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levelling
1. He started the electric motors and they rose upwards, levelling off before breaking the surface
2. Therefore, scientism is a levelling process, just like collectivism is a levelling process: individual details are often glossed over in search of the bigger unifying picture
3. But if the Fourier complex were to inflict every person, then what would stop such inflicted persons from meting out the same 'solution' to our attackers, as they are meting out to us? Such a cycle of envy, resentment, and levelling will never end, until all has been levelled—until everything has been annihilated
4. The cavalry officer shouted a command and the fighting patrol wheeled around levelling their lances to charge the emerging enemy down
5. Alarmed, as if sensing his thoughts, Sally stood and stepped back a couple of paces, levelling the gun at Siri’s upper body as she gave a warning
6. “I will gather a fleet capable of levelling Ugatin, and proceed as soon as I can,” he said
7. A lesser man would have wept, but not Fishmael; he amused himself by levelling ever more inventive curses at the fish
8. Forty eight million pounds were spent levelling the porini with pairs of great caterpillar tractors linked by massive ball and chain
9. He was beyond the control of his superior officer, the weak Sir Charles Portal and he frequently defied orders until the very end for the bombers to be directed against specific military and oil supplies in order to continue remorselessly with his personal programme of levelling Germany's cities
10. He then climbed aboard the grader and set about completing the task Shark had started of filling the hole and levelling the ground
11. At an initial planning stage the following points have been examined: The proposed site for extension required levelling
12. Demolishing the old paint store (activity 2 – duration 3) Cleaning up and levelling of the building site (activity 7 – duration 4)
13. At any rate the levelling down seemed to have produced something like an equality of races in viciousness
14. As a result, conceivably, in a context where strong levelling is taking place, some truths
15. Sancho, on his part, gave a helping hand to release Gines de Pasamonte, who was the first to leap forth upon the plain free and unfettered, and who, attacking the prostrate commissary, took from him his sword and the musket, with which, aiming at one and levelling at another, he, without ever discharging it, drove every one of the guards off the field, for they took to flight, as well to escape Pasamonte's musket, as the showers of stones the now released galley slaves were raining upon them
16. Grandet had now reached the magnificent fields which he owned on the banks of the Loire, where thirty workmen were employed in clearing away, filling up, and levelling the spots formerly occupied by the poplars
17. Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy
18. Then the captain of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a telescope
19. Consider the intimate and curious acquaintance one makes with various kinds of weeds—it will bear some iteration in the account, for there was no little iteration in the labor—disturbing their delicate organizations so ruthlessly, and making such invidious distinctions with his hoe, levelling whole ranks of one species, and sedulously cultivating another
20. Only by the harbour, opposite the palace, there is a little mound that wants levelling; take the spade and level it
21. The pretext of this threat is monetary; but the beginning of the tragedy is the levelling of guns against all the inhabitants,—women, children, old people, and men,—though innocent of any crime
