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  • Eszterhas's new ending shortcircuits the movie's tenuous logic.

    Someone To Watch Over You 2008

  • He also adds that the salience has a lot to do with standardisation (Bach 1995; 1998) which consists of interpreting an utterance according to a pattern that is established by previous usage and as such shortcircuits the process of (conscious) inference.

    Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics Jaszczolt, K. M. 2006

  • My head is filled with too much, information and thoughts floating about, making connections the way water shortcircuits a switchboard.

    Structure Torill 2005

  • My head is filled with too much, information and thoughts floating about, making connections the way water shortcircuits a switchboard.

    Archive 2005-04-01 Torill 2005

  • But by beginning with articles rather than acts of faith, Martinich shortcircuits the theological process and limits it to the second-order task of justifying first-order articulations of faith.

    The Struggle Within the Church: An Exchange Fitzgerald, M.J. 1980

  • The diverse protection functions include protection against phase and gate shortcircuits, crosscurrent protection, overvoltage and undervoltage protection for highside and lowside driver supply, gatesource voltage limitation of highside drivers and an overtemperature warning.

    Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox 2009

  • This shortcircuits republican form of govt and has the potential to have a very deleterious impact on the business climate in general.

    Hot Air » Top Picks 2009

  • Michelle Malkin: Waxman shortcircuits debate to ram eco-taxes through Congress

    186 k per second 2009

  • The trouble with bribes is it shortcircuits the process of transaction of services and makes a process opaque when it is in the public's interest to keep it transparent.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

  • The trouble with bribes is it shortcircuits the process of transaction of services and makes a process opaque when it is in the public's interest to keep it transparent.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

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