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Russ visited two places without result and his blood pressure was down to zero.
The result was grace and modesty.
The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.
I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.
The first result of Heidenstam's long sojourn abroad was a volume of poems, Pilgrimage And Wander-Years ( Vallfart och Vandringsar ), published in 1888.
The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.
The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
The result was fortunate.
The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.
This was accordingly done, and the plight of the grateful Mrs. Morris was much relieved as a result of the generous loan, the amount of which is not known.
Almost inevitably, the first result of this technological revolution was a reaction against the methods and in many cases the conclusions of the Oxford school of Stubbs, Freeman and ( particularly ) Green regarding the nature of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain.
They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.
The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.
The result was that the rate of venereal disease in the American Army was the lowest in our military history.
It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.
the result was his inevitable bedazzlement through, ignorance.
As a result, your criticism of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice was inaccurate, unwarranted and unfair.

result and skyrocketing
A year later, world oil prices rose dramatically as a result of the 1973 energy crisis, and skyrocketing revenues enabled Saddam to expand his agenda.
The exodus of labor during the early 1970s was compounded by the stagflation that was a result of higher oil prices and skyrocketing interest rates.
İstiklal Avenue once again became the center of fine arts and leisure in Istanbul, with real estate prices skyrocketing as a result.
Upon coming to office, Lange's government uncovered a skyrocketing public debt, ostensibly the result of Muldoon's policy of government regulation of the economy, including a wage-and price-freeze and regulation of the exchange rate.

result and batting
As a result, Lara had a very early education in correct batting technique.
Australian bowler Fred Spofforth decimated the English batting after a shocking start by the Australians and the result was a nailbiting finish in which Australia won by seven runs – still one of the closest finishes in Test cricket history.
In an oft-quoted phrase, Ranjitsinhji said of Grace that " he turned the old one-stringed instrument ( i. e., the cricket bat ) into a many-chorded lyre " and that " the theory of modern batting is in all essentials the result of W. G.
Disobeying this rule is considered unsporting behaviour and may result in up to two bases being awarded to the batting team or a batter being sent out.
This may result in the batsmen being allowed to continue batting if successful, or they may still be out, at the discretion of the other players.
Therefore, a player's batting average and on-base percentage decreases as a result of reaching first base via fielder's choice.
Killebrew had a. 115 average through June 16, and as a result was sent back to Charlotte ; he finished the season there with a. 325 batting average and 15 home runs in 70 games.
As would be expected, the result of the first season of the DH was that the American League posted a higher batting average than the National League, something which has remained consistent to this day.
Other cricketers known to have died as a result of on-field injuries in a first-class fixture after being hit while batting: George Summers of Nottinghamshire on the head at Lord's in 1870, Abdul Aziz, the Karachi wicket-keeper, over the heart in the 1958-59 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, and Ian Folley of Lancashire ( playing for Whitehaven ), in the face in 1993.
Even without the infield fly rule, it is occasionally possible that clever play by a batting team with a runner on first base ( and possibly second or third ) can avoid a double or triple play and in fact ensure that the result is exactly the same as if the Infield Fly rule were in effect.
Since the batting order can only be changed as a result of a player substitution, while the defensive arrangement may be changed freely ( among players currently in the game ), the double switch typically takes the following form:
The result provided Smith with personal vengeance against Michael Vaughan for denying South Africa a series victory in England in 2003 and defeating South Africa at home in 2004 – 5 ; Vaughan resigned as captain of England after the Edgbaston match, in an echo of Nasser Hussain's resignation at the instigation of Smith's batting five years earlier.
" He quickly fell out of favor with the Philadelphia fans and media in his second season there as a result of poor offensive output, ranking near the bottom of full-time major league players in 1988 with a. 215 batting average.
He made a score of 275 against England as a result of batting for over 14 and a half hours as South Africa followed on at Kingsmead, still stands as the second-longest innings ( in terms of duration ) in Test history.
This can cause the batting team to begin taking unnecessary risks and result in wickets falling.
With fewer than 300 plate appearances in 95 games, he compiled career-high numbers in batting average (. 300 ), home runs ( 10 ), RBI ( 31 ), runs ( 52 ), hits ( 80 ), doubles ( 17 ) triples ( 5 ) and stolen bases ( 11 ), and expected to gain more at bats in future seasons as a result.
# There is a result, so that one of the teams has won or the team batting last has lost all its wickets with both teams having the same score thereby giving a tie ;
* If the side batting last wins the match without losing all its wickets, the result shall be stated as a win by the number of wickets still then to fall.
: Note: If the side batting last has lost all its wickets, but as the result of an award of 5 penalty runs at the end of the match has scored a total of runs in excess of the total scored by the opposing side, the result shall be stated as a win to that side by penalty runs.
A " shy, retiring " man ( according to Wisden in 1952 ), it was widely thought that he was not a natural captain, and that his batting suffered as a result.
As a result he re-worked his batting technique to get behind the ball to improve his defence against in-swing and off-spin.
Here he dropped Bill Lawry and Bobby Simpson at slip and as a result Barrington gave up fielding in the slips as he felt it required too much concentration and interfered with his batting.
He also posted some of his best games against the New York Giants, batting. 436 against the hated rivals, and as a result, endeared himself to the Brooklyn fans.

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