retaking
present participle ofretake
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Bearing in mind the enormous cost to the community ofretakingescaped prisoners, will she look at the matter again?
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It deals largely with penalties, but included in the latter are options for requiring retraining or theretakingof the driving licence for substantial offences.
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Is that a circumstance which requires theretakingof the votes?
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The main safeguard is simply the fact of retention by the recipient without anyretakingby the sender for six months.
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Two tenants on the estate were imprisoned for contempt of court forretakingforcible possession of their holdings after they had been evicted for non-payment of rent.
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It is quite clear that the allowances made to men or women ought not to be so high as to prevent them fromretakingtheir places in productive industry.
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Imperial forces finally succeeded inretakingit by storm in 1636.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The government dispatched a force of 1000 armed officers to maintain order, but it was unsuccessful inretakingcontrol of the village.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, they have the option ofretakingthe previous elements if they wish.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His story ends with himretakinghis position, and is implied to have become a leader rather than a tyrant.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, they were unsuccessful inretakingthe city.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Rendering to standard images from raw sensor data allows more flexibility in making major adjustments without losing image quality orretakingthe picture.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Spice would return to form in 1987, with seven victories andretakingthe championship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Parliamentary forces and local troops then immediately besieged the castle,retakingit after five hours of fighting and reinstalling a garrison.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.American forces were unsuccessful inretakingthe positions where the artillery was overrun, suffering numerous casualties in several failed attempts to do so.
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