The locomotive was rather peculiar in that it pushed itself along with two mechanical legs that looked rather like ski sticks.
This is not peculiar in that we cannot explain it (bailouts, massive banks have already gone under or have been merged to protect the system, the night is still young, etc).
And yes, the cameraman did break out in a peculiar rash in the spice market, causing us all to wonder if we needed to make an emergency trip to the local hospital.
The change was announced in a peculiar way: in a letter from the SEC's acting chairman, Laura Unger, to Frank Wolf, who chairs the House subcommittee responsible for the SEC's annual funding.
Citron Research and Muddy Waters occupy a peculiar perch in global investing.
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Shanghai babies are forced to come up with peculiar methods in order to lay their hands on desired new stuff.
It's a peculiar kind of romance in a peculiar kind of drama.
Another peculiar twist in this tale is that Kenny Dalglish is back in charge at Anfield, although for me the fact he's tweeting is more surprising.
Rangers is a peculiar club in many ways.
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You might say that it marked a peculiar moment in the evolution of Gawker, which was once described to Denton at a dinner party as the place where losers talk about winners a venue for punching upward, with hive-mind tendencies of its own.
It is compiled in view of peculiar organisation and functioning of an economy in transition which is under transformation to market orientation.
The shocks of secularism, immigration and rival faiths have already shaken up the complacency of Anglicanism in peculiar ways.
Still, as the director Elia Suleiman might point out, we live in peculiar times, and cinema should rise to the occasion.
You can feel a bit of her peculiar personal magnetism in roles as varied as Morticia Addams and the agonized mother and con artist Huston played in "The Grifters, " a part she took on at the end of her famous 16-year romance with Jack Nicholson.
When he's not bellowing lines from Will Ferrell movies, Suggs can shout out any number of directions to teammates: He may point out a tell in the opposing offense's alignment, indicate if a player is lined up in a peculiar manner, or point out if the play is likely moving in one specific direction.
The religious right is divided over its relationship with mainstream politics, reliving, in a peculiar quirk of cultural history, the divisions that tore apart the radical student movement in the late 1960s.
Mrs Arroyo is in the peculiar position of being both a member of the president's cabinet and a leading figure in the main opposition party, created by Mr Ramos.
Robbins, who is thirty-eight and lives in Las Vegas, is a peculiar variety-arts hybrid, known in the trade as a theatrical pickpocket.
Most of the establishment Republicans it helped to upset in primaries in 2010 were the victims of low turnouts and peculiar circumstances unlikely to be repeated in the presidential campaign.
In a peculiar twist, the rules permit merchants to offer discounts to customers who pay with cash.
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The guitarist also co-wrote I'll Be Doggone and Ain't That Peculiar for Marvin Gaye in the mid-60s.
The Supreme Court first addressed the struggle over money and politics in a peculiar, almost backhanded way.
The answer lies - partly - in the peculiar history of the area.
And in the peculiar logic of human behavior, it never repeats itself without the sudden, unexpected twist that renders all precedent untrustworthy at best.
It does happen on Earth, but only in very peculiar situations.
In his peculiar vision of utopia, technology and ecology fuse.
"It's a very important part of this equation that a few survivors exist in this peculiar relationship with government, having to kowtow to government, make relationships with regulators, " says Mr. Singer.
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And although the first hours of that first day were indescribable, what was even worse in one peculiar way was watching them taking the coffins out of the chapel - small coffins.
Still, it was a peculiar strategy, paradoxical in its own right, to argue that historical context was irrelevant by enticing historians to identify his fakes as authentic products of the past, ascribing to them specific names and dates.
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