For Les and Bravo Company, those early months of 1970 were a near constant battle.
And then there is the near constant temptation of king-size burgers, thick shakes and other high-calorie foods.
The only sign he was discomforted by hearing it was a near constant pulling of his tongue in his hands.
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It happened with Japan but look where they have been for the past 20 years, in near constant recession amassing vast debt with no real growth.
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Since becoming Tory leader, the former Scots Guardsman has faced near constant speculation about his future amid talk of plots and reported disquiet with his leadership.
The president waged an unprecedented campaign effort -- campaigning in 40 states, shattering fund-raising records, and dispatching his vice president and Cabinet for months of near constant campaigning.
We like awesome new software as much as the next guy, but Google's been moving so fast lately that they've created a near constant culture of obsolescence anxiety among the hardcore user base -- and in turn, that leads to paralysis at the sales counter.
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This manufacturer knows how to build tough planes that log near-perfect dispatch rates over near-constant use.
In practice, however, it actually promotes power-grabs by leaving the government in a near-constant state of gridlock.
Even the possibility of a big bonus comes with a price: nonexistent job security and near-constant stress.
In addition to plant-based diets and strong communities, near-constant moderate physical activity is the norm in these areas.
The America my children grow up with in film is a place of near-constant dismemberings, explosions and brutal slayings.
They live in near-constant silence, stoically bearing the drudgery of their hand-to-mouth existence.
But Dindane made no mistake just after the half-hour mark as the hosts finally made the most of their near-constant pressure.
Well Putin and his team are infamous for their near-constant policy back and forth and their feints from one direction to another.
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Egypt has faced near-constant turmoil in the more than two years since longtime, authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in a revolt.
At that age, teammates play all the positions, and Martin, with a near-constant grin, was happy anywhere on the field, Mr. Calderon said.
Yet he has been given much leeway, and his reckless economic and risky foreign policies have dragged Iran into a state of near-constant crisis.
Throughout his long and storied career, Neil Young has been a virtual factory of songs, musical innovation, ideas, inventions and a near-constant stream of new product.
The President and First Lady welcomed the guests with handshakes, hugs and even fistbumps, and Bo was treated to a near-constant stream of affectionate pats and petting.
Corporate sponsored activities, meet and greets with artists and near-constant live music makes this forty year-old get together one of the most unique music events in the world.
And since the early 90s they have installed specialist buoys, tethered to the seabed, which use sonar to provide a near-constant stream of data about the ice above.
They will end up with a piece of paper, the same as everyone else, but miss out on the sad nightmare of near-constant alcohol and sexual assault awareness projects.
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The Peshmerga, backed by U.S. Special Forces, pushed into Kirkuk after a steady northern campaign that saw the Kurds take over nearly 300 villages following a near-constant bombing campaign by coalition aircraft.
In the face of a near-constant stream of buyout rumors the past couple weeks, Palm boss Jon Rubinstein is holding the line he's held ever since he's taken the helm -- well most of the line, anyway.
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With the heart of a warrior and the precision of a cultural anthropologist, he and his soldiers talked me through the myriad tribes and sub-tribes that inhabited his terrain, and the near-constant enemy fire they endured every night sitting on that exposed mountaintop.
The Nbedele and Shona staged a near-constant run of revolts and raids in the latter part of the 19th century, but the war for liberation known as the "Chimurenga" ground to a near-standstill in 1897 when the revolt movement's leaders were captured and hanged.
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Dr Levine was a member of the team which showed that an increased level of autophagy, brought on by the stress of living in a constant state of near-starvation, was the mechanism responsible for this life extension.
He has written a book suggesting that the speed of light is not constant, but was faster near the moment of the big bang with which most cosmologists believe the universe started.
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