How To Use Bocci In A Sentence
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Boccia is best described as a wheelchair version of boules, while goalball is for unsighted athletes and resembles handball.
Everything you need to know about the London 2012 Paralympics
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Further along, past the stoic old-timers playing bocci, and a wet-suited man struggling to rig up his windsurfer, a derelict concrete edifice looms high over the beach.
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And with other sports such as darts, bowls, table tennis, boccia and weightlifting, there was something to suit all tastes.
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Last year they won the under-11 boys' hockey, were runners-up in the under-11 athletics and took the Fair Play awards in boccia, hockey, netball and rugby league.
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Boccia, goalball and wheelchair rugby are the only Paralympic-specific sports.
Everything you need to know about the London 2012 Paralympics
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When you play cards or boccia, or games in the family, there is always a winner and a loser.
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Acknowledging the huge job to be done, both in terms of explaining sports such as Boccia and goalball to the public, and raising the profile of the athletes, Hollingsworth admits there will be thorny challenges.
Paralympics 2012: Tim Hollingsworth, the man in charge of the Games
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This year, school sports days will feature boccia, goalball and parkour.
Times, Sunday Times
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By contrast, the intuitive consciousness Boccioni and the Futurists associated with artistic creativity and the violence of the male revolutionary represented the elan vital as a fully operative agent of creative evolution.
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Golds were won for boccia (a game similar to indoor bowling), plus men's 200m sprint, and wheelchair fencing events.
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The balls used in boccia are mainly made of tough leather and filled with a grain-like substance.
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They are boccia, goalball, powerlifting and wheelchair rugby.
Times, Sunday Times
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The piece recalls both an early Cubist still-life sculpture by Picasso and a Futurist bronze by Boccioni.
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William Thomas Andrews was a dwarf seventeen years old, whose head measured in circumference 35 inches; from one external auditory meatus to another, 27 1/4 inches; from the chin over the cranial summit to the suboccipital protuberance, 37 1/2 inches; the distance from the chin to the pubes was 20 inches; and from the pubes to the soles of the feet, 16; he was a monorchid.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Highlights of the exhibition will include: Umberto Boccioni's sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913; Carlo Carrà'sFuneral of the Anarchist, Galli 1911; and responses to the challenge represented by Futurism in works such as Delaunay's Eiffel Tower 1911; Jacob Epstein's Torso in Metal from the Rock Drill 1913-14 and Picasso's Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc 1914 onto which he pasted the Futurist periodical, Lacerba.
Art Knowledge News
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The competition will include athletics, basketball, boccia, football, hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, tennis and cycling.
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Indeed, the word "bocce" is the plural of the Italian word "boccia," which means
Post-gazette.com - News
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At the top of your neck are suboccipital muscles, which help to orientate the top the neck and head.
The Sun
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Gabriel, who suffers from cerebral palsy, will represent his country in the discipline known as boccia.
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The most important Futurist artists were Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini and Giacomo Boccioni, together with American immigrant, Joseph Stella.
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With forward head postures, shortening occurs in the suboccipital muscles and lengthening takes place in the cervical and thoracic erector spinae muscles.
