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  • All that is central to the Hindu Right — religious syndicalism for political purposes, ex-clusive Hinduness, rejection of non-Hindus — was absent from the freedom-movement-era religious nationalism of Bengal and elsewhere.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • This seems likely. 20 years later Emperor Leopold I apparently granted Armen­ian merchants the ex­clusive right to serve coffee, but the evidence is scanty.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009

  • All that is central to the Hindu Right — religious syndicalism for political purposes, ex-clusive Hinduness, rejection of non-Hindus — was absent from the freedom-movement-era religious nationalism of Bengal and elsewhere.

    Sri Aurobindo's views on communalism (politicized religious conflict) Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • This seems likely. 20 years later Emperor Leopold I apparently granted Armen­ian merchants the ex­clusive right to serve coffee, but the evidence is scanty.

    Vienna: Coffee, Art, Pastries Hels 2009

  • Turner, E. (2006), “Teaching Gender-I.clusive Computer Ethics,” in I. Trauth (ed.), Encyclopedia of Gender and I.formation Technology: Exploring the Contributions, Challenges,

    Computer and Information Ethics Bynum, Terrell 2008

  • Even after enhancement they remained maddeningly incon-clusive.

    The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

  • Other artists were not quite so uncompromisingly ex - clusive.

    NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART DAVID IRWIN 1968

  • Galileo's pioneering experiment to measure its speed was incon - clusive, and the first evidence that its speed was finite came in 1676, when Roemer, to account for annual variations observed in the rhythm of the eclipses of the innermost moon of Jupiter, proposed that light is propagated “gradually.”

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • The Havana medical men, abruptly won over by Reed's con - clusive results, hurried to do belated honor to their own neglected prophet, Dr. Finlay.

    Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

  • 'Why, look'e, young gentleman,' said Toby, 'when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head with nobody a prying and smelling about it, it's rather a startling thing to have the honour of a wisit from a young gentleman

    Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841

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  • Clusive means shut up, compassed (Oxford English Dictionary).

    August 23, 2011