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While his hushed vocals were a constant factor in all of his albums, this was the closest Drake came to being in a rock band.

China, which hosted the six-party talks and is North Korea's closest ally, said the discussions yielded 'positive results. '

had her two closest friends lie to her, and poured her eyes out for the man she loved.

Apparently, he was lured away to another meeting by his wife, Dame Patience, who is one of his closest advisers.

Even his closest associates believed that was the end of him.

In the model domain, the surface currents of the SCS have the closest relations with the monsoon with an apparent seasonal variation.

After all, she had betrayed those closest to her to save Theseus.

But a bridesmaid is one of the bride's closest friends, and she walks ahead of her down the aisle.

"You and I should have met long ago " he said taking the chair closest to the brazier.

And downtown, another woman was feeling deserted. It was the closest Samantha had come to giving her heart to a man in a long long time.

She poured out to her closest friend the longing that surged up from her very heart.

Up to three of your closest canine companions can be tracked with a GPS collar that follows them for up to a mile away.

Some of Odom's closest associates said he was unhappy about coming off the bench, despite Sunday's declaration he was fine with it.

In contrast, retroflex consonants do not appear in any other Indo-European language, not even Iranian ones which are closest to Indic.

One way of trying to answer it is to look in the fossil record for evidence about what modern humanity's closest relatives could do.

Britain is still locked into a gradual, half-willing decline, destined to be less loved by its closest ally than it would like.

Though her work often seemed confessional, even her closest friends wondered how much they ever knew her.

Such a defender is considered to be on the touch line or goal line closest to his or her off-field position.

Telegrams had been received from Washington stating that he was the closest confidant and personal agent of the President.

So this is the closest you can get to kind of seeing at least the effects of the dark matter with your naked eye.

Newman would later confess that the uptight, reserved Mr Bridge was the role closest to his own personality.

Hillary was Bill's closest adviser when he was president, and he would have done the same for her, had she been elected.

When I was walking back through the door, she woke up, thought I was a burglar, and threw the closest thing to her at me.

Other texts from the period tell of sealed books of wisdom and of a secret tradition passed on by Jesus to his closest disciples.

The Marines closest to me thought that I had been killed instantly, but that did not deter Corpsman George Grant.

He seemed quite convinced, despite the fact that the closest he had come to space was the big button[4] on his computer keyboard.

It occurred to Cameron that he needed someone, and she was just the closest at the moment.

In high school we were the closest friends. Then he took a job and went off to the university, and our friendship gradually died away.

Harry introduced her to some of his closest friends and she was reportedly popular within the royal household.

This only made me realize that this has been the closest I've come to touching a girls ass in over a year.

The wobble causes Earth to make its closest pass by the sun in different months over the long term.

She just want to bear your burdens, that because she want her to be the most closest people of you.

Oss: We were at the Film School together. Even then he was one of my closest friends.

And when partaking from a communal bowl, stick to a portion that's closest to you. Do not get greedy and plunge your hand into the center.

It's possible that the people who are closest to you already know and are waiting for you to be comfortable enough to talk about it.

The elephant is the closest modern relative of the mammoth, a huge woolly mammal believed to have died out with the last Ice Age.

For whatever reason, most of my closest friends were fellow African Americans. Was it a need for familiarity?

The red dwarf star Ross 154 looks as if it's been relegated to the position of "eighth closest star. "

We hope to be your closest partner and friend and cooperate with you to create a better tomorrow together.

For fourteen years he had been one of my closest friends; we were always there for each other, and I loved him dearly.

I picked it up and looked around. Student Service was the closest building I could find.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

In the midst of all this the president sacked the defence minister after he insulted some of her closest aides in an interview.

I let myself in his front door, to which I found 40 of my closest friends staring at me for my surprise birthday party.

I mean, do you think in some ways that this film was your closest collaboration with him?

The President of the Republic signed the death warrants for his closest friends, but you could still sometimes meet him on the street.

I'm a little biased, because Ashley is one of my closest friends, but I love Lauren and laugh the most at the things she says.

In the absence of such a choice by the parties, the law of the country which has the closest connection with the contract shall apply.

It was Frank who lay closest to her heart, Frank who loomed as the star in her limited heaven.

When he suffered later in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus needed his closest friends to be near him.

Leaving home, my parents and family, and separating from some of my closest friends, was one of the hardest things I ever did.

GIO That makes sense. If I were to ask your two closest friends what your best quality is, what would they tell me?

The player will become a real Mafia gangster and he will have to gain the boss's favour, he might even become his closest collaborator.

If I had an airplane with a co-pilot too, I'd fly to a planet that was closest to you.

It was Kim's third visit to his country's closest ally in just over a year.

Ultimately, he was able to stabilize me long enough to get me to the closest medical facility.

Once you've decided what restrictions you want to put on your work, it's pretty easy to identify the closest CC license.

Her gaze fell to the corner of the barn closest to her, and she watched for few moments, expecting him to appear from behind it.

The sallow-faced undertaker owed his invitation to the fact that his wife and the wife of the Don were the closest of friends.

Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is at the top, followed by Venus, Earth (with its moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends.

Once one of Col Gaddafi's closest supporters, China is now shifting its stance as the war moves into its sixth month.

I said this to Mr. Ballmer: I will not negotiate with you and 30, 000 of my closest friends.

Though twice married and with three children, his closest relationships appeared to be with a chimpanzee and a succession of young boys.

As it is practiced today, Agile tends to have the greatest impact on those closest to the code.

For ages you've been trying to convince those you're closest to that certain issues are pressing.

Even so, Lula looks stronger politically than looked possible a year ago, when scandal was mowing down his closest aides and his popularity.

Mr. Geithner is one of President Barack Obama's closest advisers and has outlasted the rest of his top economic team.

Where the parties to a contract have not made a choice, the law of the country having the closest connection with the contract shall apply.

Dalglish then went silently to his Southport home to let those closest know of his inner turmoil.

Think of it as a scourge; it's the closest thing to a gateway drug to procrastination to you.

One of the clearest places to look for clues of our cultural capacity is in one of our closest relatives: chimpanzees.

In her study, Lam quoted one fan saying, "For me, the Mac was the closest thing to religion I could deal with. "

He might not be the prominent leader or spokesman which Peter was but he might be the one closest to Christ.

Carolyn soon became one of my closest friends and a part of our regular gang, along with David Leopoulos, Joe Newman, and Ronnie Cecil.

And along the end wall, closest to the entrance, is a wall made of a wood-like material, which has the logo of the venue projected onto it.

As head of the Sharks he has to consider what's best for his team, even if it means hurting some of his closest friends.

But even though she had to reduce her speed, she still increased her lead on her closest rival to arrive a comfortable second.

Losing my voice and that something would happen to my closest family members or to my friends.

Miss Middleton secretly celebrated her final weeks as a single woman with a handful of her closest friends several days ago.

New Zealand - unlike its closest neighbour and ally, Australia - did not join the war in Iraq.

The closest look showed Mars to be a dusty, frigid world, shrouded by an atmosphere too thin to breathe.

Her daughter came back in the afternoon, her closest primary school classmate of looking for her play, her at a local junior middle school.

If you don't have a computer at home do a bit of research and find out where the closest Internet cafe is and what the rates are.

They wanted to see whether humanity and its closest relatives all adopted the same strategies for remembering where things are.

It might be hard to do this with your closest friends, but this will work when you're with people who don't know you that well.

The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER found out as it looked toward the Earth during its closest approach to the Sun about three months ago.

A deeply closeted politician will hurt anyone-even those closest to her-in her ruthless climb to the top.

Some say Mr Assad and his closest allies should be referred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

But her outgoing style made her a hit in the West, and she was her husband's closest confidante on political affairs.

Microsoft will continue to update Bing over the next few months and continue to differentiate itself from its closest competitors.

For industrial metals, copper tends to have the closest relationship.

Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart . Cling to them as you would your life , for without them, life is meaningless .

And one of Hannah's closest friends, Blaise, pledged half of her baby-sitting savings to an environmental charity.

He was a man of such reserve that not even his closest friends really understood him.

ZhangGuoxi explained that this temperature closest to the human body temperature.

He also became my closest technical advisor and leapt many a tall building on my behalf, and for that, I'm eternally grateful.

dog became his closest companion during the last years of his life.

These markets, he said, thrive especially along the border with China, North Korea's closest ally.

look at the primates closest to humans to see that laughter is clearly not unique to us.

"The people who lived the closest brought the big things like the futon couch and the microwave, " she said.

One of his closest advisers suggests the luxury tycoon should stick to his knitting.

Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.

Stanford Blatch was one of my closest friends.

After his death, a civil war broke out over who should become caliph -- a relative of the prophet, or one of his closest companions.

Phylogenetic analysis also showed that it had the closest relationship with zebrafish CCL4.

Recently, one of Jeremy's closest friends asked him to make a speech at a wedding reception.

The closest I could find was an organic bar that had 70% cocoa. You may need to take a trip to an organic or chocolate specialty store.

It was also able to pick the ten closest matches to a particular knee 56% of the time.

This is because, he tends to be reserved and does not prefer sharing personal problems with others, not even to their closest friends.

I can assure you of our best intentions and closest cooperation. We're always willing to develop trade with friends from all over the world.

"Simplicity, demand and respect for tradition thought knowledge, to be closest from you and your small pleasures" .

There is also a sense that Japan would let down its closest ally if it did not endorse Mr Obama's Honolulu push.

One of my closest friends, Helen, started a Net relationship with a man she knew as "Prince Charming" .

In his years as United's super sub, he was in a position to observe at the closest of quarters precisely how the master motivator operated.

If the user wanted to see a font at another size, the Font Manager found the closest match and applied a basic scaling algorithm.

" As for the touching, she tolerates it from her closest colleagues, but for others, she simply says, " hands off.

Osmond is the closest man to her and the only one she can be true with.

"I now meet up with just a few of my closest friends, many of whom are now also mums" .

Our service will begin in a few minutes, but first we have asked Matthew, Gareth's closest friend to say a few words.

In two or three years China will displace Japan as America's closest economic rival.

Chimpanzees, the closest genetic relatives of humans, use a few dozen calls and a variety of gestures to communicate in the wild.

Sea Shepherd has pledged to be there too. This was the closest Japan has come in 25 years to ending its Antarctic whaling programme.

It began as a typical Saturday night, out with my closest women friends.

With a $200 million Moore Foundation grant, the Thirty Meter Telescope is the closest of the next-generation devices to full funding.

This puts the viewpoint on the front bumper , and is the closest viewpoint to the road of all .

Whether it's a private dinner for two or a fun party with 100 of your closest friends, FIG is there to make your small event memorable.

Lady Elizabeth: These were the rooms for the king's closest friend. His head now rots on a spike.

But during the week, the water closest to the plant was found to have been thousands of times higher than the permissible level.

Researchers also found that the likelihood of a participant becoming obese rose if those closest to her were overweight.

A comet is at perihelion when it is closest (=very close) to the sun.

Analysts say that, of all the insurgent groups, the Haqqani network has the closest ties to Al Qaeda.

Di Stefano, who was explaining why footballers need humility, admitted that style wise he felt Zidane was the closest to himself.

And I'm going to give a prize at the end of my talk for the person who gets closest to the answer.

Take the leg closest to you and bring it up. Gently push the victim away from you, using the hip and the shoulder.

On orders charging freight, orders should be able to rate freight based on the least expensive (usually closest) warehouse location.

In early 2002, Spindler surprised even his closest friends: he left his consulting job and soon began to pursue The Wall full time.

Renu, Kumar's 27-year-old sister, said he was her closest living relative since their parents died a few years ago.

And she refused to listen to even her closest aides - rebelling against what she saw as her mother's controlling behaviour.

Recently, one of Jeremy's closest friends asked him to make a speech wedding reception.

ss the street to my neighbor's, who is also one of my closest friends, and I left the bouquet at the front door.

Mr Pandit's closest lieutenants have all come from Morgan Stanley, his own former employer, or other outside companies.

With one exception, none of her closest friends knew about it, nor did her sons.

It's actually been there all along, but astronomers have only now spotted what could be the seventh closest star system to the sun.

It is going to be very faint, even at its closest approach.

If that's not your thing and you want to work out, uh. . . with like, an elliptical machine, you find the closest gym.

Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart. Love her more than you love yourself. Life is meaningless without her.

The closest such examination another comic book- oriented film has ever attempted was the emotional through-line of the Spider-Man films.

The economy may be growing by 7% a year, but this feeds mostly the greedy mouths closest to government troughs.

To love everybody, he sometimes did not see the very closest ones, and that is inevitable for men of his stature.

Across the centuries, our closest contact is with individuals and scholarly men of letters on the margins of the court.

This election was the closest for Chavez since he first came into power.

Their index therefore comes closest to a real index in that it reflects actual increases in value, not general averages.

Windward : The side closest to the wind .

Until my dream comes to fruition, we, the "pirates, " will continue enjoying the closest thing we have to an old-school radio station.

A little more than three decades ago, the People's Republic was an isolated, agrarian nation whose closest international ally was Albania.

There is no difference between the sex of my preference. My closest friends tend to be half men and half women.

The closest thing to the post-World War II world-reordering moment that we have seen since then was the end of the Cold War.

Closest approach will be on the night side, just a little bit south of the equator, in full view of Earth.

From his personality radiates a warmth which is not often known among the closest of friends.

A very old, very powerful family of our kind. They are the closest thing our world has to a royal family, I suppose.

I do condition my hair faithfully, but I'm worried about my hair closest to my scalp where the shampoo sits and I usually don't condition.

Completely different, small jazz ensembles are like a conversation with your closest friends.

Mingling was used to describe the probability of the closest neighboring tree in a forest being a different species.

On instinct, I leapt forward to catch the closest thing. It was not the expensive vase. It was a cactus.

If it is not, the command finds the closest (by site cost) Exchange 2007 Mailbox server that has a mounted public folder database.

The search might have to determine the highest revision closest, before, between two dates, or after a date.

The bottom line at present is that only further observations will reveal how common planets actually are around the closest stars.

That vision is closest to coming true just a few kilometres away in Inner Mongolia, now the number one region for coal production in China.

But the air raids failed to defeat the rebels, Ugandan ground troops never arrived, and Mr Kony and his closest LRA friends escaped.

Here is her take on trying to plan her husband's annual birthday bash for dozens of their closest friends.

Great Britain is one of our closest , strongest allies and there is a link, a bond there, that will not break.

This was the closest humanity had come to the discovery imagined in Jurassic Park.

In defiant response or perhaps just as a lark, Gonzalez walked into the closest college.

By doing this, it is possible to show that the tiger's closest living relative is another marsupial called a numbat .

It is also easy to get "spotted" by the world and become so busy that we neglect those who are closest to God's heart.

Newly constructed units will head to their closest rally point and merge with the army there automatically (up to supply limit size).

The closest iPhone app competitor is probably outside. in's Radar (iTunes link), a complement to the company's own local news service.

Google has another reason to be worried about Siri: It's the closest thing we have to a mass-market phone app.

A sacred and ancient Wookiee tradition is that of the honor family. An honor family comprises a Wookiee's closest friends and companions.

When confirmed, it will be the closest planet to its parent star directly imaged . . . so far.

Karen Hughes, one of his closest advisers, "rarely read books and distrusted people who did" .

One of his closest allies in Washington is Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

Tick the letter next to the answer that comes closest to what you believe and write your answers of open questions in provided space.

To translate literally is not always the closest to the original meaning.

To which ocean is Newfoundland closest Atlantic Ocean is closest to Newfoundland.

But his masterpiece, the place closest to his heart, was the city he named after himself, Pi-Ramesse.

due to distributed pile loads and also to redistribution of the building load after initial settlement of the piles closest to the panel .

He also sought to appeal to a sense of camaraderie - especially among China's closest neighbors.

Michael Deaver, one of the President Regan's closest advisors, has died of pancreatic cancer.

Then it provides two other sets of options: top stories for the closest match and top general searches on the website for that week.

Charlie was the closest. He leaned in to hear my answer.

By combining his adventures with media work, Bear realised that he could also support and raise money for those causes closest to his heart.

A literal translation is not always the closest to the original meaning.

FOR a little white pill that costs pennies, aspirin may be the closest thing we will ever find to a wonder drug.

Growing up as a Vietnamese American in a small, predominantly white town in Michigan, I found my closest friends and allies in books.

Shortly after, one of my closest friends showed up at my door.

Jack count on his closest friends to tell him the truth.

The non dominated solutions that are found are those that are closest (in a line search sense)to the initial point used in the search.

Lincoln sent drafts of his speech to his closest political advisers for feedback.

A deep blue eyeliner for your bottom lid, and some light silver eyeliner in the corners of your eyes closest to your nose.

Some of her closest supporters worry that she is exacerbating divisions within her party.

I hastily, leapt to the closest tree and wrapped my limbs around the trunk as tight as I could.

Even the U. S. , one of Israel's closest allies, says it's open to an investigation.

In business meetings, the most junior member of staff should be positioned closest to the door.

They're working at the American factory of Haier, a Chinese company that's probably the closest China gets to a known international brand.

You might be tempted to make a side trip to the closest fast food restaurant or maybe order a pizza.

My closest friends crossed the Atlantic, taking precious time out of busy lives to sit with me.

The masks are said to represent the dead or spirits from the nether world who come closest to the human at his time of changeover.

It was the closest thing to a security barrier that we encountered.

Whale sharks, like all sharks, have skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone. Their closest relatives are rays and skates.

Mars is the last of the inner planets, the ones closest to the sun.

At approximately 8: 06 a. m. , the President will be awoken by one of his closest advisers, who will tell him. . .

Processing is written in the Java programming language, and it's also the language to which Processing is closest in the language tree.

These children wait conversation with baby of his pillow, cloth constantly, peremptory elephant treats his closest friend.

The futures contract month closest to expiration. Also referred to as spot month.

The German word Technik comes closest: It means not just technology, but the mastery of the methods and processes that shape and steer it.

But the reality was Richard Walsh had been all of those things - and the closest thing to a mentor Jack had ever known.

That growth has had an impact on the economies of those markets and countries that are geographically closest to China.

Don't take for granted the things closest to heart. Cling to them as you cling to your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

The community closest to us is the local one which consists of the Baha'is of our village or town.

"Generally integrated oil companies do not refine the oil they produce, instead it goes to wherever is closest, " he says.

Carol: Well, I got presents mainly from my closest relatives and I only bought presents for my mum and dad.

At the time, the idea of my two sisters being my closest friends seemed strange to me.

Richard Holbrooke has had a running feud with Anthony Lake, one of Mr Obama's closest foreign-policy advisers.

It was thought that whomever was closest to hitting the bride's nose would be the next to marry.

The clones that produce the State Guest Da Hung Pao, though, are the ones closest to the mother bushes, where the soil is especially porous.

The females are faster runners than the males, and their attitudes toward the next closest trailing male determine how fast they run.

Hess was one of Hitler's closest aides.

Don't take for granted the things closest to you r heart. Hold on to them as you would to life, for without them, it's meaningless.

After all, one of this album's closest cousins in the indie world is a notable, well-regarded one: Joanna Newsom's Ys.

But perhaps those who called him "the most general human being of our time" came closest to the truth.

The closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1564, in France.

While this approach is very angry. But still have to swallow . . . just be for you who are the closest person to me . . .

What's the difference between honesty and truth? Conflicts in some of my closest relationships have made me consider the question.

The Nearest Neighbor algorithm can be expanded beyond the closest match to include any number of closest matches.

Some people like to have a joint open house party for their graduating senior and a couple of his or her closest friends.

Unfortunately, the closest anyone can get to a real statistic is that men fantasize about sex at least once a day.

Nagasaki is one of the closest cities to China and South Korea, with opportunities for tourism and trade.

It was the closest HBK has ever come to a negative year, so naturally clients were looking for stability in 2008.

Japan is, of course, one of our strongest and closest allies and this morning I spoke with Prime Minister [Naoto] Kan.

His wife abandons him; his closest local friend has recently died.

Sit down in the chair closest to you. Now, in walks your future self 10 years from now.

basic-level government is the closest to the public crisis and its quick reaction leads to the lest damage of the crisis.

How do you think your closest friends would describe you and your personality?

In the team Fair Play League, our closest challengers are Charlton and Wigan. All point scores are averaged out for games played.

There may be multiple points of intersection - the closest intersection (with a visible poly) to the viewer is the one that will be visible.

Through their joint efforts, these ties may develop in the future to the point of the "closest friendship " .

What you want, what you believe in, what makes you feel, may be different from even the people closest to you.

Since then, Mr Abbas has faced an unprecedented barrage of criticism, often from his closest allies.