How To Use Cline In A Sentence
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I am inclined to think, old boy, that there is a good deal of what they call the chump about me.
Old Ebenezer
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He declined to give details on who the passengers were except to say they were from a nursing home in Bellaire, an upscale enclave within Houston.
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In part the decline in this willingness has an economic base.
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I'm getting a de-rection," mutters Barney, aghast at her decline.
The New Season in Review: Monday Madness
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More realistic estimates are based on the assumption that fertility will gradually decline to around replacement level.
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The chancellor has declined to alter the co-determination of company decisions exercised by management and labor jointly.
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Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings.
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Other specialties have undergone relative declines such as orthopedics safer cars and fewer smashed bones.
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The decrease in myocardial oxygen consumption was evidenced by a gradual decline in atrioventricular oxygen difference, indicating a decrease in myocardial oxygen uptake relative to supply.
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It has both a vertical shaft and an adit to an incline, which we and several mine officials entered in a small bus.
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Blue chip issues were sharply higher, but the rest of the market actually declined slightly by the end of the day.
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The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
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There's been a steady decline in smokestack industries such as shipbuilding and steel.
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After a time, however, they began to think that he was what they called too “viewy,” too much inclined to paradox, too wild.
The Adventure of Living
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As his reputation declined, the sculptor retreated to his studio and stopped exhibiting.
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We only walked for four hours today because of the intense heat and steep incline.
The Sun
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California could see a slight decline in delinquencies by the end of 2010.
Drop in late mortgage payments is first since 2006
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It initially got so-so ratings and then steadily declined from there.
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The royal household declined to comment.
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If it has attractive art and nice looking parts I'm much more inclined to give it a try.
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He's inclined to spit when he talks quickly.
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He declined to comment on the time frame for another discount rate cut.
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The decline became progressively steeper the older the civil servants were at the beginning.
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But the slave, perceiving that the zamorin seemed inclined to deal favourably with them, went to the cady or chief priest of the Mahometans, and told him all that he had said to the zamorin, adding that the two Christians had disclosed all their secrets to the Portuguese.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
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This decline was due partly to the generally buoyant economy that saw fewer people filing claims.
A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
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However, the decline in the Tokyo stock market, which has rendered many warrants worthless, may seriously damage the market.
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The finely detailed, louvred, inclined plane presenting an alternative to the typical suburban facades.
NSW Architecture Awards Announced: Gorgeous Oz-chitecture | Inhabitat
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It was typical of Mishcon that he declined an invitation to attend the signing of the treaty.
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He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island.
Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
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Alan Krans, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said the restructuring announced last quarter should help the company avoid being "pummeled," as it was during the last economic downturn, when it had huge losses on sharp sales declines.
EMC Says Tech Outlook Is Murky
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‘It is a digestif that aids digestion in an after-dinner setting,’ said the executive, who declined to be named.
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At that time, MSN officials declined to discuss when and if they planned to broaden the beta to other countries.
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A spokesman for the Minister for Environment confirmed that high-level negotiations have been on-going, but declined to comment on the IFA proposals.
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Despite planned closures, the continuing decline in demand will continue to generate spare capacity.
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A recent report estimates there were 60 percent fewer wintering mule deer on part of the anticline in 2009 compared with 2001, and 28 percent fewer mule deer in 2009 compared with 2005.
Deer Population Plummets Amidst Natural Gas Drilling
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The decline in marriage has been offset by a rise in cohabitation.
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The steeper decline in seats available suggests that airlines will switch to smaller aircraft.
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If you are more concerned about the quality of the food and drink than about socializing with your friends, decline the invitation and go out to a restaurant instead.
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As a result, some politicians have begun to think of war, not as the high-risk recourse of last resort, but as an attractive foreign policy option in times of domestic scandal or economic decline.
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He declined to give figures for the lowest payout or the average compensation.
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Since then theatre and cinema owners claim that attendances have declined sharply.
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The decline in some areas could be good news since competition for places becomes less intense.
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Mike smirked, taking a seat in the recliner and immediately putting his feet up.
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The Brown case was very feeble especially on the decline of manufacturing and where Marr did nail him. teledu
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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They also have acquired a ‘natural moral sense’ that inclines them to perform the social duties required for the species to flourish.
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Folds associated with intraformational faults in the Tertiary mudstones of the southernmost North Sea show a similar asymmetry, with anticlines locally developing into diapiric structures.
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Several years ago, when we removed taxes and tariffs on all antimalaria commodities, the cost of mosquito nets sold in local markets declined, local demand for nets increased, and more small businesses entered the market to produce and supply these essential commodities.
Free Trade and the Fight Against Malaria
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There has been a decline in the number of people joining the priesthood.
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His official spokesman declined to comment.
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The twelfth, _bayoguin_, signified a "cotquean," a man whose nature inclined toward that of a woman.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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Group: Slight decline in earmark projects
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We need to take corrective action to halt this country's decline.
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So without a substantial increase in arms and equipment procurement the Armed Forces defense capabilities could decline considerably.
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Affected stands either fail to initiate spring growth or green up unevenly in March and then plants decline and eventually die due to infected crowns and roots.
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While the introduction of EU compensatory payments will offset the price drop, a decline in calf prices combined with cost increases will result in continuing pressure on margins in dairy farming.
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Meanwhile, Robert Downey, Jr. declines an offer to do Arctic Thunder in blackened face.
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(I meant lie, as in recline, not as in fib, which is what you’ll do anyway.)
Think Progress » Kyl Abandons His Cry For Televised Closed-Door Senate Negotiations Now That He’s In The Back Room
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In manner he was a dapper ironist, soft-voiced and accepting of the curious turns that fate was inclined to take.
We Shall Not See His Like Again
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I've declined the invitation to the Royal Garden Party; I'd just to be a square peg in a round hole among all those posh people.
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They had brought a modest decline in the face of extreme boom conditions, but no collapse.
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Dan, a mechanic for 16 years at Northwest, commented on the decline in safety conditions at the airline, before and during the strike.
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To anyone inclined to political cynicism, I would urge you to read this book.
Times, Sunday Times
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After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics.
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The belief that acid secretion declines with advancing age has been widespread.
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Although metabolic rate may decline during this period, protein catabolism probably remained rather constant.
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It has been said that today print culture is in decline, but contrarily, the book industry has grown in the late twentieth century.
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Produce production can be instrumental in arresting the decline in the number of farms in some rural areas, as well as in providing an alternative to tobacco production.
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Once out of there, they walked around, just glancing around in the stores, occasionally, Jason would ask Sarah if she wanted anything but she politely declined the offer.
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The lounge was big, and filled with many comfy sofas and recliners.
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Results indicated that most respondents were more inclined towards centrally planned economic policies rather than free markets.
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The best way to avoid infections of this kind from A. buntonensis is to apply antibiotics such as gentamicin, amikacin, chloramphenicol and tetracycline to the wound immediately after the leech has released itself.
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The younger you are, it seems the less intelligence is passed down, thus the decline in intelligible television.
The Current State Of Science Fiction On Tv
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At the vertex is a medical student named Karlanner (played by Stephen Barker Turner), a kind of emblematic conflicted "good German" - leftishly inclined, living with the Jewish girlfriend who rescued him from alcoholism.
A Lost Voice Surfaces From A Sinister Interlude
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During that time her health has declined due to muscular and skeletal problems resulting from her own thalidomide disabilities.
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Twice he declined a pot at goal and opted to kick to the corner despite defending a narrow three-point lead.
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As conscious beings we can deduce that the logical conclusion of this decline is our extinction.
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He adds, I really want to crash-land one of Mark Cline's flying saucers on the Taubman's roof.
Roadside Kitsch Is Fun, but Is It Art? Virginia Museum Sure Hopes So
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Two reputable City firms are predicting a decline of 0.2%.
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Their decline accelerated during the Oligocene and coincided with the rise of another group of large herbivorous and cursorial mammals, the artiodactyls.
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Mystra was flush with anticipation as they dismounted, leading their horses up the steady incline of the road.
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Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Cognitive decline with age is not inevitable, nor does it necessarily lead to dementia.
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The front garden slopes away from the house, with the incline packed with an interesting array of shrubbery and tall flowers - white flowering eucryphia and myrtle blend with statuesque hoheriay and elegant miscanthus grasses.
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After the lapse of a fortnight, Hepburn, candidate for congressman-at-large, declined to accept because "it is quite apparent that a very large portion of the Republicans, owing to the unfortunate circumstances which have come to light since the adjournment of the convention, are not disposed to accept its conclusion as an authoritative utterance of the party." [
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
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But the bashful hero politely declined before going back to base.
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In today's New York Times, media writer Jeremy W. Peters examines what he characterizes as a slow decline of the Los Angeles Times newspaper since being bought in 2000 by The Tribune Company.
Does The New York Times Get It Right About The Los Angeles Times?
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Reasons for the past decline include the effects of the pearl button industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the cultured pearl industry of the past 50 years.
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Ideally, the drainpipe is sloped or inclined approximately 2% or ¼ inch per foot of length, to keep the waste in the pipe, wet and amid liquid to lubricate and promote its slow but constant movement along the length of the pipe.
Toilet Paper and Mexican Plumbing
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Offers of a complimentary drink or dessert were declined.
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Guinness drinking is on the decline in Ireland, with volume sales falling by an annual rate of about 3 per cent over the past four years.
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Japanese investors are repatriating their money as a result of a decline in the yen.
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The result is families under siege, war in the streets, the precipitous decline of the rule of law, the rapid rise of corruption, the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit.
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No wonder One Nation's vote in the last federal election declined substantially - it's a spent force.
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I am inclined to agree with Sanders that the Federal Reserve showed poor leadership as the economic mess we're in unfolded, But I think Greenspan is much more to blame for the whole mess than Bernanke.
Early fireworks in Bernanke confirmation drama
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The ones that really bother me, and seem to be on the decline, are the Tolkeinesque stories, but even the more modern sword and sorcery stuff, that avoids the Tolkein trappings, still has the quests and heirs and stuff that just gets old, even before it starts.
SF Fanatic: I Am Not A Fan Of Fantasy, Here's Why
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But this still suggests that a large share of the total decline is cyclical in nature.
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The prosecution even declined to cross-examine the last defense witness.
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For his part, Walsh declines to respond to Armstrong's bitter personal criticism in kind, and he displays no outward signs of animus toward the Tour champion.
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We shall see, however, that while evangelicals were readier to defend racial segregation than nonevangelicals, in part because of where they lived, their distinctiveness on this dimension declined as evangelicalism grew.
American Grace
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When a company's business is down , it's inclined to sit tight.
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There were however only small increases in private and public consumption and there was a decline in construction and capital investment.
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Cause national industry decline, because of domestic corporation unable to contend with international big company, .
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During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs, some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms.
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If the distribution channel is selected incorrectly, the brand will decline rapidly.
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Cities can either grow and prosper, or they decline and decay.
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Roo suspected it was a lie, as Duncan was inclined to aggrandize his own discomfort and diminish others ', but he didn't mind.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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The club have aged and declined as their continental rivals have renewed and improved.
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With this decline in spiritual and political influence has come an economic slide.
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It will not use the relief road unless it is going to the new industrial estate and people may be tempted to take a short cut through the town to avoid the steep incline on the new road.
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It fights for its own hegemony in literature; wherever it triumphs, the older genres go into decline.
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As many facets of the automobile industry have recently declined or grown modestly over the past year, the sales of luxury cars have risen 5.5 percent.
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O'Connor's sympathies are certainly with Federalism, and Ginsburg has become more inclined towards Federalism as of late.
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On a gloomier note, employment continued to decline and car sales remained depressed.
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As Rome's strength declined, the country again was exposed to invasion.
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Maybe the sheer joy of a stroll along a beach makes them more inclined to say yes.
Times, Sunday Times
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She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling.
Chapter X
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M. Faye, of the French Academy, inclined to a lunar origin for them; [193] Feilitsch of Greifswald published in 1852 a treatise for the express purpose of proving all the luminous phenomena attendant on solar eclipses -- corona, prominences and "sierra" -- to be purely optical appearances. [
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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The King is at first inclined to agree with this principle and to mete out to the sororicide the punishment he deserves.
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Cadeyrn inclined his head in acknowledgement.
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But, as a result of constant draining, the lake's suckerfish declined and eventually became an endangered species.
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I hear dark rumors that she has her enemies duct taped to comfortable recliners and forced to watch Beachcombers episodes until they eat their own weight in bran loaf!
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The alarming increase in media oligopolies has led to a subsequent decline in any need for public accountability on the part of media corporations.
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Ancient Egypt declined, was overrun and thereafter ruled by foreign powers.
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In the supposed rise of the extreme right, mainstream politicians imagine their own decline and fall, and their isolation from the people.
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It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas.
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For those more culturally inclined, there is a fairly good museum housed in a Japanese building from when Sakhalin Island was called Karafuto and Yuzhno was called Toyohara.
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His family declined to comment as they left the inquest.
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Figure 1 shows striking declines in death rates for various age categories from 1930 to 1975.
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It's not like we're making more money -- we're just collecting it to pass along to the state -- but from a customer's perspective, they just have to pay more when they buy from a physical store than from an online store, which can disincline some folks to buy local.
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And then what started to happen after about like two and a half months was, one of the guys was very gymnastically inclined.
Brad Balfour: Q & A With Mickey Rourke--A Requiem Through The Wrestler
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Because of the dramatic decline in the pilchard population in the Western Cape area, local fishing restrictions had previously been put into place in an attempt to increase the numbers of these fish.
The Great Penguin Rescue
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But the slight decline in revenue is good news compared to the loss Sun took in the quarter.
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David Woo , head of global rates and curr encies research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, says inaction by European governments could lead to a big decline in the euro.
Fears Mount Over European Debt, Banks
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If biological temperament inclines you to be easily upset, that quite naturally leads to questions about ‘what's wrong with me?’
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Their name, which he had long avoided mentioning, was incessantly on his lips: but always the same, always inclined naturally and systematically, to have more strings than one to his bow, he appeared to incline alternately _for the younger branch, and for the reigning branch_.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
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Research conducted in nonhuman primates shows male nonhuman primates are more susceptible to age-related cognitive decline.
Science Press Release Synopses
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This bus was deluxe, new with soft seats that reclined.
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So we are inclined to side with the powerless rather than the powerful.
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The latest opinion poll shows that the president's popularity has declined.
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Because short-term indicators have not shown a precipitous decline in the economy since the referendum, a complacency seems to have set in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The decline was linked to changes in farming practices which led to a loss of food sources and nesting sites for the birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in households where wage earners have some graduate education, incomes have declined 1 percent since 1989.
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The decline came in part from a buying binge by customers in 1994 as they tried to beat 1995 price increases.
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White's allegorical space is a vacant sprawling composition, slanting and inclined in a rigid fixture devoid of primary colours or people.
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Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck -- a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a combination of Steve Jobs 'genius and Microsoft's flatfootedness.
Microsoft Slumps As Apple Trumps
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The three of them were seated on the same couch that had faced the large recliner.
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But the sharp decline in peasant disturbances in the pre-war years pointed to peaceful development.
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Outside, men recline on brightly colored silk pillows, relaxing on the carpeted floor of a large goat-hair tent as boys dance to tribal songs.
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It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas.
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In fact several inversions have been found to form clines with higher frequencies at low latitudes near the equator.
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Tragic cases like these simply scratch the surface of a society that appears to be in rapid decline.
The Sun
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On the contrary, people on the left and on the right are equally forceful in decrying self-centered individualism, consumerism, new pressures on the family, and the decline of community.
Why the Culture War Is the Wrong War
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In the light of this, one might be inclined to say that she is naïve or innocent or foolhardy.
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The Reserve Bank is relaxed about that fiscal stimulus and believes that it will act as a stabiliser, given that economic growth is forecast to decline during the 2004-06 period.
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From a vantage point of twenty feet away they all crouched, watching the car, which appeared disinclined to burst into flame.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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We must accept that the decline of political honesty and political reporting is inevitable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Petros declined to say whether he thought Hewana had been "enticed" to give a different arrest time.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Several other typical mesophytic forest species, both shade-intolerant and shade-tolerant, have declined, perhaps due to an absence of large-scale disturbance needed for their regeneration.
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Commandos are inclined to shoot first and ask questions later.
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I'd be inclined to avoid ragtops on general principle, and I also think that the floppy roof spoils the TT's outline.
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The losses which the decline in consumer demand initially entails will cause a decline in the demand for resources in that industry.
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After more than two years of development, the BLM reported that 11,000 vehicle trips onto the anticline were made during December 2005.
Energy Development is Ruining Public Hunting Grounds in the West
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The completed ships could easily slip into the water along the inclined shipways.
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Unemployment rose and the city went into a spiral of decline.
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Snoop Dogg left Mr. Knight's Death Row Records a year after that, and the label slowly declined.
NYT > Home Page
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However, while there are differences in ogrish cultures, especially those before and after the collapse of the last ogre empire and the historical decline of their race, all ogres exhibit anger, vanity, avarice, lust, and gluttony.
Dragons of a Vanished Moon
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as its producers predicted Chinese authorities would object to its violence but declined to edit out the more brutal scenes.
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All across Europe, wherever you look, marriage is in decline and divorce rates are soaring.
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The gradual decline has not surprised him, not least because of the way smokers have been lectured to from on high.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was inclined to rekindle the fire, and once I had it going I sat cross-legged before it, gazing at Carter through the orange and yellow flames.
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Offered the position of chairman, Smith declined, preferring to keep his current job.
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I think we can date the decline of Western Civilization quite precisely.
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I have read that stranger abductions are actually on the decline in the past couple of years.
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The word driveth does not mean that he was compelled forcibly against his will to go there, but that he was inclined to go there by the Spirit, or was led there.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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Furniture weighs suddenly turn hostile cozily : Furniture tide respect criterion incline to is muti_function with diversification.
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Notwithstanding a steady decline in numbers, the school has had a very successful year.
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Inpart, this decline has been effected by the successful ideological battle waged against them by Mrs Thatcher.
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Our results," as they both argued, "seem so far to indicate that the hydrogen nucleus is a more common constituent of the lighter atoms than one has hitherto been inclined to believe.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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She declined the offer with a wave of her hand.
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As he declined the invitation it is unnecessary to consider further what would have been the effect of such a joinder.
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Following the intrusion of basic dykes in the late Palacocene, the whole of the post-Zechstein succession was gently folded into a series of major synclines and anticlines.
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Few would disagree that sitcoms have declined since their heyday in the 1970s.
Times, Sunday Times
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The club have aged and declined as their continental rivals have renewed and improved.
Times, Sunday Times
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The interrogating carbineer who is invested, during such preliminary enquiries, with quasi-judicial functions -- being permitted to assume the role of prosecuting or defending counsel, or to remain sternly unbiased, as he feels inclined -- desired to learn how he had come by this jewel.
South Wind
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Whole regions of the country went into serious decline, and unemployment and dole dependency skyrocketed.
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The birth rate for older women has declined, but, by contrast, births to teenage mothers have increased.
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We recognize that a collection of factors explain the decline of the Liberal party 1906-24.
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Roll the window down, recline your seat, and snooze.
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An Apprentice spokeswoman declined to comment last night.
The Sun
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People are more inclined to treat their animals rather than put them to sleep and replace them.
Times, Sunday Times
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She declined to answer questions and covered up in a blue trouser suit tied around the waist.
The Sun
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His Lordship was inclined to think that it did.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were expecting 70 redds, which is still a 63 percent decline.
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By then, the city was noted for industrial decline and social unrest.
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When push comes to shove, even those who recognize the political roots of drug testing are not inclined to take a stand.
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Secondly, parse as they might, they can't turn a scientific "trick" into guile, nor make a negative colouration stick to the phrase "hide the decline" when the CRU folks themselves have published papers on it.
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The public walk directly into the new terminal's retail level from the parking area and can then connect to the departures and arrivals levels by using the inclined travelators.
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Institutionally cultivated individual career strategies for organizational dominance contribute to organizational decline.
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His lawyers—plural—threatened a countercharge of police harassment, and Ms. Caroline King had declined to press charges.
Tough Customer
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A narrow inclined rift leads out to the head of the pitch, and a large wedged block provides an initial belay for a traverse at roof level to the first section of the pitch.
