He compared the experience of his team's victory to a purifying exorcism.

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With scarce native freshwater supplies, Iannelli says the oil-rich nation spends hundreds of million of dollars a year purifying coastal seawater.

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Now that Amble has a smart new purifying works, the gulls no longer circle over the end of the underwater sewage pipe.

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They play a part in civic life by bringing people together in such an intimate setting, as well as a religious role in purifying the soul.

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Earlier analysis had led ground controllers in Houston and Moscow to suspect a Russian air-purifying apparatus as being the source of the leak.

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The second half is purifying your soul to get back to being a white belt, where you know nothing.

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The mah song are specially chosen to shift evil from individuals and bring good luck to the community, and it is claimed that they feel no pain as they march around Phuket Town in a trance for two hours, "possessed" by the purifying spirits of the Nine Emperor Gods, who they believe will protect them from any harm or scarring.

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It has installed 10.4 acres of purifying plants on the roof of its truck factory in Dearborn, a suburb that abuts Detroit and houses Ford's headquarters.

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So too are 45, 000 jobs a cost: these are 45, 000 people who cannot be drinking or making beer, purifying water or caring for old folks.

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The pools were only designed to last a few years, and Tepco says it was always planning to replace them with other ways of storing or purifying the water.

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