That side of Oliver's work is necessary to fully appreciate her in her usual exhortatory or petitionary mode.
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After some discussion, the Committee agreed to some rewording of the section to follow the usual format of labelling sections.
There are the usual car chases, explosions, gun battles, etc.
He purveys the usual Labour beliefs in comprehensive education.
She was leading the mare through the trees, searching as usual for a good tree to climb and those evasive signs of inhabitance when the horse stopped.
What happens if you take away the usual racing rules, the lap circuit, compassion for fellow drivers and the necessity to finish first?
Telling the truth and not tattling on friends is contrary to the usual practice and somehow it does not work out.
I had to get up more or less at the usual hour, and Mamma could not understand why I was so addle-brained.
When I used my usual fighting method, right-handed, he creamed me.
I have been spending a bit more time than usual fiddling around at Technorati, recently, and I noticed that there is a tidal movement of Get Real's Technorati rank.
All the usual attractions will be there and, after a long absence at field days, there will be a tug of war competition with many local pubs entering a team.
Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
There are the usual bar stools and tables and two gaming machines.
The usual excuse is that readers of newspapers prefer their sentences short, their paragraphs pint-sized and text uncluttered with mysterious squiggles.
Several key players have not been playing up to their usual standards or are out injured.
The Spanish adopted their usual tactic of forming up their arquebusiers behind a stout fieldwork, and keeping their foot and cavalry in reserve behind these.
If one demarcates alpha, beta, and gamma world cities as three meaningful tiers, the alpha tier includes the usual urban triumvirate but also Paris.
The two masts are in place, and the usual plan is to descend on one of them, explore the aft or forward part of the ship and ascend the same or the other mast.
The speeches amazed listeners with their conversational tone and freedom from the expected pedantry, and nor did they bloviate, in the usual manner of the stump.
The parties went on into the small hours, with the usual suspects in attendance, plus a few who were trying to milk their fifteen minutes of fame.
He adopted the dhoti as his usual garb, and his spinning-wheel, which he used daily, became an emblem of his belief in the importance of simplicity.

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