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  • Loose limbed, keenly focused, eyes alight and acknowledging a phantom audience, Mr. Cuiffo's transformation during a recent living-room preview not only brought Lenny Bruce back to life — it momentarily threatened to re-erect Carnegie Hall on Bleecker Street.

    Practicing the Art of Possession Bruce Bennett 2011

  • The financial crisis will push banks back to basics -- such as maintaining healthy balance sheets -- and could slow the pace of globalization as governments re-erect national barriers in an effort to shield their economies from weakness in other parts of the globe.

    Banks That Endure Crisis Must Return to Basics -- Report 2009

  • Ultra-orthodox Jews have spat on Christian pilgrims visiting the stations of the cross on the Via Dolorosa, and Muslim clerics have screamed vitriolic threats at Uri Ariel, a Knesset member intent on testing Islamic tolerance by announcing plans to re-erect a synagogue beside the 7th-century silver-domed al-Aqsa mosque.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Ultra-orthodox Jews have spat on Christian pilgrims visiting the stations of the cross on the Via Dolorosa, and Muslim clerics have screamed vitriolic threats at Uri Ariel, a Knesset member intent on testing Islamic tolerance by announcing plans to re-erect a synagogue beside the 7th-century silver-domed al-Aqsa mosque.

    [water] and the middle-east 2009

  • Yesterday, the Italian ambassador to the East African country announced that Ethiopia is at last ready to re-erect the obelisk in Axum and will commence the project later this year after the final technical wrinkles are ironed out.

    2008 March 07 archive at eternallycool.net 2008

  • Yesterday, the Italian ambassador to the East African country announced that Ethiopia is at last ready to re-erect the obelisk in Axum and will commence the project later this year after the final technical wrinkles are ironed out.

    The Obelisk of Axum at eternallycool.net 2008

  • When later scientists dismantled it to discover the secret, according to legend, they could not work out how to put it back together again, and had to use crude bolts and hinges to re-erect it.

    Flaws of Gravity Hitchens, Christopher 2008

  • Meanwhile, some Iraqis want to re-erect Saddam's statue.

    TURNING UP THE HEAT 2007

  • What proportion would refuse it no one can determine; but I say that even as a voluntary offer, and not as a compulsory obligation, a contract of this sort which would for the future destroy contract and re-erect status of a servile sort would be thought a boon by the mass of the proletariat to-day.

    Belloc Speaks - The Reformers And The Reformed Are Alike/2 2007

  • Estonia's government has begun work to re-erect in another location a controversial statue that sparked rioting in the country.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

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