At-home Sentence Examples

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  • What do you do at home on this holiday?

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  • They would have some time to enjoy a late Christmas at home when they returned.

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  • Make yourself at home.

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  • Tonight, when it was dark, she could pretend they were at home.

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  • If this was what defined a vacation away from home, she'd just as soon stay at home.

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  • Still, all the information Katie provided created a clearer picture of why Alex acted the way he did at home.

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  • Maybe Connie wouldn't be at home.

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  • To her surprise, she caught Connie at home.

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  • In 1758 he returned with mingled joy and regret to England, and was kindly received at home.

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  • It's winter - or was at home.

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  • It's easier to simply fix something at home.

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  • I wanted to be sure he was at home and hopefully alone.

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  • After the king's final separation from his wife in July 1531, Anne's position was still more marked, and in 1532 she accompanied Henry on the visit to Francis I., while Catherine was left at home neglected and practically a prisoner.

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  • What could you give them here that you couldn't give them at home?

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  • In any case, there was nothing that couldn't wait to be discussed at home.

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  • For the most part, the work she did for the Giddon family was little more than she would have done at home - with the exception that at home she probably would have made a sandwich instead of a meal.

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  • Nobody stays at home to look after the kids any more.

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  • Men get ideas when their wives are at home trying to be everything a man expects of them.

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  • Well, make yourself at home.

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  • After a quick stop at home to change clothes and to leave a short note to Fred, Dean was on the road.

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  • Their social life was church, they had no television and even when Carmen had attended college, they had requested that she stay at home every night instead of living in a dorm.

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  • I just think your sister should be at home with her children.

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  • He didn't kiss her or even touch her except when he helped her out of the car at home.

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  • His further pursuit of the legal profession seemed to be out of the question, and on his return to Boston he remained quietly at home.

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  • His father's library, though large in comparison with that he commanded at Lausanne, contained, he says, " much trash "; but a gradual process of reconstruction transformed it at length into that " numerous and select " library which was " the foundation of his works, and the best comfort of his life both at home and abroad."

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  • The auto charger was in the car, but she had a plug-in type at home.

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  • She picked up Sunny and sat on the couch, making herself at home.

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  • She wrapped her arms around him, at home again.

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  • Cynthia confessed they didn't attend as often as they should— as much as she did when her son was at home.

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  • Me and Bertha here might be too old to drive all the way from Kansas, but we're still at home on these Jeep roads.

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  • All her emotional and physical efforts were directed toward helping him recover and taking care of things at home.

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  • His method upon arrival at home had remained the same.

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  • Maybe you all can go with me to the beach and we'll leave him at home.

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  • He sank into the shadows, at home in the darkness, watching.

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  • Go ahead and make yourself at home.

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  • Is your phone at home busted? he asked as he sat down and asked Priscilla for a coffee.

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  • You can do anything you want to—things you wouldn't do at home.

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  • Carmen had barely settled in at home before Lori drove up and whisked Alex away.

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  • Maybe I just didn't fit in at home either.

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  • The answer had frightening implications with Fred O'Connor at home alone.

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  • He was get­ting the paper at home.

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  • Still, Alex seemed at home in her old house – and she would have been perfectly content to keep him there.

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  • I feel like a fifth wheel here, and there is so much to do at home.

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  • It meant Alex would go back to work and she would be at home alone.

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  • You spend more time there than you do at home.

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  • Alex was still at home.

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  • That evening at home they were eating supper when Jonathan again asked Alex if he could get a cell phone.

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  • Alex didn't have to go to the clinic, but he wanted to complete some paperwork at home so he declined the buggy ride.

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  • Which leaves Gerald at home alone.

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  • If they hadn't gone off playing those silly war games, Rosie the riveter would have stayed at home barefoot and pregnant the way women belong.

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  • If this hadn't been an engagement party for Denton and Clarissa, she would have stayed at home.

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  • Go ahead and make yourselves at home down here, Jessi said, indicating the formal living room.

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  • Jessi went to the couch, expecting to see her cousin lying there watching TV, as she did at home.

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  • He was educated at home and at the university of Strassburg, where he was chiefly noted for his athletic skill.

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  • He had retired at an early age from the army and was living an idle life at home as a gentleman farmer.

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  • While at home Hastings is said to have attached himself to literary society; and it may be inferred from his own letters that he now made the personal acquaintance of Samuel Johnson and Lord Mansfield.

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  • A peerage was openly talked of as his due, while his own ambition pointed to some responsible office at home.

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  • His enemies at home were crushed, and their leader, Berthold, elector of Mainz, was dead; while the outlook abroad was more favourable than it had been since his accession.

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  • Abroad its navigators monopolized the commerce of the world, and explored unknown seas; at home the Dutch school of painting reached its acme in Rembrandt (1607-1669); and the philological reputation of the country was sustained by Grotius, Vossius and the elder Heinsius.

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  • At the same time, Pericles was being sorely hampered by his adversaries at home.

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  • His position at home scarcely improved during the war.

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  • Here the ruling race was at home.

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  • But he was a profoundly interested observer of affairs at home and among 1 The Assyrian term abubu is used of the great primeval deluge (in the Gilgamesh epic), and also of the local floods common in the country.

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  • They therefore requested him to call a "national synod of the bishopsof the Anglican Church at home and abroad," to meet under his leadership. After consulting both houses of the Convocation of Canterbury, Archbishop Longley assented, and convened all the bishops of the Anglican Communion (then 144 in number) to meet at Lambeth in 1867.

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  • He did not, however, as has been supposed, spend the best years of his manhood abroad, for he was certainly at home in 1571, when the preliminaries of his marriage were arranged at Merchiston; and in 1572 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Stirling of Keir.

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  • A child may receive instruction in a public or private school or at home.

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  • He himself never felt at home at Brussels, and in August 1559 he set sail for Spain, never again to revisit the Netherlands.

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  • But before starting he was called upon to suppress disorder at home.

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  • The formation of a Latin empire in the East increased the popes prestige; while at home it was his policy to organize Countess Matildas heritage by the formation of Guelph leagues, over which he presided.

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  • The men of the Left believed themselves subtle enough to retain the confidence and esteem of all foreign powers while coquetting at home with elements which some of these powers had reason to regard with suspicion.

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  • The period between May 1881 and July 1887 occupied, in the region of foreign affairs, by the negotiation, conclusion and renewal of the triple alliance, by the Bulgarian crisis and by the dawn of an Italian colonial policy, was marked at home by urgent political and economic problems, and by the parliamentary phenomena known as trasformismo.

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  • Although both abroad and at home his policy had generally embodied the wishes of the ascendant party in the state, Danby had never obtained the confidence of the nation.

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  • A son of William Thistlewood, and born at Tupholme in Lincolnshire, young Thistlewood passed his early years in a desultory fashion; he became a soldier and visited France and America, imbibing republican opinions abroad and running into debt at home.

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  • Other schools of philosophy pay flying visits to theism; intuitionalism is at home there.

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  • A large number of beetles inhabit the deep limestone caves of Europe and North America, while many genera and some whole families are at home nowhere but in ants' nests.

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  • Partly owing to its being written in French, partly to its character, the Essai excited more attention abroad than at home.

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  • This theory Gibbon completely exploded in his Critical Observations (1770) - no very difficult task, indeed, but achieved in a style, and with a profusion of learning, which called forth the warmest commendations both at home and abroad.

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  • It has, moreover, been remarked that almost all the animals mentioned were at home in the Egypt of those days, or at least, like the elephant, were to be seen there occasionally, whereas the structure of the hedgehog, for instance, is explained by a reference to the sea-porcupine, better known to fish-buyers on the Mediterranean.

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  • But inasmuch as he had come to be at home with many cultured persons he imparted more than he got."

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  • This failure reacted upon Wolsey's position at home.

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  • During the first half of his government he materially strengthened the Tudor monarchy by the vigorous administration of justice at home and by the brilliance of his foreign policy abroad.

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  • While the peace between the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War lasted, Howe held commands at home and on the west coast of Africa.

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  • The old infirmary building is now occupied by St Joseph's College, a commercial academy of the Marist Brotherhood, in connexion with which there is a novitiate for the training of members of the order for missionary service at home or abroad.

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  • Ireland, she possessed six times as many sheep. The cattle population of England alone slightly exceeded that of Ireland, but cattle are more at home on the broad plains of England than amongst the hills and mountains of Wales and Scotland, which are suitable for sheep. Hence, whilst in England sheep were not three times as numerous as cattle, in Wales they were nearly five times, and in Scotland nearly six times as many.

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  • The Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders' Association may be taken as a type of the latter, its principal object being to encourage the breeding of Hampshire Down sheep at home and abroad, and to maintain the purity of the breed.

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  • He spent lavishly on public buildings at home and in the older centres of Hellenism, like Athens.

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  • In the popular imagination he seemed to be the only possible guarantor of victory abroad and order at home.

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  • They were weary of a means of pacification which produced endless wars abroad and misery at home.

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  • His education was conducted entirely at home until, at the age of fourteen, he entered Rugby, where he remained five years.

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  • He asked him for information about Thule, but Aungervyle, who promised information when he should once more be at home among his books, never sent any answer, in spite of repeated enquiries.

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  • He was taught to ride before he was four, at eight was quite at home in his saddle, and when only eleven, brought down his first bear at a single shot.

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  • According to the Malays a penanggalan (vampire) is a living witch, and can be killed if she can be caught; she is especially feared in houses where a birth has taken place and it is the custom to hang up a bunch of thistle in order to catch her; she is said to keep vinegar at home to aid her in re-entering her own body.

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  • Another, Daniel Neal, in 1720, found Boston conversation " as polite as in most of the cities and towns in England, many of their merchants having the advantage of a free conversation with travellers; so that a gentleman from London would almost think himself at home at Boston, when he observes the number of people, their houses, their furniture, their tables, their dress and conversation, which perhaps is as splendid and showy as that of the most considerable tradesmen in London."

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  • The fresh-water spider (Argyroneta) lives amongst the weeds of lakes and ponds and, like Desis, is quite at home beneath the water either swimming from spot to spot or crawling amongst the stems of aquatic plants.

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  • This, the longest of his works, added much to existing knowledge, especially as to the relations between England and the continent, but it lacked something of the freshness of his earlier books; he was over seventy when it was completed, and he was never quite at home in dealing with the parliamentary foundations of English public life.

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  • Famine and pestilence at home drove men to emigrate hopefully to the golden East.

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  • But so long as Cimon's influence prevailed the ideal of " peace at home and the complete humiliation of Persia " was steadily unheld.

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  • The spoilt child of London society was not at home in India, and he was glad to return to England, where he arrived in 1812.

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  • In the complete subjection of the Continent which preceded the Russian War this was not so easy as it would have been earlier, and she remained at home during the winter of 1811, writing and planning.

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  • He is at home alike in the epic and the lyric, the tragic and the comic poets, and his knowledge of the prose writers is very extensive.

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  • This did not suit him, but from March 1883 to July 1884 he was at home at a charming house called La Solitude, above Hyeres; this was in many ways to be the happiest station in the painful and hurrying pilgrimage of Stevenson's life.

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  • Mr. Bryce, already favourably regarded in America as the author of a classical work on the American Commonwealth, made himself thoroughly at home in the country; and, after the fashion of American ministers or ambassadors in England, he took up with eagerness and success the role of public orator on matters outside party politics, so far as his diplomatic duties permitted.

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  • He would have been more at home in a state of things which did not demand from its leading statesman great popular power; he had none of those " isms " and " prisms of fancy " which stood in such good stead some of his rivals.

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  • He was proclaimed on the 3rd of September 1658, and at first his accession was acclaimed with general favour both at home and abroad.

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  • Dempster owed his great position in the history of scholarship to his extraordinary memory, and to the versatility which made him equally at home in philology, criticism, law, biography and history.

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  • The former were obliged to serve beyond the boundaries of the province, the latter only at home.

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  • The proud minister had been resisted p in his plans of reform at home by the Jesuits, and, determining to attack the power of the order, first deprived them of all temporal power in the state of Maranhao and Para.

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  • Galgano (infra), built in black and white marble, was begun in the early years of the 13th century, but interrupted by the plague of 1248 and wars at home and abroad, and in 1317 its walls were extended to the baptistery of San Giovanni; a further enlargement was begun in 1339 but never carried out, and a few ruined walls and arches alone remain to show the magnificence of the uncompleted design, which would have produced one of the largest churches in the-world.

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  • But his fame had gone forth throughout Europe, and intimations reached him from many quarters that his voice would be listened to everywhere with favour, in advocacy of the doctrines to the triumph of which he had so much contributed at home.

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  • In their misery the cities frequently appealed for protection to the emperor and other foreign potentates, as no redress was attainable at home.

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

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  • Her great deliverance and victory naturally stirred up the energies of Syracuse at home and abroad.

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  • But it was the work at home which occupied most of his energies.

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  • Both combatants had, according to the absurd habit of the time, to disown their works, Desfontaines's disavowal being formal and procured by the exertion of all Voltaire's own influence both at home and abroad.

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  • His tyrannical and barbarous conduct had made him obnoxious at home as well as abroad, and indeed many of his actions recall the worst passages of the history of the later Roman emperors.

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  • Images of himself were erected on the shores of the Mediterranean in token of his victories, and cities and palaces were built at home out of the spoils of the conquered lands.

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  • In his short reign peace was established both at home and abroad, the finances were well regulated, and the various administrative services were placed on a basis that afterwards enabled Spain to pass through the disastrous war with the United States without even the threat of a revolution.

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  • Its revenues were derived from the Bedouins of the surrounding lands as well as from its own subjects at home.

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  • The overthrow of the Wahhabis in 1817 restored Sultan Said to independence; he equipped and armed on Western models a fleet built in Indian ports, and took possession of Sokotra and Zanzibar, as well as the Persian coast north of the straits of Hormuz as far east as Gwadur, while by his liberal policy at home Sohar, Barka and Muscat became prosperous commercial ports.

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  • The union of merchants abroad was beginning to come under the control of the partial union of towns at home.

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  • His troops were equally at home on land and water.

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  • His responsibility also for the sad state of religion at home is emphasized, and he is given a mission of repentance to his erring children.

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  • For a while she led at home the life of a recluse, speaking only to her confessor, and spending all her time in devotion and spiritual ecstasy.

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  • He seems to have been a remarkably good child, and much beloved at home.

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  • He received the information with simple thankfulness, and only asked that he might die at home.

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  • It was a period of constant war, and finally of disaster abroad and of rebellion at home.

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  • It may have been partly a sort of "swarming" process, caused by pressure of population at home.

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  • It is the man of energy, of some means, of ambition, who takes the chances of success in the new country, leaving the poor, the indolent, the weak and crippled at home.

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  • On the other side, it is said that the men who are doing well at home are the ones least likely to emigrate, because they have least to gain.

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  • In other cases it allows restless spirits who have failed at home to try again elsewhere.

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  • The amount of money brought by the immigrants is not large, and is probably more than offset by the money sent back by immigrants for the support of families and friends at home or to aid them in following.

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  • They should be taken care of at home.

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  • The influence of Shaftesbury's writings was considerable both at home and abroad.

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  • Ministers at home have of ten appeared to be inclined to the policy of pleasing by avoiding the reforming of what might be left as it was found.

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  • The hardships incident to touring with travelling companies unfavourably affected her health, but by 1885 she was recognized at home as Italy's greatest actress, and this verdict was confirmed by that of all the leading cities of Europe and America.

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  • Meanwhile the king of Portugal went on consolidating the power of the crown at home and the influence of the nation abroad.

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  • This large class of " dissenters " found themselves as little at home under a Protestant as under a Catholic regime, and have until recently been treated with scant sympathy by historians of the Church.

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  • Certainly they were liable to military service and presumably to that taxation which fell upon Athenians at home.

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  • The inquiry as to infirmities, too, is made to extend to those temporarily incapacitated from work, whether at home or in a hospital.

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  • Up to 1810 missionary work had been carried on at home by several local societies, but in that year the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was organized.

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  • It may be said without exaggeration that no American public man in the history of the country has achieved such extraordinary popularity during his lifetime as Mr Roosevelt had attained at fifty years of age, both at home and abroad.

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  • In numerous speeches and addresses he expressed his belief in a strong colonial government, but a government administered for the benefit of the people under its control and not for the profit of the people at home.

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  • No one probably expected from Nerva a vigorous administration either at home or abroad, although during his reign a successful campaign was carried on in Pannonia against the Germans (Suebi), for which he assumed the name Germanicus.

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  • In 1827 he obtained a seat in the supreme council, and in March 1835, after he had acted as the first governor of the proposed new presidency of Agra, he provisionally succeeded Lord William Bentinck in the governor-generalship. During his brief tenure of office (it lasted only for one year) he carried out several important measures, including that for the liberation of the press, which, while almost universally popular, complicated his relations with the directors at home to such an extent that he resigned the service of the Company in 1838.

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  • After a careful education at home by eminent specialists, mostly Frenchmen,' he first went abroad in 1786.

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  • By many churchmen, too, the name of "Protestant" is accepted in what they take to be the old sense as implying repudiation of the claims of Rome, but as not necessarily involving a denial of "Catholic" doctrine or any confusion of the Church of England with non-episcopal churches at home or abroad.

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  • While the Church, like a careful mother, sought to lead her children, never allowed to grow up, safely from time into eternity, the men of the Renaissance felt that they had come of age, and that they were entitled to make themselves at home in this world.

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  • This was the first direct step taken at home towards the establishment of the new State.

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  • The Czechs at home declined even discussion with the Vienna Government, and declared that the question of Czechoslovakia must be left to the Peace Conference.

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  • All that the gentry contributed at present was two pence (groschen) per hide of land, and this only for defensive service at home.

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  • Castlereagh brought with him decided views, which however were not altogether those of his cabinet, and his position was weakened by the fact that Great Britain was still at war with the United States, and that public opinion at home cared for little but the abolition of the slave trade.

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  • A compulsory education law of 1902 - to operate, however, only in the city of Baltimore and in Allegany county - requires the attendance for the whole school year of children between the ages of eight and twelve and also of those between the ages of twelve and sixteen who are not employed at home or elsewhere.

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  • His first military service at home was against the Cossack rising of Nalewajko as lieutenant to Zolkiewski, and he subsequently assisted Zamoyski in his victorious Moldavian campaign.

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  • Those, too, who send or bring the foreign soil should exercise a little thought in the choice of it, since dry earth that has never had any Entomostraca near it at home will not become fertile in them by the mere fact of exportation.

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  • The provision for the joint influence of Great Britain and France over the New Hebrides (1906) brought these islands into some prominence owing to the hostile criticism directed against the British government both in Australia and at home.

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  • It was no time for brilliant initiative or adventurous politics; the need was to avoid Scylla and Charybdis, and a via media had to be found in church and state, at home and abroad.

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  • The society spends £10,000 a year in grants to religious and philanthropic agencies at home.

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  • He was generally known as the Pest Alcibiades, and was especially at home in the salons of the Protestant magnates.

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  • Provisions are also made for continuing the coinage of " trade dollars " for export, which have a wide circulation in the Orient but are not current at home.

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  • At whatever date the Americans began to people America, they must have had time to import or develop the numerous families of languages actually found there, in none of which has community of origin been satisfactorily proved with any other language-group at home or abroad.

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  • He did his utmost to bring Cleomenes into disfavour at home.

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  • Those who ate at home marked themselves out as both greedy and lacking in charity.

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  • Timur not only consolidated his rule at home by the subjection of intestine foes, but sought extension of territory by encroachments upon the lands of foreign potentates.

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  • He now fled to Russia, where he was interned at Kaluga, while at home he was condemned to confiscation and death as a traitor, and his unjustly accused mistress Magdalena Rudenschold was publicly whipped to gratify an old grudge of the regent's.

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  • In 1907, with an annual production of nearly fifty million bushels, only a trifling percentage was exported, the rest being fed at home and exported in the form of produce without loss from impoverishment of the soil.

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  • For this reason he was censured at home and he promptly resigned, after spending only five months in the country.

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  • He was really, as we have seen, a prolific writer from the time when he was a young man under Plato's guidance at Athens; beginning with dialogues in the manner of his master, but afterwards preferring to write didactic works during the prime of his own life between thirty-eight and fifty (347-335-334), and with the further advantage of leisure at Atarneus and Mitylene, in Macedonia and at home in Stagira.

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  • The Fronde over, Mazarin had to build up afresh the power of France at home and abroad.

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  • It is to his shame that he did so little at home.

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  • In spite of his power and influence, his position as a leader of the Guelphs was greatly shaken during the latter years of his reign, while at home he was never able completely to subjugate his rebellious barons.

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  • As Prime Minister Poincare aimed at safeguarding the interests of France abroad, especially against the menace of the Triple Alliance, and at strengthening her at home by firm government and the restoration of social discipline.

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  • Many volumes about his career and opinions were issued in his lifetime both at home and abroad.

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  • One cannot but feel regret at seeing the Reformed Churches blown about by every wind of doctrine, and catching at straws now from Kant, now from Hegel, and now from Lotze, or at home from Green, Caird, Martineau, Balfour and Ward in succession, without ever having considered the basis of their faith; while the Roman Catholics are making every effort to ground a Universal Church on a sane system of metaphysics.

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  • During these early years Bedford ruled France wisely and at first with success, but he could not prevent the mischief which Humphrey of Gloucester caused both at home and abroad.

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  • There followed fifteen years of vain struggle in France, and growing disorder at home.

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  • The missionary revival which marked the Nottingham Conference of 1906 quickened the interest at home and abroad and the Foreign Field (monthly) is prominent among missionary periodicals.

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  • Capitation grants have made it possible to organize the work at every station at home and abroad.

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  • Dr Rigg, the president of that year, put all his strength into the movement, and every department of Methodist work at home and abroad shared in the benefits of the fund.

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  • As the catspaw of clerical reaction he had also to acquiesce in that " Roman campaign at home " that resulted in the Falloux Act of 1850, which in the name of liberty of education put the university in bondage lil.

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  • His bold and vigorous language aptly expressed the thoughts which had long been secretly stirring Russian minds, and were now beginning to find a timid utterance at home.

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  • Zinzendorf's death (1760) had left room and need for his labours at home.

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  • The factories which have been erected in the north of Ireland, on the outskirts of London and elsewhere turn out millions of garments that would, under the old conditions, have been made at home.

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  • About that time parts of a confederation of tribes which had taken the name of Shammar from a moun tain in their neighbourhood, moved northwards from Central Arabia in search of better pasture, &c. Successfully displacing their forerunners, they made themselves at home in the Syrian steppe - until their possession was in turn disputed by a later emigrant from Arabia, for whom they finally made room by moving on into Mesopotamia, over which they spread, driving before them their predecessors the Tai (whose name the Mesopotamian Aramaeans had adopted as a designation for Arab in general), partly north of the Sinjar, partly over the Tigris.

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  • The regular army consists (in theory) of 6000 men, on active service for three years, and at home on halfpay for three years.

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  • His dreams of autocracy at home and farreaching dominion abroad were anachronisms in a century of constitutional ideas and national differentiation.

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  • After his return from Russia, he won the highest respect at home and abroad, and Frederick the Great is recorded to have said of him, "He was a great man whom I shall ever remember with admiration."

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  • The Megillah or Roll of Esther is read both at home and in the synagogue, and wherever, during the reading, the name of Haman is mentioned, it is accompanied with tramping the feet.

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  • Schwartz, whose devotion and success told with such remarkable reflex influence on the Church at home.

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  • He returned to England, and his reappearance was followed by divisions among the Brethren at home.

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  • The Dutch navy at home and in Indian waters consists (1909) of 9 small battleships, 6 small cruisers and 80 other vessels, manned by 8600 officers and men of the navy and about 2250 marines.

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  • The young writers of 1870 to 1880 had not long to wait, however, for recognition both at home and in Paris, where many of them found hospitality in the pages of the Mercure de France from 1890 onwards.

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  • From 1638 to 1651 the Covenanters were the dominant party in Scotland, directing her policy both at home and abroad.

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  • Their sale at home was very large; they were reprinted in England and translated immediately into Danish, Italian, German and French.

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  • But when once his position at home and abroad had been established, it became increasingly clear that he possessed all the Bourbon tenaciousness of personal power.

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  • John was not the man to be forced into treason to his family, but the impossibility of the position at home made his foreign ambitions more feasible.

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  • By his absence he had avoided implication in the troubles at home.

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  • Ricotti, "no citizens in the cities, neither man nor beast in the fields, all the land forest-clad and wild; one sees no houses, for most of them are burnt, and of nearly all the castles only the walls are visible; of the inhabitants, once so numerous, some have died of the plague or of hunger, some by the sword, and some have fled elsewhere preferring to beg their bread abroad rather than support misery at home which is worse than death."

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  • Incessant war, both at home and in Italy, had deprived it of its force; it had lost moral influence by humiliations, of which the scene at Canossa was an extreme type.

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  • So long as they are at home in the body, they are absent from the Lord.

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  • Perhaps the leaders of the party, who were now growing old, would have been content with the influence they had already attained, but they were hard pressed at home by the Young Czechs, who were more impatient.

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  • A very happy married life at home contented him, and at the opening of the Free Trade hall in January 1840 he sat with the Rochdale deputation, undistinguished in the body of the meeting.

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  • For this reason it is often hard to tell where the primitive cult-centre of a particular deity is to be sought; thus Horus seems equally at home both at Buto in the Delta and at Hieraconpolis in Upper Egypt,, and the earliest worship of Seth appears to have been claimed no less by Tanis in the north than by Ombos in the south.

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  • A camel corps of 1100 men selected from twenty-eight regiments at home was added, and the fighting force to,be placed in line somewhere in the neighborhood of Shendi was fixed at 5400.

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  • Justinian's reign was filled with great events, both at home and abroad, both in peace and in war.

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  • At other military fronts than France the system adopted was similar, but special difficulties occurred in regard to the despatches from Mesopotamia, which were censored at the Front, in India and at home.

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  • But the dauphin succeeded in embarrassing his father's policy at home and abroad, and had his own party in the court itself.

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  • From 1577 onwards, Venice endeavoured to crush the pirates without offending Austria, enlisting Albanians in place of their Dalmatian crews, who feared reprisals at home.

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  • Save for the abortive Scrope and Cambridge plot in favour of Mortimer in July 1415, the rest of his reign was free from serious trouble at home.

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  • Lord Rosebery's personal popularity had been increased at home by his successful intervention in the coal strike of December 1893, and when in March 1894 the resignation of Gladstone was announced, his selection by Queen Victoria for the premiership was welcomed by the public at large and by the majority of his own party.

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  • At the Belgian revolution of 1830 he thought it advisable to undertake pastoral work at home rather than to accept an educational post in the family of the Dutch king.

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  • It has been completely transformed into a national Hungarian seat of learning since 1867, and great efforts have been made to keep at home the Hungarian students, who before then frequented other universities and specially that of Vienna.

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  • The complete service (missa ad integrum), the bishop goes on to say, cannot be had at home by reading and prayer, but only in the house of God, where, besides the Eucharist, "the divine word is preached and the blessing is given to the people."

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  • His stay in Leipzig came, however, to an abrupt conclusion; the distractions of student life proved too much for his strength; a sudden haemorrhage supervened, and he lay long ill, first in Leipzig, and, after it was possible to remove him, at home in Frankfort.

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  • Here he gave himself up unreservedly to the new impressions which crowded on him, and he was soon at home among the German artists in Rome, who welcomed him warmly.

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  • The Europe of his later years was very different from the idyllic and enlightened autocracy of the 18th century, in which he had spent his best years and to which he had devoted his energies; yet Goethe was at home in it.

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  • Martin Luther and thousands of children like him were trained at home to know the creed, the ten commandments, the Lord's prayer, and such simple hymns as Ein Kindelein so lobelich, Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist and Crist ist erstanden; and they were taught to believe that God for Christ's sake freely pardons sin.

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  • His ancestors in the 18th century had sent recruits to the famous brigade of Irish exiles in the service of France,' and those who remained at home either lived as tenants on the possessions of which they had once been lords, or gradually made money by smuggling, a very general calling in that wild region.

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  • Embroidery and muslins are made in this half-canton, though wholly at home by the work-people.

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  • In 1682 Sir Josiah Child at home and Sir John Child in India formed a combination, which recognized that in the struggle between the Mogul and the Mahrattas the English must meet force with force; and in 1687 Bombay supplanted Surat as the chief seat of the English in India.

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  • The ambitious policy and the continuous wars of Lord Wellesley exhausted the patience of the court of directors at home.

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  • Some of these reforms were distasteful to the covenanted service and to the officers of the army, but Lord William was always staunchly supported by the court of directors and by the Whig ministry at home.

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  • Unfortunately Henry Lawrence was at home on sick leave.

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  • Although the hulks at home had been condemned, convict establishments in which these floating prisons still formed the principal part were organized at Bermuda and Gibraltar.

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  • The third stage in Sir George Grey's scheme contemplated the enforced emigration of released convicts, whom the discipline of separation and public works was supposed to have purged and purified, and who would have better hopes of entering on a new career of honest industry in a new country than when thrown back among vicious associations at home.

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  • It is an advance on this when Heraclitus 2 opposes to the eyes and ears which are bad witnesses " for such as understand not their language " a common something which we would do well to follow; or again when in the incommensurability of the diagonal and side of a square the Pythagoreans stumbled upon what was clearly neither thing nor image of sense, but yet was endowed with meaning, and henceforth were increasingly at home with symbol and formula.

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  • On the whole it must be said that in those towns where the democratic party gained the upper hand an unruly policy abroad and a narrowminded protection at home resulted.

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  • Prosperity at home was great, and foreign relations were free from complications.

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  • Antonio Perez, who was legitimated by an imperial diploma issued at Valladolid in 1542, was, however, believed by many to be in reality the son of Philip's minister, Ruy Gomez de Silva, prince of Eboli, to whom, on the completion of a liberal education at home and abroad, he appears at least to have owed his first introduction to a diplomatic career.'

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  • Of 142 cases treated, 21 died; while of 72 cases not treated, 46 died; but the former were all hospital patients, and included several convalescents and many cases of extreme mildness, whereas the non-serum cases were treated at home or not at all, some being only discovered when death had made further concealment impossible.

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  • The popular assembly, like the English House of Commons, granted supplies and originated laws, and the governor and Council enjoyed the right of revision and veto as did the king and the House of Lords at home.

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  • The popes of the Renaissance were profoundly uninterested in theology; they were far more at home in an art gallery, or in fighting to recover their influence as temporal Italian princes, gravely shattered during the long residence of the papal court at Avignon in the 14th century.

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  • He could dictate their policy at home and abroad, revise their statute-book, upset the decisions of their law-courts.

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  • In the taverns and low places of amusement haunted by those lettered songsters, on the open road and in the forests trodden by their vagrant feet, the deities of Greece and Rome were not in exile, but at home within the hearts of living men.

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  • Greek, Latin and Hebrew erudition soon found itself at home on Teutonic soil.

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  • In addition to his work for the Labour and Socialist movement at home he was one of the most ardent pioneers of international socialism, and visited many countries in his endeavour to bring together the workers of different lands.

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  • His health being then, as always, extremely delicate, he probably received much of his instruction at home.

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  • At the tercentenary of " Bishop Morgan's Bible " in 1888 a national movement of appreciation was set on foot amongst Welshmen of all denominations both at home and abroad, with the result that XXVIII.

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  • Indifferent to theological, or even to patriotic, considerations, his plans to protect the reformers rested upon two main principles - unity among the Protestants at home and military aid from abroad.

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  • But the first condition of employing all the home regulars abroad is perfect security at home.

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  • Miss Nightingale followed with interest all the later improvements in sanitation, and was frequently consulted about hospital plans both at home and abroad.

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  • Yet he was always a hard worker; as sole minister of Edinburgh studying for two sermons on Sunday and three during the week, besides having innumerable cares of churches at home and abroad.

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  • The same period which saw the extension of the Swedish Empire abroad, saw also the peaceful development of the Swedish Rule of constitution at home.

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  • He affected to believe that only by force of arms could Sweden retain the dominion which by force of arms she had won; but he also grasped the fact that there must be no disunion at home if she were to continue powerful abroad.

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  • He lived in the most frugal style alike at home and in the field, and though his campaigns were undertaken largely to secure booty, he was content to enrich the state and his friends and to return as poor as he had set forth.

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  • He was educated at home and at Aberdeen University, where he attained the highest academic distinctions, winning among other things the Ferguson mathematical scholarship, which is open to all graduates of Scottish universities under three years' standing.

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  • As an attribute the word may be applied to a cultured man of the world, who has travelled widely and is at home in many forms of civilization, to such races as the Jewish, scattered through the civilized world, yet keeping beneath their cosmopolitanism the racial type pure, and also to mark a profound line of cleavage in economic and political thought.

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  • In watching the troops of patients who go to the wells we notice that most of them do more early rising, take more regular exercise, and drink more water in the course of a month at the well than they would do in the rest of the year at home.

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  • Where it is impossible for the patient to visit Carlsbad, half a teaspoonful or a teaspoonful of salt may be taken in a large tumbler of hot water on rising every morning; but when taken at home the treatment is not so effective as at Carlsbad, because at the wells sipping water is associated with early rising, considerable exercise and a very carefully regulated diet.

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  • A number of other waters containing sulphides and chlorides are powerfully purgative, and are more often drunk at home than at the springs.

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  • It is a mistake, however, to send those in whom the disease is very far advanced away from home and friends, because when there is no hope of cure it is better for them to die in comfort at home.

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  • Even when patients are unable' to stay long at a sanatorium they learn there the advantages of open air and can continue the treatment at home to their great advantage.

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  • Abroad the great national interests were eagerly sacrificed for the sake of a pension, and at home his personal ease and pleasure alone decided every measure, and the fate of every minister and subject.

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  • The government at home was carried on principally by Rochester, Sunderland and Godolphin, while Guilford was lord chancellor and Jeffreys lord chief justice.

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  • The administration became more and more despotic, and Tangier was abandoned in order to reduce expenses and to increase the forces at home for overawing opposition.

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  • They had many supporters at home and abroad.

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  • He entered the Bengal civil service in 1867 and had a distinguished career as an administrator, becoming secretary to the Home Department of the Government of India in 1889, chief commissioner of Assam in 1894 and of the Central Provinces from 1895 to 1898, whence he was transferred to the India Office at home as secretary to the Judicial and Public Department, a post which he held until his retirement in 1910.

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  • Under Kublai's successors in China the Buddhist cause flourished greatly, and the Sakya Lamas extended their power both at home and abroad.

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  • Some anecdotes of the king's "justice," his favourite and distinguishing attribute during the sixteen years which intervened between the two crusades, are given; then comes the story of Joinville's own refusal to join the second expedition, a refusal which bluntly alleged the harm done by the king's men who stayed at home to the vassals of those who went abroad as the reason of Joinville's resolution to remain behind.

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  • Rebellions broke out at home and abroad; the Normans conquered Lombardy, which subsequently (1055) became the duchy of Apulia, and thus Italy was lost to the empire; the Petchenegs (Patzinaks) crossed the Danube and attacked Thrace and Macedonia; and the Seljuk Turks made their appearance on the Armenian frontier.

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  • A great proportion of this population is purely residential, that is to say, its working members do not practise their professions at home or close to home, but in the metropolis, travelling a considerable distance between their residences and their offices.

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  • From the Congress of the United States he received a gold medal and a vote of thanks, and he received many other honours both at home and abroad.

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  • As Coulter and Chamberlain express it, " the habitats of the Gymnosperms to-day indicate that they either are not at home in the more genial conditions affected by Angiosperms, or have not been able to maintain themselves in competition with this group of plants."

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  • Excise duties are charges upon commodities produced at home on their way to the consumer, and customs duties in the United Kingdom are charges upon commodities brought into the country from abroad; and they are of essentially the same nature.

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  • Not only so, but excise duties and customs duties are in some cases supplementary to each other, like articles being produced at home and imported from abroad, so that for the sake of the revenue they have both to be taxed alike.

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  • No doubt, in theory, this duty, being levied on the import only and not on the home production of corn, took from the tax-payer a shilling on every quarter of grain produced at home which did not go into the exchequer.

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  • He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad.

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  • Maize, wheat and other cereals are cultivated on the elevated plateaus, with the fruits and vegetables of the temperate zone, and the European in Bogota is able to supply his table very much as he would do at home.

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  • He redeemed by organized strategy the vacillations and follies of statesmen who had sat at home and sent out inadequate expeditions or incompetent commanders.

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  • He was educated at home until the age of fourteen, when he entered the university of St Andrews.

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  • Hamilton (Discussions, p. 541), one of his most resolute opponents, described Cousin as "A profound and original thinker, a lucid and eloquent writer, a scholar equally at home in ancient and in modern learning, a philosopher superior to all prejudices of age or country, party or profession, and whose lofty eclecticism, seeking truth under every form of opinion, traces its unity even through the most hostile systems."

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  • He was a competent soldier, but his wish was rather to be a strong king at home than a great conqueror abroad.

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  • If his renewed war with Philip of France was generally unsuccessful, yet at home he held his own.

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  • Henry lacked the energy to attempt to take by force what he could not obtain by persuasion, and preferred to break his bargain with the pope rather than to risk the chance of civil war at home.

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  • Even before this final disaster the indignation felt against Suffolk and Somerset had raised violent disturbances at home.

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  • Internal commerce was evidently developing in a satisfactory style, despite of the wars; in especial raw wool was going out of England in less bulk than of old, because cloth woven at home was becoming the staple export.

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  • He and his minister were alternately gulled by France and by the emperor, and the net result of all their activity was bankruptcy and discontent at home and ever-frustrated hopes abroad.

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  • The influence of Marlborough at home was the result partly of the prestige of his victories, partly of the dominating influence of his strong-minded duchess (Mrs Freeman) over the queen (see ANNE, queen of England).

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  • For the present the contention of the American colonists and of the defenders of Wilkes at home was confined within the compass of the law.

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  • The governing and controlling body was naturally to be a council appointed at home.

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  • This explains Castlereaghs policy at home and abroad.

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  • It is not without significance that this modification of the policy of the Tory government at home coincided with a modification of its relations with the European powers.

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  • Early in 1848, moreover, revolutions on the continent produced a natural craving for changes at home.

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  • It was obvious that the control of the situation was passing from the hands of the cabinet at home into those of Lord Stratford at Constantinople.

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  • A period of distress at home increased the discontent which Lord Beaconsfields external policy was exciting; and, when parliament was at last dissolved in 1880, it seemed no longer certain that the country would endorse the policy of the minister, who only a short time before had acquired such popularity.

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  • And, if things were going badly with the new government abroad, matters were not progressing smoothly at home.

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  • It could not say that the Transvaal government had no cause for alarm when British officers had attempted an invasion of its territory, and had been treated rather as heroes than as criminals at home.

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  • These state papers are either foreign or domestic, that is to say, the correspondence of the English government with its agents abroad, or at home.

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  • They proceeded to tax the American colonists, to interpose vexatiously against their trade, to threaten the liberty of the subject at home by general warrants, and to stifle the liberty of public discussion by prosecutions of the press.

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  • Extending as it does over the whole " month of raging heat," such a fast manifestly involves considerable self-denial; and it is absolutely binding upon all the faithful whether at home or abroad.

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  • But a strong opposing current of feeling, equally passionate, set in against the Turks; war began and lasted long; and as the agitation at home and the conflict abroad went on, certain of Disraeli's colleagues, who were staunch enough at the beginning, gradually weakened.

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  • At the Berlin conference he had established a formidable reputation; the popularity he enjoyed at home was affectionately enthusiastic; no minister had ever stood in more cordial relations with his sovereign; and his honours in every kind were his own achievement against unending disadvantage.

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  • It is impossible to doubt that some two or three, four or five perchance, were at home in his mind, being freely admitted there; but of partial admissions to its inner places there seem to have been few or none.

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  • His company," she adds, " could not but be very desirable for us, and he had all the assurances we could give him of being always welcome; but, to make him easy in living with us, it was necessary he should do so on his own terms, which Sir Francis at last assenting to, he then believed himself at home with us, and resolved, if it pleased God, here to end his days as he did."

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  • Sheltered by him they could await foreign succour or a reaction at home.

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  • Afraid to take a course which involved danger both at home and abroad, the Assembly decreed that Louis should be suspended from his office.

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  • He had skilfully extricated himself from the embarrassments at home and abroad left by his predecessor Joseph.

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  • Caring little for the Convention and knowing nothing of events on the northern or eastern frontier, the peasants were determined not to serve and preferred to fight the Republic at home.

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  • Lastly, those members who had never been Jacobins wanted a speedy return to legal government at home and therefore wished for peace abroad.

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  • Since the close of the Convention affairs at home and abroad had been tending more and more surely to the establishment of a military dictatorship. Feeling his powers equal to such an office he only hesitated about the means of attainment.

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  • Fear of revolution at home was one of the motives which led continental sovereigns to attack revolution in France.

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  • The writer of Mark's gospel was "an Italian, at home both in Rome and Alexandiria"; that of Matthew's gospel "a Roman, nourished by the spirit of Seneca"; The Pauline epistles were written in the West in antagonism to the Paul of the Acts, and so on.

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  • The children of the upper classes in Ireland, both boys and girls, were not reared at home but were sent elsewhere to be fostered.

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  • In Spain, France and the Empire they often rose to the distinction which they were denied at home.

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  • It was evident from the speeches made on the occasion that there was not much cordiality between the various leaders, but the outward solidarity of the party was calculated to bring in renewed subscriptions both at home and from America.

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  • Because of the futility and sordid intrigues which characterized the independent Military Government at Canton, he, whose reputation in 1912 had stood high at home and abroad, came gradually to be regarded as an irreconcilable conspirator, whose personal ambitions were largely responsible for the continuance of the senseless civil strife between the North and the South.

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  • Thanks to the prudent constable du Guesclin, sitting quietly at home he reconquered bit by bit what his predecessors had lost upon the battlefield, helm on head and sword in hand; and when he died in 1380, after the decease of both Edward III.

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  • The ageing of the great king was betrayed not only by the fortune of war in the hands of Villeroy, la Feuillade, or Marsin; disgrace and misery at home were worse than defeat.

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

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  • The next task was to relieve Paris of Bonaparte, who had already refused to repeat Hoches unhappy expedition to Ireland and to attack England at home without either money or a navy.

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  • Except in extraordinary circumstances, the war ministers have seldom called for more than forty to sixty thousand men annually, and of this contingent all who can afford to do so buy themselves off from service at home by payment of 60, and if drafted for colonial service by payment of 80.

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  • Though much of his time and energies had been devoted to the re-establishment of peace at home and in the colonies from 1875 to 1880, Seor Canovas had displayed considerable activity and resolution in the reorganization of the monarchy.

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  • She was educated partly at home and partly at one of the fashionable boarding-schools of the day, where she received the usual education of accomplishments.

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  • Mr Chamberlain had a very difficult part to play, in a situation dominated by suspicion on both sides, and while he firmly insisted on the rights of Great Britain and of British subjects in the Transvaal, he was the continual object of Radical criticism at home.

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  • Not the least of the anxieties of the colonial office during this period was the situation in the West Indies, where the canesugar industry was being steadily undermined by the European bounties given to exports of continental beet; and though the government restricted themselves to attempts at removing the bounties by negotiation and to measures for palliating the worst effects in the West Indies, Mr Chamberlain made no secret of his repudiation of the Cobden Club view that retaliation would be contrary to the doctrines of free trade, and he did his utmost to educate public opinion at home into understanding that the responsibilities of the mother country are not merely to be construed according to the selfish interests of a nation of consumers.

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  • He had looked at the empire from the colonial point of view, in a way only possible in a colonial atmosphere; and at home some of his colleagues had gone a long way, behind the scenes, to destroy one of the very factors on which the question of a practical scheme for imperial commercial federation seemed to hinge.

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  • The first public intimation of his views was given in a speech to his constituents at Birmingham (May 15, 1903), when he outlined a plan for raising more money by a rearranged tariff, partly to obtain a preferential system for the empire and partly to produce funds for social reform at home.

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  • A further increase of £26,000,000 a year in the trade with the colonies might be obtained by a preferential tariff, and this meant additional employment at home for 166,000 workmen, or subsistence for a population of a far larger number.

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  • Mr Chamberlain, however, declined; his work at home was too pressing.

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  • Genoa, having recovered from the panic caused by the disaster at Anzio, decided to attack Venice at home while the best of her ships were absent with Carlo Zeno.

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  • The pressure at home for completing the work of German unity was so strong that he could with difficulty resist it, and in 1870 he was much embarrassed by a request from Baden to be admitted to the confederation, which he had to refuse.

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  • The horsthegn we know, however, was from an early period a high court official; and from such a law as that of Athelstan prohibiting the exportation of horses except as presents, it may be inferred that the English breed was not only much valued at home but also in great request abroad.'

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  • Since the formation of the Brood Mare Society mares have come within the sphere of influence of the three bodies, and well-conceived inducements are offered to breeders to retain their young mares at home.

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  • The efforts have met with gratifying success, and they were much needed, for while in 1904 the Dutch government took away 350 of the best young Irish mares, Great Britain was paying the foreigner over 2,000,000 a year for horses which the old system of management did not supply at home.

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  • On two occasions he went on diplomatic errands to France, and he was also employed by Henry on public business at home.

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  • He was at home again in Oxford on the 9th of July, and on the 14th Keble preached at St Mary's an assize sermon on "National Apostasy," which Newman afterwards regarded as the inauguration of the Oxford Movement.

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  • They lingered on into the 18th century, but only as a name, for their business was solely to export English products which, as English manufactures grew, were wanted at home.

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  • It may be highly desirable for the government to occupy certain territories, but political exigencies at home will not permit it to incur the expenditure, or international relations may make such an undertaking inexpedient at the time.

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  • He also wrote four novels, and Reflections on the Present State of Affairs at Home and Abroad in 1759.

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  • Leaving his wife at home with their baby son, Renan left France, accompanied by his sister, in the summer of 1860.

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  • He was at home in Voltaire and Rousseau, but had little or no acquaintance with the French sensational philosophy.

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  • The confession is restricted to the use of the remnant at home (see next paragraph).

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  • Alex wouldn't discourage her from going to work, but he had expressed more than once that he preferred her to be at home taking care of the children.

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  • When they made love, it wasn't necessary to pretend they were at home.

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  • Alondra and Felipa were watching her intently, and even Señor Medena seemed to be interested in what their life was like at home.

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  • Stayed at home instead of joining her family for a birthday dinner.

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  • She elected to remain at home and play house with Molly and Claire, giving me the freedom to do business at the office without the worry of curious ears over hearing.

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  • I reached for my cell phone but I'd left it at home.

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  • Cynthia confessed they didn't attend as often as they should— as much as she did when her son was at home.

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  • The doctor said that he thought it might be psychological and Carmen asked if it was possible that he would recover faster at home.

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  • No, easy was not something she was willing to accept, even if it meant caving to someone she craved, whose looks drove her crazy and whose touch made her feel more at home than she did in the mortal and Immortal worlds.

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  • These incredibly tuned climbers were as at home on rock-face cliffs as frozen water falls, the steeper and higher the better, and by the sound of it, the world was getting a whole lot smaller.

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  • You can do anything you want to—things you wouldn't do at home.

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  • Lieutenant Anderson had already left, but wanted Dean to call him at home with an update.

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  • Still, Alex seemed at home in her old house – and she would have been perfectly content to keep him there.

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  • At least he was certain Jessi was safe at home tonight, with Gerry's Guardians there to rid her place of any of Jonny's goons.

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  • The Athenian agora was where Socrates felt most at home.

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  • A quiet time to oneself, either at home or away from home, each day can make a disagreeable person agreeable person agreeable.

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  • She certainly doesn't have a teacher aide at home!

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  • We're so sorry, uncle Albert, But there's no one left at home And I believe I'm gonna rain.

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  • Had disgruntled Labor supporters stayed at home rather than switch allegiances?

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  • You will find the mood at home restless, edgy, not always amiable.

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  • Jackals are opportunistic feeders who are equally at home hunting small antelope or scavenging at larger kills.

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  • To live in harmony with others whether at the office or at home is a great austerity.

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  • I am at home a lot, but am planning a brand new aviary.

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  • At this juncture, alas, he is cruelly betrayed by his wicked nephew Mordred who has usurped the throne at home.

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  • The hearing children of deaf parents often grow up bilingual too, learning a sign language at home.

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  • If laundering at home you will need to send a copy of your baby's birth certificate.

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  • I've got bits of the Roman bridge at home.

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  • Their size makes them far too big to fit into a school bag or into a child's bookcase at home.

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  • The days when supermarket booze was solely purchased to restock the drinks cupboard at home have long gone.

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  • In 1977, so few families were educating their children at home that nobody bothered to count them.

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  • A dear brother who passed away suddenly at home.

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  • Blunkett, the class buffoon, says that immigrants speaking English at home would help " overcome the schizophrenia which bedevils generational relationships " .

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  • A well-stocked medicine cabinet will help you to treat many everyday illnesses at home.

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  • We have a number of different urns or ashes caskets for you to keep the ashes in at home.

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  • A great new range of gifts for cavy lovers who often find theirselves ' At Home with your cavy lovers who often find theirselves ' At Home with your cavy ' in the kitchen.

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  • The USB Massage Ball is the perfect desktop companion for use at home or the office.

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  • Its profound contempt for international law, science, secularism, and any concern for minimal social welfare at home or abroad is unprecedented.

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  • Crockett parker convinced of the county's population credits at home.

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  • We have a large chicken coop at home and started keeping chickens 6 months ago.

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  • I know, cos we get the practice sessions at home!

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  • A desktop printer is required to print printable coupons at home.

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  • After last week's debacle, this week's game at home to Pheonix was an important one.

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  • They are all very deferential to each other so unlike life at home.

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  • A stone's throw away is a fabulous deli for your treats at home.

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  • Please, has anyone any further simple ideas that might occupy someone with semantic dementia at home during the long winter evenings?

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  • It shows the desperation of a couple, forced to emigrate with their young family by lack of opportunities at home.

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  • In the second, the producers were also dispossessed but produced at home on orders from a capitalist merchant.

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  • Plus some lawn care at home which involves a rather distasteful job.

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  • My little doggy at home is very sick indeed, infact his future is well in question at the moment.

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  • Q. Do you now have your own version of the girl with the pearl earring hanging up at home?

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  • Her mother always had echinacea at home and doused the wound in liberal amounts of the tincture.

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  • See him where he sits, more like a reigning emperor at home than a Prince upon his holidays!

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  • What do you think makes any holiday enjoyable, whether you are in Spain, Florida or at home?

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  • Initially he was just running an errand from Dad back at home to his brothers in the ranks.

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  • Some parents could not pay the fees, or kept their children at home to mind the house or run errands.

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  • Making espresso coffee at home has never been easier with the launch of Lyons espresso pods.

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  • At worst, mission was ignored by church, or reluctantly allowed overseas or done at home by second class people like lay evangelists.

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  • Felt good to collapse back at home with a crappy horror film for company.

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  • Equally at home as an external cladding or replacing flagstones on garden paths and steps.

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  • Love fabulous food but lack the time or skill to prepare restaurant quality food at home?

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  • Do not store the samples during transit or at home in areas likely to contaminate foodstuffs or drinks.

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  • The harsh fact is that both MPs find it easier to blame foreigners than motivate at home.

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  • But that does not let us off the hook - we cannot preach free trade abroad and practice protectionism at home.

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  • The owners were incredibly friendly and really made us feel at home.

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  • I'd done one carry the night before but lost enthusiasm when it started to rain and my wet weather gear was at home.

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  • Her second, Tabitha, was born at home on 8th September 2002, at 43 weeks and 3 days ' gestation.

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  • Their daughters might have a private governess to teach them at home.

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  • The idea that to be at home looking after children is some kind of oppression is quite grotesque.

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  • Up to the age of ten he was taught at home by a governess and then he entered the local gymnasium.

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  • We recommend our Fresh Breath Kit which features 6 dedicated and specifically chosen products for you to use at home to treat halitosis.

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  • All Plantronics headsets give you the ability to carry on talking wherever you are -in the car, at home or in the office.

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  • I get really homesick and miss my family, but I've got a really solid group of friends at home.

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  • We will develop and maintain the capability to reduce to the extent possible the potentially horrific consequences of WMD attacks at home and abroad.

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  • Local authorities should encourage householders to compost at home.

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  • Encryption has the power to authenticate the identity of these authors to their partners abroad, and protect their identity from despots at home.

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  • The consequences of becoming ill in remote areas are more serious than at home.

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  • Vale seal improbable triumph BOWDON Vale cruised to an improbable 20-point victory at home to third placed Winsford on Saturday.

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  • Starting with the iMac in 1997, the range of computers aimed at home users always had inbuilt CRT or LCD displays.

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  • Patients visited at home may not have had scales or been too infirm to use them.

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  • Because it's quite jokey at home - " Oh, you're in a band?

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  • Some people swear by juice drinks although you need a juicer to make them at home you can buy pressed juices from the supermarket.

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  • And now we want to bring dodgy knee Ugarte who I only ever saw score three goals at home?

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  • They buy their second homes near decent hospitals and come to Spain to avoid lengthy waiting lists at home.

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  • The result is a system that can offer an extremely lifelike presentation where you want it most - at home.

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  • I just wish I didn't have arm LNG to do lists at home and work.

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  • How can young men be expected to stay at home in such furnished lodgings?

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  • We have secured third spot in the league and entertain lowly Weybridge at home on Saturday with a shot at remaining unbeaten this year.

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  • Trying to achieve 100,000 lux light therapy at home brings up loads of safety issues that I would like professional help with.

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  • Manila envelopes to be dealt with at home.

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  • It's not just man-made emissions do even at home.

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  • I am most at home in the midst of total and utter mediocrity.

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  • That sort of growth makes UK university expansion look miniscule and it suggests a new policy in China of educating students at home.

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  • Having got half way she felt a little misgiving about our remaining at home during her absence and she accordingly returned.

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  • Voted best work at home mom web site by Dr. Phil.

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  • These data were compared with data from the second national survey of psychiatric morbidity in adults living at home.

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  • As Iraq crushed Communists at home and fought Iranian mullahs abroad, few apprehensions about its weapons were expressed.

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  • A truly multipurpose seating design that will be equally at home in executive meeting rooms, conference facilities or cafes.

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  • Priestley's sons hoped to establish a haven nearby for English nonconformists who faced discrimination and persecution at home.

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  • Mr. President, is that we cannot successfully preach nonviolence at home while we escalate mass violence abroad.

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  • Numeracy Promoting maths and encouraging your child to become numerate at home.

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  • Obedience dog Training Dog training book that teaches you step by step how to do dog training obedience dog Training Dog training book that teaches you step by step how to do dog training obedience at home.

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  • To sleep in their own beds when it is baking hot, and to save oodles of boodle, to stop at home.

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  • You can highlight these using a highlighter pen at home or the child's teacher can do this in school with your child.

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  • While abroad young Napier escaped some perils that existed at home.

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  • Book a cheeky butler with your Pamper Party and receive a free treatment polecats lessons for your hen party at home.

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  • We also had porridge, It is like being at home.

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  • Then the local postmaster rang to inquire whether someone would be at home to receive sacks full of postcards.

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  • Everyday I do exercises at home to improve my health including press-ups.

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  • In most cases it was a choice between domestic service out, or hard work with great privation at home.

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  • Peter Coltman, Trustee Peter read English at Cambridge, then worked in educational television production at home and abroad.

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  • We cannot preach fair trade abroad and practice protectionism at home.

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  • And don't forget the colorful puffins and sea ducks - they're all at home in this unique environment.

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  • Great fun, you can see from the video just how at home the racing puma is on the track.

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  • Please leave dogs at home as the show will involve pyrotechnics.

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  • Simon Taylor, who is TDC's Product Manager has a garden shed at home which houses two pet rabbits.

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  • Antique lovers will feel at home at Egerton Gray, a former 17th century rectory.

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  • She is ordered to stay at home for three months, lest she suffer a relapse.

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  • He was, of course, an exact replica of the ship's monkey we have at home.

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  • Established now for around 12 years, the band has been constantly touring abroad and at home to packed houses and rave revues.

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  • One of the more interesting policies of theirs is ex-servicemen will be made to keep a loaded assault rifle at home.

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  • This comes into its own for trailer sailers, especially those who leave their tools at home.

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  • The result is a highly saleable agricultural product that can be sold at a competitive price to farmers both at home and abroad.

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  • After Margot says about paper games ' we play them at home hb continues ' and have scads of fun ' .

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  • Students may be based in hospitals or at home in addition to medical schools.

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  • Both my children have been given left-handed scissors by us for use at home.

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  • Comfortable fully upholstered red plush seating has now replaced the hard plastic chairs - regulars can leave the cushions at home!

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  • Since they don't sedate the baby or the mother, they are also handy at home births.

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  • Diagnostic labels can affect a child's self-image and his or her relationships in school and at home.

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  • The 3rd XI's own title hopes suffered a setback with defeat at home to Chester Boughton Hall.

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  • Apparently they left their bearskins at home when on campaign and wore shakos and forage caps like the line infantry.

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  • He has been living off the old folks at home all his life and is now worth shucks.

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  • One man even saved £ 100 during the War to put down on buying his own smithy at home.

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  • I feel so snug, back at home in my original fandom.

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  • Fortunately I didn't have a wife at home to explain my mad shopping spree.

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  • Britain was a naval superpower, but had traditionally eschewed maintaining a big standing army at home.

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  • You already had your cereal and milk for breakfast 2. You have an exercise bike, treadmill or stair stepper at home.

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  • The Blair government's slavish subservience to Bush is causing it major problems at home.

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  • Every project has been pretested tangram puzzle shapes and can be performed safely tangram puzzle shapes and inexpensively in the classroom or at home.

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  • They look terrific in grass at the edge of a pond or equally at home on a patio.

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  • We bought a toaster at home recently made in China.

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  • If you're a trendy, leave your white trilby or Nathan Barley sun visor at home.

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  • Small jade articles and silver trinkets make great presents for people at home and they are easy to take on the plane.

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  • But even in the safety of Surrey, life at home remains turbulent.

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  • I have also been researching at home typist jobs.

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  • We managed to go unbeaten at home - something only Chelsea matched.

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  • After drawing the first leg at home 0-0, the Clarets were clear underdogs going into the second tie.

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  • The lady to whom I referred is deemed unfit to live at home with her family.

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  • Perhaps it's something to do with my public school upbringing, a public school at which I never really felt at home.

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  • They are so vile they'd be more at home in an all night gasoline station than in a trendy London cafe.

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  • Children who are under a lot of stress at school or at home may occasionally vomit.

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  • She looked well at home with the hopper wagons.

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  • These are great for occasional use when out and about, but at home you can use washable wipes.

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  • The organizers have not forgotten the " inner man " as " only well-fed people will feel themselves at home " .

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  • Having now secured peace abroad Sobieski was desirous of strengthening Poland at home by establishing absolute monarchy; but Louis XIV.

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  • He was a prolific writer, with a prodigious knowledge and memory, and a most ingenious and confident critic; and his work not only dominated the field of archaeological criticism but also raised its standing both at home and abroad.

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  • Under his advice the opposition now made an alliance with Louis whereby the French king promised to help them to ruin Danby on condition that they would compel Charles, by stopping the supplies, to make peace with France, doing thus a grave injury to Protestant- ism abroad for the sake of a temporary party advantage at home.

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  • But he never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favour principally upon his fellow-countrymen, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinsky, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck (August 5, 1506), the news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed.

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  • He rejects the attempt to explain human personality as " generated by the material molecular aggregate of its own unaided latent power," and affirms that the " universe where the human spirit is more at home than it is among these temporary collocations of matter" is " a universe capable of infinite development, of noble contemplation, and of lofty joy, long after this planet - nay the whole solar system - shall have fulfilled its present spire of destiny, and retired cold and lifeless upon its endless way " (pp. 199-200).

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  • Tone did not feel himself bound in honour by his compact with the government at home to abstain from further conspiracy; and finding himself at Philadelphia in the congenial company of Reynolds, Rowan and Napper Tandy, he undertook a mission to Paris to persuade the French government to send an expedition to invade Ireland.

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  • Their government became paternal; and, though there was no limit to their cruelty when stung by terror, they used the purse rather than the sword, bribery at home and treasonable intrigue abroad in preference to coercive measures or open war.

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  • Danger lay rather in entrusting men schooled in political conspiracy and in unscrupulous parliamentary opposition with the government of a young state still beset by enemies at home and abroad.

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  • In conjunction with the occupation of Tunisia, the effect of these disorders was to exhibit Italy as a country powerless to defend its interests abroad or to keep peace at home.

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  • Measures were enforced to prevent Italian holders of consols from sending their coupons abroad to be paid in gold, with the result that, whereas in 1893 3,24o,ooo had been paid abroad in gold for the service of the January coupons and only 680,000 in paper in Italy, the same coupon was paid a year later with only 1,360,000 abroad and 2,540,000 at home.

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  • Amongst the threads, which entangle the wings and legs of intercepted prey, the spiders are perfectly at home and can pounce on the struggling victim at once if it be small and harmless or keep at a respectful distance, checking all efforts at escape, if it be poisonous or strong.

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  • It is not wonderful that the Quakers, persecuted and oppressed at home and in New England, should turn their eyes to the unoccupied parts of America, and cherish the hope of founding, amidst their woods, some refuge from oppression, and some likeness of a city of God upon earth.

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  • With every year of war the number of confiscations of property increased in the Yugoslav provinces, as in Bohemia and Transylvania - vengeance upon the families at home being widely used in order to deter Slav, Italian or Rumanian prisoners from enlisting in the various volunteer corps in process of formation on the Russian, Balkan and Italian fronts.

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  • Howe (q.v.), was sent to instruct her at home.

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  • But A Rich Vocabulary, A Mastery Of Verse Forms Quite Beyond The Range Of Cremazie, Real Originality Of Conception, Individual Distinction Of Style, Deep Insight Into The Soul Of His People, And, Still More, The Glow Of Warm Blooded Life Pulsing Through The Whole Poem, All Combine To Give Him The Greatest Place At Home And An Important One In The World At Large.

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  • But the growing power of the Scotch-Irish, the resentment of the Quakers against the proprietors for having gone back to the Church of England and many other circumstances strengthened the anti-proprietary power, and the assembly strove to abolish the proprietorship and establish a royal province; John Dickinson was the able leader of the party which defended the proprietors; and Joseph Galloway and Benjamin Franklin were the leaders of the anti-proprietary party, which was greatly weakened at home by the absence after December 1764 of Franklin in England as its agent.

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