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The Legislature Tuesday rejected the veto motion proposed by the Cabinet to invalidate revisions to the rules governing the farmers' and fishermen's associations under which officials involved in legal disputes may retan their posts unless the supreme court finds them guilty.
Farm Associations: Veto Effort Fails Michael Turton 2007
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The relations between professors and students still continue when the university days are over, and the majority retan their attachment to the Alma Mater.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The speaker to be heard must speak against slavery; the preacher to retan his charge, must preach against slavery; the author to be read, must write against slavery; the candidate, to attain office, must pledge himself against slavery; the office-holder, to continue, must redeem the pledges of the candidate.
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