With this chip, IBM now has the makings of an excellent mid-range server or workstation chip. |
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That's why Yu's comments triggered such angst among those who see the makings of a dollar meltdown. |
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Certain scuttlebutt avows that the girls actually do not participate in the makings of many of these records. |
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Putting a world-class tax dodger at the controls of our sputtering economy has all the makings of a world-class train wreck. |
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This has the makings of a very significant case of very considerable legal importance. |
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Somehow the office convo had come around to the ideal makings of a romantic situation. |
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Podcasting has the makings of an audio version of the blog phenomenon, allowing anyone with a microphone and a PC to become a shock jock. |
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If you remembered to keep a package of tortillas in the freezer, you've also got the makings of bean burritos or tacos. |
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On these brindles you will find good, strong stripes on one side and very light makings on the other. |
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If cut for lumber, this single tree would yield 600, 120 board feet, the makings of 40 five-room houses. |
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I felt we had the makings of a perfect match and she was so attentive to me I could not believe my luck. |
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You notice, too, that she might have the makings of a first-class drama queen. |
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It has the makings of a real humdinger and if conditions are anyway right there will be much to be anticipated. |
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Okay, so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet, but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy. |
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They research for biographical, theoretical and historical points of decision makings and portray an unusual life between philosophy and revolt. |
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We asked a group of these players about the makings of a good character actor. |
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With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event. |
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Our lads can be proud of the way they played there today, we have the makings of a really good team. |
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Indeed, 7 Stories has all the makings of an absurdist comedy, but beneath its veil of irreverence lurks a vehicle for lofty, provoking ideas. |
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It had all the makings of a tragedy and shows the dangers of candles and the importance of smoke alarms. |
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Our offer was accepted this morning and there is no chain in either direction, so fingers crossed, it has the makings of a smooth operation. |
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There is fat chance of Tosh forgetting about this season, which surely has the makings of a magical 30-goal one. |
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Significantly, a small district in Andhra Pradesh offers a few lessons on the makings of a people-friendly system of administration. |
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Many members of both sides had played the week before and this one had all the makings of a ding-dong tussle. |
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And this spring has the makings of a property bonanza with the lowest mortgage rates in 35 years available amid cut-throat competition. |
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The newly minted 26-year-old CSC team leader has all the makings of a winner. |
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Now with his foray into the electoral area, he has the makings of a political kingmaker. |
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The prohibition on capital controls has the makings of a US foreign policy debacle. |
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Thus we have the makings of a quite subversive literary tradition that seeks to undermine the tightly controlled world of the urban elites. |
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With his soft grey eyes, enviable cheekbones and hair that tousles endearingly at the merest touch, he has all the makings of a teen idol. |
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No, I promise it's not the makings of a classical joke, as my postman can testify. |
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It's a fatal flaw in what otherwise has the makings of an entertainingly quirky show. |
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Hidden somewhere deep in these two gushy hours of melodrama lie the makings of a vaguely watchable film. |
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The battle for control of Novar, the industrial conglomerate, has all the makings of a highly charged hostile bid war. |
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We should have the makings of a very workable plan so we can have an orderly evacuation of Port-of-Spain. |
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Essentially, we now have the makings of a scrap over Britain's life companies that was predicted by this paper at the turn of the year. |
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Already, Ashoka has launched the makings of a global accelerator for social entrepreneurs. |
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They have the makings of incisive critics of visual culture. |
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For Schwarzenegger fans like me, the movie had all the makings of a breakthrough. |
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Add a crusty engineer and his manic assistant, and you have the makings of a team any law-abiding citizen should think twice before calling in to stop trouble. |
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Here could be the makings of an authoritarian system of rule distinct from, but genetically related to, the nation's previous experience of plebiscitary power. |
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The General Conference indeed by its very existence as a top decision-making event has the makings of an important media event too. |
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If Working America can make inroads there, we'll have the makings of a political earthquake. |
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Nearby lie the makings of a holiday: an Avis rent-a-car receipt, a postcard, a toiletry kit with face-wash and a blue and white toothbrush. |
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There's always the off-chance that one of these teens will turn out to have the makings of a professional athlete. |
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Our doggy bag endowed us with the makings of the best fishcakes known to man. |
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Intelligent, mobile and tigerish in the tackle, the curly haired Guarani player has all the makings of being a star of tomorrow. |
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With his dandy high-collared shirts and his romantic lead looks, Dany Brillant has all the makings of a teenage heartthrob. |
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Sun behind you and mist, fog or remnants of a rainstorm in front are the makings of a typical rainbow. |
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Put all these volatile elements together and we certainly have the makings of a heady, and potentially somewhat unstable, mixture for investment opportunities. |
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We have the makings there but the staff really need more support. |
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A dual-winner last season, Josh has the makings of a high-class horse and, although unproven over this seven furlongs I think he will cope with the longer trip. |
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Northampton have got the stadium, they've got the fans, and now, thanks to Bruce Reihana, they may have the makings of a serious Heineken Cup challenge. |
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Detroit might have the makings of a nice 50 square mile city within its population. |
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Galileo has all the makings of an Airbus in space and, as Galileo Galilei pointed out, what goes up must come down. |
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So far, with Tuesday's higher than expected acreage in consideration, this has the makings of a monster U. S. corn crop. |
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He clearly has all the makings of a good Leader of the Opposition for many, many years to come. |
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A few songs from Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin formed their repertoire, along with the makings of original songs. |
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This art is not only about creating pretty items, but also about the makings of tools or any ingenious invention. |
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Germany already has organisations and the makings of legal machinery to combat trafficking in human beings. |
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Families love this pleasant house and every child who stays there already has the makings of becoming real little gourmets. |
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The event had the makings of a festival and gathered customers, suppliers, investors and friends of the company. |
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Phil and Nicole have all the makings of a great team, having between them many years of union activism looking out for their members' interests. |
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It had all the makings of a tight tussle, with both sides moving the ball well and crashing packs hard. |
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The result is Ida, a meditation on the makings of modern Poland that won best film at last year's London film festival. |
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Pair with new season's garlic and you have the makings of a special weekend dish. |
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Use for pastry makings, jams? daily use in the coffee, milk, the teas or herb teas. |
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The Councils: mixed with flour, the corn germ enriches flat cooked and pastry makings. |
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The actual commission will now continue the work of assessing complaints and decision makings in this way. |
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They seem to have all the makings of a weak, submissive government. |
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She was fair, had long hair and had all the makings of a performer. |
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He has the makings of a male model underneath his ragamuffin dreads. |
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He demonstrated that he had the makings of a future Marine after his mother sent him on a last minute errand to a nearby deli. |
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In short, it had all the makings of a nuclear attack drill, part of an escalation in long-range Russian operations worldwide. |
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He was a charismatic loose cannon, a leader with the makings of greatness repeatedly brought low by his own untamed passions and headstrong impulsiveness. |
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Deputy French took a small white bag of tobacco from his shirt pocket, shaking the makings into a waiting cigarette paper, he began to roll it round. |
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Throw in an X-Man whose special power is preserving religious liberty and you have the makings of a movie franchise. |
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Coming to America in late 1774, already approaching 40, Paine not only had all the makings of a radical. |
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The thin, ungainly boy didn't seem to have the makings of a star gymnast. |
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John grew into a strapping lad with the makings of a farmer, and with this in mind he spent his fourteenth year living with relatives on their farm in Dunmore, Co. Galway. |
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With the booming city of Kilkenny less than a 90-minute train journey from Dublin, the makings of a hen party to remember are on the group's doorstep. |
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As a self-winding watch with a minute-repeater striking the hours, quarters and minutes on demand, the new «Marie-Antoinette» has all the makings of a work of art. |
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I discern in the present situation the makings of a historic compromise. |
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Which seem the makings of a fine obituary. |
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The exposition's buildings turned out to be mostly neo-classical pastiche, but the fair did bequeath a sense of cultural pride and, more tangibly, the makings of a new home for the Art Institute. |
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Clear instructions accompany all the makings of models of such devices as zoetropes, thaumatropes, phenakistoscopes, and flip books. |
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So, at this time, it is impossible to say whether we are witnessing the makings of a market top or if this is yet another bait-and-switch trick where corn futures will once again charge higher into the close of the week. |
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As a well-established liberal democracy with a strong legal tradition of human rights and an independent judiciary, India has the makings of a powerful role model. |
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The situation actually has all the makings of an immortal myth: the good and noble Prince snatched from his cradle and replaced with the psychopathic offspring of an ogre. |
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The fresh fruits, the strawberries, are consumed natural with sugar, with wine or fresh cream, or out of fruit salad, or are cooked in jam or pastry makings. |
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When the Lamp Dude and the Academic decided to go into business together, it had all the makings of a minidisaster. |
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He has the makings of a fine leader, and we, the nominating committee, are pleased to present him to the membership as our candidate. |
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With one out and runners on first and second, the Sox' slugger David Ortiz hit a weak grounder to the second baseman, who flipped it to short for what had the makings of an inning-ending double play. |
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Lindsey has the makings of a leading lady. |
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Other makings on the rivet head, such as small raised or depressed dimples or small raised bars indicate the rivet's alloy. |
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But the epilogue to that story has the makings of a historic coda. |
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Through the successful implementation of a visionless transfer policy, we now have the makings of a good Championship side. |
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A single solution thus provides everything you need, thereby makings the work of your IT Department, which has until now had to service numerous devices, substantially more efficient. |
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In what had the makings of a spoof film plot the fundraising page says that they want to work to establish a safe communication network within the country. |
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The makings of this master narrative are all present in Morris's book, and perhaps popularizers will make use of his research to give us narratives of this sort. |
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So, there's the makings of a pretty decent comedy here but, after a promising opening, the film just stutters stodgily and even teeters towards being boring. |
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This is a notable first novel with outrageous and sometimes impossible antics of four mismatched friends that has the makings of a television sitcom. |
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Greene's friend Mario Soldati, a Piedmontese novelist and film director, believed it had the makings of a suspense film about Yugoslav spies in postwar Venice. |
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