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  • Nuclear drums excavated at Radiation Hill near Pelindaba last year had been in breach of the Atomic Energy Corporation's licence obligations, although there had been no intentional negligence,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Specification -- in that on Stardate 2945.7, by such negligence,

    Court Martial 1966

  • “Hope springs eternal in the human brest, ” said the poet who also wrote of his great master lines that have not been surpassed in their kind: —“Horace still charms with graceful negligence,

    On Translating the Odes of Horace 1914

  • And in all cases where the jury shall find the carelessness or negligence of the common carrier, or any other officer, or agent, employee of such common carrier, was greater than the negligence of the employee so injured or killed, and contributed in a greater degree to such injury or death, then the plaintiff shall be entitled to recover, and the negligence,

    North Carolina Democratic Hand-Book 1906. Prepared by the State Democratic Executive Committee of North Carolina N.C. 1906

  • And all that hath scaped [566] us here by negligence,

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • If a mother's love could atone for a mother's negligence,

    The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Charles reproached me in a friendly manner because I had not called once upon them, and, in order to atone for my apparent negligence,

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • The lawsuit stems from a July 2009 incident in which, due to alleged nursing home negligence,

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

  • The lawsuit stems from a July 2009 incident in which, due to alleged nursing home negligence,

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

  • With the agriculture sector suffering on account of the Congress 'gross negligence,

    REFLECTIONS 2009

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