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  • 'Carding' has always been a favourite Irish form of physically insinuating to a man that he is not exactly popular.

    The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

  • "Carding" and find that carding is defined as a means for carding fiber.

    The Classification of Patents United States Patent Office

  • 'Carding' has always been a favourite Irish form of physically insinuating to a man that he is not exactly popular.

    The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904

  • 'Carding' occurs where stolen credit card information is sold, often wholesale.

    InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers 2008

  • Professor Simon Carding of Leeds 'Faculty of Biological Sciences has adapted a bacteria in our own bodies to make it produce a treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

    January 22nd, 2007 2007

  • Bacteria and viruses have been used before to deliver drugs in this way, but Professor Carding has solved the major problem with this kind of treatment: he uses a sugar to 'switch' the bacteria on and off.

    January 22nd, 2007 2007

  • His Puritan counterpart in America, Cotton Mather of Boston, whose outrage would carry over to the Salem witch trials, chimed in: "Christ's Na-tivity is spent in Reveling, Dicing, Carding, Masking and in all Licentious Liberty."

    "The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' Rescued his Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits" 2008

  • STRANGER: Carding and spinning threads and all the parts of the process which are concerned with the actual manufacture of a woollen garment form a single art, which is one of those universally acknowledged, — the art of working in wool.

    The Statesman 2006

  • STRANGER: Carding and one half of the use of the comb, and the other processes of wool-working which separate the composite, may be classed together as belonging both to the art of wool-working, and also to one of the two great arts which are of universal application — the art of composition and the art of division.

    The Statesman 2006

  • Cardin and Steele were heavily in the black churches yesterday, Carding trying to repair a fractured support and Steele building upon his endorsements of last week.

    Steele on Fox News Sunday Matt Johnston 2006

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