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  • But in the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground, and half-measur ...

    Rick Horowitz: Cheney's Reign of Error 2009

  • But in the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground, and half-measur ...

    Rick Horowitz: Cheney's Reign of Error 2009

  • Devise and present a “plan” that is not clearly measur - able only as a transparent reply to provide talking points to continue the disinformation that to this junction has worked to a T.

    Think Progress » Rapid Response: Deconstructing the “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” 2005

  • Efforts to verify some of the measur es would entail full-time presence of inspectors or observers.

    Statement On Nuclear Deterrence 1998

  • Page 340, Volume 1 of probability, whether all probabilities are measur - able.

    CHANCE MAURICE KENDALL 1968

  • Ther's one Bird was my tayler and I belive has my measur, or some old cloathes of mine, that he could make them by.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • But be ye assured, my Lord, with sic measur as ye mett to otheris, with the same measur it shalbe mett to yow agane.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • The death of this Prince was lamented of all the godly within Europe; for the graces gevin unto him of God, as weall of nature as of eruditioun and godlines, passed the measur that accustomablye useth to be gevin to other Princes in thare grettast perfectioun, and yitt exceaded he nott sextein yearis of aige.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • This man now plays a most important r6le in the party, measur ing by his insignificant stature the depth of the downfall of its leadership.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • The hen-birds nae doobt are aye the soberer to luik at, an 'haena the gran' colours nor the gran 'w'ys wi' them 'at the cocks hae; but still there's a measur in a' thing: it wad ill set a common hen to hae a peacock for her man.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

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