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Which is why, ladies and gentlemen, in leaving you I present the incomparable Ms. Peggy Lee singing what, in an era predating widespreading feminist ideals, was the common cry of women cut off from the vitality of their own self-realization.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is? G. Roger Denson 2011
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John Harned was seeing it for the first time, and he could not escape the excitement – the sight of the man, armed only with a piece of cloth, and of the bull rushing upon him across the sand with sharp horns, widespreading.
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In fact, San Francisco's boss-ridden condition was due in greater degree to Daylight's widespreading battle than even San Francisco ever dreamed.
Chapter VII 2010
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I think that this is an ugly face of terrorism that we're seeing around us that is widespreading.
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A work on each serious model and its practical application demands hard research elaboration with joined efforts of economists, mathematicians and specialists in the concrete field, but even in successful cases the widespreading of the model needs several years, especially for testing and improving of practical instructions.
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We can refer to the longer periods of widespreading of many technical innovations or to physics and mechanics where some theoretical models are not realized in spite of two-hundreds-year experience.
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The growth habit of a vegetatively propagated plant will often resemble that of the cutting from which it is grown. 3 For example, a vertical water sprout may produce a tall tree with fewer side branches than a tree grown from a lateral shoot which will tend to have fuller, more widespreading growth.
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For example, plants with shallow, widespreading roots can be more densely planted with deep-rooted plants than with other shallow-rooted ones.
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While its root suckers create "mini-jungles" and its widespreading root system disrupts pavements and lawns, the scarcity of female trees in Florida fortunately restricts Casuarina glauca from getting entirely out of hand.
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Without grasses, trees, and shrubs to prevent erosion; and without widespreading floodwaters to irrigate and replenish its fields, a population dependent upon agriculture for a livelihood, as were the
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