He is a general wheeler-dealer, and has dabbled in building materials, engineering and property. |
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But he was incredibly bright, excelled at school and as a young man dabbled in the professions of law, teaching and theology. |
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Walton, who in early days dabbled in atonality, eventually settled for neo-romanticism and his Viola Concerto is a most elegiac composition. |
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In her 20s, she dabbled in modelling, photography and clothes design, occasionally shooting videos for America's alternative rock royalty. |
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She is convinced he has dabbled in drink and drugs and has appealed for help from education bosses. |
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She dabbled her toes in the reflective water below, as he came and sat down beside her. |
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Garfield dabbled in politics for three years as a lobbyist for the auto industry. |
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They've dabbled in dreamy pop music, trip-hop and dub-flavoured psychedelic hip-hop, changing up styles and experimenting on each new album. |
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Best known for his Springfield and Mauser sporting rifles, he also dabbled in handguns. |
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Little wonder almost all of them dabbled in different shades of pale green and blue. |
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I dabbled a little bit with smoking when I was at school, but quickly gave it up because I did not like it. |
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Grainger always considered himself primarily a choral composer who occasionally dabbled in short works for orchestra and chamber ensemble. |
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As a young boy he dabbled a little in painting but left it completely when he began to work at his brother's studio in Kodungalloor. |
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Since then, Jayant has dabbled with oil on canvas, watercolour, charcoal, acrylic, clay and plaster of Paris. |
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Sure, she'd drink here and there at parties, and she'd dabbled in a few soft drugs, but nothing too bad. |
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It's astounding that, at 24 years of age, the stand-up comic has already dabbled in more professions than most people attempt in a lifetime. |
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An energetic youngster, she dabbled in countless sports before finally concentrating on hockey. |
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In the early days of Pete's career he dabbled with the idea of becoming a keyboard player. |
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In her 20s, Coppola dabbled in modelling, photography and clothes design, occasionally shooting videos for America's alternative rock royalty. |
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At high school and later as an employee of a steel company he dabbled as a self-taught artist in oil painting. |
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Hume was Burns' second cousin once removed, and he dabbled in poetry himself. |
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He's dabbled in various spiritual venues and of course, no one sprinkled with the fairy dust of New Age beliefs can be elected president. |
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After graduating, Grant dabbled briefly in advertising but plugged away at an acting career in regional theatre. |
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Prior to that the former solicitor's clerk had dabbled in water polo and the triathlon. |
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Last semester, she dabbled in communications courses at a local college, which would explain her articulateness in interviews of late. |
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Of course my veggie friends dabbled in such things like Cheese Tacos and grilled paneer and things like that. |
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She dabbled in the visual arts, published an idiosyncratic zine called What Are You Dealing With? |
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Although we have both dabbled in keep-fit classes and acquired the requisite Lycra bits and bobs to do so, we were never interested in the clothes as a fashion statement. |
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West, 33, has only dabbled in the business world, but when his activities have adhered to this strategy they have been successful. |
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After graduating, Grant dabbled briefly in advertising, writing copy for Brylcreem and Red Stripe beer, but plugged away at an acting career in regional theatre. |
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So far, we've dabbled around the edges of the ice pack, sometimes getting into some heavy stuff and sometimes in wide open water. |
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He guested as a lay preacher on the Hour of Power and dabbled in talk radio as a fill-in for Boortz. |
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But he's far from the only celebrity to have dabbled in a bit of book learning. |
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Before working at Fox, Smith dabbled in acting, playing tiny roles in the movies, Swingin' in the Painter's Room, Cobb, and glitz. |
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This probably would have pleased his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, a spiritualist who dabbled in the ways of immortality. |
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But it was not only the well-heeled who dabbled in aviation in their leisure time. |
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Norman, who dabbled with spiritualism, apparently informed a colleague that he could walk through walls. |
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A loose raft of wigeon, gadwall and shoveler ducks dabbled in the open water, while diminutive teal bobbed like bath toys in the shallows. |
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I've intermittently dabbled with optimism in the past, and it's never ended well. |
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Mr Carson has also dabbled as a Fox News pundit, and is the only black presidential candidate from either party. |
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I dabbled in Scientology and fundamentalism which were both serious mistakes. |
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We have dabbled a little bit in the private-public way of doing things, particularly with road construction. |
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For a time Susanna also dabbled in the cult of spiritualism with the encouragement of her husband. |
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In his past life, Irvin was an all-Canadian university athlete and dabbled in professional soccer in several countries. |
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Diet: Aquatic plants and parts of plants from the water surface or dabbled in shallow water. |
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In addition to painting he also dabbled in illustrating, scenography, sculpture, drawing and engraving. |
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Early in his maturity, he dabbled a little in the important musical styles of his era, but in his later works, harmonic consonance largely holds sway. |
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I was too tired to eat properly, but we made the best of it and finished off with a walk along the beach, where I dabbled my digits in the warm waters of the Pacific. |
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She threw herself into the club scene and, although she claims not to have dabbled much herself, saw several friends fall victim to drug-related mental illness. |
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Businesses who dabbled in e-commerce during the boom are now reaping the rewards with more than half now making a 20 per cent return on their initial investment. |
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Art was an act of worship, not something to be dabbled with. |
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Looking back over the many extracurricular activities that our children have dabbled in at different stages, nothing has enriched their lives more than music. |
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She smoked and drank when she pleased, even dabbled in drugs. |
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Where you dabbled in so-called spiritual disciplines, you now ardently devote. |
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It comes as no surprise that they are both classically trained musicians who have dabbled in the likes of opera, off-Broadway musicals, and jam bands. |
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In truth, that was most likely because he dabbled in some of the darker arts favored by hotel security guards. |
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Hal also believes himself partly culpable, as the couple had lightly dabbled in free love when they were younger. |
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Full-time university students, they dabbled with modeling and also continued to help with choreography and coaching for the Belorussian women's artistic gymnastics team. |
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And her first attempts at badminton were fraught with difficulties because up till then she had dabbled with tennis, and expected the shuttlecock to bounce! |
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Most famous musicians are deep in the occult and it is difficult to find a worldly popular musician who has not dabbled in spiritism to acquire fame and wealth. |
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He dabbled in radio sales back when they were dubbed superheterodynes, and he brought some of the earliest electric household appliances to San Antonio buyers. |
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When Mussolini was a young chap, he dabbled with socialism, imagining it to be an open sesame to a better society. |
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To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson. |
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I did work as a medical doctor for several years prior to becoming a Canadian astronaut and even after I became an astronaut, I dabbled or worked part time in clinical medicine. |
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Not satisfied with this work, dabbled in acting, participating with his short experience in the film Bram Stoker's Dracula, with Keanu Reeves and Winona Rider. |
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Artistic to the core, she has dabbled, with legendary Dufresne daring, in various musical styles, twice presenting symphonic concerts where even Mahler had a place. |
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I dabbled in painting and writing, and then, one day, someone lent me a camera for a party at a vocational college where I was taking a carpentry course. |
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We just dabbled in it the first year to see what the response would be. |
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Using flora and fauna motifs, the young designer dabbled in precious stones like diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, sapphires and citrines. |
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A close friend of Donaldson's, Kev Turner of the band Skullhead, dabbled in Odinism. |
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He also dabbled in cleaning and fabric-dying businesses, thought of becoming a professional cameraman and was eager to market self-designed chess sets, optical machines and scientific toys. |
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Though Percy went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, and dabbled in politics and the law, he showed no sign of his parents' gifts. |
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Nostradamus also dabbled in cooking and loved green ginger jam. |
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After all, this not the first time Cruz has dabbled with fame. |
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Majority of the countries have not yet dabbled with this idea of going in for cost accounting of its operations to leverage its outcome to increase the efficiency in the organization and thereby saving on precious resources. |
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Wyclef Jean, the 45-year-old music maestro, has dabbled in many things. |
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He did some work for the New York Public Library... and also dabbled in eleemosynary science for the Russell Sage Foundation. |
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You also write about cocaine as a casual drug you dabbled in earlier. |
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This was after she had joined a circus, toured Europe with performance artists, dabbled in punk music and harmonised with Annie Lennox on tour with the Eurhythmics. |
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