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  • I know that usage is important, but is it all-sufficient, or does logic matter anymore?

    Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Your only claim can be that it is the best possible artifice for the perpetuation of life, or that it is the only perfect, all-sufficient, and all-satisfying arti - fice that man can devise.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • The only thing that matters is the final correlation number—one clean, simple, all-sufficient figure that sums up everything.

    Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street Felix Salmon 2009

  • That was one of the Archbishop's favourite Welsh hymns: 'Jesus, Jesus all-sufficient'.

    The Archbishop on Understanding Prayer 2009

  • And some minds are indeed ill - I am not one who advocates reaching for the chemistry set as a reflex, but there are some folks around for whom meds are a necessary but not all-sufficient tool if they are to survive and do so in anything but abject misery.

    Wingnut Murder Spree or Are WE Part of the Problem? 2009

  • The only thing that matters is the final correlation number—one clean, simple, all-sufficient figure that sums up everything.

    Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street By Felix Salmon 2009

  • Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go unanswered by today's neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of the evolutionary paradigm will encourage creationists and proponents of intelligent design.

    2007 February - Telic Thoughts 2007

  • For myself, indeed, though in life my daily store were scant, yet would it be all-sufficient, but as touching a tomb I should wish mine to be an object of respect, for this gratitude has long to run.

    Hecuba 2008

  • For myself, indeed, though in life my daily store were scant, yet would it be all-sufficient, but as touching a tomb I should wish mine to be an object of respect, for this gratitude has long to run.

    Hecuba 2008

  • So they threw her down and he ceased not to beat her with grievous beating, whilst she cried for help and no help came; then she no longer implored aid but fell to saying, “Allah is my sufficiency, and He is indeed all-sufficient!” till her groans ceased and her breath failed her and she fell into a fainting-fit.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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