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A unifying trait among these hackers was a strong sense of curiosity, sometimes bordering on obsession.

It would be irresponsible, bordering on malpractice, just to put in extra adaptability where it's not needed.

But circumcision drifted out of fashion, and by the 1970s it was seen as an unnecessary mutilation, bordering on the barbaric.

If so, then Zhang is bordering on celebrity status, at least 15 minutes of fame worthy of a local news bit for sure.

Occasionally ordering a take-out is fine, but having three or four a week is bordering on lazy.

Rumour (bordering on complete lies) has it that Einstein was on the verge of cracking time travel when he met Marilyn Monroe.

The save in the second half when he changed direction in mid air and clawed away a certain goal with his left hand was bordering on unfair.

The generals in Burma find themselves accused of an "inhuman" response to their disaster, bordering on a "crime against humanity" .

Pastry chefs often consider chefs as overbearing, bordering on "control freaks" , as one of them curtly put it.

Oppenheimer, Andres. Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers , Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity. [Rest of book].

The new political class has presided over an "explosion in corrupt practices, bordering on the open plunder of the state's resources" .

Tibet autonomous region bordering on many countries is considered as an importance gateway in Southwest of China.

A good example can be found in a community bordering on the urban and rural areas.

I talked to a senior manager whom I had previously viewed as impressive yet impersonal, indeed as bordering on sub-human.

My neighbour struck me as bordering on repulsive; I knew, through experience, that I was tolerably attractive.

Punishments inflicted by parents on their children for misdeeds were much stricter and harsher, bordering on physical domestic abuse.

Sanda fight bordering on the superficial grass nest is mainly used to catch water.

Yet that only serves to underline that debt-biased tax efficiency is systemically inefficient, bordering on catastrophic.

And when you read about America in European newspapers, what you are likely to find is a tone bordering on pity.

Today, though, many of the largest U. S. Foundations regard disclosing and analyzing their failures as bordering on a moral obligation.

"I could hear frustration, bordering on anger, in Diamond's voice, " Mr Paulson reports.

But to the conventional mind the solificatio is an outlandish, mystical idea bordering on madness.

a landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian Soviet.

The apprentice's training was harsh and unforgiving: Vader subjected the boy to rigorous physical tests bordering on torture.

In other words, confusion, bordering on chaos, and even a loosening of all the strictures by which we keep financial and economic order.

A region of central Italy bordering on the Adriatic Sea. Mostly mountainous, it includes Mount Corno, the highest peak of the Apennines.

A region of western India bordering on the Arabian Sea. An independent kingdom after 1401, it was annexed by the Mogul Empire in 1572.

add a comma, and the noble sobriety of "God save the Queen " becomes a cry of desperation bordering on double sacrilege.

The glands in this example of villous adenoma of bladder show frank anaplasia bordering on carcinoma-in-situ.

Kenya A country of east-central Africa bordering on the Indian Ocean. Nairobi is the capital and the largest city.

Bush, 3 meters tall: Rod is fine and stretchy, cylindrical, modena , be bordering on without wool, become ever since virescent or green.

Once or twice, I recall, I experienced a moment of fear and it was fear bordering on panic.

Montenegro is a region of southwest Yugoslavia bordering on the Adriatic Sea.

Bordering on Vietnam and China's Yunnan province, Guangxi is a hot-spot for illicit drugs.

"We played very, very badly and they were fantastic. We gifted them two goals that were bordering on the ridiculous. It is our own fault. "

Once or twice I experienced a moment of fear and it was fear bordering on panic.

And very small to redundancy even hasten is bordering on the data of 0, again good compression is algorithmic also of no help.

A country of northwest Africa bordering on the Atlantic Ocean.

The second News Corporation is strategic and hard-nosed, bordering on stingy.

A protracted period of economic stagnation bordering on depression.

A country of Central America bordering on the Pacific Ocean.

A province of western Canada bordering on the Pacific Ocean.

Its great, memorable works, she argues, came about because of acquisitiveness, bordering on avarice.

A province of northeast China bordering on the Gulf of Bo Hai.

A feeling of mistrust bordering on hatred.

She felt an anxiety bordering on hysteria.

But many of the most important capitalist entities, listed corporations, are bordering on the ownerless.

On the one hand I have enormous respect, bordering on awe, for what he has achieved.

Transitory exit from and entry into China by Chinese citizens residing in areas Bordering on a neighbouring country

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Photo-Literature: A Marginal Literature Bordering on Picture and Words

She doesn't see, that she is bordering on arrogance