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  • Few now deny, in the words of the American Declaration of Independence, that all governments “deriv [e] their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

    Legal Obligation and Authority Green, Leslie 2003

  • I watched her at the produce table, smilin as she handled a wrinkled green pepper and a spotted tomato, deriv ing some secret amusement from their inferior condition.

    Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

  • Marxist position (like equality between the sexes, self - determination for national minorities, the desirability of trade unions and cooperatives) that are easily deriv - able from the above propositions and some implicit value judgments about the desirability of human dig - nity, freedom, and creative self-fulfillment, even though they are obviously not uniquely entailed by them.

    MARXISM SIDNEY HOOK 1968

  • Faust legend will surely again be recognized as deriv - ing not from the theme of existential despair (which it shares with many other tales and myths), but from the paradox of self-limiting and even self-destroying aspiration which, as Goethe knew, the legend symbol - izes with apparently unique distinction.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968

  • Brawl, formerly Brathwell (Breithivellir), Castle; deriv.

    Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

  • These participants played a role in increasing the number of pages the the coming into existence of all the deriv - product can be used to access.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows OSBR 2010

  • The Declaration affirms that governments "deriv [e] their just powers from the consent of the governed."

    Articles on National Review Online 2010

  • The Declaration affirms that governments "deriv [e] their just powers from the consent of the governed."

    National Review Online 2010

  • Our hedging transactions estimate the potential volatility and correlation of these include (but are not limited to) the use of a variety of deriv - rates in the future.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • The LLC Agreement requires that the rate of the distribu - (a) Medium-term notes of $131 million may mature in fiscal 2007 based on the put rights of these note holders. tions on the Class A interests be adjusted by agreement between the third-party investor holding the Class A inter - See Note Six for a description of related interest-rate deriv - ests and GMC every five years, beginning in June 2007.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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