My mother was also a world champion knitter who knit afghans, sweaters and all kinds of winter wear. |
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Tell everyone to bring along one of the afghans or quilts that she's given them over the years. |
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Unlike me, Fat Mikey simply did not get a bang out of crocheting afghans or listening to National Public Radio. |
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I sat on the green plastic chair covered with five afghans crocheted for him each year for Christmas by my mother. |
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There will also be a variety of home crafts including knitted items and afghans, toys, books, paper goods and household items. |
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Then she crochets for hours, making scarves, afghans, and stuffed animals for family and friends. |
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They're a favorite expression of charity, whether socks for soldiers, layettes for poor infants, or afghans for the homeless. |
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It caused massive dislocation by prompting hundreds of thousands of Afghans to flee from their homes. |
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The Zulu War reminds one of similar discreditable campaigns against the Dervishes, Afghans, Boers and Maoris. |
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Most of the leaflets were threatening for which reason many Afghans, especially Pashtuns and Baluchis, found them insulting. |
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His loathing of Moguls surpassed even his detestation of Uzbeks, Shias, Afghans and assorted infidels. |
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Over the last 16 years I have time and again witnessed the undoubted courage and fighting prowess of the Afghans. |
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Most people think that Afghans are religious fanatics and this is probably due to the media exposure. |
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Some Afghans, particularly ethnic Pashtuns from the country's south, are unambiguously nostalgic. |
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The Mughal emperor Akbar in 1587 won Kashmir and then it remained with Mughals till 1752, when Afghans won it. |
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And it was largely on the backs of these Afghans and their camels that the outback of Australia was opened. |
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Some 150 Afghans from the camp were herded onto buses and then dumped back across the border in Afghanistan, a wholly illegal act. |
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What information do you have about other Afghans who have returned home or been sent home? |
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One of our companions was astonished to find that the local Afghans only used flax as an oilseed, and had never heard of linen. |
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Mills was accompanied by Charles M. Short, son of the then Anglican Bishop of Adelaide, and five Afghans as cameleers. |
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Her quiet, peaceful times were spent knitting afghans for family and friends and patiently sewing beautiful needlework pictures that were displayed in her lovely home. |
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It also had a number of Afghans and Aborigines living in and around the town. |
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Examples are Basset Hounds, Greyhounds, Beagles, Dachshunds, Afghans and the Weimaraner. |
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The British endured similar military embarrassment at the hands of Indians, Afghans, Zulus and Boers. |
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The Turks and Afghans who served in the Moghul Army are believed to have brought this dish to Hindustan. |
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And some of the first relationships to develop were between Afghans and Aboriginal women. |
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This inhospitable and isolated place is temporarily home to some 33,000 displaced Afghans. |
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The largest single group of students are Chinese, followed by Afghans, Russians and Somalis. |
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The poorest Afghans and the richest Afghans are all coming back to the country to do what they can. |
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The cultural context of the Indian soap opera was also very easy for Afghans to relate to, she said. |
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Then they said they would stay back and try to help the Afghans effect national reconciliation. |
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For two weeks American forces had been camped along with Romanians and Afghans in the centre of Kandahar. |
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The government said the injured also included Afghans, Swiss, Australians and Canadians. |
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They have nothing to do with the aspirations of the Kashmiris or the Afghans. |
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There is no such coverage and hence no such understanding of the plight of, for example, Afghans or Congolese. |
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Afghans require weekly baths and brushing to remove dead hair and to prevent the tangling and matting to which they are prone. |
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The measure affected Afghans, Somalis and Chechens facing return to regions beset by civil wars or with no functioning government. |
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No one knows the total number, but upwards of 2000 Afghans fleeing the bombs and missiles raining down inside their country have come here. |
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But it needn't simply be a case of helping the destitute Afghans swap one set of repressive masters for another. |
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For Afghans, Shias, Uzbeks, Indians and others who fell outside that circle he reserved an overarching and curiously unprejudiced dislike. |
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Maybe the bombers should drop supplies of aid technical and other support to meet the needs of the Afghans. |
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Afghans no longer call themselves just Afghan, or even Pashtuns and Tajiks, but Kandaharis, Panjshiris, Heratis, or Kabulis. |
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Most were Uzbeks, but there were also Afghans, Chechens, Uighurs from China and a small number of Arabs. |
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Agonising over even the demonstrably dead Afghans bleeding on newspaper front pages does not suit patriotic fervour for this lovely war. |
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If the international community pulls out of Afghanistan in toto, it will undermine human rights for all Afghans. |
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Currently, their range includes Kashmir pure silk, woolen, Persian, afghans, kilims and modern or contemporary rugs. |
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He said 5,000 Afghans had come to Britain in the last six months. |
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There we were to watch a game of buzkashi, a much more violent variant of polo played by Uzbeks and other Afghans. |
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Those Afghans who remain behind bars in Pakistan are generally optimistic, according to a former Taliban cabinet minister. |
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But of course, many middle aged and older Afghans have more than enough experience of violence and disorder to be cautious. |
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With the Russians gone, ordinary Afghans expected a return to calm. |
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Afghans will lose faith in it and the credibility of modern political institutions will crumble. |
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Pakistan relaxed its ban on refugees crossing over from Afghanistan on Friday but reimposed it yesterday after about 3000 Afghans entered the country. |
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Even with faulty projectors and seats that were falling apart, Afghans seemed very excited when the cinemas reopened. |
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Most days a crowd of desperate Afghans try to cross the fairy castle-like gate, only to find themselves beaten back by Pakistani soldiers armed with sticks. |
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The U.S., allied with Afghans, helped defeat the advance of the Red Army in Afghanistan spurring the end of the Cold War. |
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So now, keeping all that in mind, how many Afghans do you think risked life and limb to cast their ballot? |
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They had to crochet afghans or be doing something else productive. |
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By the end of 2004, DynCorp had trained 32,000 Afghans, and it has continued the mass production ever since. |
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The irony is that the Afghans have already proven their reliability and trustworthiness in the heat of battle. |
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Progressive-minded Afghans want to break out of this circle of warlordism once and for all. |
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The Afghans released the accounts a few months later after they found no wrongdoing. |
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Their patrolling, their bravery, their sacrifice gave the Afghans breathing room to take charge of their own affairs. |
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Khawri, who goes by one name, said Afghans helped the Americans, scarves wrapped around their faces, down the mountainside and bundled them into a truck. |
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Once the unfortunate Afghans forced the skipper of the Tampa to sail to a port not of his choosing, it became a maritime hijack, analogous to a plane hijack. |
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It would be unacceptable to Pakistan, the Pashtuns and many other Afghans. |
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The Afghans have lost their pomegranate orchards to poppy fields. |
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The large herd of camels, the Afghans, of whom there are 68, in their diversified and picturesque costumes, the camp-fires, and Oriental camp equipage made up a novel scene. |
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Sarfraz Bugti expressed disassociation with this issue and said that these bodies are of those Afghans who had been shot dead by their own kin. |
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The majority of Afghans, among all ethnic groups including Pashtuns, stated that the overthrowing of the Taliban was a good thing. |
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Thousands of Afghans have protested against the United States after an air raid in the country's east a day earlier left at least 15 people dead. |
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Saudi Arabia is home to around 500,000 Afghans, who escaped their war-ridden nation decades ago and settled in the Kingdom. |
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The Afghans have been second to none at small-war tactics ever since they fought the British in the 19th century. |
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He decided to stage a durbar on the plains outside the city, at which the Afghans would be able to express their loyalty to their new ruler. |
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A decade ago, Afghans were exhausted by years of war and misrule. |
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Afghans were hunkering down, and several mentioned another civil war. |
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Under the Taliban government, in power since the late 1990s, Afghans lived by a rigid set of laws. |
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The Mughals suffered several blows due to invasions from Marathas and Afghans. |
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It is much easier for the Americans to pull out of Afghanistan without losing face simply by buying the loyalty of the Afghans. |
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This is not the way Afghanis conduct business. For the Afghans, time is not of the essence. |
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Roberts undertook a successful punitive expedition against the Afghans over the next six weeks. |
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Help us understand them, those Iraqis and Afghans, better... and pronto. |
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Afghans often take on the grubbiest jobs in Iran for very low wages. |
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Small skirmishes also took place, and the Afghans managed to seize a pair of mule-guns and force the British to spike and abandon two other precious guns. |
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Resistance to decadent Mughal rulers, Marathas, Afghans, Sikhs and, finally, the British brought freedom though not, it has to be said, instant democracy. |
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In Audiometric Services Habib Physiotherapy Complex got a specialist for audiometric patients as he treated numbers patients including local and Afghans, he said. |
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The Conservative Party believes that success in Afghanistan is defined in terms of the Afghans achieving the capability to maintain their own internal and external security. |
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The Afghans are religious fanatics, not dingbats as they may perceive. |
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If the taliban continue attacks on NAtO forces during a ceasefire called to help other Afghans, Pashtuns and Muslims, they will lose support as a result. |
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Mohammed, who like many Afghans uses only one name, says he abruptly left his village in Nad Ali in January amid Taliban shelling and NATO counterstrokes. |
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