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Well, one thing was dead sure, and that was that Tom Sawyer was in earnest, and was actually going to help steal that nigger out of slavery.

Was Mr Saleh riding in to rally his troops or to hold them back and pursue, this time in earnest, a compromise to save his country?

Her parents thought the girl was joking when she said she wanted to be a scientist, but she was in earnest.

I'm sure he was in earnest when he said that you could use this money to continue your study of music.

For almost a year they had waged a war of nerves on their neighbours; now it was to be war in earnest.

Once he reaches his hometown, Tandil, where del Potro has about 150 relatives, he said the party could begin in earnest.

As I think you will realize, sir, I am really in earnest, and for me it has become an urgent necessity to understand and to be of that void.

I began to see we should have a brush for it in earnest, and looked to my priming .

Iago, as if in earnest CARE for Othello's peace of mind, besought him to beware of jealousy.

The beginnings of a strong movement toward Tradition 2 did not begin in earnest until the twelfth century.

The boy, in earnest, squatted in front of a blade of grass, on which a round dew in the sun gave a colorful light, exceedingly beautiful.

He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation; his brow contracted, his air gloomy.

The autumn twilight gathered in, and from her place Isabel could see the rain, which had now begun in earnest.

Today we begin in earnest of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little better than the one we inhabit today.

Little previous ceremony is required to bring the matter to an issue when both parties are really in earnest.

After you complete this final tutorial, you're ready to begin your certification preparation in earnest.

And he was in earnest, and sorry for what he had done and ready for any sacrifice that could make up for it.

These confirmed the need for one more routine operation before he is able to begin preparations for his return to competition in earnest.

After an opening New Year's Lion Dance from what I assume must be a New York based group, the concert began in earnest.

European music began to be assimilated in earnest during the Revolution of 1911, mainly through Japan.

He nourished it fearfully, and almost shunned the contemplation of it in earnest, lest facts should reveal the wildness of the dream.

One of the very few scientists to have thought in earnest about the final destiny of life is the theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson.

In the beginning of this century, scientists and engineers began researching ways to use solar energy in earnest.

I see no better way for you than to let him go on; and if you find him hearty and in earnest, marry him.

In particular, I'm thinking of a specific piece of nonsense that implores in earnest italics, to always, always . . . Follow Your Passion!

Trade with China had begun in Achaemenid times along the so-called Silk Road; but during the Hellenistic period it began in earnest.

I suggest we talk the matter over in earnest.

Dumbledore gave a little gasp and began to cry in earnest.

Here Mr. Yan will give you some tips, which may offer you some food for thought or may set you thinking in earnest about this problem.

Arduous preparations will begin in earnest the moment we win the right to host the game.

When electrification began in earnest in the first years of the century, de-mand for shellac soon outstripped supply.

It is an issue that no presidential candidate has taken up in earnest.

That could prove to be a conservative estimate, as the economic slowdown begins in earnest.

Narcissa began to cry in earnest , gazing beseechingly all the while at Snape .

Presently they came up to a group of old men in earnest debate.

If Americans are to be inspired any time soon to extract their wallets in earnest, what will move them to do so is novelty and real design.

Work in earnest, strong sense of responsibility, be good to think independently, analyze problems, solve the problem.

Though not completely dormant during the winter, prairie dogs return to activity and aboveground life in earnest in spring.

"Collateral facilitates credit extension, " he said in June 2007, just before the crisis began in earnest.

said the baroness, half jesting, half in earnest.

After two months now and we had still not unpacked beyond the basic necessities but at least we could start job hunting in earnest.

He talked tough this week, promising to cancel the elections and resume direct rule in earnest if either party looked less than committed.

Captain Kwan continued to explain in earnest.

Price negotiations are expected to begin in earnest by the end of the week, although a clear division of opinion has emerged.

Asia's predicament is a sharp contrast to the U. S. and Europe, where core inflation has yet to reveal itself in earnest.

The wait has been long, but now the changes will start in earnest and a great peace will settle upon the Earth.

I published my first Chinese article in 1979, but writing in earnest did not begin until the fall of 1983.

If you begin again in earnest the moment the month begins, you should see heartening progress and eventually be successful this time!

Han Chinese immigration started in earnest in the 17th century, beginning the long marginalisation of indigenous groups.

It was a pattern that would repeat itself when the Ponzi scheme got going in earnest several decades later.

But for the market to take off in earnest steelmakers, a conservative bunch, need to be convinced of their usefulness.

After graduating , he worked as a radio producer for the BBC, and began writing in earnest.

Revealing himself to be Yoda, the Jedi Master began Luke's training in earnest.

As a responsible country, China will implement relevant resolution of the Security Council in earnest.

But for all his quibbles, he did engage with the Muslims' theological views in earnest.

I had been there little more than a week when I set to work in earnest.

For starters, if the coldest parts of Antarctica begin to melt in earnest, global sea levels could rise many feet.

This is the aim of a follow-up to Explaining Religion, which is due to begin in earnest later this year.

He was a likeable young man, and very much in earnest about what he came to say . . .

It may take a few minor steps before you can begin the task in earnest.

When it detects a change, it tells the indexer to start analyzing, and this time, the indexer Job works in earnest.

Before using it, please read in earnest the guide and put the instructions in a safe place so as for future reference.

C. After a de facto two-year moratorium for an investigation into alleged corruption, logging has resumed in earnest in Riau this year.

Ma said in a statement that China hopes that all treaties and agreements signed with Libya will remain in effect and implemented in earnest.

But once romantic love begins in earnest, it is one of the strongest drives on Earth.

Is the President in earnest about the desire to negotiate?

Now he encourages his own son to learn some fighting skills, but would never want him to use them in earnest.

The number of female voters outstripped the number of male voters, and candidates began courting women's votes in earnest.

The deal is the result of a long mating dance which started in earnest early in 2008.

After I started writing in earnest (my focus then was on the cultural revolution), I browsed the Internet more diligently.

So the multimillion-dollar political choreography of the conventions is over, now the campaigning begins in earnest.

The boy seemed to calm down as he placed a reply, beginning the game in earnest.

Now the discussion gets rolling in earnest as the class begins piecing together the specific traits that define his genius.

By 1937, the conflict had spread to all of eastern China and the war had begun in earnest.

By contrast with Yahoo! 's dabbling, old media is now investing in digital media in earnest.

The race to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the helm of the International Monetary Fund has started in earnest.

The aim was to spar, to feint and to strike mock blows rather than to fight in earnest.

All seem to agree that a new bull market began in earnest once the invasion of Iraq was launched in March 2003.

In earnest this point, Fujimura and Noda like.

Two years ago another eight- month hot streak was enough for authorities to start cooling in earnest .

If you want to love enduring as the universe, the absolute need two people operating in earnest, careful management.

Graduation is a mere 5 weeks away and we're beginning to prepare the final speeches in earnest.

Their spouses will be happy by the fact that their dear partner now fight for love in earnest.

War in Southeast Asia had yet to begin in earnest, and President Nixon was years away from going to China.

Don Antonio replied that he neither knew who he was nor whether the defiance was in joke or in earnest.

Just below Plutoria Avenue, and parallel with it, the trees die out and the brick and stone of the city begins in earnest.

He also implied that interest rates could only rise in earnest once the banks were in better shape.

I pitied the poor fellow, he was so deeply in earnest; but all the same I could not help laughing.

Meanwhile, currency strategists at UBS noted that emerging market outflows continued in earnest last week.

This debate began in earnest when Mr Obama agreed to release "torture memos" written by Bush administration officials.

Now, my little pilgrims, suppose you begin again, not in play, but in earnest, and see how far on you can get before Father comes home.

This debate began in earnest when Mr Obama agreed to release "torture memos" written by Bush administration officials.

When the plate tearing starts in earnest, these slip-slide jolts will be huge, and rise up to the magnitude 8-9 range, as we have stated.

AFTER months of inconclusive skirmishing, Washington's budgetary battle-lines are being drawn in earnest.

Unfazed by budgetary wobbles, Fusion for Energy, ITER's European arm, has begun in earnest to divvy out construction work.

We think you would find that boring, though, so we are going to switch tracks and start using the MVC Framework in earnest.

At last one day the wolf came indeed . The boy cried out in earnest.

And if the Reclaiming is to restart in earnest, we'll need to do it properly right from the start.

After the well-attended grand groundbreaking ceremony, the construction started in earnest.

This trend that began in earnest during the Vietnam conflict will grow to fruition in the near future.

This trend that began in earnest during the Vietnam conflict will grow to fruition in the near future.

The rain came on in earnest , and Oak soon felt the water to be tracking cold and clammy routes down his back .

I must speak to you in earnest for your own good.

For it is through this heat that the well needed cleansing shall in earnest begin.

They DO live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things.

Repetitive microtrauma damages the acetabular labrum and cartilage, and the osteoarthritic cascade is initiated in earnest.

Other taxes went up this month (though the low-paid were spared the worst) and public-spending cuts began in earnest.

Neither of them has officially declared their candidacy yet, and the campaign will start in earnest only in April.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. ~Henry David Thoreau.

Hargreaves has not kicked a ball in earnest since September 2008 after being plagued with knee problems.

Asia's policymakers should resolve to start doing so in earnest this year, while the going is still good.

Fifty years ago, the search for intelligent life in the universe began in earnest.

all major milestones have been reached on time or ahead of time , and operational readiness planning has begun in earnest.

Both sides are deeply in earnest, with passions that approximate those of civil war.

In all, I spent over six years getting records via such means before I began downloading in earnest.

She stood several minutes before the picture in earnest contemplation, and returned to it again before they quitted the gallery.

The application of free energy technology to replace petroleum will also begin in earnest.

Hutchison's international ports expansion began in earnest in 1991 with the Port of Felixstowe, the UK's largest container port.

Until 2004, he began in earnest and dreams up close.

Bernard replied in earnest much to the shock of all who heard him.

"I am in earnest, " said the Prince.

Central banks will start their withdrawal of emergency support in earnest next year.

That process begins in earnest at the promised first-day meeting on Wednesday.

In Europe and North America this demographic transition began in earnest around 1870.

After a couple of brief growth spurts, home prices have started declining again in earnest.

Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. -Mark Twain , American novelist.

The stronger that recovery becomes, the more likely it is to withstand the cuts when they start in earnest next year.

But when the cracking begins in earnest, it could turn Europe's energy market on its head, too.

To thoroughly apply the Scientific Outlook on Development, we must strengthen our efforts to build the Party in earnest.

Transforming the government functions in earnest, reducing the links of examination and approval and improving efficiency.

Yes and the work have begun in earnest to cleanse those institutions governed in darkness.

I think it is time for the Fed to consider in earnest taking up some form of inflation targeting.

Old mother didn't lift her head, and answering in brief, still whetting iron staff in earnest.

And when you can hold back no longer, bargaining begins in earnest.

But ad men are among the first to embrace the idea in earnest.

Counting of ballots from Saturday's Kurdish elections has begun in earnest.

In the end we may therefore have to force the issue, as our mission must soon start in earnest.

These disinflation policies continued in earnest with the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan.

Industrial expansion began in earnest following the construction of the Bonneville Dam in 1933-1937 on the Columbia River.

Even before these mega-mines begin production in earnest, China is already taking 70 per cent of Mongolia's exports.

Even before these mega-mines begin production in earnest, China is already taking 70 per cent of Mongolia's exports.

TCS set up shop in Milford not only to be closer to clients but to begin in earnest to hire American graduates.

But many of those jobs will be at risk as the retail recession bites in earnest.

If this is correct, wireless technology soon will begin increasing its share of this market in earnest.

After months of speculation, the tablet wars begin in earnest this week.

But because the amount of light produced was tiny, no one pursued the idea in earnest.

For those who seek ME in earnest, you will find ME when you find your balance.

The offensive began in earnest on May 8th, when Pakistani aircraft bombed Taliban positions in Swat.

However, the final price of the Chinese version of Vista apparently waiting in earnest for many users is disappointing.

No matter what type of job one holds, one should work hard and in earnest to improve one's community.

No matter what type of job one holds, one should work hard and in earnest to improve one's community.

Kennedy returned to the problem of how to convince the Russians that the west was in earnest.

Only when the work is defined and the price agreed upon does the design begin in earnest.

The relief efforts have begun in earnest following a 22-day conflict between Israeli and Hamas forces.

When Argentines return in March from their summer holidays, the election campaign will begin in earnest.

Your younger sister plays piano in earnest everyday.

However, many developers don't take code analysis in earnest and often skip this step of the development process.

Investment and drilling of conventional natural gas began in the country in earnest about 10 years ago, and reserves remain high.

Despite those teething pains, the Part D plan has taken off in earnest.

Bank outreach to regulators began in earnest months ago.

Although now, he says, the competition can begin in earnest.

I have left his spell behind with my drowned past, and now we shall bargain in earnest.

On the second day I began to work in earnest.

Humour has been well defined as "thinking in fun while feeling in earnest" .

Humor has been well defined as "thinking in fun while feeling in earnest" .

Thus will our communication begin in earnest.

But most traditional media continue to move in earnest lockstep with the government line.

If you start working in earnest, you might just pass. So now, how about it?

The three men, after a short preliminary explanation, now set about their preparation to move the ark in earnest.

Fulfill the task from all departments in earnest.

Fulfill the task from all departments in earnest.

If you are in earnest, seize this very minute. What you can do or dream begin it soon as possible.

Work on the tunnel began in earnest soon after . . .

They're not quarreling in earnest, they're just playing.

As in August 2007, when the crisis began in earnest, money markets were this week seizing up.

Up rose Snodgrass, very much in earnest, "Sir, I give you my word as a gentleman, Laurie wouldn't do anything of the sort. "

That idea, fortunately, was never tried in earnest (though some tests were carried out).

Prudential's journey east has begun in earnest.

Why, sir, I don't think he can be in earnest when he says that.

The Olympic games start in earnest next week.

The Olympic games start in earnest next week.

The curtain is well opened and the play has begun in earnest.

You may rest assured that he is in earnest.

Disney's alternate reality campaign started in earnest in July 2009, just in time for Comic-Con.

Big Pharma will feel the force of generic competition in earnest in 2009.

We have not started working on Jython3k in earnest, but I expect that we will get very serious about it once we release 2. 6.

These dazzling agricultural machinery each with specific purposes, it is their put Greg from heavy manual work in earnest.

I began Chinese writing in earnest in November 1983.

Linda has been studying English in earnest.

Then she started crying in earnest.

So it is helpful that firms have at last begun to embrace Web 2. 0 technologies in earnest, a trend predictably called Enterprise 2. 0.

The Chinese side will study Tomasevski's opinions and suggestions regarding China's education in earnest.

Now he applied himself to the job in earnest.

He was in earnest: in love, really.

She spoke half in sport, half in earnest.

I want to check in time of emergency improvisation, should not through, but before that in earnest.

The work on the house will begin in earnest on Monday.

If I were, this is the stage when I would prepare in earnest for them.

On his return from Europe, he set to work in earnest.

Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you!

Along with his co-curator, Stephanie D'Alessandro of the Art Institute of Chicago, the sleuthing began in earnest.

After 18, we begin Pulling Up Roots in earnest.

And this is before the transition to domestic consumption has started in earnest.

I have to consider in earnest about my future.

Before you begin your job search in earnest, take time to learn the characteristics of the Agile community in your job market.

once back from this cruise I set up gentleman in earnest.

The hunt, however, is on in earnest.

When we are in the recording studio, the magic begins in earnest.

Before the factory is set up, preparations must be made in earnest.

I train in earnest.

If you study in earnest, you will make greater progress.

According to the good assistant deputy county head introduced zhang bin, the cases are under the rehabilitation work in earnest.

After falling three feet on a level it went to work in earnest; and we knew we were snowed in.

If you have any credit card debts from your freewheeling college years, begin paying those off in earnest.

When negotiations began in earnest late last year, a price was agreed within a month.

he set to work in earnest.

"Are you in earnest? " he asked in a deadly calm voice.

While you work, you should work in earnest.

You can't let so many of us go to hell without trying in earnest to save us, can you?

Surely you are not in earnest in saying that, are you?

are you in earnest (in what you say)?

Once you have started a job, you should do it in earnest.

They're now approaching completion of 1. 9. 2, which means we'll soon have a "stable" version of 1. 9 we can begin to chase in earnest.

He was in earnest about learning to play the violin, so he practised every day.

Have you ever lost your keys, looked for them in earnest, and couldn't find them, only to find them later when you weren't looking for them?

carry out in earnest its mandate under the relevant General Assembly and Security Council resolutions

When you work , you should work in earnest , and then you will be the more happy when you play .

(Six) Strengthen the Organizational Leadership in Earnest to Guarantee the Implementation of the Plan

What Congress intends to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (An issue that won't be dealt with in earnest until next year. )

Study and Apply the Party's Experience in its Progressive Construction in Earnest

Adapt to the Needs of New Situations and Improve in Earnest Theoretical Attainment of Leaders

Implemented in earnest the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council

Little victory depends on quality, just need doing in earnest;

Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while felling in earnest. (Mark Twain, American novelist)

Implement in earnest the Administrative Permit Law

Implementing in Earnest the Cutting Quota Scheme

Says to his student in earnest

both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate;

But if I am to speak in earnest,

Economic reform begins in earnest

They're not quarreling in earnest, they're just

in earnest , mal , why ' d you bring her back on

Focus on Five Things in Earnest

skilled use of office software to work in earnest due diligence;

Settled down to study in earnest for the examination