iron
Once the initial practical difficulties had been ironed out, there were decent facilities for medical care, education, and religion as well as food and shelter.
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The forces of gravity, the consequences of weight, seem to have been ironed out.
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The cluster irons are shown in red and sulfurs in blue.
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To make her beautiful, he shortens her hair, irons her dress, and makes her stand straight.
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While refining managerial processes might have ironed out the scope for future factual mistakes, attacks on agents’ integrity incited levels of passion inimical to deliberative or bureaucratic resolution.
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To complicate matters further, this apparent inequality was often ironed out by requiring the land-inheriting son to pay for the land, providing the cash for his siblings’ bequests.$!
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There are still many defects to be ironed out.
From Outstanding differences of opinion need to be ironed out in a committed and systematic way to break the remaining deadlock.
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The change of course does, however, mean that we need to have different irons in the fire.
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Ironing out our differences will make an important contribution to both economies.
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I wish it well, and hope that any deficiencies that may materialise can be ironed out, for the benefit of those most in need.
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Surely, these difficulties can be ironed out quickly, because once we get a viable airport in the area the business men will come there.
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There are serious anomalies to be ironed out.
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I think that these are points which can be ironed out.
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I believe that this principle can be retained, and that the legitimate grievances and difficulties of the trade can be ironed out.
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amount of
Two-thirds of the total amount of (4 g) is located within haemoglobin.
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banded
Microstructures in a banded iron formation the variations that took place in the conditions of deformation and hence the deformation processes.It has a hipped roof with dormers and features a piazza on three sides, with decorative supports.
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