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A young girl sketched in basic, picture-book style stands upon a leaf, holding a pair of batons.

Legal duties may be founded upon an individual having effective decision-making powers and control over financial resources rather than upon an individual holding a particular title or occupying a particular post (Bergman et al. 2007).

In particular the bracteates IK 14 and IK 124 depict a rider traveling down a slope and coming upon a female being holding a scepter or a staff.

Luckily, when we went out into the wilds of Brooklyn with the GeoMate Jr., we stumbled upon a cache held by a helpful fellow who goes by the name of schbus86 (he drive's a school bus).

In the Critique of Pure Reason's "Canon of Pure Reason," Kant's argument for the Highest Good rests upon a hold-over from his pre-Critical philosophy.

To use Tyndall's Victorian language, if the heat-trapping gases were removed from the air for a single night "the warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost".

As Mrs. Money tells the story in "The Perfect Child," when she came upon Samantha (a pseudonym) holding her 2-year-old son, Joshua, over the edge of a 30-foot-high deck, she feared that the girl was about to carry out her threats to kill him.

Milo made a sensational debut during Microsoft's E3 2009 stage show, in a pre-recorded presentation that showed the boy recognising a human player, 'taking' a drawing from her through the Kinect scanner before commenting upon it, and holding a plausible conversation.

That the descendants of an imperious race who had imposed serfdom upon their Saxon underlings would push the Union toward secession over an insistence upon holding slaves was unsurprising, given what one writer, H. D. Kitchell, had called, in 1850, "The Norman pride, his scorn of labor, his high blood, despotic temper, and aristocratic temper".

A not uncommon experience is a mother who, upon first holding her newborn, realizes that it is the first baby she has ever held.

The effect is a large one: upon holding for th = 104 s the coefficient of static friction for both materials increases by about a factor of three, from μs = 0.5 to μs = 1.4.

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