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Others, fearing their wooden houses would collapse, raced outside into open spaces where they clung to trees and telegraph poles.
By contrast, others clearly preferred to think only of the present or expressed feelings which suggested they clung fiercely to life.
In both cases, he clung stubbornly to stories of providential retribution despite vigorous objections to their accuracy.
The louse was fed twice daily whilst it clung to the cloth upon which it rested.
Terrified to see him thus, the child clung to him and besought him to be calm.
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.
If, unusually, that generation clung to power for over a decade, this was not due to the instinct for selfpreservation that all leadership groups have, but rather to simple loneliness.
Moreover, while he criticises the older intelligentsia for having clung to socialism far too long, he lauds some of the constitutional and symbolic initiatives of the younger civil rights activists.
Occasionally, they used progressive language to present their policies as modern, but they often clung to the traditional prison regime based on strict punishment, military discipline, and moralizing lectures.
All last year they clung to office hoping that something would turn up to save them from defeat at the polls.
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He is still working on the same principles as he has clung to over the years.
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The paragraph described how the police controlled the crowd and how men clung to the banisters.
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He really should have clung to this recruiting service in the public interest.
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He clung to that idea, and he was utterly depressed by the outcome, but, as he was the first to recognise, there was no alternative.
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They clung to their freedoms, they wished to preserve their freedoms; they have lost their freedoms.
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One of the men, being a strong swimmer, easily got to the shore; the second clung precariously to the boat; and the third, unfortunately, sank.
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The trouble is that all the old beliefs that they have clung to in spite of the accumulating evidence are being finally and definitively disproved.
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They clung to a theory which did not meet the requirements.
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Men clung together to find ways of spreading work.
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However, in his closing speech he, too, clung to that argument as the one straw of hope for getting support.
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They have clung to the belief that the end would soon be in sight.
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He has clung to power by plundering it.
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The delay that clung to the heels of that policy was in no way his fault.
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With what tenacity have we clung to that oath throughout centuries of exile.
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Ideals, in my view, should be clung on to in war.
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I clung to the rates when the party was saying that it wanted to abolish them.
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Consequently, that principle has been adopted and has been clung to.
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We clung to the present kind of agreement because of outmoded ideas of imperialism and colonialism which no longer apply in the present situation.
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They have criminally ignored the facts and the evidence and have clung to their prejudices and petty party politicking.
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Certainly a strong tinge of unreality clung round that body.
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The trade unions have clung to these traditions, to these historical principles, and they have clung to them with singular faithfulness.
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Has it not been that, far from welcoming and thriving on change, we have clung to what we have?
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They still clung to the policy of one-sided disarmament.
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The great bulk of the people who clung obstinately to the idea of jury trials in these complex cases showed a curious hesitation in most of their evidence.
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While they agreed to open their doors to our goods and suffered from our subsidised dumping, the richer nations were largely shielded and successfully clung on to their trade barriers.
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Then, the people clung tenaciously to their wireless sets, that little contact with the outside world from which they got reliable news, upon which they seized voraciously.
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We do not believe that the protection of the conventional bus services by licensing, appropriate perhaps before the war, is to be clung to slavishly now.
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There is still a query over the effects that pesticides and other chemicals that have clung to the food that is to be irradiated may suffer.
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The past is always a lie clung to by an odour of ancestors.
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He, therefore, detached the basket and clung to the steel hoof and made the ascent.
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Eighty people were in the lifeboat the rest clung to flotsam or floated in the sea.
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He called for draconian measures, while the governor clung to a paternalistic view.
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In another account, a wolverine attacked a polar bear and clung to its throat until the bear suffocated.
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Muhajirs clung to their old established habits and tastes, including variety of dishes and beverages.
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Psychologically speaking, these infants were slightly strange: they were reclusive and had definite social deficits, and they clung to their cloth diapers.
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To this faith he clung with earnest devotion and persistence until his death.
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Even after the dissolution of her second marriage, she clung to her exalted title.
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He clung briefly to the railing, and then was pushed overboard into the sea.
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On the train people filled every space and then clung to the sides.
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The children clung to their parents in fear.
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Large masses of leeches clung over all the body including the carapace.
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The two soldiers clung to their overturned boat, but the boy was lost in the icy water.
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Known for their ultra-defensive playing style, they clung on for five years but eventually were relegated.
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Although in intense pain, he gallantly clung to the shell to prevent its explosion.
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Perhaps he clung onto power too long, perhaps he should have retired in 1965 when he was still popular.
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He noted the nails of his shoes and the iron ferrule of his staff clung to a rock.
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Monier and his family clung on through the severe winter.
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One of the acrobats also went up the pole also and clung onto the rabbit's legs.
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A sphere of fire surrounded the air around the earth and had originally clung to it like the bark round a tree.
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As the fabric clung to the body revealing what was beneath, it made nudity "la grecque" a centrepiece of public spectacle.
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Despite his inability to govern, the president clung to his power.
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Survivors from the sinking ship clung to debris.
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The car overturned, but he clung to the tackling for a time, and was borne out of sight.
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He clung to the bottom of the boat and people on the shore who witnessed his distress, sent out a tug to pick him up.
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Folk elements have gradually clung together with their own individual musical ideas.
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Hedin was and remained a figure of the 19th century who clung to its visions and methods also in the 20th century.
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There with its wings slowly expanding clung a brown butterfly with a red band extending down each wing.
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Reports were given of entire families being washed away while a few survivors clung to the tops of trees for hours, hoping to be saved.
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They resided in the country's most backward regions, barely influenced by the government's modernization efforts, and almost all clung to the old ways.
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He had a gas stations, but the troubles clung to it.
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Others, however, clung to their customs as much as possible, and some rebelled against the white rulers.
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Even though the blown-off stern section caught fire, survivors clung to her wreckage, and it sank shortly afterward.
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Because the rock-a-chaws had small spikes, they clung to the wool.
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During the 1980s until the spring of 1998, the last part of the broken lighthouse clung precariously to the bluff.
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I clung to him and begged him to save me.
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In order to prevent being swept away by strong currents, most of them clung to ropes tied on lamp posts.
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The one thing they always clung to, even in the worst of times, was hope.
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They operated small farms and clung to their historic traditions.
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Since the fabric clung to the body, revealing what was underneath, it made nudity "la grecque" a centerpiece of public spectacle.
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The town clung for survival until 1912 when a fire broke out.
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The remaining thirteen clung to bundles of plywood.
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We clung tenaciously to our runes, longer than any other nation.
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On this day, eight miners clung to the chain.
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He coveted power and clung to it tenaciously, being content to change his colleagues, as long as he was left undisturbed in office.
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In the league they clung on to their third tier status, safe by only three points.
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Before, he had fought against the money code, and yet he had clung to his wretched remnant of decency.
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They clung to the idea that out-relief would undermine the independence, thrift and desire to work among working people.
His hair was messed up and dust clung to his chaps.
Now, suddenly, those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered.
In these circumstances, conservatives clung to monarchy as a tried institution, and monarchs clung to one another.
There among the crowds, however, was the figure of his father to whom he clung happily.
Vainly hoping to demonstrate by upright living their fitness for mainstream society, they clung tenaciously to bourgeois respectability and doctrinal orthodoxy.
Furthermore, it explains the importance of very small lots and why people seem to have clung to insignificant portions of, for them, useless land.
To others, he clung to his colonial elite privileges and aimed at keeping the popular classes in check.
The self-consciously centrist government, however, tenaciously clung to power across these years.
While two clung to its lower jaw, the others hurled themselves onto its back, with audible impacts.
Moreover, it clung to provocative street marches as the dominant mode of operation.
Evans also clung to the belief that the entire agrarian conflict had been manufactured by those in power and could be altered at their command.
What is noteworthy here is that the owners clung to their landed possessions, rather than opting to sell off their economically insignificant lots.
He clung to the traditional view, stating that the problem was scientifically indeterminate.
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