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Example sentences for: lifted

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The Paris daily Libération announced on its front page Thursday that the arrival in Europe of the Viagra pill this week has lifted the taboo on discussion of sexual dysfunction.
Suddenly that native rose at the bedside, and bent over me with his right hand lifted and a dirk in it aimed at my throat; but Luigi grabbed his wrist, pulled him downward, and drove his own knife into the man's neck.
As we were riding through the sweetsmelling American night, Neal looked up from the book he was reading, Les aventures de la dialectique , by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, which he had lifted from the philosophy section of Kroch's & Brentano's in the Loop.
Park, accused of committing four counts of fraud, is said to have advised followers to buy certain stocks, which he then sold on the sly as their orders lifted the stocks' prices.
Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.