First, since medicine advances too fast for any politician to keep up, the reformers will cast in stone a set of standards that will be out of date before they are even passed into law.

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Look and you spy a cherub, cast in white stone, dancing on a street corner.

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They want the Kremlin to pay for a full-size statue - a tribute cast in stone to the men who lost their lives.

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Putting up the cast stone is a snap.

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Cast from white stone, it is a vivid allegory of the immortal soul and depicts an angel hoisting the soul heavenwards while discarding the earthly body.

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His still delicate heart came to a stop, as if suddenly cast in stone, only to shatter into pieces when it came charging back.

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Whether it's an iPhone at work or a copy of Sports Illustrated at home, let he who is without a magazine in his bathroom cast the first stone.

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This is a situation where the first stone simply must be cast by someone other than the lords of baseball.

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The bath in my room had a deep cast-iron tub and floors laid with large, pale-gray stone tiles that Kime reclaimed from an embassy in Alexandria a few years ago.

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If you must cast your summer and back-to-school retail strategy in stone, then make sure you also have a blank slate in your back pocket.

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