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  • The name Ounce is from Buffon; but this specific appellation is also applied to the jaguar of America, the Jaguarundi, or lesser jaguar of Paraguay, and even to the Ocelot.

    Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850

  • The Ounce is a native of India, and until recently was confounded with the leopard.

    Harper's Magazine 2009

  • Before the Governour consented to the afore-mentioned Act, he insisted, in a Speech made to the Court, upon their coming into some Measures for securing the Value of private Debts, in Case the Bills should depreciate; upon which another Act was agreed on and pass'd, the Design of which was, That although Bills were the only Instrument in all Trade and Dealing, yet that Silver at 6 s 8 the Ounce should be the Measure.

    A Brief Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Paper Currency of New-England Anonymous 1749

  • Consider the need to be PCI compliant where you can purchase tools in the static analysis space such as Ounce Labs, Coverity, etc for a lot cheaper than you can purchase a web application firewall.

    Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight... 2009

  • The three U.S. evangelical leaders who spoke at the Kampala anti-homosexuality seminar were Scott Lively, head of the conservative Christian group Defend the Family International and co-author of The Pink Swastika about the alleged gay cabal that orchestrated the Holocaust; Caleb Lee Brundridge, a self-proclaimed "former" gay man and "sexual reorientation coach" at the International Healing Foundation; and Don Schmierer, author of An Ounce of Prevention: Preventing the Homosexual Condition in Today's Youth.

    Analysis: Controversy looms again for Nat. Prayer Breakfast 2011

  • Cyber crime gangs are "finding tons of sites that have a set of conditions that will allow them to inject malicious software which will infect anyone who visits that site," says Jack Danahy, founder and CTO of security firm Ounce Labs.

    Website hacks -- and identity theft -- on the rise 2009

  • "Ounce to the pan on a creek called Bonanza, an 'they ain't got to bed-rock yet."

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • The three U.S. evangelical leaders who spoke at the Kampala anti-homosexuality seminar were Scott Lively, head of the conservative Christian group Defend the Family International and co-author of "The Pink Swastika" about the alleged gay cabal that orchestrated the Holocaust; Caleb Lee Brundridge, a self-proclaimed "former" gay man and "sexual reorientation coach" at the International Healing Foundation; and Don Schmierer, author of "An Ounce of Prevention: Preventing the Homosexual Condition in Today's Youth."

    Uganda Hangs Over National Prayer Breakfast Once Again Bryan Maygers 2011

  • "Ounce to the pan on a creek called Bonanza, an 'they ain't got to bed-rock yet."

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • The three U.S. evangelical leaders who spoke at the Kampala anti-homosexuality seminar were Scott Lively, head of the conservative Christian group Defend the Family International and co-author of The Pink Swastika about the alleged gay cabal that orchestrated the Holocaust; Caleb Lee Brundridge, a self-proclaimed "former" gay man and "sexual reorientation coach" at the International Healing Foundation; and Don Schmierer, author of An Ounce of Prevention: Preventing the Homosexual Condition in Today's Youth.

    Analysis: Controversy looms again for Nat. Prayer Breakfast 2011

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