What do you make of householders turned austere pilgrims who live in tatty canvas tents on a flood plain of a river braving regular baths in freezing water, biting cold, smoky skies and ear-splitting din for more than a month?
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You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd wandered into the wrong venue and taken your seat for a classical piano recital - all that stands before us is a plain stage and a grand piano.
And I remain impressed that for less than the price of a cup of coffee, I can pop a plain envelope into a box and have confidence, more often than not, that it will be delivered halfway around the world.
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This further documentation of Dr. Abedin's positions on shariah law, her leadership of the IICWC and its affiliation with a designated terrorist entity such as the IICDR makes plain that a thorough investigation is fully justified regarding her daughter's access to classified information and policy-influencing role.
The nonlogo logo is a plain white spot, a statement against corporate branding.
An alternative to a plain stop order is a stop-limit order, which includes a minimum price at which you want to sell the stock.
The story revolves around three friends whose relationship is tested when one of them buys a plain white painting from a famous artist, while one of them thinks he has been conned.
The Phone Port adapter plugs into a common electrical wall socket and then connects to any device on your phone line: a plain old phone, a fax machine or even a Caller ID box.
Mr Bennett's growing number of supporters however see him as a plain-talking realist - a dichotomy which shows how far apart the left and right in Israel still are.
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I'll be blogging about what I find in the coming days, but wanted to give you an initial flavour of life in this famous city, which sits on a dusty coastal plain just below a green, almost Tuscan, range of low hills.
His body was carried in a plain black coffin and placed in a large stone grave.
Roxy Music formed in 1971 and had their first top 10 hit, Virginia Plain, a year later.
The group formed in 1971 and had their first top 10 hit, Virginia Plain, a year later.
Other tasks during the three-month project include navigation skills on Salisbury Plain and a teambuilding day with an injured armed forces veteran.
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That cold current is the reason why Peru's coastal plain is a desert (whose soil can be made fertile when irrigated by the waters of rivers rushing down from the Andes).
We settled in Verona, where the Alps peter out in the north Italian plain, a small, elegant, conservative city, unquestioningly Catholic and immensely proud of its huge Roman arena and frescoed Renaissance piazzas.
But that belief can--and should--be forfeited when courts do what the Florida Supreme Court has done: wantonly usurp their two coequal branches, denying both the plain language of a law and the plain authority of the official elected to administer that law.
It's also a plain-old crime, undertaken by a government that fancies itself the world's next superpower but acts like a giant thievery corporation.
And he's buried there in Ketchum, his grave marked by a plain granite slab and, Johnson notes, a carefully placed bottle of Jack Daniels.
Mr. Smith also advises companies to ensure that people with motor disabilities can navigate websites without the use of a mouse, and to use plain language and a strong design to aid people with cognitive or intellectual disabilities.
Private moments of encouragement occur in the series when Scott appears as a plain, good-hearted presence in scenes where a character hits a recognizable wall.
The Regina is a plain but sturdy and serviceable three-star hotel on a main commercial street (Via Cesare Corretti), just south of the centro storico (the historic center).
That said, HTC is a plain cheap skate for boosting size so massively without adding a single pixel -- unless it's somehow the fault of Windows Phone OS requirements, although the HTC execs we spoke didn't provide any such justification.
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Writing a plain text document like this one isn't the same as creating a large, nuanced spreadsheet.
The man who reigns over centuries of elitism and grandeur at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in London wears a plain, unpretentious pair of cuff links that belonged to his grandfather a hard-working Liverpool docker who went off to war in 1914 as a humble private.
Looking back at ya is a front-facing camera, and there's a plain plastic stylus tucked in the top, so we're certainly looking at a resistive touch display.
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The pope, who has stressed the importance of simplicity, arrived for the unveiling wearing a plain white cassock, in modest contrast to the wardrobe of the Italian cardinal who welcomed him wearing a red cape.
For a plain-English explanation of how GRATs and other estate planning opportunities work, see Estate Planning Smarts: A Practical, User-Friendly Action-Oriented Guide, the bestselling book by Deborah L. Jacobs .
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Sporting plain white vestments and a cross, and opting for plain dark shoes rather than red ones, Pope Francis spoke in Italian during Friday's meeting, occasionally breaking off from the prepared text to speak off the cuff.
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