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Emphysema and irreversible airway limitation that is characteristic of chronic tobacco smoking are related to the destruction of elastin and the resulting loss of lung elastic recoil.
Many parents would recoil in horror at being considered fashion victims with regard to names, but when your children ( Marcus and Titus ) are in school with Tacitus and Rufus and Dædalus you can be consoled by the fact that in the school down the road, the children of Danii and Du'aine ( Gluteus and Mucus ) are being mercilessly ragged by Tahini and Pooh, themselves the children of Elvis and Moonbeam.
I recoil at the prospect of Mr. Nixon as custodian of this nation's future, as guardian of the hydrogen bomb ...
The Pareto Principle demands that we embrace such a law while the fundamental precepts of liberalism demand that we recoil from it.
would be of little use, especially after the recoil that followed firing.