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  • From a humanitarian point of view, we sympathize with the various proposals re non-return to Communist control of Chinese nationals and NK PW who do not desire repatriation….

    How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

  • However the drone tests of the Sandrisson Drive, while mostly successful and with a reasonably low rate of non-return revealed a glitch - all AI powered systems on the drones - eg sensors, recording devices - seemed not to work properly in ftl mode, though the "dumb" 2oth century like mechanical/electronic ones worked.

    "Grand Central Arena" by Ryk Spoor (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

  • The demise of Life and possible non-return of Dollhouse–not so much!

    Avast, Wasteland!: Fall ‘09 TV schedule « The Retort 2009

  • I'm not sure why VeloNews felt that Ekimov's non-return to the peloton was newsworthy.

    Archive 2008-09-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • I'm not sure why VeloNews felt that Ekimov's non-return to the peloton was newsworthy.

    Evolving or Devolving? From Comebacks to CamelBaks BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • The United States is, of course, a party to CAT, and a federal statute (the FARR Act, sec. 2242 (a), 112 Stat. 2681-822) declares non-return to be a “policy” of the United States government, and instructs federal agencies to come up with regulations implementing it.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Even at these unprecedented rates of non-return, the Treasury was having trouble keeping up with the demand.

    GROUND ZERO ON WALL STREET: FED FUNDS AND T-BILLS HIT 0% INTEREST 2008

  • Libraries don't mind a short-discounted, non-return book, but, in most cases, they aren't taking a chance on a book that hasn't had a review from School/Library Journal, Voya, Booklist or Kirkus and sometimes PW... and maybe ForeWord.

    The 20% solution Joan Druett 2008

  • However, the FARR act declares non-return of people to face torture to be U.S. policy "regardless of whether the person is physically present in the United States" - a detail that Bellinger ignored.

    Balkinization 2006

  • While this scene was passing at the studio the father and mother of Ginevra were becoming impatient at her non-return.

    The Vendetta 2007

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