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Examples of lurk


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Underneath is the basement, in which a blind black man is lurking, waiting for his chance to enter the room.
On closer inspection, however, evaluative factors lurked beneath the surface even of the more disciplined contributions to the debate.
Questions about the implications of this view of man for death and immortality would be lurking doggedly in the background.
At the same time, the shadow of serious crime and gang warfare lurks beneath the surface.
Such elfin mischiefmakers should surely have lurked and scurried about the stage.
Behind this neat isomorphism of ideas, institutions, and book chapters lurks a venerable interpretation of university history.
Even a casual glance at much of the imported pabulum, both organic and conventional, lurking on the supermarket shelf lends strength to that particular argument.
He opted for a sentence containing two dangerous factors: a preposition and a coordination - with a than lurking in the sidelines as well.
The fear, however, that this could happen to themselves, often lurks below the surface.
Behind the relatively simple physiological basis of oral rehydration therapy lurks a hidden danger.
First, he fails to see the intolerant possibilities lurking within a neutral society.
Wartime literature was replete with metaphors about the fragility of civilisation and the 'wild beast' lurking within humanity.
The human figures reduced to type, shrank in size, and lurked the margins as guides to the monumental scale of nature's nation.
Behind all this lurks depression, the feeling of emptiness and self-alienation, and the sense that their life has no meaning.
Moreover, political tests lurked in welfare provision as in other arenas under the regime's authority.
Another byword here is "irreversibility" because lurking somewhere behind convergent outcomes are footprints leading back along different paths to different origins.
The earthquake led him to discover that beneath a well organized life there lurked violence and injustice.
Even in those who did not complain, the infection always lurked.
Already, lurking here is the idea of logarithms. 12.
Should this method of democratic encouragement not be sufficient, there lurks a more forceful argument for playing by western rules.
However, it is possible that there is a more interesting issue lurking in the shadows here.
As historians, we are sure that it is out there, somewhere, lurking in its true form just beyond the limits of the sources.
Underlying this emphasis there lurked the suggestion that women did not belong in parliament, unless they turned into honorary men.
A complex epistemological issue lurks behind the humour : are we constructing a model of language, or a model of what we know about language ?
We must take every opportunity to remind them that lurking beneath discussion is unavoidable quantification.
Clearly, erudition, scholarship, and rhetorical persuasion were central to the sacerdotium; just as, clearly, the imperium lurked close behind.
If there is anything lurking in disguise, it is the concept of the ens realissimum in the cloak of a necessary being.
None of these persons are responsible for the mistakes that may still be lurking.
Behind the spent utopianism lurks the beast in the jungle.
Behind the quirky name lurks a complex terminologymanagement system, one with its share of oddities and eccentricities.
Wherever there is power, or the prospect of it, there lurks the ite.
Youth is described as an independent identity, a kind of lurking tempting devil trying to trap the young man.
Actualizing such negativity depends on a great many factors, but such danger is always there, lurking, waiting to be stimulated into being.
In other cases, insinuated meanings lurked uncertainly in the shadows of open ' ' ones.
The problem is the lurking positivism at work in this criticism.
He pleaded for a more comprehensive approach to educational development that would confront the material realities lurking outside privileged symbolic sites of formal schooling.
One tantalising question that remains unclear: is there true concurrency lurking somewhere in the computational interpretation of classical logic?
While this issue lurks in the background of the present volume, it is not a central concern receiving extensive treatment.
A nascent notion of wasteful expenditures, or what is sometimes called rent dissipation, seems to be lurking somewhere beneath the sur face.
Though the viewer sees the surface of the skirt, she knows that the tightly-fitting, masculine breeches are lurking beneath this proper façade.
Behind a facade of charm, wit, arrogance, and on occasion callousness, also lurked deep insecurities and, in particular, doubts about his creativity.
Then, that wisp is taken as indicative of the presence of something that is not visually isolated as an object of perception, a hidden child lurking behind the curtain.
Now that the style has received the attention given it in this volume, however, scholars are likely to find it lurking in the most unexpected places.
When the nursing home does not anchor signification, even as the institution lurks about elderly lives as a prevailing discourse, the ageing body may be represented in alternative terms.
In the world of sitcoms, but equally true in drama since ancient times, the door is a barrier: a bulwark against the chaos that lurks just beyond.
However, migrationism constantly lurks in the background.
All this is fine, up to a point, because you can turn off whole classes of rules or leave them lurking hidden from view until they are transgressed.
Both of them crafted magnificent works of art whose very perfection is designed to open the eyes of readers and viewers to the dangers lurking all about them.
Hidden in a catalogue of worthy principles and pseudo-good intentions lurks the judicialisation of political correctness.
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I also want to take up a question that has been lurking in the background of this debate.
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I do not doubt that he is lurking about somewhere.
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He lurks in another place, where he seeks sanctuary.
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I am sure that he understands that those of us who are sceptical about all that has followed 1972 have a lurking suspicion.
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I am not keen on having private investigation agents lurking round the back, taking names and addresses of people and completing files and dossiers.
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They have spoken with considerable knowledge from the military point of view of the dangers which are ever lurking there.
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I hope that people will take account of the potential dangers lurking not only in toys but in other products on the market.
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Even to-day, there still lurks the pathetic danger sometimes of a child removed smartly at school-leaving age by un-appreciative parents.
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I have already mentioned the screwdriver as the kind of danger which lurks under a definition of that kind.
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Behind the inventor there frequently lurks a company promoter; indeed sometimes the two figures are combined in the same man.
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I think that may be one reason lurking behind those purposes.
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Ever since men began fighting each other, the fear of war has lurked in people's minds.
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Let them clear up some of the highly suspicious characters that are now lurking on the fringes of this business.
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Clearly, another spending commitment was lurking around there.
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I do not know whether there is a lurking explanation of that here.
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During the decontrolling phase, however, nobody knows where the danger lurks.
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There is a lurking doubt that the police had smelt that there was something wrong with their case.
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In that region there lurks a real and it may be a growing danger.
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Is there any alternative which can be proposed, save possibly that which may be lurking in the minds of some critics—that of compulsion?
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I suspected that some slight error lurked in the wording.
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There are always apt to be pitfalls lurking in single instances.
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There is a lurking problem in school sport; such problems sometimes build up because they have become excuses for doing nothing.
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The question of what might be lurking on that airfield is a serious one.
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The dreadful term "surplus places" lurks over much of the period.
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If we do not face that anxiety and the contentious issues that surround it, there will be the lurking fear that we have bureaucratic discrimination.
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My fourth reason for suggesting caution and delay in the declaration of war is a particular fear which lurks in this situation.
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Anti-semitism is a horrible thing but it lurks endemic in most societies—happily less in our society than in many others.
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Has it survived the first year of its life, or has somebody been lurking round the corner waiting to assassinate it?
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We do not like to shout too loudly because there are always some horrors lurking that might demand a louder voice.
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As we have seen, there is a rising tide of nationalism and racism in its ugliest form lurking just beneath the surface.
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Therefore, let us not suppose that the lurking doubt is wholly dispensed with.
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Nonetheless, there is near the surface the lurking force of religious conviction which could very easily be exploited.
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Our main contention on this mass of orders is that, behind the genial facade of the uprating, there lurks a series of pitfalls.
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I am worried that if compulsory disqualification is lurking, one of two things will happen.
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There are ambiguities lurking in the phrase, "unless it can be shown to harm someone".
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From some of their speeches it seems to me that they have some such idea lurking in their minds.
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There is always the lurking suspicion that an air vent will be sited in their gardens.
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However, his behaviour so far suggests that this is the destination that lurks in his mind.
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There is still lurking about some distrust and even dislike of foreigners.
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Is it no good lurking around the tips trying to catch a lorry driver.
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Who knew of the volcanic passions lurking beneath the surface, waiting to be unleashed in a great speech exhorting us to keep crooks on juries?
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In the background, again, there was always the lurking hope that some reform of local government would soon go part of the way.
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Where once a clinical decision was given and accepted, there now lurks a suspicion that a treatment might be advised against owing to the cost.
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In people's minds there is a lurking doubt that the conviction may be unsafe rather than actually being unsafe.
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Lurking in the background is the abolition of juries in long fraud cases.
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No one could accuse him of lurking in the shadows.
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He said that there might be another great field lurking out there.
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Before they went to bed at night they must have peered under the bed to see whether anyone was lurking there.
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Of course there are vested interests lurking around the laboratories too.
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I hope that we shall put away any lurking wish to blame or punish football.
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