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  • It had to be done sooner or later.

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  • In this case, sooner is so much better than later.

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  • Sooner or later he always gets his way.

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  • No sooner had he returned home than he began the work of accumulation, and records that, on the receipt of his first quarter's allowance, a large share was appropriated to his literary wants.

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  • You're going to have to face it sooner or later.

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  • Sooner or later she would tell him, and he would know how important it was to her – and that she had hid it from him.

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  • The question of Italian unity had no sooner been settled than the question of The German unity arose, and fresh international difficulties Austro- once more inclined the Austrian government towards moderation and concession.

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  • The sooner she submitted, the sooner it would be over.

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  • I figured he'd walk out on you sooner.

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  • However, no sooner had he entered the tent, stripped, and crawled into his sleeping bag than his exhausted body began to drift to another world.

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  • But he had no sooner mounted the steps leading to the entrance than the crowd, which had followed him all the way beating him with sticks and umbrellas, made a rush at him, knocked him down, and kicked and trampled him to death.

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  • These conditions were undoubtedly determined by the critical political situation from 1908 onward, which made it probable that, sooner or later, the Habsburg Monarchy would have to fight for its right to exist.

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  • It is thus an obvious advantage to Red Algae, which flourish at considerable depths, to be able to utilize yellow light rather than the red, which is ' extinguished so much sooner.

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  • He had no sooner left the Transvaal than the -old Lydenburg party, headed by Cornelis Potgieter, landdrost of Lydenburg, protested that the union would be much more beneficial to the Free State than to the people of Lydenburg, and followed this up with the contention lions' that it was illegal for any one to be president of the South African Republic and the Free State at the same time.

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  • A temporary peace was no sooner secured than Commandant Jan Viljoen rose in revolt and engaged Kruger's forces.

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  • He had no sooner learnt of the raid in Cape Town than he issued a proclamation through - Sir Jacobus de Wet, the British resident at Pretoria, burg.

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  • It no sooner opened than it was evident that Kruger had come to obtain, not to grant, concessions.

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  • The new form takes on the characters of that from which it arose; exhibits the same power of propagating itself by means of an offshoot; and, sooner or later, like its predecessor, ceases to live, and is resolved into more highly oxidated compounds of its elements.

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  • The temperature at which the limb is kept, no doubt, favours and hastens the natural process of destruction, so that putrefaction shows itself sooner than would be the case with a dead tissue removed from the body and kept at a lower temperature.

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  • A part deprived of its natural nerve-supply sooner or later suffers from the effects of malnutrition.

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  • The Allies had foreseen from the outset that land forces would have to be brought into play sooner or later in their campaign in this region.

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  • These liquids, when exposed to higher temperatures, some sooner than others, pass into vapours.

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  • The king, realizing what street fighting in Florence would mean, at once came to terms; he contented himself with 120,000 florins, agreeing to assume the title of "Protector and Restorer of the liberty of Florence," and to give up the fortresses he had taken within two years, unless his expedition to Naples should be concluded sooner; the Medici were to remain banished, but the price on their heads was withdrawn.

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  • The moment the juice is expelled from the cells of the canes chemical inversion commences, and the sooner it is stopped the better.

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  • It is a matter of common observation that stones of monuments, walls or buildings which are exposed to the air sooner or later become eaten away or broken up into small fragments under the influence of the weather.

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  • These " weathering " agents not only act upon stones of buildings, but upon rocks of all kinds, reducing them sooner or later into a more or less fine powder.

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  • The nitrogen in decaying roots, in the dead stems. and leaves of plants, and in humus generally is sooner or later changed into a nitrate, the change being effected by bacteria.

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  • On the same day Lord John Russell, without announcing his intention to his colleagues, resigned his office as president of the council sooner than attempt the defence of the government.

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  • On the other hand, life must in the long run so conduce, whatever its present value may appear to be, because a constant process of adjustment is going on which is bound sooner or later to lead to a complete adjustment which will be perfect happiness.

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  • No sooner had the Characteristics appeared than they were welcomed, in terms of warm commendation, by Le Clerc and Leibnitz.

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  • The English flag was flown side by side with the Neapolitan, and England actually renewed war with France sooner than give up Malta.

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  • As, one after another, the various tablets and cylinders and annalistic tablets have been translated, it has become increasingly clear that here are almost inexhaustible fountains of knowledge, and that sooner or later it may be possible to check the Hebrew accounts of the most important periods of their history with contemporaneous accounts written from another point of view.

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  • The important part played by the residual air in the globe had also been deduced by Osborne Reynolds from observing that on turning off the light, the vanes came to rest very much sooner than the friction of the pivot alone would account for; in fact, the rapid subsidence is an illustration of Maxwell's great theoretical discovery that viscosity in a gas (as also diffusion both of heat and of the gas itself) is sensibly independent of the density.

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  • No sooner had Leo been made pope than he formed schemes for the aggrandizement of his family.

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  • All the vigilance of the emperor could not restrain the dishonesty and the cupidity of his servants, and no sooner was the strong hand of their ruler removed than they began to acquire territorial power for themselves.

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  • Scipio's arrival in Africa in 204 gave him another chance, and no sooner had he joined the Roman general than he crushed his old enemy Syphax, and captured his capital Cirta (Constantine).

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  • It is clear that acetylene, if it is to be used on a large scale as a domestic illuminant, must undergo such processes of purification as will render it harmless and innocuous to health and property, and the sooner it is recognized as absolutely essential to purify acetylene before consuming it the sooner will the gas acquire the popularity it deserves.

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  • After a year and a half in London, Franklin was persuaded by a friend named Denham, a Quaker merchant, to return with him to America and engage in mercantile business; he accordingly gave up printing, but a few days before sailing he received a tempting offer to remain and give lessons in swimming - his feats as a swimmer having given him considerable reputation - and he says that he might have consented " had the overtures been sooner made."

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  • Alexander was also an idealist, but his ideals were apt to centre in himself; his dislike and distrust of talents that overshadowed his own were disarmed for a while by the singular charm of Speranski's personality, but sooner or later he was bound to discover that he himself was regarded as but the most potent instrument for the attainment of that ideal end, a regenerated Russia, which was his minister's sole preoccupation.

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  • As for the revolutionaries, he detested them but feared them, and was convinced that sooner or later he would be their victim."

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  • Already he was a marked man, and no sooner was the government reorganized, with the mikado as the sole wielder of power, than he was appointed chief assistant in the department of foreign affairs.

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  • No sooner were the wars of religion over than the French again set about making good their claim to Canada, and to whatever they could represent as arising naturally out of Canada.

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  • Yet his merit as an Arabist was sooner recognized than the value of his Greek work.

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  • Under the empire we find Eastern cults taking root here sooner than in Rome.

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  • The Basutoland difficulties were no sooner arranged than the Free Staters found themselves confronted with a serious difficulty on their western border.

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  • Mr Reitz had no sooner got into office than a meeting was arranged with Mr Kruger, president of the Transvaal, at which various terms of an agreement dealing with the railways, terms of a treaty of amity and commerce and what was called a political treaty, were discussed and decided upon.

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  • But no sooner had he taken over the command than his haughty and domineering temper estranged him both from his second-in-command, Lord Granby, and the commander-in-chief, Prince Ferdinand.

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  • The revelation of the antagonism between the German conception of ecclesiastical affairs and Roman views of ecclesiastical law was sooner or later inevitable.

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  • But no sooner was the new body in office, than it treated both patricians and plebeians with equal violence, and refused to resign at the end of the year.

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  • Fresh Jesuit victories were followed sooner or later by fresh revolt, and Roman rule hardly triumphed when once for all it was overthrown.

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  • There is a tradition that on one occasion the abbot of Beverley, anxious to investigate the case for himself, visited Mother Shipton's cottage disguised, and that no sooner had he knocked than the old woman called out "Come in, Mr Abbot, for you are not so much disguised but the fox may be seen through the sheep's skin."

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  • But secretly Elizabeth countermined his plans; unlike Walsing ham, she would sooner have seen Philip remain master of the Netherlands than see them fall into the hands of France.

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  • With characteristic zeal and impetuosity Schelling had no sooner grasped the leading ideas of Fichte's amended form of the critical philosophy than he put together his impressions of it in his Ãœber die Möglichkeit einer Form der Philosophie überhaupt (1794).

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  • After peace was concluded in 1763, Canada was governed under the authority of a royal proclamation, but sooner or later a constitution specially adapted to the needs of the country was inevitable.

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  • Being thus radically at variance with the main current of the thought of his time, the failure of the commission he had undertaken was sooner or later inevitable; and shortly after the opening of his new church in Regent Square in 1827, he found that "fashion had taken its departure," and the church, "though always well filled," was "no longer crowded."

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  • Unfortunately the antagonism between physostigmine and atropine is not perfect, and Sir Thomas Fraser has shown that in such cases there comes a time when, if the action of the two drugs be summated, death results sooner than from either alone.

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  • No sooner is he overcome with sleep than Judith, seizing his sword, strikes off his head and gives it to her maid; both now leave the camp (as they had previously been accustomed to do, ostensibly for prayer) and return to Bethulia, where the trophy is displayed amid great rejoicings and thanksgivings.

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  • No sooner had he reached Constantinople than he fell sick, "having pondered much about the council," and before he had put his hand to the task which had brought him he died, probably in January 383.

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  • In Gaul there was no chief metropolitan; but the king's court became, even sooner than that of Spain, the centre of episcopal affairs.

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  • The gueridon is still occasionally seen in something approaching its original form; but it had no sooner been introduced than the artistic instinct of the French designer and artificer converted it into a far worthier object.

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  • The algal cells are usually controlled in their growth by the hyphae and are prevented from forming zoospores, and in some cases, as already described, the algal cells are killed sooner or later by the fungus.

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  • It must be remembered that nails spoil a wall sooner or later, whereas a wire trellis is not only much neater, but enables the gardener to tie his trees up much more quickly.

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  • The sooner in the month both are planted the better crop they will give next season; and, as these plants soon make runners, it will be necessary to trim them off.

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  • The country was no sooner relieved from the pressure of external war than it was torn by internal discords.

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  • No sooner was peace concluded than bitter disputes arose between the provincial States of Holland and the prince of Orange, supported by the other six provinces, upon the question of the disbanding of the military forces.

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  • After the skins have been carefully removed - the sooner after death the better for the subsequent condition of the fur - they are lightly tacked out, pelt outwards, and, without being exposed to the sun or close contact with a fire, allowed to dry in a hut or shady place where there is some warmth or movement of air.

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  • No sooner is the object of alarm scented or seen than each one seeks safety in the most inaccessible situations, which are often reached by a series of astounding leaps over crevasses, up the faces of seemingly perpendicular rocks, or down the sides of equally precipitous chasms. The chamois will not hesitate, it is said, thus to leap down 20 or even 30 ft., and this it effects with apparent ease by throwing itself forward diagonally and striking its feet several times in its descent against the face of the rock.

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  • No sooner was this effected than the project of a legislative union between the British and Irish parliaments, which had been from time to time discussed since the beginning of the 18th century, was taken up in earnest by Pitt's government.

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  • No sooner did copies of the book reach Paris than he found himself shunned by his former associates, and though he was himself so little conscious of disloyalty that he was forward to present a manuscript copy " engrossed in vellum in a marvellous fair hand" 3 to the young king of the Scots (who, after the defeat at Worcester, escaped to Paris about the end of October), he was denied the royal presence when he sought it shortly afterwards.

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  • On Sunday the 18th of March 1582, as the prince came out of his dining-room Jauregui offered him a petition, and William had no sooner taken it into his hand than Jauregui fired a pistol at his head.

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  • He was not constitutionally averse from change; and he was too clear-sighted not to see that, sooner or later, change was inevitable.

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  • But it was no sooner over than the crisis over the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is dealt with above, eclipsed all purely domestic affairs in the larger European question.

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  • He was a man of peace, hating war not less than he did slavery; but he warned his countrymen that if they refused to abolish slavery by moral power a retributive war must sooner or later ensue.

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  • But fired by enthusiasm for the Greek revolution and by Byron's example, he was no sooner qualified and admitted to practice than he abandoned these prospects and took ship for Greece, where he joined the army and spent six years of hardship amid scenes of warfare.

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  • On the 8th of February Lord Wolseley telegraphed, The sooner you can now deal with Osman Digna the better, and recommended the despatch of Indian troops to Suakin, to co-operate with me in keeping road to Berber open.

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  • No sooner were the words spoken, which spread instantly, than there rose from the whole crowd one universal huzzah of joy.

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  • Thus no sooner had the work been rounded off than fresh excrescences began to be created by the publication of new laws.

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  • He had no sooner entered Vienna in triumph than he opened negotiations with him; he resumed them after Austerlitz.

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  • It is probable that in all cases nuclear fusion takes place sooner or later.

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  • This announcement, however, was no sooner made than it was explained away by the supporters of both, and early in 1902 Lord Rosebery spoke at the National Liberal Club in a way which indicated that an understanding might still be arrived at.

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  • No sooner has an individual become separate, become an individual, than disease and decay begin to act upon it.

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  • It follows that no sooner has separateness, individuality, begun, than dissolution, disintegration, also begins.

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  • The Muscat date reaches maturity sooner than the Basra crop, and is commercially valuable.

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  • He had no sooner made the promise than he seems to have repented it.

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  • On the death of the "judge," if not sooner, the corruption spreads anew and the same vicissitudes follow.

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  • No sooner was he gone than the Indians rose and slew the Greek governor; the Macedonians massacred the Indians; a new governor, sent by Alexander, murdered the friendly Punjab prince, Porus, and was himself driven out of the country by the advance of Chandragupta from the Gangetic valley.

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  • His writings sufficiently show that but for this confidence he would have arrived sooner at a discovery for which his mind was fully prepared.

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  • Sooner or later the issue was sure to be raised of the status of those countries, still nominally part of the Ottoman empire, but in effect independent, like Bulgaria, or subject to another state, like Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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  • But Conrad hoped to attack sooner than he eventually did; his troops were ready in April, but the snow caused a delay which gave rise to much impatience at Austrian headquarters.

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  • Under such circumstances speculative interest fritters itself and sooner or later the sceptic has his way.

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  • The Committee of Public Safety, however, were no sooner informed by the duchess of Choiseul of the arrest, than they gave orders for his immediate release, and in 1793 he was nominated librarian of the Bibliotheque Nationale.

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  • The threats of Great Britain and France, the failure of Russia to back him up, induced him to refrain; but sooner or later a renewal of the war was inevitable; for the sultan, with but one end in view, was reorganizing his army, and Mehemet Ali, who in the autumn of 1834 had assumed the style of viceroy and sounded the powers as to their attitude in the event of his declaring his complete independence, refused to continue to pay tribute which he knew would be used against himself.

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  • He found that a vibrating magnetic compass needle came to rest sooner when placed over a plate of copper than otherwise, and also that a plate of copper rotating under a suspended magnet tended to drag the magnet in the same direction.

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  • No sooner had the crime become known than Abfnad Khan, chief of the Abdali Afghans, took possession of Kandahar and a certain amount of treasure.

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  • The Russian envoy, who had appeared among tne tents of the besieging army almost simultaneously with his English colleague, no sooner found himself alone in his diplomacy than he resumed his aggressive counsels, and little more than a fortnight had elapsed since MNeills departure when a vigorous assault, planned, it is asserted, by Simonich himself, was made upon Herat.

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  • Despite their distracted condition the Transvaal Boers had no sooner obtained their independence than they began to make claims to authority in Bechuanaland.

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  • It was a moot point whether all souls so survive, as Cleanthes thought, or the souls of the wise and good alone, which was the opinion of Chrysippus; in any case, sooner or later individual souls are merged in the soul of the universe, from which they proceeded.

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  • It was rumoured that Sebastian still lived, and would sooner or later return and restore the past greatness of his country.

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  • Bulgaria cherished ambitions in Thrace which extended even to Constantinople, and she had to consider the fact that sooner or later the Turkish forces in Thrace would be reenforced not only by their own allotted reserves but also by those, above alluded to, which the Greek navy prevented from going to Macedonia.

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  • They swayed backwards and forwards between the power of the people and the power of the few; but democracy and oligarchy passed sooner or later into the hands of a master who veiled his lordship under various titles, and generally at last into the hands of a family.

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  • Either by the Phoenicians or by the Greeks metallurgy was taught to men who no sooner recognized the nature and malleable properties of copper than they learnt that by application of heat a substance could be manufactured with tin far better suited to their purposes.

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  • Sooner or later, however, the scyphistoma produces free medusae by a process of transverse fission termed strobilization.

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  • Lord Palmerston had adopted the opinion that peace with France was not to be relied on, and indeed that war between the two countries was sooner or later inevitable.

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  • The growth of the primary root is limited; sooner or later adventitious roots develop from the axis above the radicle which they ultimately exceed in growth.

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  • No sooner had he put in writing his theological lectures (apparently the Introductio ad Theologiam that has come down to us), than his adversaries fell foul of his rationalistic interpretation of the Trinitarian dogma.

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  • Dan, he declares, sooner than join in Jeroboam's scheme of an Israelite war against Judah, had migrated to Cush, and finally, with the help of Naphthali, Asher and Gad, had founded an independent Jewish kingdom in the Gold Land of Havila, beyond Abyssinia.

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  • But no sooner was he arrived at man's estate than Dirk turned upon his enemies with courage and vigour.

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  • Among the Franciscans themselves it has been the occasion of endless strife, and has been kept alive only by dint of successive reforms and fresh starts, each successful for a time, but doomed always, sooner or later, to yield to the inexorable logic of facts.

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  • The Slavonic language still reigned supreme in the Church; yet once the example had been set in Transylvania, and the influence of the Slavonic nations had begun to slacken, it was inevitable that the Rumanian language should sooner or later come to its own.

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  • President Nunez had no sooner returned to Colombia than the Liberals discovered that his political opinions had changed and had become strongly Conservative.

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  • You known what I have said; sooner or later we must part from all we hold most dear.

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  • Frere had no sooner taken office as high commissioner than he found himself confronted with serious native troubles in Zululand and on the Kaffir frontier of Cape Colony.

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  • War had no sooner commenced with the ultimatum of the Transvaal Republic on the 9th of October 1899, than Mr Schreiner found himself called upon to deal with the conduct of Cape rebels.

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  • If it exceeds this, the stock of fresh water held in the interstices of the rock, and capable of flowing towards the well, must disappear; and the deficit between the supply and demand can only be made up by water filtering from the sea and reaching the well at first quite free from salt, but sooner river water whatever.

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  • During the life of the whale the contents of these cavities are in a fluid condition, but no sooner is the "head matter" removed than the solid wax spermaceti separates in white crystalline flakes, leaving the oil a clear yellow fluid having a fishy odour.

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  • I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning.

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  • But no sooner had he been promoted to the archbishopric than he put away his former manners, became the most formal and austere of men, and set himself to be the champion of the church party in all its claims, reasonable or unreasonable, against the state.

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  • But he had no sooner left the court than he proclaimed that he had grievously sinned in giving way, suspended himself from his archiepiscopal functions, and wrote to the pope to beg for pardon and absolution.

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  • No sooner had Campeggio started than the fortunes of war changed.

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  • Nevertheless, the remedy was worse than the disease, for it would have established a close oligarchy, bound sooner or later to come into conflict with the will of the nation, and only to be overthrown by a violent alteration of the constitution.

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  • When the war came to an end, as it must come to an end sooner or later, Pitts special predominance, derived as it was from his power of breathing a martial spirit into the fleets and armies of England, would come to an end too.

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  • This time ts resistance would be sooner or later supported by all that was iealthy in Europe.

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  • There was nothing in a 10 franchise which was capable of permanent defence, and if it was at once applied to counties as well as boroughs it would sooner or later be certain to be extended.

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  • It was for some time debated as to whether naphthalene added materially to the illuminating value of the gas, and whether an endeavour should be made to carry it to the point of combustion; but it is now acknowledged that it is a troublesome impurity, and that the sooner it is extracted the better.

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  • He accepted the call, but he had no sooner arrived than the elector died.

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  • In 1712 the slaughter of a band of Foxes near Detroit was the signal for hostilities which lasted almost continuously until 1740, 1 and in which every tribe in the Wisconsin country was sooner or later involved either in alliance with the Foxes or with the French; the Chippewa, always hostile to the Foxes, the Potawatomi and the Menominee sided with the French.

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  • The fact that men give different answers to moral problems which seem similar in character, or even the mere fact that men disregard, when they act immorally, the dictates and implicit principles of the moral consciousness is certain sooner or later to produce the desire either, on the one hand, to justify immoral action by casting doubt upon the authority of the moral consciousness and the validity of its principles, or, on the other hand, to justify particular moral judgments either by (the only valid method) an analysis of the moral principle involved in the judgment and a demonstration of its universal acceptation, or by some attempted proof that the particular moral judgment is arrived at by a process of inference from some universal conception of the Supreme Good or the Final End from which all particular duties or virtues may be deduced.

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  • Sooner or later, indeed, all the Servian rivers reach the Danube.

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  • Yet no sooner was his triumph complete, than an attempt was made upon his life by a couple of young Greek naval officers (Tserepes and Kyriakos); and three months later, the Greek elections gave a crushing majority to his political opponents.

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  • Until Athens recovered something of its old spirit, there must ever be a great standing danger, not for Athens only, but for Greece, - the danger that sooner or later, in some shape, from some quarter - no man could foretell the hour, the manner or the source - barbarian violence would break up the gracious and undefiled tradition of separate Hellenic life.

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  • Wherever the noblest expressions of her mind are honoured, wherever the large conceptions of Pericles command the admiration of statesmen, wherever the architect and the sculptor love to dwell on the masterpieces of Ictinus and Pheidias, wherever the spell of ideal beauty or of lofty contemplation is exercised by the creations of Sophocles or of Plato, there it will be remembered that the spirit which wrought in all these would have passed sooner from among men, if it had not been recalled from a trance, which others were content to mistake for the last sleep, by the passionate breath of Demosthenes.

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  • As stated in the French senate (February 1909), everything is taxed in the island; and no sooner has any enterprise become fairly successful than it is so heavily taxed as to be no longer worth carrying on, and certain crops have therefore been destroyed by the colonists who had planted them.

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  • But sooner or later peripheral neuritis develops, usually beginning with sensory disturbances, tingling, numbness, formication and occasionally cutaneous anaesthesia.

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  • But no sooner had Louis XII.

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  • If this revolution did not burst forth sooner, in the actual lifetime of Louis XV., if in Louis XVI.s reign there was a renewal of loyalty to the king, before the appeal to liberty was made, that is to be explained by this hope of recovery.

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  • Cassandra accepted the proposal; but no sooner had she obtained the gift than she laughed at the tempter, and refused to fulfil her promise.

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  • But this wave of the ebbing Moslem tide had less force than the Almorvide, and fell back both sooner and farther than its predecessor.

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  • Neither the war minister nor the commanders of the garrison chose to punish the offenders, and sooner than endorse such want of discipline, Sagasta and the Liberal party once more made way for Canovas.

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  • So long as honey is being gathered in plenty drones are tolerated, but no sooner does the honey harvest show signs of being over than they are mercilessly killed and cast out of the hive by the workers, after a brief idle life of about four months' duration.

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  • The more strenuous his resistance the sooner he yields to the inevitable force applied by himself.

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  • No sooner had he regained Hungary than he received tempting offers from the pope, represented by the legate Cardinal Cesarini, from George Brankovic, despot of Servia, and George Castriota, prince of Albania, to resume the war and realize his favourite idea of driving the Turk from Europe.

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  • But a chartered company can never be anything but a transition stage of colonization; sooner or later the state must take the lead.

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  • Rhyn stepped into the portal.  He crossed fast and leapt through the portal leading to the Caribbean Sanctuary.  No sooner had he hit the sandy beach than the restraints of the underworld fled, knocking him off his feet.  His body bucked under the influence of power.  Sudden pain shot through him, followed by the sensation of his magic snapping back into a bond too strong for him to access.

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  • Sooner or later she would tell him, and he would know how important it was to her – and that she had hid it from him.

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  • I should've said it sooner, he whispered.

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  • The sooner you put it down the better.

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  • Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous.

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  • Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

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  • Sooner or later, as more and more homes go digital, there will be a breakthrough hit on a small digital channel.

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  • How many more could it have saved had digitalis been released sooner?

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  • He had no sooner done so than he bitterly repented his weakness; and acting, as he himself says, on the principle that " to take an oath which never ought to have been taken is to estrange one's self from God, but to retract what one has wrongfully sworn to, is to return back to God," when he got safe again into France he attacked the transubstantiation theory more vehemently than ever.

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  • The steps in the breaking down of the highly complex nitrogenous proteid compounds contained in the humus of the soil, or applied to the latter by the farmer in the form of dung and organic refuse generally, are many and varied; most frequently the insoluble proteids are changed by various kinds of putrefactive bacteria into soluble proteids (peptones, &c.), these into simpler amido-bodies, and these again sooner or later into compounds of ammonia.

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  • Dissolution, and finally reaches the statement of the Law of Evolution as" an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the matter passes from a an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."This process of evolution is due to" the instability of the homogeneous,"the" multiplication of effects "and their" segregation,"continuing until it ceases in complete" equilibration."Sooner or later, however, the reverse process of Dissolution, with its absorption of motion and disintegration of matter, which indeed has always been going on to some extent, must prevail, and these oscillations of the cosmic process will continue without end.

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  • The transition from the evolutionist criterion of survival - which in itself it is difficult to regard as anything but non-moral - to the criterion of happiness is effected by means of the psychological argument that pleasure promotes function and that living beings must, upon pain of extinction, sooner or later take pleasure in actions which are conducive to their survival.

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  • The Muscovite war had no sooner been ended by the treaty of Deulina than Chodkiewicz was hastily despatched southwards to defend the southern frontier against the Turks, who after the catastrophe of Cecora (see Zolkiewski) had high hopes of conquering Poland altogether.

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  • With characteristic zeal and impetuosity Schelling had no sooner grasped the leading ideas of Fichte's amended form of the critical philosophy than he put together his impressions of it in his Ãœber die Möglichkeit einer Form der Philosophie überhaupt (1794).

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  • In 1189 Frederick Barbarossa of Germany sought and obtained leave to lead his troops on the third crusade through the Byzantine territory; but he had no sooner crossed the border than Isaac, who had meanwhile sought an alliance with Saladin, threw every impediment in his way, and was only compelled by force of arms to fulfil his engagements.

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  • At first all will be dark and comfortless; but if thou persevere day and night, thou wilt feel an ineffable jay; and no sooner has the soul discovered the place of the heart than it is involved in a mystic and ethereal light."

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  • The western part of the country was pervaded by Graeco-Roman civilization very much sooner than the central, and in the country districts the Phrygian language 3 continued in common use at least as late as the third century after Christ.

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  • Though the Lingayats still show a certain animosity towards the Brahmans, and in the Census lists are accordingly classes as an independent group beside the Hindus, still they can hardly be excluded from the Hindu community, and are sure sooner or _later to find their -way back to the Brahmanical fold.

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  • Mara, the great tempter, appears in the sky, and urges Gotama to stop, promising him, in seven days, a universal kingdom over the four great continents if he will but give up his enterprise.2 When his words fail to have any effect, the tempter consoles himself by the confident hope that he will still overcome his enemy, saying, "Sooner or later some lustful or malicious or angry thought must arise in his mind; in that moment I shall be his master"; and from that hour, adds the legend, "as a shadow always follows the body, so he too from that day always followed the Blessed One, striving to throw every obstacle in his way towards the Buddhahood."

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  • No sooner have you uprooted a weed than it grows back !

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  • The wages of sin is always death - sooner or later.

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  • Because of the risks associated with hedge funds and the approval process, if you would like to invest in hedge funds you should start investigating all of your options now so you can be approved for investment sooner rather than later.

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  • That way, you're more likely to find what you need much sooner.

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  • This will also increase your reaction time since you'll see obstacles sooner than you might otherwise.

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  • Hairballs are the bane of every cat owner's existence, and if you share your home with a feline, you're bound to find one sooner or later.

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  • It's essential to get at least one of your cats spayed or neutered, or else sooner or later you're going to wind up with kittens.

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  • If the fur loss grows worse or begins to spread, you may want to go ahead and take her in sooner, however.

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  • Since each story has a character, the sooner they connect with him or her, the easier it will be understand what is being taught.

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  • In many cases, this type of settlement process allows the debtor to get out of debt sooner than if he or she were to pay the minimum balance on the debt over time.

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  • Even if you become the victim of identity theft, by noticing the problem sooner, you can avoid long, drawn out financial problems.

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  • The sooner you spot mistakes like this, the easier it is to fix the problem.

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  • If both parties truly wish to find out how to stop a divorce, sooner or later one has to take the first step and acknowledge the other person's feelings.

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  • As a bonus, teas have fewer side effects than traditional medications and leave your system sooner - they aren't toxic like some medications.

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  • One thing you can be certain of when decorating a teenagers room is that they will want to change the look again sooner than you will.

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  • If you're patient, you'll find that they'll appear sooner or later on some discount sites, but during their initial release period, eBay may hold more promise.

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  • You'll also save shipping costs and receive your pictures a few days sooner if time is an issue.

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  • Vegetables should not be added to stock if it is to be kept for long, as their juices cause it to ferment sooner.

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  • No one can say quite what you're thinking like Nemo's dad, for example, and every little girl quotes Cinderella sooner or later.

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  • This is the only way you can guarantee that you'll get out of debt sooner rather than later.

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  • And yes, wedding gift thank you notes are sent after the wedding, the sooner the better.

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  • While you can really send out announcements any time after the event has occurred, it is best to do it sooner rather than later.

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  • Some people will be above the level sooner than others.

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  • The sooner you get help for drug addiction, the greater your recovery chances will be.

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  • For example, a person who has smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for the last 10 years will probably experience the physical symptoms of withdrawal much sooner than someone who has only smoked one or two cigarettes a day for a few months.

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  • If you have a loved one whose marriage, health, job, family or quality of life is in danger due to alcohol problems, it's important to seek professional help from a qualified physician sooner rather than later.

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  • The sooner you order, of course, the quicker you'll beat the holiday rush.

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  • Cheaply made products won't stand the test of time and you'll find that you need to replace them sooner than you would a high quality brand.

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  • Maybe Whitney will get out of the whole reality television limelight sooner rather than later.

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  • Sooner or later, however, a new hot topic will come along to replace it, and new websites and blogs will sprout up to cover the need for information and pictures.

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  • Kim claimed that she didn't leave Thomas sooner because she was afraid for her and her family's safety.

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  • Boys will be boys, and chances are he'll get a blood or grass stain on his white pants sooner or later.

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  • Many people find that flannel pajamas, when purchased at a discount price, tend to rip and fade sooner than other flannel pajamas.

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  • Taking classes from more than one school at once also allows you to simultaneously juggle different courseloads and finish classes sooner.

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  • Sooner or later, every dog needs a bath, and if you either can't do the job on your own or don't enjoy performing this task yourself, you're going to have to find someone who will.

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  • Diligence on your part now will speed the training process along and put your pet/owner relationship on a comfortable footing that much sooner.

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  • These crops will take about 30 days to mature or sooner.

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  • Remember, if you have dreams of music stardom, you'll need to perform in front of your public sooner or later.

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  • You'll only end up being unhappy with your instrument and having to shell out for a new one far sooner than if you have spent a little more to begin with.

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  • Sooner or later, someone will transcribe a tab version of it and post it online.

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  • If you've purchased a guitar, sooner or later you're going to need to learn the tips and tricks behind replacing electric guitar strings.

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  • The sooner you get a feel for the beat, the sooner you can lead the band.

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  • After one year of having a TimberTech deck, you will wonder why you didn't replace your old deck sooner!

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  • If you want it changed sooner, or if you are unsure about the first ring change, visit a piercing professional to ensure it is done correctly and without damage to the area.

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  • Also note that it should be a plastic bottle, since it will get kicked over by someone sooner or later.

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  • Replace them quarterly; however, if they become easy to put on, you may need to replace them sooner.

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  • As soft as a cloud and so touchable you'll wonder why you didn't buy them sooner, terry cloth capri pants add a touch of luxury to your everyday wardrobe.

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  • Your other choice is to wait until the dress is marked down; this usually happens within a few weeks, but may be sooner or later depending on how slow the merchandise moves.

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  • Unless you're willing to let the state decide who receives your assets after you're gone, it's better to tackle this task sooner rather than later.

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  • The sooner treatment begins, the better chances you have of keeping the symptoms under control for an extended period of time.

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  • They're affordable, readily available, and if you've been struggling for a while, you'll wonder why you didn't get a pair much sooner.

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  • You'll see them coming much sooner than with lenses of any other color.

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  • If you tip the front of the car upwards, you'll fly further; tip the front downwards and you'll land sooner.

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  • It was brutal and those that were on the losing end decided to begin their exodus to Helios sooner than expected.

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  • At first, Table Tennis may seem hard to pick up, but if you heed this advice immediately, then you'll enjoy the game much sooner.

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  • When that time will come is anyone's guess, but it will happen sooner or later.

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  • The page promises more reviews in the near future, so hopefully it will be filled out with tons of information sooner rather than later.

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  • A nominal fee is charged and results are typically available the next business day or sooner.

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  • The sooner you act, thegreater your chances are of saving the phone.

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  • A child should have his first eye exam by the age of three (or sooner if vision problems run in the family), so the practitioner can assess if vision is developing normally.

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  • Many pediatricians recommend seeing the infant at two weeks but if the parents feel it should be sooner due to alterations in the newborn's physical status, they should take the infant in for a visit.

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  • The sooner the diagnosis of mental retardation is made, the more the child can be helped.

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  • The earlier that a child with a hearing problem can be identified, the sooner the child's communication skills will develop.

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  • The sooner narcolepsy is correctly identified, the better the child's chances of maintaining normal academic and social development.

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  • The sooner it is diagnosed and treated, the better the child's outlook for a happy and productive adult life.

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  • Tooth eruption occurs at least a year sooner or later than normal.

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  • The sooner the symptoms occur after exposure, the more severe the anaphylactic reaction is likely to be.

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  • Muscles in the upper arm often lose bulk sooner than those of the forearm, giving a "Popeye" appearance to the arms.

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  • If an incarcerated hernia is not reducible, surgery must be performed much sooner to prevent strangulation.

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  • The earlier a pacifier is introduced the sooner breastfeeding ceases.

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  • This is because the higher your foot comes off the floor the sooner you have to put it down - both because of gravity and because of balance.

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  • The sooner you request this information, the more information you will receive.

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  • Individuals with very light blonde hair may not appear to lose their color until much later because the change is not so noticeable, while brunettes may see signs of gray much sooner.

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  • In general, men tend to develop gray tints sooner than women.

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  • In general, perms will need to be maintained every six months, or sooner if they relax or grow out at a more rapid pace.

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  • The sooner you file your claim, the faster you'll be able to begin receiving benefits (assuming you meet the eligibility criteria).

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  • The sooner you take care of all the important details that are required during layoffs, the faster you'll be able to begin recovering from the difficult situation you are facing.

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  • The sooner you file for unemployment benefits, the sooner you'll begin receiving them.

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  • Displaced workers should not expect to receive a check any sooner than two weeks after filing a claim.

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  • Many times these positions require specific skills, education and experience, so the sooner you set your sights on reaching your career goal, the more places you'll have the opportunity to see.

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  • The time to request assistance from your lender is sooner rather than later.

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  • Building Equity - The sooner a young person is able to purchase a home, the faster he or she is able to begin accruing equity in real property.

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  • The sooner you pay off your mortgage, the less you will pay overall, in most cases.

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  • Doing so could help pay off the mortgage sooner.

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  • The sooner you begin your prenatal care, the better the chance you will deliver a healthy baby.

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  • While no one can prevent an ectopic pregnancy, the sooner it is detected the better.

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  • The sooner your condition is diagnosed, the sooner you can limit the damage to your organs and increase your chance of experiencing a normal pregnancy the next time.

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  • The sooner your parents realize you are pregnant, the easier it will be for them to help you through this difficult time in your life.

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  • Because women having twins tend to show much sooner, Cross' pregnancy will be harder to hide during the show taping.

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  • If a woman is close to her full term due date, using home methods to induce labor can bring about labor sooner and make the labor go more quickly, as well.

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  • Often medical induction is started sooner than that.

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  • While multiple births are commonly delivered sooner than a single birth, full term is considered 36 to 37 weeks for multiples.

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  • This pill is to be taken within seventy-two hours of unprotected sex, but the sooner the better.

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  • Most women do not know they are pregnant during the first week, though some new over-the-counter tests are helping women to determine if they pregnant sooner than ever before.

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  • However, if you've ever had a reproductive health problem like PCOS or endometriosis or have been treated for a sexually transmitted disease, you may want to discuss your concerns with your healthcare provider a bit sooner.

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  • Given these statistics it's easy to see why you should consider giving your child swim lessons sooner rather than later.

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  • No matter where your child goes to school, sooner or later there comes a class trip to the pool or beach, or a summer camp near a lake.

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  • The fabric will fade and thin out much sooner than expected.

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  • If you will be designing your own cards, or crafting new cards from donated recycled cards, you will need to start much sooner.

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  • Certain medications may be prescribed to help manage your blood pressure and taking them sooner as opposed to later can prevent damage to your heart and arteries.

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  • As an example, if you eat cold cereal for breakfast and feel your blood sugar spike as a result, you'll be hungry sooner.

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  • This results in eating less because you're satisfied sooner and stop eating.

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  • Because you are combining a strengthening exercise with aerobic activity, you will see results sooner.

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  • While it may seem like an unnecessary expense when spending a lot of money on a car, it's best to buy an extended warranty as soon as the car is purchased because it's cheaper to buy it sooner rather than later.

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  • When the housing market is tight, any extra features that the home seller can present to a potential buyer may help to move the property sooner.

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  • With some chronic conditions such as arthritis or diabetes you are at risk of needing assistance at an earlier age, so it may be to your advantage to buy sooner.

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  • The program may end sooner if available funding is spent before that time.

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  • Of course, the more open the weave, the more likely the stockings will snag or tear that much sooner, but they should at least last one night.

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  • Fishnets are also more likely to wear out and rip sooner than other stockings.

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  • Begin shopping at least a couple of weeks before the big day; if you shop online, you'll need to shop sooner to account for shipping time.

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  • Sooner or later you might find yourself with playlists full of Twilight music!

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  • Note that if the person you are nominating lives in any of the city's listed, there's a better chance of getting on the show sooner than anticipated.

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  • Though the couple's split was the climax of that season, viewers had seen cracks in their union much sooner.

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  • Also, why did he and Obi-Wan not go back for his mother sooner?

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  • Horace Gold also initiated payment “on acceptance” rather than “on publication” which meant writers received their payment sooner rather than later.

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  • Fair-skinned Caucasians will show visible signs of sun damage sooner, but African-Americans can still experience the negative effects of too much sun exposure.

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  • The problem is they'll know what I did sooner or later and when I resurface, they'll be on me like John Dillinger at the movie.

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  • Dusty's words floored him, and Damian couldn't help but feel hurt that his best friend hadn't told him of his suspicions sooner.

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  • The token seemed too small to make up for not thinking of it sooner.

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  • Fear made Rhyn's chest seize.  No sooner had Gabe spoken the words than the demons fell away.  Coldness snapped over Rhyn, and his surroundings blurred.  He blinked, uncertain what happened until he found himself standing in a dimly lit chamber.  Kris and Gabe were still beside him, and instead of demons, there was only Death.

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  • He had one regret when it came to Carmen... that they hadn't met sooner.

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  • No sooner had President Juarez Celman come into power towards the close of 1886, than the respectable portion of the community began to feel alarmed at the methods practised by the new president in his conduct of public affairs.

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  • Bethlen no sooner felt firmly seated on his throne than he seized the opportunity presented to him by the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War to take up arms in defence of the liberties and the constitution of the extra-Transylvanian Hungarian provinces, with the view of more effectually assuring his own position.

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  • These run in wet seasons, but in every instance for a short distance only, and sooner or later they are lost in sand-hills, where their waters disappear and a line of stunted gum-trees (Eucalyptus rostrata) is all that is present to indicate that there may be even a soakage to mark the abandoned course.

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  • Sooner probably than anybody else he realized the far-reaching implications of the theory propounded by Planck.

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  • In depths beyond the reach of wave motion, and apart from suspension across a submarine gully, which will sooner or later result in a rupture of the cable, the most frequent cause of interruption is seismic or other shifting of the ocean bed, while in shallower waters and near the shore the dragging of anchors or 40 fishing trawls has been mostly responsible.

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  • For some distance these wagons will all travel over the same line, but sooner or later they will reach a junction-point where their ways will diverge and where they must be separated.

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  • There have been several professional photographers (all detected in fraud sooner or later) who made it their business to take photo complaints, to certain epidemics of the middles ages,' and to phenomena that have occurred at some religious revivals.

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  • But be this as it may, he had no sooner adopted his new creed than he resolved to profess it; " a momentary glow of enthusiasm " had raised him above all temporal considerations, and accordingly, on June 8, 1753, he records that having " privately abjured the heresies" of his childhood before a Catholic priest of the name of Baker, a Jesuit, in London, he announced the same to his father in an elaborate controversial epistle which his spiritual adviser much approved, and which he himself afterwards described to Lord Sheffield as having been " written with all the pomp, the dignity, and self-satisfaction of a martyr."

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  • The English courtiers were greatly incensed at the gracious reception accorded to these notable rebels by King James; but although Tyrone was confirmed in his title and estates, he had no sooner returned to Ireland than he again engaged in dispute with the government concerning his rights over certain of his feudatories, of whom Donnal O'Cahan was the most important.

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  • As'has been seen, Bacon had no sooner finished this elaborate work than he began to prepare a summary to be sent along with it.

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  • The besiegers were no sooner in the city, than they were besieged in their turn by Kerbogha; and the twenty-five days which followed were the worst period of stress and strain which the crusaders had to encounter.

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  • If Fulk had been left alone to wage the struggle against Zengi, and if Zengi had enjoyed a clear field against the Franks, the fall of the kingdom of Jerusalem might have come far sooner than it did.

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  • The original circuit at Tunstall no sooner felt its feet than it favoured consolidation rather than extension.

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  • All promised well, but no sooner did his position seem assured than a miserable court intrigue was formed against him.

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  • That stream is sure sooner or later to carry with it every reality that has been reached by side-issues and leaps; and of such things we have important cases in the works of Strauss and Debussy.

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  • Those who quitted the Society maintained, for some little time, a separate organization of their own, but sooner or later most of them joined the Evangelical Church or the Plymouth Brethren.

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  • It ceased, however, to be used for books sooner than for documents.

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  • Meanwhile in Asia also the Ottoman Empire had been consolidated and extended; but from 1501 onwards the ambitious designs of the youthful Shah Ismail in Persia grew more and more threatening to its security; and though Bayezid, intent on peace, winked at his violations of Ottoman territory and exchanged friendly embassies with him, a breach was sooner or later inevitable.

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  • In the forcing of peaches fire heat is commonly applied about December or January; but it may, where there is a demand, begin a month sooner.

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  • Patrick's activity was bound to bring him sooner or later into conflict with the High-king Loigaire (reigned 428-467), son of Niall Noigiallach.

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  • No sooner had he wholly recovered than he hastened to, confront the emperor, reproaching him with his impiety; Diocletian ordered him to be instantly carried off and beaten to death with rods.

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  • No sooner had Brazil passed under the Spanish crown, than English adventurers directed their hostile enterprises against its shores.

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  • Indeed, no sooner was the harmony apparently established by Aquinas than Duns Scotus began this negative criticism, which is carried much farther by William of Occam.

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  • No sooner was the idea of such a tribute started than liberal contributions came from all quarters, which enabled his friends to present him with a sum of 80,000.

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  • No sooner had this matter been happily settled than Horne found himself involved in serious trouble.

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  • No sooner was political life thus resumed than all the Slovene, Croat and Serb deputies of Austria united to form a " Yugoslav parliamentary Club," which entered into close alliance with the Czech Club.

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  • The object of this action was to push back the Boers from the neighbourhood of Pretoria, but no sooner was this done than the ncrth-western Transvaal became active, in spite of Hunter's and Baden-Powell's advance from Mafeking through this district.

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  • Meanwhile the government decided on his arrest, and no sooner was this made public than the populace rushed to the attack of the convent.

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  • The sooner it was begun and the more thorough were the measures adopted, the sooner would its advantages be reaped.

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  • No sooner had he entered on his new duties than his great capacity for arduous work was put to a severe test.

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  • Gregory and Mahomet were contemporaries, and, though Saracen occupation did not begin in Early Sicily till more than two centuries after Gregory's Y death, Saracen inroads began much sooner.

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  • In Dictyota the unfertilized oosphere is found to be capable of undergoing a limited number of divisions, but the body thus formed appears to atrophy sooner or later.

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  • In the first place, Wilson could not have started sooner than he did; and in the second, even if he had been able to do so, it would have made no difference, as the rebels could have taken Khartum any time they pleased after the 5th of January, when the provisions were exhausted.

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  • Befriended by the pope, this man undertook to conquer Rimini for the Holy See, but came there to further his own ends instead (20th October 1469), and, while feigning a desire to share the government with Isotta and her son, resolved, sooner or later, to seize it for himself.

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  • And again, sooner or later she would be bound to find out.

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  • That reputation could not possibly help Evelyn's standing in the clan either; the sooner the clan forgot the blemish of a friend, the sooner they'd accept Evelyn.

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  • Paper Monitor would sooner pluck out its own eyebrows than read a match report, yet manages to find a few nuggets.

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  • The Moluccas were, from the first, the objective of the Portuguese invaders, and no sooner had the white men found their way round the Cape of Good Hope and established themselves successively upon the coast of East Africa, in the neighbourhood of the Gulf of Aden and the Malabar coast, than Malacca, then the chief trading centre of the Malayan Archipelago, became the object of their desire.

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  • In a speech at Rochester, New York, in 1858 he made the famous statement that there was "an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labour nation."

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  • Visconti-Ven.osta and Minghetti, partly from aversion to a Jacobin policy, and partly from a conviction that Bismarck sooner or later would undertake his Gang nach Canossa, regardless of any tacit engagement he might have assumed towards Italy, had wisely declined to be drawn into any infraction of the Law of Guarantees.

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  • No sooner had he made peace with the Poles and failed to get himself elected as their king, than he began a war with the Swedes which dragged on for more than a decade (1572-1583), and before it was ended he was again at war with Poland (1 57981).

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  • No sooner is the vibration perceived than the spider descends with all speed to the centre, and by feeling the ends of the radiating lines learns which is ashake and rapidly, without the possibility of mistake, makes its way to the entangled insect.

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  • And what seems clear is that, sooner or later, we will get there.

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  • In societies where a large percentage of income is necessary just to buy food, having volatile food prices will mean hunger sooner or later, no matter how good the factory jobs are.

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  • Why, only a little while ago people thought it quite impossible to teach the deaf-blind anything; but no sooner was it proved possible than hundreds of kind, sympathetic hearts were fired with the desire to help them, and now we see how many of those poor, unfortunate persons are being taught to see the beauty and reality of life.

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  • Unlike Laura Bridgman, she is fond of gentlemen, and we notice that she makes friends with a gentleman sooner than with a lady.

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  • But no sooner had he left Bagration than his courage failed him.

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  • Pierre knew that everyone was waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror seized him at the thought of that dreadful step.

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  • Why, if he was so jealous, as I see things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months.

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  • But no sooner had Natasha finished her barcarolle than reality again presented itself.

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  • He felt that sooner or later he would have to re-enter that whirlpool of life, with its embarrassments and affairs to be straightened out, its accounts with stewards, quarrels, and intrigues, its ties, society, and with Sonya's love and his promise to her.

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  • It will at any rate be understood all the sooner that things cannot go on like this.

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  • Bennigsen should have advanced into Prussia sooner, then things would have taken a different turn...

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  • The whole household, as if to atone for not having done it sooner, set eagerly to work at the new task of placing the wounded in the carts.

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  • Yet sooner or later it had to be, and she went in.

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  • These sounds made his spirits rise, but at the same time he was afraid that he would be blamed for not having executed sooner the important order entrusted to him.

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  • The sooner you get started, the more time you will have to take care of all of the details before it's time to actually start collecting orders.

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  • While a few cities host their holiday parades sooner, most are held after the turkey has been eaten and Santa Claus has ridden down the streets of New York City.

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  • If you need your costume sooner, three-day, two-day, and overnight delivery are available for an additional fee.

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  • By keeping a date short, especially if there is a high level of interest and the two of you are having a great time, it gives him reason to want to see you again sooner.

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  • You on the other hand are, so put those smarts to use and focus on meeting someone whose only regret is that he didn't meet you sooner!

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  • On the other hand, should the relationship end sooner rather than later, your view on the timing of sex will most likely reflect this.

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  • The fact that your ex moved on sooner than you is also normal.

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  • Face problems as they arise and not a moment sooner.

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  • The problem with this is that you may be playing a part and sooner or later, that part will become wearying to play.

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  • It may be hard, Brian says, but many relationships would have happened much sooner if someone had taken that first leap of faith.

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  • They may wear out sooner than more expensive bags, but that doesn't mean you should stay away.

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  • Every now and then some styles are reintroduced, but it is best to purchase the wallet you're eyeing sooner rather than later.

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  • This is not an absolute given; it's just true in the majority of instances for bigger films, so if you are really eager for a DVD, you should acquire it sooner than later and hope they offer an incentive for trading up down the line.

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  • Don't allow carelessness or laziness to force you to replace items sooner than what is truly necessary.

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  • The main benefit of the debt snowball method is that you see results sooner.

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  • No sooner have you bought one pair of new shoes, than it's time for another.

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  • Keep searching and sooner or later you're sure to find the shoes you want, in a size that actually fits.

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  • Sookie's fairy heritage is unknown for several of the novels, although True Blood delves into it much sooner.

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  • Any infection left untreated has the potential to escalate into blood poisoning, so it's best to be cautious and seek medical care sooner rather than later.

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  • Bottom line, if you suspect your new tattoo has become infected, you need to seek help sooner rather than later.

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  • Wrist tattoos may need to be touched up sooner than other tattoos.

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  • I wanted to get certified in both Pilates and yoga, but found a yoga teacher training program available in the area sooner.

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  • In addition, the ISHTA website features a page about teacher training, so interested parties can hope that a teacher will come their way sooner rather than later.

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  • If you believe your child is at a high risk for developing autism, you may wish to request testing and diagnostic evaluations sooner.

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  • The sooner you discover your child's special needs, the better his chances are at a quality education.

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  • Early recognition of autism is essential, as the sooner treatment begins, the better the prognosis for the child and the greater the chance that he will achieve some level of independence later in life.

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  • We need to implement the new product marketing plan sooner than discussed at our last meeting, because ABC company now has a similar one set to launch in July.

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  • Be sure to include an early buy-out clause should your business take off sooner than expected so you can regain control and be happy.

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  • There are a slew of ways this can be written, based on your standing in the company, your overall feelings toward the organization, why and when you're leaving and if you can honor the company's notice policy or need to leave sooner.

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  • The sooner you ask for the money, the sooner you are likely to get paid.

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  • This seven-seat crossover concept vehicle was on the market sooner than most concept cars; some never make it to the showroom.

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  • Of course, the faster you get to a spill or dirt on the carpet, the sooner it will be cleaned up.

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  • Sooner or later, you will get busy and let things slip.

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  • The sooner you get your cleaning job scheduled, the better chance you will have of being able to get on the schedule of your first choice cleaning service provider.

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  • Psyllium - use of the whole seeds in this plant, botanically called plantago ovata, has shown a reduced intake of calories due to its ability to make one feel fuller sooner.

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  • I told you sooner or later somebody would take that whip away from you.

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  • Sooner or later it would become obvious to Cade himself.

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  • I knew I'd have to talk to you about it sooner or later, but I didn't want to hold the financial burden of an unplanned pregnancy over your head like a club.

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  • While he knew he'd have to speak to Corday sooner or later, he hoped to first learn the reason for his wife's reticence about discussing the ice park fall.

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  • The odds were, he would break her heart at some point, and would it not be better sooner, rather than later?

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  • No sooner had it expired when the phone took up the chorus.

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  • If you get close enough, sooner or later someone gets careless.

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  • They had considered showing Jeffrey Byrne's picture to some of the bike tour workers, especially those volunteers manning the frequent rest stops where every biker would pass sooner or later.

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  • Sooner or later she and Alex would run smack into the middle of something unpleasant.

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  • Well, sooner or later she'll have to take care of the babies by herself.

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  • No sooner had they gone than a hot, stinging sensation slid down one of his legs.

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  • But no sooner was he dead than the essential weakness of an artificial state, built up by cunning and perfidious policy, with the aid of bought troops, dignified by no dynastic title, and consolidated by no sense of loyalty, became apparent.

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  • An attempt made by his uncles to dislodge him proved unsuccessful, and no sooner was the young sovereign firmly settled than he began to meditate an extension of his own dominions.

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  • If the sole purpose for which an animal is reared is to prepare it for the block - and this is the case with steers amongst cattle and with wethers amongst sheep - the sooner it is ready for slaughter the less should be the outlay involved.

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  • And the sooner we get machines to do the things they can do, freeing up people to do what they can do, the happier and wealthier we all will be.

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  • This difference of three and a half degrees between the temperature of the deep water and the shallow in the latter pond, and the fact that a great proportion of it is comparatively shallow, show why it should break up so much sooner than Walden.

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  • The sooner they got away from the tree, the better.

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  • If Alondra was going to stay, sooner or later she would have to talk to her father about it.

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  • The sooner he started, the sooner it would be out of the way.

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  • Sooner or later Lori would give up on him.

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  • No sooner had the compromise of the investitures been conduded than it was manifest that the burghers of the new enfranchised communes were resolved to turn their arms against each other.

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  • This theory of disease disappeared sooner than did the belief in possession; the energumens (EVEp-yoiwEvoc) of the early Christian church, who were under the care of a special clerical order of exorcists, testify to a belief in possession; but the demon theory of disease receives no recognition; the energumens find their analogues in the converts of missionaries in China, Africa and elsewhere.

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