How To Use Stock-in-trade In A Sentence
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On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
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Plants, colors, textures, light: Not the usual stock-in-trade of a home store, but then Alta Tingle is not your usual store owner.
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There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings.
Psychedelic Denver
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His stock-in-trade of arch self-deprecation doesn't cut any slack up here.
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And the traders are still there, their modern stock-in-trade tracksuits, tacky ornaments and whiskey sold for a 200 per cent mark-up.
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Take his other big stock-in-trade, photographic collages, of which there are several on the walls.
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Whilst drinking his beer he cheered the heart of the sorrowful Jack Slingsby by buying his whole tinker's stock-in-trade -- beat, plant, pony, and all -- concluding that "a tinker is his own master, a scholar is not.
Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913
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That repose of manner which is commonly believed to be the heirloom of noble birth is seen quite as often in the low-born adventurer, who regards it as part of his stock-in-trade; and there are many women, and men too, whose position might be expected to place them beyond the reach of what we call shyness, but who nevertheless suffer daily agonies of social timidity and would rather face alone a charge of cavalry than make a new acquaintance.
Sant' Ilario
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Stockbrokers, like estate agents, have a vested interest in talking up their stock-in-trade.
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Anti-Western and, specifically, anti-Australian rhetoric has long been part of his political stock-in-trade.
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The exceptions are stock-in-trade, consumable stores, raw materials held for the purpose of business, personal movable property, agricultural land, and specific government gold bonds.
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Such comments are unlikely to endear him to Liverpool's under-fire players, which is a shame as they're crying out for a bit of the mongrel that is the Afghan Hound lookalike's stock-in-trade.
Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend
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Fashionable names, in long lists, are the stock-in-trade of men like Morris.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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Jack Shafer, who makes red-penciling the Times his stock-in-trade, was less forgiving.
Beyond Jewspotting or Why We Care About Jews in Unlikely Places « The Blog at 16th and Q
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Shock has been the stock-in-trade of cutting-edge art for nearly a century, of course.
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Identifying previously unrecognised or undervalued treasures was the Roadshow's stock-in-trade.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Portraits of costumed women and children posed in the antique buildings of Deerfield were a stock-in-trade of their business because they sold well to tourists and other visitors.
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Their stock-in-trade is to dehumanize, humiliate and relegate human beings to caricatures.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: "Shocking Secrets Revealed: Illegal Means Used to Carve Up Live Humans for Human Consumption"
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Her unglamorous look was her stock-in-trade while her professional skills always kept her in high demand on stage, film, radio and television.
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Slow-cooked grain and rice pilafs, unctuously oily stuffed vegetables, melting stews of meat, vegetable and grain are their stock-in-trade.
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In a world full of flashy starters who can't go nine innings, her stock-in-trade is going the distance and taking dreamy entrepreneurs right along with her.
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We must first dismiss (with regrets) the conceptual equipment and interpretations that had been our stock-in-trade throughout the decades in which we relied upon the community study.
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Stewart's stock-in-trade was the face-to-face interview.
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And bits, bytes, and bandwidth are fast replacing the three Rs as schools' stock-in-trade.
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Their stock-in-trade is ‘intellectual property.’
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Hohmann reached freely into the propagandistic stock-in-trade of Hitler and Goebbels.
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Big hair, big riffs and big guitar solos may all have been part of Thin Lizzy's stock-in-trade, but what distinguished them from the hard-rock hordes was the songwriting skills and vocal presence of their frontman.
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His London life was equally disastrous. he made a start with his stock-in-trade, was constantly on the move, in dread of being distrained for rent; half starved, and in a sorry plight.
James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1
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With only one misstep, he played to his strengths in this show, both returning to the handsome landscapes that are his stock-in-trade and pursuing new avenues that invite further and fuller development.
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A large part of his stock-in-trade consists of holding fantastic theories up to a light and debunking them.
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He added: ‘I also find it worrying that a company whose stock-in-trade is domain management could fall prey to what at least appears to be a fairly elementary scripting hack.’
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But you really have to wonder, when this is the relatively routine stock-in-trade of firms like Bonner, why members of Congress pay any attention -- they may not know that such letters are forged, but they're far too smart not to know how phony the "groundswell" of public opinion they allege to represent is.
Carl Pope: The Forger's Dilemma
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He used this professional leeway to venture away from his stock-in-trade gospel/soul sound into balladry and country music, meeting with a good deal of success.
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Perhaps a city merchant could hardly distinguish between commodity money (which he planned to pass on with perhaps little or no gain or loss) and his main stock-in-trade.
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Her unglamorous look was her stock-in-trade while her professional skills always kept her in high demand on stage, film, radio and television.
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John C. Wright shares an appreciation of David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus: "No mainstream book can compare for sheer, headlong imagination with a science fiction book, because imagination is the stock-in-trade of science fiction.
SF Tidbits for 2/2/09
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The nauseating stories about Speer et al remind us that ‘charm’, the successful architect's stock-in-trade, is a value-free asset.
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Steering them to high-interest loans is the stock-in-trade of predatory brokers.
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His stock-in-trade, however, was high school yearbook photos, portraits of college campus queens and locals in their Sunday best.
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Rituals of transgression, sensationalist violation and titillating naughtiness became the stock-in-trade of popular news reporting in the late nineteenth century.
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Like many who preceded, and many who followed, his stock-in-trade was low-cost prurience.
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His stock-in-trade was to take another person's song and sing along to it.
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Though he is capable of the full range of human emotion, the staples of "guilt and anger" that he identified once early in his career "after 14 Pernods" as his songwriting stock-in-trade remain dominant themes.
Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay'
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Banks sometimes use pledge in financing dealers' stock-in-trade and international trade.
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Vanessa's looks have been her stock-in-trade as an actress.
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Collecting evidence, difficult in others’ eyes, is just the stock-in-trade of private detectives.
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Stuffed with tips on fashion, sex, beauty and health - the stock-in-trade of women's journals the world over - the new magazine bears a passing resemblance to its more staid sisters.
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But his stock-in-trade is moody, gargatuanly stringed incidental music for hysterically overblown movies like Moulin Rouge and Plunkett and MacLean.
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This 2.5 percent contribution is imposed on a Muslim's savings and stock-in-trade, payable to the state annually to fund social programs.
Faheem Younus: How Islam Can Eliminate The U.S. Debt
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A smoker's voice and low-cut backs, they were her stock-in-trade.
MR STARLIGHT
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Life-defining events, like marriage, birth, and death, are a florist's stock-in-trade.
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However confident and bright the consultant may be, coming straight from business school he cannot hope to provide the wealth of practical experience that is the consultant's stock-in-trade.
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Assets such as stock-in-trade or plant and machinery can be passed by delivery. This means that this property can be transferred without triggering a stamp duty liability.
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Then there's my 83-year-old cousin, whose stock-in-trade is a trick that he plays with a scrub jay that nests in the area, a garbage filcher named JJ.
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He was a local consultant whose stock-in-trade was introducing companies into the premiums and incentives markets; he had first met him in 1992 at a trade show.
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The leading man wore a "natty" outing-suit, and strutted with a little cane; his stock-in-trade was a jaunty air, a kind of perpetual flourish, and a wink that suggested the cunning of a satyr.
The Metropolis
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The insurance was against risks including burglary and theft, and the subject matter of the insurance was his stock-in-trade as a manufacturing furrier.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
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The value of the company's stock-in-trade varied from $400 to more than $850, with $140 of income.
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They, the tired and famished ones, bring with them their stock-in-trade, their cigar fuzees, their boot blackers and shiners, and their humble single brushes with which to ‘brush you down, sir,’ for a penny.
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For each of them, the problematic behavior was, in some sense, his professional stock-in-trade.
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In 1805 Daniel's stock-in-trade and income totaled $430, while Nathaniel's totaled $70.
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This motive had been a stock-in-trade of medieval art.
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In the making of the sloops, brigantines, barks, and other vessels that were the stock-in-trade of Kingston's shipbuilders, hundreds of deep holes needed to be bored through heavy, oak timbers.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
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Rituals of transgression, sensationalist violation and titillating naughtiness became the stock-in-trade of popular news reporting in the late nineteenth century.
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Quite regardless of whether credit is extended to the customer to finance the acquisition of plant, of equipment, or of stock-in-trade, the customer requires the custody or use of the items involved.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
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He'd found the matched set some years before in a second-hand-junk store where the finish on everything displayed for sale had consisted of dust and the neglect and abuse former owners had lavished on this collection of stock-in-trade.
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Such comments are unlikely to endear him to Liverpool's under-fire players, which is a shame as they're crying out for a bit of the mongrel that is the Afghan Hound lookalike's stock-in-trade.
Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend
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And why, in this case, is there so much fuss over a performer who happens to be white when his lyrical content has been the stock-in-trade of black rappers for a decade and more?
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Pedantry and intellectual theorising were not Basil's stock-in-trade; all such, he seemed to short circuit.
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Moullas 'directions, made raids on suspected tea-shops, to find and smash the' kalian 'pipes which form part of the stock-in-trade of these places of refreshment.
Persia Revisited
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When confronted with a few probing questions, he treats the journalist as an outright political opponent, resorting immediately to his stock-in-trade - provocative red-baiting.
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While his father was still alive, Barry had not only less motivation to delve into his stock-in-trade but also less opportunity.
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Nor does he talk much about foreign policy, which has been his stock-in-trade for a quarter-century now.
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He used this professional leeway to venture away from his stock-in-trade gospel/soul sound into balladry and country music, meeting with a good deal of success.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
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