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  • noun Negligence.

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Examples

  • Chavez is in Miraflores but does not want to face the responsability of not having done the right thing the first time around see the article in Union Radio where a geologist states that the current situation is due to goverment negligency

    A new Venezuelan Game: Where is Chavez? 2005

  • Chavez is in Miraflores but does not want to face the responsability of not having done the right thing the first time around see the article in Union Radio where a geologist states that the current situation is due to goverment negligency

    02/06/2005 - 02/13/2005 2005

  • He will calmly front the morrow, in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it, and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.

    Daily Strength for Daily Needs Mary W. Tileston

  • He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.

    VIII. Essays. The Over-Soul. 1841 1909

  • They are perhaps, upon the whole, as unexceptionable as any public institutions of that kind, which all contain in their very nature the seeds and causes of negligency and corruption, have ever been or are ever likely to be.

    Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

  • He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.

    Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it, and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.

    Essays: First Series (1841) 1841

  • I dont know what to do now. .i am quite sure this university will have no credibility in job world ... for their negligency i lost a year here ....

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2008

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