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Once the home of a thriving lobster industry, Tavolara now attracts divers who come to view the coral, sponges, sea anemones, bottlenose dolphins, and even a few specimens of Pinna nobilis, the rare giant clam whose byssus fibers were formerly used in the manufacture of sea silk for royal garments.
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Once the physical therapist determines that the individual is able to safely perform parts of the program independently, it is important that the individual be prescribed and regularly engage in a supplementary home exercise program that incorporates these components to further improve long term outcomes.
Once Chuck Peddle had taken over engineering at Commodore, he convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were already a dead end and that they should turn their attention to home computers.
Once the High Lamas have found the home and the boy they believe to be the reincarnation, the boy undergoes a series of tests to affirm the rebirth.
Once he had arrived, he sent for Murray to follow him to New York ; she arrived with the necessary basics for them to set up home.
Once, on return home after her usual walk, the Princess saw that her native aul was ravaged by an enemy.
Once reunited, the Corps was able to return home quickly via the Missouri River.
Once a piece has completed a circuit of the board it moves up the home column of its own colour.
The Twilights, formed in Adelaide, also made the trip to London, recording a series of minor hits, absorbing the psychedelic scene, to return home to produce covers of Beatles ' songs, complete with sitar, and the concept album Once upon a Twilight ( 1968 ).
Once blessed, the ornately woven palaspas ( palm branches ), are taken home by the faithful and are placed on altars or hung beside, on or above doorways and windows.
Once St Helena ’ s location was more widely known, English ships of war began to lie in wait in the area to attack Portuguese India carracks on their way home.
Once in his home land, Odysseus traveled disguised as an old beggar.
Once he shone on his own, now he sits home alone and waits for the phone to ring.
Once home again, these visitors thought of Paris as a modern Babylon, the capital of pleasure and the “ little ladies of Paris ”.
Once at home, Martha and George continue drinking and engage in relentless, scathing verbal and sometimes physical abuse in front of Nick and Honey.
Once, with Jackson on third, teammate Rick Monday hit a long home run.
Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple ; but while he casts the money, he must say, “ I invite you in the name of Mylitta ” ( that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite ).
Once the war began, he was unable to return home.
Once, a wealthy area home to many beautiful mansions owned by various " big wigs ", the area is now a more affordable neighborhood, also housing the OKT, Lincoln Plaza, and Park Avenue residential housing communities.
Once home, Batman takes Carrie on as the new Robin despite the objections of his butler, Alfred.
Once led thus to her husband's home, the bride was a matron.
Once home she expressed her gratitude to Canada by sending the city of Ottawa 100, 000 tulip bulbs.
Once the bride has been led home, " the god Domitius is employed to install her in her house.
Once a major whaling port before becoming home to other shipping and manufacturing industries, the city has gradually lost its commercial and industrial heart.
Once home to over 10, 000 residents, the county population declined below 5000 in 2006.
Once and thriving
Once a thriving vacation city on the coast, it is still the second largest city in Mozambique, with a population of 300, 000.
Once considered a primary skill, increased accessibility to more user-friendly DTP software has made DTP a secondary skill to art direction, graphic design, multimedia development, marketing communications, administrative careers and advanced high school literacy in thriving economies.
Once a thriving river community where apples were loaded and shipped, banks were busy and profitable, stores were laden with goods and shoppers, Hamburg now sits quietly along and sometimes in the waters of the Mississippi.
Once the home of a thriving barrel-making industry which depleted the nearby virgin forests Mill Shoals had primarily been an agriculture village until 1939 when oil was discovered in the area.
Once a thriving city it has all but shrunk away into a mere bed-room community.
Once a thriving farm community which was disappointed when bypassed by railroads, the town in 1876 established the Deerfield Fair.
Once dominated by coal mines, this borough has in recent times become the center of a thriving retail corridor focused along Business Route 6 and around the Viewmont Mall.
Once again Askern changed direction and became a thriving pit village, which welcomed people from all over the country to work and live in its area, giving the town a mixed background.
Once a thriving oil town with a general store, a school, a post office, a gas station, and a Methodist church, Renfrew's only operating business today is the post office.
The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad runs materials to and from the AK Steel mill in Butler through Renfrew along Railroad St. Once used by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, it was at one time a thriving railway that would travel down to Pittsburgh.
Once this was a thriving country market town, but in recent decades the middle classes have continuously migrated to Ankara in search of jobs and careers and Haymana has become populated by villagers from the surrounding countryside, an area with a substantial Kurdish population.
Once a small fishing village, Cancún in the northeast of the peninsula has grown into a thriving city.
Once a thriving neighborhood, years of neglect, crime, and homelessness have resulted in economic blight.
Once a thriving village, due to the local coalmining, it is now little more than a few private houses, and the former Westwood County Junior Mixed and Infant School is now a housing complex where the houses are named after the rows of colliery houses that were demolished in the early 1970s.
Once known as Hulun, Hailar today is a relatively small but thriving modern industrial city of around 300, 000, its population having soared from an estimated 20, 000 in the mid-20th century.
Once a thriving sugar port, it is today a centre of environmental tourism and a gateway to the Treasure Beach resort area ; Treasure Beach and Crane Beach are to the south-east with Luana Beach to the west.
Once, thriving Native American trade communities of Tiwa and Tompiro language-speaking Puebloans inhabited this remote frontier area of central New Mexico.
Once a thriving market village on the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway, the village suffered from partition in 1922, the closure of the railway in 1957 and from the closure of numerous cross-border roads by the British army at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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