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  • Tough scheiss for me if I get any re-currence, as the radiation and chemo will exceed that remainder in less than a year.

    Think Progress » Insurer Denies Life-Prolonging Treatment To Five-Year-Old Boy With Cancer 2010

  • With luck it would be some time before his disappearance was linked to a possible re-currence of his youthful mental aberrations.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • Just as belief that everything happens by the will of God is compati - ble with whatever occurs, so belief in the explanatory primacy of the mode of economic production and its changes is compatible with any social or political oc - currence if sufficient subsidiary hypotheses are intro - duced.

    MARXISM SIDNEY HOOK 1968

  • He holds that beauty may be called a “tertiary quality” of ob - jects, but strictly speaking it occurs only in “transac - tions” between objects and human organisms, its oc - currence being dependent on both organic and external processes.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MONROE C. BEARDSLEY 1968

  • To argue that certain things had to happen if something else was to happen is not in itself to explain why the earlier events in the series occurred as they did; the most that would be shown is that the occurrence of the prior events was a necessary condition of the oc - currence of the sequel.

    CAUSATION IN HISTORY PATRICK GARDINER 1968

  • I decided not to speak of this oc - currence to Hay, since it might only bring him off some trail that he had struck.

    In a Cellar 1859

  • Consider a longest sequence ocs of nested ciphertexts in t such that ocs0 contains a single oc - currence of the encrypt operator and for all k from 0 to jocsj, 2, ocsk is an occurrence of a proper subterm of ocsk + 1.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows techdude 2010

  • Striker Craig Bellamy looks certain to miss the next two games after suffering a re-currence of a knee injury.

    TEAMtalk Football News 2009

  • This oc - currence may harm the donor's price structure.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Batjaa_sh 2009

  • Or if he had conceived it possible that a storm might have torn to pieces one fleet, injuring but little the other, (an oc - currence which sometimes happens) he would have discerned the wisdom of relying upon himself for safe - ty; and consequently would have ordered Cornwallis to have taken post on the south of James river, ready to regain North Carolina should it become necessary.

    Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States 1812

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