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descended on

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If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. Amy Goodman

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. Ferdowsi

A sinning nun, her face in a plate of cakes, caught my eye as I descended on the moving stair. Carole Morin

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? Tina Brown

Ten measures of beauty descended on the world. Hebrew Proverb

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