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Most of it is taken up by a graphic inviting the visitor to participate in the 2016 online presidential straw poll.

Half of it is taken up by the bunk beds and improvised benches.

He was sentenced to three months in jail in April and seems to have taken up with Coplin following his release.

The bulk of the paper is taken up with important discussions on distinctions between PMS and PMDD.

By the end of 1960, close to 100,000 disobedients had taken up the Civil Rights torch.

Of course, most specimens are probably taken up in the summer when the handsome foliage attracts the eye.

He was taken up for dead; and Richelieu and the Cardinal conjured me to hush the affair.

Several times during dinner I glanced at Ethne, but it was easy to see that all her attention was taken up by her lover.

And phosphate of lime is also taken up by water containing carbonic acid, or even common salt in solution.

Other newspapers had taken up the cry, demanding that the Black Hood be taken dead or alive.