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When the herd is within range, the branch is flung into their midst.
The playful manipulation of the mask of old age is flung aside to reveal a far more youthful self.
The warmer climes of far-flung possessions have forced a dramatic reappraisal.
They tended to focus on maintaining solidarity among elite members who were engaged in far-flung but lucrative (and/or prestigious) activities : commerce, office-holding and education.
At first blush such an approach seems inadequate, as without amplification it cannot account for the fact that irregulars usually occur in patterns, such as cling-clung, fling-flung, sling-slung.
He looked me straight in the eye with his glacial blue stare as he tore the announcement in two, and then into four, and flung it on the floor.
To my surprise, the linguists in the group actually became visibly angry (in an unintended spontaneous display of multimodal communication, one fellow flung his pencil onto the floor).
The relative prominence or obscurity of far-flung population centres is highly dependent upon their changeable economic engagement within dynamic and frequently contested spheres of political and economic interest.
One function of the orchestral interventions was to create a sort of 'interior memory', to supply faintly perceptible links that could connect even far-flung scenes through thematic recall.
There is never any discussion of consent, any more than a zoologist would ask the animals, a botanist the plants, or an anthropologist the indigenous people of a far-flung colony.
In the workshops, it seems highly likely, artisans from far-flung regions and their assistants drawn from the local communities came face to face with huge new tensions.
To gain firsthand insight into the problems of these far-flung territories, and to hold discussions.
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