Shortening in A Sentence

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    A contracture is shortening of a muscle, aided sometimes by a weak-opposing force from a neighboring muscle.

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    A perinatal hospice is like its adult counterpart in that it seeks to give every dying individual a comfortable and dignified death without deliberately prolonging or shortening the his or her natural life.

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    All add a few more calories by using organic palm shortening but have no cholesterol and are lower in saturated fat than butter and contain no trans-fats.

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    Alternatively, you can substitute half of the butter for shortening and still use butter for the other half.

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    An ingot gradually builds up from the bottom of the crucible, the carbon electrode being raised from time to time automatically or by hand to suit the diminution of resistance due to the shortening of the arc by the rising ingot.

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    And we must beware of myths - especially the myth that drug relief invariably means a shortening of life.

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    As a way of shortening the name, it was christened Pokemon.

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    As you measure out the butter, shortening, and water, store them in the refrigerator until the last possible moment.

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    Because marshmallow fondant is made with shortening, it is greasier than traditional fondant and can be slightly harder to handle at first.

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    Beginning shortly below Tekrit there are indications of considerable canalization, both for the purpose of irrigating country remote from the river, and also of shortening the course of the river for navigation.

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    Beside shortening the duration of cold symptoms, zinc also soothes a rough, sore throat on contact.

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    Butter, shortening, or similar salve should never be applied to the burn because these prevent heat from escaping and drive the burning process deeper into the skin.

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    By shortening and simplifying the questions, I really render them much more complete.

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    Combine the light corn syrup, canola oil, and shortening in the bowl of an electric mixer.

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    Contracture-A tightening or shortening of muscles that prevents normal movement of the associated limb or other body part.

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    Cooking spray instead of vegetable shortening or butter is a must-have when coating pans for baking.

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    Cream the shortening or butter, salt, corn syrup and vanilla (and other flavoring) together until smooth and well combined.

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    Early identification is a priority if the debilitating, disabling, life shortening and expensive consequences of severe COPD are to be avoided.

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    Electroplating steel spokes puts a compressive stress into their surface, dangerously shortening their fatigue life.

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    Equally, feelings of depression caused by the shortening days may have promoted migration toward more Southern latitudes.

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    Failure to do so may cause shortening of the muscles, which in turn cranks up the risk of future pulls and sprains exponentially.

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    Fats that are solid at room temperature such as lard, butter or shortening are higher in saturated and trans fat.

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    For example, butter, lard, and shortening are all either trans fats or saturated fats, both of which have been associated with heart disease and increased cholesterol levels.

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    For instance, if you carry a heavy box, you hold your arm muscles at a fixed length, neither shortening or lengthening the muscle as you carry it.

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    For more efficient condensation - and also for shortening the apparatus - the central tube may be flattened, bent into a succession of V's, or twisted into a spiral form, the object in each case being to increase the condensing surface.

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    For practical purposes the chief difference between a park seat and a hunting seat consists in the shortening of the stirrups some two or three holes.

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    Grease hands with shortening and sprinkle a work surface with powdered sugar or cornstarch.

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    He contributed to the prosecution of the Hebertists, and was responsible for the law of the 22nd Prairial, which in the case of trials before the Revolutionary Tribunal deprived the accused of the aid of counsel or of witnesses or their defence, on the pretext of shortening the proceedings.

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    He had 30 degrees of anterior angulation, 7 degrees of valgus and 2.5cm of shortening.

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    Hemming the pants and shortening the sleeves are two common fixes, but try to get the best fit possible when you shop.

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    Hold them up against your eyelids to check whether they need shortening.

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    However, telomere shortening cannot be the only mechanism involved in aging at the cellular level.

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    However, the sentence actually includes a shortening of " should have " .

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    However, the sentence actually includes a shortening of " should have ".

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    I hate the shortening of the days, I do n't like working in artificial light.

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    I know that in the past I have railed against shortening, but in this case we are using shortening in our pie crust recipe to give us a better flake.

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    If oil must be used in certain recipes, you can make them healthier by choosing unsaturated fats such as canola, safflower and olive oil instead of vegetable oil, palm oil, vegetable shortening, and lard.

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    If the term of your original mortgage doesn't quite match up with your current financial situation, you may be better off lengthening or shortening the term.

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    If therefore the outer rail is laid at a level above that of the inner rail at the curve, overturning will be resisted more than would be the case if both rails were in the same horizontal plane, since the tilting of the vehicle due to this " superelevation " diminishes the overturning moment, and also increases the restoring moment, by shortening in the one case and lengthening in the other the lever arms at which the respective forces act.

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    If your fondant is sticking to your hands or the countertop, consider coating your fingers and the work surface in shortening.

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    In addition to shortening the period of time you'll need to pay on your car, you can save yourself hundreds of dollars in interest.

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    In either case, the result is scarring and shortening of the SCM muscle.

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    In Eryngium the shortening of the pedicels changes an umbel into a capitulum.

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    In fact, vegetable shortening will often result in a flakier pastry than butter.

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    In particular, the harder vegetable fat and shortening used by the fast food industry to make cakes, biscuits and pastries is especially harmful as they contain incredibly high amounts of saturated and trans-fats.

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    Instead, shortening will stay solid at mouth temperature and results in a waxy residue in the mouth.

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    It adds an interesting look while keeping the laces tight and shortening the laces.

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    It also helps to grease the edges of your cutters with a little shortening to keep the paste from sticking to them.

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    It is characterized by pronounced shortening or absence of the middle phalanges.

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    It is characterized by shortening of the proximal limbs (i.e., the legs from knee to foot and the arms from elbow to hand).

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    Jackson could only see her hair, shortening, then nearly disappearing.

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    Jam, jelly, or fruit fillings and stiff buttercream that's made with shortening will hold up more successfully.

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    Keep the fondant from sticking to the work surface and your fingers by using shortening or a cornstarch/powdered-sugar mixture when you work with it.

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    Knowing how to sew a hem not only works for alterations, but can help when shortening an ankle-length skirt into a mini.

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    Learn as many decorative ways to lace your shoes while keeping them on tightly and preferably shortening the laces as you go.

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    Leave well alone but can do shortening of distal ulna and radius closing wedge osteotomy.

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    Many people also use it as a replacement for shortening in baking.

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    Melt enough shortening (over low heat) to come just 1/8-inch up the side of a 12-inch cast iron skillet or heavy fry pan.

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    Mix together egg, shortening, and brown sugar, and add the remaining ingredients.

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    Muscle movements involve active lengthening, active shortening, and fixed lengthening or shortening.

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    Nerve damage may lead to a prolonged or permanent muscle shortening called contracture.

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    Of course, it's also easy to transform a project's instructions for creating a necklace by simple shortening the length of the beaded strand to make a simple bracelet.

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    On walls, moderate pruning is needed, mainly shortening rampant shoots and removing weak wood.

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    Once shortening liquefies, raise heat to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.

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    Other fondant recipe ingredients may include gelatin, shortening, or vanilla extract.

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    Other symptoms of complete dislocation include a shortening of the leg and limited ability to abduct the leg, or move it outward.

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    Physical therapy is used to preserve range of motion and minimize deformity caused by muscle shortening, or contracture.

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    Probably connected with the Rand i For projected routes, shortening the journey between Europe and Johannesburg, see the Geog.

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    Reduced melt temperature is another benefit, lowering crystallization and cooling times and thus shortening cycles, and also saving energy costs.

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    She does a sort of Shortening, which in culinary terms means making the pastry crumbly to create a nicer effect on the palate.

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    Shortening doesn't melt at mouth temperature like butter does.

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    Shortening is traditionally used in baked goods, including cookies, biscuits and pie crusts.

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    Shortening was first widely available when Crisco started marketing it in 1911.

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    Similarly, a slight shortening of the route past Colchester meant moving markers toward the west from Manningtree to Harwich.

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    Since heels lengthen the legs and flats don't, you can get away with longer skirts without shortening your legs by wearing heels.

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    Since the method I have been taught to make pie dough utilizes shortening and I have gotten consistently excellent results with this recipe, I am, this time, advocating the use of shortening.

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    So although butter would be the classic option, you could substitute vegetable shortening with good results.

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    Soul food is not health food; although, it can be made somewhat healthier by using vegetable oil rather than shortening for the frying.

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    Spectrum organic vegan shortening is a good choice for people who want the flakiness of shortening while using an organic product that is not derived from animals.

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    Spectrum organic vegan shortening is made from 100 percent organic palm oil.

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    Spectrum shortening comes in a 24 ounce container and is available at natural food stores nationwide.

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    Stronger hydrogen bonding causes the O···O distance to be shorter, so easing the further shortening required for transfer.

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    The act of lifting weights causes muscle contraction through flexion (shortening or pulling) and extension (lengthening and pushing).

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    The cause of these evils he declared to be the unrepresentative character of the Irish constitution; and among the remedies he proposed was the shortening of parliaments.

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    The concentric phase of a muscular contraction occurs when a muscle is shortening.

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    The demonstration which it affords of the extreme shortening of the Euthyneurous visceral nerve-loop is most instructive and valuable for comparison with and explanation of the condition of the nervous centres in Cephalopoda, as also of some Opisthobranchia.

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    The following treatments may be effective in relieving symptoms or shortening the duration of canker sores in their children.

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    The good news is that Spectrum organic vegan shortening is trans fat free.

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    The Huntington College of Health Sciences adds that ginger may be effective in shortening the duration of colds and flu.

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    The innovative solution arrived at by Halcrow was to reduce the shear forces at the supports by shortening the spans.

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    The only drawback with using either these specialty margarines or vegetable shortening in your pastries is that the butter flavor would be missing and the mouth feel will be much different.

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    The pruning for fruit consists in shortening back the laterals which had been nailed in at the disbudding, or summer pruning, their length depending on their individual vigour and the luxuriance of the tree.

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    The same effect can be produced by shortening the back leg by a screw placed in the direction of its length.

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    The secret is finding the right ingredient to substitute for the high fat butter, oil, shortening and/or cream a dessert recipe calls for.

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    The shortening of the analog license periods will have no effect on the duration of the digital replacement licenses.

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    The shortening of the time was perhaps accounted for by the fact that the new House of Commons consisted of 331 Liberals, 249 Conservatives, 86 Home Rulers and Independents, Parnell thus holding the balance of parties.

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    The specific aim would be the shortening of cycle times and the greater confidence in an acceptable and serviceable product to a higher specification.

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    The summer pruning of established wall or espalier-rail trees consists chiefly in the timely displacing, shortening back, or rubbing off of the superfluous shoots, so that the winter pruning, in horizontal training, is little more than adjusting the leading shoots and thinning out the spurs, which should be kept close to the wall and allowed to retain but two or at most three buds.

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    The term shortening comes from the idea that the fat gets in the way of the flour making long, chewy strands of gluten and gives baked goods a consistency similar to shortbread.

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    The watering was caused by poor apposition of the lid to the globe caused by shortening of the lid secondary to excess skin removal.

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    These answers that can be used to make solid business decisions while reducing costs, increasing quality, and shortening development cycles.

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    These, however, since they share the general lengthening or shortening of wave-length through motion, are thereby shifted, to a certain definite extent, into visibility, and so produce accurate chromatic compensation.

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    They move deeper rocks over shallower ones and accommodate crustal shortening.

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    They prayed for the auditores, they blessed them and interceded for them, thereby shortening the process of purification the latter had to pass through after death.

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    This "true love" tattoo reads "Winona Forever" and this obviously was not the case and he has since had it modified by removing part of "Winona" and shortening the banner so it now reads "Wino Forever".

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    This bond distance is longer for the s-cis isomer, which also shows a shortening of the central N-N bond (Figure 1 ).

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    This causes a shortening of the hair 's growth cycle.

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    This causes a shortening of the hair's growth cycle.

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    This confirms that with modern treatment regimens there is no significant shortening of the lifespan with PD.

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    This motion pulls their fixed ends closer, thereby shortening the cell and, ultimately, the muscle itself.

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    This shortening is called contraction.

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    This should be done about March, cutting out some of the old wood, and shortening back some of the younger growths of the preceding year.

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    This works on slacks and skirts, whether you're shortening them, lengthening them or fixing a fray.

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    Thus, almost all of the increase in muscular work associated with running up inclines must occur as a result of increased muscle shortening.

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    Thus, beef fat is more saturated than chicken fat and vegetable shortening is more saturated than vegetable oil.

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    To avoid cold shortening, meat must not reach 10 o C within 10 hours post mortem in lamb carcasses.

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    To illustrate this, take a look at a pound of lean meat next to a pound of shortening.

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    To make the shortening, Spectrum presses the palm oil and refines it with a chemical-free process.

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    Traditionally, shortening is a shelf-stable substitute for lard.

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    Try coating hands and work surface lightly with shortening when kneading to stop fondant from sticking.

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    Try shortening names or using initials to enable a greater number of words to be used.

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    Under the heading "Remarks" are noted (for vessels with sail power) making, shortening and trimming sails; and (for all ships) employment of crew, times of passing prominent landmarks, altering of course, and any subject of interest and FIG.

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    Unfortunately, by neglecting the dental health care of their dog, owners are inadvertently shortening the lifespan of the pet they love and are trying to protect.

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    Using a pastry cutter or a plastic bench scraper, cut in the butter and shortening.

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    Using an electric mixer, preferably a stand model, cream together the butter and shortening.

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    Using ultrasound, a doctor can examine the fetus's skeleton for bowing of the leg or arm bones, fractures, shortening, or other bone abnormalities that may indicate OI.

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    Vegan shortening that is trans fat free is a wonderful innovation for home bakers who want a nice result without the harmful hydrogenated oils.

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    We have found that the printing process for the full size plans in the Stearman has produced a shortening of the length.

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    When the butter and shortening are combined, add the baking powder, sugar, salt, vanilla and almond extract and beat on medium to medium-high speed until light and airy.

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    With a successful treatment, the hair remains salon-perfect for months, requiring very little upkeep and shortening the amount of time necessary to get ready for work or school every morning.

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    You can also use vegetable oil or shortening if you like.

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    You can do this by shortening or even eliminating rests between sets.

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    You can substitute shortening for butter in recipes for cookies and other baked delights, but they won't taste exactly the same.