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A month or two before the games begin, the sun's rays are used to kindle the flame on a torch atop a mountain in Olympia, Greece.

Atop the roof of a downtown building, Penny stared through a pair of high-powered binoculars.

That man standing atop a tall column in London's Trafalgar Square is Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of England's greatest naval heroes.

As you might guess, just one decade of the brain was not enough to solve all of the problems that plague the lump atop our spinal cord.

ECCErobot might eventually be able to wheel into a room, see a ball rolling atop a table, and pick it up.

On the Shy Maid, he made his bed atop the roof of the cabin, with a coil of hempen rope for a pillow.

There was an old abandoned cemetery atop the hill with rows of unmarked headstones and tangles of brushwood clogging the aisles.

He said the Hamaoka plant, 125 miles west of Tokyo, was "a special case" because it sat atop a major fault line.

The addition of a plumed crest atop the helmet gave it a classical look and a historical feel.

For thousands of years, sand buried the colossus up to its shoulders, creating a vast disembodied head atop the eastern edge of the Sahara.

But the police carrying automatic rifles atop the armoured vehicles did not attempt to deploy on the streets.

Video from the scene showed a school bus resting atop the back end of a tractor trailer. It showed another school bus, as well.

Even so, to get visitors in the mood, the county paid for a little Roman-style pavilion to be built atop the foundations of an old temple.

The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks.

You've checked in at all your usual haunts, explored some new ones, added some others, and scored at least one week atop the Leaderboard.

Rick spread his hands atop the console and leaned toward an on-screen computer-enhanced translation of the engines' subatomic fire.

Pope leads Michael into the next room where a massive model of the Taj Mahal made out of toothpicks sits atop a work table.

All of our fancy technology and (you know) civilization sit perched atop a distressed and risky energy system.

This was called the General's Chair, just as this apartment atop the flagship's conning spire was called the General's Quarters.

At the time, the United States was sitting atop a huge military establishment built from its participation in three major wars.

You frivolously throw away the lives of your people while your own king sits atop his throne of lies, nary lifting a finger to help.

It looks as if some boulders sit atop layers of ash spewed out by known eruptions of Mount Etna, meaning they fell after Troy did.

Some dream of soaring through the clouds atop a mighty draconic steed, feeling the wind on their faces, afraid of nothing.

Outside, workers had left their jobs to crowd atop balconies, huddle in doorways, and press against the iron fences around the building.

"We're standing atop its head, " he said, wiping his brow with a handkerchief.

Inside were a comfy couch and easy chairs, a tall fabric houseplant in a corner, and a large high-definition television set atop a credenza.

The offense of this Afghan monument is not idolatry. Its sin is to sit atop one of the world's largest copper deposits.

A journalist colleague meanwhile admitted to me that his degree from atop university was entirely fictional.

Two summers ago I decided to come with my mother to Wisconsin whereupon I set my wagon atop a wooded hill overlooking the city lights.

Diane Kruger: The only thing she's missing are the two plastic figurines perched atop her head.

OSGi is not at all integrated with the Java language, however, having been built atop the Java SE Platform rather than from within it.

I pressed the shutter as the owl rose over my head, taking on the shape, for a moment, of the bird that sits atop a totem pole.

In one town, an elderly man stood atop some concrete stairs laboriously swinging a hammer in an attempt to destroy them.

it is said the top of the stele weighing above 10 tons, how did they get it atop then?

Nevertheless, both sets of rocks were angular, indicating that they had been carried atop the ice, rather than bulldozed in front of it.

Machu Picchu or Old Peak is the name given to the stone ruins of a pre-Columbian Incan city perched high atop the Andean peaks of Peru.

To understand how Lotus can hurt your knee, visualize lifting your right foot up and placing it atop your left thigh.

Back atop the bench, we ducked between strands of barbed wire into the corner of a crop field irrigated by center pivot.

The priest stood atop a red stone pillar, joined by a slender stone bridge to a lofty terrace where the lesser priests and acolytes stood.

In the morning, the sun sent its warm light from atop the mountains, greeting the practitioner and his animal companions.

Help your partner get comfortable in the traditional lotus position, with his legs crossed and each of his heels atop the opposite knee.

Its 57th-floor "sky pod" , which seems to balance precariously atop three curving towers, is widely admired.

Debris fell on car dealerships, and television pictures showed that the wrecked fuselage of one of the planes landed atop a parked car.

The next's broad face was split by a terrifying tooth-filled maw, and four eyes glinted from atop its spade-shaped head.

The new construction abode sits atop a large land tract with a two-car garage and a long driveway that allows for additional parking.

The glittering spire atop the tower of the daytime through my window, would no longer be visible now in the early morning haze.

One girl hides behind a pillar; another, the one sitting atop the fountain, seems to flinch and cower.

Some of you might have noticed the new banner atop the FULLNEWS page this morning.

its upper body is humanlike , powerfully muscled and sporting a pair of ram like horns atop its head.

Japan sits atop four tectonic plates and is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries.

Researchers say the calls become layered atop one another, almost like a duet.

A pair of bronze lions guarded the Hongkong and ShanghaiBank building. The bell tower atop the Customs House resembled Big Ben.

The lights swirled silently atop the police and illuminated the white garden with an unearthly, blue-and-red glow.

Whale bones on mountain tops well inland were not lifted by Tsunami waves, nor carried inland atop such a wave.

But the price spikes have lit a " For Sale " sign atop the coal mining sector , and a range of assets could change hands this year .

A colorful cardboard Google logo was placed atop bouquets of orange roses, below, that had been hand delivered earlier in the day.

Atop a hill in the midst of a forest was a small, wood frame house. Pine needles covered the rooftop.

Imposition of a national sales tax is a very live option sitting atop the Obama Administration's policy table.

All this is carefully laid down atop a bed of gravel, with drainage pipes to let water run off.

A meter-and-a-half-long snake is strapped with Velcro atop a small box on a conveyor belt just inches behind your head.

The tracks were atop an embankment. By the time I reached the pickup, the driver had turned the ignition off.

But really, once you've spent thousands to get you and your family atop that mountain, lunch is a mere rounding error.

But Jack had already seen them and was halfway through his turn, the rocket launcher atop his shoulder.

The cause of the excitement, elephants mating . Payne and fellow researchers shot this footage in Africa from atop an observation post .

One person, sitting atop of a huge machine while cultivating a vast tract of land, will soon replace traditional methods of raising crops.

If you haven't met the perfect couple, let me introduce you. They stand atop layer of butter cream frosting.

If you haven't met the perfect couple, let me introduce you. They stand atop a layer of butter cream frosting.

Noah's ark floated atop water, a fact which caused Peter to say that Noah was "saved through water. "

JFace viewers are abstractions built atop SWT (standard widget toolkit) widgets (see Resources for a good SWT reference).

A colorful cardboard Google logo was placed atop bouquets of orange roses that had been hand delivered earlier in the day.

On Christmas Eve, Jesse and Zee moved their family into a small house atop a high hill overlooking St. Joseph.

Yesterday, the Americans had a great time atop the Tiananmen Gate and enjoyed the Beijing Opera show tremendously.

The stone building sits atop an artificial island like an imposing fortress about 800m off Doha.

The lad wandered through the desert for forty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain.

After more than two decades marked by controversy, drama and, of late, triumph, Mr Dimon sits atop Wall Street.

Mustering at battlements of old, soldiers-turned-tourists gather atop a section of the Great Wall restored with army labor.

Forecasters who work atop New Hampshire's Mount Washington Observatory are in their element when the weather is at its worst.

The top seller on Amazon was the 99-cent edition of the album, while iTunes had a $15. 99 bonus-track version atop its charts.

Near the top of the list is proposing to the woman I wanted to marry atop the Empire State Building.

Everyone in the room knew the story and I was sitting atop the train waiting for it to pull into the Promised Land.

A garbage collector carries a sack as he walks atop a massive pile of garbage at the Bloemendhal dump in central Colombo in 2009.

Jhiqui and Irri would be waiting atop her pyramid back in Meereen, she told herself.

Behind the billboard advertising an island getaway, atop the odd little building owned by the bead seller, above the city.

The new craft's body was constructed around a rotor, which allowed the replica to be manipulated atop a five-story-tall column.

A sedan covered with wickers atop amid a throng is a sure sign that the sedan rider is just coming back home from tomb sweeping.

Consolidate in one or two spots, say, atop the TV cabinet and a table, or on a wall.

Located in Northeast Oregon, this small house is conceived as a contemporary glass box that floats atop the surrounding wheat fields.

Before he could respond, Ayenden's attention was drawn to a commotion atop the Nexus platform.

The building has been designed as a feature which overlooks the golf course from a commanding position atop a hill.

The new Shrek adventure has been atop the box office for three weekends in a row, and has taken in $183 million so far.

He appears to be atop-notch young man, Mr. Sun. Talent and enthusiasm like that are hard to find.

The wagon man was heading our way. I flagged him down and pointed to our tree, which he hoisted atop his load.

Over time people realized that the fires could be seen much farther away if they were built atop platforms or towers .

Solution: A fluorescent uplight fixture in a display niche or atop a cabinet can provide timeless style and helpful illumination.

At first, he drew pictures of a mountain with his father standing atop it, waiting to be seen and rescued.

The Maya called the Caana temples and palaces the "sky place" (pictured, people sit atop the temple ruin in an undated photograph).

Unlike his Wall Street peers, Mr. Sherlund gets his gold while sitting atop a 55-ton bulldozer with a pistol strapped to his side.

Surely the odd hour spent screaming atop a chair is better than your best jumper being nibbled to threads?

On a cold day in Eastern Tennessee, my kayak is perched precariously atop a 16-foot waterfall known as State Line Falls.

On the way Stephanie told him about the village that stood fifteen hundred feet atop the bleak mound they were now climbing.

Atop the rostrum he would impugn his enemies, excite crowds to action and deflect his detractors' barbs.

Some of these new standards provide a layer atop of base standards.

The group also visited Exhibition Hall and went atop the Expo Mansion to have a bird's view of the Expo site.

Regarding to ATOP project, we have no equipment for flatness measurement test.

The nose like splash guard atop a whale's head diverts water from two blowholes, each big enough for a toddler to crawl in.

Herders, dressed in long robes with indigo turbans piled high atop their heads, move sheep and goats straight through the city's heart.

Yes, the Web is nothing more than a big layer of code; all those websites we visit are merely applications that sit atop it.

I for one look forward to enjoying a "Vostok" atop Mars' Olympus Mons (but I promise to recycle the empties).

Earlier in the year, these two falcons had been spotted building a nest atop Chimney Rock.

The statue stands atop Corcovado Mountain, which visitors can climb by taxi or cog railway to gain unparalleled views of the city.

Even electricians from the local power utility, Light, have been spotted poking at the heavy cables atop lamp posts.

The deteriorations of tensioning plates atop V-shape piers of a prestressed concrete continuous box girder bridge are severe.

Statues look down on the rebuilt inner city of Dresden from atop City Hall.

Therefore, it is necessary to do some research systematically, in which concerns the tower atop buildings structure.

Electricity rushed down the lightning rods atop the The Willis Tower and the Trump Tower at the exact same instant last night.

And atop each cabinet is an architectural model of the actual country house of the estate in question.

In Ezekiel the Garden of Eden is pictured as atop a mountain.

Atop a hill in the midst of a forest was a small, wood frame house .

The Gran Telescopio Canarias, one of the world's most powerful telescopes, sits atop an extinct volcano on La Palma, Canary Islands.

Instruction duplicates the top element of the stack , and leaves two identical values atop it .

That week, I stared out the classroom window at the modern office towers built atop razed lanes that rim our shrinking island.

Design elements sit atop the architecture, as shown in red boxes.

Crowd-pleasing choral works by the likes of Britain's John Rutter compete with crossover albums atop the classical bestseller lists.

High surrender rate has remained atop a thorny problem for the locally exacted endowment insurance measures nationwide.

Lidvall snapped a picture of these four penguins atop a large piece of ice at Brown Bluff.

In this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes a commotion, with just one bite. Illustrated by Don Wood.

Sure there are tighter quarters at those Japanese capsule hotels where guests sleep in pods stacked atop one another.

Archaeologists have raised concerns that an ancient monastery filled with historical artifacts sits atop the mine's location.

Tuesday's game was about supremacy in the Pacific Division -- specifically, which team would be atop it early in the season.

It was afternoon by the time Dany found the stream she had glimpsed atop the hill.

La Bandita, an eight-room boutique hotel, sits atop one of the cypress-lined roads that Tuscany is famous for.

At dawn or dusk, lovers can nestle atop the mountain on the biggest rock, enjoying the West Lake in the mist and glow of the sun's rays.

Glow from the distant Shaybah oil field turns the Saudi Arabian sky purple as a man dances atop a nearby sand dune.

While the residence looks to be suspended in midair, it is actually perched atop a wall of rocks and then extends off the cliff.

It's the first time the same person has come atop the GLM's annual fashion buzzword list for two years running.

The GNOME Partition Editor (also known as GParted) is a GUI partitioning tool built atop libparted.

Several generations of internees and their families smile as they stand atop Heart Mountain.

As Arnold and Carlos watch from a raft above, the Magic School Bus "erupts" with the magma and lava, and lands atop a brand-new island!

You can also serve these burgers in a bowl atop a mound of hot mashed potatoes , with some of the onion gravy poured over .

He changed its logo to a tree, and built a little wind turbine atop his London home.

You can stack form elements atop each other and the ones beneath are properly hidden (the deck tag does that, much like a hypercard stack).

Encrusted with verdigris, two statues of the "liver bird" , the city's symbol, sit atop a riverside building.

TanDEM-X was carried into space atop a converted intercontinental ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

This screen saver shows a leprechaun surfing atop a giant shamrock , showing off his shamrock surfing tricks .

MenTaLguY: Channels are the basic communication primitive in Rubinius; everything else is implemented atop them.

His robot, a modified version of the Rovio from WowWee, has a camera, microphone and speakers atop a three-wheeled platform.

From high atop the crystal mountains, king Scorch used his magic to summon the winter winds and transform the two princes into snowmen.

Building a widow's walk to sit atop her newest playhouse was taking all her concentration.

There atop the main altar , propped open on a gilded book stand , sat an enormous leather-bound Bible.

Atop piles of rubble were photo albums and baby strollers and a pink teddy bear.

Meteorologists have divided the atmosphere into various shells or layers, laid one atop the other.

TVXQ set a new record, becoming the first non-Japanese Asian artist to have three singles debut atop the chart.

People wait to be rescued atop a building with the letters "SOS" in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture March 12.

The rectangular steel containers are paired and placed atop a large deck that wraps around the house.

Fresh cigarettes lie scattered atop the sheets, tossed there by tourists as a sign of reverence.

Without their services, the mail may never reach many remote villages and hamlets , atop ridges or at the edge of icy brooks.

"Communication" only takes place between two people who risk themselves, each lacerated and suspended, perched atop a common nothingness.

People atop one building had written a huge character for 'water' on the roof, so it could be seen by rescue helicopters.

Atop Longevity Hill, overlooking Kunming Lake, is the Listening to the Orioles Pavilion Restaurant.

French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower to mark its completion.

More colloquially, though, UNIX refers to the entire universe of software running atop the operating system.

In January, Obama will gain the authority to run the government of the United States of America, and that is why he sits atop this list.

Saint Joseph's Oratory sits atop Mount Royal, a landmark park that offers panoramic views of the city.

small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey.

Perhaps the biggest applause came when soccer superstar David Beckham kicked a soccer ball from atop a red London double-decker bus.

His image now appears doubled, signaling his entry into reproduction, his dreamed double lying atop his sleeping prone.

Painted Dunes can be seen atop Cinder Cone at Lassen Volcanic National Park in California.

This photo shows two kinds of electrodes sitting atop a severely epileptic patient's brain after part of his skull was removed temporarily.

Times have changed, obviously, the Lakers now taking up space atop most pundits' championship predictions.

Inside the box were two heavy silver hair combs. Dark blue sapphires were clustered into intricate floral shapes atop the teeth.

A murky Strategic Planning Office that sat atop the Samsung family of companies and allocated resources was disbanded.

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Each upgrade should layer atop the previous upgrade without concerns about incompatibility.

Standing on the "edge" of this cube world would feel like standing atop a mountain range.

While no club will come out atop all categories, we contend that Manchester United is the best overall.

I remember jogging in the islands after my Morgan Stanley promotion, standing atop a cliff overlooking the clear, blue water.

Bureaucrats still snooze atop mountains of public data, with no political imperative to release it.

Tremendous deposits of ice, nine-tenths of the earth's freshwater, lie stored atop Greenland and Antarctica.

Astronomers using a giant telescope atop a volcano have discovered a hot spot at the tip of Saturn "s south pole. "

Most of the nations atop our list are democratic, business-friendly, and boast strong social safety nets.

Many pharaohs had their heads carved atop the tombs to show their close relationship with the powerful solar deity, Sekhmet, a lioness.

And mister Berlusconi knows it, as he sits atop this huge empire of media and television and so on and so forth.

The pools, which sit atop the reactor buildings and are meant to keep spent fuel submerged in water, have lost their cooling systems.

The restaurant also features a DJ playing rock music from atop a snow-grooming machine, and encourages dancing in ski-boots.

If we haven't met a undiluted integrate, let me deliver we. They mount atop a covering of butter thickk cream frosting.

In the middle of each bed, a movable drip line delivered water from a 40-liter plastic tank placed atop a wooden stand.

Bigger looked about and saw the pile of white bones lying atop a table; beside them lay the kidnap note, held in place by a bottle of ink.

The victory extended the Lakers' winning streak to nine games and kept them atop the Western Conference standings.

The castclass instruction attempts to cast the object reference (type O) atop the stack to a specified class.

We layer invention atop invention, celebrate our progress, and cope with the consequences.

A dew-bathed juvenile leopard takes a peaceful moment atop a fallen tree on a wintry South African morning.

'Woman, ' replied the firefighter atop the pile where a liquor store once stood in this now-flattened fishing village.

Over his shoulder, atop the wheelhouse , sits a large blue-billed heron so close it looks like Wayne's pet.

During the holidays, stress levels soar higher than the star atop the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

This puts it at odds with the more cautious Federal Reserve, which oversees the holding companies that sit atop most banks.

Standing atop a pile of rubble, he told a large group of townspeople: 'Your disaster is our disaster. Your suffering is our suffering. '

The or instruction computes the bitwise OR of two values atop the stack, pushing the result onto the stack.

Stone gargoyles watch from atop the tallest buildings, bearing mute testimony to crime and suffering in the streets.

Stars are perched atop many Christmas trees. They represent the star that played a special role in the Christmas story.

The tower sits atop a four-level podium that houses large banquet, meeting, dining, fitness and spa facilities.

He could not sleep, so he had eased a hand between his legs and imagined the septa atop him, breasts bouncing.

A sculpture cast from the body of British artist Antony Gormley, atop a building in downtown Sao Paulo, on May 16, 2012.

Atop Facebook pages was a reminder that Tuesday was Election Day.

The Red Raiders and Sooners are part of a three-way tie with Texas atop the Big 12 South at 6 and 1, with one game remaining.

Like King Kong snatching airplanes from atop the Empire State Building, Neal grabs for butterflies.

The two-storey Holman House was completed atop the 70 metre-high cliff at Dover Heights back in 2004.

More than 300 faults crisscross the state, which sits atop two of Earth's major tectonic plates, the Pacific and North American plates.

A 158-mph wind gust, the strongest in a decade, shook the weather observatory atop Mount Washington early Monday.

Cersei looked behind her. She could still see the great dome and seven crystal towers of the Great Sept of Baelor atop the hill.

Yet the original Silicon Valley remains secure in its place atop the high-tech food chain.

The Beijing Olympic torch is designed to withstand strong wind, torrential rains and the thin air atop Mount Everest.

The European industrial revolution was built atop Chinese technology.

Her house was mostly intact, with an empty space atop her front porch.

The Bolsheviks may have disappeared for good when Yeltsin climbed atop a tank in August 1991, but the legacy of authoritarian rule lingers.

Life in Color: Green A green frog sits atop a large lily pad in the waters of Atchafalaya Delta.

Santa Claus is Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade's biggest star, shown here greeting the adoring crowd atop a float.

The leaders of our party and country are common laborers, not masters who ride atop the heads of the people.

A least one other car was visible lying tangled on the ground, with orange-clad rescue workers standing atop it.

Single - semi double burgundy blossoms are terrific atop the black- green, red -backed shiny foliage. Semiminiature.

The game Nicholas built, "i Shoot, " sat atop the most downloaded list in the i Phone application online store for weeks.

Otherwise they're not: data is data, services are about behavior atop line of business data.

In a National Geographic file photo from 2002, a scientist in a full thermal suit collects lava atop Mount Etna.

Now that the banks aren't on deathwatch, Ken Lewis's perch atop Bank of America (BAC) looks secure.

King Kong battled planes atop the Empire State Building, while Tarzan teamed up with apes in the jungle.

An unfamiliar brand name sits atop the Amazon. com bestseller list for notebook computers.

The San Qing Pavilion and Dragon Gate stand atop Buddha Hill, the high point of the range.

There will be obvious whiplash effects on steel towers built atop of tall buildings under earthquakes.

She has a tendency to pull out her hair during her paranoid hallucinations, and now has a bald spot atop her head.

On that Sunday morning, Schirra and Stafford were again in their tiny Gemini Six spacecraft atop the Titan rocket.

a temporal logic is normally built atop a simpler set of atomic small - unit propositions , such as traditional program assertions.

But a second year atop the Dow is unlikely.

China has risen from poverty, impotence and isolation to retake its premodern place atop the world economic order.

the air-raid siren atop of the County Courthouse.

Urduuk stood atop the crest of the hill and gazed out across the grasslands to the south.

His Chinese style series of songs have stayed atop the charts many times. He has also won the annually best male singer many times.

It sits atop huge deposits of the commodities that China needs to fuel its growth.

Charity and fellowship are the cultural drapery atop the iron logic of nature.

Hungry tigers stand on display atop an SUV in Seoul, South Korea's Everland Resort amusement park.

In his opinion everything is balanced atop the "Pitch" .

NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007.

He looked the part wearing a shalwar kameez atop a flak jacket.

Explanation: What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth?

The Old Cataract Hotel is perched atop a hill overlooking the River Nile in Aswan, Egypt.

I have seen with my own eyes that a goat can stand for hours in a field atop an overturned metal pail.

In any case, formal OOP in R is built atop the "informal OOP" that I talk about in this article.

Turkey, lying atop the North Anatolian fault, has been plagued by earthquakes frequently.

Kenobi, riding atop a loyal lizard named Boga, climbed to Tenth Level and found Grievous.

Above, a dancer fearlessly performs atop an intimidating float during Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday.

It returnedto power in 2002 atop the lip of current PrimeMinister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a gesture of his populist appeal.

World Cup champion Spain stayed atop in the newly-released FIFA world soccer rankings.