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When it comes to accommodation, visitors would be spoilt for choice!
At the government formation stage a formateur selects a coalition which bargains over policy and the distribution of office spoils.
Most citizens probably want the constitution to be stable and ordinary laws dividing spoils among interest groups to be unstable.
However, though dupe and victim, they do also get their share of colonial spoils.
If while they are away a thread breaks and no one is there to tie it, the resulting effect spoils the cloth.
Why fruits rot, seeds mold, and meat spoils.
First, too many cooks have spoilt the historical broth.
According to traditional practice, the spoils are carried along in the procession.
On the more crass level, generous spoils, including government-created research centers, were available to those who cooperated.
A dramatic story with tension and a climax may be spoilt if you know the ending first.
The remaining 2.77 per cent of the votes were presumably spoiled ballots.
Tellingly, 29.9 per cent of the voters spoiled their ballots, and 1.2 per cent left their ballots blank.
Ambition to confirm one's aristocratic identity and serve the state was degenerating into social climbing and competition for spoils.
Despite being able to indulge his every wish, the king's appetite is spoiled by satiety, and instead of pleasure he can feel only pain.
She had spoiled him rotten, and did not intervene in time.
Needless to repeat, the spoils of interpretation differ according to the two approaches followed.
I think people today, even those here in this home, old or young, are generally spoilt.
If ticks are roughly removed, an important part-the " false head "-will be left behind, embedded in the host's skin, and the specimen spoiled.
English teachers are spoilt for choice, so one part of the bridge between university research and school teaching is now in place.
Detecting spoilt food may be further impaired by declining visual acuity, which can make eating a troublesome and unpleasant experience.
Appointments occurred through partisan affiliation, in a process known as 'lottizzazione' or division of the spoils.
The impatience of some contributors with those who do not share their vision spoils the book.
They returned to the tent with ample food and plaster bandages - but the plaster proved useless, spoiled by the damp.
Caused by the struggle for the appropriation of oil spoils, patronage politics permanently oscillates between fragmentation and reinvention.
Thankfully, there are other, more rewarding ways to divide the spoils.
Together, these data suggest that he is a man of action rather than subtle discussion, acts impulsively and is spoilt.
The easiest cases are spoils which only lack nutrients, and which after fertilization support good growth.
Whether this is true or not, the alleged maldistribution of spoils became a cause of anger among officers of the fleet.
On this view, government formation is about allocating a fixed prize, the spoils of office, between a group of players.
First, the politicians may want to enjoy their spoils.
Because if it rained too much, the water got muddied, spoiling the "stuff" (water mixed with pulped rags) that went into the paper.
Both parties, however, are patronage outfits with a common spoils or predatory approach to governance.
They keep morale high by rewarding those activists with the spoils of office.
Now is the time for improving or spoiling herself.
Given this good sense, it is a pity that the author spoils her attack by irrelevance and error.
Here again the computer spoils things rather than helps.
The book is also spoilt by spelling and grammatical mistakes.
Cooked fish that has spoiled may have a ' honeycombed ' appearance [9].
The judges, practitioners of civil law, enjoyed throughout the seventeenth century an exclusive prize jurisdiction over spoils from war at sea.
Well-organised national leaders are likely to ensure that the spoils flow mainly to them and stay there.
An electoral defeat, by contrast, could deprive a cer tain par ty of the spoils of government, thus weakening its position for some time.
Two distinctive patronage regimes are identified: an antebellum regime structured by pure-and-simple spoils politics and a postbellum regime conforming to principles of machine rationality.
As they freed what others had spoiled, they unleashed the momentum of true reform.
Further, he said that he had no space to store the scientific collections other than on deck, where they might be spoiled.
The loss spoiled my day.
Together they present a convincing picture of a peasantry still spoiling for its traditional fight with the landowners when the opportunity arose, as it did in 1917.
Irresponsible government promises about positive rewards and the tendency to use the political system to reap spoils created a nation characterised by selfishness, waste and despair.
The higher the potential benefits, such as the spoils of office or the potential to influence policy, the higher the incentive to launch a new party.
As the median does not include the 50% of greater errors, it is not spoiled by outliers, and this solution copes with bad locations and false matches.
One bad wait spoilt the music.
Four tried to make contact with siblings or children but were unsuccessful or turned away, and in four cases the children had personal and marital problems which spoilt the relationship.
In terms of the undesirable effects on the child, it is felt that only children are lonely (59 % of primary undesirable effects), spoilt (25 %) and selfish (6 %).
All four involve the spoiling or the changing for the worse of places of great beauty.
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We understood misconduct to mean such things as a man being drunk at his work, coming late, or spoiling a considerable amount of work.
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His considerable experience in this matter was, unfortunately, spoilt by that reference.
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Other mineral development up and down the country has now spoiled something like 7,000 acres—very nearly twice the figure of 10 years earlier.
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By miseries such as these the best years of life may be spoilt.
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We need clear-cut legislation on management rules because at the present moment some farmers are spoiling things for the others through bad management.
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The community that has the new well enjoys the benefits but another's water supply is spoilt.
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Too many authorities have used it to conduct political campaigns which have spoiled the finer traditions of local government.
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How far has that instinct, which has been so powerful for so many centuries, been spoiled and warped by the mass media?
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I enjoyed listening to his remarks until the end, when he spoiled them with a gratuitous and insulting peroration.
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He rather spoilt the atmosphere in which the whole issue had been discussed.
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However, he spoiled his case from time to time.
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He spoiled an otherwise sound speech by referring to qualifications that might attach to labour in the dispensation of a grant.
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Their windows are open and the noise spoils their enjoyment of their gardens and spoils their indoor recreation as well.
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I am not in favour of spoiling it.
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Although he made some powerful points, they were largely spoilt by exaggeration.
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My noble friend is correct to point out an unusually high number of spoiled ballot papers.
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Apart from anything else, there is a risk of spoiling what we already have.
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I would guess that that is where most of the spoiled papers came from.
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Regulation 18 deals with the so-called spoiling tactics of claimants.
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I remember from my time as a parliamentary candidate that spoilt ballot papers could throw up some quite hilarious issues.
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The lives of my generation have been spoiled.
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No one should have to plan holidays that may be spoilt.
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Already they have inevitably spoiled many thousands of acres of good agricultural land.
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An even more important point is that there are tracts of landscape which could be spoiled by public access.
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The next ingredient is the system of industrial relations, which is based on a system of spoils.
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I think it was a pity that he spoiled it with just one sentence.
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Much of our countryside has been spoilt by the demands of motor traffic and so have many of our towns and cities.
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Anyone who knows the area will know, too, the appalling congestion which spoils life in this attractive large village or small town.
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Her whole life is spoiled if she is injured.
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Also, whose insurance covers any damage or spoiling of the goods?
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I do not believe that it spoils the country to have a fairly large factory outside a burgh.
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Their problem is that of sheer hunger and our anxiety is that we should not have our food spoiled.
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I am sorry that he spoiled his case by using emotive words such as "bosses", and by deploying the envy argument.
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During that long period, we have not been spoilt with success.
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An average of 38 million tonnes of controlled wastes, excluding sewage sludge and dredged spoils, are estimated to be recycled annually.
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Indeed, it is too good to be spoiled by over-elaboration.
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As in any difficult situation, a small minority are spoiling the barrel.
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He spoilt it by supporting the amendment at the end.
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I believe that the last time such legislation was debated, a few spoiled things for the many.
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One can reach the point at which one can have too many cooks spoiling the broth or accelerating faster than the vehicle will take.
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They are simply born to teach and are only spoilt when they go away to train.
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One could almost say that it is a case of "too many cooks spoiling the broth".
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At the same time, however, the judge recognises that the man has obtained some of the spoils.
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There are those who fear the spread of fish disease, and there are those who fear that the countryside would be spoiled visually.
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We cannot help feeling that if we are not careful this broth will be spoiled by far too many cooks.
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