How To Use Ft-l In A Sentence
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There can be few museums in the world whose range of exhibits includes a stuffed, 5ft-long, prehistoric fish and a pair of unworn, extremely expensive, blue cowboy-boots.
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Steam catapults are labour intensive, while an electromagnetic aircraft-launch system appears to promise a reduction in the number of personnel involved.
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The sting from one of these daft-looking things will killyou in less than three minutes andthey have been responsible for almost six thousand human fatalities since 1954.
Britney Spears Saves Couple From Death Or Discomfort
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Amazingly, the garden has grown to be more than 60 ft-long and has crept around the side of the terraced row.
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Considered the next-generation in flat panel displays, this technology involves the use of pliable plastic instead of rigid glass in TFT-LCD production.
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His left-leaning editorial cartoons were, by his own admission, shrill and unconvincing.
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This sort of woolly headed thinking that believes only left-leaning intellectuals know what's best for us belongs back in the Dark Ages.
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With some difficulty, we managed to dissuade our left-leaning daughter from buying pint-sized T-shirts for our preschool grandchildren.
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His speech to Demos today on an open society – the product of more than a year's internal discussion – was one to gladden the left-liberal's heart.
Nick Clegg can only deliver on this rhetoric with Labour | John Kampfner
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Even though he held business in contempt - as would any right-thinking, left-leaning humanities professor - the marketplace intrigued him.
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But woman may hear it and lay it up in her soul and bide at hame, while a man, if he get but a glisk of it in his fool's heart, must needs up and awa 'to the warld's end on some daft-like ploy.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
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But he's got a lot of left-leaning groups who are saying, ‘You are our only backstop.’
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No fewer than 50 listed buildings and structures needed repair and new roles, including the gargantuan, 1,135ft-long ropery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nam's yard sat soft-lit under a few swinging lanterns amid dappled shade from the trees.
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Why did many left-liberals regard him as a self-serving betrayer of their principles?
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But the low-lit bar, with loft-like ceilings and a palette of soft browns and burgundy, caters to the international high-roller set, a group not easily impressed with gimmicks at cocktail hour.
Serious About Cocktails
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When they arrived, the 100 ft-long rockery was smothered by undergrowth and the Japanese acers were invisible to the eye.
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I realize that simply saying “liberarian” is probably clearer both in your mind and to most of your readers, however: 1. Outside of the U.S. the term libertarian has generally not refered only to those with a right-wing conception of property rights, and left-libertarians are gaining greater prominence in the U.S. as well.
Libertarian Follies
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The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker
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Maoist guerrilla-based insurgency [Pushpa Kamal DAHAL, also known as PRAHANDA, chairman; Dr. Baburam BHATTARAI, from Communist Party of Nepal/Maoist, chief negotiator]; numerous small, left-leaning student groups in the capital; several small, radical Nepalese antimonarchist groups
The 2005 CIA World Factbook
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Korea (Mr Cumings's early area of expertise), Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan: the left-leaning historian sees a consistency, at least, in latter-day interventions.
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The "grand coalition" of Germany's two biggest parties, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD), has been voted out of office.
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I agree, though, that the test is fairly obviously rigged to move testees in a left-libertarian direction scorewise.
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Add to all this that this administration seems to tiptoe around itself, and you get a tentative, ponderingly slow, left-leaning, promise making, but result-deficient reality.
B.D. Gallof: Remember, Remember The 3rd Of November
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All kinds of atrocious policies -- from Lyndon Johnson's war on Vietnam to Jimmy Carter's midterm swerve rightward to Bill Clinton's neoliberal measures such as NAFTA, "welfare reform" and Wall Street deregulation -- were calamities facilitated by acquiescence or mild dissent from many left-leaning Democrats.
Norman Solomon: Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster
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More broadly, Mr. Kurlantzick sets up a simplistic and false choice for the U.S. during the Cold War between the views of some early OSS officers Thompson among them who favored supporting nationalist movements in Southeast Asia, including Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh, and the views of others who favored "picking conservative dictators rather than gambling on left-leaning men who might be Democrats.
A Silken Web Of Intrigue
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In the leftist water in which we all swim, and have swum for half a century, left-liberalism reigns: in media, in academia, in the schools and the newsmagazines.
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Lefties think the paper is right-wing and righties think the paper is left-leaning.
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Excited archaeologists discovered the Loch Ness-style creature on the beach and have spent months piecing together a giant jigsaw composed of dozens of old bones to reveal the 12ft-long plesiosaur.
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Real queue-jump specialists don hats and goggles in preparation for an assault on the lift-line.
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Plant soft-leaved species, susceptible to sun-scorch, in dappled shade.
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The charioteers were crack units of specially-trained frogmen who sat astride a 30 ft-long torpedo which they steered into enemy harbours.
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Artfully arranged under this symphony of green and white is a pair of equally beautiful, lime-green, soft-leathered, hand-stitched, high-heeled Manolos.
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The latest amazing example of Left-leaning doublethink by a political psychologist is here.
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In the 1980s, when the secular, left-leaning Palestine Liberation Organization predominated as the Palestinian political force, Israeli intelligence funneled some aid to Hamas (descended from the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood), a fundamentalist group, in hopes of dividing and ruling the Palestinians.
Matthew Yglesias » The Risk of Catastrophic Success In Gaza
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I did her hair, soft-like, round her forehead, all in dainty curls, and just to one side of her neck I put a bunch of most beautiful purple pansies.
The Garden Party, and Other Stories
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The left-leaning assembly is studying a new initiative to introduce temporary marriage licenses that would expire after two years if the couple so desires.
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Moreover, the deal diversifies the Sumitomo group's existing aircraft-leasing business beyond Japanese carriers and adds scale: Once the deal is completed, Sumitomo group will become the world's No.4 jet-leasing firm by book value, up from No. 15 previously.
Europe on Japan's Shopping List
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II. iv.87 (60,7) a wit of cheverel] _Cheverel_ is soft-leather for gloves.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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The fault is interpreted as a north-directed reverse fault with a possible minor left-lateral strike-slip component.
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I honestly think he's being puckish with his coy answers, and that he has no intention of being the running mate to a left-liberal Democrat.
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Statists of a left-liberal bent are usually louder than their counterparts on the right.
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Earlier this summer, at a meeting of the Social Liberal Forum, a grouping of left-leaning Lib Dems, he said: "I have to be remorselessly on-message these days, so I can't call it plan B; so let's call it plan A plus.
So what do we do now, chancellor?
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In the Herald today is an opinion commentary from the very left-leaning Jones.
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In the reception hall, you will find a left-luggage office, a cafe, a travel servece, laundry and notice board.
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That's the screenname of the left-leaning reader named "roger" who - in language that was less than progressive - took exception to a recent column I wrote criticizing both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his condescending racial comments about Barack Obama's dialect and skin tone during the 2008 presidential election and a slew of his fellow Democrats for bending their morals into pretzels to defend him and declare the subject closed.
Pajamas Media
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For left-liberals and conservatives alike, political beliefs derive much of their obduracy from being rooted in morality and self-concept.
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Left-libertarians hold "that unappropriated natural resources belong to everyone in some egalitarian manner.
Mark Axelrod: Political Nomenclature; Or, Who Am I, Anyway?
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A left-leaning social critic, Adamic is sympathetic to workers who rebelled against their employers.
Terror in America From Another Era
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You are obviously wedded to the left-liberal analysis of social deviancy - crime etc. as resulting from relative poverty.
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The compact 15ft-long and 7ft-wide cabin is raised from the ground on a double-axled steel trailer-base.
Times, Sunday Times
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Political pressure groups and leaders: Maoist guerrilla-based insurgency [Pushpa Kamal DAHAL, also known as PRACHANDA, chairman; Dr. Baburam BHATTARAI]; numerous small, left-leaning student groups in the capital; several small, radical Nepalese antimonarchist groups
Nepal
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The biofuelled engine pushes the 15ft-long craft along on three giant skis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although he caters to his party's core of left-leaning enviros and union activists, he can play ball with business on issues such as promoting farm exports, his home state's top concern.
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Some oxymorons are found in common day language, such as "white chocolate" (these are two different colours, although the term chocolate is actually meant to be the food chocolate, and not the colour chocolate), or "pianoforte" (this means soft-loud).
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NepalMaoist guerrilla-based insurgency [Pushpa Kamal DAHAL, also known as PRACHANDA, chairman; Dr. Baburam BHATTARAI]; numerous small, left-leaning student groups in the capital; several small, radical Nepalese antimonarchist groups
Political pressure groups and leaders
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Strange things can happen when you are travelling at 400mph in a 56ft-long jet-powered vehicle.
Times, Sunday Times
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She said they had hired Mr Moss to fix a starter motor on one of their fleet, a 50-seater 40 ft-long coach.
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One 700-ft-long busy passageway needs retiling and relighting.
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What he seems to be offering "working - and middle-class white Americans" is to label them "resentful" rather than "misguided or even racist," in exchange for which they are expected to support an expansion of left-liberal social programs.
Pulpit Bullies
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Just as many right-libertarians might be overinclined to come to the defense of a land owner who shoots trespassers on sight and without warning so as to defend the sanctity of private property, I wonder if your support of “Abortion on demand and without apology” might not be an instance of a similar left-libertarian error vis-a-vis the sexual autonomy of women…
Abortion on demand and without apology (Kiwi edition)
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Her carpet-bagging defeat of an unready, ill-prepared opponent may have proved her electability, but it was a risk-free run in one of the most left-liberal states in the country.
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The four-cylinder engine, which produces 155 hp at 5,600 rpm and 163 ft-lb. of torque at 4,000 rpm, has a cast-aluminum block with cast-iron cylinder liners.
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Audrey II has started to talk and not just talk, but Shaft-like jive talk.
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Now, her 11 weeks in gaol have turned her into a soft, left-leaning (she was already was quite left leaning with some of her policies) namby-pamby.
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Upon the cloth were placed soft-lustred pewter and, probably almost from the first, some pieces of silver too.
Virginia: the Old Dominion
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A trogon was the next, a thickly-feathered soft-looking bird, yoke-toed like a cuckoo, and bearing great resemblance in shape to the nightjar of the English woods, but wonderfully different in plumage; for, whereas the latter is of a soft blending of greys and browns, like the wings of some woodland moths, this trogon's back was of a cinnamon brown, and its breast of a light rosy-scarlet blending off into white crossed with fine dark-pencilled stripes.
The Rajah of Dah
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The little maples and beeches flung their sprays of vivid green foliage above the darker shades of the witch hopple into the soft-lighted air of the great house of the wood and filled it with a pleasant odor.
In the Days of Poor Richard
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The 30 ft-long fin whale was in danger of being beached on a mud bank in a shallow river upstream from Oysterhaven.
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The 4ft-long smoothhound shark had become trapped in a storm drain.
The Sun
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With an infectious grin and boyish enthusiasm, he was left-leaning politically.
Times, Sunday Times
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In any long-term longitudinal survey of budgetary costs, I think it would be imprudent and misleading not to adjust for the effects of inflation," says Stephen I. Schwartz, editor of the journal Nonproliferation Review and director of a 1998 study by the left-leaning Brookings Institution on long-range nuclear-weapons spending in the U.S.
As Shuttle Sails Through Space, Costs Are Tough to Pin Down
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Already the winner of a bumper, Dix Bay is a promising horse over hurdles and this soft-looking race should be right up his street.
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For many conservatives, especially the right wing talk show hosts whose radio programs reach millions each day, much of what's termed the mainstream media is just a left-leading machine trading in untruth.
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The plot line has drawn complaints from some conservative U.S. moviegoers, while the left-leaning French daily Liberation praised Mr. Cameron, the director, as the 'galaxy's eco warrior.
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He was not politically correct enough for the left-liberals who flocked to George McGovern, whose 1972 presidential campaign Hart had managed and whom one kept running into in the lobby of Des Moines' famed old Savery Hotel where he held forth from a comfortable sofa like a Yoda on the loose from imperial storm troopers.
William Bradley: Iowa Then and Now
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The collision was accompanied by left-lateral strike slip and terrane displacement.
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The 4ft-long smoothhound shark had become trapped in a storm drain.
The Sun
