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The former Royal Marine won international fame in 1997 when he was rescued after surviving on "sheer determination, a little water and a little chocolate" for five days in the upturned hull of his boat in the Southern Ocean during the Vendee Globe race.
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The British ships were sent down to South Africa and then up the continent as far as they could be taken by rail, and after that by the sheer human power of 2, 000 labourers who hauled and cut through the jungle, eventually getting them to the lake which became the site of imperial contest.
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Lululemon said Wednesday that no demonstrations of yoga or any other positions are needed to return the pricey black yoga pants that the company pulled from shelves last week after finding that they were too sheer.
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He may start out manufacturing meth out of a sense of financial need, but he keeps cooking after he goes into remission out of sheer cussedness and pride pretty much like everyone else we see in the industry.
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Lululemon said it was pulling its popular black yoga pants from stores after some of them were found to be overly sheer.
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The demolition of five houses left hanging over a sheer drop following a landslip has been delayed after further earth movement.
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On Monday, Lululemon announced that it pulled the pants from its stores and online after it found out that the fabric used to make them was too sheer.
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The sheer momentum once again allows us to temporarily gloss over the plot issues at least until after the credits roll, although careful viewers will find much to nitpick as the film unspools (certain climactic develops severely undercut the potential for peril in any future installments).
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On day three, after about 60km of riding, we crossed the 3, 900m-high Tosor Pass, where a sheer cliff of ice and snow gave way to a narrow corridor with the shimmering Kerege-Tash Valley below.
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Tim Davis said it was sheer instinct that drove him to take his camera out to the site with his friend, shortly after the collapse occurred.
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