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    extending


    1. · Men complain of her nagging; but she is just extending her care-taking job that irritates men


    2. This building put most of the residence about twenty floors above the ground with a courtyard in the center and balconied residential turrets extending out and above that


    3. Where the limbs should have been that reached out to her world there were only bundles of colored control conduits extending off into the web around her


    4. ’ He said, holding out a bleeding hand towards her, wiping it quickly on his trousers before extending it again


    5. He went to entrance of the cave and extending his wings he took to the air


    6. "I understand," he said, and hauled himself up, extending his hand to Luray


    7. There was no visible stream here, just marsh and bog extending to the south as far as they could see


    8. “Duncan,” Alexei said as walked into the room extending his hand, “welcome back!”


    9. Resistance Apply a necessary amount of force without extending more


    10. of smooth tar macadam extending as far as the eye could see

    11. blackberry runners extending across the weed-infested gravel of the


    12. Another child reached for her feet but missed, two more boys threw themselves onto the bitter cold ice, and managed to reach her feet, she’d secured the youth's arm, extending above the icy water


    13. I am extending the track and building a tunnel behind the pool keeper’s house


    14. "We've never actually met, but I've heard so much about you," Alfred said to her while extending the hand toward her that wasn't holding a dart launcher, "I'm delighted to meet you Desa, I'm Alfred McReady, Alan's father


    15. The scarcity which prevailed in England, from 1693 to 1699, both inclusive, though no doubt principally owing to the badness of the seasons, and, therefore, extending through a considerable part of Europe, must have been somewhat enhanced by the bounty


    16. But the market for the wool and the hides, even of a barbarous country, often extending to the whole commercial world, it can very seldom be enlarged in the same proportion


    17. It obliges all of them to be more circumspect in their conduct, and, by not extending their currency beyond its due proportion to their cash, to guard themselves against those malicious runs, which the rivalship of so many competitors is always ready to bring upon them


    18. In the disorderly times which gave birth to those barbarous institutions, the great proprietor was sufficiently employed in defending his own territories, or in extending his jurisdiction and authority over those of his neighbours


    19. The introduction of the feudal law, so far from extending, may be regarded as an attempt to moderate, the authority of the great allodial lords


    20. They have no secrets, such as those of the greater part of manufacturers, but are generally rather fond of communicating to their neighbours, and of extending as far as possible any new practice which they may have found to be advantageous

    21. Four black clad men jumped from the helicopter and set up a white dish with a long white tube extending from its middle


    22. Towards the declension of the Roman republic, the allies of Rome, who had borne the principal burden of defending the state and extending the empire, demanded to be admitted to all the privileges of Roman citizens


    23. But after they had been so regulated and ascertained, how to hinder a person who was all-powerful from extending them beyond those regulations, was still very difficult, not to say impossible


    24. Extending from the ceiling was a brass chain


    25. As soon as the meeting is over, he will be released, and I will be extending my apologies


    26. In many cases the codes that are found by just extending the search terms up or down, result in a sentence that contains the search term and is often meaningful enough on its own


    27. It was still at full operational power, extending as far as the Kuiper belt


    28. By extending the British system of taxation to all the different provinces of the empire, inhabited by people either of British or European extraction, a much greater augmentation of revenue might be expected


    29. It is convenient for the Americans, who could always employ with profit, in the improvement of their lands, a greater stock than they can easily get, to save as much as possible the expense of so costly an instrument of commerce as gold and silver; and rather to employ that part of their surplus produce which would be necessary for purchasing those metals, in purchasing the instruments of trade, the materials of clothing, several parts of household furniture, and the iron work necessary for building and extending their settlements and plantations ; in purchasing not dead stock, but active and productive stock


    30. They are thereby enabled to convert the value of that gold and silver into the instruments of trade, into the materials of clothing, into household furniture, and into the iron work necessary for building and extending their settlements and plantations

    31. He saw no point in extending the fear and agony of his opponents


    32. A flightless bird species, the male of which displays a wonderful variety of colors when extending his tail feathers


    33. The subterranean complex had increased down in stepped levels and then extending horizontally at about five hundred metres a day


    34. In that and other ways he exploited the popularity of Eric’s book while repeating and extending its themes


    35. The building illuminated, sensing his presence, fluorescent strips extending to a near vanishing point


    36. Opening its mouth wide it hissed, raising its back into an arch, extending its claws


    37. Extending along its whole length were trenches, intersected with blockhouses, while below strong barbed-wire barricades were stretched along the base of the hill


    38. Turning slightly to the left, the cavalry then charged the main line of entrenchments, soon extending until they touched the centre division, assaulting San Juan


    39. Lawton also moved his division on the night of the 1st, but, through a mistake in the road, he was forced to march through by El Pozo, extending and strengthening the lines on the right early on July 2nd


    40. Sheena almost collapsed with the tension and Terry’s face fell as he hurried over, extending his hand to help Dawn up but she turned away from him

    41. When Alex reached out the cat lifted a paw, extending its claws, hissing and growling in the back of its throat


    42. We have reached a stage in our ―evolution‖ where, as a society, we are no longer willing or able to (either) appreciate or acknowledge the legitimacy of anything or any idea extending beyond our own immediate interests thereby engendering a Ptolemaic mindset where Man has become the center of his own universe


    43. Rand‘s cold-blooded philosophy, however, fails to factor the spiritual dimensions that (also) inform our actions…perhaps more so… extending beyond the internal limits of our


    44. A conscious ―awareness‖ extending beyond the ―imagined‖ limits of its immediate environment is questionable, to say the least


    45. This equally supports the argument that Infinity is a mathematical certainty extending in two opposite directions


    46. Recent events, however, have revealed a very disturbing trend; extending membership to ―former‖ antagonists whose ‖democratic‖ institutions and putative reforms remain problematical and its designs, (largely) untested


    47. ‖ Many individuals susceptible to teeming influences extending beyond their capacity to assimilate what is being conveyed and in what manner and why, for that matter, entirely dependent has the public become on its media ―mouthpieces‖ commissioned to do their thinking for them in a fruitless attempt at sorting out unintelligent pieces of information that, taken collectively, are even more meaningless, thereby frustrating further efforts to attain (true) knowledge while unsettling core beliefs


    48. The State of California has taken an certain step backwards in its putative efforts to secure our nation‘s borders when its feckless governor (Davis) signed a bill into law extending driver‘s licenses to illegal aliens


    49. These women, with few exceptions, were not motivated by a universal agenda (extending beyond the immediate requirements for Equal Rights) that has subsequently evolved in modern times into a feminization of the male ego, leaving in its wake something that can best be described as a masculine identity that is less than manly, giving subsequent rise to artificial relationships lacking fixed points of (gender) reference


    50. Morality, correctly understood, is a conventional construct; that is to say, of a nature predicated on many subjects providing a broader frame of reference extending beyond (the) individual














































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