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They have failed in their primary mission - riverfront development - and don't have a plan to ever get that mission off the ground, they haven't become self-fufficient, and I won't even go into their failure to include Black businesses.
Bad Budget Nathaniel Livingston 2004
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So that was there no other place in the whole Scripture to prove it, this alone would be fufficient to convince any Gainsayer, that the Son and Spirit are God as well as the Father, or rather the same God with him.
Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712
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The whole quantity brought to market, therefore, may be difpofed of to thofe who are willing to give more than what is fufficient to pay the rent of the land which produced them, together with the wages of the labour, and the profits of the flock which were employed in preparing and bringing them to market, accord - ing Digitized by VjOOQ IC
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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The mer - its of that treaty, it is not within the fcope of my prefent argu - ment to discufs* It is fufficient to fay, it was deemed good e - 'nough to receive the fantfion of MefTrs.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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This, added to other emoluments which long prefcription has legalized, is fufficient to enable the governor to live according to his rank, without his being obliged to put fuch means in pra£tice as one. of the governors, whofe name I fhall not here mention, tifed to employ to double his revenues.
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Thefe geefe are rather tame, and fo willingly allowed our approaching them, that we caught a fufficient number to fupport us during the two days we remained on the ifland, without the leaft difficulty.
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Let us raise a fufficient army to ferve during the war, be it long or fhort It is abfurd to fuppofe wc fliall not iuccetd in our enterprise Againft the enemy's province$.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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It will not be contended that your population is iu - fufficient; no, fir, the inducement is nqt adequate.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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I by no means pretend to fay that; nere rhetorical rules, how juft foever, are fufficient to form an orator.
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But when both have been fairly invented and are well un* derftood, to explain to any young man, in the completed manner, how to apply the inftru* ments and how to conftruft lite machines, can - not well require more than the leffons of a few weeks: perhaps thofe of a few days might be fufficient.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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