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Many universities scaled back their distance education business plans to stanch the flow of red ink.
Love-lies-bleeding, prized for its rope-like, blood-red blossoms, has traditionally been used to stanch bleeding and treat internal hemorrhage.
Sales of the popular cars have also helped stanch the flow of red ink in Europe.
In 1997 Nyembe was a victim of the rise in violent crime that not even then president Mandela could stanch.
The thumb-size bundle of neurons acknowledges the yellow belly within but then moves to stanch its quivering power.
She wondered whether she should make a tourniquet to stanch the flow of blood from the man's forearm.
In a swift move to stanch the controversy, Governor Rockefeller demanded the piece be removed.
This revisionist approach towards non-proliferation, has sought to monopolize nuclear technology only to NWSs and a few stanch allies.
The surgeons were working quickly, moving to stanch the bleeding, and the faintest hint of flushness was beginning to appear.
These policies, designed to stanch financial collapse and prevent a plunge in its currency, helped stabilise the economy.
Furthermore, measures to stanch the flow-now under way in Canada and the United Kingdom-are unlikely to slow demand.
Censors quickly ordered Web sites to remove the memo, but they couldn't move fast enough to stanch the spread of the story.
Lyudmila has been a stanch supporter of TAtraining in the Ukraine, having been running the workshops even at a loss.
After the initial incisions are made, robotic arms wielding a tiny camera and surgical tools make the snips, stanch the blood flow, and sew up inside when all is done.
In the process of powerfully meeting the lively Hakan Yakin's free-kick he butted Choi Jin-cheul's head and both players needed lengthy treatment to stanch the flow of blood.
A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
Desperate to stanch the bleeding, the governments of these countries are nationalizing banks, subsidizing key industries and engaging in other forms of state intervention in the economy.
By giving retirees more say over their pension pots, a more ambitious ploy, he must hope to stanch the seepage of silver-haired Tory voters to the UK Independence Party, which has no economic policy to speak of.
One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
For instance, the generic name for yarrow is Achillea, after the legendary Greek hero Achilles, who is said to have used the foliage to stanch the flow of blood from wounded fellow soldiers during the Trojan War.
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Meanwhile we laid him on his bed, and I did what I could to stanch the bleeding and ease his suffering.
Captain Holyoke and Captain Thomas with a little company of stanch followers started out on a survey of the country.
She was a stanch five-year-old, and she had roamed the mountains about Pop's place at will.
After all, he was a stanch friend, and he braved no common dangers in his pursuit.
The bulrush of Scripture is found here, and is used by coopers to stanch their work.
Seating him on the cart, she proceeded to stanch the bleeding with the edge of her gown.
We had sea room, and no lee shore to fear, and the ship was stanch, and no sailor can ask for more than that.
We shall remain free, never to be proven guilty of the one capital offense against freedom, a lack of stanch faith.
He pressed down with the T-shirt, trying to stanch the blood.
The Forward will be a stanch ship and she will carry good engines.
She reserved articles she presented to her stanch friend, Kate O'Brien.
I am free to confess that I marveled at the excellent construction and stanch yet speedy lines of the little craft.
In all the South, Pickens and Sumter alone stood stanch to the flag.
Mr. Berryman was a stanch republican and was quite prominent in politics.
Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!
It was a heavy, slow, but luckily a stanch and seaworthy boat.
Little Jimmie was striving to stanch the flow of blood from his cut lips.
It was a brave, good speech, a speech from that stanch and strong spirit which lay behind all the acidities and angularities of the old zoologist.
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