Even at the awkward angle from which we view the picture, we read it from left to right, as we do the sequence of the three paintings, but we also read from right to left, from the source of illumination above to its objects below.

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Then you must add the difficulties of orchestrating them in the right sequence, with nothing dropped, leaving some room for improvisation, but not too much.

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Hook ended the sequence by missing his next kick, shaving the outside of the right post from 35 metres away and straight.

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In the experiment at Bonn, the researchers fired two lasers in sequence at a single atom of cesium, moving it to the left or right.

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In Egypt, by design, the military and the Islamist Brotherhood have reversed the sequence and were intent against the desires and the requests of the revolutionaries and many secularists, politicians, right from the beginning, right from February, to start with a decent constitution and they reversed the sequence to start with elections.

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But Burns took the fifth round convincingly, two brilliant right hooks putting Martinez under serious pressure at either end, the Coatbridge boxer producing an impressive sequence of punches after the first and the bell then coming to Martinez's rescue.

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