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In another precedent-breaking move, Pérez Alfonzo decided to try to capture income from the downstream segments of the industry; he wanted Venezuela, he said, to “reap the profits of transportation, refining, and marketing.”
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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In another precedent-breaking move, Pérez Alfonzo decided to try to capture income from the downstream segments of the industry; he wanted Venezuela, he said, to “reap the profits of transportation, refining, and marketing.”
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Well, let me make news -- if not news, precedent-breaking.
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The Democrats get to back off their obviously failing and absurd claims that these nominees were "extremists" whose defeat required an extraordinary precedent-breaking use of the filibuster.
About that filibuster compromise... Ann Althouse 2005
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And we will work hard on planning for the Amman summit, which is a follow-on to last year's very important precedent-breaking Casablanca Economic Conference.
Christopher On Mideast Foreign Ministers Meeting ITY National Archives 1995
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This precedent-breaking appointment of a Southern Democrat by a
Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Lyman Beecher Stowe 1915
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This astounding and precedent-breaking set of transactions is news by any reasonable definition of the word.
Pajamas Media 2009
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The key was not just having the right advertising, correct strategic decisions, a precedent-breaking get-out-the-vote effort or an amazing ability to raise funds.
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Crane was captivated by Hopkins 'precedent-breaking verse, its music and "minute literal signification."
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