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  • For example, Flovent inhalers come with 120 "actuations," or puffs of medicine, because the recommended dose is two puffs twice a day, which equals four puffs a day total.

    Asthma FAQs 2010

  • - If you've ever sold a camera on Ebay before, you'll be familiar with the term "actuations".

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Steven Musil 2010

  • Hillary's actuations do not deserve any decent comment.

    Clinton reviewing 'options' - but says superdelegates could shift 2008

  • There actuations, feelings, perceptions and beliefs are out of this world.

    Weirdos in the midst 2007

  • That's because five of the alrms were caused by accidental actuations of the alarms.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • That's because five of the alrms were caused by accidental actuations of the alarms.

    FIRE! 2007

  • God with a vengeance, since all forms of reality are configurations and active expressions of the divine nature, are its modular and temporary actuations.

    IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800 JAMES COLLINS 1968

  • They call it "pure spiritual prayer, or a quiet repose of contemplation; that which excludes all images of the fancy, and in time all perceptible actuations of the understanding, and is exercised in signal elevations of the will, without any force at all, yet with admirable efficacy."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The difference between a man with and a man without conscience -- between a king all whose actuations are dominated by religion and a king void of both conscience and religion -- slowly but surely, we say, the difference became apparent to the Count, and had its inevitable consequences.

    The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866

  • In addition, the durable shutter mechanism, which has a life of over 100,000 actuations, is ideal for the demands of digital photography.

    PictureCorrect Photography Tips Richard Schneider 2010

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