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On street sides all over Port-au-Prince, entrepreneurs sprung up offering mobile phone charging stations.
And depending on the bagginess of my cargo shorts and how recently I had shaved my head, the question would often be sprung on me, usually by a little kid: "Um, are you a boy or are you a girl?"
Now, the Big Bang was an era in the early universe when everything we see in the night sky was condensed into an incredibly small, incredibly hot, incredibly roiling mass, and from it sprung everything we see.
Hundreds of pain clinics sprung up all over the world.
In the 1980's, islands of similar networks speaking different dialects sprung up all over Europe and the States, making remote access possible but torturous.
But you can't because the mouth of an anglerfish has just sprung open and eaten you alive.
The reason it sprung up is people were traveling to the mighty Arsenal Football Club stadium on game days, from the Underground station you see on the bottom right.
We're talking about regrown agricultural fields, timber plantations that are not being managed on a day-to-day basis, second-growth forests generally, the entire East Coast, where after agriculture moved west, the forest sprung up.
And that worked pretty well for a while, but then late last year, it sprung a leak.
Since we are archaeologists using innovative technology for digital preservation, an idea sprung to mind.
An incredible conversation sprung up there.
In Singapore, we have a group going to use the Charter to heal divisions recently that have sprung up in Singaporean society, and some members of the parliament want to implement it politically.
How truly sad that this sprung from the same mind as Donnie Darko, possibly one of the best films in this genre.
In contrast, it's good to see where the current infatuation has sprung from, most obviously, action movies (as well as stalk n' slashers) of 70s and 80s.
The plot, in which Peter and Spidey help a Chinese official defeat charge of corruption during World War II by locating three marines who could testify as to his innocence, doesn't exactly scream 'comic book sprung to life', does it?
That's what sprung to mind anyway); it seems an idiotic conclusion, and the viewer has no idea how he reached it, but he's entitled to it.
THE DOMINO PRINCIPLE features Gene Hackman as a convict sprung from prison in order to perform some mysterious task.
A demented ex-con freshly sprung, a tidy suburban family his target.
It IS fascinating to think what sprung from this so-so movie and I can only marvel at whoever spotted the massive potential of "Columbo" and added all the little touches that make it such a marvellous & classic series.
If there was such a thing as a drive thru movie maker-this one would have sprung from that.It reminded me a lot of the quickie films that were put out in the 1960's, poor script writing and filming.
True, the idea for this TV series may have sprung from the immense success which Ally McBeal is enjoying worldwide, even here in Germany.
The Bergen (Norway) Cinema director in 1995 had the sense - at the time when this ghastly film was first (and never again!) sprung upon unsuspecting audiences in Oslo and other major Norwegian towns - to refuse to show it in Bergen cinemas.
It is set in 1877, two weeks have passed since Custer's defeat, and the new town that sprung up on the back of the gold rush is chockablock with foul mouthed characters of all types, either looking to prospect, or service those who are finding the gold.
HIDE AND CREEP takes place in a Southern redneck town, where a zombie plague has suddenly sprung up.
And when I mean "sprung up" I mean "sprung up" because zombies appear almost out of thin air - in the church, in the video store and in a living room (where one zombie comes right through the door without any of the five people in the house seeing it and one zombie comes up from the basement where one man had said was empty not five seconds before).
A few characters in the book were totally missing here and some new characters have sprung up from nowhere which r not in the book.
And from that remnant of the Biblical story of creation sprung the notion of a tree of life, alongside major concepts such as gradualism (the view that speciation does not occur abruptly) and the idea that minor selection pressures can, over time, have a profound effect on improved fitness.
It dawns on you that the voice you heard must have sprung from your own mind.
At the Jackson Hole conference, Paul McCulley of PIMCO, the world’s largest bond fund, argued that in the past month or two we have been witnessing a run on what he calls the “shadow banking system,” which consists of all the levered investment conduits, vehicles and structures that have sprung up along with the housing boom.
Bizarre theories sprung up about Diana’s death including claims that the British secret service murdered her because she was a threat to the throne, or that she is living happily with her new love, Dodi Fayed, having staged the entire event to get away from the glare of publicity.
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