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  • It may boil down to a matter of personal choice but in general the stainless barrels are considered to be more accurate than the chrome moly because the alloy is more maliable and allows finer precision in manufacture (if the manufacturer spends time doing so).

    Stainless Steel Barrels - Are they worth the extra cost? 2010

  • These phoney conservative king pins are completely manipulating a vulnerable and maliable group of people (typical Red Stater's) to protest this - based on fear and falsehoods - in order to gain control back and get back to their conservative agenda.

    Pawlently takes aim at Obama's address to students 2009

  • It may boil down to a matter of personal choice but in general the stainless barrels are considered to be more accurate than the chrome moly because the alloy is more maliable and allows finer precision in manufacture (if the manufacturer spends time doing so).

    Stainless Steel Barrels - Are they worth the extra cost? 2010

  • Ribs are maliable to a point and then become dangerous if not treated properly.

    Hugo Award Data Kosmo 2009

  • But the general idea is that the world at large will somehow tag all of the data out there, to make it more maliable, more valuable and more usable.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Phil Whitehouse 2007

  • But the general idea is that the world at large will somehow tag all of the data out there, to make it more maliable, more valuable and more usable.

    Dude, he invented the friggin' world wide web. Have you heard of it? Phil Whitehouse 2007

  • If a framework for discussing such a maliable and unpredictable medium is established, I'm sure that commentary will follow but until then most literary criticism in videogames will likely tend toward offline gaming with more or less fixed plots.

    Big and Small Bear 2006

  • Advertising is not brainwashing unless you are incredibaly maliable.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • We make our own history, especially if we have a clear sense of what exists (and have a clear sense of which factors are maliable from where we sit, and which factors are inflexible and non-malleable).

    Kasama 2010

  • Boult take her away, vse her at thy pleasure, crack the glasse of her virginitie, and make the rest maliable.

    Pericles (1609 Quarto) 1609

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