The ordinary things of life cannot fall likemannafrom the skies.
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I am glad that he is looking for something to come down to him like some kind ofmannafrom heaven.
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I feel sure that these things do not fall likemanna.
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To some extent, at least, they were taken over by activists, to whom their outworn shibboleths were asmannafrom heaven, just ripe for picking.
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As we know, in court, definitions aremannafor lawyers.
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Again, before we ask ourselves whether this ismannafrom heaven, we have to set it against the financial disadvantages which the industry has been facing, and which are considerable.
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According to your logic, it would have been a bad thing for themannato have come down, because it would have caused unemployment among the nations.
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The problem at the end of this agonising period is that a weakened industry will be faced by an economy that is to receive an injection of fiscalmanna.
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To him this wasmannafrom heaven.
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They would not just be handling funds that had been dropped likemannafrom on high, which is what the regional arts associations are more concerned with.
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When it was first built in the late 1920s, it was regarded asmannafrom heaven by the unemployed and by the impoverished farms in the region.
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The documents did not magically appear in the prosecutor's office likemannafrom heaven.
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Dewfall and the phenomenon ofmannain the desert would have been known but revered as ineffable.
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Although desiring peaceful interaction and offering immortality and boundlessmanna, they are prepared for hostile action.
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Give unto us this day the dailymannawithout which he who labors most to move ahead through this harsh wilderness falls back.
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