• At dawn, 4, 000 Chinese troops will descend upon us by sea, air and land.

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  • Each May, hundreds of professional barbecuers (and some novices too) descend upon Tennessee to cook for the ultimate barbecue bragging rights.

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  • Next week, dozens of investors and startups will descend upon Vancouver, B.

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  • The feeder then threads another piece onto the stick and a furry mountain of animals descend upon him, snarling and climbing over each other to grab it.

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  • But when Javier Pastore shook the very foundations of one of Europe's greatest bastions, a cloud began to descend upon manager Tito Vilanova and his ailing players.

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  • We need the highest skills for the future and we need to be seen as a creative hub of the world where all the talent of the world are able to descend upon us.

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  • Legions of fans will descend upon the tiny village of Cooperstown wearing Cubs T-shirts and jerseys paying homage to a man who proudly wore the number 10 and patrolled Wrigley Field for 14 seasons.

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  • And for four days starting 7 March, London gourmands will descend upon the historic Tobacco Docks, a 19th-century warehouse in Wapping, East London, to dine in basement vaults for the third instalment of the moveable feast.

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  • About once every month, the group schedules a large "operation" in which dozens of volunteers descend upon a local neighborhood to do massive group service, such as yard cleanup or a sweeping installation of energy-efficient lighting.

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  • Come the April 25 draft fans will descend upon New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall in hopes of hearing their favorite club call the name of a left tackle who can protect their quarterback's blindside for the next decade.

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  • 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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  • Most of us experience the Los Angeles Convention Center during one of its most chaotic weeks of the year, when tens of thousands of gaming industry manufacturers, video game designers and consumers descend upon downtown LA for the annual E3 expo, booth-babe radar tweaked to 11.

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  • Another Cairo daily ran banner headlines warning that if either of the Islamist candidates wins it would be "Apocalypse Now" -- A Mosaic plague of catastrophic proportions will descend upon Egypt, with a breakdown in security, violence, kidnapping, thuggery and theft, massive capital flight, political isolation, unemployment, poverty, and illness.

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  • Readers and viewers who know Murdoch purely as a name or as one of those figures so wealthy, and granted such frictionless mobility by their wealth, that they never seem to be in the part of the world that you expect them to be were startled to see a senior gent, with sparse white hair and a clownish smile, descend upon London.

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