shorthanded

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• As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

• The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

• The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.

• In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.

• Some “hanging judges” have handed down hundreds of death sentences at a time.

• Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.

• Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.

• He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

• They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.

• "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.