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“The great John Maynard Smith, who worked as an aircraft designer before returning to university to read zoology on the grounds that aeroplanes were noisy and old-fashioned, pointed out that flying animals can move in evolutionary time, back and forth along the spectrum of this trade-off, sometimes losing inherent stability in the interests of increased manœuvrability, but paying for it in the form of increased instrumentation and computation capability – brain power.”
“In their lawsuits, Apache and KBR asked a federal court in Texas to block Mr. Chevedden's proposals on the grounds he didn't meet the requirements for proving he owned their shares because the institution vouching for him, RAM Trust Services Inc., isn't a bank or a broker.”
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“As he had approached, Cossinius could have seen the pool glistening on the grounds of a villa at SalinaeSalt Works, located on a coastal lagoon near Pompeii.”
“My favorite of the cognitive biases on the grounds of its name alone refers to the phenomenon of crafting a hypothesis to support your data, and in the process making it untestable.”
“One Vassar girl, who said her name was Ophelia Bust, surprisingly argued the affirmative of the proposition, basically on the grounds that Yalies had no imagination.”
“This is an emergency on the grounds of the Willis Firth Academy.”
“So what were two buckets of blood doing in an abandoned hut in the middle of nowhere on the grounds of the exclusive Willis Firth Academy?”
“Before a hospital will release a child, it is likely to offer the family the opportunity to take him out on the grounds of the hospitals, on short trips, and eventually home for a night or weekend to reacclimatize the child and the family.”
Simon & Schuster: The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child
“What they were dealing with in that case was a murderer operating on the grounds of the Beadle Mansion.”
“Yet here we are told that the disciples, especially Judas, condemned Mary for using the rare and expensive unguent of spikenard to anoint Jesus on the grounds that it could have been sold to raise money for the poor.”
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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"on the grounds (that)" = because Apr 29, 2010