I did a neat backward somersault and landed in the river in a welter of blue and silver, unpleasantly aware I could not swim. |
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A welter of ancient corridors in a ruin gives way to a clear space, contained within a circle of weathered obelisks. |
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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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However, the sound soon disappears in the welter of notes Sibelius gives his soloists in his only Violin Concerto. |
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As in Four Nudes, women welter together in the heat and the unslaked thirst of their sterile frenzy. |
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In that welter the rights of the small man and the potential of the Erris region can be lost so easily. |
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Ultimately, the issue is larger than the welter of provisions some say would criminalize youth. |
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The account ends with the Tang Dynasty's collapse into a welter of provincial militarists. |
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In the midst of the tumult of charges against him, a welter of conflicting poll numbers are being bandied about. |
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She recently left a preview screening with a moist eye and a welter of praise for the team who faithfully realised the adaptation. |
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You may be confused about what way to vote today, given the welter of claim and counterclaim over the last month. |
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The company says that investors have ample protection thanks to a welter of federal and state rules governing brokers. |
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Evidently, only the images and metaphors of fiction could do justice to the welter of searing impressions. |
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Another aspect of relief operations is the welter of frenzied calls by the media to evoke sympathy and monetary and other contributions. |
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But just might add that there has been a welter of confusing and contradictory information coming out of various parts of the leadership. |
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Amid the welter of sordid interests, he stood as the symbol of proud incorruptibility. |
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And so they propose to apply chaos theory to that welter of information in order to find those patterns. |
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Such Biblical allusion was in stark contrast to the welter of less printable comments being bellowed by the faithful. |
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He went on to win the light welter weight title the following year and five more at welterweight. |
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I'll clean up everything at light welter then I'll move up to welterweight and clean up there as well. |
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He started slowly against Sullivan, who holds New Zealand national titles at both welter and light-middleweight. |
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If he throws in his lot with the militants, we will be plunged into a welter of violence for the foreseeable future. |
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If you win, will you move up to 154 pounds or continue defending your welter titles? |
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Sitting on the stone bench now she tilted her head up towards the sky and the welter of bare branches overhead. |
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Outside the pro ranks, there are compelling cases to be made for Oleg Saitov, the Russian welter, or Mario Kindelan, the Cuban lightweight. |
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The pivotal moments that will eventually adorn tomorrow's history books are often hidden in the welter of noise generated by the media. |
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Prodigal servings of pure saturated color are fattened further with a rich welter of tints, tones and shades. |
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Thus, the didactic purpose of the original project dissolved in a welter of abstruse, sentimental versifying. |
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The debate over Jacksonian Democracy has produced a welter of conflicting interpretations. |
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We have a welter of Grammy-related posts leading up to the biggest night of the year for the music industry. |
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By organizing the book topically, Beaufort gives useful shape to the welter of details, in the aid of a larger argument. |
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A welter of poems, plays, epics and narrative poetry came into existence all at once, altering the landscape of literary activity in Bengal forever. |
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Tanner still hasn't got together with Tamara and Anne, who live a few miles from him but remain wounded by his disappearing act and the welter of excuses he gave. |
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Now the challenge is to avoid the welter of grandiloquence and rule-bending that undermined so many previous schemes. |
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Firstly, we must beware of losing sight of the objectives of this directive beneath this welter of technical detail. |
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The process has stagnated under a welter of procedures and turf-battles between the different institutions responsible. |
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Amid all the horror and welter of this worldwide conflict we may yet discern hope for the future. |
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Not only are countries' budget cycles not respected but a welter of conditionalities undermine the continuity and predictability of aid. |
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In this paper, Archie Mafeje argues that most of these were lost in the welter of Eurocentric theories and universalizing tendencies. |
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Amid a welter of noise, cat calls and general uproar, Pearson came to state his case for the Maple Leaf flag... It was a rough meeting. |
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I wonder if the sight of that piece of molded plastic ramps up in you the same welter of blurry, beery, hormonal reminiscences that it does in me. |
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However a debate has simmered for years as to whether journalism has improved with the welter of academic courses which produce hundreds of graduates each year. |
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He had hit his ball to within a short wedge of the 350-yard par-four hole, and was intent on getting his score down to nine under after a welter of missed opportunities. |
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You have to wonder where, in all that welter of rock up ahead, the pilot will be able to find a comfortable pocket in which to put his aircraft down. |
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Here we see, not a confusing welter of compromises and half-measures, but a clear and logical relationship in which each pole is balanced and complemented by the other. |
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The weakest part of the book is the first section, which attempts to explain diabetes scientifically and ends up as a welter of confusing details. |
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The black market benefitted directly from this conflict, and from the welter of regulations designed to channel all economic activity into war production. |
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But his police career ended in a welter of accusations that in order to obtain results, he hadn't just bent the rules, he'd twisted them out of shape. |
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Yet, despite all of that, it is strange that in the welter of accusations levelled at them no member came on radio or television to make their case. |
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Historians point to the U.S. in the 1930s, when Congress created most of the modern regulatory agencies to bring order to a welter of state rules. |
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The largest country in Africa had emerged within the space of fifty years from a welter of bloodshed and anarchy to lie at peace with its neighbours and itself. |
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McGirt, 38, who held world titles in the junior welter and welterweight divisions, was an infinitely clever boxer with a truly impressive work ethic. |
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We also have Andy Morris, another undefeated featherweight and Gary Young, a light welter from Scotland who is really doing very well and is undefeated in ten fights. |
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Grocery chains, for example, have a welter of special needs, such as deductions for promotions, fees to guarantee the best placement of products on shelves and coupons. |
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There no longer is anywhere to hide from the swelter and welter of the American id. |
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And it is determined to crack down on the welter of arbitrary fees and taxes imposed by local party bosses on farmers and on people living in small towns. |
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Presented with the confusing welter of anthropological evidence in Re Eskimos, the Supreme Court judges seem to have throw up their hands and shrunk from entangling themselves in the morass. |
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To their welter of reasons the exclusion of some political parties, a raging cholera epidemic and the disenfranchisement of many on voting day they can now add an electoral council that doesn't seem to know how to count. |
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Infrastructure and commitment of government resources: In the welter of attention to the benefits of community forestry programmes, relatively little attention has been given to the additional costs of the programme. |
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It contains a welter of information and worthy aims, but without more overt economic pressure from us, I fear that it will remain a shopping list never to be fulfilled. |
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How can the public, bombarded by a welter of supposedly scientifically supported but varying statistics, distinguish the true from the false or manipulated? |
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Amidst the welter of analyses and positions that the crisis has provoked, institutional responses consistent with that approach have already been formulated, both by governments and by international institutions. |
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We've been framed: In a thriller of a game with a welter of goalmouth action, Uruguay dominated the play only to come up against immovable objects in the shape of Uzbekistan keeper Sanjar Kuvvatov or the goal frame. |
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India also sees a Pakistani hand behind mounting acts of sabotage in Assam, a state in the north-east with a welter of insurrectionary movements. The new approach cleverly serves multiple purposes. |
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In recent years, a welter of resolutions have been adopted whose wording promotes and advocates for women's rights in conflict situations, in peace negotiation processes, and in transitional justice processes. |
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This pride of sponsorship, rather than pride of rating, seems to have been lost in the welter of decimal points and who's-on-firsts. |
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When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards. |
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Sometimes in the welter of criticism that can be directed towards the sector, the impression is given, erroneously, that we have a static, monolithic primary production sector. |
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Sadly, many more countries, hit with a welter of political and economic crises, are experiencing development reversals for the first time in decades. |
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The guiding principle is that development strategies must be nationally driven, backed by harmonized international assistance rather than a welter of individual interests. |
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In this welter of obesity, Frederick Stare played a role that was both vital and, at times, contradictory. Dr Stare could be judged as America's top nutritionist. |
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It is not certain that such a welter of information would actually help the General Conference to focus on its function as a decision-making body. |
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