Then the piece de resistance: towering above the 1, 000 columns outside is the glistening main white marble dome.

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These meetings of the Western industrialized nations is likely to be the piece de resistance of the Gorbachev bailout campaign.

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From an evidentiary standpoint, the piece de resistance of Witness is the revealed-for-the-first-time text of a 2002 affidavit from Walter G.

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It's the Notre Dame uniform that's really the piece de resistance, no?

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The piece de resistance: the lush black-and-gold home theater with a glass-paneled strip embedded in the floor to reveal an exotic-car collection in the showroom below.

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Other adapters can do some of that, but its final trick is the piece de resistance: increasing the speed of a lens by a full stop.

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The butterflies are reported to be the piece-de-resistance of England's most anticipated celebrity wedding of the year.

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