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Where some have attempted to ignore international structural changes, others, perhaps grudgingly, have accepted the need for change and grasped the nettle of internal adjustment.
The editors conclude by asking why, in some countries, politicians have grasped the prioritysetting nettle, whilst in others they have failed to do so.
However, they felt that this did not grasp the nettle of community division and conflict between the two sections of the working class.
No one, especially not the police, realized the car was a mere fifty yards away, hiding in a nettle patch.
Government policy is currently not succeeding precisely because it has not grasped this nettle.
The nettle had been grasped: the sting had not proved unbearable.
He immediately commands attention by grasping the nettle of the difficulty that the lord feels in combining the apparently opposing demands on his natural gifts.
One consequence is that gerontologists have fought shy of grasping the legal nettle.
The author is not afraid to grasp various species of nettle.
Consider, for example, grasp the nettle.
Not a single nettle has been firmly grasped.
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Lastly, others, myself included, think and say that we must grasp the nettle.
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No-one wants to grasp the nettle and promote a fair distribution of the added value in the chain.
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A declaration that never managed to grasp the nettle and change the circumstances that could really make a difference to the poor people of the world.
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Having reflected on it, it is clear to me that he will have to grasp a few nettles.
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The land next to its factory is covered with nettles and available.
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The current overstretch is far too great and there is the usual problem of politicians failing to grasp nettles.
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The answer is that we have to speak about reality, and reality requires difficult nettles to be grasped.
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I think that he is grasping nettles that have not been grasped in the past.
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He seemed to be rather nettled and said it was unworthy of me to have accused him of not knowing anything about anything.
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I fear that it may prove to be a wreath of nettles.
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They have nothing to fear except, obviously, stinging nettles.
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They know very well that if they want to grow corn and to get a really good crop they have to eradicate nettles.
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One sees field after field of poor grass covered with nettles and thistles, acres and acres of wasted, sprawling hedgeland, and dilapidated farmhouses and buildings.
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They did not expect such a nettling little injustice to occur.
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If nature has its way the survival of the un-fittest is what happens, in agriculture, docks, nettles, thistles, brambles, every other kind of thing.
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I am not surprised that he finds himself rather nettled by this.
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One could add, of course, that nettles are things that good gardeners need to grasp from time to time.
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I have a special pair of gloves because there are so many nettles in road planning that it would become painful otherwise.
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I think that this failure to grasp political nettles abroad is having its repercussions at home.
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I hope that nobody is going to get hot and nettled about this.
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Although we undoubtedly have two hard years ahead of us, the nettles have been grasped.
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The home farm is lying idle, nettles, rushes and all kinds of weeds are growing prolifically.
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There are nettles, but we must grasp them firmly with both hands.
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All of them, however, are expressed in bland generalities that do not grasp the nettles that must be grasped.
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Among the stinging nettles in the wilder parts of the ground the old mortuary building remained.
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Either large parts of the countryside will become wastelands of nettles and thistles or in effect farmers will be subsidised to produce other unwanted crops.
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Secondly, is it not possible to do something to utilise the land inside the camp, which at present is covered with nettles and other non-agricultural and useless products?
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Regulatory bodies must grasp some nettles that should have been grasped many years ago and, in particular, they must make their procedures much more transparent and faster.
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Things like stinging nettles, elders, thistles, hemlock and chickweed, for example, often thrived only because rabbits ate the edible plants which would otherwise have competed with them.
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The female's nest is built on or near the ground in a concealed site in brambles, nettles or other dense low vegetation.
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Nettles immobilize and obtain their prey using their stinging tentacles.
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The tree has large, round leaves that have similar properties to stinging nettles.
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Nettles made a diving stop and threw to first to end the inning.
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Stinging nettles grow in the understory, along with red-flowering raspberry and wildflower species like trillium.
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The hut is long gone, and nettles now grow where the ruins used to be.
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After an hour the bare stalks are measured and the winner is the competitor with the greatest accumulated length of nettles.
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Sea nettles without stripes have a bell that appears white or opaque.
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Cross-country travel is allowed but caution is advised as there is poison oak, stinging nettles, unstable cliffs and fragile meadows.
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The species feed on nettles and small insects.
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Riparian areas near springs and seeps, and on east and south lakes include willows, cattails, elderberry and nettles.
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Pustrpalk gets her to sit in a basket of stinging nettles, and despite her screams it appears that she is cured.
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The presence of nettles may indicate that a building has been long abandoned.
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The growth of nettles is an indicator that an area has high fertility (especially phosphorus) and has been disturbed.
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Anyone who failed to wear a sprig of oak risked being pelted with bird's eggs or thrashed with nettles.
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The last time when the surviving student saw her, she was collecting nettles and dandelion leaves to cook as a vegetable for the seniors.
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Nettles is known for experimenting with alternative photographic processes.
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The nettles are chopped very finely, or pured, together with the other ingredients, which typically include chives (or ramson or garlic), and chervil or fennel.
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The oral arms begin digestion as they transport the prey into the sea nettles mouth.
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Nettles continues hitch-hiking while on the dirt road, getting on a motorcycle and in a station wagon.
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Dried nettles were damped to make the bark sufficiently flexible, while the pith of the stem remained dry and brittle.
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Nettles supported increased expenditures for public education and called for a national constitutional convention to establish the legality of the neighborhood-school concept.
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Her grandmother suggested that she try spinning the nettles.
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The house required modernisation as there was stinging nettles growing under bookshelves and toothpaste freezing in the tube in winter.
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Nettles has never discovered the identity of his father, but did discover he has a brother and two sisters.
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Nettles' work tackles issues of family relationships, woven together with mythology and natural history, often in dream-like juxtapositions.
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Nettles can be used in a variety of recipes, such as polenta, pesto and pure.
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The itchycoo nickname is, in turn, attributed to the stinging nettles which grew there.
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Loom items, a hand of nettles, a big needle, are among the items which are loaded along.
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Their weakness varies upon legend, and may include excessive heat, rain, nettles, or the blossoms of some plants and trees.
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The forests contain stinging nettles, wild raspberry, many vines and pockets of ferns.
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They can be fed with vegetables such as nettles, lettuce, spinach or carrots.
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The water is generally free of sea nettles because the water is not very salty.
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Many other herbs have conditioner effects on the hair such as nettles or amla.
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Competitors are served long stalks of stinging nettles from which they pluck and eat the leaves.
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Individuals were reduced to eating grass, nettles and rotten meat in order to survive.
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Stinging hairs which actively inject venom on plants such as stinging nettles are also known as "stings", but not "stingers".
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Like many other nettles, it has stinging hairs that contain formic acid.
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She has messy and tangled blond hair with nettles in it.
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Urtication, or flogging with nettles, is the process of deliberately applying stinging nettles to the skin in order to provoke inflammation.
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Sea nettles have a distinctive golden-brown bell with a reddish tint.
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The maid goes back to her village and performs miracles while subsisting on nettles, but asks to be buried alive.
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Amongst the plants noted here are sea spurry, forget-me-nots, scarlet pimpernel, field bugloss, bracken and nettles.
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The nitrogen-rich soil allows nettles and celandine in to grow large quantities.
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Plants such as wild garlic, nettles and watercress may have been gathered in the wild.
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Plant about six crops, e.g., nettles and artichokes, inside the pen.
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The children subsequently wore tight cords around their waists, performed self-flagellation using stinging nettles, abstained from drinking water on hot days, and performed other works of penance.
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Their primary food is nettles.
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The nettle's sting is rated from moderate to severe and can be pernicious to smaller prey; it is not, however, potent enough to cause human death, except by allergic reaction.
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Nettles have no excretory or respiratory organs.
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The breed is hardy and thrifty, and the animals readily graze rough vegetation such as rushes, nettles or heather, and they keenly browse many trees and shrubs.
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During the breeding season, this is a species found in reedbeds, often with scrub, ditches and habitats away from water including hedgerows, patches of stinging nettles, and arable crops.
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Poison ivy and nettles are also abundant.
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After breeding, adults move to taller vegetation such as common reed, iris, or nettles to moult, returning to the to hay and silage meadows for the second brood.
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However, we are keen to encourage authorities to grasp the nettle of removing surplus places.
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I would welcome our grasping the nettle and going one stage further.
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