During the passage of thirty years, I have come to understand that Calle Rico, still narrow, steep and cobbled, is a principal path to the heights. From Wordnik.com. [Calle Rico] Reference
This old cobbler had "cobbled" -- hit and smashed -- seventeen other cobblers on similar strings. From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
"Dog Days" -- along with a bonus track and calling the cobbled-together EP. From Wordnik.com. [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference
He points out that Chindia isn't just some klunky word cobbled together by academics. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
He was very poor, and to support his family he 'cobbled' for his neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
But I did that with basically a team of 2 developers who basically were doing 20 other things and we got this kind of cobbled together in like 3 months. From Wordnik.com. [David Carr and Michael Wolff Spar on the Future of Media] Reference
We kind of cobbled something together using Grazr that’s roughly in the same vein as what you’re talking about. From Wordnik.com. [Scripting News for 8/15/07 « Scripting News Annex] Reference
It seems that those who cobbled it together didn't know what they had. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: The Saddam Files (I)] Reference
Over a half century later, he is still prowling the market's cobbled streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Paragon Of Reporters] Reference
After false starts and backroom feuds, they have cobbled together a battle plan. From Wordnik.com. [At Least It's A Plan] Reference
No wonder that in 1974 Richard Nixon cobbled together trips to the Mideast and Moscow. From Wordnik.com. [Wheelchair Diplomacy] Reference
Murdoch cobbled together News America Digital Publishing and tapped his son James to run it. From Wordnik.com. [KEEPIN' IT ON THE DOWNLOAD] Reference
In it, Klein is taking a swan dive off a high wall "into the void" of a cobbled Parisian alley. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Krotz: Yves Klein: With the Void, at the Hirschhorn] Reference
It's MP3. com meets eBay by way of RealNetworks -- a cleverly cobbled-together project, to be sure. From Wordnik.com. [Music Made Easy] Reference
Dare we risk the disintegration of this 70-year-old amalgam cobbled together by British colonialism?. From Wordnik.com. [A Kurdish Country: How Long Can It Last?] Reference
To stay afloat, she mortgaged her Stockholm apartment and cobbled together a few paltry government grants. From Wordnik.com. [Innovation: A Springtime For Techies] Reference
At long last Mexico has cobbled together tax and electoral reforms — but not the ones the country needed. From Wordnik.com. [The Fragile Democracy] Reference
British cannonball Mark Cavendish won Sunday's final stage, a vicious sprint on the cobbled Champs Elysees. From Wordnik.com. [Fistfights, Head-Butts and Spandex] Reference
Here, SUVs on the narrow, often cobbled, streets look like elephants, and the "herds" get larger all the time. From Wordnik.com. [McCain and Iraq] Reference
The 75 abstentions Wednesday were a display of force less than a week after Mr. Fini cobbled together his followers. From Wordnik.com. [Italy's Leader Prevails in Crucial Test Of Coalition] Reference
The rain turned icy and we raced down undulating country lanes to the cobbled town of Candelario before hypothermia set in. From Wordnik.com. [Trans-Iberian: cycling Spain's ancient Via de la Plata] Reference
Recently concluded this economic vision wouldn't sell politically, so he cobbled together a grab-bag "plan" for economic growth. From Wordnik.com. [A Voter's Guide To The Issues] Reference
A similar opt-out arrangement was cobbled together to exempt Britain from a plan to extend European legislation on labor issues. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Takes A Giant Stop] Reference
Race has always played a peculiar role here, in this country of 25 million cobbled together by the British from disparate kingdoms. From Wordnik.com. [The Malaysian Race Card] Reference
Clinton loved the idea, too, and cobbled together a large-scale version of the plan, promising to make college available to everyone. From Wordnik.com. [Some Hope For College] Reference
Last week its powerful creditor Gazprom, goaded on by the Kremlin, cobbled together a majority of shares in NTV -- and launched a coup. From Wordnik.com. [All Putin All The Time] Reference
This edition will be nothing like the previously published versions cobbled together by the author's editors and executors after he died. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mysterious Stranger] Reference
Instead, we sprinted through the cobbled streets of the old neighborhood of Trastevere with the bundled infant we believed was surely dead. From Wordnik.com. [Next Time, I'll Pay] Reference
Takeshita, with the help of another of his powerful faction members, cobbled together enough votes to offer a phased opening of all three markets. From Wordnik.com. [Who's In Charge?] Reference
For the last several years, Sears Holdings, a mini-conglomerate cobbled together by hedge-fund whiz Eddie Lampert, has been a stock market darling. From Wordnik.com. [The Softer Side of Sears] Reference
But by 1989 he and a group of other investors had cobbled together sufficient funds to start up Americom, a company that provides slick business centers for hotels. From Wordnik.com. [Murder In Moscow] Reference
But gradually he cobbled together a new offer, backed by a guarantee that Paramount shareholders wouldn't be hurt if Viacom's stock declined after the deal was signed. From Wordnik.com. [Why He Still Gets No Respect] Reference
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