Offering in A Sentence

    1

    You are offering me a deal.

    2

    To be fair, his father hadn't made things any better by offering money to Alex and not his sister.

    3

    Now he was offering her a job taking care of his family?

    4

    He is offering you a deal, he said slowly.

    5

    He's a genie offering a bottle with a flying carpet tossed in.

    6

    Dean could tell when she refrained from offering tea and crumpets to the new arrivals.

    7

    Consuelo and her family were the last to leave after offering to help clean up.

    8

    She tipped her head back and leaned forward, offering a cheek.

    9

    Offering you a deal is helping you both.

    10

    He was offering her a job as a live-in maid.

    11

    After offering condolences for Randy's father, Dean added, "It's a little early for a Saturday night, isn't it?"

    12

    I was sorry to see them go, but with the baby coming on and Joe's parents offering him a good job out there in California, they didn't have much choice.

    13

    In October 1847 he wrote to Pius IX., offering his services to the Church, whose cause he for a moment believed to be that of national liberty.

    14

    After speaking about the economic costs of war, the burden it places on the economy, and the toll this takes on the people, Eisenhower closed by describing the peace proposals he was offering Russia and China.

    15

    He drew his mount to a halt beside her and kicked one foot free of the stirrup, offering a hand up.

    16

    She shuddered to her core at the evil peering through his gaze, feeling very much like the devil was offering her a deal without telling her the price.

    17

    Granted, he was Death, and she was offering a partnership running the underworld instead of deferring to him in his role in charge of the underworld.

    18

    Rostov was particularly in need of money now that the troops, after their active service, were stationed near Olmutz and the camp swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering all sorts of tempting wares.

    19

    You heard her talk about the million dollar reward that rag of a newspaper is offering and she's poor as a church mouse on food stamps.

    20

    He rose to leave and then added, Whatever the age of that skeleton, the facts still remain that someone swapped the bones, someone stole the finger and 'metalman29' was offering an inflated price for the mine.

    21

    Her hands were by her sides, turned out, as if offering benediction for what she had done, as if to say, peace at last.

    22

    They reached a small group of horses, and the boy vaulted atop one, offering his hand.

    23

    They were offering more than she could make after several years' experience at the hospital in Tulsa.

    24

    Though he pleaded it was unnecessary, he readily pocked the offering.

    25

    She withdrew the grass from her pocket and held it out as a peace offering, uncertain how to take his mood.

    26

    She was in his world now, offering him something he'd allowed himself to fantasize about more than once.

    27

    They surrounded him, offering him whatever food they had and petting him.

    28

    All four perused the menu judiciously, with father and mother occasionally offering comments and explanations.

    29

    You want me, and I'm offering.

    30

    They marched towards London, while John made another attempt to delay the crisis, or to divide his foes, by granting a charter to the citizens of London (May 9, 1215), and then by offering to submit the quarrel to a court of arbitrators under the presidency of the pope.

    31

    The point of enduring interest as regards the Andamans is the penal system, the object of which is to turn the life-sentence and few long-sentence convicts, who alone are sent to the settlement, into honest, self-respecting men and women, by leading them along a continuous course of practice in self-help and self-restraint, and by offering them every inducement to take advantage of that practice.

    32

    He became a Salian priest at the age of eight, and soon knew by heart all the forms and liturgical order of the official worship, and even the sacred music. In the earliest statue we have he is a youth offering incense; he is a priest at the sacrificial altar in the latest triumphal reliefs.

    33

    In order not to confound the innocent with the guilty, Torquemada published a declaration offering grace and pardon to all who presented themselves before the tribunal and avowed their fault.

    34

    Independent carriers cannot run trains over the same line and underbid one another in offering transportation services.

    35

    By this definition the term sacrifice is extended to cover the inanimate offering which is consumed by fire, broken or otherwise rendered useless for the purpose of human life.

    36

    Just as the German reaper leaves the last ears of corn as an offering to Wodan, so the Australian black offers a portion of a find of honey; in New South Wales a pebble is said to have been offered or a number of spears, in Queensland the skin removed in forming the body-scars.

    37

    Thus it appears that the gift theory may after all be primitive; the worship of, or care for, the dead may have supplied in other areas the motive for the transition from offering to sacrifice or the evolution may have been due to the spiritualization of the gods.

    38

    In the most developed forms, such as the offering of soma, they assumed a great importance; (r) the sacrificer had to pass from the world of man into a world of the gods; consequently he was separated from the common herd of mankind and purified; he underwent ceremonies emblematic of rebirth and was then subject to numberless taboos imposed for the purpose of maintaining his ceremonial purity.

    39

    The remainder, divided into eighteen portions, was cooked; seven fell to the sacrificer, after an invocation, which made them sacred by calling the deity to descend into the offering and thus sanctify the sacrificer.

    40

    But the Nazarite was equally bound to lay aside his holiness before mixing with common folk and returning to ordinary life; this he did by a sacrifice, which, with the offering of his hair upon the altar, freed him from his vow and reduced him to the same level of sanctity as ordinary men.

    41

    The victims were often feted for a whole year and treated as divine; the heart was an offering to the god, the body was eaten by the priests and nobles and the head was preserved with those of previous victims.

    42

    But the most important offering was the solemn oblation in the assembly on the Lord's day.

    43

    The points in relation to this offering which are clearly demonstrable from the Christian writers of the first two centuries, but which subsequent theories have tended to confuse, are these.

    44

    The bread and wine are designated by all the names by which sacrifices are designated (sacrificia, hostiae, libamina, and at least once sacrificium placationis), and the act of offering them by the ordinary term for offering a sacrifice (immolatio).

    45

    The offering of bread and wine was originally brought to the altar by the person who offered it, and placed by him in the hands of the presiding officer.

    46

    The change is marked in the rituals by the duplication of the liturgical forms. The prayers of intercession and oblation, which in earlier times are found only in connexion with the former offering, are repeated in the course of the same service in connexion with the latter.

    47

    From that time until the Reformation the Christian sacrifice was all but universally regarded as the offering of the body and blood of Christ.

    48

    The reaction against the medieval theory at the time of the Reformation took the form of a return to what had no doubt been an early belief, - the idea that the Christian sacrifice consists in the offering of a pure heart and of vocal thanksgiving.

    49

    Luther at one period (in his treatise De captivitate Babylonica) maintained, though not on historical grounds, that the offering of the oblations of the people was the real origin of the conception of the sacrifice of the mass; but he directed all the force of his vehement polemic against the idea that any other sacrifice could be efficacious besides the sacrifice of Christ.

    50

    In 1867 there were no settlers on the west island, and the government issued a proclamation offering leases of grazing stations on very moderate terms. In 1868 all the available land was occupied.

    51

    So then let them not sacrifice the offering of bread in churches.

    52

    Samaritans believe that offering people the opportunity to be listened to in confidence and accepted without prejudice, can alleviate despair and suicidal feelings.

    53

    In 1870 he was elected president of the House of Deputies, and seconded Prim in offering the throne to Amadeus of Savoy.

    54

    Shortly afterwards, perceiving that the Turkish cause was now lost, he sought the mediation of Sobieski to reconcile him with the emperor, offering to lay down his arms if Leopold would confirm the religious rights of the Magyar Protestants and grant him, ThOkiily, the thirteen north-eastern counties of Hungary with the title of prince.

    55

    For after holding good cheer and filling themselves with meats of all kinds, they at eventide make the offering (7rpoo 4 opa) and partake of it.

    56

    Saint Paul, is a good place for travelers, offering unique and distinctive restaurants, hotels and activities.

    57

    The spirit of Vedic worship is pervaded by a devout belief in the efficacy of invocation and sacrificial offering.

    58

    From it the other two fires, the anavaniya, or offering fire, and the dakshinagni, or southern fire, used for certain special purposes, are taken.

    59

    The principal other ceremonies of this class are the new and full moon offerings, the oblations made at the commencement of the three seasons, the offering of first-fruits, the animal sacrifice, and the Agnihotra, or daily morning and evening oblation of milk, which, however, is also included amongst the grihya, or domestic rites, as having to be performed daily on the domestic fire by the householder who keeps no regular set of sacrificial fires.

    60

    The radical side of Descartes appears again in his offering his own type of theism as a substitute for the old proofs - not a supplement.

    61

    The innumerable theories which were framed as to the precise nature of the offering and as to the precise change in the elements all implied that conception of it.

    62

    In Ireland, in Cromwell's time, wolves were particularly troublesome, and said to be increasing in numbers, so that special measures were taken for their destruction, such as the offering of large rewards for their heads, and the prohibition (in 1652) of the exportation of "wolf-dogs," the large dogs used for hunting the wolves.

    63

    The earliest local inscriptions date from about 300 to 150 B.C. and include the interesting and difficult bronze of Lake Fucinus, which seems to record a votive offering to Angitia, if A(n)ctia, as is probable, was the local form of her name.

    64

    Offering an ineffectual resistance to the passage of the Syrian troops, Alexander was driven back by Aretas, king of Arabia, against whom they had marched.

    65

    The wish was gratified at the risk of the lives of three brave men, and he recognized the solemnity of the occasion by pouring out the water as an offering unto Yahweh.

    66

    Nasir Lek's message and the urgent representations of Firdousi's friends had the desired effect; and Mahmud not only expressed his intention of offering full reparation to the poet, but put his enemy Maimandi to death.

    67

    The Lord accepted the offering, and after using the napkin handed it back to her with the image of His face miraculously impressed upon it.

    68

    That power had been on the point of offering her armed mediation in revenge for his violation of her territory of Anspach; but she was fain to accept the terms which he offered at the sword's point.

    69

    That officer, however, was on his guard, and, while offering to convey the emperor to England declined to pledge himself in any way as to his reception.

    70

    His name occurs as an element in Carthaginian proper names (Hannibal, Hasdrubal, &c.), and a tablet found at Marseilles still survives to inform us of the charges made by the priests of the temple of Baal for offering sacrifices.

    71

    Oxford and Cambridge sadly neglected the erection of convenient laboratories for many years, and consequently we find technical schools and other universities having a far better equipment and offering greater facilities.

    72

    It has been supposed that in offering such worship the Greeks showed the effect of " Oriental " influence, but indeed we have not to look outside the Greek circle of ideas to explain it.

    73

    In his absence he left Lucrezia as regent, offering the astounding spectacle of a pope's natural daughter in charge of the Holy See.

    74

    The course of inexorable law cannot be turned aside by any sacrifice or offering, nor yet even by the free grace of God.

    75

    However, by sending heavy bribes to Bayezid and his vizier, and by offering to build a mosque and.

    76

    On the morrow after the sabbath a wave offering and also a burnt offering of the he-lamb (with the corresponding meal and drink offering).

    77

    The first month on the 14th day of the month is the Passover; the 15th day of this month shall be a feast; seven days unleavened bread to be eaten; first day a holy assembly with fire offering, two young bullocks and one lamb and seven firstling he-lambs without blemish, with appropriate meal offering and one he-goat for sin-offering; on the seventh day another hol assembly.

    78

    The suggestion of Wellhausen and Robertson Smith confuses the offering of firstlings (Arabic Fara') and that of the first yeanlings of the year in the spring (Arabic Atair).

    79

    It may, however, well be that both peach and almond are derived from some pre-existing and now extinct form whose descendants have spread over the whole geographic area mentioned; but this is a mere speculation, though indirect evidence in its support might be obtained from the nectarine, of which no mention is made in ancient literature, and which, as we have seen, originates from the peach and reproduces itself by seed, thus offering the characteristics of a species in the act of developing itself.

    80

    After taking counsel the Philistines placed the ark with a votive offering upon a new cart drawn by two cows.

    81

    On the 1st of August 1431 a large army of crusaders, under Frederick, margrave of Brandenburg, whom Cardinal Cesarini accompanied as papal legate, crossed the Bohemian frontier; on the 14th of August it reached the town of Domazlice (Tauss); but on the arrival of the Hussite army under Prokop the crusaders immediately took to flight, almost without offering resistance.

    82

    On the high plateau all attempts to grow cereals have failed, the wide trenches alone (Uda, Selenga, Jida) offering encouragement to the agriculturist.

    83

    The custom of offering a beautifully woven peplus at the Panathenaic festival is connected with her character as Ergane the goddess of industry.'

    84

    If the priest must be satisfied with little, why be at the trouble of offering more?

    85

    His treatise was remarkable, not only as offering a satisfactory explanation of the coincidence between the lunar periods of rotation and revolution, but as containing the first employment of his radical formula of mechanics, obtained by combining with the principle of d'Alembert that of virtual velocities.

    86

    In other words, the daily offering is the continual symbol of gracious intercourse between Yahweh and his people and the main office of religion.

    87

    He knew very well that the theologians of his church almost without exception held that the handing over of the paten and chalice with the words, " Receive power of offering sacrifice," &c., were the essential matter and form of ordination to the priesthood; indeed he published the decree of Eugenius IV.

    88

    The advance of Jellachich as far as Lake Balaton had not been checked, the Magyar troops, though - contrary to his expectation - none joined him, offering no opposition.

    89

    Incapable of offering resistance, the king again offered money, this time no less than £48,000.

    90

    Pretorius in 1863 resigned his Free State presidency and offering himself as mediator (not for the first time) succeeded at length in putting a period to the confused series of intestine quarrels.

    91

    The halt at Bloemfontein was marked by the publication of proclamations, offering protection to the burghers, which, however, the invaders had not yet the power to fulfil.

    92

    Christian De Wet, who had first come into prominence as the captor of Lord Roberts's convoy at Waterval, and was now operating east and south-west of Bloemfontein in order to counteract the influence of Roberts's numerous flying columns which rode hither and thither offering peace, added to his laurels by ambushing Broadwood's mounted brigade and horse artillery at Sannah's Post, just outside Bloemfontein, on the 31st of March.

    93

    The Thonraki, according to Gregory Magistros, held that "Jesus in the evening meal, spoke not of an offering of the mass, but of every table."

    94

    She made her name by the publication of her Lettres neuchdteloises (Amsterdam, 1784), offering a simple and attractive picture of French manners.

    95

    Several states are offering bounties to encourage its cultivation at home.

    96

    The kings of Assyria united in themselves the royal and priestly offices, and on the monuments they erected they are generally represented as offering incense and pouring out wine to the Tree of Life.

    97

    The slighting references to it by the Christian fathers are no more an argument against its existence in the primitive church than the similar denunciations by the Jewish prophets of burnt-offerings and sacrifices are any proof that there were no such rites as the offering of incense, and of the blood of bulls and fat of rams, in the worship of the temple at Jerusalem.

    98

    In the Sarum and Bangor, the priest censed the oblations after offering them; then the space between himself and the altar.

    99

    For offering these resolutions Giddings was attacked with rancour, and was formally censured by the House.

    100

    The conveniently situated islands of Tenedos and Lemnos (the latter offering the immense landlocked haven of Mudros as an anchorage) were occupied to serve as naval bases, and on Feb.

    101

    The enemy's light guns, aided by effective searchlights, were offering a strenuous opposition to the small craft engaged on the all-important duty of clearing the channel of submerged defences.

    102

    On the 27th a general move forward took place, the Turks (9th Div.) offering little opposition, and by nightfall the Allies held a line stretching approximately from the north end of Morto Bay to " Gully " beach.

    103

    These men told him that they had no offering to make to him except their lives; for pay they only required instruction in his religion; and they professed themselves ready to die in his service.

    104

    Chosroes fled from his favourite residence, Dastagerd (near Bagdad), without offering resistance, and as his despotism and indolence had roused opposition everywhere, his eldest son, Kavadh II., whom he had imprisoned, was set free by some of the leading men and proclaimed king.

    105

    The orchids may be taken as offering fair types of the Japanese artists ideal in all art work.

    106

    Thus if a lacquer box in the form of a parallelogram is the object, Japanese artists will not divide it in two equal parts by a perpendicular line, but by a diagonal, as offering a more pleasing line and division.

    107

    Baths, lunch-rooms, restrooms, clubs, lectures, schools and kindergartens have been supplied, and the company has also cultivated domestic pride by offering prizes for the best-kept gardens, &c. From April to July 1901 there was a strike in the already thoroughly unionized factories; complaint was made of the hectoring of union men by a certain foreman, the use in toilet-rooms of towels laundered in non-union shops (the company replied by allowing the men to supply towels themselves), the use on doors of springs not union-made (these were removed by the company), and especially the discharge of four men whom the company refused to reinstate.

    108

    The Protestant Reformation met an early and general welcome in Styria, but the dukes took the most stringent measures to stamp it out, offering their subjects recantation or expatriation as the only alternatives.

    109

    The Lowell Offering (1841) was written by factory girls of Lowell (q.v.), Mass.

    110

    On the north side of the Sacred Way, close to the main entrance, stood the offering dedicated by the Lacedaemonians after the battle of Aegospotami.

    111

    The annual Self-Denial offering (Great Britain) was £12,663 in 1888, f72,562 in 1906 and £69,034 in 1910.

    112

    The family meal is sanctified by the offering of a portion of the food to the household numina (spirits).

    113

    The flax and forests of its extensive territory are mentioned by classical authors, and we find Tarquinii offering to furnish Scipio with sailcloth in 195 B.C. A bishop of Tarquinii is mentioned in A.D.

    114

    Papias, his ETaZpos (Irenaeus), turns in fact from " the vain talk of the many, and from the " alien commandments " to such as were " delivered by the Lord to the faith," offering to the Christian world his Interpretation of the Lord's Oracles based upon personal inquiry from those who " came his way," who could testify as to apostolic tradition.

    115

    Just as the leading German troops were approaching St Hubert the French again began to fire, their bullets plunging down among the fresh arrivals, who knowing nothing of what had taken place about St Hubert (where the remnant of their own infantry were still offering a desperate resistance) opened fire into the backs of their own men, and a fourth panic began which soon spread to the stragglers crowding the Mance ravine.

    116

    On the 31st of December he reached Puerto Cabello, and the following day he issued a decree offering a general amnesty.

    117

    It has been given as a votive offering at some period to a church, as was often the custom.

    118

    It has also been given as a votive offering to a church, and has soon afterwards followed they were buried out of sight for safety, where they were eventually discovered absolutely unharmed centuries afterwards.

    119

    Mr Way, in the article alluded to, says of the custom of offering crowns to churches that frequent notices of the usage may be found in the lives of the Roman pontiffs by Anastasius.

    120

    From one of them hangs a legend which relates that they were an offering to a church, which has been identified with much probability as that of Sorbas, a small town in the province of Almeria.

    121

    The clergy were bidden to exhort their hearers to the " works of charity, mercy and faith, specially prescribed and commanded in Scripture, and not to repose their trust or affiance in any other works devised by men's phantasies beside Scripture; as in wandering to pilgrimages, offering of money, candles or tapers to images or relics, or kissing or licking the same, saying over a number of beads, not understood or minded on, or in such-like superstition."

    122

    Adams in maintaining the right of offering anti-slavery petitions, advocated the prohibition by Congress of the slave trade between the states, and favoured the exclusion of slavery from the District of Columbia.

    123

    Up to January 1891 the Conservative forces which overthrew Sir George Grey in 1879 controlled the country in effect though not always in name, and for ten years progressive legislation was confined to a mild experiment in offering crown lands on perpetual lease, with a right of purchase (1882), a still milder instalment of local option (1881) and an inoffensive Factories Act (1886).

    124

    As many as 700 pairs of golden spurs were collected on the field from the bodies of French knights and hung up as an offering in an abbey church of the town, which has long disappeared.

    125

    An altar, furnished with lamps, was placed before the statue; the inquirer, after lighting the lamps and offering incense, placed a coin in the right hand of the god; he then whispered his question into the ear of the statue, and, stopping his own ears, left the market place.

    126

    On the 4th of July she laid the foundation stone of the Imperial Institute, the building at Kensington to which, at the instance of the prince of Wales, it had been determined to devote the large sum of money collected as a Jubilee offering, and which was opened by the queen in 1893.

    127

    The offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world."

    128

    Anselm and the scholastics regarded the atonement as an offering to God of such infinite value as to outweigh men's sins, a view sometimes styled the " Commerical Theory."

    129

    Thus McLeod Campbell (q.v.) held that Christ atoned by offering up to God a perfect confession of the sins of mankind and an adequate repentance for them, with which divine justice is satisfied, and a full expiation is made for human guilt.

    130

    Thereupon Louis, despairing of offering resistance, fled from his kingdom and finally settled at Toplitz in Bohemia.

    131

    By the advice of his friends he presented a second petition, offering, if released, to leave the kingdom at once and for ever.

    132

    Long previously Lord Kelvin himself came nearer this view, in offering the opinion that magnetism consisted, in some way, in the angular momentum of the material molecules, of which the energy of irregular translations constitutes.

    133

    Augustus attempted to indemnify himself for his failure to obtain Livonia, his covenanted share of the Swedish plunder, by offering Frederick William of Prussia Courland, Polish Prussia and even part of Great Poland, provided that he were allowed a free hand in the disposal of the rest of the country.

    134

    A hundred years later, all churches of any importance had similar indulgences; yet Englishmen were glad even then to earn a pardon of forty days by the laborious journey to the nearest cathedral, and by making an offering there on one of a few privileged feast-days.

    135

    In 1647 he seized a Dutch ship illegally trading at New Haven and claimed jurisdiction as far as Cape Cod; the New Haven authorities refused to deliver to him fugitives from justice in Manhattan; he retaliated by offering refuge to runaways from New Haven; but finally he offered pardon to the Dutch fugitives and revoked his proclamation.

    136

    The simple offering of food or shedding of blood at the grave develops into an elaborate system of sacrifice; even where ancestor-worship is not found, the desire to provide the dead with comforts in the future life may lead to the sacrifice of wives, slaves, animals, &c., to the breaking or burning of objects at the grave or to the provision of the ferryman's toll, a coin put in the mouth of the corpse to pay the travelling expenses of the soul.

    137

    This stage of religion is well illustrated by the Red Indian custom of offering sacrifice to certain rocks, or whirlpools, or to the indwelling spirits connected with them; the rite is only performed in the neighbourhood of the object, it is an incident of a canoe or other voyage, and is not intended to secure any benefits beyond a safe passage past the object in question; the spirit to be propitiated has a purely local sphere of influence, and powers of a very limited nature.

    138

    The bread and wine are indeed an offering to God of what is his own, pure because offered in purity of heart; but they are not interpreted of the sacrifice of Jesus' body broken on the cross, or of his blood shed for the remission of sin.

    139

    Out of these they provide the Suppers held every Lord's day, offering them as " a pure sacrifice."

    140

    In the first two centuries the rite is spoken of as an offering and as a bloodless sacrifice; but it is God's own creations, the bread and wine, alms and first-fruits, which, offered with a pure conscience, he receives as from friends, and bestows in turn on the poor; it is the praise and prayers which are the sacrifice.

    141

    As Jesus our high priest offered himself as a sacrifice to his Father, so the human priest takes Christ's place, and imitates his action by offering in church a true and full sacrifice to God the Father (Ep. 63).

    142

    He entreats " the Lord of Powers to fill this sacrifice with his Power and Participation," and calls the elements a " living sacrifice, a bloodless offering."

    143

    Farther south, through Oregon and northern California, many members of the coast ranges resemble the Cascades and the Sierra in offering well-attested examples of the uplift of masses of disordered structure, that had been reduced to a tame surface by the erosion of an earlier cycle, and that are now again more or less dissected.

    144

    Busiris commenced by sacrificing the prophet, and continued the custom by offering a foreigner on the altar of the god.

    145

    Buying, selling or offering to buy or sell a vote has for penalty disfranchisement, and since 1891 the Australian ballot system has been used.

    146

    In 1812 Congress annexed to the Mississippi Territory the Mobile District of West Florida, claiming that it was included in the Louisiana Purchase; and in the following year General James Wilkinson occupied this district with a military force, the Spanish commandant offering no resistance.

    147

    Such a post set up by the priests is a god, is thrice anointed with ghee (or holy butter), and being set up beside the fire is invoked to let the offering go up to the gods .2 It is not always easy to mark off consecration from inspiration.

    148

    The ohelo berry is famous in song and story, and formerly served as a propitiatory offering to Pele.

    149

    Thus in the Eucharist the offering of the church is made one with the offering of the Great High Priest.5 All this represents an ideal.

    150

    But when we look for the evidence of any such will beyond ourselves and our experience, we find Wundt offering nothing but an ontological " ideal " of reason, and a moral " ideal " requiring a religious " ideal," but without any power of inferring a corresponding reality.

    151

    The Carolingian princes, when Boniface pointed them towards Rome, followed him without their clergy offering any resistance on grounds of principle.

    152

    At daybreak he confessed to the priest, heard matins, and communicated in the mass, offering a taper and a piece of money stuck in it as near the lighted end as possible, the first " to the honour of God" and the second " to the honour of the person that makes him a knight."

    153

    The latter offering was very commonly made by young men and girls, especially young brides.

    154

    A few instalments were paid, but the king sought to get rid of the liability by offering to make Edward III., or one of his sons, his successor in Scotland.

    155

    Mushet's aid was certainly valuable, but not more than Goransson's, who, besides thus offering a preventive of redshortness, further helped the process on by raising its temperature by the simple expedient of further subdividing the blast, thus increasing the surface of contact between blast and metal, and thus in turn hastening the oxidation.

    156

    The advance continued, and at Ordahsu a mission arrived from King Prempeh offering unconditional submission.

    157

    Presentation is the act of a patron in offering his clerk to the bishop, to be instituted in a benefice of his gift.

    158

    Such a tithe is still nothing more than the old offering of "firstfruits" (bikkurim) made definite as regards quantity, and it was only natural that as time went on there should be some fixed standard of the due amount of the annual sacred tribute.'

    159

    A production temporarily in excess of the world's demand of several years ago, led to the offering of bonuses for the production in India and Ceylon of green teas, with a view to lessening the black tea output.

    160

    The surplus proceeds of the property were further to be applied to maintain a yearly offering in commemoration of his departed father, mother and brothers, to pay the expenses incurred in celebrating his own birthday every year on the 7th of the month Gamelion, and for a social gathering of the sect on the 10th of every month in honour of himself and Metrodorus.

    161

    On the 6th of March 1862, he sent a special message to Congress recommending the passage of a resolution offering pecuniary aid from the general government to induce states to adopt gradual abolishment of slavery.

    162

    On the 24th Bismarck in his turn issued a circular note stating that, in view of the Austrian war preparations, Prussia must take measures for her defence; at the same time he laid before the princes the outline of the Prussian scheme for the reform of the Confederation, a scheme which included a national parliament to be elected by universal suffrage, as offering surer guarantees for conservative action than lilnitations that seek to determine the majority befprehand.

    163

    The cathedral dates from the i 8th century; and to the same period belongs another church, rebuilt after a fire, but originally erected as a votive offering after the pestilence of 1348, and dedicated to San Biagio (St Blaize), the patron of Ragusa, whose name and effigy continually appear on coins and buildings.

    164

    In the spring of this year Garrison issued his Thoughts on African Colonization, in which he showed by ample citations from official documents that the American Colonization Society was organized in the interest of slavery, and that in offering itself to the people of the North as a practical remedy for that system it was guilty of deception.

    165

    The acts establish a close time for wild birds and impose penalties for shooting or taking them within that time; prohibit the exposing or offering for sale within certain dates any wild bird recently killed or taken unless bought or received from some person residing out of the United Kingdom; the taking or destroying of wild birds' eggs, the setting of pole traps, and the taking of a wild bird by means of a hook or other similar instrument.

    166

    Although a picture sign may at times have embarrassed the skilled native reader by offering a choice of fixed values or functions, it was never intended to convey merely an idea, so as to leave to him the task of putting the idea into his own words.

    167

    The fleet prepared for action, and the bearer of the reply, signed by the president of the council, and offering to dismount three guns in the batteries named, only succeeded in finding the flagship late at night.

    168

    Frederick sent an ambassador to Vienna, offering, in the event of his rights in Silesia being conceded, to aid Maria Theresa against her enemies.

    169

    They prohibit (1) the worship of other gods, (2) the making of molten images; they ordain (3) the observance of the feast of unleavened bread, (4) the feast of weeks, (5) the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, and (6) the seventhday rest; to Yahweh belong (7) the firstlings, and (8) the firstfruits of the land; they forbid also (9) the offering of the blood of sacrifice with leaven, (io) the leaving-over of the fat of a feast until the morning, and (r1) the seething of a kid in its mother's milk.

    170

    In the first centuries of the Christian era, apostasy was most commonly induced by persecution, and was indicated by some outward act, such as offering incense to a heathen deity or blaspheming the name of Christ.'

    171

    These men had been alternately bitter enemies and allies of Beaton; in 1543 Kirkcaldy of Grange and the master of Rothes were offering their venal daggers to England, through a Scot named Wishart.

    172

    The negotiations for the Leicester marriage were prolonged till March 1565, when Elizabeth had let slip on Mary Henry Darnley (the young son of Lennox, who himself had been allowed to return to Scotland), and at the same time made it clear that she had never been honest in offering Leicester.

    173

    It is adequate to its presumed purpose of offering to distant Gentile converts a clear account of their Master's earthly work, and of the causes which led to His rejection by His own people and to His death by Roman crucifixion.

    174

    Here is a new philosophy of life, offering solid consolation amid the ruin of a world.

    175

    That this abolition of the word Mass, as implying the offering of Christ's Body and Blood by the priest for the living and the dead was deliberate is clear from the language of those who were chiefly responsible for the change.

    176

    The practice of offering, selling and buying Indulgences (see Indulgence) was everywhere common in the beginning of the 16th century.

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    He believed in constitutional monarchy, as offering the best guarantees both for sovereign and people, and he was bitterly opposed to all forms of state socialism.

    178

    Tippoo, after offering but a feeble resistance in the field, retired into Seringapatam, and, when his capital was stormed, died fighting bravely in the breach (1799).

    179

    One result of the introduction of free labour has been to reduce the descendants of the slave population to a small and unimportant class - Mauritius in this respect offering a striking contrast to the British colonies in the West Indies.

    180

    Another offering on this occasion was the eiresione.

    181

    Its name was in allusion to the custom that each worshipper should present in the church a loaf made of the new wheat as an offering of the first-fruits.

    182

    Although Earl Grey addressed a circular letter t3 all colonial governments offering them the questionable boon c c transportation, only one, the comparatively new colony of Western Australia, accepted.

    183

    In great alarm Abdalmalik endeavoured to stifle the revolt by offering to dismiss Hajjaj from his post.

    184

    While the Abbasid dynasty was thus dying out in shame and degradation, the Fatimites, in the person of Mo'izz li-din-allah (or Mo`izz Abu Tamin Ma'add) ("he who makes God's religion victorious"), were reaching the highest degree of power and glory in spite of the opposition of the Carmathians, who left their old allegiance and entered into negotiations with the court of Bagdad, offering to drive back the Fatimites, on condition of being assisted with money and troops, and of being rewarded with the government of Syria and Egypt.

    185

    The grand vizier, in the sultan's name, wrote beseeching him to avoid the further shedding of Mussulman blood, offering him a free pardon, the highest honours of the state, the hereditary pashalik of Egypt for himself, and Syria for Ibrahim until he should succeed his father in Egypt.

    186

    The character of the early employees of the mills, later largely displaced by French Canadians and Irish, and by immigrants from various parts of Europe, is clearly seen in the periodical, The Lowell Offering, written and published by them in 1840-1845.

    187

    Curtis (1813-1889), known by her pen name, " Mina Myrtle," and by Harriet Farley (1817-1907), who became manager and proprietor, and published selections from the Offering under the titles Shells from the Strand of the Sea of Genius (1847) and Mind among the Spindles (1849), with an introduction by Charles Knight.

    188

    She wrote much, especially for the Offering; became an ardent abolitionist and (in 1843) the friend of Whittier; left Lowell in 1846, and taught for several years, first in Illinois, and then in Beverly and Norton, Massachusetts.

    189

    Agamemnon sends an embassy by night, offering Achilles restitution and full amends - Achilles refuses.

    190

    The first Sraddha takes place as soon as possible after the antyeshti (" final offering") or funeral ceremony proper, usually spread over ten days; being afterwards repeated once a month for a year, and subsequently at every anniversary and otherwise voluntarily on special occasions.

    191

    It is doubtless a sense of filial obligation coupled with sentiments of piety and reverence that gave rise to this practice of offering gifts of food and drink to the deceased ancestors.

    192

    Although in 1849 he again vainly proposed emancipation in Kentucky, he was unanimously elected to the United States Senate, where in 1850 he temporarily pacified both sections of the country by successfully offering, for the sake of the "peace, concord and harmony of these states," a measure or series of measures that became known as the "Compromiseof 1850."

    193

    Bacon himself disclaims a defence of this nature, and we really have no direct evidence which shows to what extent the offering and receiving of such bribes then prevailed.

    194

    The main duty of the flamens was the offering of daily sacrifices; on the 1st of October the three major flamens drove to the Capitol and sacrificed to Fides Publica (the Honour of the People).

    195

    With reference to some statements in the article on the importance of Kant, he sent in very fair English a letter to the writer, offering to translate Kant's principal works into English.

    196

    In 1854 Frauenstadt's Letters on the Schopenhauerean Philosophy showed that the new doctrines were become a subject of discussion - a state of things made still more obvious by the university of Leipzig offering a prize for the best exposition and examination of the principles of Schopenhauer's system.

    197

    Too late Napoleon endeavoured to outbid Alexander by offering to Sweden Finland, all Pomerania and Mecklenburg, in return for Sweden's active co-operation against Russia.

    198

    In 1128 he was preparing to return to the East, when he received an embassy from Baldwin II., king of Jerusalem, who had no male heir to succeed him, offering his daughter Melisinda in marriage, with the right of eventual succession to the kingdom.

    199

    The consecration of Aaron and his sons was, according to P, a necessary preliminary to the offering of sacrifice, and chap. ix.

    200

    Many strange places with stranger names are visited, some of them offering obvious satire on human institutions, others, except by the most far-fetched explanations, resolvable into nothing but sheer extravaganza.

    201

    Jervis Bay was recommended as offering a site for a port for the territory.

    202

    Only the author of Acts, wishing to obviate the reproach against Paul of offering money to the Apostles, attributed the like conduct to Simon.

    203

    If the baby died within a month of its baptism, it was shrouded in its chrisom; otherwise the cloth or its value was given to the church as an offering by the mother at her churching.

    204

    He aspired to convince the better minds that the only hope for Israelites, as well as for Israel, lay in " returning " to the true Yahweh, a deity who was no mere national god, and was not to be cajoled by the punctual offering of costly sacrifices.

    205

    The last week is divided into two sections (26-27), in the first of which the city and sanctuary shall be destroyed and in the second the daily offering is to be suspended.

    206

    On the same bench of a Calcutta college sit youths trained up in the strictest theism, others indoctrinated in the mysteries of the Hindu trinity and pantheon, with representatives of every link in the chain of superstition - from the harmless offering of flowers before the family god to the cruel rites of Kali, whose altars in the most civilized districts of Bengal, as lately as the famine of 1866, were stained with human blood.

    207

    The colonists also, pressing forward to those territories, came in contact with these Ishmaelites - the farmers' cattle and sheep, guarded only by a Hottentot herdsman, offering the strongest temptation to the Bushman.

    208

    On arrival, they found that the Transvaal Volksraad, in a spirit of defiance and even levity, had just passed a resolution offering four new seats in the Volksraad to the mining districts, and fifteen to exclusively burgher districts.

    209

    An attitude so indecent threatened to defeat the very objects of the reactionary powers, and Gentz congratulated the congress that these sorry protests would be buried in the archives, offering at the same time to write for the king a dignified letter in which he should express his reluctance at having to violate his oaths in the face of irresistible force !

    210

    In this manner an underground compartment is formed, the bottom of which is natural, and the sides partly natural and partly artificial, both offering high resistance to the passage of water.

    211

    Hence, in a secondary sense, an offering to mark respect or gratitude.

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    As an example we may take the case where a brake is provided offering a resistance, c R, proportional to the load sustained, and where the values a and b are small compared with unity.

    213

    In 393 (or 39 2 B.C.) he was sent to Tiribazus, satrap of Sardis, to undermine the friendly relations then existing between Athens and Persia by offering to recognize Persian claims to the whole of Asia Minor.

    214

    The blood of the victim was poured over the stone as an offering to the divinity dwelling within it; and from this conception of the stone arose the further and final view, that the stone was a table on which the victim was to be burned.

    215

    On the second an offering of incense was made twice a day.

    216

    Yet, as has been already said, he showed his consciousness of the fallacy of his claim by offering to barter it again and again during the course of the war for land or money.

    217

    On the one hand, however, he alienated even reasonable opponents by offering no guarantees that equality so gained would not be converted into superiority by the aid of his own military force and of the assistance of the French king; whilst on the other hand he relied, even more strongly than his father had done, on the technical legality which exalted the prerogative in defiance of the spirit of the law.

    218

    Besides its main tributary, the Rio das Mortes, it has twenty smaller branches, offering many miles of canoe navigation.

    219

    The Hauran, therefore, has become the stronghold of the Druses, offering nowadays the best field for studying their peculiar customs and religion; and the group there still increases at the expense of the other groups, despite efforts on the part of the Ottoman government to check Druse migration by both conciliatory and repressive measures.

    220

    Here English and American thought strikes in sympathetically, offering moral theories of Atonement, though not looking so exclusively towards forgiveness.

    221

    He becomes the mediator between humanity and the gods, since it is through the fire on the altar that the offering is brought into the presence of the gods.

    222

    Early in the 18th century the Scottish gipsies found a congenial home on the Roxburghshire side of the Cheviots; and at a later period the Scottish border became notorious for a hundred years as offering hospitality to runaway couples who were clandestinely married at Gretna Green, Coldstream or Lamberton.

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    The entrances to the mouths of both these offering many difficulties for navigation, trade has from the remotest antiquity selected this spot, which is situated half-way between the two estuaries, while the level surface of the neighbouring steppe allows easy communication with the lower parts of both rivers.

    224

    The Girondins made a last advance to Louis, offering to save the monarchy if he would accept them as ministers.

    225

    The death of Mirabeau, to whose fortunes he had attached himself, was a great blow to him; but, promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general and commandant of Nantes, his opportunity came after the flight to Varennes, when he attracted attention by offering to march to the assistance of the Assembly.

    226

    When I have settled my usual business, I have so many letters to write, so many questions to answer, that many a night is spent without any offering of sleep being brought to nature."

    227

    Concessions or immigration circulars were issued in 1663 and 1665 offering most liberal terms to prospective colonists.

    228

    From the regal period to the end of the republic, haruspices were summoned from Etruria to deal with prodigies not mentioned in the pontifical and Sibylline books, and the Roman priests carried out their instructions as to the offering necessary to appease the anger of the deity concerned.

    229

    Revenue was derived from customs duties, firstfruits, fines and confiscation of offenders' property, and a money offering called hdsind, presented on a great variety of occasions both to the sovereign in person and to her representatives; and these were supplemented by " benevolences " (in the medieval sense of the word) levied upon the people for occasional state necessities.

    230

    This may be taken either in a refined sense, as if Aditi were the " infinite " region from which the solar deities rise,' or we may hold with the Taittirya-Brahmana' that Aditi was a female who, being desirous of offspring, cooked a brahmandana offering for the Sadhyas.

    231

    All through the winter of1897-1898the Madrid giuernment took steps to propitiate the president and his government, even offering them a treaty of commerce which would have allowed American commerce to compete on equal terms with Spanish imports in the West Indies and defeat all European competition.

    232

    We need not dwell upon the evolution from the crude idea, which first took form in the endeavour to compel beesto build straight combs in a given direction by offering them a guiding line of wax along the under side of each top-bar of the frame in which the combs were built; but we may glance at the more important improvements which gradually developed as time went on.

    233

    On receiving a favourable reply from the Holy See, Gedymin issued circular letters, dated 25th of January 1325, to the principal Hanse towns, offering a free access into his domains to men of every order and profession from nobles and knights to tillers of the soil.

    234

    The initial efforts began by securing the services of thoroughbred stallions for specified districts, by offering a limited number of " Queen's Premiums," of L200 each, to selected animals of four years old and upwards.

    235

    On this fiftieth day two wave-loaves made from the produce of the fields occupied by the worshipper ("your habitations") are offered together with seven unblemished lambs of the first year as well as one young bullock and two rams as a burnt offering.

    236

    Charged by the Venetians with the presentation of their gifts to the empress Caroline at Vienna, Cicognara added to the offering an illustrated catalogue of the objects it comprised; this book, Omaggio delle Provincie Venete alla maestri di Carolina Augusta, has since become of great value to the bibliophilist.

    237

    In a few years the Fula had subdued most of the Hausa states, some, like Kano, yielding easily in order to preserve their trade, others, like Katsena, offering a stubborn resistance.

    238

    P g P Y to him offering the position of commandant of the Cape local forces, but he declined the appointment.

    239

    When after the fall of Liege in 1914 von Jagow handed to Mr. Gerard, the American ambassador in Berlin, the note to Belgium, offering full reparation for damages, in case free passage to France were granted German troops, Van Dyke flatly refused to act as intermediary.

    240

    We guessed our offering was miniscule compared to what the others learned in our lengthy absence, if the excitement in Martha's voice on the phone was an indication.

    241

    Howie was frantic until I explained that knowing someone was offering peculiar but pertinent tips wasn't the same as finding the names of who was doing it.

    242

    Was the offering a compliment or a complaint?

    243

    The calm of his blood offering kept her uneasiness at bay as the portal behind her closed.

    244

    Go back to the real world, where there were no demons or Immortals or the sexy man who wanted to claim her heart while offering her nothing in return beyond his bed.

    245

    After offering his condolences, Dean asked if it might be con­venient for him to come by and speak with Mrs. Byrne.

    246

    The first order of business on lunar New Year's Day is offering ritual homage to one's ancestors.

    247

    Theproduct offering is not only attractive but age appropriate.

    248

    Even dentists are getting into the act, offering testing for a genetic propensity to peridontal disease.

    249

    The effect, rather than a commendable attempt to resist offering facile explanations, is to glorify the crimes and make them seem acceptable.

    250

    Being closed or offering square feet the room Adam 's with rooms has.

    251

    Rhianna has been gaining massive airplay with her debut offering of ' Oh Baby ' .

    252

    Quaint little alleys and yards off the steep main street house many interesting shops offering a wide range of unusual gifts and mementos.

    253

    Selective bilateral damage to the human amygdala is rare, offering unique insights into its functions.

    254

    Internal surfaces of the vessel are glass lined, with magnesium anodes offering full protection against corrosion.

    255

    Wirral started offering antenatal HIV screening in January 2001, in line with national policy.

    256

    A Robin Hood festival takes place each summer, offering the spectacle of jousting, archery and falconry.

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    Retail store offering a wide assortment of products, most of which have a low unit value.

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    Nowadays it is a tranquil backwater offering fine views of the river.

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    At a cost of £ 22.50 single, the rail offering at £ 35 doesn't look bad.

    260

    The shop also has a baguette bar offering a huge variety of fillings in baguette bar offering a huge variety of fillings in baguettes freshly baked in-store.

    261

    Lime is a new international fine dining restaurant and cocktail bar offering a unique style of cooking.

    262

    Offering £ 25k basic, company car, mobile and laptop with a discretionary end of year company related bonus.

    263

    In return offering a £ 30k basic with excellent earning potentials, company car, mobile and opportunities for career development.

    264

    Tourist Board 4 star rated hotels Accommodation offering superior comfort and quality; all bedrooms with en-suite bath, fitted overhead shower and WC.

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    Plain Knitted beanie Lightweight, fleece lined beanie offering excellent warmth.

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    Bernard green quot about offering supplemental.

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    Scottish biofuel will consider offering long term guaranteed price contracts for the supply of energy crop.

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    For example, many companies are offering sign-up bonuses and loyalty bonuses in a bid to be competitive, " he says.

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    More recently, online bookmakers have begun offering fixed odds for football matches.

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    Corals are one of the world's biggest on line sports bookmakers offering fixed odds betting on the world's major sporting events.

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    Sheila is knitting bootees, June's knitting a matinee coat and Danny is offering to teach young Patrick John some hot Doom cheats.

    272

    There's a beer tent from noon on Saturday offering bargain booze all night.

    273

    During the closure we are offering an outreach service to primary schools in inner-London boroughs, INSET sessions, and online teachers ' resources.

    274

    Offering flexibility and choice, we cater for all business and meetings and gatherings, from a creative brainstorm to a major sales conference.

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    And right now we're offering an extra special reward to customers who recommend bulldog.

    276

    In our listing we specify about three or more times that the item we are offering is an uncirculated bullion sovereign in mint condition.

    277

    Luton Manager, Mike Newell was scheduled to repeat his allegations of agents offering bungs to Premiership managers.

    278

    For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.

    279

    Rating Advisors Rating advisors may be cold calling in your area offering big savings in your business rate bill.

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    Its culmination was an offering of light to the sacred river in the form of an elaborate brass candelabrum sprouting dozens of little flames.

    281

    The offering price gives the company an initial market capitalization of about $ 627 million.

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    Ken Muir Offering a collection of spray carnations from the soft fruit specialist!

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    Food & Drink There will be on-site mobile caterers offering hot food and drinks.

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    New types of Viton® are versatile, offering improved capabilities in steam, solvents, highly caustic environments and low temperatures.

    285

    Offering the benefit of having no upward chain, the property is worthy of an early internal viewing.

    286

    A luxury ski chalet with hot tub in the most stunning location offering the perfect place for a wonderful winter or summer holiday.

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    Our blue chip client based in Epsom, Surrey is offering an exciting opportunity to the right candidate to join their Call Center team.

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    Recently a large number of further education colleges have shown interest in offering the Technical Awards.

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    Four Star - As three star plus bedrooms offering superior comfort and quality, with en suite bath, fitted overhead shower and WC.

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    Most tourists visit peninsula Malaysia with the west coast offering more in the way of creature comforts.

    291

    Arms and legs the seminars receptions and good conversation beach offering complimentary.

    292

    Something needs to be done to make the Scottish Parliament work and the Scottish conservatives are the only Party offering something different.

    293

    The IBM PartnerWorld scheme enables us to simply consolidate your requirements into one single, simple to use offering.

    294

    By offering a fully consultative service to our clients, we strive to provide a tailored, realistic approach to actuarial recruitment.

    295

    A deliberately conversational tone allows Tricomi to debate these ideas with the reader rather than offering prescriptive models.

    296

    Other conveyancing Links CMS - Nationwide solicitors offering competitive conveyancing.

    297

    American companies were offering reactors that used ordinary water under pressure as the reactor coolant.

    298

    A classmate of mine gave a presentation on two scholarly articles, both offering different theories on the meaning of the Victorian corset.

    299

    T O Williams sell fresh bread and cakes and also has a delicatessen counter offering meats and cheeses.

    300

    Secondly, there is the more complex technique of presenting counterarguments to the thesis propounded, and then offering arguments which defeat those counterarguments.

    301

    Choosing the right investment may seen like an impossible task with seemingly countless products available, offering a multitude of options.

    302

    However, it is very disappointing that the government is not offering heterosexual couples the same registration scheme.

    303

    Many deserted coves can be reached only from the sea Sicily has many companies offering diving holidays.

    304

    No. 4 Key, King's Dock, offering 400 m of quayside and three 10-tonne capacity grabbing cranes.

    305

    On a working croft offering much home grown produce.

    306

    She certainly appears to be sharing the question without offering definitive, and therefore most probably misleading, answers.

    307

    One True Saxon offering many styles of men's jeans all using hand made antique Japanese denim.

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    In 2006 we are offering two escorted departures on this route.

    309

    It's an ideal notebook for business travelers, offering dependable, secure computing in a small, elegant case.

    310

    Garys detecting.co.uk - Offering a wide range of metal detecting information,including detector field tests and reviews.

    311

    Stamford Holmes is a reluctant consulting detective in a modern age where the crimes are mundane, not offering challenge.

    312

    Battersea Healthy Living Initiative and local NHS dietitians are offering a new course to Battersea residents who need to lose weight.

    313

    The two games are actually totally different offering very seperate styles of play.

    314

    Like Jayne I would hate anyone forcing Reiki onto me, however if they were offering Reiki maybe the energies would feel different.

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    They can also be very directional, offering fewer ideal seating positions.

    316

    He quickly incurred the disapproval of his presbytery by offering communion to anyone who attended his church.

    317

    The 1974 album is a very fine soul offering, at times sounding not too dissimilar to the Reverend Al Green in parts.

    318

    The woman kneeling at Michael's feet holds a distaff and a white garment, which she holds out as an offering.

    319

    Directory of schools offering distance learning and online degrees.

    320

    Bedstar Leading online bed shop offering a wide selection ov divan, bunk, pine and folding beds.

    321

    Union battlebus doorsteps BSkyB BECTU is offering advice and recruiting members at BSkyB's Osterley base.

    322

    I want to see every local authority offering doorstep recycling to take advantage of these new markets.

    323

    A separate leaflet offering security advice to private motorists will be delivered door-to-door in central Witham and distributed in car parks.

    324

    Budget drip watering system offering the benefits of drip watering system offering the benefits of drip watering without the need for mains water supply.

    325

    As of 1st July 2006, 24-7 is offering Blu-ray disk duplication.

    326

    We are offering an early bird booking discount of £ 100 if you book prior to 10 July 2006.

    327

    The plot is in a slightly elevated position offering rural views to the front with open land to the rear.

    328

    Q. We received a letter from Barclays Bank offering compensation for a mis-sold endowment.

    329

    Passed one of employer offering insurance enrollees per month the savings obtained.

    330

    Online lenders are offering home equity loans with the lowest interest rates in years.

    331

    The report argues that by offering personalized education and health services peopleâs expectations will increase and create a demand-led pressure for reform.

    332

    However, an offering taken in the service can be used to defray expenses.

    333

    Have you ever felt that you couldn't trust the reviewer or the person who is offering an explanation?

    334

    The A55 coastal expressway is within 3 miles offering swift road access to the North Wales Coastal towns.

    335

    In addition, dedicated DECLÉOR beauty rooms offering introductory facials compliment our stylish retail presence.

    336

    The Grove is a private retirement scheme built in 1990 offering leasehold flats for people aged 60 and over.

    337

    The garden room has Georgian style French doors offering views and leading to terrace, original polished wooden flooring and vaulted roofline.

    338

    We are experienced wedding florists offering creatively designed wedding flowers.

    339

    There are several freshwater lochs, some with restricted access, offering fly-fishing for brown trout.

    340

    An iron footbridge crosses the upper end of the lake, offering views down the entire length of the open water.

    341

    The Citadel was home to Egypt's rulers for 700 years; an imposing medieval fortress offering sweeping views of the city.

    342

    The meeting with Phoenix Venture Holding's Deputy Chairman was very fruitful, with the company offering their full support for the event.

    343

    In the meantime Vibondaka had returned to his ashrama, and saw this lady sitting there offering ghee into the fire.

    344

    Now we know that anyone offering steve Gibson shields up as their primary product must get the word out.

    345

    The Museum Gift Shop specialize in nostalgic museum related giftware, offering a large range of hard to find products.

    346

    The key to sensibly offering free giveaways is to know your total customer value.

    347

    Tea light holders made from molten recycled glass are our latest product offering.

    348

    There is also a good case study of Zambia, offering a glimmer of hope.

    349

    The second of the four models comes the closest to offering an acceptable path forward in Internet governance.

    350

    But there are signs that offering instant gratification in this way may be losing its appeal.

    351

    Some participating pubs will be offering good hearty classic pub grub with some special dishes cooked in ale!

    352

    Summerwood Guest House A luxury guesthouse offering stylish accommodation for the discerning traveler.

    353

    The increasing use of artillery also saw master gunners offering their services for hire.

    354

    It's a bit like offering a handshake to your audience.

    355

    Modern heathens have therefore replaced the animal offering with an offering of mead.

    356

    Cars for Stars is a UK based franchise offering chauffeur driven cars and American limousine hire.

    357

    At the side of the search list is a ' sponsored link ' offering a link to a database of luxury holiday hotels.

    358

    Dinner Plain Trail Rides - offering horseback riding adventures in Australia's mountainous high country.

    359

    It is now an Ealing Tertiary College, offering a range of subjects, including horticulture.

    360

    In addition, you have the prospect of offering your premium clients generous hospitality at the event itself.

    361

    Adore the mysterious child, offering him gifts with profound humility.

    362

    At once, the patrol was surrounded by hundreds of other young people, all offering their cards for checking.

    363

    Inducements Analysts and other employees are prohibited from offering or accepting inducements Analysts and other employees are prohibited from offering or accepting inducements to provide favorable investment research.

    364

    On top oft his a worker shall receive the inducement that the employer was offering.

    365

    Help thyself, " I said in the manner of a great lord offering an indulgence to a peasant.

    366

    The most notable thing on their third offering is that they have become slightly more self indulgent, but that's a good thing.

    367

    There are also innumerable pubs offering good food across the county.

    368

    Friendly Societies are mutual insurers, offering long-term saving, pensions, healthcare benefits and other forms of personal insurance and investment.

    369

    Most rites involve invocation, prayer, and spirit possession on the part of the priest and inevitably require some type of offering.

    370

    Ther is also a For Sale and Wanted section offering you a free to use online boat jumble.

    371

    Nightlife is tailor-made for the young British pleasure-seeker and there are lots of pubs offering karaoke, quizzes and live music.

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    In addition, the store will now offer a Home shop offering a wide selection of soft furnishing, kitchenware and home accessories.

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    The plant and animal life are excellent offering opportunities to see the varied birdlife (including kiwis ), seals, dolphins and whales.

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    They had therefore become lax in what they were offering to God.

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    Chalet style booths with cheery green Leatherette, massive hanging menus offering dozens of sandwich combinations and constantly busy staff.

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    What's more, all of our coaches have less than the maximum number of seats that could be fitted - offering extra legroom.

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    Late in 1972 Jaguar introduced the long wheel base XJ6L and XJ12L, offering an extra 4 inches legroom to the rear seating area.

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    There are several public lidos along the beachfront, offering changing and shower facilities.

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    How to choose uk national lotto Many websites lure in huge traffic by offering free lucky lotto numbers.

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    In the hands of a skilled investor, Internet trading is a valuable tool, offering low-cost, real-time share dealing.

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    The more specific your content offering is to your audience's needs, the more likely it is to inspire loyalty.

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    This is a stunning, romantic island resort offering sophisticated barefoot luxury, surrounded by glorious natural beauty.

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    The existence of forest islands offering healthy populations of these palms are the single most important ecological requirement for the Blue-throated macaw.

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    A chance to learn about the symbolism behind the hand mudra, Tibetan chanting of the mandala offering and using a mandala set.

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    Various friends offering everything from fiddle and percussion to wah wah mandolin and trombone join them.

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    A professional masseuse took a hands-on approach to the problem by offering stress-busting sessions at Penrith Truck Stop.

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    I mean offering only three large chips is pretty meager in my opinion.

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    There is a rather measly offering of it tho.

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    A waste of talent is always tragic, and there can only be hope his next offering can rise above such mediocrity.

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    Hugh Harris was founded over 90 years ago in Woking, Surrey with the aim of offering the highest quality menswear available.

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    A major offering of precious metalwork would be completely comprehensible as a response to the crisis of Roman desecration.

    392

    The Iraqi military made several public announcements to the residents offering them a chance to leave the city.

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    In 1986 Peter Baldwin pioneered the concept of offering fully mobile hire boilers in trailers.

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    Hard floor wand More and more carpet cleaners are earning extra money by offering hard floor cleaning.

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    Disney Cinemagic is a new premium channel brand, offering family programming featuring classic Disney animated movies.

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    The vegetarian version's peppers and courgette were chargrilled and blended fabulously with the smoked mozzarella while the pepperoni offering was fiery and delicious.

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    I don't think there was any particular reason to get quite so narked and ratty at the poor person offering up an excuse.

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    Voyages are especially native americans offering if you wish travel uniworld cruises.

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    Assessment centers are already offering domestic natural gas and LPG in permanent dwellings ' tailored ' and packaged initial assessments.

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    Being able to include their products in our offering means we can provide the best pick and mix solution to match individual client needs.

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    Blood and breath being the two primary elements or souls of life, these consequently became the two great types of sacrificial offering.

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    The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate.

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    Bulldog provide another example of a communication company unable to match its go-faster broadband offering with reasonable support.

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    Other Services The Student Shop in Dunelm House includes an off-licence, offering top-quality Threshers ' products at affordable prices.

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    William Hill is one of the world's leading betting companies and specialize in offering legal off-track wagering.

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    Offering brilliant viewing due to the multi-coated optics, users find this a great companion on the water.

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    It may be a paper offering horse, a good wishes origami bird, an origami bird, an origami box from waste paper or even ghost money.

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    Some banks are only offering interest free overdrafts for the first year of study.

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    A rather plain offering which lacks strong flavors and is also massively overpriced.

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    We bowled first on a hot day on a good batting wicket offering not a lot to the medium pacers, or Angry.

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    Paella Catering in San Diego offering Spanish paella Catering in San Diego offering Spanish paella for Paella Party and La Paella Catering San.. .

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    We are currently offering a service to collect wooden pallets, to enable us to reuse or recycle.

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    This is mindless pap at its most mindless that has no originality at all, offering nothing new to the genre.

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    In practice this means offering payment to the volunteer other than exact payment of expenses or offering some perks.

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    Some accounts come as package deals offering various perks - travel or health insurance, free foreign exchange transactions.

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    Therefore, despite reducing piglet birth weight, offering sows salmon oil reduced pre-weaning mortality of piglet birth weight, offering sows salmon oil reduced pre-weaning mortality of piglets.

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    In spite of gunfire and bombing we found native traders on cycles offering us tinned pineapple and cigarettes.

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    But what if you're not poached by an employer offering a decent relocation bonus?

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    In 2000, seven life insurers issued " promise to customer " letters, offering endowment policyholders reassurance on their investment returns.

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    Sequencing with GigaStudio GigaStudio 3.0 comes in three sizes, the Orchestra version offering unlimited polyphony for full arrangements.

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    This collection is an extension of Corbis Outline's celebrity portraiture offering.

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    It seemed too precious an offering for any degree of publicity.

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    Not much sense can be made from this rather pretentious offering.

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    As part of the service offering TDG will manage stocks of aerosol propellant at one of its operating centers in Lancashire.

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    And the key that will unlock that door is America and Europe offering progress by reducing protectionism in agriculture.

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    Reasons to consult a clinical psychologist The Coaching & Mentoring Network maintain relationships with a range of therapists offering specialist coaching assessments.

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    The judges are there to help, so will not be offering sarcastic put-downs to the contestants, like those on the TV show.

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    There is a large refectory offering a wide selection of dishes from around the world.

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    Yet Turl Street's offering this year was, on the whole, remarkably refreshing.

    430

    Subscription to The British Veterans Recognition Card is an annually renewable membership offering a number of benefits.

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    Offering you a wonderful blend of classic elegance along with contemporary candid reportage.

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    Colin Molton assured the Board that URCs aimed to deliver sustainable urban communities offering residential, commercial and leisure developments in town centers.

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    Old French hill stations survive throughout the country offering welcome respite from the heat of the plains below.

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    With these words they scarcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them.

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    GigaStudio is going the complete opposite direction, with version 3 now offering up to 96kHz sampling.

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    Read some case studies of special schools offering a range of study support activities.

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    Cachalote I is a charming 96 foot schooner overall, with 86.6 feet on deck, offering First Class service.

    438

    The Spinnaker Tower is a striking new seamark, soaring 170 meters above Portsmouth Harbor, offering visitor spectacular views from a great height.

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    Along the same lines, offering a disco season ticket or a VIP card (ie discounts) encourages attendance and creates loyalty.

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    One of the most beautifully secluded Lakeside caravan estates offering exclusive lake frontage for 1km onto Windermere, set on a farm.

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    It is situated at the end of a small lane offering seclusion in its own grounds of approximately half an acre.

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    For 2007 Lexus is offering a hybrid version of their GS sport sedan dubbed the GS450h with " well in excess of 300hp " .

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    It is often associated with offering guidance, encouraging self- reflection and increasing self-reliance.

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    Ask your property owner to put everything s/he is offering in writing, it will save any misunderstanding later on.

    445

    Bilstein and De Carbon are heavy duty, non-adjustable gas shock absorbers offering vastly superior damping abilities and extended life compared to original equipment.

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    The other five tracks are none too shoddy either - a most charming offering.

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    But so, too, has the Turner prize, offering an annual showcase for the country's most influential artists.

    448

    I had received telephone calls before offering information but I had never attended simply because the callers just did not sound sincere.

    449

    Demand from investors meant that AT&T increased the size of its global bond offering to a record $ 8 billion.

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    Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

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    He now runs Lost Oasis Expeditions, offering small-scale, expert-led, real adventure expeditions in remote desert locations.

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    You'll be responsible for growing the technical offering and work on a wide range of complex content management and ecommerce solutions.

    453

    Sandals ventures into the spa business, offering a world-class, full-service European spa.

    454

    The decider went the way of Tuominen's other winning games, 11/5, with Anjema offering only spasmodic resistance, disappointingly.

    455

    We will be offering a means of searching for all of the variant spellings automatically in a later stage of the project.

    456

    Special mention goes to Matt Hornby 10R who demonstrated great sportsmanship by offering to play number 8 for the depleted Devizes team.

    457

    This book offers a hundred simple prayers rooted in everyday experience, the commonplace offering a springboard to personal devotion.

    458

    Options include offering shareholder fans the chance to retain a small stake in the club.

    459

    Watts ' current product offering of strainers focuses on small diameter strainers for plumbing applications.

    460

    The image also has an imperial subtext - the idea of India offering her riches to Europe.

    461

    This would result in a reduction of the overall vulnerability of the countries by offering additional sustenance to the economies.

    462

    The award winning, patented swaddleaze is the only sleeping bag and swaddle combo, offering excellent value for money.

    463

    All over the New York subway you find adverts offering to remove tattoos.

    464

    The EX-S600 continues the EXILIM CARD tradition of offering cutting-edge technology packed into a small, slim, and stylish body.

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    We have a state of the art telephone system, offering voip telephony, pc based call management and extremely competitive call tariffs.

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    Mill Street also included a complex of crowded and dilapidated tenements offering accommodation to the poorest in society (Trinder 1982, 9 ).

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    The additional financial strength resulting from the Offering will also enhance the Company's ability to negotiate more favorable terms when out-licensing.

    468

    The thanksgiving psalms seem to have been used in public worship, often in conjunction with a thanksgiving offering.

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    Therefore, manuscripts offering theoretical, conceptual, and practical contributions for ECRM are encouraged.

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    News ticker We are now offering a free Java based news headline ticker for any website.

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    Some of us pamper are Arachnid friends as if they were kin, offering choice tidbits and treats.

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    Greenfingers Greenfingers is the leading UK online gardening store and resource offering gardeners advice and gardening tips.

    473

    You do NOT need to pay any tithe, donation, or offering of any kind, now or in the future.

    474

    The council is offering free trials of the RoSPA Driver Profiler on-line risk assessment tool via the website.

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    It addresses social inclusion by offering a one year traineeship to the long term unemployed.

    476

    Asda is also offering 0 per cent on balance transfers for an introductory period of six months.

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    Instead of offering the weary traveler promised safety, it lured him to his death.

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    Other groups offering veterinary services, such as bovine foot trimmers and equine physiotherapists, could also potentially be regulated under a single structure.

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    The budget offering is now headed to Europe, with a brand-new pc version in tow.

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    The density relieving spheres within CMM dramatically damp vibration, offering a pure, soft feel.

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    Airways Bed & Breakfast Hotel Airways Bed and Breakfast Hotel in London UK offering budget hotel rooms in central london victoria terminal england.

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    Vpro videography State of the art videography service offering a wide variety of options for the creative capture of your special day!

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    The inner tent has a built-in ground sheet and double doors with clear panels offering maximium visibility.

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    A relaxed lagoon pool setting offering breathtaking vistas of Bali âs heartland.

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    Now, during September, they are offering free wap calls to Pay & Go customers again.

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    Roseland Holiday Cottages Small personally run agency offering luxury waterside & country cottages on the beautiful Roseland Peninsula, South Cornwall.

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    St. Pauls Bay extends further north, offering a quieter existence, however the area is very good at offering every conceivable watersport.

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    We pride ourselves upon offering the ultimate in skin care and body care treatments thus enhancing total body wellness.

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    The compact starters are aimed, in particular, at OEMs, offering them reduced panel space and simplified wiring at a low price.

    490

    The 17cm KEVLAR composite cone woofer and 25mm soft dome tweeter deliver a better and more impressive sound offering throughout the full range.

    491

    Yahoo's long list of sites offering literature online.

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    Meanwhile, he had written to Abu Ya`far, the prefect of Isfahan, offering his services; but the new amir of Hamadan getting to hear of this correspondence, and discovering the place of Avicenna's concealment, incarcerated him in a fortress.

    493

    Presently at a feast of Anahite Gregory refused to assist his sovereign in offering pagan sacrifice, and his parentage being now revealed, was thrown into a deep pit at Artashat, where he languished for fourteen years, during which persecution raged in Armenia.

    494

    As the most direct line of transit between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, offering an alternative means of communication with India not greatly inferior to the Egyptian route, the Euphrates route early attracted the attention of the British government.

    495

    Among the Greeks the philosophers had come to use both argument and ridicule against the idea that the offering of material things could be needed by or acceptable to the Maker of them all.

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    Among both Jews and Greeks the earlier forms of the idea had been rationalized into the belief that the most appropriate offering to God is that of a pure and penitent heart, and among them both was the idea that the vocal expression of contrition in prayer or of gratitude in praise is also acceptable.

    497

    That which among Catholics is most commonly regarded in its aspect as an offering and spoken of as the "mass" is usually regarded in its aspect as a participation in the symbols of Christ's death and spoken of as the "communion."

    498

    The obsequious authorities at Milan at once furthered his design by sending an address to him, by requesting the establishment of royalty, and on the 15th of March 1805 by offering the crown to him.

    499

    In West Africa the Mpongwe believe in local spirits, just as do the Eskimo; but they are regarded as inoffensive in the main; true, the passerby must make some trifling offering as he nears their place of abode; but it is only occasionally that mischievous acts, such as the throwing down of a tree on a passer-by, are, in the view of the natives, perpetuated by the Ombuiri.

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    In the course of the 19th century the idea that the different elements are constituted by different groupings or condensations of one primal matter - a speculation which, if proved to be well grounded, would imply the possibility of changing one element into another - found favour with more than one responsible chemist; but experimental research failed to yield any evidence that was generally regarded as offering any support to this hypothesis.