mistakes and master 🈵 Ewan

This city abounds in creative people.

Her outstanding performances set a new benchmark for singers throughout the world. a benchmark case Teachers give the benchmark tests to see whether students are grasping the new curriculum. His reports said that all schools should be benchmarked agaist

occupational quirks

How many more whoppers will it take before Congress is full?

casting. This figure has been cast in silver.

The centre was awarded a grant for outreach to the homeless. An AIDS outreach program for prostitutes on the streets.

downcast Can I do something to make you feel less blue?

Your behaviour really wears on me.

Perhaps after the cessation of hostilities and the war with Russia, the country may be more deeply involved in the area

That's a tall order. Do you think anyone can do it?

He is a very family-minded man. He puts a premium on his family.

His name has been expunged from the list of members

We have to find shelter. The weather is closing in. They were trying to find the way as the night was closing in.

He was fined to the tune of $5,000 for the infraction".

Journalists reported the party line and editorialized in favor of party positions. The bishop's work was editorialized throughout the paper.

The agreement works because member nations haven't tried to peg prices.

You look completely drained - why don't you go to bed? emotionally drained It was one of those movies that leaves you emotionally drained.

Master's degrees are ten a penny in China, but they're pretty worthless.

Master's degrees are ten a penny in China, but they're pretty worthless.

He was completely gobsmacked when he won the award.

Renewable energy may overtake coal as the main power source.

Much of the evidence we get is hearsay, from human rights groups here and in China.

I was late, I legged to school like crazy.

There are patches of mildew on the walls.

And as the adage goes, anything can happen in a short series.

The events of the day before had left him reeling and he wasn't sure he would ever find his footing again.

If so, then God was about to be well chuffed. I was dead chuffed, then realized they could just have used the name.

Some have gone so far as to retract their own hard words.

I gave him a thumbnail sketch of what I'd learned.

The translation office employed another translator to cope with the workload.

It is one of several key areas the group has earmarked for attention during the next 12 months. Many of these sales are earmarked for third world countries.

These last-minute changes have skewed the company's results. The company's income is skewed because not all customers have paid their bills. I think that picture is hanging skew.

She snogged him just moments ago. Respect!

I'm in a rut, and I need a change. There are lots of ruts on the roads in this region.

There were low trees with thick, gnarly branches. He served an amazing artichoke soup with gnarly black truffles and Parmesan shaved over the top. This is a gnarly, worldwide problem.

The T-1000 also had the ability to extrude small, simple items from itself. The machine is designed to extrude pasta dough into macaroni shapes". Biology: "Female goosefish extrude a gelatinous ribbon of eggs".

But it was cold then, and right now it's sweltering.

I don't want to double-cross them. I know they are dangerous. That was when the team knew they were double crossed. "I knew you were getting ready to double cross me!"

To compliment someone on their appearance or mention that they fit the dress code, try these variations:

Anyone who would lionize such a person is only saying something about himself.

She was about to read when the footman came in again.

The squalls signalled the approach of the hurricane. With a loud squall the cat jumped off the roof.

I never was in cahoots with him at no time. "I never thought I'd see the day when you two would be in cahoots."

a voluptuous body/mouth/figure. such voluptuous pleasure I sank into the bed's voluptuous warmth.

The Republicans are out of step with the country, Williams said. He thinks that everyone is out of step except him.

The fighting which started in the night had petered out by morning. The track petered out after a mile or so

Despite their number, the ships were outmatched in terms of size.

He stopped to say something to a neighbor girl who was playing hopscotch, and I aimed at his lower back.

She held both boys by the hand, and both were squirmy

That comment just bummed me out.

Her abilities were as yet fledgling, but she was working on them.

That's why this week I can go out with a freewheel spirit.

Perhaps you could live in that little shack off to the side.

He saw one of the men near the corrugated building glance at them and look away.

The ducks waddled down to the river. A short, fat waiter waddled over.

He only has to read a short report - it shouldn't tax him too much. I want to remind you that if they are dead, you will have no one to tax

The lorry chugged up the hill.

The draft will be fleshed out with input from parents and other interested parties. He has fleshed it all out with his own clear-sighted analysis.

One aspect of the self is known as self-agency — the feeling that we each control our own actions.

I made them funnel all the money into my account. We can funnel all the liquid into a seperate container.

There will probably be a backlog of work when you get back."

Of course it's easy to second-guess the management of the election campaign, but I do think serious mistakes were made.

A state program to retrofit engines with pollution controls has succeeded in reducing pollution from trains.

The singer wished it to be known that he had left the band (out) of his own volition (= it was his decision).

Fair enough, but where did that leave her husband, so full of vim and vigour? "You seem to be filled with vim and vigor," he said.

Elsewhere in Wales, the custom is called dwr newy, "new water", and the water was also used to lustrate rooms and doors of houses

His bike dangerously banked but he managed to keep his balance. The bank of the airplane lasted until it completely changed direction.

Unbeknownst to me, he had rented out the apartment while I was away.

Yet last night, she had been only a hairbreadth away from going to bed with her husband's brother!

He always greeted them swiveling on his chair.