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Examples
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It doesn't matter what kind of balast and the cf's don't make a difference.
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It doesn't matter what kind of balast and the cf's don't make a difference.
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Thus far, Barack Obama, one of the most gifted communicators of our lifetime, has mainly balast.
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It's Jerry Brown who, for as much as his touch of moonbeam shed a certain sort of light, he lacked balast and was blown away, just as Obama will be.
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By reason whereof our ships being all pestered and romaging euery thing out of order, very light for want of balast, and that which was most to our disadvantage, the one halfe part of the men of euery shippe sicke, and vtterly vnseruiceable: for in the Reuenge there were ninety diseased: in the Bonauenture not so many in health as could handle her maine saile.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item, no liquor to be spilt on the balast, nor filthiness to be left within boord: the cook room, and all other places to be kept cleane for the better health of the companie, the gromals and pages to bee brought vp according to the laudable order and vse of the Sea, as well in learning of Nauigation, as in exercising of that which to them appertaineth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And because we perceiue that balast is hardly to be had at our lading place there with you, we would you shoulde haue in a readinesse 100 tunnes of the white stones whereof you sent vs home an example two yeres past.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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We lay some time under a Mizzen-balast, but were at last forc'd to put before the Wind, and, for Four Days, we scudded with the Goose-wings of our
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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Security camera (CCTV) Footage of marriott hotel In islamabad Pakistan minutes before balast.
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He also earns some income from a food kiosk he is operating in the area, a balast (concrete) business, and poultry farming.
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