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    1. Also with a greater number of individuals moving out of the joint family system, this will ensure that retirees are better equipped to fend for themselves when faced with medical expenses


    2. Recognising the void that suddenly lands on the senior citizen in terms of emotional support hitherto provided by joint families, Government, NGOs and Associations of senior citizens can institute this highly effective “treatment” programme


    3. The new society requires mobility where joint family concept may not be practical


    4. Even then wherever possible it is desirable to have a joint family, at least in terms of grand parents


    5. In special circumstances families of brothers and unmarried sisters may have also to live in a joint family


    6. The joint family conflicts are usually due to intolerance and comparison with each other


    7. The Trooper brings the joint up for another toke, just as John shoots him twice in the chest


    8. standing together in a joint prayer for her husband’s life


    9. He’s alive, but his ankle is badly broken, a sharp edge of bone protrudes from the joint


    10. Sure enough, she easily located Leonora Wells sitting with a breakfast sandwich at the Riverside Burger Joint at ten-fifteen in the morning, not a half an hour before

    11. Ginger merely told the renegade device to return to the Riverside Burger Joint, wait there for Kandhi Clarke, and surrender itself to her


    12. Leonora had been wandering aimlessly around town, and not happily, but it wasn't until she found herself directed back towards the Burger Joint that she really began to wonder about it


    13. Saw a Burger Joint on the way to the highway


    14. The tension of the previous few days, the dread rigidity that fused every joint in my body and buried my conscious self under a raw tonnage of iron, was released in a single, long, low moan


    15. I’d sit and watch him has he planed a piece of wood or put a joint together, he didn’t talk much


    16. It was still very distant, but he was reminded of a spider, a daddy longlegs with only the end joint of all it's legs


    17. This is easy if you both have a joint account,


    18. pol came to this hip teen joint, but one could never be too careful


    19. It could be the local burger joint


    20. The only sound that disturbed the otherwise quiet house was that of Mrs Roach using the electric carving knife to dismember the remains of the beef joint ready for the making of soup later in the week

    21. that lead to joint malfunction and eventual joint


    22. in his elbow joint, and I could reproduce no pain by


    23. 7 The shoulder joint should stay ‘locked’ against


    24. find a point to ease the tip of the sharp knife into the joint and to prise


    25. She thinks she has been here for a week, but her appreciation of time down here on the farm is a little out of joint


    26. The beef joint for Sunday lunch is on the white ceramic kitchen draining board, still wrapped in the supermarket polystyrene tray


    27. The moment passes, a moment of joint recollection, a moment of brief understanding


    28. joint of Roman’s elbow


    29. that the war on terror is a joint effort with not only the countries of the world, but


    30. It’s sad in this country but the way the income tax laws are set up if both people work and earn about the same amount of money, they are much better off financially filing separate returns that a joint married return

    31. joint locks that would bring the biggest of men to their knees


    32. Slavery continued to take place almost universally for several centuries afterwards, till it was gradually abolished by the joint operation of the two interests above mentioned ; that of the proprietor on the one hand, and that of the sovereign on the other


    33. Interestingly though, due to the prey’s need to constantly develop and improve her skills of alertness and evasion, and the resulting need of the predator to continually develop and improve his skills of detection and capture, they both entered into a kind of escalating “arms race” that led to their joint evolution, mutually benefiting both parties


    34. Not even a meek, half-hearted pat on the back, or a coupon for dinner-for-two at the local pizza joint


    35. To dream that you are having joint problems suggest that things are not coming together the way you want it to


    36. 24), a joint stock company was erected, with a capital of £500,000, to which the subscribers (over and above all other encouragements, the tonnage bounty just now mentioned, the exportation bounty of 2s:8d


    37. The same statute permits, at the lowest prices, the importation of corn in order to be exported again, duty free, provided it is in the mean time lodged in a warehouse under the joint locks of the king and the importer


    38. and joint manipulation locks, along with several throwing techniques


    39. In order to counteract this notable piece of mercantile policy, and to render herself as much as possible independent, not only of Sweden, but of all the other northern powers, Great Britain gave a bounty upon the importation of naval stores from America; and the effect of this bounty was to raise the price of timber in America much more than the confinement to the home market could lower it; and as both regulations were enacted at the same time, their joint effect was rather to encourage than to discourage the clearing of land in America


    40. In other words, some of the world’s inventions were not solitary efforts but instead were joint efforts between talented people living in our world and higher entities residing on the Other Side

    41. and even some that are competitive to yours, can become a joint


    42. ” said Carol, blowing on the last soldered joint


    43. When those companies do not trade upon a joint stock, but are obliged to admit any person, properly qualified, upon paying a certain fine, and agreeing to submit to the regulations of the company, each member trading upon his own stock, and at his own risk, they are called regulated companies


    44. When they trade upon a joint stock, each member sharing in the common profit or loss, in proportion to his share in this stock, they are called


    45. Secondly, The directors of a joint-stock company have always the management of a large capital, the joint stock of the company, a part of which they may frequently employ, with propriety, in building, repairing, and maintaining such necessary forts and garrisons


    46. The company is prohibited from trading in their corporate capacity, or upon a joint stock ; from borrowing money upon common seal, or from laying any restraints upon the trade, which may be carried on freely from all places, and by all persons being British subjects, and paying the fine


    47. The value of a share in a joint stock is always the price which it will bring in the market ; and this may be either greater or less in any proportion, than the sum which its owner stands credited for in the stock of the company


    48. Whilst he manipulated the joint and Chris winced in pain, he tried to ask the Doctor about the previous patient


    49. I’ll give you a support dressing to help the joint in the meantime


    50. “Tell me about it I feel like a joint of beef that’s been basted in the oven and I will tell you something else if we have to stay here for another hour or so I will be a shrivelled joint and no messing














































    1. There were things that climbed in the trees with furry tentacles and lots of little jointed snakes with hooks at the joints that inch-wormed thru the trees


    2. out of the tunnel mouth, a black, bristled, jointed lobster like leg as thick as a rugby pole and as long


    3. jointed itself with purple muscle chords to a black carapace I could only vaguely make out, and


    4. The President hadn't jointed the laughter, although he did offer a wry smile


    5. jointed Lemurians to pigmy remains of even earlier and less human races


    6. All four, jointed arms of the genothroid were bounded


    7. The carcass was skinned and jointed


    8. The whole camp stood around the jointed buffalo


    9. Put on a conveyer hanging up by a hook, skinned, gutted, jointed and out of the other end as sausages or steak…”


    10. Several furry jointed legs dug into either of the

    11. The six jointed legs that carried it


    12. The selected system materials should be able to be easily jointed by welding in a


    13. how they are jointed in different heights


    14. Amid these shrubs of precious coral, I observed other polyps no less unusual: melita coral, rainbow coral with jointed outgrowths, then a few tufts of genus Corallina, some green and others red, actually a type of seaweed encrusted with limestone salts, which, after long disputes, naturalists have finally placed in the vegetable kingdom


    15. Crass struck another match and lit the gas at the jointed bracket fixed to the wall


    16. Ralph sprang forward and lunged at the attacker, sliding his long sword into the man ’s armpit, where the armour was jointed


    17. The bubbling hiss drew nearer, and there was a creaking as of some great jointed thing that moved with slow purpose in the dark


    18. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal


    19. 2 Prickly Pears (Opuntia) have thick, jointed, pad-like leaves, yellow or red flowers and egg-shaped pulpy fruits


    20. ” The long line of boats writhed up the river like a tremendous jointed snake

    21. The thin legs moved with jointed stiffness


    22. Their young resemble those of many other Crustaceans in form; but when mature they are always attached to other objects, either directly or by means of a stalk, and their bodies are enclosed by a calcareous shell composed of several pieces, two of which can open to give issue to a bunch of curled, jointed tentacles, which represent the limbs


    23. —An order or sub-order of insects, characterised by the possession of a jointed beak or rostrum, and by having the fore-wings horny in the basal portion and membranous at the extremity, where they cross each other


    24. —in insects, the second or lower pair of jaws, which are composed of several joints and furnished with peculiar jointed appendages called palpi, or feelers


    25. As it dawned upon me first, it presented a sort of metallic spider with five jointed, agile legs, and with an extraordinary number of jointed levers, bars, and reaching and clutching tentacles about its body


    26. Its surface was distinctly serrated, and at intervals of about 2 inches it appeared jointed, breaking easily at the joints


    27. The tower roofs contemplate granite, lapped and jointed so as to be weatherproof, laid on iron beams and supported by iron trusses


    1. teased out hemp and place graphite jointing


    1. · Your joints are more accurate in predicting rain than the National Weather Service


    2. The brain has to integrate sensory information from the inner ears, from vision, from proprioceptors (sensors in muscles, tendons and joints that tell the brain where the limbs are positioned) and from pressure sensors in the soles of the feet


    3. joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of


    4. of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of


    5. Nine neatly rolled joints lined the container


    6. written in his lined face and the painful gait of angered joints,


    7. Cracking stiff joints and loosing wasted muscles


    8. Each leg seemed to be a curved stick, he could see no joints in them


    9. You will feel considerable pressure on your hip joints so please be careful not to strain yourself


    10. The following exercise will help those who suffer from calcium deposits at the shoulder joints

    11. This is an indication that the linings of the joints in your neck are inadequately lubricated and that there is an accumulation of calcium deposits there


    12. Trying to hide my surprise, I undress, the woman – whose name is Lonna - helping me take off my boots as my joints refuse to bend that far


    13. joints or other scenes as all interaction is limited to the website, which is also in the comfort of your home or office


    14. Granny into the kitchen, where she gave her the pork joints, the


    15. It was a spiral protozoan of humanoid evolution that could inflame the joints and even the nervous system


    16. The sides are high and deep, which means a struggle getting in, given the general seizing-up of his joints


    17. Wooden joints complain and the carpet slips where the runners are broken, but the sound of canned laughter covers his footfalls


    18. As Billy tries to sit up his temples start to throb, joining a chorus of complaint from his joints and his stomach


    19. He looks down at his grazed knuckles and tries to flex the joints


    20. There were things that climbed in the trees with furry tentacles and lots of little jointed snakes with hooks at the joints that inch-wormed thru the trees

    21. gingerly on his stiffened joints


    22. The car squeaked to a halt in front of the Royal Hotel on John Street and its achy joints groaned as Bruce got out


    23. spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the


    24. bent and beset with arthritis in most joints, by the looks


    25. Many of the soldiers in the crowd were wrinkled, bent, elderly men and women, their eyes clouded over with glaucoma and their joints inflamed with arthritis


    26. When she finally ventured out and started to walk again, every step was agony as the blisters on her feet burst and bled and the lack of liquids ensured that her joints and muscles were stiff and painful due to the surfeit of lactic acid that her dehydrated body could no longer drain away


    27. His arms were disjointed at some locations, while possessed with multiple malfunctioning joints in other locations


    28. It lubricates the joints of bones and keeps them working properly


    29. It can also help with the joints as well,


    30. especially if an individual is very stiff in the joints

    31. that works al of the major muscles and joints in the body, helping to circulate


    32. When practicing the art, the body will remain very soft and relaxed, just like it was suspended from the top of the head with the joints being similar to that of a


    33. While one study suggests that high doses of supplemental vitamin C makes osteoarthritis, a type of degenerative arthritis that occurs with aging, worse in laboratory animals, another indicates that vitamin C-rich foods, such as parsley, provide humans with protection against inflammatory polyarthritis, a form of rheumatoid arthritis involving two or more joints


    34. joints, then he looked around the room a little


    35. Dan 5:6 Then the king‘s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another


    36. He lay on the floor in the cold and every muscle in his body fought for independence and pulled at his joints in every direction


    37. “Do your joints hurt, Maxie?” I asked one day


    38. joints, tendons and ligaments that support those


    39. Her stiff old joints were giving her more trouble than usual


    40. Edna reached out a trembling hand, her crumbling old joints making her cry out in agony at every movement

    41. made, and although his wooden joints creaked a little when the wind


    42. Soon the doll-baby whimpered, but he creaked his joints a little, and


    43. As the sounds grew nearer the tiny creature scurried from its hiding place between the joints of the old field drain, running soundlessly over the rough surface away from the threat


    44. Like now, when the damp weather affected his joints, making walking a touch painful


    45. of his shoulder joints


    46. He had a couple of joints


    47. A week after meeting him, Caroline could hardly remember his name, but there was little doubt that she remembered well her conversation with Kevin while at the party, snuggled on the chaise-lounge and chain-smoking joints


    48. I sucked the soft bits of flesh still stuck around the bone joints and said after I swallowed and while I reached for the chicken’s leg:


    49. Still, with her aching joints, discolored, rheumy eyes and slow pace, she really would hold them up seriously


    50. All joints have muscles associated with them to provide movement to the joint














































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    Synonyms for "joint"

    joint marijuana cigarette reefer spliff stick articulatio articulation roast join junction juncture articulate coupling union joining seam shared collective mutual dump slum

    "joint" definitions

    (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)


    a disreputable place of entertainment


    the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made


    a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion


    junction by which parts or objects are joined together


    marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking


    fit as if by joints


    provide with a joint


    fasten with a joint


    separate (meat) at the joint


    united or combined


    affecting or involving two or more


    involving both houses of a legislature