The three men were knowledgeable, responsible, andhard-working, but what stands out even more is the intensity of their commitment to the search.
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This is an ambitious andhard-workingbook that incorporates reference to a huge range of theoretical perspectives.
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When individuals make a science of finding mates and succeed in raising smart,hard-working, and beautiful children, their neighbors are quick to cry foul.
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They are nice,hard-workingpeople, yet they live in misery, they are told.
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When would there be another gathering of suchhard-workingdelegates, with so much public attention, and afterwards, so great a claim to popular mandate?
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He is perhaps not a very strong man, but he ishard-working, wellinformed, and fair-minded.
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The message of the poem, stated in the last stanza, is clear : learn from the blacksmith to fashion each ' ' burning thought and deed ' ' into a solid, honest,hard-workinglife.
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This was ahard-workingbody.
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Thehard-workingmutualist patient uses his illness and suffering to create something - a narrative that bears witness to his experience or a tool in his struggle with suffering.
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Thus, in an effort to become ahard-workingminstrel and build a band, he endlessly tried to break the mould of his songs and make every rendition original.
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American vacationers seek, she argues, to combine enjoyment with self-improvement, or rather need to present themselves, as her title indicates, ashard-workingeven when they play.
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We arehard-working, unpaid people, who have very many years of experience behind us.
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They consist ofhard-workingmen, who give their leisure hours to doing this work for the country.
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Surely he should realise that it is the responsibility of government to ensure that justice is done to thesehard-working, part-time students.
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We confidently predict that we will hear of yet higher taxes, yet more burdens onhard-workingfamilies and yet higher council tax levels.
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