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From the point of view of those of us who are convinced that there is a need for fundamental structural changes before giving the Welsh language an appropriate place within the higher education system, I suppose the best we can hope for is the establishment of some kind of authorative review to come up with proposals.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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From the point of view of those of us who are convinced that there is a need for fundamental structural changes before giving the Welsh language an appropriate place within the higher education system, I suppose the best we can hope for is the establishment of some kind of authorative review to come up with proposals.
Brendan Behan, Rhodri Glyn Thomas and Realpolitik (Part 2) 2008
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AFAIK, Maven does not pick up the > checksums from the "authorative" server and validates it against the > mirrored one.
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Still considered the authorative source for many today, Jack London: A Bibliography (published by Talisman Press) appeared in 1966, one decade before the centennial celebration of London's birth.
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Besides her convivial ways, she exudes a blend of sex kitten and commanding aura that has been infused in her many roles since she played an authorative police captain in the BBC series Prime Suspect.
Brad Balfour: Oscar-winning Dame Helen Mirren Stirs The Tempest & Makes Us See Red This Season Brad Balfour 2010
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Most of what they say actually contradicts some important beliefs and I think that if people hear an authorative believer, like a candidate for President of the United States, talking about what he believes they will recognize the differences and realize that they actually read Obama's bible and not Dobson's weirdly interpreted divine book on child-torture and that they worship Obama's awesome God and not Dobson's God the Psychological Tormenter in Chief.
Alas and alack for us, lawyers and pharisees, hypocrites that we are... 2008
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Ms. SCHAAL: ... think they're talking to someone younger and less authorative than I actually am.
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Most of what they say actually contradicts some important beliefs and I think that if people hear an authorative believer, like a candidate for President of the United States, talking about what he believes they will recognize the differences and realize that they actually read Obama's bible and not Dobson's weirdly interpreted divine book on child-torture and that they worship Obama's awesome God and not Dobson's God the Psychological Tormenter in Chief.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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Ms. SCHAAL: ... think they're talking to someone younger and less authorative than I actually am.
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Besides her convivial ways, she exudes a blend of sex kitten and commanding aura that has been infused in her many roles since she played an authorative police captain in the BBC series Prime Suspect.
Brad Balfour: Oscar-winning Dame Helen Mirren Stirs The Tempest & Makes Us See Red This Season Brad Balfour 2010
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