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  • Prof. Nagel acknowledges that "evolutionary biologists" regularly say that they are "confiden [t]" that "random mutations in DNA" are sufficient to account for "the complex chemical systems we observe" in living things (p. 199) — but he disagrees.

    Darwin and Social Darwinism 2009

  • "For me, especially being a switch hitter, it's a matter of just having a number of at-bats consecutive, consistent at-bats that, one, help you gain the confiden ce, and two, help you produce the results."

    Gary Matthews One Miscast Met 2010

  • When he told us of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a bouquet, of her resort to her confiden - tial maid, and of her very significant allusion to claimjumping -- which in miners 'parlance means taking possession of that which another person has a prior claim to -- the whole situation became absolutely clear.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Senate Democrats considering possible no confiden...

    04/24/2007 2007

  • When he told us of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a bouquet, of her resort to her confiden - tial maid, and of her very significant allusion to claimjumping -- which in miners 'parlance means taking possession of that which another person has a prior claim to -- the whole situation became absolutely clear.

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

  • Indian business leaders are demanding that authorities beef up corporate governance after an accounting scandal engulfed major outsourcing company Satyam Computer, shaking investor confiden

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Indian business leaders are demanding that authorities beef up corporate governance after an accounting scandal engulfed major outsourcing company Satyam Computer, shaking investor confiden

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Indian business leaders are demanding that authorities beef up corporate governance after an accounting scandal engulfed major outsourcing company Satyam Computer, shaking investor confiden

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Indian business leaders are demanding that authorities beef up corporate governance after an accounting scandal engulfed major outsourcing company Satyam Computer, shaking investor confiden

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Indian business leaders are demanding that authorities beef up corporate governance after an accounting scandal engulfed major outsourcing company Satyam Computer, shaking investor confiden

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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