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But in Hans Rosling's case, he had a secret weapon yesterday, literally, in his sword swallowing act.
Swallowing pills is the most effective and painless way of delivering any medication in the body.
The downside, though, is that swallowing any medication leads to its dilution.
These giants have grown to immense proportions by swallowing matter and merging with other black holes.
It becomes fluffy, swallowing everything.
Doctors point out that a round of hiccups often follows from stimuli that stretch the stomach, like swallowing air or too rapid eating or drinking.
His parents had been told that Lars had a brain anomaly that would keep him from ever swallowing, walking, talking or developing mentally.
And this is called, "Swallowing the Bitterness."
I was swallowing the bitterness, sitting here alone and watching them.
But now, a few months on, however good politicians are at swallowing frogs without pulling a face, as someone once put it, they can't hide their uncertainty.
This is the layer which actually touches the food you are swallowing and you digest, which is actually the lumen.
When Sharif or, please God, Palance try their hand at fiery oratory, they sound like Kurtz swallowing a bug.
Along the way we get such "great" moments of comedy like a fat cavemen swallowing a frog that keeps croaking in his stomach.
A man swallowing a mouse to get the frog in his stomach.
I spent most of the film wondering if I could return my copy to the local Wal-Mart without the receipt, which I had been biting down on to keep myself from swallowing my own tongue.
Apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer, (which they told me was colored water, tasted disgusting, and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again, especially in the funnel scenes).
Terrific sight gags, a lean and mean Bruce Campbell as Ash, and soul swallowing demons!
Suspending disbelief is one thing, but swallowing this nonsense is out of the question.
But because so many people are actually swallowing this hogwash hook line and sinker.
In a day an age when the market place is swallowing movies with meaning and history this should be an instant success.
Thanks to the US, which strong-armed the 45 countries of the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group into swallowing their concerns that special treatment for India could constitute a precedent for rogue nuclear aspirants like Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran, there is now an “Indian exception.”
For if Russia’s anti-Western paranoia continues and the Kremlin’s Eurasian fantasy of allying with China lasts another 10-15 years, Russia will end up seeing China swallowing its Far East and Siberia.
Sarkozy misjudged the balance of power between France and China, and France came out of that diplomatic episode badly bruised, with its president swallowing his human rights claims and bending to the diktat of realpolitik.
As many commentators have pointed out, it was yet another case of tactics swallowing strategy – a mode of policymaking that was auditioned a week earlier in Syria and that could lead to catastrophe if tried on, say, the Korean Peninsula.
Gehrig suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common motor-neuron disease (MND) – a degenerative disorder characterized by the death of the nerve cells by which the brain activates muscles to perform any activity, from swallowing to walking.
Finally, if the US steps back, the EU, the United Nations, and even China can remind the Russians of the political consequences of flagrantly violating international law and swallowing up impoverished, restive territories that will prove far harder to digest than the fixed referendum results would suggest.
In swallowing the official account without skepticism – Savage did not ask where any of these items may have come from – The New York Times has apparently learned nothing from its badly flawed reporting on Saddam’s supposed WMD.
Trump wants a broader tax cut, but one that will increase the deficit dramatically – which the Freedom Caucus will have a hard time swallowing, in part because doing so would expose them to primary challenges.
By aligning more closely with the US, the country will be swallowing whatever Trump hands down.
Throughout the book, he milks the episode for all its humor, recounting stories of ignorant sailors literally swallowing a fortune by mistaking tulip bulbs for onions.
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