• Woodland bandits, they dress up as bandy-legged giants (Ishioka provides them with stilts that seem to be made of accordion sleeves) to set upon unwary travelers, like Armie Hammer's Prince Alcott.

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  • It is merely a matter of applying an agreed-upon set of rules (for instance, that any thing is equal to itself, or that if something is true for all members of a set of objects, it is true for any one specific object) to a set of agreed-upon structures, such as sets of objects.

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  • The term refers to computers that can be relied upon to follow rules set by a publisher.

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  • Indeed, the best thing about the book is the intelligence with which the author deconstructs all the private and public myths that seem to be haunting his interlocutors, including the various servants of the Turkish state who take it upon themselves to set him straight about their country's history.

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  • Two teenagers have pleaded not guilty to attacking a man who was set upon outside his Hampshire flat after asking a group of people to stop making noise.

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  • But imagine the outcomes if Congress revoked the Fed's power to set interest rates and instead took it upon itself to enact them each quarter.

    FORBES: Tom Daschle

  • Joe Biden, has the ability to both set the economy once again upon the right path and the national-security credentials to lead the U.S. at a time when it's fighting two wars.

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  • When my mother, the woman who raised me to be a feminist, came to visit me on the set of my film she remarked that coming upon the set between takes she inadvertently looked around to find the director.

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  • Kimberley Clark is set to close its mill in Barton Upon Humber with a loss of 378 jobs.

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  • And with no Niklas Bendtner to call upon, Marouane Chamakh looks set to lead the striking line against Bolton at the Emirates with Andrei Arshavin offering support.

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  • Outside of the proxy arena, if a company engages in SCF and represents to the public that Shariah is a standard set by Shariah authorities relied upon by the company, has the company disclosed enough about Shariah to tell the whole story?

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  • Being set upon by a mob has to be one of the worst occupational hazards anyone can face.

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  • The most shocking act of brutality occurred in Lens when German hooligans set upon a French policeman prior to the Germany- Yugoslavia match, beating him into a coma.

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  • The WTO has set a deadline of July for ministers to agree upon an outline deal, aware that after that, the US will be focused upon forthcoming elections: and some fear if this window of opportunity is missed it could be months and possibly years before another trade deal can be done.

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  • But I just want to say that we are -- we will see what the situation is upon the reaching of the deadline set forward, and see what Kofi Annan has to say about Syrian actions and whether or not they have honored the commitment to withdraw their forces.

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  • Too young to have any say in the matter, Rudy was set upon by the neighborhood toughs, Dodger fans all.

    NEWYORKER: Mayberry Man

  • The New District, on the other hand, cannot rely upon political powers to help persuade multinationals to set up shop, and it has fewer tax advantages.

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  • From the shadow of the garage, I beheld the back yard, with its Norwegian maples, the tilted white birches, the ancient apple tree whose branches touched the windows of the family room, and for the first time, it seemed, I understood the green glory of this acreage as something indifferent to human life and quite apart from the Victorian manse set upon it.

    NEWYORKER: Wakefield

  • The Tories retort that co-ops would have to meet the delivery targets set out in the contracts they agreed upon with commissioning bodies such as local councils and NHS trusts.

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  • The role of NACTE to set national standards and undertake accreditation of teacher education programmes was agreed upon.

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  • Novak relied upon a single break in the deciding third set to wrap-up the match and earn his quarter-final place.

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  • "I want to maintain the high standards that I set myself last year and build upon them, " he told the club's website.

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  • Not a chance -- it's time to pull out your coaster-sized Epiphany One Puck, set a cold brew upon it, and connect your phone for some juice.

    ENGADGET

  • "The entire international civilian presence and mission composition in Bosnia is predicated upon SFOR fulfilling the role that it has been set out to do in Dayton, " he said.

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  • If Western consumers demand organic food among their imports, is that foisting an inappropriate standard upon growers in poor countries, or is it potentially helping to set better standards for farmers' health and welfare in the exporting country?

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  • " Shortly before his death in 1928, Barron encouraged the Journal staff to go beyond basic facts: "What I want you to remember in respect to wisdom is that more and more we are called upon not only to be the gatherers of facts, but to set forth intelligence regarding those facts.

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  • One of Sharif's first moves upon becoming prime minister was to disband a military council that had been set up a few months earlier to "advise" the government.

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  • Treyarch is an industry-leading game developer, wholly owned by Activision Publishing, Inc. whose previous game Call of Duty: Black Ops set an entertainment launch opening record upon its release in 2010 and continues to be one of the best-selling games of all time, according to NPD and GfK Chart-Track.

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  • You can set up the trust during your lifetime, or you can engineer it to take effect upon your death.

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  • They were highwaymen, who set up illegal checkpoints, charging "road taxes" from anyone unlucky enough to stumble upon one of their roadblocks.

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