• Primarily, who they are fighting are fellow Iraqis themselves and the skills are rather primitive.

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  • And our technologies of how to get out of that gravity well are really rather primitive.

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  • He said the study has also confirmed that the bristles on this "rather primitive flesh-eating dinosaur... really were feathers".

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  • Born in Khyber in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the border of Afghanistan, the second of five brothers, he had a rather primitive start.

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  • "It's a rather primitive way to build an explosive device, but you could do it, " said John Conkling, a chemist with decades of experience in fireworks.

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  • However, the technologies to determine location, extract relevant information and deliver it via a wireless connection are only just starting to come together, and so far in rather primitive ways.

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  • Watauga County Commissioner Perry Yates said the problem isn't Mr. Conway's primitive methods but rather his less primitive ones, like using an oven range in the outdoor kitchen.

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  • Miles City sounds primitive rather than simple.

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  • The spacecraft's data indicates the asteroid has a very primitive surface - rather like the chondritic meteorites that are sometimes picked up on Earth and which are assumed to have come from bodies that experienced no melting or differentiation.

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  • The fact that Fadl was working without pay in such a primitive facility rather than opening a practice in a gleaming modern clinic in Kuwait or Europe drew unwelcome attention.

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  • Moreover, anti-state forces (such as the Tamil Tigers, the IRA in Northern Ireland, or the Kosovo Liberation Army) often function rather like states in the territory they control, operating welfare services and primitive justice systems, while at the same time engaging in crime, from organ-snatching to bank heists, to keep their coffers full.

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  • "There are primitive features in the skeleton of floresiensis which for me suggests that it comes from quite a primitive form of human: one that may have been around two million years ago rather than one million years ago".

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