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In both written and unwritten traditions, a complex of thoughts and approaches to music are handed down from teacher to student.
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Hold these points and then change the hands and repeat the process.
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Voting was normally by show o f hands.
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A total of 1,490 sentences were handed down, including 504 for imprisonment or detention in a reform school.
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As he handed it to the new marine, he would drop it on the ground.
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One way of thinking about human existence through time, then, is to say that we are constantly handing down a set of possibilities to ourselves.
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Everything in the picture seems to work out from and back to her hands.
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Red may like many hands, perhaps varying greatly in size and content.
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People cannot kick with their hands or eyes or anything else in the normal sense.
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Their fortunes were in the hands of strangers and of circumstance.
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I had just given grand rounds at the medical school when my colleague handed me a pink message slip.
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Is treatment of incurable disease placed in the hands of other countries?
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Her hands were cold and mottled, her lips were blue, her face was pale, and her respirations were agonal.
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Humans remove meat from bodies with their hands, in the process covering them with blood.
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They stand there as if they had never been built by human hands.
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All, however, had handed over their business or farm to their children.
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When the government hands out money to somebody, they're taking it from your pocket and mine.
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The physical component of the project is often wholly contained within one nation, placing the control of its use in the hands of one party.
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In the hands of good teachers, this will hardly matter.
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As in the 1920s, youth had time on their hands.
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Core motivating mechanisms coordinate and synchronize expressions by the muscles of the head receptors and of the hands.
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They worked well in the hands of most farmers.
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The child placed his/her hands, palms up, on a board and the scanner was situated 6 inches above the pair of open hands.
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Booklets of photographs of all the children in a given class were handed out.
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The music sounds no different when played in normal position - the passages are just harder to play with hands crossed.
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Consider for instance a standard that requires redistribution of the resources of the poor into the hands of the rich.
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Reconciliation before his time was not a formal sacramental act detached from the eucharist, requiring the presence of a bishop, and the imposition of hands.
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In this case extra calcification in the hands and wrists (e, f) and face with depressed nasal bridge (g) were diagnostic.
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If this trend continues, there should be almost 1.5 million by the time this book is in your hands.
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In other hands, this framework might later yield a (more) general understanding of the full problem.
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The independent state formalized this pattern by investing land ownership in the office of the president and use rights in farmers' hands.
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The grasses were so interlaced that we had to pull them apart with our hands to continue.
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In his hands, transnationalism offers an acute instrument for identifying cultural differences.
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A potential problem with these experiments is that they are themselves handed.
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Students do not use the external specification they built themselves, for that was handed in earlier.
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Finally, leadership within an ideology is typically in the hands of an intellectual elite.
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The demand for estate hands was, of course, insufficient to offset the shrinkage of farm work.
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Consequently, the hand's velocity along this direction decreases, because the current force is approaching the maximum allowed force.
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Fulfillment of the additional tasks by hands in the course of motion is a real assumption.
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History shows many examples of power remaining in the hands of unpopular ruling elites.
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The issue of trust in such a system is of critical importance because the money passes through many hands.
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In studies so far, it correlates well with overall outcomes,22,23 but its use in the hands of nongeriatricians has yet to be confirmed.
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Sustainability of these systems is dependent on the handing down of their 'spirit', of their own alternative identity.
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In experienced hands, a certain amount of imagination can pay dividends.
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The technique is reliable in practised hands, with a coefficient of variation of about 6%.
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Shaking hands with the sort of people we know, humans, when we meet them is, in many cultures and contexts, polite.
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A circle at the throat, hands full of rage, a face of cold hate!
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Patients with excessive sweating on: hands 100%, soles 81% and underarms 66%.
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In my view, on the contrary, it plays into their hands.
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Such contradictory results may be inherent to the subject and to a collection written by various hands.
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An author loses control of his work the moment it leaves his hands.
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The final decision can only be in the hands of the informed patient (15).
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You're on the ladder, being handed on from one master to the next.
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A telescope is, after all, a mere instrument in the hands of an astronomer, who would be automatically gendered as masculine.
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Spread of enteroviruses occurs via the faecal-oral and respiratory routes, and via hands and fomites, with the dominant mode of spread depending on the circumstances.
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After handing over power to elected civilians in 1969, the military struck again in 1972.
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If they backed away, they risked playing into the hands of the new offices, which claimed that hiring an actuary was a needless expense.
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Interesting examples are given by under-actuated grippers or hands, which are defined as those with more d. o. f. s than actuators.
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If it chose to retain a voting majority, it would have handed the chairmanship's power of delay to the opposition.
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After two weeks the girls surfaced, were taken into police custody and handed over to their family.
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Governance of his own realm, however, was firmly in his hands.
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The financial threads were gathered in their hands.
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One girl left home because her parents insisted on her handing over all her earnings while she was living at home.
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In this perspective industrial child labour seems to appear as an example of exploitation of children handed down by the pre-industrial society.
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Things seems to be natural extensions of her hands - spoon, warming pot, ladle, pitchers with handles, cup, glass, and pestle.
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Vesting a decision regarding the boundaries and content of ethnicity in the hands of ordinary citizens is a somewhat unusual political manoeuvre.
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The four figures cross hands over chest, as when they began.
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In his hands, realism ceased to be a comprehensive account of international relations and became instead a theory of the international system.
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A comparison of these two letters provides ample reason for the frequent confusion of the two hands.
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Spatial audio processing mappings are idiomatic since the shaman hands visibly traverse large areas.
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Let us assume this case has been handed down in a legal system that treats the decisions of its highest court as authoritative precedents.
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Most disturbing of all, however, was another publicly posted manuscript libel that came into the hands of the authorities a few weeks later.
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One boy tells another that their teacher: is always telling us to use our own hands and brains.
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To question behaviour patterns that have been handed down over generations is no easy task.
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The knowledge of the war, however, did not fall into complete oblivion; it came to be handed down to younger generations through history education.
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Jeffords handed these citizens divided government, an outcome they should have cheered.
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In the hands and minds of some, chemistry was subordinated to the dictates and needs of medicine.
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No rules are neutral, especially when their implementation is in the hands of the incumbent party.
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She did not wear gloves and handled every individual bread item (notably hamburger buns) at least twice with bare hands.
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The main impact of these struggles was that the bulk of any increase in output remained in the hands of producers.
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One is the idea that the understanding of the universe was restr icted by the mechanistic view handed down by pre-twentieth centur y classical physics.
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Elections are conducted by a show of hands, with leaders elected by majority.
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Both sisters have similar skeletal features, including mild shortening of the arms, double joints of elbows, with an extra flexion crease and small hands.
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Almost no seats changed hands as the result of foreign policy issues.
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As in many monasteries founded on lands donated by noble families, the advocacy of the monastery remained in the hands of the founding family.
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All of the visual evidence suggests, therefore, that the chorus members incorporated gestures of the hands and at least some movement of the arms.
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Several of the men are also holding staffs with their left hands.
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We are in the hands of the translator.
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Davies never stops to ask himself how far his way of dealing with the problem is distinct from handing the atheist victory on a plate.
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The same findings were replicated in a laboratory study where subjects put their hands in ice water.
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Now it means they are going to tie the workers' hands, and we shall have no chance to do anything.
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Following their condemnation in the ecclesiastical courts the two men were handed over to the secular power for punishment.
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Looking hard at one's hands, and at life generally, it is not surprising!
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We have two hands, two ears, two eyes, two nostrils.
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Similarly, we are two eyed, two handed, two eared.
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Votes are taken anonymously, as is the continental tradition, by a show of hands.
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They feed on large tough fruits and other vegetable matter, including bark which they can tear apart with their strong hands.
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A young process chemist could probably learn a lot about real life from this book, and the old hands should appreciate it as well.
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