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Frantic activity, however, does not of itself produce change.
The hurried judgements suggest a frantic attempt to find some legal base for what is in effect a moral and personal decision.
The almost frantic rush to grasp every opportunity, especially during the early months of the war, had led to over-investment in some industries.
Frantic government attempts to call a special court session to suspend the injunctions failed and as a result the auction was postponed indefinitely.
Any doubts raised by other historians are dismissed by a frantic wave of the hand.
They had believed that they were in a frantic race to save the western democracies.
The air of frantic anxiety was so thick you could smell it, even through the haze of cigarette smoke.
Despite the natures of the sounds - soft unvoiced, ephemeral - there is a kind of frantic urgency throughout.
The assessment should not trigger off frantic practising, but the ward sister can arrange for the student to have the relevant experience.
Up to this point the story has been told in limp and lackluster prose, but now the tone becomes frantic and feverish.
Their soldiers are bored, the tedium relieved only by seconds of frantic danger and usually futile endeavour.
Clinicians have noted that much of the cognitive distortion of borderline individuals is a function of a frantic fear of abandonment or rejection.
Imperialism could not be understood any longer as the frantic search for 'third markets'.
The lady said, "trying to reconcile the different clocks is like this new burden, something else to get frantic about".
The ships and docks evoke departures and arrivals ; the cemetery suggests bereavements ; the crowd scenes, frantic searches for missing characters.
Alienation and atomization are probably less likely to foster a sense of individual worth or inner conscience than frantic immersion in some all-knowing, allencompassing organization.
When the programme was announced, it led to a flurry of frantic building throughout the country.
Often, it is frantic reading.
Because this presents a holistic approach to music education, it will fail to satisfy the frantic generalist who tries to grab 'rainy-day' activities to occupy reluctant or disgr untled pupils.
The desperate shortage of cash makes some people interested in any sources of earnings and the frantic search for income leads some of them to illegal activities.
There is going to be a frantic scramble to produce a document before the election.
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I do not think that it was frantic.
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I have a feeling that these are frantic but admittedly reluctant savings—economies rather than planning cuts.
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What better sums up a political grouping of egocentric politicians who are desperately frantic to get their fingers on the levers of power?
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We have never listened to a more direct condemnation of the frantic efforts which were made last year to save the pound.
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Can you wonder that there is a frantic amount of discontent?
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In its place there is the frantic 100-day rush of secret political assessment and decision-making.
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While committees and watchdogs multiply, unemployment, insecurity, poverty and the relocation of enterprises are increasing at a frantic rate.
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Why this frantic rush to try to achieve a spurious accuracy?
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Of course, they made frantic efforts to get back to their own country.
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A frantic employer phoned me no less than seven days ago.
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They sent out frantic leaflets and called a mass rally.
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A few frantic days of activity do not make up for a summer of neglect.
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I am deeply aware of the frantic work they do.
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They can become quite frantic if they hear conversations in which it is suggested that they might be given respite care or a temporary sitter.
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Often, in its frantic attempts to free itself, the animal succeeds only in drawing the noose tighter.
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The children, going up and down with their tricycles and all their odds and ends, drove the old people frantic.
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The whole nation is heartily sick of the frantic way in which we continuously legislate.
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Whatever forces you employ, these poor, weak, unarmed men and women, driven frantic by anxiety, will penetrate your defences, whatever defences you may put up.
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Many of his remarks in that context bore the same hallmark of a sort of frantic objection without looking at the facts of the case.
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No community living in a world of competing nations can possibly afford such frantic extravagances.
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Climate change, in conjunction with frantic rates of land use and industrial development, demonstrate how vulnerable the environment is.
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A perfect example is the frantic race for output, productivity and enlargement in order to maintain an income that no longer allows profitable investment.
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A febrile, excited, nervosity which expresses itself in frantic demands that somebody ought to do something or other is not always the most useful contribution.
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The "spare" deer in a frantic state was jolted round the countryside for hours, the trailer traversing banks and gullies following the sport.
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In the meantime, we cannot do it, and we are being inundated by applications and frantic appeals by various other countries demanding coal.
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We can all imagine the horrific struggle—that frantic four or eight minutes.
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Only the frantic efforts of those near the climber saved my friend from serious injury.
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I was wondering whether he was making that frantic appeal to his own constituents when he was talking about the flaunting of wealth.
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He brings with him a breath of the old, more leisurely, perhaps more thoughtful ways into our present rather frantic jet age.
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The arms race is the result of the idea of the deterrent and is a frantic attempt to make the incredible credible.
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I appreciate the concern of pedestrians about frantic cycling and their feeling that they are vulnerable road users in relation to cyclists.
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One is that, as one month succeeds another, the language becomes more extreme and the rhetoric becomes more frantic.
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Do not let us imagine that it is a question of getting rid of the children of parents who are frantic with fear.
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I dissociate myself completely from the frantic behaviour which we are at present witnessing.
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Exactly the same frantic selling of sterling by the foreigner happened during the devaluation of the £.
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We must allow a timetable which is realistic, and we must accept that the present timetable, which is frantic and fast, is not sensible.
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The search to find them something to do has been fairly frantic.
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How many disasters and problems do there need to be before we finally abandon this frantic race towards liberalisation?
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Bruening in a frantic attempt to save the mark at a time of world financial crisis.
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A frantic search is being made to try to save money, and one can understand that.
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Before he could be rescued, and in spite of frantic efforts to release the grain, he unfortunately suffocated.
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They are located in beet growing areas and their operation is directed to a short period of frantic activity after the beet has been harvested.
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I do not have a frantic like or dislike of the value added tax.
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Many of us believe that they are not bothered about philosophy when it comes to a frantic scrabble to raise tax to make ends meet.
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Then we must follow the frantic rush that took place afterwards.
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As soon as he plugs one hole and does some frantic bailing, the water seeps in somewhere else.
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A lot of booze will be bought and, in that last frantic 25/26 minutes, it will all go down.
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They were nearly frantic to know where to go for a catch.
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Who will be held accountable if the assessors and evaluators make mistakes under pressure of the frantic timetable?
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I saw a lot of frantic scribbling going on over there.
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Do our competitors work in such a frantic atmosphere?
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She is frantic with worry.
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The voters would be driven frantic.
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In fighting to regenerate our region we feel that we are always on this rapidly revolving treadmill on which the most frantic pedalling hardly keeps pace.
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There are the frantic telephone calls.
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I think they show how much they mind being expelled by the frantic efforts they have been making, by various devices, to show that they should not be expelled.
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She would drive them all frantic!
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Has everybody forgotten the months of agonising suspense we endured in this country watching that frantic struggle to maintain those communications and failing in the end?
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There is an obvious precedent—namely, the frantic and uncontrolled industrial development of the nineteenth century and the effect that that development had on so many industrial areas.
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Through intelligent conversation, and frantic legislation, we came to a collective decision that it was necessary to build in safeguards for what is a derogation from an important human right.
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They will go on imposing restriction after restriction and embargo after embargo in a frantic effort to help their present position, lest a worse fate befall them.
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All the frantic efforts of the next few weeks, in whatever fine language or dress they might be presented, will not succeed in putting that myth together again.
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Given the frantic pace of technological advance today, any slowing down can quickly lead to a loss of technological leadership and hence an inability to participate in future partnerships.
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Instead of approaching reduction and assessment in such a clinical fashion, we have hysterical exchanges on the frantic and frankly trivial arguments over regimental identity and cap badging.
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Because of the shortage of trained nurses, student nurses, and young women wishing to enter the profession, many hospitals are making frantic appeals to the agencies for nurses.
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Do we want those young girls of 16 to be subjected to that far more traumatic ordeal; to be put through that far worse legal, personal and frantic psychological miasma?
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What is the frantic hurry?
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Polling has shown that standards of service are of great importance to customers, and those must be safeguarded against becoming victims of any frantic price war.
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In the long view it is a steady effort over a period of years, and not a sudden, frantic burst of activity—which may have been inadequately planned—which counts.
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She was going frantic with worry.
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I have the impression that we are trying to react in an ad hoc frantic manner in order to legitimise something that will have very, very long-term international ramifications.
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How can the biggest buyer in the markets of the world be exploited by the producer, when the rival producers are engaged in a frantic search for markets?
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In a frantic rush to grab its share of the lucrative personal pensions market, even a body as reputable as a national bank has produced advertisements which are wickedly deceitful.
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Why then this frantic haste?
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On her frantic drive home, she hears a voice in her head and loses control of the car.
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Now frantic, the trio try their best to make the dinner at least partially edible.
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After a frantic search, she finds him on a demolition site.
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