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  • Accentuating that point, Democrats boldly forced Republican senators to ...

    HUFFPOST HILL - SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2010 Eliot Nelson 2010

  • Accentuating that point, Democrats boldly forced Republican senators to march to the floor and declare, once and for all ... "present."

    HUFFPOST HILL - SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

  • Accentuating tribalism were more specific rationales: competition for hunting or fishing grounds; defense against aggressors; the expansion of trading opportunities; a pursuit of vengeance for insults or injuries, real or imagined; the acquisition of wealth by capturing animals, slaves, and other plunder; extortion; honor and social status; and at times survival.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Accentuating that point, Democrats boldly forced Republican senators to march to the floor and declare, once and for all ... "present."

    HUFFPOST HILL - SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2010 Eliot Nelson 2010

  • Accentuating this process is the recycling into Australian dollars of dollars bought by Asian central banks to temper strength in their own currencies.

    Aussie Resilience Shows Fundamentals Are Back in Vogue Eva Szalay 2011

  • Accentuating that, he tended to peer over the top of his round, rimless glasses.

    The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

  • Accentuating the positive doesn't need to imply that we're surrounded by the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.

    MIND MELD: Why is Genre Fiction Bleak and What Can Be Done About It? 2009

  • SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Accentuating Bias Think you're an enlightened, tolerant person?

    Week in Ideas 2010

  • Accentuating that, he tended to peer over the top of his round, rimless glasses.

    The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

  • Accentuating tribalism were more specific rationales: competition for hunting or fishing grounds; defense against aggressors; the expansion of trading opportunities; a pursuit of vengeance for insults or injuries, real or imagined; the acquisition of wealth by capturing animals, slaves, and other plunder; extortion; honor and social status; and at times survival.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

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