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Another conclusion he arrived at, was that in order to sheet-anchor himself as Freddie Drummond, closer ties and relations in his own social nook were necessary.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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Another conclusion he arrived at, was that in order to sheet-anchor himself as Freddie Drummond, closer ties and relations in his own social nook were necessary.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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In the past, Germany has always provided the passive sheet-anchor stability that allowed Europe to work.
Horst Köhler's resignation is bad for Germany, for Europe and for politics 2010
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Thus with three principalities would your father exalt you his three sons, proud of your manliness; while I was choosing the best brides for you, scheming to link you by marriage to Athens, Thebes, and Sparta, that ye might live a happy life with a fast sheet-anchor to hold by.
Heracles 2008
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Thus with three principalities would your father exalt you his three sons, proud of your manliness; while I was choosing the best brides for you, scheming to link you by marriage to Athens, Thebes, and Sparta, that ye might live a happy life with a fast sheet-anchor to hold by.
Heracles 2008
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However, if the nation-wide campaigns of subversion are not addressed, and if prevention, rather than containment, does not become the sheet-anchor of national policy, there will be a tipping-point beyond which national capacities for emergency management will begin to fall disastrously short.
What Maoists Want Abhay N 2007
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When metaphysical subjects came before him, he felt that he had this for a sheet-anchor, and he did not greatly care to keep proving it again and again by continued criticism or examination.
Voltaire 2007
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Whether or no there be in the human breast that natural religion of goodness and virtue which was the sheet-anchor of Voltaire's faith, there is at least a something in the hearts of good men which sets a vast gulf between them and those who are to the very depths of their souls irredeemably saturated with corruption.
Voltaire 2007
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The belief which had been her sheet-anchor in hoping for forgiveness had proved false.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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He had imbibed a foolish prejudice against quinine, our sheet-anchor in the complaint.
hernesheir commented on the word sheet-anchor
Cf. sheet anchor and waist anchor.
November 28, 2011