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- noun A device for raising water from deep wells by means of compressed air.
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Examples
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As the UN and other international agencies air-lift in food for the needy, one can only wonder what those farmers just a few hundred kilometers away, unable to sell their crops, are thinking.
Jonathan Kalan: Wasted Food in a Famine: the Real Tragedy Jonathan Kalan 2011
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As the UN and other international agencies air-lift in food for the needy, one can only wonder what those farmers just a few hundred kilometers away, unable to sell their crops, are thinking.
Jonathan Kalan: Wasted Food in a Famine: the Real Tragedy Jonathan Kalan 2011
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As the UN and other international agencies air-lift in food for the needy, one can only wonder what those farmers just a few hundred kilometers away, unable to sell their crops, are thinking.
Jonathan Kalan: Wasted Food in a Famine: the Real Tragedy Jonathan Kalan 2011
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“For the last five days, we have made 56 sorties of MI 17 and Cheetah choppers to air-lift poll parties to 97 polling stations”, Mr. Sharma said.
���Over 61 polling in Ladakh, over 40 in Baramulla Parliamentary constituencies ��� :CEO 2009
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Clay ordered and organized the massive air-lift to feed people in Soviet-blockaded Berlin.
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He said on Tuesday that lifting poll parties to far-flung and remote areas was the most challenging job in this phase and nearly 56 air sorties were made to air-lift men and material to these polling stations.
Adequate security arrangements for peaceful,free & fair polling in Baramulla,Ladakh on Wednesday:CEO 2009
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Contrary to popular conception, we do not have the air-lift capbility to just load everybody and everything onto planes and leave over the course of a a week or two.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama On Petraeus: Start Bringing Troops Home Right Now 2009
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Wait, here's an idea -- the Pentagon can contact the Emperor's VIP Club, order seventy-two virgins, air-lift them to Waziristan, where bin-Laden is allegedly hiding ...
Susan Kaiser Greenland: The DC Madam: She Took the Fall for Everyone 2008
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Wait, here's an idea -- the Pentagon can contact the Emperor's VIP Club, order seventy-two virgins, air-lift them to Waziristan, where bin-Laden is allegedly hiding ...
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China currently has almost no blue-water navy, little air-lift capacity, and no possible way to achieve air superiority vs.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » “All of America’s Problems” 2008
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