As Hulk, I towered over everything, allies and victims alike.
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FOR decades a titan has towered over America's shopping landscape.
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The Falcon Heavy towered over us, glistening in the Florida sun.
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In the backyard, a bare-branched oak towered over dense weeds.
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Galloway, at six feet six, towered over Ameen by a foot.
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Charlton Heston, playing Judah Ben-Hur, towered over his Arab sidekick.
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Draper was a slight man, and Smith, at 6'4, towered over him.
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But Uber towered over its rival, spending $370,000, continuing an upward trend.
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But Cikatic towered over Hug and Hug gave up weight to Cikatic.
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Each panel towered over viewers, amplifying the magnitude of AIDS' toll on life.
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Trump towered over the Republican Party nominating process over the past six months.
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In my memory, these giant sunflowers towered over me, bursting with sunflower seeds.
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V.S. Naipaul, who towered over the landscape of post-colonial literature, died yesterday.
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With a growth spurt in her early teens, Naomi soon towered over Mari.
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Its crown of wavy oval leaves towered over its neighbors along the riverbank.
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A disciplinarian who towered over him at 6'6″, he and Ali often butted heads.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza has towered over Egypt for more than 4,500 years.
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Olympic advertisements featuring Yuna Kim, the former figure skater, towered over the crowded hall.
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The crane, which towered over its surroundings, could be seen slowly tilting before crashing.
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All season long, Alabama and Clemson have towered over everyone else in computer rankings.
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Its centerpiece, the TWA (Trans World Airlines) Moonliner rocket ship, towered over the land.
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Almost reaching the top of the couple's high ceilings, the branches towered over the crew.
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"I'm happy but also very tired," the 2.11m Karlovic, who towered over Sugita, told reporters.
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A large, pink stiletto heel, which doubled as a fountain, towered over guests outside the house.
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New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio towered over DNC members as he pressed his case for Ellison.
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"I don't know how to do it," he said as he towered over the Coal Miner's Daughter.
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Tomei was also a massive underdog: the other actresses in her category towered over her in prestige.
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Second, that not only did humans roam primordial earth with dinosaurs, but that they towered over them.
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At 6-foot-3 — she jokingly said she stood "5-foot-21973" — she towered over her opponents.
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Falun, second-in-command of my guard and my closest friend, towered over me in the cramped passage.
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He says that one of the workers, a man who towered over Heinkel, punched him a few times.
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On floors that towered over Grand Central Terminal, WeWork's board met for hours to discuss what to do.
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Billowing cakes towered over the counter, the cream cheese frosting between the layers thicker than the cakes themselves.
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At nearly seven feet tall, the former New York Knicks star towered over the smattering of other visitors.
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Real estate prices soared, the public transit system was revamped and cranes towered over much of the city.
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When people described what they were hearing about Clinton, by contrast, one subject towered over every other: email.
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The work towered over the MetLife Building's gateway to Grand Central for decades before its removal in 2000.
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Its sibling, an even more gargantuan monstrosity in bronze, towered over the pathway of sculpted bonsai in the garden.
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High clouds of black smoke have towered over Portugal&aposs Algarve region, which is a top European vacation destination.
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A large blue "Trump Pence" sign towered over a winding road in Carbon County, which sits next to Luzerne.
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At six feet three inches, Christie towered over van Herpen, who became shy in the presence of the actress.
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GE, which once towered over the American business landscape, is struggling to retain its standing as an industrial powerhouse.
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I stood in wonder under a loblolly older than the county it towered over, a 300-year-old beauty.
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John Brebner swept his binoculars over a fissure-ridden rock face that towered over a grove of acacia trees.
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Paul Volcker, who literally towered over both the Fed and politicians from 1979 to 1987, once argued it this way.
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Mr. Trump's business career towered over the Republican National Convention in Cleveland as a success story, if without the bootstraps.
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He stood on a stage and towered over a tiny black man who looked to be about 12 years old.
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She towered over Kristina Vogel, who at 254 foot 2000 inches and 136 pounds, was the more accomplished track sprinter.
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Now, scientists have uncovered a new species of dicynodont that towered over the rest, comparable in size to an elephant.
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In the courtyard, a statue of Woody, the cowboy-doll hero of the "Toy Story" movies, towered over the vegetation.
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As Hurricane Florence ravaged the Eastern seaboard, dangerous storm surge towered over a meteorologist – only she was safe inside a studio.
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In 2016, Jenner showed off the decorative bear next to a single Christmas tree that towered over those who approached it.
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Millions of years ago, the birds that roamed the Earth would've towered over modern humans, and weighed over a thousand pounds.
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That's the truth that Jocasta must face in Graham's enduring "Night Journey" (1947), which towered over the new works on Thursday.
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When my 4-year-old daughter visited Pyongyang in 2013, she, all of three feet, towered over children twice her age.
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It's Robby, the seven-foot-tall robot who towered over his co-stars both literally and, ultimately, in the popular imagination.
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The 6723-story building would have towered over a busy residential and commercial neighborhood close to Lincoln Center and Central Park.
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Although he towered over Salahi, he hesitated before taking his hand, and when he did he noted how delicate Salahi was.
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The Osage representatives were tall, many of them over six feet, and they towered over most of their White House hosts.
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Among their new friends are the men's volleyball team, whose players towered over the gymnasts in pictures from a day of bonding.
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Made from iron and fibreglass, the statue towered over two tanks that ISIS had used in its failed assault on the town.
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I had a growth spurt before most of my classmates in elementary school did, and I towered over them in class pictures.
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Instead, he looked out the windshield, up at the glossy black wall that towered over him and stretched out in both directions.
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In its early years, the Plaza, 235 stories high and a block wide, towered over its neighbors like a tuxedoed King Kong.
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Warning horns were heard blaring moments before the construction cranes, which had towered over the damaged construction site, snapped into pieces and toppled.
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An imposing golden statue of China's late Communist leader Mao Zedong, which towered over crop fields in an eastern village, has been destroyed.
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But one towered over us all, both literally and figuratively: John D. Dingell Jr. (D-Mich.), who died last Thursday at age 92.
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In six-inch platform stiletto boots, corset and Elizabethan collar, a tall and thin figure towered over the crowd like an alien monarch.
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I remember visiting the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where a cast of Auguste Rodin's monumental sculpture of Balzac towered over me.
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Most NBA players towered over him, of course, but Stern is unquestionably one of the league's — and one of the game's — absolute giants.
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It was, instead, the way he towered over the occasion, the dominant figure on the field even when he was nowhere near the ball.
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He built a rickety seven-foot riser for his drum kit, so that he towered over his bandmates like some sort of magnificent despot.
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She towered over Cole by at least two feet in height and was only ever shown from the neck down during her rare appearances.
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Artwork by Grimoire Amid all the hype and anticipation for Nate Diaz's meeting with featherweight champion Conor McGregor, one question towered over all others.
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He was tiny for his age and deeply unathletic in a traditional sense, outpaced by his peers in soccer and towered over in basketball.
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She looked wide-eyed as it towered over her, a broke but beautiful lobster that had weathered storms and bankrupted people and fractured friendships.
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He showed off animations for truly massive hardware: a rocket and spaceship combo that towered over 22019 feet tall and stretched 37 feet wide.
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At seven feet tall, the former NBA player towered over other uniformed graduates at the Army Ranger School in Fort Benning, Georgia, last Friday.
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Left unanswered were where exactly Bowie died as well as funeral arrangements for the artist whose influence towered over music, art, fashion and drama.
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The most visible symbol of the era was a Mercedes logo mounted on the roof, an advertisement several stories tall that towered over the building.
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Buildings housing other prisoners towered over the yard, and they dangled their arms through the bars of their cell windows while watching the activity below.
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Mr. Mahathir, 94, who has towered over the country's politics for decades, was replaced by Muhyiddin Yassin, a onetime ally whom he accused of betrayal.
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And yet, every year, arguably the person who was most respected at the entire conference, by almost everyone, was Shimon, who stature towered over everyone else.
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The room is full of well-tanned men in excellent double-breasted suits and gorgeous women who towered over them, all of them not quite dancing.
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Square Feet TAIPEI — The Taipei 21.13 building, which was for five years the world's tallest, has towered over the Taiwanese capital for more than a decade.
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And basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who stands 7 feet 2 inches tall, towered over Obama and leaned back to assist him during his award presentation.
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The A shares' return has towered over other regional markets and the U.S. in spite of the trade war and continued unrest in neighboring Hong Kong.
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Donald Trump dominated the debate stage Sunday — literally, according to Hillary Clinton, who thought "this is really weird" as the Republican presidential nominee towered over her.
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A few months ago, a Muslim woman was forced to remove her clothing on a beach in France as two male policemen towered over her with guns.
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Eventually, she recognized the man she knew only through pictures, who towered over her family and beckoned her over with the word còn, or child, in Vietnam.
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Though his lanky figure towered over "the boys", as he always thought of his first recruits, he had left behind that life of controlling and commanding people.
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At 168 feet and 7 inches it towered over the rest of the water park and would be considered Kansas City's fourth tallest building were it occupied.
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Mr. Trump has towered over the Republican presidential race for months, but the campaign here took on a distinctly new tenor and urgency in the aftermath of Iowa.
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Comey, who's 6 foot 8, literally and psychically towered over so many national dramas of the past decade, and is accused by Democrats of tipping the presidential election.
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It was Sunday morning in Tripoli's old city, but only a trickle of worshipers was expected at the 19th-century Anglican church, which towered over the curling alleyways.
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In Senegal, fat, sprawling baobab trees that have towered over the West African country for thousands of years are being threatened by climate change, urbanization and population growth.
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Standing tall If you went to Army Ranger School graduation last week, you probably noticed one grad who literally towered over all the others: the ex-NBA player.
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Spearheaded by one of humanity's purest beacons of light, vocalist and guitarist Mike Scheidt, Oregon's YOB have towered over doom metal for the better part of 20 years now.
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To demonstrate this, he flew his ship near a giant Ganesha statue that towered over the city, hopped out of his ship, and started walking around on the statue.
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Mrs Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the prime minister and leader of the AL, were known as the two begums—the two powerful women who towered over Bangladeshi politics.
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At over six feet tall, the Danish-Italian actress and model towered over her husband, a former model himself, while out for a stroll in Los Angeles on Thursday.
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In the space of six hours, the two finest players of their generation — the two players who have towered over the 240st century game — exited the World Cup stage.
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In a Facebook post, author Carl Hiaasen said he was "devastated and heartsick" to confirm the death of his brother, affectionately known as "Big Rob" because he towered over people.
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By February 2017, he was slightly cowed but still held his presentation before an enormous screen on which images of his collection towered over the actual people on the catwalk.
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The streaming service announced itself to the world with the help of a 2400,25-pound topiary peafowl sculpture that towered over throngs of Midtown tourists for much of the day.
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Even there, among a group of extraordinarily tall people—Latvian men are the fourth tallest in the world, and the women are the tallest, on average—Porzingis towered over all.
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Nicole sat barefoot with a fresh pedicure, her aviators and watch glinting in the sun; Alexei, dressed head to toe in athletic wear, towered over all of us, even while sitting.
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It caused Voiello to break down in tears, begging for forgiveness in a scene that was exquisitely shot from so low to the ground that Pius positively towered over the cowering Voiello.
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From 1911 until 5:05am today, it towered over a small circle of grass atop an etched stone pedestal that's so massive, it took workers more than four hours to remove it.
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But when Ms. Serre, with her spiky shag haircut and beetle brows, ascended the podium to receive the award from Rihanna, who towered over her, the general reaction worldwide was, politely: Who?
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Why Hillary Clinton Says Her "Skin Crawled" A newly released excerpt from Hillary Clinton's new book, What Happened, describes exactly how she felt as Trump towered over her throughout the second presidential debate.
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When the singer got up, 6-foot 3-inch William towered over him (he stood on a raised platform making their height difference even greater) and placed the ribboned medal around his neck.
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The leaning tower came to define Mosul much like the arch in St. Louis, Mo. It towered over the skyline and symbolized the city's reputation as an ancient place of learning and beauty.
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The aptly named "Trump chicken" made its public debut late last year after a sculpture of the design towered over shoppers at a mall in Taiyuan, the capital of China's northern Shanxi province.
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The 86-year-old icon remains in fragile health after suffering a stroke and fracturing a hip over the last 18 months, but the strength of her career still towered over the evening.
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By the end of his life, philosophical thinking about equality, war, political authority, dissent and obedience, and global order took place on a terrain that Rawls towered over—in the shadow of justice.
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A monument of Forrest astride his horse towered over a public park in the city for more than a century until shortly before Christmas, when the city overcame state opposition to finally dismantle it.
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While the O Globo report described an unprecedented sting operation mounted by Brazil's federal police in conjunction with senior JBS executives to snare several politicians, Temer was the one target that towered over the rest.
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Not simply for her weaknesses -- it is a long established truism that both candidates are exceptional for their negatives among voters -- but because she too has towered over the public stage for nearly 30 years.
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On a recent afternoon, the women and children sat on the ground to listen to Mr. Shettima as members of a civilian anti-Boko Haram militia towered over them with guns slung across their shoulders.
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Locke was still driven by a need for order, for meticulous systems: the project that towered over his final years was "The Negro in American Culture," a book he hoped would be his summum opus.
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Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.
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Health care — particularly the question of whether America should adopt a universal single-payer system or take more modest steps to expand coverage — has towered over every other economic issue early in the 2020 Democratic primary.
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Standing center-stage, the front-runner towered over the field with unrelenting verbal volleys at the top contenders -- at least the few who dared to take him on, their fear just another sign of his dominance.
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He has been featured in campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger, American Eagle and Hood by Air, appeared in an Adidas NMD billboard that towered over Times Square and was cast by Kanye West for his Yeezy spectacle.
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On that billboard, Prokhorov, the new Russian owner of a middling franchise still in New Jersey, and Jay-Z, the face of this new ownership group, towered over the basketball ennui that inhabited Madison Square Garden.
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Never mind that Brown was actually a year older than Kemp, and that the 6-foot-10, barrel-chested Kemp towered over the 6-foot-1, rail-thin Brown when they stood next to each other.
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Washington ____ Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.
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Like Beard's obituaries, it shows how he towered over the country's culinary landscape, pioneering the kind of food television that Julia Child would later do and doling out advice in newspaper columns much like Craig Claiborne's.
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I would never have watched the World Cup if it weren't for my partner, a British national who grew up on Gary Lineker, the striker who towered over the English game in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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The structure, which was erected with a crane but whose origin is a mystery, towered over trees and nearby buildings, and had been doctored to show a smiling May flashing a V-sign with her left hand.
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For over 250 years, the 300-foot tall antihero has towered over the Tokyo skyline as a perennial warning of the folly of nuclear war and unrestrained technological advancement, like some kind of giant reptilian Jane Fonda.
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The tall bridegroom towered over everyone, looking somewhat like a basketball player in a black suit, while the bride wore a calf-length white dress she bought on eBay, Mary Jane shoes and a furry white cardigan.
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In one of his fields, we walked down a lane he had mowed through his warm-weather cover crops — plants grown not to be harvested, but to enrich the soil — which towered over us, reaching perhaps eight feet.
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He towered over me in his iconic pose: back foot flat, front foot tipped, shoulders cocked, left arm raised to hold the sling, huge right hand hanging down by his side, head turned fiercely toward the glorious future.
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In a Facebook post, best-selling author and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen said he was "devastated and heartsick" to confirm the death of his brother, Rob Hiaasen, affectionately known as "Big Rob" because he towered over people.
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Later at Windsor Castle, Mr. Trump towered over the queen, who wore a royal-blue coat and matching hat and carried her signature black purse, as they slowly walked around a quadrangle surveying military guards in dress uniforms.
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Clowns on stilts and drag queens in stilettos towered over the crowd filling the city's Reforma boulevard for the 41st annual pride parade, while revelers pushed past policemen to join the throng of bright flags and gaudy outfits.
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Like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, he towered over and defined his country's place in the world, and alongside them he defined the center-right consensus that drove Western foreign policy at the end of the Cold War.
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" The New York Times eulogized Roth as "the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers—Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others—who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.
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That music was always part of the soundtrack to my childhood — Faith Hill and Toby Keith on the radio as my mom drove me around, playing during school and sporting events, advertised on the roadside billboards that towered over cornfields.
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In some of the booths, enormous stainless-steel machines touted features like "vaveless expansion technology"; giant glass flask and beaker rigs towered over their sales teams like props that would seem too on-the-nose in a mad scientist laboratory scene.
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Now, for the first time, the inner workings of these DAFs are poised to come into sharp relief thanks to a new lawsuit from two fund donors against the institution that has towered over this new philanthropic gold rush: Fidelity Charitable.
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In the final decades of last century, when Wilson towered over the contemporary stage, even our finest writers couldn't expect that every one of their new plays would appear in a commercial theater increasingly dominated by musicals and classic revivals.
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MOSUL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - The leaning al-Hadba minaret that towered over Mosul for 850 years lay in ruins on Thursday, demolished by retreating Islamic State militants, but Iraq's prime minister said the act marked their final defeat in the city.
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"Ant-Man and the Wasp" made $216 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, a figure that landed on the low side for the Disney-Marvel cinematic universe but still towered over all other releases this weekend.
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Provoked by President Trump, they are concluding that the bipartisan consensus forged in the 1990s — in which the United States towered over the world and, at low cost, sought to remake it in America's image — has failed and cannot be revived.
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During the climactic opening moment his keynote address, Zuckerberg's declared that "the future is private" as the words towered over the 34-year-old on an enormous screen, giving it a 1984 feel that seems so common in tech product launches these days.
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Everything's bigger in Texas, including Houston sports stars -- past and present -- who turned out to say goodbye to 41 ... former Rockets centers Yao Ming and Dikembe Mutombo towered over the crowd, while Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt brought the muscle with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A giant replica of the Millennium Falcon towered over Hollywood Boulevard and Chewbacca walked the red carpet at Thursday's world premiere of "Solo: A Star Wars Story," a movie about the early years of the space saga's famous smuggler.
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It will serve the same purpose as its pal across the pond, hosting a series of works by international artists on an 18-month rotating schedule — and yes, you can expect them all to be rather grand in scale, as conspicuous as the ones that have towered over the British square.
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The moment Beyoncé appeared onscreen staring you down from a sinking police car; the moment she towered over the Super Bowl halftime show, surrounded by dancers outfitted like Black Panther activists; the moment you heard the song's first note reverberate through your headphones like an alarm, the earth's core shifted.
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Sinosphere ZHUSHIGANG, China — Only the orange of thousands of freshly dug carrots, washed in icy water and packed for delivery by village women, brightened this fog-draped village last Friday, one day after the authorities razed a golden statue of Mao Zedong erected by local admirers that had towered over the dun fields.
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In the desert, as the women towered over you and competed for pride of place with the iconic man, you could forgive Cochrane for their anatomical imperfections or for advocating that such simple forms could change "human consciousness around the need to end violence against women," as he writes on his web site.
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Even recognizing these coincidences, I vowed to keep my proper distance until about halfway through the book, where Banville writes of Nelson's Pillar, the granite column erected as a monument to Lord Nelson's victory at Trafalgar that, to the irritation of many Irishmen, had towered over Dublin like a gloating Colossus from 1809 until March 8, 1966.
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Vietnam '43 Much as the Blue Ridge Mountains towered over campus, "Vietnam" loomed constantly in the background that spring, exactly 24 years ago, when 21 classmates and I were preparing to graduate from the all-male, almost all-white Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va. Next door at the Virginia Military Institute, where the graduates would automatically become commissioned officers, Vietnam loomed even larger.
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Before Tom Petty saddled up next to Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison in the Traveling Wilburys, and before he towered over the Billboard charts for more than two decades, and before I climbed the seemingly endless steps of a sold-out arena to watch him play just this past June, and before his first band, Mudcrutch, made their name playing dives in Gainesville, Florida, and perhaps even before he realized what he was capable of with a guitar in his hands, Tom Petty worked briefly as a gravedigger in Florida.
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