Both Democratic and Republican senators treated him with impatience bordering on contempt. |
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Being embroiled in a full-blooded war was not what he'd imagined his tour of the bordering principalities would entail. |
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Such incendiary language, bordering on incitement to mutiny, has become almost routine in Republican quarters. |
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Since that time most of the countries bordering the Mediterranean have made spearfishing with the aid of aqualungs illegal. |
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Females hunted for araneid spiders among the dense vegetation bordering the sand in which they nested. |
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Columns lined the front of the house, bordering full-length windows with elegant arched tops. |
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There are so many in our price range we soon experienced the old familiar feeling of bewilderment bordering on mania. |
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Or maybe he would prefer something along the lines of suicidal confessions of a mind bordering on death and raving lunacy. |
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In some fractures bordering the clay seams, azurite and malachite occur as masses of alternating, crudely parallel bands. |
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Each of these frontons is again distinguished by bordering ornamental turrets on its either flanks, which are carried beyond the parapets. |
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The flycatcher was seen lurking in the low brush bordering a secluded pond. |
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He also loved bawdy songs and ancient poetry bordering on the pornographic. |
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Outside, the crowds had now thronged Parliament Square and banked up alongside the prime real estate bordering the abbey itself. |
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The dance studio, dedicated to Mr. Baryshnikov, is a large room with ample floor space bordering two sides of the dance floor. |
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I don't know what the agenda of the Herald editors is exactly, but that poll they commissioned was rubbish, bordering on push-polling. |
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To throw away a two-goal advantage once in a derby is unfortunate, twice though is careless, bordering on inexcusable. |
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His music was characterized by great individuality, sometimes bordering on the sensational. |
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Hawke persisted in it, despite a high level of incredulity, bordering on ridicule, in the media. |
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Shorthand may serve useful purposes, but when combined with short attention spans, it's foolishness bordering on fraud. |
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Was the students' act bordering on something like savagery when they took advantage of the workers' penurious state? |
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With their clumsy wooden carts, they cleared the refuse from the streets and cleaned the open drains bordering its streets. |
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To many fans of Canadian music, the name Michael Burgess evokes an appreciation bordering the iconic. |
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On the space station that orbits Solaris, paranoia has evolved into a degree of mistrust, bordering on terror. |
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The cinematography is lush and superbly stylized, with an oversaturated color palate and brilliant whites bordering on overexposure. |
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The Free State is a highland plain, called a highveld in South Africa, bordering Lesotho to the west. |
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The size of the chapter house was severely reduced to accommodate a pair of symmetrically located streets bordering the rotunda. |
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The city straddles a sandy spit bordering the Gulf of Mexico, it's numerous 10-storey concrete hotels built on low-lying sand-dunes. |
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The conservationists at the reserve put up nesting boxes in haystacks bordering the grazing meadows. |
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Mr. Geller answers, with much hand-waving, in a hoarse almost-whisper bordering on over-acting. |
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The Party's high command is now bordering on obsession in its concern over how to avoid a low voter turnout. |
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Among countries bordering the Indian Ocean and a seismically dangerous hinterland, distrust must give place to collaboration. |
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The orthodox libertarian foreign policy platform is one of minimalism and non-involvement bordering at times on isolationism. |
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Paintings on each column bordering the central nave depict saints who were venerated in medieval times. |
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I frequently have a nervousness, bordering on fear, concerning lack of sleep. |
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Prices for these upscale public courses range from the eminently affordable to bordering on the budget buster. |
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It's bordering on elitist snobbery, and is already as boring as the series. |
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For them, the settling of scores with the miners developed into an obsession bordering on the deranged. |
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Moreover, Afghanistan is a landlocked nation bordering China, Iran and three Central Asian countries. |
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Successful conservation efforts in an area bordering another country can be reduced to naught if the neighbouring countries do not collaborate. |
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Indonesia has more than 90 small islands in areas bordering neighboring countries. |
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But the treaty obliges countries bordering enclosed or semi-enclosed seas to work together on marine conservation and environmental protection. |
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Fish are an essential part of the diet for all the countries bordering the Mekong after it flows out of China. |
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One could object that the countries bordering the Alps are richer and more expensive. |
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Initial infestations tend to occur in fields bordering clover fields or grassy areas. |
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The stalky marshland plants huddle in dense bunches on uncultivated areas bordering South Florida's sugar farms. |
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The countries bordering the Baltic Sea, for example, were in the front line during the Cold War. |
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The variable widths given in the details under 'Description' depend on how many horizontal stripes bordering the pattern are used. |
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A single set of cutout elements can be securely identified as belonging to a band bordering the bottom edge. |
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The silver stripes bordering the ribbon and the centre stripe are 2 mm wide. |
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He stopped before a full-length mirror that was set up against one wall, bordering a tall wardrobe. |
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Your editorial last week showed a naivety bordering on crass stupidity when you argued that smoking in pubs should be a matter of choice. |
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By late morning he stood on high ground bordering Styal Woods, looking back myopically over the gently undulating farmland. |
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As I slipped into the muzzy darkness bordering on nothing, I thought I felt a soft paw on my shoulder. |
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I believe that this type of sledgehammer approach to address populist fears about terrorism is totally disgusting and bordering on totalitarian. |
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His cabin bordering the Upper Buffalo River Wilderness in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas is slapdash functional. |
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Although many cookbooks underemphasize this fact, few countries bordering on the Mediterranean can support a meat-rich diet. |
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Ian called her and heard the sound of movement in the underbrush from the woods bordering the road. |
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The only decoration is a picture window that frames the bordering pastures. |
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There are dance numbers, ambient soundscapes and even a downtempo joint bordering on hip hop. |
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This large area south of Russia and bordering China is subject to great extremes of climate. |
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Nations, bordering on the already infected countries, began to enter upon serious plans for the better keeping out of the enemy. |
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The study area consists of about 130 ha of saltmarsh bordering the Wadden Sea, which is a huge area of tidal mudflats in The Netherlands. |
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This ensemble piece plays like the worst situation comedy, bordering on farce and venturing well into the realm of stereotypes. |
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I think that was the beginning to Margaret's dislike bordering on hatred of Naomi. |
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While he was fond of the theatre, he was wary of music as bordering on the sissyish. |
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They can suffer from terminal enthusiasm for their subject, with the complication of single-mindedness bordering on tunnel vision. |
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Saskatchewan also is one of the best places on earth to view rare whooping cranes, magnificent white birds bordering on extinction. |
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Completely annoyed with his father and the fact he couldn't be with Alexis he jumped down and walked off into the woods bordering his land. |
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No studies have been made in bordering countries, although there are concerns that radiation travels via the wind, water and fauna. |
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This may also be due to the apathy, bordering on torpor, concerning most elements of conventional politics and theories of power. |
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Nothing wrong with that especially when the resulting outcome is something bordering on a religious experience of aural ecstatic proportions. |
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The lawn bordering it was nothing to ogle at, but was certainly well kept, as were the day lilies that bordered the wide path. |
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The dawning sun was just starting to peek over the inactive volcano that laid among the many mountains bordering the valley town. |
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Dark, sleek, minimalist and atmospheric bordering on sinister, this is the kind of club where you might see Darth Vader having it large. |
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One sherd has a curvilinear motif, and punctates or short trailed lines bordering longer lines are relatively rare. |
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Supposing you have recently been bordering on boredom, use this opportune session to add more zest to your existence. |
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The side bordering the mouth of a river however dropped steeply into 7 foot of water where the push of the costal currents collided with the flow of the river. |
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Things got so bad a couple of months ago that Omran, along with several of his friends, tried to escape to bordering Egypt. |
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Since ISIS stormed the city of Mosul bordering Iraqi Kurdistan last week, the Kurds have been on a war footing. |
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After that he rebuilt it and enlarged its bordering territory from 1.8 to 140 hectares. |
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The voice, the jingoistic voice, bordering on fascist voice, is what is so very loud now. |
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But there is an obsession, bordering on pathology, with keeping wages as low as humanly possible. |
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The guitars grow increasingly reckless and discordant to match the rising edge in Lee Ranaldo's voice before bursting into an anthemic refrain bordering on anarchy. |
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Even though he focuses almost totally on the insects, one gleans bits of personal information that elucidate his all-encompassing endeavors, bordering on mania. |
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Campaigns can often be breeding grounds for confidence bordering on self-delusion. |
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With origins throughout the lands bordering the Indian Ocean, from Mozambique to Malaya, Lascars had been employed by the East India Company for centuries. |
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Sediment escaping from the channel during overbank flooding builds levees bordering the channel, and sheets of sand spread from the channels as crevasse splays. |
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Tectonic uplands bordering active faults are usually drained by steep catchments feeding alluvial fans, adjacent examples of which coalesce to define continuous bajadas. |
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It took an hour, a further three telephone calls and an inspection of the instructions bordering on the forensic before I could turn the bally thing off. |
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Part of any negative reaction will be a response to the rhetorical tone of several chapters, which have an air of self-congratulation bordering on triumphalism. |
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As I fought for services, I felt I was dealing with bureaucratic indifference bordering on malevolence. |
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A 100-metre long bunker all down the left side is waiting to gobble up anything mishit, though the long, narrow bunker protects you from no man's land bordering the trap. |
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Moldova, a small country bordering Ukraine, already houses thousands of Russian troops against its will. |
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It's the first time we've lived anywhere bordering on rural and whereas in town we would get a fair few birds twittering away, here it's like living in an aviary. |
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Three derelict houses bordering Waterford's historic city walls have blighted the area for too long, according to a frustrated resident and city alderman. |
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My destination was Nyinba, a group of villages scattered across the south-facing valleys on the spur of the Takh Himal, a mountain chain bordering Tibet. |
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The horse was sublimely quiet, bordering on bored and a tad mulish. |
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Trying to be inconspicuous, for reasons unbeknownst to her, she looked past Shamus to the writing all over his walls, trying to read the words bordering them. |
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The driveway was dirt with large rocks bordering it, decorating it a bit. |
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You feel as if you're walking on water thanks to a clever ensemble of video footage of waterfalls on the wall and platforms of water at shoulder-level bordering the pathway. |
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The cuff bracelet in Plate XX is ornamented with chrysanthemums bordering a central faceted citrine and overlapping pinnatifid leaves engraved to delineate the veins. |
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Tajikistan is the third former Soviet republic bordering Afghanistan. |
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Partly through financial aid, partly by the exertion of tremendous pressure, countries bordering the EU have been forced to step up measures against asylum-seekers. |
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He also said the report had not included a proper assessment of the visual impact of windfarm developments on areas bordering the highlighted zones. |
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By the end of the novel, humanity has discovered an infinite number of universes bordering ours via nanoscopic wormholes whose mouths form subatomic particles. |
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This change in plan was a source of perplexity bordering on irritation to the Queen. |
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The overall sound was very bright, while it was bordering on the harsh. |
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Whereas Mid-City has niched itself as a serious gym bordering on hard core, Chelsea Piers with its cafe, sundeck, day spa and more is an oasis in the city. |
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Uruguay is on the southeastern Atlantic coast of the Southern Cone of South America, bordering Argentina to the west and south and Brazil to the north. |
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The board voted to eliminate hunting and trapping on a buffer zone of state lands bordering Denali that make up a portion of the world-famous Toklat pack's territory. |
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In L. juncta, each pale yellow elytron has five black vittae, with vitta 1 bordering sutural margin and extending from just below the base to the apex. |
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The tone of the Times report was narrative bordering on omniscient. |
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Flying north through the lush green agricultural lands bordering the Tigris I watched hundred of egrets along with small flocks of rooks and hooded crows. |
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The stability of the past, at times bordering on immobilism and stagnation, has been replaced by mobility and change, by economic revival and political uncertainty. |
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The lodge owners have bought a private ranch bordering the park where we are taken for a traditional Chilean barbecue or asado at the Quincho, a custom-built barbecue house. |
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The state, bordering the Rocky Mountains, says it needs an additional 65,000 cows to meet the milk demands of its expanding dairy processing industry. |
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Sadly, however, I was witness to many more instances where dayanim treated women petitioners, as well as their female lawyers, with a disdain bordering on hostility. |
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Our lives have been really hectic lately, bordering on manic. |
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The Blue Ridge area lies on the eastern edge of Tennessee, bordering North Carolina. |
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Indeed, this reading is particularly inappropriate among these oralities and physicalities, bordering on cannibalism. |
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Most notable is Tijuana, a city bordering San Diego that receives immigrants from all over Latin America and parts of Europe and Asia. |
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The treaty recognized Portuguese sovereignty over these areas and awarded her small portions of Germany's bordering overseas colonies. |
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The River Slaney is in the western part of the county, bordering County Carlow. |
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I feared for my friend in his highly impressionable psychoneurotic state, bordering, perhaps, on a delusional malade imagiaire. |
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Around thirty species of fish are found in only one or two countries bordering the Adriatic Sea. |
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A census in the Sunderbans Forest in eastern India, bordering Bangladesh,found 1,000 paw prints,known as pugmarks. |
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His reproachful wife Jacinta finds solace in religion bordering on fetichism, while at the same time brutalizing her grandchildren. |
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The Indian Ocean's relatively calmer waters opened the areas bordering it to trade earlier than the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. |
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Its fish are of great and growing importance to the bordering countries for domestic consumption and export. |
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These are strongly keeled scales, except for those bordering the ventral scales. |
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Baghdad claims that the bordering emirate s Mubarak megaport will obstruct Iraq s entry to the shipping lanes. |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan Peninsula bordering Croatia. |
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Germany, although bordering Wallonia and close to Voeren in Limburg, does not share a border with Flanders. |
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In 1154 he defeated an English and Powysian invasion, but was forced to give up some territory bordering the River Dee. |
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Sources said, Frontier Corps personnel arrested four Afghan nationals from bordering area Qamar Din Karez to Dera Ismail Khan via Zhob. |
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Due to the cold climate and proximity to major forests bordering the city, skiing is a popular recreational activity in Oslo. |
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Locality 3 was gallery forest in savanna near a river about 50 m across and bordering a ranch. |
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There are ten major ports in France, the largest of which is in Marseille, which also is the largest bordering the Mediterranean Sea. |
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Jehanzeb also visited bordering areas of Angor Adda and appreciated the role of tribal elders in the current antipolio drive. |
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A HOME bordering Sutton Park is top of the property wish fulfilment lists of many a Midlander. |
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The bordering countries have also traditionally exported lumber, wood tar, flax, hemp and furs by ship across the Baltic. |
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A curious instance of perversion in religio-sexual feeling, bordering on zooerastia, is the case of St. Veronica. |
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A separate branch, the Apuan Alps, goes to the southwest bordering the coast south of La Spezia. |
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Most of its monuments are in the districts bordering the Tungabhadra River in central Karnataka. |
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A small part of the territory bordering the mediterranean basin lies in the Csa and Csb zones. |
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The Mercian dialect was spoken as far east as the border of East Anglia and as far west as Offa's Dyke, bordering Wales. |
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New England is a Northeastern region of the United States bordering the Maritime Provinces of Canada and portions of Quebec in the north. |
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The language is spoken throughout the nine counties of Ulster, and in some northern areas of bordering counties such as Louth and Leitrim. |
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Arita is located in the western part of Saga Prefecture, bordering Nagasaki Prefecture from its southwest to western sides. |
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The Zaporozhian Cossacks, warriors organized in military formations, lived in the frontier areas bordering Poland, the Crimean Tatar lands. |
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Yemen is in Western Asia, in the southern half of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the Red Sea. |
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While the coastal areas are primarily in the Hudson Plains, the northeastern coast bordering Quebec is in the Taiga Shield ecozone. |
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The five provinces bordering the Gulf of Saint Lawrence also have several provincial parks apiece, some of which preserve coastal features. |
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The gills are carried right behind the head, bordering the posterior margins of a series of openings from the pharynx to the exterior. |
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Panama is located in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, between Colombia and Costa Rica. |
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The Caspian Sea, which is bordering Europe, has an accurate shape but the outline of Southern Asia is distorted. |
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The Zanj were for centuries shipped as slaves by Arab traders to all the countries bordering the Indian Ocean. |
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Even the San Diego shoreline bordering Mexico is cooler in summer than most areas in the contiguous United States. |
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They are also found commonly in the historic county of Cumberland and bordering areas of Northumberland. |
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Kinnego being is headquarters and founding station It is a voluntary service funded by the district councils bordering the Lough. |
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Few places on God's green earth are as imbued with primordial magic as those bordering the phantasmagoric waters of Fundy. |
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The Amisius flowed from the Teutoburg Forest, home of the Cherusci, with the Bructeri and others bordering the river. |
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Shetland has an oceanic, temperate maritime climate bordering on the subpolar variety, with long but cool winters and short mild summers. |
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Talking of his own time, however, Procopius situates the Varni north and east of river Rhine, bordering the Franks. |
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King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale-house bordering on the theatre, when he was summoned to go on the stage. |
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Closely bordering on the Suiones and closely resembling them, are the tribes of the Sitones. |
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The countries bordering the Adriatic Sea are significant tourist destinations. |
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The eastern part of Merseyside borders onto Lancashire to the north, Greater Manchester to the east, with both parts of the county bordering Cheshire to the south. |
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The county had revised boundaries, with the north east of the historic county bordering the City of London becoming part of a new County of London. |
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The Native regional corporation has proposed developing its Deadfall Syncline Coal Prospect, bordering the Chukchi Sea north of Kotzebuc and Nome. |
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A government official in the Orakzai region said 12 other insurgents were injured in the drone attack near Biland village, bordering North Waziristan. |
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The Hopkins one is extraordinary, it's bordering on troilism. |
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Instability there is comparable to the Alps bordering the Po Valley. |
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The conventional method for this procedure is the lateral approach, which gains surgical access through the zygomatic bone bordering the maxillary sinus cavity. |
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The dozens of Eastern European countries which got through to the final with identikit banshee warbling had a large choice of bordering countries to vote for. |
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However, large epi-and mesopelagic fishes, inhabiting the same or bordering niches with lancetfishes are able to evade attack, as a rule, because of their swimming speeds. |
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Limit northern region bordering the Java Sea, west of the Sunda Strait, as well as in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, so the area has a potential marine resources. |
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Tennessee ties Missouri as the state bordering the most other states. |
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Since 2014, renewed focus has been given to urban regeneration and renewal, especially in areas directly bordering the city centre, such as Frederik Hendrikbuurt. |
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This style is also popular in states bordering Canada's Eastern provinces. |
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Areas bordering warm oceans are prone to locally heavy rainfall from tropical cyclones, which can contribute a significant percentage of the annual rainfall. |
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When I was come to the top, I saw the sea bordering upon Lancashire. |
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Morocco is a Northern African country, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and the annexed Western Sahara. |
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This was done to ensure that the institution would not be abused by the strong to overpower the weak, although the system was gamed in many ways bordering on the illegal. |
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It was established in 1948 by seven countries bordering the river. |
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Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England, combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on surrealism. |
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A motorway is a road specially designed and built for motor vehicle traffic, which does not directly provide access to the properties bordering on it. |
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Apart from the uplands in the Lake District fringes, other Cumbrian Fells, and Cheviot Hills, most of the areas bordering the Pennines are predominantly lowlands. |
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Mozi's practicality admittedly manifested itself in his own Spartan way of living, marked by a remarkable degree of Thoreauvian self-sufficiency bordering on self-abnegation. |
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