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  • Also on the list is a like-named private entity called Alliance for a New America LLC, or AFNA LLC, and Edwards' former campaign manager Nick Baldick, who ran the political 527 group in support of Edwards' bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

    Grand jury probes what Edwards knew about spending 2011

  • Prominent in the early development of the 16th-century madrigal, he is often confused with his like-named contemporaries Jacquet of Mantua, Jacques Buus and Jacques Brunel.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • You probably thought, as I did, that like-named people can easily be separated by their social-security numbers.

    Guarding Your Good Name 2008

  • Does it mean they're less important or can they hide behind multitudes of like-named souls?

    Kimberly Brooks: While We're At It, Oogle Google Earth 2008

  • The phase position of like-named conductor voltages, for example between the upper-voltage terminals U, V and the undervoltage terminals u and v can now be derived from the indicator figure.

    8. Transformer Hans-Friedrich Hoyer 1991

  • Christopher knew the sweet and quaint old ballad, and introduced it to his love, who was charmed to discover herself like-named with a heroine of fiction.

    Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray

  • [Footnote 40: The second section of James Lee's Wife, By the Fireside, cannot have been written without a conscious, and therefore a purposed and significant, reference to the like-named poem in Men and Women, which so exquisitely plays with the intimate scenery of his home-life.]

    Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

  • Beethoven's observations on this subject were called out by his experiences in securing an education for his nephew Karl, son of his like-named brother, a duty which devolved on him on the death of his brother in the winter of 1815.

    Beethoven the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1904

  • [Footnote 40: The second section of _James Lee's Wife, By the Fireside_, cannot have been written without a conscious, and therefore a purposed and significant, reference to the like-named poem in _Men and Women_, which so exquisitely plays with the intimate scenery of his home-life.]

    Robert Browning 1892

  • Financial markets widely expect the Fed to rebalance its portfolio in a program sometimes referred to as "Operation Twist" after a like-named Cold War era monetary maneuver.

    unknown title 2011

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