| The Bank of England is poised to warn of the dangers of a collapse in house prices. |
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| Against the advice of his lawyers, he appears poised to keep his beloved BlackBerry, a link to the outside world. |
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| A new, versatile technology standard called WiMax is poised to turbocharge the growing business in wireless alternatives. |
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| Who am I to interpose in the delicately poised quadrille of consumers and the fulfillers of dreams? |
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| Can you remember a time when someone was poised to take over a major power with so little known about their plans and intentions? |
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| The overseas invasion is poised to draw attention away from failed domestic policies, the stock market plunge, and tense congressional contests. |
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| Ink-blemished fingers ensnared a quill, which in turn was poised over a leather-bound tome. |
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| The concertino was given a public performance last May in Los Angeles and is poised for wider revival. |
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| England goal-hero David Beckham is poised to be re-invented as the hero of a computer game. |
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| The U.S. economy seems poised to rebound one moment, then sputters the next. |
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| Calm and undemonstratively poised, the subject is depicted as one who is utterly unassuming in his sense of self. |
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| It appears that the costs of not only tools but of photomasks are poised to skyrocket. |
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| The eldest, Gloria, is a poised beauty, while Dolly and Phil are pertly precocious. |
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| She said it with a finger poised on her bottom lip as she began thinking about slashing her whip. |
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| Small, three-dimensional figures are poised perilously at the end of long, frail wires. |
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| The photographer's composition is like music, achieving balances and contrasts worthy of the sonata poised on the music stand. |
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| A waitress, pad poised with working pen, fields your requests for Sauza margaritas, no salt, and dirty martinis. |
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| Halfway through this fairly pedestrian game matters were poised on a knife-edge. |
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| As an unforeseen consequence, oil contaminated with wax and sludge was poised to foul the new propeller governor and relief valve. |
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| Instead, it delivers a sinuous minerality larded with suave peachy fruit in perfectly poised understatement. |
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| A Yorkshire hospice for sick and dying children is poised to win a massive lottery boost, it was reported today. |
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| The opening chords of the Adagio Sostenuto were finely poised and imbued with spacious eloquence. |
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| It's lovely to watch their progress as they grow from cute and clumsy children into poised and elegant women. |
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| A slender ballerina poised on a strongly arched foot, black hair in a chignon, eyes like great black butterflies. |
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| The wool market is poised for a price rise within the next two months, according to Woolmark's chief economist. |
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| Security guards brandish automatic weapons in front of all the Jakarta business hotels, poised to ward off potential terrorist attacks. |
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| Pale and poised, she waved a languid hand at the team as we peered owlishly at her. |
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| Thus the Fed, far from maintaining its accommodative mode, is poised to raise rates at the end of this month. |
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| The business lobby is poised to fight to maintain the number, but with the economy soft, it's likely to be an uphill battle. |
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| It's not her fault that she looks like a man, or has a gravelly voice, or isn't particularly poised or charming. |
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| She was as poised and elegant as her breeding required, Grace thought, and certainly she dressed as befitted her status. |
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| Despite his lowly occupation, the night cart man owned one of the best houses in Greymouth, poised on a hill overlooking us all. |
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| The new boat is poised to rank alongside the Hills Hoist and the Victor mower as iconic Aussie inventions. |
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| The organisation had been poised to benefit from a massive campaign orchestrated by the Daily Record. |
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| In some ways, she was better poised, by temperament, to be a royal than the queen, which is a funny thing when you kind of think about it. |
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| They were poised to throw their spears and javelins but I had a sudden impulse to stop them. |
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| Vermeer's dreamy interior light and Manet's poised brushstrokes are beautifully rendered, and Bierk even duplicates the cracking of paint. |
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| He is poised to call for the payment clearing system to be opened up to non-banks. |
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| His eyes locked on solider above his bed and the blade poised above his heart. |
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| His mind quiets, his muscles begin to un-knit, and his posture resumes something closer to normal rather than poised and defensive. |
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| Rob was still poised uncertainly on the doorstep, held at bay either by Kim's urgent stare or Bill's bullhorn. |
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| His knife was gleaming just above her heart, his hands poised to make the fatal move. |
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| The 26-year-old received a spiral fracture of the right leg last May, but is poised to start the final surge back to full fitness next week. |
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| Artistic vision, imagination and intuition seem poised in tense opposition to order and rationality. |
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| A business that started as a one-man band and today employs 43 staff is now poised for the next stage of growth. |
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| President Nixon solidified public opposition to federal desegregation of the suburbs at a time when the nation was poised for change. |
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| Their paws are poised, ready to pounce on ideas and nuggets of information. |
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| The hairstylist is poised behind him ready to put the next hair-piece in place. |
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| The young schoolgirl with the stammer in Switzerland has become a very poised public speaker in Pattaya. |
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| It's partly the strained atmosphere in Japan at this moment, with the whole nation poised on the edge of a financial crash. |
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| Now the Jets are poised to move on with a rookie, a journeyman and an unknown. |
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| Tony McCoy will be the star turn at Plumpton, and the champion jockey looks poised to enjoy a lucrative afternoon. |
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| After an exhausting fight, Vader is poised to finish Luke off, but he stays his hand. |
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| He fetched it and passed it to David, who poised the tip above the sticking plaster. |
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| Members of the pit deputies union were poised to stage the first of eight one-day strikes next Tuesday in a dispute over pay and conditions. |
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| The Head RN merely arched a well-plucked eyebrow, and Cassie stood in the doorway as poised and silent as a statue. |
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| Historically, radical feminism started with the assumption that the sexes are adversarially poised. |
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| The game was evenly poised and the stand was full of rumours and whispers of the developing situation at Mansfield Park. |
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| Wings spread, it appears poised for flight, ready to soar over Lake Michigan, an opalescent blue in early summer. |
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| Davis looked poised to grab another frame from a seemingly lost position only for a double kiss to scupper his comeback in the fifth frame. |
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| The blond-haired, almost godlike figure, meanwhile, stood motionless, impassive and unwinded, like a great tiger poised to pounce. |
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| The girl seems delicately poised between past and present, youth and eternity, bedlam and meditation. |
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| The Government is poised for the redemption of securities maturing during the next few months. |
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| She knew that if she poised her laughs right, she sounded sophisticated and worldly. |
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| A slick side-step wrong-footed the Dewsbury full back and Stepho looked poised to score, but he was held just two yards short of the try line. |
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| While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement. |
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| For a brief moment, considering the embarrassing circumstances, I was pleased with my poised response. |
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| His poised, dramatic, modern-sounding music brings to mind fragments of glittering light. |
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| In their dug-out, the occupants were shouting for the referee to blow for time. Their supporters were poised for the celebratory yells. |
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| Crime scene investigators are also poised to attend garage and shed break-ins to gather finger and palm prints as part of the same operation. |
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| She shows how Hispanic minors are poised to overtake African Americans as the largest ethnic youth population in the country. |
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| So I kick off my shoes, tuck one foot under me, but remain primly upright, notebook and pen poised. |
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| At the top of the tower, where views are stupendous, is an observation deck and the building seems poised in air. |
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| It is a beautifully poised and lean wine, as befits its musical signature of the shrill hunting horn. |
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| Much of this show feels like promising student work, poised between prank and precociousness. |
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| The browns and tans and whites of poised game can blend with the background foliage. |
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| Here we are, poised to embark on what could easily be termed a mission, and just how do we prepare for it? |
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| He could not imagine this calm, poised woman before him using language like that, but the young girl within her? |
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| Local barber Joe Kelly stood, razor poised, as teacher Eugene O Brien took the hot seat. |
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| Finding love and being a good companion are slightly more challenging projects for even such a poised and educated young lady. |
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| The Indian economy is so finely poised on the edge of a boom that it will take very little to start the upward climb again. |
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| Has any White House chief of staff stayed on for two full terms, as Andy Card seems poised to do? |
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| The poised, confident young woman was tossed into a world of checkpoints, strip searches and interrogations. |
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| More full-face photos on 21 March, this time of First Marine Division combat troops poised to go into battle, six men and six women. |
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| As many as a dozen freeze-frames portray leading artistes poised at different moments of unique genres of storytelling from mythology. |
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| He's a poised lad, very much in control of what he says and, ultimately, what we are allowed to know about him. |
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| Those that have already signed are defenders Mark Hotte, Steve Baker and Paul Shepherd, with Shaun Rennison poised to join them. |
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| Eleanor walked into the ballroom with the grace of a dancer, poised and elegant. |
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| And for the first time today this remarkably poised young woman breaks out into a blush. |
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| Through the arch of the cave, as far as the eye can see, misted peaks sit, poised like advancing waves. |
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| The stadium resembles a modern archaeological relic poised in an excavated landscape. |
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| He said the group was poised to hold talks with the new franchise holders in the coming weeks. |
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| Two determined teams faced off for the quarter but Air Force was poised for victory with another winning combination. |
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| Just to the right of the tent, you would have found a group of eight women poised with their crochet hooks and knitting needles. |
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| Hull is poised for major changes to its secondary school education, having already embarked on a series of primary school closures. |
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| This should serve as a grim warning to those poised to embark on their university careers of the need to manage their money sensibly. |
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| We're poised for dynamic growth and we're committed to helping you succeed. |
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| Such studies are poised to yield a detailed picture of the coupling of protein dynamics to function. |
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| You're graceful, poised, tactful and exude quite a refined, princess-like presence. |
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| Even wild and childish Kyle was poised behind his keyboard, black buttoned shirt, tails hanging unmannered over his casual blue jeans. |
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| I'm going to take my time, no hurry, and concentrate on walking to detention in a dignified, poised manner. |
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| The incumbent platforms are not yet ready to fade away and we are now poised for a period when new equilibriums will be established. |
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| The same woman waited until the delicately poised last chords of Mahler's slow movement to get up and leave. |
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| A small boy approached him later and there was Richard, pen poised, ready to sign an autograph for this admirer. |
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| Couched in poised and lucid prose, The Namesake is a an exquisite tale, full of fine and fragile humour. |
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| If so, is the maladjusted economy poised for a spurt of activity with the positive resolution of today's acute geopolitical concerns? |
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| She watched, hand poised at his back, as Emery grimaced and tried to sit up. |
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| But to generalize from there to a secret cabal of Muslims in the military poised for terrorist action is more than a little bit of a stretch. |
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| He commented that the US economy is poised for recovery, although protracted because of geopolitical factors and trade wars. |
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| De Havilland's poised, elegant Miriam is the perfect foil for haggard, wild-eyed Charlotte. |
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| At the beginning of the year 2000 UK oil giants seemed poised to scrap the boats and replace them with helicopters. |
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| Despite 11 cuts in interest rates last year, the American economy is poised on the edge of a double-dip recession. |
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| The elegantly dressed, poised woman looked a bit odd wearing a red and white Santa hat, but it really was cute. |
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| The image is clear and detailed, the sheets of water and sky flawless, the poised moment evocative but unemotional. |
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| By nature she is a thoughtful, serious girl whose natural reticence has been reinforced by too many rooms full of flashbulbs and poised pens. |
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| The benchmarks, which have tumbled for six days, are still poised for a second successive quarter of gains. |
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| At the same time, helicopter-borne special forces teams are poised for what is likely to be a prominent role in the next phase of the war. |
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| Morton stands at the stern of her boat, dip net poised, waiting for two pink salmon smolts to swim within striking distance. |
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| The prime minister was poised to launch a damage-limitation exercise after losing a key referendum vote. |
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| Food and body care products are poised to become big sellers, he predicted. |
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| With studied patience and precision, he poised the loop on a pencil and flattened its creases, extricating the tape from extinction. |
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| A silk satin column wrap train dress was pretty and poised, while the silk velvet tuxedo turned out a new spin on menswear. |
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| Our models are dolls, teddy bears and vintage mannequins poised for draping by fashion designers who play and train here. |
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| A waif-like model, elegantly poised on a bar stool, dressed head-to-toe in designer clothing and sensually smoking a cigarette. |
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| She finally paints Adele, a subject she believes to be as poised and beautiful as the Madonna, but crumples up the sketch and throws it away. |
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| Balke's careful, walking on eggshells piano etches graceful, poised lines or occasionally, prepared piano abstractions. |
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| Methodically feathered brushstrokes create a dark, shimmering vortex from which light seems poised to escape. |
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| The reflected light off the spaceship intensified until it almost outshone Venus, the evening star, which was poised above the western horizon. |
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| Britain's first mainstream female football presenter is cool, poised and confident. |
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| The subdued lighting of the interior scenes certainly helped to enhance the middle-aged beauty of the beautifully poised Lady Dedlock. |
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| A few months ago, he was poised to quit the game after being ditched cruelly at the end of last season by Glasgow. |
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| Australia's deserts are poised to give the world food menu its biggest shake-up since Columbus. |
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| As the team stood near the ramp hinge, poised to exit the helicopter, the Sergeant saw a man duck behind a berm at the nine o'clock position. |
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| The result is a poised and thoughtful study in grief that navigates a narrative cautiously balanced between life and death. |
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| The poised and fashionable Fitzwilliam openly admitted to failing courses in second year law and of her determination to pass. |
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| Dosso stages Saint George in a poised contrapposto as he stands triumphant over the dragon, who exhales his final puffs of smoke. |
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| Now, a year later, a new locust threat is poised to wreak havoc of biblical proportions, but this time, it's headed for Montreal. |
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| He was faced with a gorgeous man in his forties with silky, boy-cut brown hair, a poised stance, and a charming smile. |
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| Taking the lead from the die-hard bingo biddies, we arranged our game cards neatly, poised for action. |
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| On his accession, his priority was to save Macedon from dismemberment by hostile powers, poised for the kill. |
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| She couldn't help but wonder that if he was that attractive and poised just walking around, then what could he be like in bed? |
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| Many economists note the economy may be poised for a rebound, depending upon what happens with the so-called fiscal cliff. |
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| It was the kind of thing that made one think back to a time of elegant ladies and poised gentlemen. |
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| Never before has a parody of a mini-series been more poised for showers of accolades. |
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| Jen looked poised and beautiful, the quintessential bride, in red patent-leather Betty Boop heels. |
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| It will promote richer interracial contact among students poised to become the nation's leaders. |
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| He had recaptured Rochester Castle, and was poised to strike at London. |
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| She poised her pencil above the paper and waited for the signal to begin writing. |
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| Those forces reached Abidjan last Thursday and have been poised to strike ever since. |
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| His son, aidan, is a Rhodes Scholar poised to provide further proof as a computer scientist. |
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| Already, 10 Republicans have declared they will vote for an alternative candidate and more seemed poised to join. |
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| The brand logo turned out to feature a graceful archer on horseback, in a Tatar national costume, poised to shoot his arrow. |
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| Hovering above the scene, commandos in helicopters were poised with automatic rifles. |
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| McDonnell was poised to be the beneficiary of a bidding war among the biggest law firms. |
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| An angular skeletal frame and warped planes give a strong sense of the building being poised to take flight over the vastness of the wilderness that it surveys. |
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| And, from the south, chronic wasting disease is poised to decimate the elk herds. |
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| Meet the British comedienne poised to take the cringe-comedy throne with her show, Going Native. |
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| The current conflict it fuels is now poised to last long into the new year. |
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| The grandson of legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland, Nicholas Vreeland was poised for a decadent life in high-society. |
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| The New England Patriots came into Super Bowl XLII, an undefeated 18-0 team that was poised to be the greatest in NFL history. |
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| The North has more than 10,000 artillery pieces and rockets poised on the DMZ that could hit Seoul within minutes. |
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| His library became a nest, a retreat of perfect ideas perfectly poised. |
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| A 26, Durant is three years younger than James and is poised to assume NBA supremacy. |
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| In the century and a half that she has stood there, poised to award that outstretched laurel crown, many women who deserve the honours have passed by uncelebrated. |
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| Sponsors were eagerly poised to leap forwards to support chess. |
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| Exquisitely poised in space, the pool is a tranquil, glassy mirror, reflecting a luxuriant green wall of bamboo sprouting above the retaining wall. |
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| Where he is extroverted, brash, joyful, and snarling, she is cool, poised, occasionally nervous, and slightly shy. |
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| The horseman should be poised, relaxed and in control of the situation. |
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| On Wednesday afternoon Fijian time, Slater was poised to surf against Hawaiian Sebastian Zietz in a quarterfinal heat. |
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| Yet the conservative press tries to keep us all in a frenzied state of fear and loathing, constantly awaiting the next mugging and poised to shoot the next burglar. |
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| She drew breath and poised herself between candor and discretion. |
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| Exhausted, hadji Murat goes to bed at once, sleeping fully dressed, poised for flight. |
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| The chief matador arms himself with two banderillas and proceeds to taunt the bull by himself assuming a taurine pose, banderillas poised above the head like horns. |
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| In contrast, Paul was gaining momentum and the Libertarian icon seemed poised to pull a potential upset. |
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| It was an impressively poised and subtly dismissive reaction to an infuriating, redundant, and offensive question. |
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| Russia has been poised to invade Ukraine on multiple occasions and it has not happened yet. |
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| The children, in contrast, are curiously poised and self-possessed. |
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| But new trawling technologies developed in Norway are poised to multiply the annual krill harvest exponentially. |
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| There across the room, just past the beer-bellied former jocks and the rich former nerds, I spied a poised, graceful woman with flowing red hair and laughing green eyes. |
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| Her eleven-thirty was poised, with scissors and hair-dryer at the ready to perform yet another act of tonsorial topiary on her pretty little head. |
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| Part of Selby town centre was cordoned off when the gable end of a shop was struck by lightning, leaving a chimney stack poised precariously over a busy shopping street. |
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| This guards against bully-boy tactics such as where a more senior party from the other side arrives to rubbish the deal just as their subordinate is poised to shake on it. |
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| Polls show that in Maine, Tea Party Gov. Paul LePage is poised to win reelection in a three-way contest. |
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| With his body poised at the wheel, Dad became the tight end in an endless fourth quarter, score tied. |
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| Underground mining for coal is poised to make a comeback in Scotland with plans for two drift mines into the vast Canonbie reserves in Dumfries and Galloway. |
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| Flowers of shocking pink seem poised to burst out of the canvas. |
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| A misericord in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, shows four enormous hounds piling into a cauldron, indifferent to the cook just poised to hurl his ladle. |
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| I think he sees the network as an underdeveloped asset that is poised to be souped up and made more relevant and competitive. |
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| As Africa undergoes enormous political, economic, and social changes, women are poised to become powerful leaders. |
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| Elsewhere, the only restraint is the presence of coalition forces at the airports or in temporary bivouacs, and these troops are poised to leave at any time. |
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| It is also deftly poised on the border between belief and unbelief. |
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| Now Franken is poised to become that rare politician whose very existence is a wedge issue to be exploited. |
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| Together, they hover on the edge of reality, dangerously poised somewhere between girlhood and womanhood. |
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| Dressed in neoprene, with crash helmet, tank, fins and climbing belt, I was poised above the thundering, algae-green water of a gorge near Hallein, Austria. |
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| The resident breaststroker is poised to have a break-out year. |
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| From inside Columbus, Nancy Currie will operate the robotic arm on the end of which, poised on a foot platform, one of the spacewalkers will work most of the time. |
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| I would say our girls, if you met any of them, I mean they are polished and poised and strong. |
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| The Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov dances are beautifully poised. |
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| Some of those best poised to help those parents will not be available to help anyone in Qinghai who has similarly suffered. |
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| Hollywood nymphets cower in the jungle, vainly trying to hide their voluptuousness from James Brown as he looms in the background, poised for another brush with the law. |
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| Triathlon, the arcane sport of masochists, is poised to hit it big, with a high-profile Olympic debut and two camera-ready hardbodies in a duel for glory. |
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| Early last week, speculation began to emerge that Lehman Brothers was poised to bid and the deal would be stitched up in time for the upcoming results announcement. |
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| The Revenue Commissioners are poised to sign deals with some of the world's most secretive tax havens in a bid to prevent tax dodgers hiding their money abroad. |
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| The hope is that, after so many years of cutting back, the industry has shed most of its overcapacity and is poised for an upturn as demand rebounds. |
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| Yesterday, more than 20 pensioners took to the street to protest against the planned closure of the Oxford Road branch one of three poised for the chop. |
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| It may be a bit early for decking the halls, but Canvey councillors are poised to ensure the island twinkles as brightly as anywhere else this Christmas. |
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| He continues his dire warnings of the inordinate amount of pestilence and death poised to descend on our pathetically unprepared continent the second we relax our vigilance. |
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| I was astonished, when reading his memoirs, to learn that such a polished and poised fellow had never lost the sense that he was awkward and clumsy. |
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| Here also she gets her lines right, she is still poised and graceful, she is still fetching on the dance floor, but she has precious little to do. |
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| The match was poised for a close finish, when it ended abruptly. |
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| But if that goal seconds before the interval left the game poised on a knife edge it was nothing compared to what followed in the opening 13 minutes of the second period. |
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| Bethany and Anna both poised themselves in front of the paper. |
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| He poised his face in a poker like style, trying to copy Kira. |
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| He checked himself, hand poised a width from the fledgling's back. |
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| Text messaging, a huge success for the mobile phone business, is now poised for take-off via fixed lines as well, with some intriguing implications. |
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| Like Rome itself, the producers have spent a fortune rolling out what they hope is an all-conquering format that will run and run, and everything is poised for series two. |
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| More than 4,000 people were poised for evacuation today after flood defences on the River Derwent were breached two miles from Howden, near Selby. |
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| That money is simply being put to one side, for now at least, until investors see some clear indication that the global economy is poised for a recovery. |
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| The price of physical gold is poised for a strong second half. |
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| Nikki was poised for several stressful weeks of preparation. |
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| While England is poised for a fierce row over plans to site five million extra homes on its countryside, Scotland's population is due to either fall slightly or remain static. |
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| He is also a poised senior who makes 84.2 percent of his free throws. |
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| I walked up poised and proud with tears shimmering in my eyes. |
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| Keira was always in control, always composed, poised and confident. |
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| Instead of his head falling away and legs imitating those of a drunk, he was poised and resolute, pulverising anything that came within his shot-radar. |
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| Her aura of poised confidence was gone, leaving behind a tired air. |
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| Jake's poised and assertive manner was diminishing before my very eyes. |
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| A poised and graceful swimmer, she never seemed to tire in the water. |
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| This is a beautifully poised film that peels away the external artifice of its central character layer by layer, with each plot twist raising as many questions as it answers. |
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| I crouched, sniffing and listening, every muscle poised for flight. |
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| However, the narrow footwell means there's no space to rest your left foot, so you end up with your leg bent, foot poised just above the clutch pedal. |
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| In some ways, she was better, by temperament, she was better poised to be a royal than the queen, which is a funny thing when you kind of think about it. |
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| With the game delicately poised, it was anybody's in the second half. |
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| The story-telling is engaging, the scholarship is carried off gracefully and unobtrusively and the writing is nicely poised between the demotic and the baroque. |
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| The beauty of our homegrown varieties of eccentricity is in the triumph of a poised, moderate balance, coupled with a dose of thoroughly deprecatory satire. |
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| Scientists said this week they had drilled into the lower section of Earth's crust for the first time and were poised to break through to the mantle in coming years. |
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| I poised my pen over the paper unsure of whether to write back or not. |
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| While still a relatively small share of the feminine hygiene market, menstrual cups are a product category poised for growth. |
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| Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general. |
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| The other semi between AEL and AEK was more evenly poised than the one at the GSP after a 2-2 draw in the first match in Larnaca. |
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| This pair is in a downtrend and seems poised to continue that bearishness as it moves down towards support. |
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| A drill punch stood poised, a big thing shaped like a C clamp, with a table and a velocitized mouth. |
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| Ruthie Alpern, as she was then known, was a poised and chatty blonde with an updo and a winning smile. |
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| As exciting as printed electronics, solar technology demands larger footprint capabilities and is equally poised for expediential growth. |
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| Hopefully, a representative of Sue, Grabit and Run, will not be standing by poised to take legal action should anyone scratch themselves. |
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| Yet, for all his expensive education at Eton, not everyone assumes that he is the ultimate posho poised to grab the reigns of power. |
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| Junior and I were out when we spotted a wee spaniel poised to deposit with the owner lurking nearby, pooper-scooper at the ready. |
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| The C-block licensees are now poised to change the duopolistic nature of the wireless marketplace for the first time. |
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| He said there was also hope that another important foot-dragger, Singapore, was poised to wholeheartedly embrace the new identification system. |
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| She'd been poised to deliver another side-handed slice to Mouse's head, and only with reluctance did she lower her arm and move back. |
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| After the surprise breakup of the world's largest potash cartel at the end of July 2013, potash prices were poised to drop some 20 percent. |
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| A private health insurance market in Poland is poised to take off, following the election of a new president and new parliament this past fall. |
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| They wore sinister balaclavas, frog-eyed goggles and gloves neatly scissored to expose trigger fingers poised on fearsome automatic weaponry. |
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| It's no secret that Dollar Stores are gaining, and poised to continue gaining new shoppers as long as they can continue to offer bargains. |
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| A FLEET of 25 gritter trucks are now on standby in Birmingham poised and ready for the next big freeze. |
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| With her biggest marble, a Bumboozer, poised like a bomb between her thumb and forefinger, she closed one eye and took a steadying breath. |
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| Chip Weiss, a singer with the Liverpool jazz group Just Midnight, has been captured in a dinner suit poised on the end of a diving board. |
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| In 1994, during the Orange County bankruptcy, a few funds were poised to break the buck, until their parent companies stepped in. |
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| Unraced as a juvenile, this daughter of Diesis out of a Sadlers Wells mare is poised to make her debut soon. |
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| He stood there, poised to act, and then suddenly he drew his gun in a smooth arc. |
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| These are a type of stem cell poised to make several varieties of glia, including astrocytes. |
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| According to global research and consulting firm Wood Mackenzie, the worldwide LNG market is poised for oversaturation in the coming years. |
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| And these new aficionados of global cool are poised to widen their impact. |
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| He was uniquely poised to fight the Byzantine Empire when that conflict arose after Charlemagne's imperial coronation and a Venetian rebellion. |
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| As the DVD video recorder market is poised to replace the videocassette recorder market, CE OEMS are seeking reliable, low-cost DVD solutions. |
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| With a stunning redesign and a plethora of new features, the 2016 Optima is poised to raise the bar for the midsize sedan category. |
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| With Havana now in their hands, the British lay poised to strike at other targets in the Spanish main should the war continue for another year. |
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| The UMP was poised to win several key cities, including Strasbourg and Toulouse. |
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| The British were able to keep an almost constant force poised outside French harbours. |
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| In spite of this, the plans continued to progress and by autumn the French were poised to launch their invasion. |
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| Titled, Stereovision in PCs, The report finds that the S3D market is poised for rapid growth in the immediate future. |
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| While Nixon looked peaked throughout the debate, Kennedy looked like a poised diplomat oozing confidence. |
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| After an encouraging success at Camden, Cornwallis was poised to invade North Carolina. |
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| As a consequence, Jesus' kingdom appears mostly as a sociopolitical movement poised against empire building. |
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| The Internet, with its vastness, its vibrancy and its immediacy, does seem poised to blow away the snoozy old newspaper. |
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| Recent development of the floriculture sector means Ethiopia is poised to become one of the top flower and plant exporters in the world. |
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| It was of particular interest for those of us poised in mid-life to launch into full-time executive positions. |
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| Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights. |
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| As the Ottoman Empire steadily weakened decade after decade, Russia stood poised to take advantage by expanding south. |
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| Her voice whispers breathily, swells right up to the verge of tearfulness and then gracefully backs away, ever sympathetic and ever poised. |
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| Then Etheridge poised his baton, jerked an upbeat, and made the violinists speak the low G and A of their anacrusis. |
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| Air operations by helicopters, poised to bring reinforcements from the 101st Airborne, were blocked for three days. |
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| Those enterprising Scousers are poised to steal a march on the rest of the UK by hosting its first major art biennial. |
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| With an attractive, lemony richness, creamy biscuity notes and a hint of green apple and herbs, it's poised and refreshing. |
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| Anderson's voice is deep, poised and English sounding, but not snootily so. |
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| With the economy poised for collapse by the mid-1990s, terms like karoshi entered the vocabulary, and travel became a luxury. |
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| During the Napoleonic Wars he was taken seriously by the British press as a dangerous tyrant, poised to invade. |
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| A HOST of community organisations and schools are poised to take over youth centres Warwickhire County Council can't afford to run any more. |
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| For a trembling split second Eddington's fieldboot poised over the Senator for a kick. |
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| The amphoteric surfactants are poised to exhibit the fastest growth due to their usage as corrosion inhibitor. |
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| The German Shepherd Dog breed standard promotes the development of dogs of equable disposition, who are poised, unexcitable, and with well-controlled nerves. |
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| Saniger's unconverted second set up a grandstand finish and, with the game poised at 48-all, the Nelson crowd went into raptures as Brockbank's fine run sealed the win. |
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| Common reasons for a substitution include injury, tiredness, ineffectiveness, a tactical switch, or timewasting at the end of a finely poised game. |
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| There was a time not so long ago when a company poised to go public would invite a reporter inside to memorialize the moments leading up to the blessed event. |
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| As for higher ed professionals poised on the precipice of a system with band-aids about to fall away, this would probably be a good time to reassess core mission. |
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| England's Laura Davies had been poised to take the lead into the third round after reaching eight under par but a triplebogey at the last hole saw her drop to five under. |
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| Reducing the power required to operate a device is the only way to resolve the dilemma, and NanoWatt Design is poised to bring a solution to the market. |
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| Kevin Gao and his team have put together a system poised to unseat the telecom industry's overgenerous profit margins in favor of access on the people's terms. |
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| Today the TPO channels are again poised on the brink of change. |
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| Federer, twice a winner in Canada, raced through the first set in just 25 minutes and after surging ahead 2-0 in the second had looked poised for a quick match. |
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