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They and strained
They also discover that they all have strained relationships with their parents and are afraid of making the same mistakes as the adults around them.
They briefly reconcile after the death of their mother, but their relationship becomes strained when Danny realises the stress Judith is going through thanks to Fitz's actions.
They had few qualms about the use of puns – old, strained or inventive – and included some jokes and catchphrases that would seem politically incorrect by the mid 1990s.
They had an especially strong tie with the Noldor which was strained by the Kinslaying and other actions done by the sons of Feanor.
They have courts, can grant wishes to children and have a practical relationship with the birds, which is however " strained by differences ".
They range from non-playable 16 bit video games where the characters reenact the soccer games from the film to animations highlighting Sing and Mui ’ s strained relationship ( one of which is accompanied by the song " Hazard " by Richard Marx ).
They strained commercial corridors and affected housing prices, causing citizens to fear a decline in the social, economic and environmental attributes that defined their quality of life.
They were founded by Batman, whose ties to the League had become strained.
They remained good friends, but their relationship was sometimes strained because of Hogg's attraction to the women who were romantically involved with Shelley.
They buried the hatchet when Virginia went into renal failure and Blanche offered her kidney to her sister, but their relationship became strained once more after their argument after Big Daddy's death in which Virginia accused Blanche of being too selfish and self-centered to say goodbye to her own father.
They date, but the relationship is strained by Derek's interfering mother Amy, who believes that Mavis is not good enough for her son.

They and forward
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They began to meet in the evenings and carry forward various discussions they felt not fully enough covered in class.
They overran the 7th Cav's forward machine-gun positions through sheer weight of numbers, over piles of their own dead.
They moved in a series of rhythmic fits and starts, a macabre dance -- two steps back, two steps forward, two steps back.
They should sense the tremendous significance of joining the spiritual succession reaching back to Christ our Lord and forward to an eternal fellowship with the saints of the ages.
They had a bow lengthened above the water, a drawing out and sharpening of the forward body, and the greatest breadth further aft.
They have a lower forward voltage drop than p – n junction diodes.
They also contribute to the desired effect of converting the ( kinetic energy ) push of the sloped wave face combined with the rider's mass on the sloped wave face ( potential energy ) into redirected energy-lift ( lift ( physics ))-the surfer deflects his surfboard and fins off the water of the wave face ( and / or vice-versa ) to make forward progress across the wave face, or " down the line ," that is, parallel to the wave crest and beach-riding parallel to the crest ( perpendicular to the pull of gravity down the wave's slope ) in this way is known as " trimming.
They were opposed not only to political ( statist ) struggles but also to strikes which put forward wage or other claims, or which were organised by trade unions.
They were the forward most dumping places of the Royal Nepalese Army.
They considered how " tasteless and wrong " it would be to lean forward to him every time that an acrobat did a stunt and yell the catchphrase, and then they realised that that's exactly what their fictional priests would do.
They prospected south along the Baiyer River to its junction with the Maramuni and Tarua Rivers, where they established a palisaded forward camp naming the place ‘ Akmana Junction .’ From this base they prospected along the Maramuni River and its tributaries, again without success.
They are trained to be handled with one hand on the reins, and to respond to the rider's leg and weight cues for moving forward, turning and stopping.
They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of grasping claws and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger.
They may be called to " attention ", and given orders such as " about face " and " forward march ".
They are designed to allow the skier to lean forward during flight.
They may also be politically motivated, such as " Save the Scouts, forward this to as many friends as possible " or a concept that a popular TV or radio show may be forced off the air.
They move backward and forward in a longitudinal direction, tearing apart the prey.
They can climb on horizontal branches with their back to the ground, and in this position make short jumps forward.
They also stated: " Legacy interfaces such as VGA, DVI and LVDS have not kept pace, and newer standards such as DisplayPort and HDMI clearly provide the best connectivity options moving forward.
They perch with two toes forward and two back.
They have long antennae with ten or more bead-like segments projecting forward from the head, and a pair of cerci projecting backwards from the last of the eleven abdominal somites.
They acquired Alexei Yashin from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for forward Bill Muckalt, defenseman Zdeno Chara and the Isles ' second overall pick in the entry draft, which the Senators used to select Jason Spezza.
They received the second overall draft pick after losing the lottery, their fourth top 2 pick in four years, in the 2006 NHL Draft and picked highly touted two-way forward Jordan Staal.

They and .
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They looked a good deal alike, Morgan thought.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
They were running from something.
They were a pair of lost, whipped kids, Morgan thought as he went to bed.
They killed Big Charlie, dumped his body in my rose garden two nights ago.
They just all cleared out.
They passed ranches that were framed dark gray against the black hills.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.
They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.
They neither gained nor fell back.
They dragged him inside the building.
They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.
They had pistols in their hands.
They bawled questions that were not answered in the uproar.
They followed the others toward the east gate.
They realized the truth.
They all flew into action.
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
They grew louder as the Indians charged again.
They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.
They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

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