In the 14 years since the Montreal Protocol banned most ozone depleters, a catastrophic global menace has begun to recede. |
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On the other hand, brightly colored variegated ribbon grass planted behind catmint backlights the catmint and makes its flowers recede. |
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Small dashes of bright primary and secondary colour taint the heavier earth tones, but recede into the moody hues of the whole at a distance. |
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They seem to recede into his head, which is shaved and lumpen and looks like it was built for beating on. |
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If the word's ultima is short, the accent will recede to the antepenult and it will always be an acute accent. |
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Planes parallel to the picture plane have unforeshortened perspectives however far they recede from the eye. |
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As the ridges began to recede from the river, kills flowed down to expend themselves in the Hudson. |
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Give yourself a little time to let the sadness recede and then make a decision. |
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She stood perfectly still, listening to his footsteps recede down the hall. |
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Fragments of the numbers seem to emerge from or recede into the gestures and sfumato of the ground. |
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He let his eyes take in the sorry sight of the man and felt his anger recede a little. |
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He told her how he had been suddenly placed in a position of terrible difficulty, from which neither honour nor duty would allow him to recede. |
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She leans slightly toward the left, as if to steady her balance in a hallway where walls and floor recede precipitously toward the right. |
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If there is no contamination in the Gulf and if oystermen can recede, it will take a minimum 18 months for the oysters to come back. |
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Such plant life seems to appear out of nowhere when the snow and ice recede. |
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In September the dry, north-eastern winds return and the wet weather begins to recede. |
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My fears of an unflattering portrait with a Pinocchio nose begin to recede. |
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Smokeless tobacco stains and wears down your teeth, causes your gums to recede and produces mouth sores. |
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Public tumults and tragedies gradually recede into the past and become less emotionally fraught for all of us. |
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The perspective of horses and men then appears to be foreshortened so that they recede into depth. |
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The old paradigm of the trophy wife of the high-flying male is quietly beginning to recede. |
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In his latest film, he evokes the lost glamour of the Jazz Age, blurring lines until the image seems to recede into misty memories. |
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These dots appear like perforations in a three-dimensional surface that, close up, seems to bulge and swell and recede. |
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Some of these effects are reversible and will gradually recede as you ease up on the drink. |
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In some places and at certain times, they do recede but then they flare up again, often undoing the good work of many people over many years. |
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Such a tax will not inflate with a bull market or recede in times of difficulty. |
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Housing starts are forecast to recede from nearly 48,000 units last year to 36,000 in 2009, the lowest level in eight years. |
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The hope of a ceasefire – by far the most reliable and principled mechanism to protect Syrian lives – will recede again. |
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The hope is that as growth picks up, Euroscepticism will weaken and eventually recede. |
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People suffering from this form of dermatitis notice that their lesions recede during their vacation. |
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Where judges are well paid, such hardships recede and justice is better served. |
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At the time of writing, prices had begun to recede from the record highs of early summer. |
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With each day that passes, the chances of an inquiry getting to the truth of this case recede still further. |
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Within a few days of laying rodenticides you will see the rodent problem starting to recede. |
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If gums recede or enamel is eroded the underlying layer of the tooth becomes exposed. |
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He is six feet and 201 pounds and has brown hair that is beginning to recede at the temples. |
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My guess is that in the final moments of the season the supernatural elements of the show will recede. |
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It is petty, but his constant railing against human nature reminds one of King Canute ordering the tide to recede. |
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I heard her voice recede as her mouth moved farther from the phone. |
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Public tumults and tragedies, even ones as dreadful as that of September 11, gradually recede into the past and become less emotionally fraught for all of us. |
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I felt his fear recede, replaced instead by a calm, almost drunken stupor. |
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People who were hanging on in the hope of benefiting from a cash injection of some kind have seen that possibility recede with the failure of these actions. |
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The jury is still out on whether the tide will recede, stagnate or become a flood. |
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Generously scaled tubs and plants with architectural leaves in the foreground lend distance, in the same way as placing your hand to your face will make the background recede. |
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She was briefly outed by Red as a mole and then allowed to recede into the background again. |
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The mermaids and naiads will recede to deep ocean or hidden lakes. |
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But it also unshrinkingly shows the viciousness of terrorism and the three-dimensional reality of victims who might otherwise recede into facelessness. |
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The woman's face seemed to recede in an illuminated cobweb of coarse hair that, most likely, has been free of interference from hairstylists for years. |
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Steamboat passengers were appalled at the wan, shivering families along the river, occasionally seen living on flatboats as they waited for flood waters to recede. |
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These impenetrable brambles both recede into space and hold the painting's surface, negotiating that double sense of depth and flatness, landscape and abstraction. |
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When gingivitis is neglected, it will eventually progress to periodontal disease, where the gums recede and the teeth loosen and eventually fall out. |
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But the ascent of the vapours is further promoted by their circumgyration about the sun, in consequence whereof they endeavour to recede from the sun. |
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The personal recollections and even memory itself recede into the background. |
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The first device that makes other devices recede into the background. |
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If the enamel is eroded or the gums recede to expose the roots of a tooth, the dentin becomes exposed and is very sensitive to pressure, heat, cold, airflow, or foods that are sweet or sour. |
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The role of the university in society and development has become unclear in many countries as the needs and concerns of the post-independence period recede and other pressures arise. |
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Symptoms recede in most cases when exposure stops. |
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As flood waters recede from farmland along the Red River and its tributaries, producers will be able to begin seeding spring cereals in the central region. |
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Dry, cracked areas of the skin become softer and quickly recede. |
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As the years recede, the debate over the events of Sunday, October 30,1938, often appears unresolvable. |
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These areas, if closed, will reopen when waters levels recede to normal. |
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But we need to bear in mind that we subvocalize as we read or, more narrowly, recede a text from graphic symbols into the speech code. |
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As observed in other case studies often it is only women, children and the elderly that remain in the villages trapped till the flood waters recede, or managing till the rains come in prolonged droughts. |
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Soon, inevitably because of Saul's abilities as a public speaker and motivator, Barnabas began to take second place and recede into the background. |
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The Nature Masker involves the realisation of making the tinnitus noise recede into the background by overlaying it with sounds of nature from the environment. |
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A U-bend section of the cave became impassable, and they now need to either wait for the waters to recede or escape using scuba diving equipment. |
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For all programmes, maintaining the agreed priorities on growth and jobs can contribute to realising a quicker recovery when the current economic shock begins to recede. |
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Internally displaced persons, who may have received generous humanitarian assistance at the height of a crisis, are often forgotten as soon as the guns fall silent or the flood waters recede. |
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As this becomes more and more obvious, attitudes will slowly change and, I hope, the pressures of overwork now commonly experienced by managers, superintendents and professionals will slowly recede. |
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If we look for the causes of that failure, the main reason seems to be that in Nice we saw the European project suffer a little more damage and the European dream recede a little further. |
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To those who are sceptical of this approach or who believe that for one group to advance another must recede, I ask you to heed the words of Miles Richardson, one of the architects of the British Columbia Treaty Process. |
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Many of his sculptures seem to recede into the distance, disappear into the ground or distort the space around them. |
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Lechwes enter water to feed on aquatic grasses, an abundant resource underutilized by most other herbivores, and graze the grasses that spring up as floodwaters recede. |
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The Qataris need to recede from the stage, Kabul will never trust them. |
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If, on the other hand, Mary gave birth to a healthy child, Elizabeth's chances of becoming queen would recede sharply. |
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Therefore, when glaciers recede, the valleys of the tributary glaciers remain above the main glacier's depression and are called hanging valleys. |
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They recede to the south and east, becoming a steppe landscape before meeting the Sahara desert, which covers more than 75 percent of the region. |
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While Moorish rule began to recede, it would remain in parts of the Iberian peninsula for another 760 years. |
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Dengue scare is certainly there because when the flood will recede, it will leave water pockets behind. |
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The trend that other analysts have observed is not for diplomatic, development, and defence concerns to recede in importance, but rather for them to become more tightly integrated with trade and economic objectives. |
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Two aluminum LED uplights, set in a bed of white gravel, bathe the fence with soft light in the evening and let the climbing wall recede into darkness. |
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Their motifs build up from concentric bands of color that form a diamond, pairs of kissing U shapes or a tiled floorlike plane that refuses to recede. |
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All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center. |
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As such, nestled within the many invocations of exemplary apian industry is always a meditation on scale even as scale seems to recede within these descriptions. |
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This means that if the drawback phase is the first part of the wave to arrive, the sea will recede, with areas well below sea level exposed after 3 minutes. |
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