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  • Rev. Jim Wallis��� most recent book ��� ���God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It��� ��� struck a chord this year and became an instant best-seller.

    Van Jones: Spiritual Activism: The Religious Left Fights Back ��� On All Fronts 2008

  • It can have the same truth conditions as a scoped sentence something like, ˜It might have been the case that: for some x, x is the famous humanist most closely associated with the Italian Renaissance and

    Rigid Designators LaPorte, Joseph 2006

  • It is therefore not a matter of indifference whether ˜Socrates does not exist™ is rendered as ˜(Socrates) does not exist™ or as ˜It is not the case that (Socrates exists)™.

    Existence Miller, Barry 2002

  • It is commonly quoted as, “It is better to give than to receive.

    give than to receive, It is more blessed to 2002

  • The next one was beautiful, but not It -- not _It_ -- not the Right

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • The next one was beautiful, but not It -- not _It_ -- not the Right

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • The next one was beautiful, but not It -- not _It_ -- not the Right

    Four Girls and a Compact Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • It always introduces a substantive clause, and is equivalent to _that which_; as, _It is WHAT (that which) he wants_.

    Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood

  • _ It was the _men_, _women_, and children's lot, &c. or, _It was the lot of_ the men, women, and children.

    English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

  • "It would be more polite to make Andy _It_," said Owl.

    The Cat in Grandfather's House Carl Henry Grabo

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  • "It hasn't been tagged yet." Then how did he get to be it?

    November 28, 2009