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  • _filling up my frame-work_; or, in case this frame-work should not itself be accurate, for destroying it and my whole chapter.

    Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

  • This project is associated with an interagency effort to develop a common frame-work of ecological regions.

    Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA) 2009

  • There are a set of rules—a basic framework—but within that frame-work the world is wide open and anything is possible, very much like drawing or painting: All the basic rules are there—perspective and proportion and lights and darks, basic things like these—but once the pen or brush touch the paper or the canvas, the game is organic and everything is up for grabs, everything is possible, kind of like juggling or like a conversation.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • Until the Contract was signed most would have been unaware of it and certainly unaware of the tax inducements and planning frame-work whereby such an outcome was likely.

    Archive 2007-08-19 Newmania 2007

  • This is the dried-out frame-work of a rotted cactus: an interesting shape of a hollow tube carved with hundreds of holes.

    Mexico beach Christmas 2007

  • Until the Contract was signed most would have been unaware of it and certainly unaware of the tax inducements and planning frame-work whereby such an outcome was likely.

    In Praise of Nimby`s Newmania 2007

  • There are a set of rules—a basic framework—but within that frame-work the world is wide open and anything is possible, very much like drawing or painting: All the basic rules are there—perspective and proportion and lights and darks, basic things like these—but once the pen or brush touch the paper or the canvas, the game is organic and everything is up for grabs, everything is possible, kind of like juggling or like a conversation.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • The researcher will only document these designs in order to visually illustrate their relationship to the theoretical frame-work.

    Avatar designer workshop and focus group - Call for participation Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • This is the dried-out frame-work of a rotted cactus: an interesting shape of a hollow tube carved with hundreds of holes.

    Mexico beach Christmas 2007

  • Refusing to give a child a frame-work to understand the world is child abuse.

    Do fantasy stories undermine rationality in children? Ann Althouse 2008

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