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A crying child at a Phillipine evacuation center, a Komodo dragon at home on Komodo Island, cheeks painted, cheeks skewered and more.
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An American officer was convicted and jailed for waterboarding Phillipine insurectionaries in the early 20th century.
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The time to worry about justifying action against a hypothetical non-al Qaeda opponent (say, Phillipine separatists) would be when they became such a problem that they required American intervention.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference 2010
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It was the murder of Amy Chua's aunt by her Phillipine servant that is partly responsible for the book "World on Fire", which deals with this issue more thoroughly than I can here.
Cheers for a Two-Tier Society, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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An omniscient narrator could without problem use the anglicism or the Phillipine expression, depending on where they are from.
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Basically, if you have a person from the Phillipines talking, they should use the Phillipine expression.
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PLDT said net profit in the April-June quarter increased 1.2% to 10.26 billion Phillipine pesos ($226.4 million) from 10.14 billion pesos a year ago.
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And technically it wasn't the Spanish American War but the Phillipine Insurgency which followed.
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The time to worry about justifying action against a hypothetical non-al Qaeda opponent say, Phillipine separatists would be when they became such a problem that they required American intervention.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference 2010
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But people seem to forget that the US Constitution is utterly unique in the world save the Phillipine Constitution in that ours is individual-based while all other governments have the party as the fundamental political entity.
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