We lit the candles.

And I blew out the candles.

During the party she gently reproached me about the terror I had caused her.

All these candles, so many thousands of candles people had lit in tribute to this.

I like candlelight.

We blew out my birthday candles for the last time.

These were stearin candles with white arsenic added, which made them burn more brightly than ordinary candles.

Turkey s Quagmire

We did not blow out the candles because there was no electricity.

Many others talk of being drawn inexorably into an Afghanistan style quagmire.

Yes, it is swamp. We live in the swamp in a tent, but I must tell you, every day is exhilarating.

Candles are cozy and seem oh so natural. Yet, when measured by the light they generate, candles are almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs, and more than 300 times less efficient than fluorescent lights.

Russia found itself in a quagmire almost instantly.

Maybe it was swamp gas, but I know what I saw.

The investigators exposed various species of animal and bird to the candles in controlled conditions.

The Nakivubo Swamp is an excellent example of the need for careful valuation of the environment.

Every society, under certain conditions, is vulnerable to a descent into barbarism.

There seem to be two common characteristics of the descent into barbarism.

That absence of self criticism is what led America into the Iraq quagmire.

Mound up those four plates with vegetables and then open up the very best bottle of Burgundy you have, light the candles and celebrate it.

There were candlelight vigils for Neda in many cities around the world.

At one point, the expedition became so difficult and freezing, the group was reduced to eating candles to survive.

The candles were placed for protection inside cases made of a wooden frame with transparent horn panels in the sides.

First, the US and global economies remain mired in recession.

When asked to extinguish electric lights, most people around the world would turn to candlelight instead.

Yesterday i lived by the light of candles at 8.30, i met with some relatives and we prayed for a safe and stable world.

China s statistical agency is still mired in communist input output accounting.

The Afghan quagmire and America s image are not the only problems facing NATO.

Cấn Thị Thêu's sons hold signs saying Free my mother at a candlelight vigil at Thái Hà Parish in Hà Nội, three days before her appeal trial.

Unless the economies of developing countries grow, they will remain mired in poverty.

The descent into barbarism generally occurs in the midst of economic crisis or when localized violence has already flared.

Upon returning home, moving by candlelight, she soon realises there are certain risks invloved in celebrating Earth Hour, illustrated here

I blew my candles out for the last time in my family home in Western Aleppo, which is until today under the control of the regime and which I can't even visit.

In the bloody, hostile miasma of the Middle East, being a winner in any sense of the word is fallacious.

While the American economy gets dragged down further in a swamp of bad property debts, China will continue to boom.

But it won't be easy for him, either, because America is caught in a quagmire.

Moreover, on the evening of June 4th, there will be a candle night vigil where people will collectively remember those who had given their lives for democracy.

Europe s other natural interventionist, Great Britain, has its hands more than full in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Germany remains reluctant to intervene in general, and in a conflict that so directly involves Israel in particular, leaving only France to act.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

As a protest against discriminatory state policies and arbitrary arrests, the stateless community in Kuwait (Bedoon) decided to light candles in their houses and post pictures of them on Twitter.

The public reaction began with a demonstration in Seoul on May 2 in which hundreds of teenagers held a candlelight vigil.

And while the outpour of sympathy for Gaza and its electricity problems continue, Maysaa Shuja talks about how her enterprising grandmother, may Allah rest her soul in peace, taught them the value of candles at their greatest hours of need.

Even the constitutional treaty, which should have been a clarion call for all Europeans, was allowed to become bogged down in minutia.

We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, he warned, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.

But the US cannot withdraw without sending the entire region into chaos.