The vision began with a black, 24-foot-long Mercedes Benz Sprinter van, stripped bare.

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Jones' squad has been stripped bare because of illness and injury, but they still beat Bristol City 6-0 on Tuesday.

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The time to build coalitions is before you are stripped bare of your garments and the vultures are circling overhead.

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And one of the big problems in Haiti is that the hillside and the hillsides I'm looking out on right now have been stripped bare.

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"Marcel Duchamp: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" (1973) was, by contrast, devoted to an artist whose aims were opposed to those of the painters with whom Golding felt deep affinity.

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Stripped bare, taxes are about raising revenue.

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"It's almost as if we stripped it all bare to get back even to youth academy football, " Curtis said.

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Frederick Hess, a professor at the University of Virginia, has written a paper for the Progressive Policy Institute arguing that teacher-licensing ought to be stripped to the bare essentials.

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When stripped to its bare essentials, the game is straightforward and might rapidly grow dull, yet millions of players have been active on the site for 10 years or more.

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Despite its stripped-down look, this is not a bare-bones device.

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