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  • Agitations for Change The move was the second motion for change at Generali management in recent months.

    Italy's Generali Rejects Sabrina Cohen 2008

  • I pass'd this Night in divers Thoughts and Agitations of Mind, having a secret Satisfaction that she had receiv'd the Declaration of my Love so calmly; that Thought more than counterpois'd all that I had to fear from my potent Rival.

    Exilius 2008

  • Agitations by politicized Hindu groups (especially the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political party supported by other militant Hindu groups) escalated, using Ayodhya as the focal point.

    1986 2001

  • Agitations on the surface are significant mainly as they are connected with the larger movements of the deeper waters beneath.

    The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 10, October, 1890 Various

  • Agitations of a more serious nature affected the development of the universities.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • It is this quality which makes such poems as Youth's Agitations, Youth and Calm,

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • Agitations for reforms commenced early in Barberton.

    The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896

  • _Youth's Agitations_ beautiful, and _Growing Old_ delightful, not without a touch of terror.

    Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

  • It is this quality which makes such poems as _Youth's Agitations_, _Youth and Calm_,

    Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • Agitations of this kind, whatever trouble and disturbance they may bring with them, have a purifying effect upon the political atmosphere.

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

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