The earliest collections of Aesopian fables which have come down to us, though, date from the first centuries of the Common Era. |
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It may come down to semantics and splitting hairs, but it doesn't actually say anywhere in the constitution that Japan can't have an army. |
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In most sports, the difference between success and failure can often come down to an explosive burst of power. |
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All you are talking about changing is in the region of five to ten votes per ballot box and that's what it will come down to. |
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There are huge Douglas firs, cedars, and hemlocks behind us, and cougars come down to the lake to drink. |
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We had been told that in the last part of the race it would come down to who wanted it more. |
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Victory will be earned the hard way, and in the end it may come down to the survival of the fittest. |
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I think when a movement happens, oftentimes it usually doesn't come down to one person. |
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I don't think the title race will come down to head-to-heads such as yesterday's or the Old Firm encounters. |
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The next thing I know, the experienced sand casters are begging me to come down to the art room at recess to make another sand casting! |
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By His precious blood a road was made from Heaven to earth, by which God could come down to man. |
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Given the soft ground, in the end it will come down to which horse is fittest and wants it most. |
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In my view the outcome will come down to who wants the victory most, and I feel we do. |
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Much of our evidence for ancient philosophy has a similarly accidental quality, and has come down to us in fragments. |
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And one will find that there is no conflict because they all come down to the same thing. |
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Past the flailing dramatics it will come down to a well-placed drop-step or well-timed tip-in. |
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She'd been in Delhi all these years, and had just recent come down to Mumbai for a visit to her folks. |
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At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest. |
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It was an ode to peace in English requesting Lord Krishna to come down to earth and resolve the conflicts of the world. |
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But in default of any further explanation this would come down to saying merely that he did know them, but not by any ordinary means. |
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Bhagiratha is the legendary king whose devotion made the Ganges consent to come down to the Earth. |
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I said to the players after the game that it had come down to a lick of paint. |
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There's another myth that Zhao was so lazy and idle that he would only come down to the world on the fifth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. |
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The Book of Kells is one of the great masterpieces that has come down to us from a period often referred to as the Dark Ages. |
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He wanted to come down to Kent to be nearer his close family and it was a shock when he died so soon afterwards. |
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No other work of Euripides has come down to us with so many distortions and has undergone so many atheteses as Iphigenia at Aulis. |
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It will almost certainly come down to a choice between which of two groups of advisers you choose to believe. |
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You think it's going to come down to procreating to ensure the future of saneness? |
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She explains that the animals instinctively know when the tide is ebbing, and thus when to come down to the shore to graze. |
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It's going to come down to how your behind looks when you pour yourself into them. |
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In the end, it will all come down to clever marketing of the brand extension. |
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Powerful and successful presentations or speeches basically come down to the person doing the presenting or speaking. |
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On that day, anyone on the housetop who has belongings in the house must not come down to take them away. |
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Finally, she was joined by an old bearded tinker who had come down to the shore with his heavy canvas bag of tradesman's tools. |
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It's only a walk, but couples come down to the water, toeing shells through the sand, the surf through the sound underneath. |
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But when we come down to driving the business and pushing performance, we bring everybody into the fold. |
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All I can say is the city is on a power trip and they need to come down to earth and see the simpler stuff in life. |
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In this area, we quickly come down to moral intuitions and visceral reactions. |
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The Delhi zoo had about 4-5 pairs of black swans, but now their numbers has come down to one male and two females. |
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I have learned tabla and mridangam from a teacher who had come down to Durban not very long ago. |
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Mayor Frank knew the bloke was a plonko come down to the river bank to avoid the authorities. |
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She knew soon Jose Marcel would come down to the pit and check in with his dealers and meet the high rollers. |
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In the mythologies that have come down to us, many cultures express this as a sexual union. |
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It may come down to whether he is overawed by both the presence of Woods and the whole Masters occasion. |
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These people were responsible for spreading a distinctive language, which has come down to us as Breton, and Gaelic. |
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This is a series that was expected to come down to the respective bullpens. |
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The record of the passion of St. Perpetua, St. Felicity and their companions is one of the greatest hagiological treasures that have come down to us. |
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I was living there then, and he had come down to run a Buddhist service in Clearwater. |
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If we see any trouble at all, we'll radio you, or come down to help you. |
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But why do you come down to our mere mortal plain in this weather, angel? |
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Browser preference might come down to how many times you want to slip your headset on and off. |
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Yet for all the hullabaloo about outside groups, the race may simply come down to old-fashioned retail politics. |
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He pointed out that fishermen may have to come down to a quay to check their boats and equipment in bad weather, but may not travel in a vehicle transporting goods. |
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We've been there and looked through the window when a pair of bright parrots, never seen before in the garden, come down to the bird bath to drink and splash. |
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Their collective failings come down to message discipline, candidate selection, and voter targeting. |
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One of the most respected analysts in his field, he has predicted that the housing market is due to come down to the ground with a bump and, more than once, he has been wrong. |
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Well, lemme get my room first and then, I'll come down to meet everyone. |
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They come down to flat ground and just implode, or smash into a tree. |
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It was really good fun and to come down to a photo finish is amazing. |
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It is acknowledged, that in the end, in Web page design, decisions can come down to a compromise between the aesthetics and search engine visibility. |
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They come down to the river to see me, all wearing their finely plaited split-bamboo hats, which afford them excellent protection from the sun and rain. |
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The level of hard work and commitment put in over the past few months had come down to the crunch and true to form, both communities lived up to their full potential. |
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All of this intelligence had come down to us through the grapevine. |
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The BCA's and Cochran's positions basically come down to pressuring college administrators into allowing more African Americans to lead their teams on the gridiron. |
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The episode of Alexander's interview with the gymnosophists has come down to us in several versions, among which the one in Plutarch's Vita Alexandri is the most renowned. |
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Note also that many of the words have come down to Modern English in their unmetathesized forms. |
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It will make long detours rather than come down to the ground and expose itself to danger. |
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He was almost done with the paper, but tomorrow's due date meant it would come down to the wire. |
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Wait for the temperature to come down to a reasonable level before touching the lid. |
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Ultimately though it could all come down to who turns sponge, caramel, choux pastry and petits fours into a real showstopper. |
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It helped create a niche which allowed a small tree shrew to come down to the ground and evolve into the human race. |
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They even come down to Shelburne at our peak holidays to dress and pack teddy bears for shipment. |
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But it would all come down to a 47-yard field goal attempt by Norwood. |
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Schouten has got the credit for it, and thus the voyage has come down to us under his name. |
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After 18 April he did not come down to the ground floor but still came out of bed to lie on the sofa. |
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Should it come down to the final hole, as two of the three playoff tournaments have, that could very well stop some channel surfers in midclick. |
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The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night. |
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We have noted the rejection of the Diatessaron by the early church in favour of the multiple traditions that have come down to us in the four canonical gospels. |
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There is some confusion about this work since the original has disappeared, and scholars have assumed that what has come down to us is not by Mozart. |
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Some day, when you are tired of London, come down to Treadley, and expound to me your philosophy of pleasure over some admirable Burgundy I am fortunate enough to possess. |
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Again if he ruffs he is endplayed, if he throws his last heart he is thrown in with a trump and so he has to come down to the singleton king of clubs. |
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Perhaps it will come down to a difference of say ten votes, or maybe less. |
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Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. |
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