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As time marches on, the nervousness increases, eventually becoming nigh-on unbearable.
The comments are nigh-on completely dominated by lb, row, first and cb comments.
This little girl's plight is one shared by nigh-on everyone with a sibling.
It's nigh-on impossible to scroll through Instagram without stumbling upon a post about #wellness.
I have a nigh-on encyclopedic knowledge of terrible screamo scene metal music, underground, and mainstream.
When even past issues are wide open, pinning down a future relationship is nigh on fanciful.
He built a spine for his side, and it turned out to be nigh on unbreakable.
A week ago the words Yanny and Laurel were nigh-on meaningless to all of us.
"Close" is NIGH; on "time," reduce that word to the T. "After sundown," then, is NIGHT.
Why is it that the moment you need a pen, it's nigh-on impossible to find one.
It's a very certain kind of expression, nigh-on-impossible to pin down but also instantly recognizable.
"Including upstream oil in a listing would be nigh-on impossible," the analyst said, declining to be identified.
And beyond just the food emoji, with a little imagination, nigh-on any emoji can be made sexy.
If the council get their way, it will be nigh on impossible for Ridley Road's stallholders to survive.
To win three is nigh on impossible during the first week of a major and so it proved.
But, at nigh-on every turn you'll also find sensationalist headlines, panic-inducing speculation, and terrifying health misinformation.
It's nigh on impossible to listen to "Let Me In" and not feel at least some emotional affect.
After all, on a grey day, a plate of pie and mash is nigh on impossible to beat.
The word "cool" has been inescapable for nigh on 60 years now, used by pretty much anyone and everyone.
Working in real time on a collaborative analysis with a colleague on a different continent will be nigh on impossible.
But this American squad contains so many outstanding players that stifling them all for 90 minutes is nigh on impossible.
And when you drink it, it is nigh on impossible not to have this song strike up in your head.
Given the informal nature of much sex work, it can be nigh on impossible to prove which money is which.
It's getting nigh on Holiday Season and how better to celebrate the old Yule log than with a nice herbal vaporizer.
It's taken nigh on a century to bring Wonder Woman, first published as a comic book in 22017, to the big screen.
But it is nigh-on impossible to amplify a voice on the red carpet, because it is not a space for speech.
And, for a long time, the Super Bowl was nigh-on unheard of in this country, save the odd mention in Hello!
Minimalism has been an incredibly important part of contemporary music for nigh on 60 years now—from Steve Reich to Reinhardt Voigt.
America's dominance makes a coveted gold nigh-on impossible, and the other medals are usually collected by a strong pack of European sides.
Even attempting to understand the ongoing nightmare that is Brexit is nigh on impossible — but Trevor Noah has an analogy that might help.
Anglo-Catholic congregations had worshipped here, under the hammer-beam roof and monuments to heroes of Napoleonic wars, for nigh on two centuries.
A boom in mergers and acquisitions has followed, with investors competing to fork out billions for steel companies once considered nigh on worthless.
And once you're out of bed, it's nigh-on impossible to recreate that toasty feeling — save wearing every item of clothing you own.
Planning a budget from the executive branch is complicated; it's nigh on impossible when legislators throw an eleventh-hour spending pact at you.
Realistically, it's nigh on impossible to display instant prowess in a field you've been historically disbarred from, unless you're Rosie the fucking Riveter.
Amid the faces of friends, crushes, and colleagues viewing my Stories, lie the faces of nigh-on every single person who's ever ghosted me.
Those who want to treat their staff give chunky bonuses rather than raising monthly pay, a move which is nigh on impossible to reverse.
Leafing through the book, you'll read statements that nigh-on every young person on the planet needs to engrave onto their brain in 2018.
Record rainfall turned fields to sludge and made it nigh-on impossible to plant corn and soybeans until long after the typical window had passed.
Whether the end is nigh on the spectacular run-up in large cap U.S. techs, or they're back in market-darling territory, calls for caution persist.
The move, so hard to imagine just hours earlier, had become nigh-on inevitable as, at around 5am, the prime minister's defeat in the referendum was confirmed.
What I've since learned is that nigh-on every single one of my heterosexual female friends has their own grey area experience—and some of them have multiple.
The end is nigh on The Mindy Project, so the Hulu comedy is going full speed ahead with sending Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) to Divorce City, population one.
Passing proposals opposed by Zuckerberg is nigh on impossible, given that Facebook's dual share structure means he has control of about 60 percent of the company's voting shares.
What's more, she is alive and unwell on this cruel, stinking planet, shedding her burned flesh in a hospital bed where she has lain for nigh on two decades.
So bad is the apparent courgette crisis, that clean-eating Brits are finding it nigh-on impossible to get hold of courgettes, also known as zucchini, and packs of courgetti.
I'm currently also testing the flagship Audeze LCD-4z, and their fantastically detailed and lifelike sound is underlined by a loving touch of extra bass that makes them nigh-on perfect.
"The BOJ policy can now be described as quantitative and qualitative easing with yield curve control and Inflation target overshooting, which is so verbose as to be nigh on meaningless," he said
It's nigh-on impossible for any performer to keep a high-octane energy pumping all the way through their set, and so Ghetts intentionally brought the levels down during the show's second half.
And that's the sorrow: that in the throes of diagnosis and surgery it is nigh on to impossible to know how we will feel being reconstructed or breastless in a year or three.
They were far too violent for rapidly refining tastes and, while the games were not explicitly banned, enough legislation was passed controlling where they could be played that holding them became nigh on impossible.
Painter Margaret Mellis pitched up with her husband Adrian Stokes, a nigh on perfect art critic of an Englishman who also dabbled in psychotherapy within the elegantly straitening confines of a Harris Tweed jacket.
"These targets appeared ambitious at the time, in part because they relied upon aggressive revenue growth assumptions, which now seem nigh on impossible," Citi analysts, who rate Credit Suisse's stock "buy", said in a note.
Cammarata's town councilors told me that many young people, especially with families, were deterred from living in the town because of the tiny, winding roads, which were nigh on impossible to get a car around.
Presumably, a country exists to serve and protects its citizens' rights, and even if the UK makes life nigh on impossible for immigrants, surely the wife of a Brit should be able to stay — right?
Side note: I'm going to focus on the policy, not the story of how the bill got this far, but it's worth noting that advocates in Oregon have been at this for nigh on a decade now.
His volte face over the retaliatory raid reportedly followed a conversation with Tucker Carlson, a Fox News host keen to be seen standing up for the promises of that campaign—pro-little-guy, anti-big-business, nigh-on-isolationist.
They further Sutkeh Hexen's massive run time of 13 minutes with a nigh on 16-minute trip into the unknown, pushing themselves harder than on their previous EPs and twisting the boundaries of their already tangled death metal sound.
But stopping Djokovic over five sets has been a nigh on impossible task for more than a year — with only Stan Wawrinka succeeding in that area in the 13 French Open final — and so it proved again on Thursday.
Henrik Ibsen, the country's most celebrated playwright, described the ridge at length in his fantastical "Peer Gynt": "Nigh on four miles long it stretches sharp before you like a scythe," exalts the main character riding a reindeer over it.
The great swell of middle-class jobs that China created as it became the workshop to the world is not to be found in India, because turning small businesses into productive large ones is made nigh-on impossible by bureaucracy.
Not only would it be nigh-on-impossible to enforce such a regime on the myriad of tech companies that employ these algorithmic systems, but it would be an uneasy, dictatorial restriction on the freedom we have over technological advances.
Reflecting national divisions, April 1 saw massive pro-Macri demonstrations in the capital Buenos Aires, yet just five days later, attempting to travel anywhere in the country was nigh on impossible as a strike protesting incomes and job losses crippled infrastructure.
"Imposing blanket bans within social media for under 18s is nigh on impossible and reeks instead of political posture and body language," James Kirkham, the former head of social and mobile at advertising agency Leo Burnett and currently head of Copa90, told VICE News.
Probably moreso than with any of the other recent television reboots, every reaction to "Fuller House" from both the studio audience and probably the home audience will be nigh on Pavlovian, and it's a study in how little needs to be done to produce drool.
For while an absence of track action over the winter may have played a part in making us think the new cars were louder on our first day back, it was equally nigh on impossible to pick out the 2500 Ferrari engine in the Sauber against the current machinery.
"The fall in profits is pretty much to be expected as indeed is lower guidance on ROE given nigh on zero interest rates," said Hugh Young, head of equities at Aberdeen Asset Management, a top HSBC shareholder, adding that he believed the management would continue to invest in its business plan as necessary.
By that I mean that anyone can sing about a break up, and a lot of people do, but crafting something that sounds almost analogous to the feeling of weightless vertigo that comes with accepting something is over when, in fact, that's the very last thing in the world you want, is nigh on impossible.
Whereas some ageing strikers (think Alan Shearer or Wayne Rooney) become unrecognisable from their younger selves, the Defoe of today is little more than a upgraded and improved version of the kid who was rattling them in for Bournemouth – in each of his first 10 outings as a professional, remarkably enough – nigh on two decades ago.
The century, unfortunately, has seen no greater music moment than the Queen of Pop being nigh-on strangled by an enormous shawl made of what looks like curtain material from a two-star hotel in Blackpool, before scrambling to her feet to give her public the show they deserve, inexplicably surrounded by horned dancers (and like, you don't really notice the ridiculousness of the horns before she falls over, but as soon as that happens the illusion of disbelief snaps and it becomes hysterical).
Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, compactly presented in a handsome slipcase, opens up like a nigh-on infinitely expandable concertina of a book, in wave after wave after wave of images of daily life as it proceeded in the eye of that dreamily cloud-wreathed sacred mountain: a junk converted into a home is moored amongst reeds; a woman with her babe in the shadow of a lumber yard takes time out to admire smoke wisps encircling the snowcap… This magnificent suite of woodblock prints feels as homey as it is exalted.
Filters can be written to select a characteristic frequency of certain species and ignore others; some (CF species) are more easily filtered, others are nigh on impossible.
Initially and indeed, typically for the period, much of Campbell's work was released on small tape labels or by Campbell himself and it is nigh-on impossible to document all of his releases.
He is a recurring character in the later Poldark novels by Winston Graham. The books stress both the magnificence of Caerhays and the ruinous cost to Trevanion of the rebuilding: a well-informed neighbour remarks that "the madman's nigh on bankrupt". Bella Poldark, the final novel in the Poldark sequence, details his flight abroad.
Whittaker has stated that his time in sitting on Parliamentary Select Committees was mostly unproductive due to his belief that, "The bureaucrats tend to run everything and to penetrate the bureaucratic morass is nigh on impossible." Since he retired at the 1993 election Whittaker returned to Havelock North running a post office, vineyard and pharmacy.
Besseggen is known from Henrik Ibsens play Peer Gynt. Peer tries to convince his mother, Åse, that he has ridden over Gjendineggen, now known as Besseggen, on a reindeer bull. From Act 1, Scene 1 > Have you ever > chanced to see the Gendin-Edge? > Nigh on four miles long it stretches > sharp before you like a scythe.
MACV Command History 1971–72, Annex B, p. 337 For SOG, Vietnamization was finally nigh. On 1 May 1972, the unit was reduced in strength and renamed the Strategic Technical Directorate Assistance Team 158 (STDAT-158).MACV Command History 1971–72, Annex B, p. 11 The Ground Studies Group was disestablished and replaced by the Liaison Service Advisory Detachments.
Magdalen seems disappointed when Cleveland says he slept well. Cleveland does not want to leave but has no reason to prolong his stay. As he walks past the kitchen window he hears Mr Dinsmead say “it’s a fair lump of money, it is”. He cannot hear Maggie's reply. Mr Dinsmead adds, “nigh on £60,000, the lawyer said”.
Rave gave the album three and a half stars out of five, stating "there’s an op shop charm that permeates the record, not to mention a musical lightness of touch that proves nigh on irresistible".Thrower, Matt (2010) "SEJA – We Have Secrets But Nobody Cares", Rave, 30 March 2010, retrieved 14 July 2010 The Age described the album as containing "wonky, melancholy pop-songs".
However, Ridley concurrently holds all 3 titles so at the present time authority is consolidated, albeit in a temporary ad hoc manner. Similarly, the Secretary of Education has no authority over the State Department of Education, State Regents for Higher Education, CareerTech Department or State Chancellor for Higher Education. The Executive Branch Reform Act was signed into law by Governor George Nigh on June 6, 1986.
Aftab Ahmed had to settle for 7, and it was down to the last two recognised batsmen - Shahriar Nafees, who had quietly moved his way to 25 not out, and wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud. However, the two put on a nigh-on faultless partnership of 94, taking their time to consolidate. Shahriar eventually departed for 75, edging a short ball from Shane Watson to the wicket-keeper - the usual method of dismissal.
Defining Jamaica Sloops: A Preliminary Model for Identifying an Abstract Concept. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 2 (2) (October): 83–92. Cedar was favoured over oak as the latter would rot in about 10 years, while cedar would last for nigh on 30 years and was considerably lighter than oak. When the ships needed to be de-fouled from seaweed and barnacles, pirates needed a safe haven on which to careen the ship.
The Commission on the Reform of Oklahoma State Government, also known as the Nigh Commission, was a committee that in 1984 recommended sweeping changes to the government of the State of Oklahoma to improve efficiency, economy and service. It is named after former Governor of Oklahoma George Nigh, who appointed the Commission. Under the leadership of Chairman Walter Allison of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the Commission issued its final report and recommendations to Governor Nigh on November 1, 1984.
An alternative lifestyler long before the term was created, Dalton – vegetarian, pacifist and teetotaller – lived off his wits, surviving on a small income as a climbing guide. Millican Dalton's cave, as it is locally known, is on the eastern flank of Castle Crag and consists of two inter-connected split-levelled caves formed by the slate quarrying process. This cave was inhabited for nigh-on fifty years by Dalton. To this day, Dalton's legacy can be seen in the upper chamber of the cave, where he carved his own epitaph into the wall above where he slept.
Following Michael Bennet, Deval Patrick, and Andrew Yang dropping out, Sanders won the Nevada caucuses on February 22. Joe Biden then won the South Carolina primary, causing Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer to abandon their campaigns (Buttigieg and Klobuchar then immediately endorsed Biden). After Super Tuesday, March 3, Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren quit the race, leaving three candidates left: Biden and Sanders, the main contenders, and Tulsi Gabbard, who remained in the race despite facing nigh-on insurmountable odds. Gabbard then dropped out and endorsed Biden after the March 17, Arizona, Florida, and Illinois races.
Strike bowling is the term usually applied to bowlers that are used mainly to get a batsman out at the possible expense of runs if the wicket-taking is unsuccessful. For fast bowlers, this can be achieved through sheer speed and aggression, rather than trying to make the ball move through the air or off the pitch. More commonly however, aggressive bowling techniques can be combined with swing bowling and seam bowling techniques to create nigh-on unplayable balls in the hands of a bowler of any speed. The inswinging yorker is seen as particularly deadly.
Pitchforks Joe Tangari called it "bland but never offensive, listenable but not memorable." Mojo wrote that the album is "awash with cliches, non-sequiturs, and cheap existentialism; at times it all becomes nigh on unbearable". In a negative review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau named X&Y; "dud of the month" and called Coldplay a "precise, bland, and banal" band, giving the album a B grade. The band has received some criticism from some music critics for the similarities between the lead single, "Speed of Sound", and "Clocks", one of the band's most popular songs to date.
Until now, all Scania-Vabis production had been carried out solely at Södertälje, but the 1960s saw the need to expand production overseas. Brazil was becoming a notable market for heavy trucks, and was also dependent on inter-urban buses, with particular requirement for Brazil's mountainous roads which became nigh-on impassable at times. On 2 July 1957, Brazilian subsidiary Scania-Vabis do Brasil S.A. (today known as Scania Latin America Ltda.) was established and started assembling some vehicles themselves in 1958. On 29 May 1959, a new engine plant was inaugurated in the Ipiranga district of São Paulo, and from June 1960, Scania-Vabis do Brasil assembled all vehicles themselves.
Savage-Dibiase provides a great moment, but the rest of the show is a pass." Retoprowrestling.com was also highly critical of the show's length, calling it "a chore to watch", and that "there's probably nothing wrong with a wrestling pay per view running nigh on four hours, but when about three and a half of those hours don't actually feature much in the way of entertainment, it often feels like you've spent your entire weekend just watching this one show." John Canton of TJR wrestling called the event "a below-average show", citing the event being "a 16 match card. That’s too many matches.
The record was released to largely positive critical and fan reaction. Hot Press gave the record 4/5 stars, calling it "one helluva album" and stated regarding the title track that it is "a stunning track, superbly underpinned by sombre piano and brass". The Sunday Times also gave the record 4/5 stars and wrote that it is "sweet and tuneful" and commented that "his harmonious duet with Laura Jansen...is a triumph" and a "stunningly beautiful ballad". The Irish Times declared that the album had "several shining examples of nigh-on perfect songcraft here" though it only gave the album 3/5 stars.
However the team entered the First Division as the sole part-time team in that league and failed to sustain their position, finishing in the automatic relegation spot. In May 2009 various groups of Stirling Albion supporters, concerned about the future ownership and viability of the club, came together in a campaign to buy the club, inspiring car stickers and postering campaign to that end. Due to the demise of Livingston, the second division for 2009–10 contained three teams from the previous years Third Division. In addition, newly relegated Clyde were forced to build a squad from scratch and were thus seen as nigh on relegation certainties.
The western side had been nigh-on unbeatable in Manx football for several years and this was one of the most celebrated results in Braddan's history. There was another revival in 1976/77 as a fine league season saw Braddan promoted once again. The highlight of that season however was the club's first success in the Woods Cup. A superb individual goal from 16-year-old Stewart Cain near the end sealed a sweet 2-0 triumph over local rivals Gymns in the final played at the Bowl. The following season brought bitter disappointment as Braddan were relegated again on goal difference despite picking up 14 points from 20 games under the two points for a win system.
He dodges the bolts by dropping off his horse and then conceals himself in his Ranger's cloak, which can render a still wearer nigh on invisible because of its mottling. Lying still and silent on the ground, he overhears the men talking with someone they call Lord Foldar and Gilan realizes that only two people knew his true purpose in coming to Highcliff and could have informed Foldar of his plans. That night Gilan follows Philip from a large house in the village to the treasury stronghold next to his quarters, in which Philip places a sack of money. The next day Gilan explains the trap planned for Foldar to Baron Douglas.
Tora Mosterstong ()—also known as Thora Mostaff—was one of Harald Fairhair's concubines and the mother of Håkon the Good; Harald Fairhair's youngest son and the third King of Norway (c. 935–961). According to Snorri Sturluson's Saga of Harald Fairhair (Soga om Harald Hårfagre), Tora was from the island of Moster and was descended from the clan (ætt) of Horda-Kåre (Hǫrða-Kára) : Title illustration for Snorri Sturluson's saga of Harald Fairhair. > «When king Harald was nigh on 70 years old, he had a son with a woman named > Tora and was called Mosterstang, her clan was from Moster, and she had good > friends, she was related to Horda-Kåre. She was a steady woman and very > beautiful; she was counted the king's servant.
Mosley eventually TKO'd Margarito in the ninth round, after appearing to win every round up until then, in a massive upset. Sugar Shane utterly dominated Margarito, using his superior hand speed, pinpoint accuracy, consistent body punching, countless huge right hands to the jaw and tying up when Margarito backed him into the ropes, to wear Margarito down and stop him—something that many seasoned boxing observers thought was nigh-on impossible. After knocking him down with a series of heavy overhand rights at the end of the eighth round, Margarito was unable to avoid punches during a heavy barrage from Mosley early on in the ninth, forcing the referee to step in as Margarito slumped to the canvas a second time. Margarito had never previously been stopped.
Setanta GB also received significant criticism of its cancellation policy, with the issue investigated by the BBC's Watchdog programme and Radio 5 Live. While customers were able to subscribe either on-line or over the telephone, many customers found it "nigh-on impossible to cancel" the service, with the only means of a cancellation being to inform the company in writing. Because of the amount of negative feedback received, Setanta GB eventually changed this to allow for cancellations to be done through email. Furthermore, while customers were originally entered into a 30-day notice period once their cancellation letter was received, this was increased to 60 days without any information being sent to customers; again, because of the negative feedback, this was quickly reduced back to 30 days.
The collection is one of eight assembled by Nasser D. Khalili, each of which is considered among the most important in its field. Three of them include works from Japan: the collection of Japanese art, the Khalili Collection of Kimono, and the Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World. Khalili observed that Japanese arts were less well-documented than European arts of the same period, despite being technically superior: "Whilst one could argue it is relatively easy to replicate a Fabergé, to replicate the work of the Japanese master is nigh on impossible." As well as assembling these collections, Khalili founded the Kibo Foundation (from the Japanese word for "hope") to promote the study of art and design of the Meiji era, publishing scholarship about the collection and its historical context.
I was in all the Battles around Richmond, working like a dog physiking and cleaning uv horses, and when we phinally got Gineral McClellan in them swormps, I visited some of the hardest fiting places along with my boss--and picked up a good many things. About February, 1865, I became Phully satisfied in my own conshence that I smelt a rat. So wun tolerable clear morning I said, "Confederit stables, adu!" and struck out for the lower Jeems, when met a Yankee transpote. I giv them all the pints, and told them I was a Union man out of Castle Thunder, whar I had suffered for my principles nigh on two years--and having lived very thin--it was pretty rough in Richmond in them days, particularly the Artikkle of whiskey, my emashated condition give a very gud kind uv color to my story, and so they took me in.
Smythe considered the book's descriptions of childhood sexuality to be "questionable", and was particularly "shocked" by a scene of the Losers Club engaging in an orgy. However, Hendrix identified this moment as "in a sense, the heart of the book" and a thematic demonstration of the crossing from childhood to adulthood, and concluded that it is "a way for King to tell kids that sex, even unplanned sex, even sex that's kind of weird, even sex where a girl loses her virginity in the sewer, can be powerful and beautiful if the people having it truly respect and like each other". The novel has been noted for its exceptional length. Smythe noted that "the book is essentially two novels", and at "fourteen hundred pages long in my printing (the only bigger novel I own is Infinite Jest), and famously weighing nigh-on four pounds, it's a challenge to hold, let alone read".
The Dunn, Manning and Irwin family dynasties were critical to the operations of PNQ and 'worked together harmoniously and profitably for nigh on a generation' to ensure the success of the newspaper empire. Prior to the PNQ amalgamation, Andrew Dunn - the ‘man who initiated the first chain of provincial newspapers in Queensland’ \- implemented three fundamental principles to ‘guarantee’ the success of the PNQ merger. The three principles were established to ‘ensure’ protection from the expected metropolitan newspaper takeover attempts. They were: # That any organisation set up must ensure as far as possible that the present independence of the provincial press was maintained and consolidated; # That any organisation set up must as far as possible, consistent with other principles, preserve the status quo especially in regard to families; and # That any organisation set up must be such that listing of at least part of the shares on the Stock Exchange was possible in the immediate future.
228 an apparently desolate and bleakHe suggests this himself in the episode "No Spring for Frazer" Series Three, first broadcast 4 December 1969 place that appears to have informed most of his pessimistic, dark tendencies. In several episodes he tells stories of exploring the south seas, one story he tells during "Uninvited Guests" was when he and a friend of his called Jethro were sailing the south seas "nigh on 50 years" (making the story set in the early 1890s), Jethro heard of a deserted temple on an island near Samoa, which contained an idol with a giant ruby "the size of a Duck's egg", Jethro and Frazer encountered a witch doctor, who put a curse on Jethro for stealing the Ruby, shouting "DEATH! THE RUBY WILL BRING YE DEATH! DE-E-ATH". When Pike asks if the curse came true, Frazer stated it did, when Jethro died the previous year at the age of 86.

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