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  • T Major errors - serious mistranslation denoting a definite lack of comprehen

    Archive 2007-03-01 Oleg Kuzin 2007

  • T Major errors - serious mistranslation denoting a definite lack of comprehen

    CTTIC error criteria Oleg Kuzin 2007

  • We, the British Public, call for a fully comprehen...

    In search of good news Garry 2005

  • In addition, the TRC must compile a report providing as comprehen - sive an account as possible, amongst others containing recommenda - tions of measures to prevent the future violations of human rights.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Thus, one year since we closed the RDP Office, we can truly say its work has become the joint and collective responsibility of government as a whole, integrated in a much broader and comprehen - sive programme of fundamental transformation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Why anyone would ever want a white rat or a gerbil or anything like that for a pet has always been beyond my comprehen. .. slon.

    Heaven's Price Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1994

  • This makes the subsequent parts of this series vital to the comprehen - sion of the information presented here.

    Introduction to the Primos Operating System by Violence of The VOID Hackers 1989

  • Our scientists have peered at frag - ments of those structures for years with powerful microscopes, yet failed to come up with comprehen - sive theories of what those networks do and how.

    True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984

  • The German romantics had tried to locate the unity and morality of paradoxical irony in its comprehen - siveness, but, as J.C. Ransom (1941) observed, “oppo - sites can never be said to be resolved or reconciled merely because they have been got into the same poem.”

    IRONY NORMAN D. KNOX 1968

  • In the course of a few decades, there appeared an astonishing number of editions, commentaries, monographs, and comprehen - sive works which in a short time made most of Schleier - macher's conclusions appear obsolete.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

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