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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
Not for her fault, but mine Sir, Zenocia suffers: The sin I made, when I sought to rase down Arnoldo's love, built on a Rock of truth, Now to the height is punish'd.
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (1 of 10) - the Custom of the Country by Beaumont, Francis
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 Fenn, George Manville
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
Thus was the city of Napoli rased to the ground as you have heard.
From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Villehardouin, Geoffroi de
But some half century later, the hand of man was called in to accelerate its destruction, and it was then almost entirely rased to the ground.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Its Protestant places of worship were not, however, finally rased, till 1685, the period of the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by Cotman, John Sell
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
It was followed by persecutions, martyrdoms, and the rasing of all the Christian churches and buildings—the destruction, in a word, of Christianity in Japan.
From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)
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 Thompson, Slason
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