| 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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| I closed my eyes and gradually felt the hurt and disappointment ebbing away when I felt his arms enveloping me, encasing me in his warmth. |
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| As she spoke she was amazed to feel some of the tension ebbing from her, giving her a little breathing space. |
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| The ebbing water and skimboarder collide with the incoming wave as the shore break shoots the board skyward. |
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| As we walked along the shoreline, ghost crabs danced among the trove of shells deposited by the ebbing tide. |
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| Instead, I keep going back to my old haunts, hoping to rekindle an ebbing flame. |
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| Although increasingly stranded politically by the ebbing tide of socialism, he has refused to tone down his rabble-rousing rhetoric. |
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| Sampling began at the 10-km station during the final hour of the flood tide and was completed 2 h into the ebbing tide. |
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| Huge extra costs were piled on to taxpayers at a time when the country's income was ebbing. |
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| They were three points clear with time ebbing away when they began to panic and concede silly frees. |
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| His words looked to have a prophetic ring as the Scots came of age in an enthralling and ebbing battle of two sporting codes. |
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| These were the latter days of John's government, when cabinet ministers and their chinless aides felt power ebbing away from them. |
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| The wind is blowing fresh out of the east, funneling up the river, and the tide is ebbing hard, setting up a steep chop. |
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| The sun was tediously ebbing into the horizon, staining the otherwise violet sky with brilliant streaks of orange and vermilion. |
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| I began to feel my strength and stamina ebbing and shivered uncontrollably from the cold whenever we took a break for water. |
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| Oil tended to leak most with tidal movements and particularly when the tide was ebbing. |
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| The content of the Summit was not bad, but faith in subsequent action is evidently ebbing and this is a very serious matter indeed. |
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| The death toll is growing by the hour, whilst the hope of rescuing the survivors from under the rubble is ebbing away. |
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| Left to themselves, all foodstuffs decay, a process that relates to the gradual ebbing away of this vital force. |
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| Alyssa had put her hand on his shoulder, her laughter slowly ebbing away. |
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| Her strength was ebbing, but she seemed ever more focused and determined. |
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| He sighed, a bit of the anger ebbing away from his countenance. |
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| Subtlety, guile and deception are the endangered species, ebbing and flowing according to circumstance and fashion. |
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| Her spiralling lines and arrows are always on the move, ebbing and flowing across the page. |
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| Fleetwood Mac soldiered on, adding new personnel as needed, the band's fortunes ebbing and flowing. |
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| France would score and England inched back, the balance ebbing and flowing. |
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| The combination of motor, glass and light creates the illusion of waves ebbing and flowing like the ocean tide. |
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| We are connected like the sea, ebbing and flowing with their responses, all of us making towards the same shore. |
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| The first step was to flood test crops with ozone, the evil ingredient of smog, to simulate the ebbing and flowing of the urban miasma. |
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| At flood tide, and at high water the sea infiltrates through the bar, causing a regular ebbing and flowing in the basin. |
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| Whether sidewise to independent regulators or upwards to Europe, power seems to be ebbing away from them, for the time being anyway. |
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| No doubt you're so relieved to see daylight you are cruising tentatively along enjoying the ebbing forces of your mental disorder. |
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| Wednesday's result and Djokovic's performance have rearranged the hierarchy of the game in an era of ebbing change. |
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| Parallel to the deterioration in the business climate, consumer confidence had already been ebbing since the beginning of the year. |
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| From this position, he observed the tidal conditions to assess the last ebbing of the current. |
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| There have been five years of rock-solid progress in that direction and public anxiety at the rising tide of enlargement is gradually ebbing. |
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| At the end of the year, ebbing growth led to a sharp decline in loan applications. |
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| Consumers' faith in the stuff they buy appears to be ebbing, say researchers, in these days of unchecked megamergers, electric company bailouts, and the virtual economy. |
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| The tidal bore comes in faster than a galloping horse, but first wilful surging water fills gullies and gaping holes left by the last ebbing tide. |
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| I hear it has something to do with the faces of the moon, or maybe the tide, which is quite active hereabouts, ebbing and neaping even as we sleep. |
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| There are also signs that the wave of distressed selling that helped push prices lower throughout 2010 and 2011 is ebbing. |
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| Be very passive as the air leaves your lungs and leaves your mouth, mimicking the sounds of ocean waves ebbing and flowing. |
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| It's just an endless loop of anxiety building up and then ebbing away. |
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| Zia, in bed with the Islamists who were being dispatched to the gallows by the tribunal, found her appeal ebbing. |
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| He began to get his boxing together and his confidence was ebbing back. |
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| The tide was still ebbing furiously and the course lay once again upwind, and for a few minutes I amused some onlooking fisherman by not making any headway at all. |
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| If we aren't interested in changing the way the country works, but only in chasing after an ebbing political tide, then we will earn nothing but ridicule. |
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| High water rotates about the amphidromic point once every 12 hours in the direction of rising cotidal lines, and away from ebbing cotidal lines. |
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| However, the relative might of Spain, the main player up to now in the German civil war, was ebbing fast. |
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| A welsome poesy attends the final ebbing of his really romantic life, amid the familiar scenes of his boyhood. |
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| Public support for Mr Abe's changes has been ebbing. |
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| The short introduction opens with three bolts of lightning, followed by a lengthy ebbing away, still in the same double-dotted rhythm as the opening, but the energy apparently sapped by the three spent bolts. |
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| With the recent ebbing of oil prices and the gradual firming of the labour market, prospects for private consumption, a particularly weak spot in the euro area in recent years, are also improving. |
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| Oyster larvae are incapable of swimming against a current, so they maintain their location in the estuary by dropping to the bottom when the tide is ebbing and rising to the top with the incoming tide. |
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| Cruises continue to see the market ebbing, a fall-off that is not however hindering the continuation of investments, notably at Pointe Simon that has been extended and will house hotels, offices, shops, and apartment flats. |
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| If disarmament were surfing on a triumphant tidal wave of mutual trust among the major powers, anti-missile weapons might conceivably do little harm but arms control is solidly stagnant, if not ebbing away. |
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| At the time of the occurrence, 2143, the tide was ebbing and the current was estimated to have been setting in a westerly direction at a rate of less than one knot. |
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| In partially mixed estuaries or well stratified estuaries, there is often little seaward movement along the bed during the ebbing tide creating an increase in stratification during this period. |
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| Passage upriver was without incident, and the vessel was making about 9? knots over the bottom, against the river flow and ebbing tide of approximately 2-3 knots. |
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| The ebbing tide created a southerly current of about 2 knots. |
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| The pace of foreclosures has not abated, and there has been no improvement in employment in residential construction. Worse still, the momentum now seems to be ebbing. |
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| Lots of policy building, systems management and committees. The buzz of building and creating, the thrill of my first significant funding and the flavour of hope and magic was ebbing. |
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| Effluent mixing into the upper layer is more likely during an ebbing tide. |
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| Once again the military intervened just as the political crisis was ebbing and talks between the government and the political parties had started. |
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| Many Francophones, who constituted the majority population in Quebec but a minority elsewhere in Canada, felt that their language was ebbing away. |
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