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  • The huge question remains: When is it okay to deny even one student a diploma when the system is brokendown?

    Sound Politics: "More WASL delays coming?" 2007

  • The directory has been brokendown into 25 distinct categories that range from business services, containing organisations that offer everything from solar powered hosting for your website to marketing services.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • There was something eerie about these brokendown settlements, built on sterile white sands, empty and silent save for the odd cry of a hungry child.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • There was something eerie about these brokendown settlements, built on sterile white sands, empty and silent save for the odd cry of a hungry child.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Potential problem areas may be: contamination of wells due to wrong location; brokendown or improperly designed water treatment plant; possible short circuiting between supply and disposal within the transmission system.

    2. Aspects of Planning and Organization 1985

  • In recent years I have seen not a few brokendown boys enter college.

    Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards

  • It is this: Let this poor, brokendown, bankrupt Government make an inventory of its whole stock of jewels, gold, gems, pictures, and statues.

    The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille

  • The highways, repeating a pattern I had cause to know so well, were nearly impassable with brokendown cars and other litter.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • He came in a brokendown cart driving a wheezy old horse.

    The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

  • Mebbe they get the idea from these here back-to-nature stories about a brokendown bookkeeper, sixty-seven years old, with neuritis and gastric complications and bum eyesight, and a wife that ain't ever seen a well day; so they take every cent of their life savings of eighty-three dollars and settle on an abandoned farm in Connecticut and clear nine thousand dollars the first year raising the Little Giant caper for boiled mutton.

    Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

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