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The mass murder has caused many more reproductions of an image of Muhammad to be distributed than – I assume – any other in history.
The men's rugby club at the London School of Economics, disbanded this week over a homophobic and misogynistic leaflet distributed to prospective members, had previously been involved in actions including "blacking up" and playing Nazi-themed drinking games, according to the university's students' union.
The size and scope of Oink's catalogue outdid any online music purveyor, and given its distributed nature, the archive was essentially indestructible.
The planting materials and fertiliser distributed through these buildings will help local farmers increase their yields.
The 2014 version has a more diverse array of ingredients in the mix – Lil Jon's Turn Down For What, Hozier's Take Me To Church and Jeremih's Don't Tell 'Em reflect pop's absorption of electronic music, folk and hip-hop – and they're distributed more evenly than the songs of the 2009 edition.
Asynchronous, robust, distributed technologies like mailing lists and text messaging completed the picture, allowing coordinators to maintain links between this nexus of activity and the growing community of donors, potential volunteers and activists that sprawled across the entire north-east region.
In some countries or economies (for instance, Macau was included separately because its education system differs from that of mainland China), questionnaires were also distributed to parents to garner information about their perceptions of their children's schools and career prospects.
The Coalition for Marriage said it was not prepared to disclose which constituencies it was targeting or how many leaflets would be distributed through the election campaign.
That was below the initial target of $15bn and many of those funds will be distributed over several years.
In a further effort to assert their dominance in working-class loyalist districts, the UVF in North Down distributed posters and leaflets at the weekend in Bangor, County Down, with the names of people they accused of drug-dealing in the town.
Those beers include unpasteurised tank Pilsner Urquell; several Brewdog, Red Squirrel and Black Isle keg beers; bottles from excellent US brewery, Goose Island (now distributed by Greene King in the UK), and guest cask ales from such breweries as Wolf, Potbelly, Slater's and Colchester.
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The word "distributed" primarily functions as the past participle of the verb "distribute." It often acts as an adjective to describe something that has been spread out or allocated. As shown in Ludwig, it correctly describes the state of something after the action of distributing has occurred.
Expression frequency: Very common
