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Most of what remained of socialist ideology was washed away in the late 1980’s with the collapse of the Soviet empire.
Alienated for so long, the country's brightest people have washed their hands of politics.
Over the course of the years, they were the masons who built our homes, they washed dishes in the restaurants where we ate, they were the merchants from whom we used to buy goods, and workers in the greenhouses of the kibbutzim.
National Missile Defense works against the entire project of arms control: in the minds of the system's supporters, it provides safety against nuclear attack for a US that has washed its hands of nonproliferation by scuttling the test ban.
China has essentially washed its hands of its small neighbor.
In the US, chicken meat is washed in chlorinated water; in Europe, chickens are stuffed with antibiotics while alive.
Although the government realizes that there is no money for reconstruction at home and that its accounts abroad are frozen, it tries to buy time by declaring its intention to reform and cooperate with the world, and by using pathetic marketing ploys such as glamorous opening ceremonies for pontoon bridges (one was washed away the next day), ferry-ports, and other quick-fix rebuilding jobs.
Gullies are the ditches left after rainwater has washed away the topsoil.
Washed Away on the QE2NEW YORK – Imagine that you get in the shower, turn on the water, and nothing comes out.
At this rate, Venice’s fragile embroidery of calli, campi, and palazzi, draped over sinking sediment, could be washed away within decades.
The Khoikhoi washed the laundry and were duly paid.
And after that let's have a duet.'Left alone, having put away his papers in the new portfolio she had bought, he washed his hands at the new washstand with the new and elegant utensils that had also appeared through her agency.
She sent for the doctor, sent to the chemist's, made the maid she had brought with her help Mary Nikolavna sweep, dust, and wash; and herself washed and scrubbed some articles and spread something under the blanket.
The invalid himself, washed and with his hair brushed, lay between clean sheets in a clean shirt, its white collar round his abnormally thin neck, gazing with a new look of hope at Kitty and not taking his eyes off her.
Washed and clean they betook themselves to a half-barn that had been swept out and where the coachman had made up beds for the gentlemen.
And how he seems to love...''Well then, have this washed if possible,' interrupted Dolly.
It was a fairly large room, occupying all the ground floor, painted an apple green, and of Flemish cleanliness, with its flags well washed and covered with white sand.
But the lamp-cabin was glittering--a glass house, full of hooks in rows, holding hundreds of Davy lamps, examined and washed the night before, and lighted like candles in chapel.
She hastily washed herself and put on an old blue skirt, her cleanest, and a loose jacket of grey wool in which she had made two patches the evening before.
And the village, built altogether in the midst of the vast plain, and edged by its black roads as by a mourning border, had no touch of joyousness about it save the regular bands of its red tiles, constantly washed by showers.
All of them had washed down their soup with a big bumper of fresh water, the good, clear drink of the fortnight's end.
Yes, anarchy and nothing more; the earth washed in blood and purified by fire!
These forty-five francs helped the family and enabled them to make both ends meet, though always leaving some small debts and arrears; so the Maheus were grateful to their lodger; his linen was washed and mended, his buttons sewn on, and his affairs kept in order; in fact he felt all around him a woman's neatness and care.
Two overseers undressed and then washed with a sponge this corpse blackened with coal and still dirty with the sweat of work.
But Paris only completed their separation, that Paris which she had desired since her first doll, and where she washed away her provincialism in a week, becoming a woman of fashion at once, and throwing herself into all the luxurious follies of the period.
A sorry sight, this carcass lost under the waves, but sorrier still was the sight on its deck, where, lashed with ropes to prevent their being washed overboard, some human corpses still lay!
Next they're immersed in huge tanks of salt water, then they're opened up and washed.
The whole meager flora of this region consisted of certain microscopic buds, rudimentary diatoms made up of a type of cell positioned between two quartz-rich shells, plus long purple and crimson fucus plants, buoyed by small air bladders and washed up on the coast by the surf.
She called on the lawyers, the president, remembered when bills fell due, got them renewed, and at home ironed, sewed, washed, looked after the workmen, paid the accounts, while he, troubling himself about nothing, eternally besotted in sleepy sulkiness, whence he only roused himself to say disagreeable things to her, sat smoking by the fire and spitting into the cinders.
Working men, kneeling on the banks, washed their bare arms in the water.
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