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  • Roughly translates as "it is therefore not a matter of condemning a crime, but of a moral judgement, in a republic founded on morality."

    Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England' 2007

  • Roughly translates to “and end up funneled into the pockets of my many associates and not where it was intended to go in the first place.”

    ‘The Buck Stops… with me.” | RedState 2010

  • Cognos Analysis Studio - Roughly translates to Answers Plus interface intended for 11g BI EE.

    Rittman Mead Consulting 2009

  • Roughly, that is the story handed down by economists who follow Adam Smith from 1776, who said that if you just let people tend to their own interests and do what they want to do, everything will turn out alright, because in their freedom, they will become industrious and invent ways of doing things that are more efficient.

    1% now owns 40% 2006

  • Roughly, that is referencing the source code to Android to define "open."

    A Week Of Reacting To Steve Jobs' Rant - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian 1.23pm: "Hey Gregg, sad to hear on Football Weekly that you haven't yet being able to adopt your wife's cool NY Jewish intellectual Beat Poet style surname Bakowski, but, if you're looking to make the most of it, why not start doing a weekly Guardian blog/pod about Liverpool called "Roughly Speaking"?

    The Guardian World News Gregg Roughley 2011

  • Roughly 75 percent of both groups say they ate out in the last seven days, while 13 percent of each attended a sporting event during that same period of time.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Roughly half of the observed variation in life satisfaction appears to reflect genetic and personality factors.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Roughly 15 percent of these nonaffiliators-but-attenders—that is, approximately twice as many as the population in general—found a new congregation over the course of a year.17 It makes sense that this would be the group most likely to find a new congregation, as they were presumably not well invested in their first congregation.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Roughly 40 percent of the taverns in Boston during the 1760s were owned by women.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

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