The elder, potbellied, carried an ancient single-barrelled shotgun, the butt mended crudely with wire.
The boulder, about five feet square, had a badly mended cleft in the middle.
She mended the glasses with blue tape and put them ready for the next day.
But those may be best mended by other city policies and economic growth, not its police department.
Some political figures believe the law ought to be mended, not ended.
After the fallout over the 2003 war in Iraq, Mr Sarkozy carefully mended relations, taking a risk by confronting deep-seated French anti-Americanism.
And, in a drawer of the back bedroom, mended with blue tape, ready and waiting, the glasses he should have been wearing.
In the dress-making department and shop, new cloth-ing (using also Tanzanian material) is produced and sold, and second-hand clothing is mended and refashioned.
If only fences are mended with the United Nations, they have been encouraged to believe, the world will once again leave us alone.
As he is driven round Chicago, he makes lists: abandoned cars to be towed away, rubbish skips to be moved, fences to be mended.
She said while the current leak was being mended, the company would carry out "further investigations to minimise the risk of this happening in future".
Mended Hearts, an organization of heart patients and their caregivers, is about to start a program to reach caregivers by texting tips to their phones.
Clothes boutiques might end up laying off staff if people choose to have vintage garments mended instead of rushing out to buy the latest fashions.
We've mended a lot of fences, and we've turned things around.
Investors are also comforted by the thought that many of the countries whose debt they are eagerly snapping up appear to have mended their economic ways.
When her father went to talk to her afterward, the two mended things simply, in the manner of those who are close enough for emotional shorthand.
And frankly they all state what you may see as the bloomin' obvious - which is that the eurozone is a long, long way from being mended.
He adds that the main problem, however, is the rift between the judiciary and the Bar and that has to be mended, bringing back mutual respect.
In the wholly unquestioning climate he provided, Grace slowly mended.
We'll confess -- the Segway did a lot of damage to urban mobility as a whole, but General Motors (of all companies) might have just mended a wound we thought un-mendable.
Clothes ranging from the 1940s to the 1990s are sourced from all over France and Belgium, then cleaned, mended and sometimes even customized in the workshop at the back of the shop.
Regulators, citing a pattern of violations, have been slapping Massey with "show cause" orders: They will suspend, even permanently revoke, permits to mine or process or store coal, if the company doesn't show it has mended its ways.
In particular, he has no mandate to open an official dialogue with the United States, and thus attend to a relationship that will have to be mended if Iran is to have full trade relations with other countries.
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