| What she created is closer to an upscale Manhattan law office than to even the finest jitney. |
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| He moved closer to the nearest capital to inspect its carving, a vigorous Romanesque scene of a monkey in the act of winding up a crossbow. |
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| When they were closer to the second bulwark, she disappeared among her fellows. |
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| As she got closer she could smell the sweat on him and the rank smell of horse. |
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| The foundation also showed that liking an area was the main reason why people did not live closer to their work. |
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| He saw it, with a shock, much closer than expected, in the air space above the valley floor. |
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| The customary smirk returned to Trey's lips and he about-faced, coming closer to the nervous young man. |
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| I went to step closer to her, but Abby brushed past us, jostling me and Jen as she headed out of the barn to my car. |
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| The man most Americans say ought to be their nation's first African-American leader is today closer than ever to the seat of power. |
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| It is still not quite the real thing but it is getting closer, you can smell it in the air. |
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| We are closer to realizing Dr. King's dream, but still have much farther to go. |
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| The Demon and the wight were arguing about something, so over the protestations of my comrades, I stole closer that I might hear. |
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| I became panicky the closer I got to the bottom of the slide and to the edge of the water. |
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| Of course, the position had the advantage of forcing Mitch, Sara and Mike closer to the door. |
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| Nutrition information on menus moves us one step closer to smaller waistlines and healthier hearts. |
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| Get your tickets early folks, this one is going to sell out fast, and watch this space for even more information closer to the date. |
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| Drawstring pants with elastic in the waist allow for a closer fit with added flexibility. |
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| Honestly, we made the target because we managed, for once, to keep our ambitions closer to something realistically accomplishable. |
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| A public inquiry and judicial review is awaited and a housing market crash looms ever closer. |
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| This quartet is musically closer to the quartets of fellow Theresienstadt composers Ullmann and Schulhoff. |
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| These joint organizations brought Italians closer and they made more efforts to be active in the community. |
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| Now with many of my friends scattered to the four winds and unaccounted for, I think I've come closer than I ever wanted. |
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| As it got closer, it got extremely windy, I could barely see from the dust clouds everywhere. |
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| Going closer to this dresser, I can smell feminine perfumes though there is a slight waft of male scent in the whole picture somewhere. |
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| The potential for Middle East terrorists to operate in the TBA and elsewhere in Latin America warrants closer scrutiny. |
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| She moved closer to the window to see what had been interesting enough to hold Amber's attention. |
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| But it is estimated that the net heating is at least one watt, perhaps closer to two watts per square yard. |
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| He also suggested that Polyzoniida may have a closer affinity to Glomeridesmida than to the other colobognath taxa. |
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| The clusters of buildings became older and more weather-worn the closer we got to Osaka. |
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| The closer the spectator is to the dancer, the greater impact the abhinaya will have. |
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| Merton's arguments are often hypothetical, but the logic is always watertight on closer scrutiny. |
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| I could see some particularly attractive flowers up ahead, and as we drew closer, I realized that they were jonquils, my favorite flower. |
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| He merely jerked her forward so that she was much closer to him than she would ever like to be. |
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| In the flesh, we've gotten far closer to the jollification with which Santa is frequently associated. |
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| If you think you know all of the ratings in our Navy, you better take a closer look at the ratings at the master chief level. |
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| Look closer, and you note the broken twigs and police crime-scene tape running jaggedly across a cornfield. |
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| His mind quiets, his muscles begin to un-knit, and his posture resumes something closer to normal rather than poised and defensive. |
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| His arms tightened around me, holding me even closer, if that was possible. |
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| Judged by wateriness alone, the state is closer to the Netherlands than Nebraska. |
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| By the beginning of September the war spread and was coming closer to our village. |
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| She felt his strong arms snake behind her back, pulling her closer and lifting her up slightly so her toes were barely touching the ground. |
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| You may face a longer putt by not being able to work the ball closer to the hole, but you will be safely on the green. |
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| Downstairs, the servants are closer to the underbelly of society, the whispers and the rumours. |
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| The ladder leads to the lifeguard chair he uses for a closer view of the wall-mounted television and to an elevated wine cooler placed nearby. |
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| Lilly snickered, her breath rasping and grating as she tried to move her head closer to her mistress. |
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| Rescue boats were at the scene in minutes and managed to attach tow lines to the airliner and move it closer to shore. |
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| The island is closer to Tunisia than to the southern coast of Sicily, to which it belongs administratively. |
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| I pulled my chair even closer to the desk so I was in reach of the pen and paper along with the notes. |
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| Students then jackknife their legs even closer to their bodies to the rhythm of a driving beat. |
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| Seemingly every time that I saw a shirt I liked, closer examination would reveal yet another pair of accursed short sleeves. |
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| In approving plans for closer monetary ties, Asian governments are painting with bold strokes on a big canvas. |
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| Fieldwork was planned to coincide with high tides, which allowed the johnboat to travel closer to the marsh edge and further up tributary creeks. |
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| You might want to take a closer look, because that photo might not be an accurate representation of what you'll get when you check in. |
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| In our workshop, we would like to subject the polysemy of agent nouns to closer scrutiny. |
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| He moved closer, reaching his hand out to move the branches aside to see if anyone was hiding in the bush. |
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| Prices will be announced closer to launch date but if the new 1.6 litre diesel can be sold at a keen price, it will be the clear winner. |
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| As they moved closer to the nucleus, the electrons would begin emitting their quanta of energy as light. |
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| In other words, they were aiming their mortars to land closer to the actual runway of the airport. |
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| However at night, counterilluminators are found closer to the surface, where the spectrum of the downward radiance changes rapidly with depth. |
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| Adam whines in protest as Lauren's fingers wrap around the carton and bring it closer towards him. |
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| In the distance, Rossiter could see the rain driving straight down and growing closer. |
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| As they get closer to the main base, the Jody calls get louder until they reach the Parade Deck. |
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| Sharon said that Linda is verbally abusive and her abusiveness reminds her of her father, whom Linda is closer to than Sharon. |
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| Here the ritual of the election night is a quaint old-world tradition closer to pantomime than politics. |
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| After too long a period of time, we as human beings will begin to seek ways to meet our needs, wants and desires much closer to home. |
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| Dr. Kline noticed the anxious girl wince in sudden pain and immediately stepped closer to Leanne. |
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| He reached his hand out to me and stretched his arm around my waist, pulling me closer to him. |
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| Instead of crickets the sound appears too much closer to that of razor shells being rubbed together. |
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| Derek cut in, he leaned closer taking a whiff of her breath then stepped back, the stench was very unpleasant. |
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| His willingness to embark upon detailed research was closer to advocacy than to the approach of an objective expert. |
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| When they were closer, I could see the way his pale hair waved in the slight breeze, which only served to make me feel even colder. |
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| Experts advise against planting hostas closer in an attempt to get a full effect sooner. |
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| From a distance, this appears to be the mottled brown of old brick, but as I get closer I see that there is a coating of fine brown weed. |
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| One might then be closer to the realm of saying that one is interfering with the procedures that apply. |
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| I wasn't even allowed to take a closer look, let alone photograph the machine in action. |
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| When he shifted back into his saddle, even further from Olos, the horse moved closer, bristling a little before his quadruped motion stopped. |
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| The windscreen is closer to horizontal than on the hatchback, and the rear overhang is longer. |
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| York City's injury problems have taken a turn for the better with some of manager Terry Dolan's walking wounded edging closer to fitness. |
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| These schemes of working closer together are imposed from above, and are not what many grass-roots people want. |
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| Bratton might have said something that was closer to a real-world moral equivalence. |
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| However, many states only punished relationships between first cousins and closer, and others only punished relationships of consanguinity, but not affinity. |
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| On the rails, rather than the road, there was an unmistakable sense of exploring uncharted territory, being part of a well-kept secret and much closer to the natural world. |
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| I put my arms around her and pulled her closer to me, holding her tightly. |
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| Look a little closer at the well-groomed kids with innocent, idyllic faces in school blazers or the teens that look identical to their parents except for their age. |
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| Water for everything, from a cup of tea to buckets-full for the laundry, was hauled 600m from a well by the girls until 16-year-old Bob dug a well closer to the wash house. |
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| A wide-angle lens or wide zoom setting will obviously help you work closer and get more people into the frame, but be careful not to take in too much distracting background. |
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| On closer inspection it's hollowed out with no internal welds. |
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| The provenance signature instead suggests that the Sta Series has a closer affinity to the Northern Gneisses and may in a general sense represent a deformed cover sequence. |
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| As the New York primary drew closer, Mitt Romney had a chit in his pocket that he could cash in at the right moment. |
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| As one flew closer and closer to the station, one would see that the jaggedness of the sides was not irregularities in the edged, but rather docking stations. |
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| This is the cry in Tea Party circles, and it is only going to crescendo as the debt deadline gets closer. |
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| So she laughed and chirped and pointed and giggled and then sobbed, the fear rising in her throat as they got closer to the house. |
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| Historically, the people doing quantum optics and ion traps were closer to the people doing quantum computing, so they were the first to investigate quantum computing. |
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| He succeeds in part here, but there's the sense that he could have gone closer to the edge of the abyss, to show what it is really like to take the Road To Perdition. |
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| She tunes her tracking device to the specific radio frequency, points the antennae and listens for the beeps to grow louder as the turtle gets closer. |
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| These green wedges of land and water started well outside the city and narrowed as they grew closer, separated by transportation routes radiating out from Stockholm. |
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| When we got closer to the store, I stopped in front of a shop window. |
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| I'm sure that most customers would prefer to have a service agent much closer to office or home, and not need to have the added customer service of a courtesy car. |
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| You can take a fifteen minute dash by helicopter for an overall impression of the island before the machine lands for a closer look at the volcanic activity. |
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| Some of these remedies have been closer to quack concoctions. |
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| As we move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties. |
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| After that, Hawking became closer with Jane and their two children, and then the abridged memoir was released. |
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| He needs to display a level of skill that brings him closer to an American sign-painter than to a French academician. |
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| Adler seized Lola by the collar and slammed his hand against the garage door closer. |
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| If any of these got prioritized and funded to the extent of amyloid, we might be a lot closer to getting a drug than we are now. |
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| He has since edged closer to the center, angering one-time Tea Party allies. |
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| Penelope is closer in sensibility to an anodyne sitcom than a precocious bildungsroman. |
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| That seems to be the modus operandi as The League moves closer to the seven-year itch. |
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| But Moglen, an Internet scholar, has developed something closer to a philosophy. |
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| The closer the tear occurs to the root of the aorta, where it emerges from the heart, the more dangerous it can be. |
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| But she is, in her way, holding a mirror up to nature, and objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear. |
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| And, just eyeballing it here, that ark looked closer to four hundred cubits than the biblically prescribed three hundred. |
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| Dropping my head low, ostrich style, was more likely to lead to a closer sniff of an armpit than to a clearer view of a work. |
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| As the fighting raged we sat and baked in the sun waiting to be brought closer. |
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| Its nuclear program is a bald-faced attempt at regional hegemony, one that comes closer to fruition with each passing day. |
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| Hockney saw the object that would become the bane of office secretaries everywhere as bringing him closer to his art. |
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| The lower the air pressure and the closer the isobars are on a weather map, the faster the winds will rotate and the bigger the swell will get, resulting in larger waves. |
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| I looked up as he came closer, but Andreus coiled up the lash into a plaited leather loop and hit me across the back of the neck with it, forcing my eyes back down. |
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| Rivera encountered Steinbrenner in the clubhouse, and the owner asked the closer whether they were going to win. |
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| After spending some time in Britain as a political refugee, he moved to Warsaw to be closer to Belarus. |
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| The aim was to bring the ordinary believer closer to the church, and incidentally raising its effectiveness for the tsar as an agency for controlling society. |
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| This also brought the Ayyubids closer to the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad. |
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| But the closer you look, the blurrier the distinction between the two conferences becomes. |
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| That particular mission was accomplished when some kind touristy soul let us worm our way in front of his milk crate to get closer to the barriers. |
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| That path, that we have tended to follow in the past as in the present, has led us no closer to an abatement of the widespread savagery of criminals. |
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| The West sometimes risks, by its actions, pushing the brics closer together, but there are underlying divides there. |
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| But could it be that these devices are actually bringing us closer together? |
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| By Jerome Groopman, New Yorker Researchers get closer to outwitting a killer. |
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| Lior, approaching ever closer, saw the terrorist run up to the jeep and point the barrel of his gun directly at the head of one of the unconscious policemen. |
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| Moving closer she put her arms around his tense body, afraid for him. |
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| It has been remarked that Germanic language speakers might have been no closer than the river Elbe in the time of Caesar. |
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| As guns became heavier and able to take more powerful gunpowder charges, they needed to be placed lower in the ship, closer to the water line. |
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| Reviewers noted the map zones appeared to be closer to the original 1960 map in its overall zone delineations. |
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| Other major roads are the A272 which runs east to west through the middle of the county and the A27 which does the same but closer to the coast. |
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| In complex cases, this can mean that there are closer blood relatives to the deceased monarch than the next in line according to primogeniture. |
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| The second version takes these differences into account, and is therefore closer to the language the Germanic people would have actually spoken. |
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| This is also seen to indicate that at least part of the Eburones lived west of the Maas, closer to the river deltas. |
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| The other three tribes had been invaders on the upper Rhine, closer to modern Switzerland. |
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| During Caesar's lifetime, Germanic languages east of the Rhine may have been no closer than the river Elbe. |
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| Later in the nineteenth century, Franz Boas brought the fields of Anthropology and Material Culture Studies closer together. |
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| Some Ukrainians took to the streets to show their support for closer ties with Europe. |
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| To counter them, Legio V Macedonica, a veteran of the Parthian campaign, was moved from Moesia Inferior to Dacia Superior, closer to the enemy. |
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| It was probably in 401 that Alaric made his first invasion of Italy, originally with the intention to petition for a position closer to Rome. |
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| The local Italian rulers, sensing danger in their own country, drew closer to the European kings who opposed France. |
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| However, the Nordic foreign and security policy cooperation has become closer and over the past few years expanded its scope. |
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| The modern American usage of the word is much closer to the European sense. |
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| It was not a Turkic language, but one between Turkic and Mongolian, probably closer to the former than the latter. |
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| By the nineteenth century, transportation and communications improvements brought these regions closer together. |
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| The Mongols easily took over Tsushima Island about halfway across the strait and then Iki Island closer to Kyushu. |
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| These gentle mammals feed on the sea grass and closer relatives of certain land mammals than the dolphins and the whales. |
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| Cadamosto mentions interacting with another lord, Guumimensa, whose dominion was closer to the mouth of the river. |
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| Canada cooperated with Britain to ensure that the option of closer ties with America was not on the referendum. |
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| From Malindi, da Cunha sent envoys to Ethiopia, which at the time was thought to be closer than it actually is. |
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| Atahualpa was thus closer to, and had better relations with the army and its leading generals. |
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| Hunters commonly used teams of dogs to distract the bear, allowing the hunter to spear the bear or shoot it with arrows at closer range. |
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| The advantages of a port at Karumba compared to Townsville was that it was three or four days closer to Asia via shipping routes. |
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| Efforts to curtail the mobility of the peasants by tying them to their land brought Russia closer to legal serfdom. |
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| This extra emphasis on R is also seen in varying measures through parts of West Limerick and West Cork in closer proximity to Kerry. |
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| If so, the collocation is considered strong, and is worth paying closer attention to. |
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| Conversely, the pronunciation of the word sugar resembles Norman chucre even if the spelling is closer to French sucre. |
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| The Middle English of Le Morte D'Arthur is much closer to Early Modern English than the Middle English of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. |
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| They may also modify their vocabulary and grammar to be closer to those of Standard English for the same reason. |
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| The term Estuary English has been used to describe London pronunciations that are slightly closer to RP than cockney. |
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| But certain key portions of their civil procedure laws have been modified by their legislatures to bring them closer to federal civil procedure. |
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| Their function was therefore closer to that of a grand jury than that of a jury in a trial. |
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| He undertook a closer reading of the college's charter and associated Acts and divided the relevant passage into two clauses. |
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| The thief moved closer, clutching his own race card, until his elbows were touching those of the race-goer. |
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| Yearly precipitation generally increases from north to south, with the regions closer to the Gulf being the most humid. |
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| Abigail was related to both Harley and the Duchess, but was politically closer to Harley, and acted as an intermediary between him and the Queen. |
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| The one closer to the inside would be closed first, and then the one farther away. |
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| This produces ratings in closer alignment with the power produced by the engine as it is actually configured and sold. |
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| With this in mind in the same year, the route was changed again with a further Act, moving closer to that proposed by Burdett. |
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| The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 1991, while not a formal declaration of war, was a closer vote. |
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| During 1847 Ruskin became closer to Effie Gray, the daughter of family friends. |
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| McEwan's most recent novel is Nutshell, published in 2016, a short novel closer in style and tone to his earlier works. |
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| These areas have closer links to Stockport and Manchester than to settlements nearer Derby. |
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| Over time, speech has become closer to Standard English and some of the features that once distinguished one town from another have disappeared. |
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| Hope Cement Works is closer to Hope, but its quarry is closer to Castleton. |
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| The camera angle changed as the videographer slid closer across the slope until the ski patroller trying to calm Ali was filling the frame. |
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| Perhaps the two girls were closer to each other, but Osgood and I were a squabbly pair of youngsters. |
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| Those efforts have helped the Hudson inch closer to the healthy, swimmable river that it was before industry sprouted along its banks. |
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| The new crop of reality shows brings us that much closer to the contestants, warts and all. |
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| Let's take a closer look at some of the studies that Offit proffers to substantiate his generalized antivitamin charges. |
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| A closer look at Conservative candidate training techniques reveals that its not all been yoghurt knitting and yoga in a yurt in Notting Hill. |
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| Luca Modric's exit away from Tottenham Hotspur moved closer with news Real Madrid are interested in signing the wantaway midfielder. |
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| Leonard was running, but not getting any closer to daylight. |
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| We found upon closer examination that these groups appeared to occur near active Accipiter nests. |
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| Despite its conceptual simplicity, the mechanics of weight management, weight gain, and weight loss deserve closer inspection. |
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| On the contrary, a closer examination of the ADA scores discloses an outstanding liberal voting record. |
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| Instead, he finds evidence that anthropoids share closer bonds with lemurlike creatures called adapids. |
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| It is considered by some to be closer to wild cabbage than most domesticated forms of vegetables. |
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| The City of brotherly Love is closer to earning its moniker. |
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| It had buttonholes that appeared normal, but on closer inspection sent the viewer spinning down a mindbending Escheresque wormhole. |
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| Major auction houses now pay much closer attention to the wristwatch niche, and with good reason. |
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| The blue-white colour of xenon light is attributable to the fact that its spectrum is much closer to daylight than conventional halogen light. |
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| Next week I'll take a closer look at Australia's giants but that's enough yabber for now. |
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| Next week I'll take a closer look at Australia's giants that's enough yabber for now. |
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| This relation between impulse and momentum is closer to Newton's wording of the second law. |
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| We've chosen three examples of contemporary architecture for closer study. |
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| Many a thoughtful man, musing over his second Martini and the evening paper, has had the uneasy feeling that 1984 was much closer. |
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| Campaigning together frequently this fall, the former rivals became, if not bosom buddies, closer than either ever expected. |
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| It used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next. |
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| Cracraft asserted that Gallinuloides was closer to phasianids than cracids, but never presented evidence to substantiate his claim. |
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| The origin of each tube is situated closer to the older of each two consecutive varices, and the tube is bent dorsally and slightly posteriorly. |
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| The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart. |
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| The goblin shifted the two younger ones closer to him. It looked like he was hiding behind them, using them as a shield. |
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| In the meantime the Taiwan governors-general were gradually brought under closer supervision of the home government in Tokyo. |
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| Wade argues that our pre-gracilized ancestors lived in a world closer to Hobbes than Rousseau. |
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| England is closer to the European continent than any other part of mainland Britain. |
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| Since 1979 expenditure on healthcare has been increased significantly to bring it closer to the European Union average. |
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| Settlements closer to London are part of the conurbation known as the Greater London Urban Area. |
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| This growing coalition expanded the potential enemies that Rome might face, and moved Rome closer to confrontation with major powers. |
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| As the tribunes and the senators grew closer, plebeian senators were often able to secure the tribunate for members of their own families. |
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| When dealing with values in the unit interval we expect the speed of incremence to slow down the closer we come to maximal belief. |
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| Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark! |
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| Marvell... thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms. |
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| The duke had served Richard's brother for many years and had been one of Edward IV's closer confidants. |
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| In 1543, Henry married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, who was able to bring the family closer together. |
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| Don Balthasar believed that the key to restraining the resurgent French and eliminating the Dutch was a closer alliance with Habsburg Austria. |
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| Wilson Knight and the school of New Criticism, led a movement towards a closer reading of Shakespeare's imagery. |
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| Zoey laughed at Logan's jerkish behavior, then stepped closer to the older blond guy. |
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| If the German bomber flew closer to its own beam than the Meacon then the former signal would come through the stronger on the direction finder. |
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| The Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly have powers closer to those already devolved to Scotland. |
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| Kristin Lund. Krissie sounded closer to home and just as beautiful. Krissie Lund. It rolled off the tongue like a balalaika riff. |
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| The percentage of serfs amongst the peasantry declined from a high of 90 to closer to 50 per cent by the end of the period. |
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| Areas with subpolar oceanic climates feature an oceanic climate but are usually located closer to polar regions. |
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| Gradually these Legolands appear bigger and bigger, closer and closer, as the aircraft descends. |
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| He ordered her to move closer to the shore, disembarked her crew and emptied her cargo holds, and then burned and sank the vessel. |
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| In 2006, Hawking and Mason quietly divorced, and Hawking resumed closer relationships with Jane, his children, and his grandchildren. |
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| But I heroworship lighthousekeepers. No. Envy is closer. Or maybe jealousy. |
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| The best examples of Newcomen designs had a duty of about 7 million, but most were closer to 5 million. |
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| The airport also offers mid stay parking, closer to the terminal than its long stay spaces. |
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| In most respects, including its grammar, it was much closer to modern German and Icelandic than to modern English. |
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| Payment terms are much closer to those of Amazon and less favorable than those they offer to more established publishers via Lightning Source. |
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| Connections with the greater Latin West brought the nations of Britain and Ireland into closer contact with the orthodoxy of the councils. |
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| In contrast, the Evangelical wing of Anglicanism is closer to Protestant thinking. |
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| He also played a part in the organisation of diocese on lines closer to those in the rest of Western Europe. |
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| These are commonly arranged in fan shapes or crisscrossing shapes, at a closer proximity to the audience. |
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| London porter differs from stout in having generally lower gravity and lighter body, closer to bitter. |
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| North Cumbria is closer to Newcastle, Glasgow Prestwick and Glasgow International. |
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| However, the larger towns have ethnic makeups that are closer to the national average. |
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| A quarter of the tales in The Canterbury Tales parallel a tale in the Decameron, although most of them have closer parallels in other stories. |
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| This tradition of martyrdom would continue among Donne's closer relatives, many of whom were executed or exiled for religious reasons. |
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| He made it to matchpoint three times and still lost, but you can't come much closer than that. |
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| At the end of 1924, he was promoted to Assistant District Superintendent and posted to Syriam, closer to Rangoon. |
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| For instance, a dollar will buy you a bag of chips, a soda, or get you a closer gander at a stripper's meat curtains. |
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| Those closer to the music's blues roots or placing greater emphasis on melody are now commonly ascribed the latter label. |
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| In the late 1990s and early 2000s decade, Norway's Dimmu Borgir brought black metal closer to the mainstream, as did Cradle of Filth. |
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| As he strides closer and closer, each footfall is reinforced by a background chord. |
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| Some boxers fight from a crouch, leaning forward and keeping their feet closer together. |
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| For instance, if a competitor has bowled two bowls closer to the jack than their opponent's nearest, they are awarded two shots. |
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| The scoring is also different, as a point is awarded for every shot that brings the ball closer to the target than any opponent's ball. |
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| Old Trafford Cricket Ground had bid for the third venue, but Trent Bridge was chosen for its closer proximity to the two London grounds. |
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| That may be so re the actual terminology but closer examination of the sources does indicate a much earlier expression of the idea. |
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| Martina Hingis has come closer than any other currently active player to joining this elite group. |
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| In September, polls indicated that the vote would be closer than was indicated earlier. |
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| This is puzzling because Mimas is closer to Saturn than Enceladus, and the Mimantean orbit is much more eccentric than the Enceladean orbit. |
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| As Protestantism gained ground in Scotland opinion grew there that favoured closer links with England than with France. |
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| Under Edward VI the Church of England moved closer to continental Protestantism. |
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| Bismarck and Wilhelm II after him sought closer economic ties with the Ottoman Empire. |
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| Fighter tactics were then complicated by bomber crews who demanded closer protection. |
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| Most of the monitoring equipment was positioned on Trimouille Island, closer to the explosion. |
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| French president Sarkozy spoke positively about Medvedev's ideas and called for closer security and economic relation between Europe and Russia. |
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| The Inner Hebrides lie closer to mainland Scotland and include Islay, Jura, Skye, Mull, Raasay, Staffa and the Small Isles. |
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| In July 2008, the UUP and Conservative Party announced that a joint working group had been established to examine closer ties. |
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| In recent times, EAF steelmaking technology has evolved closer to oxygen steelmaking as more chemical energy is introduced into the process. |
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| As a result, some airlines reportedly delayed deliveries of 787s in order to take later planes that may be closer to the original estimates. |
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| She crouched down, trying to get a closer look at the spider. |
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| There was a closer link between North and Mid Wales than either had with the South. |
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| Although Europeans and Chinese are obviously different, in skin color they are closer to each other than either is to equatorial Africans. |
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| Kutchi is often referred to as a dialect of Gujarati, but most linguists consider it closer to Sindhi. |
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| Comparatively, the impact of Portuguese has been greater on coastal languages and their loans tend to be closer to the Portuguese originals. |
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| Many words had silent letters removed and vowel combination brought closer to the spoken language. |
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| Since the province is almost surrounded by the sea, the climate is closer to maritime than to continental climate. |
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| Sanderson continued his voyage and seems to have been the first to develop closer ties with Conrad. |
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| From a distance it looks like any other boathouse, but closer inspection reveals that this is a work of art in concrete. |
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| If both batsman are in the middle of the pitch when a wicket is put down, the batsman closer to that end is out. |
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| Sea level closer to the equator is several miles farther from the centre of the Earth. |
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| After the war the Netherlands left behind an era of neutrality and gained closer ties with neighboring states. |
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| Parts of Sulawesi and some islands closer to Australia, such as Sumba is drier. |
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| Affairs closer to London ensured, well into the 1530s, that Irish affairs remained at best a secondary concern. |
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| With as little of movement as possible, Aeon nestled her head closer to his chest, even more inder his chin. |
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| Angered by his attitude, Margaret drew closer to the Albany faction and joined others in calling for his return from France. |
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| However, upon closer examination this view is at best an oversimplification. |
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| Hardie spent the rest of his life campaigning for votes for women and developing a closer relationship with Sylvia Pankhurst. |
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| I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. |
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| Clarkston and Busby are also about 3 miles away to the west, with Thorntonhall much closer. |
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| He was later also crowned King of England and Ireland on 25 July 1603, bringing closer the countries of the United Kingdom. |
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| In such a case, even some more distant cousins could acquire the land, though they benefited less than closer kin. |
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| Heavy rain and mud again made movement difficult and little artillery could be brought closer to the front. |
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| The team began playing its home games at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara in 2014, closer to the city of San Jose. |
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| As she approached closer, though, the load of rabbits came into vivid noseshot, and the saxophonist's nose wrinkled at the reek. |
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| It was designed to use a set of graphemes closer to the conventions of French. |
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| The phonetic values of some consonants are closer to the approximate equivalents in IPA than in other systems. |
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| Since 2004 there have been some signs of an attempt to return closer to parts of BBC Two's earlier output with the arts strand The Culture Show. |
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| The man and the horse came closer and were Sonny Jacobs of the Diamond Six and a smallish neat sorrel definitely favouring its off forefoot. |
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| The bishop wears an omophorion, whose shape and manner of wearing are closer to the original pallium than either the stole or the epitrachelion. |
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| In contrast, immature juveniles and adults are commonly found in seagrass meadows closer inshore as herbivorous grazers. |
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| Courtship rituals take place during the winter months, following migration toward the equator from summer feeding grounds closer to the poles. |
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| During the Paleogene, the continents continued to drift closer to their current positions. |
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