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  • The findings may not apply to younger individua ls.

    Long Finger Linked To Cancer Risk, Study Finds Ann Lukits 2010

  • Whomever we vote for will affect us for years after that individua leaves office.

    Indiana voter ID law ruled constitutional 2008

  • As on previous days, individua and small groups of soldiers could be seen patrolling the streets, but no tension was perceptible.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • It is difficult to suppose that any one who considers the facts o£ life, who contemplates not the _individua vaga_ of theories, but the men and women of this working-day world can think otherwise.

    The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Various

  • The classic definition is that given by Boethius in "De persona et duabus naturis", c. ii: Naturæ rationalis individua substantia (an individual substance of a rational nature).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • It seems probable that of itself it prescinds from substantia prima and substantia secunda, and is restricted to the former signification only by the word individua.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Its materialism, its attribution to nature of power sufficient to carry out all her ends, its analysis of matter into ultimate physical _individua_ incognisable by sense, while yet it insists that the senses are the fountains of all knowledge, [62] are points which bring it into correspondence with hypotheses at present predominant.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • "Contra fratrem Thomam" the councils forbade teaching that -- "quia intelligentiae non habent materiam, Deus non potest plures ejusdem speciei facere; et quod materia non est in angelis"; further, the councils struck at the vital centre of Thomas's system -- "quod Deus non potest individua multiplicare sub una specie sine materia"; and again in its broadest form, -- "quod formae non accipiunt divisionem nisi secundam materiam."

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • The burning hot summer arrived, this is the demonstration stature good season,the retreat wi nter sincere appearance, lets lithe, the individua lity, the fashion, the sex appeal, mature you sta rt from here!

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  • The burning hot summer arrived, this is the demonstration stature good season,the retreat wi nter sincere appearance, lets lithe, the individua lity, the fashion, the sex appeal, mature you sta rt from here!

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

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