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contracted
1. The muscles are contracted in geometric shapes and the contracted muscle is stretched
2. "Oh god," Parker said as Horcheese’s now-removed left arm contracted into a default position
3. The places on her torso where the artificial limbs attached were pink ovals, lumpy with contracted fibers and at the center of it all was the titanium bone and the expected set of ports for the neural interface processors that did the fantastically complicated and nuanced task of translating between machine language and the language of the human neurological system
4. ‘Kate’s also concerned that she might have contracted an STD
5. He was afraid he was going to be paralyzed by the native anti-violence virus they had all contracted
6. Nine days following birth they contracted
7. ‘You’ll be suing me for damages next, illness contracted in the workplace and all that
8. contracted and he doubled up in pain
9. This was another committee he should have looked into concerning the bad tail, they used operatives often and he wouldn’t be surprised if they had contracted that bad tail
10. Waterhouse and his entourage arrived punctually a half hour before the Monday appointment held in the offices of the contracted construction company, Brown & Backhouse
11. Unfortunately he contracted ‘sleeping sickness’ and now is incapacitated
12. It took a long time to tell her because she asked lots of questions about the strange people that had contracted them
13. "But why should he think that this disease which he has contracted is Eastern?"
14. "The fellow who came for me--I've forgotten his name--said that you contracted it down in the East End among the sailors
15. They complained of the contracted views and dastardly spirit of the directors of those banks, which did not, they said, extend their credits in proportion to the extension of the trade of the country ; meaning, no doubt, by the extension of that trade, the extension of their own projects beyond what they could carry on either with their own capital, or with what they had credit to borrow of private people in the usual way of bond or mortgage
16. In the course of the four French wars, the nation has contracted more than £145,000,000 of debt, over and above all the other extraordinary annual expense which they occasioned ; so that the whole cannot be computed at less than £200,000,000
17. the full contracted price
18. The last French war cost Great Britain upwards of £90,000,000, including not only the £75,000,000 of new debt that was contracted, but the additional 2s
19. When the government, or those who acted under them, contracted with a merchant for a remittance to some foreign country, he would naturally endeavour to pay his foreign correspondent, upon whom he granted a bill, by sending abroad rather commodities than gold and silver
20. The orb slowed her pulsing and contracted into a small ball, barely visible amongst the pine needles
21. The red glowing field that enclosed the pack blinked twice and contracted
22. contracted for three months and wanted to
23. It amounted to more than ninety millions sterling, including not only the new debt which was contracted, but the two shillings in the pound additional land tax, and the sums which were every year borrowed from the sinking fund
24. The whole burden of the debt contracted on account of the war would in this manner fall, as it always has done hitherto, upon Great Britain; upon a part of the empire, and not upon the whole empire
25. For this purpose, and for this purpose only, in the two last wars, more than two hundred millions have been spent, and a new debt of more than a hundred and seventy millions has been contracted, over and above all that had been expended for the same purpose in former wars
26. The headcap was a thin plastic web that, when placed over her head, contracted to a snug fit
27. But then there were many questions to answer: the space agency having to face legal proceedings from the Canadian government they were contracted to
28. Secondly, In a private copartnery, each partner is bound for the debts contracted by the company, to the whole extent of his fortune
29. In 1722, this company petitioned the parliament to be allowed to divide their immense capital of more than thirty-three millions eight hundred thousand pounds, the whole of which had been lent to government, into two equal parts; the one half, or upwards of £16,900,000, to be put upon the same footing with other government annuities, and not to be subject to the debts contracted, or losses incurred, by the directors of the company, in the prosecution of their mercantile projects ; the other half to remain as before, a trading stock, and to be subject to those debts and losses
30. It augmented, however, their trading stock, it being equally liable with the other three millions two hundred thousand pounds, to the losses sustained, and debts contracted by the company in prosecution of their mercantile projects
31. Her parents had moved to Nazareth just the year before, but they contracted a disease of the lungs and died soon after
32. There must have been shit or putrefied flesh on the barbs of the wire and when it gouged into him it infected his leg and he contracted first blood poisoning and then gangrene we were told that he tried to fight it even when his leg was amputated but it had gone too far
33. There was worst news to come for us however and a lot closer to home when our good friend Eli Woods the footballer contracted dysentery
34. contracted with the shipbuilding firm of Fawcett, Preston and
35. see?” Jacob asked pointedly, a muscle above his eye contracted in a manner that suggested a raised
36. What is called the unfunded debt of Great Britain, is contracted in the former of those two ways
37. A great part of those debts had been contracted upon short anticipations, and some part upon annuities for lives; so that, before the 31st of December 1701, in less than four years, there had partly been paid off; and partly reverted to the public, the sum of
38. During a war of nearly the same continuance, a new debt of more than seventy-five millions was contracted
39. During a profound peace of eleven years, little more than ten millions of debt was paid; during a war of seven years, more than one hundred millions was contracted
40. } The new debt which will probably be contracted before the end of the next campaign, may, perhaps, be nearly equal to all the old debt which has been paid off from the savings out of the ordinary revenue of the state
41. The republic was, in this manner, enabled to pay the great debts which it had contracted with the sixth part of what it really owed
42. That debt has been contracted in support of the government established by the Revolution ; a government to which the protestants of Ireland owe, not only the whole authority which they at present enjoy in their own country, but every security which they possess for their liberty, their property, and their religion; a government to which several of the colonies of America owe their present charters, and consequently their present constitution; and to which all the colonies of America owe the liberty, security, and property, which they have ever since enjoyed
43. That public debt has been contracted in the defence, not of Great Britain alone, but of all the different provinces of the empire
44. The immense debt contracted in the late war in particular, and a great part of that contracted in the war before, were both properly contracted in defence of America
45. She explained that Helen hadn’t been able to write because she had contracted Tuberculosis and was not well at all
46. The way his relaxed body flowed like water curling along its course before it contracted into steel for a strike was mesmerizing
47. There was no other way to test without destroying your career because in those days it was believed (wrongly) that only homosexuals contracted the disease as a punishment from God, and as such thoroughly deserved it too
48. Mumford turned the Journal headquarters into a ward, in which he personally tended all the officers he could accommodate until he fell with yellow fever contracted by exposure at the front and the long hours he devoted to this work
49. He’d become familiar with every one of them over the years; the ticking of the hot water pipes as they expanded and contracted, the hum of the fridge in the kitchen, the drip of the bath tap, each one now loud in his ears
50. This program will be contracted by public and private interests who will assume joint ownership rights in this collaborative effort designed to (efficiently) usher commuters, travelers and shoppers alike to their appointed destinations without (much) fuss or bother
