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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 annual
As a result, the road's net revenues in the 12 months ending March 31 were 186 per cent of the annual interest payments on the turnpike bonds.
As a result, the photographs were displayed at the Society's annual conference in Harrogate, held a few months later.
As a result, in 1592 Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal ( 1527 – 1598 ) ordered the annual fleet returning from Goa on no account to touch at St Helena.
As a result, on the day of the solstice the Sun appears to have reached its highest or lowest annual altitude in the sky above the horizon at local solar noon.
As a result, by August 1988, inflation had dropped to an annual rate of 240 percent.
( The last annual was printed in a quite small quantity, due to popularity of the show gradually fading, and is considerably rarer as a result ).
In terms of money, since most people use the annual effective interest rate ( which is equivalent to annual compounding ) for interest rates between 4 % and 12 %, the number that gives the most accurate result is actually 72.
As a result of extensive cultivation of legumes ( particularly soy, alfalfa, and clover ), growing use of the Haber-Bosch process in the creation of chemical fertilizers, and pollution emitted by vehicles and industrial plants, human beings have more than doubled the annual transfer of nitrogen into biologically-available forms.
Despite its dependence on the British market, Argentina managed a 6. 7 % annual rate of growth of exports between 1870 and 1890 as a result of successful geographic and commodity diversification.
This will result in an annual loss of sand of 1. 1 million m³.
As a result, he was dis-fellowshipped from the 1882 annual meeting of the Brethren.
As a result of the location of the music festival, numerous live albums and videos have been recorded or filmed in Bushnell, including the annual Cornerstone Festival DVD.
Strauss's music is now regularly performed at the annual Neujahrskonzert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as a result of the efforts by Clemens Krauss who performed a special all-Strauss programme in 1929 with the Viennese orchestra.
: " Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
As a result, each qualified resident now receives the same annual amount, regardless of age or years of residency.
Done more as a result of social mores than kindness, Scrooge sees the practice akin to having his pocket picked on an annual basis.
* March 29 – At the 14th annual Eurovision Song Contest held at the Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain, the final result is a four-way tie for first place between Spain (" Vivo cantando " – Salomé ); United Kingdom (" Boom Bang-a-Bang " – Lulu ); Netherlands (" De Troubadour " – Lenny Kuhr ) and France (" Un jour, un enfant " – Frida Boccara ).
If the observational record is long enough and conditions are stationary ( i. e. there is no significant long-term trend ), a meaningful annual cycle will result that can be used to calculate an anomaly time series.
Nestled in a deep valley, the populated regions of Skjåk are rain shadowed and as a result are actually one of the most arid places in Europe with less annual precipitation than parts of the Sahara desert ( although far cooler temperatures allow far lesser potential evapotranspiration than is characteristic of warmer climates.
The reason they gave in their annual report was that the previous two seasons had produced so much material that they needed an additional year to analyze it, but in reality this was more the result of insufficient funding as well as the unstable state of Venezuelan politics.
As a result, the Gophers were forced to cancel scheduled home games in March against Washington State, Hamline, North Dakota State, and Cal State Bakersfield as well as the annual Metrodome Tournament.
Consequently, Lowland families and aristocrats now appear on clan lists with their own tartans, in some cases with a claim to ancestry from the Highland area – and as a result, more Lowland / Border clans than ever now have their own clan societies, websites and annual reunions.

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