Moments later, the sound of Beyonce's "Halo" filled the air, putting in motion the procession of the couple's 15-person wedding party.
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Indeed, even as firefighters scoured the ashes and debris for any lingering embers, and investigators worked to determine the cause of the blaze, the French authorities were putting in motion an international fund-raising drive to reconstruct the landmark.
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China's Premier Li Keqiang said the Cabinet had approved the launch of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect program, putting in motion the final link of an ambitious plan to connect the gigantic stock markets of Hong Kong and the mainland.
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Time referred to him in 1946 as "the golden-voiced Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, U.S. Catholicism's famed proselytizer", and reported that his radio broadcast received 3,000–6,000 letters weekly from listeners. During the middle of this era, he narrated the first religious service broadcast on the new medium of television, putting in motion a new avenue for his religious pursuits.
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In 2007, GAIG began putting in motion plans to sell automobiles under its own brand and to further this goal had acquired a controlling share in an R&D; center at South China University of Technology. The goal of self-branded sales was also brought up on the company's website in 2010.Home > About Us > Introduction GAIG Official Site The Chinese State may have been an early driving force behind GAIG own-brand efforts.
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Pharmacokinetics (from Ancient Greek pharmakon "drug" and kinetikos "moving, putting in motion"; see chemical kinetics), sometimes abbreviated as PK, is a branch of pharmacology dedicated to determine the fate of substances administered to a living organism. The substances of interest include any chemical xenobiotic such as: pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides, food additives, cosmetics, etc. It attempts to analyze chemical metabolism and to discover the fate of a chemical from the moment that it is administered up to the point at which it is completely eliminated from the body. Pharmacokinetics is the study of how an organism affects a drug, whereas pharmacodynamics (PD) is the study of how the drug affects the organism.
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Gordon was serving with the Mediterranean Fleet when he abruptly deserted his post in May 1745; this coincided with Charles Stuart putting in motion his plans for a Scottish rising. Gordon made his way to Scotland and on 16 October 1745 swore allegiance to Charles at Holyrood. The anonymous contemporary author of Memoirs of the Rebellion in Aberdeen and Banff, probably Rev. John Bissett, commented that Gordon "met so many old friends and acquaintances engaged in the rebellion, who all laid oars in the water to gain him; and this indeed was no hard matter to a forward young lad like him, especially as he was to have a Feather in his cap, and to be made Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire and Governor of the towns of Aberdeen and Banff".
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The rejection of the heliocentric view was apparently quite strong, as the following passage from Plutarch suggests (On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon): > Cleanthes [a contemporary of Aristarchus and head of the Stoics] thought it > was the duty of the Greeks to indict Aristarchus of Samos on the charge of > impiety for putting in motion the Hearth of the Universe [i.e. the Earth], > ... supposing the heaven to remain at rest and the Earth to revolve in an > oblique circle, while it rotates, at the same time, about its own axis Flammarion engraving, Paris 1888 The only other astronomer from antiquity known by name who supported Aristarchus's heliocentric model was Seleucus of Seleucia, a Hellenistic astronomer who lived a century after Aristarchus.William P. D. Wightman (1951, 1953), The Growth of Scientific Ideas, Yale University Press p. 38, where Wightman calls him Seleukos the Chaldean.
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