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- noun Plural form of
determent .
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Examples
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His response amounted to outlining the long and complex history of the determents of foreign entanglements.
Words Matter 2007
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And, as a consolidated despotism, wielded by brute force, was the best form of Government possible in this age; so a worship based chiefly upon the incitements and terrors of retributive law -- the holding out of inducements of reward for the good, and of determents of direful punishment for the wicked, in a future world -- was the best religion for which the time was prepared.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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Valuation and earnings growth are the true determents of future return.
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Valuation and earnings growth are the true determents of future return.
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I was given three determents due to the state of health, and the highest commission cancelled them twice.
Хартия'97 :: Новости из Беларуси - Белорусские новости - Республика Беларусь - Минск 2009
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Yeah, we know: Shocking choice for No. 1, right? our Best/Worst Decisions of the Last Decade, the labor dispute between the NHL and the NHLPA that forced the cancellation of the 2004-05 season had its determents and its benefits.
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In World Without End, players vie for prestige in the same town 200 years later, all while staving off their opponents progress, and avoiding outside determents like, say, the Plague.
Critical Gamers 2009
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In World Without End, players vie for prestige in the same town 200 years later, all while staving off their opponents progress, and avoiding outside determents like, say, the Plague.
Critical Gamers 2009
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(coming from someone who had five convenient draft determents) appeared to overwhelm the insecure Mr. Bush, when he was not seeking further direction from his primary instructor, the Lord.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com D. Wyles M. and V. Sommer 2008
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