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The tradition, dating back to 300 B.C., was later incorporated into the Christian church.

Tom Moses, who works at a nearby national park, noticed a brown patch on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping.

Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot.

It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back.

If I could go back in history and live when I liked, I wouldn’t go back very far.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

So take a step back, switch off the automatic pilot and actually stop and reflect about things like our priorities, our values, and our relationships.

In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.

They use their money reserves to back up consumption.

That would get you back in the restaurant—and make you eat a little less.

If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher.

She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expression.

Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.

Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night.

Most of these dated back to the 1960s and 70s and were in a poor state of repair.

Marco Polo may have brought the kite back from his visit to China.

"I have been bothered for a long time about the curious lack of curiosity,"said a Democratic member of the New Jersey legislature back in July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of an assistant to New Jersey Governor Chris Chri

"When they see that carrier back out on the street," Swigart said, "that's the first sign to them that life is starting to return to normal.

A New Jersey black bear that walks upright on its two back legs and has become a social media darling has re- emerged and has been captured on video months after its last sighting.

A nine-year-old central California boy braved strong currents and cold water to swim from San Francisco to Alcatraz Island and back.

All of which brings us back to Goodell and the Christie case and Benghazi.

Back in June, the Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T $100 million over accusations that the carrier secretly reduced wireless speeds after customers consumed a certain amount of data.

Back in the 1950s, most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night.

Bringing back unneeded equipment would have used up precious resources such as fuel.

Dating back to 1880, the most common living arrangement among young adults has been living with a romantic partner, whether a spouse or a significant other.

For an answer, you would have to go back to the early 1920s.

Happy golden birthday! I can't wait to hear all about it when you get back.

He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the perfect search engine will understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want.

If I could go back in history and live when I liked, I wouldn't go back very far.

If not, it'll be back to the drawing board.

In a bid to take production back to Detroit, michigan lawmakers have introduced legislation that could make their state the best place in the country, if not the world, to develop self-driving vehicles and put them on the road.

In agrarian, pre-industrial Europe, "you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work," says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

In the back room of the little bakery, his interest in design and his baking talent combined to work wonders—he shaped delicious masterpieces out of flour, butter and sugar.

James pushed forward, making it to Alcatraz Island and back in a little more than two hours.

Longevity also pushes back the age of retirement, and not only for financial reasons.

Now, however, a New Zealand-based startup company aims to bring messy homes—and even splitting headaches—back to normal.

Park Yeon Soo conceived this city of the future back in 1986.

She goes back to Seoul every weekend.

She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expression.

Texting while driving was listed as a major cause of road deaths among young Americans back in 2013.

The Perfect Essay Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.

They bring back words with them.

Tom Moses, who works at a nearby national park, noticed a "brown patch" on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping.

We have to be back at full capacity tomorrow morning.

When interviewed Keith porter of the southport beach said, our beach is so flat that it's very common for the tide come around the back of people and cut them off from the beach.

within six months to a year, people are back to their original baseline levels of well-being.

They could buy unique souvenirs there to take back home.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

The company pledged to cut 600 back-office positions, though some 150 workers in those roles would be reassigned to other jobs.

It is backed by a campus spending analysis.

Yet there are doubts whether people watching television, a lean back medium, crave interaction.

With the launch of interactive advertising, many of the dollars that went to the Internet will come back to the TV, says David Kline of Cablevision.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

So what you need to know is that there's no evidence whatsoever to back these claims.

Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.

The union backing it makes members think there must be something in it.

By sanctioning this watered-down version of college, universities are catering to the social and educational needs of wealthy students at the expense of others who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they graduate.

"Our philosophy with the island has always been, ‘OK, remove the threats and let the island go back to what it was, '" says ecologist Christina Boser.

And by the time I come back to it, it may have changed.

But less than a month before hand, inspectors found significant problems with the fire safety system and push the opening back again to 2013.

But that won't stop inventors from dreaming up new ways to fly and trying to persuade investors to back their sometimes outrageous schemes.

By offering instant discounts worth as much as $100, DeWalt launched a trade-in program to encourage people to bring back tools.

Dating from as far back as the 12th century, they are claimed to be the rarest historic buildings in western Europe.

fighting back the tears, he spoke proudly of the fact that he had built their home from the ground up, and that he had pounded every nail and laid every brick in the process.

He's cut back on medications and he no longer helps support his disabled mother.

I explained to my student that I actually thought he was rather more confused than I was, and I argued back.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

If you try to push a boulder, it pushes you back.

I'll let you get back to class now.

In the images, you see all kinds of possible defense constructions to hold back the Romans, Germans, Vikings, and now nature as enemy number one.

In the US, studies have shown that doubling the size of a road can simply double the traffic, taking us back to the starting point.

International interest in the therapeutic qualities of the Mediterranean diet began back in the late 1950s, when medical researchers started to link the occurrence of heart disease with diet.

It actually dates back to at least 1701.

It involved skiing with his legs apart for better balance and sitting back on the skis when he came to a turn.

Leadership of the planning corporation has changed hands nearly as many times as the opening date has been pushed back.

Looking back now, nine years later, I can't remember exactly what it was about these universities that made them seem so much better.

Native plants are coming back, and the fox once again bound about carefree.

Once the interviewers have been briefed, I send the client a schedule and then they get back to me with deadlines.

People at the back kept calling out "We can't hear."

right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

since 2013, global scientific bodies have begun to back policies that support increased public access to research.

The carbon that we've put into the atmosphere keeps having a warming effect for 100 years, so we have to cut back rapidly now, because it would take a long time to work its way through into a response by the atmosphere.

The liquid is maintained above its melting point until steam is required, at which point the liquid is allowed to turn back into a solid, releasing its stored energy.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal c

The sun was considerably less bright back then, so Venus was arguably a cozier habitat for life than earth.

The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.

Their world was so different back when they were young.

These pieces have been put back together with great care, and display a variety of images.

They all wanted to turn around and go home! You know, back to teabags and fish and chips.

This is the story of the little fox that has come back, and the people who have dedicated their lives to protecting it.

"I'm a fashionable person, so now I'm back in my 3-inch heels, " she says.

To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body language, and projecting her voice so it could be heard from the judge's bench to the back door.

To recover the energy, the gas is fed back over the calcium oxide.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

What has become obvious to me when it comes to the income gap is that there needs to be an opportunity for the people at the bottom to push them back up and push them into the middle class to give them hope in their lives.

When customers do want to toss their pair, they can give them back to the store, which will repurpose and resell them.

with the launch of interactive advertising, "many of the dollars that went to the Internet will come back to the TV," says David Kline of Cablevision.

Yet there are doubts whether people watching television, a "lean back" medium, crave interaction.

A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful antArctic voyage back to life.

After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

After my graduation, dad's business was getting back on track.

And he saw a date of 1973 on the back of the box.

And today when I look back, I'm so happy because you never know where life will take you.

And when you do, you'll get back your enthusiasm and love for life.

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

As I squeezed back into my car, I saw the same lady looking in at me.

Back at the camp, you can kick off your boots and enjoy excellent food and wine.

Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that lost dog.

Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get.

Bookcrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the "real" and not the virtual (虚拟).

But be sure to come back to work next week.

But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.

By the end of the first chapter, requests were coming from the back seat: "Please read a little louder."

By year three, the rabbits and the groundhog were back.

Captain Scott had reached the south pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.

El nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken.

Everyone is supposed to put books back to the shelves when the closing bell is sounded.

From the governments' point of view, a primary goal of laws requiring extended producer responsibility is to transfer both the cost and the physical responsibility of waste management from the government and tax-payers back to the producers.

Good morning, everyone! And a very warm welcome back! I hope you've enjoyed your holidays! For those of you who I knew, my name is Mary Smith.

Gradually, this noise began to appear during a show, and to get rid of it, I had to change to another channel and then change it back.

Guess what? My mother's decided to go back to school!

He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone.

He hurried home, never once looking back to see if he was being followed.

He rushed into the station building and came back with a signal light.

He said without the job, he would simply have too much time and would just do what I did back in college.

Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their big apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion.

Hi Michael! I heard you just came back from a holiday.

How will the woman get back from the railway station?

I don't want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can't model my more.

I go back years ago, when we lived in a three-room house, when we got up before daylight and worked till after dark to make ends meet.

I guess that can be true in any big city in a new country, but the French do seem to be less friendly than the people back home.

I had a strong desire to reach in and play with the toy, but was held back thankfully by the shop window.

I passed the clean comb back to dad.

I picked up the stem cells in providence, rhode island, and was meant to fly to Washington then back to London.

I remember back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also played a team sport.

I remember back to my 7th year in school.

I went to see him after he came back from hospital.

I would scream, "I hate you!" Dad would yell back, "Good! I don't care!" Deep down I knew he did.

If I could locate the nest, I might have been able to put it back, but no luck.

If I kept going I might not be able to see my way back.

If producers are required to take back packaging they use to sell their products, would they reduce the packaging in the first place?

If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you should take a step back and identify those of greater and less importance.

In department stores, the women's shoe section is generally next to the cosmetics sections：while the shop assistant is going back to find the right size shoe, bored customers are likely to wander over cosmetics they might want to try later.

In southern Spain the sudden increase of greenhouses which reflect light back to space has changed the warming trend locally, and actually cooled the region.

In the back country, bury your toilet waste in a shallow hole away from waterways.

In this article, you need to back up general statements with specific examples.

It appeared on some of the first postcards, starred in some of the earliest silent movies, and was the subject of a couple of the earliest photos, dating all the way back to the 1800s.

It must be true that sooner or later, everyone finds his or her way back to nature.

It turns out that baby red-backed fairy wrens also emerge chirping like their moms.

It was impossible for Joe to climb back or for Simon to pull him up.

It was when I got back to my apartment that I first came across my new neighbors.

It's much easier to excuse yourself to get back to your work than if you try to get someone out of your space even after explaining how busy you are.

Listen, I'm coming back this afternoon, and I'll take a bus from the railway station.

Looking back on your day, you will find it hard to deny that a horseback safari is as close as you will ever come to answering the call of the wild.

Looking back, I feel blessed someone had wanted to help a stranger.

Looking back, I honestly don't know how she did it.

Mail it back to its owner.

Maybe I was taking the risk of never coming back home.

On the edge of the car park I backed into the next available spot--it was a tight fit.

Once fire and emergency people arrive, Larry and the other man backed off and let them go to work.

Once that happened, I just kept pushing my studying further and further back in my day.

Once when she was facing away, I reached out and carefully scratched her back with my finger, she didn't move.

Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood.

Papa, at the head of the table, would push back his chair and pour a glass of red wine, ready to listen.

Pretty soon I'd made my way through the supermarket and was back in the fresh air.

Refund policy—the subscription can be cancelled within 28 days and you can get your money back.

Relived, I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep.

Re-routed me through Newark and got me back to the UK even earlier than originally scheduled.

She came back on the softball team.

She wishes to go back to her home country.

Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out.

Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next day- with an "A" on it.

So I ran back home almost in the dark while trying not to get too scared.

So information was exchanged, but it wasn't a true, intentional back and forth.

So she called Zac back and apologized.

So, four days later, he called his friend greg, and the two drove back.

So, I'm thinking of going back to school.

Sorry, I don't have the information now, I'll call you back.

Suddenly, Paris fell to the ground, "Paris's eye rolled back, " Taylor says.

Symptoms of it include a headache that is constant but not severe, and a pain at the back of your head and the neck.

That relief is coupled with a deep understanding of why the same people keep coming back for more: connecting to the community as you freely give your time, money, skills, or services provides a real joy.

The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50, 000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back.

The groundhog still didn't have a problem with me scratching her back, and I got an ides, I'd always thought, while slicing up carrots, that the end looked like a cap.

The plants get ready to fight back.

Then, when I came back, a strong warm wind began to blow.

These were the real deal- and at that moment, I realized that the best part of sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn't be experiencing again for months.

They both knew that if simon continued alone, he would probably get back safely.

They reached the top successfully, but on their way back conditions were very difficult.

This tour transports you back in time to one of San Francisco's most fantastic periods, the 1950s! Enjoy fun history as we take you through San Francisco for a free taste of ice cream.

Those who tend to think back can hardly go ahead.

Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home.

To find out if the special quality was more widespread in birds, the researchers sought the red-backed fairy wren, another species of Australian songbird.

Today, Paris is back on the softball team.

Two hours later, back at my house, I heard a knock on the door.

Two more ran to get the school nurse, who brought a defibrillator, an electronic devices that can shock the heart back into work.

Two weeks later, Peter went back to the shop.

Unlike traditional gyms, app-backed gyms offer people flexible options to exercise.

Visit the city with over 2, 000 years of history and bath abbey, the royal crescent and the costume museum, stonehenge is one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5, 000 years.

This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

He notes that each individual has many ancestors-numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

Some of their ties go back a long way.

It’s like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates.

The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia,who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the alien and Sedition Acts.

Yet its report may well set back reform by obscuring the depth and breadth of the challenge that Congress asked it to illuminate.

“Sometime in the future,” the paper’s publisher said back in 2010.

Yet science has a cultural history, too, with roots going back to the dawn of civilization.

"Carry a book with you at all times" can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

After all, if everyone you know is going to college in the fall, it seems silly to stay back a year, doesn't it?

For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back.

If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion.

In short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk.

It's like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates.

Looking back, he is struck that his parents could provide a comfortable life for their children even though neither had completed college when he was young.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.

Paris of opponents hit the ball back and forth until one winner emerges from all who entered.

People are, on the whole, poor at considering back around information when making individual decisions.

Rather than pulling students back, a gap year pushes them ahead by preparing them for independence, new responsibilities and environmental changes—all things that first-year students often struggle with the most.

Scientists tell us this can back fire and actually have a negative impact on our well being.

Studies dating back to the 1930's indicate that laughter relaxes muscles, decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after the laugh dies down.

The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves, especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.

The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia, who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the Alien and Sedition Acts.

We know that a typical infant will instinctively gaze into its mother's eyes, and she will look back.

We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment, but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace.

You wish that you could turn back the clock and start over.