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  • In a 21-page analysis, the Center for Biological Diversity noted "the failure [of the Mitigated Negative Declaration] to consider feasible mitigation measures and alternatives to reduce this cumulatively significant impact" and that "the MND cavalierly dismisses Project impacts on global warming."

    Save the Farm. Deadline: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2008

  • (Mitigated somewhat by the nigh unbearable smell of Central Square on a muggy summer day, and by my mild allergy to plums.) mood: bored music: pile driving

    August 30th, 2004 2004

  • Yet he who Miraculously fed a Multitude with 2 loaves and 5 fishes has graciously interposed in our favour and deliverd many of the Enimies supplies into our hands so that our distresses have been Mitigated.

    Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 June 1779 1973

  • Mitigated and Softned by the Social converse and participation of the Friend of my youth.

    Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 27 December 1778 1973

  • Mitigated as it was, the suggestion of the Valladolid judge seemed too severe to the Supreme Inquisition.

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • Mitigated as it was, the suggestion of the Valladolid judge seemed too severe to the Supreme Inquisition.

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

  • Mitigated or Semi-Traditionalism, in spite of its apparent differences, is substantially identical with pure Traditionalism, and falls under the same criticism, since religious and moral truths are declared to be given to man directly by Revelation and accepted by him antecedently to any act of his reason.

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

  • The Mitigated Traditionalists make a distinction between the order of acquisition (ordo acquisitionis) and the order of demonstration (ordo demonstrationis).

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

  • (Mitigated despair and ransacking continued.) "Maybe it'll be in this parcel," suggested McAllister, holding up one which had not yet been untied.

    Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication 1859

  • Mitigated it might be, but by superior philosophy.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

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