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  • "Burnishing" the image of Israel would be a very big statement, though it would annoy and irritate the Arabs.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

  • Burnishing that view, the International Energy Agency cut its world oil demand forecast by one million barrels a day on expectations a squeeze on energy consumption.

    Copper Gains 5.2% as 'Longs' Seize the Day 2009

  • Burnishing Buyers Home builders such as D.R. Horton are turning to credit-enhancement programs to help make potential buyers more attractive to lenders.

    Builders Help Buyers to Help Themselves 2008

  • Burnishing his credentials as a Europeanist, he has won high praise on his side of the Atlantic for vociferously standing up to Washington in the growing feud between Airbus and Boeing.

    Peter the Great 2007

  • Burnishing his credentials as a Europeanist, he has won high praise on his side of the Atlantic for vociferously standing up to Washington in the growing feud between Airbus and Boeing.

    PETER THE GREAT 2007

  • Burnishing the horizontal pictures, it broke up against these in delicate lines where there were cracks in the varnish, and from all these great black squares framed in with gold stood out here and there some lighter portion of the painting — a pale brow, two eyes that looked at you, perukes flowing over and powdering red-coated shoulders, or the buckle of a garter above a well-rounded calf.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • - Burnishing of the ridge by moving the scraper burnisher along the longitudinal narrow faces and pressing it towards the wide face.

    2. Types and Mode of Action of Smoothing and Sanding Tools Rolf Jakoby 1993

  • - Burnishing of the wide faces by means of a scraper burnisher humidified with oil until there is no ridge anymore.

    2. Types and Mode of Action of Smoothing and Sanding Tools Rolf Jakoby 1993

  • Burnishing is rather an art, but when well done gives a harder and more brilliant (because smoother) surface than the scratch brush.

    On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

  • Burnishing the horizontal pictures, it broke up against these in delicate lines where there were cracks in the varnish, and from all these great black squares framed in with gold stood out here and there some lighter portion of the painting — a pale brow, two eyes that looked at you, perukes flowing over and powdering red-coated shoulders, or the buckle of a garter above a well-rounded calf.

    Madame Bovary 1902

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