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Well-no one really knows what the specifics of the mortgage bailout plan is-in fact the Obama administration says that they are still arguing out the details-according to the WSJ.
"The government is promoting bad behavior...." Ann Althouse 2009
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To accomplish this it is necessary not to identify oneself with one's body, but to regard it as the instrument it is-in St. Francis' kindly phrase: "Brother Ass."
Cheerfulness (A psychosynthesis technique), by Roberto Assagioli William Harryman 2009
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Rather than present a normative argument on behalf of originalism, I merely try to identify what the original meaning of the text really is-in particular, the circumstances in which background assumptions become a part of that meaning.
Archive 2008-12-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Rather than present a normative argument on behalf of originalism, I merely try to identify what the original meaning of the text really is-in particular, the circumstances in which background assumptions become a part of that meaning.
Barnett on The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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The story is-in a nutshell- about some farmers wifes who solve a mystery their husbands can't.
MAKING MOVIES MANDREWS 2008
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That's how fantastic cyberspace is-in just over 240 minutes of pricey connect time, I learned how to make an elaborate change to my computer that had no practical use whatsoever.
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The story is-in a nutshell- about some farmers wifes who solve a mystery their husbands can't.
Archive 2008-03-01 MANDREWS 2008
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So, also, the more valuable and honourable the object of a science, the more valuable and honourable the science itself is-in consequence.
Rhetoric Aristotle 2002
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Gossip being what it is-in any world-you have probably already heard of the strange Mundanian who persists in corresponding with citizens of Xanth.
Up In A Heaval Anthony, Piers 2002
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This is-in our law, it is the same as if I had stolen his property.
The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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