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Gates is also known as an avid reader and the ceiling of his large, home library is engraved with a quotation from The Great Gatsby.

Thora is an avid feminist so I decided to soft pedal the issue of women's rights while she was at the meeting.

I confess that I was a huge fan of the Hardy Boys, and then used them to entice my own kids into becoming avid readers as well.

Most avid skiers know that March is often the snowiest month of the season, but April is no snow slouch, either.

He devoured books, often working his way through several at the same time, and was an avid consumer of crossword puzzles.

Avid to examine this find, he did not wait for the elevator but hurried up the stairs.

I may not know baseball scores, but as an avid indoors man, I've been highly regarded for my skill at video games and computer programming.

Insatiably avid For the dark and the uncertain, I shall not whimper like Ovid Chased from his Latin paradise.

Emperor Akihito, an avid scientist, said he sometimes wishes he had more time to do research or "to take long walks. "

Because she had always been such an avid and appreciative reader, her dream when she started college was to become an imaginative writer.

He was not surprised because he recognized Yechen as a seeker and avid learner and was sure this was a good path for him to travel.

I'm an avid dinosaur and pinball machine collector. I'm a bit of a pack rat.

I may not know baseball scores, but as an avid indoorsman, I've been highly regarded for my skill at video games and computer programming.

Benton Mackaye was an avid mountain climber and a land-use planner from Shirley Center, Massachusetts.

In her avid reading, she found Protestant theologians superior to Catholic ones, though she was pleased to discover Teilhard de Chardin.

You'll feel great and if you're an avid TV watcher I'm pretty confident your flexibility will improve in a matter of a few weeks.

D avid Brown, 24, says he woke up one morning after a night out with friends with a telephone number constantly running through his he ad.

The company is famous for attracting an avid audience with its innovative performances.

And it didn't take long for her to become an avid Bible student.

Although I'm an avid user and fan of Twitter now, when it first came out, I was a bit nonplussed by it.

And even avid music lovers in urban areas can see only a few shows a week.

Whether for ornamental use or for avid players of the game , the chess set has long been a gift standin for intelligence and erudition .

He was also an opera buff and an avid chess fan who never had the profile of a swashbuckling war correspondent.

Anyone with a small collection of quality wines or with an avid interest in wine should consider building a wine cellar in their home.

Growing up the son of avid churchgoers in Georgia, Harold was a soccer star and won a scholarship to American University in Washington, D.

Twitter has struggled a great deal with scaling to meet the needs of its avid user base.

He was a painter influenced by the Hudson River School, and an avid music lover, especially of the music of Beethoven.

Tom Shi, who works in the computer industry and is an avid Internet user, says he would rather put his money in stocks.

The avid writer is even considering to publish a book with a compilation of his travel experiences.

Bush has become an avid biker in the last couple of years, after a knee injury forced him to give up his jogging routine.

He's an avid gamer, so I thought I'd give him a treat: "You can have any video game in this store, " I said. "Any game. "

His staff is happy to advertise that he dropped out of high school to play in a rock band, and is an avid motorcyclist.

Currently, Avid Life Media operates two websites that promote what the company calls "mutually beneficial relationships. "

If you aren't an avid reader, it may feel hard to get started, but as you keep reading, you'll find it more and more fun, at least I did.

Recently, avid children accompanied by their eager parents, have been visiting to touch into some of the local magic of Harry Potter.

After it's revised a few times it's sent to editorial in a digital format to the Avid, a digital cutting tool [or film editing system].

Zhang, an avid photographer, says he would take loads of pictures of his girlfriend.

Even in the United States, homework from English class alone is not enough to sate [1] an avid reader.

It should be noted that Paul Calf (pictured above) was an avid Manchester City fan. Ouch.

He was part of a generation that had had so few opportunities open to them and then, after the war, they were avid for everything.

She was avid for praise from her coach.

As an avid runner and reader myself, I've noticed these same phenomena have changed my life, and I recommend both to anyone I talk to.

Some turned up at the place, mingling more among the curious spectators rather than among the pilgrims avid for heavenly signs and favours.

Do not be surprised to find your Pisces child is a natural poet, an artist, an actress, an avid reader or movie lover.

Instead, they found that gaming was a way to spend time with friends and that women, as well as men, were avid game players.

I`m an avid reader of history, but I don`t think history should be approached only in the way we were taught in school.

As we would have to thread our way around Kuomintang-held towns, we had a guide avid seven or eight militiamen as a guard.

During the recent boom years, luxury companies often assumed that money was no object for their avid fans.

Wu Junliang returned to China after 20 years in the U. S. , where he was an avid observer of politics.

In a somewhat unlikely claim, Perry also insists that Mrs Thatcher is an avid viewer, particularly of Joey and Chandler's scenes.

But Decision Points reveals him to be an avid reader.

Among other interests, he is an avid fan of American movies, and any movies on WWII, as well as being a self-taught speaker of English.

He's an avid user of the medium: My Obsession With Chess was widely popular online, as was The Right Number.

Its military is an avid student of the competition, and a fast learner.

An avid reader of the broad sheets, little Lu Jun talks like a cynical adult. The way he acts has a lot to do with his parents.

Varices classically demonstrate avid contrast enhancement. Focal calcifications (representing phleboliths) may be detected.

True, nobody claimed to be an avid reader of business books, which most defined as books about management.

An avid recreational diver, Hodges spends as much time as possible below the waves, gaining new perspectives on our overwater world.

He remained an avid shopper, however, and was spotted at shopping malls in the black robes and veils traditionally worn by Bahraini women.

Back then I was an avid golfer, so I had my staff write a software program that let individuals compute their golf handicap.

Growing up, Abe Lincoln had only about 18 months of formal schooling, but was an avid reader, and educated himself.

The scans were developed by a Philadelphia company, Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, and, independently, by Bayer and General Electric.

Notes: The term was introduced into common parlance during the farewell address of President Dwight Eisenhower, avid armchair psychiatrist.

Avid readers are more likely to read anything faster than average or minimalist readers.

Clerk Maria Saenz and student worker Susana Guillen, avid fans of the real Beckham, "were just jumping up and down" after the first call.

He remains very interested in issues of design in the everyday world, and is an avid photographer.

It is a free-to-play, so if you're an avid FPS fan, just give it a go.

Groupon's best customers are young, female city-dwellers, who tend to be avid followers of fashion; but fashions change.

There was this preacher who was an avid golfer.

Emacs, the premier open source program with an avid community following, has affected the way many software developers work today.

I grew up in the western city of Chongqing in the 1960s and 1970s, an avid fan of Lao She's less controversial works.

The head of the site, Catherine Mackey, a transplant from Pfizer's laboratories in Connecticut, has become an avid early-morning surfer.

Chinese men are abandoning traditional notions of masculinity to become some of the world's most avid consumers of skincare products.

That's helpful if you're an avid international backpacker who does most of your travel planning and booking online.

Sales of football kits across the Web have rocketed, as avid fans tend to wear the same jerseys as their favorite teams.

To analyze the endoscopic and pathologic characters of acute graft versus host disease (avid) after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

There were others, like Norman St. John - steals, who were avid supporters , but had never held senior rank in the Cabinet .

If you're an avid ASM coder, many things are more straightforward since you can take care to produce position-independent code.

Nicole Peters, an avid online shopper, describes how she bought a massage via one of Groupon's rivals.

It could permanently spoil U. S. -China relations; Taiwan has many avid supporters in the United States.

This pianist and avid Rollerblader has advertised heavily during the recession to keep sales of macaroni and cheese and Kool-Aid flowing.

As an avid reader of the Iron Man comics, I was excited but also very scared that this movie would flop.

An avid reader of Dante, Rodin borrowed imagery directly from The Inferno in addition to creating his own unique visual representations.

'I think it works, especially for people who are avid travelers looking for new places to visit, ' he said.

By age ten, Edison had built a science laboratory in the basement of his family's home and had become an avid experimenter.

It soon spread to England, where both Henry VII and Henry VIII were avid players who promoted the building of more courts.

White America's response to Mr Obama is so avid, in fact, that it offends some black voters.

Commercial companies took over much more of the AHG market, and the reagent became extremely avid and much more specific.

Avid Wendler, of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and his colleagues have looked into this question.

Mankind have even committed the impiety of attributing similar desires to the deity , whom they imagine avid for continual praise .

The answer is a matter of avid curiosity, particularly among hedge funds that take big bets on international asset prices.

Still a child, Richard was an avid Star Wars fans.

Marketing and advertising will turn Asia's yuppies into avid consumers, eager to try the latest gadgets and lifestyles.

Mankind have even committed the impiety of attributing similar desires to the deity, who they imagine avid for continual praise.

As an avid cyclist, I'm aware of two serious communities: mountain bikers and road bikers.

So avid student learning, teacher education, selflessly, for the common goal ---- the test and forward.

My younger sister is an avid environmentalist. She insists we recycle everything.

As such, she finds that she is attuned to be an avid conscious dreamer.

The success of Stephenie Meyer has made a whole generation of avid readers and avid vampire fans.

the avid truth seekers in attendance were very focused , with many asking questions and later learning the convenient method.

This would be a good movie to watch if you are an avid Batman fan, or just want to watch a fiction super hero film.

An avid practitioner of kendo, a Japanese martial art, Hashimoto was a tough, intelligent man who enjoyed combat of all kinds.

He is an avid in-line skater who enjoyed skating to work until pollution left him spitting out black phlegm.

At the age of nine, I became an avid baseball fan.

The young orc became an avid student of demonic magic and developed into the most powerful mortal warlock in history.

My sister is an avid reader, but in rural areas where there is no library and bookstore.

Video games, bookworms , and avid TV viewers tend to be homebodies .

Theodore Roosevelt, as assistant secretary of the Navy, later becomes an avid spectator.

It's not surprising that these avid fans get more psychologically aroused at games and spend more money on tickets and merchandise.

He, too, is an avid runner as well as a backpacker.

I consider myself an avid photographer, perhaps embark on a project related to this; I dont know, Im just throwing some ideas.

A few cautions if you are an avid sushi eater but have high blood pressure or are pregnant or nursing.

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The most avid collectors of news were businessmen, some of whom acted as correspondents to papers.

Recently, Outstanding Art has been an avid sponsor of many charity events and organizations.

And there's no better place for an avid problem-solver than small business.

But I'm an avid newspaper reader in the morning, especially the obituaries.

This student happened to be an avid reader of books.

Some Apple followers -- and more than a few avid customers -- had expected Apple's fifth-generation phone to be called the iPhone 5.

As an avid hiker, I have spent almost every vacation travelling, usually in a remote area, even 'a no man's land'.

Many avid fans in both countries tuned into World Baseball Classic game, a cliff-hanger that ended with a 2 - 1 victory for South Korea.

Meanwhile, China remained an avid buyer of crude oil, copper and corn, a driving force for commodities prices.

Without her father's knowledge, Savitskaya, who took an avid interest in flying from childhood, learned to parachute.

Sammy Olagbaju, a 70-year-old retired stockbroker who has lived in London and New York, is another avid collector.

Mankind have even comimitted the impiety of attributing similar desires to the deity, whom they imagine avid for continual praise.

He had become an avid and accomplished gardener in France.

He also is an avid professional sports fan and enjoys softball , bowling , traveling, and spending quality time with his family .

if the audience is a group of avid fashion lovers, then by all means share and reinforce that passion.

The popular seafood is a gold mine for poor countries feeding avid consumers in northern markets.

Chinese sailors were avid listeners, carrying home what they had gleaned from the transmissions from London.

Stalin, too, was an avid reader, boasting a library of 20, 000 volumes.

eager, avid, keen, agog These adjectives mean animated by or showing great interest or desire.

Gates is an avid reader, and enjoys playing golf, tennis and bridge.

Home shows on cable TV have created an avid following of fans hooked on the idea of before-and-after design.

She was avid for equal rights for immigrants.

The most notable example is probably the late economist Hyman Minksy, of whom Roubini is an avid reader.

An avid rider myself, I represent the finest dressage horse riding and training facility in the country.

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As an avid baseball fan, my favorite team is the Chicago Cubs.

Even when he is not there, she draws large, avid crowds.

I cajoled the avid entrepreneur into doing the business for me.

Leong, a legal secretary by day, is an avid ghost hunter by night.

Serious math students, though, remain among Wolfram Alpha's most avid users.

Two avid fishermen go on a fishing trip.

"Because instead we can achieve both with music, or paint, or dance, or any form of avid self-expression, " I add.

Mia was fourteen, overbooked, and under slept: a golfer, avid volunteer, and staff writer for the school newspaper.

"From 'Twilight' to 'Slumdog' -- this year's ceremony belongs to our most avid movie fans, " Toffler said.

Splenic inflammatory pseudotumors should be recognized as F-18 FDG-avid benign tumors of the spleen.

The official line is that we use Linux as a means to an end; STD is about security tools and not Linux, although we are all avid Linux fans.

An avid duck hunter was in the market for a new bird dog.

There are few incentives to save money. Spaniards are avid consumers of free health.

And I will stand back as your most avid cheerleading section.

John Mayer is an avid tech geek and Blackberry fiend.

I happen to be an avid cyclist.

The younger generation is avid of new experience.

Roosevelt, avid for war, undertook a desperate gamble.

Now the other fellow, Harry, is an avid learner.

Brazilians are the most avid fans of networking sites, according to the report.

An avid biker who quit drinking at 40, Bush prides himself on his physical fitness.

The 12 levels will keep even the most avid game player entertained and test their decision making skills.

I'm an avid reader, and I absolutelylove to cook and bake.

Many of you reading this are avid users of social technology.

I was an avid cyclist and it became painful to ride.

The day has the bright mirror, cannot accommodate the wicked avid follower.

Studies Not all high school and college students are avid readers.

Their results showed that avid GPS users have a higher risk of suffering from memory and spatial orientation problems.

"Knitting is a great stress reliever that can be done almost anywhere, " an avid knitter said.

China has 400 million Internet users, a quarter of them avid gamers, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.

"He is an avid participant in the Aspen Institute and the World Economic Forum. "

Critical moments like these are to the sports fan what the beautiful lines of a poem are to an avid reader.

Bonn means Beethoven: his birthplace there is a coveted stop for educated Chinese, who are avid fans of classical music.

As an avid baseball fan, I think it's a magnificent idea to build a baseball field on the premises.

During the Meiji era 1868-1912, Japan began its avid assimilation of Western civilization.

Hundreds of hours of time sufficient to avid game.

Avid reader of The Nation magazine.

Still, I have become a pretty avid user in the last few months.

I am a teacher and an avid learner, and I'm passionate about both.

Tots also turned into avid volunteers.

Some people are such avid dancers; they spend their weekends just dancing. 10.

Are you using any of the apps above on your iPad, or are there others you can suggest for avid lifelong learners?

Both the government and its critics have become avid users.

an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health.

He is an avid amateur astronomer.

She's also an avid street skateboarder.

He was not even an avid reader of books.

An avid horseman, he owns a ranch in Colorado.

An avid cyclist and skier, he is married with two children.

In the kinds of homes that produce avid readers people still watch television but probably with discrimination.

I am a diligent worker and an avid reader of your column.

Avid Facebook watchers will know that Mr Zuckerberg has been learning Mandarin ahead of the trip.

I am an avid Lakers fan and am enjoying the great basketball they are playing.

These lesions accumulated 111In-chloride and were also avid for 67Ga-citrate.

I'm an avid sailor, a dyed-in-the-wool blue-water man.

Many of the stars of the event are avid users of Twitter.

Revenue comes instead from small payments made by more avid players to buy extras for their in-game characters, from weapons to haircuts.

If you're an avid exerciser or live in a hot climate, you may need more.

An avid fan of games, in 1968 and 1969 Sondheim published a series of word puzzles in New York magazine.

An avid soccer player, Bergenov is also a guitarist and singer.

I'm no longer an avid fan.

In 1990 I moved to Florida for a job selling computer software for a hardware dealer who had an early system of the Avid.

The scientists, from the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, then placed these avid runners in unfamiliar situations.

Because I'm an avid tester, I naturally want to run some coverage tests.

Time and again, in village after village, I have heard these farmers confessing their bitterness to avid listeners.

If you're an avid book reader, try a trip to the library instead of the book store.

FOR someone who is both technologically adventurous and an avid reader, this may be the perfect holiday season.

She has taken an avid interest in the project.

He has an avid following, but it is small, and he must know that he will never be president.

I am an avid bicyclist and enjoy short and long rides.

I should note that as a physics professor who is also an avid fan of science fiction and comic books, I am simultaneously a nerd and a geek.

Now let me clear something up. I'm avid for challenge and victory. That is my motivation to continue working really hard and keep racing.

Apropos to her career in Scrum, Druckman has become an avid rugby fan in the last year.

His avid conference-going, for example, is not just for fun.

Here's an analogy: Say you're an avid runner who jogs a few miles every day.

For example, I'm an avid user of WordPress for my blog Web site.

Are you an avid Minnesota Vikings fan? I have the perfect gem for you!

The supposition made sense: Bats are nocturnal, many of them are avid nectarivores, and they can easily reach the highest blooms in a tree.

When I meet authors, publishers or avid readers I like to ask them about the future of books.

I'm an avid gym goer. I go to the gym almost every day for at least an hour.

An avid Twitter user, Medvedev is seen as more liberal and Western-leaning than Vladimir Putin, said the report. (See photo)

Sims is 50 years old, an avid rock climber and former professional mountain guide.

But I'm an exception: a sizeable majority of English men are indeed avid football supporters;

A study on maize high-yield sowing date in the central hilly avid region of Sichuan basin

Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener

He dispatched the meal with a series of avid gulps

and despite the pandemonium , the avid shopper had taken his time to browse the shops

I am a vegetarian and an avid supporter of PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]

avid for news of the city

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