However, the flagship was soon buffeted by very heavy seas, and began taking on water. |
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Nonetheless, the economy continues to be buffeted by strong cross-currents. |
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They are weaker than cosmic and galactic rays, and tend to get buffeted around like clouds of manic dandelion spores on the solar wind. |
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The county has been adrift and buffeted since the break-up of the team of the past decade and now they are gasping for air. |
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We get buffeted through life like a ball-bearing in a bagatelle, bouncing off chance encounters, opportunities, unforeseen obstacles. |
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An image of my middy blouse hanging alone on the clotheslines outside our kitchen window, buffeted by the wind, came to mind. |
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The village has been buffeted by mudflows, landslides, river debris, flooding and earthquakes. |
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We were expecting to step outside at the end of the evening and be buffeted by high winds and soaked by torrential rain. |
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Storm whips up from the Antarctic and joggers pound along a waterfront buffeted by wind. |
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Strong gusts of wind buffeted the Messerschmitt and the captain missed his target. |
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In winter the island is buffeted by arctic winds, and in early summer the north coast is battered by icebergs floating down from Greenland. |
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It was so dark they could not see each other as their tree was buffeted by strong winds caused by Cyclone Debbie. |
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The international order is like a mighty river and our region is but a small boat buffeted by angry waves. |
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Fifty years ago on October 26 black clouds swirled over the mouth of the Firth of Tay as the east coast of Scotland was buffeted by fierce winds. |
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I walked from the valley below to both of the fog-free summits, buffeted by ocean winds. |
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The Seminole shook as she was buffeted by the two explosions and alarms announced more hull breaches and damage. |
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White feathered wings buffeted him aside, the silver-white dragon looking down on him with a slightly distant expression. |
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Lawns are freshly mown, paintwork touched up, tiles buffeted by winter storms shoved back into line. |
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It is time to recognize the historical wind shifts and realign our forces or be buffeted by them. |
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The frail craft, though buffeted by violent winds and sudden air pockets, stayed aloft. |
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The world has been buffeted by waves of terror that have traumatised Eastern as well as Western societies. |
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When the ball did reach him, he was constantly buffeted by the Faroes' burly rearguard and struggled to make it stick. |
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Or they were tormented souls, buffeted by external dilemmas and prior vulnerabilities. |
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There's something about her on-screen bearing that invites tragedy, her characters are relentlessly buffeted by ill-fortune. |
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Perhaps bond yields are signaling an economic slowdown, but it appears more like they are being buffeted by financial instability. |
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The winds buffeted the houses, slates blew off roofs and cannonaded against roads or windows in their path. |
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Invariably, we were buffeted by a stiff wind which left you red-faced but invigorated. |
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Lumpsuckers and clingfishes have sucker attachments that help them hang on to rocks so they aren't buffeted by the waves. |
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They had, then, to anchor the pylons supporting the cables on rocks frozen under deep drifts of snow, working in freezing temperatures, buffeted by needle sharp winds. |
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An immigrant buffeted by war and with little formal education, he learnt his trade as an intern before marching out on his own as a photojournalist. |
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The aircraft dived as it was buffeted by turbulence at 34,000 ft, lifting passengers high out of their seats and leaving them in fear of their lives. |
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Stockman, who gets airsick when buffeted by the winds, has pressure-point wristbands and a patch on her neck to combat the nausea. |
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Ordinary Pakistanis are struggling to hold themselves together, buffeted by inflation, energy shortages, and worry. |
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Crew and unlashed objects are buffeted around like on a really rough train ride. |
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We need to measure body temperature loss over time when people are buffeted by high wind and waves. |
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In the mid-seventies, the French pop scene was half asleep, unlike Britain, buffeted by the Punk storm that had hit it. |
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We rope the house to trees along the shore to prevent it from drifting away when we are buffeted by strong winds during the area's frequent tempests. |
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The Czech government has been buffeted in recent months by a series of corruption scandals that have threatened to bring it down. |
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The brownies are a more than welcome treat if the weather has buffeted you on the walk to the dining rooms. |
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Rescue operations were on hold Monday as rough seas buffeted the Costa Concordia. |
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Peña Nieto was buffeted by criticism over the apparent massacre of 43 students in September by a drug gang working with local police. |
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The weather on the last two days' fishing had been poor, with rough seas that had buffeted the vessel about. |
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We are going to vote for the bill, but we, too, have been buffeted by headwinds. |
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But also, given the poor state of canola harvesting at this time, downside price risk is being buffeted. |
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It, too, is being buffeted by the financial crisis but is proving to be remarkably resilient. |
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Like all businesses, air carriers are buffeted by economic downturns and rising costs. |
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Between the two, we are buffeted by profit, partisanship and passions. |
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A similar mood was elicited by the Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno in Un Mundo, an installation that included an inflatable beach-ball globe buffeted by a wind machine. |
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In September 1897, buffeted by personal and professional difficulties, as well as conflicts with leading German feminists, she entered a mental hospital. |
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Amazingly you don't get buffeted by the wind even when you drive fast. |
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The two figures stumbled across the dunes, buffeted by the wind and sand. |
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He wants to learn how the peregrine does it, how a bird can fly hundreds of miles a day, feeding sporadically and buffeted by uncooperative winds. |
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It's beautiful in summer, he says, but not quite so today, the back of the house buffeted by howling winds and Biblical rains coming in across the river. |
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It pattered hard against the seaward windows of the hotel and swept into the horde of steam launches that buffeted with the rather boisterous sea. |
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But it would take a powerful insect, or a very brave bird, to pollinate the plants that cling to exposed slopes, consistently buffeted by thirty-mile-an-hour winds. |
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As it rocketed past over our heads, the slipstream buffeted us. |
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Noise pollution is insidious says actor Randy Hughson, who brings his portrayal of Doyle, a man buffeted by incessant noise, to the Magnetic North Festival. |
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But she was again buffeted away, as helpless as a dandelion seed. |
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The sidewalk is narrow and the pedestrian is buffeted on one side by traffic, on the other by the proximity of the plunge and the meagre hip-height railing. |
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There were all sorts of problems that came from people having rather weak identities that were being fiercely buffeted by their social circumstances. |
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Tears were ripped from her eyes as she was buffeted by the blast. |
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Over the last few weeks, Gilbert has been buffeted from all sides by furious investors, politicians, analysts, the media, other fund managers and industry regulators. |
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We were buffeted by the highest natural gas prices in history that made two-thirds of North American petrochemical production non-competitive for the first quarter of the year. |
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Output and employment have continued to grow steadily since the mid-1990s, even as our economy has been buffeted by a series of significant shocks. |
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In 2009 ONE successfully campaigned for the IMF to sell some of its undervalued Gold reserves to provide emergency funding to poor countries that were being buffeted by the financial crisis. |
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It was only part way towards the successful reinvention of itself when recession, stagflation, and the oil shocks buffeted the economy of North America. |
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My friends, the AIDS response has been buffeted by adversity. |
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It is buffeted by all the winds that shake the global environment: it is affected by the smallest economic jolt, by fluctuations in fuel prices, political upheavals and security issues. |
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Oil prices had been buffeted earlier this week on speculation that global health concerns about the spread of swine flue would trim demand for fuel. |
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Yomping and clambering among the heaps of fallen rocks, all of this while being buffeted by a breathtaking mistral wind whose gusts threaten to knock you down. |
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Father Ray said the farm was buffeted by cold winds, sea frets and was in the shadow of the Pennines. |
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You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. |
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Running is the my least strong discipline, but my first lap seemed to pass by quite comfortably as we ran along the edge of the reservoir, even if we were buffeted by wind crossing the dam. |
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Every country is buffeted by internal and external storms. |
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Beltway firms large and small have been buffeted by the sequester. |
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Robbie Keane would not be many people's idea of a messiah, but to Celtic supporters buffeted by disappointment throughout a trying season selectivity is an unaffordable luxury. |
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In total, I recorded about one hour of good quality data with only a few overloads caused by extreme wind gusts that buffeted the patio door and microphone. |
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