It is not easy for us now to grasp how central the image of theatre was to the Elizabethan Weltanschauung. |
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The effect was that they did not have a very good grasp of strategy and tactics. |
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Grasp a dumbbell in each hand, and raise your arms straight above your head, keeping elbows slightly bent. |
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By their own admission that is way beyond their technological grasp, and may remain forever out of reach. |
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Grasp the press body with your left hand, then lower the ram by pulling the lever with your right. |
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The obscure concepts of the rhumb line, the loxodrome, and spherical trigonometry were also beyond their grasp. |
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From the very beginning, I was really impressed with Chan's direction and his assured grasp of shot composition. |
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She actually surprised herself when she reached up to grasp his hand without a second thought. |
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They were, he continued, within a whisker of making it through to the All Ireland semi-finals when they had victory snatched from their grasp. |
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Tightening her grasp on the tray until her knuckles turn white, Rena suddenly nods. |
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Fining over the top of the wrecks and around the hull affords a great opportunity to grasp the size of the ships. |
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I don't think anyone could entirely grasp who I am from watching the show, but what was shown was very raw and honest. |
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Week after week he painstakingly helped them work through problems his brightest students would grasp in an instant. |
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Tensions inside the firm mounted as some of the firm's white-shoe bankers worried that CEO Purcell would grasp at any deal. |
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There is a strange gleam in the older boy's eyes as he reaches down to grasp the hem of his shirt. |
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It is vital for almost everyone to gain a rudimental grasp of basic computing skills. |
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Then suddenly, he pulled the pinchers out, and in their serrated grasp was a perfectly round lead musket ball. |
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Now simply grasp the dowel with both hands, hold it out at arm's length and alternately wind and unwind the cord. |
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Kevin wrapped a protective arm around Lana who squirmed out of his grasp disgusted. |
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My colleagues' somewhat ropey grasp of physics resulted in a deluge of emails pointing out the error of our ways. |
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Many have a group of hard plates which retract and grasp like teeth, commonly called Aristotle's lantern. |
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Since I am an extremely avid roleplayer, I decided to create a character whose mentality and persona I could easily grasp. |
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She quickly ripped her arm out of the girl's grasp and began to pull on her shoes. |
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For a moment, Boraz was forced to land on the bridge, but as quickly as he could grasp the net, he was ripping it apart. |
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I do not speak Apache fluently, but I think I have a fairly good grasp of some aspects of it. |
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It is not that we are illuminated by the divine light, but that the truth we grasp is illuminated. |
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The best way to fully grasp the ridiculousness of their activities is to take a look at what they are actually doing. |
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A student who has a solid grasp of rhythm and pulse is much more likely to correctly notate the pitches of a melody. |
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Clark was sometimes annoyed by his colleagues' inability to grasp the substance of federalism and particularly the separation of powers. |
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To grasp the distinctive character of Art Since 1900, it is worth briefly retracing the evolution of Krauss's ideas. |
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Our sworn opponent may not so much have rejected this truth as failed to grasp it. |
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I haven't gotten a grasp on all the nominees yet, but so far I'm resolutely not surprised across the board. |
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Many physicians need years of medical school and residency to even get a slight grasp of the problem. |
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The Louvre has sent a tiny St George that shows how dodgy was his early grasp of animal and human anatomy. |
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His lawyerly grasp of a brief on every subject gives him the edge over questioners every time. |
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These types of vines can most easily grasp onto wires or thin lattice pieces that are spaced closely together. |
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Add them all up and you'll begin to grasp why kids today are getting a flunking grade in conduct on the great report card of public opinion. |
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He intimated mortality by rendering the things represented on his canvas as escaping the grasp of our gaze. |
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Then, the Kamov will grasp the standing trunk with a hydraulic grapple at the bottom of the long line, break it off and ferry it to the landing. |
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It is impossible to grasp them in full by relying on a single, specific example. |
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I heard and watched the students grasp the understanding of how yeast absorbs sugar. |
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One long green arm whipped out, yanking the machete from her grasp and hurling it aside. |
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The recently released handbook is intended to help even the lay public grasp the medicinal properties of herbs. |
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Furthermore, there were many in that party who just thought it was their turn to grasp the reins of government authority. |
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Few have had the simultaneous grasp of topology, algebraic geometry and K-theory that Thomason did. |
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She began to ladle the stew onto the plates as her companion released her from his grasp. |
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I will go on trying to wrest the championship from his grasp and I still have age on my side. |
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Their bodies twisted as each tried to wrest the weapon from the other's grasp. |
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Once she had succeeded in wresting the radio from Mike's grasp, she spoke into the intercom eagerly. |
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While he was disoriented, I wrested the gun from his grasp and threw it far away. |
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He wrested his right hand from my grasp to wipe them roughly away from the side of his nose. |
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One fireman seemed to get hold of him then he seemed to slip from his grasp. |
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But in the end it is fascinating, as Pilate's figure swirls before us, a wraith of smoke whose shape shifts with each new attempt to grasp it. |
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But when I got a better grasp of biblical teaching, I saw worldliness in sharper perspective. |
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Sometimes she had been within touching distance of the silverware but then panic set in and the chance had slipped from her grasp. |
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Grasp the foot of your injured leg with your hand and slowly pull your heel up to your buttocks. |
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Bring the midship part of the boat to windward of him and give him an oar to grasp. |
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She evaded his grasp and left without another word, sashaying her hips tauntingly. |
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He never patented his portable tape machine or the microphones he created because he had no grasp of the financial side of the business. |
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This reality of fiat currency is very difficult for many people to grasp but it's not quite the magic pudding that perhaps it appears to be. |
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Alex tries to get out of his grasp but that just causes him to hold her even tighter. |
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Mitchell displays an astonishing grasp of Wikipedian philosophy and ethics. |
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The pair may grasp beaks, interlocking talons while spiraling toward the ground. |
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If everything is explained to us, from A to Z, then even an idiot can grasp it. |
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I walked towards it, slowly, reaching my hand out to grasp onto the brass doorknob. |
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His grasp of cinematic language is not fluid enough to prevent the film from becoming, at times, maddeningly opaque. |
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A musician who has mastered Fixed Do and acquired nearly absolute pitch is able to grasp an entire musical phrase at once. |
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Verbs and adjectives are more abstract, and so are more difficult concepts for children's minds to grasp. |
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Chailly has the vast canvas within his grasp from the very opening of those horns and brass that herald the mammoth journey. |
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What I can not grasp is the concept of a bus arriving a quarter of an hour early and leaving well ahead of its scheduled time. |
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Living in that vile woman's grasp, it was like being watched by a vigilant, maddened cat, always with the claws out, ready to pounce on us. |
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Buy them now and some time in the distant future, a Ronald Reagan jelly bean jar may yet be within your grasp. |
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I felt two hands cover my eyes, and I gasped in surprise, reaching up to grasp them. |
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Aaron and Luke took to it very quickly after that, but Nick and I just couldn't grasp it. |
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One does not have to go back to ancient Athens to grasp the depressing fact that most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily. |
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Most teachers recognise that pupils vary in the speed and manner in which they grasp new ideas and acquire skills. |
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While the common language is Tagalog, almost everyone has a good grasp of English. |
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Anderson might get gibes for being a pretty boy, but is respected in the bush and the cities for his grasp on his portfolio. |
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You need to get a grasp of the evidence, and in effect, get your act together. |
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Feeling irritation welling up inside of me, I jerked my arm free of her grasp and walked towards the cart to do just that. |
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The perception appears to be that I am such a slavish adherent of the letter of the law that I do not grasp the spirit of it. |
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She wrenched her wrists trying to get them out of Jack's strong grasp. |
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She kicked her feet weakly and tried to struggle free from his grasp. |
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She kicked out at the man who held her legs and broke free from his grasp. |
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The azanian hosts welcome the delegation with a banquet, but do not fully grasp the message. |
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Ramsey, still holding his big mac, had yet to grasp the gravity of this situation. |
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By relieving McElhone of the brash movie ending she is able to maintain her grasp on a flawed but still complex character. |
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The campiest concept to me is Susan Sontag attempting to grasp it with all that gray matter of hers. |
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They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and I hope that as a result I've been able to grasp something of the spirit of these wild and wonderful places. |
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Drop your guard for a moment, and your hard-won gains slip like quicksilver from your grasp, leaving a muscle group to lag behind others or your rock-hard density to melt. |
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Maggie shook her chin away and jerked her hand from his grasp. |
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The Italian was rejected because of his weak grasp of English. |
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An annual poll of headteachers shows that increasing numbers of them think the policies being used to improve pupils' grasp of the three Rs in primary schools are working. |
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What he has failed to grasp is that because he stole all the past elections, he has invalidated any laws that he has railroaded through his parliament. |
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I wormed the knife between tiny slivers of green plastic to prise free the ring pull and used pliers to grasp the toggle on that pesky foil circle. |
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He tentatively suggested that the text is a pastiche compiled by a modern forger with an elementary grasp of Coptic. |
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Lily didn't know why she felt nervous, but as she reached her hand down to grasp the car door handle of her old yellow car, her fingers felt shaky. |
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You may not need a maven's grasp of the latest whiz-bang application, but you definitely want to know about technologies that will make your business more competitive. |
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Also, they will foot grasp, lip-smack, nuzzle, gently grasp one another and sit pressed together in addition to agonistically responding to strangers. |
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Place two kettlebells inside your feet and squat down to grasp them. |
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He reached out as if meaning to grasp my hand but recoiled suddenly. |
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Feeling uncertain of his understanding of the mathematical concepts, he asked senior mathematicians to test his grasp of the more recondite concepts. |
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So much so that one begins to wonder if one is in fact witness to an ancient Flanderian sign language, life-threatening to those who fail to grasp its flailing inflections. |
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It's difficult to tell, but perhaps we could have expected a woman of letters, whose name adorns the cover of the 1997 novel Swan, to grasp the Shavian reference. |
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One has to wonder if those who do so grasp how insulting and demeaning it is to the president. |
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Her grasp of scientific truth in all branches of knowledge, combined with an exceptional power of exposition, made her the most remarkable woman of her generation. |
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And the more she is forced to recount, the more her grasp of reality slips, or heightens, depending on your point of view. |
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The man has an uncanny grasp of the public mood and once again he seized it, reminding us all how right we were to re-elect him as Prime Minister at the last general election. |
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Dravid is a quality batsman but, against the odds, not one who can go toe-to-toe with the world's best bowlers and wrest the initiative from their grasp. |
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This is blundering on foreign soil in an alien culture which they fail to grasp and arrogantly underestimate and they will ultimately pay the price of their ignorance. |
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So you had to get the ironic attitude toward the media before you could grasp the satiric manhandling of the politicians. |
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Lai let her hand rest on his chest and almost out of reflex he let his hand rest on hers, gripping it lightly as he shifted and settled more relaxedly in her grasp. |
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The headman reached out as if to grasp the major's arm before he remembered himself and snatched his hand back, but his pathetic eagerness was plain to see. |
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The Hegelian dialectic attempts to grasp the totality of the system and argues that change occurs as a result of contradictions internal to that system. |
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Incredibly, the woman resisted and there was struggle between the two before the robber kneed the victim hard in the stomach and ripped the bag from her grasp. |
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Impressive hunters, hungry leopard seals may burst through a spot of soft ice near a baby penguin rookery, in an attempt to grasp a penguin walking above. |
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Of course, no one should blame the intellectuals for not being able to grasp our fathomless economic mess. |
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The utopia that the settlers sought always remained beyond their grasp. |
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He also knew all about technique, teaching Allan to rugby tackle in the classical style of the day, hitting the opponent low in the thighs and sliding to grasp his ankles. |
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Just a few months ago my 3-year-old son, mid-tantrum, broke my grasp to run from me in a crowded subway station. |
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But opting for immediate gratification and having the universe influence our agenda keep long-term goals outside our grasp. |
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Further, this series assumes an understanding of basic chemistry, and a grasp of current basic atomic theory, such as the properties of protons, electrons, etc. |
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This is something that even our august Royal Society has failed to grasp. |
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It is axiomatic that to understand fully the current state of any area of human endeavour it is of vital importance to have a clear grasp of its past. |
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Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. |
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Do Australian teachers have a confident grasp of the metalanguage required for this and related tasks in English? |
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I do not see any sign of intellectual power or perception or grasp or subtlety in his work or himself. |
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The osprey and owls are the only raptors whose outer toe is reversible, allowing them to grasp their prey with two toes in front and two behind. |
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He wrote his autobiography in Welsh, but said he lacked the necessary grasp of the language to employ it in his poems. |
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From the start, there were accusations that the government failed to grasp the magnitude of the disaster. |
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Every morning an awakening ball of army ants unravels, traveling a million-strong through the jungle, killing everything in their grasp. |
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Christmas Day is in our grasp, so long as we have hands to clasp. |
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Later researchers dismissed the idea, questioning whether the young cowbirds could even grasp and yank off the parasites. |
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This was intended to make it more difficult for the opposition to grasp the shirt when tackling. |
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His grasp of spatial relationships ensures that each portrait, however sparely drawn, conveys the sitter's presence. |
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Through the woodcut medium, Holbein refined his grasp of expressive and spatial effects. |
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Notions such as human sacrifice are nearly impossible for most modern readers to grasp, acknowledges Knab. |
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Listen to him play a Bach cello suite and you'll grasp its proportionate beauty and the conviction that music transcends all worldy concerns. |
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What they share, apart from their Texas roots, is a viselike grasp of hard-bop fundamentals and an easy affinity for funk. |
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Chadwick promptly hired Rotblat as a lecturer, despite his poor grasp of English. |
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Nelson combined this talent with an adept grasp of strategy and politics, making him a highly successful naval commander. |
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What proof that some unlineal hand, some barbarism, without or within, shall not wrench the sceptre of democracy from our grasp? |
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More and more, trusts are being created by unrepresented settlors who seldom grasp the instrument's nuances. |
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No nation had the World by the tail this week, but the rear end of the British lion was within measurable distance of Adolf Hitler's grasp. |
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Rather than trying to understand the basis of guruhood, another means to grasp the phenomenon is to classify those who are recognized as gurus. |
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Each had a stone in his grasp in an instant, and simultaneously they cobbed at Master Bunnie. |
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A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp. |
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The judge should grasp the butter trier firmly in hand and insert the sampling device as near as possible to the center of the butter sample. |
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I will grasp the mountain-hedgehog, prickles and all, with my steel-gauntlet. |
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What makes Lovett intriguing is a grasp of emotional conflict that goes far beyond Nashville's standard fare. |
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Another Scotland opportunity went a-begging when John Barclay failed to grasp an offload at the end of some probing phases. |
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They try to begrip by conceptions that which no conception can grasp save when conception is full-open with consciousness, and identical with it. |
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An easy grasp of his studies left him ample time to indulge his liking for debate. |
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Despite his generally poor health, his intellectual grasp and wide knowledge and research gradually made him famous as a jurist and historian. |
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Boy, youth and man, you'll ever find the world is villianously inclined so strive, as all giraffedom should, to spurn the bad and grasp the good. |
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Purvey explains that one cannot translate a text without having a grasp of what is being read. |
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Power in the country had consolidated within the grasp of a few family clans. |
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In accuracy, thoroughness, lucidity, and comprehensive grasp of a vast subject, the 'History' is unsurpassable. |
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But he rarely seemed satisfactorily to grasp the incredibly complex process of introducing natural light into his interior spaces. |
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Many arboreal species, such as tree porcupines, silky anteaters, spider monkeys, and possums, use prehensile tails to grasp branches. |
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The cells of the root epidermis grow at a right angle to the axis of the root to allow them to get a firm grasp on their support. |
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Sometimes several toads form a heap, each male trying to grasp the female at the base. |
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The males are very enthusiastic, will try to grasp fish or inanimate objects and often mount the backs of other males. |
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Muscular power is needed to let go, but not to grasp a perch or when holding on. |
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Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics. |
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These potential shortcomings may have resulted in a more limited grasp of the relationship between ruralness, battering, and policing. |
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To grasp the emptiness of the sign of one's own genesis must cause logopathy. |
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The challenge to produce a mnemonic group for the 42-card version seems within the grasp of diligent logophiles. |
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There is the distant cry of an embergoose, and then the moon slips up out of the grasp of the trees. |
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Individually, culturally, our reach may be exceeding our grasp. |
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However, Tangencies was lost, and a simple and an elegant solution has escaped the grasp of some of the greatest geometers since. |
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He was concerned that humans were so overpowered by ignorance, greed and hatred that they could never recognise the path, which is subtle, deep and hard to grasp. |
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But here the rhizome's fragile network seemed to dissolve and disperse on sight, leaving the viewer to grasp for hints of all-encompassing meaning. |
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His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping. |
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Also known as Generation y, these business owners are well equipped with knowledge of technology and have a strong grasp of its applications toward businesses. |
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Nursery school aims to stimulate the minds of very young children and promote their socialisation and development of a basic grasp of language and number. |
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He had come so far, endured so much, a stunning victory of Koranic proportions merely days away but now snatched from his grasp, the crudest of fates. |
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Any attempt to grasp truth is, therefore, relativized in view of the fact that human perspectives and representations are always asymptotic to it. |
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The use of outdated teaching methods and the poor grasp of English exhibited by the authors of many guidebooks, disadvantage students who rely on these books. |
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Letters from ministers are annotated by George with pertinent remarks and demonstrate that he had a grasp of and interest in foreign policy in particular. |
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This is another of the many branches... which... has now become almost octopic in its range, touching on subjects of sociology, and even including economics within its grasp. |
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A good handshake is a fullhanded, firm and brief grasp of the hand. |
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He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp. |
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That may be a difficult concept for a theatremaker to grasp, but all the unpaid bloggers who write reviews for the love of it demonstrate it to be the case. |
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The many cannot grasp the hidden allness of the bigger picture. |
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A few of the boys became really good dungeon masters, and they all learned a lot about percentages and chance and stuff that I just couldn't grasp. |
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Real observers, Kant concluded, must live in a world of whatness, whereness, whenness, and becauseness, imposed by the way that a mind such as ours can grasp reality. |
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In each instance the listener was meant to recognize the source, to grasp the intent of a transformation which left salient aspects of the original intact. |
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Or it can try to grasp the new, multinetworked world as it is. |
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Here is an article that spells things out, so that it is easier to grasp. |
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The new owners were often Brahmin and Kayastha employees of the Company who had a good grasp of the new system, and, in many cases, some had prospered under it. |
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The naval war confirmed the direction of the British Admiralty's thinking in tactical terms even as it undermined its strategic grasp of a changing world. |
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She went from the arms of the football captain to the dry-handed grasp of Mr. Depopolus, who'd retired from the faculty when she was twelve years old. |
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