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"Aida" was performed on a grand scale - from the opera stars, who were top-notch, to the staging, setting, costumes, the animals and a premier conductor in Walter Attanasi.

Christian missionary work in the Islamic world including attempts at proselytism among Muslims has been conducted on a considerable scale since the 19th century and through the height of colonial rule, but has met increasing restrictions since such rule ended during the 1940s and 1950s.

Turner argued that those setting up the federal sentencing guidelines had never envisioned that a 23-year-old, first-time offender could score so high on the sentencing scale.

"We are certainly concerned about it because of the scale of the carp industry in this country."The library, whose russet-colored shingles overlap like the scales of a fish, is also part art gallery and concert space and lecture hall; it is the town's intellectual fulcrum.

"The Spirit mission is showing your absolute ingenuity in its highest form," said Cheney, who received a scale model of Spirit and a wristwatch that keeps Mars time.

* On a scale of 0 to 10, where 5 is neutral, medium-sized businesses gave that part of the legislation 1.4.

To hold our attention, and merit our trust, the diarist must first be honest with himself - and how can we be sure when that is the case?We cannot, but the more we immerse ourselves in any diary the better we come to know the writer and we soon develop an ability to tell if he is a self-deceiver on a serious scale.

On a broad scale, much of his anxiety seems to stem from his sense of dislocation from a world gone mad.

Center Craig Conroy (knee) and goalie Roman Turek (knee) are probabl It's a bit like setting out to scale one of the world's biggest mountains, mysteriously overlooked for centuries by climbers, only to discover as you near the peak that someone else is approaching the summit at exactly the same time.

Back then Gilmour was a “second” for his father, Tommy senior – the Star Maker – and a promoter in his own right, albeit on a much less grand scale at places like Glasgow’s Plaza ball-room and out in the sticks at Cambuslang and Holytown.

English is Britain's main cultural export to the rest of the world; but the industry that has followed in its footsteps is a bad joke on a colossal scale.

They also depress wage rates for existing workers at the lower end of the income scale.

The "gray scale" — the range of shadings between black and white — is far richer, subtler, more textured and real.

These past six weeks, a giddy ride for Leaf fans, have served to quell the tide of pessimism that traditionally swamps the Toronto team — really, the acute incredulity the Leafs engender is nearly commensurate with the dreamy optimism on the other side of the fandom scales, where reside the truly besotted and the deranged.

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