˜yÐÄvlog

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from

[ fruhm, from; unstressed fruhm ]

preposition

  1. (used to specify a starting point in spatial movement):

    a train running west from Chicago.

  2. (used to specify a starting point in an expression of limits):

    The number of stores will be increased from 25 to 30.

  3. (used to express removal or separation, as in space, time, or order):

    two miles from shore;

    30 minutes from now;

    from one page to the next.

  4. (used to express discrimination or distinction):

    to be excluded from membership;

    to differ from one's father.

  5. (used to indicate source or origin):

    to come from the Midwest;

    to take a pencil from one's pocket.

  6. (used to indicate agent or instrumentality):

    death from starvation.

  7. (used to indicate cause or reason):

    From the evidence, he must be guilty.



from

/ frɒm; frəm /

preposition

  1. used to indicate the original location, situation, etc

    from behind the bushes

    from Paris to Rome

    from childhood to adulthood

  2. in a period of time starting at

    he lived from 1910 to 1970

  3. used to indicate the distance between two things or places

    a hundred miles from here

  4. used to indicate a lower amount

    from five to fifty pounds

  5. showing the model of

    painted from life

  6. used with the gerund to mark prohibition, restraint, etc

    nothing prevents him from leaving

  7. because of

    exhausted from his walk

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of from1

First recorded before 950; Middle English, Old English, variant of fram “from, forwardâ€; cognate with Gothic fram, Old Norse ´Ú°ùÄå ( fro ), fram
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of from1

Old English fram ; related to Old Norse ´Ú°ùÄå , Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic fram from, Greek promos foremost
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Answer: The Social Security Fairness Act did away with the windfall elimination provision and the government pension offset, two rules that reduced Social Security benefits for people receiving pensions from jobs that didn’t pay into Social Security.

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“After they killed everyone they killed, the government told us we should come back home. But most of the men are still in hiding,†Mayada said, her eyes flitting between a visiting journalist and the direction of a security checkpoint manned by government soldiers a few dozen yards from her house.

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On March 31, the first day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan, two masked gunmen from military factions affiliated with the Syrian army executed six Alawites in the village of Haref Benemra, including the mayor and a child, authorities said.

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“How can this government protect us? They can’t even protect abandoned villages from looting,†said Nawras, a 38-year-old commercial ship captain who had taken his mother, sister and brother’s family to the air base while staying with his own wife at the base’s periphery.

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Inside the house she found her mother and sister, also shot dead from a hail of bullets fired through the windows.

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