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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
I resolved therefore to begin ab ovo, and giving quarter to no impertinence or absurdity by the way, to clear the ground completely, and leave a perfect rase campagne behind me.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
Yet rig a navy while we dress us late And ere we dine rase and rebuild a state?
From Andrew Marvell by John Morley
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
There remained no hope, no supply of men, or weapons; the Mastes all beaten over boord, her upper worke rased.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rotten building is rased to the ground.'
From My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner
The city, we are informed, was rased to the ground, and Bishop Datius escaped to Constantinople.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
In the time of Henry III., the castle, after changing hands repeatedly, was taken and rased to the ground.
From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Leitch Ritchie
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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