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If you include all the drain, it takes more than a hundred pints of water to make a pint of beer.
We have allowed despair and pessimism to drain us, drain our energies, limit our imaginations and dim our vision for a better and brighter future.
Now it does depend on how you measure it, of course, but one estimate has put the drain at 250 million dollars per day.
If our institutions are all failing and beyond hope for reform, a natural response is to seek to smash the machine, drain the swamp, burn the empire to the ground, on the hope that whatever rises out of the ashes is bound to be better than what we have now.
Because your fuel is liquid, and it's combined with your coolant, you could actually just drain the core into what's called a sub-critical setting, basically a tank underneath the reactor that has some neutrons absorbers.
In the case of the shower: does it have hot and cold water, two taps that work, a shower rose to get water onto your head or onto your body, and a drain that takes the water away?
And hopefully, as people come, the water will drain out, fill up, drain out and fill up.
If we could use the analogy of the blood circulating in our bodies, like the water circulating in the landscape, we see that rivers are veins, they drain the landscape, they drain the tissue of nature.
So, the bigger it is, the better off the male is, because that means more time for his sperm to drain into her body and fertilize her eggs.
So slice me, dice me, smear me on your slides, stain me, explain me, drain me like a cup.
Not one more family should have to drain their savings account to buy a few days of rest and recovery and bonding.
If there's a region of low pressure in the atmosphere, air is pushed toward it, like water going down a drain.
She has special lacrimal glands to make new tears and special tubes, called lacrimal puncta, to drain old ones away.
Whether it was called qi, lifeblood, or humors, the belief in such an essence was common throughout the world, and still persists in the stories of creatures who can somehow drain life from others, or some form of magical sources that can replenish it.
And if pain continued, a medical practitioner would perform the best-known remedy— drilling a small hole in the skull to drain supposedly infected blood.
So one day, I was standing on a corner waiting for the light to change, which, I'm a New Yorker, so that means I was actually standing in the street on the storm drain, as if that could get me across faster.
It's the good feeling I got from being saved from the death trap of the storm drain by the old man, or how I feel like part of a community when I talk to somebody on my train on the way to work.
There's also the problem of brain drain, where the really talented people, because they can't find high-skilled work at home, end up moving elsewhere, so they don't build a business or non-profit where they're from, they end up going elsewhere and taking their talents with them.
And here, you know, this street: yes, it will drain within a minute of the hundred-year storm, but this poor woman has to mount the curb every day.
The traditional surgery is to take a bit of the cranium off, a bit of the skull, drain this fluid out, stick a drain in place, and then eventually bring this drain internal to the body.
Through a small pinhole, a camera can be inserted, led into the deep brain structure, and cause a little hole in a membrane that allows all that fluid to drain, much like it would in a sink.
Conventional burial begins with embalming, where funeral staff drain bodily fluid and replace it with a mixture designed to preserve the corpse and give it a lifelike glow.
Who wants to carry around these heavy things where batteries drain quickly and they break every time you drop them?"
Our farms drain the equivalent of 3.3 billion Olympic-sized swimming pools every year, all of it swallowed up by crops and livestock to feed Earth’s growing population.
Poor sleep makes us make risky, rash decisions and is a drain on our capacity for empathy.
The Colosseum was intended to be a symbol of Rome’s power in the ancient world, and what better way to display that power than a body of water that could drain and refill at the Emperor’s command?
Others think the system of chambers and sluice gates used to drain the arena, were also used to fill it.
It has used it as a sewer, as a drain, as a place for throwing their waste."
You're basically opening up the tubes that drain fluid from the middle ears, which have had them reliably full.
Luckily for all of us, the swelling came outwards, and would drain into my face as two fantastic black eyes which is an amazing way to look in a documentary film.
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