It taxed the resources of the municipality to the utmost and left scars on the city that took years to efface. |
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By volunteering to go, prisoners would win a remission of sentence and efface the stigma of jail. |
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Davis, however, looks for an English equivalent that might work in both contexts, so as not to efface their suggestive interconnection. |
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Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film. |
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Some literary critics have argued that interactivity will efface literature itself. |
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The result is an important challenge to the new historicist tendency to efface the literary dimensions of early modern poetry. |
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The Talmud states that people's prayers are not accepted unless they efface themselves before God. |
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The decorators strive to efface themselves, just as persons of the highest breeding possess the simplest manners. |
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He should heartily submit to the Lord's will, worship the Creator and efface his self-conceit. |
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This view is so fundamentally flawed yet so implicit in the Australian mentality that it seems almost impossible to efface or even moderate. |
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The pardon granted by the court in the cases cited by the delegation should efface not only the sentence but also the declaration of guilt. |
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Globalisation, America and the European Union are all said to have had a hand in the plot to efface secularism. |
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When enlarged, these tonsils will efface the vallecula, the space just anterior to the epiglottis. |
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If he could get our point of view and let some woman take a hand at him, she might efface his irresistibleness and make a man of him. |
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It is an effect that appears unsettlingly intrusive, as if someone had sought to deliberately efface the work. |
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To take refuge in the absurd promise of mercy from God disrupts any totalizing schemas that efface what cannot be incorporated. |
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The rib cage is pushed forward, arms are behind the torso, and there is a general tendency to be too flat-that is, true efface and croise are missing. |
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It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable, because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it. |
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Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness. |
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