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  • You can only examing the relevant components, trace their pedegree to try to ascertain if a part supplier or a supplier to the part supplier or a ... (almost ad infinitum) might have changed something in their material or process that affects fit or function.

    STS-127 Launch Scrubbed Due To Hydrogen Leak - NASA Watch 2009

  • If you got the staffs of the Weekly Standard, NRO, Atlantic, Nation, New Republic and Harpers, how many non-whites who lack an Ivy pedegree would be seen there?

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • Startops, Leather stockings, and Caddies garters: His whole habite not worth three shillings: And yet he must have a faire Gentlewoman to his Wife, of honest fame, riches and reputation; when, comparing his pedegree with hers, hee is farre unfit to wipe her shooes.

    The Decameron 2004

  • England should be inhabited with strangers, a description of the kings person, of a blasing starre fore-telling his death, the progenie of the Westsaxon kings, how long they continued, the names of their predecessors and successors; whence the first kings of seuen kingdoms of Germanie had their pedegree, &c.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

  • That people tell us of their pedegree from the beginning, that their habitation above the Lake, many years agoe, and as they increased, many, great many, began to search out another country.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • Maybe he has the right idea, but opposition to that sort of thing has a longer pedegree in American politics than anti-war rallies.

    South Dakota Politics 2009

  • Maybe he has the right idea, but opposition to that sort of thing has a longer pedegree in American politics than anti-war rallies.

    South Dakota Politics 2009

  • Maybe he has the right idea, but opposition to that sort of thing has a longer pedegree in American politics than anti-war rallies.

    South Dakota Politics 2009

  • Taylor had a bigger pedegree and more bona fides that Albert Haynesworth, who really is the best defensive lineman in football.

    MVN 2009

  • His great grandmothers poodle was quoted as saying - I like pedegree chum.

    CaughtOffside.com 2008

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