The next thing I knew, cocks were crowing and sunlight was streaming through the window.

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If we consider the male affirmative action students as "cocks, " we know the corresponding obscene term that could be applied to the women.

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Mr Cocks said the scheme will expand in the next few months, and will include an increase in the age-range it offers help to.

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And he cocks his gun and is ready to shoot me.

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The village cocks started their incongruous round of evening calls.

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Moreover, the depiction of these students as roosters, also called "cocks" conjures up a different, even more offensive set of images if used in reference to human beings.

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As his boat drifts through a hidden lagoon on the uninhabited island of Ko Hong, he cocks his head to listen to a family of macaques chattering among the mangroves.

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Helen Cocks, chair of the Gibbonsdown and Court Communities Partnership Board in Barry, is backing the changes, saying trying to get employers to mentor young people was "virtually impossible" with no big businesses in her immediate area.

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Screenplay by James Cameron and Jay Cocks.

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Many of these original workshops have been turned into apartments now, but small open-door shops still populate those same streets, where third- and fourth-generation craftspeople continue to make the mainsprings, bridges and balance cocks that power some of the world's most exquisite and pricey timepieces.

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They have watchdogs, fighting cocks.

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