Fixing Sentence Examples

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  • Papa was fixing to be disappointed in his little prince.

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  • She was out, dressed and fixing supper when the bus stopped to let Jonathan out.

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  • If it breaks down the next day, you're out of luck and fixing it is your problem.

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  • Finding no one there, she relaxed and began fixing breakfast.

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  • This site features videos on a variety of topics from fixing a dripping faucet to repairing a crack in drywall.

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  • If you want to try fixing things at home, there are a few little tricks you could try.

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  • You might find there are ways of fixing your problem on your own.

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  • There, you'll find a section breakdown of what you can expect when it comes to fixing your Mauis.

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  • That said, Sunglass Giant is an authorized seller of Mauis so the odds are very good that the process of fixing your defective pair will be quite similar to the one you'd find on the Maui site.

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  • However, the more items you find before the time runs out, the better your score, and the closer you get to fixing your shop up so you can open up your business.

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  • Yes, there are ways for fixing scratched video games.

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  • That's one way of fixing scratched video games.

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  • If using machines isn't your style, then fixing scratched video games with some elbow grease might be the way to go.

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  • Because of the volume of DVDs that go out and the stress and negative atmosphere they are sometimes put under, a commercial grade machine is superb at fixing scratched video games.

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  • If the structure is unsound nothing else will be worth fixing.

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  • They may have problems in coordinating the eyes in fixing and tracking objects (strabismus), which may lead to an appearance of having "crossed eyes" at times.

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  • This includes replacing burned out light bulbs and fixing any leaky faucets or running toilets.

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  • Understand how to quickly restyle the look if it does need fixing so little time is wasted away from the wedding festivities.

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  • When you purchase a home with the intention of fixing it up and reselling it an inspection will give you an idea of what needs to be fixed in order to make the home capable of receiving a great inspection report.

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  • You may also want to review the Fixing Up Your Home and How to Finance It article published on HUD's website.

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  • A law passed on the 22nd of March 1900 gave a B a, special impulse to this form of enterprise by fixing the ratio r naze.

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  • Antoneili profited by the situation to obtain Mneleks signature to a treaty fixing the frontiers of the Italian colony and defining Italo-Abyssinian relations.

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  • In Caulerpa the imitation of a higher plant by the differentiation of fixing, supporting and assimilating organs (root, stem and leaf) from different branches of the single cell is strikingly complete.

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  • In the first place there is a differentiation of fixing organs, which in forms living on.

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  • To the base of the stem are attached a number of branched cell-threads (rhizoids) which ramify in the soil, fixing the plant and absorbing water from soil.

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  • The study of the differentiation of protoplasm was at that time seldom undertaken, and no particular attention was paid either to fixing it, to enable staining methods to be accurately applied to it, or to studying the action of chemical reagents upon it.

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  • By the fixing of this principle the task of the inventor was considerably simplified.

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  • The powers of the old township were much more extensive than those of the present city of Boston, including as they did the determination of the residence of strangers, the allotment of land, the grant of citizenship, the fixing of wages and prices, of the conditions of lawsuits and even a voice in matters of peace and war.

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  • It may be observed however that the absence of a definite date in Deuteronomy must be accidental, since a common pilgrimage feast must be on a fixed day, and the reference to the seven weeks elapsing between Passover and Pentecost also implies the fixing of the date.

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  • The custom of fixing the boundaries of property and the institution of the yearly festival were both ascribed to Numa.

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  • In the same address he called attention to the conditions of the world's food supply, urging that with the low yield at present realized per acre the supply of wheat would within a comparatively short time cease to be equal to the demand caused by increasing population, and that since nitrogenous manures are essential for an increase in the yield, the hope of averting starvation, as regards those races for whom wheat is a staple food, depended on the ability of the chemist to find an artificial method for fixing the nitrogen of the air.

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  • A, Larva which has just left brood-pouch; B, longitudinal section through a somewhat later stage; C, the fully formed embryo just before fixing - the neo-embryo of Beecher.

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  • It may however be regarded as the birth certificate of the future Yugoslavia, and as fixing the lines of future development.

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  • Sydenham showed that these processes might be profitably studied and dealt with without explaining them; and, by turning men's minds away from explanations and fixing them on facts, he enriched medicine with a method more fruitful than any discoveries in detail.

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  • Broussais's system, to which he gave the name of "Medecine physiologique," did much indirect good, in fixing attention upon morbid changes in the organs, and thus led to the rise of the strongly opposed anatomical and pathological school of Corvisart, Laennec and Bayle.

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  • About this time (the exact chronology is uncertain) Ethelstan expelled Sihtric's brother Guthfrith, destroyed the Danish fortress at York, received the submission of the Welsh at Hereford, fixing their boundary along the line of the Wye, and drove the Cornishmen west of the Tamar, fortifying Exeter as an English city.

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  • The majority of writers, after fixing the date at which Dynasty III.

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  • Aramaic endorsements on business documents repeating in Aramaic transliteration the names of parties mentioned in the texts have also been of service in fixing the phonetic readings of names.

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  • This power of " fixing nitrogen," as it is termed, is apparently not possessed by higher green plants.

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  • Wall-saltpetre or lime saltpetre, calcium nitrate, Ca(N03)2, is found as an efflorescence on the walls of stables; it is now manufactured in large quantities by fixing atmospheric nitrogen, i.e.

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  • Though he sometimes glided lightly over difficulties, his work is of service in fixing the text of Tabari.

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  • These are probably important in checking overgrowth by encrusting organisms, and in particular by preventing larvae from fixing on the zoarium.

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  • Mill insisted upon fixing between the earlier and the later work.

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  • Not until the Tokugawa family obtained military control of the whole empire (I6o3), and, fixing its capital at Yedo, required the feudal chiefs to reside there every second year, did the problem of roads and post-stations force itself once more on official attention.

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  • Regulations were now stricti enforced, fixing the number of horses and carriers available at eac station, the loads to be carried by them and their charges, as well as the transport services that each feudal chief was entitled to demand and the fees he had to pay in return.

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  • Even as a grammarian he performed an important service to the literary language of Rome, by fixing its prosody and arresting the tendency to decay in its final syllables.

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  • Organization showed itself in the fixing of the annual calendar and the development of the character and functions of the priesthood, and as we should expect, in a new conception of the legal relation of the gods to the state.

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  • The official recognition of a written Targum, and therefore the final fixing of its text belongs to the post-Talmudic period, and is not to be placed earlier than the 5th century.

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  • They are frequently, however, of very great use in fixing dates that have been otherwise imperfectly expressed, and consequently form important elements of chronology.

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  • The arrangements for this purpose vary, of course, with the amount of work to be done with one fixing of the machinery; where it is likely to be used for a considerable time, the drum and brake are solidly constructed, and the ropes of steel or iron wire carefully guided over friction rollers, placed at intervals between the rails to prevent them from chafing and wearing out on the ground.

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  • The formation of nitrides and cyanamides by actions of this kind and their easy conversion into ammonia is a useful method for fixing the nitrogen of the atmosphere and rendering it available for manurial purposes.

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  • On this point the provincial synods of Illiberis (Elvira) in 305 and of Ancyra in 315 subsequently came to conflicting decisions, the council of Elvira forbidding the reception of offenders into communion during life, and the council of Ancyra fixing a limit to the penalty in the same cases.

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  • If they do not deny that Greek philosophy has entered into Christian doctrine, they consider it a colourless medium used in fixing the contents of revelation.

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  • In the Persian empire there was apparently some method in force by which the resources of each province were ascertained for the purpose of fixing the tribute.

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  • This board has certain administrative and legislative powers, such as the care of county property, the borrowing of money for the erection of county buildings, the fixing of the salary of the county treasurer and of other county officers, the levying of county taxes and the division of the county into assembly districts and school commissioners' districts.

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  • We can form stationary waves with ease by fixing one end of a rope - say 20 ft.

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  • But with larger plates, which alone will furnish the more complicated figures, a clamp-screw must be used for fixing the plate, and, at the same time, one or more other nodal points ought to be touched with the fingers while the bow is being applied.

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  • In all countries there are legal regulations fixing the minimum span and height of such bridges and the width of roadway to be provided.

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  • It was pointed out as early as 1869 (Unwin, Wrought Iron Bridges and Roofs) that a rational method of fixing the working stress, so far as knowledge went at that time, would be to make it depend on the ratio of live to dead load, and in such a way that the factor of safety for the live load stresses was double that for the dead load stresses.

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  • In Austria the Government did not subscribe any of the capital, but the central boards were subjected to State supervision and their power of fixing prices was in many ways limited.

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  • Tillage was also made compulsory, but this had little effect on production owing to the shortage of labour, draft animals, manures and agricultural implements, together with the oppressive restrictions caused by the fixing of maximum prices.

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  • Bowring's treaty of 1855, fixing the rates of land revenue, were abrogated in order to facilitate Siamese financial reform.

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  • The Dutch had the right to make this levy under treaties going back to the treaty of Munster in 1648, and they clung to it still more tenaciously after Belgium separated herself in 1830-1831 from the united kingdom of the Netherlands - the London conference in 1839 fixing the toll payable to Holland at I.

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  • In addition to this, in the course of fixing the premiums to be paid, the amount of State support was several times increased.

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  • In Tubularia, on the other hand, the parenchymula develops into an actinula within the maternal tissues, and is then set free, creeps about for a time, and after fixing itself, changes into a polyp; hence in this case the planula-stage, as a free larva, is entirely suppressed.

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  • Since the fixing of the Massoretic text the task of preserving and transmitting the sacred books has been carried out with the greatest care and fidelity, with the result that the text has undergone practically no change of any real importance; but before that date, owing to various causes, it is beyond dispute that a large number of corruptions were introduced into the Hebrew text.

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  • On the other hand, evidence such as that of the Book of Jubilees shows that the form of the text still fluctuated considerably as late as the 1st century A.D., so that we are forced to place the fixing of the text some time between the fall of Jerusalem and the production of Aquila's version.

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  • The inevitable result of such a system must have been the fixing of an officially recognized text, which could scarcely have differed materially from that which was finally adopted by the Massoretes.

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  • In the fixing of the Canon, as in the fixing of doctrine, the decisive influence proceeded from the bishops and the theologians of the period 325-450.

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  • Jewish traditions represented the Sanhedrin as retaining to the end its plenary power over the calendar, and as still fixing the first day of every month and the first month of every year.

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  • For Persia Queipo (33) relies on, and develops, an Arab statement that the Arab cubit was the royal Persian, thus fixing it at about 25 in.; and the Persian guerze at present is 25, the royal guerze being 1+(1/2) times this, or 371 in.

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  • Caesar now reduced Gaul to the form of a province, fixing the tribute at 40,000,000 sesterces (350,000), and dealing liberally with the conquered tribes, whose cantons were not broken up.

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  • On the withdrawal of the police, southern Bechuanaland fell into a state of anarchy, nor did the fixing (on paper) of the frontier between it and the Transvaal by the Pretoria convention of August 1881 have any beneficial effect.

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  • In 1227 the same monarch confirmed the charter of John fixing the city boundaries and the jurisdiction of its magistrates.

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  • There may be a difficulty in fixing responsibility upon any person, or small group of persons; because cases may arise in which the executive, being unable to act without the concurrence of the legislature, can hardly be blamed for failing to act, while yet it is unable to relieve itself by resigning; while on.

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  • Painful as were the circumstances connected with this rebellion, it is certain that the united action of the different provinces in suppressing it tended to consolidate Canadian sentiment, and the short military campaign had the effect of fixing public attention upon the immense fertile territory then being opened up.

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  • By fixing the areas of these spheres of influence rival states in western and central Africa avoided conflicts and preserved their rights until they were able to take a more effective part in their development.

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  • Bradley and Molyneux discussed several hypotheses in the hope of fixing the solution.

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  • Thus by fixing one variable we fix the state of the whole system.

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  • The isolation of the Teutonic churches from the vast system with which they had been bound up, the conflicts and troubles among themselves, the necessity of fixing their own principles and defining their own rights, concentrated their attention upon themselves and their own home work, to the neglect of work abroad.8 Still the development of the maritime power of England, which the Portuguese and Spanish monarchies noted with fear and jealousy, was distinguished by a singular anxiety for the spread of the Christian faith.

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  • The process of rooting these runners should be facilitated by fixing them close down to the soil, which is done by small wooden hooked pegs or by stones; hair-pins, short lengths of bent wire, &c., may also be used.

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  • In 1839 on the final dissolution of the kingdom of the Netherlands, Holland gave definite form to this right by fixing the toll, and by obtaining the assent of the powers to the arrangement which fettered the trade of Antwerp. In 1863 after long negotiations Belgium bought up this right - each of the powers interested in the trade contributing its quota - and the navigation of the Scheldt was then declared free.

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  • Accordingly, in 1867, Smith was appointed assistant in the Assyriology department, and the earliest of his successes was the discovery of two inscriptions, one fixing the date of the total eclipse of the sun in the month Sivan in May 763 B.C., and the other the date of an invasion of Babylonia by the Elamites in 2280 B.C. In 1871 he published Annals of Assur-bani-pal, transliterated and translated, and communicated to the newlyfounded Society of Biblical Archaeology a paper on "The Early History of Babylonia," and an account of his decipherment of the Cypriote inscriptions.

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  • The rest of the year was spent in fixing together and translating the fragments relating to the Creation, the results of which work were embodied in The Chaldaean Account of Genesis.

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  • The vexed and difficult question of the ownership of the ecclesiastical lands was settled by fixing November 1627 as the deciding date; those who were in possession then were to retain them for forty years, during which time it was hoped a satisfactory arrangement would be reached.

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  • But the peculiar way in which it enforces its morals in terms of the Platonic contrast between the spiritual and sensuous worlds, as archetype and temporal manifestation, suggests a special local type of theology which must be taken into account in fixing its provenance.

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  • Astronomy played a considerable part in religious matters for fixing the dates of festivals and determining the hours of the night.

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  • The aim of germination is the fixing of the embryo in the soil, effected usually by means of the root, which is the first part of the embryo to appear, in preparation for the elongation of the epicotyledonary portion of the shoot, and there is infinite variety in the details of the process.

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  • Cutler's cement, used for fixing knife-blades in their hafts, is made of equal parts of brick-dust and melted rosin, or of 4 parts of rosin with i each of beeswax and brick-dust.

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  • Amending statutes of succeeding years added to the commissioners' powers of fixing fair rents and cancelling arrears, the power of enlarging crofts and common grazings.

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  • Germany also accepted it by the treaty of 1868 between the United States and the North German Confederation, now in force for the German empire, subject to provisions that the emigrant's fixing his domicile in the old country shall be deemed a renunciation of his naturalization in the new, and that his living in the.

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  • The terms which he finally arranged with the Government, involving an approximate addition of over io,000,000 per annum to the railway expenditure, included a standard week of 48 hours, and a standard wage for that week; for the fixing of the new standard rates of wages negotiations were to be continued.

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  • He speaks, e.g., as if species and genera were fixed and unchangeable; and fixing his eye on the ideal forms in their purity and self-sameness, he scorns the phenomenal world, whence this identity and persistence are absent.

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  • This lady, however, was much older than Robert, who repudiated her in 989, fixing his affections upon Bertha, daughter of Conrad the Peaceful, king of Burgundy, or Arles, and wife of Eudes I., count of Blois; and although the pair were related, and the king had been godfather to one of Bertha's children, they were married in 996, a year after the death of Eudes.

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  • The right of sale is also usually farmed out to the highest bidder, subject to regulations fixing the minimum quantity of liquor that may be sold at one time.

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  • At Ostia, where much of the corn was stored which fed the Roman population, the cult of this god became famous; and it is probable that the fixing of his festival in August by the early Romans had some reference to the danger to the newly harvested corn from fire in that month.

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  • The frontiers were further defined by a French-Italian convention (24th of January 1900) fixing the frontier between French Somaliland and the Italian possessions at Raheita, and also by various agreements with Great Britain and Abyssinia.

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  • In June 1900 he made an arrangement with Spain, fixing the long-disputed boundaries of the French and Spanish possessions in West Africa.

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  • Erigena in all probability never left France, and Haureau has advanced some reasons for fixing the date of his death about 877.

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  • Public religious duties, such as the fulfilment of state vows, the celebration of sacrifices and games, and the fixing of the dates of movable feasts, probably only fell to the praetors in the absence of the consuls.

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  • It is therefore easily intelligible that they may play an important part in multiplying and fixing the poison on a locality.

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  • One can already discern a movement in various quarters towards a recognition of impersonal theism, and towards fixing the teaching of the philosophical schools upon some definitely authorized system of faith and morals, which may satisfy a rising ethical standard, and may thus permanently embody that tendency to substitute spiritual devotion for external forms and caste rules which is the characteristic of the sects that have from time to time dissented from orthodox Brahminism."

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  • The policy pursued was to declare the permanency of the rights existing at the time of the British interposition, conditionally upon the maintenance of order; to adjust and guarantee the relations of subordinate and tributary chiefs to their superiors so as to prevent all further disputes or encroachments; and to settle the claims of the ousted landholders, who had resorted to pillage or blackmail, by fixing grants of land to be made to them, or settling the money allowances to be paid to them.

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  • A prolonged battle took place in July 657 in the plain of Siffin (Suffein), near the Euphrates; the fighting was at first, it is said, in favour of Ali, when suddenly a number of the enemy, fixing copies of the Koran to the points of their spears, exclaimed that "the matter ought to be settled by reference to this book, which forbids Moslems to shed each other's blood."

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  • In his hatred of idleness, he ventured to suppress no less than seventeen fetes, and he had a project for lessening the number of those devoted to clerical and monastic life, by fixing the age for taking the vows some years later than was then customary.

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  • As will be observed, the only differences in principle between these two type revolving machines were in the positions of the respective cylinders, and the fixing of the type to form a printing surface.

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  • After some stay at Dresden, hesitating between fixing himself as university teacher at Göttingen, Heidelberg or Berlin, he finally chose the last-mentioned.

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  • The question N as only settled in 1894, when a bill was passed fixing the number of the members of the Riksdag in the First Chamber at 150, and in the Second at 230, of which 150 should represent the country districts and 80 the towns.

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  • In October 1901 a treaty fixing a tariff and reserving the most favored nation treatment for the countries already enjoying it was concluded between Persia and Russia.

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  • A stag dragged him from his horse by fixing its antlers in his belt.

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  • The necessity for fixing the frontier in this direction was emphasized by the Waima incident.

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  • In the same year the admiralty consulted the Royal Society as to a means of preserving the copper sheathing of ships from corrosion and keeping it smooth, and he suggested that the copper would be preserved if it were rendered negatively electrical, as would be done by fixing "protectors" of zinc to the sheeting.

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  • By fixing the lower screw and turning the upper, one a sufficient number of times the requisite degree of torsion and power is obtained.

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  • Strauch, the president of the Association, addressed to the French minister for foreign affairs a note in which he formally declared that the Association would not cede its possessions to any power, "except in virtue of special conventions, which may be concluded between France and the Association, for fixing the limits and conditions of their respective action."

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  • Since the defeat of the khalifa at Omdurman and the fixing (1899) of the Egyptian frontier farther south, the military value of Assuan has declined.

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  • The Divan seemed intent on restoring the old system of government in its entirety, but in 1783 the Russian representative extracted from the sultan a decree (hattisherif) defining more precisely the liberties of the principalities and fixing the amount of the annual tribute - for Walachia 619 purses exclusive of various "presents" amounting to 130,000 piasters, and for Moldavia 1 3 5 purses and further gifts to the extent of 115,000 piasters.

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  • This error they realized too late, and endeavoured by fixing the resurrection for another day to gather the clans, but blank despair had taken the place of hope and faith, and it was only as starving suppliants that the Amaxosa sought the British.

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  • Some recent discoveries have proved that certain statements in the song usually regarded as anachronisms are quite accurate; but no nearer approach has been made towards fixing its exact date, or that of any of the three bits into which it has been cut up. In this song the story appears in its full-blown shape, the name of Winckelriet being given.

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  • The pulley is in halves to facilitate fixing, and when in place the sections C are joined by plates E, bolted or riveted to the rim.

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  • When the particular kind was not specified by the law or by agreement, the payments were made according to convenience in horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, wool, butter, bacon, corn, vegetables, yarn, dye-plants, leather, cloth, articles of use or ornament, &c. As the clan system relaxed, and the fine lost its legal power of fixing the amounts of public tributes, which were similarly payable to the flaith, and neglected its duty of seeing that those tributes were duly applied, the flaith became able to increase these tributes with little check, to confuse them with rent, to confuse jurisdiction with ownership, and to exalt himself at the expense of his fellowclansmen.

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  • Many mammals have, between these two sets, a tooth at each corner of the mouth, longer and more pointed than the others, adapted for tearing or stabbing, or for fixing struggling prey.

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  • The chief advantage of this apparatus is that a low temperature can be used for fixing owing to the enormous surface for superheating, and thus to a great extent the deposition of carbon is avoided.

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  • Among the objects found on this site were documents testifying to the name of the locality and furnishing materials for fixing the date.

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  • This was followed by the law of the 10th of December 1799 fixing definitely the value of the metre and of the kilogramme, or weight of a litre of water, and the new system became compulsory in 180r.

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  • He compiled the Hakimite Tables of the planets, and observed at Cairo, in 977 and 978, two solar eclipses which, as being the first recorded with scientific accuracy, 4 were made available in fixing the amount of lunar acceleration.

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  • The need is urgent of fixing a scale, and defining standards of actinic brightness; but it has not yet been successfully met.

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  • Elaborate provisions were also made in the act for fixing the proportion of the grant to which each county should be entitled, and the lord-lieutenant was empowered to pay half-yearly the proportion so ascertained to the county council.

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  • In the latter case the fee varied according to rank, and there are numerous laws extant fixing the cost and regulating the food and dress of the child according to his position.

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  • The complete success of the Girondin proposals; the arrest of Hbertthe violent editor of the Pre Duc/zene; the insurrection of the Girondins of Lyons against the Montagnard Commune; the bad news from La Vendethe military reverses; and the economic situation which had compelled the fixing of a maximum price of corn (May 4) excited the moral insurrections of May 31 and June 2.

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  • This is made by fixing a thin crystalline plate between two glass prisms turned in opposite directions by a cement of the same refractive index as the glass.

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  • But on the 3rd of Mrach 1413 John adjourned the council of Rome till December, without even fixing the place where the next session should be held.

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  • Descartes (Dioptrique, 1637) describes microscopes wherein a concave mirror, with its concavity towards the object, is used, in conjunction with a lens, for illuminating the object, which is mounted on a point fixing it at the focus of the mirror.

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  • One way of receiving a stereoscopic impression through a microscope is by fixing an apparatus as directly as possible above the last lens of the microscopic objective, which divides the rays passing out and directs half into each eyepiece.

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  • The Aramaic. and Hebrew v, which seem so different, arise from a circle left open at the top, 0, a form which can be traced in Aramaic from the 5th or 6th century B.C. In the Greek alphabets the circle appears sometimes with a dot in the centre, but in many cases it is doubtful whether this mark is, intentional, or is only the result of fixing a sharp point there while describing the circle.

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  • Braun (Liturgische Gewandung, p. 513) thinks that the symbolism of the cross may have had some influence in fixing and propagating the square shape, and he quotes a decree of the synod of Aix (1585) ordering the J g h clergy to wear a biretta sewn in the form of a cross (biretum in modum crucis consuturn, ut ecclesiasticos homines decet).

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  • From the time of the Conquest down to the 18th century, Bideford remained in the possession of the Grenville family, and it first appears as a borough in an undated charter (probably of the reign of Edward I.) from Richard de Grenville, confirming a charter from his grandfather, Richard de Grenville, fixing the rent and services due from the burgesses and granting them liberties similar to those in use at Breteuil and a market every Monday.

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  • She spent the next half hour in the dim lighting of the car fixing her makeup with Pierre's persistent pointers.

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  • We settled for improving last years car by converting to 16 " wheels with covers, improving the aerodynamics & fixing the gears.

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  • Mucuna also produces its own fertilizer, fixing atmospheric N and storing it in the ground where it can be utilized by other plants.

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  • This page describes the third stage in fixing the problem of the loose centreplate axle.

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  • The fixing of counter battens through any form of board is not easy.

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  • The ridge tile should be neatly drilled in the center to allow the fixing to pass through into the ridge batten or board below.

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  • In a society beset by apparently unfixable crises, it is too soon for the first minister to be done with fixing problems.

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  • She's given him an indoor job, fixing pesky cupboard shelves in an attic, the lucky bleeder.

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  • Modern washing machine pumps have plastic fixing brackets to they must be earthed with a separate earth wire.

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  • The giant had a broom, and was cleaning up and fixing around, diligently.

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  • It suggests that they are, in effect, operating a price fixing cartel here in Northern Ireland.

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  • How to send a photo Caught on camera - how we're fixing the problem What is caught on camera - how we're fixing the problem What is Caught on Camera?

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  • All fixing will be carried out by the Council's nominated contractor.

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  • While these may serve as amusing diversions for a while, they aren't fixing things.

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  • Derek Reynolds was still going after fixing a broken throttle cable, two punctures and a broken exhaust.

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  • The plastic housing provides shuttering and fixing points to allow the module to be fixed to the metal faceplate.

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  • Also included are fixing points to allow simple fitment of PCBs for addressable systems.

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  • Recent examples include the fixing of prices for children's toys, replica football shirts and auction house fees.

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  • Supplied complete with cropped headed bolts & nuts for fixing into the glazing channels of aluminum greenhouses.

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  • The new hardtop fixing bracket in place lined up with the mounting bracket on the hardtop.

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  • Wall-mounted headboard suitable for ues with all types of bed and supplied fully assembled with brackets for fixing at your chosen height.

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  • You'll also need a dish fixing kit for £ 25.

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  • The Lima fixing lugs at the rear of the chassis are retained.

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  • These kits are also suitable for fixing seats onto surfaces of bituminous macadam, laid on top of concrete.

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  • What are the recommended maximum fixing intervals for copper tube supports?

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  • Dug at them a bit at lunchtime, but didn't have time to do anything meaningful toward fixing them, maybe tomorrow.

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  • The claimant underwent neurosurgery in respect of the depressed skull fracture and fixing of dental wiring, which was in place for five weeks.

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  • All bracket fix newel turnings and the exception of the half newel are packaged without universal fixing brackets.

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  • Double lap slates have no nibs, relying on the nails or hooks for their fixing.

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  • Alder roots have nitrogen fixing nodules on their roots.

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  • Extra work such as clearing the room, easing the doors, type of fixing accessories, door plates and stair nosings if required.

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  • Any of the slots stamped in the mounting plate may be used for the screw fixing.

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  • These provisions are fairly standard and satisfactory with the sole exception of fixing the quorum as 13 members.

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  • Fixing Each hip tile needs to be nailed into the hip rafter, or a hip batten greater than 25mm thick.

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  • The purple bacteria evolved oxygen respiration by reversing the flow of molecules through their carbon fixing pathways and modifying their electron transport chains.

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  • Our specific point here is that the material of digital inscription makes the fixing process completely reversible in a wholesale way.

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  • It means fixing the broken rungs on the ladder from poverty to wealth.

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  • With a traditional cement/sand screed a wait of at least 3 weeks would have been required prior to fixing tiles.

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  • Other features include Stainless steel rust-free screws, plus an anchor kit for fixing down the building to your base or paved area.

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  • If a mixer leaks around the base of the swivel spout, take off the spout by removing the fixing screw.

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  • However, given the problems I had changing the rear sprocket, I do not relish fixing a rear puncture.

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  • She told of how, fixing her lipstick in a small hand-held mirror, she had accidentally strayed off the path.

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  • It has two rubber suckers for fixing it to a window of your vehicle.

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  • The legume symbiont, Sinorhizobium meliloti, is tremendously important for fixing nitrogen from the air into plant roots and the soil.

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  • Fast thorough washing should follow the fixing, in order to eliminate every particle of hyposulphite from the film.

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  • Several colonies, however, elect members of the French legislature, in which body is the power of fixing the form of government and the laws of each colony or protectorate.

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  • To the ministry appertains the duty of fixing the duties on foreign produce in those colonies which have not been,,by law,, subjected to the same tariff as in France.

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  • After hearing evidence, which may be given on oath, the special board issues a " determination," fixing the minimum rate of wages to be paid to various classes of workers of both sexes and different ages in the trade covered by the determination, including apprentices; and specifying the number of hours disputes strikes are, on the whole, the most disastrous that it can adopt.

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  • In Queensland, where the earliest factory legislation dates from 1896, keen parliamentary conflict raged round the pro posal in 1907 to introduce the special boards system for fixing wages.

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  • An iron bolt (b) cemented into the centre of the inner cup is used for fixing the insulator to the pole or bracket.

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  • Another buoy is put down marking this position, fixing at the same time the actual line of the cable.

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  • Zanardelli, minister of justice, secured in June 1888 the adoption of a new penal code; state surveillance was extended to the opere pie, or charitable institutions; municipal franchise was reformed by granting what was practically manhood suffrage with residential qualification, provision being made for minority representation; and the central state administration was reformed by a bill fixing the number and functions of the various ministries.

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  • We may note the universal Li occurrence on the lower surface of the thallus of fixing ver and absorbing rhizoids in accordance with the terrestrial Worts.

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  • If the axis of such a sporogonium were prolonged downwards into the soil to form a fixing and absorptive root, the whole structure would become a physiologically independent plant, exhibiting in many though by no means all respects the leading features of the sporophyte or ordinary vegetative and spore-bearing individual in Ptericlophytes and Phanerogams. These facts, among others, have led to the theory, plausible in some respects, of the origin of this sporophyte by descent from an Anthoceros-like sporogonium (see PTERIDOPHYTA).

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  • The power of fixing atmospheric nitrogen by the higher plants seems to be confined to this solitary group, though it has been stated by various observers with more or less emphasis that it is shared by others.

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  • Various devices are adopted for the protection of the eggs from mechanical injury or from the attacks of enemies, and for fixing them in appropriate situations.

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  • In 478 or 477 Aristides was in command of the Athenian squadron off Byzantium, and so far won the confidence of the Ionian allies that, after revolting from the Spartan admiral Pausanias, they offered him the chief command and left him with absolute discretion in fixing the contributions of the newly formed confederacy (see DELIAN LEAGUE).

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  • The tradition fixing this hallowed place seems to have been constant throughout the whole of the Christian centuries, and it is one of the very few "holy places" shown to travellers and pilgrims in Palestine, the authenticity of which deserves consideration.

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  • Its activities in fixing the price and quality of bread, etc., and in rationing, closely resembled those of the food controller in Great Britain (see Food Supply and Rationing) .

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  • Among the acts was one providing for the continuance of Spanish as the official language of the courts until 1913; an act providing for bankruptcy; and an act fixing the age of majority at 21 years.

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  • Euclides 7 found no difficulty in fixing Antisthenes' mode of illustrating his simple elements by comparison, and therewith perhaps the " induction " of Socrates, with the dilemma; so far as the example is dissimilar, the comparison is invalid; so far as it is similar, it is useless.

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  • After some stay at Dresden, hesitating between fixing himself as university teacher at Göttingen, Heidelberg or Berlin, he finally chose the last-mentioned.

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  • The council are empowered to make by-laws for fixing the number of lodgers and separating the sexes therein, promoting cleanliness and ventilation, giving of notices and taking precautions in case of any infectious disease, and generally for the well-ordering of such houses.

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  • When the necessary temperature of the fuel and superheater has been reached, the air blast is cut off, and steam is blown through the generator, forming water gas, which meets the enriching oil at the top of the first superheater, called the carburettor, and carries the vapours with it through the main superheaters, where the fixing of the hydrocarbons takes place.

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  • A sinking ship All the work spent fixing email is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

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  • They seized power, hoping to apply their military skills to fixing the economy.

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  • However your ability to obtain their attention in fixing the snag list has been impressive.

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  • Italian football, its reputation sullied by match fixing allegations, is looking for a tonic.

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  • The bottom contains a fixing to allow a standard photographic tripod adapter to be used.

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  • Just fixing a single bug undocumented feature would probably haven taken 2 months !

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  • The mudguard snapped into two pieces, and all three fixing points were wrenched away, leaving three large tears.

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  • I need to spend some time fixing the disorder of my bookshelves.

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  • Sometimes, perfectionism is just an excuse to delay a product's release and it's a seductive one, because fixing perceived or real problems feels like an essential task.

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  • Fixing a bad history is worth the time it takes.

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  • Of course, fixing problems in an honest fashion will take quite a while - possibly years - but it will produce accurate and trustworthy results.

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  • Regardless of the reason, once you figure out that you need to make some changes, you need to make a decision that you are going to dedicate yourself to fixing the problem.

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  • The construction of these items makes them quite durable, and unlike webbed furniture, they rarely break or need fixing.

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  • Before replacing your lawn furniture or having it professionally repaired, you can try fixing it yourself.

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  • If your lawn furniture is in need of repair try fixing it yourself.

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  • Finding and fixing a major problem such as a faulty oxygen sensor can improve mileage by as much as 40 percent.

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  • Fixing dripping taps can offer a significant savings over the course of a year and help toconserve water.

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  • When your kitchen is taken care of, we're going to move on to fixing up your bathroom.

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  • Dress tape is a great tool for fixing a problem until you have access to a needle and thread.

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  • Give yourself a spa treatment, and paint your fingernails and toenails, play your favorite music, and give yourself plenty of time for fixing your hair and makeup.

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

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  • Gears are one of the hardest parts of a KitchenAid mixer to replace, and you may need to take your appliance to a repair shop if you are not comfortable fixing it yourself.

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  • While you don't have to be an expert, you do need to take a few precautions when fixing harder problems on microwave malfunctions.

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  • Before jumping into repairing the microwave, especially fixing any internal problems, you should do a few things so you won't get shocked.

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  • Fixing your microwave on your own can be a great alternative to spending the money to purchase a new unit if doing so is the most cost effective alternative.

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  • From leaky seals to broken jars, fixing your blender is simple once you know what part you need.

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  • You can buy tools if he enjoys fixing things and new paints if he likes to refinish.

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  • Whether you're outfitting your first place, fixing up a basement, or making up a baby's nursery on a limited budget, discount furniture helps you spend your money wisely.

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  • Additionally, keeping up with home maintenance, like fixing leaking roofs and weak stairs, can save thousands in the long run.

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  • The laptop is basically the size of a normal laptop, but thanks to the flexible fixing mechanism and a detachable keyboard it can be transformed into a desktop or various other setups very easily.

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  • Fixing the change of the clocks to a certain day of the month rather than a date is beneficial as it remains fixed every year and is easy to remember and helps to answer the question of when do we put the clocks back and forward.

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  • While sometimes it's just a question of fixing a few forms, the embassy reserves the right to refuse a visa to anyone.

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  • Additionally, it allows for fixing customer issues faster by allowing users to search for related, previously resolved problems.

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  • Whether the family business is a repair shop, or the inclination to tinker on vehicles runs in the family genes, some people are naturally gifted when it comes to fixing and building cars.

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  • If you've done the first parts carefully, you shouldn't have to spend a lot of time fixing but rather fine tuning.

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  • Get the answers to questions about cookware and fixing delicious dishes while learning how to create a meal that stuns using gourmet techniques.

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  • This benefit covers the cost of medical care and of fixing property damage when the insured is at fault.

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  • This coverage is for fixing your car if you run into something.

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  • Accessories like a bath robe or slippers are the ideal finishing touch for those lazy days of lounging around the house or fixing brunches.

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  • The songs chronicle Ruess' break-up with his longtime girlfriend (the title refers to the fact that every time Ruess and his girlfriend got back together, they bought a dog in hopes of "fixing" their relationship).

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  • Fixing a computer that has crashed can be expensive, and sometimes may not even be possible.

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  • Although licensing confusion and accusation of price fixing ensued as these direct marketing music clubs figured out how to deal with the demand for each others' release, business boomed for all three.

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  • The Deverry series goes through numerous volumes, eventually fixing the original problem and allowing the centuries-old Nevyn to finally 'join the Force', as it were.

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  • Mom is fixing supper and I'm sure she has something you can wear in the morning.

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  • She ignored the meat, fixing him with a cold stare.

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  • My husband did a lot of work fixing the settings on when Annie died and kept pushing Howie.

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  • We tried to duplicate our New Hampshire activities; even recording our efforts but fixing the settings proved to be hit and miss.

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  • Dean wandered back to the kitchen, where his wife was fixing supper.

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  • She stood too near, perfumed and ram-rod straight, fixing him with a level and unfaltering gaze with those arresting eyes.

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  • He had a ton of work to do and was no closer to fixing any part of his underworld.

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  • But I'm fixing it.

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  • The logical side of her understood that Darkyn's offer of fixing her was a better option than dying on the operating table.

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  • You said you have a generator you need help fixing, right?

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  • Neither slept very well that night, and Dean was awake before the alarm, up fixing the morn­ing coffee.

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  • That evening she was fixing supper when she glanced out the window in time to see a white truck pull up at her house.

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  • The next morning Carmen was up early, fixing breakfast and packing a lunch for Alex.

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  • She was fixing sandwiches for lunch when her phone rang.

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  • When Felipa returned with the children, he was in his chair, reading the paper and Carmen was in the kitchen fixing supper.

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  • The fixing of stoves of this kind entails the laying of pipes or ducts from the open to convey fresh air to the back of the stove.

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  • In New South Wales, whose example was followed by Western Australia, the machinery adopted for fixing the statutory rate of wages was of a somewhat different type.

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  • The Code also regulated the liquor traffic, fixing a fair price for beer and forbidding the connivance of the tavern-keeper (a female!) at disorderly conduct or treasonable assembly, under pain of death.

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  • The bromide paper is automatically passed through a developing bath, a fixing bath, and drying rollers.

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  • Fixing the 15th of August 1096 as the time for the departure of the crusaders, and Constantinople as the general rendezvous, Urban returned from France to Italy.

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  • In the 13th century it became necessary for the legists to codify, as it were, the unwritten law, because the upheavals of the times necessitated the fixing of some rules in writing, and especially because it was necessary to oppose a definite custom of the kingdom to Frederick II., who sought, as king of Jerusalem, to take advantage of the want of a written law, to substitute his own conceptions of law in the teeth of the high court.

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  • The haemoglobin would, by its pre-eminent properties of fixing oxygen, serve to furnish the nerve system, which more than any other requires a constant supply, with the necessary oxygen.

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  • This would seem to point to a time when the fixing of the sabbath was determined by the age of the moon, so that the first day of the Passover, which is on the 15th of Nisan, would always occur on a sabbath.

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  • Notwithstanding the precise fixing of the boundaries of the republic by the London Convention, President Kruger endeavoured to maintain the Boer hold on Goshen and Stellaland, but the British government on Efforts.

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  • The plan devised by the London Convention of fixing a limit to administrative expenditure was abolished.

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  • Bagration seemed to say, and, fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and serious expression.

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  • Sonya stood ready dressed in the middle of the room and, pressing the head of a pin till it hurt her dainty finger, was fixing on a last ribbon that squeaked as the pin went through it.

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  • On moving to the drawing room he handed the letter to Princess Mary and, spreading out before him the plan of the new building and fixing his eyes upon it, told her to read the letter aloud.

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  • An example of how this would work with someone with concerns about hair may be to go outside when it is windy and go about your day without fixing your hair after it has been wind-blown.

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  • A picture of what you want can help guide you as you make your cake and aid you in fixing or adjusting any mishaps along the way.

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  • The couple is currently in talks with Martha Stewart regarding a new show that focuses on fixing up houses.

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  • She quit school to pursue modeling and show business, making a move from fixing others' smiles to displaying her own.

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  • I have been amazed at just how many animals have been cured by fixing their diets.

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  • Chances are they will be familiar with your particular hydrangea variety, will be able to identify what the problem is and can suggest how you should go about fixing it.

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  • The hardest part of fixing a leaky bathtub faucet is taking the faucet apart.

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  • Fixing a leaky bathtub faucet makes good sense.

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  • Many of the very tall armoires, those that are four or five foot in height, require fixing or mounting on a wall.

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  • By fixing screens, taking care of clutter, and using your homemade organic home pest control mixtures you will see results eventually.

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  • Fixing a nose pad is another easy repair.

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  • If repairs such as fixing scratched lenses become necessary, the company considers such damage to be normal everyday wear and tear on the glasses and thus does not cover this type of damage in its warranty.

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  • I was planning on fixing breakfast.

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  • A few hours later Alex and Jonathan were out doing chores and Carmen was in the kitchen fixing supper.

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  • Fixing supper required several.

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  • While Natasha was fixing her gaze on her for the second time the lady looked round and, meeting the count's eyes, nodded to him and smiled.

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  • He tipped his hat back, fixing her with a bright blue gaze that stunned her vocal cords.

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