Great
Meanings and phrases
great
- relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
- of major significance or importance; outstanding
- remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect
- very good; bang-up; bully; corking; cracking; dandy; groovy; keen; neat; nifty; not bad; peachy; slap-up; swell; smashing
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy; big; enceinte; expectant; gravid; large; heavy; with child
- uppercase; capital; majuscule
great
- a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field
n.
- king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC); Alexander
n.
- king of Wessex; defeated the Vikings and encouraged writing in English (849-899); Alfred
n.
- (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373); Athanasius; Saint Athanasius; St. Athanasius
n.
- (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379); Basil; St. Basil; Basil of Caesarea; St. Basil the Great
n.
- king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035); Canute; Cnut; Knut
n.
- empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796); Catherine II; Catherine
n.
- king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814); Charlemagne; Carolus; Charles; Charles I
n.
- Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337); Constantine; Constantine I; Flavius Valerius Constantinus
n.
- king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circa 600-529 BC); Cyrus II; Cyrus the Elder
n.
- king of Persia who expanded the Persian Empire and invaded Greece but was defeated at the battle of Marathon (550-486 BC); Darius I
n.
- king of Castile and Leon who achieved control of the Moorish kings of Saragossa and Seville and Toledo (1016-1065); Ferdinand I
n.
- king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786; brought Prussia military prestige by winning the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1712-1786); Frederick II
Great Arabian Desert
- a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia; Arabian Desert
Great Attractor
- a massive grouping of galaxies in the direction of Centaurus and Hydra whose gravitational attraction is believed to cause deviations in the paths of other galaxies
Great Australian Bight
- a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms
Great Australian Desert
- general name given to all desert areas in Australia; Australian Desert
Great Barrier Reef
- the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia
Great Bear
- a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star; Ursa Major
Great Britain
- an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales; GB
- a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom; United Kingdom; UK; U.K.; Britain; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Great Commoner
- United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925); Bryan; William Jennings Bryan; Boy Orator of the Platte
Great Dane
- very large powerful smooth-coated breed of dog
Great Depression
- the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
- a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment; Depression
Great Divide
- that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States
Great Dividing Range
- a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia; Eastern Highlands
Great Dog
- a constellation to the southeast of Orion; contains Sirius; Canis Major
Great Elector
- the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688); Frederick William
Great Falls
- a town in central Montana on the Missouri river; a center of extensive hydroelectric power
Great Indian Desert
- a desert to the east of the Indus River in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan; Thar Desert
Great Lakes
- a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America
Great Lakes State
- a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region; Michigan; Wolverine State; MI
Great Mendenhall Glacier
- a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska; Mendenhall Glacier
Great Mother
- great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops; Cybele; Dindymene; Magna Mater; Mater Turrita
Great Plains
- a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans; Great Plains of North America
n.
- a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans; Great Plains
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
- a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos; Cultural Revolution
Great Pyramid
- a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt; Pyramid; Pyramids of Egypt
Great Pyrenees
- bred of large heavy-coated white dogs resembling the Newfoundland
Great Revolt
- a widespread rebellion in 1381 against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England; suppressed by Richard II; Peasant's Revolt
Great Rift Valley
- ( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults
Great Russian
- a member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia; used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia
Great Salt Desert
- a salt desert in north central Iran; Dasht-e-Kavir; Kavir Desert
Great Salt Lake
- a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah
Great Sandy Desert
- a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert
- a desert in southern Saudi Arabia; Rub al-Khali; Ar Rimsal; Dahna
Great Schism
- the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon
Great Slave Lake
- a lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River
Great Smoky Mountains
- part of the Appalachians between North Carolina and Tennessee
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States
Great Victoria Desert
- a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain
Great Wall
- a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width; Chinese Wall; Great Wall of China
n.
- a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width; Chinese Wall; Great Wall
Great War
- a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918; World War I; World War 1; First World War; War to End War
Great White Way
- a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters; Broadway
n.
- (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604); Gregory; Gregory I; Saint Gregory I; St. Gregory I
n.
- king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France; Henry IV; Henry of Navarre
n.
- king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC); Herod
Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front
- a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul; a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO; IBDA-C
n.
- grand duke of Muscovy whose victories against the Tartars laid the basis for Russian unity (1440-1505); Ivan III; Ivan III Vasilievich
n.
- Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565); Justinian; Justinian I
n.
- Hawaiian king who united the islands under his rule (1758-1819); Kamehameha I
n.
- Italian pope from 440 to 461 who extended the authority of the papacy to the west and persuaded Attila not to attack Rome (440-461); Leo I; St. Leo I
n.
- king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715); Louis XIV; Sun King
n.
- ancient king of Pontus who expanded his kingdom by defeating the Romans but was later driven out by Pompey (132-63 BC); Mithridates; Mithridates VI
n.
- czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government; he extended his territories in the Baltic and founded St. Petersburg (1682-1725); Peter I; Czar Peter I
n.
- Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC); Pompey; Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
n.
- king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments; Rameses II; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Ramesses the Great; Ramses the Great
n.
- king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments; Rameses II; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Rameses the Great; Ramses the Great
n.
- king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments; Rameses II; Ramesses II; Ramses II; Rameses the Great; Ramesses the Great
n.
- (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379); Basil; St. Basil; Basil of Caesarea; Basil the Great
The Great Charter
- the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215; Magna Carta; Magna Charta
n.
- the last emperor of a united Roman Empire, he took control of the eastern empire and ended the war with the Visigoths; he became a Christian and in 391 banned all forms of pagan worship (346-395); Theodosius; Theodosius I; Flavius Theodosius
n.
- a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom; United Kingdom; UK; U.K.; Britain; Great Britain
n.
- king of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC); Xerxes I
adv.
- to a very great degree or extent; a lot; lots; a good deal; much; very much
- frequently or in great quantities; much; often
great Solomon's-seal
- North American perennial herb with smooth foliage and drooping tubular greenish flowers; Polygonatum biflorum; Polygonatum commutatum
n.
- perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes; Hypericum ascyron; Hypericum pyramidatum
n.
- large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America; ant bear; giant anteater; tamanoir; Myrmecophaga jubata
n.
- large flightless auk of rocky islands off northern Atlantic coasts; extinct; Pinguinus impennis
n.
- large (up to 6 ft) greyish-brown barracuda highly regarded as a food and sport fish; may be dangerous to swimmers; Sphyraena barracuda
n.
- white gull having a black back and wings; black-backed gull; cob; Larus marinus
n.
- slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters; blue shark; Prionace glauca
n.
- burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use; greater burdock; cocklebur; Arctium lappa
n.
- more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons
- Due to the cost of sample acquisition, samples should be treated with great care.
- Men wore a toga-like garment and took great care not to appear naked even when washing.
- Villumsen had buried the body with great care, and a pair of skis marked the grave site.
n.
- a cerebral vein formed by the two internal cerebral veins and continuing into the sinus rectus; vena cerebri magna
n.
- a circular line on the surface of a sphere formed by intersecting it with a plane passing through the center
- Helsinki has an optimal location for great circle (i.e.
- Its name, fittingly, means, "great circle."
- The 4th meridian west forms a great circle with the 176th meridian east.
n.
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; batch; deal; flock; good deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; mountain; muckle; passel; peck; pile; plenty; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad
- There is a great deal of standardization required.
- Self’s avatar portrays a great deal of confidence.
- But Meyer also generated a great deal of conflict.
n.
- cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands; water flaxseed; Spirodela polyrrhiza
n.
- a father of your grandparent
- He is the great grandfather of the Duchess of Kent.
- His great grandfather Peter Donnelly was a Minuteman.
- His great grandfather was a Scottish labourer.
n.
- a son of your grandson or granddaughter
- Emri Zaid is the great grandson of Alexander Zaïd.
- He was the great grandson of the poet Coventry Patmore.
- It was written by his great grandson Khoshru Navrosji Banaji.
n.
- large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia; great grey owl; Strix nebulosa
n.
- very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas; giant kangaroo; Macropus giganteus
n.
- large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia; great gray owl; Strix nebulosa
n.
- the principal hall in a castle or mansion; can be used for dining or entertainment
- The great hall is known for its good acoustics.
- The great hall is one of the main structures of the university.
- The great hall has a floor of English limestone and Purbeck marble.
n.
- tall European perennial having purple flower heads; greater knapweed; Centaurea scabiosa
n.
- tall erect and very leafy perennial herb of eastern North America having dense spikes of blue flowers; blue cardinal flower; Lobelia siphilitica
n.
- Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn; sycamore; scottish maple; Acer pseudoplatanus
n.
- important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves; kaffir; kafir corn; kaffir corn; Sorghum bicolor
n.
- tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches; common mullein; Aaron's rod; flannel mullein; woolly mullein; torch; Verbascum thapsus
n.
- hairy plant with pinkish flowers; Great Plains to northern Mexico; Castilleja sessiliflora
n.
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world; world power; major power; power; superpower
- The year 1885 will decide her fate as a great power.
- It also gave the NA great power.
- Such holdings gave it great power over the governments of small countries.
n.
- a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft; Ambrosia trifida
n.
- the longest vein in the body; runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein; long saphenous vein
n.
- Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe; woodcock snipe; Gallinago media
n.
- a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus; American egret; Egretta albus
- widely distributed Old World white egret; Casmerodius albus
- large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys; Ardea occidentalis
n.
- someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field; white hope
n.
- large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans; white shark; man-eater; man-eating shark; Carcharodon carcharias
n.
- time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years; Platonic year
great yellowcress
- perennial herb found on streams and riversides throughout Europe except extreme north and Mediterranean; sometimes placed in genus Nasturtium; Rorippa amphibia; Nasturtium amphibium
adv.
- in disorderly haste; head over heels; heels over head; topsy-turvy; topsy-turvily
n.
- a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America); the Irish Famine; the Great Hunger; the Great Starvation
n.
- United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852); Clay; Henry Clay
n.
- a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America); the Irish Famine; the Great Starvation; the Great Calamity
n.
- a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America); the Irish Famine; the Great Hunger; the Great Calamity
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- A novel of great success was taken from this film.
- Unett also had great success in a Hillman Hunter.
- She focuses on "Rebel", which is a great success.
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- The next night, a great number come to listen.
- The individual accolades were in great number.
- Romania and Greece also host a great number of witches.
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- It has a great importance while conducting tax audits.
- Since ages, the temple has been held in great importance.
- Primary industries are also of great importance, however.
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- The royal couple took great interest in their staff.
- Their exhibitions were a success and a great interest.
- "Sirene" had been of great interest in 1930s.
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- The merchant is blessed for having so great a treasure.
- She is so professional and so great.
- His interest was so great that he wanted to be a wildlife presenter.
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- It also had great influence in England and France.
- Indian (Hindu) thought had great influence on Weil.
- His ideas had a great influence on post-Archaic art.
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- It also killed a great many innocent civilians.
- This causes a stampede which kills a great many people.
- Large or fast ships could require a great many boilers.
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- The Eastern bishops formed the great majority.
- The great majority of people viewed him with suspicion.
- The great majority accepted a place at The Actor Works.
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- To dance around the facts would be too great a disservice.
- As soon as the heat gets too great, just go bankrupt and get out.
- If "n" is large enough, then the skew of the distribution is not too great.
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- They also consume a great variety of shrubs and trees.
- The Greek words are used in a great variety of meanings.
- The early 19th century saw a great variety of flute designs.
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- The sector has been surveyed, but not in great detail.
- I don't do sex scenes in any great detail.
- The chronicle of Rasted describes his victory in great detail.
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- Death of Allan Robertson, the first great professional golfer.
- Salieri's first great success was in the realm of serious opera.
- The first great master of the style was the composer Joseph Haydn.
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- With great difficulty we managed to drag her back.
- There was great difficulty in determining its position.
- They became stuck and were removed with great difficulty.
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- Says Eskander: “It was just a great part time job.
- In 1956, he donated a great part of collections to the government.
- The park includes a great part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
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- The concerto was Elgar's last great popular success.
- It is deemed the last great epic poem in European literature.
- He was the last great ruler of Egypt before the Persian conquest.
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- Linnaeus greatly respected Scopoli and showed great interest in his work.
- He showed great ability for the study of languages and ancient documents.
- He showed great aptitude.
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- The other great teacher of the high school was SMT.
- It separates you from the million other great players."
- In addition to his career as an entertainer, Jones's other great love was horses.
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- Mu Xin has also made great achievements in literature.
- The Dravidians made great contributions to development of Hinduism.
- He made great contribution to the first Chinese early warning airplane.
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- He has led great numbers of you astray.
- It's collected for the aquarium trade, but not in great numbers.
- They were however found in great numbers in the northern regions of Nandi.
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- Frost uses personification to great effect throughout the poem.
- On “Mack the Knife,” he and Person trade phrases to great effect.
- He reappeared again in two matches in 1919, again to no great effect.
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- This case caused great public debate in the late spring of 1844.
- The 'graffiti' on their Holiest site caused great offence to Jews.
- This caused great sadness, depression and fear amongst those not involved.
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- Sen achieved great popularity as a lawyer and orator.
- The IMC's annual youth sailing camp enjoys great popularity.
- Encaustic or inlaid tiles enjoyed two periods of great popularity.
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- He has also worked over Tasawwuf to a great extent.
- In alloy design, this effect is used to a great extent.
- The movement protected the rights of tenants to a great extent.
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- The country has great potential for hydroelectric power.
- The thinking prevailed that the prairies had great potential.
- Now, with VfL, he has the chance to develop his great potential."
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- His business flourished and he gained great wealth.
- A great wealth of texts survives from the MHG period.
- Abid accumulated great wealth during his life.
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- He is now considered one of the many great 'composers in exile'.
- The band pays tribute to many great jazz drummers in addition to Buddy Rich.
- Until 1996 he produced etchings and aquatints for many great illustrated books.
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- He made a great reputation in old men's parts.
- However, they made a great team.
- Abo has made a great effort to preserve the memory of her late husband.
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- "We had a ball, making some very great music."
- There is... a very great art in making rubbish acceptable".
- "His sensitivity is very great.
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- "Why they did what they did – is no great secret.
- He reappeared again in two matches in 1919, again to no great effect.
- For the most part no great art or skill was lavished on those old tombstones.
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- Bokhari's great work was done at the United Nations.
- But what happened is, she had this great work ethic."
- His great work, "Les Origines de l'ancienne France", was produced slowly.
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- Jerry goes to great lengths to get a sad-faced handicapped girl to laugh.
- He has gone to great lengths to find the right kind of studio production.
- He was a paternalistic employer and went to great lengths to improve the situation of his employees.
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- Among the region's great powers, Edom was held in low regard.
- This caused the pope to be recognized by all the great powers.
- Then, God sent a man in his androgynous body, endowed him with great powers.
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- Emperor Akbar had a great respect for the Shaikh.
- The living have great respect for the dead.
- The Khmer people have great respect for the enchanting brothers.
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- The royal couple took great interest in their staff.
- He took great pride in helping assistant coaches advance their careers.
- The ancients took great stock in success as a sign of favoritism by the gods.
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- Because of this, The Law Code of Manu has a great amount of authority.
- There is a great amount of research and drugs developed relating to cancer.
- There is also a great amount of shared mythology and a common belief in Mana.
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- Bavarians tend to place a great value on food and drink.
- Rav Judah and Rava inferred from the great value of rain.
- The great value in her works is betrayed to movement and gesture.
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- The jaws of a large great white shark may have up to five layers.
- As a sign of his prophecy, he said a great white whale would rise out of Witch Pond.
- Ryan helps the couple escape from their drowned car, but a second great white shark is revealed.
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- After World War II, Essendon enjoyed great success.
- This enjoyed great success worldwide until 1914.
- The album enjoyed great success in North America upon release.
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- Have a great impact to the city,” Lewis said.
- had a great impact on the artist's thinking.
- Suddenly, I felt a great impact of a rising force within me.
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- He is the great uncle of footballer Alex Zahavi.
- His great uncle was the economist John Maynard Keynes.
- Matt inherits a cinema from his great uncle.
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- Visitors traveled great distances to see the celebrated holy man.
- Michael uses an enchanted stone helmet to see across great distances.
- The seeds are typically dispersed in large amounts over great distances.
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- The formula grew to be in great demand in the area.
- In most of these she was in great demand at music festivals.
- Consequently, the Sloan liniment formula was in great demand.
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- The book has achieved great publishing success.
- Sen achieved great popularity as a lawyer and orator.
- The group achieved great success globally and scored a chain of No.
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- In June 1865 she appeared to great acclaim in Paris.
- He has received great acclaim for dressing Hollywood celebrities.
- Jones was cast and appeared to great acclaim as the Artful Dodger.
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- He also had a great love for music and was a guitarist.
- Like many saints, he had a great love for God's creatures.
- During the trial, Jem learns of Mary's great love for him.
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- It was a great loss and worst year for the community.
- He was a quiet and special man and this is a great loss."
- There was a great loss to the buildings.
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- In 1859, a great fire caused destruction to the College.
- In 1823, a great fire destroyed half of the buildings of Marghita.
- In 1933 there was a great fire, and the new city was rebuilt again.
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- Wales has lost a great man, and I mourn a true friend.'
- Tolstoy: a great writer, a great thinker and a great man.
- It furthers one to see the great man."
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- It's probably not a great film, but it's all right.
- It was not a great success and had no practical follow-up.
- The death of one soldier is not a great loss to the Republic".
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- He has such a great ease with who he is", Fincher remarked.
- It was such a great feeling, and not just because I was a kid.
- After such a great performance Čekulajevs joined FK Jūrmala-VV in 2008.
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- Sheikh Yakut was another great man.
- The replay was another great game with both sides giving it their all.
- The Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa is another great admirer of Flaubert.
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- Jacob had traveled a great distance to find Laban.
- It can be seen from a great distance from the plains below the mountain.
- Some of the stone tools were made of raw material imported from a great distance.
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- The number 108 is of great significance in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
- The property is considered of great significance because of the collection of buildings.
- Namely this acquaintance with liberal European ideas had a great significance in his formation.
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- The battle was a great victory for the Welsh.
- God really blessed me with a great victory."
- This is a great victory to our cause".
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- Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox.
- He has great strength and athleticism, as well as good technical ability.
- By arranging the planking in the way described, great strength was obtained."
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- The process of making charcoal demanded great skill and vast quantities of trees.
- Outside of pro-bending, Mako demonstrated great skill in traditional firebending combat.
- The city "suddenly organised the manufacture of arms" with great skill and effectiveness.
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- The landscape shows great attention to detail in the modeling of nature.
- She was involved in longing lawsuits with both her husband's which attracted great attention.
- Jean de Sperati paid great attention to the accuracy of the postmark when falsifying the stamps.
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- Yet the conflict brought great personal tragedy to Garvin.
- Hauge faced great personal suffering and state persecution.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the event as a "great personal tragedy".
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- "I'd rather be on that end than on, 'Boy, great job.
- He did a great job, but he didn't enjoy the process."
- "All these guys on this M&Ms Camry team do a great job for me.
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- This is of great concern to us and we are removing the video immediately.
- In addition to the poor economic condition, safety in the mines was a great concern.
- I saw the world in a new light, and my great concern was to have everybody converted.
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- There is great diversity in the genotype and phenotype of wild strains.
- The complexity comes from the great diversity of stakeholders in the process.
- Plants, such as "Arabidopsis thaliana," have a particularly great diversity of isoforms.
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- It depicts the Poet and his great friend Nicholas Ferrar.
- He was a great friend with Medo Pucić, whose lyrics were translated into Italian.
- Emerson would become a great friend and confidant of the aforementioned Achille Murat for years.
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- It received great ratings from audiences and critics.
- The story of the murders received great publicity at the time.
- He has received great acclaim for dressing Hollywood celebrities.
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- The club welcomes us with open arms, and we've had such great championships here in the past.
- Bestsellers have gained such great popularity that it has sometimes become fashionable to purchase them.
- He often talked of what a shame it is to use such great resources (such as the internet) for such material.
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- The success of "Aetibar" and "Guitar'93" marked a great opportunity for Signs.
- Danny saw in the story of this trip a great opportunity for a literary comeback.
- I liked soccer, thought it was a great opportunity then, and thought it was now."
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- Once again, a great effort began to raise funds for their redemption.
- Abo has made a great effort to preserve the memory of her late husband.
- Though he had a great effort, he lost in overtime 1–0, when a backhand shot slipped by taken from Jonathan Toews.
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- Nanaji always laid great emphasis on education.
- Alsagoff places great emphasis on the Arabic language.
- The EBU places great emphasis on the use of open standards.
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- Abauzit was a man of great learning and of wonderful versatility.
- Müller was a man of great and versatile talents, an excellent orator, and a suggestive writer.
- He was an energetic man of great physical endurance who possessed an almost boyish enthusiasm.
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- I'm sure that he can succeed a lot of great things."
- King Yeongjo expected great things from him.
- Batman or Spider-Man or Superman, they do all these great things, but what do they believe in?"
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- "Ryan Williams is a really great player."
- have made a really great positively commercial punk outfit...
- The Doctor promises her that she will have a really great year.
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- The 1830s brought to Europe great economic hardships.
- The period of great economic transformation and growth occurred between 1875 and 1975.
- The area was also underdeveloped and poor, so that banditry posed great economic incentives.
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- This aircraft became a great favorite of Pelly-Fry.
- Holguín later became a great orator, debater, and writer.
- At the time of its release, the movie became a great success.
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- Students participate in Sports with great enthusiasm.
- It was received with great enthusiasm and earned him an endowment.
- This concept was taken to community meetings and met with great enthusiasm.
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- Indorf spent a great deal of his life overseas.
- Shifty spent a great deal of time in the outdoors, hunting game.
- As a young writer, Carpentier spent a great deal of time in Europe.
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- He was also a great admirer of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
- In contrast, Hughes was a supporter, and a great admirer of Roy Jenkins.
- The Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa is another great admirer of Flaubert.
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- It was a time of great growth for Boleslawiec ceramics.
- The 1960s were a time of great change and growth for the AYF.
- Christ's return will coincide with a time of great tribulation.
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- This caused a great deal of joy among Negroes.
- The article caused a great deal of light-hearted controversy.
- This caused a great deal of controversy, resentment and protest.
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- It is the only place in Kenya where these great apes can be seen.
- In local parlance, the great apes of the Bili Forest fall into two distinct groups.
- He also led the attempt with the UNESCO to make the great apes a "World Heritage Species".
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- We had a great time and traveled all over the world.
- She agrees and they have a great time together.
- She was thrilled and had a great time."
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- They held large fiefs, and retained great political influence.
- The result was several years of great political instability and civil war.
- The Glorious Revolution of 1688 made an end of it as a great political force.
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- As such, the home teams enjoyed a great advantage.
- A great advantage of bootstrap is its simplicity.
- In short, the VC enjoyed a great advantage over any attacking force.
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- In Pennsylvania, the chief predator of eastern cottontails is the great horned owl.
- Billy winds up finding two great horned owls, which join his larger pet collection.
- The only known avian predators of this species are golden eagles and great horned owls.
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- He had great speed as a runner, but did not steal many bases.
- In spite of their great speed, they would have been wasted in a cruising role.
- In Honduras his nickname is "La Bala Ortiz" (the bullet), for its great speed.
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- Deng also received a great deal of popular support.
- She received a great deal of hate mail and angry phone calls.
- The Braves received a great deal of support from the community during the 1980 season.
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- Of great beauty, these are considered the most southern of Spain.
- She goes into the ring and Pete is indeed breath-taken by her great beauty.
- Hélène is described as being in her early to mid-twenties, and is considered a great beauty.
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- This case caused great public debate in the late spring of 1844.
- It is especially with his later books that he won a great public acclaim.
- "Sinatra was the first great public figure I ever wrote about," Capp once said.
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- The first detailed transcription of percussion, song and chants are to be found in his great works.
- The emphasis on formal rules during the Golden Age produced great works, albeit with highly standardized form.
- Every evening, extracts from his great works, the "Canon" and the "Sanatio", were dictated and explained to his pupils.
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- The 1990s and the 2000s were a period of great struggle.
- The period of great economic transformation and growth occurred between 1875 and 1975.
- The 16th and 17th centuries in Wales, as in the rest of Europe, were a period of great change.
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- So it’s great for them to get a bit of success.
- Despite the family’s great wealth, Hoffmann was raised frugally.
- "It’s great for Poland," said Kubot.
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- Another great great grandfather was Charlemagne Tower.
- Furioso II is his great great damsire.
- (My great great grandfather was a man of God-given taste in scenery)."
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- Admission required that a student display great promise.
- Wakasegawa was regarded as a wrestler with great promise.
- He is asked to take part in an experiment for a memory treatment that shows great promise.
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- As such, Luthor went to great efforts to obtain the Parasite's remains.
- As a result, cartoonists have less incentive to put great efforts into these panels.
- Chiang made great efforts to gain recognition as the official successor of Sun Yat-sen.
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- It is a matter of great pride to the inhabitants.
- “And I take great pride in that kind of work.
- He took great pride in helping assistant coaches advance their careers.