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  • Because I like to Be Prepared, I will be showing up with two Polaroid cameras, chic sunglasses, and the all-essential pocket computer iPhone loaded with both Foursquare and Gowalla (to stalk my friends as efficiently as possible).

    Heading to SXSW « Dyepot, Teapot 2010

  • The Dales Bike Centre (01748 884908, dalesbikecentre. co.uk) has dorm rooms from £24 and single rooms from £35, including the all-essential breakfast

    Five great biking challenges 2010

  • Seeing the speaker, including that all-essential body language, is as real as I need to feel I'm experiencing the real thing.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Clive Shepherd 2008

  • Seeing the speaker, including that all-essential body language, is as real as I need to feel I'm experiencing the real thing.

    In praise of webcasting Clive Shepherd 2008

  • Not to mention the all-essential ministry of hospitality.

    Growth: Goal or Outcome? Christine Robinson 2007

  • The BISMARCK could break south-west into the Atlantic anywhere between Scotland and Greenland - a bleak, gale-ridden stretch of fully a thousand miles, with the all-essential visibility more frequently than not at the mercy of driving rain, blanketing snow and great rolling fog banks.

    The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

  • The day must come when study becomes a permanent need for all life, as the all-essential condition for furthering the country, and for the constant increase of the productivity of labor.

    CASTRO STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY 1968

  • Therefore it is all-essential that Western man in Europe and North America should work as all for one and one for all, as we now are trying to do, and maintain his vision and his faith as well as confidence in himself, act on it and live and die for it.

    A Faith For the Free 1952

  • The doctrine of variation lacks the all-essential element of continuity, and is oftener at war with the theory of the "selection of the fittest," than it is with the selection of the "unfit."

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • They differ only from "morphological cells," in the definitional language employed by different theorists, and lack the all-essential accuracy of distinction necessary to scientific classification.

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

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