He loved the outdoor life and travelled extensively in Europe where he excelled at mountain climbing. |
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At school he excelled at all sports, becoming captain of athletics and representing his school in the public schools championships. |
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An avid student, Edmond excelled at his schoolwork, and was thought of as his school's best poet. |
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Renowned for attracting top acts to the showpiece event, this year they have excelled themselves by signing up current chart-toppers Hear'say. |
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Born in Antwerp and trained as a marine artist, he excelled in portraying the busy life of ports. |
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He made history in the old days when he competed in ploughing championships with a pair of horses, at which he excelled. |
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My sister and I had healthy birth weights, hit all the markers, and excelled academically, despite the lack of elbow room. |
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Elsewhere, he excelled in Chopin's smaller works, especially the mazurkas, to which he brought unusual lapidary refinement. |
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Our snipers and reconnaissance Marines excelled at this task, as one would expect of trained observers. |
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Margaret was also a great sewer and dress-maker, a craft at which she excelled in her younger years. |
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If Mother were alive today, she'd put TV makeover shows to shame, for she excelled in transformation. |
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At the end of the year, the school gave a prize to the student who best excelled at those essays. |
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Traditionally, Bakongo artisans have excelled in woodcarving, sculpting, painting, and stonework. |
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Off it he excelled even more as an administrator, and in lauding and applauding him I also thank him for services so superbly rendered. |
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His tribulations at a sport at which he previously naturally excelled would have tried the patience of a saint. |
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The keeper then excelled himself by reacting quickly to block the rebound from Adam and, unbelievably, Dundee were still ahead. |
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I'm delighted with the organisation and the transport planners excelled themselves. |
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Other signings have disappointed but McCormack excelled himself in the close season by landing St George star Darren Treacy. |
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The Pendle team were a little thin on the ground, but those who did compete excelled themselves with a total of 16 personal best performances. |
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She excelled in every subject and was friends with just about the entire school. |
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The question master on the night was Charlie Hughes and he excelled as usual with his witty repertoire. |
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Ed Blackwell plays it straight for the most part, with only occasional flashes of the quicksilver rhythmic trickery he excelled at. |
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His rich father purchased him a prized education, but it was football at which the young Watson excelled. |
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The make-up people excelled themselves with lots of dirty fingernails and a welter of warts, wens and rotten corpses. |
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For fastening the hay-fork rope to the whiffletrees or tying a rope around a calf's neck this knot cannot be excelled. |
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By avid reading of the literature, I already knew half of the material, so I excelled. |
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Again mathematics was his favourite subject but he also excelled at divinity. |
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Once again, those pusillanimous, patronising, mealy-mouthed lectionary compilers have excelled themselves. |
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However, the one demonstration he excelled at was portraying a knight's destrier. |
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She was a golden girl in her youth, having excelled academically and at sport. |
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The Germans excelled at fast warfare and French and British forces could not keep up. |
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Sabina excelled in her GCSE exams and now hopes to follow up her current course with a beautician course before going to university. |
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While some composers have excelled at writing preludes, Silvestrov has become the master of the postlude. |
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Used mainly as cavalry horses, the walers also excelled as mounts at polo, race meetings, and gymkhanas. |
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She mostly excelled with Olympia's aria, but her high notes occasionally soured toward flatness. |
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I think my sense of propriety sometimes dulled the theatrical flamboyancy at which he truly excelled. |
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Piskun also excelled at other meets, often winning many international invitationals. |
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But not only has the plucky youngster fought her way back to fitness, she has also excelled herself in the world of sport. |
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He excelled at improv, won two awards for playwriting and was class valedictorian. |
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Having excelled at the Commonwealth championship, the women came a cropper in Canada, failing to win a single medal. |
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As a politician, Allende always exhibited a Marxist orientation, but he excelled as a practitioner rather than an ideologist or intellectual. |
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It's probably the same reason I like puzzles, and it's no doubt the reason I later excelled in symbolic logic classes. |
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I was the badminton champion and also excelled in darts, football and hockey. |
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Against the best the country could offer the Carlow participants excelled, bringing back a hoard of medals in several disciplines. |
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Within half an hour my confidence and style excelled, resulting in much hilarity and a good dose of old-fashioned childish fun. |
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Banks excelled at such practices during the 1980 s Latin American debt crisis, a forerunner of the current subprime crisis. |
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Born in Thirsk in 192, he excelled early in a variety of sports, and became a champion in boxing, high diving, and pole vaulting. |
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He excelled the skills even of Frescobaldi in the manipulation of fugal devices such as countersubject, stretto and sustained pedalpoint. |
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The hearing impaired children excelled in dancing, mainly depending on the lip movements. |
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He joined the extremely strict Observant order and excelled in their discipline. |
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Dyann has excelled in her chosen sports, football and camogie for many years and has played with Limerick in both codes. |
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The stand-ins excelled themselves and the keeper had little to do during the match. |
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His images created by the vivid description of desert life and earthly love scenes were never excelled by later lyricists. |
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She was on the staff of Rathdowney Designer Centre Fashions, where she excelled as a sales person. |
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He had the ability to go straight to the point in argument, had a quick wit, and excelled at speech-making. |
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He excelled at school and sports, and was valedictorian of his high school class. |
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Gifted with a remarkably deep and sonorous voice, Rashid Khan has excelled in almost all facets of singing. |
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Mary excelled at knitting and produced many beautiful garments for her nieces and nephews. |
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He had an ordinary childhood and excelled in the Army, where an obsession with neatness and fitness impressed commanders. |
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In his 12 games with the club he scored more than 400 runs, took 15 wickets and excelled in the field. |
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Neither of these Premierleague stragglers excelled yesterday, you may be unsurprised to here, but, United laboured less than Aberdeen. |
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He excelled at every subject and could easily have become an astrophysicist. |
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During school I was always involved in sports and generally excelled in all athletic events. |
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They have also excelled in cricket, volleyball, khabadi and kho-kho at the national level. |
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Our country has substantial number of disabled people who have excelled in various walks of life, overcoming poverty and social taboos. |
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He excelled at cricket, learning the same techniques of blocking and sweeping to the boundary that serve him so well in interviews. |
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They excelled at the highest level and always maintained a high standard of sportsmanship. |
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Back in his early days on the b-list, Spacey was a hard working actor who excelled at characters with baby faces and dark hearts. |
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But he was incredibly bright, excelled at school and as a young man dabbled in the professions of law, teaching and theology. |
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However, it is mostly as an essayist and letter writer that she excelled and put to effective use her fiery spirit as a rebel, social activist and reformer. |
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At 14, he returned to being a full-time scholar at Dunbar High School, where he excelled at mathematics, and then at 16, he went back to the millwright's trade. |
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He had excelled in every single mission that had been assigned to him, from routing bandits to training whole divisions of new recruits to aid in the war. |
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Many excelled in school, married, worked their way through college, raised children, joined the army, and became farmers, bankers, and politicians. |
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Even when he excelled at his favourite hobby of banger racing he was an also-ran, a man with a reputation of being shy, introverted and insignificant. |
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Despite the obstacles, however, Ephron excelled, moving from errand girl to bona fide writer at the New York Post and Esquire. |
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Macron excelled at France's elite schools, including the civil-servant powerhouse Ecole Nationale d'Administration. |
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On this front, Scalia has excelled, and precisely because of the traits that Murphy finds problematic. |
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Giloy-Hirtz is fascinated by photographers who have excelled in other artistic fields. |
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His 1965 book, A Thousand Days, retains its vigor, and has never been excelled as a study of those years. |
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The position on the right wing where he had played all his life, and where he excelled, was already occupied by former world player of the year Luis Figo. |
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But by the end of high school, Sara, who once excelled in academics, gymnastics, and volleyball, had changed. |
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In an era when government oversight was almost nonexistent and laissez-faire capitalism was in its heyday, Kennedy excelled. |
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Hollywood has always excelled in turning bestselling books into movies. |
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They honored extraordinary acts of memorization, just as they honored extraordinary feats in battle, and Cicero excelled at this. |
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A bleached blond blowhard, he excelled both as a wrestler and a manager. |
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It came as little surprise when the blue-eyed boy who excelled at his high school in Woodford Green, east London, wrote in his year book of his dream to be Prime Minister. |
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With such encouraging results, these teenagers have excelled in the world arena, erasing the image of Indonesian students as unintelligent and dull. |
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The local choir was joined by the Moy Singers of Ballina and Phil Landers had excelled herself with sophisticated and tasteful floral displays in the church. |
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He was multifaceted and multi-dimensional genius, who excelled in every sphere viz., as a teacher, a poet, a scholar and a public relations officer. |
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It's an especially positive development for Boldin, who seemed miscast most of the time last season as a split end instead of playing the slot, where he excelled as a rookie. |
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But Serbia, which excelled in qualifying, also proved that it wouldn't be a pushover when the time comes to play Germany. |
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But the Senate hopeful plans an upstate tour this month, the kind of retail politics at which the family has long excelled. |
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Lambie's side now sit nine points clear of the chasing pack and they excelled themselves here with penetrating one-touch football, but ultimately they were sucker-punched. |
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Fenner excelled as a casuist examining cases of troubled conscience. |
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In the 1970s and 1980s, the only way to breach the stranglehold of the state was to move to the West or the Gulf countries, where Indian entrepreneurs excelled. |
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The many skills he excelled at included swordsmanship, lancing, use of the crossbow, rope-handling, riding a variety of animals, and the engineering of war. |
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He excelled academically and participated in co-curricular programs. |
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And whatever the theme is that the show is seeking to follow has led to a shortage of those thrillingly distinct fusions of horse and rider that Stubbs excelled in. |
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She excelled at music, and in August 1888 left Melbourne with her sister Lillian and her mother for Leipzig, Germany, where she studied piano at the conservatorium. |
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There, he was to spend 22 years as a fitter of escalators, a job which he knew inside out and excelled at through his intimate knowledge of the business. |
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Heeding this advice, Europeans have long excelled at creating grand kitchen gardens that combine vegetables and ornamental plants in stunning designs. |
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It is, however, wrong of me to praise individuals for the entire cast excelled themselves and provided to each audience an evening of genuine entertainment. |
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Although he lacked a good radio voice, he excelled at writing short but incisive essays that captured a radio audience unused to such quality in a news broadcast. |
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He was an avid gambler and dice player, and excelled at sports, especially jousting, hunting, and real tennis. |
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Painters from Leiden, The Hague, and Amsterdam particularly excelled in the genre. |
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Through his experience fighting in the Livonian War, he learned war tactics and excelled beyond the other hetmans in skill. |
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There are also well known artists born to Cape Verdean parents who excelled themselves in the international music scene. |
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Ovid was a witty writer who excelled in creating lively and passionate characters. |
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So Witte designed a monoski for LaComb, who excelled using it in races, and Enabling Technologies was born. |
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Students who excelled in curricular and extra-curricular activities received prizes. |
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He has excelled at medicine, art and music and has held 40 solo exhibitions and given several piano, violine and song recitals. |
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Alfred proposed that students be educated in Old English, and those who excelled should go on to learn Latin. |
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Today it is primarily a prize giving event, where prizes are awarded to senior boys who have excelled in particular subjects. |
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The Cholas excelled in maritime activity in both military and the mercantile fields. |
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She has excelled in the field and is one of the most sought-after makeup artists in the region. |
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Sanders excelled in creating an abstractor network, which he did nationally. |
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He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he excelled in Greek, French, German, and Italian, as well as mathematics. |
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He excelled in English classes, and with his sister Marcelline, performed in the school orchestra for two years. |
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He passed the Eleven plus exam and attended Carlisle Grammar School where he excelled in English. |
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My father excelled in business above all by imagination and inventiveness. |
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He excelled at cornhuskings, where men and boys were divided into two groups, each striving to shuck the most corn. |
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Otto Schenk not only excelled as a stage actor, but also as an opera director. |
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It's admirable that Shelley overcame her handicap and excelled in her work. |
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He was a keen athlete and played football alongside future Wales rugby captain Sam Warburton, rugby, hockey and excelled at athletics. |
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For over 100 years, Finnish male and female athletes have consistently excelled at the javelin throw. |
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Having always excelled as a wit and raconteur, he often composed by assembling phrases, bons mots and witticisms into a longer, cohesive work. |
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Richard Goodman wrote that Larkin excelled as an administrator, committee man and arbitrator. |
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Fleming proved invaluable as Godfrey's personal assistant and excelled in administration. |
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He attended Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute for high school, where he excelled in Canadian football, soccer and basketball. |
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On the first point, Cruz and Paul excelled in New Hampshire. |
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In class, he hated mathematics, was fair at classics, and excelled at English and divinity. |
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Kevin Bartlett excelled from placed balls, with the Lovat clubman firing over six two-pointers, including five in the opening half. |
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That statement highlights the fact that the DoD is revitalizing its internal practices in a discipline in which it has excelled in the past. |
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She was not so keen on all the academic subjects but excelled in writing, and in 1911 she entered Arthur Mee's children's poetry competition. |
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He excelled at his studies and was promoted to the upper school at the age of nine. |
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A year later, Johnson went to Lichfield Grammar School, where he excelled in Latin. |
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They also excelled in philosophy, science, theology and medicine. |
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Traylor saw a header saved at the far post as Merthyr pushed again before Fisher excelled in keeping out a volley from Matthew Harris on 28 minutes. |
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Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. |
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Later, at American Ballet Theatre, she excelled as a spunky Swanilda in Coppelia and sailed through the technical demands of Theme and Variations. |
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When I worked in state government, babbitry was the only thing we excelled at. We communicated with the media a certain way, because we always had. |
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He excelled in his studies and became an accomplished pilot. |
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The Record Shatterers and Heavy Medal interactive recognizes those athletes who have excelled at their sport, and, as a result, have taken home the most Olympic medals. |
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At that time he had come to wonder just why she wished so badly to serve as a mere aide when according to all her instructors she had excelled in the art of sagecraft. |
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She and her younger half-brother Goya, a son of Tourbillon who excelled as an older horse, were out of Zariba, another yearling purchase made by Boussac. |
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The Moghuls not only excelled in the arts, culture, poetry and literature but also in India left a far-reaching effect on history in the admiration of food and wine. |
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He bounced back with a very good second behind Medicean Man but excelled on Super Saturday, finding only Shea Shea too good over Saturday's course and distance. |
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During this period Wilson excelled in sport as well as academic subjects, and fell in love with Margaret Fletcher, who was the object of his affections for several years. |
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But he more than made up for it on the sports field where he excelled in rugby and in taking part in the Wall Game where broken bones and torn muscles are all part of the fun. |
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