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• Faced with responsibility for legislation, the Liberal Government abated something of their pre-election zeal, and introduced a measure which would have given only conditional immunity to the trade-unions; but an indignant Labour party, having secured a majority of 300 for a thoroughgoing measure of their own, were prepared to oppose the Bill of the Government, and this Bill was remodelled on Labour party lines. —  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2
• It has been too much the habit to picture Burr as a thoroughgoing scoundrel who murdered an innocent man and conspired against his country. —  American Men of Action
• So thoroughgoing is the resulting mood of contemplative near-abstraction that when one young beetle hunter mentions that he bought the red Ferrari he's driving with money earned from insects, it feels like an intrusion from another, more prosaic film. —  Baltimore City Paper
• How well Back to Darwin pulls off the integration Cobb aims for depends on where one stands on the modern interpretations and emphases of organic evolution, the need to integrate metaphysics, and the question of whether process theology can be an adequate replacement for a thoroughgoing mechanistic naturalism.
• The debacle was widespread and thoroughgoing, as detailed below. —  The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public

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