Escriva noticed that not one of them smoked, which was rather odd in Spain in 1944.
So it has struck me as rather odd that HR is hardly mentioned in the conversation.
Which is rather odd at first sight but does have some possible sense in it.
These may seem rather odd to Americans, but these requirements are pretty pedestrian in places like Saudi Arabia.
This sounded rather odd as the figures were said to include visits to his own office in Cardiff Bay.
This really is rather odd: especially as Jony Ives is now Sir Jony, a Knight of that very British Empire.
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Which does mean of course that an attempt to model the economy as something either in or approaching equilibrium is really rather odd.
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So it seems rather odd that they should have signed up for hedge funds which charge annual management fees of 2% plus 20% of any returns.
Considering that interest rates are at very low levels already, it seems rather odd to claim that the economy will suddenly rebound if they get pushed down a bit further.
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Mr Justice Mitting freely admits that the tribunal is "rather odd" when compared with the way other British courts operate - but in doing so, he is not conceding that its decision-making is flawed.
That is, to put it mildly, rather odd.
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All this is worthy, but also rather odd.
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In the third movement, for example, the setting is rather odd, with the two top parts playing repeated notes in a slow tempo, whereas the bass line and the chord progression are slow with very little motion.
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It all seems rather odd, and that may be because investors are currently being motivated by one of the more profound market forces: uncertainty, and that perhaps, indeed, some stocks are being marked up ahead of corporate earnings, and hopes for a market rally anytime after July are a long-shot.
In the English computer industry, and that part of the financial world that looks at computing, Autonomy was always rather an odd beast.
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And it does so progressively, line by line, rather than the odd-then-even-lines interlaced scheme of standard video that can cause subtle motion glitches.
That so many investors would pay this much attention to a rather esoteric report seems a bit odd.
We have rather learnt some things in the intervening 80 odd years.
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Toggling from left to right rather than up and down can feel a little odd, and future iterations of the computer science demos may include a ruler on screen.
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Bill Gross, a fixed-income champion at Pimco, an American asset-management firm, predicted last September that bond returns will outstrip equities until share prices fall to their fair value, that is, until the Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 5, 000 rather than today's 8, 000-odd.
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But it would be a little odd, and make the underwater city of Rapture rather less impressive.
We would rather expect to have greater income inequality between the 20 million odd in NY State than we would in the 500, 000 in Wyoming.
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In any case, most of the 2, 000-odd registered insurers were engaged in tax avoidance and capital flight, rather than the dull business of claims and premiums.
Even devoted admirers of the European Parliament admit that it is an odd sort of place, packed with too many people who would rather me (typo corrected) be somewhere else.
Rather than focus on health care or Iraq, as previous debates have, the moderators threw an odd bag of unexpected identity-politics questions at the candidates for a full hour, before turning to high-minded policy.
Now you might think this would be a very odd way to restore confidence in either the finances of an important bank or of a rather important eurozone government: one load of government IOUs of questionable intrinsic value would be swapped for a dubious right to future profits in a bank whose foundations have been crumbling.
What's odd about this particular reform fight is that mostly it's not about reform, but rather about a game of budgetary hot potato.
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