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"There's finally radar available, now that they can cast silicon here, but I had to rig up a lantern over the solar panel to run it in the dark
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He had to ask around and everyone told him to start at the river end of Industrial Way after looking at the size of his rig
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There were teams hustling thru here and the rockasaur with three kedas isn't a low-footprint rig
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As they went further along South Harbor Road, he worried that the cargo level wouldn't be tall enough to take the backbone of this rig
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He had all of Nightday to rig the crate for transportation, so he didn't try to get up early
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First he changed the wheels on the rockasaur because wider wheels put more surface on the soil than the huge but narrow wheels of the rough ground rig
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"The hillside they were cutting thru was made of them, I perfected this rig over about, let's see, maybe ten decades, maybe only four, but it was a length of time
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All I've done in these automatons is rig up a little fuller model of the social universe
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The straps… He’d forgotten to rig them to hold her limbless torso
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He said, "Me and my partner have 184 total ports to rig," he said
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It was his improvised rig that messed up the Chief’s neural interface with her limbs and put her out of action
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“You know Kate, I’ve been thinking about those beasts,” Steve began as he was pouring honey on his second plate of biscuits; “maybe I could rig up some kind of a warning device
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‘We can rig up some tarpaulins to keep the wind off and use those boxes for seating
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I've seen enough sail to guess what this rig is trying to do
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He had never seen a Bordzvekian rig before and didn't even know where it was from
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They had pretty much used up the subject of Vikenvor's rig by the time Yarin returned and Desa didn't try to find ways to prolong the conversation
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‘I could rig up the pump
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Though the word charity isn’t used in Hindu writings, the premise of giving and aiding others is prevalent within the Rig Veda, Thirukkural, Bhagawad Gita,
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And while you're at it, do you think you can rig a video feed? I wouldn't mind watching their progress either
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After pulling out a table from one of the private dining nooks, I was able to rig a bed for us both to lie down on comfortably
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In his infinite chicken wisdom, he would rig up a heat lamp and lower it down into the cage, letting it hover about 8 inches above the bottom where they would huddle together to keep warm and peep-peep back and forth, probably talking about what a lovely accommodation this heat lamp provided
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“Yes, sir! And it is quite an impressive rig we built for heating the water, if I do say so, sir,” he averred, with his toothy grin that was so perfect it looked artificial
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They had the whole rig going, where our experiments with radios, wireless, Morse, were somewhat lackadaisical
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There was a loud sucking noise and the toilet rig chewed down the tasty morsel presented to it
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I'm going to try to rig one of these blankets into clothes of some kind
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“I didn’t either,” he said, “but the DA says it’s so and that was enough to get an indictment when linked to the fact that she bought the headphones and had opportunity to rig them with the explosives
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Turning her rig around, she guided herself to the bathroom
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crossed her mind than the big rig began moving toward them
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So I had to rig something before showing up at the hospital to get it patched
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“Oh…well, could you rig the lines then?” At this point, I
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Of course he would rig the
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For some reason physical dice and cards seemed, to most gamblers, harder to rig than software, and since most of the players here were swindlers anyway they demanded nothing less
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Maybe this place was the management town—for people who could afford to keep a horse and rig early on, then a car later
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So they went to extraordinary lengths to rig a trial that resulted in the death penalty for an innocent man
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The main danger apparently was broken windshields from flying gravel, kicked up by the big rig trucks barreling down to and from the oil fields on the North Slope
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loaned him the money for his rig after he had decided he could make
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You pull into your driveway on your motorcycle, Boo, Jenny Kryss, and Richard sit semicircle around a telescope rig, the picture runs through lens mounted camera onto rectangular touch screen tablet in the middle of them
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Kaite out of the sunroof in the forward car, a magnetic mount straddles the hole, she steadies a heavy machine gun to the rig
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Abby mentioned it would take about four minutes to rig Alistair’s car that was insecurely parked in the Main State garage
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Marcum was in the back of the rig as Andrew was driving and David was in the passenger’s seat
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The huge rig roared and jerked towards the
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A dozen or more arrows still decorated his boat, and he managed to rig the tiller to self steer while he recovered the arrows that had struck into the wooden hull
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How To Rig An Election: Confessions Of A
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tungsten-7 drill rig with me, that should cut through any
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On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, an offshore drilling rig, resulted in an explosion and fire that killed eleven crewmen and could be seen thirty-five miles away
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In the lower left hand corner of the rig I would
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It was a really decent rig, I thought
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owned his own rig – an almost-new, International, eighteen-wheeler
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The drill rig was cleared away, and the excavated rock chippings were bulldozed into the hole
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Your everyday man off the street could probably rig that up
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In Nancy Laplante’s history, that led to increasing American involvement, including some very dirty play by the CIA to rig elections in favor of a series of corrupt, unpopular local politicians and generals whose only virtue was to be anti-communists
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information he had? Why had they placed his chair directly under a light, which they knew he could use to send flashing signals? Why had they pretended to rig the door, and then used fake explosives? Why had they let him see their license plate? It was almost as if they wanted him to be rescued and to tell the FBI about the tractor trailer
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“I know, sir” exclaimed the Chief “I could rig a line in my room with my Bosun’s call on the end and
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I can rig up a dais for them to jump from”
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The Rig Veda from India has it that before the
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outside of the oil rig to keep busy
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After nearly one hour of scanning the vent, Toru decided that they had enough data about it for the moment: a more thorough study would need a deep drilling rig, something that would wait another day
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television show “Myth Busters” when they used to rig up old
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Garcia’s secret base was an abandoned oil rig, far enough out at sea that land was not visible, even on the clearest of days at its upper most point
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Shot on a Canon 7D rig That should show you the power of how small technology can be
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the hill to his rig
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mustache and goatee, and told the man outside the rig that he would
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could’ve been a chunk of ice coming off another big rig
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Finally, after about an hour of studying the contents of his big rig,
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pened to his rig he didn’t know, but the Peterbilt tractor was his
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can tell you that I’m a truck driver who just had his rig filled with
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sure he had a legal Certified Big Rig Driver’s License for the State of
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the lawyer, he never would’ve gotten that rig out of that impound lot
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mention a big rig and a load of brand new automatic, hand-held ma-
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track and after the impound yard with the purchase of a new rig, he
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a way to rig an event—that wasn’t something he needed to
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the purchase of the big rig, fill it with gas, strap a trailer on
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Me and my two friends here” — he pointed to the two men with him — “were on a winter road driving to an isolated rig when we saw what looked like a windstorm coming at us
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When the Congress challenged his ‘idea of India’, Modi countered by unveiling his indradhanush (rainbow) of ideas by quoting from the Upanishads and the Rig Veda
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Especially important to the design of the test rig is the bouncing feature (damping coefficient) when hitting a solid or elastic surface [6]
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I going to send a message to the engineers and have them rig up a few of those, then transport them over to a few of the faster ships
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what we know as the Rig Ved, the Yajur Ved, and the rest, have all been
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tion of it in the Ved (Rig, 1
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“Throw him in that rig you stole and lock the door
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Olsen pulled up behind him, followed by a county rig
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For instance you could rig a second soda lid
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There was plenty of space for a full-sized rig!
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rig elections and take over
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Nguyen also taught them how to rig booby traps, from the simple punji and bamboo stake pits to the lethal Malay whip log, two large logs suspended from two opposite facing trees, when the trap on the ground was tripped the logs came together crushing the unfortunate victims, messy but very effective
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The jumbo tires on the rig then pulled
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The transport rig was little more than a cage on wheels, locking, with rails and a cover of canvas over the top
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He was actually only about fifty or so, with a silver beard that also shined like wildfire as the lights of Alvin Richardson’s big rig slammed directly into this old man so fast that Alvin couldn’t have seen the old man coming at him over the ridge
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Alvin never saw the old man coming, and he probably wouldn’t have known that he’d hit him at all if it weren’t for the sound of the man being struck down by the front of the rig
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It’s the cops! He rolled out of bed, whipped the sleep from his eyes, focused, ran his hands over his mustache and goatee, and told the man outside the rig that he would be, “Right outside!”
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The guy was just standing there! I mean, what else could he have done? He couldn’t have seen the guy through all that road glare was reflecting the setting sun from above his rig and also the glare from the windshields of the vehicles in front of him! How was he supposed to see the man, let alone be responsible for his death?
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“I can tell you that I’m a truck driver who just had his rig filled with powdered good, and not the kind that you put up your nose either
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They signed the title to the truck and all of its contents over to Alvin Richardson, who finished his business over at the Nevada State Department of Motor Vehicles with two hours of taking a battery of tests to verify his ability and ensure he had a legal Certified Big Rig Driver’s License for the State of Nevada
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If it weren’t for the lawyer, he never would’ve gotten that rig out of that impound lot so he could take the driving test
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Then he went up Route 66 to Chicago after dropping off that old gray big rig for The Striker, or better yet, Mr
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Stillwell started to set up the rig that would hold the harness and inflate the
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I've rigged cradles on ships and truss work to get it there
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John and Dave are asleep under the sail, which they have rigged up as a shade
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The Chief said, "Meester, you know there’s a real chance that even if you rigged all this up right and it works, we could still die
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Daniel had rigged a sort of cast on her wing hoping that the bones would knit
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“You think she rigged the bike?”
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When near the end of that summer it was varnished and rigged, the little family launched it for its maiden voyage
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Grimes, “don’t see much of it here, still Fizzicist did need a new gate, that one hinge affair he had rigged up was not a good idea
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“Wouldn’t whoever built it have rigged it to explode if it’s moved?” asked Susan
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“No, if they were careful they could have rigged this and closed the live door behind themselves
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” explained Mark, lovingly patting the electronic device he had rigged up from spare parts
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We will then wait for the water to be loaded onto the mules and escort them back to our lines the engineers have rigged some hooks which will allow the water cans to be filled quicker
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There was no change in either of them and I rigged uniform shelters to protect them from the sun
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Pinochet allowed a heavily rigged election in 1988
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His phone calls could have been rigged in such a way as to allow him to be in Washington at the time of the murder
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of the fish had been rigged
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Vrikop was quite a picture himself, having evolved on a planet where the atmosphere had a jelly-like consistency, which was why they always had the little bottle and nasal harness rigged on their faces
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He decided after cleaning to leave the tub rigged for a while
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The Major had had the square in front of the train station rigged with loudspeakers, to provide marching music
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rigged his past, and took the job with the Phoenix Armored Car
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light came from a few monitors that were rigged up to car batteries
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He must have rigged a bomb to destroy the evidence and not bothered to tell Pine
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The next morning, Silpitocle went ahead since we would be crossing one of the trade trails, and I made sure the men were rigged for silent marching
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the larger discarded food tins and rope he’d rigged it so that water
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and rigged it up in the barn
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For example, House Members have rigged the budget process
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Doc and Father Boward had rigged up a steam tent over the
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Father Boward rigged her up a cot of sorts next to Paul’s bed
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You the guys that put those rigged mortar rounds in the VC supply system? Don't you do assassination and counter-terror?"
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The F-4 was rigged that way
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Swann and Sheila rigged a couple of stretchers from hauberks and abandoned spears, and by means of gesture and example chivvied the carters into helping as bearers
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In fact, however, Jacob had rigged the switches to detonate hidden explosives which would completely destroy the facility and all those in it
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The floor of the corridor was glass as well and looking down Michael could see hundreds of containers in rows rigged to stainless steel pipes which seemed to run in all directions
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Of course, the democratic elections were rigged,
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It was rigged so it had three walls and a roof to protect us from the rain
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course, the democratic elections were rigged, for it
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at the casino was rigged and generally
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There was no power to it so I had rigged a
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rigged it with a PVC pipe running out overhead
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It was better than winning all of those rigged carnival games
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The raggedy carnival had been their home, Jexter their leader, but now it felt as if they’d fallen for one of the rigged five-cent games
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The voting system there was rigged to ensure that Unionist Protestants would always get the majority vote to anchor them to union with Britain
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On March 18, 1970, while he was travelling out of the country, Lon Nol was elected as the first president of the Khmer Republic in a blatantly rigged election
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which was obviously rigged to be remotely detonated!
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“They’d think you rigged it, Raines
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Next, I rigged a harness, put crampons on my boots and took up the line
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It is a rigged market
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Harold rigged up a canopy over her car seat to protect her from the
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The control suites had been rigged with explosives which the retreating operator would detonate as they left sealing off the route they had just used to escape
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He had rigged the sloop for
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process, except to say that the output system is rigged to fire the waste in a
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program is rigged after all
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“Bassam, maybe that bench was rigged into place
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Gore Vidal’s excellent novel, 1876, indicates that there’s nothing like a rigged election on the first centennial of a nation
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How many other elections were rigged, whether presidential or for other offices in government? Since any of these manipulations for victory involve the efforts of more than one person, once more we have to conclude that a conspiracy is involved
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The fight was rigged, as were most of them at the time, this would be the only loss on Bill’s record
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The $64,000 Question, which we not that long ago discovered was rigged
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Fishing poles were rigged at the end
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To hide the fact she had been in the car, she had rigged it to catch fire after 30 minutes, but Philippe regained consciousness as flames were burning his leg
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The light was electronically rigged to the priest‘s seat and the penitent‘s kneeler
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―No, he rigged a catapult and the killer fell into it
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It is probably rigged or something
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It is rigged with all those explosives
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There was a huge pallet of C4 with rigged timers and flashing lights
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It seems that Grobut has hidden the Eryx and rigged it with a timer-activated Tungan device which he threatens to detonate if we don't meet his demands
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Apparently Shoop had rigged
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entrance, rigged the main hal way with lasers that diced three people in a one-er
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’’ Replied Kaltigins in a calm voice, despite the fact that he was basically going to serve as the guinea pig for the rest of the squad, to find out if the airlock had been rigged with explosives or not
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He knew the ducts were rigged with intrusion sensors, but they were too dark inside for cameras
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These trucks were rigged
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Sure seems like a rigged system doesn’t it?
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“You have rigged the
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rigged car wash that still hung in the rafters of the surrounding
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that was rigged against me to begin with? If I were to do this I’d never be allowed to set foot on Vulcan again!” Tammas said, coming to the edge of his seat
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was rigged up to be carried by the bigger ship and became the basis of their
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crudely rigged neon tubes
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The Congress, in fact, had gone so far as to say that the exit polls were rigged and unscientific, and none of their leaders would participate in a TV debate on the findings
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He’ll even reinstate elections, even though they’ll always be rigged in his favor
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“This whole place is rigged with them
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The message of ayat Allah is “respect the result of rigged election; President Mahmood Ahmadinajat won in landslide victory of 75% in an areas expected to loose
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Laden with pyrine oil, the front hull of each fireship had been rigged to collapse upon impact
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Beside the bin I discovered a sound-system rigged to loop the recordings of shrieking demons
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fast but then knowing the Pryor’s, they would have rigged them so they
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The guiding social ethic of competing self-interest generating mutual benefits has been shown to be a rigged game: caste systems develop with the upper, top, wealthy, powerful class benefiting excessively compared to the hoi polloi
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If winning is all that matters, then games can be rigged and cheating is an acceptable strategy
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triumphed, but the applause that the line was rigged to trigger failed due to audience saturation
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He’d rigged up his own surveillance system in the tunnel, which ran directly beneath Kathy’s house, using her high tech security system to his own advantage, with a few invisible connection wires from various cameras
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As before, they will meet the two-leggeds in the caverns below their stronghold, and there they will allow themselves to be rigged for this monstrous desecration
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“I wonder if they rigged these things so that no one could actually win
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"What are you saying? The election is going to be rigged?"
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The animals were rapt as Mitch told about coming upon the large pickup, the two “large and scary” human hunters, how Mitch rigged the truck to explode with ammunition
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They rigged up a square sail with a boom below and a yard on top, and at last it was ready
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"I have read that about two thousand years ago the great scientist Archimedes rigged blocks and tackle that he had invented and those allowed King Hieron by himself to lift a fully loaded sailing vessel out of the water and onto a dock
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They scavenged part of what they needed and jury rigged the rest
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Captain Cummings had rigged his office so that everything said on the ship was being transmitted to the planet
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The entire capitalistic marketplace is rigged to prevent the consumer from buying anything that is both cheap and healthy
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The entire farce of consumer products and what is actually good for you, and actually healthy for you is a rigged, corrupt, lying pathetic joke
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Everyone knew that the judges, teachers that were randomly chosen, rigged the competition so the seniors could win, but this was just pitiful
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In that regard, corrections departments win like rigged lottery tickets
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They cannot choose anything, except what they are FORCED to buy: the rigged global international capitalist products that are sold all over the world
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While they discussed, doostEr was looking around and saw that getting the rockasaur into here would be a rigging job in itself
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They lived in the city, he'd done rigging at their workshop
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He and Taktor let the huge crate down onto the dolly and took the rigging down
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They turned around to see it over the backbone and the rigging
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The only crew remaining alive were those who'd found a corner to strap themselves in where they couldn't be taken overboard or battered with hunks of rigging still attached to the hull
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You have to pay attention now, I wouldn't want to be holding this handle if a bolt hit the rigging
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Jerry came up with rigging that they could use while flying
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Using Lady Jennie as a test dragon, they tried the rigging out on her
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The tower itself was surrounded by a scaffold exoskeleton, with rigging, ladders and several lift platforms providing transitions from one level to the next
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Even the thick rings of dwarven blue-steel seemed ready to snap as they kept the rigging air-bound
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The freighter’s captain was shouting orders to seamen in the rigging
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militia with his stones, she attached sails to the rigging
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From every part of the ship, the limited crew took positions in the rigging and anywhere else to observe
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As the battery on shore boomed out a farewell salute, the soldiers swarmed to the deck and rigging, and the air was rent with a shout of triumph from sixteen thousand throats
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Once back in control of his vehicle he began to race south towards Edinburgh using a map of the area he had memorised the previous day to the sound of horns rigging away sounding of their annoyance at him
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The fishing boat’s rigging had been shredded by the machine gun, and long lengths of line whipped out from its mast, cracking in the wind
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He had completed repairs to the flailing rigging before the storm had fully abated
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million had shown indications of “bid rigging” and that $7 million was squandered through overpayment
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They had the V-shaped hull and long keel and used the heavy ballast of the fuchuan but had the masts and rigging of the shachuan
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I noticed that the first huge ship was gone and the second one was afloat in a wet dock while the rigging and sails were being installed
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“I used my head—and I knew that I would be at better advantage in the rigging than on deck with the monster
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Somonik clacked his claws, and there was sudden silence as the sounds of the sea, the wind, and the creaking of rigging abruptly ceased
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The term “cutter” comes from England and was applied to Revenue Marine vessels because of the usual two-masted sail rigging, and the association of schooners with revenue collection as opposed to naval warfare
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Rigging: general term for ropes, chains and gear supporting masts, yards, booms, and sails
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Standing rigging are lines that provide support, but generally do not move
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Running rigging move and operate equipment
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She paced around me while I was rigging the sails,
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always reaching out to snatch at the rails or the rigging, often
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covering my head with my arms, convinced that rigging of some
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of the rigging that had blown when the gust front hit, a diagonal
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He had a torn cable in one hand – the rigging from the
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out a way to raise a sail with what little rigging was left
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rigging, waited for a moment, and then scurried to the foremast
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of its rigging still drooped sadly from its remains
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rigging, we could see that most of the stays and cables had
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with it the main sail, and all of the rigging, stays, cables and
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Prosecutor Parrish gets caught with his pants down blatantly rigging a false trial
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Rigging up a tele-
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Xiphias waxed gibbous above them, sending silvery shadows through the cables, sheets and shrouds, antimony sprites that seemed to man the rigging with quicksilver limbs
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Shrieker birds circle overhead and settle on the rigging, glad of a rest after flying for long hours over their sushimi-bar sea
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(Am I right, Brandy?) It was too risky for women to be onboard ocean-going vessels what with their breasts getting tangled up in the rigging, getting pregnant by pirates and attracting sharks with their constant menstruating and all
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needs the rigging that goes with it
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is the rigging: how bright it was,
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‘Goddess of the Sea’ had 4 masts, miles of white rigging and an overall length of 307 feet
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It did not come with the torture of the citizens, their treatment as ciphers, it did not come with the rigging of elections, it did not come with the falling standard of living, with the few fabulously rich
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Men were moving quickly all along its decks and in the rigging overhead
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The crew roared out in approval as they broke up and started making their way along the ship’s rails and up into the rigging to make way with the ship again
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its side pelted by loose stirrups and rigging
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courteous with the rigging
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dressage of some new standing rigging and had spent the last week at sea putting her
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"So urgent is it," answered Sancho, "that if they were for my own person I could not want them more;" and forthwith, fortified by this licence, he effected the mutatio capparum, rigging out his beast to the ninety-nines and making quite another thing of it
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But hardly had he sallied forth from the inn when it struck the curate that he was doing wrong in rigging himself out in that fashion, as it was an indecorous thing for a priest to dress himself that way even though much might depend upon it; and saying so to the barber he begged him to change dresses, as it was fitter he should be the distressed damsel, while he himself would play the squire's part, which would be less derogatory to his dignity; otherwise he was resolved to have nothing more to do with the matter, and let the devil take Don Quixote
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Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance
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necessaries for rigging me out, as they termed it, completely
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"and I love it as if it were my own flesh and blood! Aboard a conventional ship, facing the ocean's perils, danger lurks everywhere; on the surface of the sea, your chief sensation is the constant feeling of an underlying chasm, as the Dutchman Jansen so aptly put it; but below the waves aboard the Nautilus , your heart never fails you! There are no structural deformities to worry about, because the double hull of this boat has the rigidity of iron; no rigging to be worn out by rolling and pitching on the waves; no sails for the wind to carry off; no boilers for steam to burst open; no fires to fear, because this submersible is made of sheet iron not wood; no coal to run out of, since electricity is its mechanical force; no collisions to fear, because it navigates the watery deep all by itself; no storms to brave, because just a few meters beneath the waves, it finds absolute tranquility! There, sir
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A ship's rigging would have been unusable, because all its tackle would have jammed in the grooves of the pulleys
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And yet in the midst of this turmoil, the Nautilus lived up to that saying of an expert engineer: "A well–constructed hull can defy any sea!" This submersible was no resisting rock that waves could demolish; it was a steel spindle, obediently in motion, without rigging or masting, and able to brave their fury with impunity
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The cold wind seemed to blow colder there than outside the gate; and it made a shrill noise in howling in and out at the open sides of the brewery, like the noise of wind in the rigging of a ship at
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WELL, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time
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Nevertheless, without going into the minutiae of the business, the eloquent fact remained that the sea was there in all its glory and in the natural course of things somebody or other had to sail on it and fly in the face of providence though it merely went to show how people usually contrived to load that sort of onus on to the other fellow like the hell idea and the lottery and insurance which were run on identically the same lines so that for that very reason if no other lifeboat Sunday was a highly laudable institution to which the public at large, no matter where living inland or seaside, as the case might be, having it brought home to them like that should extend its gratitude also to the harbourmasters and coastguard service who had to man the rigging and push off and out amid the elements whatever the season when duty called Ireland expects that every man and so on and sometimes had a terrible time of it in the wintertime not forgetting the Irish lights, Kish and others, liable to capsize at any moment, rounding which he once with his daughter had experienced some remarkably choppy, not to say stormy, weather
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On winter afternoons he moves among the antennas like a sailor through rigging
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At the shell houses on both sides of the river, boys finished rigging their shells
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They discussed boat design and rigging techniques, debated racing strategy, recounted past victories and defeats, and analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of other crews and coaches
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In the shell house, where he was checking the rigging on the Husky Clipper one final time, George Pocock paused for a moment and realized with sudden pride that, out of old habit, he was standing bolt upright, listening to “God Save the King
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Like Dahrand Rohsail earlier, he stood in Broadsword’s mizzen rigging
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The deck was littered with broken rigging and broken men, although there were remarkably few of the latter, given how long the engagement had raged
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Other galleons’ captains had had the same idea earlier, but anyone who got close enough to use the short-ranged anti-rigging ammunition had to come close enough for Dreadnought’s six-inch guns to demolish his ship even more rapidly than he could take down her rigging
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More of the enemies crowding in around her were staying in action longer, getting off more fire of their own before they could be crippled or driven off, and her rigging had already been severely damaged
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The glow reached upward, gilding her lower masts and rigging with a faint patina of gold, and he grunted in satisfaction
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Peter Leeson thinks he knows the answer: “priestly rigging
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Some Men were equipp’d with Boarding Pikes to cut thro’ the Enemy’s Rigging (as well as their Nets and Bulwarks), others hurl’d Stinkpotts at the Prey—homemade Crocks of Sulphur with a horrible Smell—or homemade Grenades of Pistol Shot and old Iron
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Those of us still aboard the Hopewell duckt below the Waists and pray’d that the Boat should arrive at the Pyrate Flag Ship before Lancelot’s Men destroy’d our Rigging utterly in their o’er-zealous but misguided Revenge
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’Twas determin’d that as soon as we could repair the Rigging of the Hopewell and capture fresh Provisions, Water, and e’en Men from some outward-bound Slaver, our Pyrate Flotilla should head across the South Atlantick for the Sugar Isles
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It proving impossible to repair the Hopewell’s Rigging without putting into some friendly Anchorage, we captur’d another Ship instead, a broad-beam’d English Flute call’d the Speedy Return, and sank the Hopewell without further Ado
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I would scramble up the Masts to cut away the Rigging, and disable the Prey, making good her speedy Surrender
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Sev’ral of our Black Brothers ran to wedge the Cassandra’s Rudder, whilst Littlehat and Caveat and Puck swung their Boarding Axes at Cassandra’s Rigging, bringing down both Rope and Sail as well as the Tars who clung there in Terror for their Lives
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He resorted to such blatant vote rigging to win the 1977 elections that protests erupted on the streets and the army decided to get rid of him
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Marcos tried to catch his opponents out in 1986 by suddenly announcing an election (on American prime time television, would you believe!) and rigging the result; unfortunately Mrs Aquino declared that she had won, and most foreign observers agreed with her
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Someone came down from the rigging and landed next to me in the basket
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The lowest tip of the city was mostly dark, with the exception of the lanterns illuminating the rigging of a clipper ship docked at a wharf-side warehouse
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From the people we trust to manage our financial future? From the brokers who sell us expensive mutual funds? From the managers themselves, who play legal but shady games to line their pockets? From the high-frequency traders who are “front running” the market and pinching millions one penny at a time? In the last couple years alone, we have seen rogue traders cause billions in losses for banks; large firms such as MF Global misappropriate client funds and ultimately declare bankruptcy; insider trading convictions from one of the world’s largest hedge funds; and bank traders criminally prosecuted for rigging LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rates), the world’s most widely used benchmark for short-term interest rates
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All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a green cap; he was a life convict
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blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was recalled
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Logs and branches of trees went floating by now and again, and land birds flew out to them and rested in the rigging
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To Doc’s friends Mack and the boys mentioned the rigging of the lottery, but to strangers—who cared? It was a perfect example of the collective goodness and generosity of a community
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“His month on the rigs,” she said, a wistful look in her eyes
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There are unconfirmed reports on attacks against oil rigs in the past
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If the leftist does not have to see those nasty ole oil rigs and pipes and such, then it is better for them
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We know that 23,000 high paying jobs were lost during that time and we don‘t yet know how many drilling rigs were moved to other locations
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The idled 33 drilling rigs have been operating for years without safety problems and the new rules are just another opportunity for the government to reduce our oil output
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What struck us often is that some of the big rigs, like fifth wheelers, would back into a camping spot and as soon as they were situated the occupants would come out, walk their little dog on a leash around the campground and then go back in
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Due to the washouts several big rigs got stuck for days until the road could be cleared
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Eckhart looked out from the cabin of the ‘Seabird’ as it ploughed its way through choppy waters towards the Texas coastline where they set up the fishing rigs and weighed anchor about two miles out of Galveston
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I have seen too many drivers of these big rigs flying down the highway well over the speed limit
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that wouldn't touch the slippery NASCAR rigs with a ten-foot pole,
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Moments later, Murphy and the Colonel re-emerged carrying several more weapons, including two shoulder rigs with pistols
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that the Vatican and its cohorts choose which nations and groups will prosper or suffer and then rigs
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The same number as the original American highway, the celebrated Mother Road that George Maharis, as Buz Murdock, took as he tooled across the country in his Corvette, working on oil rigs and trawlers, breaking hearts and freeing junkies
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It’s called Black Gold and depicts the day-to-day activities of the roughnecks who man the oil rigs on three separate West Texas drilling projects
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Normally desolate, tonight Schwerin was impassable in both directions, cordoned off and hemmed in by twenty-odd police cars, three fire rigs, two ambulances, the fire investigator’s truck, the scene-mobile, and the coroner’s van
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While the fire burned, a man sat in his car, videotaping the images in his rearview mirror—the rigs pulling up, the firefighters boiling out, trying to do the dangerous and impossible, to knock down the inferno even as two other suspicious fires burned only blocks away
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We edged our car into the pack of sheriff’s cruisers and fire rigs, all of which had been on the scene for hours
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Nabors, which enjoyed strong finances, was able to acquire a huge fleet of oil and gas drilling rigs on a bargain-basement basis, in great part because virtually all its competitors had questionable financial strength
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The credit needed to fund the new rigs is not available and the end result will be stagnant supply, if not a fall in supply, in the coming years
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One was former army and the other had spent eight years roughnecking on oil rigs
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And what if other weather extremes forced a blazing hot summer or frigid winter upon us at the exact same time that gas production was struggling? Suddenly, drilling rigs were being contracted at a furious pace, and gas producers were sucking as much gas as they could from the ground
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The conventional drilling rigs that once dotted the landscape in West Texas lie idle, having been replaced with new-fangled pressure pumping equipment
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According to the Baker Hughes rig count, an important barometer of oil field service activity, there were approximately 2,300 drilling rigs active in North America by the end of 2008