exist

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The fact that venues like this exist is a testimony to perhaps the most cherished of those liberties. but as we are witnessing today, there are daily attacks on those Constitutional liberties, an erosion of our sovereignty as a nation, and if allowed to continue - our ability to govern ourselves democratically. what does this all have to do with the 9 / 12 Project?

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  1. intransitive verb To have actual being; be real.
  2. intransitive verb To have life; live: one of the worst actors that ever existed.
  3. intransitive verb To live at a minimal level; subsist: barely enough income on which to exist.

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  • The fact that venues like this exist is a testimony to perhaps the most cherished of those liberties. but as we are witnessing today, there are daily attacks on those Constitutional liberties, an erosion of our sovereignty as a nation, and if allowed to continue - our ability to govern ourselves democratically. what does this all have to do with the 9 / 12 Project? —  Pam's House Blend - Front Page
  • Something tells me both resolutions can't co-exist, which is a pity. —  Fat Guys at the Movies
  • The Jewish view is to see that chaos and order in fact do co-exist, and that each one has a purpose. —  Aish Weekly Articles
  • The hypocrisy was further underlined by the firm U.S. demand that, before Gazans receive any of this international largesse, Hamas must recognize Israel's right to exist -- in other words, Hamas must recognize the right to exist of the very state that just tried to destroy it and its people, and even the land they live on. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • If it can exist, it does exist -- but perhaps only as a sort of alternate reality which we so far have not learned to perceive. —  home
 

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  1. Latin existere, exsistere, to come forth, be manifest : ex-, ex- + sistere, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French exister = Spanish Portuguese existir = Italian esistere (= German existiren = Danish existere = Swedish existera, after F.), from Latin existere, exsistere, stand forth, come forth, arise, be, from ex, out, + sistere, set, place, causative of stare, stand: see stand. Cf. assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist.
 

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