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Being blistered for curbs has delayed his work somewhat.
Environmental skeptics have argued that the extent of harm coming from human activities is less certain than some scientists and scientific bodies claim, or that it is too soon to be introducing curbs in these activities on the basis of existing evidence, or that further discussion is needed regarding who should pay for such environmental initiatives.
The watches which were made in Paris from C. 1675 and following Huygens plan, are notable for lacking a fusee for equalizing the mainspring torque, showing that Huygens thought that his spiral spring would isochronise the balance, in the same way that he thought that the cycloidally shaped suspension curbs on his clocks would isochronise the pendulum.
The original blocks allowed for large garden plots, and many were supplied with irrigation water from ditches that ran approximately where modern curbs and gutters would be laid.
A plan to repair city streets was also implemented in 1982, and continues ; the village also offers public services to clear the streets during the fall and winter from fallen leaves and snow respectively, although on its arterial roads ( Illinois Routes 22, 45, and Aptakisic Road ) residents are provided with bags to clear their curbs during autumn months as it is not possible for the village to safely clear these roads of leaf debris.
The street department is responsible for all town streets, sidewalks, curbs, and street signs.
Also, it is said that when the town was moved 1 / 2 mile west in order to be located adjacent to the railroad, the city fathers, when laying out the town site, decided to make the streets wide enough to accommodate angle parking at the curbs, two lanes of traffic, and sufficient room for street cars.
City manager Don Thornton informed the council that behind Lennox and property for right-of-way from there to Highway 45 can be acquired from Pate Properties East if the city will expand Home and Nelson streets and provide water, sewer, curbs and gutters at the city ’ s expense.
The curbs and streets leading nowhere were the only visible reminders of the failed project until 1946, when local real-estate investor and developer Joseph Shaffron bought it, renamed it " Carol Beach " for his young daughter, and promoted the community as a " second Evanston, Illinois.
Mellor had claimed during a television interview that December that " the press-the popular press-is drinking in the Last Chance Saloon " and called for curbs on the " sacred cow " of press freedom.
* Late February-The BJP-led government's first budget since its October 1999 election victory is criticized by foreign investors for failing to impose tighter curbs on state subsidies.
Godsiff had angered many in his local party by his calls for curbs on immigration.
Some mini longboards have kicktails for jumping off curbs and lifting the board while commuting.
It opposed the emergent socialist politics of the Labour movement and called for curbs on immigration into Great Britain from Roman Catholic areas of Ireland.
This can range from things from injuries caused by " liable for injuries caused by a variety of hazardous conditions, including open excavations, uneven pavement, standing water, crumbling curbs, wet floors, uncleared snow, icy walks, falling objects, inadequate security, insufficient lighting, concealed holes, improperly secured mats, or defects in chairs or benches ".
The real cold shower, which curbs the enthusiasm of the first potential customer lists are Y10, judged too high, evidently people willing to spend more for a little economy car ' most wanted in 1985 are still few.
It was also used extensively for cobblestone roads, many which still exist in some of Melbourne City's smaller lanes and more extensively in the 19th Century inner suburbs as well as buildings, walls, bridges, curbs and gutters in many of those inner suburbs.
Built from granite curbs recycled from Pioneer Square and pitching mound material from Safeco Field, it is now the " home field " for the Independent Petanque Club of Eastlake.
In Edward Heath's government he served as Secretary of State for Employment and was responsible for the Industrial Relations Act 1971, which balanced the introduction of compensation for unfair dismissal with curbs on the freedom to strike and the virtual abolition of closed shop agreements.
On October 16, 2007, SEBI ( Securities & Exchange Board of India ) proposed curbs on participatory notes which accounted for roughly 50 % of FII investment in 2007.
On October 16, 2007, SEBI ( Securities & Exchange Board of India ) proposed curbs on participatory notes which accounted for roughly 50 % of FII investment in 2007.

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Later, riding in for some lusty enjoyment of the liquor and professional ladies of Cheyenne, he laid claim to the killing with the vague insinuations he made.
The responsibility for scores of deaths, including the abduction and murder of Jesus Maria Galindez, a professor at Columbia University in New York, has been laid at his door.
He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.
Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground, while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate's asking for Christ's body, Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes, and the others had gone home to mourn.
The last-named is a fine-looking, large colt, who has been unfortunate to be laid off for some time due to injuries.
It was laid out in 196 for chariot races and other public games.
Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.
This means that if your insured vehicle is laid up for more than 30 days, insurance can be suspended and a proportionate return of your premium made to you.
To this point the need for an over-all plan for submarine defense has been demonstrated, the mission has been stated, broad principles delineating its content laid down, and the supporting elements listed.
When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.
In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.
A new red carpet had been laid for their coming, but I walked on it, too.
He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.
And after several correspondents went into Pathet Lao territory and exposed the huge build-up, administration spokesmen acclaimed them for performing a `` great service '' and laid the matter before the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
And He laid down for him certain conditions: so that, if he kept the command of God, then he would always remain as he was, that is, immortal ; ;
Yet, even after all these stratagems, the conscience of Christian liberality is still not laid to rest, any more than is the conscience of Harvard University for having done the abject penance for its rejection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Divinity School Address of naming its hall of philosophy after him.
Everything was as I had left it the night before last -- her portfolio and bag for town, her lingerie and dress and shoes laid out only her mink coat was missing.
Changing his clothes, he put on his dark-blue flannel suit, and laid away the gray jacket with the feeling that he might be putting it aside for good.
Tylor in particular laid the groundwork for theories of cultural diffusionism, stating that there are three ways that different groups can have similar cultural forms or technologies: " independent invention, inheritance from ancestors in a distant region, transmission from one race to another.

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It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
Ahead of him Gavin turned slightly off the trail and pointed for the Gap, no more than a mile away.
Small rooms, probably for cards, opened off on either side.
He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.
He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.
He poured the water off the sourdough and off the flour, salvaging the chunky, watery messes for biscuits of a sort.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.
red-and-yellow columbines whose round-tipped spurs were picked off and eaten for the honey in them ; ;
Are we better off for having Shakespeare's idea of Shylock??
Grigorss goes off to do penance on a rock for seventeen years.
Without any regard for rest-room protocol, the hulking stranger almost knocked Herford off his pins.
At night, when Mama would turn back the covers, she would have to take all the dolls off the bed and place them elsewhere for the night.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.
After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.
Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.
February's volume was 1 per cent above January's for the first pickup since last October, although it's still 1.5 per cent off from February 1960.
This sum spent for foreign economic aid, the peace corps, food for peace, or any other program to solve the problems of the underdeveloped countries would be an investment that would pay off in world peace, increased world trade, and prosperity for every country on the globe.
It is another question whether `` they '' -- or a single general, off in a corner of China, secure for a few ( galvanizing??

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