How To Use Crowding In A Sentence
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Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
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I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
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Pediatricians are once again extremely busy this winter as patients with asthma symptoms - the most common disease among children - are crowding into respiratory clinics.
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[12] The spermatozooids of certain plants can be strongly attracted towards a pipette which is filled with malic acid -- crowding around and into it with avidity.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
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Football fans will perhaps be pleased to know that the word huddle, from a Germanic verb to do with “crowding together” could it come from a primeval idea of a group hiding from animals or people, or protecting someone or something from being found or seen by others?
The English Is Coming!
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Many of the Indians were already crowding about the train, some with polished buffalo horns for sale, and all magnificently dressed in buckskin, decorated with fine, old-fashioned bead work, and the quills of the porcupine.
The Shagganappi
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Bar staff were today taking more cash than ever with fans crowding bars for the crunch clash between England and Argentina.
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Parents or guardians were surveyed using a standardized self-administered questionnaire to obtain data on crowding in the household, parents' educational level and the child's health status.
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The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
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Because of the overcrowding problems in the school I know that some children are being taught in cloakrooms.
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One of my first targets was a redbud tree (Cercis canadensis) that had grown to about 12 feet high and six feet across, crowding out the ninebark bush on its right side and witch hazel tree on the left.
Fear of Pruning
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He said timetabling extra services could help tackle uncomfortable overcrowding, especially during rush hours.
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Former Dale Farm residents who moved to the legal site have complained of illness due to overcrowding and poor sanitation.
Times, Sunday Times
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People kept crowding in, and one woman started to panic.
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The overcrowding crisis had, however, been years in the making and was reaching breakpoint.
Times, Sunday Times
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overcrowding made triple sessions necessary
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Former Dale Farm residents who moved to the legal site have complained of illness due to overcrowding and poor sanitation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ought not the renting of untenantable rooms, and the crowding of such numbers into a single room as must breed disease, and may infect a neighborhood, be as much forbidden as the importation of a pestilence?
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Yet huge swathes of poverty, deprivation and overcrowding still persist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Investment in the railway network would reduce overcrowding on the roads.
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They're despurred and debeaked, but because of crowding and other stresses, they still find ways to harm each other.
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When the referee made a decision there was no crowding round him, no voices yelling in his face.
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Overcrowding and lax security were blamed for the escape.
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1606, "It was a comedy to see what a crowding, as if it had been at a new play, there was upon the Acherontic strand.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
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3.10 About the same time Abbot Benedict ordered the transcription of sixty volumes, containing one hundred titles, for his library at Peterborough. 3.11 By 1244, in spite of losses in the fire of 1184, Glastonbury had a library of some four hundred volumes, historical books consorting with romances, Bibles and patristical works almost crowding out some forlorn classics. 3.12 Nearly half a century later
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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Types of malocclusion include overbite, underbite, and crowding.
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Residential crowding on campus is a touchy topic for upperclassmen.
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The burgesses, however, refused to enclose the surrounding open fields, and overcrowding became desperate.
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The project would also relieve overcrowding at Westland Middle School in Bethesda, which is projected to swell to more than 300 students over its 1,063-student capacity by 2014.
Weast plan would create school, move some students in Bethesda and Chevy Chase
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Campaigners complain that shifting the butter mountain into developing countries stifles agricultural trade, by crowding out domestic farmers who can't compete with the might of the EU.
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Homelessness, overseas aid, prison overcrowding, electoral reform and the maintenance of peace are all on the agenda.
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I turn back to the mass of people crowding around me.
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The rising population will intensify the housing crisis after other official figures showed increases in renting and overcrowding over the past decade.
Times, Sunday Times
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If jays, grackles, and other large birds are crowding out smaller birds, switch to a feeder that discriminates, or blocks, them, but not the smaller, more desirable birds.
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Extra space would address overcrowding and ensure compliance with international security requirements, the plan said.
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If you think about World Cups, you get women and kids crowding round the TV to watch Scotland who wouldn't usually be interested.
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And if it weren't for the bail bondsmen, you'd have prison overcrowding, and who takes care of that but the taxpayer.
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Thou wert feverish and impatient this morning until thou wert fairly in it, with its mud and water plashing around thee; and now thou art here, with the trees crowding upon us so thickly that the sun looks not under them once in the whole year, thou creepest like a terapin upon thy journey, as if thou didst greatly fear thou wouldst too quickly get through it; a barren fear, this, for we see but the beginning: the bog deepens, and the day grows darker as we go.
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
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If criminals were encouraged to conduct their own prosecutions, this would provide an instant solution to the problem of prison overcrowding.
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What a disgusting, lazy attempt to dismiss the national scandal of rail overcrowding.
The Sun
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Overcrowding has weakened the cherished tradition of extended families living together.
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Optimism about curability was misplaced despite the emerging science of psychiatry, and hospital crowding led to a lapse to custodianship again.
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The prison overcrowding crisis will be addressed.
The Sun
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The upper strip, a cornice of fir trees etched against the sky; below the tinted mass of forest crowding down to the floor of the defile by the waters of the blue Arazas.
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Overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions led to disease in the refugee camps.
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LEVIN: The judge in this case kind of overrode your department by setting policies that have to do ultimately with overcrowding and issues that you have to deal with.
CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2007
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In simple terms, if inflow is greater than outflow the result is overcrowding.
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Yes, we have seen the wrecked cars and the factories belching smoke and the blur of speedy automobiles crowding highways.
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Miniatures have smaller bone structure but their teeth are essentially similar in size to a larger horse, this leads to problems with overcrowding and impaction of teeth.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1240
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Investment in the railway network would reduce overcrowding on the roads.
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The pitter-patter of the monsoon might be a long wait ahead, but with a number of brightly painted umbrellas crowding its walls, this is a downpour of a different kind.
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People surged along the sidewalk, crowding, questioning, filling the air with rumours and inconsequent surmises. Mrs.
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If the usual winter epidemic of flu causes overcrowding, arrangements have been made to treat patients in privately run hospitals.
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Rush hour crowding was a serious hazard, and the station was 39 percent understaffed.
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Furthermore, one way of saving money has been to allow larger classes, with severe overcrowding in some urban primary classrooms.
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Our concern is that where more stops have been packed in, or trains taken out of the timetable altogether, this will lead to more overcrowding on already busy trains.
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We've got charmingly overpriced neighborhood boutiques, designer shops on Madison, endless tchotchke bazaars crowding the parks and big, dumb chain stores lining Fifth Avenue.
Holidays at the Pawn Shop
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He tried crowding him and using his strength and that had no effect.
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We estimate his proposals will double the number of lifers in our prisons, which will increase the huge overcrowding problem.
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It is a disease of overcrowding, insanitary conditions and poor personal hygiene, and affects mostly children of developing countries.
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Still, flu sufferers are crowding emergency rooms all across the country.
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There was no real reason for their tragedy, except starvation and overcrowding and the hunt for scapegoats - ancient and immutable causes for tribal decimation.
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Rail watchdogs blamed the overcrowding on a combination of train operator One's unpopular new timetable and shortage of serviceable rolling stock.
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Furthermore, one way of saving money has been to allow larger classes, with severe overcrowding in some urban primary classrooms.
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A rush ensues while I bag everything as the next customer usually starts crowding me.
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Mantel: The fireplace mantel is a very prominent location for displaying your village, as long as your collection is not too extensive and would force the overcrowding of your favorite pieces in to what can be a narrow and overall restricted space.
Godzilla Rare | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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What a disgusting, lazy attempt to dismiss the national scandal of rail overcrowding.
The Sun
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His sentence has been halved and a further 18 days deducted as part of a scheme introduced last summer to ease jail overcrowding.
The Sun
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Malignant brain tumors can grow rapidly, crowding or destroying nearby brain tissue.
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Around the globe, the richer nations have made easing the overcrowding of third world cities a top aid priority.
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Possibly, by 1933 the party was equally disliked by the town workers; the enthusiasms of 1929 had been dissipated by hunger, privation, overcrowding, and regimentation by party bosses.
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Yet huge swathes of poverty, deprivation and overcrowding still persist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tasmania is about 35,000 square miles, about the size of Hungary or Portugal both of which support populations of about 10 million with no real crowding.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault
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The ski patrol had left a man there and he was busily trying to shoo away the sightseers who were crowding in.
SNOWJOB
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Giant lanterns in the shapes of roosters, fish and dragons illuminated the night of February 23, with families crowding into the City God Temple to see the lanterns, solve the lantern puzzles and burn incense.
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Men jumped from the ship into lifeboats, overcrowding them to the point of capsizing.
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Most orthodontists feel that crossbites and underbites (much less common than overbites and crowding in children) might be easier to correct if addressed early, but the research is not yet in on this.
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So is political asylum and overcrowding in schools and hospitals.
The Sun
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Brindle's calf in the woods, or gather oven-wood for his mother to start again the big brick oven with its dozen loaves of rye bread, or see the plow crowding the lingering snow-banks on the side-hill, or help his father break and swingle and hatchel the flax in the barnyard?
The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
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There is no privilege here, no escape from the insolent booth attendants, the ceaseless demands of the homeless, and the pungent overcrowding.
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Living in Ajijic, no matter how much people complain about the crowding is still village living.
Excluded From Expatriates
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That the Scottish peasants have had bad thoughts against us, I will be the last to deny; but, long debarred from any silvan sport, you cannot wonder at their crowding to any diversion by wood or river, and still less at their being easily alarmed as to the certainty of the safe footing on which they stand with us.
Castle Dangerous
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Still, the crowding-out effect is operative as the new money ‘printed’ by the government is competing for resources with old money saved by the public.
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Too many uncomfortable thoughts were crowding in on her.
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Overcrowding has taxed the city's ability to deal with waste.
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In her little blue-gingham morning dress, out of which her neck flowered white and ever beautiful of nape, Lilly crumbled up her biscuit, eyes miserably down, the red-hot pricklings which invariably accompanied these scenes flashing over her and a crowding in her throat as if she must tear it open for language to make them understand.
Star-Dust
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Due to overcrowding, many colleges are even encouraging the practice, giving tuition break incentives to students willing to defer matriculation for a year.
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DAF-12 plays a role in a long-lived quiescent stage called the dauer diapause, which the worms enter in times of starvation and overcrowding.
Baylor College of Medicine News
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Hundreds of people were crowding into the chapel.
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I just came across this paper by Gruber and Hungerman on the crowding out of private sector charity by government spending.
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Four out of five homeless people seeking shelter at a city centre night hostel are being turned away because of overcrowding.
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This woman's entire extended family visited for extended periods, crowding the room, and making it noisy and very hot.
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Even without the druggies crowding the place, the apartment was still a dump.
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These people are, of course, the wild things crowding the shore, roaring and gnashing their teeth, rolling their eyes and showing their claws.
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Hundreds of bail hostels are being opened in residential neighbourhoods without public consultation as part of moves to ease jail overcrowding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Former Dale Farm residents who moved to the legal site have complained of illness due to overcrowding and poor sanitation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The architectural changes involve differences from normal structure, such as clustering and crowding of tubules, an exaggerated villous surface pattern, or the appearance of bridges of cells that cross lumens.
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The 30,000-strong nurses' union said it received reports of severe overcrowding, with dozens of patients on trolleys in the city's major acute hospitals.
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Overcrowding has weakened the cherished tradition of extended families living together.
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Former staff who took voluntary redundancy will be asked to return to work as part of emergency measures to tackle an overcrowding crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm not quite so optimistic that such an interface to our brains is near to hand, but the more realistic possibility of squeezing all the wood pulp crowding my office into the smallest of hand-held devices has given me a new perspective.
Seth Shostak: Burn the Bookcases!
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His sentence has been halved and a further 18 days deducted as part of a scheme introduced last summer to ease jail overcrowding.
The Sun
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There are 30 men crowding into houses in residential neighborhoods.
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Just because they are social animals doesn’t mean crowding them in cages is natural.
Think Progress » House Conservatives: $2 For Workers, But Only If Paris Gets Millions
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Surely the Dems would have no further need for the single-story portables - modular buildings are just about the only answer the district has come up with for its overcrowding problems.
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Hundreds of bail hostels are being opened in residential neighbourhoods without public consultation as part of moves to ease jail overcrowding.
Times, Sunday Times
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When growing from seed, reduce crowding by pulling up weak, spindly sprouts to allow 2-to - 6 inches of space between them.
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I saw so many people overcrowding in the room than I expected.
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Malignant brain tumors can grow rapidly, crowding or destroying nearby brain tissue.
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I was still feeling fearfully sick and giddy, and my right ear seemed to have gone deaf with the cannonading, but as I leaned against the pole, shuddering, one thought kept crowding gloriously into my mind: I was alive, and in one piece.
The Sky Writer
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The overcrowding crisis will be made worse by the tougher sentences that are being handed out by some judges.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can feel the shades of my forebears crowding before me, waving their spectral hands at me and admonishing me to go no further.
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Brash noisy journalists were crowding around the ambassador.
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A little generous prudence, a little forbearance of one another, and some grain of charity might win all these diligences to join, and unite in one general and brotherly search after truth; could we but forgo this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and
Areopagitica
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Discounted fares for off-peak travel exist for one main reason: to reduce crowding on already-packed trains filled with people commuting to 9-to-5-ish jobs.
Saving Money With Off-Peak Travel | Lifehacker Australia
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‘There are so many people crowding into this market these days, it's really important to do something special,’ says Pierre.
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And (4) I believe what I said was "Hey, I thought he didn't believe in crowding out".
Mungowitz in Deutschland--Day 1
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Citizens have loved his reintroduction of the chain gang and the Army-surplus tents he erected to ease jail overcrowding.
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The prison overcrowding crisis will be addressed.
The Sun
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The Blockbuster Video-sponsored circle, located in Nether Hell between the former eighth and ninth levels of Malebolge and Cocytus, is expected to greatly alleviate the overcrowding problems that have plagued the infernal underworld in recent years.
Archive 2007-02-01
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Horses, ponies and donkeys are overcrowding animal sanctuaries after being abandoned by their owners.
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Back on the path, he finds the cryptomerias crowding about him ever more thickly.
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Later, the bunch of girls were crowding around, reading and listening to their Discman (which is forbidden in school anywise…).
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Because he's a cat everyone intrinsically likes him, but he doesn't really like people crowding him.
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The only times these airports see massive crowding is during special events, i.e. skyharbor last superbowl.
Matthew Yglesias » Runway Pricing
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ELISION, the omission or crowding out of unstressed words or unaccented syllables to make the metre smoother; a term belonging to classical prosody and inappropriate in English prosody except where syllable-counting verse is concerned.
The Principles of English Versification
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Yes, she'll miss the glamour, the gaggle of schoolgirls crowding round for autographs.
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Everyone was crowding round the TV in the common room at school.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything is crowding in on me.
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Overcrowding remains a large obstacle to improving conditions.
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The blueprint is designed to tackle the overcrowding epidemic.
The Sun
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People were crowding round her but it was Stuart who ran to her aid.
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The forest enfolds the river, crowding right down to the water's edge.
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He has also been critical of overcrowding in Scotland's jails.
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But that has the obvious drawback of making global overcrowding worse.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ills of overcrowding are relieved by escape into a computer-generated heaven, of open skies and rolling fields.
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Over two hundred whales from 20 different species are now crowding the area around the shipyards.
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It was glamorous as always with an ungodly amount of social elites crowding the ballrooms and game rooms.
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We worked with the Defense Department to build more facilities to ease the overcrowding there.
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Prefabrication was the solution for widespread overcrowding.
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Some doctors would look at an emergency department and run from the crowding and the increasing numbers of older or uninsured patients, but Robert O'Connor is drawn to the ER.
ER chair: 'We treat anyone ... regardless of ability to pay'
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Everyone was crowding round the woman on the trolley as the ambulancemen finished transferring her across.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Dara and Mac don't need me crowding their space when they return from their honeymoon.
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It was estimated that no fewer than 30,000 people could congregate at Grand Central without serious crowding.
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he didn't like the crowding on the beach
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The government takes a cavalier attitude to the problems of prison overcrowding.
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The tendency of men to intimidate women drivers by constant honking and crowding them out needs to be dealt with strictly.
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Good garden steps should have a slight riser (approximately five inches) and a broad tread that will accommodate a foot without crowding.
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I like to watch the Belgian hares eating their trifolium or pea-pods or grass; graceful, gentle things they are, crowding about Mr. Heaven, and standing prettily, not greedily, on their hind legs, to reach for the clover, their delicate nostrils and whiskers all a-quiver with excitement.
The Diary of a Goose Girl
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When overcrowding occurred in the water, some of these fish, using their fins as rudimentary feet, took to the land and changed from gill breathing to lung breathing.
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This review focuses on these key areas and underlines the major problem that the specialty faces namely, overcrowding.
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She had chosen not to live in California so she could be her own person and avoid crowding him.
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To ease the problem of overcrowding, new prisons will be built.
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This tends to be of a low quality and over-crowding with families of three or four in one medium-size room is not uncommon.
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This Ghetto crowding is not through inclination, but compulsion.
THE GHETTO
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The government has set up a working party on prison overcrowding.
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In 1883, a social reformer complained that ‘the cities grow, unwholesomely crowding people together till they are packed in tiers, family above family, so are they [also] unwholesomely separated in the country.’
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The type of tree will be chosen so as not to obstruct one's view or cause overcrowding.
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‘We had a really good turnout, with lots of people crowding round the cars and getting some ideas,’ she said.
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This was a very close and exciting game with a large number of supporters crowding the field to cheer on their teams.
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Horses, ponies and donkeys are overcrowding animal sanctuaries after being abandoned by their owners.
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The lilacs and the woodbines, just crowding forth in little tufts, close kernelling their blossom, were ruffled back, like a sleeve turned up, and nicked with brown at the corners.
Lorna Doone
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In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another; or rather, in crowding tumult, accompany one another.
The French Revolution
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Likewise, the Nazis subsidized the construction of homes in rural areas in order to encourage self-sufficiency and to alleviate overcrowding in the cities.
A Renegade History of the United States
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We were getting on really well, but our conversation had got really heavy and I didn't know whether I was crowding her or not.
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They were forced to live in chronic overcrowding, with many families inhabiting a single house.
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In shadowy outlines, in dimmer and dimmer crowding forms, the very figure of the old dead Time itself may perhaps be faintly discernible here.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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The blueprint is designed to tackle the overcrowding epidemic.
The Sun
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Overcrowding imposes mental strains.
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The crowding effect is a simple consequence of the withdrawal of water, some of which is now occupied in holding the sugar in suspension and some of which evaporates.
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‘People from wealthier neighbourhoods have benefited most from the expansion of higher education - they are the ones who are crowding into universities,’ said an independent report.
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The shelter workers are doing their absolute best to re-home the animals — thus this emergency event — but overcrowding has hit critical mass and time is running out.
Take one down, pass it around
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This was a very close and exciting game with a large number of supporters crowding the field to cheer on their teams.
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The artist making the colourful beads and ornaments from polymer clay has people crowding in on her so much that it looks as if the table might tip.
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At best the term overcrowding is a relative one, and the scale of official measurement conveniently sliding.
VI. The Bend
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Their health also suffered from insanitary conditions, overcrowding, and a poor diet due to lack of cooking facilities.
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Current address: Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America signal to the worms that local conditions are unfavorable for growth (e.g., inadequate food supply or overcrowding), and induce entry into diapause, a process called dauer entry.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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The care centers for addicts have increased, as has criminal behaviour related to the use of approved and non approved drugs resulting in overcrowding of jails, mental health problems, and physical health problems.
US policy and Mexico's war on drugs
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York has also the tourist network to deal with the massive influx in numbers crowding the city's hotels.
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Stop crowding me - there's plenty of room.
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Avoid crowding your planted pots close together, as your plants need good air circulation and growing room.
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However, removing the wisdom teeth does not usually improve crookedness or crowding in other teeth.
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“History teaches us,” writes Bradford DeLong, “that when none of the three clear and present dangers that justify retrenchment and austerity—interest-rate crowding out, rising inflationary pressures on consumer prices, national overleverage via borrowing in foreign currencies—are present, you should not retrench.”
Beyond the Crash
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_casquet_ still crowding out his lop ears; his hand clenched beside a stiletto which lay on the stone flagging beside him.
The Dark Star
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The two biggest bugaboos bedeviling these preeminent directors are commercialization and overcrowding.
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There's no way that the players or management staff, or those who still man the offices and shop, are immune to the confusion crowding in on their place of work.
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Then they cut it up, with everyone crowding round, ready with banana leaves in which to wrap their piece.
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By nightfall there were 20 climbers crowding the shelter and the walls were covered with wet clothes.
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The rising population will intensify the housing crisis after other official figures showed increases in renting and overcrowding over the past decade.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am perfectly willing to consider genetic and/or developmental factors, as well as sociological factors – including that an increase in number generationally is related to gross species overcrowding.
Danger, Will Robinson!!
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The first thing seen by the anxious watchers on the ship's deck was the proa crowding sail out of the harbour, a sight which filled them with the keenest anxiety; and Ned, thinking it possible that his friends might at that moment be prisoners on board the vessel, was busying himself in making preparations to open fire upon her, with the hope that he might be able to dismast her and so frustrate her attempt to escape, when his mind was set at rest by the sight of the punt pulling off to him with Manners and Nicholls in her.
The Missing Merchantman
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Brash noisy journalists were crowding around the ambassador.
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Even without the druggies crowding the place, the apartment was still a dump.
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Yet huge swathes of poverty, deprivation and overcrowding still persist.
Times, Sunday Times
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The women squatting with their merchandise along the kerbsides become more numerous, the number of hawkers and loiterers crowding the pavements grows larger with every passing step.
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The Shadow Police and Emergency Services Minister, Kim Wells, says the government has done little to relieve overcrowding in police lock-ups and the state's prisons.
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Yet he could not command his memories that came crowding round him in that evil-smelling hut, while Babalatchi talked on in a flowing monotone, nothing of him moving but the lips, in the artificially inanimated face.
An Outcast Of The Islands
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The arms purchase is crowding out weapons and training Taiwan needs for weapons that are insufficient (Patriots), dependent upon assumptions that will not work out (the antisub aircraft require that Taiwan control the air, or are useless (submarines).
Taiwan's Defense Option (ii): Arms Procurement "Accounting"
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Then they cut it up, with everyone crowding round, ready with banana leaves in which to wrap their piece.