It was falling slowly, impossibly slow, as if physics had given up and allowed gravity to be enchanting instead of practical. |
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This was investigated and a proposal for a dam costing Rs.3.72 crore was given up as unremunerative. |
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Many others have tried it but given up in despair at mastering technology that almost comes naturally to children. |
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He has a strong jawline and is unshaven, the mark of a man who has recently given up his day job. |
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Now, as she sat in her room, she wished that she hadn't given up bowling, a sport she actually enjoyed playing. |
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After 11 days trapped down a rabbit hole, the dog had been given up for dead. |
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Mills said he had given up his trade of glue-making for the sock and buskin, and he hoped soon to have an engagement at one of the minors. |
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In town to record an edition of his BBC Radio 6 Breakfast Show, Jupitus has given up a day to the publicity machine. |
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Too ill to work and plagued by nervous disorders, these victims have almost given up on life. |
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Sadly and finally, after being dropped about fifty times, my clunky but much-admired mobile phone fascia has finally given up the ghost. |
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These are people who have made their peace with capitalism and have given up on the ideas of their youth. |
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Third, Lincoln had never given up the idea, which he had first broached in 1855, of voluntary and compensated emancipation. |
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He had given up surrealism on sadly realizing that you need fixed points, after all, both in life and in the arts. |
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Now the ACTU and the majority of union leaderships have given up any idea of tackling the Howard government's anti-union laws. |
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He's given up his job as a chef, and a stable home life, to pursue a higher goal for his sport and country. |
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When the train arrived at the other end of the single line, the staff was given up to allow a train to proceed in the opposite direction. |
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Cowan thinks women who say weight doesn't matter are lying but he hasn't given up hope. |
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While he has given up any hope of her recovering, his wife cherishes the seemingly impossible dream of a miraculous return to health. |
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I made the mistake of thinking that they had given up and commandeered my favorite inflatable raft to float me around the pool. |
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But is it possible to draw a clear line where peace and non-violence may be given up in favour of violence, even war? |
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He still likes arty guitar noodling, but he also hasn't given up on melody. |
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I have never been able to discover exactly why she was given up for adoption. |
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It's been obvious, since my return, that the collared doves have given up any attempt to make the high-rise golden cypress habitable. |
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As the name implies, it means I've given up and I just can't hack it anymore. |
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Wallet's face and clothes were caked with mud but he said he had not given up hope of finding his family. |
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Participants in the program will not be detained and will be given up to 90 days in which to put their affairs in order. |
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You can quibble about the balance between kawanatanga and te tino rangitiratanga, but something was very definitely being given up. |
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How wrong they were, when their only son had gone missing as a baby and never been found, they had given up hope and believed him dead. |
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Of the 72 people who have been through his doors only a handful have given up. |
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If you have given up trying to resemble a stick insect, pay a visit to Peck, the ultimate Italian deli. |
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By this time many men had given up, let go their hold on Carley floats or wreckage and sank from sight. |
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Having no means of his own, he has given up all hope of ever owning a nice home. |
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Two years later, in 1967, Sargent retired from her Readership and, unlike many mathematicians, seems to have given up research at this time. |
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They're both heritage varieties, so that's pretty good going I think although I haven't given up all hope of the other seeds sprouting. |
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Nor did she realise that a male colleague had given up his leave so she could have hers. |
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Electrovalence is just another word for something that has given up its electron and become an ion. |
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Now the CD changer on my downstairs stereo appears to have given up the ghost. |
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An electron would be ejected because one of these quanta had collided with it and given up all its energy. |
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The five-year scheme to build homes on land given up by the national park would accommodate key workers identified by Craven District Council. |
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When she had turned fifteen, she had given up trying to win her father's love and attention. |
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However even he had given up hope after Ferguson had rebuffed his many attempts at getting him to postpone his retirement. |
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Hann claims he has given up alcohol in recent months and taken up other sporting pursuits such as tennis and fishing. |
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The 38-year-old has given up his white-collar desk job and is donning his overalls to start his own business. |
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Maybe because he had long since given up hope that such a wish was anything but a childish dream. |
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Many experts have thus given up the attempt to communicate with the general public. |
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Several times, she had almost given up hope that the business would ever prosper and the only thing that kept her going had been her pride. |
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The businessman behind multi-million pound plans to demolish and redevelop K Village has not yet given up on the site. |
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Many feel on edge and one woman claimed to have given up work as a result of the stress. |
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I wonder if she's given up on me, or is just quite content with her existing mass of grandchildren? |
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So much had he not given up the novel that he transported it lock, stock, and barrel into his playwriting, long speeches and all. |
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All around him lesser mortals have given up the true faith to follow the almighty dollar, pound, or Euro. |
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He has apparently given up drugs on three or four occasions, but he has relapsed. |
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I've pretty much given up LARP now, but used to be an avid enthusiast of it. |
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But what I heard in Art's voice was a sound of such despair and defeatism, that, you know, it was clear that he'd given up. |
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Have you recently given up a habit such as smoking, drinking, or buying lattes? |
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We seem to have given up pretending to solve the problem and have resigned ourselves to merely coping with it. |
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Here is a woman who has lived a rich and full life, but who has not given up her creativity. |
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The Shias to whom the Masjid belonged would have happily given up their claim to the Masjid but our secularists would have none of that. |
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The librarian, having failed to find it in an Internet search of books in print, had given up. |
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After two dogged weeks I've finally given up, switching to much lighter aqueous cream instead. |
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After all, in the last 40 years, more states have given up potential weapons programs than fielded nuclear arsenals. |
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Indeed, since the end of the Cold War, more states have actually given up their nuclear weapons arsenals than have created new ones. |
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Male field crickets on the Hawaiian island of Kauai have given up singing in order to survive. |
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Some Pagans have even given up their day jobs to dedicate their time to preservation of a monument. |
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Most people have given up having slumber parties with prepubescent children by the time they cease being prepubescent themselves. |
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By the time of my third visit I had given up smoking, rendering half of my Russian language skills obsolete. |
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If these are rejected, the asylum seekers are given up to 14 days to leave the country. |
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I know people who have done small city marathons and given up, because it had no atmosphere and they lost interest. |
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Brahms had all but given up before tonight's works were composed, having written his will in 1891 and gone into a self-imposed retirement. |
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I'd pretty well given up on the day, took an early lunch, popped a couple of painkillers and took to my bed. |
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I've long since given up on attempting to predict the behavior and madness of crowds. |
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She'd stopped driving five months before because it was too painful for her, and soon afterwards she'd also given up gardening, which she loved. |
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The engine has eventually given up the ghost and even the master magicians of mechanics around here say it is beyond repair. |
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I have given up all those greasy make-up removers and baby oils in favor of soap. |
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But, Freeman has not given up on eventually finding a Bigfoot, if only to vindicate that he had truly seen the manlike monster. |
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The former factory worker has now given up work because the pain is so bad that sometimes she cannot walk. |
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A lot of farmers, he believes, would have given up, but sheer tenacity and economic need kept him going. |
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He started curling while attending college in Minnesota, but has given up on the sport since. |
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Now the people with alternative views, quite frankly, have given up caring. |
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Fred needs to keep busy, because Ginger's given up men for dogs, a little Scottie that she takes for walks on deck. |
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Having already given up so much during the previous bankruptcies, this was supposed to be their time to bask in the benefits. |
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Lipton survived the affair and told shareholders the incident had happened years before and the practice had been given up. |
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They were given up to seven or eight thousand pounds a week and three-year contracts. |
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There were some people who had given up on it, but now seeing is believing. |
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They have given up their self-reliance and so, instead of solving community problems, they now wait for the politicians to do the job. |
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She is angry not that he lives poorly, but that he has given up after she has given him everything. |
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That doesn't mean, however, that another publishing company has given up on the e-book format. |
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I'd finally achieved the acceptance I longed for-but it was tinged with the bitterness of how much of myself I'd given up in the process. |
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Before World War Two, we used to eat what was left after the merino had given up its wool. |
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Accordingly, he has given up his comb-over hairstyle in favour of a straight-back cut that is winning rave reviews. |
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Almost every other jockey would have given up, settling for escaping injury, but not the champion. |
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The teachers had given up with trying to make her comply with dress code rules. |
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They have repeatedly given up their time to save lives and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their benevolence. |
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Some Danish tourists have been watching the game before their round, but have given up and left to tee off. |
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He'd given up questioning his Maker long ago, stopped shaking his fist toward the sky in anger and disillusionment. |
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She'd given up smoking a few months back and put on a bit of weight and been a bit down about it. |
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The Houston Astros ace reliever has now given up walk-off home runs in each of his last two appearances. |
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I know people who have given up church responsibilities to create more time to minister to people outside the church. |
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The councillor who strongly supported adding a ten-pin bowling alley and indoor bowls to the Pickaquoy Centre has given up his fight. |
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One reason it's too early to make a real assessment is because it's clear the writers have just given up making episodic television. |
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And my constituency were the disengaged voters, the disengaged, those who had really given up on our political system. |
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The former moderator of the Church of Scotland has now given up the parish he tended for 13 years to take on a new challenge. |
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My heart swells with pride and love for those who have given up so much to make this world a better place. |
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Part of his plan is to develop the same skills at three-card monte that Lincoln, who has given up cards, used to have. |
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If you're lucky to reach this hallowed ground, you'll be flattered and coddled until you've given up the family silver. |
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My father who started the business has long since given up trying to make me like him. |
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The government has long since given up trying to reduce the propensity to commit crime. |
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You know a pitcher's stuff is shaky when in just six pitches he has given up two singles and a bloop double on a 3-0 count. |
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This does not include the substantial layer of disenchanted workers that have given up looking for work. |
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We skim past Joe who's given up and is drinking a beer with Trin and Lucy on the seats. |
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Many persistent coprophagic puppies have been given up as the result of the problem, especially where the dog interacts with young children. |
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Many Asian governments have given up on financial restructuring, saying their economies can't cope with it now. |
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The pregnant clouds had finally given up, and my sodden t-shirt was beginning to cling unflatteringly. |
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He has given up removing the graffiti daubed on the walls and sadly admits that taunts and name-calling have become a staple part of his life. |
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Had Darwin had the knowledge about the eye and its associated systems that man has today, he may have given up his naturalistic theory on the origin of living things. |
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Soon, Twitter erupted with news that the First Lady had given up her Bangs. |
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But Marchildon, who has now given up modeling to become a cabinetmaker, recently decided to fight back in court. |
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The sight of grown men hurling abuse at someone who had voluntarily given up a Saturday morning to referee a kids match is truly disheartening for everyone involved. |
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Even though he hadn't been born there, his mother, a shorthaired Abyssinian, was living there, having just been acquired by Mague from someone who had given up breeding. |
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According to MacKillop, Jacobitism has become a means to assuage Scotland's collective guilt about the Act of Union, in which the country's sovereignty was given up. |
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Soon he seemed to have given up all hope of trying to get Pietersen out and be content to deny him runs by bowling at his legs from round the wicket. |
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Due largely to crowding and high housing prices, 45 percent of couples in Hong Kong say they have given up having children. |
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The History Channel has given up its documentary format to embrace reality shows about custom-built motorcycles. |
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Fierce fighting was reported during the recapture of the television station but the radio station was apparently given up without a struggle, with the dissidents fleeing. |
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Davy himself has said he was not spared land seizure and has given up 140,000 acres to the government. |
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The East appears to have given up the general kiss of peace still earlier. |
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Bored, amoral and approaching middle age he has given up on life. |
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Now, it seems to me that anyone in the USA writing as late as October, ought to be well aware that Amelia Earhart had been given up for lost long before. |
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In his career, he's walked home many runs, but in more than thirty-eight hundred innings, Palmer has never given up a grand slam. |
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I was working on taming my out of control curly black hair, it wasn't going so well, I had given up on trying to blow dry it straight, so I just let it go. |
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The song begins as an awkward power-chord assault that sounds like a high-school basement band that has recently given up their metal records for schwag and early Floyd. |
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I would hope he would recognize that this is not an appropriate location, pick up his marbles and go home, but we've long since given up hope on that. |
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I have been checking in with Win since he moved into Room 607, to bear witness to what can happen when someone society has given up on is given a fresh start. |
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Having given up caffeine, she had heard that kombucha produced a light buzz. |
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For my littlest brother, 24, my parents have given up their traditional expectations. |
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He had given up socialism, in all likelihood, because of union militancy. |
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Right, that toughness was always inside her, like the way she had given up crying. |
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She shoulders a surprisingly long spear, perhaps to ward off the ardent king, although by that time she had been scarred by smallpox and he had mostly given up his advances. |
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Many of his clients are recently retired baby boomers who have given up their fancy threads and skyscraper offices for gloves, a trowel, and a garden in the country. |
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The white guy was closer to sixty than to fifty, and his shaggy white-blond hair was shot with grey, and he'd given up trying to hide the bald spot on top. |
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I slacked everything to make the man believe that I had given up. |
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In Athol and in Kensington, I see some houses that have been empty so long their curtains have given up holding on, have come undone thread by thread. |
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But Zeke and I had given up so much to leave our ultra-Orthodox communities and become the individuals we were. |
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While most of the Bedouin tribesman of the Wadi Rum area have now given up a nomadic lifestyle, camels are still valuable currency in a country not enriched by oil. |
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Sharrock's father settled on him the rent of a small property in Northampton, to augment his fellowship, as he had given up a bursarship and tutorships in change for study. |
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He has swapped pints for white wine spritzers and given up takeaway food. |
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Those I know have given up trying to pay for me for such things, but they'll still offer to help place anything I produce, if not write the article for my byline. |
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When her lungs began haemorrhaging, she was given up for dead. |
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I tried it with Microsoft Word and reformatted every single line, so I think I might have given up on it. |
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I would like to take the time to thank two people who kept getting on my case to continue this story when I had just about given up from lack of motivation. |
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Poppino nurtures his student in the black arts of stuffing dead animals and soon Valerio has given up his job and his girlfriend to pursue this new calling. |
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Her realtor had almost given up on her when Amy found the place of dreams, a house with a white picket fence and a little garden that needed a bit of tending. |
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They recently sent me a letter, with a post-paid envelope and a request to re-subscribe or at least write back and explain why I'd given up on them. |
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The ever-increasing number of women who have given up footy and switched to the far more attractive sport of diving is reflected in today's diving slogans. |
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Carers often feel stressed and isolated and some have given up their own careers and friends to look after a sick or frail family member, friend or a child with disabilities. |
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Apparently ear trumpets would overcome the aural impediments, but even Edinburgh seems to have given up the ghost in these fine, if slightly old-fashioned, instruments. |
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So now they've given up even trying and have adopted the uniform of the conservatively mundane, often in the shape of generic khakis and a white golf shirt. |
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Some people have given up and reached various despairing conclusions. |
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But in many other respects I found it actually was a kind of an obstacle, and so I'd kind of given up the idea of pursuing a Buddhist monastic life in Europe. |
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Lorraine, an independent duchy embedded in French territory and occupied and exploited by the French ever since 1670 in the hope of ultimate annexation, had to be given up. |
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After a few months of evasive answers, they had all but given up. |
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Robert had finally given up art and opted for country squireship. |
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Heartbroken animal-lover Jacob Richter had given up the tortoiseshell cat for dead until she turned up in a garden a mile away. |
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He mewls that now he's given up drink all he has is her, yet she's got three kids, a cleaner and a nanny, her friends and no money problems. |
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United's managing director Mal Brannigan says the Blades have not given up hope of keeping the 21-year-old. |
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Gitche Manito 3g Namid unraced He underachieved on the Flat, despite being placed several times, but I haven't given up hope. |
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This is probably the first treatment that attempts to correct lazy eyes in adults, something that doctors had previously given up on. |
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This advance was given up, possibly under pressure from Rome, and a later series of coins were again minted at Verulamium. |
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Purdy, a year-old French bulldog, was given up by her owners because she was deaf. |
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It is often said that in order to solve the sorites paradox, some parts of classical predicate logic must be given up. |
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Escobar has given up just two earned runs in each of his last four outings and doesn't have a single victory to show for it. |
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Joe says Tristan was given up for adoption by his parents and the Dowses stepped in to save him. |
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Ortiz had given up at least four earned runs in four of his past six starts, including a seven-run doozy in his last outing at Edison Field. |
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They had been given up for dead and resurrected as liberators. |
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Barlow explained in interviews that Williams had given up trying to offer creative input and merely did as he was told. |
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She injects life into the film's jauntier second half but half of the audience will have given up by then. |
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So in recent years, many scientists have given up on antibody approaches to HIV vaccines or treatments. |
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One wine aficionado had given up on finding an ale she actually liked. |
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However, in only one instance has a nation given up nuclear weapons after being in full control of them. |
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After the grace period, the borrower is given up to 10 years in which to repay the loan principal amount and interest. |
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In 1676 three cottages in Southgate were recorded as being given up for the use as a cemetery by the Acklams, a Quaker family. |
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The band had eventually given up waiting and walked home, along a grass verge that was turning to mud under the heavy rain. |
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By the agreement known as the Mise of Lewes, Edward and his cousin Henry of Almain were given up as hostages to Montfort. |
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From 1916 to 1925 coal was mined at a small settlement named Tunheim on the northeastern coast, but mining was given up as unprofitable. |
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Afonso demanded the fort be handed over with its artillery, ammunition and horses, and the deserters to be given up. |
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In the following years, the town changed hands between Oirads and Chinggisids several times, and was consequently given up permanently. |
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The osteotomists, affirming that fracture cannot be performed at this low level, say that osteoclasy must be given up. |
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It is not possible to practise noninjury unless selfishness is given up in respect of all external matters. |
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Since childhood, I had given up giraffedom to become a turtle, or maybe a miniature antelope. |
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Meanwhile, George III had given up on subduing America while Britain had a European war to fight. |
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They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county. |
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But by 1989 even Mikhail Gorbachev had basically given up the ghost of Communism, and after Hall badmouthed him the Soviet leader cut off the American leader's allowance. |
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Skinner had given up academia, thanks at least in part to Wittgenstein's influence, and had been working as a mechanic in 1939, with Kirk as his apprentice. |
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But Nemeth has still not given up all hope of finding a way to add fellow NBA draftee Sean Marks to his squad if he can cut through diplomatic red tape. |
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We have given up magniloquent speech to follow veriloquent speech. |
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He has also given up smoking and his hiatus hernia symptoms have gone. |
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Alan, 37, and 36-year-old Lyndsey already had two Great Danes at home in Irvine when they spotted the SSPCA were trying to rehome a dog that had recently been given up. |
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However, especially in later times, purchased slaves and trained combat performers were valuable commodities, and their lives were not given up without due consideration. |
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I have long since given up on golf teachers, not because I do not value their wisdom or their ability to dispense it but because I consider myself to be ineducable. |
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