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It said that his crackdown on corruption has put out of action not only Sharif and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the leaders of the country's two main political movements, but also "almost the entire Pakistani upper crust."
Evidence of ancient flood water (which might now be frozen at the poles or beneath the planet's surface) and signs of repeated melting and crystallization of the planet's crust indicate that Mars is much more like Earth than was previously thought.
For example, it is estimated that there are 2,000–5,000 species of rocks and minerals in the earth's crust, generated from the hundred or so naturally occurring elements (Shipman et al.
Subsequent floods and earthquakes left the parched Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley as a protective crust, preserving the skeletons of the dinosaurs.
Walter W. Skeat, surely one of the greatest linguists of all time and an outstanding innovator of his day (late 19th century), was often given to testy replies when a correspondent to Notes and Queries either disagreed with him or speculated on the etymology of a word without having first looked it up in one of Skeat's works or, if the alphabetic section had appeared, in the Oxford English Dictionary . He was often nasty; but toward the latter part of the 1890s the crust softened, and he mellowed a bit.