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Postcards continued to be used by people of modest means to convey important family news long after telephones ceased to be a novelty.

The matter has ceased to be a mystery to us.

By travelling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceased to be a reality: you might just as well be dead.

She lived unknown , and few could known When Lucky ceased to be ; But she is in her grave , and , oh , The difference to me !

He never ceased to be amazed by how little they knew and how foreign the basic routines of school were to them.

The matter has ceased to be a mystery to anyone.

When sterling finally went off the gold standard in 1931, Bank of England notes ceased to be convertible into any other medium.

Why? Because their goals were made so long ago that it has ceased to be in their forefront.

You think of it as a continuity, for the mountain has never ceased to be.

He said the aristocratic way of pronouncing vowels had gradually ceased to be a class apart over the decades.

When it finally came, it ceased to be a dream and became my everyday reality. It was a moment that would determine the course of my life.

Iterator is so common that it has ceased to be a formal pattern at all; it is just a feature of the language.

By the middle of the 20th century, the Western concern for truth gradually ceased to be an asset and turned instead into a liability.

and if, in any of her changes, she had grown fainter or paler, she would have ceased to be herself- it would have been no longer Pearl!

The company has long ceased to be seen as a top innovator and its stock has languished.

The latter are not liable to contribute in respect of debts and liabilities incurred after they ceased to be members of the company.

Since, Kenobi reasoned, Anakin ceased to be upon the emergence of Vader, what he told Luke was true, from a certain point of view.

I began to dream, almost before I ceased to be sensible of my locality.

Much of the manipulations upon Earth separated time into distinct categories in which past, present and future ceased to be unified.

i experienced a strange feeling as the key grated in the lock , and the sound of his retreating step ceased to be heard.

But the state has, at least for the time being, ceased to be the world's dream factory.

They were faithful in their work and worship, but these had ceased to be motivated by love and had become wearisome habits and grim duties.

And then, within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be.

After the miners were found, their cause ceased to be simply Chilean as the drama was followed around the world.

What will he mean in a perhaps not too distant time when homosexuality has ceased to be a conversation stopper?

What are coyly refferred to as "homosexual acts" remain illegal in the state, and condom vending machines only recently ceased to be so.

When capitalism, the historic reference, ceased to be acceptable, the system was renamed.

When Barry ceased to be melancholy people began to wonder.

After the Bretton Woods system collapsed in 1971, trade imbalances ceased to be much of a constraint on the developed world.

It ceased to be the world's tallest in 1930 when the Chrysler Building went up in New York.

This feature maintains the availability of the table within a production environment after an existing index has ceased to be efficient.

The absurd is recognized, accepted, and man is resigned to it, but from then on we know that it has ceased to be the absurd.

and (4) where the registered trademark has ceased to be used for three consecutive years.

Once he was willing to feel his hurt, the lose of Jan ceased to be a threat.

After she ceased to be a girlfriend, K. decided never to have her hair cut again.

AJAX for network bandwidth ceased to be a problem, website speed no longer be a problem.

This will feel like a depression long after it has ceased to be one.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd. Ceased to be the Management Bank and the Accounting Arrangements were thus terminated.

While the Sumerian language ceased to be spoken after about 2000 BC, the influence of its written form (Cuneiform) is still felt today.

The result of such inflationary pressure is that language has ceased to be a store of meaning.

The previous year he had ceased to be chief executive after blunders had left angry passengers stranded during a spell of bad weather.

Morgan Stanley ceased to be a stand-alone investment bank in 1997 when it merged with the consumer finance company Dean Witter.

An extinct volcano has ceased to be able to explode.

And the adventures continued decades after she had ceased to be box-office gold.

There may be more arty, serious young photographers out there, but let's face it, Japanese culture has ceased to be arty and serious.

But the subtle tragedy that William Bolitho says lies in wait for all adventurers had overcome these men: they had ceased to be adventurers.

The Security Council has long ceased to be legitimate or effective, with little prospect for reform in sight.

It is generally assumed that dentition has ceased to be a predominant selection factor in the process of human evolution.

That the damage occurred after the insurance or guarantee ceased to be effective.

And borrowers did borrow more until their repayment capacity ceased to be credible.

They ceased to be reliable guides. Their teaching verged on the absurd and dishonest.

I never ceased to be thrilled by it all.

These market leaders not only lost pre-eminence but ceased to be significant players in their industries.

number of killed ceased to be matter for surprise.

The "ghost" ceased to be a terrible secret since it came to light.

Not only were other forms of dress now acceptable, but wing collars had probably ceased to be acceptable.

Businesses that have ceased to be carried on for 10 or more years.

Since he ceased to be an icon, Marx has become far more interesting.

When things disappear from your vision or your hearing, they have not ceased to be.

Indeed, although the Japanese have a reputation of being a nation of savers, this has long since ceased to be true.

Some of these resources have obviously ceased to be maintained since the release of the 2. 6 kernel late last year.

In the sixth century Liqian ceased to be used as a placename.

But manufacturing ceased to be America's life blood years ago.

His country, and the world, never ceased to be astonished that he meant it.

Soon the romantic "wild west had ceased to be"

They key here is that people have ceased to be that capital purchase item, and become like styrofoam cups. You buy them cheaply.

Although the island originally appeared after a similar eruptionin 2004, it ceased to be visible in November 2005.

Morality has ceased to be ours.

The present ceased to be a point of transition from the past to the future.

They still live in the cave, to be sure, but they have ceased to be helplessly fettered to dubious and unexamined conceptions.

That is what would happen if today's contained depression ceased to be contained.

The githzerai ceased to be slaves and became a people.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

default is made or unnecessary delay takes place in entering on the register the fact of any person having ceased to be a member;

Thus the Privy Council, as a whole, ceased to be a body of important confidential advisers to the Sovereign;

the nomination of the reserve director has not ceased to be valid under subsection (7); and

Banknotes of the second series RMB ceased to be legal tender

Clients Ceased to be Represented

Only when they ceased to be stars

This decree ceased to be valid last year