Since she was old enough to follow me to my work bench in the barn, The Princess has had her own set of safety goggles, leather work gloves, and a just-her-size hammer.

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We will have to account for our behaviour in this Parliament and my plea to my own front bench is that we regain the clarity on where we would cut and where we would not cut and where we would fight those cuts before we enter the general election.

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Unlike the narrow bench in my dad's Monte Carlo, my children recline on thrones resembling La-Z-Boys, complete with extendible footrests.

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Now that he weighed a hundred and ten pounds and I had bench-pressed my way up to a hundred and seventy-nine, I could be aguajero, but he just ran his finger across his neck.

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And today, for the first time in history, there is a Latina in my Cabinet and a Latina on the bench of the highest court in the land. (Applause.) Hilda Solis is doing an outstanding job.

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From my own perspective, the longer I sat on the bench, the angrier and less clearheaded I became.

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Ms. L. REDGRAVE: And I have a dog and she would take Natasha's little dog and hang out on a park bench several times a week, so much so that my dog still, when we pass the place where V used to come through into the park...

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By midafternoon, I was sweating all over and my pulse was racing, so I decided to rest on a long bench by the wall, but I tripped and fell before I could reach it.

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As for my own places in the scheme of things, having come off the bench on Saturday the one thing that might help me keep the number 13 jersey for the game against Italy would be a man-of-the-match performance against Scotland!

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And certainly not my grandfather himself, the smiling watchman of my earliest memories, the quiet, black-eyed, slender man who held my hand as we crossed the avenues, who sat on a park bench reading his Russian newspaper while I chased pigeons and harassed sugar ants with broken twigs.

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Tech studies I have read this week imply that the iPhone 5 has a bench speed on the internet that is two or three times faster than my iPad which is not the latest iteration.

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