• Their performance brought to an end what has been a three year battle for Griffin, as his funds clawed their way back to pre-recession high-water marks.

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  • He has slotted into the left-back role like a fish to water.

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  • The second is that there may have been back-migration into Africa to muddy the genetic water.

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  • But because factories were allowed to -- allowing warm water to run back into the river, the temperature was becoming too high for the salmon to survive.

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  • Let's go back in time -- how would you like your water?

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  • Once again, they seemed to prefer to kick rather than run with the ball, while Ugo Monye, playing out of position at full-back, looked like a fish out of water until switched to the wing.

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  • Imagine water pouring into a sink and a really tiny stopper trying to hold it all back--that's our treatment program--and there's nothing slowing the amount of water pouring into that sink.

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  • The capital's main surgical hospitals and water treatment plants now rely solely on back-up generators because the normal power supply has been cut, an untenable situation, Doumani said.

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  • In Sirte itself the complaints are rife as its people try to get back to normal - from a lack of electricity and clean water, to a critical shortage of bank notes.

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  • He could run a hose down from the house, and, yes, he had put a hot-water line through the basement out to the back, and, in the dead of winter, with his 50 amp heater running and a drain in the middle of the concrete floor, he could wash his MG convertible, dreaming of tomorrow and his escape.

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  • Many of the original buildings in Bourton-on-the-Water are listed themselves, with the oldest dating back to the 17th Century.

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  • It said clear, sterile water would be discharged and there would be a back-up system in case of error.

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  • Evans says she was back in the water the next day, the start of a two-year odyssey.

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  • The paper cites the continued deferral of water charges as well as swine flu and civil service back-pay.

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  • Their fries are hand cut in the back of the store throughout the day, soaked in water then double-cooked in high-quality peanut oil.

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  • Just across the water, Singapore's free-traders have watched back-tracking with alarm.

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  • Under the terms of the RESTORE Act -- passed last year with historic bipartisan support -- 80% of Clean Water Act civil penalties will go back to restore the environment and economies of the Gulf Coast states.

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  • The loans, of about 100, 000 rupees, 20 times the Friends' normal credits, financed water-pumps, seeds and tools and were all paid back within a year.

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  • Then we were escorted back to the tents, hot water bottles already warming the soft, king-sized sheets (with hot showers, flush toilets and colonial-inspired furniture, you are far from roughing it here).

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  • Mr. KAISER: Well, Ike is moved off-shore of south of Cuba, into the Caribbean, and back over water which means perhaps a little bit of intensity increase as it again joins that source of energy over those warm waters.

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  • Meteorologist Jeff Masters notes today that although the storm surge has pushed salt water from the Gulf as far as 314 miles upstream, all the rain expected to fall north of New Orleans in the coming days will help raise near record-low water levels on the river and flush the salt water back out.

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  • By the time the firefighters were able to climb back into the boat, her car had become submerged in about 25-foot deep water and was gone.

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  • Some of it is not as visible as bridges, some of it is water systems, pipes underground that essentially were built back in the 1930s -- in some cases even older than that.

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  • In the summertime the pumped water starts off warmer than the earth, but the warmth is absorbed by the earth, and the water comes back up at 57 degrees and is used as an air-conditioning refrigerant.

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  • After summiting the craggy Ragged Jacket, 2, 462ft, and 2, 782ft-high Mount Meader's sparsely pine-covered crest without finding a water source, we needed to get back down to Wild River as soon as possible to refresh and refill.

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  • By the time they were able to climb back into the boat, her car had become submerged in the roughly 25-foot deep water and was gone.

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  • Dams for irrigation, meanwhile, have a doubly damaging impact on fisheries: they not only hold back water, but also encourage the conversion of forest to farmland in the flood-plain.

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  • The glossy black fin and back of a minke whale rose a hundred yards astern, two yellow-striped dolphins broke water and plunged down again, and then the flow of the turned tide could be seen as a chop on the water, small standing waves that indicated the Minch was reversing its direction.

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  • The flat-bottom boat balanced precariously just barely above water level, a skilled rower standing and pushing gondola-style from the back.

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  • And then one of them must have come back that night or another, because I woke up in the small hours with a hot-water bottle under my feet.

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