breathing reserve

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The difference between the volume of air breathed under ordinary resting conditions and the maximum breathing capacity.

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In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

He said, ‘They’re both shot in the head and neither of them are breathing.
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We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind.
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Stone, according to Marine officials, served eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
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The actor and police enthusiast reportedly wants to be a reserve officer.
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Some prisons reserve the dayroom or common area for weddings.
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In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
She never realized that the reserve of her own character had much, perhaps everything, to do with this.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Customers will do things in the name of the Federal Reserve System which they have never done before.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips