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1. ironing boards, a defunct Hoover and piles of dirty washing, nor
2. It matters not whether the „money" is expressed in cowrie shells or American dollars (Or does it?) One can"t help expressing concern over the now defunct Gold Standard
3. The empire is a defunct warrior aristocracy out of touch with the modern world
4. “And of course now we have no idea of where he went, except that his original plan is defunct
5. They ran off and eloped in 1971 which was a big deal since Peter was a rising associate in the now defunct D’Ambrosio crime family
6. The land had been clipped off the edge of a defunct mental hospital
7. Sci–Coll is defunct
8. Hunsaker and I flew to Chicago on a large jet, but then we transferred to a twin engine propeller plane belonging to long defunct North Central Airlines
9. Herb Fenster and Stan Dees, I was regarded by all of them as having been unfailingly “reasonable” and “fair” whenever the Contractor had merit to his case! This was evidenced repeatedly after Stu Platt, my first ACO, became Deputy Chief of the now defunct Naval Material Command (NAVMAT) and delegated settlement authority of less than $100k on builders’ risk insurance claims to “field counsel
10. The two suspiciously met in the early hours of the morning at the construction site of the singer’s defunct project
11. The Gaeans extricated him from the defunct machine and laid him on the cobbled pavement
12. Chris decided that the card must be really old and the business now defunct but for some reason he put the card back in his wallet and carried on with his work
13. You are probably fortunate to not have to listen to the defunct radio broadcast because had you been able to hear it, you wouldn’t have been able to drive a car for three hours afterward
14. He was fascinated by the uniforms and was even able to make an informed guess at the name of the defunct company represented by its badges
15. Two others were called to the scene and it was decided to roll the sick boy into the loose rug on the floor and place him into the armchair while a fire was lit in the small hearth in which the defunct heater stood behind the redundant gas heater which had been torn away from its fittings, coin box long broken on a frantic search for cash
16. Arkin ran his now defunct mining operations?”
17. Apart from being very handsome, the young man from the defunct Imperium ‘B’ had proved to be kind, compassionate and intelligent
18. Both boys wore royal clothes typical of the 15th Century and had gold neck chains supporting the blazon of the defunct Royal House of York
19. spiritual things is defunct
20. The announcement by the head stewardess of the passenger shuttle, who was like the rest of the crew an ex-employee of the now defunct Alpha Space Lines of Alpha Centauri A-IV, didn’t raise a single cheer among the 117 passengers
21. The KOSTROMA had been rightly considered as the nemesis of the defunct Earth Federation and the chief culprit in the fall of the Zembelo regime
22. ’’ Said soberly Watts as he remembered how his wife had been jailed, tortured and then executed by the Terran Internal Security Forces troopers that had taken Ares City at the start of the war between the now defunct Terran Federation and the Spacers League
23. defunct language facility in the right side of our brain, at least that is how he accounts for what seems to have been a real phenomenon,
24. When the Indian government blocked a WTO agreement by sticking to its stand on food subsidies, Modi admirer and right-wing economist Surjit Bhalla remarked angrily, ‘A leader, operating from a position of one of the most voted governments in Indian history, should be making policy with conviction, not emulating tactics of a defunct government
25. Many of these defunct accounts were Listed
26. Strategically this concussion has created a much bigger problem for Murdoch, particularly with his now defunct but much-publicized attempt to take over BSkyB, which was already under great scrutiny within the political and business fraternity
27. figures through a scam with a now defunct book club, and to have accepted a large advance from a
28. What if every Law ever passed could only be kept on the books and enforced for 7 years? Then any Law that proved to be unenforceable, bias, unjust, or just plain stupid; would become automatically defunct, and be automatically expunged from the record simply by being ignored
29. Filled with wandering idiots, all calling themselves: ‘Peter’ each claiming to be the one true ruler of the defunct Christian Church of Rome
30. In a week’s time the Shag & Golf had become defunct; no longer a living, thriving entity
31. with a local firm (now defunct)
32. Happy and fortunate were the times when that most daring knight Don Quixote of La Mancha was sent into the world; for by reason of his having formed a resolution so honourable as that of seeking to revive and restore to the world the long-lost and almost defunct order of
33. (As a matter of fact, most of the time of the defunct had been passed in helping himself, but Rushton said nothing about that
34. It was then queried whether there were any special desires on the part of the defunct and the reply was: We greet you, friends of earth, who are still in the body
35. O'Neill's popular funeral establishment, a personal friend of the defunct, who had been responsible for the carrying out of the interment arrangements
36. The earliest riser, coming forth in the dim twilight, would perceive a vaguely defined figure aloft on the place of shame; and, half crazed betwixt alarm and curiosity, would go, knocking from door to door, summoning all the people to behold the ghost—as he needs must think it—of some defunct transgressor
37. Chang renewed their acquaintance, and showed one of her defunct FBI cards, and it was all going as smoothly as could be, but still the woman wouldn’t give up McCann’s address
38. But the most interesting discovery he made was that the man had served as a substitute board member of a company – minor and long-since defunct – by the name of Bodin Construction & Export, which had dealt in “sales of construction materials”
39. At the other end of the corridor, next to the front door, was the latched cover of a defunct coalhole
40. Today, it’s defunct and sits behind a roller shutter to deter vandals
41. Even the defunct waterslide loop-de-looping in the distance was plugged with dirt
42. I reached Hannibal in twenty minutes, drove past the glorious Gilded Age courthouse that now held only a chicken-wing place in its basement, and headed past a series of shuttered businesses—ruined community banks and defunct movie houses—toward the river
43. The arrival of the Saumur banker for the purpose, it was said, of honorably liquidating the affairs of Grandet of Paris, was enough to avert the shame of protested notes from the memory of the defunct merchant
44. She took charge of the weekly accounts; she locked up the provisions and gave them out daily, after the manner of her defunct master; she ruled over two servants,—a cook, and a maid whose business it was to mend the house-linen and make mademoiselle's dresses
45. They hit the siren, and in less than a minute, Mobile 2-4 pulled up in front of the dismal and dilapidated entrance to 303 Seventh, the tilted sign of the defunct Driscoll Hotel hanging over the front door
46. To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication of parasites, to force the past on the present,—this seems strange
47. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was less homely than Mame Hucheloup
48. That is, using only “live” funds at the end of the sample overstates industry returns by 2% to 3% (because there are nearly as many defunct funds as live ones, and the defunct ones tend to have 5% to 6% lower returns than live funds)
49. This bias can be corrected by comparing the average return for both live and defunct funds if such data are available
50. Maryanne Reed allowed me access to her complete collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia, most of which was culled from the files of the newspaper Hollywood Citizen-News and the Woman’s Home Companion, both of which are now defunct