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  • Chances that delaying the noise-making about torture prosecutions for a week would forestall efforts to see justice done: negligeable.

    Matthew Yglesias » Above the Law? 2009

  • On the global scale the role of large mammals is negligeable.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • J'ai quand meme pas encore les APL et du coup j'me retrouve un peu dans la merde car le loyer est pas donné mais une fois que j'les aurait mon pere m'a dit qu'ils vont se rattraper donc je serai tranquille question loyer pendant un mois voire deux ce qui n'est pas negligeable pour renflouer les caisses.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009

  • This was an ideal all the more desirable for a man with Soyer's great ambition but negligeable education.

    Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef 2007

  • Moreover, the probability of an explosive fuel tank making it through searing re-entry to ground without bursting and releasing the material harmlessly in the upper atmosphere was always negligeable.

    The Welch Whitewash: We Still Don't Know What That Aug. 30 Nuke Incident Was About 2008

  • FANNY HILL is pretty negligeable when compared to serious stuff like I, A WOMAN (1965) with Essy Persson, or the later films he made with Maria Forsa, like FLOSSIE (1974) and JUSTINE AND JULIETTE (1975); it's even negligeable when compared to the colorful, pneumatic fun of AROUND THE WORLD WITH FANNY HILL, which I called "imaginative" and "highly amusing" in my 1992 review.

    Archive 2008-03-16 2008

  • FANNY HILL is pretty negligeable when compared to serious stuff like I, A WOMAN (1965) with Essy Persson, or the later films he made with Maria Forsa, like FLOSSIE (1974) and JUSTINE AND JULIETTE (1975); it's even negligeable when compared to the colorful, pneumatic fun of AROUND THE WORLD WITH FANNY HILL, which I called "imaginative" and "highly amusing" in my 1992 review.

    I Found No Thrill in the Swedish FANNY HILL 2008

  • If the impact for very close ACs is shown to be negligeable, then you just publish that and disregard all the detailed sampling, picures, etc.

    Lights = 0, Air Conditioners = 22 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Add water and the lapse rate decreases and varies with altitude until the water vapor content decreases to a negligeable value because enthalpy is controlled by the water content which decreases with actual temperature not potential temperature.

    Unthreaded #12 « Climate Audit 2007

  • His cliche is the zenophobic keyboard warrior who is always tolerant of the deaths of foreign children but ever vigilant against the most negligeable slight on the part of foreigners.

    Think Progress » Exclusive: Classified Pentagon Document Described White Phosphorus As ‘Chemical Weapon’ 2005

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