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Mr Milosevic is confident that either his man will become Serbia's next president or as two months ago the turnout will be deemed too low to give victory to Mr Seselj.In any event, bigger things are happening elsewhere in Serbia's seething Albanian-inhabited province of Kosovo, which abuts Albania itself, and in the political councils of Washington and Brussels.
Few are as surreal as this: the smart gates of a religious primary school that abuts a neon-lit townhouse, in the doorway of which dances a hostess clad in hot pants, a hat and very little else.
It abuts a marketplace selling sombreros, confetti-filled eggs called cascarones (see picture) and skeleton figurines used to celebrate the Day of the Dead.
The violence was also increasingly concentrated in a few areas: 43% of the deaths counted by the IBC were in two of the country's 18 provinces, Baghdad and Nineveh, which abuts Syria and has Mosul at its hub.
It abuts Iraq, Syria, Iran and the Caucasus; it has a big army (the second-biggest in NATO); in an era of energy insecurity its network of oil and gas pipelines is increasingly important.
Another said that in one district with 940 registered voters, another 300 had apparently "voted".As for Kosovo's minority Serb areas, turnout figures were high for the southern and central enclaves of the country, but almost non-existent in the northern region which abuts Serbia.
Perhaps 40,000 live in the north, which abuts Serbia and is not under the control of the government of Kosovo.
When the electrical wave arrives in a region where one nerve cell abuts another, it likewise stimulates neurotransmitter production and thus allows the signal to jump across the gap from one cell to the next.The idea behind ultrasonic stimulation of the brain is to shake open the pores that let ions in and out of nerve cells, and thus enhance the production of neurotransmitters.
The project abuts territory controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), one of a plethora of ethnic insurgencies that have battled the central government for decades.
In Washington, DC, border debates always focus on illegal migration, notes Bill Owens, a congressman whose New York district abuts dangerous Canada.
On January 16th it did just that, when jihadists acting in sympathy for their Malian brethren stormed a gasfield facility in remotest southern Algeria, which abuts Mali, and took hostage scores of Algerians and as many as 40 foreign workers from countries including America, Britain, France and Japan.
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The primary grammatical function of "abuts" is as a verb , specifically the third-person singular present tense form. It describes the action of one thing bordering or being next to another, as evidenced by Ludwig's examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
