A group of twenty or so passengers could be seen disembarking from the ship and passing through the gates which dwarfed them. |
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As a painter he is best known for dramatic and sinister architectural views, with figures dwarfed by their gloomy surroundings. |
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The panther reached a tree so ancient it dwarfed the surrounding trees to mere saplings. |
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The ship seemed tiny and insignificant now, dwarfed by the great tower of the Pharos lighthouse. |
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Although dwarfed in height, it bears a resemblance to skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Centre in New York. |
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This is because the amount of savings income you can get is almost always dwarfed by interest rates you pay on your debts. |
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The bonfire which was lit on the beach that evening was dwarfed into insignificance by the reflection it threw out over the water. |
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The consumption of the previous evening, prodigious by any standards, was exceeded nay, dwarfed by that which was to follow. |
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In comparison the earth is dwarfed by mighty Jupiter, so the presence of Ganymede is not really that unusual. |
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There are Chinatowns and takeaways all over the world, but in Britain the culinary impact of China is dwarfed by the subcontinent. |
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However, the figures are still dwarfed by the huge scale of the problem of urban dereliction and blight in the area. |
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It is dwarfed on all sides by three-story houses, a condominium building and an ugly electric lightpole. |
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He looked at her, dwarfed by the immense bed, and suddenly felt a huge swell of protectiveness overcome him. |
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The site seems small until you see one of the workers perched on the top of the skeleton, dwarfed by the size of the structure. |
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Residents seem dwarfed by their improbably high-ceilinged apartments, with huge transomed windows and faded, chipping walls. |
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They were organized around an exporting economy, and as a result, the major cities dwarfed other towns within the tributary area. |
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The mounds were heaped with small rock gardens, dwarfed trees, and every variety of flower imaginable. |
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The dainty coffee cup was dwarfed by his thick fingers, like a piece from a child's tea set. |
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Within our own society, personal suffering may seem dwarfed by global anxieties. |
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The ground is dwarfed by seven giant cranes, used as part of a renovation scheme which has reduced a huge bank of terracing to a giant sandpit. |
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Looking out over the Indian Ocean, the sails of dhow fishing vessels are dwarfed by transoceanic cargo ships gliding into the port. |
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But this figure is set to be dwarfed by the crowds expected to descend on the heritage railway once the Harry Potter film is released. |
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Because of the harsh environment, most plants that survive in the tundra are dwarfed, and many have stems that creep along the ground. |
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They would be dwarfed by the resort-style building which could emerge in the city centre. |
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However, this is dwarfed by the indirect influence Roberts expects Ukip could wield. |
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In an era of height classes, he dominated his fellow short men, and his sharply cusped biceps and deeply horseshoed triceps dwarfed those of much taller bodybuilders. |
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His large size dwarfed Jeremy, who stood at five feet eleven inches. |
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The village's working waterfront still resembles a Wyeth, alive with aging trawlers, lobster traps and weatherworn shacks dwarfed by evergreens. |
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Even if there are a few more, the list is dwarfed by the number of famous progressive comedians. |
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But both groups were dwarfed by a large gathering in the park of a group called Egyptian Americans for Democracy and Human Rights. |
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We humans have just one world, a tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam, dwarfed by your zeppelin of a mother, floating next to it. |
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Normally, gaga would be working with the giant teddy bears, not getting dwarfed by them. |
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But as Challenger approached the West Indies the crew encountered a phenomenon that dwarfed in importance even the discovery of manganese nodules. |
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At Glacier Point, a full vertiginous mile above the valley floor, even the sequoias seem dwarfed by Half Dome, the greatest ornament in a landscape brimming with wonders. |
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This will be dwarfed by a tower of luxury flats 100 yards downstream, its 43 storeys just seven fewer than Canary Wharf. |
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The next Scottish Labour leader's practical problems are dwarfed by the existential. |
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The number of criticisms is nonetheless dwarfed by the overall positive result. |
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The citizen is dwarfed by the gargantuan nature of the institutions and of globalisation. |
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But even these profits are dwarfed by music, the largest global media sector. |
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Prior to the mid-1980s, it was generally believed that the costs of the criminal justice system dwarfed the costs imposed on victims. |
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Vegetation is sparse, dwarfed and starved, particularly in the northern part of the region. |
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Many of the current problems will be dwarfed by the scale of the needs in East Germany. |
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Although the county sheriff's office was just a block away, their bootleg business allegedly dwarfed their trade in seed, feed and gardening equipment. |
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His church, though not particularly small, is dwarfed by the UN buildings. |
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And who can blame them for feeling disenfranchised when they see their efforts dwarfed by the mega donors. |
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He was rugged, but his muscles didn't get out of control and he stood six-feet-four-inches from the ground and dwarfed most men that he came across. |
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Because the building is dwarfed by its neighbours, windows have been screened with sheer fabric through which can be seen shadows of the surrounding city. |
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Other disasters include sorrel that grew well but attracted a nasty black beetle, valerian that soon dwarfed the conifer it was expected to complement, and strawberries. |
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Our little covered caravan was dwarfed by these new surroundings. |
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An explorer stands dwarfed by towering ferns in the shadowy depths of Claustral Canyon in New South Wales, Australia. |
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Sixty wheatears were there as the rain cleared on Monday, but this total was dwarfed by 400 through Bardsey on Saturday. |
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The community, through its appointed representatives, should see to it that the school principal is not so loaded with management work and teaching duties that his contribution in leading teachers and pupils becomes dwarfed. |
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Although the species of porcupine found in North America always lives among trees, it does not always live in mature forests and may be found in alder thickets along rivers and in dwarfed pine scrub along ridge crests. |
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The baggage and emigration formalities completed, we step up the ladder into its cavernous interior, the seats dwarfed by the open space overhead, the cargo hold separated from us by a netting. |
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Godwin and Clifford were dwarfed by the Atlantis-Mir complex as they clambered up the orange docking tunnel to install four experimental panels. |
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The youngest leaves are dwarfed and outwardly cupped. |
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And all of them dwarfed the FDA's dainty definition of a muffin serving. |
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At the top of this weak structure sat Admiral Percy W Nelles, who had reigned since 1934.Ā Ā Competent in his own way, Nelles was uninspired and dwarfed by a situation he had not foreseen and to which he was unable to adjust. |
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A major factor in their growth could be the level of financial support from the international funding organizations which are still an important lever, even though their resources are dwarfed by private sector funds. |
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However, assistance could be misapplied and was dwarfed by other financing sources, including private investment flow, remittances and private philanthropy, which must be taken into account. |
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A product both of Sargent's VelƔzquez worship and his assimilative study of Whistler and Manet, the picture shows four young sisters in their family's Paris apartment, where they are dwarfed by two immense Japanese vases. |
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Delta and its interests are essentially dwarfed by Surrey. |
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The other, dwarfed and prehensile, might in its uncanny silhouette have been an imp of darkness from the nether regions. |
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This growth has not only forced considerable change to the economy agriculture, once dominant, is now dwarfed by the industry and service sectors. |
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What there is here ā a climbable volcano, dramatic waterfalls, black-sand beaches ā is dwarfed by what there isn't: Ā chain stores, crowds, big hotels. |
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Attacked trees become dwarfed and stunted. |
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The United States had more than doubled its ODA since the Conference, but numerous studies had shown that ODA was dwarfed by other sources, such as private investment flows, remittances and philanthropy. |
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In reality, the tree line doesn't form one straight dividing line, but is an in-between area with patches of dwarfed trees interspersed with pockets of tundra. |
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Since Titans were towering giants, they dwarfed even the mightiest tank. |
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Researchers are dwarfed by huge rooms filled with gleaming metal gantries and towers, packed with all manner of devices linked by intricate webs of wiring. |
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But these efforts remain dwarfed by the scale of the tragedy. |
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He was five-foot-four on a good day, easily dwarfed by bosses, army sergeants, aristocrats or rivals for the willowy girls who strolled into his life. |
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Under the autumn skies in western Bosnia where the backdrop of sunburnt wheat fields cut out the silhouettes of men, dwarfed by the size of their guns, the firing went on. |
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The sums spent on metalwork, building palaces, and by Henry on tapestries, dwarfed these figures. |
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The raggle-taggle host of freedmen dwarfed her own, but they were more burden than benefit. |
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The orchards of peaches with the lush fruit weighting down the dwarfed trees. |
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They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick. |
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International City has three licensed massage centres, but in recent times they seem to have been dwarfed by door-to-door freelance masseuses. |
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A solo performer could easily be dwarfed by the immense Lyttleton stage, but within the first five minutes of Misterman, Cillian Murphy has dauntlessly occupied it. |
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Skrogg was a lean carcass and scroggy could mean stunted, dwarfed or shriveled. |
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Yet, even though Rafael Marquez the younger's haul of 13 caps is dwarfed by the Mexico skipper's collection of 86, the twosome have teamed upĀ togetherĀ on international duty. |
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But we do see imperfect things in nature, dwarfed, blasted trees and other apparent miscarryings. Yet they are as perfect as their environment allows them to be. |
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But those sightings are all numerically dwarfed by the enormous broad-winged hawk migration of nearly two million birds that usually occurs in our region this coming week. |
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The human mind has long suffered an eclipse and been darkened and dwarfed in the shadow of ideas the real meaning of which has been lost to moderns. |
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Tornadoes are destructive events but a tornado isn't even in the same realm as an atomic bomb, which in turn is dwarfed by the destruction inherent in a thermonuclear weapon. |
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If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls. |
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Other alternative theories propose that genetic drift is dwarfed by other stochastic forces in evolution, such as genetic hitchhiking, also known as genetic draft. |
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The Camel was a different kind of aircraft that hosted a ground strafer, a night fighter and more, but it was dwarfed in the advancement of other aircraft. |
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Brideshead's selection as the American Book of the Month swelled its US sales to an extent that dwarfed those in Britain, which was affected by paper shortages. |
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Towns such as Welshpool, Newtown and Llanidloes tripled in size and became industrial towns, although they were dwarfed by the English centres of Bradford and Leeds. |
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These figures would later be dwarfed by the massive excavation rates seen in the last quarter of the 19th century up to the beginning of the First World War. |
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Overall, however, they tend to be dwarfed by other Cetartiodactyls. |
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Ultimately, because dairy production was already a management intensive industry the disadvantages are dwarfed by the advantages of the AI for many dairy producers. |
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