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  • At one of Gaza's biggest rock-breaking yards acres of dusty rubble mounds contractor

    Gaza Blockade Hampers Private-Sector Economy 2010

  • In the other inception. philosophy is no edifice of thoughts anymore, but boulders apparently fallen at random in a quarry where bedrock is broken and the rock-breaking tools remain invisible.

    Archive 2008-12-01 enowning 2008

  • Hollesley Bay is a tabloid editor's nightmare, lacking as it does a treadmill and rock-breaking facilities, but it does have an important function in trying to ease long-term prisoners back into society.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Bystander 2008

  • In the other inception. philosophy is no edifice of thoughts anymore, but boulders apparently fallen at random in a quarry where bedrock is broken and the rock-breaking tools remain invisible.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • Hollesley Bay is a tabloid editor's nightmare, lacking as it does a treadmill and rock-breaking facilities, but it does have an important function in trying to ease long-term prisoners back into society.

    Hollesley Bay Bystander 2008

  • And the earthquakes that we see at the range of about a half a mile to a mile is what are called rock-breaking earthquakes against that older magma.

    CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2004 2004

  • Anytime he wrote down failure somebody had been hurt by those big rock-breaking hands.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • Anytime he wrote down failure somebody had been hurt by those big rock-breaking hands.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • Anytime he wrote down failure somebody had been hurt by those big rock-breaking hands.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • Anytime he wrote down failure somebody had been hurt by those big rock-breaking hands.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

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