When Kitty was 9 years old, her father taught her a trick to measure the height of the windmill on her grandfather's farm: Measure its shadow and compare it with the shadow of a yardstick.
Argentina is in many ways living in its past and grapples daily with the shadow of its 2001 economic collapse.
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Sure, the Xperia Play may have that slick gamepad slider, shoulder buttons, and Sony Playstation's official blessing, but can it hold its own against the Shadow's analog pad?
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We're already saying that we may be doing wonderfully but even the eurosceptic Conservative Party is sending its shadow ministers all the way round Europe to see how they can improve and learn from Europe with regard to public services, which was regarded as the central point by both political parties in the political debate.
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For the Tories, its shadow deputy commons leader Shailesh Vara welcomed the move as an opportunity to secure a "genuine step change in representation".
This warning casts its shadow over the rest of the novel like a prophecy in classical tragedy.
But with all of the indices at or near new all-time highs (save for the Nasdaq, perennially in the shadow of its mania highs north of 5000), many are beginning to wonder whether or not the secular bear that began 13 years ago has finally been slain.
Just as Major League Baseball is moving to shake off its steroid cloud under the warmth of spring-training sun, one of its biggest former stars continues to cast a shadow over the sport.
You can see the shadow of its perfect conic shape projected on the valley below at the break of dawn.
When it comes to conjuring badass imagery, international airspace will always live in the shadow of its darker, more dangerous cousin, international waters.
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Advanced Micro Devices struggled last year under the shadow of its rival Intel in the PC microprocessor market and against Nvidia in the discrete GPU market.
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Under the shadow of its crosstown rival, the team has eschewed patient rebuilding in favor of the immediate reload, an expensive model of waving money at big-name players that began after Strawberry bolted for his hometown Los Angeles Dodgers in 1991.
As elder statesmen they will be listened to by the country even if the shadow cabinet shuts its ears.
He wrote that he could not enjoy the pleasures of the moment for anticipating what was to come, which he described as being about as foolish as a dog who dropped the real bone for its shadow.
Although Lloyd's in its present incarnation is a shadow if its former self, its geographic reach and the range of policies that it can offer are still formidable.
Replying for the opposition, shadow justice minister Lord Bach accused the government of keeping its policy on self-defence laws "under wraps" since the justice secretary's recent conference speech.
Its looming shadow has since faded from the public eye, particularly with the death of bin Laden.
And every earthly reality is only a pale shadow of its archetype, the original pattern, of which it is simply an imperfect copy.
Its early titles included Barbarian and Shadow of the Beast for the Amiga and Atari ST.
After South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 Johannesburg experienced a new, unofficial apartheid as businesses moved away from downtown to the city's wealthier, whiter, northern suburbs, leaving the city center a shadow of its once dynamic self.
This is kind of a shadow recession, its effects lagging behind the first and putting a drag on the recovery.
For much of its first 100 years, the city stood in the shadow of nearby Jerusalem, unable to compete with the capital's holy sites and history.
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And, with the spotlight burning so brightly on social media as a potentially powerful marketing channel, most eyes have been on Facebook and the other consumer-centric networks in its shadow.
If Chrome OS didn't start out with an inferiority complex living in the shadow of the massive adoption of its cousin Android, and with Eric Schmidt dismissing the hardware that would run it as cheap and interchangeable, the hardware companies that were early to adopt it didn't help matters.
The debacle of its decision to cancel the party's conference in Llandudno earlier this year still casts a long shadow, but the fact that it didn't lead to immediate moves to restructure the relationship is indicative of the membership's silent strength.
The Call of Duty franchise casts a long shadow, overwhelming just about every other shooter out there in its yearly triumphant march to the top of the video game charts.
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It grew fast in its rival's shadow and even made money along the way.
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