At social gatherings eligible gentlemen would draw lots bearing ladies' names on the eve of St Valentine's Day. |
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Their uncle remained in Dundee and the sisters would go to great lengths to avoid him, rarely attending family gatherings if he was there. |
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The launch of the scheme took place last Wednesday night, one of the first gatherings, in the salubrious surroundings of the new parish centre. |
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This is likely to be a day full of celebration and social interaction as you are much in demand at family reunions and gatherings. |
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Fandom by 1972 had exploded into an international phenomenon with conventions and assorted gatherings taking place all over our planet. |
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Parties, functions, dinners and gatherings are most avoidable outings in his notebook. |
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My husband is a university professor, and we get many invitations to dinner parties, formal gatherings, and other social functions. |
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These can be just as much of a drink fest as the gatherings at the pubs and clubs, albeit in a more genteel environment. |
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The elder presbyter was foremost responsible for these unofficial youth gatherings. |
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Whether Stukeley followed a local, popular etymology, or indeed created one, it is true that Martinshal was a site for autumnal gatherings. |
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Her most vulnerable work to date is a record that lyrically tackles everything from intimidating social gatherings to parenthood. |
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She's young, she's attractive and she's highly motivated, running two thriving businesses as well as presiding over weekly Rotarian gatherings. |
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Traditional use ranges from the formal to the informal, occasions to honor royalty and private gatherings of family and friends. |
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Here there are frequent, warmly convivial gatherings which involve the consumption of generous quantities of alcohol. |
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We also enjoy the right to conduct and participate in protests and gatherings to convey our position to governments and companies. |
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Participation in these gatherings is simply not consonant with the depression and contrition that the mourner experiences. |
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Various social gatherings bring members together for times of fellowship and fun beyond biweekly worship. |
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I'm very happy to say his dream was not a passing fancy, as I've now had the privilege of attending the first two gatherings. |
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Despite this, he has continued to appear regularly at our periodic family gatherings, and is considered a family member in good standing. |
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International travel would be stopped, schools closed and large public gatherings banned. |
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She appointed him Clerk of the Closet, which meant that Butler was expected to attend nightly gatherings of men of wit and learning. |
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Already enamoured of the small Canadian town, he began to hymn its praises in verse which he read to public gatherings. |
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Women participated in the singing of hymns, preaching in religious gatherings without any distinction. |
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Difficult meetings, family gatherings and so on can be chances to use your new skills. |
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The auditorium will serve as a meeting place for public gatherings and academic conferences. |
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The holidays bring parties and family gatherings when everyone wants to appear their best. |
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Avoid having many long holiday gatherings and parties with large numbers of guests. |
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The hotel staff encourages the use of this area for social gatherings and parties. |
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Sometimes, caterers serving at parties and social gatherings order large quantities. |
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But the main problem is noise nuisance from large gatherings of youths, with some shouting abuse at passers-by or swearing at them. |
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The prospect of better remuneration and living conditions attracted a horde of low paid Muslims to such gatherings. |
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Mitchell claims to have been chiefly inspired by his parents, especially watching his father play guitar at family gatherings. |
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Often these gatherings are held in dimly lit rooms with portable bars and chafing dishes of chicken fingers, meatballs, cheese cubes, and dip. |
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Of course, there was the occasional family gatherings at relative's homes and rare outings to the grocery store. |
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North Dakota is too cold to have large gatherings outdoors for nine months out of the year. |
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Should the game take off, Wong and his team are prepared to organize gatherings and tournaments. |
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And it borders on the unenthralling to have the conversation at social gatherings turn to slugs and cabbageworms the minute I show up. |
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French doors open from the dining room, which is convenient for handling the spillover from holiday gatherings. |
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They organise dances and gatherings to whip up the spirits, then go into trances. |
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The hall is also an ideal venue for meetings, concerts and other social and cultural gatherings. |
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Dad's pride and joy were his farm, family gatherings and socializing with many friends and neighbors. |
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Typical chapters enjoy socials that range from informal gatherings to gala affairs. |
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But there have been mutterings at technology gatherings about a lack of news about projects. |
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At least the gatherings gave you a chance to twit tame Jesuits about how you didn't believe in their God, but aren't-we-all-good-fellows-anyway. |
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Photographs of celebrations, family gatherings, and miscellaneous snapshots predominate the piece. |
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In addition to speeches before several nonprofit groups, the popular Texan was the toast of a few private gatherings. |
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Also, in gatherings it may be difficult to use, because of the impact of extraneous noise. |
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In three decades of celebrations, friendly gatherings, bashes, and general merrymaking, I've never experienced anything quite like it. |
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According to one person who attended, the gatherings attracted twenty-somethings from well-to-do Irish families. |
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Tattan has also been promoting the company internationally and has addressed high-profile gatherings on e-payments and e-security. |
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As a Midwesterner, I am particularly sensitive to an exclusive focus on East and West Coast gatherings. |
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It's a depressing thought but barring a wedding or two to come, the biggest gatherings will be at funerals. |
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These gatherings are a major event for professed evangelicals in the Church of England. |
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The Forum brings religious scholars into gatherings where they can explore their relationships to the contemporary ecological crisis. |
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It was built to be used for large gatherings including degree day, drama and musical productions and examinations. |
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However, many Gypsy women may go bareheaded except when attending traditional communal gatherings. |
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They were in great demand for hunt balls, ballroom dancing, weddings and other social gatherings. |
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Large social gatherings usually take place in a special room with two alcoves built into a wall. |
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People who had not attended any of the prior gatherings came and while some were friendly, others were aloof. |
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On the third, seventh, and fortieth day after a loved one's death, there are large gatherings dedicated to the deceased's memory. |
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Furthermore, rebels in the towns and market bourgs planned the mobilizations of nearby rural communes and they organized regional gatherings in their own localities. |
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A few weeks later nurses held a number of protest gatherings and sit-ins. |
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Should we cancel gatherings, reunions, excursions, or throw ourselves into them with even more gratitude for one another? |
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The jubilee celebrations were conducted with a number of activities, including seminars, workshops, competitions for children, and cultural gatherings. |
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Imus are used to prepare kalua pigs for luaus or other large gatherings. |
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Again the men were coerced under once more, and made to endure yet another rake along the keel of the ship, where lurked the treacherous gatherings of barnacles. |
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It is very very uncommon for me to be in the company of people who seem to be educated and who have knowledge due to their reading and gatherings. |
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We are talking about public gatherings, people will be together, dancing, sweating, and touching each other. |
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The craze that is sweeping America and Europe, sending crowds flocking to landmarks or shops to stage zany gatherings, arrived in Yorkshire at the weekend. |
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Drinking is, for many people, an enjoyable part of social gatherings and a complement to meals. |
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It was used for gatherings of staff and family at Christmas and New Year, with traditional entertainments provided by the Ackworth mummers and parish hand-bell ringers. |
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This notion of fashion as a kind of wearable narrative is in evidence at industry gatherings like frieze and Art Basel. |
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The beginning of the winter brought a new season of parties and gatherings with which the aristos sought to dispel the gloominess of this permanently twilit world. |
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The policy forbids Marines from consuming alcohol at spectator-type events, public gatherings or assemblies, unless a unit commander authorizes it. |
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I had many offers to balls and social gatherings but I had never accepted. |
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When we got engaged three years ago, talk of caterers and florists and letterpress invitations occupied us at these gatherings. |
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The women continue to live together as before, occasionally attending family gatherings with their spouses. |
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One of the most attractive of our waterfowl, the goose-like shelduck is renowned for its spectacular moult gatherings along the northern coast of Germany. |
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There has not been too much news from the Killoran Clan gatherings of late, but all that has now changed as another re-union is billed for October of this year. |
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It was small gatherings or mid-size groups that he seemed to dislike, and that made him seem stiff, awkward and slightly remote. |
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The beginning of the winter brought a new season of parties and gatherings with which the aristocrats sought to dispel the gloominess of this permanently twilit world. |
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Other genres have their own examples of emulation by serious fans, like The Sound of Music singalongs or the many Rocky Horror Picture Show gatherings. |
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There were no coffee breaks, water cooler gatherings, or too-ing and fro-ing in the hallways. |
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He is as heartfelt and genuine at these gatherings as he is at the Friday preseason workouts. |
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Dinner parties and social gatherings on West Road were frequent events, and guests often included visiting academics as well as members of the university hierarchy. |
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This period is, according to Chinese tradition, a time for family gatherings, when people should all head back to their hometowns for New Year's Eve. |
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The abundance of conferences, symposia, workshops, colloquia, seminars, and other gatherings devoted to mathematical topics attests to a strong desire for interaction. |
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City planners believed that people's taste for green space, for ornament, for people watching, for cozy places for intimate social gatherings, were just social constructions. |
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Libraries, town halls, schools, universities, bookstores, churches, coffee houses, and shopping malls could launch read-along gatherings with this material. |
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These include public violence, throwing articles at persons, vehicles, gatherings conducing to riot, disorder or intolerance, and assaulting or resisting peace officer. |
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I really don't like big family gatherings like this because the old ones always fuss over you and tell you how much you've grown or how much older you look and crud like that. |
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For homecomings and family gatherings, there is usually a sumptuous spread of cakes and pastries, including crullers and thin pancakes rolled around whipped cream. |
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At the same time, the ritual magnetism of night drew them to gatherings that included extemporaneous elements of worship as well as the prayer book. |
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His talent was as precocious as his future partner's, and back in America he would perform at children's parties and at his father's academic gatherings. |
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Many of his pictures represent taverns and festive gatherings, but they often feature moralizing allusions, and he also painted scenes of impeccable genteelness. |
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The two leaders had earlier led a march of hundreds of demonstrators in defiance of a government ban on protest rallies or gatherings of more than four people. |
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We hold separate gatherings in our home and observe purdah as much as possible so it isn't that we're looking for any way possible to go against the commandments of Allah. |
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At these gatherings Mrs Turnbull was a gracious and lively hostess. |
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For example, although she was gregarious, she avoided social gatherings in which there was too much gossip, observing that such conversation was at best unhelpful. |
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Unlike personal memories or shared recollections from family gatherings, the memory of the events of last September was engraved in our consciousness through the media. |
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During these gatherings they would wait in silence and speak only when felt that God had inspired them to do so. |
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When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots. |
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In the past, candidates depended mostly on personal ties with voters at diwaniyas, traditional evening social gatherings. |
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These traditional gatherings are often hosted in individual homes or civic centers. |
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In 1746, the Act of Proscription stopped all clan gatherings, but following its repeal in 1782, the old enthusiasms for such events returned. |
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They agreed to have no more family gatherings due to their father's neurasthenic presence. |
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Pub sessions are now the home for much of Irish traditional music, which takes place at informal gatherings in country and urban pubs. |
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Jac y Do is one of several bands that now perform twmpathau all over the country for social gatherings and public events. |
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The Shaws' house was often filled with music, with frequent gatherings of singers and players. |
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Popular Sufi culture is centred on Thursday night gatherings at shrines and annual festivals that feature Sufi music and dance. |
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In early 1963 Brennan persuaded him to go with her to a dance for university staff, despite his preference for smaller gatherings. |
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Both archaeological finds and written sources testify to the fact that the Vikings set aside time for social and festive gatherings. |
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All public gatherings of five or more people require police permits, and protests may legally be held only at the Speakers' Corner. |
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There is also a self-winding awning, which provides shade on hotter days, creating an outdoor area for gatherings or summer parties. |
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When I began showing up at the initial Silverback gatherings in the early 2000s, Laurie and I developed a special friendship,'' Perry recalled. |
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Another type of communication used by firms is the sales pitch, sometimes found in newsletters and seminars or similar gatherings. |
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One crucial institution in guaranteeing equality between the chief and his constituents was the custom of tribal gatherings called the kgotla. |
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Particular resources like bunya nuts or processed zamias might make possible relatively large social gatherings. |
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C administrator in the early 1950s and nearly three dozen photographs of work camp scenes, gatherings, and reunions. |
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Since there were no minutes of meetings, few details of the gatherings remain. |
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Although there was no central 'government' or 'parliament', a number of local, regional and national gatherings were held. |
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This one will be a star at poolside gatherings and for sundowners on the patio, but it also is a fine food wine. |
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After performing at parties and family gatherings, at the age of 7 he took up formal piano lessons. |
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They present cool ideas at semiformal gatherings like Code Con, an ultrageeky show-and-tell held at San Francisco's DNA Lounge last month. |
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The gatherings aim for an inclusive atmosphere that welcomes people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, and singing abilities. |
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He was an eisteddfodwr and delighted to hear good singing, whether it was in the sanctuary or at the eisteddfodic gatherings. |
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His neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson invited him into his social circle, but Hawthorne was almost pathologically shy and stayed silent at gatherings. |
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He opposed the holding of tournaments, probably because of the security risk that such gatherings of armed knights posed in peacetime. |
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In the rusti-phobic imagination, gun shows are stygian gatherings of edentulous Junior Samples lookalikes, but they are really rural swap meets. |
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The PER had allowed restrictions on speech, public gatherings, and censorship of news media and had given security forces added powers. |
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This humble plant feeds the greatest gatherings of wildlife found anywhere on Earth as this programme so spectacularly shows. |
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But everyone who attends these ritual gatherings is rewarded in some way. |
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Flash mobs are planned gatherings, with participants arriving all at once, that have become common in the Internet age. |
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The phi which are guardian deities of places, or towns are celebrated at festivals with communal gatherings and offerings of food. |
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Patios are another popular option for pondside entertaining and gatherings. |
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In Virginia, a slave was not permitted to drink in public within one mile of his master or during public gatherings. |
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Fisher's style was to say little in formal meetings, but to lobby determinedly at all informal gatherings. |
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It was increasingly sung at patriotic gatherings and gradually it developed into a national anthem. |
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They stopped inviting him to the gatherings, and he really got bent out of shape about it. |
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However, the badges attributed to clans today can be completely unsuitable for even modern clan gatherings. |
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There was much hostility to Lloyd George at these gatherings. |
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Graduations, weddings, and any other family gatherings will usually be celebrated with the killing of a goat or cow, which will be barbecued or roasted by the family. |
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Many more boarded the San Diego Trolley or other public transportation to work, schools, stores, banks, medical appointments and family gatherings across San Diego County. |
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These gatherings, subject to presidency by higher ranking bishops, usually make important decisions, though the synod or council may also be purely advisory. |
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The more inversive, peer-oriented, outdoor activities precede Halloween, while the family gatherings, meal, fireworks, and bonfire all take place on Halloween itself. |
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This is still a common practice when there are large gatherings on marae. |
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Music at Highland games gatherings also includes other forms, such as fiddling, harp circles and Celtic bands, usually spiced with a large amount of bagpipe music. |
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The Home Department of Gilgit-Baltistan has banned public gatherings, rallies, display of arms, aerial firing, disputed sloganeering, and illegal use of loud speakers. |
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In later attempts by Slovenes at a consciously national orientation, the social cultural gatherings known as besede became the most important factor. |
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The folk songs and poems were used in social gatherings to work together. |
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My favorite family tradition is to eat small Chinese sweets known as moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which celebrates lunar worship and joyful family gatherings. |
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The source pointed out that another Army unit destroyed terrorists' gatherings in Hayan, al-Mansoura, Ming, Ksheksh and Ayen al-Daqa in Aleppo countryside. |
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These were regional or provincial gatherings open to everyone. |
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The Associations of North and South are distinct institutions, deliberating and determining matters pertaining to them in their separate gatherings. |
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His goal was to divert suspicion away from male homosociality among the elite, and focus fear on female communities and large gatherings of women. |
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In small gatherings, dominants are more successful in defending food, but as more individuals join in, they must spend more time driving off others. |
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Besides the national dress, domestically tailored suits and neckties are often worn by men, and are customary in offices, schools, and social gatherings. |
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Rocky Mountain Blue offers discounts on lodging, recreation and conference gatherings to all branches of the military and Department of Defense employees. |
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The NUKS-USA Student s conference is considered one of the largest gatherings of Kuwaitis outside of Kuwait with over 3000 participants expected to attend this event. |
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Their sinister boss, Mr Colubrine communicates with staff at their weekly tribal gatherings via a video link beamed from his far-distant tax haven. |
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At less formal gatherings, traditional Scottish music is played. |
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Formal representatives' attendance at political gatherings and the content of their speeches were carefully monitored, along with the electoral curias to which they belonged. |
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He also composed cantatas in pastoral style for musical gatherings in the palaces of cardinals Pietro Ottoboni, Benedetto Pamphili and Carlo Colonna. |
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Bhajans and other religious songs were sung at the gatherings that concluded with special prayers for the integrity, solidarity and prosperity of the country. |
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