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Lino is as thin as a whippet, all sinew and lean muscle, and dark with the sun.
BBC: Sardinia, land and sea
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Nixon can paint likable stage pictures with an effective emotional palette, but intellectual sinew and humor are not among her primary colors.
NEWYORKER: News from Nowhere
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Exxon strained every sinew to preserve gorillas' habitat and compensate displaced villagers.
ECONOMIST: Schumpeter: Companies aren��t charities | The
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Had the US moved its every diplomatic sinew to introduce a global instrument, one senses it would have been in place by now.
BBC: US and its airlines: Too much hot air?
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In reality, Hunt is straining every sinew to delay, if not block, the takeover whilst ensuring that he is not subject to judicial review.
BBC: Hunt looks to clarify advice on News Corp's BSkyB bid
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The line of sprinters in alternate lanes of red and yellow (USA in red, Jamaica in yellow) squeezed every sinew to keep up with the new pacemaker.
CNN: Olympic Bolt: Witness report of historic 100m
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There is no shortage of challenges, then, for the man who has accepted the Chancellor's rallying cry to 'strain every sinew' to get the economy growing strongly again.
BBC: Growing the economy: John Lewis' Andy Street
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Scott, all angles and sinew, looks poured into his clothes.
WSJ: Masters: Thumbs Up to a Great Duel��Adam Scott, Angel Cabrera
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We must strain every sinew to avoid this terrible catastrophe.
BBC: Peers debate financial stability and growth in the EU
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Baader meat is made using a machine from the Baader company in Germany and according to a spokesman, the device removes the membrane and the sinew and in the end "it is meat!"
BBC: Science & Environment
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During the two-year "peace process", IWC governments agreed new rules mandating they would strain every sinew to reach consensus where possible, and avoid going back to the years of pointless fractious discord.
BBC: Whaling: Chaos or compromise?
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Mr Hamilton said he did not regret bringing the case, because he could not have gone through life without "straining every sinew to do everything that was possible to bring the truth out".
BBC: Hamilton: I'm broke