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This is what our whole economy is thrusting upon us, particularly illustrated in that left-hand corner: hockey sticks.
And while these two cities have the same population, San Diego has grown six times larger than Tijuana in the last decades, immediately thrusting us to confront the tensions and conflicts between sprawl and density, which are at the center of today's discussion about environmental sustainability.
Artists are breaking anatomy out of the confines of the medical world and are thrusting it into the public space.
They look like an army of criminals with their fists thrusting upward and chanting his name as if they had practiced to chant it in perfect succession beforehand.
The alternate versions listing for the film mentions that the film was somewhat trimmed for its original release which is unsurprising, since the film has a nice amount of bloodshed for a British film of the period, as well as some nudity and even a spot of entertaining thrusting sex.
Thats why EVERYTHING in this movie is depicted in atrocious repetitions or slow motions of random acts... the totally unerotic sex scenes with mechanistic thrusting and overacted orgasms that border between joy and pain?
There's a lot of aimless, onanistic pelvic thrusting.
That cozy culture ended soon after the thrusting, brash Americans, who worked even over breakfast, hit town.
People thrusting their hands through the taxi window, begging.
Hardly a day goes by without China’s government thrusting another global brand into the limelight.
Currently, both countries’ economies are thrusting confidently forward; both are thirsty for more and bigger markets.
Unless you have been studying at the bottom of the ocean, you know that the financial sector has come under severe criticism – much of it justified – for thrusting the world economy into its worst crisis since the Great Depression.
With this narrative, Greeks could avoid admitting the role of their own government’s policy mistakes in thrusting them into recession.
Therefore, as the one-sided and premature development of a single organ in an animal would injure its general development, so credit, railways, and the forced growth of manufactures, though undoubtedly necessary in Europe, where the time is ripe for them – had in Russia only harmed the general development of wealth by thrusting aside the most important current question, namely, the organization of agriculture.
you can eat!" yelled Levaque, thrusting out his fist at Rasseneur.
He was constantly to be seen on the Place, jumping round the carts, thrusting his limping foot forwards.
No sooner had Julien reached the ground than old Sorel, thrusting him on brutally from behind, drove him towards the house.
Her husband was a few feet away, she hastened to give Julien her hand, at the same time thrusting him slightly from her.
'Romantic stuff,' he exclaimed, thrusting away his wife who sought to embrace his knees.
Madame de Renal sank on her knees, half unconscious, with a convulsive movement thrusting away Julien, who was coming to her assistance.
Suddenly a storm broke, the thunder growled, and the saintly student exclaimed, thrusting him rudely away:'Listen, each for himself in this world, I have no wish to be struck by lightning: God may blast you as an infidel, another Voltaire.'
He had a narrow head with a large nose, and a curved face which he kept thrusting forward.
His nose possessed, in an eminent manner, all the requisites for smelling, but with the most modest unobtrusiveness; the nostrils being abundantly capacious, without thrusting themselves in the way of their neighbors.
He looked as sulky as his father, with his hands thrust into his side-pockets, his brows drawn down, and his lower lip thrusting out.
The fellow was stooping with his head forward thrusting the boy through a tiny window, when I came down upon him just where the neck joins the spine.
He would have gone on talking of Cousin Edie, but I saw the corner of a newspaper thrusting out of his pocket, and I knew that he had come over, as was his way, to give me some news, for we heard little enough at West Inch.
The three became but a dark blurr amid the smoke, with the top spars thrusting out in a bristle, and from the heart of that cloud came the quick red flashes of flame, and such a devils' racket of big guns and small, cheering and screaming, as was to din in my head for many a week.
She experienced keen delight in being struck, delivering herself up, thrusting her body forward, provoking her husband in every way, so that he might half kill her again.
CHAPTER XXVIIN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON QUIXOTE PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENAReturning to the proceedings of him of the Rueful Countenance when he found himself alone, the history says that when Don Quixote had completed the performance of the somersaults or capers, naked from the waist down and clothed from the waist up, and saw that Sancho had gone off without waiting to see any more crazy feats, he climbed up to the top of a high rock, and there set himself to consider what he had several times before considered without ever coming to any conclusion on the point, namely whether it would be better and more to his purpose to imitate the outrageous madness of Roland, or the melancholy madness of Amadis; and communing with himself he said:"What wonder is it if Roland was so good a knight and so valiant as everyone says he was, when, after all, he was enchanted, and nobody could kill him save by thrusting a corking pin into the sole of his foot, and he always wore shoes with seven iron soles?
Such having been the demeanour of this celebrated public character towards Mr. Winkle, it will be readily imagined that considerable surprise was depicted on the countenance of the latter gentleman, when, as he was sitting alone in the breakfast- room, the door was hastily thrown open, and as hastily closed, on the entrance of Mr. Pott, who, stalking majestically towards him, and thrusting aside his proffered hand, ground his teeth, as if to put a sharper edge on what he was about to utter, and exclaimed, in a saw-like voice--'Serpent!''Sir!' exclaimed Mr. Winkle, starting from his chair.
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