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Greater danger loomed, but Moya's crew proudly and affectionately realized that they were now ready to face it together, as family.

Iron foundries, smelting plants, and cement factories loomed in and out of the haze as I traveled along the roads leading into Linfen.

In the dark night it loomed like an old monk in meditation.

As helicopters loomed overhead and scores of police were on standby, the atmosphere was that of expectation.

But fresh trouble loomed last night over reports that at least two women will go public with claims that they had affairs with him.

THANKS to a mix of luck and good decisions, the economic apocalypse that loomed over central and eastern Europe seems to have been averted.

Jacob was literally pained every time he said goodbye to a beloved cousin, often developing a toothache whenever such a parting loomed.

She was curious of the thick detail of London, which had always loomed large and rich to her.

It was Frank who lay closest to her heart, Frank who loomed as the star in her limited heaven.

He looked up. Wrapped in his furs and leathers, mounted on his great warhorse , his lord father loomed over him like a giant.

Another big factor appeared to be the threat of deflation that loomed over America's economy as consumer prices slipped.

It was over this jagged, rusty territory that the moon now loomed, and the swaths of crumpled metal swelled as if carried on a high tide.

These alders loomed through the mist at regular intervals as you walked half way round the pond.

In the dark night, a few nautical miles to the starboard, loomed the gigantic turtle, Gueshan Island.

The question of replacing the section director loomed large with the committee .

The sky loomed like a grey curtain of fog, dropping a few cold shards upon my face.

The overseer's quarters loomed some hundred feet overhead , carved out of the solid stone that rose in a sheer wall from the water .

Yet Watanabe stayed at the office as late as 2 a. m. each night to finish reports as the March end of the fiscal year loomed.

Suddenly, something loomed up beside her. It was the child.

Then, the rising moon, huge and red and grotesquely misshapen by the dust and sweat of the summer atmosphere, loomed up out of the woods.

on my face the wind scattered as the shadow of night heavily loomed.

"Come in, come in! " the raspy voice called through the intercom as the door opened. A dark staircase loomed in front of them.

But no factor loomed larger during the period than the dearth of client activity, he said.

It loomed in the skies over Atlantis and appeared as a golden 'harvest' moon, and thus was known as the second moon of Atlantis.

Slowly and beautifully the land loomed out of the sea.

The faster the money went round, the larger the financial sector loomed in the rich countries' economies.

The great Rock of Gibraltar finally loomed out of its concealing haze .

But as the Soviet Union began to crumble, greater opportunities loomed.

Velikovsky documented a temporarily erratic orbit of Venus, which loomed close to the Earth after the last pole shift.

GlazeWhite crystal, plot glaze shape seems like a lot of tears, known as the "wax tears, " loomed the yellow-green color.

In no flash, there came a man, of lanky build, of crooked teeth, who loomed large under the obscure moonlight.

But the cons loomed large, including the fact that no family members lived nearby to provide emergency care in a crisis.

As the US financial crisis loomed, China pegged the renminbi to increase stability and exert a positive influence on its economic recovery.

At the prow of the Shy Maid, Young Griff stood with the third pole, to push them away from hazards as they loomed up through the mists.

In full disclosure, I wrote one of the first articles making the Johnson analogy as Afghanistan decisions loomed.

On the particular evening, a man had loomed up behind her, dragged her backward, knocked her about, and run away when he heard a noise.

When war loomed, Lincoln offered Lee to be the commanding general of the Union Army, and Lee refused.

I guess Michael Schumacher, a superhero, loomed large as an influence as a young boy, right?

A sunken temple loomed up out of the greyness as Yandry and Duck leaned upon their poles and paced slowly from prow to stern, pushing.

This was a chapter of America in which Asians loomed large, after all.

And Mr Rudd's short temper had won him few friends to call on when the final crisis loomed.

As the vote in the House loomed , Beijing defiantly slapped steep tariffs on poultry from the United States .

Genetic dark matter also loomed large when scientists surveyed exactly which DNA was being transcribed, or decoded, into RNA.

BY DINT of size, population and potential wealth, Indonesia has long loomed large over its own backyard.

Central banks and governments implicitly guaranteed this debt, riding to the rescue whenever a repayment crisis loomed.

It is what any sensible company would do if it knew a major decision loomed.

This might seem incredible in light of the sovereign-debt crisis which loomed so large in 2010.

The square tower of a church loomed through the gloaming.

WHEN Digicel, a Jamaican mobile-phone company, first planned a wireless service in Papua New Guinea, obvious hurdles loomed.

His business achievements loomed over the proceedings.

Fears of further write-downs at the large banks also loomed as earnings season got under way, supporting Treasuries.

Rarely has a former manager loomed so large over the place where his name was once sung.

Asian markets remained on the quiet side again today as Thursday's Euro Zone Summit loomed large into the equation.

As soon as he stepped into the mess, an awkward silence suddenly loomed.

The fear of failure loomed large in his mind.

Against the uniform sheet of snow and the greyish winter sky the Italian villa loomed up rather grimly .

Never have a pair of quotation marks loomed so ominously .

The hull of a ship loomed up suddenly through the fog.

The threat of disease also loomed , as some some evacuees in the northwest arrived in camps with various ailments .

Worldwide famines and dire overpopulation loomed, people murdering for bowls of rice.

Zheng made the semifinals at Wimbledon four years ago, but never has the prospect loomed of an all-Chinese women's Grand Slam final.

A fifth country, which was not represented in the Doha negotiating room, appears to have loomed large over the talks.

A drawn-out stalemate between the Islamists and the generals loomed.

He altered his course from the original route, to avoid problems that loomed on the horizon.

A huge heroic poster of Colonel Gadhafi suddenly loomed from a building, untouched.

It was approaching the Spring Festival(vocation), the examinations were loomed up.

A signal light loomed just ahead at the top of the rise.

On referendum day in the town of Swords near Dublin, early-morning commuters offered reasons for their vote. The recession loomed large.

The iceberg loomed out of the mist.

The treat of a nuclear war loomed large in people's mind .

Venus had its orbit temporarily discombobulated by a prior passage, and thus loomed close to Earth at that 52 year period.

The landing platform loomed ahead, a light freighter parked to one side.

The iceberg loomed out of the fog.

A figure loomed out of the forest.

That possibility had loomed until Congress passed the spending bill.

Behind the ruler and religion of Persia loomed a demon "prince of Persia. "

But when the prospect of parenthood loomed, he found his attitude changing.

A huge shape loomed up out of the fog.

The mountains loomed blue-green over the valley.

A ship loomed out of the dense fog.

And it was he who loomed largest in the public mind after his historic election.

while faintly above the tree-tops loomed distant hills - their general outline only.

Amid the uncertainty over Lehman, another crisis loomed.

After a couple of miles, a big house loomed up in front of us.

The bulk of the rise came from energy, but food also loomed large.

And overall economic growth started to fall away as trouble loomed.

Critics still complain that politics has loomed too large.

When the Corellians launched a counter strike at the show of force, full scale galactic war once again loomed.

What we need, said Hermione briskly as Thursday afternoon's double Potions lesson loomed nearer, is a diversion.

A three-year commitment loomed large when we were deciding whether to move to China.

Beyond the town loomed a series of strange conical mountains.

I straightened up again and loomed indifferent.

A few hills loomed in the distance.

mountain peak loomed through the fog.

One inescapable conclusion is that America's behaviour in the world has always loomed large in its understanding of itself.

A large iceberg loomed through the thick, gray fog.

Suddenly the problem of future loomed tangibly for me.

The threat of war loomed over the country.

Mr Binstock says this may be because ideological, economic or national-security issues loomed larger than greybeard ones, such as pensions.

Distress, if not penury, loomed in the distance.

A warship loomed up through the heavy fog.

A flagpole loomed up through the mist.

His life-story loomed large because the dashing former trial lawyer was short of both substance and political experience.

A large chunk of concrete loomed inches above their heads.

A ship loomed up through the thick fog.

Suddenly a brave new world of babies built to order loomed into focus.

They had won the team title at the 2006 and 2007 world championships, but the Olympics in Beijing loomed.

A ship loomed up through the fog.

Some hills loomed in the distance.

eg. The prospect of war loomed large.

A dark bank of cloud loomed on the horizon.

The specter of war loomed ahead.

The answer I was after loomed large ahead.

But as the peak production season loomed, he was feeling more and more stressed.

Fears loomed large in our minds.

AS NATIONAL output tumbled last year, deflation loomed threateningly over Britain's debt-laden economy.

During the most recent such pass late last year and early this year, Mars as usual, loomed large and bright.

Two dark holes loomed in the wall at his left;

a peak that loomed through the mist;

As The Economist went to press, the threat of a government shutdown in America loomed large;