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The bass-baritone Daniel Mobbs was respectable but small-scaled as Guillaume Tell, shaping his phrases elegantly but lacking variety and a heroic sound.
Pared 'Flute' Is a Muted Production Heidi Waleson 2011
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The military's prime concern is suppressing dissidents at home and battling several small-scaled insurgencies.
Burma Secretly Trying To Build Nuclear Weapons, Leaked Docs Show 2010
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I trust Sera Gamble, probably my favorite writer, and I like the idea of a more intimate and small-scaled show.
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Up to now, Iran national futsal team has won 9 titles out of 10 Asian championship editions and grabbed a silver medal of 2007 Grand Prix de Futsal too which is an informal, small-scaled world cup being held annually in Brazil.
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Several endemic reptiles, including two desert lizards, the wedge-snouted sand lizard (Meroles cuneirostris) and the small-scaled sand lizard (M. micropholidotus), the barking gecko (Ptenopus kochi) and the day gecko (Rhoptropus bradfieldi) are unusual in that they all dive beneath the sand to escape danger.
Namib desert 2008
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It was very daring to introduce the story of "Icarus" in this group, by the small-scaled figure of this first mythological aviator on the outside of the wings of the larger figure.
The Art of the Exposition Eugen Neuhaus 1921
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Fish naturally bring up the carp in the muddy pond which we used to catch, and gloat over their golden glories; or the brazen small-scaled tench, with all the surroundings at Norwood, where the builder has run riot, and terraces and semi-detached villas -- I hope well drained -- cover the pool whence we used to drag forth miniature alligators with a worm.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870
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Polenzani, a peerless Mozart singer, never presses for volume, and a lot of his soft singing is lovely, but it's a small-scaled performance that doesn't stand up to the gale force of his Violetta.
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The military's prime concern is suppressing dissidents at home and battling several small-scaled insurgencies.
The Seattle Times 2010
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The military's prime concern is suppressing dissidents at home and battling several small-scaled insurgencies.
BLACK ENTERPRISE 2010
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