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Example sentences for: lifted

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("She lifted the blanket and tucked herself next to me," Grisham writes, in the book's sole romantic moment: "I held her firmly; if not she would've fallen onto the porch.
The "end game" of all the dictator's schemes is undermining U.N. authority and "getting the sanctions lifted," Schwarzkopf said.
The White House insists that U.N. teams must search the palaces before sanctions on Iraq are lifted.
In Baghdad, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz reiterated Iraq's stance that sanctions should be lifted before weapons inspectors are reinstated.
When Prohibition was lifted, Sam was one of the most powerful distillers in North America, and for the next 30 years, he bullied employees and terrorized rivals to make Seagram an international liquor powerhouse.