Dangerous Sentence Examples

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  • You're treading on dangerous ground.

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  • It would be dangerous to move now.

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  • If it was so dangerous out there in the woods, why did Giddon feel so safe?

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  • I don't want some dangerous criminal living next door.

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  • It isn't as dangerous as it looks.

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  • I was told it would be dangerous because of the enemy.

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  • Didn't I tell you it was dangerous to be alone?

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  • That's dangerous for someone as pretty as you.

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  • Come on, I think you've seen enough to convince yourself that I have a valid point when I say it's dangerous to wander in the woods.

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  • They say ice climbing is a dangerous sport, so remember you all, be careful out there, you hear?

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  • It would be a long journey and a dangerous one.

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  • It was becoming dangerous to remain in Bogucharovo.

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  • Outside of snakes and insects, there was nothing dangerous about the forest.

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  • How often had she heard how dangerous abandoned mines were?

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  • You don't know how dangerous he is.

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  • The mess in Ireland earlier made her body crawl in memory of the dangerous power.

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  • A civil war where both sides have enough dangerous shit to destroy the world twenty times over.

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  • The mules were lathered - a condition that could be dangerous in the desert.

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  • You know how dangerous they are!

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  • You'll see everything from there and it's less dangerous, and I'll come for you.

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  • Damian would never kill his brother, Jule, but if the woman was dangerous enough to warrant a Watcher's attention, he couldn't look the other way.

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  • Don't you girls know how dangerous it is to be walking at night around here?

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  • Brady watched her, doubtful the sort of mayhem that occurred on the compound was as dangerous as that they'd encountered on their trip up the mountain.

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  • For many days he wandered through rough and dangerous places.

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  • Of course, the trail would be twice as dangerous now, with slippery wet rocks and washed out places.

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  • The rustle of the battle of Tarutino frightened the beast, and it rushed forward onto the hunter's gun, reached him, turned back, and finally--like any wild beast--ran back along the most disadvantageous and dangerous path, where the old scent was familiar.

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  • I helped you, but all the same I must tell you the truth; it is a dangerous business, and if you think about it--a stupid business.

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  • I remembered how isolated these roads were, but I forgot how dangerous they were.

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  • It would be dangerous.

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  • Such radical redistribution attempts are dangerous games, for the rich are creators of economic opportunity, not just for themselves, but as employers, for society.

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  • It is becoming dangerous to speak French in the streets.

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  • Now that he's the boss down here, it's a dangerous combination.

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  • He darted and dashed, stopped and sprinted at its commands, focused on navigating the dangerous territory.

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  • Power without mercy is dangerous, son.

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  • The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagration, entreating him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were.

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  • Lots of dangerous trails look inviting around here.

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  • Is this practice of chelating minerals really to our benefit or a dangerous act of ignorance?

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  • Her father was dangerous, even if she didn't yet know what he was trying to do.

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  • That's when I knew what everyone says about old mines being dangerous is true.

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  • It was dangerous to travel alone like this.

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  • The RKO studios had nearly finished the shooting of dangerous moonlight when they approached Rachmaninov himself for permission to use his Piano Concerto No.2.

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  • The same evening that the prince gave his instructions to Alpatych, Dessalles, having asked to see Princess Mary, told her that, as the prince was not very well and was taking no steps to secure his safety, though from Prince Andrew's letter it was evident that to remain at Bald Hills might be dangerous, he respectfully advised her to send a letter by Alpatych to the Provincial Governor at Smolensk, asking him to let her know the state of affairs and the extent of the danger to which Bald Hills was exposed.

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  • It can't be any more dangerous than driving around in Tulsa.

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  • However, a tenant could sue the landlord for negligence if there was a dangerous item on the property.

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  • Journalists in Pakistan also faced difficulties, mainly reporting from the often lawless and extremely dangerous tribal regions that border Afghanistan.

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  • This was to make the piece legitimate in those jurisdictions which enforce a caliber floor for dangerous game.

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  • Is there any dangerous lunatic or idiot in the Workhouse?

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  • My uncle was a dangerous madman, if you will, but he was not cruel and base as I had feared.

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  • Lived deep and dangerous and sucked the marrow out of life.

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  • With the passing of seven decades, the roadside memorial made of stone quarried at Verdun, had developed a dangerous list.

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  • This is a dangerous game, not least for the Iranian mullahs.

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  • O poor Antonio, tho nothing be so needful To thy estate as pity, yet I find Nothing so dangerous!

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  • Emissions dangerous to health include nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, lead and particulates.

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  • The whole process was highly dangerous and the crew, each one an expert oarsman, risked their lives to save those of others.

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  • For men it is certainly more grave, or at least much more dangerous, to deny original sin that to deny God.

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  • An overdose of paracetamol is much more dangerous than an overdose of paracetamol is much more dangerous than an overdose of aspirin.

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  • For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish.

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  • Primate testing often fails to predict dangerous side effects of medications, especially pertaining to the induction of birth defects.

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  • There was a depth of 14 feet of crude petroleum in the tank, giving off a dangerous gas which rendered him unconscious.

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  • They have transformed a dangerous playground full of drug needles and other detritus into an oasis of tranquility for the children who live nearby.

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  • Gradually the tarmac was crumbled at the edge causing dangerous potholes.

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  • But she had to remind the others every now and then in case the boredom made them think up dangerous pranks.

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  • Each new paroxysm will bear a more severe and dangerous character.

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  • In a few sinister incidents, you might be lured to a dangerous appointment by someone with a highly predatory agenda.

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  • Without an effective preventive worming program pasture is likely to become heavily contaminated with potentially dangerous levels of Infective larvae.

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  • I used to think that sharing a planet with the Washington Establishment was like sitting in a room with a dangerous psychopath.

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  • The inner levels are quite dangerous too, and people often go psychotic on them.

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  • Spanning the coastline of northern Lancashire and southern Cumbria, Morecambe Bay has dangerous quicksands and fast moving tides.

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  • They were subduing, for want of a better word, some dangerous ruffian.

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  • Paul Anderson managed to claim the scalp of their dangerous 22 year old female number 4 batsman.

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  • What is more dangerous tho is the incitement to political sedition.

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  • The doctrines of " clear blue water " and " the middle ground " are equally dangerous seductions.

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  • Would purely sentimental values justify flying a plane which is dangerous?

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  • Dangerous is chomping on the bit and ready for some on tour shenanigans once more.

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  • On Sunday 16 April 1995, two boys were seen in a dangerous situation at the foot of the cliffs at Saltburn.

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  • I wanted to have that slapstick which also deals with very dangerous things.

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  • We were transformed from dangerous activists to good money spenders, and no trouble tourists.

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  • However, this policy does not cover sporting or dangerous activities, for which you are advised to seek additional cover.

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  • His visionary voice is potentially stifled by sorrow and grief, and he attempts to contain that dangerous erosion of his prophetic vision.

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  • A list of commonly used dangerous substances can be supplied to you by the HSE.

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  • People who don't know the meanings of words aren't just fools, they're dangerous subversives.

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  • Both are involved in the removal of dangerous by-products, the former removing superoxide and the latter peroxides.

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  • This enzyme converts dangerous superoxide free radicals to the less dangerous hydrogen peroxide.

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  • Perhaps this dangerous latitude comes of the fact that we never have any temperance " rot " going on in Hartford.

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  • The constant temptation to cheat by using dangerous performance enhancing drugs is also a scandal.

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  • Other dangerous sharks include the tiger shark, mako, bronze and black- tipped whalers, and hammerhead.

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  • With the program's high ratings came an equally high profile, and every week we walked a dangerous tightrope.

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  • The twelve day arduous trek to base camp is quite dangerous.

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  • Secondly, an unhealthy dualism that exalts " spirituality " over concrete action and practice is not only profoundly unchristian, but also dangerous.

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  • Less dangerous is one of the records tickling the underbelly of the French top 20.

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  • When the sluices are open dangerous undertows may be encountered in the pens.

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  • It was becoming more and more dangerous to remain at Bald Hills, and next day they moved the prince to Bogucharovo, the doctor accompanying him.

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  • Like his father, a pro-Austrian by conviction, he contrived even in this respect to carry the Polish nation, always so distrustful of the Germans, entirely along with him, thereby avoiding all serious complications with the ever dangerous Turk.

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  • These dangerous diseases are slowly disappearing as sanitary conditions are improved.

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  • He returned to England in the same year; but in 1571 he was in Lorraine, whither two physicians were sent by the queen to his relief in a dangerous illness.

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  • The coast itself is broken and dangerous, there being many small indentations, which are usually masked by islands or shoals.

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  • In 1825 the completion of the Erie Canal with its western terminus at Buffalo greatly increased the importance of the place, which now rapidly outstripped and soon absorbed Black Rock, a village adjoining it on the N., which had at one time threatened to be a dangerous rival.

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  • Time-honoured custom had hitherto reckoned primogeniture in the male line as the best 'title to the Russian crown; in the ustav of 1722 Peter denounced primogeniture in general as a stupid, dangerous, and even unscriptural practice of dubious origin.

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  • Those who did so were suspected of an inclination towards novel and dangerous modes of thinking, then rife on the Continent and slowly finding their way to England.

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  • Holiness is dangerous and may even involve degradation, as in the case of the Burmese para-gyoon or servitor of the pagoda who is by heredity for ever a slave and outcast, unclean of the unclean, with whom none may eat or intermarry, yet ever tending and keeping clean the shrine.

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  • The " Yellow Peril " is considered less dangerous in Hawaii than formerly, although it was used as a political cry in the campaign for American annexation.

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  • To his firmness, and at the same time to the conciliatory readiness with which he accepted and elaborated the principles of a modus vivendi, the two powers owed the avoidance of what threatened to be a dangerous quarrel.

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  • And while foreign affairs were being admirably conducted by Lord Lansdowne, they were critical enough to make it dangerous to contemplate a "swopping of horses."

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  • Their situation was so dangerous just because it combined inward debility and outward pressure, both tending to the same result, viz.

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  • The harbour is an open roadstead, very dangerous to shipping in northerly winds, and the discharge and loading of cargoes is effected by means of lighters at considerable risk and expense.

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  • But, as regards its temporal aims on Italy, the most inconvenient and tenacious, if not the most dangerous, adversary of the 12th-century papacy was the Roman commune.

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  • The strength of classical reminiscence and the instinct of liberty were reinforced by the support given to communal aspirations by the popular agitator and dangerous tribune, Arnold of Arnold of Brescia, whose theories arrived at an opportune Brescia.

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  • But he was soon confronted with an extremely dangerous enemy, in the person of Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan, who was aiming at the sovereignty of all Italy.

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  • Perhaps even more dangerous was the employment of the whole ecclesiastical organization, and of Catholicism generally, for political purposes.

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  • Now sole emperor, he saw in the one Catholic church the best means of counteracting the movement in his vast empire towards disintegration; and he at once realized how dangerous dogmatic squabbles might prove to its unity.

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  • At last a sermon he was persuaded to preach in London exasperated John Stokesley, bishop of the diocese, and seemed to furnish that fervent persecutor with an opportunity to overthrow the most dangerous champion of the new opinions.

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  • At the outbreak of this conflict in 1420 they gave ready support to their king Sigismund against the Bohemian rebels, whom they regarded as dangerous to their German nationality, but by this act they exposed themselves to a series of invasions (1425-1435) by which the country was severely devastated.

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  • The child-labour law of 1909 forbids the employment of children under eighteen years of age in blast furnaces, tanneries, quarries, in managing elevator lifts or hoisting machines, in oiling dangerous machinery while in motion, at switch tending, as brakesmen, firemen, engineers, motormen and in other positions of similar character.

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  • Access is gained to the harbour through a winding and dangerous passage over 2 m.

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  • A dangerous bar at the mouth of the river permits the entrance only of the smaller coasting steamers, but the port is an important commercial centre, and exports considerable quantities of cotton, hides, manicoba, rubber, fruit, and palm wax.

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  • He would neither conciliate Sweden, henceforth his most dangerous enemy, nor guard himself against her by a definite system of counter-alliances.

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  • Among the Battas of Sumatra rice or grain is sprinkled on the head of a man who returns from a dangerous enterprise, and in the latter case the grains are called padiruma tondi, " means to make the soul (tondi) stay at home."

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  • It is regarded by many savage peoples as highly dangerous to arouse a sleeper suddenly, as his soul may not have time to return.

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  • Still more dangerous is it to move a sleeper, for the soul on its return might not be able to find the body.

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  • A kinder or more faithful friend, a deadlier or more dangerous enemy, it would be impossible to dread or to desire.

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  • Still, Augustus resorted thither; here Tiberius recovered from a dangerous illness, and here Hadrian probably built himself a villa.

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  • They created profound excitement among orthodox theologians, and evoked many replies, in which Lessing was bitterly condemned for having published writings of so dangerous a tendency.

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  • The earthen dikes are protected by stone-slopes and by piles, and at the more dangerous points also by zinkstukken (sinking pieces), artificial structures of brushwood laden with stones, and measuring some 400 yds.

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  • The sovereignty of the provinces was offered to Henry III., but the king, harassed by civil discords in his own country, declined the dangerous honour (1585).

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  • Later on, gilds were established, in spite of the prohibition of the old charters; but they were strictly subordinate to the town authorities, who appointed their aldermen and suppressed them when they considered them useless or dangerous.

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  • He had in 1886 a troublous and dangerous situation to deal with.

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  • Fifty thousand workmen struck, in Brussels there were violent demonstrations, and the agitation assumed generally a dangerous aspect.

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  • Its inundations, dangerous even at Cracow, become still more so in the plain, when the accumulations of ice in its lower course obstruct the outflow, or the heavy rains in the Carpathians raise its level.

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  • He pours much hackneyed scorn on the common herd, declares the sovereign to be the source of law, and asserts that popular freedom is dangerous.

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  • The conspiracy was regarded by Mendoza, the Spanish ambassador, one of its chief instigators, and also by Walsingham, as the most dangerous of recent years; it included, in its general purpose of destroying the government, a large number of Roman Catholics, and had ramifications all over the country.

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  • The passport being delayed, he offered to reveal to Walsingham a dangerous conspiracy, but the latter sent no reply, and meanwhile the ports were closed and none allowed to leave the kingdom for some days.

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  • The coast is dangerous, and the only two harbours, Ellis Bay and Fox Bay, are very indifferent.

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  • They sometimes continue for days together with great violence, rendering navigation dangerous and driving the sea-water up over the shores.

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  • Republican and Socialist agitation, culminating in a series of dangerous risings, strengthened the position of the king as defender of middle-class interest; and since the middle classes constituted the pays legal which alone was represented in Parliament, he came to regard his position as unassailable, especially after the suppression of the risings under Blanqui and Barbes in 1839.

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  • Moreover, it was a diplomatic axiom in Denmark, founded on experience, that an absolute monarchy in Sweden was incomparablymore dangerous to her neighbour than a limited monarchy, and after the collapse of Swedish absolutism with Charles XII., the upholding of the comparatively feeble, and ultimately anarchical, parliamentary government of Sweden became a question of principle with Danish statesmen throughout the 18th century.

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  • He got, however, upon more dangerous ground when, passing wholly by the political insinuation against himself, he roundly charged Hobbes with having written Leviathan in support of Oliver's title, and deserted his royal master in distress.

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  • Unpleasant, but not dangerous, is another disease, the so-called "Bagdad date-mark," known elsewhere as the "Aleppo button," &c. This disease extends along the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, and the country adjacent from Aleppo and Diarbekr to the Persian Gulf, although there are individual towns and regions in this territory which seem to be exempt.

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  • They were important because they could maintain the impotence of the crown to check disorder by imposing conditions upon candidates for the throne, and by taking care that no prince powerful enough to be dangerous to themselves should be elected to this position.

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  • Moreover, every appointment to an ecclesiastical benefice was to be notified to the president of the province, and the confirmation could be refused on the ground that there were facts which could support the assumption that the appointment would be dangerous to public order.

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  • It must, however, be recognized that a continuation of the ambitious policy of the last few years might easily have involved Germany in dangerous disputes.

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  • The persecution of the Poles in Prussia naturally iroused indignation in Austria, where the Poles had for long been among the strongest elements on which the government depended; and it was not always easy to prevent the agitation on behalf of the Germans in Bohemia from assuming a dangerous aspect.

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  • In his life he was orderly and retiring, averse from taking decisions, though not incapable of acting firmly, as when he cut short the dangerous intrigues of his able minister Ensenada by dismissing and imprisoning him.

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  • But in the actual temper of the Viennese the slightest concession was dangerous.

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  • But the hostility of the Church was dangerous.

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  • The Genius, now that it had become a vehicle for this dangerous doctrine, was a paper to be feared and intensely hated.

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  • The Dogs Act 1865 rendered owners of dogs liable for injuries to cattle and sheep; the Dogs Act 1906 extended the owner's liability for injury done to any cattle by a dog, and further, where a dog is proved to have injured cattle or chased sheep it may be treated as a dangerous dog and must be kept under proper control or be destroyed.

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  • At the same time the existence of the Pindari state was not only dangerous to the British, as being a warlike power always ready to turn against them, but it was a scourge to India itself.

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  • Yet there existed no dangerous political dissatisfaction.

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  • Two years later (1858) he was sent with a small escort on a dangerous mission to Khiva and Bokhara.

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  • It sometimes charges the hunter without provocation, and is very dangerous when wounded.

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  • In bronchitis with profuse expectoration the use of morphine is particularly dangerous, as it is likely to check the cough so necessary for getting rid of the secretion, but in the converse condition it usefully allays the harassing cough by diminishing the excitability of the respiratory centre.

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  • Excavation at Nippur is particularly difficult and costly by reason of the inaccessibility of the site, and the dangerous and unsettled condition of the surrounding country, and still more by reason of the immense mass of later debris under which the earlier and more important Babylonian remains are buried.

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  • Religion proved for him a less trustworthy and more dangerous support than did the conservative and secular feeling of Syria for the Omayyads.

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  • We thus see how the power of the house of Omayya developed itself, and how there arose against it an opposition, which led in the first place to the murder of Othman and the Caliphate of Ali, and furthermore, during the whole period of the Omayyad caliphs, repeatedly to dangerous outbreaks, culminating in the great catastrophe which placed the Abbasids on the throne.

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  • Ali, it is unlikely that he used it against less dangerous persons.

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  • There was, however, a much more dangerous candidate, viz.

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  • Mokhtar was now at the zenith of power, but Ibn Zobair, determined to get rid at all costs of so dangerous an enemy, named his brother Mus`ab governor of Basra and ordered him to march against Kufa.

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  • To his unflagging constancy was due the suppression of the dangerous rebellion of Ibn Ash`ath.

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  • He had at once, however, to put down a dangerous rebellion.

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  • Bishr led the rest of the Syrian army to Ceuta, and thence, near the end of 741, to Spain, where they aided in the suppression of the dangerous revolt of the peninsular Berbers.

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  • When the tumult of the Rawendis took place he saw clearly that his personal safety was not assured in Hashimiya,' where a riot of the populace could be very dangerous, and his troops were continually exposed to the perverting influence of the fickle and disloyal citizens of Kufa.

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  • In the following year, Mandi was menaced by a far more dangerous revolt, led by a sectary, known generally as Mokanna, or "the veiled one," because he always appeared in public wearing a mask.

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  • Abu Sa`id al-Jannabi, who had founded a Carmathian state in Bahrein, the north-eastern province of Arabia (actually called Lahsa), which could become dangerous for the pilgrim road as well as for the commerce of Basra, in the year 900 routed an army sent against him by Motadid, and warned the caliph that it would be safer to let the Carmathians alone.

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  • Far more dangerous, however, for the Caliphate of Bagdad at the time were the Carmathians of Bahrein, then guided by Abu Tahir, the son of Abu Sa`id Jannabi.

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  • This attempt is connected with the psychological turn given to recent philosophy by Wundt and others, and is dangerous only so far as psychology itself is hypothetical.

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  • In 3 2 B.C. Antony's repudiation of his wife Octavia, sister of Octavian, and the discovery of his will, with its clear proofs of Cleopatra's dangerous ascendancy, brought matters to a climax, and war was declared, not indeed against Antony, but against Cleopatra.

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  • Through all his pleasant experiences of French society, and through the fits of dangerous illness by which they were diversified, he continued to build up his history of the Shandy family, but the work did not progress as rapidly as it had done.

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  • To this last class belong some of the most important cities in France, wherever the king had power enough to withhold liberties deemed dangerous and unnecessary.

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  • Where the reptile is venerated or feared it is usually inviolable, and among the Brassmen of the Niger the dangerous and destructive cobra was especially protected by an article in the diplomatic treaty of 1856 for the Bight of Biafra (Maclennan, 524).

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  • The news of the events in Syria and especially of the deprivation of Mehemet Ali had produced in France what appeared to be an exceedingly dangerous temper; the French government declared that it regarded the maintenance of Mehemet Ali in Egypt as essential to the European balance of power; and Louis Philippe sought to make it clear to the British government, through the king of the Belgians, that, whatever might be his own desire to maintain peace, in certain events to do so would be to risk his throne.

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  • Sometimes, indeed, such contact with deity is thought to be dangerous, and the rites indicate avoidance (tabu), and sometimes it is thought desirable.

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  • Dangerous rocks outside the mouth have been partially removed and the remainder protected, and the Tyne forms a very safe harbour of refuge.

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  • Even below Rayoh navigation is rendered difficult and occasionally dangerous by similar obstructions.

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  • It is also exposed to the dangerous Papagayos tornadoes, caused by the prevailing north-easterly winds meeting opposite currents from the Pacific. It is drained on the south by the San Juan river, which flows generally east by south to the Caribbean Sea.

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  • In fact dissemination seems to have taken place, as usual, by the conversion of one house after another into a focus of disease, a process favoured by the fatal custom of shutting up infected houses with all their inmates, which was not only almost equivalent to a sentence of death on all therein, but caused a dangerous concentration of the poison.

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  • By the Venice convention a number of articles of merchandise are classed as susceptible and liable to be refused admission, but the only ones which there is any reason to consider dangerous are used clothing and rags.

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  • But a more dangerous enemy was soon to appear on the eastern border.

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  • As this oxide is a dangerous explosive, great care must be taken in its preparation; the chlorate is finely powdered and added in the cold, in small quantities at a time, to the acid contained in a retort.

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  • At this moment the most dangerous point appeared to be the extreme left wing, where the 50th Div.

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  • Conrad and Boroevic were making no headway, but a more dangerous attack was being conducted by Krauss, between the Brenta and the Piave.

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  • These islands form a continuation of a dangerous granite reef extending along the south coast of Finland.

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  • The only remarkable feature in the island is a stalactite cavern on the south coast, which is reached by a narrow passage broken by two steep and dangerous descents which are accomplished by the aid of rope-ladders.

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  • Severe storms make navigation dangerous in winter.

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  • The movements of the waters are of great irregularity and complexity, rendering navigation difficult and dangerous.

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  • Suffolk, now Henry's chief minister, found a convenient banishment for a dangerous rival by appointing York to be lieutenant of Ireland for ten years (9th of December 1447).

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  • A law establishing an eighthour day for underground miners and smelter employees (1899) was unanimously voided by the state supreme court, but in 1902 the people amended the constitution and ordered the general assembly to re-enact the law for labourers in mines, smelters and dangerous employments.

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  • The opening chapters effortlessly of this book guide the reader through the dangerous shoals of classification theory.

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  • Maybe he thinks he knows better, or maybe he just thinks that you're a dangerous sociopath.

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  • One legend tells how he lured a Revenue cutter to its doom in a dangerous cove of which he alone knew the soundings.

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  • The canal tow paths were a dangerous place to be especially for children.

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  • You see a dangerous tyrant, I see an imperialistic war just like Vietnam.

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  • A majority of the voters approved of Jackson's fight against what Clay had once denounced as a dangerous and unconstitutional monopoly.

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  • Moral sense seemed to them a subjective affair, dangerous to the interests of religion.

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  • She had no gale of popular enthusiasm to carry her forward, representing as she did not a newly arisen principle but the opposition to a principle which she maintained to be dangerous and exaggerated.

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  • Bacon may prove a dangerous instrument."

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  • At all events when Coke, who as a councillor already knew the facts of the case, was consulted regarding the new proposal of the king, he at once objected to it, saying that " this particular and auricular taking of opinions " was " new and dangerous," and " not according to the custom of the realm."

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  • It is, of course, dangerous to form an extreme judgment on an isolated and partially understood case, of which also we have no explanation from Bacon himself, but if the interpretation advanced by Heath be the true one, Bacon certainly suffered his first, and, so far as we can see, just judgment on the case to be set aside, and the whole matter to be reopened in obedience to a request from Buckingham.

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  • Dredging machines are kept constantly at work, while steamers are stationed near the most dangerous sandbanks to assist vessels that run aground.

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  • The wound was at once seen to be dangerous, and Carrel was conveyed to the house of a friend, where he died after two days' suffering.

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  • His ruthlessness in this case, dangerous precedent as it was, was perhaps necessary; individual interests could not be respected.

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  • The independent system of motors is generally adopted, because it is found more economical and better for driving purposes, besides dispensing with the overhead shafting and belting, always unsightly, and dangerous to the workpeople.

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  • In the former class he places supernatural beings (including men with man y as well as ghosts and spirits), blood, new-born children with their mothers, and corpses; which list might be considerably extended, for instance, by the inclusion of natural portents, and animals and plants such as are strikingly odd, dangerous or useful.

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  • It is true that what is certainly known about Martin hardly seems to provide sufficient reason for Eustache Dauger being regarded for so long a time as a specially dangerous person.

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  • United States of America.-The first Baptist Church in America was that founded in the Providence settlement on Narragansett Bay under the leadership of Roger Williams. Having been sentenced to banishment (October 1635) by the Massachusetts Court because of his persistence in advocating separatistic views deemed unsettling and dangerous, to escape deportation to England he betook himself (January 1636) to the wilderness, where he was hospitably entertained.

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  • Some critics, on the ground that Horace would not have ventured to attack so dangerous an adversary, assume the existence of a poet whose real name was Furius (or Cornelius) Alpinus.

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  • Every night Hero placed a lamp in the top of the tower where she dwelt by the sea, and Leander, guided by it, swam across the dangerous Hellespont.

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  • It is called the Brahmakunda or Parasuramkunda; and although the journey to it is both difficult and dangerous, it is annually visited by thousands of devotees.

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  • Though strongly opposed to the adoption of that constitution, owing to what he regarded as its dangerous infringements upon the independent power of the states, he accepted the place of senator in hope of bringing about amendments, and proposed the Tenth Amendment in substantially the form in which it was adopted.

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  • Charles's subsequent endeavour, in stress of circumstances, to gain a friend by dividing his Polish conquests with the aspiring elector of Brandenburg was a reversal of his original policy and only resulted in the establishment on the southern confines of Sweden of a new rival almost as dangerous as Denmark, her ancient rival in the west.

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  • For France was too distant to be dangerous.

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  • The landings are generally dangerous because of the surf, and the anchorages are unsafe from storms on the unprotected side.

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  • Neither are there any dangerous species of Carnivora, which are represented by the timid puma (Felis concolor), three species of wildcats, three of the fox, two of Conepatus, a weasel, sea-otter and six species of seal.

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  • Aguilas is built on the landward side of a small peninsula, between two bays - the Puerto Ponente, a good harbour, on the south-west, and the Puerto Levanto, which is somewhat dangerous to shipping in rough weather, on the north-east.

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  • The Rebeccaites soon became more violent and dangerous.

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  • True, war with Sparta followed immediately, over the division of the spoils, and the campaigns of the Spartan generals in Asia Minor (399395) were all the more dangerous as they gave occasion to numerous rebellions.

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  • But he had not removed all dangerous members of the royal house, nor had he gauged the temper of the times or people.

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  • It was, however, in the Persian Gulf that the rivalry between Great Britain and Russia threatened to become dangerous.

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  • During that time they were really dangerous to the great Church; for in fact they maintained certain genuine Christian ideas, which the Catholic Church had forgotten.

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  • Crime had already diminished; it was calculated that the annual losses inflicted on the public by the depredations of the dangerous classes had appreciably fallen and a larger number of convictions had been secured.

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  • On the restoration of constitutional government under Louis Philippe, police action was less dangerous, but the danger revived under the second empire.

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  • The coast, fully exposed to the open ocean, abounds in fine cliff scenery, including numerous caves and natural arches, but is notoriously dangerous to shipping.

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  • But protective processes misdirected or carried to excess may become injurious or even dangerous to the organism.

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  • Although the anti-toxins which are used in the cure of infective diseases are not dangerous to life, yet they sometimes cause unpleasant consequences, more especially an urticarial eruption almost exactly like that which follows eating mussels or other shell-fish.

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  • In the city of tyrants it would have been dangerous to present comedies like those of the Athenian stage, in which attacks were made upon the authorities.

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  • Moreover the Graaff Reinet speech showed that Milner was aware of the dangerous policy being followed by the Bond.

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  • There were, moreover, dangerous differences on such questions as Asiatic immigration, the status of, natives, mining, agriculture, &c. Thus the antagonism between the various states on economic lines was at the end of 1906 greater than any racial divisions.

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  • Presbyterianism constituted a dangerous encroachment on the royal prerogative; the national church and the cavalier party were indeed the natural supporters of the authority of the crown, but on the other hand they refused to countenance the dependence upon France; Roman Catholicism at that moment was the obvious medium of governing without parliaments, of French pensions and of reigning without trouble, and was naturally the faith of Charles's choice.

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  • But even his most hostile teachers were amazed by the brilliance of his natural gifts, and, while still a boy, he possessed that charm of manner which was to make him so fascinating and so dangerous in later life, coupled with the strong dramatic instinct which won for him his honourable place in Swedish literature.

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  • Though, even then, his guilt seems to have been regarded as doubtful, he was looked upon as dangerous, and it was thought better to restrain him.

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  • If the delator lost his case or refused to carry it through, he was liable to the same penalties as the accused; he was exposed to the risk of vengeance at the hands of the proscribed in the event of their return, or of their relatives; while emperors like Tiberius would have no scruples about banishing or putting out of the way those of his creatures for whom he had no further use, and who might have proved dangerous to himself.

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  • Having succeeded in quelling a dangerous rebellion headed by his cousin Behram Khan, this able prince at length died in extreme old age in the month of June 1795, leaving three sons and five daughters.

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  • In 1839, when the British army advanced through the Bolan Pass towards Afghanistan, the conduct of Mehrab Khan, the ruler of Baluchistan, was considered so treacherous and dangerous as to require " the exaction of retribution from that chieftain," and " the execution of such arrangements as would establish future security in that quarter."

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  • The only islands off the coast are the dangerous Farilhoes and Berlings (Portuguese Berlengas) off Cape Carvoeiro.

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  • Heavy fogs are also common along the coast, rendering it dangerous to ships.

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  • Many curious superstitions survive in the country districts, including the beliefs in witches (feitigeiras, bruxas) and werewolves (lobishomens); in sirens (sereias) which haunt the dangerous coast and lure fishermen to destruction; in fairies (fadas) and in many kinds of enchantment.

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  • To check this dangerous movement of ideas, they demanded the introduction of the Inquisition into Portugal.

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  • Such incidents, unimportant in themselves, were symptoms of a dangerous state of public opinion, which was debarred from expression in the cortes.

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  • The roads are rough and at times almost impassable, 'however, and the river crossings difficult and dangerous.

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  • The societies advised that trilithon 6, 7, with lintel - which had slewed round - and trilithon 56, which was leaning at a dangerous angle, should be examined with a view to replacement with as little excavation as possible; that the monolith and lintel 22 be replaced, and its companion sarsen (21) secured; and that trilithon 57, 58, should be re-erected in its place, which was exactly known.

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  • There are many rapids, caused by reefs of rock running across the bed, or by a sudden fall of from one to several feet, which produce very rough water below the swift glide; but the most dangerous places for navigation are where a point juts out into the stream, and the current, thrown back, causes a violent double backwater.

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  • The peasantry had ceased to be dangerous since the establishment of serfdom; the power of the cities was now thoroughly undermined.

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  • In medical science, the term "malignant" is applied to a particularly virulent or dangerous form which a disease may take, or to a tumour or growth of rapid growth, extension to the lymphatic glands, and recurrence after operation.

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  • The state supports the Michigan Asylum for the Insane (opened 1859), at Kalamazoo; the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane (opened 1878), at Pontiac; the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane (opened 1885), at Traverse City; the Michigan Asylum for the Dangerous and Criminal Insane (established 1885), at Ionia; the Upper Peninsula Hospital for the Insane, at Newberry; a Psychopathic Hospital (established 1907), at Ann Arbor; a State Sanatorium (established 1905), at Howell; the Michigan State Prison (established 1839), at Jackson; the Michigan Reformatory (established 1887), at Ionia; the State House of Correction and Branch Prison (established 1885), at Marquette; the Industrial School for Boys, at Lansing; the Industrial Home for Girls (established 1879), near Adrian; the State Public School (opened 1874), at Coldwater, a temporary home for dependent children until homes in families can be found for them; the School for the Deaf (established 1854), at Flint; the School for the Blind, at Lansing; an Employment Institution for the Blind (established 1903), at Saginaw; the Home for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic (established 1893), at Lapeer; and the Michigan Soldiers' Home (established 1885), at Grand Rapids.

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  • When Antigonus, master of Asia in 315, showed dangerous ambitions, Ptolemy joined the coalition against him, and, on the outbreak of war, evacuated Palestine.

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  • Rabelais wrote a panegyrical memoir of Guillaume, which is lost, and the year before saw the publication of an edition of Gargantua and Pantagruel, book i., together (both had been repeatedly reprinted separately), in which some dangerous expressions were cut away.

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  • The presence of Goths in his army is certain, but it seems dangerous to infer that his invasion was a national Gothic enterprise.

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  • Thebaine is not so used, but is an important and sometimes very dangerous constituent of the various opium preparations, which are still largely employed, despite the complexity and inconstant composition of the drug.

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  • Of the other alkaloids narceine is hypnotic, like morphine and codeine, whilst thebaine, papaverine and narcotine have an action which resembles that of strychnine, and is, generally speaking, undesirable or dangerous if at all well marked.

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  • In infants especially opium acts markedly upon the spinal cord, and, just as strychnine is dangerous when given to young children, so opium, because of the strychnine-like alkaloid it contains, should never be administered, under any circumstances or in any dose, to children under one year of age.

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  • The alarm was greater, as theology was still unreconciled with the Darwinian theory; and Clifford was regarded as a dangerous champion of the antispiritual tendencies then imputed to modern science.

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  • All this activity, though combined with a haughty tone towards foreign governments and diplomatists, did not produce much general apprehension, probably because there was a widespread conviction that he desired to maintain peace, and that his great ability and strength of character would enable him to control the dangerous forces which he boldly set in motion.

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  • But James's expectations that the pope would prevent dangerous and seditious persons from entering the country were unfulfilled and the numbers of the Jesuits and the Roman Catholics greatly increased.

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  • Armed resistance he considered dangerous, but he was an immutable defender of the continuity of the Hungarian constitution on the basis of the reforms of 1848.

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  • In Forty-five Years of Registration Statistics (1885) he maintained that vaccination is useless and dangerous.

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  • The entrance is contracted by Tiran and other islands, so that the passage is rendered somewhat difficult; and its navigation is dangerous on account of the numerous coral reefs, and the sudden squalls which sweep down from the adjacent mountains, many of which rise perpendicularly to a height of 2000 ft.

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  • Much of this last stage of his life was occupied at Padua in a controversy with the Averroists, whom he regarded as dangerous antagonists both to sound religion and to sound culture.

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  • Notwithstanding the zeal and ability which he had invariably displayed as foreign minister, it had long been felt by his colleagues that his eager and frequent interference in the affairs of foreign countries, his imperious temper, the extreme acerbity of his language abroad, of which there are ample proofs in his published correspondence, and the evasions and artifices he employed to carry his points at home, rendered him a dangerous representative of the foreign interests of the country.

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  • Owing to the shallowness of the harbour large vessels cannot enter, but there is an important coasting trade, despite the dangerous character of the coast-line and the prevalence of fogs and gales.

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  • Among the miscellaneous powers of an urban council with respect to streets may be mentioned the power to widen or improve, and certain powers incorporated from the Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, with respect to naming streets, numbering houses, improving the line of streets, removing obstructions, providing protection in respect of ruinous or dangerous buildings, and requiring precautions to be taken during the construction and repair of sewers, streets and houses.

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  • The formerly dangerous passage of the marsh-lands, which were liable to irruptions of the tide, is illustrated by the accident to King John in 1216 shortly before his death.

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  • The coasts are rocky and surf-worn and the approaches are exceedingly dangerous, the land rising immediately from the coasts to steep, bold mountains.

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  • Navigation on the lake being too dangerous for small craft, canals with an aggregate length of 104 m.

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  • It was instituted primarily as a precaution against the ever-present danger of a helot revolt, and secondarily perhaps as a training for young Spartans, who were sent out by the ephors to keep watch on the helots and assassinate any who might appear dangerous.

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  • Autumn storms raise dangerous seas.

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  • Wave action is seen in the numerous caverns, and south-east of Portland Bill, the southern extremity of the isle, is a bank called the Shambles, between which and the land there flows a dangerous current called the Race of Portland.

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  • As a politician he acted with the extreme radicals, yet universal suffrage disgusted him as unreasonable in its principle and dangerous in its results.

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  • In 1806 the family of Tippoo Sultan produced a dangerous mutiny at Vellore, which was nipped in the bud by the prompt action of Gillespie and his dragoons.

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  • His conquest of Thessaly and alliance with Carthage made the situation dangerous.

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  • On the death of Queen Louisa the king would even have married one of Moltke's daughters had he not peremptorily declined the dangerous honour.

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  • The climate in the eastern and southern regions is not so rigorous as was believed, there are no barren lands, the soil is fertile and can support fruitful industries, and the aborigines are far from being so dangerous as they were once considered to be.

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  • He maintained an attitude of defiance and of "Roman resolution," smiled scornfully at his questioners, making no secret of his intentions, replied to the king, who asked why he would kill him, that the pope had excommunicated him, that "dangerous diseases require a desperate remedy," adding fiercely to the Scottish courtiers who surrounded him that "one of his objects was to blow back the Scots into Scotland."

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  • Missouri lies very frequently in the dangerous quadrant of the great cyclonic storms passing over the Mississippi valley - indeed, northern Missouri, lies in the area of maximum frequency of tornadoes.

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  • The depth of the bay ranges from 42 to 19 fathoms. The town stands at the foot of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, which restricts the area of cultivatable land in its immediate vicinity, and the enclosing high lands make the climate hot and somewhat dangerous for foreigners.

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  • These hostile tribes are usually too small to make much trouble, but they are able to make exploration and settlement decidedly dangerous in some districts.

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  • We want to make Ireland loyal and contented; we want to get rid of pauperism in this country; we want to fight against a class which is more to be dreaded than the holders of a 7 franchise - I mean the dangerous class in our large towns.

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  • He was "rooted" in what Diodati described to Dohna as "the most dangerous maxim, that God does not regard externals so long as the mind and heart are right before Him."

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  • In the opinion of the commission the possession of the franchise by the Cape natives under existing conditions was sure to create in time an intolerable situation, and was an unwise and dangerous thing.

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  • From the 15th to the 19th century pirates made the intercourse with the mainland dangerous, and in the 17th they were considered so formidable that merchants were allowed to convey their goods only across the narrow Hainan Strait.

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  • But any such generalizations are dangerous and have frequently led to disappointment and sometimes to needless expenditure.

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  • In repairing this work the perfectly safe form shown by the dotted lines ka, kj was substituted for the flat surface aj, and this alone, if originally adopted, would have prevented dangerous shearing strains.

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  • There is considerable distortion of the clay, resulting from combined shearing and tensile stress, above each of the steps of rock, and reaching its maximum at and above the highest rise ab, where it has proved sufficient to produce a dangerous line of weakness ac, the tension at a either causing actual rupture, or such increased porosity as to permit of percolation capable of keeping open the wound.

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  • It is only necessary, however, to provide for these exceptional discharges during very short periods, so that the rise in the water-level of the reservoir may be taken into consideration; but subject to this, provision must be made at the bye-wash for preventing such a flood, however rare, from filling the reservoir to a dangerous height.

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  • With waters giving little or no sediment, which are often the most dangerous, some change, as by the first method, is necessary.

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  • Victoria Nyanza is remarkable for the severe and sudden storms which sweep across it, rendering navigation dangerous.

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  • In consequence of the shallowness of the lake its waters are easily disturbed, making navigation very rough and dangerous, and causing large fluctuations of surface.

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  • In the 18th century Balasore rapidly declined in importance, on account of a dangerous bar which formed across the mouth of the river.

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  • The Davidsons belonged to the congregation of James Robertson (1803-1860) of Ellon, one of the ministers of Strathbogie Presbytery, which in the controversy which led to the disruption, resisted the "dangerous claims of the established church to self-government."

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  • The strait separating it from Celebes is more than ioo fathoms deep and, running in a strong current, is dangerous for native ships to navigate.

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  • It was the zenith of the power of the baronial anarchists, who moved from camo to camp with shameless rapidity, wresting from one or other of the two rival sovereigns some royal castle, or some dangerous grant of financial or judicial rights, at each change of allegiance.

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  • He received instead only the earldom of Huntingdon, too far from the border to be a dangerous possession, to which he had a hereditary right as descending from Earl Waltheof.

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  • The only security which he had for the safety of his dominions in his absence was that his most dangerous neighbor, the king of France, was also setting out on the Crusade, and that his brother John, whose shifty and treacherous character gave sure promise of trouble, enjoyed a well-merited unpopularity both in England and in the continental dominions of the crown.

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  • Visits to their continental dominions had to be few and far between; they were long, costly and dangerous when a French fleeta thing never seen before Philip Augustus conquered Normandymight be roaming in the Channel.

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  • The rising of the earls was only the first and the least dangerous of the trials of Henry IV.

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  • It might have proved even more dangerous than the rebellion of 1403, if Henrys unscrupulous general Ralph, earl of Westmorland, had not lured Scrope and Mowbray to a conference, and then arrested them under circumstances of the vilest treachery.

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  • But he had committed no act of real treason since his long-pardoned alliance with Warwick, and was not in any way dangerous; so that when the king caused him to be attainted, and then privately murdered in the Tower, there was little justification for the fratricide.

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  • For taking up this dangerous line of defence, and admitting his doubts about several received articles of faith, he was attacked by the Yorkist archbishop Bourchier in 1457, compelled to do penance, and shut up in a monastery for the rest of his life.

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  • But as the true male heir of the house of Plantagenet he was too dangerous to be allowed to survive.

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  • There was no substratum of popular discontent left in England on which a dangerous insurrection might be built up. It was to be forty years before another outbreak of turbulence against the crown was to break forth.

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  • It was not till the very end of the reign that what was in some ways the most dangerous of Spanish aggressions was foiled at Kinsale.

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  • To reawaken those questions in any shape would be dangerous.

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  • He would have given England that dangerous position of supremacy which was gained for France by Louis XIV.

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  • He fancied that France would be so totally occupied with its own troubles that it would cease for a long time to be dangerous to other nations.

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  • On,the 1st of December 1792 a proclamation was issued calling out the militia on the ground that a dangerous spirit of tumult and disorder had been excited by evil-disposed persons, acting in concert with persons in foreign parts, and this statement was repeated in the kings speech at the opening of parliament on the I3th.

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  • This latter charge, though proved to the satisfaction of the committees of both Houses of Parliament, broke down under the cross-examination of the government witnesses by the counsel for the defence, and could indeed only have been substantiated by a dangerous stretching of the doctrine of constructive treason.

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  • The dangerous agitation that gave expression to this state of feeling was met by the government in the session of November 1819 by the passing of the famous Six Acts.

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  • It is navigable for a period of about five months of the year, when the Purus valley is inundated; and, for the remaining seven months, only canoes can ascend it sufficiently high to communicate overland with the settlements in the great indiarubber districts of the Mayutata and lower Beni; thus these regions are forced to seek a canoe outlet for their rich products by the very dangerous, costly and laborious route of the falls of the Madeira.

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  • Here the general level of the country begins to decrease in elevation, with only a few mountain spurs, which from time to time push as far as the river and form pongos of minor importance and less dangerous to descend.

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  • In removing it from a dangerous leaning towards one side, there may be a risk of oversetting it on the other.

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  • The waves of the Baltic are usually short and irregular, often dangerous to navigation.

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  • Most of these rebellions were easily quelled by Sparta, though in 469 and again in 420 the disaffected cities, backed by Argos, formed a dangerous coalition and came near to establishing their inde pendence.

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  • In still other ways was the figure of Godfrey idealized by the grateful tradition of later days; but in reality he would seem to have been a quiet, pious, hard-fighting knight, who was chosen to rule in Jerusalem because he had no dangerous qualities, and no obvious defects.

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  • At the diet of 1789 Fersen marshalled the nobility around him for a combat d outrance against the throne and that, too, at a time when Sweden was involved in two dangerous foreign wars, and national unity was absolutely indispensable.

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  • The Wa, who inhabit the hills immediately overlooking the Nam Ting valley, now make the route dangerous for traders.

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  • The apparently needless cruelty of Mummius in Corinth, by no means characteristic of him, is explained by Mommsen as due to the instructions of the senate, prompted by the mercantile party, which was eager to get rid of a dangerous commercial rival.

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  • There have been no active volcanoes since the Pliocene Tertiary time, but the country is still subject to dangerous earthquakes.

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  • Yet the new administration did very well till, after resettling the government of India, and recovering from a blunder committed by their Indian secretary, Lord Ellenborough, they must needs launch a Reform Bill to put that dangerous question out of controversial politics.

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  • Springing from the natural suggestions of self-defence against the march of a dangerous rivalry, it had the sanction of all British statesmanship for generations, backed by the consenting instinct of the people.

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  • It is only for geographical purposes that we include this district under Attica, for both the Dorian race of the inhabitants, and its dangerous proximity to Athens, caused it to be at perpetual feud with that city; but its position as an outpost for the Peloponnesians, together with the fact of its having once been Ionian soil, sufficiently explains the bitter hostility of the Athenians towards the Megarians.

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  • As the journey was not a long or dangerous one, the servants of Balak returned at once to inform their master of their success, leaving Balaam to follow at his own convenience.

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  • Lollardy was most flourishing and most dangerous to the ecclesiastical organization of England during the ten years after Wycliffe's death.

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  • As a rule, they frequent barren rocky districts in large droves, and are exceedingly fierce and dangerous to approach.

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  • The capital had long been in a dangerous condition.

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  • The émigrés were not, however, dangerous.

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  • Even the southern uprising proved far less dangerous than might have been expected.

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  • To compete for power or even to express an opinion on public affairs was dangerous, and wholly to refrain from attendance might be construed as disaffection.

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  • The manner of his death was characteristic. A dangerous ulcer had compelled him to fast for a time.

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  • The successful issue of the Moscow riots was the occasion of disquieting disturbances all over the tsardom culminating in dangerous rebellions at Pskov and Great Novgorod, with which the government was so unable to cope that they surrendered, practically granting the malcontents their own terms. One man only had displayed equal tact and courage at Great Novgorod, the metropolitan Nikon, who in consequence became in 1651 the tsar's chief minister.

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  • In the meantime Poland had so far recovered herself as to become a much more dangerous foe than Sweden, and, as it was impossible to wage war with both simultaneously, the tsar resolved to rid himself of the Swedes first.

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  • A regulative principle which may possess great value when applied and confined to the comparatively abstract material of the mathematical and quasimathematical sciences is highly dangerous if extended to the investigation of living bodies.

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  • Sailing is hardly ever practised, and squalls on the lakes are often dangerous to the rowing-boats.

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  • This alternative is the less dangerous to morality, and as such the Stoics chose it.

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  • The results to which this Probabilism, applied with an earnest desire to avoid dangerous rigour, led in the 17th century were revealed to the world in the immortal Lettres provinciales of Pascal.

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  • It is perhaps easy to understand how, in the crisis of 1640, when the ethico-political system of Hobbes first took written shape, a peace-loving philosopher should regard the claims of individual conscience as essentially anarchical, and dangerous to social well-being; but however strong might be men's yearning for order, a view of social duty, in which the only fixed positions were selfishness everywhere and unlimited power somewhere, could not but appear offensively paradoxical.

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  • But the quasi-theistic assumption that what is natural must be reasonable remained in the minds of Hobbes's most docile readers, and in combination with his thesis that egoism is natural, tended to produce results which were dangerous to social well-being.

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  • The ascent of all the points named is not difficult from the Swiss side, but excessively dangerous on the east or Italian side.

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  • He intrigued against Necker, whom he regarded as a dangerous innovator, a republican, a foreigner and a Protestant.

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  • The dead are referred to by some roundabout phrase, never by name, for this might have the dangerous result of bringing back the spirit.

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  • The smoking of the seeds and capsules of henbane is noted in books as a somewhat dangerous remedy adopted by country people for toothache.

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  • By birth and marriage he was a Southerner, and the citizens of Norfolk counted on his throwing in his lot with them; but professional pride, and affection for the flag under which he had served for more than fifty years, held him true to his allegiance; he passionately rejected the proposals of his fellow-townsmen, and as it was more than hinted to him that his longer stay in Norfolk might be dangerous, he hastily quitted that place, and offered his services to the government at Washington.

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  • He persuaded both the League and King George of the necessity of convening a National Assembly for the revision of the Constitution, as the only safe and satisfactory way out of the dangerous situation.

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  • The large majority chose the latter; and thus 1,800 officers were retired on small pensions, and became a dangerous leaven for all subversive activities against the Government.

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  • In January 1680 he addressed to the king a long letter on the subject of his sins; he was known to have received the dangerous confidence of Wilmot, earl of Rochester, in his last illness; and he was even suspected, unjustly, in 1683, of having composed the paper drawn up on the eve of death by William Russell, Lord Russell, whom he attended to the scaffold.

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  • The king of Dublin exercised overlordship over the other Viking communities in the island, and thus became the most dangerous opponent of the ardri, with whom he was constantly at variance.

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  • The attempt to govern Ireland under what was called " the ordinary law " was necessarily abandoned, and a perpetual Crimes Act was passed which enabled the lordlieutenant to proclaim disturbed districts and dangerous associations, and substituted trial by magistrates for trial by jury in the case of certain acts of violence.

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  • On the 25th of May 1846 he escaped to London, giving as the reason for his decision the dangerous illness of his father.

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  • When bent on a dangerous expedition, the men will seek help from this clumsy creature, but in what way his opinions are made known is nowhere recorded."

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  • His first successes against Theobald of Champagne, who for thirty years had been the most dangerous of the great French barons and had refused a vassals services to Louis VI., as well as the adroit diplomacy with which he wrested from Geoffrey the Fair, count of Anjou, a part of the Norman Vexin long claimed by the French kings, in exchange for permitting him to conquer Normandy, augured well for his boldness and activity, had he but confined them to serving his own interests.

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  • So dangerous did Augustus.

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  • But he wanted to be sole master of Italy; so in order to expel the French barbarians whom he had brought in, he appealed to other barbarians who were far more dangerous Spaniards, Germans and Swissto help him against Louis XII., and stabbed him from behind with the Holy League of 1511.

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  • External affairs seemed in even a more dangerous position than po&y of those at home.

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  • On the other hand, after the 23rd of September they declared Paris dangerous for the Convention, and wanted to reduce it to eighty-three influential members Danton and the Mountain responded by decreeing the unity and indivisibility of the Republic, in order to emphasize the suspicions of federalism which weighed upon the Girondins.

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  • The deep bay between the coasts of Lincolnshire and Norfolk, called the Wash, is full of dangerous sandbanks and silt; the navigable portion off the Lincolnshire coast is known as the Boston Deeps.

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  • The bay is open to the south, and is dangerous to navigators, as in foggy weather it has been frequently mistaken for the entrance to Waterford Harbour.

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  • These rapids - though not such a hindrance to navigation - are of a more dangerous character than any encountered between Ansongo and Say.

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  • Here the width of the stream increases at flood time to woo or 1500 yds., and though it narrows at the somewhat dangerous rapids of Rumde Gilla to 150 or 180 yds., it soon expands again.

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  • Unfortunately, he had already committed himself to dangerous ground.

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  • The country was swarming underAbwith brigands, and the communications were so durrahman dangerous that seven years had been known to pass during which no caravan travelled from Cordova to Saragossa.

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  • To reduce them to pure slavery would, in the case of Castile at least, have been dangerous, and would also have been offensive to the Christians, who were themselves fighting for emancipation.

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  • As their fleets made it dangerous to send troops by sea to Flanders, Spain had to secure a safe road overland.

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  • Barcelona The city, a colluvies genhium, was seething with Rising of dangerous elements, its native proletariat being July1909.

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  • When attacked by dogs, the males use their sharp canine teeth, which inflict deep and even dangerous wounds.

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  • Gedymin inherited a vast domain, comprising Lithuania proper, Samogitia, Red Russia, Polotsk and Minsk; but these possessions were environed by powerful and greedy foes, the most dangerous of them being the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian knights of the Sword.

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  • He owed the signal successes of his reign partly to his skilful choice of advisers and administrators, to his chancellors Jean and Guillaume de Dormans and Pierre d'Orgemont, to Hugues Aubriot, provost of Paris, Bureau de la Riviere and others; partly to a singular coolness and subtlety in the exercise of a not over-scrupulous diplomacy, which made him a dangerous enemy.

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  • The solidarity of Conservative interests appeared to him now a dangerous fiction.

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  • In general, however, his Turkish policy was sound, as he consistently adopted the Jagiellonic policy of being friendly with so dangerous a neighbour as the Porte.

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  • Though the bay is deep, navigation is rendered dangerous by the violence and rapidity of the tide, and in summer by frequent fogs.

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  • Though for a long time they were callous wreckers and pirates, and cruel, and though they show great want of feeling in the "devil murders" - ceremonial murders of one of themselves for grave offences against the community, which are now being gradually put down - still on the whole the Nicobarese are a quiet, inoffensive people, friendly to each other, and not quarrelsome, and by inclination friendly and not dangerous to foreigners.

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  • The Sorbonne condemned the book, the priests persuaded the court that it was full of the most dangerous doctrines, and the author, terrified at the storm he had raised, wrote three separate retractations; yet, in spite of his protestations of orthodoxy, he had to give up his office at the court, and the book was publicly burned by the hangman.

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  • Of the other proposed volatile solvents ordinary ether has found no practical application, as it is far too volatile and hence far too dangerous.

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  • Its position " on the dangerous verge of two contending empires," Parthia and 12 On a possible restoration under the name of " Antioch on the Callirrhoe " see above.

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  • The once dangerous stream Daisan (rrapros) no longer flows southwards through the town, but encircles it on the north and east in the channel of the old moat.

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  • It is always dangerous to educate a really great mind in only one order of truth.

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  • The greatest good of the greatest number is a theory as dangerous as it is illusory.

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  • He wished to complete his exploration of the upper range of Lebanon; he remained, therefore, with Henriette to affront the dangerous miasma of a Syrian autumn.

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  • Gardane, whose family was well known in the Levant, had a long and dangerous journey overland, but was cordially received at Teheran in December 1807.

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  • Here he says plainly that it was the fear lest the emperor should acquire the Baltic ports and proceed to build up a sea-power dangerous to Scandinavia.

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  • But it should be borne in mind that, in the days of Gustavus, Vienna was by no means so essential to the existence of the Habsburg monarchy as it was in the days of Napoleon; and even Gustavus could not allow so dangerous an opponent as Tilly time to recover himself.

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  • The then dangerous state of the seas at all times, and the continuous war with Spain, gave him ample opportunity to gain a reputation as a resolute fighting man.

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  • Malatesta decided on building this remarkable church as a thankoffering for his safety during a dangerous campaign undertaken for Pope Eugenius IV.

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  • Life just isn't dangerous enough without that.

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  • I've heard they're dangerous.

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  • He was standing close and she looked up into his face, acutely aware of an increasing pulse which wasn't entirely due to the dangerous situation.

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  • Caution said this was a dangerous place to be and she should get out.

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  • And yet, despite her feelings, any relationship with him was potentially dangerous.

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  • If they did, their gift was elevated and what made them dangerous to immortals then made them dangerous to the Gods.

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  • We're not sure what this Magician is, but her powers are … unique and dangerous.

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  • It was a dangerous combination, one that could make his stint as Black God very short, if they found a way to kill him.

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  • The world is becoming a more dangerous place for you, and I'd hoped we could wait until the winter solstice to perform the rite.

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  • His new Oracle was dangerous.

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  • I snuck out to a place where I was told not to go—a very dangerous place.

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  • A week was generous to one woman and dangerous to the other.

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  • She'd always known there were deep, dangerous levels of potential with Gabriel, if he ever figured out whether he wanted her or not.

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  • Just recalling how dangerous a female Guardian warrior with a knack for manipulating others can be.

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  • This man possessed the same dangerous edge as the warrior-king of Landis.

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  • It can be dangerous – even deadly.

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  • His sex appeal was amplified by the dangerous edge; he was on the verge of snapping.

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  • It served as an allegory of a dangerous political history of the first half of the twentieth century.

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  • The arduous trek to base camp is quite dangerous.

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  • On the other, the IAEA's mandate promotes the dangerous myth of peaceful nuclear power.

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  • Whether or not the merger works better without Mr. Green, the method of his disposal is a dangerous precedent.

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  • Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his wife's infidelities, Justin surprises himself by plunging headlong into a dangerous odyssey.

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  • And a dangerous flashback can occur when workers are using acetylene for welding, cutting and similar work.

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  • Both groups considered the latter hostile and a dangerous adversary, but important differences of opinion obviously existed.

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  • Let's look at how we work to keep dangerous people from hijacking airplanes.

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  • People are breeding and selling potentially dangerous species including anacondas and pythons.

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  • So a new anesthetic was needed that was not so dangerous to use The story does not end happily, however.

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  • The superoxide anion radical can also result in the formation of the dangerous hydroxyl radical.

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  • Adept at fighting arachnids, they are capable of taking on dangerous missions and emerging victorious.

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  • This could be a very dangerous situation if the caver had no spare ascenders with him.

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  • It would be total bedlam, and so dangerous, if everyone tried to drive into the school!

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  • There are intentional creations of dangerous agents for supposedly benign purposes that turned out not to be so benign.

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  • The old opposing power blocs have gone, but have been replaced by a dangerous and unpredictable tapestry of shifting alliances.

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  • The early 19th century bourgeois fear of the ' dangerous classes ' now returned as the fear of the growing ' underclass ' .

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  • Mr Blair told MPs in the House he was not playing a game of " dangerous brinkmanship " with President Saddam.

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  • For some reason, we let ourselves get painted as dangerous buffoons who are living in the past.

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  • Eating undercooked burgers which are rare in the middle may be dangerous.

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  • Indeed, perhaps in these times a belief in the ETH would be somehow dangerous, making us too careless of our own survival.

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  • This is best carried our by a professional mole catcher as the poisons used are licensed and very dangerous to other animals and birds.

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  • Exposure to dangerous chemicals called dioxins can cause a rare form of acne called chloracne.

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  • As a result some highly dangerous forms of lung cancer actually appear to be higher in smokers of low tar cigarettes.

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  • The film is erotic, dangerous and features sumptuous cinematography, as each frame features an endless amount of detail.

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  • It amounted to a confession of his faith that the established clerisy was incompetent, dangerous and innumerate.

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  • It's not as dangerous as some people make it out to be, as long as you use common sense.

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  • The problem with this account is that it gives rise to a dangerous complacency.

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  • That may well be true, but smugness breeds complacency, and that is dangerous.

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  • A very serious concussion with several days of unconsciousness is also dangerous owing to the risk of the brain swelling.

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  • Once there, I knew I had only the dangerous couloir to face.

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  • Closely followed by the new king's courtiers, Ophelia must leave her home forever, carrying a dangerous, yet precious secret.

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  • Sleep-related crashes are particularly dangerous and likely to result in serious injury - because the driver won't brake before impact.

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  • As a civilian working among dangerous criminals, his safety should have been of paramount importance.

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  • Most of these fell to the home side, with both Simon and David putting in dangerous crosses that just eluded a finishing touch.

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  • In fact it is potentially even more dangerous, especially in a system with passive crossovers.

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  • I believe we are at a very dangerous crossroads.

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  • He admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was sentenced to three and a half years youth custody and banned for five years.

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  • Yes, I know it is a potentially dangerous thing to do.

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  • In 1797 Richard began experimenting with high pressure steam engines by using models to test the practicality of using this inherently dangerous power source.

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  • At a time when links are being made between poverty, disempowerment and terrorism this erosion of the democratic contract is downright dangerous.

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  • An extremely dangerous situation is being created in the world.

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  • Roads are much too dangerous for children to be allowed to use them unaccompanied.

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  • Not only was the heating inadequate, but on occasion it proved dangerous.

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  • Matthew Hayden played a great knock and is looking dangerous.

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  • In order to be considered dangerous, a building must actually pose a threat of causing harm to a person.

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  • Jill's behavior is becoming even more dangerous for Pam.

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  • What does seem dangerous is to assume a solution will apply to everyone.

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  • And that combination can be dangerous, and sometimes deadly.

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  • But that is exactly the direction in which dangerous delusions about US power might take us.

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  • Giving a " socially desirable " answer or the one you think the employer is looking for is dangerous.

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  • This ran an unacceptably high risk of people who were not dangerous being compulsorily detained or treated.

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  • Even fish could be dangerous for a deep-sea diver.

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  • He pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

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  • Summary report The malaria endemic in Africa is a more dangerous strain than that in Asia.

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  • He was placed under investigation last week for possession of dangerous substances after admitting having used the blood booster erythropoietin (EPO ).

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  • Banana Guard is a tough plastic exoskeleton for your banana to wear when going into battle in the dangerous world of your lunchbox.

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  • It may even be a deliberate falsehood with the intention of encouraging dangerous or evil acts.

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  • For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail.

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  • Jack Carver returns home when he is approached by a dangerous and seductive femme fatale.

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  • Do not wade through high floodwaters; manhole covers may have lifted, leaving deep and dangerous unseen holes.

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  • In retrospect Cut Piece seems dangerous, even foolhardy.

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  • This storm offered a foretaste of many dangerous storms to which I was subjected during the trip.

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  • Nothing is more dangerous in politics, especially in a critical period, than to repeat general formulas without examining their social content.

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  • For someone so emotionally fragile, it might prove a dangerous form of therapy.

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  • This is especially important to those who exercise frequently, as they generate more of these dangerous and destructive free radicals.

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  • Abandoned cars and vehicles are not only unsightly, but can be dangerous.

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  • Apart from the literal allusion to a dangerous snake, the words are said to refer to the loss of a girl's virginity.

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  • But 36 inch waist and 34 inch hips is 105% - dangerous.

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  • The path will become more dangerous, especially to inexperienced walkers.

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  • In the wild state it is gregarious, associating in herds of ten, twenty or more individuals, and, though it may under certain circumstances become dangerous, it is generally inoffensive and even timid, fond of shade and solitude and the neighbourhood of water.

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  • By insisting on the superiority of the Magyars to the Slavonic inhabitants of Hungary, by his violent attacks on Austria (he already discussed the possibility of a breach with Austria), he raised the national pride to a dangerous pitch.

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  • They were among the most dangerous enemies of Rome, and frequently allied with the Aequi, whereas the Hernici from 486 B.C. onwards were the allies of Rome.

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  • The legend of an imprisoned pope, subject to every whim of his gaolers, had nevet- failed to arouse the pity and loosen the purse-strings of the faithful; dangerous innovators and would-be reformers within the church could be compelled to bow before the symbol of the temporal power, and their spirit of submission tested by their readiness to forgo the realization of their aims until the head of the church should be restored to his rightful domain.

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  • Moreover, while many strikes were quite orderly, the turbulent character of a part of the Italian people and their hatred of authority often converted peaceful demands for better conditions into dangerous riots, in which the dregs of the urban population (known as teppisti or the mala vita) joined.

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  • Hook finds in the fact of the marriage corroboration of Cranmer's statement that he never expected or desired the primacy; and it seems probable enough that, if he had foreseen how soon the primacy was to be forced upon him, he would have avoided a disqualification which it was difficult to conceal and dangerous to disclose.

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  • The principal outlying islands are the North Sentinel, a dangerous island of about 28 sq.

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  • An ill-balanced load also exaggerates " plunging," and if the period of oscillation of the load happens to agree with the changes of contour or other inequalities of the track vibrations of a dangerous character, giving rise to so-called " sinuous " motion, may occur.

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  • The real question was, which of the two foes was the more dangerous, and Charles had many reasons to think the civilized and martial Saxons far more formidable than the imbecile Muscovites.

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  • The payment for public service which Pericles had introduced may have contributed to raise the general level of culture of the citizens, but it created a dangerous precedent and incurred the censure of notable Greek thinkers.

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  • The Porte strove by every means at its disposal to thwart their activity; but elsewhere they were regarded as a body of academic enthusiasts, more noisy than dangerous, who devoted their scanty funds to the publication of seditious matter in Paris or Geneva, and sought to achieve the impossible by importing western institutions into a country fit only to be ruled by the sheriat and the sword.

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  • Such an assumption could not, however, without dangerous extrapolation, be founded upon the results of Baur's experiments, which did not go far enough to justify it.

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  • Provided he left the tax-gatherer alone, the governor might squeeze what he could out of the people, while on the other hand, if he were humanely disposed, it was dangerous for him to remonstrate.

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  • Smartness in avoiding traps is one of the most distinctive traits in the character of the species; but when a trap has once claimed its victim, and is consequently no longer dangerous, the fox is always ready to take advantage of the gratuitous meal.

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  • The sluggish puff-adder (Clotho arietans) is common and very dangerous.

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  • In 1046, and again in 1061, two dangerous pagan risings shook the very foundations of the infant church and state; the western provinces were in constant danger from the attacks of the acquisitive emperors, and from the south and southeast two separate hordes of fierce barbarians (the Petchenegs in 1067-1068, and the Kumanians in 1071-1072) burst over the land.

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  • Protests came in from every quarter and a dangerous rebellion broke out in Transylvania; but opposition only made Joseph more obstinate, and he endeavoured to anticipate any further resistance by abolishing the ancient county assemblies and dividing the kingdom into two districts administered by German officials.

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  • In other cases the continuation of the graph may constitute a dangerous extrapolation.

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  • Sheltered places in the lowlands, especially near streams and lagoons, are malarial and enervating, and at some points on the coast are subject to dangerous fevers.

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  • The suppression of the Encyclopedie, to which he had been a considerable contributor, and whose conductors were his intimate friends, drew from him a shower of lampoons directed now at "l'infame" (see infra) generally, now at literary victims, such as Le Franc de Pompignan (who had written one piece of verse so much better than anything serious of Voltaire's that he could not be forgiven), or Palissot (who in his play Les Philosophes had boldly gibbeted most of the persons so termed, but had not included Voltaire), now at Freron, an excellent critic and a dangerous writer, who had attacked Voltaire from the conservative side, and at whom the patriarch of Ferney, as he now began to be called, levelled in return the very inferior farce-lampoon of L'Ecossaise, of the first night of which Freron himself did an admirably humorous criticism.

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  • Man himself, as well as other mammals, is the intermediate host of the dangerous parasite, Taenia echinococcus, in countries where cleanliness is neglected; the pig is the host of Taenia solium, and other cases may be seen from the table at the end of this article.

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  • A duel was the consequence, in which Francis received a dangerous wound (see Hastings, Warren).

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  • The moderate Loyalists joined in the election of delegates to the first Continental Congress; but the great body of Loyalists in New York strongly disapproved of the " dangerous and extravagant " measures adopted by that body, and the assembly, in January 1 775, refused to approve its acts or choose delegates to the second Continental Congress.

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  • But, as Robertson Smith observes, "holiness is contagious, just as uncleanness is"; and common things and persons may become taboo, that is, so holy as to be dangerous and useless for daily life through the mere infection of holiness.

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  • On the death of George, Casimir's eldest son Wladislaus was elected king of Bohemia by the Utraquist party, despite the determined opposition of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, whose ability and audacity henceforth made him Casimir's most dangerous rival.

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  • It is dangerous to prophesy, but all the facts and circumstances before us point irresistibly to the conclusion that had the Jagiellonic dynasty but endured this promise of empire might well have been realized.

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  • But the king, and even Kollontaj, despairing of success, now acceded to the confederation; hostilities were suspended; the indignant officers threw up their commissions; the rank and file were distributed all over the country; the reformers fled abroad; and the constitution of the 3rd of May was abolished by the Targowicians as "a dangerous novelty."

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  • In the sphere of living environment, the varied evolution of plant life, the periods of forestation and deforestation, the introduction of deleterious plants simultaneously with harsh conditions of life and enforced migration, as well as of mechanically dangerous plants, are among the well-ascertained causes of diminution and extinction.

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  • It is therefore not surprising to find that many peoples on the lower planes of culture respect and even worship animals (see Totem; Animal Worship); though we need not attribute an animistic origin to all the developments, it is clear that the widespread respect paid to animals as the abode of dead ancestors, and much of the cult of dangerous animals, is traceable to this principle.

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  • In all his life nothing became him so well as his manner of leaving it; but the fortitude he then showed, even if it was not merely the courage of despair, cannot blind us to the fact that he was little better than a reckless and vicious spendthrift, who was not the less dangerous because his fiercer passions were concealed beneath an affectation of effeminate dandyism.

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  • The battle of Fuentes d'Onoro followed, in which Wellington was only able to extricate the army from a dangerous predicament which "if Boney had been there" would have been a disaster.

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