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  • Twice voters will go to the polls in make or break moments with the potential to cement slow-running reforms or tip Africa's biggest nation into the abyss.

    Rob Crilly: A Crucial Year Ahead for Sudan 2010

  • Shortly after depleting our stash of Cherry Bombs and Mighty-Mights in surrounding mail boxes, homes and slow-running civil servants -- he came upon what appeared to be the mother of all dog turds, left by what seemed to be some sort of supernatural Great Dane.

    Ryan Reynolds: The Clown God 2008

  • He said that because the flash drive would go into the same Symmetrix system as slower drives, it should be possible to transfer slow-running applications to the flash drives without having to buy a separate system.

    EMC Seeks Edge With Large 2008

  • Synopsis: Slowpoke Larry's two housemates lament about his constant tardiness and slow-running watch.

    REVIEW: Time Machines edited by Bill Adler, Jr. 2005

  • Take a dip in a slow-running, shallow canal, however, and you're splashing and follicking with leviathan quantities of your good pal Escherichia coli.

    Resist the Urge 2005

  • Take a dip in a slow-running, shallow canal, however, and you're splashing and follicking with leviathan quantities of your good pal Escherichia coli.

    Veniceblog: 2005

  • Flatt, a slow-running pocket passer, was sacked four times and was intercepted twice.

    USATODAY.com - Scores 2005

  • About 5,200 lower-ranking ex-soldiers and communist militants are facing similar charges in a series of other slow-running and oft-delayed trials in which verdicts are sporadically announced.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • The hot wind brought an odour of sulphur, as if it had rolled up from cities accursed and buried deeper than the river-bed of the slow-running Jordan.

    Herodias 2003

  • For lower costs and greater reliability and maintainability, designers now seek technology with fewer components - such as directly driven, slow-running generators, with passive yaw and passive blade pitch control.

    Chapter 9 2000

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