And truly the point is not to contrive a precise plan or even to pass a plan that does all of the above. |
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But for the moment, I am pleased to have been given this chance to contrive my own fable and plead my own case before the necrologists get at me. |
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Mr Williams and others who write to the papers contrive to imply that council staff are uniquely undeserving idle bureaucrats or lazy workmen. |
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It was common practice for provincial clockmakers to contrive a skeleton clock as a window display. |
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She knows that she must not run and yet, desperate as she is, cannot contrive an escape plan. |
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Even if you manage to get them in, they will contrive to escape at the first opportunity. |
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The real miracle, though, is that you could contrive a way to have a food crisis. |
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The Executive's advertising campaigns contrive to be both insulting and ineffectual. |
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As a consequence story-writers are forced to contrive elaborate plots that just go on and on and on. |
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So in Kenya the British managed to contrive a land system similar to the clearances in Britain. |
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Though they have nothing they contrive, somehow, to keep their self respect, the very antithesis of the dependency culture which has grown up in our own country. |
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Both contrive to produce misses out of impossibly promising situations. |
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There are thousands of ways to contrive a weapon that's at least as dangerous a two-inch hobby knife. |
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It is against this backdrop that the Bush Administration decided to contrive the border problem between the two sisterly countries. |
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Do not just think about your own periods of office, but contrive to raise your sights and look to the future which we ourselves face. |
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The citizens of Europe cannot fail to take this on board if we contrive to translate our jargon into their everyday language. |
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In addition, any ceiling features such as light fittings or air diffusers may contrive to lower performance. |
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Will we really contrive to make legal provisions stricter and tighten them up so as to prevent inappropriate lobbying and corruption? |
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As every parent knows, children will always contrive to attract attention to themselves in one way or another. |
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Some people will walk up to a CBSA officer and will contrive a story of persecution that isn't true and they will then get access to our system. |
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The first group contrive to let their little darlings come out on top. |
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In appearance he is slim and dapper, a man of medium height invariably dressed in expensive American suits that nevertheless contrive to look cheap. |
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That made me think, maybe they can contrive to do something similar on the mandate. |
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The permissions I give and am given by the interruptions of my thought in the corner of my room contrive my cadences, showing the line breaks to the onrush of my words. |
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As far back as the sixteenth century, Arcimboldo attempted to contrive a system of equivalencies between pitches and the colour gradations from black and white. |
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It was concluded that the technological context of the consultation did not overly contrive the interaction, allowing real-time problem solving processes characterizing medical reasoning in naturalistic settings. |
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As the second step, we must contrive to set up new schemes to assist the private sector, from new financing msiimnents to expand the business sphere of our businessmen lo iaejiitating customs proccomr. |
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Here, in this rocky habitat with its harsh climate, the plants adopt different strategies to ensure their survival-and still contrive to put on a glorious display all over the rugged landscape, throughout the summer season. |
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Only sometimes the thorough-bass I contrive to guess at, from its being supereminently harsh and disagreeable. |
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He is a true, gritty, grumpy, nuggetty character, who would do whatever it takes to connive and contrive a win for his beloved homeland. |
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The adaptation also works in a redemptive romanticism, which sets it in the sub-tradition of British films that depict working-class grime but contrive happy endings. |
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In so doing they not only contrive to ensure that Europe's real problems are pushed to one side, but also place the Polish people at real risk of terrorist attacks. |
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After Monmouth the British would shift their focus to the south in an attempt to contrive a new winning strategy for ending the American Revolution. |
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The world is leaving us behind because when it comes to competing at global level, it is those who contrive to lower costs and prices and create new products that take the upper hand. |
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Despite the fact that one of them has a disease, they contrive to live quite contentedly, in harmony and partnership, in the face of the struggle that they are waging together. |
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I am not saying that we must accept everything. I believe, however, that we must contrive to show magnanimity and that we are obliged to accept that enlargement will be messy and untidy. |
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There is, after all, every chance that China's heavy-handed officials, as intolerant of non-conformity now as under the Ming, will once more contrive to scuttle the ships of its visionaries. |
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He must contrive to keep his family alive as he strategizes. |
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This mathematical discipline, by the help of geometrical principles, doth teach to contrive several weights and powers unto motion or rest. |
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The offense could contrive a variety of laydowns to intensify the defense's problems. |
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The ability of middlemen was measured by the rent income they could contrive to extract from tenants. |
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The Republicans contrive new ways every day to get less popular. |
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I could contrive to bump against him, or flash a smile. |
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Even when president John McBeth and chief executive David Taylor's SFA start off in the right, they somehow contrive to create a fankle which puts them in the wrong. |
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Once the storm subsides, we can blast the ice smooth and allow it to superharden. That should sustain a landing while we contrive something longer-term. |
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At this point, we could all write a tell-all about our tabloid childhoods and contrive an autobiographical performance about the pleasures of humiliation. |
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Neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. |
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Mr Northerton was desirous of departing that evening, and nothing remained for him but to contrive the quomodo, which appeared to be a matter of some difficulty. |
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