• He went through a long account of a chain of arrests.

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  • And with more pairs of decks sold every year and the ever-growing prominence of "named" DJs, this book is a worthy account of a massive and still evolving phenomena.

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  • Hence the continuing concerns about his health: On March 7, Wahid went in for a heart checkup, two weeks after he had to take a break on account of a serious bout of the flu.

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  • They are not using it as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a safe store of nominal value.

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  • The Met co-commission is a fictionalized account of a British teenager who used the Internet in an attempt to arrange his own murder in 2003.

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  • Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.

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  • Interpreted as a metaphor rather than a literal account of events, there is a good deal of truth in Hobbes' story.

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  • He offers a journalistic account of its worldwide use in tandem with a historical one of the development of English as it made its way around the world.

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  • Mrs Kamte's book provides a detailed account of how the policemen ended up in a lane near the Cama hospital, where they were killed when two of the gunmen ambushed their vehicle.

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  • The couple kept a detailed account of their journey on a blog, which they hope will help others in a similar predicament.

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  • That gets its first outing in the Book of Revelation, a lurid account of the apocalypse probably best read as an allegory of the individual Christian's journey to salvation.

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  • It is a grim account of what's in store, and at odds with a large portion of scientific opinion that contends that if we take action now to cut carbon emissions, we can at least mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change.

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  • Deflation is harmful for conventional currencies because, in economist jargon, Bitcoins are a unit of account as well as a medium of exchange.

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  • Despite his poor, almost non-existent, editing, Garry Winogrand left an immense body of work which is a startling account of America in the late 20th Century.

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  • To increase this sense of security and legitimacy, all 12 journals will require the authors of studies to give a thorough account of how both the scientist and the funding organization contributed to conducting the study and analyzing the data.

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  • But this little gem is a wonderful account of life in America in the early part of the 20th century and the molding of a young journalist.

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  • With long hair sweeping out of a bandana, McGillvary provided a dramatic account of the rescue for the station, demonstrating how he wielded the hatchet against the rampaging motorist.

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  • These will be enjoyable for those who like philosophical polemic, but they do little to dispel the impression that Mr Searle and some of his critics fail to give a rational account of why they disagree.

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  • "I think the treatment we have had from them has been a bit shabby, " he told Today, arguing that the committee had been sent a detailed account of the legal advice used to reach a decision regarding the former director general.

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  • Nevertheless, a Hollywood account of the assassination may soon be playing at a cinema near you.

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  • Now we have an unexpected addition to the Tocqueville renaissance: a fictional account of his visit to the United States by a much garlanded novelist.

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  • Redemption came, most notably in Brown v Board of Education, and Mr Feldman gives a compelling account of the back room dealings in the case.

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  • Many of his friends entered their names and gave a good account of themselves but in the end the three prizewinners were all trained wrestlers.

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  • Most annoying of all is the lack of a conclusion: the book ends with a garbled account of the downfall of Margaret Thatcher and the limp observation that the 1980s were by far the most interesting part of the post-war era.

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  • The result blends a vivid account of daily life, fluid and unsettling, in a modern British town with powerful allegorical reflections on the connections between past and present, time and space, and high culture and the hard scrabble world that sustains it.

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  • We experience that world through the eyes of Mark, the Chief Technology Officer, and get a holistic account of the change process.

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  • In October the French magazine L'Express carried a sensational account of the case, producing documentary evidence and testimony it claimed proved a link to Hun Sen himself.

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  • Mr Mubarak, who had received a graphic account of the assault on Jajo from his wife, said Uday was a psychopath, a view held by many Iraqis.

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  • To be reportable, the foreign financial account must be physically located outside of the U.S. For example, a financial account maintained in a foreign branch of a U.S. bank is treated as a foreign financial account subject to reporting.

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  • This longer version first appears in William Mares' 1968 book Marine Machine, a non-fiction account of a platoon's basic training, according to Jonathan Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang.

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