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When I left for Oxford, I gave her a cardboard box full of paperback books on civil rights and urged her to read them.

Fascinated by physics, Stephen concentrated in the subject at Oxford's University College, but did not distinguish himself.

The Oxford Dictionary of English says much the same thing but specifies that this is applicable to a man, not a woman.

This represents the earliest citation that The Oxford English Dictionary has for a long gun being referred to as a rifle.

At Oxford I have been a good deal used to have a man lean on me for the length of a street, and you are only a fly in the comparison.

Some banks turned up to Oxford's finance fair but did not recruit anyone, Mr Black says.

Avoiding and then adjusting for any such bias, however, is at the heart of the work of the Oxford cancer epidemiology unit.

In the evenings he studied hard for his exams, and most mornings he took tourists around Oxford.

When I last saw her a quarter of a century ago, she was a scruffy, cerebral Oxford undergraduate.

Liu was extremely happy to have been admitted to Oxford, but soon he found he was out of his depth in his major.

So, a different, and rather wonderful, sort of alchemy has taken place in Oxford.

The Oxford English Corpus would have let me look at numerous contexts of the word to tease out whether this was the case.

It's not enough to be graduating from Oxford or Cambridge with a first class degree and to speak four languages.

In fact, when he was applying to Oxford, none of this school teacher thought he had a chance.

Lack of funds later forced him to leave Pembroke College, Oxford, before earning his degree.

When he visited his doctor in Deddington and was immediately referred to Oxford's Churchill Hospital.

One of the Oxford team's best players was injured and was replaced by another who proved to be a poor substitute.

in Oxford, bought a brand-new copy for 35 pounds, dirtied it up a bit and tore off the paper cover, writing a fictitious name in the front.

It was harder than I thought it would be to explain my short life and why it made sense for them to send me to Oxford.

That might have been a bit ahead of its time -- "globalism" didn't even enter the Oxford English Dictionary until 1986.

So, if I were to take the sun and compress it down to the scale of the University of Oxford, it would become a black hole.

The Oxford authorities objected, and when Shelley and Hogg declined to discuss the matter, they were sent down.

there was something of the moral enquiry about Oxford tutorials, the better to discover idealism and patriotism.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2001) has no less than seven definitions of the noun "model. "

I can only walk with sticks but that did not prevent these thugs from knocking me to the ground in Oxford Circus last night.

Lord Patten, now chancellor of Oxford University, said he would not lobby for the post but would be "very positive" if asked.

She also has an MSc in Development Economics, as well as a graduate law degree, from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

When he got back to Oxford, he began the laborious process of typing Khrushchev's words out in Russian, then translating and editing them.

In the meanwhile I shall go for a few days to Oxford perhaps.

The Russell Group of 20 research-led universities, which includes Oxford and Cambridge, said the funding gap would be "really challenging" .

All products are fold-style, lightweight, it demolished, and generally with Oxford bags, easy to carry, can be reused.

Eventually, I found a home for the rest of my stay at Oxford with Strobe Talbott and Frank Aller, at 46 Leckford Road.

Wear it to the office with a white oxford and navy blazer or throw on a leather jacket for a street-ready look on the weekends.

For a classic mug with a modern twist the Tulip and Oxford are proving to be very popular in the first few weeks of being offered.

All products are combinations, foldable, lightweight, it demolished, and with Oxford bags, easy to carry, can be reused.

If you were sitting in Oxford, England, trying to get to YouTube, your packets were going to Pakistan and they weren't coming back.

In one of the papers in Philosophical Transactions David Stainforth of Oxford University points out a pertinent example.

Lee's love of wine began in Oxford, where she spent a year as part of her degree.

In the early 19th century Oxford ragwort escaped from the botanical garden where it had been interned.

Originating in England, rowing is a popular sport, typified by the annual University Boat Race where Oxford and Cambridge battle it out.

Oh! it was unbearable just as he was going up to Oxford!

Oxford Black series. It is not easy to survive in a snowstorm and ice blizzards for hours.

The day after that, we took Bingting to OXFORD STREET, one of the famous shopping street in London.

Education isn't the reason either. Sam Walton never won a Rhodes scholarship, but he made more money than anyone who ever studied Oxford.

Strange though it seems to us on this side of the Atlantic, there are no courses at oxford in Housekeeping.

Serious scientists like Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford do not rule out the possibility that there are sea monsters to be discovered.

Even the finance minister, George Osborne, has no education in economics beyond whatever he picked up studying history at Oxford.

But at Oxford University he was drawn to a different universal message, that of Karl Marx.

It has no definite boundaries, but covers an area of about twenty miles radius from Oxford Circus.

Oxford professor Julia Lee-Thorp said the difference between males and females was "completely unexpected" .

Russell Foster, a professor of circadian [body clock] neuroscience at Oxford, shares this point of view.

Lord Taylor of Warwick submitted forms claiming that his main residence was in Oxford when, in actual fact, he was living in London.

The name entered the Oxford English Dictionary after just two years and the toy is a permanent exhibit in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

The British have had Eton and Oxford, the U. S. St. Paul's and Harvard.

The system of teaching practised at Oxford, with its tendency to avoid set courses, probably encourages independent thought and judgement.

Ron Artest does not use spell check. If he happens to misspell a word, Oxford will simply change the actual spelling of it.

But despite stepping out on the celebrity social circuit recently, Emma, from Oxford, said she remains reassuringly "normal" .

In the 1980s she was content to focus on academic research and serve as the mother of two sons and the wife of a British academic at Oxford.

We tried to imagine it, the delivery of this empty car to the home in Oxford where Mrs Logan waited with her two children.

But I'd just like to quote, finish at the end with a reference to a British author, an Oxford author whom I don't quote very often, C.

"Oxford Law Dictionary" interprets euthanasia as an incurable patients taken by the request of the cause or accelerate the death measures.

Women did not rate men with have bearded faces as more attractive in a recent study in the Oxford Journal.

PHOTOGRAPHS of Osama bin Laden visiting Oxford in 1971 have come to light after a Spanish woman found them in an old picture album.

He gives away his answer in the title of his book, "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence" (Oxford).

The Oxford Street department store Selfridges in London has started accepting China UnionPay cards.

Cannabis makes pain more bearable rather than actually reducing it, a study from the University of Oxford suggests.

After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a place built in the garden behind his house to do his work.

It's sort of like being a member of an Oxford college, only much better paid.

This was, after all, a man who went to Yale and Oxford but who grew up the child of a widow in the backwoods of Arkansas.

However, Oxford spokesman Christian Purdy said researchers found that 'unfriend' was more commonly used.

It was developed into a medicine by Howard Florey and his team at Oxford in the late Thirties and early Forties.

At this point, the British car industry to flourish in Oxford.

For Oxford, the decision to go online-only would make a great deal of economic sense.

Another recent addition to marketing experiences on offer in London is Fiat's new showroom just off Oxford Street.

What I should like more than anything else would be to start a school in Oxford for teaching English to foreign students.

Most of my close friends in Oxford came and had a great time together. I was very moved by what they have done to me. Viva friendship! ! ! !

Oxford says, "costing less than is usual or than might be expected; cheap or relatively cheap" .

IN THIS ARTICLE: The big Oxford Dictionary is now available on a single, small CD-ROM disk which can be read by a computer.

The technique developed by an Oxford University research team led by chemist John Foord generates hydrogen locally at low temperatures.

Oxford spokesman Christian Purdy said researchers found that "unfriend" was more commonly used.

Yale and Oxford University honored him for his writing. . .

Oxford Bookworms Black series. William Shakespeare is one of the great writers in England.

It was initially thought to be a distant galaxy, says Chris Lintott, an Oxford University astronomer involved in the project.

Sen. McCain said he will attend the Oxford, Miss. , event only if Congress reaches accord on a financial bailout package before then.

During his time at Oxford he published the economic models and equations for which he would eventually be awarded his Nobel Prize.

And he uses those as discussion materials and Then he's carefully indexed those against things Like the Oxford English edition.

In The Oxford English Dictionary the term gun moll is said to be American slang for a female thief or an armed woman.

She kept saying that she is going to get into Oxford but I told her don't count her chickens before they hatch.

St Hilda's, founded in 1893, was one of five colleges set up at Oxford to provide education for women when other colleges accepted only men.

Blair did not participate in student politics at Oxford, nor did he show much interest in public affairs.

The lucky man was Ian Henry, who was also working as a deckhand before going up to Oxford.

Both Alambritis and Oxford Economics said the pandemic's most severe impact would occur in the last three months of 2009.

I chose Oxford over Cambridge at the urging of my school physics teacher who was an Oxford man.

In 1886, Bell went up to the University of Oxford, where she was the first woman to win a first-class degree in modern history.

Asked about her notion of well-being by researchers from Oxford University, Jiyem said, "I cannot picture what well-being means. "

Oxford University was also in a sense a closed society, with its powerful conformities .

When I came back to Oxford a week or two later, I had prepared a few pages.

How much is it Oxford Circus?

My younger daughter has just got a place at Oxford which, a generation ago, was a fail-safe passport to a decent job.

He also has high hopes for Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, announced a year ago, which will matriculate its first students in 2012.

The Englishman who talked to him might be an Oxford graduate but he treated his illiterate comprador with respect.

Cameron's family was hardly poor. He did well enough out of his Oxford education.

Most mornings he took tourists around Oxford.

Cohen, the Chichele professor of social and political theory at All Souls College, Oxford University, has written two papers on the subject.

Oxford prefers to call them women but these were unmistakably girls, children, chattering brightly, chiming nervously.

The date for UK availability is yet to be announced, but Riversimple is in talks with UK cities including Oxford and Worcester for pilots.

Apparently, many Oxford philosophers had been involved in the war effort, in intelligence.

Ruskin owned a print of it which he presented to the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford.

I remember the shock when, at Oxford, I read his arguments supporting the idea of a natural rate of unemployment just after its appearance.

Enjoy the tranquil environment comparable to the British university city of Oxford is not an exaggeration.

He got used to being an odd man out at Oxford University, which he attended on a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

I had a position at an ecological research institute and got to run supercomputers at Nasa and Oxford, which was fun.

Scientists from Oxford University suggest the women wanting to become pregnant to relax, and conduct such a test.

With your Freshers' Fair ticket, you can get your hands on a brand-new edition of the comprehensive guide to all things at Oxford.

Today, the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is still recognized as one of the most accurate and comprehensive dictionaries in the world.

Notify the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary: the word "plenty" has been redefined to mean "two. "

The ceremony of the English edition of "Zhu Rongji Meets the Press" was launched by the Oxford University Press in London on 11th.

The annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge on the river Thames is one of the most popular events of the year.

And yet here we are , my church in Oxford, semi- detached from events that happened a long way away, but with our faith bruised .

She distinguished herself academically at Stanford University in California and in her post-graduate work at Oxford University in England.

It is one of the new generation Oxford dictionaries derived from the database of the highly acclaimed New Oxford Dictionary of English.

Lord Patten, chancellor of Oxford University and a former politician, let fly with his own views on March 16th.

Mr. Graham has a law degree from Vanderbilt University and a Diploma in Law as a Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University.

Schumacher was an economist who was born in Germany and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar in the 1930s.

As a young Oxford don, I was chairman of the panel assessing the preliminary examination that students took at the end of their first year.

But not hornbeam trees: these were tall palms, and they were growing, like the trees in Oxford, in a row along the grass.

I trailed her to a shop in Oxford Street.

Chancellor of Oxford, the former Governor Chris Patten said this on Oxford, it has "an opportunity for a century. "

The Oxford English Dictionary is just embarrassing at this point.

Furnivall went on to be the second editor of what became The Oxford English Dictionary.

One of these was the Bishop of Oxford, who took part in a debate against T . H . Huxley, a well-known scientist .

He spent a year studying literature at Oxford University in England.

My daughter is an Oxford graduate with a business degree and is bilingual in French.

We were up early the next morning, as we wanted to be in Oxford by the afternoon.

Oxford is, in fact, a private institution already but one which is dependent on government for a significant part of its income.

That winter , after I was buying a pair of Oxford shoes , what just discover popularity is road husband slippers however .

The bank's report draws on research by Oxford Analytica into the top 20 funds.

He recently spent a year reading all 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary .

Even the current prime minister, the Oxford-educated Abhisit Vejjajiva, seems like a thoroughly decent chap, and terribly dishy to boot.

Last weekend I attended a celebratory dinner for hacks at my old Oxford College, Magdalen.

Though I was preparing to go to Oxford, August was one of 1968s craziest months, and it was hard to look ahead.

referred to as the most attractive bachelor in Oxford.

The Romance Verb: Autonomous Morphology in Paradigm Change is due to be published next year by Oxford University.

His current project is America and the Politics of Modernization in Europe, to be published by Oxford University Press.

At Oxford's Somerville College, Margaret studied chemistry, not out of any basic interest, but because she knew it would guarantee a job.

I had been invited to stay with the parents of Jan Kopold, who played basketball with me at Oxford.

But last February, Oxford University decided to abolish the exam to encourage more state school applicants.

"Ultimately, it all depends on the dollar, " says Adrian Cooper, managing director of Oxford Economics, a forecaster.

That Saturday Lake called Strobe Talbott, Clinton's Oxford roommate and new ambassador at large, to the White House.

And I know a small business based in Oxford where the employees leave every two hours to shuffle their cars into different spaces.

The first-ever choroideremia gene therapy clinical trial is now underway at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, United Kingdom.

And since everyone knew that it was impossi? ble to do ninety miles an hour down Oxford Street, no one noticed.

I looked up bamboozled in the Oxford English Dictionary online, that's where the draft third edition can be found.

Bateson had a most orthodox Oxford education and a most unorthodox career.

late march was an enchanting spring in oxford , with flowers everywhere.

Oxford scientists pioneered techniques which enabled us to understand the role greenhouse gases play in climate change.

According to an experiment conducted by researchers at Oxford University, counting sheep is actually an inferior means of inducing sleep.

For more rugged appearances oxford weaves that were sheared after woven for a more natural appearance.

yes, I received a conditional offer from Oxford University a few days ago.

At Oxford [as a graduate student in philosophy] I decided software entrepreneurship was the way.

The Oxford University Press called it the word of the year.

A Loro Piana [wool] four-season dark gray nailhead suit and a white Thomas Mason Royal Oxford Shirt, both from P. Johnson Tailors.

Barack Obama and John McCain were due to meet in Oxford, Mississippi for the first of their three eagerly awaited presidential debates.

The last known stuffed dodo, in Oxford, had been eaten badly by moths and discarded.

Kay is an Oxford academic, Financial Times columnist and, as the former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a leading economist.

At Oxford, she would famously drive to London for American ice-cream in her yellow sports convertible.

Back in Oxford Hawkes completed his doctoral dissertation on The Songs of the South.

The UK's University College London, Oxford and Imperial College were all in the top 10.

Big behinds are preferable to extra fat around the waistline, which gives no such protection, the Oxford team said.

People commonly associate Oxford with politics and the arts, while Cambridge is viewed as a more scientific institution.

Oxford, ironically, had a run in with the " globalization" of education much earlier in its history.

When she learned that her daughter was accepted by Oxford University, pride swelled in her heart.

Oxford and Cambridge are the only non-American institutions on the list.

This was the rise in Oxford city's automobile industry, Morris spent his childhood.

"It has both currency and potential longevity, " said Christine Lindberg, a language researcher for Oxford's U. S. dictionary program.

In February this year Joel went on loan to Hayes and Yeading and left Oxford by mutual consent at the end of the season.

As well as Cameron, foreign secretary William Hague, home secretary Theresa May and chancellor George Osborne are all Oxford graduates.

The oldest Oxford racket had been elbowed out by the black markets in Woodbines, toffees, tomatoes.

He was moved to by the Tractarian movement, the Oxford movement, otherwise known as, and he became a Jesuit priest.

But a recent paper by Neil MacFarlane, an Oxford academic, offers a more sober perspective.

He was graduated from Oxford University and had been chairman of the Royal Society of Britain.

his leaving eton for oxford made no change in his kind dispositions , and only afforded more frequent opportunities of proving them.

The word dates back to the 17th century, deriving, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, from the Latin for "kidnapper. "

He had not bought a new suit since coming to Oxford.

of learning Oxford's beginnings are equally distant . Legend has it that Alfred laid its foundations at the end of the ninth century.

It's a secret in the Oxford sense, You may tell it to only one person at a time.

Scientists from Oxford University say greater junk food consumption has contributed to a rise in violence, UK media reported.

Mrs. Stogdale, 89, of Oxford, bought the General Electric refrigerator in 1952 and it has since followed her family around the world.

What Oxford needs is not to forego income from public sources but to increase its private income substantially.

" Oxford editors believe that the spell checker is a typographical error type is most likely behind the " criminal.

The same week sees London host a World Cup football qualifier, a state visit from Mexico's president and the Oxford and Cambridge boat race.

Cool canvas upper in an oxford silhouette for a timeless investment.

I will be trying to take my last jog in the park and walk on Oxford Street for the last time.

If you get into a university, it is unlikely to be Oxford.

In the top 10, other than Cambridge and Oxford, the only non-US university is Imperial College London, in ninth.

I am 23 with a degree in Russian and Polish from Oxford University and have worked in finance in London and Moscow.

In essence; we are a Web Design Company from Oxford who wish to pick up ranking for - web design oxford - web design oxfordshire.

SOME people, notably Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, regard religion as a disease.

A year later she has accepted a scholarship to Oxford, and she leaves her husband and son.

Symptoms of deprivation include weight gain, irritability, hallucinations and depression, said Prof Russell Foster, of Oxford University.

While they had been at Seoul National University, or Oxford, or Harvard, he had been pouring cement and mending nets.

On the 6th of February there was the traditional turning on of Chinese lanterns along Oxford Street.

A man was knocked down by a bus in busy Oxford Street, and a crowd soon gathered around him.

Only two universities in Europe are among the top 10: Britain's Cambridge and Oxford.

Both of her sisters followed the same path, while her brother was sent to Eton and Oxford.

British managers became managers by studying English literature and Egyptology at Oxford and by going through the Old Boy Network.

Desmond. I need you to go back to Oxford University.

The Oxford University-educated prince has indicated he would like to transform the institution.

After the war he returned to Oxford, transferring to the new Honours School of Chinese, under the former missionary E.

So too does ESSEC Business School in Paris, IESE Business School in Barcelona and Oxford University in the U. K.

He looked more like a Viking than a Rhodes scholar newly returned from Oxford.

Bendy wings could be the next big thing for small aircraft, according to scientists from Oxford University.

Sexual infidelity may be antisocial in both animals and humans, new research from the department of zoology at Oxford University suggests.

Oxford High School is one of the jewels in the crown of the Girls' Day School Trust.

Many UK prime ministers and world leaders have studied at Oxford but until now, the university has had no school dedicated to governance.

The professor, general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, originally had doubts.

Only five British institutions are ranked among the top 50, with Cambridge and Oxford in joint sixth place.

Lyra Belacqua is an orphan who lives happily in Jordan College, Oxford, playing with local boys and terrorizing the professors.

The New Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year, this term refers to the trend of eating fresh, locally grown ingredients.

Oxford also grants higher degrees, diplomas, and certificates in a wide variety of subjects.

A study of voter education in Mozambique co-conducted by Oxford University professor Paul Collier says no.

Most dictionaries, like the Oxford English Dictionary, have an online version.

Solid, durable water-proof Oxford fabric than ordinary non-woven shopping bags are more waterproof, stronger, more cleaning!

Some of your Oxford friends come to stay from a Saturday to Monday.

Each student at Oxford is assigned to a tutor, who supervises the student's program of study, primarily through tutorials.

Early in my career, I lived not far from Oxford University, a great center for philosophy for centuries.

After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house several hours before breakfast.

He was at the end of the study in University of Oxford, began to be interested in the Chinese culture.

James got acquainted with Shakespeare's works when he was at Oxford.

The system isn't fit for the 21st century, says Michael Devereux, professor of business taxation at Oxford's Saï d Business School.

"A recession is the best demand-reduction policy ever invented, " says Dieter Helm, an energy economist at Oxford University.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites 1963 as the first occurrence of expo, and in this case it was spelled with a capital E.

The least affordable local authority area outside London is Oxford, where typical rents account for 55% of average earnings.

Suu Kyi spent much of her early life outside of Myanmar, studying in India and at Oxford University in England.

"I used it mainly for my daily commute around the Oxford ringroad, which comes to about 15 miles return, " she says.

However, as Martin Ruhs of Oxford University points out, capping immigration in itself will not reduce reliance on foreign workers.

Paul Collier, an Africa specialist at Oxford University, thinks that in such circumstances young African men are "very dangerous" .

Professor Tim Crow of Oxford University agreed genetic changes may have made us vulnerable to schizophrenia.

"It means adding the numbers together then dividing it by the number of figures, " Trevor grinned. "Oxford dictionary, 2006 edition. "

The abbot went to Oxford and Cambridge, and wanted to see if any of the wise could help him. But they could not.

Oxford has offered electives in social entrepreneurship through the center for years but recently expanded its options.

This was six years after the Philological Society of London got Oxford University started working on what eventually became the OED.

The Oxford University and Cambridge Uninersity have educated the political and scientific elited for the British society.

you dream to oxford but do not study hard, what an impracticable illusion.

A man sells roasted chestnuts on Oxford Street on Dec. 14, 2009, in London, England.

Technology means that foreign policy will never be the same again, the prime minister said at a meeting of leading thinkers in Oxford.

At 26 he signed up with the Navy, turning down offers to stay on at Oxford and a lucrative consulting job.

Many countries, including America, have political dynasties; in Britain, networks are formed at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

Matthew has a degree in Mathematics from Queens College, Cambridge and an MSc in Software Engineering from Oxford University.

Britain's highest land values are currently found in London and nearby commuter towns such as Reigate; in Oxford; and in Cambridge.