Trying to look casual, he got his fingers inside it and, with a self-conscious flourish, took out some pages of sheet music.

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If more of your blue-chip prospects flounder rather than flourish, you as the GM are out on the street.

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The dinosaurs, in other words, could flourish only when the competition had been knocked out.

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The restored boundaries will allow cattle to graze on some areas, while keeping them out of other areas so species including unusual and rare wild flowers can flourish.

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"I will be setting out on Monday how we can do even more to boost broadband roll-out - by stimulating competition and creating an environment in which business can flourish by removing barriers and cutting costs, " he said in a statement.

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When the tide is out, bacteria that use oxygen, called aerobic bacteria, can breathe and flourish.

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The flaw in their theory was that forests need periodic episodes of destruction to clear out old growth and dead wood so that new, more vigorous growth can flourish.

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To be fair, Will wants an intelligent discourse to flourish, and I agree that this would be really helpful, a clear and startling evolution of how politics plays out in America.

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