The land was simply part of a field that their family had cultivated for generations.
Only six stood as candidates (out of a field of 227), and none of them won.
"It was made in a deliberate mad rush for a tent in the middle of a field, " says Holmes.
In the pitch darkness, in the middle of a field, Harmon found the baby boy covered with mud and debris.
They made their way to a shady spot under a mulberry tree at the edge of a field and sat down.
An impromptu group gallop along the edge of a field led to a fall, and when I stood up my thumb didn't.
This insight is fueling the rise of a field called epigenetics, which is rapidly confounding any simple separation between genes and the environment.
Police have been using mechanical diggers to excavate the corner of a field near the Oxfordshire-Gloucestershire border in their hunt for the second body.
Not long ago, I found myself sitting at the edge of a field with a bear and thirty or forty thousand very angry bees.
Changing the culture of a field of study in ways that might attract more diverse cohorts of students surely requires much more than affirmative action.
Murray was disappointed after failing to reach the last four of a field which has already seen top seeds Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic eliminated.
The legal status of a field of GM alfalfa planted legally after the USDA had deregulated GE alfalfa was suddenly changed under the court ruling.
Cyprus announced the discovery of a field containing between 5 and 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas under the Mediterranean Sea in 2011 but Turkey disputes its drilling rights.
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All goes well until his latest victim, who appears kneeling before him on the edge of a field, turns out to be his older self (now played by Bruce Willis).
Since Congress, however, has the collective political will of a field mouse, our elected representatives have spent years wrangling over exactly what form this inevitable combination of increases and decreases should take.
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The problem with this technology is that it sprays water blindly, even across areas too wet to plant, such as grass waterways, seasonal wetlands, permanent ponds, a lake on the edge of a field.
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In addition to running critical line of business applications that improve business processes, increase revenue and reduce the TCO of a field mobility solution, CS40 support is available through Intermec's recently announced INcontrol managed services offering.
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In southern Greenland, back in July 2004, a local man - Ferdinand Egede - dug into the soft earth of a field to show me something he'd never expected to see in his lifetime: potatoes.
Cleaning the Santa Croce frescoes, which took more than five years, has revealed long-obscure details, such as the gilding in an angel's halo, the blue background of a field of stars, and the distinctive foliage of various trees.
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It was a national treasure, with a golden pagoda-style roof the size of a football field supported by a forest of red pillars each more than three metres around.
In the first-ever Apprentice-style program about art, aired over four one-hour episodes, a panel of four judges winnows a field of thousands down to a group of six, who then get put through reality-show-like challenges, including life drawing and creating a work of public art at the British seaside.
Trump faced a barrage of attacks from a field of contenders clearly more prepared, and eager, to take on the brash billionaire.
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But nothing was going to tinge Udomporn's joy as the 22-year-old world champion took full advantage of a weak field to win with a total of 222.5kg.
Louisiana loses the equivalent of a football field worth of wetlands every hour, and 40 to 60 percent of that loss is attributed to oil and gas activity, including exploration and dredging of pipeline canals.
At one point during the tour, our tour guide stopped his Jeep in the middle of a grassy field and pointed to his left at a group of what appeared to be about 25 to 30 large, white birds who were feeding in a marsh.
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They recognize the benefits of a level playing field and of producing a platform that can meet global standards, thereby reducing their fixed costs.
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It stares at a fixed patch of sky, watching a field of more than 150, 000 stars for the tiny dips in starlight that occur if an orbiting planet passes between a star and the telescope.
BBC: Exoplanets near red dwarfs suggest another Earth nearer
The existence of a magnetic field on Ganymede, the biggest moon of Jupiter.
One IGCP project in 2000 was even at the origin of a new field: medical geology, the science dealing with the impact of our natural environment on human and animal health.
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