• Or whenever a party occurs on Facebook, a lone, half-deflated balloon could descend from the ceiling.

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  • Those individuals are us, and we're that way precisely because of the enterprising people we happily descend from.

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  • Carmelo Anthony was expected to descend from the mountains of Colorado and restore greatness back to the proud franchise.

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  • Chambers, of Brook Street, Tredworth, said he would not descend from the roof unless he was given cigarettes and a drink.

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  • The Pope used a lift to descend from the plane, and a trolley to move along a red carpet laid out for him.

    BBC: Spanish youth welcome Pope

  • You may not know in real time when the stock will start to descend from its lofty heights but neither does anyone else.

    FORBES: Apple's Ups And Downs Are A Classic Study In Momentum Investing

  • Trump says he provided Maher with a New York birth certificate that proved he didn't descend from an ape -- but Maher hasn't paid up.

    CNN: Trump sues Maher for $5 million for orangutan sex joke

  • The Nahmads descend from a prosperous banker from Aleppo, Syria.

    FORBES: Billionaire Heir Helly Nahmad's Art Gallery Raided By Feds In Russian Mob Gambling Sweep

  • Given the isolation of the islands, and the branching of the family tree, the chances are that all descend from a single off-course flock that arrived about 500, 000 years ago.

    ECONOMIST: Feathers are flying in the world of bird classification

  • The YP-U2 flash player appears to descend from the YP-U1, but we're not sure exactly what the difference is (other than cosmetic), as the specs are basically the same.

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  • The restaurant and terrace especially heats up after work when corporate bigwigs descend from the office towers to relax with a drink and appetizers in the hotel's garden bar to the sounds of live music.

    BBC: Business trip: Johannesburg

  • Mr. SHURKIN: ...descend from Shockley's junction transistor.

    NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy

  • The clothes that do get made in commercial quantities and reach us in the stores may have touches here and there--a color, a collar, a line of cut--that descend from a runway presentation in Milan or Paris or New York several years before.

    FORBES: Editor's Note

  • Each party took 41 seats, most of the rest going to mild Islamists, Turkomen, Christians and Yazidis (followers of a sect that is said to descend from Roman-era worshippers of the god Mithras), nearly all with the blessing of the two big Kurdish parties.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq's Kurds

  • Going forward, the only way Romney defeat the Gingrich-led insurgent challenge stripped him of his claim to inevitability once and for all is if he can stay on the offense, descend from his Ivory Tower and generate a sense of authenticity and competence with the electorate that he has been unable to achieve to date.

    FORBES: Resurgent, But Not-Yet Inevitable

  • However, much of the US Highway 36, the main road between Boulder and Estes Park, was washed away, and with it went much of the tourism the town depends during its elk-showcasing fall months, when hundreds of elk descend from the mountains and make their mating calls near prime viewing areas (one of which is the Estes Park golf course).

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  • Walk across Urapukapuka and the landscape is a curious mix of the familiar and the exotic - rolling green hills taken from a Cotswold postcard descend into bushland borrowed from Jurassic Park.

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  • Adrenaline junkies descend on Durmitor from May through October for unrivalled rafting on the Tara River Gorge.

    BBC: An adventurer��s paradise in Montenegro

  • Let's hope this is a warm-up to the blockbuster events the BFC has planned for the summer to impress the thousands of visitors who are about to descend on London from around the globe.

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  • All the more so in the 1970s, when meteorology was a less exact science, bus-shelters ran no digitalised information, no one had mobile phones to explain what they were doing or where they were going or when they might be expected, and pre-Raphaelite hair, beards, flares, maxi-skirts and platform shoes turned any encounter with the elements (as any attempt to descend at speed from the upper deck) into serious drama, if not trauma.

    ECONOMIST: Jack Scott and Reg Varney

  • If a council falls behind in one area (or simply tries something different), teams of inspectors from Whitehall descend.

    ECONOMIST: Local democracy

  • Still, the nature of the deployment gives some clues as to what British soldiers might actually do on the ground. 16 Air Assault Brigade will provide the sort of troops who might descend on northern Iraq from Turkey, assuming that the current diplomatic whirl yields Turkish co-operation.

    ECONOMIST: Britain sends in the Rats

  • Visitors from around the world -- including celebrities, politicians and rabble-rousers -- descend on Louisville to enjoy everything from mint juleps on Millionaire's Row to mudslides in the Churchill Downs infield.

    WSJ: Where to Go When the Horses Aren't Running

  • But descend the steps, hewn from wooden rail ties, and you enter an oasis of playful, post-modern elegance.

    FORBES: Ecca Park

  • Now in its 13th year, this nine-day feast sees visitors and chefs from around the world descend on Tiradentes' colourful cobblestones.

    BBC: Tiradentes: The culinary goldmine of Brazil

  • Punta del Diablo also is situated about 175km from flashy Punta del Este, where the stylish set from bordering countries like Argentina descend to party during the summer.

    BBC: Uruguay��s laid-back surfing devil

  • After the break, it was more of the same as both sides struggled to carve open clear cut opportunities and the main excitement came from watching the red mist descend on Malbranque.

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  • For the first two months, Near will slowly descend to within 50 km (31 miles) from the asteroid's surface.

    BBC: Probe nears its rocky target

  • In December, the spacecraft will descend, possibly to within a couple of kilometres from the surface of the asteroid.

    BBC: Probe nears its rocky target

  • For the next 17 days, more than six million normally prim and sober citizens from every country in the world will descend upon the Theresienwiese festival grounds (Wiesn, for short) to guzzle towering mugs of beer and engage in good cheer and outright debauchery.

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