Then, when you’re ready… burn your boats, plant your flag, stake your claim to the riches of El Dorado. |
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Paul has consistently used Benghazi as a device to stake out high ground on foreign policy. |
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On 17 October 1528, Alonso became the first person in the New World to be burned alive at the stake. |
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These are people who are putting their lives at stake for the American Dream. |
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The possibilities for commercial success would even have Rita Repulsa angling for a stake in the profits. |
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My hygienic arrangements are unimportant compared to the real issues and sacrifices at stake. |
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Adelaide isn't just a doll letting things happen to her, she's a complicated and centered character with a lot at stake. |
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Then as now, we all are at stake, and sooner or later, we all must make a stand. |
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At stake is not just the 21 photos that were originally ordered to be released. |
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In 2000, Renault acquired a controlling stake of the South Korean Samsung Group's automotive division. |
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Many external financing sources provide financing in return for an equity stake in an entrepreneur's company. |
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Given that honor was at stake, the appropriate method for the United States Navy to redeem itself was by dueling. |
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In 1926, Ireland went into their final Five Nations match unbeaten and with the Grand Slam at stake lost to Wales in Swansea. |
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Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling or touching the far stake. |
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Much later, Gareth is accidentally slain by his beloved Lancelot when Guinevere is rescued from being burnt at the stake by King Arthur. |
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But more than religious affiliation is at stake in the papal visit. |
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One theory, known as the tragedy of the commons, holds that people will exploit and abuse something in which they have no ownership stake. |
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The real issue at stake concerned differences in values and norms within cultures and countries, whereby pluralism clashed with uniformism. |
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If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity. |
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But with both sides in the Premier League's bottom three before the game began, the three points at stake made for a cagey match. |
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Moreover, Indian landlords had a stake in the cash crop system and discouraged innovation. |
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The Prime Minister has told us that 50 million tons of British shipping are at stake in his dispute with President Nasser. |
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The Marian Persecutions of Protestants ensued and 283 Protestants were burnt at the stake for heresy. |
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During the Marian persecutions, three women, the Guernsey Martyrs, were burned at the stake for their Protestant beliefs. |
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Dorrit Moussaieff's deceased father and her mother, now 86 years old and the registered owner of the Lasca ownership stake. |
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They became angry and did not believe the reporters when they said the president's family had a stake in the mine. |
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Thomas Cranmer, the imprisoned archbishop of Canterbury, was forced to watch Bishops Ridley and Latimer being burned at the stake. |
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In addition to the conventional oil exploration and production, BP has a stake in the three oil sands projects in Canada. |
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It is looking to sell off its stake in a petrochemicals joint venture in China, its largest investment in that country. |
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In England, it has a stake in the bioethanol producer Vivergo and together with DuPont has a biobutanol demonstration plant. |
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The stake now meant the winner got two hundred pounds, and the money was handed over the bar. |
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He discovered that former Beatles and Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein had bought a stake in his publishing company. |
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Competitors line up at the start, race to a stake, moored boat, or buoy some distance away, and return. |
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The Green Mountain Head Regatta continues to use the stake format but it is run as a head race with an interval start. |
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After Cauchon declared her guilty she was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age. |
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General Motors purchased a majority stake in 1925 and changed its name to the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company. |
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Situated around the town of St Andrews are cobblestone markings denoting where Protestant martyrs were burnt at the stake. |
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The poor man then took the stake and put it into the forest, and the following day he checked it and found a stag had gotten impaled on it. |
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The man reluctantly listened to his wife and put the stake next to the wall of his house. |
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He then took the stake to the river Lochy and put it underwater, and returning later he saw a large salmon had gotten impaled on it. |
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He then took the stake and set it on the roof of his house, but not long afterwards, a large raven flew by and got impaled on it. |
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The man's wife continued to nag him about how dangerous it was, and so he cut up the stake into pieces and destroyed it. |
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A small plaque below the statue of General Nott commemorates the place where he was burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions. |
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As the century drew to a close Llywelyn became a young man and conceived the ambition to stake his claim to power in Gwynedd. |
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Priests found celebrating Mass were often hanged, drawn and quartered, rather than being burned at the stake. |
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Sometimes, foxes seem to deliberately torment hyenas even when there is no food at stake. |
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Then, they entered the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus on the underbellies of sheep, escaping by blinding him with a wooden stake. |
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The Constitutional Union Party said the survival of the Union was at stake and everything else should be compromised. |
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In 1999, after protracted dispute with Piaggio, LML bought back Piaggio's stake in the company and the partnership ceased. |
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For example, instead of executing Archbishop Cranmer for treason for supporting Queen Jane, she had him tried for heresy and burned at a stake. |
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The Spanish Inquisition was particularly brutal in its methods, which included the burning at the stake of many heretics. |
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I was not burned at the stake like a meanling. And I did not, as prelude to my death, say the cute things that are attributed to me. |
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The fund was created to raise local communities' stake in the legal diamond trade. |
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But government officials personally interested in an economic stake in the plant refused to help. |
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On 30 October 2015, Cellino agreed a deal in principle with Leeds Fans Utd to sell a majority stake in the club. |
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Heresy trials were reestablished and hundreds of Protestants burned at the stake. |
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The chief opposition figure, the protopope Avvakum, was burned at the stake. |
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He was denounced by Calvin and burned at the stake for heresy by the city council. |
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Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series. |
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The following day he was sentenced to burning at the stake, the same sentence as in Vienne. |
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What was at stake behind the theology was the position of the Queen Elizabeth I as the Supreme Governor of the Church. |
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The expedition team cemented in a brass plaque on Hall's Ledge and hoisted the Union Flag to stake the UK's claim. |
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Generally, a case or controversy requires the presence of adverse parties who have some interest genuinely at stake in the case. |
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The matches between the two clubs are said to have bragging rights at stake and banter between the fans of both clubs is commonplace. |
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In 1902, he and Jeffries had a rematch, once again with the World Heavyweight Champion at stake. |
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Haye's WBA, WBC, and The Ring titles were at stake, while Maccarinelli's WBO title was on the line. |
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At many horse races, there is a gambling station, where gamblers can stake money on a horse. |
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The orthodox Muslims felt that their communal identity was at stake if their personal laws were governed by the judiciary. |
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John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him. |
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Doesn't he realize that all of our lives are at stake here too? |
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What is at stake in these next 20 minutes is the championship. |
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Axinomancy Was performed by balancing an axe on an upright stake, and the names of suspected persons being pronounced, it was supposed to point out the guilty by its motion. |
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He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins. |
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Unhappily for her, he unexpectedly withdrew his recantations at the last minute as he was to be burned at the stake, thus ruining her government's propaganda victory. |
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The Bohemian movement initiated with the teaching of Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake in 1415 after being condemned as a heretic by the Council of Constance. |
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He was excommunicated and burned at the stake in Constance, Bishopric of Constance in 1415 by secular authorities for unrepentant and persistent heresy. |
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With millions of dollars at stake, pirates have little incentive to stop. |
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What is at stake in Central Europe are rather more than 50 million souls. |
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His father and father's business partners own a controlling stake. |
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The resulting feud between Hoffman and the Weiders, where money, power, and ego were at stake, consumed about two decades, as both parties vied for control of muscledom. |
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On 1 March 1546, he was burnt at the stake in the presence of Beaton. |
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Columba then sharpened the stick into a stake and gave it to the man, telling him that it would catch game for him, but it would never harm person or cattle. |
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These were produced not only by the combatants but by those from European countries who supported one or the other side or had a commercial or colonial stake in the area. |
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One inconvenience attending this mode of proceeding is, that the party who institutes it must be willing, if required, to stake his life in support of his accusation. |
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In 469, Anagastes, the son of Arnegisclus who was slain by Attila, brought Dengzich's head and paraded it through the streets before mounting it on a stake in the Hippodrome. |
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Pizarro managed to have a larger stake and awards for himself. |
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Some scholars claim that Calvin and other ministers asked that he be beheaded instead of burnt, knowing that burning at the stake was the only legal recourse. |
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Its proponents believed that Federal legislators would be more likely to be cautious about increasing congressional pay if they have no personal stake in the vote. |
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An increase in acquisitions in the global business environment requires enterprises to evaluate the key stake holders of acquisition very carefully before implementation. |
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Each bishop is selected from resident members of the ward by the stake presidency with approval of the First Presidency, and chooses two counselors to form a bishopric. |
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Certain laws receive more judicial interpretation than others, either because more is at stake or because those who are affected are in a position to take the matter to court. |
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As well, if investors have a significant stake in the company, they may be able to exert influence on company strategy, CEO choice, and other important decisions. |
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In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake. |
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The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business. |
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They dragged the Protestants to prison and the stake wherever they could. |
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