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crease

1. Cricket any three lines near each wicket marking positions for the bowler or batsman
2. Ice hockey the small rectangular area in front of each goal cage
3. Lacrosse the circular area surrounding the goal
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Ms Creasy said the party had to make grassroots campaigning its priority.
The final chance for Westend to finish off any Brighouse hopes arrived from a corner with just a couple of minutes remaining, but keeper Creasy pulled off a fine stop to deny Peter Moran's volley.
There are no prizes for guessing what happens next and the last 90 minutes of the film see Creasy go after those responsible for taking Pita, while also uncovering a web of corrupt cops and bent politicians.
Creasy is hired by industrialist Samuel Ramos (Marc Antony) and his beautiful wife Lisa (Radha Mitchell) to protect their precocious nine- year old daughter Pin a (Dakota Fanning), an assignment which fills the American trained assassin with dread.
"I started growing grain as an experiment to see if fresh grain really would make a difference in the flavor of homemade bread," Creasy explains.
Creasy, published in the February 1992 issue of the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture is the first to identify resveratrol, a phenolic compound, in wine.
Labour MP Stella Creasy is leading calls to get rid of the 157-year-old Offences Against the Persons Act in a bid to remove a block to abortion law reform in Northern Ireland.
But Northern Irish women will now get free abortions in mainland Britain on the NHS - all down to Labour's Stella Creasy, whose amendment to the Queen's speech won backing from some Tories which forced the Government to give in.
Man on Fire (2004) Film4, 11.05pm Former CIA counter-terrorist operative John Creasy follows the advice of his trusted friend Rayburn and moves to Mexico City to work as a private bodyguard.
I am supporting Stella Creasy because I very much admire her campaigning on the issue of payday lenders and exorbitant interest charges.
He faces a challenge from South Yorkshire MP Caroline Flint, the Shadow Energy Secretary; backbench London MP Stella Creasy, known for her campaign against payday lending firms; Merseyside MP Angela Eagle, the shadow leader of the Commons, and Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw, a former Culture Secretary.