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  • noun A Roman numeral representing fifty-seven (57).

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  • As agreed to in the current CBA (in Article LVII, Section 3), if the players wait until after the expiration of the CBA to decertify, two things happen: first, the players cannot bring an antitrust suit for at least six months (or until the parties bargain to impasse, whichever happens last); second, the owners cannot challenge the decertification as a sham.

    Gabriel A. Feldman: NFL Lockout: The Legal Issues Behind the NFL-CBA Negotiations Gabriel A. Feldman 2011

  • I go with Nate in thinking LVII is a bit better to keep an eye on.

    Obama Takes Lead In Multiple Red States 2009

  • “Absolute Idealism,” Proceedings of the British Academy, LVII (1971): 303 - 329.

    My Recycled Soul 2009

  • Norfolk Record Society Volume LVII for 1992 (1994).

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • He writes Er-eignis and thus links it to eigen, etc: 'Experiences [Erlebnisse] are Er-eignisse, in so far as they live off what is one's own [aus dem Eigenen leben] and life lives only thus' LVI/LVII, 75.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • He writes Er-eignis and thus links it to eigen, etc: 'Experiences [Erlebnisse] are Er-eignisse, in so far as they live off what is one's own [aus dem Eigenen leben] and life lives only thus' LVI/LVII, 75.

    Archive 2007-06-01 enowning 2007

  • Most famous (and often misunderstood) is his distinction between language perceived as product (Werk) or ergon on the one hand and as activity (Tätigkeit) or energeia on the other (Humboldt 1836, LVII).

    Wilhelm von Humboldt Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt 2007

  • Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society LVII: 1-30.

    Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006

  • LVII In the growing darkness of the late-fall evening, Kharl stood on the quarterdeck by the gangway, looking blankly down at the white stones of the pier, then up to the west, above the hills beyond Southport.

    Wellspring of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 2004

  • Large fragments of a black-and-white mosaic floor belonging to the room that was originally located at the upper floor (Room LVII) were found in the destruction material of LI.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 2 2003

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