What had happened by 1974 was that many of the new technologies of 1944 had been perfected, or at least made cheaper and more reliable. |
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The ship won't point into the wind, you have to have the wind astern or at least abeam. |
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So I watch the clock, longing for lunch hour, when I might be able to run an errand or at least do some yoga. |
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We're going to throw the book at you, or at least some facts, from our presidential election research editorial guide. |
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We have no time for play or at least play dates and the answer is to have families double up on free time by including everybody. |
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I can identify with the possible need for confession, restitution, and absolution, or at least resolution. |
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I'm getting so many new links from so many places, and I think people often expect a warblog, or at least a blogblog. |
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Some very smart people have worked on ways to get around these problems or at least to quantify them carefully. |
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I think of myself as a very friendly, easy, accessible guy, but I seem to intimidate people, or at least the fact of who I am intimidates people. |
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But there is logic at work here, or at least what passes for logic to my way of thinking. |
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If the committee issued a negative report, Barroso would feel obliged to jettison him, or at least give him a less significant portfolio. |
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Most of my friends and acquaintances are anti-war or at least uncomfortable about it. |
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Unknotting privacy dilemmas from first principles can be tricky, or at least lead to results that don't jibe with most people's felt intuitions. |
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A lot of people have christening gowns made from their wedding dresses, or at least from the trains. |
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Try to do cardio workouts on separate days from your weightlifting or at least at different times of day. |
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It was something brewed and created here, like a good beer or at least a jug of finely squeezed orange juice. |
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Well, it sounds like it, or at least the particularly rarified form of it practiced by the kind of names mentioned above. |
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Where was the consortium of great powers which had once established, or at least formally ratified disputed frontiers? |
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The very fact that the statement is qualified implies or at least suggests an affirmative answer. |
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Hanmari gave a roar of outrage and then proceeded to pound on the door down, or at least knock hard enough to rattle the hinges. |
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Gadgets and widgets and all that cool stuff that make life easier, or at least more fun, that's what I want to write about. |
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This is the proposition that I hoped the government would deny, or at least remain agnostic about. |
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You should design the game to be winnable, or at least possibly winnable through multiple paths. |
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Only the sky was turning a leaden grey, the tide was low, and we were hungry, or at least I was. |
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Where possible buy new, or at least get a reconditioned machine from a reputable source. |
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The men would probably have made a lewd comment, or at least wolf-whistled to make each other laugh. |
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I have been to Thailand a few times, so I know the ropes, or at least I think I do. |
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Working too much takes its toll on people's health and relationships, yet most workaholics are hailed as heroes, or at least model employees. |
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For instance, a maintenance mission would require a wrecker or at least a HMMWV manned with mechanics, tools, and a tow bar. |
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This rules out a lot of potential uses, or at least relegates regexps to a helper role. |
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I guess she would rather I expressed myself in a more ladylike manner, or at least a little more eloquently. |
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The cognitive outer mask that we often live in, or at least I used to live in, it sort of draws you away from who you really are. |
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So, the mailman too was an Arcadian, or at least paid off to do that and put the letter inside of the box. |
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I also own a lava lamp, or at least a vial of orange goo left behind by my landlord who has an unnervingly 70s view of home design. |
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But cassette and video recorders are usually available on request or at least by arrangement. |
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The conditions include the requirement to have all goods locally produced or at least 40 per cent of their content be of good quality and value. |
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In retrospect, I should have rescheduled our session that day, or at least provided better direction during the session. |
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I get such resentful feelings towards his dad for not being here to lighten my load, or at least to lend a hand in those desperate moments. |
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Truth, or at least the whole truth and nothing but the truth, seems way down the list. |
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It seemed that our lives then had been happy indeed, or at least, full of hope and content. |
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He is also keen to rescue James from his detractors, or at least to give us the whole picture. |
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The consensus among the Elders is that no one would believe you anyway, or at least not many. |
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Government policy has tried to stop or at least restrict slash-and-burn cultivation, both in Finland earlier and in the tropics today. |
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The insurgents are threatening to starve the city or at least make food resupplies difficult. |
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It was a revivalist movement, or at least it had the atmosphere of a religious revival. |
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A couple of days later, the true facts, or at least a version of them, began to emerge. |
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It is guaranteed to grow for life, or at least into your old age, because of its genetic programming. |
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Conduct which is justified is right, or at least permissible, in the circumstances. |
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We've encountered these people, or at least those who are similar, in countless other road movies. |
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Britain was a thoroughly Romanized province, or at least the southern portions were. |
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Many more felt a sentimental attachment to Jacobitism, or at least alienation from the arriviste courts of William III and the Georges. |
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Also, perhaps surprisingly, there is even a shortage of art, or at least of art that can be reproduced. |
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Haskell, who has been sleeping in the front passenger's seat, cannot be roused and seems to be dead or at least unconscious. |
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Another is to replace the sharp words with words of encouragement or at least something neutral. |
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I was so sharp in these new stylish clothes, I could cut butter, or at least turn heads. |
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Diarrhoea was defined as three or more loose, liquid, or watery stools or at least one loose stool containing blood in a 24 hour period. |
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They could also be very funny, or at least generously sprinkled with oblique and telling asperities. |
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We know you are a member of the Resistance, or at least an associate of the organization. |
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It's used as an expression of pleased astonishment, or at least it was when I was a boy. |
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Money in the bank, or at least in property, provides an apparent safety net in the event you might need expensive full-time care. |
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In the pastel, these emblems are displayed as attributes of Pompadour herself, or at least of her tastes. |
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From the constable to the cabinet minister, everyone, or at least almost everyone is on the take. |
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Going to football, or at least talking the talk, allowed politicians and journalists to express their common touch. |
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The Emperor rules with the aid of a magic wand which appears to turn his subjects into puppets, or at least easy subjects for mind-control. |
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A hand delivered message was more likely to be read, or at least placed at the top of the pile, than a similar letter sent by mail. |
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It can be argued that the law of armed conflict and human rights law have diametrically opposed, or at least incompatible, axiologies. |
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By Wednesday, the player, or at least his advisers, were having a go at presenting him as the man who had intervened to save the nation's bacon. |
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They are, or at least were, the party of small government, low taxation and the national interest. |
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Analog closed circuit television systems require that video tapes be changed daily or at least every other day. |
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Such a tendency, or at least a failure to appreciate such a distinction, has clearly manifested itself in the present case. |
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And this is a matter about which there can be sensible debate based on a scientific or at least rational understanding of the world. |
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As this classification is scientifically absurd, it creates or at least perpetuates artificial racial divisions amongst the population. |
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Another story today contradicts the theory that these scofflaws are a bunch of ne'er-do-well capitalists, or at least most of them. |
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Kant was critical of every other view, scornful, mocking, or at least he aimed to be. |
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Do marginalia, cross-references and concordances offer models, or at least starting points, for thinking about the hypertext of the Web? |
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Many of us, if we are honest, will skip these lists, or at least read them very quickly! |
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There was a graphic style and a story, or at least the bare bones of one, that were very gripping. |
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The ecumenism was typical of the girl and of the city, or at least of certain sections within it. |
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I had never seen it here, but an essential ingredient of the Passover Seder is four cups of wine or at least grape juice. |
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Unable to speak with forked tongue, they might be obliged to speak the truth or at least stand firm on the side of a single opinion. |
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This I believe is an essential in preventing arguments, or at least a basis to resolve them. |
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Newcomers see a chance to win the race for advertising revenue, or at least secure a viable segmented market. |
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The answer is given with so much conviction that you have to believe him or at least believe that he believes it. |
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This element of self-indictment and self-disgust is absent, or at least not spelled out as it might be. |
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He has every reason to reshuffle his cabinet or at least move seats around. |
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The most common, or at least best known are lager, ale, stout and pilsner. |
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But the new rich, particularly the young, tend to be more progressive, or at least gentry liberal. |
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No one doubts that there is a growing groundswell of opinion that sanctions must be lifted or at least reduced so that the innocent do not continue suffering. |
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But some acts may be required, or at least commendable, regardless of their results. |
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You should let your mate pick, or at least make sure the woman you choose it out is not hotter than your partner. |
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Not all writers adopting a constructionist position are similarly prepared to acknowledge the existence or at least importance of an objective reality. |
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It's a pity we can't ask his opinion, or at least the talking computer. |
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But the complaints about the current administration did sometimes come with a spoonful of sugar, or at least a cornball of humor. |
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This was the unhappy and astonishing birth of my stammer or at least my first gripping self-conscious awareness of it. |
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The studio took him at his word and jumped at the chance to close down, or at least reduce, his costly operation. |
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I am sure the addition of a DJ, or at least some more loungey tunes in keeping with the visual mood of the place would have increased the number of clientele. |
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I had a doctor who was, or at least looked like, a marathon runner. |
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You could also argue that without the press, the government would have far more power, or at least wriggle room, to carry out their schemes without opposition. |
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It was huge, ten bedrooms, three baths, a huge kitchen, elegant dining room, it was the home little girls dreamed of, or at least the ones that she grew up with. |
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These shortcomings are compounded by the film's claim to noir status, which would suggest a level of tension or excitement or at least atmosphere. |
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Do I write about how I have recently become a new man, or at least an old man with new possessions, or do I write about the recent woeful state of my blogging psyche? |
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I like to end columns with a potential policy fix, some kind of suggested action, or at least a stern finger-wagging. |
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It was possible for young men of relatively low status to make a mark through their prowess, but in general the participants were already of noble or at least knightly birth. |
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Zuckerberg, or at least the narrow, shallow portrait painted of him in The Social Network, seems to embody that flimsy promise. |
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If the pond is located in sandy or gravelly soils or near fractured bedrock, seal the pond with an approved plastic liner or at least 6 inches of compact clay. |
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Only grassroots opposition stopped, or at least limited, their depredations. |
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A natural urge in newly freed countries is to wreak vengeance on, or at least deny continued privileges to, the oppressors of the previous regime. |
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Would that derail or at least stymie the popularity of remaking old movies? |
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Putin preys on the fact that the West thinks money and sport are neutral, or at least civilizing influences. |
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There were a lot of folks begging us to confront the Assad regime or at least create a no fly zone and stop the barrel bombs. |
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The best, or at least most successful, are bridging the gap between punk-rock DIY ethos and social-media savvy. |
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Ruseva told Bulgarian reporters that she would like to take Maria back and care for her, or at least get to know her. |
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Think of all the song lines, or at least refrains, we've all memorized. |
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Unfortunately, as demonstrated in this debate, the major parties have prevented members from voting for what they truly believe in, or at least pay lip service to. |
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This is important because as long as your hero, leader, or at least one of the company troops stays alive, they can regroup near a town, or fort and be re-supplied. |
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Being able to speak or at least understand a few words in the Aranda language did little to improve relations between the Aborigines and the neighbouring station owners. |
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Judging by the amount of literary criticism published, it seems clear that this is an effective, or at least very productive, technique of reading. |
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Last week, the two were reportedly reunited at chez Diddy, or at least held some sort of summit toward working it out. |
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A woman needs excitement, romance, or at least a good time in bed. |
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My first thoughts were not of Ms. Giffords, who at that point was in surgery or at least sedated. |
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The opponents know this deep down, or at least fear it, and that is the true reason for their choleric obsession. |
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Good press, or at least a quiescent press, is the absolute goal. |
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When she wasn't lustfully nuzzling up to him, wanting to make love, she was spending her time in the Lonely Place, or at least it seemed that way at times. |
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Sure he could be a grouch, and completely tactless and insensitive, but he always seemed to have justifications for his actions, or at least would redeem himself. |
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He'd find it funny, or at least make an effort and smile for my sake. |
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Eve's decision is enough to make me consider choosing agnosticism as my preferred faith, or at least maltheism. |
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No one on Monhegan says they saw them, but a man sardining says he saw it headed there, or at least some boat with people atop it. |
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From then to May 22, our forests will be occupied by deceivers, or at least wanna-be deceivers, hoping to attract a big longbeard. |
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It is cool here, or at least sleepable, but Baghdad, I am told, is different. I was advised to do my sleeping in advance. |
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If you're a Sneetch on the wrong end of a star system, the game is to reshape or at least dismantle the system. |
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One group thinks zoos are a relic of a primitive past and should be closed, or at least turned into nature preserves. |
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And a couple marrying at age 65 today can look forward to their tin anniversary, or at least 10 years of marriage. |
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That usually is done through destroying or neutralizing the enemy's military or at least attriting it to the point of ineffectiveness. |
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They paint them, or at least parts of them, with urucum plant dye or even their own blood if there are no urucum plants nearby. |
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Anyway down drops some, er, 'poetic' or at least artily enigmatic lines of text. |
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That is admirable, and Preserve is clever, or at least canny. |
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But a spokeswoman said that seven out of 10 people surveyed liked it better, or at least as much, as the old weather chart. |
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And that luxury may be a quirk of America, or at least white America. |
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No, you cannot retrain or at least you will not get help from the job centre, was the answer. |
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You might fall in love with it or at least get some sort of background in it for the future. |
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Because I kinda look at him as my friend, or at least my homie. |
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Based on these results, parakeet auklets and other alcids should not be housed, or at least fed, on a loose stone substrate. |
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Come to think of it, I certainly don't envy you all the work involved. Gad, you must be superhuman, or at least superdevoted to crifanac! |
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The few next days passed eventlessly by, or at least as eventlessly as days can pass to visitors in Home. |
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She was a gobbly kisser, or at least this kiss was a gobbly kiss. He liked it, he even liked the way she made up for her thin lips by gobbling. |
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The particles themselves must have an interior and gravitative being, and the multeity must be a removable or at least suspensible accident. |
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Around 66 BC, a movement to use constitutional, or at least peaceful, means to address the plight of various classes began. |
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The Cabinet's formal relationship with Parliament, or at least the Prime Minister's hopes for it, are set out in the Ministerial Code. |
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Longaniza is the most common type of sausage, or at least the most common name in Chile for sausages that also could be classified as chorizo. |
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The purpose of the many microcharges is to help avoid, or at least limit, broader tax increases. |
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Other countries such as Belarus or Tajikistan have retained their communist coats of arms or at least kept some of the old heraldry. |
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From the time of Henry VII onwards, Parliament began passing Acts to stop enclosure, to limit its effects, or at least to fine those responsible. |
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However, different countries within the United Kingdom have national costumes or at least are associated with styles of dress. |
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There was a new respect or at least a curiosity in his limpid, moonful face as he reached me. |
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Most Scottish Hindus are of Indian origin, or at least from neighbouring countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. |
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Clare Blanchard, a former girlfriend, advised him not to publish the book, or at least to do so under a pseudonym. |
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Third, musicals often use various various genres of popular music or at least popular singing styles. |
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Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days' labour, civil government is not so necessary. |
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The deteriorating economic position of Scotland led to calls for a favourable political union, or at least a customs union, with England. |
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Scott does, however, attempt to be comic, or at least to follow the conventions of the picaresque novel. |
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Most Scottish Hindus are of Indian origin, or at least from neighbouring countries, such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. |
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Sam Dolgoff estimated that about eight million people participated directly or at least indirectly in the Spanish Revolution. |
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Most people still attend church weekly or at least for religious festivals, and many people get married in churches. |
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Pirates were mostly former merchant seamen, or at least men who had sailed on vessels legitimately before turning to piracy. |
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The traditional chronology, or at least the most widespread, proposes the succession of events outlined in the following paragraphs. |
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Nevertheless, the king was elected, or at least recognized, by the Haute Cour. |
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Two jumbled chandeliers feature three-dimensional coconuts, or at least plasterlike casts of them. |
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He appears to have believed himself a deity, or at least sought to deify himself. |
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Argentina had previously claimed all of the strait, or at least the eastern third of it. |
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Factions in the Polish Commonwealth saw him as a tool to extend their influence over Russia, or at least gain wealth in return for their support. |
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Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her. |
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The judicial vicar and the assistant judicial vicars must be priests with doctorates or at least licenses in canon law. |
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And both these rights are founded upon the law of nature, or at least upon that of nations. |
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As Article XXII had been, or at least purportedly, repealed, there was nothing specific in the Treaty that the bill transgressed. |
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Rather than the rebound and recovery I had expected, or at least was hoping for, this year, as it turns out, is becoming one of recalcitration. |
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There have been a handful of occasions when reserve powers were used, or at least considered. |
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Because each vehicle was unique, replacement parts had to be manufactured from scratch or at least customized to fit a specific vehicle. |
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Earlier scholars assumed that Geoffrey was Welsh or at least spoke Welsh. |
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He was hoping against all common sense that the young Prescotts had not seen his mishap, or at least that they would pass on above him unnoticing. |
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The Interregnum put a stop, or at least a caesura, to these lines of influence and allowed a seemingly fresh start for all forms of literature after the Restoration. |
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An attempt, a rather lame one, however, has been made to prove that golf was known to the Romans, or at least that a game called Paganica resembled it. |
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Previously, it was erroneously suggested that the name had to be derived from the color of the water, or at least were to be related to climatic particulars. |
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This low and inaccurate value then gets cited in news articles which state that Singapore has the world's lowest fertility, or at least use the figure for its shock value. |
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The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish. |
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Initially, Stalin maneuvered to kill the Plan, or at least hamper it by means of destructive participation in the Paris talks regarding conditions. |
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One in ten patients or at least 11,000 per year discharged from psychiatric hospital do not get a visit within a week though ines require a contact within a week. |
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Eventually, most paleontologists began to accept the idea that the mass extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous were largely or at least partly due to a massive Earth impact. |
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All are still in existence, or at least have never been formally abolished, but the Magnum Concilium has not been summoned since 1640 and was considered defunct even then. |
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Strict observers of Lententide may observe intervals of fasting or at least abstain from festivities, certain foods and other indulgences, giving the money saved to charity. |
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There were as many as eighteen Roman towns affected by the new settlements, with entire populations driven out or at least given partial evictions. |
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The majority of true crabs are aquatic, or at least virtually so. These include swimming crabs in which the last pair of walking legs end, not in claws, but in paddles. |
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It seems that 'alwaysness' can have its beginning and its end, or at least that 'alwaysness' can be conceived as once having begun and once having to end. |
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Men had to do triple Axels or at least attempt them with tenacity. |
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Humans did not intend to domesticate animals from, or at least they did not envision a domesticated animal resulting from, either the commensal or prey pathways. |
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If the bullet has a cannelure, adjusting the resizing die to roll-crimp the mouth of the case into it is the best way to prevent or at least minimize bullet movement. |
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And then they launch into a face-melter by way of acoustics, playing so hard that one expects Thile's fingers either to spontaneously combust or at least start spurting blood. |
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It is possible that thanus, comes, mormaer and toisech all originally meant similar things, or at least were not elements of a stratified hierarchy. |
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Many verse forms have been used in epic poems through the ages, but each language's literature typically gravitates to one form, or at least to a very limited set. |
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Hilbre Island may already have been a hermitage before the Norman invasion or at least a place of pilgrimage based around the lore of St Hildeburgh. |
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