He finally stopped because he says he didn't want to wear out his welcome.
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Towards the end of that career though, in 1889, his body started to wear out.
Batteries, tires and brake components, for example, wear out after only a few years.
You know, weapons wear out, machinery wears out, and so do soldiers, and so do Marines.
The human body is a biological machine, and like all machines can wear out.
Tooling up these custom-made molds, which wear out after 100, 000 injections, is a big part of Omni's cost structure.
Unless the EU can offer tangible benefits to its new partners, however, its own appeal could also quickly wear out.
Offensively, the quartet of Rickie Weeks, Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder and Corey Hart will consistently wear out National League pitchers.
As rechargeable batteries go through cycles of charging and discharging, they wear out over time and eventually have to be replaced.
ExxonMobil is interested in prolonging the shelf life of drill bits, which wear out after only hours boring holes in the ground.
His reasoning: Pipelines wear out, propane-delivery trucks need to be replaced, and the wells connected to lucrative gathering pipelines ultimately run dry.
In the next few months, business lobbyists will wear out their knee pads trying to appease the increasingly all powerful regulatory clerisy.
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Operating systems aren't consumed on the spot and they don't wear out.
He acknowledges that serialized dramas like The Shield may wear out their welcome and offer a diminishing return if they continue to run.
And that's consistent with the idea that when you remove something like marketing, it takes some time for the residual marketing to wear out.
The problem is that these switches wear out, they get crushed by flying "air balls", or they are knocked and bent out of position.
The Taliban's aim seems to be to wear out coalition forces before the handover, and to diminish the West's credibility among the local population.
Exacerbating the problem is the fact that the extended nature of the current conflict is causing equipment to wear out much faster than originally projected.
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Mysteriously, though, as grubby old notes wear out, new ones appear.
Eventually, their boats and nets start to wear out, and production falls to the point where the islanders no longer enjoy five sushi rolls per day.
Many scientists believe there is a set limit to lifespan because the body's organs and tissue begin to wear out at a steady rate over time.
Ms. DIONNE THOMPSON (Evacuee): Comfortable place to lay your head, roof over your head, but it's starting to wear out, and I've been here seven and a half weeks.
Scientists have long speculated that the key to a person's "natural" life span lies in so-called diseases of aging, those that emerge only as the body begins to wear out.
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Transplants and new cancer treatments mean that many who in the 1940s would have died young and left a good-looking corpse now live long enough for their bodies to wear out.
Consumers have held up fairly well, but with stagnating wages and rising costs, their capacity to bear the grunt will wear out, and that could have dire consequences for the already fragile economic recovery.
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Maybe not as a fashion statement that I'd proudly wear out to a symphony or even, say, the VD clinic, but I simply couldn't be more comfortable than I was in a T-shirt and tights.
After some time, it will wear out.
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Things wear out and must be replaced.
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