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It was dead quiet. | It was absolutely silent. |
But foreign visitors can enjoy the Gion Corner, held at Yasaka Hall to provide a selection of bite-sized samples of Japanese culture from March through November. | Yasaka Hall allows people to see samples of Japanese culture in July. |
Rediscovering Arendt's public-private split wouldn't necessarily entail abandoning the feminist notion that the personal is political. | The idea that what's personal is also political is a feminist position. |
A number of craftsmen have studios fronting onto the narrow streets. | The streets have workshops owned by the craftsmen. |
The squat but angular and moated Castillo de la Real Fuerza (Fort of the Royal Forces), to the north, is one of the oldest forts in the Americas, begun in 1558. | Castillo de la Real Fuerza is one of the oldest forts. |
He was faster, fearless, felt no pain. | He was a fast man with no fear or pain. |
One leaf of the massive door folded back to allow in a small party of horsemen. | The door opened to let in a small group of horsemen. |
Everyone gets tired of the ransacking of private lives, the cynical search for ulterior motives, the weighing of imperfect evidence; after a while, people are likely to say, Just let it go. | Everyone gets tired of violating the privacy of other people and searching for potential ill-intent and trying to decipher incomplete evidence so after a while investigators are likely to just say let it go. |
that that doesn't solve anything | Nothing is solved in that manner. |
To Bonk or Not To That Is the Question | The question is whether or not to bonk. |
This giddying confluence of distinct religions is matched only by the diversity of the population. | The confluence of separate religions is equaled by the diversity of the populace. |
Representative Simpson, for example, stressed that [t]he legal services that will be availableto H-2 workers - and they are foreign nationals . . . - are limited only to housing, and transportation and wages and anything within the terms of the contract, nothing more. | Representative Simpson wanted legal services to be provided to H-2 workers. |
well you know that's true and in teaching you don't get rid of a teacher very easy you know they'd be there | It's hard to get rid of teachers. |
And that is where the indignation of the Turning Point people starts to seem rather strange. | The Turning Point people are outraged. |
Scotland suffered ten years of military rule under Cromwell's Commonwealth. | The Scottish people suffered a very long time. |
The D982 leading west from Rouen is the start of the Route des Abbayes, which meanders through woodland and meadows around the medieval Norman abbeys ' most of them enjoying their heyday under William the Conqueror ' at Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville, Jumiyges, Saint-Wandrille, Le Bec-Hellouin, and Caen, culminating in t... | The Route des Abbayes starts at the D982 leading west from Rouen. |
A few choice shell-shots would send them into quick retreat. | It wouldn't take many shots for them to retreat. |
The Explorer probed gently. | The Explorer probed. |
Technology grants assisted implementation of state plans. | Technology allows assistance in state plans |
We used three sources of alternative C-R functions for this sensitivity (1) an alternative specification of the Pope/ACS model from Krewski, et al. | Three different sources were used as alternatives. |
In the black black-black offspring. | In the dark dark-dark offspring. |
Every so often one of our whipmasters would end up murdered, strangled, or throat cut, and we would suspect Stark's hand in it but we worried about revolt if we punished or executed him. | Some of the whipmasters got killed. |
On the state level, funding from the Interest on Lawyer Account fund has decreased by half during the 1990's due to declining interest rates. | Interest on Lawyer Account fund has been on a decrease due to declining interest rates. |
The submittal, which was made available to the public, contained the reasons for collecting the information and the burden estimates, as required by the Act. | The Act required the submittal to state reasons for gathering the information. |
The time needed to complete this phase of an implementation project is about 23 months. | The phase takes 23 months. |
oh that's beautiful | That looks really good. |
24/Seven pulls together the Slate features that are updated repeatedly throughout the Our daily Diary; the e-mail give-and-take of The Breakfast Table and The Book Club and Dialogues about the pressing issues of the day; e-mail dispatches from hither and yon; as well as our Moneybox meditations on business, Chatterbox... | Slate features are updated frequently through its daily diary. |
The government wants to buy it for $3 million. | It is worth about $3 million. |
Alternatively, there are a number of modern malls with international names as well as many excellent local shops selling goods at fixed prices. | There are also internationally known malls and great local stores selling goods at fixed prices. |
huh um-hum um-hum yeah i wouldn't i i would think they'd spend at least that as the at the cost of clothes | They have to buy some clothes. |
He has spent 32 years wangling roads and airports and sewers for South Carolina, and he doesn't mind reminding voters about it. | He regularly reminds voters of his long work history. |
The French Wars of Religion pitted the Catholic forces of the regent Catherine de Medicis against the Protestant (Huguenot) camp headed by Henri de Navarre. | Catherine de Medicis' forces were in conflict with Henri de Navarre's Huguenot's. |
When he was awake, the girl was always beside him. | He was sometimes awake. |
The Long-Term Budget Outlook, Congressional Budget Office (October 2000). | Budget outlook over a long period |
The book review sections of the Sunday Times , Sunday Telegraph , and Observer , as well as the Times Literary Supplement and the delightful London Review of Books , look to conflicts to generate interest. | The Sunday Times is one of the book review sections that seeks to garner interest from the public. |
Ashkenazi Jews come from central and eastern Europe. | Central and eastern Europe is where Ashkenazi Jews originate. |
everybody is wanting to go on and and get the sentence done and if you're trying to hold out you know there's so much pressure on you and you've got to come up with a decision | Everyone there was eager to get the sentence entered. |
The Middle Ages in Italy were far from being the murky era that many humanist scholars liked to contrast with the brilliance of the Renaissance. | The Middle Ages were not that barabaric. |
I said nothing. | I was quiet. |
Around him stood the remainder of the Sticks. | The rest of the Stick stood around him. |
The economic impact of each scenario is reported in two ways. | Each scenario's economic impact is reported in two ways. |
population and the originator of our English system of measure uh they have gone metric | The originator of the English system has converted to metric. |
If Microsoft ran the entire dry cleaning industry, it might very well choose to discriminate against women (or men, depending on market conditions). | If Microsoft ran the entire laundry industry, it might choose to discriminate against genders, based on market conditions. |
The new science of archaeology was also developing, and excavations of Minoan palaces brought a new prosperity as the 20th-century phenomenon of tourism grew. | archaeology was a boon to modern tourism. |
Including the red Curtiss biplane. | It includes the biplane that is red. |
Looming over its southern end at the intersection with Rose Avenue is a giant sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky known as Ballerina Clown. | Jonathan Borofsky was a sculptor. |
His deconstruction of political ads is a weekly feature of Slate during the election season. | While the election is going on, he does a weekly deconstruction of political ads. |
Is Lana actually going to sit in her house and let Brandon be murdered? | Is Lana going to let someone kill Brandon? |
The federal government has always considered frequent flyer awards to be property of the government, and sought to reduce travel costs by requiring their use only for official travel. | Frequent flyer awards are property of the government, according to the government. |
Note that the extent of any changes that would be made is a measure of the extent of non-market choices that have been allowed by the protection currently provided. | Non-market choices have been allowed. |
Beresford, who's blundered in just at the right moment for them. | Berersford had blundered. |
Initial efforts addressed a variety of internal issues including training and support, increased use of technology, more efficient and uniform intake and the provision of legal advice and brief service, and meeting the needs of particularly vulnerable populations including migrants, Native Americans, non-English speaki... | Initial attempts had addressed a variety of internal issues. |
The women had been paying $425 a month in a rent-to-own agreement for five years, or roughly $25,500. | The five year agreement charged $425 a month. |
Mr. Chairman, this concludes my written testimony. | Written testimony was presented to a chairman. |
In 1988 the Dublin city millennium was marked by the restoration of many fine buildings and by new statues and monuments created by Irish artists (some of these works more successful than others). | In 1988 many new statues were built in Dublin city. |
They are photographs of works from the Louvre, Paris. | The photographs were taken in Louvre, Paris. |
Quaint little chap! | A strange little man. |
According to the Maastricht Treaty, the currency will be put into circulation only after individual national economies have hit certain targets--such as a sufficiently low ratio of debt to gross domestic product. | There is currency that has not yet started to circulate. |
Look for the brilliant colors of Veronese's oval ceiling painting of Venice Crowned by Victory, forerunner of the Baroque tours de force in perspective. | One of the best Baroque art tours is the oval ceiling painting by Veronese. |
No, my friend, there was a moment when you were not all together. | There was a time when you were not all together my friend. |
uh it's shown a history that uh sure beats anything else | The history that it's shown sure beats anything else. |
It's the kind of place where tourists and Cubans seem to hook up in a matter of seconds. | Tourists mingled with Cubans. |
The salt miners, but I don't know why they're here. | The miners worked in the salt mines. |
We appreciate the role of S. 556 in generating important discussions and emphasizing the importance of a new approach to controlling emissions in the power sector. | We appreciate the role of S. 556 because they are being productive. |
Total organochlorine pesticides plus PCBs should be less than 50 ng/L (APHA, 1992). | The cumulative pesticides and PCBS needs to be less than 50 ng/L. |
Indicators are grouped by topic and summarized by theme. | There is grouping and summarizing of indicators. |
that you can send a kid to school but if don't work with them as a parent i think you're putting your child at a big disadvantage | You can send your kid to school, but you should also work with them. |
This is sensational crowds swarming among pyramids in eye-popping 3-D, camerawork that's distinctly Spielbergian in its fluidity. | The camerawork can be likened to Spielberg's. |
The test may make them think twice about medicines that take the fun out of patients' lives. | They are taking a medical test that could cover medicine's effect on patients. |
The present state of the cathedral owes much to Eugane Viollet-le-Duc, who from 1845 to 1863 painstakingly restored it following the ravages of the 18th century, caused more by pre-Revolutionary meddlers than by revolutionaries who stripped it of religious symbols. | Eugane Viollet-le-Duc spent 18 years to restore the cathedral. |
After two highly acclaimed story collections, this young Mozart of Jewish fiction (Judith Dunford, Newsday ) has written a warm, subtle, understated novel about the daily lives of a group of Orthodox Jews who summer in a small town in the Catskills. | Judith Danford, a Jewish author, has written a novel set in the Catskills. |
Jon examined the landscape along the way. | Jon was perceptive, and took in a lot of his surroundings. |
Was this the monstrous possibility that Evelyn had tried not to believe? | There is something that Evelyn did not want to believe. |
It is fun to speculate about Tom DeLay's idea of better art. | Tom Delay is not known for his taste in art. |
One or two little things have cropped up. | A couple of things have suddenly appeared. |
But our current regulatory programs are not the most efficient way to achieve the goal of ensuring a reliable energy supply in an environmentally responsible manner. | Our current programs involving regulation could be more efficient. |
First thing I knew a guard came along and informed me mighty politely that I wasn't in a smoking-carriage. | A guard immediately came up and kindly made sure I knew I was in a non-smoking area. |
His clothes fit perfectly, and he had a brilliant bushy beard that I knew to be a fake. | HE had a big beard. |
"Maybe," he said slowly. | He said maybe slowly. |
No, it's a different one. She handed him the slip of paper. | She said it was different and gave him the paper. |
Finally I opened it out flat there were only two sheets and laid it between two of the advertisement pages of a magazine. | Finally, I placed it between some magazine pages. |
There is a lively young scene based around the university, and a sophistication to match other major Greek cities such as Athens or Thessalonica. | The area around the university is very lively, as in other Greek cities. |
Supposing … She choked her fears down bravely. | She was being brave despite feeling fearful. |
fitness and exercise | Working out and getting into shape. |
A great favourite is zarzuela de mariscos, a variation of a Catalan dish, which combines many different ingredients, just like the Spanish operetta from which it takes its name. | There are many ingredients in the dish. |
Some bottles of colored liquids broke and the smell of the place turned rancid. | When the liquids were exposed the place immediately stank. |
Ta Mok has even been given credit for putting Pol Pot on trial and sentencing him to life under house arrest--as opposed to summarily shooting him in the head, which is the Khmer Rouge's usual idea of justice. | Pol Pot was tried and sentenced to house arrest by Ta Mok. |
I'll build the damned computer. | I will build the computer. |
You were in a towering rage. | You were extremely angry. |
well all right well uh i guess that's about it | That's it. |
Annie was a fine, strapping girl, and was evidently labouring under intense excitement, mingled with a certain ghoulish enjoyment of the tragedy. | Annie was intensely excited but also took a certain enjoyment in the tragedy. |
The homotsukan (treasure house) of Tokeiji has a collection of Kamakura-period paintings, sculpture, and calligraphy, some of which are registered as Important Cultural Objects. | There are Kamakura-period paintings in the Tokeiji treasure house. |
well Steve it's been nice talking with you | It has been a pleasure speaking with you Steve. |
Underlying GAGAS audits is that federal, state, and local governments and other organizations cooperate in auditing programs of common interest so that the auditors may use others' work and avoid duplicate audit efforts. | The audits have an underlying theme that allows authors to use other's work. |
The curve, then, would turn nearly horizontal and the postal industry, short of delivery, would be essentially privatized. | Short of delivery, the postal industry would basically be privatized. |
The whole edifice is 61 m (200 ft) high. | The building is 200 ft tall. |
um but now nowadays they can't even they can barely scold the children for something you you know without getting sued | People often get sued these days when they scold children. |
The London Guardian 's Joanna Coles says her presence is so obvious a gimmick to draw in those who don't normally bother to see the Bard that it's almost insulting. | Cole says she's there to draw in a certain crowd. |
Lawrence, the younger, had been a delicate youth. | The younger Lawrence was a fragile youth. |
yes yes we went last summer actually | We visited the previous summer. |
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