The barrel alone weighs nearly 900 pounds, 1, 600 total including the authentic period wheels and rigging.
It allowed us to stitch sails and rigging, leading to the exploration and colonization of the globe.
Mubarak was persuaded to allow a contested presidential election for the first time but the vote was subject to fraud and rigging.
Prosecutors say Holmes planned the assault for months, casing the theater complex in Aurora, amassing a small arsenal and rigging potentially deadly booby-traps in his apartment.
Zimbabwe's vote this weekend (see article) may yet prove, despite all the violence and rigging, that the right to vote can still be made to count.
Once the masts, coach-housing, sails and rigging are back in place, the Cutty Sark will once again look like the majestic ship it was before rust, age and fire took their toll.
The EU and US imposed sanctions on Mr Mugabe and his inner circle after accusing them of unleashing violence and rigging previous election to prevent Mr Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) from taking power.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he is contemplating suits against brokers and insurers over bid-rigging and steering business to favored insurers against the interest of buyers.
In 2009, the World Bank complained about "systemic corruption and bid rigging" in Philippine public works projects.
To a fresh observer, it was the very opposite of what you might expect a Nigerian election to be - an escape from the grotesque abuses of ballot stuffing and vote rigging of the past.
"If abuse of power, lying in court, withholding evidence, bribing trial witnesses and generally rigging a trial are evidence of corruption, then the East India Company -- together with the Admiralty -- were as corrupt as they come, " concluded Konstam.
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As beautiful and majestic as the reindeer are, they can be skittish, and the idea of rigging eight together and making forward progress seemed ambitious, even in a children's poem.
The Glide is capable of using smaller gauge line and has a simpler rigging assembly, which helps keep cost and weight down.
There has been some SPLM intimidation but been few allegations of rigging and no boycotts.
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It is because the market was opened up to competition after years of inefficiency and price-rigging.
Inside are human skulls, life vests from Japanese whalers, the proud figurehead of a galleon, brass cannons, rigging and sea-worn chains.
Sunday's partial re-run of the vote in Karachi was ordered after Mr Khan's party accused the MQM of widespread vote-rigging and intimidation.
The survivors were hoisted to safety one by one, as the helicopter worked in dangerous conditions, avoiding swinging masts, rigging and a nearby cliff.
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One striking sequence shows Endurance buried up to her deck in ice, a tangle of rigging and splintered timbers, every surface thickly covered with hoar-frost.
Fresh allegations of bid-rigging and meddling are coming thick and fast.
Federal prosecutors alleged Kilpatrick ran a criminal enterprise through the mayor's office to enrich himself through bid rigging and extortion, and using nonprofit funds for personal gain.
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The random free-wheeling social element just throws a lot of mud into those gears and companies are only reluctantly jerry-rigging it to their service and sales and marketing operations, like some kind of IT Frankenstein.
In other words, the Fed is investing in U.S. stocks and in essence is rigging the equity markets.
Mr Odinga's running mate, Kalonzo Musyoka, said he had evidence of vote rigging, and also called for the results process to be halted.
But the system was introduced with one main purpose - to eliminate the possibility of vote-rigging, and give the Kenyan electorate faith in the credibility of the count.
The main accusations against him related to the initial bids for the Rajasthan and Punjab team franchises and alleged bid-rigging for two new franchises that will start next year.
The confusion was made worse on December 30th when Mr Moi himself issued a press statement blaming the government-appointed commission and accusing it of rigging the polls in favour of the opposition.
According to government prosecutors, during 2008 and 2009, a number of conspirators suppressed and restrained competition by rigging bids to obtain selected real estate offered at San Joaquin County, California public real estate auctions.
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