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One of the few things the French make on a grand scale. Artistically done, too, as if they cherished a deep affection even for the symbol.

It seemed to me a fine thing that the pilot could do as he pleased, without asking so grand a captain's permission.

But all I could see was that this was a grand chance to test the accuracy of my work, of my hobby.

Meanwhile, negotiations over a "grand bargain" to eliminate America's gaping deficits seem to hinge on sweeping tax reform.

Laurie: Well, it's been a perfectly wonderful evening, George. It was grand of you to ask me out.

So all this turned out to be a grand charade -- and politicians are great at charades.

We've always been told our kids and grand kids are going to have to pay for our reckless spending. Now WE have to pay? !

Bent over a Grand Prix, I glanced from Nick to Mary Ann for signs that everything was, all of a sudden and horrifically, out in the open.

A second mate would be listed after all the children, grand - children, and later progeny of the first mate were listed.

The general manager of the company made a grand financial mistake and was sent into prison.

He went into real estate, eschewed Park Avenue, and established himself in a storefront right on the Grand Concourse.

The effort expended in the name wars would be better spent on smartening up what was once a wonderfully grand provincial metropolis.

Freshmen in college to meet the meeting, our principal, said the arrival of our grand welcome, and wish we had a wonderful college life.

Every woman I see leaves his office with a beatific smile on her face, as if she was in the throes of a grand passion.

But music made of works up to climax and ceases. The Grand Canyon is all climax, a chord echoing into eternity.

I happened to pass by the Grand Theater and see the poster of her solo concert this afternoon. You know what? I'll definitely go for it.

And together they walked, he and his wife and young son and daughter, 60 blocks or so up to Grand Central and safety.

At my first job out of university , I was only * twenty grand a year .

Whether or not a dramatic historical tale can preserve the allure of these grand old dames of Parisian tourism is up for grabs.

Each year, it takes place in a grand Capitol Hill auditorium full of members of Congress and a hundred or so Washington notables .

In Garbage Hole on Grand Bahama, Kenny Broad squirms through a narrow section, spooling out a guideline for a safe return to the surface.

Bettany Hughes: It could be, then, that this is just a moral fable, that the Atlantis story is just one grand political allegory?

'It's just not clear to me that the Chinese government is able to direct these things in such a grand strategic sort of way, ' he said.

In the early years, it was unclear how much Mr. Gates was pursuing each opportunity as it came, as opposed to carrying out a grand strategy.

It was our hope that by this time the grand movement would have taken place but as you can see this has not unfolded.

And Edgar Kraft himself was nothing but a part of this grand design, nothing but a cog in a gigantic machine.

There was a sense of a grand reunion in the midst of this historic event.

But how much is 300 pounds in the grand scheme of things?

Grand as Jim's watch was, he sometimes looked at it with shame on account of the old leather strap that he used instead of a chain.

Sophorae shade of a grand opening, which looks like the turnover of the spray, near look like a powder snow Yingying, gratifying!

So they gave a party of their own, and they made it a very grand party indeed, so that it might be better than the one Curly Tail had given.

In fact, cut-throat competition at home is at least as responsible for driving Chinese firms overseas as Beijing's grand vision.

His red face was convulsed with anger, and the Grand Army man ducked his head when he saw the spark in his blue, bloodshot eye.

Mr. Obama got an earful when he met state and parish officials the next day on a visit to Grand Isle, a barrier island south of New Orleans.

I wonder how the base ball came out in the grand leagues today, he thought.

At this point, the grand executive inquisitor looks at you and asks a question for which you have no answer.

After a year of dithering, he unveiled his own grand plan for reforming health care on the eve of the summit.

Away for a year of hard work, but also ushered in a new years, I wish you in the new year, the grand plans, plenty of money!

After several years of development, City Grand Property has become one of the largest, expatriate oriented Real Estate Agencies in Shanghai.

Poor little Fanny! It went to my heart to adopt the grand air with her, and tell her to call me "sir" .

I'll do everything possible to be present at my home grand prix next week and will consider every possibility that is at least competitive.

CEO Tony Hsieh has grand ambitions to grow Zappos into a big company that spans several industries. But he never wants it to feel big.

Mr Obama and his Republican adversaries have previously opened the door to such a grand bargain.

Voltaire waged the splendid kind of warfare, the war of one alone against all; that is to say, the grand warfare.

For me a win against Roger is always very, very special but I would love to win any grand slam against someone in the final. (laughs).

"If this can't be resolved, we will have to say Good-Bye to you & James will lose his Grand-Parents, " her mother wrote.

A federal grand jury in New York has heard evidence, say people familiar with the matter.

Gather asmany roses as you possibly can, before time runs out for you on this grand land.

In the two or three months before a new election can be held, he might try to put together a "grand alliance" of the main parties.

As he tilted his little wooden platform over the curb, his eyes met mine. He greeted me with a grand smile. "Good morning, sir. "

After such a grand entrance, it seemed the scaredy-cat was more than happy to make an even quicker exit.

With him in the side I reckon we would have won the Grand National and the Boat Race.

Leo is one sign that loves to make a grand entrance, and with Mars in your sign all month, you'll be able to do it with style.

Li Yan grand can have a definite object in view, oneself " shadow enemy " choose go up in body of a few main competitors.

Originally, Grant was the only Grand Admiral not given a first name, though Wallace has said that this was unintentional.

Grandpa stepped up to my grand-mother's casket and, taking a shaky breath, he began to sing to her.

Laugh at stupid jokes. Apologize. Tell someone how much they mean to you. It's the small moments that make life grand.

Gasol was an All-Star once before in 2006 with Memphis, but it was not such a grand time.

My daughter, Sidney, and I were in a rental car the size of a Pepsi can heading from Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon when it happened.

They would have been the first pair of men to meet in the finals of all four Grand Slam tournaments.

Last thing I ever saw was C shop going up in one grand smudge, and that damn gas pouring in at all the busted windows.

If you desire to see the end of your affliction , set out for Grand Cairo, where great prosperity awaits you.

In between changing diapers he's been able to compete in two meets this year: the Long Beach Grand Prix and a local meet in Irvine.

As the Grand Masters fell, they drew upon the flower kingdom's light in an attempt to save themselves and our light diminished as a result.

I was on an information raid once, back when we were trying to get data on Grand Admiral Makati out of the Boudolayz library. . .

What we have extant right now, at the beginning of this system, is the U. N. Security Council as a grand jury. What can they do?

The French Open championship on the clay courts of Roland Garros is still the only Grand Slam title to have stayed beyond his grasp.

For the creation of wealth, then, --for the existence of a wealthy people and a wealthy nation, --intelligence is the grand condition.

Emboldened by his welcome, Mr Gomaa offered to help Britain set up a post like his own: state-certified grand mufti.

The Sky Corps was the military group of clone jet troopers established during the Clone Wars to serve in the Grand Army of the Republic.

Among them, there was a CEO of a grand German firm, who always had to go back and forth between Tokyo and Osaka, for business reasons.

"I'm going to see my new grand-daughter, " he said.

I feel very depressed, later in the next I began to convince parents understand that work is the grand leveller.

Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.

I think of Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.

I feel like if I once turned loose people would begin to call Senator Beveridge the Grand Young Sphinx of the Wabash.

Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

Hunger and the piercing cold accomplished what enemy armies had not been able to do-defeated the Grand Army.

It was the last grand station to be built before America's passenger railways went into what you might call terminal decline.

But you were so cute, trying to impress me with William Blake and all your grand plans.

It was a sort of worship in two steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for Thenardier.

Fifteen grand buildings, including a new foreign ministry and a constitutional court, were to be built from scratch.

When a defendant is charged with a misdemeanor, a local judge or magistrate will fulfill a role comparable to that of a grand jury.

The broad land along the Huangpu River is being used for a grand- scale construction project that even includes a large new airport.

He proposes a grand bargain: swap Britain's veto over European integration for the right to opt out of any EU policy area.

I wonder how the baseball came out in the grand leagues today, he thought.

Gloria: Yeah, what you got to do is you gotta go over to Grand Central. And then you gotta take the metro north train north.

Back in Grand Island, though, there seems to be no slowdown.

Now in economics, at least in Micro-economics, would such a grand unified theory appear?

In a huge sideways jumps called a grand jete, a skillful ballet dancer seems to float fro an impossible length of time.

When a defendant is charged with a misdemeanor, a local judge or magistrate will fulfill a role comparable to that of a grand jury.

The broad land along the Huangpu River is being used for a grand- scale construction project that even includes a large new airport.

He proposes a grand bargain: swap Britain's veto over European integration for the right to opt out of any EU policy area.

I wonder how the baseball came out in the grand leagues today, he thought.

Gloria: Yeah, what you got to do is you gotta go over to Grand Central. And then you gotta take the metro north train north.

Back in Grand Island, though, there seems to be no slowdown.

Now in economics, at least in Micro-economics, would such a grand unified theory appear?

In a huge sideways jumps called a grand jete, a skillful ballet dancer seems to float fro an impossible length of time.

The moment a protesting Irish priest took to the circuit, it was clear that this wasn't going to be a normal grand prix.

Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris.

In a huge sideways jumps called a grand jete, a skillful ballet dancer seems to float fro an impossible length of time.

The moment a protesting Irish priest took to the circuit, it was clear that this wasn't going to be a normal grand prix.

Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris.

Pls take a moment here and evaluate realistically some subsets of your grand and ambitious ideas that might be most doable.

Obama held a grand day honors at the White House ceremony, and one by one each of the Medal of Freedom winners hung around the neck.

we might have more of the grand rhythm and majestic tempo o the Ganges, flowing slowly and eternally into the sea.

Almost a year and the flow of the Yellow River is a modern Grand Canal -- diverting water from the broken line project will be built .

Two years later the families of the victims filed suit against the company that made the massively popular video game Grand Theft Auto.

Those broken newspaper pieces seem to tell us that no matter a historical event is grand or negligible , it will be lost in history .

The order of the stripes, I'm sorry to say, had no particular grand plan other than I liked them that way.

Those broken newspaper pieces seem to tell us that no matter a historical event is grand or negligible , it will be lost in history .

The order of the stripes, I'm sorry to say, had no particular grand plan other than I liked them that way.

A young man is forced to join his grand father in a search for his father, who has fled with the body of his deceased wife.

From the vantage of adulthood, and with some retrospective guilt, his son loved him for this grand gesture.

He feared us so much--and with reason -- that he caused himself to be represented as dead, and had a grand mock-funeral.

It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel and next day he asked me to dine with him.

Nobody, however, can reasonably complain any longer that they do not see how the parts of Mr Sen's grand enterprise fit together.

Angolan Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos held a grand ceremony to see him off at the parking apron of the airport.

There was no child that did not know her grandparents, her great - grandparents, and their parent and grand- parents before them.

"What a charming grand seigneur , " he said, "and what a fine air he had with his blue ribbon! "

"What a charming grand seigneur , " he said, "and what a fine air he had with his blue ribbon! "

Just then Richness was passing by in a grand boat. Love asked, "Richness, can you take me with you? "

Old city gate Tall and firm old city gate seems to be grand as it used to be.

There was no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary lucky break, no miracle moment.

What's more, no matter how ambitious he could be, he might just be too weak to carry out any of his grand plans.

Pay her to do a hugely grand- sounding yet utterly peripheral job where she has no one reporting to her .

"We must have a grand christening for her, " said the King , who was delighted to have a daughter.

She was in the owner and has many prominent sons and grand sons. She posed solemnly again and said a few words to me.

Silverstone has not closed the door to hosting the British grand prix beyond this season, the president of the circuit-owning BRDC insists.

America, after all, has always been a grand experiment in compromise.

The beliefs of its two main political parties are often hard to tell apart. Both their leaders are grand sons of (rival) prime ministers.

Q. Do you feel after a year back in the game you're really ready to challenge for another Grand Slam title?

The point of the Grand Challenge was not to produce a robot that the military could move directly to mass production, Tether says.

From this bird's eye view, you can understand that this time span is composed of a sequence of what many on your planet call Grand Cycles.

Grand old trees graced the landscape , and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance .

The poor performance of the two big parties may make a grand coalition between them more likely after the forthcoming federal election.

The company rewarded him for his years of service with a grand farewell party and several presents.

And there were the most sort of circuitous grand plans that had to do with long-term infrastructure and rebuilding the entire city.

This grand flag is so big on a building in New York that it had to be continued around the corner.

Felipe, your best result ever at the last Grand Prix, how does that affect you in terms of your spirit and your confidence?

It ends on a positive note with the arrival of a new born grand-daughter, representing the next generation of this very Chinese family.

I can spare two hundred a year for a grand purpose like this.

He was rewarded for his years of service to the company with a grand farewell party.

It's not always about the grand gestures, we both came to see, but rather the accumulation of little gestures.

Shall I get a room for you at the Grand Hotel, where you stayed the last time you were here?

My grand father was a police officer during Nationalist Regime and my grand ma was an orphan adopted by a French family in Shanghai.

The Grand Senoussi was one of the first authentic Arab national rulers and opponents of European colonialism of the modern era.

He felt that Dobby deserved just as grand a funeral, and yet here the elf lay between bushes in a roughly dug hole.

My personal experience, they will pay for a grand funeral and cry in front of all relatives to show how much they love the dead relative.

I had read a lot about them in the newspaper. Now I was finally able to see those grand buildings with my own eyes. I was so thrilled.

The grand jury normally hears only that evidence presented by an attorney for the government which tends to show the commission of a crime.

He said that he had a warm and grand reception as soon as he arrived in Cuba and he was greatly moved.

When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat.

The landscape is distinctive too, with grand castles and half-timbered houses topped by storks that look like the set of a Disney movie.

With no real data due up in London, the grand finale of the week will be US advance GDP with a forecast of 3. 5% due at 13: 30GMT.

The prime minister has earned something of a reputation for grand gestures and promises with little follow-through.

The price China pays is often dismissed as inconsequential: what are a few billion in the grand scheme of things?

They will be small, but I will try to make them grand. Even if it's just a spoonful of pudding.

There may have been some warrant for Roosevelt's suspicions, but he was more aware than his son of the ambiguities of the Grand Alliance.

Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, "Richness, can you take me with you? "

In that scenario, the state just might achieve the grand bargain that seems to be eluding the rest of the country.

How pompous some of the grand passages appeared; and how weak others were in which he thought he had expressed his full heart!

We set out on Saturday morning, armed with the name of a grand old coffee place.

We have nothing to hide or hold back from you, and indeed we dearly wish to share this grand adventure with you all.

One of the things I am most thankful for is the fact that I have grown up in a nation with a grand tradition of optimism.

One afternoon I was sitting in the lounge of the Grand Hotel when Burton came in and seated himself in the chair next to mine.

Unfortunately for the Dane, no one was talking about her snapping out of a much-maligned Grand Slam drought.

He was the only one of the four Grand Admirals aboard the second Death Star who did not escape its destruction.

while his wife anticipates a 'Grand Ensemble around the Union Jack' which to her is the figure of Empire.

She was, however, deserving of very great praise, especially for her care of the little sea-princesses, her grand-daughters.

During the early years of his reign, he was largely aided by his grandmother, the Grand Empress Dowager, Xiaozhuang.

In her second Grand Slam final of the year, Li Na was more composed and cognizant of the moment.

the count of san - felice announced a grand masked ball , to which all that were distinguished in rome were invited.

Miranda: You think a dozen roses and a card that says "Best wishes" qualifies as a grand gesture?

The Grand China executive insisted it had not simply stopped paying its bills.

It was as grand and terrifying as gathering a knife to him, a sword, as hugging the razor edge of the Waste.

Silverstone is a very famous circuit and the British Grand Prix is always an important appointment on the calendar.

The kind of beauty that makes the heart quiver is not bound to be grand.

He was born in the purple and was brought up in the grand palace, he had little idea what the world beyond him was like.

One of the Formula One races, the San Marino Grand Prix, is named after the state, although it does not actually take place in San Marino.

At the beginning of the end of the light all grand celebration, the years of the life will be turned into a memorial.

All this grand theorizing was not remotely what Sabrina, a slender 26-year-old with sexy librarian glasses, wanted to hear.

Greeting you upon arrival are grand mahogany gates fully integrated with a state-of-the-art multi-layered security system.

Vernor Vinge's stories and novels have always surprised and entertained me, and The Children of the Sky carries on that grand tradition!

In a recent celebrity Grand Prix he ran into a wall, taking Jason Priestly's car out of the race.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

Grand strategy is the collection of political and military means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security.

Didn't get up till midday the next day (obviously caused by jet lag and nothing else) and caught the river boat up to the grand palace.

Elle called us from grand central last night, But she never got off the train in greenwich. Have you heard from her?

Although he has previously explored such a "grand bargain" privately, he has never before laid out a credible formal plan for one.

Unfortunately (well, I guess in the grand scheme, fortunately), human users are not naturally bound to a fixed set of interactions.

That's great. It sounds like you've been doing well. . . I've got to go. Uh, Maria can call me at the Grand Hotel. See you later.

Grand Admiral Takel had an unexplained ability to predict the maneuvers of the enemy, using his Star Destroyer, Magic Dragon.

FLATOW: I'll tell you, that's just how people move through Grand Central. You know. . .

You know how it happens, the very week that I make a grand post about how I clean my house. . .

CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: A grand jury in New York recently charged a man and his wife with hoarding one hundred cats.

Third place in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa is the highlight of his final season with Benetton.

It is instructive that the 28-year-old Russian defeated all three reigning Grand Slam champions on his way to the year-end title.

We had a grand doctor from London once, who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well.

About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the grand events of small districts had taken place.

Changes in relative prices since the time of Verdi mean that grand opera is now very expensive to perform.

Normally they would try to impress me with an grand sales line when I picked up, but this one was different.

The design includes a grand green roof that, although it seems to slope at quite a precarious angle, is accessible for people to walk on.

The Japanese company also is the subject of an investigation by the Securities & Exchange Commission and a federal grand jury.

Richness was passing by lov tiffany & co outlete in a grand boat . love said, Richnesse , can you take me with you?

She became the only First Lady to be subpoenaed, testifying before a federal grand jury as a consequence of the Whitewater scandal in 1996.

The audience is glad to have an exciting night to see their fellow students, son or daughters, or grand-children performing.

In a parliament with five parties (counting the CDU and CSU as one) the only pair that can be sure of a majority is a grand coalition.

It was her fifteenth birthday and everyone gathered to hold a grand birthday party for her.

It was only a small cottage, really compared to the other large grand houses that we've seen, a bit like ours but tidier.

But a splintered electorate may still force her into a second unsatisfactory grand coalition.

'And their children also have children, ' said the old sailor; 'yes, those are our grand-children, full of strength and vigor.

as a pioneer of collaborative environmental management , leavitt helped clean up the air over the grand canyon.

he house is not grand or chic at all and certainly has no Renaissance-style traces.

and with some retrospective guilt, his son loved him for this grand gesture.

BMW did not say whether Kubica would be cleared to race in next weekend's U. S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis.

Mr Tusk has been unable to draw Mr Kaczynski into a live debate: the opposition leader prefers firing off grand statements at long range.

Tianjin, a famous tourism as one of the classic rock of the Grand Courtyard with its traditional Chinese architecture and famous.

But since Nadal has now beaten him in five of their seven grand slam final meetings, Federer needs to explore new avenues.

One explosion was heard near the city's port, and another near the Cinnamon Grand, a luxury hotel in the heart of the city.

But, just as he did with integration, Lewis is staking his future on a grand idea.

It is time to stop pretending that we are about to see a "grand bargain" for the eurozone in March.

After all is said and done, history is made up of "stuff" and is not just a grand scheme.

It looked so grand that when Rube asked Me. again if she could try my jewels on just for a minute, I offered her the pendant.

We all liked the place. There was a marketplace, a grand tower, with all these strong soldiers in it and there was the wall.

Nowadays many boyfriends are trying to kiss their girls in the same way not only in front of the grand V-J statue but around the world.

They're deceivers, is grand, is illegal, or they have no part moral character, but have ethics, their aim is not just for the money.

Look around you and accept that every soul you see was once like you, a grand Being of Light that existed in the higher dimensions.

and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his.

The individual policies do not add up to a grand design.

Yet because the two main parties disagree so much, the grand coalition has barely begun to tackle any of these.

That's not to mention the negative press that's sure to follow such a grand and global display of wealth in the midst of economic hardship.

The Praetorian Guard covered the Legate in pitch, set him on fire, and cast him into the depths of the Grand Canyon.

The Chongqing Grand Theatre in Chongqing is a part of a development that will also include skyscrapers and a science museum.

A consummate strategist, Grand Admiral Thrawn likened combat to art, and was an aficionado of both.

Warriner said the tour bus was returning to Las Vegas from a visit to the Grand Canyon on Friday afternoon when it crashed.

As the last grand lady left the school , she gave Trina an extra dollar for her work .

the grand staircase, I say, trickled incessantly into the place, like a cascade into a lake.

Water and wind created this smooth, heavily eroded terrace of barren rock known as the Esplanade on the north rim of the Grand Canyon.

That day, mothers are dressed in costumes, the embrace of the children in the capital city of Bangui, held a grand procession.

When we go home to see the favor of the parents are jumping, their mood had no less than a grand festival, ineffable feeling of happiness.

PC Waller, a 51-year-old father of two, said: "The pedal car grand prix is a fantastic event which brings the community together. "

Because Dubai is not rich in oil, it had to borrow heavily to pay for its grand ambitions.

Today, I can stand before you and proud to say that I'm now the winner of the Alifest Grand Award.

Our room was large and warm, with a Bechstein grand and a theatrical gilt mirror that hung at an ominous 45-degree angle over the bed.

We performed for the Sealord of Braavos once, and he laughed so hard that afterward he gave each of us a . . . a grand gift.

It was such a grand entrance for that monster, how did that come about?

While getting ready for the hotel's grand opening, Donald Trump was involved already in his next deal, the biggest one so far.

Another key feature of these grand-scale construction projects which must not be overlooked is their geographic centralization.

A decade later, a coy Monroe stands smiling on a Grand Central subway platform as a man to her left stares in bug-eyed disbelief.