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The US Federal Reserve could rase interest rates as early as June, according to minutes from its April meeting show, with Fed’s members arguing the risks of a slowdown in global economy have receded.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2016
Take 4 weeks to rase and consume 3Kg of feed.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
Tyrian's axe Went spinning, followed by Tyrion himself, and the deck rase up to give him a wet smack.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
If I rase and cut hair, I starve myself, but if I make myself of great use to all around, I grow rich.
From Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn
Thus ended the grate rase at “Sulphur Flats.”
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
There remained no hope, no supply of men, or weapons; the Mastes all beaten over boord, her upper worke rased.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the rigorousness of the tempest and the force of the yce so rased the sides of the ships that it was pitifull to behold, and caused the hearts of many to faint.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zu Pfeiffer strode towards the hut indicated which stood near to the edge of a rased banana plantation.
From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle
Napoleon rased the buildings, and connecting it with the town by a new, handsome street and a bridge, laid out the ground as a public garden.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
Mora's house was rased to the ground, and a column erected on the spot, with an inscription to commemorate his guilt.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
This is PhishMe’s third time rasing funds since its founding in 2011 and it already pulls in $35 million in revenue annually.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2016
Air France crews refused to board flights destined for Ebola-affected countries this week, rasing concerns that it could scrap routes.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2014
Their generous support and resources made the difference, and paved the way for future progress in our fund rasing efforts.
From Time Magazine Archive
And lightly they avoided their horses and rushed together, tracing, rasing, and foining.
From The Blue Flower by Henry Van Dyke
Knights, damosells, paynims, quests, jousts, and tourneys, went "rasing and trasing" through his manuscript, until some people thought he was possessed with an archaic humor from which he would never recover.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson
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