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  • George Kirkland said at Chevron's most recent quarterly earnings briefing that the company already has enough gas to support four LNG production units, also known as trains, at Gorgon, located on an island nature reserve ca pable of accommodating five trains.

    Australian Gas Discoveries Hold Promise 2010

  • Some months after that a miracle warrior, mighty and unstop pable, appeared in besieged Stalingrad, and the German forces quaked at his fury.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • Some months after that a miracle warrior, mighty and unstop pable, appeared in besieged Stalingrad, and the German forces quaked at his fury.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • One of the psychological tools of intimidation pable escobar used to scare other criminals was to show his willingness to kill women and children and government officials, another common taboo among criminals.

    Question About New Avengers #35 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • I See p. 03 of this voiuine. that there is a woman of your own nation who is ca-pable of making you more happy than her daughter could.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Are not women as ca-pable as men, thought I, of enlarged sentiments?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • All but freed from their physical forms, these minds were ca-pable of inserting themselves into the mental path-ways of others.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Backing away, they gave him plenty of space, as if the radius of fear that surrounded him was a pal-pable thing and not just an impression.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • What he saw surprised him, insofar as he was still ca-pable of being surprised.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Still carrying Susannah on his hip-a thing he would have been inca-pable of doing for any extended period of time even a month ago-Eddie hurried over to a boat of a Lincoln.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

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