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  • But he did not initate the contact, he was in his vehicle, minding his own business, and, as a police officer, he can have a gun.

    Chicago Cop Alleged of Threatening Sidewalk Counselor with Gun at Planned Parenthood Aurora 2009

  • Bel, if someone is using their time to scrutinise or even help initate primary UK legislation, I don't resent them having a table to sit at and write, rather than resting papers on the flap down, or their knees.

    The Horny Handed Sons of Toil... 2007

  • Rectissime enim Cyprianus, martyr, de simplicitate clericorum: Hoc erant utique, inquit, et ceteri Apostoli, quod fuit Petrus, pari consortio praediti et honoris et potestatis; sed exordium ab initate proficiscitur, ut Ecclesia una monstretur.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Rectissime enim Cyprianus, martyr, de simplicitate clericorum: Hoc erant utique, inquit, et ceteri Apostoli, quod fuit Petrus, pari consortio praediti et honoris et potestatis; sed exordium ab initate proficiscitur, ut Ecclesia una monstretur.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Art with her utmost skill can initate it to any purpose.

    The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675

  • In a new study in archaea (single-celled organisms without nuclei to enclose their genetic information), a consortium of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Stanford University in California discovered how the Group II chaperonins close and open folding chambers to initate the folding event and to release the functional protein to the cell.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • In a new study in archaea (single-celled organisms without nuclei to enclose their genetic information), a consortium of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Stanford University in California discovered how the Group II chaperonins close and open folding chambers to initate the folding event and to release the functional protein to the cell.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • In a new study in archaea (single-celled organisms without nuclei to enclose their genetic information), a consortium of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Stanford University in California discovered how the Group II chaperonins close and open folding chambers to initate the folding event and to release the functional protein to the cell.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • In the new study of archaea (single-celled organisms without nuclei to enclose their genetic information), researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Stanford University in California discovered how the Group II chaperonins close and open folding chambers to initate the folding event and to release the functional protein to the cell.

    Scientific Blogging 2010

  • In a new study in archaea (single-celled organisms without nuclei to enclose their genetic information), a consortium of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Stanford University in California discovered how the Group II chaperonins close and open folding chambers to initate the folding event and to release the functional protein to the cell.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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