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  • The problem isn't only that public sector workers are constantly being derided in the press but it is the concommitant coverage which says that everything private is better and more efficient.

    Dear Jeremy Jeremy Bullmore 2010

  • We can "sugar-coat" our arguments with terms like "culture of death" and "choose life", but the real action (if anyone's up to it) is repenting, then taking on the sexual revolution and its concommitant legal right of "privacy".

    Ideology and the destruction of body and soul 2009

  • Of course, we have a separate juvenile system with the concommitant rules of court and codes of procedure.

    Times Square terror suspect in custody 2010

  • But besides the political fallout, I fear that the movie will just succeed in polarizing people into ID or anti-ID camps, with the concommitant yelling and screaming at each other, and making it more difficult for people to approach the topic with open-minded, intellectual curiosity, in the tradition of The Design Matrix.

    A Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed 2008

  • And while I think the NRA and gun rights activists are making a grave strategic mistake by claiming a Federal right with concommitant Federal restrictions to arms, there really is no movement even to raise taxes on guns, despite bloviations ofmany.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarians and Obama: 2009

  • We saw American buying large gas guzzling SUVs concommitant with the largest increase in fuel prices in the history of the product.

    Who's Supporting or Opposing Ahmadinejead or Mousavi? 2009

  • Yes, it is preferable not to win a Senate seat for the Democrats (with all the concommitant national consequences) than to stoop to Allen's level.

    Will Major Dailies Do Stories On Allen's Divorce And Warrants? 2009

  • Would those here who defend the credit card companies also defend traditional company stores, for whom actually collecting on debt was never a primary goal, since eternal servicing together with the concommitant binding of people to a location where there was a monopsony employer was more lucrative?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Wager on the Impact of CFPA: 2009

  • Once tonal, accent shifted in newly coined words without concommitant changes in vowel quality.

    Rasmussen's consonantal *o and laryngeal deletion 2008

  • It still doesn't affect the plausibility of the connection however since there seems to be a larger correlation of PIE *sw- with Proto-Semitic *š- which hints at concommitant rounding of the Semitic fricative similar to what happens when English speakers pronounce "sh" in "ship".

    A list of possible Proto-Semitic loanwords in PIE 2008

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