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At the age of 17 she left her home to strike out on her own.

China's market for international travel is expected to grow by 17 per cent a year over the next decade.

On March 17th he had his wish, or most of it: a state funeral for all the poilus at Les Invalides, and then a simple family burial.

Whatever you jot down on your itinerary, a voyage through Indonesia's 17, 508 islands is an epic experience, never just a journey.

By the age of 17, I was filled with a desire to leave the chaotic comfort of the camp behind.

A 17th-century French naval commander was shocked to see a Dutch captain sweeping out his own quarters.

In a year, some 17 chicks were to be taken hack to the wild--Tongariro National Park's ten plus seven from two other nearby forests.

And on my 17th birthday, my parents, knowing how much I loved speed, gave me one driving lesson for my 17th birthday.

Ms. Merkel backed down on June 17, agreeing to ask bondholders only for a 'voluntary' contribution to the rescue of Greece.

I looked up in alarm. A boy of 16 or 17 was making his way through the car, selling boxes of tissues.

His wife Cui Xin lives with him, but the lack of a Beijing registration means their 17-year-old daughter has to go high school in Henan.

His friends stayed with him to help him. After many difficulties, at the age of 17, they finally finished the task.

She said the suspension would allow for a thorough examination of the safety standards of the county's 17 nuclear power plants.

Roughly 25% of the men surveyed said that they'd had a summertime crash or near-miss, while just 17% of women said the same.

He made his first record for his mother's birthday when he was 17.

Who knows how much of that $17 million the Kardashian clan pillaged before Kris could get his hands on it.

In the second, Japanese aged 10-17 were asked how much time they spent playing games in which the main character helps others.

He rose to international fame at the age of 17 as a member of the Beatles and went on to a career as a leading British film producer.

Michael Jordan and his wife, Juanita, filed for divorce Friday after 17 years of marriage.

Speaking to pilgrims on March 17th, he said he hoped it would help "repentance, healing and renewal" of a "severely shaken" church.

tonight advised that she was still out walk it, After all, did not endure to see the moon in 15, 16, 17 then missed the moon.

For years, Lucille Jackson battled gangs and extreme violence in her community to provide hope for her 17-year-old grandson.

Thinking about him may not set me on fire as it used to, but after 17 years and two kids, our love is still warm.

"We tried to sign him from [Southampton] as a 17-year-old, " Ferguson reflected as he prepared to take his side to White Hart Lane .

And they, if you try to produce a different wall with this 18th one, it will have to have the same symmetries as one of these 17.

Back in 1980, agricultural investment made up 17% of total foreign aid yet, as of 2006, it had dwindled to a mere 3% of this total.

On February 17, 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected president of the United States, but there was more to it than beating his opponent.

Yasuo Fukuda, whose father was also prime minister, had a strong aversion to politicians and worked for an oil company for 17 years.

We report the case of a man who had an insidious onset of asymmetrical distal muscle weakness of the upper extremity at the age of 17.

Similarly, a 17-way car, but today's different days of old, previously in that city, and was to make a living out to pick up a part-time.

He turns then to France, which, out of a growing sense of Gallic identity, rejected the Italian influence in the early 17th century.

She said police checkpoints were set up in a 17-mile radius around Ziketan, and residents were not allowed to leave.

The Commerce Department said the number of new homes under construction fell to a 17-year low in September.

17 nuclear power plants, which had been due to close by 2021, would be extended by an average of 12 years.

The southern shoreline of Manhattan, known as the Battery, has been a popular promenade since the 17th century.

I said that Michelle should wait until she's at least 17-and-a-half.

with a 40% tariff and a 17% value-added tax on US fruit, its price will be at least five times that of local varieties.

By committing early to a target of 17%, Mr Obama has avoided another pitfall: promising more than Congress looks ready to deliver.

However, Sutley said the president was unlikely to press for that original target, or to explicitly adopt the new more stringent 17% cut.

The Associated Press reported October 6 that Romney already has lent $17. 5 million to his own campaign, and stands ready to spend more.

The first Olympic Winter Games took place in 1924 in Chamonix, France. It had a modest participation of only 293 athletes from 17 countries.

Around the time of the attacks, Rumsfeld reckoned that 17 layers of officialdom lay between him and a line officer.

At seventeen, Snoopy had a bit of a heart condition and some kidney problems, and the family worried about her.

The United States will have no role in the bailout decision, to be made by the 17 key "Eurozone" countries of the European Union.

Hillary Clinton, just back from Iraq, said on January 17th that she supported legislation to put a cap on the number of troops there.

Hanging in his office in Berkeley is a 17th-century Dutch map on which California appears as an island off the west coast of America.

The researchers estimate that the total yield of cattle and tortoise meat, at least 17 kilograms, could have fed 35 or more people.

His bank eventually accepted that the17-digit purchase had been a mistake and refunded his money the next day.

Liu sent a text message to her 17-year-old sibling warning her to take down a photo of a guy sitting on her sister's lap.

Next she had to become a dazzling Hollywood girl showing up on Sunday, January 17 for her Golden Globe nomination.

Han, 25, hardly minds the maelstrom of controversy, and said he wants to look like a 17-year-old forever.

The council thinks Slough has 3, 500 HMOs, with at least 17, 500 mostly immigrant tenants, and is trying to identify them all.

She said the poster had attracted 17, 000 visitors to her election campaign Web site in a single day.

So the downturn is only now beginning to reach tony areas in north Dallas, where prices fell 17% in the first half of this year.

17 and asked her to have much sorrow, especially a taste in the heart. (it is) with?

Simplified tax regimes for small companies have been set up in 13 of the 17 countries the bank studied.

They found a 17% increase in prostate cancer for men who took the vitamin, compared with those who took a placebo.

Bryant might have missed 17 of his 28 shots, but it was the force in which he started the game for the Lakers that set the tone.

At the moment, according to Prado, Brazil's government spends just $17 million or so a year on agricultural cooperation projects in Africa.

The discharge vessel is provided with a luminescent layer (17) comprising a mixture of at least a red and a green luminescent material.

He said the Government would offer every Neet 16 and 17-year-old a place on an "Entry to Employment" course in January.

The girl is just 17, but she has risen through the ranks of her classmates and is clearly one of our school's top pupils.

The bridge of the 17th century seems to be tiny from such a distance but. . .

And in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.

Alico will give it a presence in 64 countries, up from 17 now, taking its non-American revenue from 15% of the total to 40%.

I had been a housewife and mother for 17 years. To feed my family, I had to leave my children behind and move to an American army base.

His widowed mother and uncles told him to kill the 17-year-old after she eloped with her boyfriend, staining the family's honor.

The second one was that I nearly died in an gas poisoning accident at my aunt's home at the age of 17.

There was the screenplay she wrote at 17 that captured the interest of a French publisher but never made it to the big screen.

In fact, Christianity was actually banned throughout Japan in the 1600s and continued to be so until the mid 1800s.

17 the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air , and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne , saying , " it is done ! "

17 for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, 'You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.

Since May, Egyptian border guards have killed at least 17 migrants trying to cross into Israel.

In the jail, Tao Lan behaves well and is allowed to go home for the spring festival after 17 years of departure from home.

We find in the diaries of Samuel Pepys the account of a storm which made him worry that it might mean the death of the queen.

Rescue workers in eastern Turkey, trying to get food and blankets to survivors of Sunday's earthquake, say 17 aid trucks have been looted.

Jin-Hua Shi has started his art movement of measurement and record when he was 17 and further made it a reason of his living and art career.

A Malaysian legislator resigned Tuesday after photos of her sleeping in the nude were circulated among the public.

Currently, only seventeen states require personal finance to be taught at least as part of other courses.

On two or three occasions, notably on October l7, 1914, the alarm was given that there was a U-boat inside the anchorage.

By the age of 17, he had amassed several thousand programmes, and continued to save them until he was 28 - in 1972.

Probably one of the toughest cases that our unit has faced was the Unabomber case. 16 devices, 17 years of investigation.

Radiation of up to 49 millisieverts per hour was detected inside the building on April 17 when the company sent in a robot.

Similarly, the Delegation emphasized that since August 17, El Salvador had been a party to the PCT and also to the Budapest Treaty.

An example of this duality is the fiscal grip of the central government compared with that of the 17 regions.

It's got to be serious if the New York Times puts a cover story of their February 17th Sunday magazine about play.

However, each of the services invoked from within the mediation flow can only handle a single record, as shown in Figure 17.

To understand the Sun and its effects on Earth, NASA has 17 missions, including STEREO, observing the Sun.

Seventeen-year-old Chezdan Mills used to be, in his own words, 'every parent's worst nightmare'.

CAD causes approximately 17 million deaths per year: the equivalent of one out of every three deaths worldwide.

CAD causes approximately 17 million deaths per year: the equivalent of one out of every three deaths worldwide.

A demonstration the next day in Sana'a was bigger and bloodier than ever, posing still more of a threat to President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

China Three Gorges was one of 17 state-run enterprises covered in the latest audit, Xinhua said without providing further detail.

On Tuesday, February 17, 2009, two immigration officers, a man and a woman, came to me when I was writing at my laptop in the basement.

17-year-old sky, a little blue, large flowers big flowers of white clouds floating in the air, failed to cover the sun shine bright.

Throughout these 17 months, I've come to "know" most of you and the way you think, act and react.

"The Wounded Warrior in the Snow" , a history painting, was bought by a private collector and won her a state travel grant when she was 17.

CHICAGO: At least 17 people were shot, none fatally , by a gunman who opened fire in a class today at a suburban Chicago university.

With an economy in its 17th year of uninterrupted growth, Australia's skills shortage has never been worse.

A 17-year-old youth sustained light cuts to his ear in the attack. He was treated on the spot and did not require hospital treatment.

The jet-powered vehicle, with its body like the cabin of a fighter jet, can fetch a top speed of 1336 kmph.

All of it appeared to be handmade, probably by a 17th century artisan.

In Europe silver shortages led to a sudden massive expansion of the money supply and the hyperinflation of the mid-17th century.

The postings also claimed that the stabbings had resulted in three deaths. The postings said at least 17 women had been attacked.

Galois had been submitting papers on the subject since the age of 17.

Relegation to Serie B is already an incredible blow for Juventus, starting out with -17 points is just over the top.

You might be a medic on an expedition, an interpreter at a field base or a project manager working with a group of 17- to 24-year-olds.

On Jan. 1, Estonia became the 17th country to adopt the euro, but it might be a while before it has company.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at number 17, was notable as the only top 20 member to see a net gain.

The 17-year-old pop star is currently in Europe but when he returns to the U. S. in two weeks he hopes to finally end this whole mess.

He said 17, 400 people had signed up to take part, although bad weather prevented some from parading.

In the seventeenth century, cooks did not use proportions or talk about teaspoons and tablespoons. Instead, they just improvised.

Brand Asset Consulting surveys a group of 17, 000 people about major brands at least four times a year.

Seventeen year-old Edwin Cobbin was lifting weights in the front yard of his house in Hawthorne when dark SUV pulled up.

The fascinating array of lotions is chronicled in The Path-Way To Health, a sort of 17th century version of Men's Health magazine.

But despite winning 17 games in each of his two seasons as a Yankee, he would leave behind a legacy in New York of unfulfilled expectations.

The number of Britons travelling abroad fell by 17% in June compared with a year ago.

MORE than 17, 000 people turned up in the hot sun on July 16th to see Barack Obama speak at a campaign rally.

Can any of you remember what you wanted to be when you were 17?

He was the uncle of the country's initial case, a 15-year-old girl who died 17 January, and provided care for her during her illness.

At the beginning of the 17th century, tea was spread to Western Europe, and became one of the favourite drinks of European people.

A year after the bans were brought in, heart attacks had fallen by an average of 17%.

Born on 17 June 1898, he grew up in Combe Down, near Bath, and left school at the age of 15 to train as a plumber.

When Baida was 17 her mother died, and a few months later, at her father's behest, Baida married.

Today, I was cleaning my 17 year old step-son's room when I found my bra and a photo of me in his drawer. FML.

Yet if it raised the mark to $16 or $17 (still well within the legal limits), the cry of inflation might be raised.

It was in one of these that our word akimbo unexpectedly appeared more than 200 years earlier than the next citation in the 1600s.

"Sick Girl" is the harrowing account of her 17-year journey through our health care system, told in unflinching detail.

Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi 17, said that as the world's largest oil exporter Saudi Arabia was ready, ready to meet market demand.

Raised in a Spanish-speaking home and of Puerto Rican descent, she has been a federal trial and appeals court judge for 17 years.

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I was lucky enough to be invited to Japan as an exchange student when I was 17 years of age.

He made 12 of 17 shots and joined Bryant as the only two starters to score in the fourth quarter.

HBOS and Lloyds TSB, two banks that are about to merge, need another £ 17 billion between them.

For 17, I doubled if it's need to be or not to be a child, but unknown.

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

The entry grade (17) rates the quality of your entry by expressing it as a percentage of that day's range.

Revenues have expanded every year by around 17% since 2005, and are expected to grow at nearly 10% a year for the next five years.

Although born in Aberdeen, Holden grew up in Texas and has won 17 full caps for the United States of America.

Dozens of maize mazes have cropped up in recent years, including a 17-acre monster in Dorset that claimed to be the world's biggest.

Mr. Al-Haidari, who was one of 17 provincial governors, survived a previous attempt on his life several weeks ago.

Exports, on which the figures are more reliable, were 17. 5% lower in January than a year before.

The central and western parts of Kansas were hit by at least 17 tornadoes on Friday alone, the National Weather Service said on Saturday.

As shown in the last column, we see that mean visible performance is higher than the mean thermal performance by 2. 17 standard deviations .

In a statement on its website, the ministry said the measures will apply from Tuesday, with the tariff varying from 17 to 35 percent.

Asked what he would say to his 17-year-old self, Agassi answered, "I would say, I understand you a lot more than I want to be you. "

NEW YORK (Reuters Life! ) - Even smokers support bans to prohibit lighting up in the workplace, according to a new survey.

In announcing the proposal, EPA said the measure would prevent as many as 17, 000 premature deaths and 11, 000 heart attacks a year.

The Blues are believed to be interested in the 17-year-old sensation who has become one of his country's most in-demand young talents.

Curling is a game played on a sheet of ice, and Scotland has been its real home since the early part of the seventeenth century.

But in chapter 17, Mr Wilczek suddenly talks of a green and purple charge, leaving the reader scratching his head.

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Argentina and Great Britain have been at loggerheads over the sovereignty of the Malvinas (Falklands) Islands since the 17th century.

India's economic history can be broadly divided into three eras, beginning with the pre-colonial period lasting up to the 17th century.

She said her brothers and 17-year-old daughter were helping with her long recovery.

Instead, the 17-year-old has moved into a luxury two-bedroom condo at the corner of Lafayette and Spring Streets, reports the New York Post.

In a computer 15, a hard disc drive 17is allowed to be inserted into a housing 16or drawn out therefrom.

The 17 member states of the single-currency area would be able to borrow in bonds issued by a European debt agency.

But before you think less of Newton, consider that most experimental scientists of the 17th century believed in it too.

At the age of 17, Kristina went to a local beauty parlour for her first lip injection.

The center released a group of 17 documents totaling 175 pages, which had been uncovered by US forces in bin Laden's Abbottabad compound.

The program is now offered to couples in at least 17 hospitals across the country.

That's where her path crossed that of Michael LaSane, who, police say, wanted just such a car to celebrate his 17th birthday.

THERE was a time in the late 17th century when no respectable monarch would be seen without a guitar.

I've been working with him for 17 years, all right?

An error with a severity level of 17 or above that causes the server to stop processing the command needs to be handled as an exception .

It is a mark of his quality that Johan Cruyff reckoned he was ready for his debut at the age of just 17.

Over the Longmen Gorge, we came to a terrace - "Water Man Jintian" I it a total of 17 cumulus layer 31.

Now an analysis of 17 years of research data shows that the abundance of these deep-sea fishes is plummeting.

Exports climbed a less-than-forecast 17. 1 percent in September from a year earlier, customs bureau data showed in Beijing today.

Japan's economy was ahead of the pack too; it went into a long correction 17 years before America's subprime lending crisis.

The result was headline inflation rose from around 5% to 17. 6% in a little over two years, ' he said.

Seventeen percent of foreign students, or one out of six, studied engineering during the last academic year.

Similarly, the company is still building up its cloud computing services and over the past year it added 17 new fulfillment centers.

Of these, only 17 have produced data for at least two years.

Mr. Day Yeong-tyi asked if the same or other species of cicadas emerged if it was not the emergency period of the 17-year cicada.

However the moment Kanu will best be remembered for was the mesmeric finale to a 17-minute hat-trick at Stamford Bridge in 1999.

Even though US sanctions were lifted about a decade ago, the Pakistan Air Force plans to acquire up to 250 JF-17s over the next 10 years.

The "gifted students' team" had a 17-year history, which made up by the recommended students from the universities all around the US.

At the age of 17, Besson had a diving accident that left him unable to dive.

At the age of just 17, she became the first female voice in the seven-man vocal act known as the Pied Pipers.

Kuntar has been imprisoned in Israel for 29 years, since the early age of 17. And how the world has changed in his absence!

Fahim said he would attend Portsmouth's next home game, against Tottenham, on 17 October.

The jewellery company also reported that sales in November and December were 17% higher than a year earlier. Sales in Europe went up by 30%.

At plenty of moments over the past 17 years it has seemed like O'Sullivan was turning the snooker soap opera into a one-man show.

Franklin 17-year-old, he and his brother not to leave the family alone came to Philadelphia to make a living.

There was also bad news on the trade front, with China's exports falling 17. 5 percent in January from a year earlier.

Tears running in my eyes as she said we cannot go back to 17.

The next day, however, Mr Kibaki responded with apparent contempt to Mr Odinga's climb down by unilaterally appointing 17 cabinet ministers.

I met one woman here who was raped and tortured at the age of 17 during the height of the war.

Just don't expect them to score 17 goals, win five and draw one out of every six matches.

Over the past 25 years, in terms of GDP per head at current exchange rates, the French have dropped from seventh place in the world to 17th.

He told the paper he had lost his job after 17 years as a Coca-Cola delivery man, and with it his health insurance.

Enter "Company View" as the name of the view in the Property box as shown in Figure 17.

On Oct. 17, Bush warned that "if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it would be a dangerous threat to world peace" that risked a third world war.

She also goes on to talk about her business empire with 17 different product lines, saying her mom taught her not to talk about money.

Intel's stock is down by about a quarter since the start of the year, compared with a slide of about 17 percent for AMD.

Left an orphan at seventeen, he removed from the neighborhood of Linz, where most of his previous life had been passed, to Vienna.

Why should whist, the name of a card game that has been known only since the 17th century, be spelled with wh-?

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Leehom did not study Chinese until he was 17, but is now fluent in both speech and writing.

The map above, released by the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, shows the status of every reactor as of March 17.

NET in this chapter, you'll be ready to explore the timesaving shortcuts of the data binding model in Chapter 16 and Chapter 17.

BENEFIT OF INSURANCE 17 Not to Inure Clause This insurance shall not inure to the benefit of any carrier or bailee other than Assured.

Online notebooks are a dime a dozen, with Evernote at the head of the class and at least 17 other eager alternatives close behind.

Oxfam said the survey of eating habits in 17 countries shows how Western diets have spread across the world.

When you stop and think about it, a system that encourages 17-to-18-year-olds to make high-stakes life decisions is insane.

I had another thought and checked the time of regular ships leaving England. There was no ship at 10. 17.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the same painting is described in other collectors' catalogs as The Garden of the Hesperides.

So for me, the penny did not drop until Wednesday morning that the world now belongs to the generation below mine.

The Delegation believed proposal 17 needed to be made actionable, as it was a relevant proposal.

The Torres family has made wine at least since the 17th century in the Penedes region, south of Barcelona.

Seiji Kameda, an arranger and producer who has worked with Sheena since she was 17, says, "She always wanted to be a musical pioneer. "

Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez is trying to cool the hype building around 17 year-old striker Craig Lindfield.

Determination of the local seismic network, located in the earthquake focal depth of 17 kilometers below the surface.

MORE than a week after Kosovo declared its independence on February 17th the dust has not settled.

They were at the age 17 and 16, and tall of their age, had all the grandeur of men in the eyes of their little cousin.

He took 17 curtain calls and, by his death, held the world record for them.

intercropping when the efficiency of the total biomass is higher than monoculture production can be achieved, and growth could reach 17%.

In 17, the company does not provide housing, by his house for rent, the rent of 100 yuan.

Threlfall has just ended a productive loan spell at Bradford where he made 17 appearances, scoring two goals for the League Two outfit.

MILAN - Man- of - the - match Andrea Pirlo, who opened the scoring for Milan in the 17th minute , is happy about his goal.

The police chief told me he was 17, and had turned himself in after killing his sister.

He said the percentage of children in poverty will rise to 21 percent in 2010, up from about 17 percent in 2006.

Japan, Iceland, Norway and indigenous groups hunted and killed at least 17, 000 whales over the last decade.

Only one in 17 car owners from professional and managerial backgrounds wash their vehicle once a week, reveals the survey.

She always hoped he would change, but now that he was almost 17, she had a sinking feeling.

The bank denied the security problem Thursday afternoon by saying that its operation system runs well.

The suspect was alleged to have robbed RMB170000 in cash after breaking into a local postal deposit bank by smashing its windows.

A17th - century game in which a boxwood ball was struck with a mallet to drive it through an iron ring suspended at the end of an alley.

Pushed by France, the euro zone will formalise summits of its 17 leaders, to be held twice a year after EU meetings at 27.

The Long Beach Assembly Plant produces the C-17 cargo planes, a workhorse for the U. S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Emile was 17 then, some years out of village school, with an early moustache and a ready, cheeky grin.

The bank reserve requirement ratio will rise from 14. 5 per cent to at least 17 per cent by year end, Mr Sun says.

Only a few UV-filters are capable of blocking UV-A, the wavelengths(17) that penetrate deeply into the skin.

At least 17 people have been killed in protests since the election.

So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

When Jackie was 17, he began to do dangerous stunts for films.

Born in Shanxi Province in 1908, Bo joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the age of 17 and lived to be the Party's oldest member.

The family of Baecker, running the cafe in the seventh generation, will deliver cakes for the royal wedding in London.

At least three people have been killed by the security forces. Leftist NGOs blame the government for a further 17 deaths.

But Yao was not sure if he would be ready for the 2008 Stankovic Continental Champions Cup, which tips off on July 17.

S. President Barack Obama was the first phone with Aung San Suu Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma to the United States contact support.

In conclusion, N-Acetyl-D-Galactosamine was the ligands which had the highest affinity to SBA among the 17 kinds of ligands.

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Of course, those 17% short-term interest rates sent the U. S. economy into a major recession.

It drew an estimated 17. 6 million users in the U. S. in May, a more than 27-fold increase from a year earlier.

That would mean an average extension of 12 years for the last 17 plants in operation, he said.

Australia's Treasury retaliated with its own hasty calculations which coincidentally also settled on a figure of 17%.

A different group, the National Opinion Research Center, recently found that seventeen percent of Americans do not identify with any faith.