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In their television appearances and literar y representations the tortoises repeatedly broached these formal divides, functioning as cybernetic devices, neurological models, popular amusements, household pets, and surrogate children.
The second half of the definition refers to premises used wholly or mainly as a pleasure fair consisting largely or entirely of amusements.
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A great many people find these amusements quite interesting and entirely harmless.
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They take their amusements in the same buildings, some being in one borough and some in the other.
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There are also indoor occupations, such as carpentry, and also recreation and amusements.
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Clause 23 allows amusements with prizes at such places as fun fairs and amusements arcades.
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They have their particular towns and their particular villages, their own sports, and their own amusements.
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In fact, all that they care about is money and amusements.
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We have done everything we can to encourage amusements, and wherever possible we have acquired parks and open spaces.
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Many of their ordinary amusements have come to an end through necessary restrictions.
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Their bus services run to it, and their people go to it for shopping, amusements, political meetings, and functions of all kinds.
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If you merely put taxation on necessaries and you do not have taxation on amusements, the obvious harm to the country requires no exposition.
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I would not use the word "fritter" unconditionally with regard to the amusements of the people.
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All their amusements are organised, and they have not to try to amuse themselves.
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Do not allow them to have anything to do with the amusements of the working man.
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They often return to do their shopping, or for their amusements, or to visit friends and relatives.
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On the other hand, if one looks at the general classification of sports and amusements one sees an estimated figure of some £3 million.
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We do not allow, or should not allow, our children to go in for amusements which we feel are ethically wrong.
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There will also, no doubt, be some opposition from those who feel that children will be deprived of one of their greatest amusements.
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Requisites for games or sports or amusements whether traditional or not are taxable at the same rate as toys.
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With all the multifarious amusements there are open to the children in the world to-day, surely they could do without this one.
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In those days our midshipman's pay was enough for our simple, childish, innocent amusements.
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On stretches of our coast there are small towns of chalet bungalows, with recreations and amusements of all kinds.
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What is the purpose of stopping dog races and prohibiting other amusements unless we direct the energies of the people?
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Here we have an infinite variety of amusements.
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Since then, complaints have poured in from all sectors, including manufacturing and coastal amusements.
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Because we think we have been injured in our amusements, or in our pockets or in some other way, we shall vote against these people.
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In addition, those children have no place in which to play their harmless games and indulge in their harmless amusements and recreations.
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There is no letup, no amusements, no alcohol, no nothing—just work and work.
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I have heard them say that they will go to some of these amusements such as pictures, and will get the money somehow or other.
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Further, it is true to say that these ordinary men and women in the amusements at fairs are within the law of the land.
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Would these concerts be limited to the long summer evenings, since there are always plenty of amusements by day?
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I do not wish to be censorious about other people's amusements.
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There still seems to be ample material for pictures, in papers which cater for the snob, of people enjoying expensive amusements.
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Why is it that this moral degradation only applies to our amusements?
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To an agriculturist who is living on a farm, away from the town, the cinema and the local amusements, his home is his castle.
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Relaxation is taken outside, in cheap entertainments and half-baked amusements — all spurious stuff.
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They are unlikely to have increased their amusements.
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We were told it was wrong to have the fun fair open because it would have foreign forms of amusements.
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We should not like to have a debate entirely devoid of those amusements.
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I suggest that it covers virtually only amusements with prizes.
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They cannot get to these amusements without transport, and the transport they get are generally second-hand cars which they have saved up to buy.
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However, the fact is we have great numbers engaged in providing amusements.
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They will be able to take their families to amusements.
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Dog racing is one of the cheapest amusements in the world.
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I am altogether opposed to such nonsensical proposals as raising revenue by means of taxing amusements, football matches, and the like.
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The fee will probably be comparable to that for the permit for commercial provision of amusements with prizes, which at present is £8·50.
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We had to make do with old clothes, smaller newspapers, fewer amusements and motor cars, less advertising and duller food.
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The duty was first introduced in 1916 as a war-time measure, then being called a tax on amusements.
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No such power exists in respect of premises used wholly or mainly for providing amusements.
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The cause is better education, a larger number of amusements, cinemas, greyhound racing and motors.
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The number of people actually involved in accidents is nine, whereas over three million people have been carried on the various amusements.
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People can take their families during a week-end and let their children enjoy these gardens and amusements.
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The latter are permitted to associate freely, and are allowed books, newspapers, and, within certain limits, amusements.
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Surely, the provision of amusements in an exhibition of this kind is not a crime?
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They feed him, clothe him, and even provide him with his amusements and attend to his dependants.
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Expenditure on the lights and amusements by the council is now of the order of £250,000.
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There are 40 different indoor occupations, almost every conceivable indoor sport, arts and crafts and so on, and all the amusements that young people enjoy.
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They can supply amusements, arrange games, and do all kinds of things in connection with which the voluntary touch is of such great value.
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No amusements, no insurance, no possibility of putting by for a rainy day.
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She reserves to herself the perfect right to spend a great deal of time away from the home in various social duties or amusements.
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They have all passed them as amusements with prizes, after very rigorous and proper control.
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They include improvement in education, in barrack accommodation, in getting reasonable amusements for the men, and so on, improvement in clothing, physical and moral improvement.
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To grant these requests would aid coastal economies and keep afloat many smaller businesses which are a sizeable element in the seaside amusements sector.
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The food, the clothing, the equipment, the correspondence, the amusements of a whole community are brought and distributed over a distance of hundreds of miles.
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All sorts of expensive and unnecessary amusements are indulged in.
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Many of these organisations deplored any form of betting, gaming or lotteries, or indeed amusements of this type.
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Let the community make its own arrangements for amusements.
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You spend, so it is said, £200,000,000 a year on drink, £200,000,000 on entertainments and amusements and about £200,000,000 on betting.
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His encouragement of science and art, his interest in agriculture, his enjoyment of our national open-air sports and amusements—these are familiar to us all.
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There has been a great improvement in health, housing, education, food, clothing, and amusements.
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Then there is the question of amusements and amenities.
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They have, therefore, an existing permit for some three years to enable them to have these amusements with prizes.
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Anyone who is familiar with a constituency like mine, with its many scattered villages, will realise the importance of these amenities and amusements.
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They have not a great deal of time to spend on amusements, but they spend all that time in thinking.
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We spent more on tobacco, sport and amusements than we could afford.
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Then there are the amusements which the working classes demand, and the little luxuries which are at their hand.
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They farmed, enjoyed some simple amusements and, like all of us now, were subject to death.
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On the question of aerodromes, most of them are in places which are almost inaccessible and away from any amusements.
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As regards amusements with prizes, there are many sound recommendations.
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Entertainments tax is a tax on payment for admission to watch or listen to amusements, exhibitions, games or sports.
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In these hard times when the country is on the verge of bankruptcy we should be content with other amusements which we already have.
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Is it the fact that all the amusements these men have is the small cinema theatre?
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What is the use of talking to me about keeping little children off these inoffensive pleasant amusements?
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I, therefore, contend that any reference to the amusements must be in order.
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There is no doubt at all that even restrictions on the people's luxuries and amusements have helped.
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We should all have to pay more for our food, clothes and other necessities, and have less to spend on amusements, tobacco and beer.
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By law, pin money had to be spent only on clothes, personal articles and trivial amusements.
If they have not got any amusements up in their backwoods, we mustn't have none.
She never brooded over her loss of power, or the loss of the changes or amusements which others enjoy.
We can also begin to see the broad outlines of a much longer connected history of respectable fears surrounding the demoralising influences of popular amusements.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
He needs to be aware of the social reasons pulling at ordinary people, the conditions of work in an industrial society, the nature of a people's amusements.
Throughout the early decades of the twentieth century, civic leaders and reformers debated intensely the benefits and dangers of women's participation in new workplaces and urban amusements.
The amusements are, however, bonuses.
On those days some of the more vicious sort would come and" vent their spleen" against him as part of their amusement.
You can imagine all sorts of physically impossible things happening - and cartoon animators frequently do, to our amusement.
The computer accepts wrongly-spelled words, nonsense words and rude words and displays them on screen in the story to the amusement of the class.
By these means the author asserted the triviality of the elephant-fight and presented it as the amusement of an inferior mind.
The exercises to practice should be those that brought amusement to any child.
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