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  • How sig nificant is it, from your point of view, that a judge struck down the individual mandate?

    Commerce Clause Is Coming to Town 2010

  • "" By 12 months, '' says Kuhl, "" infants have lost the ability to discriminate sounds that are not sig-nificant in their language, and their babbling has acquired the sound of their language. ''

    Your Child's Brain 2008

  • A sig-nificant life is, in some sense, permanent ....

    Balkinization 2006

  • "Hertz incurs sig-nificant costs setting up and maintaining the systems and a vast customer database," says spokeswoman Paula Stifter.

    Get Me Out of This Line! 2007

  • XVII Under Toal's personal direction, a special squad of soldiers and lensors rushed through the most sig-nificant portions of the Basilica, all senses on high alert, searching for one subofficer who shouldn't be there.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Yet" if the Sturinnese had an entire winter to fortify Elahwa -and Dolov " the problems she faced now would be insig-nificant compared to those of the next spring and summer.

    The Shadow Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 2001

  • He said there was no empirical evidence that investment auto - matically led to growth, saying that in a study of 28 African countries between 1970 and 1997 had shown that there was "no sig - nificant link between investment and growth."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • I mean, the \expndtw-1 scandal behind the mini-mall turns out to be that a sig\-\expndtw-3 nificant competitor is going up a few miles away.

    Never Come Down Black, Michelle 1996

  • The decision to retaliate against the knights at Lamesh had been made months before, when Khisanth was able to consis'tently report that the knights had not regrouped to any sig-nificant extent.

    The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

  • Take all your men, get the best engineers you can find, muster the backwoodsmen and make this vital crossroads impossible to attack/and a big forefinger jabbed at a spot Clay knew well, less than eight miles from his home, the insig - nificant inland settlement with the curious name of Cold Harbor, only ten miles from Richmond and guarding the entrance to that capital.

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

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