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

But today, the river still harks back to a time when just a few early settlers shared the Ganges with their natural neighbours.

All the neighbours suppose her to be a good daughter-in-law.

She rushed out of her home and banged on the neighbours door to ask for help.

But increasingly it appears that commitment has (waned), and Australia is less able to deal with its neighbours.

Certain European nations are trying to move the goalposts so that some of their Eastern neighbours will find it easier to join the EU .

If you took away the names of these Nazis, and just sat down to talk to them, they were like your friends and neighbours.

His brutality and fraudulence have become so plain for all to see that neighbours who once defended him are changing their tune.

Even among the rubble it is possible to hear neighbours greet each other and visitors with polite humour.

She thinks her neighbours look down on her a bit because she's neverbeen abroad.

Asked later whether United's "noisy neighbours" would be quieter for a while, Ferguson replied: "Well, they'll always be noisy. "

Though neighbours disapproved of his vagaries, they did not treat him with hostility , as they might have done a stranger.

He went on in Soviet vein: "Russia endeavours to be a predictable, strong and accommodating partner" to its neighbours.

Masako Masuoka, an 81-year-old divorcee, is still fit enough to work as a volunteer cleaner and cook for her elderly neighbours.

The uproar among its neighbours after the recent outbreak of E. coli has been a straw in the wind.

All her neighbours suppose her to be a teacher.

Sometimes, for variety, I looked up and down the street to see what the neighbours were up to.

She had the surprise of her life. Her neighbours'big dog had got into her garden, jumped onto the table and was looking at her baby.

Everyone is in a state of shock. One of our neighbours is frightened to open their curtains.

The bank warned that although China's remarkable resilience will benefit its Asian neighbours, its effect would be limited.

Unlike some of its neighbours, Germany has no Eurosceptic party worth mentioning.

Still, Egypt's press remains relatively free compared with that of its Arab neighbours.

Certainly, after a while in Washington I began to develop a grudging respect for my neighbours at the Tribune.

Asked what he thinks of his neighbours, a man across the street scratches his head and asks "We have Gypsies here? "

Robert Willard, commander of US forces in the Pacific, recently said the ship would be watched closely by China's neighbours.

There was no mechanism to allow richer provinces downstream to help poorer, polluting neighbours clean up, he added.

The last is all the more striking as neighbours to the north race to attract business.

If my wife wants to tell me she's ducking out to the shops, that's fine, but I don't want to hear what just happened on Neighbours.

Some neighbours believe one or two people might have disappeared, but authorities said no deaths had been reported.

For your information some of our neighbours already declared Chinese as a Second Language compulsory. Why not we ?

The next day , he found that the door of some neighbours locked double- locked .

My neighbours had no idea I even played for United, so they must have had a shock to see me!

Dad loved to read. Reading newspaper was his favourite pastime. He would relate the news to his neighbours.

South Africa, which had a rash of blackouts in 2008 and imports electricity from its neighbours, sorely needs more generating capacity.

If it fails to strengthen regional ties, it is destined to see its economic expansion hemmed in by unsympathetic and threatening neighbours.

All her neighbours supposed her to be an actress.

But Lula's pledge that Brazil would be generous to smaller neighbours to boost integration has not always been reciprocated.

Summits sometimes dissuade leaders from beggaring their neighbours, since the neighbours' complaints may have to be faced in person.

It has offered no evidence for the claim. But past Indian arrogance makes neighbours ready to believe anything.

In a word, people quarreled in this little place a great deal more than neighbours do in London.

The downfall of Mr Bakiyev seems to have opened a new rift between Kyrgyzstan and its neighbours.

it was too early in the morning for visitors , and besides , the equipage did not answer to that of any of their neighbours.

The police are trying to get help from her neighbours and friends.

Meanwhile a squabble with Lithuania has annoyed neighbours that would prefer to see Poland as a leader, not a score-settler.

The cloak could also be used in concert halls to direct noise away from problem spots, or to deal with loud neighbours.

locking myself out of my room with just a pair of knickers on, and no neighbours in their rooms to help me.

about freedom, loving ur neighbours, about having your way. . . . thats what i wish u all. . . this republic day. spontaneous poem time!

When a communication path changes, nearby routers inform their neighbours through a system known as the border gateway protocol (BGP).

The cuisine of Cambodia is similar to that of its Southeast Asian neighbours.

With the help of a ladder, neighbours were able to rescue the children from the blaze.

To be sure, they (or their parents and grandparents) built a state from scratch, and it has prospered relative to its neighbours.

He was playing his trumpet but I told him to leave off because the neighbours were complaining about the noise.

The president said the waterway would boost trading opportunities for Malawi as well as its neighbours, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Neighbours said the suspect had asked them to call an ambulance but had allegedly said "it was nothing serious" .

Mr Kikwete may use a second term to try to integrate Tanzania and its neighbours into a revived East African Community.

He made battle with all his neighbours, and vanquished them.

Unlike China and Russia it is a full-blooded democracy; unlike India it has no serious disputes with its neighbours.

The little boy used to put his mother to the trouble of apologizing to their neighbours for his carelessness.

Germany's economy is often more volatile than that of neighbours like France.

She resembled Miss Hancock attempting by archness and by an assumption of frivolity to persuade her neighbours that she was juvenile.

And they were all old neighbours in the graveyard, most of them friends; there was nothing to feel awkward or embarrassed about.

Traders had also been betting that the rest of the eurozone lacked the political will to help its southern neighbours through the crisis.

All this time she had never visited them or even noticed them who were her next-door neighbours.

Due to its central location Germany has more neighbours than any other European country.

Finally mom, who always taught us to tell the truth, looked at dad and said, " We have no bad neighbours in our area. "

Over the years, Col Gaddafi had fallen out with both his neighbours and the West, although he had bankrolled many African leaders.

Even now there have been a few vile, jubilant voices among Japan's neighbours.

But the bank found consolation in Thailand's growing sales to its neighbours and to "new" markets farther afield.

On the outside, Tony said, not wanting to spend time with your criminally insane neighbours would be a perfectly understandable position.

His neighbours at home have been shot dead, his house has been burned, and his wife and children are lost.

Neighbours described their only hobby as "takeaways, " as they frequent the local fish and chip shop three times a week.

The investigation was launched when two young women, who were neighbours, died within a week of each other.

He talks, albeit vaguely, of his desire to make peace with his neighbours, presumably including Palestinians.

He shouted, struggled, pleaded with his neighbours to help him, but they looked on in a silent group outside the door.

Their country remains introverted, nationalistic, distrusted by its neighbours, unsure of itself and its place in the world.

Unlike India, it has no insurgents, no ethnic and religious conflicts nor hostile neighbours.

Maybe he could sweep snow for the neighbours. But it was not winter, He had to wait for a long time for that.

My neighbours reported me to the police for firing my rifle in the garden .

One of the poorest countries in Asia, Nepal should benefit greatly from improving economic ties with its booming neighbours.

He worked hard in the garden every Sunday and set out to impress the neighbours with his flower-beds and lawn.

Macedonia remains fragile eight years after it almost lapsed into war. Testy relations with its neighbours do not help.

However, if she became the dominant partner, neighbours transferred the power of the slipper to her, and christened her "the old boot" .

Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else.

Like North Korea, it has borne isolation and rhetorical hostility from the West by cosying up to the neighbours, notably China.

The planet and its neighbours are bathed in the solar wind, a stream of charged particles ejected from the upper atmosphere of the sun.

It is all about the present, specifically Russia's claim of having "privileged interests" in its post-Soviet neighbours.

It looks slightly out of place. Its neighbours are a pawnshop, a petrol station and a couple of fast-food restaurants.

Nor did for Sir Everard's apprehensions of personal consequence seem to correspond with the reports spread among his Whig neighbours.

Brazil has a culture all of its own, but it looks for inspiration to America more than it does to its Spanish-speaking neighbours.

Co-operation would also be vulnerable to any new friction between the Asian neighbours.

Just to complete the sense of deja vu, the next door down has been taken over by the Secret Service so even his neighbours look familiar.

Such memories never fade, but Hungary, unlike some of its neighbours, is making growing efforts to come to terms with its past.

Now mothers who stay at home are likely to feel isolated and lonely because their female neighbours are all likely to be at work.

But then the American neighbours, who seem generally hostile, complained about noise and threatened to call the cops.

Like a number of its Asian neighbours, the Philippines has begun to rebound from the economic downturn.

The two national holidays are also an occasion for me to reflect on some of the contrasts between these North American neighbours.

The neighbours hope foreign governments will rally generously round the Mugabe-Tsvangirai arrangement to help the Zimbabwean people.

It benefits from American markets and good relations with its neighbours, just as it did in 2001.

The "Community Building Activities" section of the Handbook lists seventeen informal opportunities for neighbours to meet one another.

And Mr Obama needs to signal that America will balance a rising China in such a way that China's neighbours never have to take sides.

on the other are their neighbours who gain nothing but a darkened skyline.

Many plants constantly compete with their neighbours for light by elongating to try and get out of their shade.

Now, his neighbours can no longer legally gay marry at their local church, but mine in Brooklyn can (and a few will).

Ifthe neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a trick on them.

In such a scheme, friends and neighbours have to make up the shortfall if someone can't pay.

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Yet the bigger threat to its ambitions to reassert regional influence lies in its own attitude towards the neighbours.

The Englishman 's suburban house has its little garden with a hedge or a fence all round it to shut him off from his neighbours.

Yet being saddled with nasty neighbours and demanding partners is not the only reason for Egypt's relative decline.

The decision has strained at a relationship between the Pacific neighbours that has been difficult at the best of times.

And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty.

All his neighbours supposed him to be a doctor.

His capacity for living his own life without attention from his neighbours made them respect him.

Such a war would bear little resemblance to the previous clashes between Israel and its neighbours.

cross pat ch cross patch, draw the latch, sit by the fire and spin ; take a cup and drink it up, then call your neighbours in.

So much more respect have we to what our neighbours shall think of us than to what we shall think of ourselves.

Historically, relations between the US and its southern continental neighbours have been marked by economic as much as political factors.

The next day two of Hathaway's neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing that no lawful claims impeded the marriage.

This was not the neighbours' dog; it was paler and a different shape.

She depends on the charity of her new neighbours. But at least she is alive, and fairly healthy.

Beijing is trying to reassure its neighbours about its intentions.

Less than one-sixth of the total Mekong catchment is in China, but that upstream flow is crucial to neighbours during the dry season.

An Irish problem has quickly become a euro-zone problem-and a British headache, too, given the close links between the neighbours.

Only in a handful of places do Easter celebrants alter their own arrangements to take account of their neighbours.

It is possible that its leaders decided that a lower-key affair a few weeks later might avoid stoking the neighbours' suspicions.

On the day of the viewing of Henry's body, I glanced over to the coffin and saw Cathy, one of our neighbours.

A worrying minority form "parallel societies" , and a few actively plot harm against their German neighbours.

Though, you know, dad, no matter how many times I ask neighbours to please climb out to their windows, they insist on using those doors.

Such was the transmission mechanism by which the contagion originating in Thailand spread to its neighbours.

Growth demanded stability, which in turn required that China's neighbours did not feel threatened.

Why are China's neighbours not always susceptible to its charms?

He wishes his wife wouldn't spend so much time gossiping with the neighbours.

My neighbours are continually quarrelling, but it is usually a storm in a tea-cup .

The solution is not for America to abandon Israel, but to guide it to peace with its neighbours, applying pressure on both sides.

Inflationary US policies chased funds into Germany, forcing rate increases that sucked money out of its European neighbours.

It shocked me to see how my neighbours treated their children.

My neighbours are continually quarreling, but if is usually a storm in a tea-cup.

There is no way of putting the invention of "historical fact" or the existence of our cosmic neighbours across in a gentle palatable way.

They should limit the grounds on which people can object to neighbours' solar installations through the planning process.

Bahrain, like Oman, has just been promised $1 billion of aid per year over the next decade from its wealthier Gulf neighbours.

Europe must deal with the neighbours it has, not the ones it would like.

But cuddling up to regional actors still committed to violence risks taking Turkey beyond a sensible good-neighbours policy.

In contrast to a decade ago, Japan now exports more goods to its Asian neighbours than to the US and Europe.

The results show that the number of neighbours in a same channel is close to the ideal neighbour number.

Two days after the Moscow attacks, a pair of bombs exploded in Dagestan, which neighbours Chechnya, killing many and injuring scores.

"As two large neighbours in Asia, there is bound to be an element of competition, " said Anand Sharma, India's commerce minister.

Iceland's position reflects its internal political stability and its good relations with its neighbours.

North Korea said it was sending a satellite into orbit, but its neighbours suspect the launch was a cover for a long-range missile test.

The best way for Nigeria to show leadership is to help its neighbours to stop rigging their polls.

And his tastes are so plain that you can barely tell him apart from his neighbours.

China's commodity-rich Asian neighbours are all too aware that its economy is no longer booming at a double-digit pace.

There is always a plausible-sounding reason for the fights that Singapore's neighbours pick with it.

I get woken up by bin lorries, the rush-hour traffic and my neighbours shouting, instead of birdsong and the wind in the trees.

The very early Mormons were quite liberal for their time: their neighbours in Missouri complained that they did not own slaves.

He does not want to know whether any of his neighbours were among those who set fire to his business.

The rules emphasise individual responsibility while encouraging staff to intervene to help their colleagues and respect neighbours.

Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Like my new neighbours, I then sweep the leaves which the wind left in front of my door during the night away.

I had my neighbours asking me about that and I've read about it in the newspapers but it's not true at all.

A "defector" who refuses to donate to his co-operating neighbours will, however, benefit at the expense of those neighbours.

Neighbours aided him with money when he almost lost everything in the fire .

During a search, the person to be searched or his family members, neighbours or other eyewitnesses shall be present at the scene.

South Africa, one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, and its neighbours are prime locations for adding to the species catalogue.

Neighbours need more understanding between them.

China prefers to deal with its neighbours one by one, rejecting attempts to "internationalise" the issue.

Most importantly, relatives, neighbours and his teachers should give the very kid as much love as possible to make him feel least abandoned.

When having dinner, the bride should, with her husband, toast her relatives and neighbours, thank for their congratulations to her marriage.

One of my neighbours is spitting in his washbowl, another one is screaming something I can't understand.

Energy remains almost the only effective tool that Russia has to shape its relations with its neighbours.

but until china embraces openness and pluralism at home , no charm offensive is ever going to set its neighbours ' minds completely at ease.

He is keen to identify the ways in which a country's policies, including its exchange-rate policies, "spill over" to its neighbours.

An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground.

The other day, my neighbours and I marvelled together at a moose running down the street toward the lake.

In an Old Havana street, a group of women are working on the pavement, giving manicures and pedicures to neighbours.

Germany's brightest business prospects do not involve its slow-growing neighbours but the charismatic economies of Asia and Latin America.

The beach is public land, like all beaches under state law, and the Obamas may see neighbours out for a walk or jog.

But Mr Obama, so far, has been much more diplomatic, urging only dialogue between the two tetchy neighbours.

Yet the country is no more popular with its neighbours than it is among thrifty Swabian housewives.

In turn, these neighbours will have to choose between appeasement and deeper entanglement with the United States.

The noise from his house was so loud that it was a nuisance to the neighbours .

Yet all is not sweetness and light, either within Greater Manchester or with its near neighbours, Liverpool and Leeds.

Seeing friends and neighbours struggle with inadequate pensions can be a powerful incentive to save more.

we have not recovered the land looted by our neighbours, so how can we boast of being a strong nation?

The existence of so many neighbours suggests that planetary systems tend to be stable, and stability is good for the evolution of life.

he had to ask neighbours for help for a long term.

Border disputes with a host of neighbours have been resolved and smouldering suspicion has been turned into constructive partnerships.

I think you are just a mortgage slave buying boats to impress your neighbours.

SMUGNESS is Estonians' least attractive feature, at least in the eyes of their Baltic neighbours, Latvia and Lithuania.

Unlike his neighbours, Gaddafi had come to power by denying western control of his country's natural wealth.

It was thought by his neighbours that he had made a wrong decision.

Algeria is frustrated by the apparent inertia and alleged lack of backbone shown by some of its southern neighbours.

Washington has tried to persuade Ankara, as one of Syria's most influential neighbours, to increase pressure on Damascus.

Speaking to the Asean regional forum, she all but declared that the US would not allow China to coerce its smaller neighbours.

Historically, few relationships between neighbours have been as schizophrenic as the love-hate relationship between Russia and Poland.

Does that mean greater EU engagement with its neighbours amounts to a policy of high risk and low reward?

In the case of the Bolsheviks, this would have meant such neighbours (Ger- many in particular) having their own revolutions, too.

The wasp thinks that the honey hive of the neighbouring bees is too small . His neighbours ask him to build one still smaller .

He did not allow his neighbours to poke into his garden.

But for you, only the people that you work with or our neighbours know(s) you for those people say good things about you.

Ms Tha, for example, pays about 7, 500 riels a month for her supply. But much of that she recoups from neighbours.

Do not take advantage of the hawkers; help poor relatives and neighbours.

Similarly, in the 2004 case, Ms Constantine was described by neighbours as desperate to leave her marriage.

And the second step of the project is to help all the neighbours of my grand parents learn some knowledge of science.

"Men will become neighbours, " he wrote. "Whether they like it or not. . . The TV satellite is mightier than the ICBM. "

The sun zaps its planetary neighbours with the "solar wind" , a stream of highly energetic charged particles.

Noisy neighbours are one of the most emotive causes of domestic upset for a very good reason.

When their mother was ill the children were looked after by neighbours.

As a hedge, it has also been forging links farther east with China's own maritime neighbours, including Vietnam, South Korea and Japan.

If agreed, the supply of submarines, worth as much as $3bn, would be the largest defence purchase between the two neighbours.

Things have come to a pretty pass it you can't even light a bonfire without all the neighbours complaining.

It is in the power of Zimbabwe's neighbours to make sure of that.

The broader problem for Russian foreign policy is that the country's rulers do not know how to deal with their post-Soviet neighbours.

If the miserable waste ground lying near it could have laughed, it would have laughed it to scorn, like many of the miserable neighbours.

A host of other films on Gaza betrayed a fascination with Sderot's Palestinian neighbours that Israel has locked out for years.

But Japan's relations with its nearest neighbours are still bedevilled by problems of acknowledging its rapine wartime past.

Russia's latest row with Georgia is not the only source of anxiety for its neighbours.

Although countries farther afield have offered to help the rebels, Libya's seven immediate neighbours have remained wary.

One was still able to share the street with neighbours, the outdoor barber, a game of chess, skaters and people fishing on the frozen lake.

They have become the strongest out of the new central Asian nations, after having good results against their footballing neighbours.

This is a RESIDENTIAL AREA. Please leave QUIETLY so as not to disturb our neighbours. Thank you for your co-operation &your kind attention.

She had no patience with her nosy neighbours.

The country's strong tax base means it has a welfare budget that poorer African neighbours can only envy.

We seized the opportunity to improve our economy and improve our relations with our neighbours and improve our relations with the U. S.

been happy to put them on the back-burner, favouring a charm offensive aimed at convincing neighbours that its rise poses no threat.

Some neighbours were wonderful and turned up with food and money while others began to gossip.

Sensible policies and a benign global economy helped it catch up with European neighbours that for decades had left it languishing.

Lately it has become embroiled in numerous territorial disputes with its neighbours.

The likelier prospect would be a long war that sucked in neighbours (Turkey, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia are all candidates).

On Thanksgiving, we go to visit my grandma. Clifford has to stay at home. Our neighbours take care of him.

He likes to turn on the radio at full volume, and all the neighbours are complaining of the noise.

China's emergence as the workshop of the world started with the shift of labour-intensive manufacturing from its neighbours.

She might have been killed if the neighbours hadn't intervened.

And we are more likely to keep an eye out for neighbours, as well as give up seats to elderly people on public transport.

Tunnels are often so close together, however, that other females may break in to their neighbours' underground, to try to steal dung.

When their mother was ill neighbours looked after the children.

Even those neighbours who had called Peter Featherstone an old fox, had never accused him of being insincerely polite.

This may give our neighbours the impression that Singapore is unwilling to be a part of South-east Asia.

He joined a gang at the age of 12. By the time he was 18, he was making $1, 000 a day selling crack to his neighbours.

Yet they were thwarted when Colombia declined to join because of its neighbours' equivocal attitude to its FARC guerrillas.

The parents of one of the neighbours, you learn, are farmers with dairy cows, free range chickens and several acres of vegetables.

In communications, a network topology in the form of a ring so that each node is connected only with two neighbours on each side.

So, fiddle with the atmospheres of these neighbours and you open new frontiers for human settlement and far-fetched story lines.

She smiled to herself gaily and went out of the cave to welcome her friends and neighbours.

Whatever tales this candid woman heard , she was sure to impart them to her neighbours .

In March China broke its silence over dams, denying that it was responsible for reducing the Mekong's flow reaching downstream neighbours.

TYPICAL USE: The solicitude shown to him by his neighbours after the robbery impressed him very deeply.

Yet Libya is a very different place from its neighbours along the Mediterranean.

The solicitude shown him by his neighbours after robbery touched him deeply .

Several of Eliot's neighbours put up a petition for a right of way over his ground.