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  • The climate is in general warm, but not torrid nor unsuitable for Europeans.

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  • But many of the laws were quite unsuitable for the circumstances of his age, and the belief that a body of intricate and even contradictory legislation was imposed suddenly upon a people newly emerged from bondage in Egypt raises insurmountable objections, and underestimates the fact that legal usage existed in the earliest stages of society, and therefore in pre-Mosaic times.

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  • It is therefore adapted for conditions which are unsuitable for Hevea.

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  • This general, hating Barclay, rode to visit a friend of his own, a corps commander, and, having spent the day with him, returned to Barclay and condemned, as unsuitable from every point of view, the battleground he had not seen.

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  • The climate is generally such as to secure the population the necessaries of life without severe labour; the extremes of heat and drought are such as to render the land unsuitable for pasture, and the people everywhere subsist by cultivation of the soil or commerce, and live in settled villages or towns.

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  • Some of his recommendations are quite unsuitable to the state of the country, and display more of general knowledge and good intention than of either the theory or practice of agriculture.

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  • The appointment was in every way unsuitable.

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  • The licences within restricted areas having proved unsuitable for the growing business, public opinion appealed to the Post Office to issue new licences applicable to the whole country.

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  • Under the head of malformations we place cases of atrophy of parts or general dwarfing, due to starvation, the attacks of Fungi or minute insects, the presence of unsuitable food-materials and so on, as well as cases of transformation of stamens into petals, carpels into leaves, and so forth.

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  • The quality of the last is a matter of great importance; when it is unsuitable, the boilers will suffer, and the installation of a water-softening plant may save more in the expenses of boiler maintenance than it costs to operate.

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  • It is adapted for light, high-speed service, and noted for its simplicity, excellent riding qualities, low cost of maintenance, and high mechanical efficiency; but having limited adhesive weight it is unsuitable for starting and accelerating heavy trains.

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  • There are a number of apparently related passages which, however, on internal grounds, are unsuitable to the present period, and when they show independent signs of a later date (in their present form), there is a very strong probability that they refer to such subsequent disasters.

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  • Although the state has a great amount of limestone, especially in Erie and Ottawa counties, its dull colour renders it unsuitable for most building purposes.` It is, however, much used as a flux for melting iron and for making quick lime.

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  • Lycabettus, the most prominent feature in the Athenian landscape, directly overhung the ancient city, but was not included in its walls; its peculiar shape rendered it unsuitable for fortification.

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  • By the treaty of Tientsin (1860) Taichu was opened to European commerce, but the place was found quite unsuitable for a port of trade, and the harbour of Tam-sui was selected instead.

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  • As an antiseptic salicylic acid is somewhat less powerful than carbolic acid, but its insolubility renders it unsuitable for general use.

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  • He proceeded instantly to the forest for wood, being resolved that it should not be made of unsuitable material; and as he searched for and rejected stick after stick, his friends gradually deserted him, for they grew old in their works and died, but he grew not older by a moment.

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  • But while the majority of the deputies, were nominally in favor of the bill, the parliamentary committee reported against it, and public opinion was so hostile that an anti-divorce petition received 3,500,000 signatures, including not only those of professing Catholics, but of free-thinkers and Jews, who regarded divorce as unsuitable to Italian conditions.

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  • The chief applications of Chile saltpetre are in the nitric acid industry, and in the manufacture of ordinary saltpetre for making gunpowder, ordinary Chile saltpetre being unsuitable by reason of its deliquescent nature, a property, however, not exhibited by the perfectly pure salt.

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  • Disk ploughs are unsuitable for heavy sticky soils and for stony land, but may be used with effect on stubbles and on land in a dry hard state.

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  • Wylde conjectures that it had become unsuitable for a royal seat by having acquired the status of a sacred city, and thus affording sanctuary to criminals and political offenders within the chief church and a considerable area round it, where there are various houses in which such persons can be lodged and entertained.

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  • The dome is an unsuitable addition of 1731 by the Sicilian architect Filippo Juvara (1685-1735), and its baroque decorations spoil the effect of the fine Gothic interior.

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  • Notwithstanding the large number of streams, the depression of their channels and height of their banks render them for the most part unsuitable for the purposes of irrigation, - which is conducted by means of jhils and tanks.

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  • The situation proved unsuitable; the lady, as Kuno Fischer says, "required greater submission and better French" than Fichte could yield, and after a fortnight's stay Fichte set out for Konigsberg to see Kant.

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  • The mouth blowpipe is unsuitable for the production of a large flame, and cannot be used for any lengthy operations; hence recourse must be made to types in which the air-blast is occasioned by mechanical means.

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  • Great difference of opinion exists among foresters as to the cause of this destructive malady; but it is probably the direct result of unsuitable soil, especially soil containing insufficient nourishment.

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  • This building being later found unsuitable, Colonel Perkins consented to its sale, and in 1839 the institution was moved to South Boston, to a large building which had previously been an hotel.

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  • There is a subsidiary coinage (introduced in 1908) consisting of a nickel penny and a nickel tenth of a penny (the last-named was first coined in aluminium, but this metal proved unsuitable and was withdrawn).

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  • From El Kb southward its place was taken by Libyan sandstone, soft and easily worked, but unsuitable for fine sculpture.

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  • Here must have stood the capital of some great empire connected with its extremities, Sardis or Ephesus on the west, Sinope on the north, the Euphrates on the east, the Cilician Gates on the south, by roads so well made as to continue in use for a long time after the centre of power had changed to Assyria, and the old road-system had become circuitous and unsuitable.

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  • In 1893 he wrote The Philanderer, a topical comedy on Ibsenism and the "new woman," for the same theatre, but the piece proved technically unsuitable for Mr Grein's company.

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  • The two first-named are trustworthy, but are evidently unsuitable for the greater portion of engineers' work, for which .riveting and bolting are the methods adopted.

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  • The Mean Calorie Cannot Be Accurately Realized In Practice In Any Simple Manner, And Is Therefore Unsuitable As A Standard Of Comparison.

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  • The intermediate class takes those not previously convicted but deemed unsuitable as "stars" from antecedents and generally unsatisfactory character.

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  • He found that while the front lines had been elaborately fortified, in various sectors the reserve lines which he had indicated as the " battle positions " were almost untouched, and parts of the front line were unsuitable for prolonged resistance.

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  • It thrives most in a light loam with a dry subsoil; rich and, in particular, wet soils are unsuitable, conducing to the formation of too much wood.

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  • Where the land was unsuitable for nomad occupation the agricultural population remained, and it still retains some of its original characteristics.

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  • On the other hand, different varieties of the vine, provided they are otherwise not unsuitable, may, if planted in the same soil, after a time produce wines which may not differ seriously in character.

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  • The match was distasteful to Lady Hatton and to her daughter; a violent quarrel was the consequence, and Bacon, who thought the proposed marriage most unsuitable, took Lady Hatton's part.

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  • Each cultivator seeks out the kinds of plants best suited to his soil and climate and rejects those which are tender or otherwise unsuitable.

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  • Pasteur found that the germs of anthrax could be cultivated outside the body and their virulence weakened either by growing them at too high a temperature or in an unsuitable medium.

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  • In all the white population is in a minority; in most the climate is unsuitable for European colonization, nor is the commercial value of the colonies commensurate with their extent.

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  • Many such methods consist, to speak generally, in growing the organism outside the body under somewhat unsuitable conditions, e.g.

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  • Both coal and iron ore were formerly worked, but the coal is exhausted and the ore unsuitable for modern processes.

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  • This would seem to mean " the field of thy blood," which is unsuitable.

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  • The shores of Botany Bay were found to be unsuitable for residence or cultivation, and Captain Phillip transferred the people under his command to Port Jackson, half a dozen miles away, near the site of the present city of Sydney.

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  • But the resistance to bending of the steel plates would render this arrange - ment unsuitable for scale-beams, in which the movement is large.

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  • This furnace is also very well adapted for impure acids, unsuitable for platinum or platinum-gold stills on account of the crusts forming at the bottom of the retorts; and it is more and more coming into use both in Great Britain and on the Continent.

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  • What remains of Walter's building is a rich example of the Christian-Saracen style, disfigured, unfortunately, by the addition of a totally unsuitable dome by Ferinando Fuga in 1781-1801.

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  • Even in the mountainous districts which are unsuitable for tillage there is often sufficient soil to yield, with the aid of the moist atmosphere, abundant pasturage of good quality.

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  • If a wound is so dry that it needs a moistened dressing, then it is unsuitable for an absorbent alginate or hydrofibre dressing.

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  • The supply of small bangers and mini-rockets are banned and all fireworks unsuitable for use by the general public should carry a warning.

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  • Also, of course, there would be flint but, surprisingly, most probably very broken and unsuitable for knapping.

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  • I shall not feel any chagrin should they deem me unsuitable.

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  • In addition, some species contain coumarins, making them unsuitable for women taking anticoagulants.

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  • Somewhat rambling diatribe against the education offered by Balliol as being unsuitable for today's young men. [8] H. Fairbrother to BJ.

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  • Where no three-phase electricity is available and single-phase motors are unsuitable, a single to three-phase converter may be the only answer.

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  • Even the Warnock Committee had a minority report which regarded the human embryo as unsuitable for destructive experimentation.

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  • Large quantities of very deep heather make the firebreak unsuitable for pedestrians, or for stopping a fire.

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  • It has been shown that unsuitable footwear is often a factor in falls.

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  • This makes a hovercraft unsuitable for use on public roads.

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  • Any form of clinker hull, even the triple clinker of the late medieval English shipwrights, was totally unsuitable for such treatment.

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  • However, these early extracts were also impure and unsuitable for human use.

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  • MicardisPlus is therefore unsuitable for patients with hereditary fructose intolerance.

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  • In addition they apply from day one and so still need to be followed when dismissing an unsuitable probationer.

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  • We discuss what makes a client suitable or unsuitable for weekly biodynamic psychotherapy.

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  • Improper equipment, for example wearing the wrong type of sports shoes or using an unsuitable racquet.

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  • Typical contaminants are exhaust fumes from lorries parked outside the air compressor intake, flux fumes, halogenated solvents and oil from unsuitable compressors.

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  • Campto contains sorbitol, which is unsuitable for people who cannot tolerate fructose.

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  • Most scrapbooks available from high street stationers are generally unsuitable for long term protection purposes.

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  • There are however a few fabrics which are unsuitable, either send a swatch or contact for further advice.

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  • An enclosed vivarium is unsuitable for any species that requires a temperature gradient, or differential, to enable self-selection of body temperature.

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  • Recommendations This method is inherently unsuitable for low modulus polymeric material systems.

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  • The majority of these materials are totally unsuitable for patching prior to surface dressing.

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  • However, the tactics to deal with suicide bombers in all three countries are wholly unsuitable for adoption by the UK.

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  • I s the study " otherwise unsuitable to be relied upon "?

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  • When this occurs it renders the passport unsuitable as a secure travel document.

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  • Some images in this section may be deemed unsuitable for viewing by very young children.

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  • For work with children the check will also search government lists of people considered unsuitable to work with children.

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  • Do they offer a replacement service should your nanny prove unsuitable?

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  • He took up the investigation of the lightchanges in variable stars, devoting to this work nights which, on account of moonlight, were unsuitable for zone observations.

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  • There can be little doubt that the Pnyx was the seat of an ancient cult; the meetings of the Ecclesia were of a religious character and were preceded by a sacrifice to Zeus 'Ayopa70s; nor is it conceivable that, but for its sacred associations, a site would have been chosen so unsuitable for the purposes of a popular assembly as to need the addition of a costly artificial auditorium.

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  • Nitric acid (up to 50%) is formed in the first tower, and weaker acids in the successive ones; the last tower contains milk of lime which combines with the gases to form calcium nitrite and nitrate (this product, being unsuitable as a manure, is decomposed with the acid, and the evolved gases sent back).

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  • Constructed and written in almost slavish imitation of Virgil, employing for medium a very unsuitable vehicle - the Alexandrine couplet (as reformed and rendered monotonous for dramatic purposes) - and animated neither by enthusiasm for the subject nor by real understanding thereof, it could not but be an unsatisfactory performance.

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  • He had no thought of betraying us, he tried to do the best he could, he thought out everything, and that is why he is unsuitable.

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  • He is unsuitable now, just because he plans out everything very thoroughly and accurately as every German has to.

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  • The stairs are quite steep, meaning it is unsuitable for wheelchairs.

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  • It has highly fertile land, but was mostly unsuitable for cultivation without the plow and animal traction.

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  • The songs were recorded for Body Language, but deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the album.

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  • We regret the property is unsuitable for young children.

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  • Black Bin Residual waste unsuitable for recycling i.e. food scraps Glass can be recycled at the neighborhood recycling points or recycling centers.

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  • However, overgrazing and unsuitable supplementary feeding were recognized as problems prior to 1992.

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  • Advertisements should aim to limit the number of unsuitable candidates for the vacancy.

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  • The Welsh Assembly has passed laws making bed and breakfast unsuitable accommodation for any homeless person in priority need from April 2008.

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  • There have been many press reports highlighting the problem of children coming into contact with unsuitable internet material.

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  • Unsuitable housing was the most common reason for changing home.

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  • The minor foible in the woman's character made her unsuitable for the career she really wanted.

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  • Old clothes that are unsuitable for charity shops can be cut up into rags, so that you can stop using paper towels.

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  • If you're building a home from the ground up, try to use woods that were once considered unsuitable.

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  • The land that New Zealand sheep farmers used to produce their wool is mostly unsuitable for other agricultural purposes, so it does not compete with food production.

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  • Be sure to explore the possibility of regular ski resorts, in case the weather is unsuitable for heli skiing.

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  • Couples should keep in mind that the presiding clergy may need to review the vows to ensure they are appropriate for the faith or venue, and enough time should be available to alter the vows if they are deemed unsuitable.

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  • This naivete may be one of the reasons why many unsuitable dogs are living in neighborhoods with children or other dogs and have been involved in attacks.

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  • Its dwarf growth adapts it for positions unsuitable for the latter kinds, and it has a good effect in masses, its color being unlike that of any other Dahlia.

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  • Avoid using railroad ties or pressure treated lumber, as both these types of wood harbor chemicals that make them unsuitable for gardening.

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  • These concerns do not mean manure is unsuitable for garden use.

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  • There's the heat and sun of Death Valley that is unsuitable for lizards, much less Syrah vines.

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  • Because of the mind-body awareness required to perform coughing and deep breathing exercises, they are unsuitable for most children under the age of eight.

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  • Hair that has been permed may be unsuitable, or product damage could render hair useless for donating.

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  • It's possible to view every available foreclosed property through Bank of America but it is possible to greatly reduce unsuitable results by specifying exactly what you are looking for.

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  • Because some Rescue Heroes toys are unsuitable for young children, this website contains a list of the toys which should be safe for parents to purchase, and those that are not recommended.

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  • The speed and power that these bikes offer make them unsuitable for children under age 13, which is the manufacturer's recommendation.

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  • That makes supplements that have a direct impact on this area, such as chromium (often touted for weight-loss purposes) unsuitable for self-medication.

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  • Unfortunately, the alcohol in these products makes them unsuitable for candle making.

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  • However, there are a few general tips that you can use to help minimize the risk of picking an unsuitable present.

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  • That term can be anything that makes someone unsuitable as a partner.

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  • These smaller stones are often less valuable and unsuitable for separate use, but when added to a small center stone they increase its value by adding carat weight to the piece.

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  • Editors are busy people; don't waste their time on ideas that are clearly unsuitable.

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  • However, parents can do a few things to help ensure that kids are avoiding unsuitable game websites, and not spending too much time on the computer.

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  • With the growth of the Internet, parents have had to pay close attention to the potentially unsuitable material their children can be exposed to.

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  • Ask Jeeves for Kids (Ask for Kids) filters any inappropriate sites from their search results, so parents can be assured that their kids are protected from clicking a link to unsuitable subject matter.

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  • Even the best deals won't help your pocketbook if the school board deems them unsuitable.

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  • Rated R films can contain sexual themes or scenes, drugs, alcohol, violence, language and other themes unsuitable for younger audiences.

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  • The clog is a traditionally slip-on style with a relatively high heel, making them somewhat unsuitable in which to tackle wet conditions.

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  • This means that as sebum and lymph collect in the pores of the jewelry, it becomes an ideal breeding ground for many kinds of infection-causing bacteria, rendering it unsuitable for long term wear.

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  • With such a wide range of alarm clocks to choose from, this can help narrow the choice and ultimately will save time that might otherwise be wasted on looking at unsuitable models with novelty features.

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  • Clothing that restricts your movement or is unsuitable for the temperature of the room will prevent your yoga practice from being an optimal one.

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  • If you see an item you like, with unsuitable material, take note of the name brand and style - chances are, you will be able to find it online in an alternative material.

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  • Public roads are unsuitable, as the trucks carry far too much in weight and length to be viable on these highways.

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  • Oxen and cows are of secondary importance and the climate is unsuitable for sheep; horses of a small breed are used to some extent.

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  • The fact is that the wind is continually varying in force, and while the ordinary pressure plate is admirably adapted for measuring the force of a steady and uniform wind, it is entirely unsuitable for following the rapid fluctuations of the natural wind.

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  • A coolness with Calvin was created by Farel's marriage, at the age of sixty-nine, with a refugee widow from Rouen, of unsuitable age.

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  • He took it to London and submitted it to Garrick for representation at Drury Lane, but it was rejected as unsuitable for the stage.

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  • Differences falling under the second general head are, for the most part, unsuitable, and may only be adjusted (if at all) through the mediation of a friendly power.

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  • Goats have been found highly profitable in many of the middle Atlantic states, where the long dry seasons render the campos unsuitable for cattle pasturage.

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  • He died in his house at Wimbledon on the 18th of March 1812, and his body was buried with that of his mother at Ealing, the tomb which he had prepared in the garden attached to his house at Wimbledon being found unsuitable for the interment.

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  • The winds in winter are uniformly dry while dust storms are frequent at all seasons - a fact which renders the country unsuitable for persons suffering from chest complaints.

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  • The beach on which the landing took place proved to be satisfactory, but it lay at the foot of a steep and rugged declivity, which was therefore a most unsuitable place for putting ashore the stores and impedimenta of an army.

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  • Outside these reserves enormous tracts of forest and jungle still remain for clearance and cultivation, reservation being mostly confined to forest land unsuitable for crops.

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  • As the fractured surfaces of the glass in this condition are unsuitable for delicate examination a good deal of glass that passes this inspection has yet ultimately to be rejected.

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  • A soil consisting of sand entirely would be very loose, would have little capacity to retain water, would be liable to become very hot in the daytime and cool at night and would be quite unsuitable for growth of plants.

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  • Alone, even when broken up into small pieces, it is unsuitable for the growth of plants.

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  • In many of these the application of heat is necessary to bring the substances used into the liquid state for the purpose of electrolysis, aqueous solutions being unsuitable.

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  • The Finance Act of 1902 allows a manufacturer to obtain a license which permits the use of duty-free alcohol, if he can show that such alcohol is absolutely essential for the success of his business, and that methylated spirit is unsuitable.

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  • In contemporary English Free Churches the purity of the church is commonly secured by the removal of persons unsuitable for membership from the church books by a vote of the responsible authority.

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  • As regards its constitution, it has been given at different times the formulae NI 3, NHI 2, NH 2 I, N 2 H 3 I 3, &c., these varying results being due to the impurities in the substance, owing to the different investigators working under unsuitable conditions, and also to the decomposing action of light.

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  • The graphite of New York, Pennsylvania and Alabama is "flake" and unsuitable for this purpose.

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  • The defects which cause gardeners to speak of certain vines as " shy setters," and of certain strawberries as " blind," may be due either to unsuitable conditions of external temperature, or to the non-accomplishment, from some cause or other, of cross-fertilization.

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  • Many gardeners are still afraid to disturb an unsuitable subsoil, but experienced growers have proved that by bringing it up to the surface and placing plenty of manure in the bottoms of the various trenches, the very best results are attained in the course of a season or so.

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  • In case of direct puddling and the use of larger charges this conservatism has some foundation, because the established custom of allowing the cast iron to solidify gives a better opportunity of examining its fracture, and thus of rejecting unsuitable iron, than is afforded in direct puddling.

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  • In a few months he found " the scene wholly unsuitable " to him, and about the middle of 1734 set out for France, resolved to spend some years in quiet study.

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  • As a rule, sheep-farming is resorted to where the soil is of inferior quality and unsuitable for tillage and the breeding of cattle.

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  • The excessive size of the properties may to some extent be accounted for by the fact that most of the surface is so mountainous and unproductive as to be unsuitable for division into smaller estates, but two other causes have also co-operated, namely, first, the wide territorial authority of such Lowland families as the Scotts and Douglases, and such Highland clans as the Campbells of Argyll and Breadalbane, and the Murrays of Athol and the duke of Sutherland; and secondly, the stricter law of entail introduced in 1685.

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  • Formerly in Anna Pavlovna's presence, Pierre had always felt that what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte's stupidest remarks came out clever and apt.

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