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  • verb Present participle of elaborate.

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  • A big blame concerning the inaccuracy of these lists goes to the Central Electoral Commission which, at the beginning of the electoral period, has rendered to the secretaries of the district councils CDs which included personal data of the citizens of the Republic of Moldova received from the Ministry of Information Technology, personal data which have been used in elaborating the electoral lists.

    Global Voices in English » Moldova: Overview of Blog Coverage of the Protests 2009

  • Famous for repartee and for believing that he could fashion one riposte that would work for every occasion, he spent weeks in elaborating it.

    Arrested Development 2008

  • Famous for repartee and for believing that he could fashion one riposte that would work for every occasion, he spent weeks in elaborating it.

    Arrested Development 2008

  • But he has, has always had, a blind spot when it comes to the Liberal Democrats and our predecessor parties - he just does not want us to exist, and today he takes great pleasure in elaborating on this aversion.

    What is Simon Jenkins for? Stephen Tall 2007

  • But he has, has always had, a blind spot when it comes to the Liberal Democrats and our predecessor parties - he just does not want us to exist, and today he takes great pleasure in elaborating on this aversion.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Stephen Tall 2007

  • (Chief Justice Rehnquist and his colleagues would effectively echo Douglas in elaborating their distinctive conception of constitutional federalism.)

    Is That Legal?: Patrick Gudridge: Honoring Mitsuye Endo, Remembering Her Case 2006

  • Yes they can, but only if the theories are detailed in elaborating the means used, either to design, or to execute the design.

    ID and Origin-of-Life Research 2005

  • Tom: Yes they can, but only if the theories are detailed in elaborating the means used, either to design, or to execute the design.

    ID and Origin-of-Life Research 2005

  • We will be consulting with the small business sector in elaborating these and other simplifying measures.

    The Budget 1989

  • The League of Nations Secretariat has of course played a leading part in elaborating the different international agreements that have gradually been concluded for the assistance and protection of the refugees, but otherwise it has found it expedient to leave the refugee work almost entirely to the Nansen

    Nansen International Office for Refugees - Nobel Lecture 1938

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