Tonya Maxene Harding (born November 12, 1970) is an American figure skating champion, a two-time Olympian, and a two-time Skate America Champion. In 1991, she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and placed second in the World Championships. Known for strong athleticism, Harding was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple axel jump in competition. She later found herself in the international spotlight after her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, conspired with Shawn Eckhardt and Shane Stant to physically assault her skating competitor Nancy Kerrigan at a practic...
I would like to please renominate enabling the limit on ELU the way it is on some of the other higher-traffic sites. The reason why is simple: the help vampires are gaining on us. Limiting them to 50 questions in any consecutive 30-day period does seems only prudent.
(Sir Edward) Coke further noted that
legal disputes about such matters as inheritance of goods:
are not to be decided by natural reason but by the artificial reason and judgment
of law, which law is an art which requires long study and experience, before that
a man can atta...
Here's a standard English sentence:
The folder which is missing from the principal's office contained the answers to today's exam.
(Separate question, discussed elsewhere I'm sure, whether it should really be "which" or "that".)
But simpler is usually better, so I would actually just write...
I have asked before and have been told that along with the usage of have there shouldn't be any other words like be or get, as the have already conveys the meaning on its own.
Examples:
She never had it easy, always working with no breaks.
She never had it BE easy, always working with no bre...
Your contemporaries:
contemporary noun plural noun: contemporaries:
a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another. "he was a contemporary of
Darwin" synonyms: peer, fellow;
More a person of roughly the same age as another.
I've rarely heard it used in negative cont...
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