As their force in our culture wanes, that culture risks becoming a backdrop for escalating rivalry among disconnected individuals. |
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You might find moments of optimism hidden among Tweedy's disaffected, disconnected lyrics. |
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Nothing got rid of the feeling that his arms were disconnected from his body. |
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Without interaction, the parts or units are disconnected and free-standing. |
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Loneliness is a painful emotional feeling of being disconnected, cut-off or isolated from the rest of our world. |
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Her brain sent panicked messages to her feet, but it was as though she were disconnected from her body. |
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They gave me one phone number which I had checked out, turned out to be a disconnected phone number of a textile mill that had gone bankrupt. |
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The body is never disconnected from the mind, and in that fact, she finds her drama. |
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In addition, fire hoses in the residence hall were disconnected and partially dismantled because the equipment was outdated. |
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Tube fittings connections may be disconnected and remade repeatedly, without loss of leaktight seal. |
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I would like a novel to be just that, a random collection of seemingly disconnected events because that is what my life is. |
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For a comedian, her intensity is almost humourless, like she's partially disconnected, operating on a slightly different plane. |
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As he continued his remarks, a few individuals rushed the stage and twice disconnected his microphone, forcing him to halt the speech. |
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She disconnected her computer and played games for a bit before finally going to sleep. |
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The occupant was evacuated while electrical engineers disconnected the power, allowing the firefighters to enter. |
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Once the computer is off, it's disconnected from the server and you can't send messages to it. |
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The sequential compression devices are disconnected, and the patient's vital signs are assessed. |
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So this week Dave has published another number to help readers who can't get through on the disconnected line. |
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The last he heard was a desperate disconnected phone call during Hurricane Katrina. |
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Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant. |
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I wake to find Gwen has unplugged all the phones and disconnected the doorbell so I'm not disturbed. |
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I arrived home to an eviction notice, no electricity and a disconnected phone. |
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But one wondered at the overuse of casual brackets, the plethora of connected dots to shape disconnected thoughts. |
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What looked like two scars were running down either side of Joe's back, forming a disconnected acute angle. |
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The first film is a ragbag of disconnected routines built around the flimsiest of plots, taken directly from a successful stage revue. |
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Hundreds of thousands of customers have been disconnected for non-payment of bills, something that was illegal before privatisation. |
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I was hurriedly winding our grandfather clock when, in my carelessness, the pendulum disconnected. |
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The corporatisation of basic services has meant that millions have been disconnected from water and electricity. |
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The decision had been surprising to many who found their telephone lines disconnected despite having paid the bill. |
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Mobile phone users now have only fifteen days, instead of thirty five, to clear overdue bills before they are disconnected. |
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In 1994 12, 500 households were disconnected from water supplies because they couldn't pay. |
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So, make sure to load the clone while disconnected from your production network. |
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This means if your water account is in arrears, your electricity might be disconnected. |
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So often our lives appear as a series of disconnected and disjointed dots and lines. |
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Her cell phone has been disconnected and bills that I mailed have been ignored. |
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His family life was even more disconnected, another family man with a rebellious teen-age daughter and alcoholic wife. |
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The building contractors wrote to us in February and we have applied for the electricity to be disconnected. |
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Noah disconnected the call and sighed, staring at the wrecked car that was being towed away. |
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It's the remarkable story of the father he knew only as a series of disconnected memories. |
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The formerly disconnected ideas are gradually shown to fit into each other. |
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It was the disconnected smoke alarm which landed him a death sentence as it made the so-called crime pre-meditated. |
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I felt a rush of jitters, my arms swung apishly like pendulums and my legs seemed disconnected, lumbering stilts. |
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The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of disconnected thought and jarring line breaks. |
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Within a month of buying one, I disconnected my archaic home phone and took the cell everywhere. |
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With the engine off and the battery disconnected, remove the flame arrestor and inspect the carburetor. |
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After you have safely wrapped all disconnected light-fixture wires, you can turn the electricity back on. |
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I immediately disconnected the autopilot and scanned the engine instruments. |
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Officers are advising anyone who has purchased a set of the lights to examine the lampholders while they are disconnected from the mains supply. |
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A wired world changes much more rapidly than a disconnected one and the more people wired together, the faster the change. |
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He discovered that only thing wrong about the record was a disconnected phone number. |
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He disclosed that cases have been reported with officials tampering with disconnected water and electricity meters in return for bribes. |
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The violations included exposed wiring, fire doors off their hinges and a disconnected smoke-alarm system. |
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Both are attempts to condemn the trackage by rail companies that claim they are disconnected from service and will never be used again. |
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Superficially these seem disconnected and doubtless traditional politicians and focus groups are puzzling over the underlying trends. |
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They bring the benefits to disconnected servers without the high cost of connectivity. |
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It is not so much a movie as a series of badly acted, miserably written, disconnected scenes. |
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The narrative of the book is also disconnected, with plenty of non sequiturs between chapters. |
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Never attempt to clear blockages until power has been disconnected and watch your hands. |
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The water was disconnected, and yesterday it was reconnected after guarantee of payment. |
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Electricity, gas and telephones in the area have been disconnected but may be restored to some parts of the area if safety permits. |
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In many Impressionist pictures the only thing that the disconnected elements have in common is to be within the same frame at the same time. |
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A 26-year-old brain-dead mother has died in a Virginia hospital after her life support was disconnected. |
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According to the official report into the US case, a transmission line disconnected because of hot gases from a bush fire. |
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This plodding, wandering, disconnected story pulls out every melodramatic stop to tug at your heartstrings. |
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Sitting at either end of a long pub lounge, the characters tell their parallel stories by means of disconnected, intertwined monologues. |
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All national schools were disconnected from the Internet the following day, with some remaining offline until the end of the week. |
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There were two smoke alarms installed in the house, but one had been disconnected and the second had flat batteries. |
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He spoke to the driver who made no response, and because of his concern that the car could catch fire he disconnected its battery. |
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I cannot bear to hear certain words and hearing them earlier made me feel strange and now i feel disconnected and bewildered. |
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It is wasteful, and spending and outcomes have increasingly become disconnected. |
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Sure, the conversation offered by a chatbot is rambling, disconnected, illogical, and unable to follow a topic for more than a sentence. |
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Above the chair, a disconnected IV drip further indicates a dire state of emergency. |
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History and a chain of disconnected memories came crashing over one another in my head. |
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And without the ties of kinship, we would be nothing more than a disconnected horde. |
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It made me vaguely nervous to see it there, so close, though in a disconnected type of way. |
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To me, such compositions suggest the multiple, disconnected motifs that you often find on an artist's sketchbook page. |
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Only the husband remains unheard, for reasons which become obvious as the disconnected narrative evolves. |
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And afterwards, I was left with a straight flush of surreal, striking, disconnected impressions and memories. |
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Nevertheless, he disconnected, swam to the survivor, checked him for injuries, and signaled for pickup. |
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Prices for fuel more than doubled on Friday as filling stations disconnected pumps to prevent looting. |
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The imagery and camerawork are almost painfully beautiful, while the disconnected narrative deliberately withholds closure. |
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It has been a very satisfying hobby for me, although I am just now beginning to thoroughly formalize my disconnected ideas into my first conlang. |
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His larger vision is often subsumed in the interconnected, disconnected families whose lives he's chronicling. |
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At first Ellen is confused by the disconnected stories, and wonders if he is making them up as he goes along. |
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On Saturday, just before the water went off, our plumber Geoff came round and disconnected it and fixed the pipes. |
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She stepped back, of her own choice, and went from being immersed in something with me to being a disconnected observer. |
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Brought forth in the programme are images that encompass and translate the diverse emotions of the disconnected people. |
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He stalks the bars and foyers of five-star hotels, disconnected from family and country, isolated and seemingly impenetrable. |
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We didn't even touch the fuses or wiring, so it must be something to do with the MOT that didn't show up all the time the bulb was disconnected. |
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One night the junction between his gastrostomy tube and the feeding tube became disconnected. |
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The power of the book comes, though, from the poignant descriptions of the well-meaning but disconnected members and friends of the family. |
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In some pulpits of our church, preaching continues to be irrelevant, disconnected and, yes, even boring. |
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Through the dialer, users' modems are silently disconnected, then reconnected to the internet through an international long-distance number. |
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These writers interpret bits of disconnected data to reassert the old dichotomies of men versus women, of biology versus culture. |
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If the state spreads itself too thinly across the disconnected and diffuse networks of personal identity, it will simply dissipate. |
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Father and son disconnected the old stove then lugged it outdoors. |
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Paul has disconnected his phone, his cable and his satellite dish. |
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Best of all I have no laptop, blackberry or phone, so I begin to feel truly disconnected. |
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He made his money by inventing a pipe connector which allows radiators to be swivelled forward without being disconnected, making it easy to wallpaper behind them. |
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And if anyone other than me cares about my car, the catalytic converter light gracing my dashboard was apparently crying wolf and has consequently been disconnected. |
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On January 24, 2014, Mrs. Munoz was disconnected from artificial support and her remains were released to her family. |
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The rap on Wall Street and the big banks is that they are disconnected from the Main Street economy. |
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And the more disconnected we become from the era of the Civil War, the more abstract and plausible the idea of secession becomes. |
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The memories are rosy at first, if a bit disconnected and tangential, and each tale includes memories told to the nameless child by his foster father, Mr Finney. |
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Because if this is how I feel from all of the rancor, I can only imagine how disconnected the rest of my generation must feel. |
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On those boats that have internal halyards, all halyards should be disconnected from the deck and hauled through until the shackles are two-blocked at the masthead. |
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He felt disconnected from his body, soaring into a haze of delirium. |
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In future more hoaxers will find themselves in court or else having their mobiles and land-lines disconnected as a punishment for wasting police time. |
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At first, beginners understand little and produce nothing, then gradually they understand individual words, fixed formulas, and disconnected items in speech or text. |
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Before calling in police, management disconnected electricity and water supplies to the factory and to the workers' hostels in an attempt to break the strike. |
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In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text. |
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But, the synchronic and diachronic become entangled in both analysis and presentation, with key theoretical points coming across jumbled and disconnected. |
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The first task they were given was to scrub clean one of the barracks toilets and the pipe leading out of the wall which was disconnected from the septic tank. |
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Business in his day was a congeries of disconnected ventures. |
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He called for some pliers, disconnected the wire, and removed the fairing. |
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I will explore some of the more prominent Buddhist techniques for overcoming our inveterate dualism and the disconnected, alienated, disembodied condition it leads to. |
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When I called the electrician to come back and correct the problem I found that he had disconnected his phone and moved leaving no forwarding address. |
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When the talks broke down the angry workers barricaded senior management in their offices, deflated their car tyres and disconnected water to the city. |
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Although such a study clearly runs the risk of feeling diffuse and disconnected, her work succeeds because she uses a similar heuristic with each war and each text. |
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My mind was completely disconnected from what my body was doing. |
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They are terse, allusive, disconnected, apothegmatic and hard to follow. |
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Before you begin be sure the lamp is disconnected from the wall plug. |
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Shocked to hear this piece of information, she rushed home, examined her computer, disconnected the web camera and lodged a complaint with the police. |
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The problem has been attributed to temporary traffic lights being set up in the area when the nearby permanent traffic lights were not disconnected and synchronised. |
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With a click, Haley disconnected herself from the conversation. |
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Ford disconnected the telephone line and reactivated the radio link. |
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The mystery caller abruptly disconnected their conversation. |
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Family and friends ringing in were charged to listen to a lengthy message only to find that calls were disconnected before being put through to the patient. |
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Last week the strikers disconnected the electricity and water supplies to the company's premises, causing the temporary closure of its headquarters. |
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Water will be disconnected from 3.00 pm. to 8.30 a.m. the following day. |
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Half the time our electricity was disconnected and running water a luxury. |
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Cable TV has also been disconnected for non payment of the fees. |
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Today the club's electricity has been disconnected because of non-payment. |
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John, an English expat who practises an obscure form of spiritual therapy, lives and works surrounded by musty books, bottles of vodka, and a disconnected telephone. |
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But I think we can be a disconnected, impatient and lonely people. |
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We could bring kids in from other countries to share their experiences in these big states in the Midwest, where there are a lot of young people who are totally disconnected. |
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Is this another stuffy book by a disconnected reggae academic? |
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The work takes the form of a series of disconnected and discrete episodes, without essential inner connection, and becomes somewhat tedious as a result. |
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It is difficult to look for connections among disconnected events, but to the extent that it can happen, it is likely to result in better solutions. |
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Students milled around, offering a disconnected sense of safety. |
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Many have disconnected from their society as communities disintegrate, partly because few have the time to contribute to their local community and build local support systems. |
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These are clues, but all are disconnected by their season of disuse. |
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In the euphoric atmosphere of perceived victory, the Luftwaffe leadership became increasingly disconnected from reality. |
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The tops of the arches collapsed after being weakened by rainfall and wind, leaving disconnected stacks. |
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Some of which have been disconnected for vessels from the main stream by dikes. |
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The term Varangian remained in usage in the Byzantine Empire until the 13th century, largely disconnected from its Scandinavian roots by then. |
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If you have any problems getting on the call or are disconnected, first try redialing the conference number. |
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Many felt that these world shops were too disconnected from the rhythm and the lifestyle of contemporary developed societies. |
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Barth saw the covenant of works as disconnected from Christ and the gospel, and rejected the idea that God works with people in this way. |
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A more disconnected series of outcrops occur along the line of the Southern Uplands Fault from Edinburgh to Girvan. |
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Mobile client mode, another manageability enhancement, defrags mobile systems on schedule, even when they are disconnected from the network. |
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Disengaged Those who have disconnected rationally, emotionally and motivationally. |
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Putting a new motherboard in your PC is more difficult because of the wires, add-in cards and memory that must be disconnected and replaced. |
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His wound consists of a disconnected attachment to the one he loves, a woman who miscognizes his presence. |
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Residents of Marina Residences on Palm Jumeirah fear air-con could be disconnected on Sunday because of unpaid service charges. |
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She gave a tantrummy stomp, but again her eyes were disconnected from her words and actions. |
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Henry was disconnected from his barons, and a mutual lack of understanding led to unrest and resentment towards his rule. |
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At first, I thought is my laoya computer got problem because I keep getting disconnected or server error messages since Friday. |
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Support for resumable downloads means that you can carry on where you left off if you are disconnected from the Internet halfway through. |
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Any machines that are going to be worked on must be electrically disconnected, usually through the motor starter, so that it cannot operate. |
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In Adomako an anaesthetist failed to notice that a tube had become disconnected from the ventilator and the patient died. |
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I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world. |
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Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected. |
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The dictionary, as far as it was worked on by Grimm himself, has been described as a collection of disconnected antiquarian essays of high value. |
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Such a walkout could seriously disrupt the atmosphere of the games, leaving the host city disconnected from cities such as Nottingham and Sheffield. |
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Recently, Kejriwal had restored electricity connection of a daily wageworker after it was disconnected by the Electricity Department due non-payment of the inflated bill. |
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Set in Australia, The Paperbark Shoe is a story of war, disconnected lives, the division between cultures and countries, bigotry, loss, and survival. |
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A large portion of it might be seen long afterwards lying in the river in a sloping position, and not entirely disconnected from its original position at one end. |
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Finally in the 15th century, the people became disconnected from the sea. |
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There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone. |
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Data are represented on a scattergram as individual, disconnected symbols. |
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Scholars moved in multiple directions, covering in disconnected fashion the social, economic, and cultural history of different eras and different parts of the globe. |
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McDade-White, who telecommutes about three days a month on average, said she does not feel disconnected from colleagues in traditional office settings. |
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Also, sometimes the attribution of a literal meaning can change as the phrase becomes disconnected from its original roots, leading to a folk etymology. |
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Each of the connecting stickers has to be disconnected and tied up to the action and all the keys have to be removed from the piano before the action can be lifted out. |
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Gigantino, largely unknown to the crowd, delighted with her whimsical and surrealistic poems, drawing traces of an emotional arc through seemingly disconnected images. |
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