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  • Pluralities believe Obama is a socialist who should be impeached, while large majorties believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President.

    Think Progress » Joe Klein Tells O’Reilly: ‘Glenn Beck Is Peddling A Lot Of Hateful Crap’ 2010

  • Pluralities now say that the president's health care plan is a bad idea, and that it will result in the quality of their care getting worse.

    Bill Scher: The President's Policies Are More Popular Than the President 2009

  • Pluralities like ˜the parts™ have a privileged structure in terms of their individuals.

    Monism Schaffer, Jonathan 2007

  • Pluralities in Pakistan and Turkey agreed at the time.

    Washington: A Dysfunctional Democracy 2007

  • In the six weeks of the first session, there were passed, the Probate and Mortuaries Acts, abolishing, reducing, or regulating fees, and the Pluralities Act, forbidding the clergy in general to hold more than one benefice, and requiring Residence -- a very inconvenient arrangement for papal nominees.

    England under the Tudors

  • Pluralities also he denounced, and some of the exiles had been pluralists.

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • At the close of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, the most serious evil which beset the Church of England was the system of Pluralities and Non-Residence.

    Sydney Smith Rusell, George W E 1904

  • Pluralities did not signify much in such a condition of sentiment as was indicated by these figures.

    John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series 1888

  • He said, I might see the subject well treated in the Defence of Pluralities [718]; and although he thought that a patron should exercise his right with tenderness to the inclinations of the people of a parish, he was very clear as to his right.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • The system of Pluralities left isolated parishes in a condition of practical heathenism.

    Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

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