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The curb was a line of stone laid edgewise in the dirt and tilted this way and that by frost in the ground or the roots of trees.
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Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.
An ancient Rolls-Royce, as shiningly impressive as the day it came off the ship, was parked at the curb.
Cooper was beside his car, on the curb at the right, just standing there morosely ; ;
The Absalon, according to The New York Times report, " was deployed in the Gulf of Aden September as part of an international effort to curb piracy ," part of Combined Task Force 150.
Even if the initial regulation was well-intentioned ( to curb actual abuses ), and even if the initial lobbying by corporations was well-intentioned ( to reduce illogical regulations ), the mixture of business and government stifle competition, a collusive result called regulatory capture.
Due to failure to curb deepening unrest in the northern part of the country, Gambi was in July 2006 replaced with Bozizé ’ s old friend from the military academy, Jules Bernard Ouandé.
With no backboard or sidewalk curb to hit against, this gave rise to presumed methods of dice control, of which the best was known as the " army blanket roll.
It was once used to curb female masturbation.
measure of Muhammad was necessary to curb the cruel tradition in the then Arab society of misusing handmaiden as concubine for sexual pleasures and later refuting her due rights and that of her children.
Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles believed was divinely ordained.
Not all of Diocletian's plans were successful: the Edict on Maximum Prices ( 301 ), his attempt to curb inflation via price controls, was counterproductive and quickly ignored.
Increased fiscal and monetary discipline was imposed to curb inflation and to focus on priorities.
The fact that Himmler was Interior Minister only increased the power of Bormann, as the Gauleiters feared that Himmler, who was General Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich, would curb their power and set up his higher SS and police leaders as their replacement.
However, given that Bradman scored 232, it was not thought that a way to curb his prodigious scoring had been found.
Benedict XII was a reforming pope who tried to curb the luxuries of the monastic orders, though without much success.
This was announced in a bid to curb spending and in particular, the large costs attributed to the provision of catering to the staff and visitors to the Palace of Westminster.
Despite the damage which the affair was inflicting on the church, it was not until after Julius ' death in 1555 that anything could be done to curb Innocenzo's visibility.
* Israel: In 2006, the Segway was approved for use on sidewalks and other pedestrian designated locations, as well as on roads that have no sidewalks, obstructed sidewalks or sidewalks lacking curb cuts.
In 1822, the British signed the first of a series of treaties with Sultan Said to curb this trade, but not until 1876 was the sale of slaves finally prohibited.
One of his first notable acts as president was to deliver a 20, 000-word address to Congress asking it to curb the power of large corporations ( called " trusts ").
Operation Searchlight ordered by Yahya was a planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in erstwhile East Pakistan in March 1971 Ordered by the government in West Pakistan, this was seen as the sequel to Operation Blitz which had been launched in November 1970.
curb and line
Starting with the 1974 season, the NFL also moved its posts back to the end line to curb the then-growing dominance of placekickers.
Goodyear made many mistakes during development, including selling properties right up to the curb line, which means that the city must get permission from property owners before they can put in a sidewalk.
) is a narrow strip of grass or plants and sometimes also trees located between the carriageway ( roadway ) curb ( or road surface edge or shoulder ) and the boundary ( right-of-way line ) of a road.
Vehicles parked in parallel are in one line, parallel to the curb, with the front bumper of each facing the back bumper of the next.
With a base curb weight of well over, the Navigator wasn't particularly fast off the line.
Vedel's division was posted east to Bailén with a view to guarding these nearby mountain passes and on July 1 Vedel was forced to dispatch a brigade under General Cassagne to curb the advance of the guerrillas on Jaén and La Carolina, stretching the French line still further east.
* Position yourself appropriately at junctions when turning-near the curb when turning off the road on the side you are travelling on, near the center line when turning across the other side of the road, and in the center when continuing straight on.
The automatic curb sender was a kind of telegraph key, invented by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin for sending messages on a submarine cable, as the well-known Wheatstone transmitter sends them on a land line.
The cyclist can accelerate more rapidly ( thanks to rapid down shifting while pedaling ), maintain a straighter line while accelerating ( such as while riding along a curb in traffic, or during a race ), and downshift while approaching an intersection or a hill.
The ' Slide Defence ' and the ' Umbrella Defence ' tactics aim to curb the amount of breaks in the line.
curb and stone
alt = A memorial stone erected next to a road curb.
A photograph of the curb taken by a FBI agent just before the curb stone was cut out of the street in August 1964 shows the curb had been patched before it was cut from the street.
These products are usually made from a combination of non-wood materials such as polymeric resins, fiberglass, stone, sand, and fly ash and are chosen for their durability, curb appeal, and ease of maintenance.
The spout floor is across the flats, the stone floor is across the flats and the top of the smock tower is diameter at the curb.
In the Volta a Catalunya he started as a favorite for the first stage, but one kilometre before the finish in Vilanova i Geltru he fell head first on the curb stone.
Standard German Bordstein ) ' curb stone '
curb and way
Hinnebusch argued that the reforms were a way of galvanising support from the large rural population, " theyParty members used the implementation of agrarian reform to win over and organise peasants and curb traditional power in the countryside ".
As a way to curb the unregulated trade of independent businessmen and their burgeoning profits, the government of New France instated a permit system ( congés ).< ref > George Colpitts.
Huang did little to curb monopolies in Shanghai's booming real estate sector, and there was some discontent and public protests resulted from in residents being evicted from their homes ( with little or no compensation ) to make way for new construction.
On his way to the startup at stage 2 of the 1999 Tour de Suisse, Bjarne Riis hit the curb and crashed.
In the 1930 – 1950s local rural authorities ' refusal to issue passports to their residents was an effective way to curb migration to urban areas ( according to memoires of many Russian people in modern blogs, the rural authorities usually provided such permit after the Great Patriotic War, and it was usually easy to obtain it ).
On 7 February 1962, he was injured in a car crash when his teammate Joe Baker drove the wrong way around a roundabout and clipped the curb as he tried to turn the car around, flipping it over.
* Computer viruses also show troubling similarities with biological viruses in their way to curb program-oriented information towards self-reproduction and dissemination.
The agreements have ultimately been an effective way to curb inflation, particularly in recent times where globalization has placed pressure on both the employers and employees.
Sargant described his frustration when London County Council medical advisors tried to curb his experimentation with new treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery ( also called leucotomy ) but, as he said " we generally got our own way in the end ".
After performing his song " Bawitdaba ", Kid Rock tells the audience that he is going to pour out forty gallons of malt liquor on the curb as a way of showing respect to his homies that could not make it to the concert.
She had been on her way to school one morning when a car jumped the curb, went into the driveway in front of the school and killed her.
Like some curb bits, a pelham bit usually has " loose " shanks-hinged at the mouthpiece in the same way that the rings of a snaffle bit are hinged.
Any action that is meant to place pressure on one side of the mouth must be performed with the bradoon, because the curb is designed in such a way that a pull on one rein will produce equal pressure across the tongue and bars, unless it is extremely harsh.
The concept for the HMO Act began with discussions Ellwood and his Interstudy group members had with Nixon administration advisors who were looking for a way to curb medical inflation.
It showed how if we don't curb the way we run our judicial system, the police may end up running our lives.
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